Chapter 77 Let go.
Ye Peixiu returned to Ye Garden from the hospital the next morning.
A full physical examination revealed no abnormalities in the bones and joints, but both individuals had some abrasions.
Following behind him was a large group of people led by Wang Jingzi.
"The old man instructed that he was worried and asked a few nurses to stay at Ye Garden temporarily to apply the medicine for you."
Wang Jingzi walked briskly, speaking as he went.
Ye Peixiu didn't reply, telling everyone to stay in the living room while he escorted Xia Qingwan to the bedroom, saying, "Don't go out these next few days, just stay home and rest."
Since the car accident, Xia Qingwan has barely spoken a few words to him.
She only had time to call her grandmother and Grandma Liang twice to tell them she was safe. Ye Peixiu held her the whole time, but aside from asking about her symptoms, he hardly said a word.
She was frightened at the time, but after a night of turmoil at the hospital, she had calmed down by now. She was just worried about Ye Peixiu and concerned that he might act impulsively.
Ye Peixiu settled her on the sofa, turned to leave, but stopped. "Were you frightened? Are you alright now?"
He's asked that question at least ten times.
A psychiatrist was also called in to see him.
He walked back. "Let me see your arm again."
“I’m really fine. The doctor said it’s nothing serious and I just need to rest at home for a few days. I’ve calmed down a long time ago.”
She had already applied medicine to her arm, and sat on the sofa, looking up at him.
"……good."
The doctor has seen me and said I should consult and have a follow-up examination later.
He then asked, "I forgot, did I call Grandma Xia to let her know I was safe?"
“You did call, and I spoke up. Your grandma and my grandma are together, so they are both relieved.”
"good."
Ye Peixiu walked towards the door, and Xia Qingwan couldn't help but stand up. "Peixiu, why don't you go take a shower and shave first?"
Ye Peixiu raised his hand and touched his chin.
There is definitely stubble growing out.
He turned around and headed towards the bathroom.
"Remember not to get your back wet."
Xia Qingwan said.
Ye Peixiu raised a finger to indicate that he understood.
The warm water from the shower head sprayed down, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
He wasn't an impulsive person; he had seen all sorts of situations and confrontations since childhood, and he could remain calm even if Mount Tai collapsed before him. But this time was different; this time, it concerned Xia Qingwan.
If he wasn't in the car, if she wasn't wearing her seatbelt...
He didn't even dare to think about the consequences.
But then again, the car was heading straight for him.
He dragged her down with him.
Last night, the old man personally rushed to the hospital to preside over the matter and told him, "It was an accident. No matter how cruel your father is, he wouldn't be so irrational."
They took action right there on the street.
He was preoccupied with Xia Qingwan's condition at the time and didn't want to hear about these things, but now that he's calmed down and thought about it, he realizes that his grandfather was right.
Did Ye Tingwen not want his future after hitting his own son's car on the street?
However, whether it was intentional or accidental, it doesn't matter.
It is an indisputable fact that Xia Qingwan was involved in the accident.
He had never been so angry or so terrified in his life.
He turned off the shower, grabbed a towel, and came out.
Xia Qingwan was still worried, so she went to the bathroom.
He was wearing a towel around his lower body and shaving in front of the mirror.
"I already told you that your back shouldn't get wet."
She went to get another bath towel and wiped the water droplets off his back.
It was just a scratch, but the marks were shocking, much more serious than the ones on her arm.
Ye Peixiu washed his face and dried it.
Xia Qingwan said, "Put your pants on properly, I'll go call the nurse to apply the medicine for you."
She turned to leave, but he grabbed her waist and pulled her into his arms.
He sat half-sitting on the sink, pulling her body between his legs, arching his back, and holding her tightly. "Qingwan."
"……Um."
Xia Qingwan raised her hand and touched his hair.
Ye Peixiu grasped her arm to examine the wounds, pressing and feeling her body all over, as if to confirm that she was truly unharmed.
