Chapter 70
After turning off the lights, Lan Shuqing lay down beside Jiang Bai, leaning on her shoulder.
This was Lan Shuqing's first time staying overnight in the hospital. The Lan family members were all in good health and exercised regularly. They rarely got sick and seldom went to the hospital. This was her first time because of Jiang Bai.
Jiang Bai lay on the bed, leaning his head slightly against Lan Shuqing, but he couldn't fall asleep.
The wound didn't hurt as much as it did in the morning, but she still felt it. What she felt more was that Lan Shuqing was still by her side, and she felt a little more secure in her heart.
"Blue Book Light."
Jiang Bai called her softly.
"Um?"
Jiang Bai said word by word: "Good night."
Lan Shu gently hugged Jiang Bai's arm, with the corners of his lips slightly curved, "Good night."
Two days passed peacefully like this, and it was almost working day, so Jiang Bai took sick leave. However, some matters had to be handed over online, and his start of work at the new company also had to be postponed.
On the first working day after New Year's Day, Jiang Bai contacted the HR department at his new company. HR's final response was that Jiang Bai could rejoin after the Spring Festival. This year's Spring Festival falls in late January or early February, and Jiang Bai was originally scheduled to go on holiday a week after joining the new company, so a week later wouldn't be a problem.
Jiang Bai breathed a sigh of relief when he received the reply from HR.
Lan Shuqing's school was about to close for the holidays, so she went back to Peking University to get the application materials for graduate school.
So, around four o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Bai was looking at the computer in the ward, and Lan Shuqing was sitting beside the bed, holding a few pieces of paper, not knowing what he was looking at.
This was the scene that Li Liyue and Lan Zhaoting saw when they walked in.
Hearing the voice, Lan Shuqing and Jiang Bai raised their heads at the same time. The former stood up and said, "Dad, Mom, you're here."
The latter sat on the bed and greeted politely, "Hello, uncle and aunt."
Li Liyue glanced at Jiang Bai, then looked at Lan Shuqing and said "hmm".
Two people walked in. Lan Zhaoting was holding a few apples and handed them to Lan Shuqing, "Let's take a look. These are freshly bought apples. They taste good."
Lan Shuqing took it and placed it at the foot of the bed. She collected the documents on the bed and placed them on the cabinet. She picked up the apple and the fruit plate and said to Li Liyue who was already sitting down, "I'll go wash it."
Li Liyue nodded, and Lan Zhaoting also walked over and sat down, putting Li Liyue's bag aside.
Jiang Bai received another message. She was typing on the keyboard, with her black hair clipped behind her head, revealing her pretty face and focused eyes.
Li Liyue looked up at her, took out her cell phone, and tapped a few times, sounding a little angry.
Lan Shuqing quickly washed the apples and sat back down beside the bed. There were two bright red apples on the fruit plate. She took out a fruit knife from the drawer and picked up another apple to peel it.
However, she moved the fruit knife and cut a little too deep.
Lan Shuqing paused slightly, and then a hand reached out from the side. She looked up, and Jiang Bai smiled at her and moved his fingers to signal her to give her the apple. Lan Shuqing handed her the apple and the fruit knife together.
Jiang Bai took it and started peeling the fruit from the place where Lan Shu had lightly cut it, and finally peeled off a complete piece of fruit skin.
She put the apples on the fruit bowl and cut them into small pieces like vegetables.
Lan Shuqing supported her chin with her hand and looked at her. The lucky beads on her snow-white wrist were very eye-catching. After Jiang Bai finished cutting, Lan Shuqing threw the fruit peel into the trash can, found a toothpick from the cabinet, stuck it into the apple, and handed it to Li Liyue and Lan Zhaoting.
"Dad, Mom, eat apples."
Lan Shuqing said this as he walked over.
Li Liyue didn't say anything.
Lan Zhaoting coughed and asked, "Where's Aunt Yao?"
Lan Shuqing walked back and said, "She went back to cook. She'll be here later." Then she remembered something and looked at the two of them. "Dad, Mom, I'll ask Aunt Yao to add two dishes. Can we eat together?"
Lan Zhaoting was about to nod when he remembered something and turned to look at Li Liyue. It was unclear what she was thinking. Ever since she saw Lan Shuqing and Jiang Bai's interaction, she had been staring at her phone. Seeing that she didn't say anything, Lan Zhaoting nodded and said, "Okay."
Jiang Bai had already peeled half of the second apple. Lan Shu sat down, took out his cell phone and called Aunt Yao, then supported his chin with his other hand and watched Jiang Bai peel the apple.
After the phone call, the apple was ready. I cut it into small pieces and used a toothpick as a fork, but this time it was for Lan Shuqing.
Jiang Bai pushed the plate to Lan Shuqing, who chuckled and took a piece to eat.
It is indeed sweet.
Lan Zhaoting watched the interaction between the two, coughed lightly, and then picked up a piece of apple and handed it to Li Liyue, "Wife, eat an apple."
Lan Shuqing heard the voice, turned around, and met Li Liyue's gaze. Li Liyue looked away, took the apple handed to her by Lan Zhaoting, ate it, then looked at her mobile phone without saying a word.
Seeing this, Jiang Bai pulled the computer back in front of him and sent a message to Lan Shuqing.
Pure white avatar: Lan Shuqing, do you want to take your uncle and aunt out for a walk?
Pure white avatar: Reply when eating?
The phone placed aside vibrated slightly. Lan Shuqing picked it up and unlocked it. When she saw the message alert, she looked up at Jiang Bai, and Jiang Bai smiled at her.
