Who knows that I froze for less than two seconds before Chu Xiaoxiao nodded quickly and said, “I do, and I don’t like rings much.”
I held her in my arms, never having been so happy in my life. Honestly, a decade or so ago I would never have imagined that I too would have the day when everything would come full circle. I used to think I’d be grey for the rest of my life and that there would never be any hope.
Chu Xiaoxiao and I cuddled up in bed for a while longer, she was so tired that she went back to sleep later, but I had to go to the hospital to see Baldy.
And Zhao Zichen gave me a call at noon to tell me that Qingqing and Ma Dazhuang were awake.
I didn’t wake Chu Xiao Xiao, she was too tired and I couldn’t bear to wake her up.
After leaving a message on her mobile phone, I bought her some food and put it on the hotel table before calling a car to leave.
When these recent events are over, I have to go and get my driving licence replaced, it’s too inconvenient without one.
On the way I bought a couple of fruit baskets and stopped by the bank to buy a cheque for three million to Baldy.
Qingqing had woken up, but was still in intensive care, so I could only stare at her through the gla*s for a while.
Qingqing’s head was also bruised, her hair had been shaved, and although she still had a pretty little face to look at, it was very pale.
I lip-synced to her, “Get well.”
Qingqing smiled and gave me a rea*suring gesture before lip-syncing to me again, “Raise your salary.”
I cried and laughed, this woman was really convincing me.
“Ma Dazhuang is also awake, but is now asleep.”
“Old Zhao, thank you so much for all this.” I patted Zhao Zichen’s shoulder.
“Don’t call me Old Zhao, I’m young and youthful. You’re looking for Baldy? He’s in the oncology inpatient unit. I heard from Baldy that you lent him three million.”
“Not a loan either, hired. I bought out Ayu and Xing’er’s five years of service.”
Zhao Zichen laughed and pressed the lift, “Damn, stinking rich man. I gave him the card and he refused to use it, had to come to you to borrow it.”
“I told you it wasn’t a loan, don’t you know them yet, dignity and trust are above everything.”
Zhao Zichen laughed coldly and shrugged, “Didn’t you understand when that fool Moon Full Bow scolded me? Our Zhao family is notoriously untrustworthy in the jianghu.”
The lift reached the floor and we stepped out backwards and forwards.
I cried and laughed, “I see you’re quite proud of yourself. By the way, how is Xing’er’s illness?”
“Not too good. Hey, Apricot stopped taking her medication without permission to save money, and it may have relapsed. We’ll have to wait for the next tests. But it’s fine now.”
I asked, “Strange, the Cloud Cliff School is so poor?”
Zhao Zichen let out a long sigh, “A child has no mother, it’s a long story. Most of the sects in the jianghu are quite poor. It’s hard to kill a hero with a penny. However, the Yunya Sect is not rich, but it is not poor either, so they can afford to pay for the treatment. The only problem is that Xing’er and Ayu’s real mother died a long time ago, and now it is the stepmother who is in charge of the family. The stepmother refused to pay for Xing’er’s medical treatment. The baldy had no choice but to beg me, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to pick up a master of this calibre. This stepmother has a rotten heart and is not even human. When she heard that Baldy had cured Xing’er, she asked the family in charge of the Yunya Sect to throw Baldy out. I don’t remember the charges used, but it probably meant that he was mixed up with crooked people. Do you think it’s funny? He runs a gang, I run an underground society, and I save lives and help people. His Yunya Sect is a famous sect, and I am a crooked sect. Xing’er and Ayu were angry, so they left the Yunya Sect together. The three of them have lived with each other ever since.”
I didn’t think there was such a story here, and was doubly surprised.
“Ayu, a war veteran, had no education, so he had to work as a security guard for someone. The money he made a month wasn’t even enough to feed his mouth. Apricot needs to take medicine all the time for this illness. All of Baldy’s income goes to Xing’er’s medical care. In order to save money, she secretly stopped taking her medication, and that’s how she got into trouble. Hey, I’ve failed as a boss.”
