"Do you have a driver's license?" Sheng Min stopped the car in the parking lot in front of the hospital and suddenly remembered this.
Li Xuan seemed to be distracted when he saw the hospital sign in front of him. Sheng Min called him again before he realized, "Yes." He nodded, "Go ahead and drive."
"Then let's go. Put on your mask and hat." Sheng Min unbuckled his seat belt, but Li Xuan didn't move. "What's wrong?"
Li Xuan pursed his lips slightly, looking unhappy. Sheng Min thought he was bothering her, so she said in a gentle voice, "You have to wear it. There are so many people in the hospital, it will be troublesome if I am recognized."
He checked before he left and found that no one had taken the photo last night, but he was afraid that he would not be as lucky in broad daylight.
"I know." Li Xuan said, still not moving.
Sheng Min was a little puzzled. It was Li Xuan who insisted on coming for the checkup. But after thinking about it, he tentatively said, "Why don't I go by myself and show you the results after the checkup?"
"Have you ever been to the hospital alone?"
Sheng Min shook his head: "If I don't know, you can ask."
"Forget it, I have to watch the examination." Li Xuan exhaled, took out the mask and put it on. Seeing Sheng Min still looking at him, "I just haven't been to the hospital for too long, I'm a little uncomfortable, I don't like it here very much."
"No one likes hospitals." Sheng Min thought he might be afraid of needles or blood, so she comforted him.
The mask covered most of Li Xuan's face, with only the corners of his eyes slightly curled up, seemingly in a self-deprecating smile.
"It's different." He said casually, opened the car door and got out.
Li Xuan said that he didn't like hospitals, but he was very familiar with the medical procedures and didn't waste any time. After Sheng Min finished his full body examination, he went to the general surgery department to rebandage the wound on his wrist. It was just past noon when he left the hospital.
Just as Li Xuan guessed, apart from bruises and abrasions on the skin, there was no damage to the internal organs.
"Where are we going next?" Li Xuan put away the medical report, and Sheng Min asked him, "Or go back to my house? ... Before we change back, we should all live together."
As he said this, he had no idea when he could change it back, and he couldn't help but sigh.
Li Xuan hummed: "No hurry." He checked the time and said: "I have to find the taxi driver first."
"Which one?"
"Of course it's the one that hit me. I can't just let it go like this."
"But how are you going to find him?" Sheng Min frowned slightly. He didn't really want to go, but he couldn't say this to Li Xuan.
Li Xuan turned the phone around: "I have his license plate number."
He called 114, saying that his car was blocked and he needed to move it. He reported the license plate number and got the number smoothly. Sheng Min thought he was going to call directly, but he opened a dialing software and started calling the other party non-stop.
"What are you doing?" Sheng Min asked him, "Aren't you looking for him?"
"I'll call him directly. What if he runs away? Give me your phone."
Sheng Min didn't understand and handed him the phone. Li Xuan took it and started calling local taxi companies one by one. When he called the fourth one, he found out.
"Is this your company's car? Well, I left a very important bag in the car yesterday. Can you give me the driver's number?"
The dial-up software was open, so the number was naturally unreachable. Li Xuan called back a minute later and told the other party that the phone was still busy.
"You can't get through either?" Li Xuan sat in the passenger seat and lied expressionlessly, "What should I do? I'm in a hurry. How about you give me his home address and I'll go find him directly... No? Why not? Then I can only come to your company. My bag is public funds that I just withdrew from the bank yesterday. Maybe you guys are teaming up to blackmail me... What do you mean I'm unreasonable? I told you I'm in a hurry. Otherwise, do you think I'm bored and made a special trip to embarrass you? Give me the driver's address and I'll naturally go find him. If you don't give it to me, then I can only come to you..."
Li Xuan pestered and threatened, and actually got the address. He said thank you to the other party in a very nice manner, and the other party hung up the phone.
Sheng Min pursed her lips: "You..."
"What?" Li Xuan didn't even raise his head.
Sheng Min wanted to say whether this was a bad idea, but changed his mind when the words came to his mouth: "You could have given me the number just now. I'll find someone to check it for you."
"No need." Li Xuan called up the navigation software and entered the address. "It's not far, let's go."
The driver's home was behind a market in the south of the city, and they arrived in half an hour. They were busy with inspections all morning and had no time to eat lunch. They parked the car at the entrance of the alley and ordered two bowls of wonton noodles at a small roadside shop.
Li Xuan ate very quickly. When Sheng Min had only finished half of his meal, he had already put down his chopsticks and went to the convenience store nearby to buy two bottles of water.
"After you finish your meal, go to the car and wait for me." Li Xuan unscrewed the bottle cap, took a sip, thought for a while and said.
"Don't I have to go up with you?" Sheng Min looked up at him.
"No need." Li Xuan thought for a moment, "But I remind you to take care of yourself. Don't let me down."
Sheng Min didn't want to go at first, and was about to say yes when he saw Li Xuan take out a knife from his pocket and sharpen it on the wall.
"Where did you get the knife?" Sheng Min was stunned.
“I bought it at a convenience store.”
"Why did you buy a knife?"
Li Xuan saw his nervous expression and suddenly smiled. He tilted his head and looked at him in a teasing tone: "Guess?"
"I won't guess. Pull your hat down a little bit first." Sheng Min asked tentatively, "Are you going to reason with people later?"
"Maybe." Li Xuan raised his hand and stretched.
Sheng Min knew he was not right when she heard his tone. She sighed secretly in her heart, put down her chopsticks and said carefully: "I think it's better to call the police for this kind of thing... Don't look at me like that. I can cooperate with you and just say that he hit me. I'll call the police, okay?"
Li Xuan blew on the blade: "No, if we call the police now, it's just a minor injury, and we can only sentence him for dangerous driving. That grandson is too easy."