Lan Shu lightly opened the chat box, looked at the two sentences, thought for a while, and was about to reply when someone knocked on the ward door. Liang Xie pushed the door open and walked in, followed by Lao Zheng. Both of them looked unhappy.
Everyone in the ward looked up. Lan Zhaoting stood up first. "Old Zheng, why are you here?" He looked at Liang Xie. "Who is this?"
Lan Shuqing stood up and walked over. "Dad, this is Lawyer Liang Xie, whom Sister Yueyue introduced." He was a little confused about the two people appearing together. "Lawyer Liang, what's going on?"
Liang Xie pulled out a stack of documents from his handbag. "Miss Lan, this is what I'm doing. I went to the detention center today to negotiate with the police about the prosecution. The details have been finalized. Here are the documents."
Lan Shuqing took it.
"However," Liang Xie paused, "Miss Lan, Ye Ze still insists on seeing you."
Lan Shu frowned slightly, "Did he say why?"
Liang Xie was silent for a moment. "What he actually said was that he had prepared a surprise for you and Miss Jiang."
Old Zheng also said, "Boss Lan, the Ye family hasn't made any moves since Ye Ze was arrested. I thought they wouldn't come to Jing City, but yesterday a girl, probably Ye Ze's sister Ye Wu, went to visit him in the detention center. The two of them said something incomprehensible."
"We checked and found out that Ye Wu came from Hai City. After meeting Ye Ze, she went to the airport and flew back to City A."
Lao Zheng felt that something was wrong, so he went to the detention center again today. Then he met Liang Xie, and the two of them came together.
Lan Zhaoting pondered for a while and said, "I'll call City A and ask." Then he went out to make a phone call.
Logically speaking, the Ye family shouldn't be able to cause any trouble.
Surprise... Lan Shuqing suddenly thought of something. She turned around and looked at Jiang Bai. Jiang Bai blinked and looked back at her in confusion.
A dark light flashed across Lan Shuqing's eyes. She looked at Liang Xie and said, "Lawyer Liang, I agree to meet Ye Ze. Please help me arrange it. I'll go there tomorrow morning."
Liang Xie nodded, "Okay." He then said, "If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."
Lan Shu nodded lightly, "Thank you for your hard work."
Liang Xie smiled, "It's my duty." Then he left.
Li Liyue walked over to Lan Shuqing and looked at her with some doubt in her eyes, "Shuqing, Ye Ze doesn't have anything else in his hand, right?"
Lan Shuqing looked at her and said helplessly, "No."
Because of this, the only thing Lan Shuqing could think of was that he would take action against Jiang Bai, but Jiang Bai was in the hospital now, so the Ye family could only start from other places, such as past events or people.
In just a short while, Lan Zhaoting returned from his phone call. As soon as he entered the room, he said, "I asked, and nothing major happened in City A."
Hearing him say this, Lan Shuqing turned around and walked to the bedside, looking at Jiang Bai, wanting to say something but stopping himself.
Li Liyue stood at the back with her arms folded. She had also read the information Ye Ze had investigated before, as had Lan Zhaoting and Lan Qi. Now it seemed that her daughter had not told Jiang Bai about this matter.
Suddenly, Li Liyue felt like watching a good show.
Lan Shuqing looked at her with a strange look in his eyes. Jiang Bai felt uneasy for some reason. She asked, "Lan Shuqing, what's wrong?"
Lan Shuqing sat down on the bed, her left hand resting on the table. She looked at Jiang Bai and said slowly, "Jiang Bai, on New Year's Eve, the police found some information about you in Ye Ze's car..."
Jiang Bai's face turned pale. She looked at Lan Shuqing, her throat a little dry, and her voice was a little low. "All of them?"
Lan Shu nodded slightly.
Jiang Bai's face turned pale again, "So, have you seen it all?"
Lan Shu nodded slightly. She looked into Jiang Bai's eyes and said, "I've finished reading it." She took out her phone, flipped through the photos, and handed them to Jiang Bai. "Take a look too."
The past was not glorious, but it was also a part of Jiang Bai.
Jiang Bai took the phone hesitantly and started flipping through the pages.
Jiang Bai was born in a small mountain village near S City. Everyone had the surname Jiang, and every household was more or less related. Jiang Bai's father made money by selling mountain products and opened a small shop, so he was richer than other people in the village.
But Sun Mei and Jiang Tongguo are both very stingy and harsh people. Jiang Bai was not very popular when he was a child and had no friends to play with.
When Jiang Bai was about five years old and in the first grade, Sun Mei started to divorce Jiang Tongguo. They broke up and got back together many times, but were unsuccessful. Gradually, Jiang Bai became a child without anyone to take care of him.
It was not until Jiang Bai was seventeen years old, in his third year of high school, that the village was demolished and the total compensation was more than two million yuan.
More than two million is a huge sum of money.
At that time, Sun Mei was already in an affair with a man from the next village, and Jiang Tongguo also had a new lover who was pregnant. Jiang Tongguo was eager to divorce Sun Mei and did not even wait until Jiang Bai turned 18.
So the two reached an agreement on divorce, and the compensation was divided equally between them. They each gave Jiang Bai 100,000 as compensation.
In the same year, Jiang Bai took the college entrance examination, Sun Mei remarried, and Jiang Tongguo went to another place and there was no news of him.
The man Sun Mei remarried was also surnamed Jiang. He had a son who was about the same age as Jiang Bai. However, after growing up, this son became addicted to gambling. He was idle all day long, playing games and gambling everywhere, and owed a lot of debts.
Later, in order to pay off his debts, the man sold his house and bought a two-bedroom house in S City.
Until now, Sun Mei's stepson has not given up the bad habit of gambling and has a lot of bad friends outside.
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