I patted his shoulder, “You shouldn’t blame yourself too much.”
Apricot was asleep and we couldn’t go in to disturb her, so Baldy saw us in the ward and ran out.
He had his duck-top hat pressed down and his eyes were red, so I guess he had cried a lot last night. It’s not that men don’t shed tears, it’s just that they haven’t come to grief yet.
I handed him the cheque for three million dollars and said, “Pa*s this money on for me. Tell Ah Yu to come on board this afternoon.”
Baldy didn’t say much, no thanks for the big favour, I understood his character, he was definitely the kind of person who knew how to repay a favour.
We were halfway through our conversation when suddenly someone behind us shouted out, “Zhao Zichen!”
We subconsciously turned around and a cloaked woman with a knife in her hand stabbed at Zhao Zichen.
Baldy and I were there, how could we let her hurt Zhao Zichen?
I didn’t even move. When she rushed in front of me, I grabbed her wrist directly with one hand and twisted it so hard that the knife fell to the ground after she screamed in agony.
The hospital security guards ran over at this time and pinned the woman to the ground.
I cupped her chin with one hand and forced her to look up at me, and only then did I recognise who she was: “Chen Mengyun.”
This person was Chen Yu Zhou’s aunt, who used to be very arrogant in the hospital and was competing with Zhao Zichen for the position of head of the cardiology department.
Later, Chen Mengyun was invited by the Health Bureau to “have tea” and I didn’t pay attention to her after that, but I didn’t expect that after a few months, she had become like this.
The old Chen Mengyun looked like she had been adopted, but now she looks like she has aged by more than ten years, so if you don’t look closely you won’t recognise her.
Chen Mengyun struggled, “Zhao Zichen, you and your father are both animals! You colluded with the outside triads to fight us in order to ensure that your man became the dean. You even colluded with this little brute from the Junran Group. You can fight if you want to, you got my brother-in-law’s family killed, you got my nephew killed by you! You got my brother killed too, you beast!”
I was still full of doubts, thinking that Zhao Zichen had some kind of blood feud with her. According to Zhao Zichen’s character, it was normal that he would offend people.
As soon as I heard Chen Mengyun say it, I almost laughed in anger.
This wasn’t a blood feud, this was just stirring up trouble and putting everything on Zhao Zichen’s head.
But this is just like Chen Yuzhou, in that everything in the world has to be according to their wishes, and as soon as something goes wrong they feel that it is everyone else’s fault, that the whole world has wronged them. But they always have an excuse to cover up the heinous mistakes they themselves have made.
Chen Mengyun gritted her teeth, “You’re dumb, why can’t you say anything?”
The surroundings were filled with people watching, and Chen Mengyun smiled viciously when she saw so many people pointing at Zhao Zichen. She had no other purpose but to make a fool of Zhao Zichen.
She could not fight Zhao Zichen and Zhao Gongluan for sure, she could not fight for the position of dean, she could not help Chen Yu Zhou with his family, Xu Xiang was in, what else could she do? She can’t kill Zhao Zichen either. What else can she do? The only thing you can do is to disgust Zhao Zichen.
I laughed when I saw her laugh, but my laugh made Chen Mengyun dumbfounded, she couldn’t figure out why we were laughing when we were so humiliated.
I clapped my hands and said, “Come on, let’s see how shameless the Chen family is. Chen Mengyun, you can really turn black and white upside down.”
Chen Mengyun said in a fierce voice, “You and Zhao Zichen are in cahoots, you are the most ruthless and cunning person, you cannot be trusted in what you say.”
I said, “If I can’t be trusted, what you say can be trusted? I saved the lives of a boatload of people, everyone knows that, but you? You got a poor woman killed. What credibility do you have compared to me?”
“You bullsh*t! Blood spitting.”
