Holding the slender goblet between his fingers, Chen Zhiyu lowered his eyes with a sinister look.
A ray of sunlight shone in from the window, creating a mixture of light and dark, and shadows, making his face look even deeper.
Xia Shan pulled his shirt closer and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. Mainly because I didn't expect that the iron tree would bloom one day."
Chen Zhiyu put down his wine glass, a cold look on his face.
"Who is the other person? What does he look like?" Xia Shan, who never pleads for gossip, was intrigued and asked several questions in a row.
Chen Zhiyu didn't say anything. He checked his clothes again, buttoned the last button, smoothed out the wrinkles on his shirt, and glanced at Xia Shan coldly.
Xia Shan knew that he didn't want to say it. No one can ever ask Chen Zhiyu about things he doesn't want to talk about.
Seeing that he was not prepared, Xia Shan put away his joking mood and became serious, "Didn't you say you would abstain from sex for the rest of your life? You broke the vow at the age of 25."
Chen Zhiyu had a gloomy face, and no one knew what he was thinking.
After a moment, he said calmly, "Help me check someone's medical records."
"name?"
"Xia Qingshu, about eighteen or nineteen years old."
"Eighteen or nineteen?"
"...Not sure, Mr. R."
"You don't even know how old she is after sleeping with me?!"
"...It's not him!" Chen Zhiyu said vaguely with a dark face, "A friend asked me to check the psychiatric department."
Xia Shan entered the name into the system, Xia Qingshu, it seemed like he had heard of it somewhere. Xia Shan suddenly remembered that the classmate bullied by Xia Yubin was called Xia Qingshu.
"Which friend?"
"You, I don't know you."
"No problem, I'll have someone send it to you right away." The Xia family's businesses have penetrated almost all the medical institutions in the capital. In less than five minutes, Xia Qingshu's information was transmitted over.
Chen Zhiyu opened the email. The cover was a photo of Xia Qingshu. The young boy in the photo had big eyes, pursed lips, and a dull look.
"You're stupid indeed." Chen Zhiyu ignored the photo and clicked directly into the medical record. He read a few pages, then exited and clicked on the photo again.
The boy in the photo had similar facial features to the one he had seen before.
Stupid, rigid, and boring.
But there are differences if you look closely.
So far, he has come into contact with Xia Qingshu twice. Although the other party speaks foolishly, his eyes are different.
The Xia Qingshu he saw had an ignorant look in his eyes and spoke with a sense of innocence and foolishness that came from a naive child. Upon closer inspection, he could find a hint of the mischief of a naive child.
There is a hint of cunning in his naivety, which shows that he is unwilling to suffer any loss.
The temperament of the character is completely different from that in the photo.
He stared at the tablet in a trance.
Xia Shan walked closer and they both stared at the photo together.
"Aren't you going to a meeting?" Chen Zhiyu turned his head to look at Xia Shan and put the tablet upside down on the hospital bed.
"I think he looks familiar, as if I've seen him somewhere before." Xia Shan took the tablet and enlarged the photo, then turned around and asked, "Don't you think so?"
"I don't think so." Chen Zhiyu turned off the screen, put the tablet into his bag, and gave him a cold look. "I have a meeting at three o'clock. I'm leaving first."
There is a special elevator for VIPs. Chen Zhiyu walked to the elevator door and suddenly saw a familiar figure.
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Xia Qingshu came out of the police station and received a call from Xia Laoer, saying that Old Man Xia was in the hospital and he called to ask Xia Laoer's wife to take care of him.
Li Xiaoxi was an honest person. She made some soup and brought Xia Qingqiu to the hospital.
Xia Laoer finally decided to cut off his relationship with Old Man Xia. Xia Qingshu was afraid that Old Man Xia was pretending to be sick to trick Xia Laoer, so he hurried to the hospital. Unexpectedly, he saw Chen Zhiyu as soon as he got out of the elevator.
In the original book, Chen Zhiyu was moody and unpredictable, and no one who provoked him had a good ending. The last time the two met, although the conversation was not pleasant, they still managed to cover up the matter of "tarnishing their innocence".
Anyway, he refused to admit that he had had a relationship with Chen Zhiyu. Chen Zhiyu was innocent, and so was he. No one had any stain. That's it.
