Chapter 25: Harming Others and Yourself
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Kaiming finally sent a WeChat message. Qi Xing was dozing off with his head propped up, but when he saw the new message, he immediately perked up.
"Everything has been arranged. Just lead the people over."
Qi Xing sat up excitedly and twisted his neck. Ye Xingzhou, who was chatting with Old Chen and the others, turned his head and glanced at him. Qi Xing pretended not to know.
You will be shown what's happening in a moment.
After playing for most of the day, the elders were tired and planned to go back.
Old Chen went back to the small villa to rest. Qi Xing and Ye Xingzhou helped to send his old friends to the car. When they were the only ones left, Qi Xing raised his chin to Ye Xingzhou and said, "My uncle plans to stay here for dinner tonight. Do you want to stay and join us?"
Ye Xingzhou: "Have dinner here?"
His tone sounded doubtful, as Mr. Chen had not previously shown any intention of staying here for dinner.
"Ah, it's a last-minute decision. There's no food here, so I plan to go to the village behind the mountain to buy some. I'd like to borrow your car and you can take me there."
Qi Xing didn't even blink when he lied. His uncle certainly didn't plan to stay here for dinner. He would go back after a short rest. He had just told the other party privately that he would leave first with Ye Xingzhou.
Mr. Chen also asked him why he made an appointment to leave together if he had a bad relationship with Ye Xingzhou. Qi Xing made up a lie and said they wanted to talk about work. What he had to do now was to trick the bastard in front of him away.
Ye Xingzhou looked at him and did not express his opinion immediately.
Qi Xing deliberately provoked him: "What? Are you not happy? If you are not happy, forget it. You want to flatter my grandfather but don't show any sincerity. It's a waste of my grandfather's efforts to introduce you to someone."
Ye Xingzhou: "There are no vegetables on the farm here? There are no vegetables and no workers? Do you need to buy vegetables yourself? Can you tell what is edible and what is not edible?"
Qi Xing: "Are you bothered or not? Are you going or not?"
"Let's go." Ye Xingzhou said nothing more and turned to get the car.
Qi Xing snorted coldly and followed.
The nearest village can only be reached by going around the mountain behind the farm. It took more than 20 minutes to drive there. Qi Xing leaned back in his seat and played with his mobile phone all the way, completely ignoring the people around him.
Ye Xingzhou was driving, looking at him from time to time, tapping the steering wheel with his fingers, as if thinking about something.
"Have you been here before?" Ye Xingzhou suddenly asked.
Qi Xing's attention was still on his phone, so he answered casually, "I've been here. Every time my uncle comes here, he asks people to come to the village to buy vegetables. I followed him here once."
What he said was not a lie. Whether you believe it or not is up to Ye Xingzhou. Anyway, the person has been tricked out, and it’s enough as long as he achieves his goal.
After driving for more than ten minutes, the mountain road became narrower and narrower, until there was only one lane for one car. On one side of the road were deep mountains and dense forests, and on the other side were large tracts of farmland. Houses could be vaguely seen on the other side of the farmland.
When they reached a fork in the road ahead, Qi Xing sat up and said, "Stop the car."
Ye Xingzhou glanced around: "Here?"
"That's it. You can't drive into the village with this car. You wait here. I'll walk through the fields."
Qi Xing couldn't hide his pride in his expression: "Wait, I'll be back soon."
He pushed open the car door and got out, but Ye Xingzhou followed him: "I'll go with you."
"No, just stay here."
Qi Xing had just finished speaking when a pickup truck stopped behind their car. Six or seven people got out of the truck. They were all burly thugs, holding bricks and sticks in their hands.
Qi Xing probably didn't expect these people to come so quickly, and frowned. He originally wanted to leave first to avoid Ye Xingzhou's suspicion of him later.
But forget it, it would be nice to stay and watch Ye Xingzhou get put in a sack and beaten with a stick.
Ye Xingzhou glanced coldly at these people with ill intentions. They had already surrounded their car from front to back. The leader asked in a rough voice, "Are you Ye Xingzhou?"
Ye Xingzhou said calmly: "What's the matter?"
The thugs looked at each other, winked at each other, and rushed up together.
Ye Xingzhou's face darkened.
The leader rushed to him, and Ye Xingzhou raised his foot and kicked him directly in the chest, quickly and fiercely. He snatched the brick that the other party had dropped, and then immediately turned around to block the stick coming from behind. The brick broke into two pieces above his head, and the brick in his hand hit the forehead of the gangster closest to him directly.
