Chapter 63
The elevator door opened, and a man in a short down jacket and jeans walked down.
The man was startled when he saw that everyone in the corridor was staring at him. He retracted his legs and looked up at the floor.
After making sure that he had not gone to the wrong place, he walked down the elevator with a strange look on his face and quickly walked into his home.
Shen Tingzhou obviously felt that Yan Xun and Fox Eyes breathed a sigh of relief, as if they were afraid of someone.
The landlady looked at them and asked, "Are you all here to look for Xiaokang?"
Fox Eyes smiled at the old lady and said, "Sister, we are Xiaokang's friends."
The landlady was delighted by being called "sister", but she was not carried away.
"You are a young man who is quite reasonable in what you say, but your eyes are not good. They are narrow and picky. You look like you have bad intentions and are not honest at all."
Shen Tingzhou felt that the old lady and Xiao Xu's words "How can a person with squinty eyes be a good person" coincided with each other, and he couldn't help but smile.
Jiang Chengyan's expression froze slightly.
At this time, Yan Xun spoke up, "Could you please open the door? I will pay ten times the rent that the person inside pays."
The landlady gave him a look of annoyance. "You asked for ten times the amount right away. You must be scared to death. Do you think I have never seen a banknote?"
"Let me tell you." The old lady suddenly turned to Shen Tingzhou.
"The young man next to you may look cold, but the look in his eyes when he looks at you is not cold." The old lady pointed to her heart and said, "People like him are warm and considerate."
Shen Tingzhou felt a little embarrassed by what the old lady said and glanced quickly at Xu Xun.
Just as the old lady said, Xu Xun's face did not show much emotion, but the eyes that looked over at her were gentle and focused.
Shen Tingzhou's heart moved.
The old lady pointed at Yan Xun and madly criticized him, "He is different. He looks cold, speaks coldly, and his heart is definitely cold as well. You can't make close friends with people like him. You will suffer a great loss."
Jiang Chengyan chuckled, "You are absolutely right, he is just a money printing machine, what does he know about love?"
The old lady Zajiang Chengyan shot back, "You have thin eyelids and thin lips. This is a face that shows a heartless and disloyal person."
Jiang Chengyan smiled and did not refute the old lady's heartless assessment.
He pleaded obediently, "I'm really worried about Xiaokang. Please open the door. He hasn't come out for two days."
The old lady pursed her lips, as if she couldn't understand why a young man in his prime would stay at home all day.
"That's not good. Although Xiaokang doesn't like sports, I can't just use my key to open his door. What kind of person would I be? If this gets out, how can I rent out my house?"
Jiang Chengyan said sadly: "You don't know that he has depression, maybe he will..."
When the old lady heard this, she was shocked!
"You young people are always suffering from this or that disease, it's scary." The old lady took out her cell phone and said, "I want to tell Xiao Wu at the police station. You know what I mean? This is called filing a case. With the police's record, I will not be breaking the law if I go in. I will be doing good deeds. The state will issue me a certificate. I have a lot of such certificates at home."
Jiang Chengyan urged, "Hurry up and fight. Human lives are at stake."
The old lady squinted her eyes and pressed the dial button. "Isn't this calling now?"
The old lady had no problem with this process, but Shen Tingzhou was worried that Xiaokang didn't want to see them, especially Yan Xun.
Just when I was thinking about whether I should call Xiaokang, my cell phone suddenly vibrated.
Shen Tingzhou looked down and saw that it was a text message from Kang Qiqiao——
Please say sorry to the landlord for me. There is a bank card on the coffee table with the password 859752. Please give it to the landlord...
Shen Tingzhou was suddenly startled and had a vague bad guess.
He shouted to the old landlady, "Madam, please open the door quickly. Xiaokang may be in trouble!"
The old lady was horrified and said "What a sin", then took out the key tremblingly.
Yanxun got there first, snatched the key, opened the door, and rushed in.
Jiang Chengyan was the second one to go in.
Shen Tingzhou supported the old lady whose blood pressure was rising and followed her into the room.
Xu Xunhuan entered last, behind Shen Tingzhou.
