Chapter 297 The Price of Growth (I)

The layers of dark clouds were like a huge black gauze covering the entire sky, and even the arrogant sun was quietly hiding behind, revealing only a vague shadow.

This is not a good weather. The dull atmosphere in the sky seems to have infected everyone, just as there is always a trace of haze in my heart, lingering and suppressing people's hearts.

Since returning from the almost dreamy martial arts competition yesterday, the fat man has been depressed, and even his honest smile has been reduced a little. At most, he only sat there alone in a daze. Undeniable that Murong Tiannan's words put a huge pressure on him, just like a patient who received a critical illness notice. Although he knew that he was not a terminal illness, he was always breathless as if he was pressed into a stone!

In the slight drizzle, Cheng Jiaozi held the fat man's arm in one hand and whispered softly: "What's wrong with you these two days? You have been like this since you came back? Is it Murong Xue..."

"It's nothing, it's just that I'm not in a good mood these two days!" The fat man interrupted her and looked up at the sky full of dark clouds. He asked with a long breath: "I haven't been there for two days, Aunt Lan said nothing, right?"

Cheng Jiaozi also sighed deeply: "What else can I say? The store has been like this. It's only been a dozen people in two days! I guess it's only been two days!"

The door is deserted, and the front of the shop is also bleak. The signboard has gradually turned yellow and no longer has the joy of opening.

He gently pushed open the store door and a heavy smell rushed towards him. The fat man looked up and saw Aunt Lan, Wang Xiaomei and Gu Chunyan sitting together and chatting casually. Although they all had smiles on his face, they could not hide the sadness!

"Oh! Our little lovers are here!" Aunt Lan stood up with a smile: "Hey! I can match you two, my small shop has not been opened in vain!"

"Aunt Lan! Why..." Both Cheng Jiaozi and Fatty keenly noticed the strange atmosphere today!

Aunt Lan smiled bitterly: "There is nothing to say about things like this! Let's go to today! I will pay you this month's salary later! It seems that I'm not a business man! "

Although he had sufficient mental preparation before, the fat man was still a little reluctant to face it at this moment. After all, this shop left him many memorable memories. However, when the heavy subway lock was hung heavily on the door, all this seemed to be sealed up. The already somewhat depressed mood became even more depressed, as if he was locked in a steam room on a stove!

"Plum! Swallow! What are you two going to do in the future?" The sisters who used to work together are going their separate ways in a blink of an eye, and Cheng Jiaozi always feels a little sad!

Wang Xiaomei smiled easily: "Of course, I'll give myself two days off first. Have fun! Then let's talk about the matter!"

"Yes! We are not like you!" Gu Chunyan smiled carelessly, patted the fat man on the shoulder, and said warningly: "Better to our 'dumplings'! Otherwise, I will never end up with you! Okay, everyone will have a date later!..."

The back gradually faded away. The rain was still drizzling!

"We two are unemployed, right?" Cheng Jiaozi smiled slightly, and said in a strange way: "Let's go back! I have time to have fun this time! The weather is not good today, so I will accompany me to go out to buy clothes tomorrow! I haven't been shopping for a long time!"

"Okay! I just want to go to my mother too..." The fat man said halfway. When he turned around, he suddenly saw a woman standing on the corner of the street opposite, and was stunned for a moment.

"I really didn't expect you to be so romantic! I thought I had seen enough the day before yesterday? I didn't expect that another little lover came out of you hidden? Haha, you wouldn't have told me that there are two hidden in your house, right?" Su Rui walked over slowly, glanced at Cheng Jiaozi with a specious smile on his face, and whispered to the fat man: "I have something to say to you alone. Can you let your little lover leave for a while?"

Seeing Su Rui suddenly appear here, the fat man was indeed a little surprised. He couldn't figure out what would happen to Su Rui come to find him, but Su Rui is Su Yandi's sister. I think it might be related to Su Yan! After thinking about it for a while, the fat man whispered to Cheng Jiaozi: "You go back first! I have something to do, I'll go back later!"

If it were Fang Yu or Chu Jie today, if he saw a beautiful woman who had to talk to the fat man alone, he would not have easily "stopped". But Cheng Jiaozi was still Cheng Jiaozi after all. Although his heart was sour, he still nodded with a chuckle on his face and left silently!

The elegant coffee shop seemed a little empty, perhaps because it was too early and there were basically no customers. Except for Fatty and Su Rui sitting in front of each other, there were only two waiters cleaning.

The fragrant coffee was still steaming in front of me. The fat man wanted to speak just now, and then he heard Su Rui say, "Are you wondering how I found you? In fact, it's not difficult. I found you, so I followed you! But I thought that as you are now living in such a place, I'm afraid that few people would believe it if you say it!"

"It's nothing, I'm just used to this kind of life!" The fat man smiled softly and asked, "You have something to ask me for? Is it Su Yan..."

A hint of unhappiness flashed across Su Rui's face: "You just think about her, can't I come to find you?"

"You have something to do?" the fat man asked tentatively.

Su Rui took a sip of coffee and smiled charmingly: "If you don't have anything to do, you can't come to you? Are you unwilling to stay with me for a while? Or are you in a hurry to find your little lover?"

"No, no! That... if you have something to do, just say it!" Fatty himself is a straightforward person. He is really not used to this way of talking around the corner!

