Chapter 15

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Back at her home in the Walled City, Grandma Joe made a cup of soup for her grandson as usual.

As time was still early, Granny was not in a hurry to go back to her room to rest, she sat down beside Qiao Wen and watched as he drank the soup slowly and methodically. When the bowl was finished, she wanted to take over the bowl to wash it, but Qiao Wen smiled and shook his head, got up and went to the balcony, cleaned the bowl and put it away, and then returned to the sofa.

"Grandma, do you have something to say to me?"

Granny Qiao held his hand, "Ah Wen, Granny doesn't know what you're doing these days, and I don't know how in the world the money to help Uncle Ming pay off his gambling debts came from ......"

Qiaowen interrupted her with a smile, "The money was borrowed by Nan."

Granny Qiao laughed, "Don't you know what kind of people Nan knows? He can't borrow this money on his own. Granny isn't asking you anything, she just wants to tell you that you've grown up and Granny is getting old. In the past, Grandma always thought of taking care of you for the rest of your life, but that's just a thought, it's impossible. You don't have a father or a mother, if Granny left, you would be the only one left, and you would still have to rely on yourself to walk the road in the future."

"Grandma, you'll live a long life."

Granny Qiao smiled and shook her head, silent for a moment, and said: "Granny married into the Qiao family, the Qiao family is still a famous household in Yuhang, how do you know that the world later messed up like that, fought so many years of war, really the country is broken, and now the Qiao family only have you a single seedling. Grandma does not expect you to make much achievement, but I hope you can be safe and healthy and live well, and I will also have the face to see your grandpa and parents after I leave."

"Grandma, I will be good." Qiao Wen backhanded the old man's wrinkled, withered tree-like hand, thinking that this hand had also once been pampered and untouched by wind and rain, his heart was inexplicably a little sour, and after a pause, he said, "I will take good care of myself, and I will also take care of you. I will not stay in the Citadel forever, rotting here."

As long as he remained in this world, he would take Jovian's life seriously.

Grandma Qiao comfortably patted his hand: "Grandma knows that you have ambitions in your heart, but you are different from others, your body can't withstand the torture, as long as you can be healthy and self-supporting to support yourself, Grandma will be satisfied."

Jovian smiled and nodded, "I will."

Granny Qiao thought for a moment and then said, "Granny knows that you and Nan have a good relationship, and that Nan treats you better than an older brother would treat his own brother. If Grandma were to have a problem, I'm sure he would take care of you." Then he sighed, "Ah Nan is a good boy, but he grew up in the walled city and doesn't like to read, so he's been exposed to too many bad things and doesn't have anyone to guide him properly. You have to pay attention and pull him along from time to time, don't let him go down the wrong path."

Qiao Wen smiled and nodded, "Nan is just like my own brother, I won't watch him go down the wrong path."

Grandma Jo exclaimed, "You must all be well."

When Granny went to her room to rest, Jovian took a brief shower and lay down on his own little wooden frame bed.

Tossing a whole day, put on ordinary people, that is rare, Chen Canaan at this moment is estimated to be able to play two sets of boxing. But Qiao Wen this body, but has reached the highest load, now lying on the bed, only feel physically and mentally exhausted, and then move a finger no strength.

He'd have to get on a fitness program when he recovered some more.

According to his current Lin Daiyu-like body, even if he had the intention to live well in place of his original body, I'm afraid that his physical condition wouldn't allow it.

He was envying Chen Canaan's good body, and the envied person was hanging out of the window like a bat, nuisance drilling in.

Jovian was speechless, "Can't you just go through the front door?"

Chen Canaan climbed onto his bed and lay down with a big grin, "Close!"

"Why don't you sleep at home again?"

Chen Canaan pillowed his hands under his head and said in a dangling manner, "That stupid kid Howie said in front of my old dad that he let his mouth slip and said that I didn't go home these days because I was injured in a fight and didn't dare to return. Pops was so angry that he beat me up, I'm afraid that he woke up in the middle of the night and his anger hadn't subsided and he wanted to beat someone up again, so I came to hide here with you."

Qiao Wen lost his smile, "Your father can't stay at home for more than a few days a year, so you should spend some time with his old man."

Chen Canaan said, "He misses me quite a bit when we don't meet, and wants to beat me up when we do. I'd better let him rest in peace for a few days." Saying that, he remembered something and asked, "After running outside for so long today, your body can still stand it, right?"

Jovian nodded, "It's a bit tiring, but bearable."

"Then you hurry up and rest."

Jovian lay down side by side with him.

The small room was quiet for a moment. After a while, Chen Canaan coldly spoke again, "The solution you said tonight at the Hibiscus Teahouse, is it really feasible?"

Qiaowen laughed, "I can't guarantee that, it's just a matter of luck."

Chen Canaan: "And what if no one is found?"

Qiao Wen didn't care much and said, "If we didn't find out, we didn't find out, anyway, Lin Zhaoming's money was originally meant to dispatch us, and we won't take it back. Just think of it as us poor boys taking advantage of a billionaire's small fortune."

Chen Canaan hemmed and hawed, "That's true, I'm just a ghetto loser anyway."

Jovan: "......"