Xia Qingshu quickly lowered his head, pretending not to see it, and rushed forward with his head buried. He rushed to the end of the corridor, looked up cautiously, and found that Chen Zhiyu was gone.
That was a close call.
I heard that Xia Yubin is in the hospital for gastric lavage. Could it be that Chen Zhiyu came to visit him?
I don't know how far the two have progressed.
When Xia Qingshu found the ward, Old Man Xia was lying on the bed, groaning long and short. Chant.
Li Xiaoxi and Xia Laoer stood by, with their heads down, not saying anything. Uncle Xia stood by and watched, while the two cousins were playing games on their cell phones.
I don’t know what the aunt was saying. When she saw Xia Qingshu come in, she immediately shut her mouth.
Xia Qingshu sat down beside the bed and called softly, "Grandpa."
Old man Xia half-closed his eyes with great effort, unable to even lift his eyelids, and it seemed that he was breathing out more than breathing in.
Xia Laoer pulled Li Xiaoxi's sleeve, and Li Xiaoxi gritted her teeth and turned her head away.
I don’t know what unequal treaty Uncle Xia proposed, but Second Xia softened his heart.
Xia Qingshu sat on the bed, kicked off her shoes, and swung her white and tender feet back and forth, "Mom, what happened to Grandpa?"
The eldest aunt came over and pulled him, "Qingshu, grandpa is very ill, he will soon..." She started sobbing halfway through her words.
Xia Qingshu was shocked: "Grandpa is going to ascend to heaven?"
The aunt didn't respond, but turned her head and nodded, which was considered as her agreement.
The eyes of Xia Lao Er and Xia Lao Da were moist.
Xia Qingshu grabbed her aunt's hand, her puzzled eyes showing surprise, "Then can we have the feast?"
"......"
"I want to eat braised pork."
"Puchi——" Li Xiaoxi couldn't help but laughed.
Aunt and Uncle Xia were trying so hard to hold back their laughter that it was very uncomfortable. Even Second Xia, who was immersed in sorrow, couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Cough cough!" Old man Xia was choked by his saliva and coughed loudly on the bed. After coughing, he sat up and pointed at Xia Qingshu with a frown, "You - you - you -"
His eyes were bulging and his eyebrows were bulging, and he was full of energy.
The look in his eyes seemed to make him want to kill Xia Qingshu on the spot.
Xia Qingshu was startled, jumped off the bed, hid behind Xia Laoer, and said regretfully, "I can't eat it."
Xia Lao Er patted his hands and comforted him, "Dad will make it for you when he gets home later."
Old Man Xia blew his beard, his chest heaving with anger, "Second Brother, the good son you raised actually cursed me to death!"
Xia Qingshu stuck his head out from behind Xia Laoer and said aggrievedly, "Master, I didn't do that. It was my aunt who cursed you to death... I didn't do that. I just simply wanted to eat meat."
It was indeed the aunt who deliberately misled and assumed that Old Man Xia was about to die at the beginning.
Old Man Xia snorted coldly at his aunt and turned his head away.
The eldest aunt smiled and changed the subject, "Second son, wash the urinal and put it on the balcony to dry it. It has a smell."
Xia Laoer walked into the bathroom obediently with the urinal in his hand.
The eldest aunt said: "Daughter-in-law, please feed Dad."
Li Xiaoxi took out the thermos bucket, filled it with soup and fed her rice.
After drinking the chicken soup, Old Man Xia's face was not as pale and decadent as imagined, but rather a little rosy.
After Xia Laoer washed the chamber pot and returned to the ward, Uncle Xia cleared his throat and said, "Brother, although our father and we are not related by blood, he raised us after all. Our family elders also said that it is our duty to support the elderly. Our father is in the hospital, and we can't just ignore him."
Xia Laoer couldn't speak. He lowered his head to look at his feet and said "hmm" softly.
"Dad is in the hospital and needs someone to take care of him. There are also medical expenses..." Uncle Xia glanced at Xia Qingshu and paused, "You also know that your brother is incompetent."
Xia Lao Er still didn't say anything, just said "Oh".
Li Xiaoxi's hand holding the soup bowl trembled and her eyes turned a little red.
What the hell are you saying "Oh"? You are not my biological child anymore, and you are asked to spend money and work hard. I'm afraid your head will be stuck in the door.
