Chapter 51 Xiaowan, I like you.
"Xiaowan." Yang Ru appeared in the elevator. After the elevator opened, she hurried out and came to my side.
"Why are you holding a fruit knife?" Yang Ru looked at the fruit knife in my hand in surprise.
"Hey, we're here to deal with Tian Fen. By the way, where is she?" I put the fruit knife into my bag.
Yang Ru said that she was driven away by Xiao Shi.
"Are you really going to chase us away like this?" I looked at Yang Ru doubtfully.
I know Tian Fen too well. She is like a piece of sticky candy. She sticks wherever she goes. How could she get away just by being blasted by Xiao Shi?
Yang Ru looked at me, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
"I want to hear the truth."
"It's like this. President Xiao gave that crazy woman one million and told her not to bother you again. He also said that if she does cause trouble for you again, President Xiao will be rude to her." Yang Ru said.
When I heard that, I was dumbfounded.
"One million? Are you kidding?"
Yang Ru nodded and said that she saw the check given by Xiao Shi with her own eyes.
"Xiao Wan, President Xiao is so nice to you." Yang Ru looked at me with some envy.
"No, I have to go up and find Xiao Shi."
Yang Ru held me back and said that this wouldn't work.
"Mr. Xiao is in an important meeting. Please wait for more than an hour."
"Okay, I'll go find Tian Fen and ask her to give me back the money."
I turned to leave, but Yang Ru held me back.
I told Yang Ru that it would be better to donate the one million to people in need instead of giving it to Tian Fen. What's more, this is Xiao Shi's money. It took me a month to pay back Jiang Ruohe's 100,000. How long will it take me to pay back this one million?
"Oh, Mr. Xiao didn't ask you to pay it back."
"But I can't always owe others favors. Besides, I know Tian Fen. She easily took a million from Xiao Shi and left. She will stick to Xiao Shi. It won't be long before she comes back again, just like when she asked me for money. No matter who you are, as long as you have money, she will stick to you."
The only thing I can blame is my soft-heartedness. I knew clearly that what she said about Uncle Chen being sick was fake, but I still gave all the money to Tian Fen because of Chen Xi's matter.
Yang Ru let go of me and said she wanted to go with me. I shook my head and said no, as she had her own things to do and would be fined if she skipped work.
When I arrived at Tian Fen's house, I found that the villagers were gathered at the door of Tian Fen's house. When I walked in, I found that Uncle Chen, who had died a day ago, was lying dead in the yard, and Tian Fen had disappeared.
"Where is Tian Fenren?"
"No need to say, he must have got the money from somewhere and went gambling." A villager answered me.
I glanced at Uncle Chen, who was already smelling bad, and thought to myself, "This Tian Fen is really too much. Yesterday, I gave her two thousand yuan to bury Uncle Chen. Not to mention, Xiao Shi gave her one million. Any person with a conscience would have buried her husband first, and what happened next..."
"Oh, they really go to the casino as soon as they have money. I remember not long ago, someone came to the couple and gave them one million yuan, asking them not to harass anyone. The two agreed, but as soon as the man left, the couple rushed to the casino. As a result, they lost everything in two days and even had their hands chopped off by the loan shark." Another villager muttered.
I was stunned. Someone had actually given Tian Fen and Uncle Chen one million a while ago. Who could this person be? I quickly looked up at the villager.
"Uncle, let me ask you something. Do you know who gave them the money a while ago?"
"I don't know who he is, but he looks quite tall and handsome."
I hurriedly took out my cell phone and looked through the photo album, but found that I didn't have a photo of Jiang Ruohe. Finally, I found one on Baidu and asked the villager if it was him.
"Yes, yes, yes, that's him. He's a very kind person. I was pushing my cart to sell rice when I passed by Tian Fen's house. I listened out of curiosity and he spotted me. Luckily, he didn't say anything. When I came out, he even helped me push the cart to the village entrance."
It really is Jiang Ruohe. I'm quite surprised. I thought Jiang Ruohe didn't cut off Uncle Chen's hands. The person who cut off Uncle Chen's hands must be a loan shark.
Tian Fen came to me with a knife because she was broke and wanted to get some more money from me, so she didn't mention the money Jiang Ruohe gave her, and she deliberately framed Jiang Ruohe for Uncle Chen's hand being chopped off.