After Chen Canaan finished, he was silent for a moment, turned over and propped his head up, looking at him in the darkness, "Even though I didn't quite figure out what you said, I think Xiao Qiao you're really good, and you're impressing me more and more."

Jovian said, "That's why it's so important to get you to read more during the week."

Chen Canaan did not think: "This reading does not have much to do with it, that four-eyed boy is not still a college student, nor did not expect?"

Qiao Wen said, "People at least know a little bit, whether we can succeed this time or not depends on whether Lin Zi Hui's side is good or not."

Chen Canaan grunted, "I see that he's stupid and dumb, in all probability he won't be able to do it."

Qiaowen said in his mind that going by the original book, you'd be rubbed against the ground by stupid, stupid people and end up getting shot randomly.

Only to hear Chen Canaan add, "But Four Eyes Boy looks like a nice guy, so he can make a friend."

Jovian froze and laughed, "Go to sleep."

It would be kind of fun for the big male lead and the big villain to become friends.

*

Early the next morning, the two had eaten, helped Grandma Qiao open her stall, and had just gone back to the house to prepare to mingle when they heard someone downstairs call out at the top of his lungs, "Ah Nan!"

Chen Canaan rolled his eyes and came over to the window with a smile, "Fourth Brother!"

"Some of the brothers see that you're almost as good as you are, are you trying to be lazy? Get your ass down here and go watch the field."

Chen Canaan said bitterly, "Fourth Brother, I really haven't gotten well completely."

Zhao A Si roared, "Do you want me to go upstairs and pull you down? The field has been busy these past two days, and there are often people messing up, so you give me a good look to go."

Chen Canaan said, "Alright, alright, Fourth Brother, I'll be right down."

He retracted his head and said to Qiao Wen, "Xiao Qiao, I'll go to the East End to watch the venue, you stay home by yourself, and if Four Eyes calls and wants us to go to the teahouse, you tell Howie to come find me."

Qiao Wen said, "Lin Zi Hui has to attend classes during the day, so even if he wants to make a call, he'll have to wait until after evening." He thought for a moment, "I'm not doing anything anyway, so why don't I go around the eastern district with you."

Chen Canaan's eyes widened, thinking that he had heard wrong: ''You want to go to the Eastern District with me? Do you know what the Eastern District is? You've only been there three times since you grew up, and every time you went to look for me, and then got so scared that you didn't dare to go out for a few days. Do you remember that time last year when you went there just in time to get into a fight and a john was stabbed to death in the street, you came back and threw up for two days and said you'd never go there again. Now you're telling me you're going to the East End with me?"

Qiao Wen knew that the original body's guts only had to be sesame seed big point, but did not expect such an exaggeration, listening to him said could not help but feel funny, thought about it, said: "You have said it was last year, I am now a year longer, of course the guts must also be longer. And you are not always said that I am timid, not practice how to grow?"

Chen Canaan looked on suspiciously, always feeling that something was wrong, but thinking about what he had done in the past few days, he could only attribute it to the fact that this good younger brother of his had, indeed, grown up.

He hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Okay, then you come with me, and when you get to the field you stay close to me and don't run around."

Jovian laughed, "I wouldn't dare."

Chen Canaan didn't take his cane anymore, but still pretended to be limping. When Zhao Ah Si saw him coming downstairs, he glanced at his feet with a frown and asked, "Really not well yet?"

"Why would I lie to you, Fourth Brother? It's not like you don't know that I was lifted out of Master Panther's place that day."

Zhao Ah Si tsked, "Alright, then you go slow."

In the end what happened that day, Zhao A Si is not very clear, also too lazy to ask more, only heard that Chen Canaan messed with the characters outside, people kill the door, the leopard master let two people to solve their own. It is said that it is the first-class killers in Southeast Asia, their own men under this four nine children is completely lucky to pick up a small life back.

He thought for a moment and poked him in the back of the head and said, "You servant boy, this time I counted your life as lucky, you should not go out and cause trouble for me in the future, if you really get into a big trouble I can't afford to protect you."

Chen Canaan smiled heatedly, "I know, even if I get into trouble, I won't involve you, Fourth Brother."

Zhao Ah Si popped up his two short legs and said angrily, "Am I afraid you'll drag me down?"

"I know, I know, Fourth Brother is doing me a favor."

After walking for a while, Zhao Ah Si realized that there was a pretty teenager following behind him and eeped, "Your brother is going with you?"

Chen Canaan returned, "He wants to go to the field with me for a long time."

Zhao Ah Si had seen Qiao Wen many times, but the boy was too timid, and when he saw him, he kept his head down and walked away, never talking to him. When he saw him coming, he couldn't help but tease him like a child: "Ah Wen, right? Are you not afraid? Last time you went to the gambling stall to look for Ah Nam, saw the side stabbing a dead man, but vomited on the spot, causing your brother to carry you back."

Qiao Wen greatly said, "In the past, I was a little timid at a young age, but now I'm much better."

Zhao A Si laughed lightly, "He looks a bit more daring." He said, "Your brother looks better than a girl. Then he said to Chen Canaan, "Your brother looks better than a girl, there are all kinds of people in the East District, and there are also good rabbits, so you have to keep an eye on them."

The author has something to say:

Jovian: Rabbits? Show you the fangs of labor.

Later ......

Little Joe: A rabbit is a rabbit.