Rest time
It was half a month later when we recovered from the hospital.
It is said that our group was found in a very shallow mountain spring. The water level was only as high as an adult's upright palm, and it was quite difficult to submerge a person's mouth and nose.
But everyone was unconscious, and some had severe choking and suffocation reactions, with foam in their lungs, and they almost died.
The ones who rescued us were not anyone else, but the Zhang family transport team whose three members I had taken away.
When I asked him about it, the guy in charge of driving the car started talking nonsense and said it was all a coincidence.
According to him, after they were shocked by my shamelessness and fled away, they thought about it and finally mustered up the courage to sneak back and rescue their poor little boy. Otherwise, the three of them would be like Yan Mo and unknowingly acquiesce to being exiled to me, wasting their youth.
But when he came back, the valley was missing, but a row of people were lying there.
The carriage was originally used to carry Xu You, and at most could accommodate two more bears. But now it was completely stunned and at a loss when facing more than ten or twenty people at once.
Finally, the brother who was driving slapped his forehead and said that it was time to follow the feudal tradition of our Zhang family and "people are divided into different classes."
So I picked out the ones that were tough and strong enough to withstand any shaking, and tied them to the roof of the car to dry naturally. I, who looked like a glass flower that would fall to the ground at the slightest sign of wind, was stuffed under Xu You's bed.
As for Captain Yan, who was in charge of logistics and might have the opportunity to be transferred back to manage everyone's salary and performance, he was asked to sit in the driver's passenger seat and squeeze with another guy.
Everyone else? Everyone else was folded up and shoved in a corner.
In this way, they drove all the half-dead people to the hospital entrance. When they were carried down one by one, the scene was quite fantastic because there were too many people crammed into the small car, and it caused a small sensation.
In order to avoid causing a commotion, the driver made a prompt decision and said that we were all out on a hike in the mountains to pick mushrooms and were knocked down by the mushrooms.
"Advisor, I paid for your medicine for a whole day and a half before my family sent me the money. If it had been any later, my brothers and I would have had to have kidneys removed."
The driver spoke these words with real feelings, and every word did not sound like acting. He looked at me with tears in his eyes.
I leaned on the hospital bed and listened. The more I listened, the more outrageous it became. I couldn't help but be stunned.
I don't know whether I was stuffed under the bed or how I got to the emergency room of the hospital. But is there a normal person among this group of people? The mysterious strength of the Zhang family in my mind has been rapidly shattered by one idiot and psychopath after another.
Later, when I wanted to talk nonsense again, a round-faced nurse came in to change my IV. Seeing that the driver was still very excited, she frowned and kicked him out the door.
I observed her expression and immediately behaved very well, listening to the nurse's lecture. She said that I almost got acute pneumonia after choking on water, and she also told me a lot of things to pay attention to in my recent diet and daily routine.
After saying that, the girl didn't waste any time and went out and grabbed the driver's ear.
Seeing that something was about to happen, I curiously went over and tried to persuade them to stop fighting in a very kind way, saying that it would be enough to just break one leg and not to turn around and take up emergency treatment as everyone was still crowded.
The nurse turned around and smiled: "Advisor, this is our own hospital, you can stay anywhere you want." After saying that, she turned the hand that was twisting the driver's ear 180 degrees.
The driver's face turned green, and he dared not talk nonsense anymore like a quail.
I walked back with satisfaction and continued to lie down. But after a while, the driver came back on tiptoe, made a "pi" sound and winked at me.
"Advisor." He leaned down and whispered, "Brother Zhang said he has to go out for two more days, so you don't run around. We can talk later, don't show your true colors."
I didn't even blink: "What Zhang brother?"
The driver was helpless: "Master, there were only me and a few other guys picking up people on this trip."
He gave me an expression that everyone understands. "Brother Zhang got on the bus halfway through the journey, and he said that if I didn't take him for a while, he would twist my head off and kick it like a ball. Well, well, we were all friends who risked our lives for each other, and he gave me some money for gas. My brothers and I also have to support our families, so..."
He chuckled and rubbed his hands. "My family doesn't know about this, and we're afraid of getting involved. So, remember to not let it slip later."
"..." I looked at him, surprised, "So which Brother Zhang?"
His expression was very innocent and sincere.
The two looked at each other for a while, and then the driver stood up straight, touched the back of his head and smiled. "It's okay, I was just joking."
I nodded and smiled, and told him to remember to close the door when he went out. I lay down on the bed and stretched out, feeling very safe.
Dongzai grunted, crawled out from under my pillow, and rolled around on my waist.
I raised my hand to block it from slipping under the bed, silently gnashing my teeth, thinking to myself, this damn Zhang Tianyi has been on the run for half a month, and now he just remembered to do something here. Wait until I get home and tell my mother about it.
