Chapter 19
Fu Yucheng was taken to the hospital. At first, everyone thought he was unconscious, but after the doctor examined him, he said he was asleep.
He slept for a full twelve hours, as if he had never had a full night's sleep. During this time, Jiang's lawyer had already filed a lawsuit against Fu Qi with a power of attorney signed by Fu Yucheng's mother.
After giving their statements, Jiang Huaiyu and Lu Mingxiao went to the hospital to visit Fu Qi. Li Qing, their guardian, also learned the truth at this moment, and she was somewhat resentful of the two children for acting on their own initiative.
"You two are really resourceful, quietly accomplishing great things. That scumbag is an adult with violent tendencies. What if he pushes you too far and hurts you?"
Lu Mingxiao shrugged dismissively: "Mom, that scumbag can't even beat you. He only dares to act so recklessly because he's Fu Yucheng's father and Fu Yucheng doesn't dare to defy him. Who would respect a piece of trash like him outside the home? That's why you're desperately trying to find a sense of accomplishment through your child."
Li Qing sighed, "There are still fathers like this in the world."
She never laid a hand on Lu Mingxiao easily. She would only grab him and hit him a couple of times when she was so angry that she couldn't bear it anymore. Lu Mingxiao had been naughty since he was a child, and he never cried when he was hit after starting elementary school. On the contrary, Li Qing would secretly wipe away tears at night, feeling both angry and heartbroken.
She loved her child so much that she naturally couldn't understand what Fu Qi was thinking.
In the ward, Fu Yucheng was already awake and eating the food the caregiver had brought him. When he saw Jiang Huaiyu and Lu Mingxiao, his eyes lit up. After seeing Li Qing, he greeted her reservedly, "Hello, Auntie."
Although he was still thin and pale, with a bruised and swollen face, the gloom that had enveloped him had dissipated, like a tender green new branch tremblingly sprouting from a withered tree.
Li Qing glanced at his food and felt sorry for him again: "Why are you eating at the hospital cafeteria? This meal will have to wait. Auntie will bring you some fish soup tonight."
Fu Yucheng waved his hands hastily, "No, no, Auntie, I can't accept this..."
“There’s nothing to be embarrassed about, we’ll eat the wild boar at home anyway…” Feeling that her words were a bit inappropriate, Li Qing looked at Jiang Huaiyu and added, “I didn’t mean you were a fan of Xiao Bao.”
Lu Mingxiao chuckled: "Mom, you should have called me Lu Mingzhu back then."
"What a coincidence..." Li Qing laughed, "When I was pregnant, I didn't suffer at all. The baby in my belly was so well-behaved. Your dad and I said back then that it was probably going to be a sweet and gentle little girl. If it was a girl, we would name her Lu Mingzhu, like a precious pearl in our palm..."
Jiang Huaiyu was slightly taken aback.
He glanced subconsciously at Li Qing's waist, which wasn't slender but had a strong presence, and a strange feeling welled up inside him. For the first time, he clearly felt that he and Li Qing were connected by blood. Before he could be considered an independent individual, he had nestled in her warm body, carrying their expectations.
Lu Mingxiao deliberately leaned close to his ear and blew lightly, "Yo~ Little Mingzhu."
Jiang Huaiyu rubbed her ears and glared at him.
They gave him random names again.
...
The Jiang family's lawyers are among the best in the country, and with the injury assessment and video evidence, the evidence is irrefutable. Fu Qi lost the first instance, but he quickly appealed and frantically searched for Fu Yucheng's whereabouts. Jiang Huaiyu and Lu Mingxiao often saw his car at the school gate, and even through the privacy film, they could feel his irritable and gloomy gaze.
"That bastard." Lu Mingxiao retorted with the same gloomy gaze: "Can't we think of a way to get him in there, so he doesn't keep buzzing around us like a fly?"
Jiang Huaiyu simply said in a nonchalant tone, "He's in finance."
Lu Mingxiao raised an eyebrow: "Oh~~ I heard that all the good accountants are in there, is that true?"
Jiang Huaiyu laughed out loud: "...Don't talk nonsense."
Fu Yu originally wanted to take a leave of absence, but he was afraid that the principal would not approve it, so he took a long leave and is now staying in a hotel in a neighboring city. Fu Qi had boasted to him about how well-connected he was. For the first few days, he was a little apprehensive, but a week has passed and he has not even received a call from Fu Qi.
He would occasionally message Jiang Huaiyu to ask about the progress of his school courses, but this week, he didn't even open his textbooks or workbooks. He didn't play games, so he simply watched TV, ate when he was hungry, and slept when he was sleepy.
