Chapter 34 Car Accident (Catching Bugs)
After Grandpa Zhong passed away, the three siblings of the Zhong family who were not in trouble quickly tore up the contract signed by the grandpa and Zou Jingxiu, and then peacefully divided up the other assets of the Zhong family except for the large supermarkets.
The main business of the Zhong family is retail, but they also get involved in other industries, such as real estate. When the price is right, they will buy the shopping mall where the supermarket is located, and have invested in several commercial buildings; for example, in property, after buying a building, someone needs to manage it. It is better to do it yourself than to spend money to hire someone from outside.
However, the Zhong family's investment in real estate is incidental, and the scale is not large, and it is completely incomparable with its chain supermarket brands.
Before the Zhong family got into trouble, the four siblings of the Zhong family focused on the chain supermarkets.
But now the Zhong family is facing a serious credit crisis. The chain supermarkets that used to be good assets have long become bad assets.
If they want money and commercial buildings, they can still get something in their hands. If they want company shares and supermarkets, they may only get a large amount of debt in the end.
So the three brothers and sisters showed their style and left the main body of the Zhong family to Zhong Jun and his wife.
After dividing the property, they quickly buried Mr. Zhong. After such an incident, they could not think of holding a decent funeral for seven days. They just kept a low profile.
After Mr. Zhong was buried, the three contacted the media and said that they knew nothing about what Mr. Zhong and Zhong Jun had done. At the same time, they hated the choice of the two and felt very ashamed to be a family with such people. So they decided to sever ties with the Zhong family, and from then on, the Zhong family's affairs had nothing to do with them.
In addition, the three of them also donated a sum of money to compensate the victims' families and to appeal the lawsuit.
After doing these things, the second young master Zhong quickly sold the commercial building property he was allocated, intending to move his family abroad. Although the two sisters of the Zhong family did not go abroad, they also changed the names of the commercial buildings they were allocated in order to distance themselves from the Zhong family.
In this process, in order to show their position, the three of them also withdrew the gold medal lawyer who had been hired for Zhong Jun in the name of the Zhong family before Zou Jingxiu entered.
Later, the Zhong family fell apart, and the actions of the Zhong family father and son aroused public anger. Lawyers who cared about their reputations dared not take Zhong Jun's case.
So Zhong Jun, who was confident that he could defend himself and save a few years or even not go to jail, was completely stunned after receiving the news. When he faced the reality, he no longer had the confidence he had when he first entered the police station, and began to confess honestly. After
Assistant Lin learned that the Zhong family had undergone a major change, he no longer took the responsibility on himself. In order to save a few years in prison, he confessed that Zhong Jun had instructed him to do it.
Not to mention the other subordinates, they might not even be able to settle the balance after they did the job, so of course they were unwilling to cover up for the financiers and confessed everything they could.
So all the people arrested in this batch had to face the disaster of imprisonment, and the serious ones like Li Wenbing and the murderer of the sixth case were sentenced to life imprisonment, and the lightest ones like Zou Jingxiu were sentenced to three years.
As for Zhong Jun, the mastermind behind all this, he was only sentenced to twenty years.
The citizens of Hong Kong were naturally dissatisfied with this result. Li Wenbing said that he would be sentenced to life imprisonment, but anyone who knows a little about the law knows that if you behave well in prison, you can get a reduced sentence.
They were simply unable to sleep or eat when they thought that a demon like Li Wenbing who killed people without blinking an eye would one day be released from prison.
The same is true for Zhong Jun. Although he did not kill anyone, he was the one who instigated all this. He was the culprit of these murders.
And the master of metaphysics, if he had not told Mr. Zhong's son the evil magic to prolong his life, this series of events would not have happened, but he was sentenced to less than twenty years in the end.
In short, as soon as the trial results came out, the victims' families and enthusiastic citizens who were dissatisfied with the verdict went to sit in front of the court and police station to demand heavy sentences for these people.
