On the IOU is Jiang Nuomi's medical expenses. The time, place, and amount owed are written in very detailed and clear at a glance.
"Jiang Nuomi's treatment fee is all paid by you. I don't have any money to pay you now, so I can only owe you first." Jiang Li explained, although judging from the performance of Tianchi Fang these days, he certainly doesn't care about this in his heart. But I can't ignore it.
Chi Fang stood up from the ground, did not pick up the IOU in his hand, his face was expressionless, but his tone changed a bit: "Did I ask you to pay it back?"
"No." Jiang Li shook his head, "But this is not a small sum, I can't take advantage of you, I will..."
In Chi Fang's mind, Jiang Nuomi was picked up by him and Jiang Li together, and these two went to the hospital to visit and take care of them together, so for him, Jiang Nuomi belonged to both of them.
Now Jiang Li's behavior that seemed to draw a line between the two made him very displeased, and interrupted him blurted out: "You know it's not a small sum, so you can still afford it?! Do you think Is the ginger glutinous rice yours alone? Stop being sentimental!"
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Chi Fang realized that he had said the wrong thing. He was stunned for a moment when he saw Jiang Li. He wanted to explain, but when he thought of Jiang Li being so heartless, he pursed his lips and still didn't say anything.
In the previous life, Jiang Nuomi was given to Jiang Li by Jiang Zhan. Given the relationship between Jiang Li and Jiang Zhan, Jiang Nuomi was raised by the two of them by default. In this life, without Jiang Zhan's existence, Jiang Li subconsciously thought that Jiang Nuomi belonged to him, ignoring Chi Fang's position.
Chi Fang's words reminded Jiang Li that this was indeed his mistake.
"Sorry, I didn't think it through." Jiang Li took back the IOU and put it back in his schoolbag.
Seeing this, Chi Fang thought that you were smart, and the next second saw Jiang Li take out a notebook and pen from his schoolbag, and wrote a new one.
Chi Fang: "..." Are you poisonous
Jiang Li handed the rewritten IOU to Chi Fang: "I cut the medical expenses in half, so it's reasonable."
"Reasonable?" Chi Fang wanted to pry his head open to see if his brain was filled with brains or shit, he was so poor that he had to work part-time during summer vacation to earn tuition fees, and now he was rushing to write IOUs, "Are you sick? Won't you take advantage of it?!"
"Yes." Seeing that he didn't take the IOU, Jiang Li took his hand and put it in his hand, "But I don't want to take it, you are a good person, I can't let you suffer."
Now Chi Fang felt his forehead twitch when he heard the word "good person". He squeezed the note in his hand and said through gritted teeth, "Put away your good person card, I will get a headache when I hear it."
Jiang Li pursed his lips and smiled, bent down to pick up Jiang Nuomi, and said to him: "Then I'll go back first, Jiang Nuomi, shall I carry her back first?"
Chi Fang glanced at the little guy who was nestling in his arms obediently, thinking that if he kept it, he would probably have a fight with me, so he said with disgust: "Take it and get out together, little heartless Things are annoying to watch.”
Seeing his expression, Jiang Nuomi meowed at him.
"Alright then, I'm leaving. When the old man comes back from playing chess, tell him for me." Jiang Li picked up his schoolbag and left after speaking.
Chi Fang spread out the IOU in his hand and looked at it. It clearly stated how much Jiang Li owed him. He calculated Jiang Li's salary in the cafe. Even if Jiang Li didn't eat or drink, it would take more than half a year. Still worth it.
"What an idiot." Chi Fang muttered, "I don't even know how to take advantage, so what do I get for it?"
"Patter—"
The door of the living room was opened from the outside, the old man walked in, only saw the pool in the living room, and asked: "Xiao Li went back?"
Chi Fang stuffed the IOU in his hand into his pocket: "I just left, haven't you met?"
"No." The old man waved his hand, closed the door, and walked in, "How did you learn tonight? Are you still used to it?"
"It's okay." Chi Fang took the old man's water glass and poured him a glass of warm water, and put it on the coffee table.
The old man picked it up and took a sip: "Xiao Li is a good boy, you have to learn from him, this kid was not willing to charge tuition fees at the beginning, saying that you saved him before, and he wanted to pay back your kindness, I insisted on giving it, He's only willing to take half of it."
"Don't make up the tuition?" Chi Fang frowned, "Is he sick? If you can't afford the tuition, don't make up the tuition."
"Can't afford the tuition?" The old man was taken aback when he heard the words, "What's going on?"
Chi Fang was not very clear about Jiang Li's family situation, he only said that his parents didn't care about him, and he was working part-time in a coffee shop to earn tuition fees.