But since he was fine, I was relieved. I didn't see him when I went home for dinner during the Chinese New Year. I didn't care where he went.
After a while, as if visiting a zoo, several acquaintances arrived one after another.
The first person to come in was the team leader Zhang Jia. Although he looked rough, he was very serious about people and things. He had said before that he would help the female tour guide carry the coffin home, and he was not joking.
I looked outside the door and Zhang Jia said softly, "Xiao Rui has more important things to do."
I thought about it and said, "Have you found the travel agency?"
He nodded and said that Yan Mo had found the traces of the group based on the daily supplies of the homestay. Gao Rui and Yan Mo were to deal with the group, while he and Wildcat, as the elders of the family, would escort the female tour guide for a while instead of Gao Rui. Gao Rui was fast, so it would be the same if she caught up.
However, the valley no longer exists and the remains of all the victims have not been found. In order to escort the female tour guide back to her hometown, we can only go to her old house to find some clothes and cremate them to make a cenotaph, which is ultimately just a consolation to the living.
As for the amulet bottle that the tour guide gave me, I later returned it to Gao Rui. She did not keep it with her, saying that she wanted to bury it with the female tour guide's cenotaph.
Compared to the two of us, Gao Rui was very calm and composed. He just said that the living should move on and not let down the dead.
After talking about all the follow-up, Zhang Jia sat down and peeled a whole plate of fruit for me without saying a word.
This time it was really full. I appreciated his kindness, so I held the food in my hand and ate it slowly. Then I asked him what plans he had for me next.
Yan Mo, who pushed the door open, laughed: "Advisor, who can arrange for you?"
He came over and handed me a new cell phone and a box of clothes, saying that he had brought them from my previous rental house.
I have been lying in bed for half a month before seeing these. I was shocked and wondered how this omnipotent logistics manager could also have procrastination. Could it be that the enthusiasm of taking a break after working for one minute was not just an act?
Perhaps the expression on my face was too vivid and easy to understand. Yan Mo coughed dryly and lowered his head, letting me look at my phone first.
I flipped through it casually, and everything in front of me lit up.
It's full of photos.
"We've rebuilt your shop exactly like it is, at the same location as before in your neighborhood." He tapped the screen and showed me a page.
"I have asked Zhang Jia and other shop assistants who line up to buy things in your store about the original inventory balance, ledger records, and how much change is left in the cash register. They have all been checked and calculated. There won't be a single cent difference. The way the items were displayed has also been restored according to the surveillance."
I shuddered and had to admit that my obsessive-compulsive disorder gave me great satisfaction and a sense of belonging.
If he gave me something extra, I would probably find it hard to accept, but if he gave me back something I already had, I wouldn't be so hypocritical as to say it didn't matter.
He looked at my expression, smiled and said:
"Now you are the landlord. Also, we have hired two assistants for you. Don't worry, we know you don't like being interfered with, so we hired people who are not from the Zhang family or the inner circle. You can use them as you like, and we will pay the bills. If you don't like them, we can change them."
Wait a moment.
I was listening and nodding out of habit, but at this moment my eyelids twitched and I thought something seemed wrong.
Then he said, "Both of them are good businessmen and have many ideas. Once you get used to them and learn from them, you can just quit."
Damn, they found two teachers for me and gave me enough face by letting them call me boss.
By teaching a man to fish, he meant that I wouldn't have to cry over my failing business anymore.
but……?
"And this——"
Yan Mo didn't intend to give me a chance to refuse and crossed out another page.
"Your rental house is now yours, and it remains as it is. However, we've installed a projector and a set of game consoles in your bedroom. We've also added a library next door. You young people like to exercise, so the gym and court downstairs are yours too."
“…”
I looked at him, and something very familiar came back, like the feeling of running wild on the highway.
I have seen this trick used by someone with a lot of money.
However, the weird story is over, I have been laid off, and there is nothing that will happen to me as a fake person.
"——Advisor. We in the Zhang family don't have the habit of letting people work for free. Especially among our own people."
He put the phone in my palm. This time he said nonchalantly: "All this is from Zhang Jia and I."
I looked stiff, but still a little bit lucky, and asked him:
"so?"
"So now, we can only eat free meals here."
It was like a bolt from the blue. For a moment, I was dumbfounded.
To make matters worse, Zhang Jia suddenly laughed at the side. "Captain Yan, your ritual is wrong."
Ceremony, what ceremony.
I looked at him warily and thought, no way, you bastard, just wait for me.
Three minutes later, I was pinned down.
This time I’m not Squidward who was driven crazy by SpongeBob, it’s got to be a centipede.
There were a dozen guys in the corridor of the room, each holding a shoe in his hand, and they started to line up one by one with a grin on their faces.
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