After donating a sum of money to the victims' families, Wen Yue no longer participated in these things, but Zhou Xiaobing would go to sit in silence when she had no classes.
Although Yi Huai didn't want Zhou Xiaobing to have a psychological burden, he specifically told Yi Dong to hide the fact that she was the target, but Zhou Xiaobing was not stupid. She thought of Wen Yue's abnormal behavior before the sixth death appeared.
Although Zhou Xiaobing didn't know Wen Yue before, after this period of time, she could feel that Wen Yue was not the first time she met, and she would invite relatively strangers to live in her home.
In addition, the sixth victim was born on the same day of the same month as her, and she and Wen Yue were followed on the day of the accident. Zhou Xiaobing had to suspect that she was the first target of the Zhong family.
Once this thought came up, she could no longer suppress it.
Zhou Xiaobing was very grateful to Wen Yue, and was glad that she was alive, but she couldn't help feeling guilty about the sixth victim, and always felt that the other party died because of her.
With this idea in mind, she couldn't just stand by and accept the verdict of Zhong Jun and others. But she was just an ordinary student with limited ability. She could only distribute leaflets for publicity and join the meditation team, hoping to do her part.
Yi Dong also went to distribute leaflets several times.
Although before the sixth victim appeared, because Yi Huai and the Zhou family were trying to match him up, he had been deliberately keeping a distance from Zhou Xiaobing. But he still cared about Zhou Xiaobing in his heart, so when he learned that she had been a target and had just brushed shoulders with death, he took on the task assigned by Yi Huai without hesitation and did it conscientiously.
Over time, he and Zhou Xiaobing became much closer. Although he still insisted that he had no extra feelings for her and treated her as a sister, he was really worried when he thought of her running around for the petition.
So during this period of time, as long as he was free and Zhou Xiaobing was not in school, he would rush over to help gather people or distribute flyers.
Of course, he did not do these things personally, the bodyguards gathered the people and distributed the flyers.
It was not that he was afraid of hard work, but he was afraid that he would be photographed by reporters and published in the newspapers, which would embarrass Yi Huai.
In response to this, Yi Huai said that he was not afraid of embarrassment.
In short, although Wen Yue did not pay special attention to what happened later, she was well-informed. With the insistence of the victims' families and the petitions of the citizens, except for a few people who were sentenced to life imprisonment, the sentences of others were more or less extended.
Zhong Jun and others had no choice, because Hong Kong had abolished the death penalty, and the maximum sentence was life imprisonment.
However, after the verdict, Zhong Jun, Li Wenbing and other serious criminals were transferred to prison and lost their lives in a fight not long after.
There are two theories about these fights. One is that other prisoners in the prison were not used to them deliberately picking quarrels, which eventually led to quarrels and accidentally injured people; the other is that the victims' families spent money to bribe the prisoners and asked them to pay for their blood debts.
As for the results of these fights, it was still because Hong Kong abolished the death penalty, so the prisoners who "accidentally" killed people were not sentenced to death, but were given additional sentences on top of life imprisonment. The same was true for other prisoners who participated in the fights, with additional sentences for serious crimes and confinement for minor crimes.
Looking closely, Zhong Jun and his companions reaped the fruits of their own actions.
Of course, this is all later.
As the case was sentenced, Zhong's company quickly went bankrupt because both owners were imprisoned, and the serial murder case was over for Wen Yue.
Through this melon, she earned a total of nearly 4.7 million melon points, and the remaining melon points exceeded 6.1 million.
After using more than 4 million melon points to exchange for 3,000 days of life, Wen Yue's remaining life span finally became sufficient, and she can live for nearly 14 years!
The remaining nearly 1.8 million melon points were not moved. Although Wen Yue is not in danger now, she has always had a sense of crisis in her heart. She can't feel at ease without leaving enough melon points in her account to buy life-saving means.
