Chapter 1302 The Returnee's Notes 376
Just as Xie Ning had predicted, Granny Zhou passed away the next day, with Xie Ning standing nearby.
This mother, who stubbornly sought justice for her son throughout the rest of her life, died with immense resentment in her body.
But upon seeing Cao Zi behind Xie Ning, his resentment vanished.
Perhaps she hated that those who caused Cao Zi's mysterious death were still at large, but she didn't want Cao Zi to wait too long.
Grandma Zhou stared wide-eyed, but no tears came. She reached out and touched Cao Zi's mangled head. She hadn't even seen her child's body.
How could she be content with just a handful of ashes?
"Mom, it doesn't hurt anymore."
Grandma Zhou raised her hand to hit Cao Zi, but she couldn't bring herself to do it; her child had always been afraid of pain.
Some people laughed at Cao Zi for acting like a girl, but who said that girls are afraid of pain?
Cao Zi is just afraid of pain, but that shouldn't be laughed at.
She disliked the mockery but couldn't stop it, so Cao Zi gradually became more and more silent, unlike other naughty children.
She did very well in her studies, and her son Cao Zi was admitted to a very good university.
However, her illness and the burden of her family situation made it impossible for Cao Zi to continue his studies.
They started working at a very young age.
In order to earn more money, he abandoned his dignity, just like his parents.
Looking at Cao Zi, who was clumsy and shy in front of his own people, Grandma Zhou felt as if she were seeing the little boy she knew back then.
Sometimes she wondered why she wanted a child when she was already living such a hard life.
But everyone is having children... so of course she has to have children too, but she doesn't dare to have too many, since raising one is already very difficult.
Raising children is not just about feeding them; it's much more than that.
Perhaps it was seeing his mother that made Cao Zi visibly shed his last trace of melancholy and become happy.
In Xie Ning's eyes, he no longer looked like an adult, but rather like a small child.
"Master, I am still very happy. My parents are very good to me."
Perhaps in families lacking material resources, such affection is the only solace, like huddling together for warmth in the cold winter when there is no coal.
Xie Ning stood on the balcony, reaching out to scatter the ashes of the paper money, sending them away.
Just as she was about to leave the hospital and return to her villa, a disturbance suddenly broke out at the hospital entrance. An elderly couple was lunging at a woman standing at the door, trying to beat her.
The woman was covered in blood, her hair disheveled, and she held her injured arm with one hand while looking mockingly at the elderly couple and their relatives who were being stopped by the police.
The police had a tough time stopping them, since they couldn't hurt anyone, and they themselves were hit several times.
One of the policemen wiped his sweat and walked towards the woman, urging her to go to the hospital for treatment as soon as possible. Just then, an ambulance carried a person downstairs, who was also covered in blood.
At this moment, another person standing next to the woman noticed Xie Ning and Yang Hong.
She didn't know Xie Ning, but she knew Yang Hong!
"Sister Hong!? What brings you to the hospital? Are you feeling unwell?"
Yang Hong smiled and shook her head. Seeing that the other person glanced at Xie Ning, she didn't introduce them. "You're here to visit a friend. And you are Attorney Jiang."
Attorney Jiang gestured with his chin toward the family throwing a tantrum, "I took on a case, and I came here with my client."
However, her client wasn't that family, but the woman who had just been injured.
"What? What's going on?"
"The man in this family was abusive and beat his wife, but his wife wasn't one to back down either. She grabbed a knife and attacked him, and now he's in the hospital."
Attorney Jiang spoke in a very relaxed tone, as if it were no big deal.
He then coughed twice to cover his embarrassment, "Don't worry, it's not fatal. Besides, they have security cameras in their house that can prove the man started it. I can even put him in jail."
What Attorney Jiang didn't say was that she taught him this counterattack tactic and the surveillance.
Her gaze fell on that family. The man was no good, and neither was this family. She figured that even if she sent the man in, this family would probably cause trouble for her client.
But it's okay, she has a backup plan.
Her methods were anything but gentle.
After the two talked for a while, and after Attorney Jiang and her client went inside, Yang Hong told Xie Ning that the other party was a lawyer from the law firm that Xie Ning had been assisting.
Moreover, this lawyer Jiang is notoriously difficult to deal with; he would never do something openly if he could resort to underhanded tactics, and he always manages to remain unscathed.
"Indeed impressive."
Even though she knew Xie Ning's praise was genuine, Yang Hong still offered a brief explanation after getting into the car: "Attorney Jiang only used tactics against those damned people; he's usually a very nice person."
"Hmm, I heard that the law firm is going to send a group of people to rural areas to promote legal awareness and provide free legal aid to some women... Please allocate another sum of money."
"yes."
"This time they are working with Chaoming Law Firm..." However, Chaoming Law Firm did not target any specific gender, but provided assistance to both.
It can be considered complementary.
Xie Ning understood Yang Hong's meaning, "Then let's send some things to Chaoming Law Firm as well."
She also knew the head of this law firm, and he was a decent person.
After a pause, Xie Ning sent some information he had found to Yang Hong, "and also send a case to Chaoming Law Firm."
"Huaishan Highway?"
Yang Hong raised an eyebrow; that area wasn't easy to move around in either.
"Does the Ming Dynasty Law Firm do that?" she was asking if the other party had the guts.
Xie Ning yawned. She hadn't slept much last night and was resting with her eyes closed. "Yeah, don't worry. If they dare to make a move, then you can contact Lin Shi and ask him to step in."
Slightly opening her eyes, Xie Ning turned her head to meet Yang Hong's gaze. "Isn't their company researching the application of AI technology in games? They said I could provide technical guidance."
And you can also give him a small gift.
Yang Hong was curious. "What little gift?"
"It's a somewhat immature technology, virtual character interaction. I'll show it to you when we get back to the villa."
Hearing Xie Ning say this, Yang Hong, though not quite understanding, still asked, "Can we do it ourselves?"
At worst, we can just open another company.
"Sure, but you'll need to assemble a research team, since this technology is only in its early stages."
She tried to replicate it when she was bored, but unfortunately, the existing technical foundation was not good enough, so she could only make a simplified version.
Even the simplified version is not bad at this stage.
It should be quite attractive to some young girls, right?
Yang Hong nodded, skipping over the topic, and then brought up He Ruo, as she needed Xie Ning's further instructions before she could arrange the rest of the matter.
“Yesterday I had someone investigate thoroughly, and we could only find that He Ruo and her husband went to Thailand for vacation last year, but in fact they only stayed in Thailand for a few days before going to the United States. Their whereabouts after that could not be found, as if they were deliberately covered up... Then I found that small Guanyin statue in their records of returning to China.”
So that thing must have been brought back from abroad.
Xie Ning looked at the fleeting shadows outside the window and said calmly, "Go ask He Ruo when she wakes up."
Instead of searching around and getting some dubious information, it's better to ask the person directly and then verify it.
Yang Hong lowered her voice and asked, "Is there a problem with that small Guanyin statue?"
"Yes, it's a ghost baby."
Yang Hong also knew some of her affairs, so Xie Ning basically wouldn't hide anything from her. Yesterday, she was preoccupied with Cao Zi's matter and forgot to mention it.
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