“What. . . What’s wrong? Why are you asking this?” The nervousness in Chu Yuan’s tone made me a little dazed. Then what she said next made me speechless, “Elder Brother, you finally have some feelings for Dongfang. . .”
“Get lost, I am asking you something serious. So stop joking around!” I said in a stern tone, not wanting to listen to her making this kind of boring joke.
“Yes, yes, serious business, of course it is serious business, hehe,” Chu Yuan giggled, “Originally, she came back to our flat with me, but after waiting for several hours, and seeing that you still haven’t come back, she went home. Her family just came to pick her up not long ago.”
“Not long ago?”
“Mhm, five minutes ago,” Chu Yuan said, “It seems that her mother has returned from France. In fact, she did not want to go back. It was me who persuaded her to go home. . .”
Actually, I had already thought that Dongfang little brat would not be in the Crouching Dragon Mountain Resort. If she was also in the hall, she definitely would not pretend that she did not see me like Young Master Liu after I made such a big noise. However, I wasn’t very sure. Only after I got the confirmation from Chu Yuan, was I truly relieved. . .
“Chu Nan, you want to go home first?” Mo Fei frowned, “No, you should go to the hospital first.”
“Yes, I’m warning you, Little Chu, if you still want to mess around, I will break your leg!”
Regarding this issue, those two women actually formed a united front, making me feel speechless. Even if Sister Tiger didn’t break my leg, my leg still looked like it was broken now. I put away my mobile-phone and said stubbornly, “Didn’t you hear what Yuan Yuan said? If I don’t go home in an hour and forty minutes, the consequences will be very bad.”
Dong Xiaoye immediately said, “I will explain to her. . .”
“How are you going to explain it? Tell her that her elder brother got shot by a gun?” Dong Xiaoye didn’t know how to respond to this question. I shook my head and said with a smile, “Didn’t the doctor also say it as well that I am fine? The bullet didn’t break my bones, and I just need to avoid having big movements. In fact, even if I go to the hospital now, they would only give me some medicines to prevent infections. So I still prefer to rest on my own bed. It would be much more comfortable than the hospital bed. It would also make Yuan Yuan stop worrying about me. Once I wake up tomorrow, I will go to the hospital to check the wound again to make sure that everything is fine.”
“But what if. . .”
I immediately interrupted, “It is just one night, how bad can it get?”
When something like this happened, Mo Fei and Dong Xiaoye could understand that I did not want my family to worry about me. Unable to change my mind, they had no choice but to compromise, but in terms of who would send me back, the two women still couldn’t reach an agreement.
When I finally left the small emergency room, I saw Long Shan standing next to a magnificent white Mercedes-Benz. The glass of the back passenger seat of the car was half down, and there was smoke coming out of it from time to time. Probably Mo Yizhi who was sitting in it was smoking at the moment.
“Fei’er, Little Chu is all right now. In that case, let’s go home as well.” Mo Yizhi was not in good health, so Long Shan was very strict about everything he did. I remembered that if Mo Yizhi wanted to smoke, he needed to get approval from Long Shan first. From this, it could be seen that he should be in a bad mood at this moment. Of course, this was definitely not because of me.
Mo Fei obviously understood why Mo Yizhi wanted her to go home. However, she didn’t want to go home right now, so she could only say with a pleading tone, “Uncle, I want to send Chu Nan home first. . .”
Long Shan glanced at me and Dong Xiaoye, and then deliberately pulled a cold face and seriously said to Mo Fei, “Officer Dong is more than capable of sending Chu Nan home, there is no need for you to go with them. Fei’er, can you at least care about your uncle’s feelings a little, you’ve encountered such a dangerous thing tonight, he almost fainted in fear, and. . . Mr. Long just passed away in such an unfortunate way. As a friend of Mr. Long for many years, your uncle is also very sad. . .”
If I didn’t understand how Mo Yizhi felt at this moment, I would really be a fool. So I also tried to persuade Mo Fei, “Yes, Fei Fei, I appreciate your kindness. But what you should care more about is not me, but your uncle. You really need to spend more time with him.”
Mo Fei was a girl who cared a lot about her family. In fact, the reason why she insisted on sending me home was that she didn’t want to lose to Dong Xiaoye. After hearing what I said, she no longer insisted. However, she still showed a pitiful expression towards me. That look made me instinctively want to avoid it.
“Chun Nan, will you return to Fengchang to give me an answer?”
“Mhm, I will.” My answer was simple and straightforward. What happened tonight made my relationship with Mo Fei become more ambiguous again, so I must firmly end it. If I let this kind of ambiguous relationship keep developing, I knew that there would not be a good ending.
“I’m going back. Is there anything else you want to tell me?”
I knew Mo Fei didn’t hold out much hope, but I still couldn’t satisfy her wish. Having a soft heart would only make this ambiguous relationship progress even faster. I forced myself to be cold-hearted and said lightly, “Be careful on your way home.”
Mo Fei said sadly, “Just this sentence?”
“Mhm,” I nodded, “Goodbye.”