The system was very confused about this. It said that the melon points and life points are interchangeable. The former can be used to buy life points, and the latter can also be exchanged for each other when the melon points are insufficient to buy goods in the mall. Therefore, it thinks that it doesn't matter even if the host redeems all the melon points.
But it would be fine if the system didn't say this. As soon as Wen Yue heard it, she felt that she couldn't redeem all the melon points. It wasn't long before there was an example of opening a mall with more than one million points.
Apart from anything else, it is correct to have a sense of worry.
Wen Yue went home from the newspaper company that day. Well, since she changed her office location, she has been going to the company more often.
The office environment of the company is good. She has a separate office. Once she closes the door of the office, she can do whatever she wants inside, and she doesn't have to worry about the employees feeling stressed because of her staring at her.
However, Wen Yue usually doesn't stay in the company for a long time. She is the boss, and she is a rich second-generation who runs a company. Of course, she doesn't want to work from nine to five.
She usually goes to the company with brothers Yi Huai and Yi Dong after breakfast in the morning. Their company is on the first floor and is close. After arriving at the company, she will ask about the latest situation. If there is no problem, she will stay in the office, maybe one or two hours, or stay all morning and go home for lunch.
Wen Yue didn't have anything to do that day, so she stayed in the company until about ten o'clock and then left.
There were three cars going back, with bodyguards' cars in front and behind, and she was in the middle. This order is not special. Even if three people travel in a line, they will definitely feel safer walking in the middle. Wen Yue hired a bodyguard to protect herself, so of course she sat in the middle out of habit. However,
when the car drove into the mountain road, the first car just drove to a fork in the road, and the sound of a car motor running at high speed came from the side road.
Chen Jianping was very alert and spoke the first time he heard the sound: "There is a car!"
"What's the situation?"
Wen Yue just finished speaking, and a car appeared at the end of her sight, driving towards them at high speed. The car in front had already driven away, and the car she was riding in was stuck in the middle of the fork in the road, and it was too late to move forward or backward.
Obviously, the driver and Chen Jianping had anticipated this and made a quick decision. While the latter was shouting "Speed up! Be careful to protect your head!", the former had already stepped on the accelerator with his right foot.
Wen Yue was also shouting in her mind: [Golden Bell Cover! Put it on the car body!]
The emergency system didn't think much about it and followed Wen Yue's words to put the Golden Bell Cover directly on the car body. The moment the Golden Bell Cover was successfully put on, a loud "bang" sound came from outside the car -
that was the sound of the two cars colliding.
Then there was the "sizzling" sound of the tires rubbing against the ground, which was very loud and harsh, making people dizzy.
After an unknown amount of time, the back door of the car was opened, and the bodyguard's voice came from outside: "Ms. Wen! How are you?"
Wen Yue opened her eyes dazedly, and saw a young man in a suit and a crew cut standing outside the car door, bending over, looking at him nervously. After thinking for a long time, she said "oh" and thought, this is her bodyguard. She
raised her hand and touched the painful part of her head, and it seemed like there was a big swelling. She put her hand in front of her eyes, and there was no bleeding, but she felt a little nauseous and wanted to vomit.
As soon as the thought came to her mind, Wen Yue pushed the bodyguard away, got out of the car, stumbled to the side of the road, sat on the ground and vomited.
She vomited for a long time until Chen Jianping handed her a bottle of squeezed mineral water. She tilted her head back and drank most of it before she felt better.
The system in her head was fine, and was accusing Wen Yue of breaking the rules, saying that the life-saving method could only be used on her. But Wen Yue was impatient to listen, and said viciously: [Shut up! If the life-saving method could only be used on myself, you would not have been able to use it successfully on the car body just now, okay? I didn't ask you for compensation, so you think you are as quiet as a chicken? ]
After the rant, Wen Yue let out a long breath, got up from the ground, looked up at Chen Jianping who had already recovered, and asked: "Where is the person?"
