"Second brother, tell the truth—"
"Third brother, watch out!"
Before Zou Yunkang could figure out what was happening, Zou Yunliang tackled him to the ground!
Immediately afterwards, he heard a gunshot!
Zou Yunliang pressed himself firmly against him, showing no reaction whatsoever.
The driver got out of the car and shouted at him, "Mayor, Second Master has been shot! Someone is following us, get in the car quickly!"
The scene became chaotic for a moment. Zou Yunkang heard the sound of a car starting in the distance, which meant that the person who fired the shot must have run away!
He disregarded all questions and, without regard for his own safety, picked up Zou Yunliang and shoved him into the car, becoming the last one to get in.
After getting in the car, the driver took the two of them straight to the city hospital!
………
Saturday.
Yan Miao and her two companions received Mayor Zou's invitation early in the morning and arrived at the entrance of a well-decorated old restaurant in the area at noon sharp.
As soon as their car came to a stop, the restaurant owner greeted them respectfully, "Are you Mayor Zou's distinguished guests? This way please. The mayor instructed me to greet you at the door!"
The moment Yan Miao pushed open the door to the private room, she thought she had gone to the wrong place!
I had expected to see a radiant and completely transformed Zou Yunkang.
After all, the biggest hidden danger in the house has been resolved, and he is no longer affected by the pendant, so his health will return to normal no matter what.
To her surprise, Zou Yunkang looked even more haggard than he had two days ago!
He heard the door open, slowly raised his eyes, his eyes were bloodshot and frighteningly red!
"Mayor Zou, what's wrong? Hasn't the matter been resolved yet?"
After Yan Miao sat down, she couldn't wait to ask a question.
Zou Yunkang hesitated, unsure how to begin.
Upon returning, he immediately investigated Yao Rong and discovered that she indeed had a problem!
He is not only involved with Cao Jinshu, the former mayor of the city, but also has a close relationship with his second brother, Zou Yunliang!
Investigations revealed that Cao Jinshu had previously tried to bribe her, but failed. However, she was very close to Zou Yunliang in private, and the two frequently met together.
They had already known each other when Yao Rong was in college!
Zou Yunkang once suspected that Yao Rong was Zou Yunliang's lover, and that she was sent to his side by his second brother in order to better monitor him.
His eldest and second eldest brothers are the people in the family who understand him best. Yao Rong is simply a beauty trap tailor-made for him!
But last night, when Zou Yunliang risked his life to shield him from bullets, seeing his second brother lying in a pool of blood, he fell into deep doubt—
Would someone who truly wants to save their own life take that fatal bullet for themselves at that critical moment?
Zou Yunliang was shot in the left shoulder and has not woken up since being admitted to the emergency room.
He had been a powerful figure for many years, but this was the first time he had ever panicked. He was like a headless fly, completely clueless!
Seeing his expression, Yan Miao was extremely anxious and wanted to know what had happened.
From the moment she transmigrated into the book until now, she has always been in God's-eye view. She understands the plot and can always turn danger into safety at critical moments!
But there's really nothing we can do about Zou Yunkang's situation. After all, the original author only wrote two sentences, so even if she wanted to know, there's nowhere to find out.
What on earth happened to him? Not only is the problem unresolved, but he's also made himself look so haggard. It seems pointless for him to take off his necklace; in a couple of days, he could practically be cremated!
Chi Rang was equally puzzled.
He heard Yan Miao remind Zou Yunkang with his own ears that, logically speaking, a top politician with such ruthless methods should have figured out the ins and outs of the matter by now!
They've made themselves look like neither human nor ghost!
"Mayor Zou, thank you for your invitation today."
Seeing that he didn't want to speak, Chi Rang quickly stepped in to smooth things over.
Miaomiao was right. That night, he went back and asked his aunt and uncle, and they really didn't plan to go to Beijing. Instead, they planned to stay here.
Grandma thought the same thing!
The attending physician strongly urged the old man to stay in the hospital for two more days. After hearing this, the old man said that he would move from Beijing immediately after being discharged and buy a small house near the residential building.
He must beg for his grandmother's forgiveness!
Therefore, it is still very necessary to build a good relationship with Mayor Zou, so that if something happens to my grandparents here in the future, I will have someone to help me.
"Not at all, I should be thanking you all! I'd like to propose a toast to you all!"
Zou Yunkang stood up, picked up his glass, and downed the liquor in one gulp.
What followed was a series of high-sounding platitudes. He wasn't in the right frame of mind today, and his words of thanks were sparse and disjointed, to the point that Yan Miao was tired of hearing them.
With nothing to do, she started daydreaming and randomly browsing through the Merit Mall.
In the past two days, she discovered that the Merit Mall was bringing in a whopping 190 merits every day!
190 a day!
I was so happy lying in bed last night!
[Zhang Yuan and his son really have the potential to be capitalists, tsk tsk, they're squeezing every last drop of time out of Liu Manfeng! A woman in her sixties, sleeping only five hours a day, that's unacceptable!]
You can live even if you only sleep three hours! 60 is the perfect age to venture out and make your mark!
How can you know your limits if you don't push yourself?
Okay, okay!
Chi Rang almost choked on his sip of liquor. He thought he was already ruthless enough, but he never expected there was something even more ruthless to come!
But what surprised Yan Miao the most was the merit she gained from helping Chi Rang and his sister find Tang Xue. Good heavens, she earned 500 merits that very night!
500—she wouldn't have dared to even dream of that before!
The time I went to the border town to rescue hostages, I only earned a little over 200 merits!
It seems that the more good deeds you do, the more merit you will be rewarded, just like leveling up in a game.
【Huh? What's this?】
As she flipped through the pages, she suddenly noticed a page she had never visited before.
【A Bagua Bucket? What a gossipy name....】
Yan Miao glanced at the function description of the Bagua Bucket and her eyes lit up. It was just like a pillow being handed to someone who was sleepy!
[Gossip Bucket: After use, you can obtain all the gossip about the selected person! Wow, that's invincible!]
Upon seeing that it only required 5 merits, Yan Miao clicked to redeem without hesitation, and then used the Bagua cylinder on Zou Yunkang!
But after waiting for a minute, the Merit Mall interface was still blank.
What happened?
She continued reading and discovered that the starting merit for the exchange was 5, and there was something below that looked like a progress bar.
Five merits are just the beginning of the progress bar. The more merits you accumulate, the more you need to spend, up to a maximum of 50.
[Oh, so it means the harder it is to obtain the Eight Trigrams, the more merit points it takes, right?]
Yan Miao gritted her teeth and pulled the progress bar back. Zou Yunkang's gossip actually required a full 25 merits!
Damn it!
She wanted to see what kind of gossip was worth 25 merits!
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