Chapter 20 – The Old Madman in the noodle shop
As soon as they got on the van, they saw two minivans stop in front of the abandoned factory. Several men jumped off the van and ran into the abandoned factory.
Yan Tian didn’t even need to think to know that Zi Yue had sent someone to clean up the place. After all, there were two of their men inside, at least let them rest in peace.
Yan Tian looked at the time and it was getting late. It was almost lunchtime, so he drove back to the company.
Of course, how could Liu Ruoxin miss him? When Yan Tian returned to the company, he was met with supercilious looks from Liu Ruoxin. He could only laugh and wait for Liu Ruoxin to send him out to fetch her food in a few minutes.
Seeing that there were so many people in the restaurant, Yan Tian thought for a while, then whistled and was about to go outside to get a meal, since he had nothing to do.
Yan Tian quickly found a noodle shop near the company. Although Yan Tian had grown up abroad, ahinese, he still felt that eating a bowl of noodles was more practical.
Because it was lunchtime, the noodle shop was full of customers. Some of them lowered their heads and ate the noodles in big mouthfuls, while others impatiently urged the Lady Boss to ask if it was ready.
Yan Tian asked for a bowl of hand-cut noodles and sat down aable to wait.
He looked to be in his seventies, and was sitting opposite to Yan Tian. The old man had a pair of deep eyes, his face was filled with the wrinkles of time, his hair was a field of white, and he was in a mess. Although the old man was quite old, his body looked very energetic.
“Hehehe, boy, quickly call me master.” The old man licked his fingers and said to Yan Tian while smiling.
Yan Tian thought that he might have met a crazy person who smiled at the old man.
When the old man saw Yan Tian smiling at him, he immediately made a few extremely funny movements, causing the people around him to laugh out loud.
Yan Tian also looked at the old man and laughed without saying a word.
“How is it? Call me Master. If you call me Master, I’ll teach you martial arts. ” The old man said as he stared at Yan Tian after doing that.
Yan Tian wanted to laugh. Teach him martial arts? What kind of joke was this? It seemed that this old man was truly a madman.
“Hey, why are you looking at me? What I said was true. If you call me Master, I’ll take you as my disciple. ” The old man reiterated Yan Tian when he saw that he did not say anything.
“You’re going to teach me kung fu? Really? Then would I becomowerful martial arts expert? ” Yan Tian pretended to be curious and asked.
Seeing Yan Tian’s curious expression, the old man nodded his head in satisfaction.
“Haha, it’s just a small matter. How about it? “Will you learn from me?”
When the surrounding guests heard the old man’s words, they looked at him with disdain. This old man really knew how to brag.
Just then, the noodle shop attendant brought up Yan Tian’s noodles, but before Yan Tian could eat, the old man grabbed a few of them with his bare hands and placed them into his mouth. He did not feel hot, after tasting it, he felt that it was not bad, so he picked up the chopsticks and started to eat, completely ignoring the dumbstruck Yan Tian.
“Hey, old thing, this is mine.” Yan Tian was immediately unhappy.
“You stinking brat, I am an elder, don’t you understand? Hurry and call me Master. ” The old man hurriedly put on the airs of an elder as he spoke.
Yan Tian was too lazy to lower himself to the old madman, he could only glare at the old man and ask the waiter for another bowl.
Seeing that Yan Tian was silent, the old man smacked his lips and said: “Hey, brat, hurry up and call me master. Call me master and I’ll give you something good.”
When Yan Tian heard it, he thought of something? It was fine to call this crazy old man ‘master’ anyway, but he had to hurry up and send him away so that he wouldn’t be in front of me again.
Thinking about it, Yan Tian laughed bitterly: “Good, good, good. Master, can you let your disciple have a good meal?”
“Hahaha, little boy, you’ve finally called me master. Hey, this is for you. Good stuff.” Hearing Yan Tian call him, the old man smiled in satisfaction and took ouusty old ring from his pocket.
Yan Tian had thought that it was some good stuff, but when he saw it, he wanted to curse out loud.
