Rebirth of the Little Actor – 45
45 – He’s coming, he’s coming! The man who stole the cub, he’s coming tomorrow!
The young man sat on the sofa, with a cold expression on his outstanding face. A pair of light brown apricot eyes looked over with a hint of carelessness.
Uncle Ning and Liu Yun rushed to the front for a meal, and a few seconds later they walked into the door. It was Liu Yun who spoke first.
“My eldest nephew, you didn’t leave your contact information last time. We couldn’t find you even if we tried to find you! That little bastard Ning Rong is even more…”
“Ms. Liu, please be careful about what you say.”
The young man’s expression changed, and he looked straight into the middle-aged woman’s eyes with a warning tone.
“Keep your mouth clean.”
Liu Yun, who had been scolded by her husband at home, remembered that Ning Rong’s biological parents were the adoptive parents of the teenager in front of her. She stopped at once, her face flushed red angry at being scolded by such a child, but thinking of her son, she forced herself to endure it.
“Yes, yes, I didn’t pay attention when I spoke.” Liu Yun said with a smile, “I want to say, nephew, please be careful with Ning Rong! That boy Ning Rong changed his mobile phone number and still didn’t answer our calls. It’s so bad to prevent us from finding you!”
An Xing blinked: “But I don’t want to be found by you either.”
“……”
Uncle Ning and Liu Yun both froze. They had expected that upon seeing them, An Xing might not be very polite, after all, there had been a lot of unpleasantness in their previous meeting. But they didn’t expect that this teenager would not give any face at all!
Liu Yun took several deep breaths before barely calming herself down, trying to squeeze out a smile.
“Nephew ah, I know you have a misunderstanding about us, but you have to believe that we really came here for you this time.”
“We can help you deal with Ning Rong!”
An Xing:?
This was the kind of speech An Xing hadn’t envisioned. He couldn’t help but rub his ears, looking at the two in disbelief.
“What are you guys planning to do? Helping me deal with Ning Rong?”
“Hm?”
The voice resounded around the corner of the stairs, and the boy’s face instantly sank when he turned around the stairs and saw the middle-aged man and woman standing in the doorway.
“What are you guys doing here again?!”
Eldest Uncle Ning was instantly anxious, looking at Ning Rong, then at An Xing, then at his wife, as if he wanted to say something. It was still Liu Yun who was calm, ignoring Ning Rong, and only said sharply to An Xing:
“Nephew ah, just give us a few minutes of your time, you must listen to us finish our words ah! We are all doing this for your own good!”
At the bottom of the stairs, Ning Rong had already crossed the steps and stopped at the door, followed closely by Uncle Li. Two young and middle-aged men blocked behind Uncle Ning and Liu Yun, looking unkindly. When the two people looked at An Xing, their faces were mixed with fear and eagerness.
An Xing cocked his head and waved his hand towards Ning Rong and Uncle Li.
“You two don’t come in yet.”
He shot a few more glances at Elder Uncle Ning and Liu Yun, and took a few steps towards the deep end of the living room.
“Tell me, what do you guys want from me?”
Ning Rong looked at the people in the living room, his eyes growing more somber.
Neither Elder Uncle Ning nor Liu Yun cared what Ning Rong was thinking, and when they saw An Xing leading them to avoid Ning Rong, they only thought that their words just now had taken effect. They followed An Xing into the living room, and Liu Yun spoke sharply.
“Nephew ah, don’t look at Ning Rong being friendly to you right now, in fact, he has a lot of bad intentions, don’t be fooled by him!”
“How so?”
Liu Yun thought that An Xing was upset, her spirit lifted and she came over and said eagerly:
“Let me tell you, Ning Rong grew up with his parents and lived in poverty, so he values money very much! You were raised by a rich family and have no idea that he is not a good person. When he goes back, he will definitely fight with you for family property!”
An Xing: ……
The teenager appeared to shake his head and nodded, asking curiously:
“And then what? You guys are talking to me about this, is there a way to help me grab the family property?”
“That’s of course ah great nephew, we’re the family, if we don’t help you who do we help!”
Eldest Uncle Ning grabbed his hand and said, glancing warily at Ning Rong in the doorway and lowering his voice.
“You can put the money in our name, so that even if you leave that family in the future, you’ll still have money to fall back on, right? And ah, we also know Ning Rong’s secret, so you can use that to threaten him later!”
An Xing was originally just standing carelessly, when he heard this, his face changed slightly.
“His secret? What secret?”
Elder Uncle Ning was about to speak, but was pulled by Liu Yun, and hurriedly shut his mouth.
The middle-aged woman smiled, trying her best to hide the greed in her eyes.
“Nephew ah, so …… are we a family now?”
The teenager looked at the woman fixedly, his face gradually becoming expressionless, his gaze cold.
“Oh, no.”
The two froze.
“You guys get it right, it’s me who’s giving you the chance now. If people like us want to find out something, do you think we can’t?”
The teenager slightly tilted his head sideways, in the small, dry and hot room, his noble aura was clear around him, as if he didn’t carry an ounce of dirt with him, and his smile was a bit sarcastic.
