Assistant Xiao Jin did not reply, knowing that his boss was not really looking for an answer.
The atmosphere in the room turned silent for a long time..
Feng An Yu knew that he should tell his assistant to drive away. But the words he wanted to say did not escape his lips. Instead, his eyes followed Ning Wei's figure until she got further away.
An uncomfortable feeling arose inside him. Feng An Yu did not like the feeling of Ning Wei leaving in anger.
Today, he came to look for Ning Wei to express his gratitude. If it were not for Ning Wei's help, Feng An Yu would have ended in deep trouble. His cousins would not miss the chance to push him further down.
Instead of thanking Ning Wei properly, he ended up saying something that upset her. He still could not understand what he had done wrong, but Feng An Yu knew that they could not part this way.
"Mr. Feng?" Assistant Xiao called when he could no longer bear the long silence.
The assistant's voice snapped Feng An Yu out of his trance. Without giving it another thought, Feng An Yu pushed the door open and stepped out. He turned in the direction where Ning Wei had gone. He could no longer see Ning Wei's figure, but Feng An Yu remembered the address that Ning Wei had given his assistant.
After walking for a couple of blocks, Feng An Yu finally found the workshop Ning Wei was heading to. However, he could not see Ning Wei's figure. Feng An Yu walked further into the workshop. Other than a few bikes and some spare parts on the floor, Feng An Yu could not see anything else.
The smell of oil filled his nose.
"Sir?" The man called. "Can I help you?"
The voice made him turn. A man in a black shirt stood in front of him.
Feng An Yu gave the man a lookover. "I'm looking for my friend. A young man." He raised a hand up to his shoulder level. "Around this height."
"Mr. Ning?" The man in the black shirt pointed at the back. "He should be in the boss's office. Go straight ahead. The office on the left." He gave Feng An Yu a look over before leaving to fix one of the motorcycles in the workshop.
Feng An Yu looked in the direction that the man had pointed to earlier. After a brief hesitation, he finally headed to the office.
"You cannot do this to me," Ning Wei's voice was heard as Feng An Yu came closer. "You told me that you would fix it. But now that the engine is making a weird sound again, you're telling me that I need to pay more?"
"Then, how am I supposed to get a spare part if you don't give me some money?"
"I gave you plenty last time," Ning Wei said. "That was a few thousand! It should be enough, right? You said it was enough."
"That was for the last time," the boss said. "It was to fix another problem."
Ning Wei looked at the boss in disbelief. " Boss, are you trying to scam my money?"
There was a long silence.
"If you don't trust me, then why don't you take your bike somewhere else?" The boss let out a scoff. " I'm sorry. I can't fix yours." He stood up, wanting to leave the argument.
"Hey, boss!"
Feng An Yu stood at the side as the middle-aged man walked past him.
"You can't do this," Ning Wei shouted as he followed the boss out of the office. "This is not what you promised."
The boss did not look at Ning Wei. He walked off, leaving a frustrated Ning Wei behind.
Ning Wei stared at the boss's figure until he was further away. Her brow furrowed deeply as she thought of the bike that won't get fixed.
"Are you alright?" Feng An Yu spoke after watching Ning Wei for some time. It might be his imagination, but Feng An Yu thought that Ning Wei looked as if he was going to cry.
Ning Wei looked up upon hearing his voice. The frown on her face deepened when she saw the familiar face. "Why are you here?" She adjusted the mask covering half of her face.
"To apologize," Feng An Yu said. "I think I must have said something that upset you."
Ning Wei pursed her lips before finally looking away. "Apology accepted." She walked away, seemingly too lazy to interact with Feng An Yu. Right now, Ning Wie had another matter to attend to.
Her reaction made Feng An Yu wonder if he had said something wrong again. He watched Ning Wei stop next to a black motorbike and followed. Judging from Ning Wei's reaction and the conversation he had heard earlier, Feng An Yu guessed that Ning Wei had a problem with her motorbike. He guessed that the bike and the argument with that middle-aged man were the reason Ning Wei was in such a bad mood.
"What's wrong?" Feng An Yu approached Ning Wei slowly.
Ning Wei could not hide her annoyance, noticing that Feng An Yu was still around.
She expected Feng An Yu to leave after he apologized. Why was he still around?
Was this man determined to make her day worse?
"What do you want?" Ning Wei asked with a sigh. She was too tired and lazy to talk to anyone else. She was not in a good mood and worried that she would lash out at Feng An Yu again over anything that he said.
"Something wrong with your bike?" Feng An Yu asked.
Ning Wei's eyes softened as she looked at her bike again. "Yeah. The boss said something was wrong with the engine. He fixed it a few days ago, and the problem came back again. This time, he said that the problem was more serious than he first thought."
Her eyes narrowed slightly as Ning Wei recalled how the boss had been asking for some amount of money. That amount was something that she could afford. But Ning Wei did not like the idea of giving out her hard-earned money just like that. It felt as if the boss was trying to bully her just because she liked her old bike.
"Then, why don't you send your bike to another workshop?"
Ning Wei chuckled. "This is an old model. There are not a lot of workshops that are willing to repair this model."
Feng An Yu stayed silent. He did not know anything about motorbikes. But he felt that someone else might know something. With that thought in mind, he took out his phone and dialled Su Ming Yuan's number.