Four or five people attacked him together. Even with so many people beating up Ye Xingzhou alone, he did not lose.
Qi Xing was frightened and subconsciously took a step back. Ye Xingzhou was so fierce in the fight, he suddenly felt that he could have punched this man a few more times before, maybe Ye Xingzhou was deliberately letting him win.
Qi Xing was just wondering whether he should take the opportunity to run away when someone finally noticed him, turned around and hit him with a stick.
Qi Xing kicked him and cursed, "Are you sick? Ye Xingzhou is over there!"
The other party turned a deaf ear to him and kept catching him, swinging the stick at him again and again. Qi Xing responded awkwardly: "Where the hell are you from? Look clearly at who I am. Is this how you get paid to do things for others?!"
The current situation was completely beyond his expectations. It was completely different from what had been agreed!
Qi Xing was so angry and anxious that he didn't notice the brick coming at the back of his head from behind. Ye Xingzhou kicked away a thug who was blocking him, snatched the stick from the other's hand and swung it out to block it for him.
Qi Xing heard the sound and turned around. The brick was smashed into pieces by the wooden stick in front of him. He opened his eyes wide in shock and forgot to react for a moment.
The gang of thugs probably didn't expect them to be so difficult to deal with, and they got angry. The leader suddenly pulled out a machete from his arms and slashed at Qi Xing, who seemed easier to deal with. However, Ye Xingzhou kicked him in the middle and kicked him away again.
Qi Xing took another step back in shock, and the hand that reached out grabbed one of his arms.
Ye Xingzhou threw out the word "run" in a deep voice, and with a wooden stick in his hand, he waved away the next person who rushed over, dragging him and trying his best to break out of the encirclement.
Qi Xing was pulled by Ye Xingzhou and stumbled for a few steps. He looked up and saw Ye Xingzhou's sharp and tense profile. He finally came back to his senses, gasping for breath and quickened his pace with him, diving into the forest.
There were only muddy and slippery paths in this wild forest. The two of them rushed in like headless flies. In order to avoid being chased, they were forced to go to a place on the mountain with lush vegetation and better hiding place.
Qi Xing's heart was pounding, he didn't know how things turned out like this, didn't he come here to see Ye Xingzhou in trouble? Why did he become the one who was dragged into this? Yang Kaiming, that pig!
While Qi Xing was daydreaming, his foot slipped and he fell to the side unexpectedly.
He stepped on empty air and there was a very steep slope next to him. The moment he slid down, Ye Xingzhou stretched out his hand to grab him and pulled him up with force. Inertia threw Qi Xing back to the top of the slope, but Ye Xingzhou himself fell down and rolled down the sharp and steep slope covered with gravel and shrubs.
Qi Xing panicked and yelled, "Hey!"
The footsteps of the group of people behind him were not far away and would soon catch up. Ye Xingzhou had already rolled down the hillside and disappeared.
Qi Xing's heart was beating in his throat and he looked around quickly. The most important thing he should do now was to continue running upwards, find a secluded place to hide, and wait for those people to give up and leave.
He gritted his teeth, cursed, and without hesitation, squatted down, turned his back, held onto the protruding rocks, and slowly slid down the muddy mountain path.
A few minutes later, Qi Xing reached the bottom, panting, and looked up. He could see nothing but dense grass and shrubs and the blue sky above his head.
He breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and scanned the surroundings, and soon found Ye Xingzhou lying in a mess behind a shorter bush.
Looking down at his bleeding palms, Qi Xing hissed, secretly complaining about his bad luck, and reluctantly moved towards the man.
Ye Xingzhou was half lying with his back against the rocks. His high-end suit was in tatters, and there was blood on his face and arms. He had his eyes closed and it was unclear whether he had fainted.
"Hey, are you dead?" Qi Xing kicked him. Fearing that this man would really get hurt, he subconsciously retracted his strength when his toes touched Ye Xingzhou.
After waiting for a while and seeing no response from him, Qi Xing felt a little uneasy. He squatted down and hesitantly bent over to get closer, wanting to see Ye Xingzhou's face: "You..."
Ye Xingzhou's closed eyes suddenly opened, and his dark pupils looked straight at him.
Qi Xing was startled and stepped back in a panic. Ye Xingzhou raised his hand and grabbed his arm. He then heard him say in a hoarse voice: "Don't move."
