Chapter 22 Chapter 22 I will carefully wash you clean...
Before Gu Huaiyan could say anything, Ruan Zhao's eyes suddenly became red. Crystal clear tears accumulated in her eye sockets, and she looked like she was about to fall out, which was truly pitiful.
His arm was aching at first, but now Gu Huaiyan felt even more uncomfortable.
He didn't want to see Ruan Zhao cry.
"I'm fine." Gu Huaiyan took off his tie and tied it around his arm, tightening his already tense muscles even more. He raised his injured hand and clenched his fist in front of Ruan Zhao, pretending to be relaxed, "Look, nothing happened."
"Are you really okay?" Ruan Zhao wiped his eyes. Blood soaked his white shirt. The wound looked shocking. It was already early winter. Why didn't Gu Huaiyan come over wearing a coat? If he had worn a coat, it would at least help to resist some of the damage! He held Gu Huaiyan's hand and looked at it carefully. He even tried to blow on the wound. "Does it hurt?"
Gu Huaiyan felt numb in his heart when he saw this scene: "It doesn't hurt, just a minor injury, it just looks scary." He touched Ruan Zhao's pale face with the back of his bloodless hand and felt some wetness. Fortunately, he arrived in time. If the broken wine bottle had hit Ruan Zhao just now, he didn't even know what he would have done.
Thinking of this, Gu Huaiyan turned his head and looked at the drunk man lying on the ground. His originally gentle eyes turned fierce.
"What's going on?" Gu Huaiyan asked.
Xiao Zhen, who was still in shock, walked out from the corner and said with lingering fear: "This person had a dispute with the previous landlord. At that time, we saw that the office rent here was cheap and close to the school, so we rented it without thinking too much. We didn't expect something like this to happen today." After saying that, she glanced at Gu Huaiyan's injured arm, her face full of guilt.
After roughly understanding the cause of the incident, Gu Huaiyan directly called the police using Ruan Zhao's mobile phone.
The police arrived quickly, asked about the incident and immediately sent someone to send the three of them to the hospital.
Xiao Zhao had returned here early. When he arrived, he only saw Gu Huaiyan's sports car. Now he saw three people being taken away by the police. Gu Huaiyan's arm was injured. He was very alert and went to meet them nervously. He quietly asked Gu Huaiyan: "Boss Gu, are you here to catch an adulterer?"
Gu Huaiyan paused and glanced at him coldly. Xiao Zhao's hair stood on end, but he still said everything he wanted to say.
"Mr. Gu, you must have misunderstood. The young master is not that kind of person. When you were not here, I was watching over him for you. He was the only one here, no one else..."
Under Gu Huaiyan's increasingly cold gaze, Xiao Zhao gradually shut up. At this time, Ruan Zhao came forward and asked, "Xiao Zhao, what are you talking about?"
Xiao Zhao really likes Ruan Zhao. When he thinks that Ruan Zhao might be misunderstood, he is not afraid of death. He holds Ruan Zhao's hand fearlessly and says, "Quick, tell Mr. Gu that you only care about work and nothing else!"
Although Ruan Zhao didn't understand, he was very obedient. He nodded immediately and said, "I only have work in my mind, nothing else."
Thinking of Ruan Zhao's thoughts over the past few days, which were as bland as boiled water, Gu Huaiyan glanced at the two people holding hands again, his eyes becoming even darker and deeper.
Xiao Zhao shuddered with fear, subconsciously letting go of Ruan Zhao and rubbing his arms. Doesn't Mr. Gu believe it? Then he just went to the mall to get the Christmas stocking ornaments back. Wasn't it a waste of effort?
After arriving at the hospital, Gu Huaiyan refused to see a doctor accompanied by Ruan Zhao. Instead, he waited for Ruan Zhao to check his body before showing the doctor his wounds and asked, "If someone who used to be very autistic has experienced a violent incident, will it affect his mental health?"
"That requires observation. If the initial autism was not caused by violence, then it shouldn't be a big deal." The doctor examined his wounds without raising his head.
Gu Huaiyan seemed to be thinking deeply. According to Ruan Zhao's medical records abroad, his autism was caused by psychological reasons, which might have occurred after he was lost as a child.