When the old man heard this, he was very angry at Jiang Li's parents: "What kind of parents are these? Just give birth and don't care about raising it. It's really bad luck for such a good child to have such parents!"
After finishing speaking, he said to Chi Fang: "You are in the same school as him, so you should help him a little more, don't let others bully you, you know?"
"I see." Chi Fang agreed, and glanced at the wall clock on the wall, "It's almost eleven o'clock, you should go back to sleep."
"Okay, okay, you should wash up and sleep quickly." The old man went back to the room after finishing speaking.
Chi Fang also went back to the room, took out the IOUs in his pocket and put them in the drawer, took his clothes and prepared to take a bath, when he passed by the place where Jiang Li was standing in the living room, he found a key on the ground.
The key belonged to Jiang Li, and it should have been dropped when he was taking out his schoolbag just now. It happened to fall on the blanket laid out for Jiang Nuomi to play with. There was no sound, so neither of them noticed.
Chi Fang went back to his room and took his mobile phone to call Jiang Li, but Jiang Li didn't answer the call twice.
Worried that he would not be able to enter the house when he got home, Chi Fang greeted the old man and went out with the key.
The old city where Jiang Li lives is not far from the Nanpo Street where Chi Fang lives, but Chi Fang has never been to Jiang Li's house, and only heard him mention the approximate location, so he went downstairs and rode a bicycle and left the community.
…
When Jiang Li left Chi Fang's house, he had already missed the last bus. He waited at the bus stop for a while, intending to hail a taxi to go back. After waiting for ten minutes, no taxi passed by. , and finally had no choice but to walk back.
Fortunately, the two districts were not too far apart, and he reckoned that it would take about forty minutes to walk.
There is no nightlife in the small county town. At this moment, the shops on both sides of the street are almost closed and the lights are turned off. There are not many pedestrians on the road, except for a few who come in a hurry.
Jiang Li hugged Jiang Nuomi and walked for a while, when he suddenly felt the sound of hurried footsteps behind him, his sense of vigilance made him quicken his pace, and he heard an urgent reminder from the system in his mind: "Host, be careful behind!"
At the same time, Jiang Li's ears sensitively heard a gust of wind, and subconsciously dodged to the side to avoid the attack from behind. Looking back, he saw several people rushing up to stop him.
There were a total of four people blocking Jiang Li, some were wearing bowed vests, some were wearing floral shirts, all of them looked sleek, and two of them had large black tattoos on their arms.
These people all held wooden sticks in their hands and looked at Jiang Li maliciously.
Cats are more sensitive to danger. When Jiang Li saw these people, Jiang Nuomi in Jiang Li's arms cried out uneasily twice.
Jiang Li patted the cage comfortingly, said in a low voice, "Don't be afraid", then looked up at the person who came, "What do you want to do?"
"Nothing." The man standing directly opposite Jiang Li laughed twice, "It's just that someone paid us to treat you well."
Jiang Li didn't remember these people in Yuanshen's memory, and Yuanshen was not a troublemaker, so he couldn't remember who was trying to make trouble for him.
"Brother Qiang, the cat in his cage seems to be a puppet cat." One of them said to the man who spoke just now, "I heard people say that this breed of cat is not cheap, should we..."
He didn't finish his sentence, but everyone present knew what he meant.
An expensive breed cat that can fetch good money.
Jiang Li took a small step back holding Jiang Nuomi's cage, looked at the people in front of him warily, and thought about how to overthrow this group of people without hurting Jiang Nuomi.
There are only four people, it is not difficult for him, the more troublesome thing is that they are afraid that they will steal the ginger glutinous rice.
After hearing what his subordinates said, Brother Qiang glanced at the cage in Jiang Li's arms, and winked at the person on the left: "Go."
The person on the left nodded and walked towards Jiang Li. He swung his stick a few steps away from Jiang Li and was about to throw him at him. Domineeringly broke into their line of sight and knocked that person to the ground.
"Here—"
The emergency brake sounded, and the person on the bicycle stepped on the ground, stabilized the vehicle, looked at the people around Jiang Li in front of him, and said in a cold and sharp tone: "Chen Qiang, I didn't beat you to death last time, so I let you go today." Another chance to escape, right?"
"Chi Fang?!"
Jiang Li and Chen Qiang saw the people who came and spoke at the same time, the former was surprised, the latter was frightened.
Chi Fang sat on the bicycle, turned around and whistled at Jiang Li: "Yo."
"Why are you here?" Jiang Li looked at him in surprise, not understanding why he suddenly appeared.