But she didn't dare to say more, otherwise she would be accused of "disrespecting the elderly". The moralists in Xia Village who had nothing to do and had enough to eat were not to be trifled with.
Xia Qingshu took the soup bowl from Li Xiaoxi's hand and asked in a low voice, "Mom, do we have to do whatever uncle and the others do to take care of grandpa?"
Li Xiaoxi nodded.
Xia Qingshu blinked his eyes twice and thought for a moment, "They just moved their mouths."
Xia Qingshu pointed at his aunt and imitated her tone, "Shufen, go wash grandpa's underwear and socks. There are several pairs piled in the basin. Xia Zude, go pay for grandpa's hospital bills. The nurse just came to urge us. We don't have enough money."
After saying that, he pulled Li Xiaoxi to ask for praise, "I can take care of grandpa too."
Old Man Xia: “…”
The condition is getting worse...
When the aunt heard what Xia Qingshu said, her eyes widened and she kicked Uncle Xia.
Uncle Xia had a bitter face and said, "Second brother, let Qingshu go back, the child should not meddle in this..."
He was interrupted by Xia Qingshu just when he was halfway through his sentence, "Dad, my grandma said you are a fool. You are not your real father, but you are rushing to serve me."
Xia Qingshu turned to Old Man Xia and said, "Grandpa, my grandma said you are stupid. They are not your biological children. Aren't you afraid that they will poison your rice bowl?"
Old Man Xia glanced at the bowl in Xia Qingshu's hand and his face turned pale.
"Grandpa, a woman like my grandma cut off the bloodline of the Xia family. Why don't you keep her for the New Year?!" Seeing that Old Man Xia was about to lose his temper again, Xia Qingshu quickly opened his phone and clicked on the WeChat group chat. "Grandpa, it wasn't me who said that. It was my uncle who said that."
Xia Qingshu has a group on WeChat, and several of the Xia family's elders who have done relatively well are all in it. Before he came, he told them all about his family's affairs.
"You are a filial son, family disgrace should not be made public!" Old man Xia was so angry that he pounded the bed and grabbed the crutch beside the bed to hit Xia Qingshu.
"Grandpa, I didn't advertise it to the public. We are all surnamed Xia, so I can only be considered an insider." Xia Qingshu hid behind Uncle Xia, swiped his phone, and read the chat history: "Grandpa, Second Grandpa told you to go get a physical check-up to see if you have azoospermia and haven't given birth to a son."
"Third Grandfather asked if he wanted to adopt a son for you."
Old Man Xia was so angry that he dropped his walking stick and lay on the bed twitching.
"Mom and Dad, grandpa is asleep and we won't disturb him." Xia Qingshu pulled Xia Laoer and Li Xiaoxi out. Before leaving, he considerately helped Old Man Xia close the curtain.
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In the monitoring room, as Xia Qingshu left, Chen Zhiyu also stood up. He casually flipped open the medical record in his hand.
The medical record from more than ten years ago was written in a relatively simple manner. It stated that when Xia Qingshu was five years old, he had a high fever and convulsions.
His parents took him to the hospital for the first time when he was eight years old. His IQ was normal, but his reaction was simply slow. After he was ten years old, he had no record of visiting the psychiatric department.
However, there are many records of medical treatment for external injuries, which seems that the little fool is often bullied.
Yes, he was stupid and said anything without thinking. It was a miracle that he was not beaten to death.
Chen Zhiyu closed the medical record and asked the staff to send him a copy of the surveillance video before leaving.
As soon as he walked out of the monitoring room, someone bumped into him. He dodged sideways, but half a cup of coffee was still splashed on his shirt.
"Oh, I'm so sorry." Xia Yubin looked apologetic and took out a handkerchief to wipe Chen Zhiyu.
Chen Zhiyu quickly took two steps back, avoiding Xia Yubin and staring at him coldly.
Being stared at by such eyes, Xia Yubin couldn't help but shudder. He tried to force a smile, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. I'll pay for your dry cleaning."
Chen Zhiyu narrowed his eyes and sneered, "My clothes cannot be dry-cleaned."
"Or you can take off your clothes and I'll wash them and return them to you?" Xia Yubin took out his phone and apologized, "Add WeChat, I'm so sorry."
Xia Qingshu came out of the bathroom and saw the two people talking at the end of the corridor.
He took two looks and left quickly.
The protagonist's stamp collecting journey begins...
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