“Surrender, understand? Are you guys here talking to me with empty hands?”
An Xing’s meaning was obvious, if they did not say something, he would not cooperate with them at all – not to mention cooperating, he would even simply ignore them.
Liu Yun was a bit flustered in her heart. She had thought well before she came, after all, the first few times they met, this teenager was well-behaved and obedient, so he must be very easy to trick. But now she could see that it was all pretend!
She looked at the boy, filled with jealousy. How could her sister-in-law be so lucky? Her adopted son Ning Rong was so good, and her own son was raised so well by a wealthy family. If it was her son who was given the wrong child… that would be great!
But now it was useless to think about it. Seeing that the young man in front of him wanted to turn around and leave, Liu Yun became anxious and said quickly:
“Ning Rong, Ning Rong is out there, interacting with those street gangsters!”
An Xing:?
An Xing paused and looked at the woman with unclear meaning.
“Street gangsters?”
“My son told me, those street gangsters used to look for him to ask about Ning Rong, and blocked him after asking.”
Since she had already loosened her tongue, Liu Yun simply told what she knew.
“If Ning Rong was clean, why would the street gangsters have trouble with him? He definitely has problems! Maybe he did something bad with those people and pretended to be decent before he was approached.”
An Xing had little expression on his face at this moment, but his heart had already set off shockwaves.
What the hell, those gangsters who surrounded Ning Rong in the beginning, weren’t found by Ning’s family?
“Just this?” He tensed up not letting the other party see his shock, and faintly said, “There’s more?”
“There’s there’s,” Liu Yun hurriedly nodded her head, “Those two, Ning Jingze and Gu Lan, also have problems! They’ve been suppressed as just poor teachers all these years because they’ve offended someone!”
“They’re definitely not clean either!”
“Is …… there anything else.”
“There is nothing else …….” Liu Yun apprehensively said, “Nephew ah, what I said is true, we are doing this for your own good, you must not believe Ning Rong!”
An Xing nodded and took two steps forward, seeing the two blocking in front of him, he frowned.
“Get out of the way.”
Uncle Ning and Liu Yun straightened up and moved out of the way.
An Xing walked through the two men and walked to the door. During his conversation with the two Ning family members, Ning Rong and Uncle Li had been standing at the door.
An Xing walked over and grabbed Ning Rong with one hand and pointed at the two men with the other.
“They instigated me to fight you for the family fortune!”
The righteousness of his voice was loud and clear.
Eldest Uncle Ning and Liu Yun: ……
The two of them stared at An Xing incredulously.
“O nephew, why are you so stupid!” Elder Uncle Ning was so angry that his lips were trembling, “We’re doing this for your own good!”
An Xing cocked his head and sincerely asked a question:
“You guys don’t really think that I would believe those words of deceiving a fool, do you?”
“We didn’t lie to you!” Liu Yun hurriedly said, “What I just said to you is all true!”
An Xing shook his head.
“It’s true that you guys didn’t lie to me, you guys just thought that I was raised by the An Family and definitely couldn’t afford to let the An Family’s bountiful property fall by the wayside. And Ning Rong, having grown up with mom and dad and not living in generous conditions, must have been extremely money-minded. Ning Rong and I, we are bound to have an antagonistic relationship.”
The teenager looked sideways at Ning Rong, tilting his chin up proudly.
The boy thought for a moment, and cooperatively reached out to rest his hand on An Xing’s shoulder, what was originally a hooking up position turned into a solicitation of a younger brother because of the height difference.
Ning Rong looked toward the Ning family and indifferently said:
“Do you think other people are as disgusting as you are?”
“You!”
Liu Yun was furious, how could she not see by now that An Xing was just playing them from start to finish! She couldn’t suppress it anymore and cursed out loud off the top of her head.
“Good ah, you two little brats, it’s really no wonder that you were carried wrongly back then, you guys can be too much of a match, you’re alike in being nothing!”
An Xing’s face instantly changed.
He and Ning Rong were hugged wrongly leading to such a tragic end in his previous life, how could this person dare to say such words!
He took a step forward, and for the first time, he was somewhat unable to control his anger, wanting to rush over and hit the person, but he was stopped by a strong arm and was pushed back.
Ning Rong walked over and turned his back to An Xing, his face revealing an undisguised, shadowy anger.
“Elder Auntie, you’ve heard of the phrase disaster comes out of the mouth, haven’t you? Are you guys trying to get the hell out of Tang City?”
Liu Yun’s shrill cries stopped instantly, as if she was a chicken that had been strangled, glaring at Ning Rong in death.
“You, you can’t ……”
“I can.”
Ning Rong interrupted her, his gaze abruptly turning to Eldest Uncle Ning. His voice softened, there was nothing malicious about it, just boredom.
“With his salary over the years, Elder Uncle shouldn’t be able to afford to pay for Ning Fu to spend lavishly. But you buy him sneakers and the latest electronics from time to time, and you want to send him to study abroad ……”
“It’s true that Mom and Dad will get a demolition payment for this house, but according to Ning Fu’s spending habits, it is still a bit short to go abroad. Where will the missing money come from? The two of you can’t save that much money with your salaries.”
