Chapter 68 Chapter 68 Don’t move, Mai Mai, don’t move.

Why is it Chen Yu, that idiot, again!

Tao Dacheng was just about to tell him not to be so nervous when Ji Maili hung up the phone.

Tao Dacheng thought to himself that it was not good. Ji Maili didn't know that Chen Lu would fight. What if he saw it and scared him to death?

Tao Dacheng grabbed his coat and ran out: "Master, I'm going to go out for the next day."

...

Ji Maili is worthy of being the winner of the 100-meter championship. Tao Dacheng's house is obviously closer than Ji Maili's, but he arrived before Tao Dacheng.

When Tao Dacheng arrived, he saw Ji Maili standing motionless at the entrance of the alley, and the sound of fists hitting flesh could be heard from inside.

Tao Dacheng ran over breathlessly and looked in the direction Ji Maili was looking... He saw Chen Lu holding down Chen Yu and punching him in the alley. The group of people brought by Sha Zu seemed to be scared silly, and they all stood there watching Chen Lu take action.

Tao Dacheng glanced at Ji Maili and saw that he didn't even blink, as if he was standing there unconscious. He bumped Ji Maili with his arm and said, "Are you okay?"

Chen Lu's attack was very heavy. He grabbed Chen Yu by the collar and lifted the paralyzed man off the ground with one hand. "Ji Maili didn't beat you enough last time, did he? How many times do I have to beat you before you learn your lesson?"

Ji Maili twitched the corners of his mouth and asked Tao Dacheng, "Is he...possessed by something unclean?"

Tao Dacheng was genuinely curious about how these two had managed to stay friends for so many years. He wondered what impression Chen Lu had left on the young master. He asked, "Is it possible that he actually has this ability?"

Ji Maili slowly turned his head, looked at Tao Dacheng, and said firmly, "Impossible. From childhood to adulthood, every time he was bullied, I was the one who stood up for him."

Tao Dacheng was also puzzled by this. Chen Lu was such a good fighter, why did he need you, who always got beaten, to stand up for him?

Tao Dacheng asked: "So every time you take the lead for him, what is the result?"

Ji Maili said: "They all came to apologize to me."

Tao Dacheng understood the problem: "So every time you stand up for Chen Lu, you ask others to apologize to you instead of to Chen Lu?"

Ji Maili: "I asked them to apologize to Chen Lu."

Tao Dacheng: "Then why did they apologize to you?"

Ji Maili: "Because they beat me..."

Ji Maili paused and finally realized that something was wrong. When those people beat him, they were more arrogant than each other, so why did they turn around and apologize to him? Some of those people even had injuries when they came to apologize to him. He always thought that it was because he fought back while being beaten.

Suddenly, there was a clang sound.

While Shen Lu was holding Chen Yu down and hitting him with all his strength, Sha Zu punched him. The four-fingered brass knuckles on his hand scratched Shen Lu's earlobe, and a blood mark instantly appeared from his neck to his cheek.

Shen Lu turned his head to avoid, and Sha Zu's brass knuckles hit the wall. Shen Lu threw Chen Yu down, turned around, and grabbed Sha Zu's wrist and elbow with both hands. With a backhand stroke, he took off the brass knuckles and put them on his own hand in a blink of an eye. He punched Sha Zu twice on the side of his waist. He raised his hand to touch his neck, saw the blood on his fingers, and made a "tsk" sound.

With the wound on his face, how is he going to fool the little fool later?

Chen Lu was not used to using brass knuckles. He never touched such dirty things. It hurt his hand. He swung his hand and the brass knuckles fell to the ground. Seeing this, the people brought by Sha Zu surrounded him.

Tao Dacheng glanced at Ji Maili, who was motionless, and asked, "Aren't you going to help?"

Ji Maili was a little angry: "He's so awesome, why should I go? I won't go!"

Tao Dacheng was sweating for Shen Lu in his heart. It was all over now. His strength was exposed before he could even catch up with him.

Tao Dacheng couldn't continue like this. He had to let Shen Lu know that Ji Maili was here. Just as he was about to call Shen Lu, he saw Chen Yu, who had been beaten to a pulp, crawling up from the ground. He staggered against the wall and took out a folding knife from his pocket.

