Chapter 21 Chapter 21

When Xia Peizhi returned to the ward, Ruoruo was chatting animatedly with the four bodyguards.

Xia Peizhi was silent for a moment, confused as to why the bodyguard was so talkative. Aren't bodyguards usually supposed to be aloof and taciturn?

He always felt that the bodyguard he had hired with great effort was not as satisfactory as he had expected.

His impression of a bodyguard: taciturn or even silent, like a wooden man who only appears when needed.

And now? What do these four female bodyguards do?

Little did they know that the four bodyguards had the exact opposite idea and felt that this job was exactly what they wanted.

Of course, professionalism is still important, but Ruo Ruo has just met them, and they're still giving me interesting and memorable self-introductions! So, a little talking...isn't it a big deal?

Xia Peizhi stood aside, watching coldly as one of the flashy-looking ones started to "make moves"! - Although he was just holding Ruo Ruo's hand out of pity when he heard that Ruo Ruo had to get injections every day.

And to be honest, he doesn't look so-called "flashy", but is really handsome, especially when his hair is tied up in a high ponytail, he looks cool and awesome. He can charm thousands of girls just by going out without sunglasses, so it's hard for Ruo Ruo not to like him.

The four bodyguards all look good and have a cool and handsome temperament, but you can tell there are significant differences between them when they talk. The only thing they have in common is that they all look good.

The most important factor for them as bodyguards is their ability. Unless there are special circumstances, they generally don't require a bodyguard to look indistinguishable from the crowd. Of course, if there are special requirements, their company also has "unremarkable" professionals, or they can even disguise themselves.

After a long while, Ruo Ruo seemed to have just remembered that Xia Peizhi had opened the door. She turned her attention and asked, "Who was knocking at the door just now?"

"...It was a stranger who brought flowers. He brought a bunch of lilies. I was worried that the lilies would pollute the air in the house, so I asked him to leave." Xia Pei paused. "Does Ruoruo like lilies?"

Sure enough, Ruo Ruo shook her head without hesitation and did not continue to ask who had just come over.

Xia Peizhi laughed happily when he saw this, but soon he couldn't laugh anymore because Ruoruo was so engrossed in chatting with the four bodyguards!

They were all very talkative, and they talked about their boring training with great interest. Ruo Ruo, who was listening intently, sometimes frowned out of worry for them, and sometimes admired their abilities.

The looks in their eyes had gradually turned into admiration, and Xia Peizhi even felt that there was a hint of envy mixed in.

They were also very sensible, knowing that their employer had a heart disease and could not get too excited. So no matter how exciting the story was, their tone was always maintained within a fixed range, neither fast nor slow, and the four of them took turns speaking without it sounding chaotic.

…

Xia Peizhi had a headache.

"Ruoruo, don't you want to learn something about business? I took some notes a few days ago. If you have time, I can tell you something, okay? Let's learn slowly." He originally wanted to wait until Ruoruo's health improved before telling her these things.

But now he found that the topics that could be discussed between the two of them were so scarce and boring, even far inferior to what Ruoruo talked about with the four bodyguards.

Look, they are all talking about the muscles on the men during training.

Xia Peizhi was in tears and wished he could just pack up and throw these four bodyguards out and replace them with a new group of people!

But he couldn't stop her, because Ruoruo tilted her head back, her eyes shining, and her little face full of anticipation, like a hungry kitten. It was obvious that she was very happy to hear it.

Even after Youran Ju delivered the food, Ruoruo was still not satisfied. She pulled the bodyguard who was particularly good at talking just now and begged her to continue.

The situation finally improved after Zhang Qin came in.

After half a day's work, the results of the investigation into the flower sender were also in. After all, there were people in the circle who specialized in this, so he naturally found the best one.

Although they didn't know the man's name, just based on the two conditions of "currently studying at University A" and "often going to the Fifth Academy", those professionals were able to roughly confirm his identity.

Of course, with just these two conditions, it would be easy for them to find someone, but even with the highest efficiency, it would be impossible to complete the investigation within a few hours.

The reason why they were able to do it so quickly was that they happened to have information on the person being investigated.

Lu Yi, male, 21 years old, a sophomore at Peking University, is the illegitimate son of Lu Zhaoguo of the Lu family and his only son.

Lu Zhaoguo had been with Lu Yi's mother for a long time, and they even thought it was true love. Unfortunately, true love has its enemies, and love has a price. When Mr. Lu threatened him with his family fortune, Lu Zhaoguo surrendered and compromised, leaving Lu Yi's mother and marrying someone of equal status.

