A Thirty-Seventy Split

"Take him away. Don't let him foul this young brother's eyes." After breaking Zhao Lei's left foot, Zhao Lang spoke to two of his men.

The two men moved to carry Zhao Lei away.

Zhao Lang seemed to remember something and said:

"Wait!"

Then he turned to Su Ye and said:

"I heard my good-for-nothing younger brother also brought back a woman. I wonder what you would like to do..."

"What the hell does that have to do with me?"

Su Ye spoke without thinking. He had come only to help Zhang Erhu vent his anger. To be honest, Su Ye was deeply disgusted by what the woman had done!

But then he reconsidered. After all, she was Erhu's...

"Let her go after all!"

After thinking it over, Su Ye spoke to Zhao Lang again.

"All right, I'll have someone release her right away," Zhao Lang told Su Ye.

"By the way, now that the misunderstanding has been cleared up, I still don't know your name..."

Zhao Lang cupped his fists toward Su Ye as he asked.

"My name is Su Ye!"

"So it's Brother Su Ye. My name is Zhao Lang. If you ever run into trouble in Lingnan, brother, you only need to let me know. I won't even furrow my brow over anything I can help with."

Of course, Su Ye didn't believe Zhao Lang's bullshit, but he still made a proper show of courtesy, cupping his hands and saying:

"Then many thanks, Brother Lang!"

"Haha, Brother Su Ye, why be so polite with me? I'll have someone tidy things up right now, and the two of us can have a few drinks."

"Ah, no need. I have other matters to attend to, so please excuse me!"

Su Ye cupped his hands toward Zhao Lang as he spoke! Then he left the Heavenly Capital alone.

He had just indirectly caused the man's own younger brother to have his left foot broken, and now he was supposed to drink and make merry with him? What a joke!

In any case, Su Ye didn't dare drink that wine!

After leaving the Heavenly Capital, Su Ye drove away in his silver Porsche.

At that moment, on the top floor of the Heavenly Capital, Zhao Lei lay on a bed, staring blankly at the ceiling as if he meant to bore a hole through it with his gaze.

An old man in his sixties applied medicine to Zhao Lei's broken foot at the bedside, then put it in a cast!

Out on the balcony, Zhao Lang watched Su Ye drive away, then leaned against a nearby table and fell into a daze.

An unknown amount of time passed before Zhao Lang slowly came back to his senses. Then he sighed and walked into the room where Zhao Lei was staying.

"Do you know what you did wrong?"

Zhao Lang asked, looking at his dazed younger brother.

It was a long time before Zhao Lei came back to his senses. He turned his head slightly and said to Zhao Lang:

"I do. Brother, is he really that strong? So strong that you didn't even have the courage to fight him?"

Seeing his younger brother Zhao Lei like that made Zhao Lang's heart clench. Then he sighed and said:

"If you hadn't been there, I would have fought him no matter what! All right, don't think about it too much. Just focus on recovering!"

With that, Zhao Lang walked out.

When Su Ye returned to the hospital, he parked the car downstairs and hurried up!

"Brother Ye! You're back!"

Zhang Erhu said when he saw Su Ye appear in the doorway.

"Little Ye, are you all right?"

Zhang Erhu's mother, Li Xiuqin, also asked Su Ye.

"Auntie Li, I'm fine! Everything's been settled! They won't come looking for trouble again!"

When Zhang Erhu's parents heard that Su Ye had settled the matter, the elderly couple were even more grateful to him, tears streaming down their faces.

"I really don't know how to thank you, Little Ye!" Zhang Erhu's father said to Su Ye.

"Uncle Zhang, saying that makes us sound like strangers. Erhu and I are as close as brothers. Of course I'd help him when he's in trouble!" Su Ye said with a smile.

Lying on the bed, Zhang Erhu felt as though something had struck his heart, and it trembled for no apparent reason!

Brother Ye, from now on, you're my own big brother! Zhang Erhu said silently in his heart!

Everyone chatted and laughed for a while before Su Ye took his leave of Zhang Erhu's family. Before he left, he gave Zhang Erhu a few more streams of spiritual energy!

As his driving skills improved, Su Ye could now make it from the county seat to Jiuhua Village in less than an hour.

When Su Ye got home, his parents were watching television in the living room. He went over to the water dispenser, filled a cup with spiritual energy water, and sat down to drink!

"You're back. How's Erhu doing?" Mother Su turned and asked Su Ye.

"It's nothing serious. He should be able to come back in a couple of days!" Su Ye replied.

Early the next morning, Su Ye got up and went to tend the vegetable garden.

He fed the little wild boar and played with the puppy for a while. Just then, his phone rang!

"Su Ye! Where are you?"

Xiao Xiao's voice came from the other end of the line!

"I'm at home! Is something up?"

"Can't I call you for a chat if nothing's up?"

On the other end of the line, Xiao Xiao spoke to Su Ye, seemingly annoyed.

"Sure we can chat. I happen to be free right now!"

"All right, let me tell you the important news first. Your watermelons have all sold out. Our Xiao Family kept some for ourselves, and sold the rest to a few acquaintances!"

Hearing that his watermelons had all been sold, Su Ye became interested.

"If watermelons didn't have such a short shelf life, our Xiao Family really wouldn't have had the heart to sell them. Even so, we still managed to fleece them for a tidy sum!"

Xiao Xiao spoke with gleeful schadenfreude.

"Guess how much they sold for?" Xiao Xiao continued.

"Stop keeping me in suspense. Hurry up and tell me!" Su Ye urged.

"Hmph, fine, I'll tell you. This time, they sold for over 130 million!"

Xiao Xiao seemed displeased by Su Ye's lack of tact, but she told him all the same.

"What? Over 130 million?"

Su Ye was stunned by the figure. Assuming each watermelon weighed eighty jin on average, the previous harvest should have come to around 80,000 jin. More than a thousand yuan per jin of watermelon?

"Look at you, such a money grubber! Actually, the money is a small matter. Our Xiao Family got to make a splash this time and earned quite a few favors. That's the real prize!"

Xiao Xiao continued on the other end of the line.

"Su Ye, my dad said we won't take any of the money. I'll have our finance department transfer all of it to you in a bit!"

When Su Ye heard that the Xiao Family didn't want any money, he naturally disagreed!

As the saying went, people may be close, but money knows no kinship. Matters involving profit had to be taken seriously. The Xiao Family might not care about this amount of money now, but they would be working together again in the future. If he really didn't give them even a little share, there would inevitably be a thorn in their hearts!

"No, we have to split the profits fifty-fifty!" Su Ye told Xiao Xiao.

"No, how can we make money off you? Besides, our Xiao Family used your watermelons to earn quite a few favors along the way. To the Xiao Family, those are the real prize!"

"Being able to exchange them for favors is thanks to the Xiao Family's own abilities. This money has to be split!"

Su Ye insisted. In fact, if he had sold them himself, there was no guarantee he could have gotten such a high price, and he would have been especially likely to attract unwanted attention. Some minor troubles would certainly have been unavoidable.

Now, thanks to the Xiao Family's prestige, the watermelons had fetched a good price, and Su Ye had earned the money while lying down. Why wouldn't he be happy to do it?

In the end, after Su Ye and Xiao Xiao pushed the matter back and forth, they settled on a thirty-seventy split, without deducting costs: Su Ye would get seventy percent of the total amount received, and the Xiao Family would get thirty percent!

"Oh, right, my dad's having a big birthday celebration the day after tomorrow. Will you have time? Come over and have some fun!"