As Jack stepped out of the restroom, he finally let out a breath he had been holding. He heard Chen Yalan behind him finally unable to hold back and continuing to chatter away. He shook his head helplessly, not understanding how a man as cheerful and bold as William Guodong could end up marrying a woman like her. The kind of gaze Chen Yalan had just shown was something he felt he saw almost every day, as it was a look filled with desire, a blatant seduction of men!
However, Chen Yalan seemed to have overestimated herself, naively thinking that her superior looks alone could make Jack infatuated with her. But she didn't consider that, aside from a few exceptions, what woman here didn't have superior looks? Moreover, which man would have any thoughts about a woman sitting on the toilet with an upset stomach? They would be trying to avoid her!
Sitting under a makeshift sunshade in the courtyard, Jack smiled as he took a cup of strong tea that Gao Yuanyuan had brewed for him. After complimenting her, he turned to see Thomas Xu, looking a bit pale, crawling out of the tent. Jack smiled at him and asked, "Did last night's drinks hit you hard?"
"Yeah, who wouldn't say so? I didn't expect that mixing several types of alcohol would be so powerful. Look at my temples, they're throbbing, and my head is killing me!" Thomas Xu sat weakly on the chair next to Jack. When he saw Gao Yuanyuan pour him a cup of tea, he happily patted the little girl's head. After taking a sip of tea, he turned to ask, "Brother Lin, are we not leaving today? I really can't get into the mood!"
"We're not planning to leave. Don't think I look fine; my head is also hurting. Let's rest here for another night and leave tomorrow!" Jack nodded.
"Sigh~ If I had known, I might as well have just rested at that club. It's spacious and has a bed. Coming to this shabby place to suffer outdoors is just asking for trouble!" Thomas Xu shook his head in regret, slumping in the chair like a boneless octopus.
"We can't drink like this again next time; we're practically joking with our lives!" Jack slowly spat out a tea leaf and looked at Thomas Xu seriously, saying, "If a horde of zombies had come up last night, the consequences would have been unimaginable!"
"Yeah, some people got a bit carried away!" Thomas Xu nodded sincerely, realizing that last night's party really shouldn't have happened. Thinking about how he slept like a dead pig, he felt a wave of fear.
"Brother Xu, here's the computer you wanted!" At that moment, Bingbing sleepily crawled out of the tent. She was only wearing a white tank top and a pair of pink seamless underwear, and she casually placed a white laptop in front of Thomas Xu. After finding a chair, she sat down and, in a similar posture to Thomas Xu, rested her legs on his thighs, her head leaning back against the chair, clearly still not fully awake.
"Where did the computer come from?" Jack asked curiously while sipping his tea.
"My little sister Jie gave it to me last night. She said there are quite a few movies on it. This laptop belonged to that poor guy you knocked out yesterday, but at least he did one good thing before he died—he charged it up for us in the car!" Thomas Xu rubbed his hands excitedly and opened the ultra-thin laptop. After a few clicks, he exclaimed, "Haha~ There are even some adult films! Life just got a lot more colorful!"
"Really? Then hurry up and open it!" Bingbing perked up at the news, leaning on Thomas Xu's shoulder and urging him to open it quickly. However, Jack scolded the two of them, "What are you two doing? Yuanyuan is still here!"
"Uh…" Thomas Xu then noticed that Gao Yuanyuan was also peeking at his laptop. He could only smile awkwardly and said, "Then let's find some cartoons for Yuanyuan to watch, like the movie version of 'Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf'!"
"Oh! That's great!" Gao Yuanyuan cheered happily, her eyes wide open.
The movie started playing, and Thomas Xu placed the laptop in the center of the table. Even Jack, feeling bored, started watching along. About fifteen minutes later, Chen Yalan walked out of the bathroom with a pale face. She dragged her legs, which felt as soft as noodles, and plopped down in the chair next to Jack, grabbing the tea in front of him and gulping down half of it without asking.
