LWDC Chapter 176

Chapter 176 – His Story

Chapter 176 – His Story

Chapter 176 – His Story

Just as Ning Fei expected, while Mother Cheng agreed, even willingly, to go to her son’s side, Cheng Mengxiao still made all sorts of excuses.

Ning Fei didn’t bother to force her, and simply packed Mother Cheng up and took her away. Before leaving, Mother Cheng wanted to go to the familiar tailor shop to order two new winter outfits for Cheng Lingqi, but Cheng Mengxiao, who was in charge of the finances, couldn’t come up with enough money at the moment. Just as she was in a difficult position, Ning Fei paid for it.

And while Ning Fei paid for Mother Cheng, Duan Yunhong paid for Ning Fei, and he also ordered two outfits for Ning Fei. Ning Fei was speechless and complained, “You have money to burn, don’t you?” Duan Yunhong frankly replied, “Yes.”

Ning Fei: “…”

Duan Yunhong added, “Don’t you dislike the cold? I’m just doing my duty to keep you warm.”

Ning Fei didn’t want to bother with him anymore, treating him as someone with excess energy and letting him do as he pleased.

As for Mother Cheng, with Ning Fei as her “ATM,” she was naturally very grateful and selectively “forgot” to question her daughter about where all the money had gone. She even told Cheng Mengxiao in front of Ning Fei to remember to buy herself a few winter clothes. Ning Fei pretended not to hear, did she expect him to automatically realize that Cheng Mengxiao also had no money, and automatically offer to pay for Cheng Mengxiao’s clothes as well? Don’t be so humorous.

Cheng Mengxiao probably felt embarrassed and quickly stopped her mother from talking.

In short, when Mother Cheng finally got in the car to leave, apart from her luggage and the “gifts” for Cheng Lingqi, she only had ten yuan on her. It seemed she was tacitly assuming that Ning Fei would pay for everything along the way and that she wouldn’t have to spend a single cent.

“She doesn’t spend, Cheng Lingqi doesn’t spend, and Cheng Mengxiao doesn’t spend either. These three mother and son want me to provide everything – people, effort, money, and a car… what a brilliant plan.” Ning Fei sat in the back seat of the car, feeling the bumpy road, folded his arms and sneered, “If I didn’t have to bring her over, I wouldn’t do such a losing business for anything.”

At this moment, he was sitting in Duan Yunhong’s car, while Mother Cheng and his assistant were together in his car in front, so he spoke without any restraint.

“Some money, you just have to spend it.” Duan Yunhong, who was to Ning Fei’s left, also smiled and said, “Some is out of obligation, some is out of affection.”

“What, you want to say you also ‘forcefully’ bought me clothes?” Ning Fei glanced at him, “Then are you doing it out of obligation or affection?”

“I’m doing it out of what, you know very well in your heart.” Duan Yunhong said, moving closer. Ning Fei thought that he was trying to say something suggestive while avoiding the driver and assistant in the front, but Duan Yunhong lowered his voice and whispered in his ear: “With your background, you should have some assets. If you’re really short of money, I have some here. I wouldn’t want you to live a hard life when you come to my place.”

“Putting on the airs of a wealthy man in front of me?” Ning Fei moved away a little, turned to look at him, “But these days, being able to deal in cars, you definitely have a lot of money. I just don’t know if you, this car dealership owner, will still be useful when you’re in another place?”

Duan Yunhong said, “Do you think that to get these foreign cars, it’s enough to only have influence in Shashi?”

“That’s true. I knew you wouldn’t give up a comfortable life no matter where you are.” Ning Fei paused, his voice even lower, “So, you’re helping Shen Zejun and them now, does that mean you’re in the same camp as before?”

Duan Yunhong didn’t expect him to ask this suddenly, and after a moment of surprise, he replied: “…I don’t belong to any camp now. I’m helping Shen Zejun just to protect Cheng Mengxiao.”

“You can help if you want, I won’t say anything.” Ning Fei shrugged, “Although I want to protect Cheng Lingqi’s family, I don’t see the other side as the enemy. I’m not that naive.”

Hearing this, Duan Yunhong suddenly smiled.

Ning Fei raised an eyebrow: “What are you laughing at?”

“You still won’t admit that you looked closely at my resume?” Duan Yunhong lowered his eyes and chuckled, “You know what I used to fight for, and now you still support me in continuing to stand on that side, even if it goes against the direction of your mission, right?”

As he said the last sentence, he raised his head again, staring at Ning Fei, as if his gaze was tightly wrapped around the other person. Ning Fei seemed to be burned by the heat in his eyes, and actually avoided his gaze for once.

But Ning Fei quickly turned back, staring back at him without losing his momentum: “Are you going crazy again? I said I don’t care about the camps! And judging from how Cheng Lingqi was suspected and abandoned, he may not be firmly standing on the current side either. Defecting to the other side may be a life-saving choice in the future. How did it turn into supporting you in your ears?”

“Because you would never have asked on your own before.”

“…”

“If you really didn’t care, you wouldn’t even confirm which side I want to stand on now, let alone emphasize that you don’t care if I might go to the other side. You would only warn me not to go against you, or directly get angry and retaliate against me when you find out that I’m standing on the opposite side of you.” Duan Yunhong stared at him with burning eyes, becoming more and more certain as he spoke. If the two weren’t still in the car, Duan Yunhong would even want to do something to more fully express the excitement in his heart: “You don’t want me to force myself for you, to go against my own will. Stop being stubborn, you’re just concerned about me.”