"Over there." Chen Jianping pointed to the other side of the car.
On the other side of the sedan was a small truck. Compared with the intact black sedan, the truck was in a terrible state.
The front of the truck was tilted and dented, and the glass of the driver's cabin was also hit with dense spider webs. At this time, the door of the driver's cabin of the truck was wide open, and the person inside, whose head was covered with blood due to the collision, had already been dragged down by two bodyguards and was controlled to kneel beside him.
Chen Jianping said, "I have asked Aze to call the police." Aze was one of the bodyguards.
Wen Yue ignored his words and walked around the sedan to the truck driver and the two bodyguards.
The truck driver was not very old. Although half of his face was covered with blood, the half of his face that was not stained with blood showed his immaturity, and his fair skin revealed that he had always lived a wealthy life.
But that was already in the past.
The moment she saw the driver, Wen Yue knew his identity. His name was Zhong Lan, the son of Zhong Jun and Zou Jingxiu. As for why he was here...
Wen Yue kicked him in the chest, then bent down, ignored his violent coughing, grabbed his hair and pulled it back, forcing him to look up and asked: "You want revenge on me, right?"
Zhong Lan kept coughing, one eye was blurred by blood, but the other eye was wide open, emitting a light of hatred, and he gritted his teeth and said: "You killed my parents!"
"I harmed your parents?" Wen Yue seemed to have heard a joke and slapped him in the face. "Your parents deserve it! They deserve it!"
Zhong Lan was in pain and gritted his teeth and shouted, "You are talking nonsense!"
Wen Yue didn't intend to argue with him about right and wrong. It was useless to talk to a person with a distorted world view. She slapped him again and said, "Since you don't take other people's lives as your own, I don't have to take you as a person!" Then she slapped him a few more times.
During this time, Chen Jianping tried to stop him. It was not because he couldn't stand it, but because he was worried that Wen Yue would beat someone to death and get into a criminal dispute.
Wen Yue didn't stop. She thought that if she hadn't opened the system mall, she wouldn't have coerced and coaxed the system to get half an hour of steel. After what happened
just now, the three people in the car, including her, might be in danger of losing their lives because she didn't have time to buy life-saving means. She couldn't help but feel scared and couldn't control her anger .
"Pah!"
One slap after another, until the man in front of her rolled his eyes and fainted, Wen Yue had vented her anger, let go of her hand and stood up. As
soon as she let go, Chen Jianping bent down and stretched out a finger, and tested to make sure that Zhong Lan was still breathing before he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "He's not dead."
Wen Yue snorted coldly, "He got away with it."
There is a police station on the top of Taiping Mountain, not far away. Almost as soon as Wen Yue finished beating the man, the police came.
Traffic police and ambulances also came in front and behind. Although this was an intentional revenge incident caused by personal grudges, it was also a traffic accident. Needless to say, the ambulance came, whether it was Zhong Lan, who had fainted with blood all over his face, or Wen Yue, Chen Jianping and the driver, they all needed to go to the hospital for examination.
At the hospital, Zhong Lan was pushed into the operating room, and Wen Yue and the other two went for a brain examination.
Chen Jianping was fine. He was a soldier before and had experienced many dangerous situations. When the truck hit him, he quickly grabbed the handrail and protected his head.
In addition, Wen Yue had the system equip the car with steel bars and frames, so the car was not seriously damaged, so he was not hit much while sitting in the car.
The driver's situation was not much different. Although he had never been a soldier, he had enough experience and his protective measures were appropriate.
Wen Yue was the most seriously injured of the three. Although she wore a seat belt and tried hard to grab the handrail, she was weak and could not control her body. Her head hit the top of her head and the glass.
Because the car body was covered with a golden bell, the glass was fine after the collision, but Wen Yue had a slight concussion.