"Oh~ Sister Chen, what happened? You look so pale!" Thomas Xu tilted his head and smiled at Chen Yalan, his mischievous eyes constantly scanning her exposed legs.
"Don't mention it. I don't know what I ate last night, but my stomach has been hurting all morning!" Chen Yalan weakly placed her cup on the table, twisting her hips and waist in a strange manner. This wasn't something she was doing on purpose; anyone who has had diarrhea knows that after a lot of it, certain areas can be quite painful, like the rear end!
"No way, although some of it is leftover food, your husband and the others have eaten it too. If anyone is going to get sick, it shouldn't just be you!" Bingbing shifted her gaze from the screen and gave Chen Yalan a half-smiling look.
"It might be because she caught a chill while sleeping last night!" Chen Yalan frowned and said.
"What about Chen Jie and Old William? Why haven't I seen them?" Thomas Xu asked curiously.
"Chen Jie and Ryan Tingyu went with Miss Bai to dig something, and my Old William and the other men are still outside digging a pit!" Chen Yalan said to Thomas Xu.
"Digging a pit? What are they digging for?" Thomas Xu asked in confusion.
"Don't the people you killed need to be buried?" Chen Yalan shrugged and replied lightly, seemingly not at all sorry for her deceased companions. She even turned to Jack with a smile and said, "Brother Lin, can you get me a few pieces of clothing now?"
"Sure, come with me!" Jack nodded, stood up, and led Chen Yalan outside. There were still quite a few women in the car outside with clothes they had brought, enough for her to choose from.
"Tch~ Sister? I can't believe this old woman can even call herself that, really just like Old Marcus painting himself green to look young!" Bingbing sneered at Chen Yalan, who was happily following Jack out.
"It's fine, Brother Lin is already in his thirties, and Chen Yalan looks like she's only twenty-eight or twenty-nine. Isn't it normal for her to call herself sister?" Thomas Xu leaned back in his chair and said inexplicably.
"Twenty-eight or twenty-nine? My good brother, your eyesight is too sharp!" Bingbing exclaimed, pointing at Chen Yalan's back, then patted her left hand and said, "To see a woman's real age, you first look at her hands, and second, her feet. Look at my hands, they're fair and tender, nothing wrong with them! But hers? Her hands are white, but barely tender, and have you noticed the veins on the back of her hands? Several of them are bulging out, and the veins on her feet are even more pronounced, looking like worms. I'm telling you, this woman's age is definitely not less than thirty-four or thirty-five!"
"No way, she's Chen Jie's biological sister, and Chen Jie is only nineteen. How can their ages be so different? She's almost a mother already!" Thomas Xu said in surprise upon hearing this.
"Why not just wait for Chen Jie to come back and ask her? And let me tell you, this woman is definitely not someone easy to deal with!" Bingbing suddenly leaned over, a mischievous look on her face as she whispered to Thomas Xu, "There's a good chance this woman is having an affair with that old man named Lu Bin!"
"Huh? No way! That old Lu is bald and not even as handsome as old William. Chen Yalan wouldn't go for him, no matter how desperate she is! If you said that Marcus Kai or even Lü Liangjia, I might believe it, but that old bald guy? You're stretching it too far!"
Thomas Xu shook his head in disbelief, sizing up the confident Bingbing. He hesitated and asked, "How did you figure that out? They can't possibly be sneaking off for midnight meetings as soon as they arrive, and you just happened to catch them, right?"
"I don't know if they're meeting secretly, but based on my woman's sensitive intuition, those two definitely have a story. The way they look at each other is just off!" Bingbing said, holding her head high with a proud expression.
"Come on, do you really think you can read people?" Thomas Xu immediately gave Bingbing a dismissive middle finger, then kicked her leg playfully and said, "Fortune teller, stop talking nonsense and just give me a massage on my temples. My head is about to explode!"