Chapter 240: Unraveling the Mystery, Chen Xing Suffers (Part 2)
The word "blood" made Jiang Fuyue's pupils shrink.
Hu Ben: "...but the amount is not large, it should not be life-threatening."
"What do the neighbors say?"
Xiaoliu: "No one living on the three floors above or below heard any unusual noise. In the evening, I even saw your mother come home to cook."
That’s right, the timing is right.
Last night, Jiang Xiaodi accidentally mentioned on the phone that Han Yunru came home to cook and made his favorite sweet and sour pork ribs.
Hu Ben: "I also asked my mom, and she said the store was open and closed as normal yesterday, and there was nothing unusual."
Hu Ben's mother applied for a job at the store half a month ago through Jiang Fuyue's introduction. After a week of trial, Han Yunru was very satisfied and kept her.
So there are three people in the store now, and that's why Han Yunru can take the time to leave and go home in the evening.
As of now, until she finished her phone call with Jiang Xiaodi, nothing had gone wrong at home.
At this time, Jiang Fuyue's cell phone rang——
She answered.
Niu Rui: "As you said before, I checked all the surveillance cameras near that apartment building."
"how?"
"Because it's an old house, there are no cameras installed in the building, nor in the entire street where it is located. There is only a bus stop at the intersection of the alley and the road, and there is a camera for illegal traffic at the traffic light opposite."
Jiang Fuyue frowned: "Speak to the point."
"Right now, I'm getting to the point. The illegal camera kept taking photos until 2 a.m., and a couple hurriedly came out of the alley with their child on their backs. The photos were sent to your phone."
Jiang Fuyue took out her phone and clicked on the latest WeChat message.
After a few seconds of buffering, the picture appeared and she clicked "View original image" again.
Although the shooting distance was very far and the image quality was blurry, Jiang Fuyue still recognized at a glance that the people in the photo were Jiang Da and Han Yunru.
The man carried Jiang Xiaodi on his back and strode forward; the woman jogged after him, holding clothes and putting them on the child.
The traffic light was still red, but the couple had already rushed to the middle of the road, which shows how urgent the situation was.
Jiang Fuyue suppressed the emotions surging in her eyes, picked up the phone again and put it to her ear: "Which direction did they go?"
"The probe only captured this one photo. Its whereabouts..." Niu Rui gritted his teeth, "It's currently unknown."
"Where are the other surveillance cameras around here?!" Jiang Fuyue's voice suddenly rose. "Is this the only camera on this entire stretch of road?!"
Niu Rui's scalp tingled, and a chill ran up his spine, causing him to shiver unconsciously.
“…The other cameras are broken.”
It just so happened that so many traffic surveillance cameras were operating normally, but only the one on this road was broken.
Niu Rui: "...I've checked each one, and it's indeed the aging equipment and disrepair, not man-made."
Jiang Fuyue: "Okay, I understand."
Niu Rui wanted to explain a few more words, but the other party hung up.
After the call ended, the car fell into deathly silence, filled with suffocating stuffiness.
Hu Ben and Xiao Liu exchanged a look.
The former put his hand on the steering wheel and asked cautiously, "Sister Yue, where are we going now?"
"Wait a little longer."
What are you waiting for? Hu Ben didn't know, and he didn't dare to ask.
Xiaoliu was also confused.
About ten minutes later, Jiang Fuyue's phone rang again.
Hu Ben saw her suddenly bright eyes in the rearview mirror, but there was no warmth in them, but rather coldness and murderousness.
"...Uncle Liu, go ahead."
Hu Ben’s eyes flashed slightly, Uncle Liu?
Is it Liu Jinzhong calling?
Xiaoliu's eyes rolled and his ears pricked up.
After the two brothers took over the bar, they had always had a bad relationship with Old Man Liu...
"...Which hospital? Okay, I got it." Jiang Fuyue's eyes suddenly turned cold, and her voice was as cold as ice. "Your men stay where they are. I'll be right there."
"good."
Putting down the phone, Jiang Fuyue looked up at Hu Ben. The coldness in his eyes had not yet dissipated, and he shuddered and felt a chill in his heart.
