Xu Neng chuckled wryly, "I won't say, I won't say. Anyway, I hope you settle down and start a family soon so your mother and I can see the next generation and hold our grandchildren..."
"Alright, alright, you should go back and keep my mother company. Tell her everything is alright, don't let her be scared. Tell her that once she's fully recovered and discharged from the hospital, I'll bring a wife home to see her," Xu Zhengyang said with a smile.
"Okay, I'm leaving, I'm leaving now." Xu Neng seemed to want to persuade his son a little more, but thinking of his wife's unease over there, he had no choice but to hurry back. He relayed what his son had just said to his wife, to reassure her and not to be afraid. Um? Is it a dowry thread lump? A fleshy bump? Never mind, just say it's not serious.
After completing the hospital admission procedures, Xu Zhengyang rushed back home, only to find his parents not outside the doctor's office. He quickly asked the doctor, who explained that a nurse had already taken them to a ward on the third floor. Relieved, Xu Zhengyang hurried to the third floor and found his parents' room.
In the ordinary ward, there were three beds on one side, and a woman in her fifties was already living in the room.
Yuan Suqin lay on the innermost bed, already receiving an IV drip. Xu Neng sat beside her, at a loss, his expression tense, unsure of what to do.
Seeing Xu Zhengyang enter, Xu Neng stood up and said, "Zhengyang, is everything done?"
"Hmm, it's alright." Xu Zhengyang smiled and walked over to sit on the edge of the bed. He laughed and said, "Mom, you really need to work on your temper. The doctor said you're too worried. You have a bad temper and get angry easily. Your anger caused a lump to appear on your neck. Now you're suffering."
This was, of course, a lie, but it was meant to comfort her mother and tell her not to worry.
Hearing Xu Zhengyang's words, Yuan Suqin finally felt relieved and scolded him with a smile, "How can you not worry? You're always out and about and never come home. I have to take care of this house every day..."
Xu Neng and his son Xu Zhengyang both nodded happily in agreement.
As they were talking, the ward door opened, and two nurses and a doctor pushed a patient in.
Following behind them were Dong Yuebu and a woman who looked to be about the same age as her. The patient brought in was a fair-skinned girl with delicate features, who seemed to be asleep with her eyes closed.
"Come on, help me lift him onto the hospital bed," a nurse called out.
Xu Zhengyang and Dong Yuebu didn't even have time to say hello before stepping forward to help. Together, they carefully lifted the girl onto the hospital bed and put her down.
The girl was receiving an IV drip in her right arm, and after the nurse started administering it to her left arm, the doctor gave Dong Yuebu and the woman a few instructions, and then the doctor and nurse left.
"What's wrong?" Xu Zhengyang walked over to Dong Yuebu and asked softly.
"No, it's nothing, I just accidentally hurt my leg," Dong Yuebu said in a low voice, turning his head away.
Xu Zhengyang saw that his eyes were red.
"Are you having any difficulties?" Xu Zhengyang asked.
Dong Yuebu shook his head, wiped his eyes, turned around and said with a wry smile, "No, what difficulties could there be? As a parent, I just love my child. I hope you can forgive me."
Xu Zhengyang smiled and nodded: "It's good that everyone is alright."
"Um."
Volume 3, Chapter 125: The Judge is very angry, and the consequences are severe.
This is Yuan Suqin's second day in the hospital. The diagnosis is a benign thyroid tumor; she can have surgery to remove it tomorrow.
This was good news that made everyone happy. Xu Zhengyang happily told his parents about the diagnosis, and then bought a lot of nutritional supplements to put in the ward. He told his mother not to worry about anything and just focus on getting better.
Yuan Suqin said, "Go learn to drive, don't stay here watching me. I haven't had the surgery yet, and I'm perfectly fine now. I don't need any help."
Xu Neng nodded and said, "I'll stay here, you go about your business."
Xu Zhengyang had intended to stay at the hospital with his parents, but his mother then kicked him out with a single sentence: "Hurry up and learn to drive, get your license, then buy a car and take your dad and me on a trip..."
Xu Zhengyang nodded vigorously and walked out of the ward with Chen Chaojiang.
After the new store opened, my mother said with great anticipation: "Next spring, our family will go on a trip. I've heard that rich people like to travel, haven't they? I've lived most of my life, and the farthest I've ever been is Fuhe City. I always hear people say that this place is good and that place is good. I can't not go out and see the sights."
These words resonated with Xu Zhengyang. Back when he went to Beijing, Xu Zhengyang had considered taking his parents on a trip. However, he'd been busy with this and that, or holed up at home engrossed in what others considered absurd religious practices, thus neglecting this idea. Now, thinking about it again, he felt quite guilty. Yes, learning to drive and taking the whole family on a road trip would be so convenient!
