“The Su of Gusu! Didn’t you just say her name? It’s Su Ruyi!” Chief Cheng answered slowly.
"...Old Cheng, what did you say?! My signal is bad here, say it again?" Han Weiguo was stunned for a moment, unsure of what he had just heard.
"I said, the name of the doctor who cured me is Su Ruyi!" Chief Cheng said loudly.
"The village doctor from Dingjiatun who was robbed and beaten, that little girl, Su Ruyi?!" Han Weiguo asked again, his voice trembling.
"Although she works as a village doctor in Dingjiatun, she's one of my soldiers!" Commander Cheng said sternly. "You're not thinking of doing anything underhanded, are you?"
"..." Han Weiguo fell completely silent.
"Hello? Hello??" Chief Cheng said "hello" a few times, then slammed the phone down.
He then muttered to himself, "You dare bully our little miracle doctor? You'll be crying soon enough!"
Han Weiguo's head was buzzing, as if a swarm of wasps were swarming around him.
He didn't have time to investigate why Chief Cheng had made a fool of him; he rushed out of the hospital.
But where is Su Ruyi now?
"Xiao Qian!" Han Weiguo shouted, "Go to Fangchi Retirement Home! Bring Su Ruyi back to me!"
"Chief... Su Ruyi might not be going back yet?" Xiao Qian looked troubled.
"Immediately send three groups of people over: one to the retirement home, one to Dingjiatun, and another to search in Bingcheng! Dig three feet into the ground, we must find him!" Han Weiguo roared in fury.
He had never been tricked like this in his entire life.
After giving the order, he went to the special care ward and saw Xia Dong sitting with his back to him beside Xia Tianlu's bed, holding one of her hands in his own, his forehead pressed against that hand, sobbing.
"Xiao Dong, it's confirmed, it's her." Han Weiguo took a deep breath and said, "The one who cured Cheng Weiguo is Su Ruyi."
“I guessed it.” Xia Dong chuckled self-deprecatingly. “She swallowed a large key disc so easily, she can definitely cure Lulu too! But she will absolutely not help me cure Lulu. I have… completely offended her.”
“That’s not up to her. Everyone has weaknesses. Although Su Ruyi has fallen out with her family,” Han Weiguo frowned, “didn’t Xiaoyu say that she has two older brothers who have always been very good to her?”
“Those two are her fourth and fifth brothers. Her fifth brother is a fugitive, his whereabouts are unknown. I... I used her fourth brother to threaten her into eating the key plate…”
Xia Dong said, "Teacher, I... I have a strange feeling that I've messed this up, and we might all be ruined by this little girl named Su Ruyi."
"Didn't she have a grandfather? Was he taken away with her?" Han Weiguo asked again, "Is there anything we can do about him?"
“She picked that old man up on the way! He’s not her blood relative! Besides, he’s very old. If he dies in her hands, it will really piss her off!” Xia Dong disagreed.
"Then bring her fourth brother here!" Han Weiguo said without hesitation. "With him in our hands, what can she do to us?!"
"I may have... alerted them." Xia Dong lamented.
He was right.
At that moment, Su Ruyi was using Chief Cheng's home phone to call Su Xiangjun's office.
She first briefly explained her situation to Su Xiangjun, and then instructed him not to tell Su Tong for the time being.
Su Xiangjun thought for a long time: "Ruyi, the situation is so dangerous and complicated. Why don't you come back to the city? I can get you a good job at the food factory. Your Uncle Su can do that."
“I can’t go back now.” A warm feeling welled up in Su Ruyi’s heart, and her nose tingled. “Please don’t tell my fourth brother the truth, otherwise, I’m afraid he will be worried and come looking for me, which would be like a lamb entering a tiger’s den.”
"Well... how about this, I'll send Su Tong on a business trip right away," Su Xiangjun thought to himself, "to a place that's a bit far away, and I'll send two strong and healthy male colleagues with him!"
"That would be perfect, as the business trip destination can be completely different from ours." Su Ruyi thanked her profusely and then added, "Xia Dong is the vice mayor of Haicheng. He must have some cronies in your food factory."
"Okay, you've thought this through very well!" Su Xiangjun praised Su Ruyi, then asked, "Should I call Su Tong over so you two can have a chat?"
"No, Fourth Brother is very vigilant. We've been communicating by letter. If I suddenly call, he'll become suspicious," Su Ruyi said, thanked him again, and hung up the phone.
After saying goodbye to Chief Cheng, who was still fiddling with the tape recorder, Su Ruyi drove directly back to Fangchi Sanatorium.
Besides Su Tong, her grandfather was also her Achilles' heel.
"Back to Dingjiatun?" Li Wang ran out with wet hair. "Now? I'll go call the old man. He's afraid people will find him and use him to threaten you, so he stole someone else's bathhouse permit and is hiding in the big pool!"
“This old man…” Su Ruyi’s nose tingled again.
Grandpa knew he couldn't help her, so he tried his best not to become a burden.
She waited outside, and after more than ten minutes, Su Qiushi came out with a flushed face and still wet hair: "Ruyi, you're back so soon? Did they give you a hard time?"
"They made me eat this!" Su Ruyi pulled the key tray out of her bag and showed it to the two of them. "I used a trick to fool them. They thought I was going to die from eating this, so they let me go!"
"They... went too far!" Su Qiushi took the key tray. "Is it Han Weiguo?"
"He's Xia Dong, the father of Xia Tianyu and Xia Tianlu." Su Ruyi put the key tray away. "Let's get in the car; we can't stay here any longer!"
"Grandpa, how about I send you to stay at a friend's house in Laolin Town for a while?" Su Ruyi had already spoken to Song Wenyu; she couldn't let the old man get into any danger.
Unexpectedly, the old man waved his hand and leaned close to Su Ruyi's ear: "I'm not going! I'm going to live in the Huichuntang that was awarded to you upstairs!"
"Huichuntang? Where is that?" Li Wang heard it and asked, puzzled.
“That place is far away.” Su Ruyi thought for a moment. Staying in the space was indeed safer than anywhere else. “Alright, Grandpa, why don’t you come back to Dingjiatun with me first? I’ll take you to Huichuntang tomorrow, okay?”
"Of course it would be great!" Su Qiushi can once again spend his days reading and cooking in Su Ruyi's space, filling each day with his favorite things, and he doesn't have to worry about being kidnapped and used as a weakness to coerce his little granddaughter.
This is simply heavenly!
“Li Zhiqing, then you…” Su Ruyi looked at Li Wang, her face full of worry.
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