Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 301 - 301 298 Truly Raised

Chapter 301: Chapter 298 Truly Raised Chapter 301: Chapter 298 Truly Raised At two o’clock in the afternoon, Jiang Yan finished his business and returned to Qinghe Garden.

Today he still drove Yu Heng’s car, having planned to take a taxi in the morning, but Yu Heng said he wouldn’t be going out, so Jiang Yan didn’t stand on ceremony.

But after all, it was more convenient to have his own car.

Upon entering the housing complex and turning a corner, not yet reaching his building, from a distance, Jiang Yan saw quite a crowd of people standing on the empty ground to the left of the courtyard.

What were they doing?

He felt a bit curious, parked his car without rushing to get inside, and instead walked halfway around to the outside of the short wall, peering over it to first catch sight of a black goat inside, struggling and bleating as it was tied to a wooden board.

Jiang Yan: ….

His head began to ache.

“Bro? You’re back.”

The second brother, who had been facing away from Jiang Yan and talking to someone, turned around upon hearing the noise behind him, then said with surprise and delight, “Bro, this is Master Luo from the ‘Jinkuaizi’ restaurant, he knows how to slaughter goats, and he can even skin the whole goat intact… Master Luo, this is my brother.”

Jiang Yan looked at the man known as Master Luo, a middle-aged man of around forty, and showed a look of surprise.

He knew Lao Zhengfen.

In his past life, Elder Xiao, who taught him cooking skills, counted Lao Zhengfen as his top apprentice, who later secretly sold the new dishes Elder Xiao invented, causing Elder Xiao to be scolded by peers and the boss, damaging his reputation badly.

Of course, this all happened before Jiang Yan met Elder Xiao. By the time he knew the old man, Elder Xiao was already disheartened and had not taken in any apprentices for many years, making their relationship half that of teacher and apprentice, half that of friends.

Once, when accompanying Elder Xiao to market, Jiang Yan ran into Lao Zhengfen unexpectedly.

He still remembered the defiant words Lao Zhengfen said to Elder Xiao, who looked at him with cold eyes, “I needed money and you wouldn’t lend it to me, so what if I sold a few of your dishes? You come up with so many new dishes every month, do you miss these few?”

Very righteous and arrogant attitude!

It was also because Elder Xiao had reached that point in life where he deigned not to argue with him anymore. Otherwise, if it were someone with a more violent temper, wouldn’t they have been infuriated on the spot?

Back then he was in Hucheng, and Elder Xiao was a local. At that time, he heard that Lao Zhengfen sold Elder Xiao’s dishes and took the money to Beijing.

So, by that time, Lao Zhengfen had already fallen out with Elder Xiao.

Jiang Yan and Lao Zhengfen nodded to each other faintly, as a form of greeting.

He turned to his younger brother and said, “Untie the goat. Yang Dan just called; her senior made a mistake. This goat is for his thesis and we’ll need to return it to him later.”

“Ah? We have to give it back?”

The younger brother felt extremely disappointed; he had been thinking about boiling the goat’s head tonight because he wanted to eat its brain.

Among the circle of friends, almost all of them were college students. He was the least intelligent and was about to take the adult college entrance exam in early June. Jing Junyang mocked him for not being able to pass… Damn it, once he made his brain a bit smarter, would he not be able to pass?

But what if he couldn’t make it smarter now?

Hearing the goat wasn’t going to be slaughtered, Lao Zhengfen left with a young man. He looked uninhibited, not displeased; after all, he wasn’t a professional goat slaughterer. He just happened to come across this, saw that the goat’s hide was nice, and wanted to help slaughter it to take the black goat hide.

Now that it wasn’t happening, it was no big deal to him.

Jiang Yan watched Lao Zhengfen leave calmly, placing his hands on the low wall, he pushed himself up and easily jumped inside.

The second brother was muttering to himself as he untied the goat.

It wasn’t until he was halfway done that he suddenly realized and turned to look at Jiang Yan, “Since we got it wrong, can’t we just send it back and exchange it? Hey, I don’t mind any goat, as long as we have one. Oh no, we can’t let Master Lao leave; I should talk to him and ask him to come back later.”

“Stop right there!”

Jiang Yan was about to scold the second brother when Mu Jiawen came out with a cup of honey water, looking surprised at the goat, whose ropes had been half-untied. She then looked up at the tall figure beside her and slapped her forehead, “Oh my, are we really keeping it? I’m telling you, I’m not taking care of it; you’re on your own with this one.”

After saying that, she turned around and went back inside.

Jiang Yan ignored her, bent down and quickly untied the goat, leading it by the rope around its neck toward the backyard. He tied it up to a pipe beside the water basin.

The unrestrained goat either out of excitement or hunger bleated away.

The second brother followed behind and it dawned on him that the goat wasn’t mistakenly taken, his brother simply didn’t want to kill it.

He couldn’t fathom, “Wait, brother, are you really going to raise it?” He didn’t seem like that kind of person.

However, Jiang Yan dodged the question, “How do you know Lao Zhengfen?”

“Who? Lao Zhengfen, who is that?”

It was after the second brother had finished speaking that he realized, “You mean Master Lao? His name is Lao Zhengfen? He rented an apartment at Xinyu and just moved there two days ago. I’m not familiar with him; it was Old Liu who called him.”

Jiang Yan didn’t say anything more, got up to wash his hands, and as he instructed the second brother to feed the goat, called Mu Jiawen to go out and buy a car.

“But brother, there’s no grass in the city, goats are difficult to keep… Are you sure you don’t want to reconsider?”

Jiang Yan, without turning back, completely ignored him.

The second brother sighed helplessly, threw a bunch of lettuce in front of the black goat, and hurried back to Xinyu.

Since they were going out to buy a car, Jiang Yan didn’t drive.

The two of them took a cab to the nearest Volkswagen 4S store. Not even two minutes into the ride, Mu Jiawen’s phone rang.

She glanced at the number, paused for a second, then decisively handed it to Jiang Yan, “You take it, just say I’m not here.”

Jiang Yan looked at her bemusedly, then pressed the green call button. But before he could put the phone to his ear, Yang Dan’s voice burst out, “Mu Jiawen, you little stinker, what were you up to this morning? Did you sell my dorm phone number? Come to me tomorrow, I guarantee I won’t kill you…”

Jiang Yan raised an eyebrow, turned his head to give Mu Jiawen a sideways glance, and spoke, “What did she do? How did she sell your dorm number?”

There was a pause on the other end of the line, and upon realizing it was Jiang Yan, Yang Dan huffed, “How? You ask her… I won’t be coming back around noon, my roommate said she got a continuous stream of calls for me, some selling ducks and geese, and one was especially urgent, saying they needed to deliver something for a goat. What goat? She didn’t buy a goat after wandering around in the morning, did she?”

You hit the nail on the head.

“My roommate was so annoyed, she told them I was here, and then two seniors came looking for me. You can guess what happened next; they described the girl who gave them the contact info, and at once, I knew it was this little nuisance. No wonder she didn’t come for lunch… Jiang Yan, it’s also on you, why can’t you keep an eye on her over the weekend, letting her out to cause mayhem?”

Jiang Yan chuckled and glanced at Mu Jiawen again, then patted her on the back of her head lightly, “My bad, I won’t let her out next weekend. But if there’s someone selling geese, keep one for me…” Braised goose in an iron pot should be pretty good.

“Beep, beep, beep, beep…”

Before Jiang Yan could finish, Yang Dan hung up the phone, obviously fuming…