The door and the windows of the living room were wide open, and the oncoming air currents made the curtains rustle. Kang Qiqiao had already stepped one leg out of the window and looked at the person who rushed into the room in panic.
Seeing this, Yanxun shouted, "Come down!"
Jiang Chengyan was rarely serious and glared at Yan Xun, "What did you yell at him?"
He turned to Kang Qiqiao, his voice very gentle, with a bit of coaxing, "Qiaoqiao, come down, we have something to talk about. It's not a good look to fall from such a high place, you love beauty so much..."
The cold wind blew off a corner of Kang Qiqiao's scarf, revealing the conspicuous scar on the side of her neck.
Jiang Chengyan's pupils shrank and his steps forward paused.
Kang Qiqiao's eyes were filled with tears, and he said angrily, "Don't come over here."
Jiang Chengyan raised his hands and said, "I'm not going over there. Don't provoke Qiao Qiao."
The stimulated old lady refused to listen and walked forward quickly, feeling very disappointed.
"Get down from here! You are so young, what are you worried about? You are committing a sin, don't you know that? When you die, you will go to hell and be torn to pieces, put into a frying pan, and put on a mountain of knives."
Kang Qiqiao sat astride the window, the scarf around her neck was completely blown away, and her lips were trembling.
Shen Tingzhou held the old lady down and said to the emotional Kang Qiqiao, "Don't you want to see them?"
Kang Qiqiao said nothing, but her eyes were filled with tears.
Shen Tingzhou continued, "Can I let them go?"
Kang Qiqiao shook his head and said in despair, "It's useless. They just want me to die."
Hearing this, Yanxun's heart was deeply moved.
Jiang Chengyan also took a half step forward anxiously, "Why do you think so?"
Kang Qiqiao's face turned pale. "Don't lie to me. I know you are afraid that I will die and won't be able to transplant a kidney to Li Yang."
Shen Tingzhou was shocked. It is illegal to deceive people into giving you a transplant!
Jiang Chengyan said hurriedly, "No more transplants. Find him a new kidney source. We don't need yours. Come down quickly, Qiao Qiao."
Kang Qiqiao no longer believed what they said and began to explain his will.
"I gave Mr. Shen the password of my bank card as compensation for the landlord's loss. I looked up the information and found that kidneys may not be damaged when falling from a high altitude. If they are not damaged, you can transfer them to Li Yang. I owe him the money."
Jiang Chengyan's face changed suddenly.
Yan Xun suppressed his surging emotions, stared into Kang Qiqiao's eyes, and said softly, "No one wants your kidney, come down."
The tears in Kang Qiqiao's eyes finally fell.
He and Yanxun had known each other for such a long time, but she seldom spoke to him in such a gentle tone, especially after they got married, Yanxun became even more indifferent.
Seeing Yan Xun like this, Kang Qiqiao asked the question that he had been wanting to ask but never asked -
"Why did you let Jiang Chengyan take me away that night?"
This question stunned both Yan Xun and Jiang Chengyan.
Jiang Chengyan forced a smile, "He doesn't know. He left early that day because of something, but he left the driver to pick you up. Did you forget?"
Yan Xun didn't say anything. Kang Qiqiao's miserable gaze was like a silent whip, lashing him.
He left that day, but came back to get something, and then saw Jiang Chengyan dragging the drunk Kang Qiqiao into the room.
He knew that Jiang Chengyan disliked Kang Qiqiao and thought she was stupid, frivolous and mean. Yan Xun also thought so at that time.
So after just one look, he picked up his things and left the room, leaving his legal partner behind.
At that time, everyone thought that Kang Qiqiao, who loved vanity, had a messy private life, but after that night, he became less talkative.
Kang Qiqiao trembled, "I have always regretted drinking too much that day. I was afraid that you would know that I had a relationship with another man, that you would be angry, and that you would think I was not decent."
"…So you know everything, and you left me behind."
By the end of his speech, Kang Qiqiao's face was already covered with tears. He covered his face in pain, his body swaying in the cold wind as if he was about to fall.
"This matter is almost torturing me to death. Do you know that Jiang Chengyan is almost torturing me to death?"
Jiang Chengyan kept using this matter to harass him, forcing him to cheat again and again.
