Mr. Melancholy Wants To Live A Peaceful Life

CHAPTER 12

You Zhengping had been in a good mood the last few days. Every day he'd come to work humming a tune. In the intervals between observing Zhen Li, he didn't forget to use a successful personage's expression to look down upon Cen Xiao and the others.

"Cen-ge, what's going on with our idiot boss lately?" Shi Yongfu asked uncomprehendingly.

"Idiot boss" was a private pet name for You Zhengping. They called him "boss" to his face and "idiot boss" behind his back. This demonstrated everyone's love and esteem for You Zhengping. A leader who didn't get roasted by his subordinates wasn't a good leader; a boss who wasn't secretly called out by his underlings wasn't a good boss.

Cen Xiao, the squad's second-in-command deputy captain, as well as the person who upheld the squad's spirit, raised his eyebrows and said impatiently, "What else could it be? When he's fighting with Yu Hua, he smashes desks. Now that they've made it up, he's winning at life. Look at the way his expression is always full of sympathy for us single dogs. It really makes you mad."

"He's coming, he's coming! What do we do?" Shi Yongfu said quietly.

Unflappably, Cen Xiao said, "No matter what he says, we won't ask how his relationship with Yu Hua is going. Don't give him the opportunity to show off. Frustrate him!"

The underlings exchanged looks, silently relaying messages. You Zhengping came over carrying a big box of food. He put it on the desk and opened it, revealing the secret recipe roast chicken legs prepared inside. 

He said radiantly, "Yu Hua thought I was working too hard after he found out I'd become an auxiliary policemen, so he prepared snacks for me. What delicious chicken legs! Though he made a little too much. What should I do if I can't eat them all?"

Cen Xiao snapped his fingers. "That really is pretty worrying. But it's all right, we have to share in your troubles. Brothers, forward!"

A crowd of underlings swarmed forward, snatching all the chicken legs away. You Zhengping had only been showing off. He hadn't really been planning on sharing the food Yu Hua had lovingly made with his bad friends. 

As soon as he saw the chicken legs being snatched away, he advanced to protect them, but it was hard to take on a crowd with two fists, and You Zhengping only managed to rescue two. "You guys..."

You Zhengping raised his hands, each with a chicken leg in it, and was about to lose his temper when Shi Yongfu came over and bit one of the chicken legs in his hands. He licked it with his tongue and said, "You're not going to eat this, are you?"

You Zhengping gaped at Shi Yongfu using the most shameless method to steal the chicken leg he was protecting. Now that it had been bitten like this, he couldn't eat it. He could only let it be snatched by Shi Yongfu.

He was worried that the last one would also be snatched, quickly bit off a piece, and began to eat along with his teammates as though venting his anger. These young men were very active, had big appetites, and ate quickly. A dozen chicken legs were finished off in less than five minutes, leaving You Zhengping staring blankly at an empty box.

When Yu Hua had given him the box of food, he had said that You Zhengping definitely wouldn't be able to finish it and had wanted him to share with his colleagues. You Zhengping had been thinking of giving each person a half, leaving the rest for himself. But these people had snatched away two chicken legs each!

"Burp!" Cen Xiao belched, pulled out a wet wipe, and wiped his mouth. "Thank Yu-ge for me."

Even the wipe had been put in the bag by Yu Hua. He knew that these young men had bad living habits and had worried that they would wipe their mouths with their sleeves, so he had made You Zhengping bring along sanitizing wipes.