Jinye didn't wake up until three hours later.
He needed 21 stitches to the back of his head.
I had already gone to pay the bill, but the old man was lying in the hospital bed groaning.
He kept saying he had a stomachache, then a liverache, and that it must be an internal injury that required a full body checkup.
A single checkup cost several thousand dollars.
The internal injury wasn't detected, but a whole host of other illnesses were found.
Stomach ulcers, pneumonia, cholecystitis, lumbar disc herniation—it's a walking virus reservoir.
Huang Xiangu fared much worse; she lost both of her eyeballs.
The hospital examination revealed that I have thyroid-associated eye disease.
The rupture and bleeding of varicose veins in the orbit caused a sharp increase in orbital pressure, leading to the sudden prolapse of the eyeball from the orbit.
However, I know that Huang Xiangu's eyeballs fell out and she became permanently blind because she was possessed by Bai Su and that water ghost.
Su Mingyang was so worried about this that he smoked several packs of cigarettes, feeling extremely anxious.
"Old Chen, I just checked online, and this disease will cost at least several hundred thousand yuan in compensation, and we might even face a lawsuit. Where are we going to get so much money? My mother is waiting for the money to save her life."
I thought for a moment and said, "My grandfather bought me an apartment in the city before, and after I started working, I bought a car. Selling the apartment and the car should be enough."
Su Mingyang glared at him: "How can this be? We both caused this together, how can I let you lose money all by yourself? Don't sell the house, sell mine instead."
I glanced at him: "If you sell the house, where will your mother stay after she's discharged from the hospital? You can't expect her to be homeless with you, can you? Or are you going to take her to the funeral home to stay in the staff dormitory?"
Su Mingyang was stunned for a moment, his eyes red as he cursed, "The rope always breaks at its thinnest point, and misfortune always finds those who are unfortunate."
But when we went to see Huang Xiangu, she said that this was her livelihood, and we had already paid her. Whatever happened in the process, it was her responsibility.
They also told us not to blame ourselves too much.
We were all mentally prepared to be swindled, but after hearing what she said, Su Mingyang immediately knelt down, grabbed Huang Xiangu's hand, and called her "dear sister."
Although Huang Xiangu said she didn't blame us, Su Mingyang and I still gave her 50,000 yuan.
Su Mingyang drove his car to the second-hand market and sold it for 70,000 yuan.
We gave Mr. Jin another 10,000 yuan red envelope. After paying for the hospitalization and examination fees, we were broke again.
Huang Xiangu held the bank card, seemingly wanting to say something but hesitating.
After a while, she finally spoke: "When I was possessed by Bai Su before, I vaguely saw some images: a mountain, a lot of people surrounding a bride and doing indecent things, and an old man in his seventies or eighties."
I quickly asked her what the old man looked like and whether he had a scar on the corner of his right eye.
"Why are you asking this? Do you know him?" Su Mingyang asked curiously.
I asked him, "Do you remember when Bai Su wrote the three characters '[Chen Bazhong]' on the paper? That was my grandfather."
Holy crap!
Su Mingyang's eyes widened: "But I remember you said your grandfather died!"
I patted my head in frustration and said, "I don't know either. My grandfather died when Bai Su was still alive, but she wrote my grandfather's name."
"Could it be a fake death?"
I shook my head and said it was impossible; I buried my grandfather myself when he died.
"It must be someone with the same name! Don't overthink it, and besides, your grandfather would never assault a bride," Su Mingyang reassured him.
Huang Xiangu shook her head and said, "That old man didn't violate the bride; on the contrary, it seemed like he was... performing a ritual."
"practice?"
Huang Xiangu said, "At that time, my eyes hurt a lot and I was not clear-headed. When I tried to see, the old man suddenly looked at me, and then my eyes hurt and I couldn't see anything."
Just as I was feeling disappointed, Huang Xiangu added, "But before I went blind, I heard someone call out 'Fourth Brother'."
Fourth Brother?
My grandfather wasn't called Fourth Brother either.
I chuckled self-deprecatingly: How long has it been since Bai Su died? My grandfather has been dead for so many years, how could it be him?
Because Huang Xiangu couldn't overexert herself, we told her to rest well before going to Jin Ye's ward.
As soon as I arrived at Mr. Jin's ward, I saw him holding a young nurse's fair and delicate hand and rubbing it together.
His expression was extremely serious: "Xiao He, judging from the lines on your palm, you're likely to face some bloodshed in the next few days!"
"Huh? Mr. Jin, don't scare me."
"Trying to scare you?"
Jin Ye grabbed the pretty nurse's fair and delicate hand and traced lines on it with his index finger, making the nurse blush. She didn't dare to pull her hand away and could only let Jin Ye hold it.
“Look at this fate line. Several dark, winding lines are faintly visible around it, which is definitely not a good omen.”
"And then there are the career line and the health line, which intersect and crisscross in the palm, as if forming a turbulent current, which will surely trigger a major crisis."
The young nurse stared at Mr. Jin's eyes with a hint of disbelief and asked, "Mr. Jin, you can't even see properly, how can you still see so accurately?"
Master Jin's face darkened: "Young lady, you don't understand. You mortals use your physical eyes to see things, while I use my inner eye, which you often call the 'heavenly eye.' How can they be the same?"
Seeing the pretty young nurse completely taken aback, Su Mingyang interjected irritably.
"If you're so accurate with your predictions, how come you didn't foresee ending up in the hospital yourself?"
Jin Ye was so angry that his facial muscles twitched uncontrollably.
The young nurse suddenly realized what had happened, blushed, withdrew her hand, muttered "old pervert" under her breath, and turned to leave angrily.
"Mr. Jin, I didn't realize you were still chasing after young girls at your age. But isn't this palm reading method a bit old-fashioned?"
Su Mingyang smiled and pulled over a chair to sit down.
"You bastard, do you really think I'm that kind of shameless scoundrel?"
Jin Ye was so angry his hands trembled: "You think I was just teasing her? Do you even know who her cousin is?"
"Your wife?"
Su Mingyang gave a knowing smile that all men understand: "Brother Jin, you're quite the player, aren't you? You're even going after your sister-in-law, like an old cow eating young grass!"
Jin slapped Su Mingyang hard on the forehead with his backhand, making him jump up and down in pain, clutching his head.
I figured that Jin wouldn't ask that question for no reason, and we weren't very familiar with each other, so he wouldn't just let us guess about some random person.
Could it be...?
I exclaimed, "Bai Su!"
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