The wound was not long, but it was very deep. The doctor saw that the police had sent them here and thought that they were young and angry and had a fight. So he disinfected the wound while verbally educating him: "You are already an adult, why are you angry with a student? He is in front of his girlfriend and wants to save face. It's a good thing that he didn't stab you on the spot. You should be careful in the future. Don't mess with young people like that. It's strange that they don't care about the severity of their attacks. The boy just now looked well-behaved, but he was too cruel."
It took Gu Huaiyan half a minute to realize that the doctor had mistook Ruan Zhao and Xiao Zhen for a couple, and that he was an elderly man who had appeared out of nowhere and disturbed their love affair. Ruan Zhao had stabbed him in the arm out of love.
"How do you know they are a couple?" Gu Huaiyan was speechless.
The doctor glanced at him and said, "You can tell they are both college students. They are a perfect match."
"Except for age, what else is suitable? Not at all." Gu Huaiyan gritted his teeth in pain as he examined his wound, "No, are you able to do it?"
The doctor gave me a local anesthetic injection and asked, "Do you doubt my medical skills?"
"No." Gu Huaiyan said coldly: "I doubt your vision and choose blindly."
The doctor couldn't convince him and quickly sewed two stitches on his wound. He was so angry that he almost wanted to tie a bow on him.
After bandaging the wound, Ruan Zhao had finished the examination and was waiting outside. When Gu Huaiyan came out, he glanced at them out of the corner of his eye. He saw Ruan Zhao and Xiao Zhao standing in front, and the girl was hiding behind Ruan Zhao, which did look easy to be misunderstood.
He frowned unhappily. Ruan Zhao, who was standing at the door, saw him and immediately walked in and asked, "Are you in a lot of pain?"
"It doesn't hurt." Gu Huaiyan said, and frowned as if he suddenly remembered something, "It is indeed a little uncomfortable." After saying that, he looked at Ruan Zhao's face, and sure enough, a tangled little expression appeared on his face.
Ruan Zhao was thinking of the time when Gu Huaiyan got drunk at the party. He was obviously in pain but he endured it without saying anything. How could it not hurt when he lost so much blood this time? Gu Huaiyan must have been lying to him when he said it didn't hurt because he was afraid that he would feel guilty.
After hearing Ruan Zhao's thoughts, Gu Huaiyan felt sorry for him seeing his miserable look. Just when he was about to relax his body and tell Ruan Zhao that he had not lied to him, Ruan Zhao's warm body came close to him.
Ruan Zhao held Gu Huaiyan's arm and put one hand around his waist. To save Gu Huaiyan's face, he patted his lower back affectionately: "I know you are not afraid of pain. Relax a little, I will help you back."
The body, which was about to relax, was slapped by Ruan Zhao and instantly tensed up even more.
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On the way back, Ruan Zhao felt guilty and kept pinching the hem of his clothes. Gu Huaiyan glanced at him, took a gift box from the front row and placed it on his lap.
"What, what thing?" Ruan Zhao asked.
"Open it and take a look." Gu Huaiyan intentionally diverted his attention, wanting him to not feel burdened. "You gave me a scarf last time, and this is a return gift to you."
"A return gift?" Ruan Zhao was a little surprised. He didn't expect Gu Huaiyan to give him a return gift. He gratefully opened the gift box and saw a pair of bright red velvet socks with two large fur balls hanging on them. "Huh?"
Gu Huaiyan's eye twitched. What kind of taste does this little Zhao have! Is this what an 80-year-old lady should wear?
"It should be Christmas socks." Gu Huaiyan pretended to be casual, "I heard that if you hang socks with wish notes stuffed in them on the head of the bed on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus will help you make it come true." After saying that, he paid attention to Ruan Zhao with his peripheral vision. This Santa Claus must have fascinated the little boy to death.
Ruan Zhao held up two socks and poked the two big fur balls. He turned his head and looked at Gu Huaiyan, "Isn't Santa Claus fake? Do you still believe in this?"
This look seemed to question Gu Huaiyan's IQ.
Gu Huaiyan was insulted: "Of course I don't believe it, but as someone who tells stories to children, isn't it a bit unreasonable for you not to believe in Santa Claus?"
The two fiery red fur balls were so ugly that they were an eyesore. Gu Huaiyan could no longer bear it and reached out to stuff the socks back into the gift box: "Xiao Zhao picked this thing, he should believe it." Xiao Zhao was about to join in the conversation when he heard about himself, but Gu Huaiyan stopped Xiao Zhao with a look and said to Ruan Zhao, "Whether you believe it or not, don't let Xiao Zhao down."