"Go to Kangtai Hospital, the sooner the better."
“...Yes!” Hu Ben firmly grasped the steering wheel and quickly started the engine.
The car rushed out of the airport like an arrow, with smoke and dust billowing.
…
Kangtai Hospital, third floor ward.
"Aru, you take a rest first, I'll take care of it." Jiang Da walked to the bedside, glanced at his son who was sleeping on the bed, then turned his gaze to his wife, with a flash of heartache in his eyes.
Han Yunru shook her head: "I have to watch it myself to feel at ease."
"Then...you should eat something."
"Okay." Han Yunru took the lean meat porridge he handed her, raised her eyes, and suddenly her gaze froze: "What's wrong with your face?!"
Jiang Da turned his head away hastily: "It's okay... I just bumped into something outside."
"Look at me and tell me again how I did it?" Han Yunru pursed her lips.
"Aru..." Seeing that she was angry, the man was suddenly at a loss.
"Is that guy from some agency still out there? Did he hit you?" Han Yunru put the porridge aside, stood up suddenly and was about to leave. "I'm going to talk to him and explain everything!"
"Wife!" Jiang Da quickly stopped the man, "Don't be impulsive! It's just a scratch, nothing else. Look, it's fine."
He spread his hands and turned them twice: "Really."
Han Yunru was still furious: "That won't do! Now it's just a scratch, but what about later? If they keep messing around like this, who knows what else they might do to you."
"It's no use going there!" Jiang Da blurted out angrily.
Han Yunru's feet paused and her back stiffened suddenly.
"He won't reason with us. You're a woman, and you'll only be bullied if you go. How can I just watch you walk into a gunpoint?"
Han Yunru felt a deep sense of helplessness. "What should I do? There has to be a solution. I don't believe they'd dare to do anything to me in broad daylight. At least there are laws. At worst, I can call the police!"
Jiang Da put his hands on her shoulders and said, "Don't worry, I'll go if anyone else wants to go. You stay here and take care of your son. Remember to drink your porridge."
"But……"
Jiang Da: "But what but? You said he wouldn't dare do anything to us in broad daylight. As a man, it's easier for me to communicate with him than as a woman."
After saying that, he turned around, opened the door, and strode out of the ward.
Han Yunru suppressed the worry in her eyes and sat back on the bed, reaching out to tuck in her son's feet.
After thinking about it, I prepared to take out my cell phone so that I could call the police in time if anything really happened.
But I searched all over my body and couldn't find it. Then I remembered that I was in a hurry to go out last night and left it at home.
…
Outside the ward, in the corridor.
Jiang Da stood face to face with a man.
The former had an angry expression and red eyes, while the latter looked arrogant and pressed forward step by step.
"...I'm telling you, if Jiang Chenxing can't go on air on time tonight, you and your family will have to pay for it!"
"That's a lot of money! You can't make that much even if you sell pancakes for your entire life! If you're smart, call Jiang Chenxing out and take him back to prepare for the broadcast."
Jiang Da's teeth were chattering. "Do you still have any conscience? Who is responsible for my son's current situation? Don't you have any sense of responsibility? At this time, not only do you not say a word of concern, but you also want to force him to continue the live broadcast. You, you..."
Jiang Da was so angry that his whole body was shaking, and he clenched his fists: "You are really going too far!"
The man thought he was going to attack again, so he quickly took two steps back with a vigilant look in his eyes.
"It's normal for children to have diarrhea if they don't know how to eat. What's the big deal?"
"Diarrhea?!" Jiang Da laughed in anger, his words tearful. "Have you ever seen diarrhea requiring a gastric lavage in the middle of the night?! The doctor said it, and it's written in black and white in the medical records, it's food poisoning! You gave my son meat that was six months past its expiration date. Do you know this could be fatal?"
Guilt flashed across the man's face, but it was quickly masked by ferocity. "Stop the bullshit! What's with the meat that's six months expired? I feed him the best food! The audience in the live studio can see it clearly."