Fortunately, the problem was not serious. The only symptoms were dizziness, nausea and vomiting. Moreover, it had been so long since the symptoms were relieved that even the nausea symptoms were much lighter when he went to the hospital for examination.
However, for the sake of insurance, the doctor still suggested that Wen Yue be hospitalized for observation for a few days. After all, the brain is different from other parts of the body. It is more delicate and fragile.
Wen Yue was not short of money,
so she naturally agreed. After explaining the result, the doctor was ready to leave, but before leaving the ward, there was a burst of hurried footsteps outside, and then a tall figure rushed into the ward, rushed to the bed like a gust of wind, and hugged Wen Yue.
Wen Yue was startled, her eyes widened as she turned her head to see a half-tight handsome face. She coughed and said, "Why are you here?"
She raised her hand to his chest, signaling him to let go.
The man who was hugging her did not respond. He held her to calm her breathing for a while, then let her go and stood up and asked, "What are the results of the examination?" While talking, he looked at Wen Yue carefully. There were no obvious injuries visible to the naked eye, and her face was slightly relieved.
"It's okay, I just hit my head twice and there is a swelling." Wen Yue waved her hand and said, "The doctor said it's a slight concussion, but it's not a big problem. Just don't move too much in the next few days." "
Where is the swelling?" Yi Huai asked.
Wen Yue raised her hand and touched the place covered by her hair on the left side: "Here."
Yi Huai also stretched out his hand and touched Wen Yue's scalp with his fingers. It was indeed swollen, so he asked: "Does it hurt?"
"A little, but bearable."
Yi Huai took a deep breath, turned to look at Chen Jianping who had just entered the ward and asked: "What happened? Where is the driver?"
"The driver hit his head and was transferred to the ward after the stitches were sutured. The police are guarding outside." After Chen Jianping finished the examination and made sure that there was no problem, he went to find the police to understand the situation and said, "The driver's name is Zhong Lan, the eldest son of Zhong Jun and Zou Jingxiu. They were imprisoned. After the Zhong family went bankrupt, Zhong Lan and his sister were taken to Zou Jingxiu's parents' home. They are currently living in a property in Yau Ma Tei."
Yi Huai asked with a gloomy face: "Why did he find Ah Yue?"
"Zhong Lan is still in a coma, and it's still unclear." Thinking of what Wen Yue said before the police arrived, Chen Jianping guessed, "Maybe it's for revenge?"
"You arrange for someone to watch his ward, and tell me as soon as he wakes up." After Yi Huai finished his instructions, he asked Chen Jianping to go out, saying that he had something to talk to Wen Yue about.
Although Chen Jianping was still working for Yi Huai two months ago, he knew very well who was paying him now. He looked at Wen Yue when he heard it, and didn't turn around and leave the ward until she nodded.
After Chen Jianping left, Yi Huai didn't speak immediately, but walked to the sofa by the window and sat down, picked up a big and red apple from the fruit basket, picked up a fruit knife and started peeling it.
Wen Yue could vaguely feel that Yi Huai wanted to say something to her. After the incident, she was full of anger and just wanted to beat Zhong Lan up. After the ambulance arrived, she felt dizzy again and couldn't think of anything else until she entered the hospital and finished the examination. Then she remembered to tell him.
When she called Yi Huai, she didn't think there was anything wrong with contacting him so late. Until now, watching him just peeling apples without saying anything, she realized it belatedly and felt a little guilty: "Are you... angry?"
"No." Yi Huai said without hesitation, "I'm thinking about how to start talking."
"What to say?"
"Say..." Yi Huai put down the half-peeled apple, raised his head and looked directly into Wen Yue's eyes and said, "I like you, and I want to be your first contact."
Wen Yue's face was not surprised. She was not a wooden person. How could she not feel the surging ambiguity between the two of them? She has been letting this ambiguity grow.