"I believe it, I believe it." Ruan Zhao's eyes followed his bloodstained sleeve. Fearing that he would pull the wound due to excessive movement, he quickly held his arm and said, "I believe in Santa Claus. Don't move. Your clothes are ruined. I will buy you a new one after I get my salary."
Gu Huaiyan was stunned. 500 yuan a month salary, to buy him clothes?
This almost made Gu Huaiyan unable to hold back his excitement, but seeing the deep passion in Ruan Zhao's eyes, he was afraid that if he didn't accept it, the little chicken would be sad again.
"Okay, but all my clothes are custom-made," said Gu Huaiyan.
Ruan Zhao nodded. As long as Gu Huaiyan agreed to let him buy it, he felt relieved: "Sure, sure. How much is it for custom-made?"
Seeing Ruan Zhao's innocent face, Gu Huaiyan said rudely, "Five thousand."
Ruan Zhao: . . .
"It doesn't matter. My mother gave me a card." Ruan Zhao said embarrassedly. He only had more than 2,000 yuan in his overseas account, which was not enough to buy clothes for Gu Huaiyan. Although Mrs. Ruan gave him a card after returning to China, he couldn't use it for the time being because he had nothing to buy. It seemed that he had to use it this time.
"It's not sincere to buy anything with your uncle and aunt's money." Gu Huaiyan couldn't stand it.
"Then...then should I stop again?" Ruan Zhao asked tentatively.
Gu Huaiyan stared at his big eyes, wondering how this guy could be so interesting, not even knowing how to bargain. After a moment of silence, he pretended to be generous: "Keep it in the account, you owe me first."
"Okay, okay." Ruan Zhao nodded repeatedly, "Whatever you say is fine."
Gu Huaiyan was pleased with these words and tried hard not to smile. He didn't know when the little chicken's words started to suit his taste.
The car stopped outside the courtyard. Upon hearing the news, Uncle Wang and a group of servants had been waiting at the gate early. They stood in the same position as the day Ruan Zhao first arrived, but their expressions were rather sad. People who didn't know would have thought they were waiting for someone's ashes.
As soon as Gu Huaiyan stepped out of the car, Uncle Wang came up to him with tears in his eyes.
"gentlemen!"
"Not dead."
Gu Huaiyan spoke briefly and used his uninjured hand to block the roof of the car until Ruan Zhao got out of the car smoothly. Then he walked into the house with a sullen face. When he passed the servants who were called by Wang Bo to join the battle, he finally couldn't stand it anymore and said, "What time are you still staying here? Do you want to work overtime?"
When everyone saw that their boss was still so hateful, they immediately scattered like birds and beasts.
After the people left, the whole villa became noticeably quieter. Diandian was originally sleeping soundly on the sofa, but when it heard Ruan Zhao's voice, it immediately got up, then jumped up, ignoring its real owner, and rubbed Ruan Zhao's legs and begged for canned food.
Diandian meowed with a pinched throat, and Ruan Zhao had no choice but to squat down and touch it.
Seeing this, Gu Huaiyan snorted in his heart. He wondered which cat cafe would be willing to hire a fat, short, ugly cat that likes to act coquettishly towards people. It would be a shame if he didn't go to work in a cat cafe.
Just as he was developing vicious capitalist thoughts, Gu Huaiyan's arm was suddenly touched. He was stunned, not knowing when Ruan Zhao was standing next to him.
"Huai Yan, your hand is injured. Let me help you take a bath."
Ruan Zhao really wanted to help Gu Huaiyan. Gu Huaiyan was injured to protect him. He couldn't repay Gu Huaiyan at the moment, so he could only help Gu Huaiyan do some small things within his ability.
The doctor told Gu Huaiyan that his wound couldn't get wet. It was such a deep cut. Although Gu Huaiyan didn't say anything, his behavior was definitely restricted. And Gu Huaiyan was a very clean person, so it would be very uncomfortable for him not to take a bath.
Seeing that Gu Huaiyan didn't say anything, Ruan Zhao thought he was doubting that he could not wash him well, so he used the gentle tone he used to tell stories to children and encouraged Gu Huaiyan, "Don't worry, I will be very careful to help you wash it clean."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Huaiyan turned around and went upstairs like the wind.
Ruan Zhao couldn't even see his expression.
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