But last night, when I asked Jiang Ruohe why he admitted it?
If he really gave Tian Fen one million, plus the one million given by Xiao Shi, how can I pay it back?
"Alas. Tian Fen is the only one left in their family. She's a bit pitiful after all."
A female villager sighed, only to be glared back at by her man.
"What's so pitiful about her? A woman like her will end up like Old Chen if she eats breakfast. I think the most pitiful person is her son, Chen Xi, who died young."
"Alas, he is indeed a good child. It's a pity that he was adopted by these two people. If I had known this would happen, I would have let our family adopt him. But at that time, our family was too poor and we had three children, so we couldn't afford to raise him."
I looked at the person who spoke in surprise. Could it be that Chen Xi was not the child of Tian Fen and Uncle Chen?
"Alas, we thought that the Chen family had no children, and we thought that if they had a child, things would get better for them. But we didn't expect..."
Many villagers were sighing and saying that if they had adopted Chen Xi at the beginning, Chen Xi would not have ended up like this. I hurriedly asked what was going on.
The villagers told me that Chen Xi came to their village when he was five years old. He suffered a serious head injury at the time and had no memory of his parents or his name. The villagers called the police and wanted to wait for the child's parents to come and take him back.
After waiting for a month, no one came to claim the child, so Chen Xi was sent back by the police station to ask if there were any kind-hearted villagers who would like to adopt Chen Xi.
Most of the kindhearted villagers were unable to help as they already had children of their own and their living conditions were not very affluent. Later, everyone thought of Tian Fen who had been married for many years and had no children, so they sent the child over.
Tian Fen adopted Chen Xi because she thought he was adorable, but she had a request. Since her family was poor, she wanted the village committee to give her some subsidies.
After some discussion between the village committee and the villagers, they agreed to give Tian Fen a monthly subsidy of 800 yuan, which was donated by every household of villagers plus the village chief's salary.
"How could we know that Tian Fen didn't intend to adopt Chen Xi at all. She just wanted to earn the subsidy money. She wasn't very kind to Chen Xi either."
The villagers also said that they knew Chen Xi was not living well in Tian Fen's home and they felt very guilty. They wanted Tian Fen to hand Chen Xi over and send him to an orphanage so that there would be more guarantees. However, they didn't know that Tian Fen was smart and completed the adoption procedures early.
The villagers had no choice but to help Chen Xi privately. Even Chen Xi's university tuition was raised by the villagers.
"Fortunately, that kid was very hardworking. He worked summer jobs during his four years in college, saving some for himself and giving some back to us."
"It's a pity... He left at such a young age..." the villagers sighed.
Chen Xi never mentioned his family to me when we were together, so I didn't know much about his past. Now that I think about it, I feel even more sorry for Chen Xi.
If nothing had happened that night, perhaps Chen Xi would not have died. Thinking of this, his heart became more and more uncomfortable.
The villagers decided to do some good deeds and bury Uncle Chen. I asked the villagers if they knew where the casino that Tian Fen often went to was, and the villagers said it was a bit far away.
I thought about it and decided that going to the casino to look for Tian Fen might not bring me any benefit. After all, the people in the casino were somewhat gangsters, so I couldn't go to her rashly.
Thinking of this, I called Tian Fen and asked where she was. On the other end of the phone, I only heard the taxi driver tell her how much the fare was, and it seemed that he had just arrived at the entrance of the casino.
"Why are you looking for me?" Xiao Shi gave Tian Fen the confidence to speak.
"It's okay, I'm hanging up." Tian Fen said quickly.
"Okay, I'll take the money back with me."
This time it was my turn to hang up the phone. When Tian Fen heard that I had raised the money, she immediately said to wait.
"Did you really bring money?"
I said of course. Half an hour ago, she made a scene at the company where I work, and I was almost fired by my boss. So I borrowed one million from Jiang Ruohe to give it to her so that she would not harass me again.
Tian Fen hesitated for a few seconds, and I said forget it. Tian Fen hurriedly asked me where I was.
"At your doorstep."
"Wait a minute, I'll be there in twenty minutes."