Mo Fei bit her lower lip for a long time, then suddenly lifted her leg and stepped on my foot very hard, “Chu Nan, you can just keep pretending! You need to remember! I am not a woman that can be fooled by you easily!” After saying that, she stopped looking at me who almost lay on the ground and screamed in pain, got into the car without looking back, and closed the door severely.
Long Shan looked at me and sighed meaningfully. She did not speak but drove the Mo family to leave the manor. Just before the car started, Mo Yizhi said to me, “When you come to the company, remember to find me.”
Looking at the red tail lights turning around the mountain road and disappearing from my sight, Dong Xiaoye, who helped me up, asked softly, “Are you sure about this?”
I smiled bitterly, “Yes. . .”
Dong Xiaoye glared at me, “I was wrong. I always thought that you were a womanizer. It turns out that you are not only unfaithful but also hypocritical! Huh! You are just the worst type of man!”
I was dazed and then continued to smile bitterly. . .
It was hard to be a man, but it was even harder to be a good man who was both faithful and sincere. Therefore, being a bad man wasn’t that bad. At least it could make my life easier. . .
. . .
Before returning home there was another thing I needed to do, which was to arrange accommodation for Ku’er and her grandmother. The manor was already in a mess. So it was really worrying to keep them here.
When the old woman saw that the Long’s family was in trouble, she was actually unwilling to leave. Although she knew that the result of her staying to help them would not change the reality that she would still be bullied in the future, she still insisted on staying, but after Dong Xiaoye got out her police badge, she gave up. Actually, she was scared by Dong Xiaoye’s words, “please cooperate with the police”.
Alas, the police was really a profession with unlimited convenience. . .
The old woman and Ku’er didn’t have many luggages, except for a few clothes, there were only a few bits and pieces. . .
Seeing this, I couldn’t help but curse the Long family secretly again.
Before getting into the police car driven by Dong Xiaoye, I saw the armed police detachment leader, Captain Tao, who was dressed up as a hostage family member, entering the mansion with four other people. . .
Yes, Dong Xiaoye and I wanted to know the result, but we also chose to avoid it. Dong Xiaoye wanted to avoid it probably because of me, and I wanted to avoid it purely because I didn’t want to see the bloodshed.
Although the situation was better than they predicted, and they could actually send in five armed police, would they really be able to take down all the gunmen? Would there really be no casualties? No one could guarantee that. Although I wanted to find out the answers to those questions, I also didn’t dare to face those answers.
On the way, one of Ku’er’s movements made me feel relieved after a night of nervousness. When the car started, she suddenly hugged her grandma and buried her face into her arms, and her body trembled repeatedly.
She was indeed still being traumatized by her parent’s accident. Although it was pitiful, it also proved that Xu Heng’s words were true. Ku’er only became like this because there were still psychological shadows in her mind. This was a sign that there was a possibility that she could be healed.
For the time being, Ku’er and her grandma were arranged to live in a three-star hotel not far from my flat. Although Dong Xiaoye had agreed to let the two of them live in Zhu Danchen’s school, it would still take time to buy some other daily necessities for them. Thinking that I would have to go to the hospital tomorrow, and I might not be able to come back to the hotel, Not only did I leave my phone number to the old woman, but I also gave the one thousand and two hundred yuan I carried with me and four hundred yuan from Dong Xiaoye’s pocket to the old woman.
Dong Xiaoye’s heart was in pain after I took her money away from her, so she pinched my arm very hard and made me feel very painful as well. . .
. . .
“I told you you should’ve gone to the hospital first. Even if Yuan Yuan were blind, she could still hear that the way you walked is not right! The injury is so severe, you will not be able to hide it from her. . .”
“If she knew that I was in the hospital, she would definitely tell my parents, at that time, I would not be able to have a peaceful rest. You don’t know my mom, if she saw this, she definitely would not stop crying. . .”
I couldn’t help but think of what happened after I broke my left leg in a football game in college. . . There was still a lingering fear in my mind. My stepmother actually went to the house of the person who broke my leg and had a fight with the person’s family. According to Chu Yuan, even my father couldn’t stop her. She was so mad at that family that in the end, she was pulled away by the police. But my stepmother never said anything to me. She stayed with me in the hospital for two days and three nights without closing her eyes. At that time, I vowed that I would never let her worry about me again.
The early death of my mother made my life flawed from the beginning. My stepmother not only made up for this flaw, but also gave me a great maternal love that would not lose to any mother in the world, so I know how to cherish it.
Of course, I also didn’t want Chu Yuan and my father knew that I was injured as well, but the fear of letting my stepmother know about it was even stronger. Although I tried to endure the heart-piercing pain in my thigh every time I landed on my right foot, the way I walked still looked very awkward.
Even Dong Xiaoye, this strong woman, also started to sweat and pant after helping me to walk to the fourth floor. Hearing what I said, she rolled her eyes, “Why does your mother sound like a kid?”
“Sounds like a kid?” I sighed. Fearing that Chu Yuan might hear any movement, I whispered, “She is a kid. . .”
Dong Xiaoye stared at me for a long time, then suddenly asked curiously, “Your mother really loves you so much? I remember, she is your stepmother, right?”
