Chapter 76: Afraid of Pain

While they were having dinner together, Jin Yuan ran in and whispered something into Li Fu's ear.

Chu Ran still had food in his mouth. He raised his head and looked at Li Fu with puffy cheeks.

"What's wrong?" Chu Ran asked.

"Today, Li Jinheng went to visit Li Gaoyou."

"Isn't this normal?" Li Jinheng is Li Gaoyou's second brother. It is not uncommon for him to visit his younger brother when he is injured.

"So I was thinking, should I go visit him as well?"

"What?" Chu Ran spat out a chicken bone with a thud. "Are you serious when you say that?"

"Why, no?" Li Fu calmly picked up the bowl, scooped a spoonful of soup, lowered his head and took a sip while it was still hot.

"You don't really care about him, do you?"

"Can't I?" Li Fu smiled, "After all, we have the same blood."

Chu Ran thought about it carefully while holding the rice bowl. He felt that he seemed to have figured it out, but he was not sure. "You don't really want to visit Li Gaoyou, do you? You want to use the opportunity of visiting the patient to do something else?"

"What do you think I would do?"

Chu Ran couldn't imagine it, but Li Fu must have hated Li Gaoyou. In the original text, Li Fu had broken the tendons in Li Gaoyou's hands and feet, making him a useless man who had to lie in bed for the rest of his life.

After Li Fu gained power in later years, no one dared to control Li Gaoyou. Li Gaoyou ate, drank, defecated and urinated in bed, and no one cleaned up for him. He was soaked in feces and urine all day long. Later, when someone went to visit him, the room was so stinking that no one could enter.

Thinking of this, Chu Ran couldn't help but shudder. After thinking about it, Chu Ran cautiously asked: "Take the opportunity to sever his tendons in his hands and feet and turn him into a cripple?"

"Good idea." Li Fu sneered, but he looked very serious.

"No, no, no." Chu Ran waved his hands quickly and smiled awkwardly: "I'm just kidding." He quickly buried his head in eating.

"You can keep Li Gaoyou's feet, but you don't have to keep his hands." Li Fu said dimly.

"We're eating." Chu Ran's throat was a little dry. After thinking for a while, he suggested carefully, "Let's not talk about such a bloody topic."

"Then I'll give you some fish." Li Fu placed the chopsticks on the fish spine. The chopsticks in his hand turned into a sharp meat-mincing blade. With a click, the fish head and body were separated. Li Fu put the whole fish body into Chu Ran's bowl.

Chu Ran looked at his small bowl, where he had put such a big fish with great difficulty. The upper body of the fish was stuck in the bowl, but its tail was struggling to get out of the bowl. The fish meat was very tender and delicious, but when he looked up, he saw the fish head with white dead fish eye bubbles on the shiny white porcelain glaze plate. He thought of Li Fu's neat and smooth movements when he had just cut the fish head, and suddenly he lost his appetite.

He put down his chopsticks.

Li Fu raised his eyebrows, "I don't like to eat."

Chu Ran shook his head. It wasn't that he didn't like it. Just when Li Fu casually said something that Chu Ran found scary, he would subconsciously feel uncomfortable.

Although he knew that no matter what happened to Li Gaoyou, it was all his own fault, Chu Ran still couldn't help but wonder if Li Fu would do the same to him if Chu Ran did something to let Li Fu down in the future.

It might not be so "brutal", but Chu Ran is a person who cannot withstand any physical torture. He is terribly afraid of pain. Li Fu only needs to punish Chu Ran a little, which is beyond Chu Ran's endurance.

Chu Ran didn't eat or talk. Li Fu seemed to have noticed his abnormality and looked up at him from time to time.

After a while, Li Fu also put down his chopsticks and asked someone to take away the remaining food.

The servants handed over a cloth for wiping hands. Li Fu wiped his hands and said, "Since Li Jinheng and I are going to visit Li Gaoyou, it would be inappropriate for Li Dingning not to go. So tomorrow, you should take Li Dingning with you."

"Ah?" Chu Ran was stunned for a moment, then reacted and nodded.

Li Fu wanted him to go with him.

Li Fu stood up and walked behind Chu Ran. His rough fingertips suddenly touched the back of Chu Ran's neck. Chu Ran subconsciously tightened his back. Li Fu just gently rubbed Chu Ran's neck twice, then said, "Go to bed early."

After saying that, Li Fu walked around Chu Ran and went out.

Chu Ran sat on the stool in a daze, somewhat unable to recover.

It's quite strange.

He thought of the ruthless and heartless Li Fu in the original story, and felt some inexplicable worries. But when Li Fu's warm fingers really pressed against Chu Ran's neck, which was also one of the most vulnerable parts of his body, Chu Ran subconsciously did not panic at all, as if he knew that he would not do anything excessive.

Hey, why think so much?

After all, it was impossible for him to really do anything to let Li Fu down, so the possibility he imagined did not exist.

Chu Ran went into the palace early in the morning. After Chu Ran left, Li Fu calculated the time and felt it was about time, so he set out for Li Gaoyou's residence.

But even so, Li Fu arrived a step early, and Chu Ran and Li Dingning had not arrived yet.

Li Fu handed the supplements in his hand to the boy at the door, and then Li Gaoyou's angry voice came from the room.

"Who asked him to come here? Get him out! Are you deaf? I asked him to get out!"

Then there was the sound of something hitting the ground and breaking into pieces.

"Get out! Get out! Get out, all of you!"

After a while, Shen Jingyi walked out of the house with a dark face.

After Shen Jingyi went out, she saw Li Fu standing at the door. She glanced at Li Fu coldly, said nothing, and walked around Li Fu.

As Li Fu stepped into the room with his left foot, an exquisite celadon vase broke under his feet. Li Fu looked down, then raised his head to look at Li Gaoyou who was lying on the bed.

Li Gaoyou didn't even glance at the door, but said angrily, "Are you deaf? I told you I won't see anyone! Get out! Get out!"

The foot that had stepped forward was pulled back by Li Fu, who then left the room.

"Hey? It turns out that Fourth Brother is here too!"

Li Dingning finally arrived, followed by Chu Ran, whom he had just met this morning.

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Li Fu: The feet can be kept, but the hands are not necessary, because the son will pay off the mother’s debts.