The knife flashed, and Tao Dacheng's face changed drastically, "Be careful——"

As Tao Dacheng opened his mouth, the person who had said he didn't want to go just a second ago slipped away from him.

Hearing Tao Dacheng's voice, Shen Lu turned around, but before he could see who it was, he was hugged by Ji Maili... The sound of the knife tip piercing the flesh seemed to be amplified countless times in that instant, and Ji Maili's gasps suppressed Shen Lu's tired breathing.

Shen Lu held his breath.

Tao Dacheng ran over and kicked Chen Yu out: "Chen Yu, fuck your mother!"

The knife in Chen Yu's hand slipped out and stuck in Ji Maili's side.

Ji Maili had been beaten so many times over the years, but this was the first time he was stabbed with a knife. His blue jacket was stained red bit by bit. Ji Maili became angrier and angrier. He gritted his teeth, pulled out the knife from his body, turned around and was about to stab Chen Yu.

Sha Zu has always known that Jimailili is a fierce tiger, but he didn’t know he was so fierce: “…” Is this stupid guy trying to kill himself?

Shen Lu quickly held the person in his arms, his voice trembling: "Don't move, Mai Mai, don't move."

Sha Zu was a scoundrel, and his hands were indeed dirty, but he only bullied students and didn't intend to get himself into trouble. He grabbed Chen Yu's collar and threw him against the wall: "Fuck you, who the hell let you carry a knife!"

Tao Dacheng called the emergency number and dialed the wrong number twice: "Yes, Changhe Street, someone is injured, please hurry up."

Perhaps because it was too cold, Ji Maili didn't feel any pain, but he gradually lost strength. Before he collapsed, he glared at Chen Yu and threatened, "Just wait for me."

......

After the operation, Ji Maili was sent to the ward. The anesthetic had not worn off yet and he was still unconscious.

Ji Huan was going home to get some things that Ji Maili would need for the hospital. When he came out, he saw Shen Lu standing with his head down against the wall at the door of the ward. The blood on his body had dried up. If you looked closely, you could see that his complexion was even worse than Ji Maili's who had just come out of the operating room.

Ji Huan patted his arm twice and said, "Treat the wound to prevent it from getting infected."

Shen Lu raised his head: "Sister Huan, I'm not hurt."

Ji Huan looked at his face and said, "You said you weren't injured, but your face is already disfigured. If Mai Mai wakes up and sees you like this, she'll rush to open the wound."

Although the doctor said Ji Maili's condition was not serious, Shen Lu was still terrified: "I'm sorry, Sister Huan, this time it was because of me, Mai Mai..."

"Stop talking about this. I don't know you two. He did it for you, but when have you not done it for him?" Ji Huan said, "Go treat your wound and go back to change your clothes. You are covered in blood. If someone doesn't know you, they would think you were stabbed."

It was already night when Ji Maili woke up, with oxygen in his nose. He saw Liang Lin and Ji Huan, then looked away: "Where's Chen Lu?"

Ji Huan said to him: "You opened your eyes and went to look for Chen Lu. What? Even after you were stabbed, they still had to stay with you all the time?"

Ji Maili was still weak at the moment, and it was a bit difficult for him to speak: "Would you like to... take a look at my wound... and then decide... what tone... to use... when talking to me?"

Ji Huan: "What the hell, you're just going to get stabbed in the back. You don't like women anyway, so there's no point in keeping her!"

Liang Lin said to her, "What's wrong with you? Can't you just talk properly? What do you mean you don't like women?" Liang Lin doted on her son and coaxed him, "Don't listen to your sister's nonsense. It's not serious. It won't affect your future as a grandson."

Ji Maili closed his eyes and smiled: "Then maybe I really can't give birth."

Liang Lin: "Nonsense!"

Ji Maili woke up and fell asleep again without saying a few words. Ji Huan and Liang Lin were discussing who would stay here tonight when Shen Lu walked in and said, "Let me do it, Sister Huan. You take Auntie back. I'll stay here tonight. You can come back tomorrow morning to replace me."