"Oh, now Jiang Chenxing has food poisoning, and you're blaming our company? Where's the evidence? Are you just saying whatever you want with your sweet words? What if he ate something unclean and ended up like this? Who knows?"
Jiang Da: "Bullshit! That meat is stinking! You forced a teenager to swallow it. Aren't you afraid of retribution?!"
When the 1.80-meter-tall man said this, he growled like a trapped beast, and tears rolled out of his red eyes.
Jiang Da will never forget the scene he saw at around one in the morning when he heard a noise and opened the door to the next room.
Little Chen Xing curled up on the cold floor, holding his stomach, sweating profusely, as if he had just been pulled out of the water.
The groans and cries of pain came one after another, like a dying kitten, as if it would die in the next second.
But when she met his anxious gaze, she still tried to comfort him intermittently, "Dad...actually I'm only in a little bit of pain, please don't worry, okay?"
Jiang Da: "Okay, Daddy's not in a hurry. Don't talk. Is your stomach aching? Let Daddy take a look, okay?"
"Yeah." Xiao Chenxing nodded and took his hand away from his stomach. He was twitching in pain and subconsciously wanted to curl up tighter, but in order to make it easier for Jiang Da to check, he gritted his teeth and endured it.
At this time, Han Yunru also heard the noise and ran over, so anxious that she forgot to put on her slippers.
"Mom..." The soft and weak tone was full of dependence.
Han Yunru was already crying and pushed Jiang Da on the shoulder: "What are you still looking at? Are you a doctor? Send him to the hospital immediately!"
Jiang Da woke up as if from a dream and picked up little Chen Xing: "Yes, go to the hospital! Go now!"
Little Chenxing leaned in his father's arms, his expression resisting: "I don't want to go to the hospital...Mom, what time is it now? I have to go to the airport at six o'clock, and I can get on the plane at eight twenty. In a few hours, I can see my sister..."
"Be good," Han Yunru touched his pale little face, her hands shaking and her whole body cold, but her tone was still so gentle, "Let's go to the hospital to buy some medicine first. There are still five hours until six o'clock. When your stomachache stops, mom and dad will take you to the airport, okay?"
Jiang Chenxing thought about it and finally nodded: "Okay."
He didn't want his sister to see him like this. What if he scared her?
Mom is crying, so my sister will cry too, right?
Han Yunru quickly put clothes on him, took his coat, and asked Jiang Da to carry the child on his back.
"Mom..." At this time, Xiao Chenxing was already in so much pain that he lost consciousness and murmured, "Mom..."
Han Yunru cried and held his hand: "Yes, Mom is here. We will be at the hospital soon. Once we get there, the pain will go away..."
"Mother……"
"Yeah, Mom's here."
"Mom, it hurts so much... It's not just a little bit... It's a lot..."
Han Yunru couldn't help but burst into tears.
Jiang Da: "Take the money and go!"
"good!"
"Mother……"
"Here."
"Mom...you need to wear shoes...the ground is cold...you'll catch a cold..."
Han Yunru nodded repeatedly, tears streaming down her face: "Okay, Mommy put on the shoes, put them on now!"
Suddenly, Xiao Chenxing began to twitch.
Then he let out a loud bang and spat out a mouthful of blood, some of which spilled on the bed sheets and some sprayed on the wall.
Han Yunru screamed.
Jiang Da quickly carried him out.
The couple ran all the way and finally arrived at the nearest Kangtai Hospital at 2:20 in the morning.
After the doctor examined him, he immediately arranged for gastric lavage. He was not transferred to the ward until six in the morning and has been in a coma ever since.
Doctors said that consuming large amounts of expired meat caused serious food poisoning.
The child had been enduring for a long time. If he had been sent half an hour later, his life might have been in danger.
Han Yunru then remembered that she had noticed that her son's face looked strange before he went to bed, and he must have started to feel pain then.
But later she saw him hiding under the covers and whispering to his sister with his cell phone. He looked excited and his laughter could be heard in the living room, so she didn't take it to heart.
Unexpectedly...
This silly kid, how did he endure the pain until after one in the morning?
Second update, 4,000 words.
Before 12 o'clock, muah~
(End of this chapter)
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