As for the family affairs of driving instructor Dong Yuebu, Xu Zhengyang didn't pay much attention, but only offered a few words of comfort.
Xu Zhengyang wasn't so bored as to use his supernatural abilities to dig into the details of what happened to an unrelated person. Nor would he be so kind as to offer large sums of money as sponsorship without the other party even asking. Ultimately, his relationship with Dong Yuebu wasn't that close.
So Xu Zhengyang didn't think anything of it, assuming that Dong Yuebu's daughter, Dong Wenqi, had only accidentally injured her leg.
After leaving the hospital, he and Chen Chaojiang rode their motorcycle directly to Shuntong Driving School to practice driving. They were determined to work hard and improve their skills so that next spring, when the weather warms up, they could take their parents on a road trip...
Around 11 a.m., while practicing reversing in his Volkswagen Santana, Xu Zhengyang's phone rang. He parked the car, took out his phone, and saw it was an unfamiliar number. Without thinking much of it, he answered, "Hello, who is it?"
"Zhengyang, get to the hospital right now! Hurry up!" Yuan Suqin's voice was urgent, with a hint of tears and anger.
Xu Zhengyang's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly asked, "Mother, what's wrong?"
"Don't ask so many questions, just come over here!" Yuan Suqin seemed genuinely agitated.
"Okay, okay, wait for me, I'll be right there!" Xu Zhengyang hung up the phone, hurriedly opened the car door and got out, waving at the black Volkswagen Santana speeding away in the distance.
Soon, Chen Chaojiang sped over like the wind, and with a screeching sound of brakes, the black Volkswagen Santana came to a stop in front of him.
So the driving instructor shrugged again, but didn't say anything. Who told him to be rich? He was willing to pay more for gas and get the car repaired. He wasn't there to learn to drive; he was there to practice racing.
"Chaojiang, to the hospital! My mother called and told me to come over right away!" Xu Zhengyang said as he hurried towards the lounge.
Chen Chaojiang followed quickly with a cold face.
A short while later, the two men, wearing leather gloves, helmets, and leather jackets, roared and sped away from the driving school on a Yamaha 250 motorcycle.
When Xu Zhengyang rushed to the hospital ward, he was stunned. A surge of anger welled up inside him: Who dares to bully my mother? I'll tear them to pieces!
I saw my mother, Yuan Suqin, sitting by the bed, wiping away tears and sobbing.
Looking again, Yuan Suqin was holding Yu Shuhua's hand with her right hand, and gently patting her with her left hand while saying words of comfort. Yu Shuhua was also sobbing incessantly, her eyes red and her face streaked with tears. On the middle bed, Dong Wenqi, who had injured his leg, stared blankly at the ceiling, tears streaming down his face, but he did not cry out.
Xu Neng stood by the window, sighing; Dong Yuebu squatted against the wall, his head drooping so his expression was unclear, only his short hair was a bit messy.
Stepping forward, Xu Zhengyang asked anxiously, "Mother, what happened?"
Yuan Suqin seemed to have just noticed her son come in. She looked up abruptly, her eyes red and teary, and then angrily shoved Xu Zhengyang, saying, "You've lost your conscience just because you have money? You don't care about people's lives anymore just because you have money? You've been learning to drive from others for so long, and you haven't left yourself with a single bit of humanity?"
"Mom, what, what's wrong?" Xu Zhengyang was completely confused, not knowing what he had done to upset his mother.
Although I know in my heart that my mother has a short temper and doesn't care about anything when she gets angry, I haven't made her angry lately. It seems that there's nothing but happy things at home.
"Sister-in-law, don't be angry with the child. This has nothing to do with him." Yu Shuhua quickly reached out to stop him, her voice trembling with sobs.
Xu Neng said in a muffled voice by the window, "You should have a good talk with Zheng Yang. He just started by giving him a lecture and doesn't even know what happened."
"Shut up!" Yuan Suqin glared at him, then felt a little guilty. She really was like that; when she got angry, she didn't think about anything, and she had wronged her son. After catching her breath a few times, she said to Xu Zhengyang, "Zhengyang, is this Master Dong your driving instructor?"
"Ah, right." Xu Zhengyang nodded.
"Such a big thing happened to their family, and you didn't even ask about it?" Yuan Suqin complained.
Xu Zhengyang scratched his head and asked with a forced smile, "What happened?"
"Laugh, laugh, you're still laughing? I'll beat you to death! I'll teach you to laugh!" Yuan Suqin raised her hand to hit her son, but Yu Shuhua stopped her. Yu Shuhua choked back tears as she pleaded, "It's our Wenqi who's unlucky to be bullied... Sister-in-law, please don't take your anger out on the child."
