Chapter Thirty-Five: Life in Peril

  The door closed, but was still trembling slightly.

  Xu Guangchun leaned back on the sofa, feeling somewhat exhausted. A surge of nameless fire burst forth in his heart. What was going on today? His normally obedient and well-behaved daughter had suddenly run away from home!

  Closing his eyes, he thought of the desperate, sorrowful and disappointed look in his daughter's eyes before he left, and it felt like something was pinching his heart, very painful.

  8 o'clock in the morning.

  On the hospital bed, Liu Fei's body was wrapped in bandages, with an oxygen tube inserted into his nostrils. Various monitoring instruments were placed at the head of the bed, and on the monitor, his life curve fluctuated constantly, showing that his vitality was changing from strong to weak. His eyes were tightly closed.

  Xu Jiaojiao sat at the head of the bed, staring at Liu Fei on the hospital bed. She was in tears. She regretted, she felt helpless, and she blamed herself because she couldn't provide any help to Liu Fei now. If Liu Fei really died, she didn't know how she would live afterwards.

  "Liu Fei, I'm sorry, I won't be able to help you! Really sorry! It's only now that I've realized, without Father, I'm really fragile! Sorry, Liu Fei!" She cried on one side, while fiercely pounding her own head with the other. Her originally smooth and flowing long hair was now disheveled and scattered all over, looking extremely messy. Her face was pale, and a drop of fresh blood trickled down from the corner of her mouth - it was the result of her biting through her own lips.

  Ye Piaoxue has taken a dozen or so children out to eat, after a night of painful struggle, these children are already exhausted and can't be allowed to go hungry anymore. Ye Piaoxue only has 121 yuan left on her, she can't let the kids eat in the hospital, the food inside is just too expensive. She takes the kids to a small food stall outside the hospital.

  The other children were carefree, eating and playing together, they didn't understand what had happened at all. Only Xiangxiang was obediently nestled in Yefengxue's arms, using her tender small hands to hold a small steel spoon to scoop up the millet porridge into her small mouth. After eating a few mouthfuls, she found that Yefengxue was still sitting there dazed, and said in a crisp voice: "Sister Ye, you eat too!"

  Ye Piaoxue doesn't have the mood to eat now. Many problems are bothering her, with no answers. Her heart is very disturbed and annoyed. The house is gone, where will the children live? It's a problem. There's almost no money left on her body, how will the children eat? It's also a problem. Liu Fei, the great benefactor who saved Xiangxiang's life, is still in a coma on his hospital bed and needs money for surgery, but where to get the money is also a problem. All these problems are unsolvable for her!

  However, seeing Xiangxiang's clear eyes and sincere gaze, she couldn't bear to disappoint this lovely little girl's innocence, so she picked up the spoon and prepared to scoop some into her mouth.

  Suddenly, the mobile phone in her pocket rang again urgently. She quickly took it out because she remembered that ringtone was Liu Fei's phone.

  "Hey, dead Liu Fei, why did you take so long to answer my call? Are you secretly dating another girl behind my back? If I find out, watch me castrate you! This beauty has already arrived in Nanping, hurry up and come pick me up at the highway entrance!"

  "Who... who are you?" Ye Piaoxue was taken aback, this girl's way of speaking was so aggressive, her voice revealed a hint of spoiledness.

  On the other end of the phone, there was a moment of silence before a somewhat disheartened and disappointed voice came through: "I'm Xie Yuxin, who are you? Are you Liu Fei's girlfriend?"

  "No... no... no, I don't know him!" Ye Piaoxue saw the misunderstanding and quickly explained. Fortunately, she had already explained to Xu Jiao once before, so this time it was much faster. "You're Liu Fei's friend, right? It's like this: Liu Fei got seriously injured while saving me and Xiangxiang, and now his life is in danger..." After saying that, Ye Piaoxue felt a bit self-reproachful and helpless, and she began to sob. She felt useless, as Liu Fei, a stranger who had risked his life to save Xiangxiang, was now on the verge of death, while she couldn't do anything to help.