“Go to hell!” Ning Fei finally couldn’t help but curse, pushing his face away, “Do whatever you want, who the hell cares about you!”

Duan Yunhong’s face was pressed by his palm, but he wasn’t angry at all. He could tell that Ning Fei was really a bit embarrassed and angry, which proved that Duan Yunhong was basically right, but Ning Fei didn’t want to admit it.

The commotion in the back row caused the driver and assistant in the front to steal glances in the rearview mirror and quietly turn their heads to peek. Duan Yunhong’s slightly embarrassed appearance was caught by them, but he didn’t glare or warn his two subordinates, but was rather frank.

He naturally straightened up, turned around, and picked up the blanket next to him, raising it in Ning Fei’s direction, causing Ning Fei to immediately stare at him: “What are you doing again?!”

“You were almost nodding off just now, so go to sleep.” Duan Yunhong put the blanket over him, taking the opportunity to get close to him and whisper, “There are many details on that resume that aren’t written down, I’ll tell you more about them tonight.”

Ning Fei glared at him, wrapped himself in the blanket, leaned against the car window, and closed his eyes, looking like he didn’t want to communicate with the man anymore. Duan Yunhong looked at his awkward posture and teased, “Aren’t you afraid of getting sore,” then reached out and pulled him over, leaning him against his body.

Ning Fei snorted, but didn’t open his eyes, and really rested and dozed off in this position.

*

In the evening, the group entered a city to rest and booked rooms at the best hotel again.

Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong were naturally still in the same room. Ning Fei even stole the red wine that he hadn’t finished drinking at dinner, calling it, “I have wine, tell your story.”

“You’re treating me as an appetizer, huh?” Duan Yunhong also picked up a tall glass filled with wine and clinked it against Ning Fei’s, “Alright, then I’ll tell you this bedtime story.”

Duan Yunhong’s previous identity in this world was a bit similar to Ning Fei now, also a member of a chamber of commerce.

Except Ning Fei was set as the son of the chairman, Duan Yunhong was already the chairman directly, and was the chairman of the Pingdu Chamber of Commerce, which was quite influential nationwide. Duan Yunhong’s main business on the surface was the import and export of medicine, medical equipment, and other manufacturing equipment, and he also held shares in restaurants, dance halls, and other places. Secretly, he also coordinated donations of money and goods from overseas Chinese to the country, and even involved the import of small arms. Therefore, his life was superficially wealthy, but actually accompanied by constant danger, and it wouldn’t be strange if he was assassinated.

And the one Duan Yunhong helped was the camp that Shen Zejun was in.

This camp’s armed forces were very weak at the beginning. Duan Yunhong helped them get weapons and supplies, and later added intelligence, helping their people operate in Pingdu. As they moved around more, no matter how much they tried to hide it, it would be noticed by Cheng Lingqi’s people. Duan Yunhong was, after all, a businessman and had dealings with them as well. Many big clients were senior military officers or their families, or even directly connected to the departments on that side. After the other side discovered that he was actually closely connected with the opposing camp, they repeatedly knocked and warned him. These people still had a lot of power, so Duan Yunhong outwardly restrained himself, but secretly continued to do his own thing.

It was at this time that the people around Duan Yunhong began to be contacted one by one by others, trying to buy them off.

Duan Yunhong, of course, had some insight and tried to eliminate potential dangers around him as early as possible. But his network of relationships was too large, he knew too many people, and it was impossible to be on guard against everyone. Moreover, the underground party in the camp tried to infiltrate the other side, and the other side would also counter-infiltrate. Among these counter-infiltrators, there were people secretly watching Duan Yunhong.

Later, on one occasion, when the situation was tense, a batch of supplies had to be urgently shipped out of Pingdu, Duan Yunhong personally led the team, claiming to be taking the goods to sell to other places. Passing through a war-torn area, the convoy, which originally had “compliant documents,” was suddenly attacked. Not to mention that all the supplies were robbed and seized, Duan Yunhong himself was shot. Although he was temporarily saved after being rushed to the hospital for treatment, because there was no time to recuperate and he was constantly on the road, his old wound relapsed and the infection worsened shortly after.

He was forced to stay in a small city hospital to receive treatment, but this hospital had no antibiotics. Not to mention the hospital, not a single one could be found in the entire city. Duan Yunhong had no choice but to mobilize his connections and try to get the goods in every possible way. In theory, with so many of his pharmaceutical channels, he was the most likely person to get the medicine, but the situation at this time was too unstable, causing a nationwide shortage of antibiotics. Even if Duan Yunhong wanted to transfer goods, he had to find the goods first.

Finally, news came from a southern port city that a batch of antibiotics had just been smuggled in. However, the quantity was very small, and basically all of it was directly snatched away by the people from Cheng Lingqi’s camp. Duan Yunhong spent money and asked for favors, and finally managed to get someone to give him a box, and immediately asked his most trusted friend and assistant to get the medicine.

At this time, Duan Yunhong was already very weak, barely surviving day by day, so it was actually very urgent.

However, his good brother and partner never returned.

“I later found out that he had long hooked up with the daughter of a lieutenant general, and defected with my life-saving medicine!”