He lived in fear every day and felt guilty towards Yan Xun every day, but in the end the other party didn't care at all. Kang Qiqiao felt like he was a joke.
Shen Tingzhou thought that Yan Xun had done something wrong to Kang Qiqiao, so the other party didn't want to see him, but he didn't expect that the other party was such a bastard.
Listening to the sound of Kang Qiqiao being blown to pieces by the wind, Shen Tingzhou's heart ached and he felt inexplicably sad.
Being hurt like this by the person you love is really despairing.
Xu Xun seemed to sense Shen Tingzhou's emotions and grabbed his hand.
Jiang Chengyan looked at the painful and sad Kang Qiqiao, and felt that his blood was frozen and he could hardly breathe. He opened his mouth, "Qiaoqiao..."
After uttering only these two words, Yan Xun punched him in the face in rage.
Jiang Chengyan staggered back two steps and looked at Kang Qiqiao in a daze.
He hesitated for a long time, as if he was trying to explain himself, or rather, he was unwilling to admit that the relationship between him and Kang Qiqiao was so terrible, "You... had a physical reaction to me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Xun punched him again.
Yanxun's eyes were bloodshot. He was the one who hit the man, and he was also the one who felt the pain.
At first Jiang Chengyan did not fight back, until he tasted blood in his mouth, like a carnivore pretending to be a herbivore, he finally tore off his disguise and started fighting back.
"What kind of good person do you think you are? You didn't care about him before, but now you pretend to care. I have never seen anyone more hypocritical than you!"
Yan Xun said nothing, his teeth were bleeding. He did not defend himself but attacked, and soon his face was covered with bruises.
Looking at the two people fighting, even the experienced landlady was stunned.
She turned her head and gestured to Shen Tingzhou, "They were a couple, but he left him behind and let him take him away?"
Shen Tingzhou nodded.
The landlady's voice suddenly rose, "What a sin these two have committed!"
The righteous landlady picked up a decorative cane and began to beat them both.
"Shame on you, shame on you! Send your wife away, are you a man? You still dare to sleep with someone else's wife, I will beat you to death, I said that people with picky eyes and thin mouths are full of bad water and love to cheat. This really piss me off, Xiaokang is in trouble for the rest of his life after meeting you two!"
Shen Tingzhou didn't object to her hitting people, but he was afraid that she would make herself angry.
High blood pressure in the elderly is no joke!
Shen Tingzhou quickly held the old lady down and said, "Don't do it. You'll only make yourself angry if you do it again."
As he was trying to persuade her, an urgent voice came from outside the door, "Brother."
A young man with outstanding temperament and wearing a cashmere coat that went below the knee walked in.
Seeing that it was him, Yan Xun and Jiang Chengyan stopped, and even Kang Qiqiao tensed up and turned her face away as if she didn't want to see him.
The young man seemed to be ill. He started coughing violently after taking a few quick steps.
He held back his cough and said to Kang Qiqiao, "Brother, look who I found here."
"Qiao Qiao." An old man came in and saw Kang Qi Qiao sitting on the window. His voice trembled, "Come in quickly, what are you doing?"
Seeing the old man's appearance, Kang Qiqiao felt a sour feeling rushing up his throat and nose, "Grandpa..."
The landlady stared at the old man who came in and said, "Oh my, what a handsome old man."
From the sudden twitch of the old lady's mouth, Shen Tingzhou could feel the value of her word "handsome".
In fact, the old man has nothing to do with handsomeness. He looks honest and simple. I think he must have been a dull and upright person when he was young.
The old lady covered her mouth and laughed, "It's good to be honest. Honest people know how to care for others. You are still young and don't understand."
Shen Tingzhou: ...
The old man walked towards Kang Qiqiao with weak legs, "Come down quickly, do you want an old man like me to be the one to finish you off?"
Kang Qiqiao said, "I have deposited a lot of money on your card, and I have built a new house. You..."
The old man's eyes sparkled with tears. He tried his best to suppress the sobs in his voice and said softly, "I roasted some melon seeds for you and peeled them and put them in a cloth bag. But you never came to see me, and the seeds have become soggy."