“I remember that Big Uncle works in purchasing at the company? Made quite a bit of money in the past, didn’t he?”
A hint of panic flashed in Uncle Ning’s eyes, and his voice instantly rose.
“What are you babbling about!”
“It seems that it indeed had.” Ning Rong’s eyes were clear, and he took a step backward, watching them expressionlessly.
“Get the hell out of here, and don’t ever appear in front of me or An Xing.”
Liu Yun screamed, “On what basis do you ……”
“By virtue of the fact that my surname is now An, not Ning.”
Ning Rong retreated next to An Xing and said indifferently.
“You guys are afraid of not knowing how powerful the An family is, right? I can tell you all right now, this house, you won’t be able to get the slightest advantage. If you guys come after me and An Xing again in the future, I will make you two lose your jobs. Ning Fu wants to go abroad? There’s no such thing as a gate, be careful that he won’t even get his graduation certificate.”
Looking at the unwilling and fearful expressions of the two people, Uncle Ning and Liu Yun, Ning Rong felt as if the breath clogging in his heart had dissipated a little. But it wasn’t enough, even though these two hadn’t caused him to suffer any substantial losses, Ning Rong just didn’t feel like it was enough.
“Eldest Uncle, Eldest Aunt, this is the last time I’m going to call you guys this – but if you had been kinder to my mom and dad, your lives right now, too, would have been completely different.”
Whatever you sow, you will bear the consequences. They have already shattered the opportunity for advancement with their own hands.
*
“Son, the An family really doesn’t have that much energy.”
In the An family villa, after listening to Old Li and the cub speak about what happened during the day, An Zhaoming slowly twisted his head and looked at Ning Rong, very seriously.
“In a socialist country, a society with the rule of law, it’s against the law to threaten someone.”
“I just verbally said a few words, even if they don’t move out of Tang City, I won’t do anything.”
Ning Rong said indifferently.
An Zhaoming suspiciously sized up his son for a few moments, always feeling that what the other party said and thought were not the same thing. This son was just too much like him, and he wanted to clean up that family, not to mention Ning Rong who was the one involved.
But the boys’ expression was just too calm, An Zhaoming could only say politely:
“If they have violated the law, they will be punished by the law, and this is the society of the rule of law. Our family is a big taxpayer and a conscientious enterprise, breaking the law is a high-pressure line that can never be touched. Rongrong, do you understand?”
Ning Rong nodded seriously, “Of course.”
How could he break the law, he was just planning to report it. Not doing anything wrong naturally didn’t scare him of anything, and if he did, then the light of the righteous path was also spilling out onto the earth, wasn’t it?
Of course, there is no need to report them recently, first let them be scared …… no, reflect for a while. After this period of time, when they are arrogant again …… no, confident and relaxed their vigilance to report again, the effect will be better.
Ning Rong pleasurably touched An Xing’s head.
An Xing was holding up his paws to report to Shen Ying when suddenly his head was touched and he looked back in confusion. After Ning Rong and An Zhaoming finished speaking, they also closed their mouths.
Regarding those gangsters sent by who knows who, and the fact that his biological parents had been suppressed, An Xing did not intend to tell An Zhaoming in front of Ning Rong. He wisely changed the topic.
“I told Brother Shen ah, he’ll come over for lunch tomorrow and then take me back to his house!”
An Zhaoming, who had just wanted to purchase a copy of Criminal Law online for his son, instantly put away his cell phone and exchanged glances with Shen Qing and Ning Rong.
He’s coming, he’s coming! The man who stole the cub, he’s coming tomorrow!
An Zhaoming: “Good, then have Aunt Zhang make more delicious food.”
That night, An Zhaoming, who had heard An Xing relay those words of Liu Yun, as well as the doubtful points, made several secretive phone calls in the study before returning to his room and resting with Shen Qing. In his sleep, he cursed the two Ning family members, while scolding Lu Tian Shen for trying to steal the pup, which annoyed Shen Qing to kick the man several times.
But Ning Rong remembered that his parents had been bullied by that family in the past, and he was also very unhappy. He held a calendar to mark the date and studied when to report and deal with that family.
Only An Xing slept soundly on all fours, with a good night’s sleep, and it was soon noon the next day.
Lu Tian Shen did not come to the door empty handed, and was carrying a food box. After entering and greeting them, he put the food box in front of An Xing.
“Just coming is fine, what gifts are you bringing?”
An Zhaoming had a fake smile on his face, no matter how he looked at Lu Tian Shen, he didn’t feel good.
The young man was courteous: “It’s just a cake that Xing Xing likes to eat, a limited edition for sale on Sunday morning, I brought it especially for him.”
A limited edition cake that he specifically lined up to buy! The small curly hair on top of the teenager’s head was so happy that it fluttered in the wind.
His Shen brother was so good to him!
T/N: My first language isn’t English, and there may be some grammatical errors. But I try not to deviate from the author’s narrative. If there are any errors or nonsensical sentences, feel free to comment.
