Chapter Twenty-Five: Finding Xu Haiyu
At Zhang Chen's house, Xu Haiyu was eating the fruit that Zhang Chen had prepared for her; this was a rare treat.
Zhang Chen said that he bought the medicine on purpose when he went out to buy medicine, and he had kept it without taking it until she came over.
Xu Haiyu squinted her eyes in enjoyment, calculating in her mind that Lao Hai and his wife must have already spread the words Zhang Chen had revealed.
Those words were a mix of truth and falsehood. Besides, people are selfish. Xin Li has so many good things but is unwilling to share them with everyone. Others will definitely have their own thoughts.
Those people will definitely cause trouble for Xinli then.
The best thing would be to storm into Xinli's house, smash and loot it, and destroy all the things she flaunts!
Xu Haiyu thought to herself that she didn't even have that many good things, how could she tolerate Xin Li having them?
She used to be the prettiest girl on the whole island, and she always followed He Mingzhou around calling him "brother." Many people assumed that she would end up with He Mingzhou.
She was unwilling to hand over He Mingzhou to someone else.
Xin Li dared to take something from her, and this is the price she paid!
"Something terrible has happened!"
Zhang Chen, who was drying herbs outside the house, suddenly started running hurriedly.
"The people on the island are all coming! They seem to be looking for you. You'd better hide quickly."
Xu Haiyu was also frightened.
"How did you find us so quickly?"
"Wait, why did they come looking for us?"
Zhang Chen is a doctor on the island who doesn't compete with the world, and people usually don't come here unless they're feeling unwell. Why is everyone here today?
"Don't think about that now, just hide!"
If everyone sees Xu Haiyu hiding here, some things will be hard to explain.
Xu Haiyu thought so too. Although it's not the time to suspect something between a man and a woman just because they're in the same room, what if the people on the island want to play matchmaker?
If she's tied to Zhang Chen, how can she be with Mingzhou in the future?
"good!"
Without saying a word, Xu Haiyu crawled under Zhang Chen's bed.
Although Zhang Chen is quite clean, it is an island after all. If you don't sweep the floor every day, there will be a layer of dust on the ground, and the dust will be piled up like mountains under the bed, which is difficult to clean.
Xu Haiyu suppressed the urge to curse, crawled inside, and tried to lift her body to stay close to the bed frame so as to minimize her contact with the dust.
As soon as she hid, she heard a commotion outside.
Xin Li and He Mingzhou walked at the front, and Zhang Jinhua spoke: "Dr. Zhang, have you seen Xiaoyu?"
Zhang Chen quickly shook his head: "I didn't see her. Haven't you found Xiaoyu yet?"
Zhang Jinhua's eyes flashed. Zhang Chen was an honest man; he couldn't even lie. His eyes clearly showed he was guilty.
Zhang Jinhua had a good idea of what was going on, so he didn't beat around the bush and directly asked Lao Hai and his wife if he had said those things.
Zhang Chen is highly respected on the island because he is a doctor.
This was the first time they had been surrounded and attacked.
This was clearly an unpleasant experience; he stood there stammering, unable to utter a single word.
Xinli knew it was her turn to perform, so she pinched her thigh hard, and tears instantly welled up in her eyes.
She was already beautiful, but with those red eyes, it looked like they were about to break, which made everyone else feel sorry for her.
“I know my arrival was abrupt, but I genuinely want to get along well with everyone. I didn’t come to the island to bully anyone. To be honest, I’ve lost my family. I thought about my engagement with He Mingzhou, which is why I traveled all this way to seek refuge here. I really have no one else to rely on besides He Mingzhou.”
"I thought the people on the island were kind and honest, and that I would adapt quickly. But I was rejected again and again... I just want a place to settle down and make a living. Why is it so difficult?"
Everyone felt embarrassed when Xinli cried.
After all, they were involved in spreading rumors before.
Now that they see the main character being bullied and crying, everyone feels that their victory was unfair.
Zhang Jinhua rushed to comfort Xin Li, and He Mingzhou also stepped forward and said, "We've been looking for her for so long, but we haven't heard a single word from her. Dr. Zhang, you rarely go out and interact with people, yet you know what happened last night. It's clear you've met Xiao Yu before, right?"
"Dr. Zhang, you can't bear to see everyone keep running around looking for Xiaoyu, can you? The sun is almost at its zenith, and everyone still has work to do today. Dr. Zhang, please do us a favor and tell us where she is, so we don't have to worry about her anymore."
"That's right, we've been looking for it all morning!"
"Xiaoyu is not young anymore, how could she do such a thing?"
"What does she take us for? Every household has skipped breakfast because of this little thing. What exactly does she want?"
Amidst the angry words of the crowd, Zhang Chen panicked.
He hadn't expected Xu Haiyu's feigned disappearance to have such consequences. He was hesitating whether to tell her about Xu Haiyu's presence when he suddenly heard a blood-curdling scream.
The group followed the sound and found Xu Haiyu crawling out from under Zhang Chen's bed, covered in dust and dirt.
Her clothes were still a bit disheveled, and she was convulsing her limbs as if she were having an epileptic seizure.
"There's a centipede! There's a huge centipede on your bed!"
Seeing Zhang Chen's angry expression, Xu Haiyu caught a glimpse of He Mingzhou out of the corner of her eye and immediately put on a pitiful look: "Brother Mingzhou, I feel like there's a centipede on me, please help me..."
Everyone present was stunned.
Xin Li, ever outspoken, asked, "Why did you call He Mingzhou if you have a centipede on you? To have him take off your clothes and catch it for you?"
Xu Haiyu blushed immediately: "I..."
He Mingzhou glanced at Xin Li.
Xin Li shrank her neck, sensing that He Mingzhou seemed a little angry.
But now it's his "sister" who's causing trouble. She's not even angry yet, so why is he angry?
So Xinli straightened her back and looked at He Mingzhou.
He Mingzhou paused for a moment, touched his nose, turned his head, and asked several older women to help Xu Haiyu catch the centipede.
Fortunately, the centipede didn't crawl inside her clothes. In the end, several older women helped her shake it off, and Zhang Chen carefully put it into a glass bottle as if it were a treasure.
Xu Haiyu finally got rid of the centipede and hugged an old woman, crying her heart out.
She originally intended to use her frightened state as an excuse to cover up her hiding at Zhang Chen's house, but Zhang Jinhua was not one to tolerate such things. Given how strange things were today, she had no intention of covering for Xu Haiyu. She even bluntly asked, "Xiaoyu, what are you doing here at Zhang Chen's? When did you arrive? Do you know that the whole island is looking for you today?"
"How could you be so willful? Do you know how much this has delayed everyone's work?"
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