But within a year of their marriage, they were still together. So until he was eighteen, Lu Yi had no idea he was an illegitimate child. He thought his father was always busy with work and away on business. But on his eighteenth birthday, when his legal wife showed up, he realized his parents weren't even legally married.

He couldn't accept it, so he never went home since he went to college, and worked near the school during summer and winter vacations.

But Lu Zhaoguo didn't think so. He was over forty years old and had only this one son. He didn't have any children from his legal wife. He did have several daughters born to Jie Yuhua outside, but the only one he raised was Lu Yi. He definitely wanted Lu Yi to go home and recognize his ancestors.

For some unknown reason, Mrs. Lu gave them money and asked them to investigate Lu Yi and update the information every year, even including Lu Yi's interpersonal relationships and interactions with classmates.

As a result, this was a good thing for Xia Peizhi, as he got the answer to the information he wanted in a short time.

Xia Peizhi was not very interested in Lu Yi's growth, he mainly wanted to see why he was able to get to know Ruoruo.

Then it was discovered that Lu Yi had no relatives who had ever been hospitalized! He didn't have many relatives at all. His mother was still living peacefully in the large apartment given by Lu Zhaoguo, spending her days playing cards and mahjong. His father, Lu Zhaoguo, was away on business and hadn't returned in a month.

The only connection is probably that the information says he likes Bai Minmin?

Xia Peizhi looked at the information transmitted on the mobile phone, scrolling up and down, his eyes full of coldness.

Then he looked down and found that the information did record that Lu Yi often came to the vicinity of the Fifth Academy, but there was no mention of his contact with Ruoruo.

But this was enough. No matter why he approached Ruoruo, one thing was certain, that was he definitely had no good intentions from the beginning.

As for whether Lu Yi was sincere or not, it didn't matter to Xia Peizhi at all. Whether it was sincere or not, it couldn't change his original purpose.

He hesitated for a moment and did not tell Ruoruo about this matter directly. Instead, he sent a picture of Lu Yi to Zhang Qin.

Zhang Qin, who had just come in, heard the notification tone of her mobile phone. She opened it and found that it was a message from Xia Peizhi.

She looked at Xia Peizhi who was a few steps away from her, and replied to the young man with a question in her mind: [?]

Then she watched Xia Peizhi leave the ward. Zhang Qin hesitated for a moment, glanced at Ruoruo who was drinking soup, and followed him out.

"Aunt Qin, do you recognize the person in this picture?"

After hearing his question, Zhang Qin looked at the picture carefully again. She had cried a lot when she was young, so her eyesight was not very good. In addition, the screen of her mobile phone was small. Looking at the person in school uniform in the picture, it took her a long time to realize who it was.

"I recognize him. Isn't this the guy who lent me an umbrella last time when it rained? It rained heavily that day, and it was all thanks to him! Otherwise, Ruo Ruo would have caught a cold. Oh, and that's the time you came over in the rain!"

Xia Peizhi had some impression of him, but he didn't expect Lu Yi to help Ruo Ruo again...

"Aunt Qin, please take a look at this information. I thought this person was strange, so I asked someone to look him up myself."

Because he was worried that Zhang Qin couldn't see clearly, Xia Peizhi let her read while he followed.

There wasn't much to see. Zhang Qin was furious when she heard that Lu Yi had no relatives or friends in the hospital and that his mother stayed at home playing mahjong every day.

"How can this person joke about his elder's body?"

When I heard that Lu Yi was chasing Bai Minmin crazily in school, and suddenly one day after chatting with Bai Minmin, he started to often hang out in the Fifth Courtyard, wanting to take the opportunity to contact Ruoruo, I couldn't bear it at all!

"What kind of people are these? Damn it, they're all so black-hearted! I was wondering why Ruoru's sister had been so well behaved these past few days, but it turns out she was up to no good! And this guy named Lu, who looked quite polite, why is he so mean and wicked!"

Zhang Qin was furious, wanting to scold the two of them from head to toe. She was even thinking about buying some things to go visit Lu Yi's mother later. It turned out that his mother's hospitalization was just an excuse, and he had been targeting Ruo Ruo from the beginning!

The more Zhang Qin thought about it, the angrier she became. Besides being angry, she also felt a wave of fear.

After all, what if Bai Minmin and Lu Yi had bad intentions? Before there were bodyguards, Ruoruo would often be the only one in the ward.

Of course, this is because Ruoruo likes the feeling of being alone quietly and attaches great importance to her personal privacy, not because no one is willing to accompany her.

"By the way, Aunt Qin, Lu Yi sent me a bouquet of lilies today. I didn't let him in. It was because I met him today that I thought he was a little strange, so I asked someone to check him out." As he spoke, Xia Peizhi pointed to the bouquet that was still next to the trash can. The flowers inside were still vibrant and looked well-packaged.