“I’m fine, really,” she said softly, “...I was just worried you might act impulsively.”
"I'm perfectly calm."
“You look very calm, but I feel that you…” Xia Qingwan carefully chose her words, “Don’t be impulsive, okay? Didn’t your grandfather say it was an accident? If you go to the old house, sit down and have a proper talk…”
"You don't need to worry about these things."
He said.
"How can I not worry?"
Xia Qingwan's eyes suddenly turned red, and she spoke quickly, "These things are all caused by me. If I hadn't insisted on staying by your side, if I hadn't said I would face it with you, you wouldn't have encountered these. You will be fine, you——"
She paused abruptly, tears streaming down her face. "Did I really do the right thing? Didn't I hurt you?"
She was also afraid that he would get hurt.
Did she not know that the relationship between him and his father had become so irreconcilable?
Ye Peixiu shook his head and raised his hand to wipe her tears. "Don't think like that, don't think like that."
"Qingwan, don't think like that, okay? I went to Nairobi to find you. I couldn't let you go, and you did the right thing. Compared to losing you, everything I've experienced is nothing. You should understand that."
She sniffed and looked at him with red eyes.
"hug."
Ye Peixiu pulled her over, patted her waist, and coaxed, "Be good, hold me tight."
She threw herself into his arms and buried her face in his shoulder.
She hugged his neck tightly.
"...Then promise me that you won't be impulsive and won't make me worry anymore, okay?"
She said softly.
"I'm not urge, baby."
They hugged for a long time.
Ye Peixiu sat half-upright on the sink, holding her hand as he discussed the matter with her in a soft, gentle voice, "Let's make this clear. From now on, you should stay at Ye Garden and rest well. Don't worry about anything. Have a psychologist come to check on you regularly. I'll go back to the old house and settle this matter. I promise I'll be very calm, try my best to avoid conflict, and won't come back with any scars. How about that? Okay?"
She nodded and replied in a soft voice, "Okay."
He kissed her forehead and said, "Be good."
Xia Qingwan learned the basic techniques from the nurse and applied the medicine to him personally.
After applying the medicine and sticking on the long tape, Ye Peixiu put on his shirt while answering the phone.
The call was from the old man. "Have Miss Xia come to Xishan. She can stay right under my nose for a while, so you can rest assured."
Ye Peixiu covered the microphone and asked her, "Do you want to go over there?"
She shook her head. "Let's just stay here. I'll have to pay attention to etiquette if I go there. It's too much trouble."
Ye Peixiu put the phone back to his ear and said something.
"...Well," the old man said, "your mother, your grandmother Cheng Fei and I will be there to see you guys in a moment."
"good."
After hanging up the phone, he held her arm and checked her injuries.
When the incident happened, he protected her and she hugged him, so her arm and his back were scratched, leaving a mark, subcutaneous bleeding, and some bruises, which had been applied with ointment.
"Be careful not to touch it again."
He said.
"Don't worry," she said with a smile, "maybe the bruises will have faded by the time you get back."
Seeing that she finally smiled, Ye Peixiu also smiled slightly, pulled her head back, and kissed her lips.
Before the old man arrived, security at Ye Garden was doubled.
Checkpoints were set up in advance and no one was allowed to enter or leave.
In the evening, the old man, his family and secretary, arrived at Ye Garden in a dark convoy.
Ye Peixiu and Xia Qingwan were standing in the living room to greet them.
This was the first time Xia Qingwan saw her grandfather in person. The old man was taller than she had imagined, dignified and steady, with a neat figure, and his eyes showed the calmness and sharpness of years.
Ye Peixiu invited them to sit in the living room.
The servant brought tea.
They exchanged pleasantries for a while.
Pei Yaxian said with a smile, "Qingwan, just take good care of yourself in Ye Garden and don't worry about anything else."
"Okay, sure."
Grandma Cheng Fei sat next to the old man, dignified and elegant, with a smile on her lips, and a faint sense of intimacy.
