390 A Change of Terms (1/2)
”What kind of trouble have you gotten into this time?” A firm and powerful voice came through the phone. The sound of large trucks moving could be heard in the background. The person on the phone was at a noisy place.
Zhou Yue pouted and walked about aimlessly. He groused into the phone, ”I am here to patrol at the storage, but you said I'm creating trouble? Haven't you been telling me to go and learn the business. I am doing exactly that.”
The person who was on the phone with Zhou Yue was Father Zhou. When he heard this explanation, he berated his son directly. ”Just two days ago, I heard you took some people to go and fight with the kid from the Yao family again. People said that you were practically leading the men into a gang fight. And now you're telling me you suddenly want to learn the business. Do you think I'm senile?”Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.
Speaking of the relationship between Zhou and Yao, it could have been turned into a TV drama. Initially, the two families were partners in San Lin City. Their industries complimented each other, and their reputation was among the best in the city. They had helped and supported each other peacefully through the years. According to their plan, this shared peace could have continued until their grandchildren's generation. However, things did not go as smoothly as expected. Without needing to wait for the third generation, there was already plenty of conflict among the second generation. The Zhou family had the young master, Zhou Yue, and the Yao family had Yao Zhixing with an explosive temper.
The cooperation between the two families was over, but it did not mean that they were out to get each other. After all, there was no real competition between them, and the seniors were not going to treat the argument between their children seriously. Later, with the intervention from Ye Shuang, it had turned into a 'benign' competition between Yao Zhixing and Zhou Yue. Occasionally, the two might call their men to get into a fight. In a way, it could be counted as an alternative communication method.
Yao Zhixing was Zhou Yue's taboo. Hearing his father say that, Zhou Yue instantly got annoyed. ”Yao Zhixing was involved in the fight as well, so how come you only scold me? Why don't you go and lecture him as well?”
”Is that Yao kid my son? I don't care what he did!” Father Zhou retorted. After he took a deep breath to calm down, he added, ”Furthermore, he is better than you. You always say that he is not a good kid since he likes to race cars and get into fights, but why don't you talk about his ability at managing his family's restaurants? Even Xiao Shuang is closer to him than she is to you. See, when has the girl gone out of her way to take soup to you before? You are really helpless!”
Indeed, one of the standards that Father Zhou used to decide whether or not his son was living up to his expectations, other than his working performance, was the attitude of the daughter of his first love.
”…” Zhou Yue was scolded silent. He opened his lips, wishing to say something more, but in the end, he still swallowed everything. ”I'm going to hang up now. In the future, you'll see who the helpless one really is!”
Then he hung up angrily. He turned to direct his anger to the workers. ”What are you guys doing standing there? Don't you know how to unload the products‽”
He pointed at the nearby truck. ”That truck with the seafood, I'll handle it myself! I'll pick some choice seafood to give to my friends. You guys go and deal with the rest. Open the freezers!”
After ordering the people to park the truck in front of the freezer, he blasted the rest away. After confirming that all the workers had left, Zhou Yue looked left and right before opening the truck door. He grumbled with annoyance into the truck, ”Couldn't you have brought some soup for me as well?”
Just as he finished, Sister Shuang jumped out of the cargo space, and following behind her was Han Chu. Since they had been trapped inside the cargo space and quite far away when Zhou Yue was on the phone, Sister Shuang naturally did not overhear the conversation between the father and son. She looked at Zhou Yue like he was crazy. ”What's wrong with you?”
Zhou Yue tossed them two worker's outfits with a dark face. ”My dad knows that you took some food to Yao Zhixing, and he just scolded me for it. We're all friends, so how can you leave me out of it!”
Ye Shuang's face was dark as well. She finally understood what he was talking about. As she removed her jacket and put on the worker's outfit, she mocked, ”Brother Yao broke his arm during a fight, and naturally, I had to take something when I went to visit him at the hospital. If you want me to bring you something, go and break your arm.”