80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy - Chapter 515

80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy 
Chapter 515 – Sailing in the same boat (2) 

Translator : Moon Lee
Editor : Tea
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After eating one Lüdagun, Gu Ye’s mood improved a lot.

-Lüdagun / Fried chop rice cake (驴打滚) : A classic Beijing snack of glutinous rice rolls coated in soybean powder, named whimsically after ‘donkeys rolling in dust’. 

He thought, failure is the beginning of success. If you fail a hundred times, that’s a hundred beginning, one day, he was bound to be very successful. Absolutely!

“Gurgle…”

A loud rumbling sound interrupted his train of thought. 

Gu Ye glanced down, thinking it had come from his own stomach. 

But then he heard it again, and when he glanced to the side, he saw a dirty, disheveled man. 

The man’s face was covered in grime, his clothes were tattered, and his features were hard to make out, he looked like a beggar. 

He was staring longingly at the lunchbox in Gu Ye’s hands, but the moment their eyes met, he quickly turned his head away.

Still, his stomach growled again, and it was louder this time. 

The man seemed embarrassed and started to get up to leave, but Gu Ye called out,

“Master, I can’t finish all this, please help me eat some.”

Gu Ye suddenly thought of the line from the poem, sailing in the same boat. 

A wave of melancholy washed over him, that was why he stopped the man.

He split the food in half, placed them on the lunchbox lid, and handed it over with a smile.

The man hesitated, but seeing no malice in Gu Ye’s face, he reached out, took the food, and began wolfing it down. 

Several times he nearly choked, but fortunately he had his own water bottle, so there was no need for Gu Ye to share his.

Truth be told, Gu Ye would have felt a little squeamish letting such a dirty person drink from his bottle.

After sharing the meal, the man’s spirits seemed to lift, and he thanked Gu Ye.

“Thank you!”

His accent sounded like he was from Zhejiang province, and judging by his voice, he didn’t seem very old.

“You’re welcome. Meeting is a kind of fate. Master, you don’t sound that old, find a job and work hard. With two hands and two feet, you will never starve.” Gu Ye advised.

He found it strange, such a perfectly able-bodied person choosing to be a beggar. 

With two hands to work, he could earn his own meals. But he ended up in such a state that it was baffling to Gu Ye.

The man gave a bitter laugh and said self-mockingly,

“No one wants me. I’ve been in prison.”

It wasn’t that he wanted to be a beggar. He had tried to find work. But as an ex-con, who would hire him?

Unable to get a job back home, he had come to Shanghai. 

He had found a job and worked for less than two months, but then, by bad luck, a fellow villager recognized him and told the boss he was a murderer. 

The boss fired him on the spot. After that, he tried a few more jobs, but none worked out.

Eventually, he lost all hope and decided to just live as a drifter, eating when he could, killing time until the day he died.

Gu Ye was taken aback and gave the man a closer look. 

He seemed like someone with a story, and probably not a bad person at heart.

Otherwise, the man could have resorted to stealing or robbing instead of living in such misery.

“So what if you have been in prison, what matters is making things right afterward. I think you’re not a bad guy.” 

Gu Ye smiled, pulling a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handing him one.

Since he had nothing urgent to do, chatting with the man wasn’t a bad way to pass the time.

The two sat smoking together. 

Gu Ye only had one cigarette, and handed the rest of the pack to the man. He could tell that the guy was a heavy smoker.

The man was polite enough to light one for Gu Ye, but Gu Ye waved it off.

“No, thanks. My wife doesn’t like the smell of cigarettes. If she notices when I get back, she will definitely scold me.”

“So you’re afraid of your wife, huh?”

The man smiled and took a deep drag, exhaling a few skillful smoke rings, clearly a veteran smoker with at least ten years under his belt.

“It’s not fear, it’s love. You’re unmarried, you wouldn’t get it. So tell me, how did you get into the prison? A fight?” Gu Ye asked with a grin.

“Murder. The man died. I was sentenced to fifteen years. I got out early for good behavior.” 

The man said it lightly, as though talking about someone else’s story. 

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