After a while, Tian Fen came and saw that I was injured and penniless, so she asked me where the money was. I rolled my eyes at her and said that I only brought a bank card, so how could I possibly bring so much cash.
Tian Fen looked very happy and hurriedly asked me to give her the money. She also said that as long as I gave her the money, she promised not to harass me again from then on.
There was a trace of disgust in his eyes. I would never believe the lies of someone like her who refuses to change.
"Okay, come in and give it to me. There are so many villagers outside watching you. They will be jealous if they know I gave you money." I looked up and said.
Tian Fen thought about it, nodded, and walked into the yard.
After Tian Fen entered the yard, she didn't ask where Lao Chen's body was. Instead, she reached out to me for the card. I glanced at her and said I would get it for her.
I opened the bag and Tian Fen came over happily, but the next second, she looked at me with a sad face, and the fruit knife in my hand was already on her neck.
"What do you want to do? Didn't you say you would give me money?" Tian Fen looked at me in surprise.
I snorted coldly and said that how could I possibly give money to someone as greedy as her.
"Hand over the one million that Xiao Shi gave you."
Tian Fen panicked and quickly said that the card had fallen.
"You're not being honest, are you?" I increased my strength and cut her neck. Tian Fen was so scared that she started crying and yelled for help.
"Don't think those villagers will save you. I've already explained the reason before you came back."
When Tian Fen heard this, she became anxious and cried and asked me to let her go.
"I promise not to harass you anymore. Besides, it's only one million. You are the young lady of the Jiang family after all. You can afford it."
It's only one million. Adding the one million given by Jiang Ruohe, I'm already two million in debt. How can I ever have so much money to pay it back in my lifetime?
At this moment, I wanted to kill Tian Fen. I couldn't help but increase the strength in my hands. Blood flowed from Tian Fen's neck. Maybe Tian Fen felt the murderous intent in my eyes and said that the check was in her pocket.
After getting the check, I glanced at Tian Fen.
"Don't even think about getting a dime out of me in the future. If you push me too far, I'll do anything."
Tian Fen nodded hurriedly, and I let her go. She staggered and fell to the ground, starting to curse me and dragging Chen Xi into this.
"Auntie Tian, even if I feel extremely guilty towards Chen Xi, that's only towards Chen Xi. I don't owe you and Uncle Chen anything."
I picked up the fruit knife and turned to leave, but at this moment, the door was kicked open and several burly men came in with steel pipes and long knives in their hands. They shouted "Tian Fenren" as soon as they entered the room.
"It's her. She owes our boss one million and still hasn't paid it back." Someone pointed at Tian Fen who was sitting on the ground.
It seems that Tian Fen had borrowed money from a loan shark before, and now the loan shark is here to collect the debt. I thought it was none of my business, but Tian Fen suddenly pointed at me.
"She has a check for a million dollars that she just took from me."
Everyone turned their eyes to me.
"This one million doesn't belong to Tian Fen. I'm taking it back to pay someone else. As the saying goes, every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor. You should go to whoever owes you money."
But I never expected that reasoning with the gangsters would not work. Several people quickly surrounded me and asked me to take out the check.
"How could you do this?" I frowned and looked at them.
Tian Fen crawled out from the ground and said, "I'm her son's girlfriend." Then, while they were surrounding me, she ran out.
I told them that Tian Fen and I had nothing to do with each other.
"It doesn't matter whether you have any connections or not, just hand over the money."
My mouth twitched. Isn't this clearly robbery? There's no sense of justice at all. Whoever owes money should pay it back.
I held the check tightly in my hand. If I gave it to him, I would still owe Xiao Shi a favor. From the time he appeared until now, I owed him a lot of favors. If this continues, I'm afraid I will never be able to pay it back.
Thinking back to that night when I paid back the 100,000 yuan to Jiang Ruohe, I also encountered a robber and escaped. Calculating how far I was from the gate, I felt a little lucky. As long as I ran out, there were so many villagers nearby. I really didn't believe that they would be lawless and chase me for money.
I was terrified and pointed outside the door and shouted for the police. Several people panicked and looked outside. I hurriedly ran out from the crowd. Several people reacted and hurriedly chased after me.
"Help!"