He felt an unprecedented sense of security, and this sense of security came from someone his own age.
Fu Yucheng was absent from the second monthly exam, and Jiang Huaiyu still ranked first. On the day the results were released, the second trial of Fu Qi's domestic violence case began.
In court, Fu Qi finally met Fu Yucheng. He broke down in tears, recounting how difficult it had been for him to be a single father all these years. He said he loved Fu Yucheng more than anyone else and hoped that Fu Yucheng would become an outstanding person.
However, Fu Yucheng remained unmoved. Faced with the man's tearful performance, he seemed to be in a daze. Fu Qi also gradually couldn't continue acting. He pointed at Fu Yucheng and cursed him, saying that he had given Fu Yucheng his life and that if Fu Yucheng disobeyed, he would take it back one day.
The verdict was no surprise: Fu Qi was stripped of his guardianship. He waited for Fu Yucheng to come out of the courthouse, his eyes blazing with ferocity. However, what he saw first was a police car.
Fu Qi was detained for investigation after someone reported him for issuing false invoices to embezzle company funds and accepting kickbacks from suppliers.
...
The matter was resolved perfectly, and the summer in the small town came to an end with its conclusion, as early autumn quietly arrived.
Lu Mingxiao greeted autumn with a cold, because he was really ignorant of his own limitations and even took a shower in the yard with a water pipe, resulting in a fever that night.
Jiang Huaiyu was half asleep when she heard a whimpering sound. She thought it was Hu Zi lying under the window. It took her a while to open her eyes and then she leaned on the table to pull back the curtains through the hole in the wall.
"Lu Mingxiao, what's wrong?"
Lu Mingxiao lay on the bed, her cheeks flushed an unnatural red, her eyes wet as she looked at him: "What's wrong with me?"
Jiang Huaiyu: "What are you humming about?"
Lu Mingxiao: "Huh? Did I hum?"
Jiang Huaiyu: ...
Okay, maybe he's gone crazy from the fever.
Li Qing had taken on a small project and went to the next city. Lu Chuan already had a lung disease, and Jiang Huaiyu was even more afraid to let him catch a cold. He coaxed Lu Chuan, who wanted to help, back to the bedroom, then went to the living room to get the first-aid kit. When he came back, he took Lu Mingxiao's temperature. When he looked at the thermometer, it was 39.5 degrees Celsius. If no measures were taken, he would really be brain-damaged.
I gave Lu Mingxiao some fever-reducing medicine and then put on a fever-reducing patch.
This usually flamboyant and unrestrained boy was incredibly obedient throughout the process, only staring at Jiang Huaiyu, his light brown pupils shimmering under the warm yellow light of the desk lamp.
"Jiang Xiaoyu," he said in a hoarse voice, muttering with dissatisfaction and indistinctness, "Why would Fu Yucheng send you a WeChat message? Hasn't his problem been resolved?"
“He may have psychological trauma, so he sees me as a safe person to confide in, and subconsciously he’s a little dependent on me,” Jiang Huaiyu explained earnestly.
"Dependence?!" Lu Mingxiao sat bolt upright in shock, as if on the verge of death. "What was he thinking? You're about the same age, why would he depend on you? Is it some kind of infantile paranoia? Does he see you as his father?"
Jiang Huaiyu speechlessly pushed the person back down: "...Are you out of your mind?"
"Am I out of my mind?" Lu Mingxiao chuckled, feeling a bit dizzy, and said very modestly, "I'm... I'm alright, you flatter me..."
Jiang Huaiyu was both amused and exasperated: "Can you please just shut up?"
"No way!" Lu Mingxiao grabbed his wrist, looking quite aggrieved: "He texts you all day long, and you're not annoyed by him, but I only said two words to you, and you're annoyed by me!"
There's no reasoning with a fool like that, so Jiang Huaiyu could only pat his head, his hair sticking out of his palm.
"I won't bother you."
Lu Mingxiao stared blankly at him, watching his hearty laugh. After a moment, he muttered softly, "Not bothering me... then... then..."
Do you like me?
Jiang Huaiyu was stunned.
The palm holding his wrist was as hot as a small sun, making him feel restless. He had realized the boy's chaotic thoughts earlier than Lu Mingxiao, but he never expected to be so bluntly exposed.
He barely knew what to do. In his panic, he looked down and saw that the culprit's eyes were glazed over, unfocused, and its eyelids were drooping. Finally, it couldn't hold on any longer and closed its eyes, falling asleep immediately.
Jiang Huaiyu breathed a sigh of relief, went to the living room, poured a glass of cold water, and drank most of it in one gulp.