Yi Huai is handsome, and he doesn't sound like a father when he speaks or does things. Oh, he has a good figure, with broad shoulders, narrow waist, and eight abdominal muscles, but not as exaggerated as a fitness coach. It is normal for her to have a good impression of him and it is normal for her to want to develop a relationship with him.
She lives in Hong Kong in the 1990s, not the feudal society a hundred years ago. It is very common for men and women to fall in love and date. If they are compatible, they will stay together, and if they are not , they will separate. If the feelings fade, they can break up.
Although she and Yi Huai have a marriage certificate and the two families are still working closely together, it is not impossible to divorce if the feelings fade. The conditions can be discussed slowly.
Of course, it is better to be able to get along for a long time. Yi Huai is the future richest man in Hong Kong, and she will not lose if he only looks at the money.
In short, Wen Yue is very open-minded in this regard, so she let the ambiguity grow and patiently waited for Yi Huai to confess to her and talk it out.
Accidents have always been a catalyst for relationships. If it weren't for this incident, Yi Huai might have delayed for two or three months, or maybe ten days or half a month before confessing.
But after the car accident, he couldn't wait any longer. The moment Wen Yue saw that the person holding her tightly in his arms was him, she knew that he wouldn't wait any longer.
She was just a little confused. What did he mean by the first contact?
They are husband and wife. In theory, they have always been each other's first contact, the kind that requires the signature of the other party when one party undergoes surgery.
Although Hong Kong is a capitalist society, the service attitude of private hospitals is very good, and they are all rich, even if surgery is really needed, it is not necessary to wait for the signature of the other party, but generally they will be notified unless there are special circumstances.
The same is true for the police. If Wen Yue faints in a car accident today, the police will definitely contact Yi Huai as soon as possible and tell him about it.
Yi Huai did not receive a call from the police today because Wen Yue was very sober and had many bodyguards around her, so many things could be solved by her.
So Wen Yue felt that the first contact person Yi Huai mentioned should not be this one.
Yi Huai did not say this, and he explained: "I want to be the first person you contact with the bodyguards around you after you get into trouble."
In fact, the latter is not difficult to do. Although she is the one who pays the bodyguards around Wen Yue, they were all hired by him, and even Chen Jianping worked for him.
But at that time, Yi Huai tried his best to find bodyguards for Wen Yue, but he simply felt that what she did was easy to offend people, and he did not want to lose her spouse at a young age, and he never thought that he would be attracted to her in daily interactions.
Therefore, in the process of finding bodyguards, in order to show that he had no selfish motives and to avoid conflicts with Wen Yue in the future, Yi Huai never explicitly or implicitly told them that they needed to report Wen Yue's movements to him.
After Wen Yue moved to 27 Sze Hoon Road, although the outside world thought that they had reconciled, the domestic servants and bodyguards knew that they had always slept in separate rooms. In addition,
although the two of them got along harmoniously and had become more ambiguous recently, there was no physical contact, and compared with a real couple, they seemed to be more respectful to each other.
So when something happened this time, none of the bodyguards around Wen Yue thought of contacting him immediately.
Yes, most of the reason for this is that Wen Yue is fine and sober, and she can decide what to do next.
But on the way to the hospital, he was sweating all the time. He regretted why he had told Chen Jianping to just listen to Wen Yue in order to show that he was noble and selfless.
Why didn't he tell Wen Yue immediately after realizing her feelings, and he was hesitating alone.
Why did he let Wen Yue go home alone instead of asking her to wait for him?
Wen Yue's voice on the phone was not weak, but Yi Huai couldn't control his wild thoughts on the way here, fearing that she was pretending and saying that she was fine just to stop him from worrying.
Thinking of this, Yi Huai walked around the coffee table, went to the bedside, bent down and held Wen Yue in his arms, and whispered: "I want to be the most important and most trusted person in your heart."
"I hope that when you are in danger, the first person you think of is me, and the first person you contact is also me."
"I also want everyone around you to know and remember this."
"I hope this will never happen again."
"You are the same to me."
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