Kang Qiqiao couldn't hold back any longer, so he climbed down from the window and threw himself into the old man's arms, "I miss you too."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The landlord burst into tears, "I am old and can't bear to see this. My little granddaughter is also a bad girl. She hasn't called me for a long time. Grandma has forgotten about her."
Shen Tingzhou patted the old lady on the shoulder and comforted her silently.
The old lady turned around and saw the handsome Shen Tingzhou. She thought he was a good match for her granddaughter and couldn't help asking, "How old is the boy? Where is his home? What do his parents do?"
Without waiting for Shen Tingzhou to answer, Xu Xun held Shen Tingzhou's hand and glanced at the old lady.
The old lady took a half step back and said, "Oh, that's so fierce."
Shen Tingzhou was helpless and tugged at Xu Zhenzi's hand, and the other party lowered his eyes.
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Although the landlady felt sorry for Kang Qiqiao and his grandfather was handsome, she refused to let him live here.
"I have to find someone to weld steel bars to the windows to prevent you from coming here and jumping off the building. That's outrageous."
Kang Qiqiao, who was "driven out", temporarily stayed at Xu Xun's home.
He feels very insecure now. If his grandfather, with whom he has depended on for many years, had not come over, Kang Qiqiao would really jump down, because he feels that Jiang Chengyan will not let him go.
The old man had been sitting in the car for three or four hours, feeling extremely nervous all the way. Now that he had finally seen his long-missed grandson, his tense nerves finally relaxed.
Kang Qiqiao coaxed the old man to sleep, and when he came downstairs, he saw the young man who brought the old man over, and his expression was a little awkward.
The young man stood up and looked at Kang Qiqiao with concern, "Brother."
After learning his name from the young man, Shen Tingzhou could understand the complexity of Kang Qiqiao's heart and said to the young man, "Why don't you go upstairs and rest for a while."
The young man understood what Shen Tingzhou meant, coughed a few times, and nodded.
When he left, he glanced at Kang Qiqiao, and seeing that she still refused to look at him, he left with a gloomy look.
Shen Tingzhou poured a glass of water for Kang Qiqiao.
Kang Qiqiao whispered thank you and drank the water without saying a word.
There were only the two of them in the living room. Kang Qiqiao had a sense of trust in Shen Tingzhou. It was safer to stay here than in a hotel where Jiang Chengyan could break in at any time.
Shen Tingzhou said, "There is still a room. You can go and rest and have a good sleep."
Kang Qiqiao held the cup without moving. After a long while, he spoke, "That man is my brother."
Shen Tingzhou knew who Kang Qiqiao was talking about, the young man just now, Li Yang.
"At the time I didn't know he was my brother. They said they would give me NT$2 million to go abroad for a kidney transplant, so I agreed. But later I found out we were brothers, and I didn't want to do it anymore."
Kang Qiqiao cast a confused look, "Is it because I am selfish, I can do it for money, but I am unwilling to do it for family affection, so they hate me so much?"
Kang Qiqiao and Li Yang are brothers, but Kang Qiqiao got lost when he was very young and was later kidnapped by a trafficker.
After many twists and turns, he finally met his current grandfather, who adopted him.
Shen Tingzhou shook his head. "You can't say that. Even if it's a brother who grew up with you, he might choose not to donate because of fear. Your body is your own, so it's up to you to decide."
Kang Qiqiao said softly, "But I am a very selfish person. I hate Li Yang, I envy him, I hate him, and I want to snatch everything from him."
Because he suspected that Li Yang had deliberately planned to get him lost as a child, he felt at ease targeting Li Yang.
He was not at all willing to donate his kidney to Li Yang. It was Jiang Chengyan who told him that he could use this to persuade Yan Xun to marry him.
Kang Qiqiao was so stupid at that time that he thought Jiang Chengyan was really giving him advice.
No wonder so many people hate him. Kang Qiqiao feels terrible about himself.
The relationship between them was complicated and Shen Tingzhou couldn't figure it out and didn't know who was right and who was wrong.
There is no point in pursuing these things now, Kang Qiqiao has already died once.
Shen Tingzhou: "Find an opportunity to have a good talk with your brother. If he doesn't really care about you, he wouldn't have invited your grandfather from so far away."