Xu Zhengyang's face darkened. He knew that although his mother was quick-tempered, she was a kind-hearted person who hated evil. Judging from Yu Shuhua's words, it seemed that her daughter Dong Wenqi's leg injury... was a bit strange. Xu Zhengyang narrowed his eyes slightly, turned his head to look at Dong Yuebu, who was squatting by the wall, and asked softly, "Master Dong, what happened? Tell me."
"Sigh, it's nothing, it's nothing, I accept it..." Dong Yuebu sighed and shook his head.
Xu Zhengyang glanced at Yu Shuhua and Dong Wenqi, who was lying on the hospital bed with a somewhat blank look in her eyes. Before he could ask anything, his mother said from the side, "Zhengyang, come here."
“Mother,” Xu Zhengyang responded, bending down to greet her.
“Zhengyang, go back and find the Earth God. This time, you have to help him no matter what. Is there no justice in this world?” Yuan Suqin said in a somewhat anxious and self-reproachful voice, “Just now, I was angry and told people that you know the Earth God.”
"It's alright." Xu Zhengyang nodded.
It wasn't really that important, because Xu Zhengyang could tell that Dong Yuebu's family didn't believe in the land god thing his mother was talking about at all; and the middle-aged woman lying on the other bed, and the fat young woman sitting next to her who seemed to be her daughter, had disdain and contempt on their faces, as if to say: Country bumpkins, land god? Why don't you say the Jade Emperor is your relative?
Xu Zhengyang sat down beside her, facing Yu Shuhua who was sobbing with her head down, and said gently, "Auntie, tell me what's wrong. I know some people in Fuhe City who might be able to help."
"Ah, right, right, my son knows the municipal party secretary and the police chief," Yuan Suqin said quickly, suddenly remembering the matter.
Yu Shuhua was stunned, seemingly unable to believe it. Dong Yuebu, who was squatting by the wall, also looked up, his face full of disbelief. How old was this child? When Dong Yuebu learned yesterday that these two were Xu Zhengyang's parents, he was already somewhat surprised. How could parents like these have a son who smokes Yuxi cigarettes every day? After all, Xu Zhengyang only looked twenty-one years old. It was hard to believe that he could build such a great career on his own.
The mother and daughter on the hospital bed grew increasingly disdainful. "Your son? You're lucky he knows the township secretary, right? The municipal party secretary, the police chief... Aren't you afraid of making a fool of yourself?"
After a moment of silence, Yuan Suqin finally couldn't hold back any longer and hurriedly recounted the whole story to Xu Zhengyang. As she spoke, Dong Yuebu sighed and lowered his head. Yu Shuhua scratched her hair and sobbed, while Dong Wenqi, lying on the hospital bed, closed her eyes, tears streaming down her face.
It turned out that after graduating from university, Dong Wenqi had been sending out resumes everywhere looking for a job. Yesterday, she received a call from Baisheng Trading Company, saying that she had basically passed the interview for the position of deputy general manager's secretary. The deputy general manager wanted to meet with her to ask some basic questions, which was also the final interview. Overjoyed, Dong Wenqi even dressed up carefully, put on light makeup, and wore the professional suit she had prepared and bought in advance to meet the deputy general manager.
The deputy general manager of Baisheng Trading Company, a man in his early thirties named He Bin, was immediately satisfied upon seeing Dong Wenqi's delicate and beautiful appearance and gentle demeanor. He told Dong Wenqi to prepare herself and start work the next day. Although Dong Wenqi noticed that He Bin's gaze seemed somewhat lecherous, she was already used to such looks from men due to her striking appearance, so she didn't pay much attention and happily thanked him.
Unexpectedly, He Bin then suggested that when she was doing secretarial work, she should, when necessary, let go of some taboos and so-called stinginess, and be more cheerful and generous, such as accompanying clients to dinner, drinks, singing, dancing, etc.
Although Dong Wenqi was disgusted, jobs were indeed hard to find these days, and she felt that He Bin's frankness showed he was a fairly honest person. Even if she had to be careful and not go overboard with social engagements like meals, drinks, karaoke, and dancing, she figured she wouldn't end up like some of the disgraceful secretaries circulating in society. So, Dong Wenqi nodded awkwardly and reluctantly, indicating she would definitely work hard.
Little did she know that beneath He Bin's seemingly respectable exterior lay a beastly nature. Her behavior, in turn, led He Bin to mistakenly believe she was a carefree, easygoing girl who didn't care about certain things. He Bin immediately grinned lewdly and began to grope her.
Dong Wenqi had never encountered anything like this before. In her shame and anger, she slapped He Bin across the face.
Enraged by the slap, He Bin grabbed Dong Wenqi by the hair and slapped her twice more. He then attempted to force himself on her in the office, inevitably subjecting her to a barrage of vulgar insults and humiliation.
After Dong Wenqi struggled free, she fled. He Bin chased after her without hesitation. In the stairwell, he saw two employees and shouted to stop Dong Wenqi, claiming that she had stolen his phone and wallet while he was away. He said that after he cornered her in the room, she threw down her phone and wallet and ran away.