Although the villagers were standing on the side of the road, no one came forward to help. I guess I couldn't blame them, because these people had long knives and wooden sticks in their hands. Soon I was caught up by one of them. He reached out and grabbed me. I turned around with the knife and cut his arm. The man quickly retracted his hand, and angrily raised the wooden stick and swung it at me.
I quickly closed my eyes, but there was no pain as I had imagined. I quickly opened my eyes and saw Xiao Shi.
Xiao Shi reached out and grabbed the man's stick, then kicked him to the ground. The other three chased after him, looking at Xiao Shi and me fiercely.
Xiao Shi turned to look at me and asked me to stand aside. I looked at him worriedly.
"Don't worry about me."
Xiao Shi fought with the three men with one hand, but they all had weapons in their hands. I looked at Xiao Shi in fear while calling the police.
Fortunately, Xiao Shi was quite skilled. Although he had a bruise on his face, he still managed to knock the three of them down. Seeing the blood on Xiao Shi's forehead, I hurried over. Xiao Shi turned and rushed towards me. Suddenly, he saw something and quickly reached out to hug me. Turning around, I saw the man whose arm I had cut before holding a long knife and swinging it at Xiao Shi's back.
"Xiao Shi." Tears fell instantly.
"The police are here." The villagers shouted, and the four men ran away quickly.
I felt heartbroken when I saw Xiao Shi’s back stained with blood, and hurriedly asked the villagers to help me call 120.
While waiting for the ambulance to arrive, a villager lent me a clean piece of clothing and asked me to hold the wound on Xiao Shi's back.
"Little girl, don't blame us. We are just ordinary villagers. We can't beat them."
After a while, the ambulance arrived and took Xiao Shi to the hospital. He was given anti-inflammatory and hemostatic bandages. Looking at him lying on the hospital bed, looking pale, I felt very distressed.
"I'm sorry, if it weren't for you, the knife would definitely have hit me." I looked guilty.
Xiao Shi smiled at me and told me not to cry, saying it didn't hurt at all. I sobbed and looked at him.
"Do you think I'm a three-year-old? How can such a long cut not hurt?"
The last time I paid Jiang Ruohe back, I got stabbed on my right hand and it hurt so much I wanted to cry.
Xiao Shi suddenly reached out and took my hand, and I looked at him in confusion.
"Xiao Wan, I have something to tell you."
I was stunned for a few seconds, quickly retracted my hand, stood up, and said I would go with him to get some hot water, but Xiao Shi ran off the bed, stood in front of me and stopped me.
"Xiao Wan, I like you. I like you very much."
Faced with Xiao Shi’s sudden confession, I was a little dazed. I looked at Xiao Shi and it took me a long time to come back to my senses. It would be a lie to say that I didn’t have any feelings for such a good man like Xiao Shi.
But now, I have the identity of the young lady of the Jiang family. Even if I am free in a month, I will be labeled as Jiang Ruohe's ex-wife. As a divorced woman with such an outstanding man, how many people will look at Xiao Shi strangely? Besides, now, I have not thought about having a relationship. I want to live a quiet life alone.
I looked away and lowered my head sadly.
"Mr. Xiao, my status is not suitable for a relationship, nor do I want to have one."
"Xiao Wan, aren't you and Jiang Ruohe about to end?"
I was stunned for a moment, remembering that I had told Xiao Shi about this last time when he took me to the beach.
I looked at Xiao Shi without saying a word. I didn't know what was going on. A man as perfect as Xiao Shi standing in front of me felt a little unreal to me, as if he was an illusory and ethereal person. I was really afraid that if I fell in love with him one day, he would disappear from my world.
Xiao Shi looked at me, a hint of sadness flashing across his eyes.
"Xiao Wan, I'm not asking you to agree to me right away. I just want you to know that you're in my heart. I hope you can consider it. Even if you reject me, it doesn't matter. I'll wait for you."
Xiao Shi has said so much, it seems not so good for me to refuse directly, not to mention that he just took a knife for me.
"I'll think about it."
Xiao Shi was somewhat happy and told me not to feel too burdened. He also knew that love cannot be forced.
I nodded. At four o'clock in the afternoon, Han Ming took time to come and see Xiao Shi. Xiao Shi looked at me and asked me to go back first.
As soon as he arrived at the hospital entrance, he suddenly remembered that he had not given Xiao Shi the check for one million yet, so he turned around and went back.