Kang Qiqiao stopped talking, and the scene at sea appeared in his mind.
At that time, his motorboat caught fire accidentally, but it was not really an accident, it was Kang Qiqiao's own fault.
At that time, he had just learned the truth, and his heart was filled with great pain, because he really liked Yan Xun, not to compete with Li Yang for her.
Maybe it is his inner self-destructive tendency that makes him always do dangerous things unconsciously.
The motorboat exploded and he was the only one on it. When he was washed into the sea by the blast, he saw Li Yang jump into the water and swim towards him desperately.
For a long time, he disliked Li Yang.
Because the other person has everything he envied except health.
When he was bullied by other kids, Li Yang went to school happily in a luxury car. When he felt inferior because of poverty, the other party was the young master of the wealthy Li family. When he kowtowed to others for a living, the other party enjoyed others' kowtow.
They all crawled out of the same belly, but their situations are very different.
Kang Qiqiao never felt that he had done anything wrong. He just wanted to live a good life with his grandfather.
As someone at the bottom of society, does he have any other way out except working hard to make money? Why do you look down on him?
When Kang Qiqiao saw Li Yang swimming towards him, he found it incredible.
He instinctively thought that Li Yang was putting on a show, and that Li Yang often put on such a show in front of outsiders, which made him seem even more mean and of low quality.
But he was so ill that a bad cold could have killed him.
Kang Qiqiao didn't understand why Li Yang would risk such a great danger to rush over.
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Seeing that Kang Qiqiao was worried, Shen Tingzhou went into the kitchen to prepare something to calm him.
When Li Yang looked down from the upstairs, he saw Kang Qiqiao sitting alone on the sofa, holding a teacup in a daze.
Li Yang walked over.
Kang Qiqiao drooped her eyelashes when she saw the corner of Li Yang's clothes.
His brother had been handsome and flamboyant since he was young, like a wild rose with many thorns. Now the thorns are gone and the flowers have withered.
Li Yang squatted beside Kang Qiqiao's legs and looked up at him.
Kang Qiqiao moved a little uncomfortably, but his hand was caught by the other party.
Li Yang has a gentle temperament, a soft voice, and a pair of slender fingers that have never been used. He stroked the scar on Kang Qiqiao's hand.
"Brother, I have always felt sorry for you. We went out together when we were kids, but I am the only one who came back."
This was not the first time Kang Qiqiao had heard such words.
But this time he did not mock Li Yang, he just listened quietly.
Shen Tingzhou came out after hearing the noise in the living room. Seeing the brothers talking, he smiled with relief.
But Li Yang's next words made Shen Tingzhou frown.
"Actually, I thought about accepting your kidney." Li Yang looked at Kang Qiqiao, "I think I have your organs in my body, so I won't lose you again."
Shen Tingzhou:?
Why does it feel weird?
If it were in the past, Kang Qiqiao would have burst into anger, but now he is very calm, as if he has nothing to lose.
"We are brothers. I'll give you a kidney, but can you please not let Jiang Chengyan disturb my life? I will go back with my grandfather and will not mix with your world anymore."
Li Yang held Kang Qiqiao's hand tightly and said, "If you don't tell me, I won't let them bother you again."
"I don't want your kidney either. I don't want it when I think about your physical condition getting worse without a kidney. Brother, I hope you live a long life, I hope you are healthy, and I hope you are happy."
Kang Qiqiao asked him, "What are you going to do?"
Li Yang smiled, opened Kang Qiqiao's palm, and wrote a word "Tao" on it.
"Let nature take its course. Over the past decade or so, doctors have given me many critical illness notices, but I am still alive and well, aren't I?"
Li Yang's gentle smile reflected Kang Qiqiao's appearance, "And I feel that since you came back, I have been sick less often."
Seeing that their conversation was becoming normal, Shen Tingzhou didn't want to eavesdrop and was about to go back to the kitchen when he saw Jiang Chengyan's figure from outside the French window.
Li Yang saw the same thing, and the tenderness in his eyes faded away.
He stood up and said to Kang Qiqiao, "Brother, I'm going to go out and take a look."
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