Li Jia didn't appear directly but stood at a distance observing the group of people. These were the same thugs she had met in the alley outside the Emperor's Wine House that day, except the guy she had beaten up was missing. The thugs kept nodding and apologizing, eagerly taking the flyers from Li Xiaotong's hands, and then the three of them followed Li Xiaotong around, handing them out everywhere.
After a moment's thought, Li Jia decided to let the thugs go for the time being. Getting Li Xiaotong back to a normal school life wouldn't be something that could be done overnight. Li Jia needed some time to further penetrate her closed heart and slowly melt the coldness in her heart.
It was Saturday, and the streets were much more crowded than usual. Li Jia felt a sense of joy in this quiet moment, smiling as he handed out flyers to strangers, often receiving a smile in return. He hadn't felt this way in many years, and this small act had brought back that long-lost sense of tranquility. Looking at his remaining flyers, Li Jia decided to head back to check on the others and treat them to a nice lunch.
With that thought in mind, Li Jia sent the remaining photos to the pedestrians, then turned around and walked back towards his shop. As he walked down the street, feeling the crowds coming and going, Li Jia realized that he was growing to love this simple and peaceful life more and more.
This place is three blocks away from Li Jia's shop, and it's a street with a relatively concentrated residential area. Ahead is a crossroads, and the red light for going straight is already on. Several elderly people are slowly crossing the road from the pedestrian crossing. The elderly people look to be at least seventy or eighty years old, with silver hair and deep marks of time on their faces. One of them is pushing her husband, who is in a wheelchair. When they reach the middle of the road, the old lady pushing her husband suddenly stops, squats down, and fiddles with her husband's wheelchair.
Just as Li Jia was about to run a few steps forward to help see what was going on, the red light turned green. At this time, there was only one car in the straight lane, but it stopped when it saw that the old man was still on the road. The driver also got out of the car and prepared to help the old man push his wife across the road.
Suddenly, the roar of a motorcycle approached from the left side of the intersection. Soon after, accompanied by a girl's scream, a red Harley-Davidson motorcycle rushed out from the left side of the intersection. On the motorcycle was a girl wearing sunglasses and a helmet, who kept shouting. The motorcycle under her roared loudly in accompaniment to the girl's triumphant shouts.
But when she turned out of the intersection to continue, she saw an elderly person on the crosswalk. A car was parked in the next lane, and cars were constantly passing by in the other lane. The only passage was where the elderly person was. Suddenly, the girl's motorcycle accelerated and rushed towards the two elderly people. The driver who got off the motorcycle to help was so frightened that he jumped to the side. It looked like the motorcycle was about to hit the two elderly people!
The girl on the motorcycle is named Chen Yi. This Harley motorcycle was a birthday gift from her father. Chen Yi, who loves driving, immediately hopped on and went for a ride.
She had just received a call from her father telling her to come home immediately, so in her excitement she drove her Harley very fast. She didn't slow down much when she reached the intersection, and only then did she realize there were pedestrians on the road. In a panic, she accidentally accelerated, and instead of braking, she didn't know where to press the brake. The motorcycle, due to her sudden acceleration, hurtled towards the elderly people. Chen Yi, terrified, squeezed her eyes shut and screamed at the top of her lungs, "Get out of the way!"
The expected crash did not come to the sight of the people around with their eyes closed. When they opened their eyes, they saw a young man in a white casual suit with a somewhat refined appearance, holding the front fork of the motorcycle with one hand and the girl on the motorcycle in his arms with the other.
The two elderly people, having already repaired their wheelchairs, thanked Li Jia gratefully, crossed the road, waved to her, and slowly left the scene.
"Don't you know you should slow down at intersections?" Li Jia put down the girl who was still tightly hugging her and stared at the girl, who was still somewhat at a loss, with a serious expression.
"Old...old man...how is he?" The girl snapped out of her panic and frantically searched for the two old men she had just seen. Her anxiety was palpable. When she couldn't find them after searching for a long time, tears welled up in her eyes, and she sat down in the middle of the road, sobbing softly.
"Don't cry, you're alright. Let's go to the side first!" Li Jia said, pushing the motorcycle to the side of the road. Chen Yi followed Li Feng to the side of the road with a blank expression and stood in front of the motorcycle.
"What's your name?" Li Jia looked at the girl's behavior just now and her opinion of the girl improved a little. At least she knew how to care about others, which meant that the girl was not a bad person and that there was still a kind heart in her.
"Chen...Yi! Did...you save me just now?" Chen Yi had gradually recovered from her earlier confusion. "There was no blood on the ground and I was alright, which means someone saved me. Could it be that the person who saved me was...this pretty boy?"
"That's not important. Just remember not to drive so fast at intersections next time." Li Jia finished speaking and prepared to leave. She didn't want to have much interaction with this kind of rich girl. After taking a few steps, she turned back and looked at the motorcycle next to Chen Yi. "Oh, right, I forgot to tell you, Harleys aren't suitable for you. You should get another one!"
"Hmm... Huh? No! You still haven't answered me? Did you save me or not? Hey!" Chen Yi only remembered to ask when Li Jia had already walked quite a distance away, and the only answer she got was Li Jia's back without turning around.
"Damn it! How dare you not answer me? We'll meet again someday! Humph!" After confirming that the car accident she had imagined had not happened, Chen Yi quickly returned to her original state, took off her large sunglasses, and revealed a pair of bright black eyes filled with anger.
As Chen Yi turned to push her motorcycle home for lunch, she noticed that one of the steel pipes on her motorcycle's front fork was twisted and deformed. She reached out and squeezed it, and her eyes widened in surprise. The twisted shape was incredibly similar to the grip of a human hand!
Chen Yi became even more interested in Li Jia's identity. Little did Li Jia know that his rescue would bring him a little leech, and this leech was no ordinary troublemaker.
When Li Jia returned to the dry cleaner, Jiang Ling, Li Xiaoqing, Li Xiaotong, and Li Yan had already returned to the entrance of the dry cleaner, while Li Xiaoqing and Jiang Ling'er were surrounding Li Yan, doing something unknown.
"You're all back? You've all worked so hard! I'll treat you all to a good lunch!" After Li Jia finished speaking, she noticed that everyone's expressions were a little off, so she followed their gazes to Li Yan. When Li Jia saw the bruise on Li Yan's forehead, the smile on her face quickly disappeared!
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