"You're not fucking dead, why are you pretending to be dead? Do you think it's fun to scare people on purpose?" Qi Xing was a little annoyed.
Ye Xingzhou said unhappily: "Stop using those dirty words."
Qi Xing sneered: "You still have the mood to care about these things now? Don't you see what situation we are in now?"
After he said that, he didn't bother to deal with the man anymore. He pulled his hand back and took out his cell phone to call for help, but unfortunately, his cell phone was out of battery.
Qi Xing was so angry that he almost wanted to smash his phone again. He turned around and asked Ye Xingzhou: "Where is your phone?"
Ye Xingzhou touched his trouser pocket and frowned: "It's gone. I guess it fell off when I just rolled down."
Qi Xing was furious: "Nothing good will happen to me if I meet a calamity star like you."
Ye Xingzhou seemed to have recovered a little. Although embarrassed, his eyes were sharp as he stared at Qi Xing. It was unknown where his glasses had fallen to. Without the lenses blocking the view, his eyes seemed to be able to see through people's hearts at a glance.
Qi Xing felt uncomfortable being stared at by him and was about to curse, but Ye Xingzhou said first: "What does it mean to do things for others for money?"
Qi Xing choked instantly.
If you want to fight, just fight. Why are your ears so pointy?
Ye Xingzhou noticed his reaction and asked, "Did you find those people?"
Qi Xing played dumb: "How is that possible? Am I crazy? Asking someone to chop me with a machete?"
He would go back and settle this matter with Yang Kaiming, but there was no way he would admit it in front of Ye Xingzhou.
Ye Xingzhou's eyes showed mockery: "You will suffer the consequences if you commit evil."
Without waiting for Qi Xing to get angry, he continued to ask: "If that's the case, I fell off the mountain and was half dead, shouldn't you applaud and cheer? What are you doing following me down here?"
Qi Xing: “…”
Yeah, so what was he doing following along?
He clearly wished that Ye Xingzhou would be paralyzed, dead or injured, but when he saw this bastard rolling down the mountain, he followed him without even hesitation.
Qi Xing thought, that was of course because he was a man with conscience. After all, Ye Xingzhou rolled down to pull him up.
Although he wanted to kill this beast, let's be honest. It's not his style to repay kindness with evil or to watch someone in need without helping.
"You are a beast and I am not."
Qi Xing cursed. Even so, he was really angry and humiliated by Ye Xingzhou's revelation that his revenge failed and ended up hurting himself. Seeing that Ye Xingzhou was not going to die, he stood up and kicked him again: "Get up."
Ye Xingzhou said in a calm voice: "I can't get up. My left foot is sprained and I can't walk."
Qi Xing looked over and saw that his left ankle was indeed swollen like a steamed bun. He couldn't help but frowned: "...Then you just stay here. I'm leaving first. I'll find someone to save you after I get out of this damn place."
Then he turned around and left without waiting for Ye Xingzhou to object.
After walking a distance, I looked up and saw that the sun was already setting, and it was probably going to be dark soon.
Qi Xing stopped and hesitated.
We have to wait for him to leave here and find someone to come back. Who knows how long it will take. Isn't it immoral to leave Ye Xingzhou, a wounded man, alone here? What if some wild beast comes here at night? No matter what hatred or grudges there were between them, after all, it was because of him that Ye Xingzhou fell down.
When he thought about how this beast had forced himself on him before, he became angry again. This kind of person should be thrown here to fend for himself!
After turning around twice, Qi Xing rolled his eyes and turned back.
Ye Xingzhou, like before, closed his eyes and leaned against the rocks. He opened his eyes again when he heard footsteps.
Feeling the coldness in his eyes, Qi Xing became even more unhappy, secretly cursing himself for meddling in other people's business. He walked back to Ye Xingzhou and squatted down again: "Forget it, forget it. I'll be a good person to the end and carry you on my back."
Ye Xingzhou looked at him solemnly, with a complexity hidden in his eyes that Qi Xing could not understand and was too lazy to understand.
"Do you want me to carry you?" he urged impatiently.
Ye Xingzhou: "Didn't he leave?"
Qi Xing said angrily, "What if I really leave and you die here? Come up quickly."
After a moment's silence, Ye Xingzhou suddenly raised his hand and grabbed his arm again.
Without waiting for Qi Xing to struggle, Ye Xingzhou's voice became even hoarseer than before: "Now that you're back, don't even think about leaving again."
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