Putting down the coffee, Su Rui looked at the fat man with a chuckling face: "You are so popular now? The game is so glorious. Now those old men are still beaten to you as apprentices. No wonder you always pester so many women around you! In the competition that day, did you hear what my grandfather said? He promised to marry Su Yan and you!"

"Ah! I didn't, I didn't hear it!" The fat man was shocked and shook his head and waved his hand: "At that time, all they said were angry words. I never took it seriously, I didn't take it seriously!"

"Is that so? You didn't take it seriously! But I took it seriously!" Su Rui suddenly looked serious and said to the fat man: "I'm here to tell you today that I want to be your girlfriend!"

"Hmm?" The fat man was completely confused in an instant and said hurriedly and a little embarrassedly: "How can you not make such a joke? Su Yan is you..."

"I didn't joke with you!" Su Rui interrupted the fat man seriously: "In the past, no matter how many women you had, I could not care about it. I just came to tell you that from today on you will be my boyfriend!"

"No, no! Don't joke like this with me!" The fat man's head shaking like a rattle, and said, "I really like the local people in my heart! Besides, are you Su Yan's sister?... I guess your grandfather was just kidding casually at that time, you don't have to take it seriously!"

"My grandfather never jokes!" Su Rui looked a little lonely: "I know you like Su Yan, but... do you know? When I saw you suddenly appear in front of Chinatown on TV that day and turned the tide, your shadow was deeply engraved in my heart. I told myself. This is the man I am looking for! It's a pity that you think is my sister in your heart! In fact, I am very grateful to my grandfather. Even if I can marry you with my sister, I have no complaints. Don't worry, I will talk to Su Yan..."

"No...no...no! No! It's not like this!" The fat man said in a little panic: "I really only like Su Yan in my heart. I promised her... It's really impossible for us!"

"You are lying!" Su Rui suddenly shouted: "I only like Su Yan, what about Murong Xue? Ouyang Ling, Xue Jingwen, and the little lover you just now? Don't tell me that you don't like them?"

"They...they are..." The fat man was so anxious that he was sweating, and finally said ruthlessly: "Anyway, it's impossible between us! It's absolutely impossible!"

"Why? Are you willing to ask for them and they will not want me? Am I just a foil, don't you refuse to ask me? I'm worse than them?" Su Rui's emotions were obviously out of control, his eyes were red, and he seemed to be trying his best to endure an impulse emotion.

"Don't be excited first. Listen to me! We have not had too much contact with each other. Besides, you are Su Yan's sister, it is really impossible between us! Well! Then... I have something to do, so I will leave first!" Feeling that I was no longer suitable for me, the fat man greeted me and wanted to leave in a hurry.

"Do you really think Su Yan likes you too?" The cold words came, causing the fat man to take back the steps he had already taken.

"What did you say?" The fat man turned his head silently, and suddenly felt as if something had suddenly moved in his heart, trembling constantly!

Su Rui smiled coldly: "You are busy challenging everywhere every day to promise Su Yan to be the best in the world! Haha! It's funny! Do you think that as long as you become the best in the world, she will really like you? I tell you, this is just a scam, she is using you, she has been using you all the time! She is just trying to get close to you deliberately to learn your footwork! She told you to be the best in the world, and just to make you happy! She has never liked you before!"

"What did you say?" The fat man blinked his eyes and stood there blankly. It seemed as if there were countless invisible lightning falling from the sky and slashing on top of his head. His whole mind was blank.

"This is impossible! This is impossible!" The fat man suddenly pretended to be relaxed and smiled lightly: "You are lying to me! I'm not that stupid! Yesterday she told me that she would wait for me!"

"Haha! Is that right?" Su Rui took out his cell phone angrily and slapped it on the table, and called out a number: "This is her phone number. If you don't believe it, you can ask yourself!"

It was hard to control, and the breathing gradually became rapid. The fat man trembled slightly with his hands and picked up the phone. After a few busy tones, a beautiful girl came from the phone: "Hey! Sister, you are going there! Grandpa is looking for you! Hello, talk!"

The fat man breathed calmly, and his voice still trembled, saying, "Is Su Yan? It's me, fat man!"

Su Yan was also surprised: "Hey! Why is it you? Why is my elder sister's phone number with you? Are you together?"

The fat man asked in a deep voice: "Su Yan, can you answer me a question?"

"What's wrong with you?" Su Yan seemed to feel the fat man's strangeness.

Holding his breath tightly, the fat man said nervously: "You must not lie to me. I don't want to listen to lies! Why do you... want to... be with me? Tell me, as long as I become the number one in the world... you... just be my girlfriend. Are you just talking casually? Did you deliberately say that you just for some reason... of the steps from the beginning... to be with me? Don't lie to me! Tell me 'no'!"

Silence! After a silence and long silence came from the phone, Su Yan whispered and slowly made a pronunciation: "Yes... are all! Fatty, where are you? I'll go find you now, you..."

What Su Yan said later, the fat man didn't hear it at all. When the pronunciation of that word came into his ears, it seemed like a bomb was detonated inside his head, and he could not hear anything with a "boom"...

"Thank you!" Close the phone in a daze, and the fat man chuckled and gave it to Su Rui: "Today... I'm so sorry, I have something to do, so I'll leave first! Waiter, settle the account!"

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Looking out the window, the fat man had a blank look and a little staggering footsteps. Su Rui suddenly choked and bit his lips tightly, and in an instant he was already full of tears!
Chapter completed!