Xia Qingwan originally thought that their visit was just a formality, with some pleasantries to exchange, but unexpectedly, the old man actually sat there for a long time, unmoved, and showed concern for her studies and her family.
She answered them one by one.
The old man nodded. "It's rare to be able to calm down and do academic research. You're a good kid."
After chatting for another hour, Ye Peixiu and Xia Qingwan saw them off.
As he reached the entrance hall, Old Master Ye turned around.
As soon as he moved, the people around him moved quickly to make way.
Grandpa turned around to look at Xia Qingwan and said, "I'm relieved that Pei Xiu is in your care. You don't have to worry about anything else. I'm here and I won't let anything happen to them."
"Got it, thank you, Grandpa."
Xia Qingwan lowered her head slightly and said.
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After seeing them off, Ye Peixiu had dinner with Xia Qingwan and then drove to Xishan.
Go to his father's house.
Pei Yaxian had been waiting in the living room. When she saw him coming, she came up and warned him, "Don't cause a conflict."
Ye Peixiu just said, "Go to sleep."
He walked down the corridor to the study at the back, tapped his fingers, and pushed open the door.
Ye Tingwen was sitting on the sofa drinking tea.
Ye Peixiu took off his suit jacket, lit a cigarette from the matchbox on the desk, and said, "Let's chat."
Ye Tingwen took a sip of tea and said, "This was an accident."
“I originally wanted to talk to you, but I thought that if I told you in advance, you probably wouldn’t let me see that girl.”
"I was planning to fly over and pay my respects to your grandmother. Since I didn't want to disturb the old lady of the Xia family, my men found a local driver to chase after the car and intercept you so I could get there. But that's where the problem lies. Because I didn't make it clear that you were in the car ahead, the driver treated it like a routine job and was rather clumsy."
As orders were passed down layer by layer, the commands became distorted, and the lowest-level personnel received only the following instructions: Stop the car and remove the occupants. Controlling speed and ramming into it was naturally the best solution. If a car chase ensued and the traffic police came to investigate, things would be ruined.
After saying that, Ye Tingwen added, "I'm glad you're all okay."
Ye Peixiu raised his eyes to look at him.
Through the wisps of smoke, my father's face became blurred.
"...Where were you at the time?"
"As you know, my personal trip was an unconventional route, so I had to make arrangements. That's why I was still at the Xishan house at that time."
Ye Peixiu lowered his eyes and laughed coldly, "It sounds like that's the case."
"Why would I lie to you? What good would it do me to harm you?" Ye Tingwen said. "I've already dealt with the people under me who needed to be dealt with."
"So? You have a perfectly good reason to send people to chase my car?"
As Ye Peixiu spoke, his voice rose involuntarily, "She was in my car! Do you know what kind of danger this puts her and me in?"
"Where is your bottom line? Is your bottom line only about your own interests?"
Upon seeing that he had used profanity, Ye Tingwen's expression instantly turned ugly and ferocious, as if he was about to explode in anger, but he forcefully suppressed it.
But she was so angry that her chest heaved. She put down the teacup suddenly, huffed, and pointed at him, "Okay, okay, now you dare to scold your father."
"You still know that you are the old man? You are the father?"
Ye Peixiu continued cursing, "When I was little, you were busy and only saw me once every two or three years. You didn't care about my mother and even brought your mistresses home. You didn't care about me at all. But when I grew up and could be of use to you, you immediately came to me to show off your power as my father, interfering with my relationships with women and my marriage. Who the hell gave you the nerve, Ye Tingwen?"
Ye Tingwen was so angry that his vision went dark. He wanted to stand up, but sat back down again, just pointing at him and panting.
Pei Yaxian was knocking on the door outside.
"Pei Xiu, what's going on? Don't argue with your father."
Ye Peixiu pointed to the door and said, "Take my mother for example. I don't care what kind of marriage alliance you had or what kind of deal you made, but even when dealing with subordinates, there should be limits! You take the benefits brought by the Pei family for granted, but you boss my mother around! You treat her like a subordinate, do you think I don't know or care?! Do you think there are many people in this family who truly welcome you?"