"You left your key at my house. I didn't answer the phone, so I sent it out to you." Chi Fang explained, just now he rode all the way here, fearing that he might not catch up with Jiang Li, so he rode a little fast, and passed by in a flash Fortunately, the gang of Jiang Li and Chen Qiang fell back again.
Jiang Li didn't hear the phone ring at all, and took it out of his pocket only to find that it was muted at some point.
Chi Fang got out of the car, looked down at the man who was still moaning on the ground with his legs covered, and kicked him with his toes: "What are you yelling for? Do you want to touch porcelain?"
The other party got up clutching his feet and hid behind Chen Qiang.
Chen Qiang once had a conflict with Chi Fang. At that time, Chi Fang broke two of his teeth. He still remembered this hatred. He didn't take the initiative to go to Chi Fang. Encounter met again in narrow road.
He looked at Chi Fang with a sullen face: "Chi Fang, today's matter has nothing to do with you, I don't want to conflict with you, you should get out of the way."
Chi Fang picked up the stick on the ground, weighed it twice in his hand, looked at Chen Qiang and smiled, but the smile did not reach his eyes: "You want to touch my brother, but you say it has nothing to do with me? Are you an idiot?"
When Chi Fang thought that if he was one step late just now, Jiang Li, a weak chicken, would be beaten into a dog, his heart rose with anger, he held the stick in his hand, and pushed Jiang Li aside: "Be good! Watch here, and I will take you home after my brother finishes cleaning up this bunch of trash."
Jiang Li: "..."
Regarding Chi Fang's claim, Jiang Li was a little bit dumbfounded, he had lived two lifetimes, what kind of elder brother was he, a young high school student.
But Jiang Li also listened to him, obediently watched from the sidelines, and didn't intend to help, because he had heard from Feng Yu that Chi Fang was the champion of the National Sanda Competition in the Junior Group when he was in junior high school.
When Chi Fang beat people, he was ruthless and heavy. To him, cleaning up the four people was as easy as chopping vegetables. In less than ten minutes, Chen Qiang and the others had bruised noses and swollen faces, and he knelt down on the ground while holding the necks.
Throwing the stick in his hand on the ground, Chi Fang kicked Chen Qiang, who was kneeling on the ground, from behind, facing Jiang Li's position.
"Apologize." He stepped on Chen Qiang's face, and there was still uncontained hostility in his eyes.
"...I'm sorry."
Chen Qiang spat out the three words with difficulty, the corners of his lips were covered with blood. After he spoke, the other three people hurriedly apologized and begged for mercy.
Jiang Li went forward with Jiang Nuomi in his arms, knelt down and asked Chen Qiang: "You just said that someone paid you to teach me a lesson, who is it?"
"Chen Jialin."
"Chen Jialin." Jiang Li frowned, remembering the day when he met Chen Jialin in the bookstore, he didn't expect it to be him, but after thinking about it, there seemed to be nothing wrong with him, Chen Jialin must have held a grudge against him for beating him back then.
"Who is Chen Jialin?" Chi Fang asked.
"Our class." Jiang Li stood up and said to him, "Let them go."
"Aren't you going to beat them up?" Chi Fang stepped on Chen Qiang's foot without moving, "They don't dare to resist now, you can take revenge."
"It's okay, it's the same if you hit me." Jiang Li said, Chi let go of his hand just now, and if he beat him again, these people might not recover.
The phrase "It's the same if you hit it" sounded to Chi Fang's ears like "If you hit it, I will hit it". I was inexplicably happy in my heart, and I didn't want to pursue it anymore. I let go of my feet: "Go away, trash .”
After Chen Qiang and others helped each other to leave, Jiang Li said to Chi Fang: "You saved me again, I really don't know how to thank you, you are really..."
"Stop, don't say it!" Chi Fang quickly stopped him, fearing that he would say the sentence "You are such a good person" again, "I beg you to shut up, please?"
"What's wrong?" Jiang Li was puzzled, "It's true that you saved me again, I don't even know how to thank you."
—The grace of saving life should be promised with your body.
Feng Yu's words were everywhere, and when Chi Fang thought about it, he shuddered inexplicably, and said, "It doesn't matter, just don't fall in love with me!"
"??"
Jiang Li didn't understand why he suddenly said this, but soon realized that it was because Yuanshen liked Xu Haowen, and he was afraid that he would fall in love with him.
So far, Jiang Li has no intention of attacking Chi Fang. He just wants to maintain his friend's favorability. He is afraid that he will misunderstand, so he nodded and said, "Don't worry, it won't happen."
After finishing speaking, he was afraid that Chi Fang would not believe it, so he added a sincere tone: "I only want to study in my heart."
Chi Fang: "..."
Am I thinking too much, or are you fucking kidding me