"Humph! We were right not to let him in! I think this guy definitely wanted to get close to Ruoruo first, and then take the opportunity to harm her! He even gave her lilies, maybe he wanted to see if the lilies would trigger Ruoruo's illness!"

Xia Peizhi listened in silence. He felt that Lu Yi had not reached this point yet... At least his attitude today could not be faked, which meant that he must have seen Ruoruo's face, otherwise his attitude would not have changed so quickly, and he would not be so sincere today.

But Xia Peizhi wasn't so far as to proactively explain anything for him. Some people, if they take the first wrong step, should never be able to turn back.

But Zhang Qin paused as she was cursing, and looked at Xia Peizhi suspiciously, "Peizhi, you said your grandfather was also in the hospital, right? Is he still there? Which ward is he in? How is his health? I have to go see him later."

Xia Peizhi smiled bitterly: "My grandfather was in 1808."

Zhang Qin was relieved when she saw that he reported the ward number very quickly, which was completely different from Lu Yi's previous hesitation. She turned around and started muttering about what was wrong with Bai Minmin and Lu Yi.

"Don't tell Ruoruo about this for now, so that she won't think too much. I'll tell you when there's a suitable opportunity." Zhang Qin muttered for a while and then instructed Xia Peizhi before entering the ward.

Although Ruoruo is in much better condition now, Zhang Qin still treats her like a fragile glass doll.

Xia Peizhi naturally agreed, and this might be his reason for choosing to tell Zhang Qin first.

However, he returned to the ward a little late because he suddenly received a phone call.

When he returned to the ward, he no longer cared about Lu Yi or Bai Minmin. His mind was full of "it seemed that a man had come to him and said that as long as there was enough funding, he would be able to develop a special medicine to treat congenital heart disease and abnormal heart structure."

The call was from Shao Gaoming, who was contacted by Xia Peizhi. He had invested in the Shao family to conduct research on the treatment of heart disease for some time. To be honest, although he was rich, money was not always everything. There had been almost no major progress in the past two months.

Xia Peizhi understood this was normal. After all, if a medical breakthrough could be achieved with just a large sum of money, there wouldn't still be so many incurable diseases. But intellectual understanding was one thing, and seeing Ruoruo like this every day, how could he not be anxious?

But what Xia Peizhi didn't expect was that after almost two months, Shao Gaoming suddenly remembered that a man had come to him and boasted to him about a lot of things related to congenital heart disease.

But Shao Gaoming is just a half-baked one. Although he grew up in a medical family and was influenced by his family, and studied medicine-related subjects in college, he is really not cut out for medicine. His mind is almost empty. He really doesn't take what others say to him seriously, and he really can't tell whether others are really talented or just bragging.

It wasn't until today when he was drinking and someone was bragging that he had made five times his money in the stock market that he suddenly remembered the man who had boasted to him last time about trying to get him to invest.

He just mentioned it casually to a friend, who then asked, "Isn't your family's current research focused on heart disease? Why didn't you give him a chance?"

Over a year had passed since that man approached him, and Xia Peizhi had been working with his family for nearly two months. If anyone else had thought of this, even if they'd had a thought like, "Why didn't I verify his words back then?", they would usually just have that thought and then forget about it, never bringing it up again.

But Shao Gaoming was different! He couldn't keep things to himself, and whenever something hit him, he wanted to tell it to others. His father also often taught him to tell others about everything first, so they could give him advice.

Shao Gaoming took a couple of sips of wine and thought to himself, he had to tell Xia Peizhi about this! Regardless of whether it was true or not, he just needed to say it casually.

Whether Mr. Xia believes it or not, or cares about this news or not, is his own business!

Facts have proved that Xia Peizhi was more than concerned, he was almost going crazy with anxiety, wishing he could travel directly to Shao Gaoming to help him sober up and ask him for specific information.

Don't call him a scammer. What can a scammer do? Besides defrauding him of some money, what else can he do? But what if he is not a scammer?

It is better to be safe than sorry. Xia Peizhi is unwilling to miss even the slightest possibility.

"Ruoruo, Aunt Qin, I have something to do at the company, so I have to go back first."

Ruo Ruo put down the bowl and asked, "What's wrong?"

He looked really anxious.

"It's okay, maybe it's a good thing..." Xia Peizhi walked up to Ruoruo and touched her head.

He had wanted to do this for a long time, but this was the first time he had taken action.

Ruo Ruo didn't feel anything, but Zhang Qin coughed hard twice.

"Then Pei Zhi, you work hard~"

"Hmm!" Xia Peizhi looked at Ruoruo deeply again, then turned around and strode away.