  "What, Liu Fei is injured? Where?" Xie Yu Xin heard this and suddenly became anxious. She stepped on the accelerator and overtook several cars in front of her, rushing to the highway entrance first.

  Twenty minutes later, she drove the red Ferrari to the entrance of the First Hospital in the city like an arrow off the string, got out of the car and pushed open the door, just in time to see Ye Piaoxue standing at the entrance with more than a dozen children looking around.

  Xie Yuxin wore a red dress, paired with a pair of red crystal sandals, and her long black hair was flowing, looking stunning. She rushed towards Ye Piaoxue and said to her: "Are you Ye Piaoxue? Hurry up and take me to see Liu Fei!" Her voice was very urgent, and her face was full of worry.

  Ye Piaoxue hastily nodded and led Xie Yuxin to Liu Fei's ward, pushing the door open and walking in.

  At this moment, Xu Jiaojiao was holding Liu Fei's hand and sobbing lightly. Hearing footsteps at the door, she looked up to see Xie Yuxin, who was fashionable and beautiful.

  Xie Yuxin was taken aback when she saw Xu Jiaojiao with pear flowers in her hair: "Who are you? Where is Liu Fei?"

  Xu Jiaojiao wiped away her tears and said: "I am Liu Fei's friend, the one on the bed is Liu Fei, who are you?"

  Xie Yuxin didn't respond to Xu Jiaojiao, but instead hurriedly walked to Liu Fei's bedside, looking at him with a worried expression. She saw that Liu Fei was wrapped in gauze like a mummy, only his two eyes were exposed, but she still recognized him at a glance. Around his neck, he was still wearing the jade pendant she had given him. It was on Liu Fei's birthday that she had personally chosen it for him, and at that time, she had put in a lot of effort to persuade Liu Fei to wear this jade pendant.

  Looking at the dying Liu Fei, looking at the pile of measuring instruments on the bedside table, Xie Yu Xin's anger was ignited in an instant. She pulled Ye Piao Xue over and asked loudly: "Tell me, who exactly hurt Liu Fei?"

  At this time, Xu Jiaojiao also stopped sobbing and waited with a pair of big eyes staring at Ye Piaoxue. Previously, she was too concerned about Liu Fei's injury and forgot to ask about the course of Liu Fei's injury. At this moment, when Xie Yuxin asked, she also became anxious and rushed to Ye Piaoxue, saying: "Quickly say, what is going on."

  Ye Piaoxue then recounted everything from when she first met Liu Fei to when Liu Fei got injured.

  After listening, Xie Yuxin was so angry that she punched the bedside with a fist, "So yesterday evening, the people who came to demolish your house might be from Silver Capital Group?"

  Ye Piao Xue nodded: "Apart from them, there shouldn't be anyone else! It's just that they withdrew at midnight yesterday, and I don't have any evidence to prove it was them!"

  Xie Yuxin's silver teeth were clenched tightly, her fair and delicate face was filled with murderous intent at this moment: "Hmph, you're Peng Yu from the Silver Du Group, right? Do you think I won't be able to do anything to you just because there's no evidence? Just wait and see!"

  At this time, Xu Jiaojiao was also full of anger, but her thoughts were much more delicate than Xie Yuxin's. She temporarily suppressed the anger in her heart and said to Xie Yuxin: "Hey, do you have money? Liu Fei is now hospitalized and needs 200,000 yuan for surgery, otherwise the doctor won't operate!"

  "My god, the doctors here have no medical ethics at all!" Xie Yuxin blurted out in anger, uttering a profanity, but she didn't feel like there was anything wrong with it. No matter where or when, she had always been someone who didn't bother with trivial matters.

  Xu Jiaojiao didn't say anything.

  At this time, the door opened and a bespectacled doctor walked in. He glanced at Xie Yu Xin and others coldly and said: "Who among you is the patient's relative? The deposit paid by the patient has been used up long ago. If no more money is paid, we will have to stop all treatment for the patient."

  Xu Jiaojiao suddenly stood up, her tone stern: "How can you have no medical ethics at all? He's on the verge of death and you're saying you want to stop treating him. Don't you think that's a bit too cruel?"