12 The Young Master Tang Losses his Wife (1/2)

Jun Xie was in a conversation with Little Ke since he had nothing else to do. Little Ke feared him less these days – due to his changed behavior in the past few days. She was still fearful of going too close to him. However, she didn’t abhor him much; especially his story-telling. The girl would carry an incense pot in Jun Xie’s room at the same hour every day, and would listen to his stories attentively. She would blink her eyes as she sat in front of Jun Xie. She followed the characters and emotions of each of the stories. She cheered, laughed, and cried with the characters. And, she felt excited when a handsome prince arrived in the story.

Jun Xie once told her the unfortunate story of the little mermaid. The little girl was so moved that she burst into tears. In fact, she cried for an entire day. Jun Xie swore to himself that he would never tell tragic stories to women again.

Those tears… could drown a person to death!

One day, Jun Xie was narrating the story of the monkey Sun being captured in the Eight Diagrams Furnace to Little Ke. Little Ke held an incense pot in her hands, and stood in front of him. She kept on blinking her eyes while she listened to the story. Suddenly, a bodyguard rushed inside and said, ”Young Master, Young Master Tang has arrived.”

”Young Master Tang?” Jun Xie raised his head in confusion. He then searched for the memories related to this person in his head. He then said, ”Send him in.”

A meatball started to roll towards him from the courtyard. It shouted as it continued to roll, ”Third Young Master, Brother Mo Xie, please save me! I’m stuck with a horrible problem…”

Jun Xie was astounded to see a meatball talk. He eventually understood that it was a man as it came near him.

This person didn’t seem to have a neck; at least Jun Xie couldn’t see one. He had wide shoulders, short and thick arms and thighs, and a round head. The layers of fat in his body moved up and down in the air as he ran; they looked like the raging waves of the Yangtze River. He could be described as an opposite of a bamboo stalk. He didn’t look like a human from any angle.

He walked in from the door of the courtyard. He kept on wiping his sweat; even though he had only walked a few steps. He seemed extremely tired. This person was the Young Master of the Tang family. His name was Tang Yuan. The status of this Tang family was at par with the Jun family.

Jun Xie thought, [He does look like him… but he looks bigger than before.]

”Uh… Young Master Tang… What’s wrong with you? Why are you screaming for me to save you? Who provoked you this time?” Jun Xie held back his laughter as he looked at Jun Mo Xie’s best friend.

Young Master Tang looked angry, ”Bloody grannies! Who else but those slops from the Li and Meng families…?!” He tried to open his eyes in between the thick flesh of his face, and succeeded in opening two narrow slits. He continued, ”Brother, I was in the Thousand Gold Hall from the past ten days. I’ve lost hundred-and-fifty-thousand silver liangs! Third Young Master, please help me! Otherwise, my old man will beat me to death…”

Jun Xie was stunned, ”Hundred-and-fifty-thousand silver liangs! How could you lose you so much money? In fact, from where did you get so much money?”

Tang Yuan heaved a deep sigh, ”I was winning at first. I had won around fifty-thousand…”

”Why did you continue to play if they weren’t letting you win after that? What were you playing to lose so much money for? You’ve got some guts…” Jun Xie stared at him and asked.

Tang Yuan didn’t dare to counter Jun Xie’s point. Instead, he grumbled, ”Didn’t you lose hundred-thousand liangs last month? I’ve only lost a little higher amount than yours… and you’re…”

”Why are you telling me all these things? Can’t your Tang family afford to pay hundred-and-fifty-thousand liangs for you? Why did you come here yelling?” Jun Xie realized that these kind of people couldn’t be judged on the basis of common sense. These people were the typical spend-thrift Young Masters.

”Would your own father kill you for an amount of hundred-and-fifty-thousand silver liangs? It’s not that you haven’t lost such an amount of money before…”

”After I lost all my money… I told them that I’ll go home to get some more. Then, Li Bo started to provoke me. He said that everyone was tired… and that they would go away if I didn’t stay there. I became angry… and…” Tang Yuan looked at Jun Xie with a face filled with regret.

Suddenly, Jun Xie started to feel apprehensive, ”And… what?”