He has always been good at dealing with other people's admiration, and knowing how to say no firmly yet with composure is a lesson he has had to learn since entering adolescence.
For example, Fu Yucheng...
Those hazy feelings of security led this tormented teenager to mistake them for feelings. Jiang Huaiyu noticed this and recently reduced the number of times he chatted with Fu Yucheng. Fu Yucheng also understood that he was intentionally keeping his distance and hadn't sent any messages in the past two days.
But when facing Lu Mingxiao, all that ease suddenly crumbled.
This is his "older brother." Even though they are not related by blood, they are brothers in the eyes of their two sets of parents.
He hoped that Lu Mingxiao wouldn't remember these delirious words uttered while feverish by tomorrow morning, and would never "get it."
...
"Who do you want to send the letter to?"
Lu Mingxiao held a light blue envelope in his hand. Fu Yucheng had given it to him. Fu Yucheng was standing in front of him, looking somewhat awkward. Lu Mingxiao's eyelids twitched. His intuition told him that the letter probably didn't just ask for the answers to last night's physics homework.
Okay, the answers to the physics homework were also difficult.
"It's for Jiang Huaiyu..." Fu Yucheng said softly, "Fu Qi can't stay locked up in there forever. I've thought it over and I'm planning to transfer schools and live in the city where my mother lives. There are some things I'd regret not saying."
Lu Mingxiao felt a chill run down his spine: "So you're planning to... confess to my brother? You're both guys! Are you crazy?!"
"Don't shout so loudly..." Fu Yucheng blushed and almost covered Lu Mingxiao's mouth, but due to Lu Mingxiao's imposing physique, he didn't dare to reach out. He just muttered softly, "What's wrong with two men? If you're so ignorant, you should read more books."
"No, is this something you can learn from reading?" Lu Mingxiao tossed the letter back into Fu Yucheng's arms. "I can't help you with this."
Fu Yucheng, still wearing his thick-rimmed glasses, asked blankly, "Why?"
Why?
Because I treated you like a brother, but you were thinking of stealing my brother's girlfriend!
etc……
Why would he have such a thought?!
The point isn't about "poaching" talent, but rather what he feels...
That was his corner.
Like a wolfhound's untouchable territory, when it is scrutinized by covetous eyes, it instinctively bristles.
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The Mission of Two Little Dogs
(one)
Shao Yudi has a secret: he can hear the thoughts of dogs.
He adopted a retired military dog named Jinwu. Jinwu usually considers itself the "leader of the pack," and this brave dog's biggest dream is to expand the pack.
For this reason, Jinwu would drag Shao Yudi out for a walk every day and persistently scrutinize every passerby. Whenever this happened, Shao Yudi could hear Jinwu's inner thoughts.
“Man, I will find you the strongest mate, and you will have a litter of puppies, growing your family strong.”
Shao Yudi: ...
First of all, humans can't give birth to puppies.
Secondly, his sexual orientation is unconventional, so he is unlikely to have children with children who are not good people.
Golden Crow: "Woof~ Target spotted!"
(two)
When Shao Yudi first met her neighbor Bo Hewen, he was a typical domineering CEO: 1.9 meters tall, handsome, dressed in a suit, with broad shoulders and long legs, perfectly fitting Jinwu's standard of "strongest".
The Golden Crow was shouting "Mating!", and Shao Yudi silently pinched the Golden Crow's beak.
When Shao Yudi saw her neighbor Bo Hewen for the second time, the community manager placed a large package at Bo Hewen's door. Bo Hewen was signing for it when a long, grayish-white tube suddenly emerged from the vent of the package, accompanied by a loud wolf howl.
The dog inside the box: "Woof~ woof~ That's it? We could take ten more! The Icefield Wolf King has arrived! Tremble, you fools!"
The Golden Crow was shouting "Mating!", and Shao Yudi silently pinched the Golden Crow's beak.
When Shao Yudi saw her neighbor Bo Hewen for the third time, he was wearing tattered slippers and a torn nightgown, with one arm in a sling, being dragged out of the house by the "Icefield Wolf King".
The wolf king sped past: "Awooo—he slipped on soybean oil! I'm only one fire away from killing my master!"
The Golden Crow was shouting "Mating!", and Shao Yudi silently pinched the Golden Crow's beak.
Later, the destitute General Bo came to their door begging for shelter. Shao Yudi wanted to seek the leader's opinion, but then she looked back—
The golden crow is riding on the wolf king's back, trying to give birth to puppies.
"To strengthen the tribe, it still depends on the leader himself."
Shao Yudi: ...
Boss, is it possible that within our tribe...
They're all male!
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