Although the employees had their doubts and guesses about the truth, since the deputy general manager had shouted it out, they had no choice but to block the elevator entrance.
Left with no other option, Dong Wenqi ran down the stairs, pursued by two security guards and an enraged He Bin. In her haste and panic, she lost her balance and tumbled down the stairs. She sustained abrasions and bruises, two large bumps on her head, and a severe fracture in her right leg, breaking her lower leg in two.
Yesterday, when she was taken to the hospital, Dong Wenqi didn't want to tell her parents what had happened, not wanting to upset or worry them further. She simply said she had accidentally fallen. Unexpectedly, this morning, the police came to the hospital to investigate her for theft, stating that because of her serious injuries, the perpetrator, He Bin, would not pursue the matter, thus exempting her from punishment and detention.
Dong Wenqi immediately burst into tears, realizing the villain had accused her first! Sobbing, she recounted the whole story to the police. Unfortunately, while the two officers seemed sympathetic, they could only feign helplessness and tell her, "Who can prove what you've said? He Bin has witnesses to your theft." Furthermore, the two officers' words were clearly biased towards He Bin, implying that Dong Wenqi and her family were in the wrong, and that if they continued to make a scene, they would only suffer.
Anyone would find this unbearable. To be insulted and then fall like that, not to mention the financial loss of medical treatment, how can the emotional damage be compensated?
After the police left, everyone inside sighed, fumed, and cursed.
Unexpectedly, two more men in suits arrived shortly after, claiming to be from Baisheng Trading Company. They said their manager, He Bin, was kind-hearted and, considering that Dong Wenqi had been injured at Baisheng, wouldn't pursue the matter further, even offering some compensation. They brought some nutritional supplements, threw down 1,000 yuan, and then warned Dong Wenqi's family not to be stubborn and try to cause more trouble.
Yuan Suqin, who was present at the time, was so angry that she immediately cursed the two men as bullies who were abusing their power, saying that they and their dog master should both die a horrible death.
The man there, enraged by the insults, wondered where this shrewish old woman had come from, meddling in his business. He sneered and made a few sarcastic remarks, but he hadn't expected that the shrewish Yuan Suqin was not only fierce in words, but also intolerant of the slightest provocation. She unleashed her fury, rushing forward and launching a flurry of vicious scratches and claws. If Xu Neng hadn't intervened quickly, the two men might have been left with their faces covered in welts.
Enraged, the two cursed and swung their fists at Yuan Suqin. The honest and simple-minded Xu Neng, however, couldn't tolerate anyone hitting his wife. He blocked their attacks with his arms and even used his strong shoulders to slam them against the wall. Of course, Xu Neng, not skilled in fighting, still got punched and kicked a couple of times, suffering a real loss.
Fortunately, a nurse rushed in and, after a reprimand, the two people from Parkson Company left the ward cursing.
After scolding Xu Neng and his wife again, the nurse turned and walked out angrily.
Silence returned to the room. The woman on the other bed and her daughter advised her to just accept it, saying that judging from the man's attitude, he must be rich and powerful, and she should just swallow her anger and let it go. Yuan Suqin couldn't stand it and argued back, but the mother and daughter retorted that she didn't know anything about the world, since she was from the countryside and had never been out in the world.
Although what the mother and daughter said was unpleasant to hear, it was the truth.
But Yuan Suqin, a woman unsophisticated and with a fiery temper, couldn't stand such words. Adding to her pent-up anger was her husband's earlier fight and subsequent loss, and Dong Wenqi's ordeal only fueled her resentment. She immediately forced her way into Dong Yuebu's phone and called her son. In her heart, her son, Xu Zhengyang, was the most successful man. Everyone in Shuanghe Village knew he had resolved the wrongful convictions of Cao Gangchuan and Zhang Hao. And Chen Chaojiang and Liu Bin, both imprisoned, had also been helped out by Xu Zhengyang.
Although the villagers all felt that Zhong Shan was the one who truly solved those two cases, they also knew that Xu Zhengyang had played a significant role in them.
After listening to his mother's account, Xu Zhengyang frowned and mentally reviewed the events that had occurred at Baisheng Trading Company that day through the case file. He wasn't one to believe everything he heard, so after confirming that Dong Wenqi had indeed been humiliated and wronged, he calmly said to Yu Shuhua and Dong Yuebu, "Don't worry, we will give you justice."
Dong Yuebu and his wife were stunned. Dong Wenqi, who was lying on the hospital bed with her eyes closed and crying, also opened her eyes and looked at the ordinary-looking young man who looked two or three years younger than her in disbelief.
Meanwhile, the mother and daughter on the other hospital bed had faces full of disdain and contempt. What are you bragging about?