Jiang Qiaoqiao drove the van and quickly returned to the family compound.
Huo Beixiao had just heard the noise coming from the pager and knew that something must have happened, but no one answered the pager anymore.
He had no choice but to get back on his motorcycle and head out to find someone.
Just as the car was about to leave the residential compound, a minivan rushed in.
"Creak—"
He squeezed the brakes tightly.
Jiang Qiaoqiao also saw him.
The moment she stopped the car, Huo Beixiao opened the door and pulled her into his arms.
Having experienced too many storms in her past life, Jiang Qiaoqiao was calm after escaping from Chen Ye's clutches. She didn't even feel a ripple in her heart.
But at this moment, Huo Beixiao held her tightly, as if he wanted to merge her into his flesh and blood, and her calm heart began to flutter.
"Wife, I'm sorry, I didn't protect you well." The man's dry, rough hands clasped the back of her head, and his deep voice, filled with guilt, rang in her ears.
Jiang Qiaoqiao felt as if her hardened heart had softened in an instant.
"I'm the one who made you worry..."
A warm atmosphere filled the two of them when a sudden, abrupt voice rang out from the side, "Oh, Qiaoqiao, you're back! That's wonderful!"
When Chen Yuexia saw Jiang Qiaoqiao hugging Huo Beixiao, she knew that Chen Ye's plan had failed. She immediately burst into tears and wailed at the top of her lungs:
"Qiaoqiao, if you don't come back soon, Beixiao is going to chop my hands off!"
“Auntie, I’m so old, it doesn’t matter if I become disabled! But if you don’t come back, Bei Xiao will act impulsively and disregard the law. He’s so young, if he ends up in jail, his life will be ruined!”
Living in such a large compound, if there's even the slightest disturbance in any household, the entire compound will rush out to see what's going on.
At this moment, Huo Beixiao and Jiang Qiaoqiao were at the entrance of the compound. Chen Yuexia's shout brought everyone in the compound out with their own cries.
Seeing Jiang Qiaoqiao in such a disheveled state, and hearing Chen Yuexia say that Huo Beixiao was going to cut off her hand, instantly piqued everyone's curiosity.
"What happened? Qiaoqiao went out, why did Beixiao cut off your hand?"
"You didn't trick Qiaoqiao into going out to harm her, did you?"
Someone asked the most incisive question.
Chen Yuexia quickly denied it, crying even more aggrievedly, "Waaah... Qiaoqiao is so smart, if I lied to her, would she believe me? Being a stepmother is hard... Now even Beixiao's dad... Waaah..."
Everyone was already holding grudges against Huo Yuanshan, and when Chen Yuexia mentioned him again, they immediately guessed that Chen Yuexia had clashed with Huo Beixiao because she wanted to get Huo Yuanshan and the Chen family out of trouble.
They immediately abandoned their gossip and rushed to protect their own interests.
"Pah! Being a stepmother is tough. Who told you to be a stepmother in the first place? If it weren't for your shameless act of climbing into bed with her, Bei Xiao's mother might have lived a few more years!"
"Huo Yuanshan's bureaucratic capitalist style makes it his duty to punish him severely. You shameless bastard, stop trying to pin this label on Bei Xiao!"
...
Seeing that everyone was on Huo Beixiao's side, Jiang Qiaoqiao didn't say much to Chen Yuexia.
He looked at her coldly and said, "Comrade Chen, instead of putting on a show here, why don't you check on your good nephew first? Maybe you can see him one more time before the police arrest him!"
Upon hearing Jiang Qiaoqiao's words, Chen Yuexia knew that Chen Ye and the others were beyond saving.
She hardened her heart and decided that rather than seeing Chen Ye at this moment, she would rather use this incident to ruin Jiang Qiaoqiao's reputation!
She cried as she lunged at Jiang Qiaoqiao, yelling, "Jiang Qiaoqiao, you bitch! You seduced Xiao Ye and made him fall head over heels for you, but you sent him to jail! How could you do this to Xiao Ye?"
"Thump!"
Before she could even get close to Jiang Qiaoqiao, Huo Beixiao kicked her away, and she fell heavily to the ground.
Jiang Qiaoqiao glanced at the outer edge of the crowd, then turned her gaze back to Chen Ye and said, "Your current attempts to distort the truth only increase Chen Ye's evidence. I'm sure Chen Ye will be very grateful to you, his dear aunt, while he's in jail."
As Jiang Qiaoqiao finished speaking, a scream came from outside the crowd, "Chen Yuexia, you heartless bastard, what did you make my Xiaoye do? Why is he in jail!"
Seeing the woman rushing towards Chen Yuexia, Jiang Qiaoqiao knew that this was no longer her business.
Chen Ye not only has a powerful mother, but he is also the eldest grandson of the Chen family. It is estimated that the Chen family members alone will be enough to give Chen Yuexia a hard time.
She tugged at Huo Beixiao's sleeve. "Beixiao, let's go back!"
"Mm." Huo Beixiao nodded, bent down and picked her up in his arms.
Jiang Qiaoqiao let out a soft gasp, then her ears turned red, and she glared at Huo Beixiao, "Put me down! There are so many people in the courtyard, everyone's watching!"
Huo Beixiao's gaze remained fixed on her calf, where Chen Ye and the others had likely scraped and cut her skin when they had drugged her.
She was woken up by the pain from that wound.
"Don't move, I'll take you to the clinic." Huo Beixiao's brows furrowed tightly as he headed towards the clinic.
"What's wrong with sister-in-law? Is she running a fever again?" Xu Yizhou asked with concern when he saw that Jiang Qiaoqiao had been carried over by Huo Beixiao again.
Jiang Qiaoqiao smiled awkwardly, "It's nothing, I just accidentally scratched my leg and scraped off a little bit of skin."
Xu Yizhou glanced at Jiang Qiaoqiao's leg and said nonchalantly, "Oh, just this little injury? It's nothing."
"Sister-in-law, wait here, I'll get you some iodine to disinfect it, and then I'll apply some anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving ointment."
"Thank you," Jiang Qiaoqiao said politely.
Xu Yizhou took out the necessary medicine and was about to treat Jiang Qiaoqiao's wounds.
Huo Beixiao's deep gaze swept across his face. "I'll do it."
Xu Yizhou didn't think much of it and handed him the medicine. "Okay, then you apply the medicine and bandage your sister-in-law. You're good at this anyway."
Just then, someone came to ask Xu Yizhou for cold medicine, so Xu Yizhou went out.
Jiang Qiaoqiao watched as Huo Beixiao skillfully cleaned, disinfected, and bandaged her wounds, practicing what Huo Beixiao had just said about how proficient he was at this.
I couldn't help but ask, "Did you get injured frequently before?"
"Hmm." Huo Beixiao responded, "Before the reform and opening up, doing business was risky, which was inevitable."
Actually, he didn't tell Jiang Qiaoqiao that the most dangerous time was when he first started the electronics store.
Electrical appliances are still in high demand.
When he first started, it was even more difficult to get supplies, so he went to Shenzhen to get the goods from Hong Kong.
Conflicts over competing for goods are common.
However, there's no need for my wife to know about these things.
Huo Beixiao carefully cleaned Jiang Qiaoqiao's wounds, his cautious manner as if Jiang Qiaoqiao were some precious porcelain that would shatter if he used even a little too much force.
Even with such caution, he still frowned deeply at the wound.
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