I walked to Xiao Shi's ward and suddenly heard Han Ming mention Jiang Ruohe, so I stopped.
Xiao Shi looked outside the door sharply, called me with a smile, and I walked in.
"Han Ming and I were just discussing the case we're collaborating on with Jiang Ruohe."
I smiled faintly and returned the check to Xiao Shi. Xiao Shi was stunned and looked up at me.
"You really value money over life."
"I just don't want to owe too many favors to anyone. Xiao Shi, thank you for helping me. But if you run into Tian Fen again in the future, I hope you'd better ignore her. As long as you give her money, she will stick to you."
"As you say."
Xiao Shi's words made Han Ming's eyes move between Xiao Shi and me, and he smiled with some ill intention. Perhaps he saw my expression, and Han Ming immediately shut his mouth.
When he returned, he felt a little depressed. He finally returned the one million he had deducted from Tian Fen to Xiao Shi, but Jiang Ruohe also gave Tian Fen one million, and that one million had already been lost by Tian Fen and her husband.
Alas, I don't know what Jiang Ruohe's intentions were. He went to find Tian Fen and her husband without telling me. He even gave them money and asked them to stay away from me.
What’s even worse is that when I said that he was the one who chopped off Uncle Chen’s hands, he didn’t even object. I stopped and thought, could it be that he went out to drink yesterday because I wronged him?
After returning home, I asked Liu Ma if Jiang Ruohe was at home. Liu Ma said that he had not gone out all day.
"He's in the study. His friends are coming over. I was just about to pour tea and go up to serve it to them." Aunt Liu came out of the kitchen with two cups of tea.
"Aunt Liu, I'll go."
When Aunt Liu heard this, she was very happy and handed the plate to me.
"Xiao Wan, spend more time with the young master. He's actually quite good."
The corner of my mouth twitched and I looked up at the stairs. What good could there be about such a cold-blooded guy like him?
I brought the tea to the door of the study, heard the conversation between Gu Bei and Jiang Ruohe, and stopped in a hurry.
"Ruohe, I checked the video of the cafe and found that Minwei was pushed down the stairs by Yu Xiaowan."
"Did I guess wrong?" Jiang Ruohe was a little puzzled.
"Why, do you think Yu Xiaowan is not that kind of person? If you don't believe me, I'll show you the video."
"No need." Jiang Ruohe lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
Gu Bei patted Jiang Ruohe's shoulder.
"Ruohe, you've been in a relationship with Minwei for three years, so you must know her well. Minwei is a good girl. Think about how good she has been to you over the past three years. How can you bear to let her go?"
"Or have you been bewitched by Yu Xiaowan and fallen in love with her?"
Jiang Ruohe trembled, hesitated for a few seconds, and looked up at Gu Bei.
"I don't think so. It's just that I just found out that three years ago, when I was bitten by a snake while climbing a mountain, it was Yu Xiaowan who saved me, not Huang Minwei."
Gu Bei was stunned and said, "No way?"
"It's true. Last time on the isolated island, I was bitten by a snake. Yu Xiaowan wrapped her clothes around my legs and tied a special bow, the same one she tied when she saved me three years ago. I was suspicious at the time, but I thought that she and Minwei were close friends, so maybe they tied the bow in the same way. Later, my grandfather's words made me suspicious again. I've been looking for those who were present recently."
"Oh, even if it was Yu Xiaowan who helped you suck the poisonous blood, don't forget who took care of you in the beginning. It was Minwei. Besides, you've been dating Minwei for three years, and she was the one who stayed with you during those three years. She even lost a child for you!"
"Let's not talk about this anymore. I can handle my own affairs. You can go about your business." Jiang Ruohe said.
Gu Bei wanted to say something, but seeing that Jiang Ruohe looked unhappy, he told him to think it over carefully and walked out of the study.
When he walked to the door and saw me in the corridor, he was shocked and finally called me sister-in-law in embarrassment.
"Have a cup of tea before you leave." I looked at him coldly.
Gu Bei shook his head and said he couldn’t say anything because he had something else to do. When he passed by me, I called him softly.
"Huang Minwei gave you a lot of money."
Gu Bei's face was pale.
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