However, since he wanted to quickly send this crazy guy away, Yan Tian pretended to like it a lot and kept the old ring.
Pretending to be very grateful, he said, “Thank you, Master. The present disciple has already received it. Look, should you …”
As Yan Tian said this, he glanced outside the door, signalling the old man to hurry up and leave.
The old madman pretended not to see, and continued to eat the noodles. After eating, he rubbed his stomach and burped, using his deep eyes to look at Yan Tian.
“I have already passed on my peerless martial arts to you. Hahaha, farewell.” After the old madman finished speaking, he laughed loudly and walked out, not even wiping the oil off his mouth.
Yan Tian looked at the old man’s leaving figure and finally let out a sigh of relief. He could finally eat in peace.
After eating, Yan Tian packed everything up and returned to Liu Ruoxin’s office.
After noon, the sky changed shape and changed from the joyful and warm afternoon light to the evening light.
As the night gradually spread out, the bright sunlight had gradually dissipated, becoming more and more feathery, and then vanishing completely. What followed was a desolate and desolate evening air.
After Yan Tian sent Liu Ruoxin home, he realized that the Aunty Sun was already here.
Just like yesterday, when he returned home, he found Sun Yue sitting on the sofa, chasing after the Korean drama, but he was not asleep today.
“I’m back. Do you miss me?” Yan Tian said as soon as he entered the door.
“Tsk, what are you thinking about?” Sun Yue stared at the television and said.
Yan Tian scratched his head and laughed before going to take a cold shower. Then, he went into his bedroom alone.
Due to Yan Tian’s curiosity, he took out the broken ring that the old madman gave him to examine. But after looking for a long time, he still couldn’t find anything, so he threw it into the trash bin, while silently cursing the old man.
After sitting in the bedroom for a while, Yan Tian got up and took out his luggage from the cabinet.
Yan Tian took out something wrapped in black cloth from the bottom of the box. As he slowly opened the cover, he saw that there was a book inside with a slightly yellowish cover.
This book was given to him by his master when Yan Tian returned to his country, and said that it recorded his master’s entire life.
Yan Tian carefully flipped it open and started reading, but as he watched, he couldn’t watch any longer. His master actually said inside that he took in a disciple twenty years ago, and that brat liked to eat cow dung eight months ago?
Yan Tian thought, wasn’t that disciple from 20 years ago him? But when did he ever eat cow dung?
“Fuck, old thing, when did I ever eat cow dung?”
Yan Tian was so angry that he threw the book on the bed, thinking about whether he should write about it himself. Just say that Master likes to eat feces? And there was even Long Yang’s good side?
Just as Yan Tian was thinking about how to write his master, he suddenly saw something out of the corner of his eyes.
He saw that there was actually something in the middle of the book that Yan Tian had thrown onto the bed. Yan Tian walked over and took it out.
It was a middle-aged man holding a baby that was two to three months old in his arms. Yan Tian looked at it, wasn’t this his master’s age? Was the person in his arms him?
After looking at it for a while, Yan Tian flipped it over and saw that there were actually still a few words written there. Yan Tian thought that this must have been written by his master.
“Yan Tian, Tian’er, Red Peach K, the most successful thing in my life is to have you as my disciple, I have no wife or children, but I have you as my disciple, which makes me very happy, and now that you have mastered the art of cultivation, I am no longer worthy to be your master, China is the place where you truly grew up, there is the true stage of your life.”
Yan Tian only regained his senses after reading for a while. He thought to himself, could it be that his master really doesn’t want him anymore? If one were to say that the old man wasn’t fit to be Yan Tian’s master, Yan Tian wouldn’t believe it even if he was beaten to death. He was sure that even ten of the current him couldn’t defeat’s master, and wasn’t worthy to be his master? You must be joking.
Yan Tian smiled bitterly and shook his head before putting the photo back inside the book. After checking that there were no other things, he wrapped it up again with a black cloth. After packing up, he then ran over to the living room to watch the television with Sun Yue.