Liang Lin didn't know when he came, and his sudden entrance startled her: "No, I'm fine here. The accompanying bed is so small, how can a grown man like you sleep in it?"

Chen Lu: "You can sleep. You can sleep anywhere if you are tired."

Ji Huan saw that Chen Lu was not going to sleep tonight, so she said, "Mom, let him stay here and watch. He's young and tough."

Liang Lin wanted to argue a little more, but was finally dragged away by Ji Huan.

After they left, Chen Lu sat by the bed and looked at Ji Maili all night long.

Liang Lin came at dawn the next day. She wanted to tell Shen Lu that she had made some porridge for him to drink, but Shen Lu shook his head and left.

Ji Maili woke up but still didn't see Chen Lu. He asked Liang Lin, "Where's Chen Lu?"

Liang Lin served him a bowl of porridge and said, "Xiao Lu stayed here with you all night. I just changed him back."

Ji Maili said "Oh" and was not very happy.

He remembered that Shen Lu was not there when he woke up last night, and he was not there now. It was only what time, and he was so sleepy!

Ji Maili wanted to take his cell phone, but Liang Lin said that he had an IV drip in his hand and it might cause blood loss, so she didn't let him play with the phone.

Ji Maili lay in bed drowsy all day but Chen Lu didn't show up. He fell asleep around eight o'clock in the evening.

It was almost nine o'clock when Shen Lu arrived. Ji Huan said, "Ji Maili has been nagging you all day. He was throwing tantrums and complaining about pain. The doctor gave him an injection to relieve the pain, and it's just stopped."

Chen Lu looked at the sleeping Ji Maili: "Is he okay?"

Ji Huan: "Very well, very energetic."

Liang Lin looked at Shen Lu coming with his schoolbag and said, "You have classes tomorrow, right? Why are you here again?"

Chen Lu: "I slept too much during the day and couldn't sleep at home. I just happened to have a few papers left to do, so I wrote them here. You can come and replace me tomorrow morning."

Ji Huan looked at Chen Lu. Liang Lin might not have noticed, but Chen Lu had not allowed Ji Maili to see anyone else since yesterday, which was clearly abnormal.

However, Ji Huan didn't intend to do anything about it. Ji Maili was impulsive and lawless, and it was indeed time for someone to take care of him.

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On Monday, Chen Lu came to school earlier than Tao Dacheng. Tao Dacheng said, "I thought you would take a leave to accompany Ji Maili in the hospital."

Shen Lu said as he was finishing his paper: "His mother left early in the morning, so there's no need for me to accompany her."

Tao Dacheng was unusually slow to react and failed to understand Shen Lu's tone. "Should I say this, this guy is really nice to you. Anyone else would have thought twice when seeing a knife, but he actually went up to block it for you."

Shen Lu didn't say anything.

Tao Dacheng whispered, "Do you think he's interested in you? Even if we were brothers, he wouldn't have taken the knife for you, would he?" Tao Dacheng muttered to himself, "But even if he was, you'd probably scare him off. You didn't see the look on his face when he saw you hitting Chen Yu. He even asked me if I was possessed by some evil spirit."

Seeing that Shen Lu had been ignoring him, Tao Dacheng bumped into him: "Hey, why don't you say anything?"

Shen Lu: "What's there to say? Do you want me to give him an award for selflessness?"

Tao Dacheng finally realized something was wrong. He lowered his head and glanced at Shen Lu: "It's not that I don't wish you well, I'm really curious this time. Did you two really have a fight?"

Shen Lu: “No.”

Why is there a quarrel when he hasn't even seen it?

Tao Dacheng: "That's good. He's still in the hospital. Don't use that 'I don't need you to block for me' trick from last time. It's instinctive for me to block for you. Look at me, I never even thought of blocking for you."

Shen Lu glared at him: "So the friendship of two years is just a little bit lacking."

Tao Dacheng might not have given up so easily before, but this time he really felt that Ji Maili was braver than him. He nodded: "Yes, yes, that's of course incomparable to the friendship you two had since kindergarten."