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Chapter 268 - 166 Goosebumps All Over

Chapter 268: Chapter 166 Goosebumps All Over

In the passenger seat, Zhao Guozhong appeared both wistful and excited.

Once they had driven out of the city area, he couldn’t help but laugh and say, "Did you see the ridiculous way those guys from the sixth group were acting? So hilarious! Back in the private room, I was praising you to them, saying how wealthy and capable you are, and they didn’t even believe me. Look at them now, they’ve all been made fools."

Chen Feng replied, annoyed, "Why are you praising me for no reason?"

Zhao Guozhong chuckled, "Among the younger generation, you’re the only one worth praising. The rest, including your older brother, aren’t even worth mentioning. I thought you just made some money in Xiu Zhou, but I didn’t realize you were so well-connected and powerful. Tonight, so many people obediently stood punished, undergoing searches. Only you and I weren’t searched or made to stand. This time, you’ve really made me proud."

Chen Feng listened and shook his head inwardly, musing that people always desire what they lack the most.

What Zhao Guozhong lacked the most was the respect and regard of others.

He started messing about in society from his teens, achieving nothing. After struggling to find a wife, she left him within two years. After that, everything went downhill for him; he just wasted year after year, enduring scorn and ridicule, sick of everyone’s disdainful looks.

Now approaching fifty, still a bachelor without any money, his life could certainly be described as miserable.

Tonight, he had completely lost face, in front of his so-called old friends, and in front of Chen Feng, his nephew.

But the unexpected police inspection at the night club quickly retrieved the lost face for him, significantly boosting his stature in front of those four friends and gaining back some respect.

As for the face he kept in front of Chen Feng, his nephew, they were family; it didn’t really matter.

Some time later, Zhao Guozhong couldn’t help asking, "Ah Feng, who was that leader earlier who helped us out? You guys seemed pretty close, arm in arm. You must be good friends, right?"

"My classmate," Chen Feng answered briefly, not going into specifics, as he was indeed worried his uncle would bother Qin Zhen for favors now and then.

"Knew it was a classmate, haha, it’s good to have such an impressive classmate," Zhao Guozhong said with a grin, "What’s his position? A team leader or the head of a squad?"

Chen Feng replied dismissively, "He’s from a confidential department, I don’t know. And don’t you pry either."

"Oh, oh, oh, I get it," Zhao Guozhong quickly nodded, his face showing awe, "Confidential department, sure, it’s meant to be confidential, I understand."

Zhao Guozhong didn’t ask any more questions after that. As they were nearing home, his phone rang. He checked it and laughed, telling Chen Feng, "It’s Qi calling, that guy’s got some thick skin."

After saying that, he simply hung up the call.

"Humph, I’ve already cut ties with him, and he still has the nerve to call me. Jesus!"

Zhao Guozhong’s face showed a smug expression, his mouth twisted in a triumphant smirk.

Chen Feng shook his head at his uncle’s petty triumphs. What was there to gloat about? He felt he had lost face in front of Qin Zhen tonight.

But, after all, this was his uncle, who had been quite kind to him when he was a child and had even saved him once.

Despite his persistent disapproval of him, particularly for targeting his own mother and aunt for money,

The worst was five or six years ago when he sweet-talked his mother and aunt into loaning him fifty thousand yuan each, a total of a hundred thousand, and then vanished without a trace, not even a phone call for two or three years.

It had led their family to worry he’d met with an accident, and his mother and aunt nearly issued a missing person notice.

Later, after much inquiry, they finally got in touch with him, assuring his safety, which provided a little peace of mind.

Afterward, the contact was on and off, but his uncle never returned home.

Until this sudden visit on New Year’s Eve, which Chen Feng suspected was because his uncle had run out of money, and having heard about the lucrative car wash business he and his brother started, he figured his uncle wanted to come back to take advantage or ask for a handout.

Previously, he had been very angry, but seeing how much his mother worried about his uncle, he suddenly came to terms with it.

Regardless of anything, this uncle was his mother’s blood brother, and both his maternal grandparents had entrusted his uncle to her on their deathbeds; he was his mother’s relative, hence his own as well.

So why not be more forgiving towards his uncle and help him within his means?

He now had the ability to guide his uncle onto the right path in life, to ensure better days to come, and put his mother’s worries to rest.

This was the fundamental reason for his change of attitude toward his uncle.

Added to that, he now had a terminal illness, which altered his perspective on issues and made him more open-minded, no longer sweating the small stuff, especially with relatives and friends around him.

Zhao Guozhong, after hanging up three calls in a row, finally picked up on the fourth ring just as it was about to go to voicemail, and switched to speakerphone.

"Qi, what’s the point of all of you calling me one by one?"

Zhao Guozhong held the phone with a smile on his lips but a tone that was neither here nor there.

Over on the other end, Qi kept apologizing and saying nice things, prompting Chen Feng to shake his head. Truly, birds of a feather flock together; his uncle’s friends were just like him, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, constantly changing sides with the wind.

After listening for a while, Chen Feng no longer paid attention.

The car soon arrived at their home and stopped. Zhao Guozhong was still on the phone, grinning as he chatted with Qi.

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