Chapter 8: Magpie 01
Ji Yusheng did not return to the restaurant, but left alone in embarrassment.
The restaurant waiter thought something had happened and came to our table to ask. Everyone looked at each other, but I was the only one who lowered my head and ate the food in my bowl without saying a word.
"Ai Ye! What did you say to Ji Yusheng? The waiter said that you and Ji Yusheng stayed at the back door for a long time. When you came back, he left. What did you say to him?" Leng Yuting angrily slammed the wine glass on the table and yelled at me.
I glanced at her and continued eating, saying lazily, "If you want to know, why don't you just ask him yourself? What can I say to him is just to answer some questions that he has been bothering about for a long time."
"Ai Ye, just tell her what happened to Ji Yusheng. Don't hurt the relationship. It's rare for us to have a meal together."
Mo Beibei stood up with an embarrassed look on her face and tried to be a peacemaker.
Cai Miao, An Jia and the others were sitting aside, looking at us blankly. Even Lin Feng, who had been busy drinking, had a red face and misty eyes and kept looking at us.
The calmest person was Leng Zimo. He said nothing, but lowered his head, picked up the broken wine glass next to his sister, and frowned as he warned, "Be careful not to cut your hands."
Leng Yuting was very angry. She left her seat, ran to me and pulled me up.
"Is it that bitch Li Wei? She played with Ji Yusheng, right?" Leng Yuting grabbed my collar and roared fiercely.
I looked up at her coldly and retorted calmly: "Weiwei is not a bitch! Please be careful with your words!"
"Bah! That woman hangs out with gangsters all day long. If she's not cheap, who else is? Who among those who hang out with you isn't cheap? You two are birds of a feather!" Leng Yuting pushed me to the ground, spitted and cursed.
Someone left his seat and ran towards me eagerly, and a pair of cold hands helped me up from the ground.
I thought it was Leng Zimo, but when I looked up, it was Lin Feng who was drunk.
Leng Zimo was standing next to Leng Yuting, holding her hand, with some anger on his face.
Leng Yuting didn't care about her brother's anger at all, and continued to curse without restraint, cursing Li Wei and me.
I took a breath, pushed away Lin Feng's hand that was blocking me, walked towards Leng Yuting, and slapped her arrogant face.
With a crisp slap in the face, everyone was stunned.
Without giving Leng Yuting any time to react, I slapped her in the face again.
My head hurt from the noise, but my hands enjoyed it very much.
"These two slaps, one is for myself, the other is for Li Wei. Anyone can scold me, but you are not qualified. Leng Yuting, you owe me for the rest of your life!"
You owe me a life!
It was you who beat me like that, it was you who caused me to die early, it was you who made me count the days every day, it was you...
There are many things I want to say that are stuck in my heart and throat.
I looked at the stunned Leng Yuting and smiled: "Don't let me hear you scold my friend again, no matter how mean it is, it's not your turn to scold! I hate people who don't use their brains the most. What else can you do except meddling in other people's business and making trouble without knowing right or wrong? Is it because your father is busy with drinking and partying all day long and has no time to teach you, so you become barbaric and unreasonable?"
"Ai Ye, stop talking!" Before I finished scolding, Leng Zimo suddenly yelled at me with a dark face.
"Shut up! It's because you don't discipline her, so she doesn't know what is right and what is wrong, what to say and what not to say. How can people grow up without being taught? If you keep indulging her like this, something will happen to her one day, and who of you will suffer with her?" I said coldly to Leng Zimo.
Leng Yuting looked at me with fire in her eyes.
She wanted to rush over and hit me, but was stopped by Leng Zimo.
"Aren't you just holding a grudge against her for beating you? Yes, she is ignorant, we didn't teach her well, that man is not worthy of being a father, and I, as her brother, didn't do a good enough job, so she made a mistake and deserved to be beaten. You are right to scold her, but could you please not criticize our family affairs in this kind of occasion, in front of so many people. Don't you know what respect is?" Leng Zimo looked at me and said expressionlessly.
A chill rose in my heart as I watched him smile.
Respect? He's talking to me about respect now!
When her sister scolded me and Weiwei just now, did she know what respect was?
What did I say that was wrong? What did I say that was disrespectful to them?
I hold a grudge? If I held a grudge against Leng Yuting for beating me, she should have been in jail long ago!
I am a person who doesn't have much time left, why should I hold a grudge?
I just don’t want his sister to be so ignorant and arrogant anymore, and I don’t want anyone to become another me.
I thought Leng Zimo understood me, but it turns out that she didn't understand me at all.
"Ai Ye, don't go! Ai Ye, Xiao Ting, please apologize to Ai Ye! We are the ones who let her down, we are the ones who let her down! You don't know anything, you don't understand anything! I don't want to be in a relationship now, I don't want Lin Feng anymore, we were wrong, can't you live in peace with Ai Ye? Why not!"
Mo Beibei's crying was heard behind me.
Then, there was Leng Yuting's unwilling roar.
" Why ? What did I do wrong? Why do you all protect her? Why do you all scold me? If you want to get along well with her, then go ahead! Why are you being friends with me? And you, aren't you my brother? Don't think I don't know how long you hugged her outside when you came. We all saw it. Leng Zimo, haven't you always been principled? Why do you even snatch your cousin's woman! Don't you like her? If you like her, why don't you chase her? Why are you helping me! It's ridiculous, Ai Ye can cry, isn't she Ai Ye? She only knows how to pretend to be a saint, pretend to be indifferent, pretend to be Ai Ye who doesn't care about anything all day long! Why is she crying? What is there for her to cry about? You are all ridiculous!"
"Xiaoting, where are you going?"
"Leng Yuting, don't walk around!"
"Leave me alone, no one should bother me! I don't want you to bother me! Aren't you all helping Ai Ye? Why don't you go after her? Why are you holding me? Let go! Leng Zimo, let go! Let go! Let me go! Brother! Brother! Please, let me go!"
My head was aching and confused. I stood on the side of the road and looked at the chaotic figures on the other side of the road.
I could see them struggling . Leng Yuting was crying, Leng Zimo was trying to comfort her, Mo Beibei was crying, and others were also trying to comfort her. Everything was clear, but I could no longer hear their voices clearly.
Look! Leng Yuting, look! Your ignorance has done you a great deed!
I am deaf! You see it! Oh, how could you see it? I really want you to see it! See how much your childishness hurts others. If you see it, I think you will grow up.