Pei Yaxian outside the door remained silent.
"Something like last night, where someone wanted to talk to me or my girlfriend, sent people to chase my car. If something like this happens again, Ye Tingwen, I don't care if you're my father or not, I don't care if it will ruin the Ye family, you'd better watch yourself."
Ye Tingwen closed his eyes, and his vision kept going black.
There is no one in this world who dares to scold him like this.
Even the old man would speak in a more pleasant tone out of the father-son relationship.
"I've come here today for only one purpose, and that's to tell you that I never need your permission for my marriage or any other relationship with any woman. If you insist on opposing this and making things difficult for me, then just wait and see who falls first. Who dies first."
After finishing speaking, Ye Peixiu stubbed out his cigarette and calmly bent down to pick up his coat.
At this moment, the study door was flung open. The old man stood at the doorway and shouted in a booming voice, "You're such a rebel! How dare you talk to your father like that!"
Ye Peixiu didn't even look up.
"Get back to the old house and reflect on your actions behind closed doors!"
Ye Peixiu passed by the old man and walked out of the study. Pei Yaxian followed him with a teacup, "Pei Xiu, have some tea."
Ye Peixiu stopped, took the teacup and drank it all in one gulp.
"Come back to the old house with me."
"...but your father..."
Pei Yaxian hesitated for a moment.
"Leave him alone."
That's true. Ye Tingwen has suffered such a great deal today; who knows how he'll vent his anger on her later.
“Okay, I’ll go with you and keep your Grandma Cheng Fei company.”
The study door closed again.
After a long while, Ye Tingwen, his hands trembling, pointed to the door and said, "You raised such a fine grandson."
The old man didn't say anything, just took the teacup and took a sip.
“…Pei Xiu is really outrageous,” the old man said. “I’ll have him apologize to you another day.”
"He can still admit his mistake to me? I think he wants to kill me."
The old man sighed, "Didn't I just send him back to reflect on his actions? You all need to calm down."
"Does he talk to you like that too? You interfered without my permission back then."
"No."
Not only that, she was also hit by the purple clay teapot that flew towards her. I don’t know if she was left with a scar.
"After all, I'm the one who raised him."
Upon hearing this, Ye Tingwen sighed deeply.
Over the years, he had neglected him, assuming that his son had grown up and would naturally be of one mind with him, and that father and son would work together to manage the Ye family well. But now that his son had grown up, he was shocked to realize that Ye Peixiu had never been of one mind with him. Perhaps, ever since he learned that Ye Peixiu had a woman outside the country more than ten years ago and fought with him after returning to the country, Ye Peixiu had already become estranged from him.
However, he felt that Ye Peixiu did not understand that it didn't matter what kind of women he kept outside; they were just necessary pastimes.
Like him, marrying a Miss Pei would provide a stable source of support and make things easier. If he really liked any other girl, he could keep her outside the marriage, keeping them separate and separate. What's wrong with that?
At least, he didn't feel there was anything wrong with it in the past few decades.
As long as Ye Peixiu is willing to compromise, he wouldn't interfere even if Ye Peixiu kept ten Xia girls outside.
Once outside the Ye family's house, no one dared to mention it.
However, it was clear that Ye Peixiu did not think that way.
He is not yet 60 years old and is at the height of his career, while Ye Peixiu is in his early 30s and is just beginning to rise. If the two of them are incompatible, it would be a case of "two tigers cannot share one mountain".
However, if they could truly make peace, then the Ye family, which has been firmly established for a hundred years, would be unshakable unless a major upheaval occurred.
Ye Tingwen's heart was in turmoil. The old man said, "Just like I said before, this century-old foundation is still in your hands, father and son. No matter how much you argue, it's all behind closed doors at home. You must reconcile on this matter."
“It’s the New Year, let’s settle this matter. I’ll have Pei Xiu apologize to you, and you should let go now.”
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