"You are fine now, and you are living well..."
"You call this fine?" Li Xuan narrowed his eyes. "Let's get this straight. In a sense, we're both dead."
Sheng Min was speechless for a moment, and Li Xuan had already stood up: "Okay, when you're done eating, go to the car and wait for me. I'll come down after I'm done. It won't take too long. You must control yourself and don't do anything messy."
"No." Sheng Min saw him about to leave and grabbed his sleeve, "I... I'll go up with you."
Li Xuan frowned: "I said no, it's my own business, I don't like others to follow me."
"Well, I've already followed you here. You didn't ask me to leave at the hospital gate just now." Sheng Min was really afraid that he would do something wrong, so he spoke faster than usual. "Besides, this is not your business. You're in my face now."
Li Xuan looked at him for half a second, then pulled his sleeves: "Let go."
Sheng Min rarely argued with others, and felt a little awkward in his heart, but he just shook his head, clenched his hands tighter, and insisted: "I will go up with you."
Li Xuan frowned, and Sheng Min simply said, "I may not be able to control myself, and something might happen, then you will suffer a great loss. I am doing this for your own good."
"Threatening me?" Li Xuan curled his lips.
Sheng Min looked at him without saying anything.
"Then you should let go first." After a moment of stalemate, Li Xuan lowered his voice and yelled at him, "I have to go pay the bill."
Li Xuan paid and turned to walk out the door, and Sheng Min hurriedly followed him. On the way, he sent another WeChat message to Yang Xu, asking him to find someone to check the driver's detailed information.
"Put on your mask too." When they walked downstairs, Li Xuan finally spoke, still in an impatient tone, "If you insist on following me, just follow me. Just keep quiet and stand still."
The driver who caused the accident lived on the third floor. Li Xuan stood at the door, took out the house number written on the note on his mobile phone, checked it again, and knocked on the door on the left.
"What if he escaped?" Sheng Min asked, "or went out?"
"Then keep looking. I'll drag him out even if he escapes underground." Li Xuan said coldly, "You hope that no one is there. But your wish may not come true. When I parked the car just now, I saw that his car was there and the lights in the house were on."
"That's not what I meant." Sheng Min sighed.
Li Xuan sneered and said nothing. He continued to knock on the door patiently. After a while, a slightly alert male voice came from the door: "Who is it?"
"Downstairs." Li Xuan's tone was very natural, and his expression changed faster than any actor Sheng Min had ever seen. "Is your house leaking? The ceiling is leaking."
"No..." The door was tentatively opened a crack. The next second, Li Xuan kicked the door open and walked in directly.
"Who are you? What are you doing?" The person inside was the man who had crashed the car last night. He was tall and thin, and judging by his clothes, his actual age should be only a few years older than them, but his face looked a little haggard, which was the sign of long-term erosion by alcohol.
Li Xuan's kick startled him so much that he took several steps back, bumped into the table, and fell to the ground.
"Zhao Yi, right?" The room smelled heavily of alcohol. There was a half-packed box in the corner of the living room. Li Xuan frowned slightly and bent over to look at him. "You're still drunk? You bumped into someone last night. Do you remember?"
Zhao Yi's eyes widened instantly, and he looked at him in horror. Li Xuan took out his cell phone and said slowly, "I have road surveillance here. Can I help you review it?"
Zhao Yi gritted his teeth and didn't answer. He remembered that there was no surveillance on that road, so he took the risk and ran away. However, the tone of the young man in front of him was too confident, and he was very scared in his heart, and he was a little unsure for a moment.
"You really don't remember?" Li Xuan smiled. "Then let's take a look. It's just that the clarity is not very good. If it's higher definition, I guess you can see the brain matter..."
Before he could finish his words, Zhao Yi suddenly jumped up from the ground, picked up a beer bottle nearby and hit Li Xuan in the face. When Li Xuan turned his head away, he tried to bypass him and run out the door.
"You don't even want to save my face." Li Xuan frowned, grabbed Zhao Yi's throat with his backhand, and pushed him into the corner. The beer bottle hit the wall tile, grazing Zhao Yi's ear.
"Get up, stop pretending to be dead." Li Xuan said coldly. Zhao Yi didn't dare to run anymore. He sat up shivering and looked at Li Xuan with fear and a little resentment.
Li Xuan looked down at him, "Why are you shaking? You were so capable just now, weren't you? Are you panicking now? I see that you have a pretty good attitude. You killed someone, but you still have the energy to drink at home. How come you thought that the police didn't come to look for you, and that the matter was over? I'm so sorry, even if the police don't come, the ghosts will come."
"Dead... dead? Really dead?" Zhao Yi shivered and his teeth chattered.
Li Xuan bent down and grabbed his collar: "Don't believe it? That's great, I'll take you to see, the person is still lying in the morgue..."
"No, no, no, I won't go." Zhao Yi screamed, and in a panic he tried to pull Sheng Min who was standing beside him, "I won't go, I won't go..."
Sheng Min had been standing next to Li Xuan since he entered the room. He did not move except when Zhao Yi threw a beer bottle at Li Xuan's face. Although his expression was not very good, he did not hide to the side. Zhao Yi's action was so sudden that he was a little slow to react.
"I told you not to come up, but you refused to listen." Seeing Zhao Yi about to grab Sheng Min's sleeve, Li Xuan quickly grabbed his wrist and pulled him behind him. He raised his elbow and pressed it against Zhao Yi's chest, and pushed him back to the ground.
He shook his hands and said to Sheng Min unhappily, "Stand away."
Sheng Min looked at Zhao Yi, then looked at him hesitantly: "Then you should be careful..."
"It depends." Li Xuan grabbed a glass of water from the table and splashed it on Zhao Yi's face: "Stop stuttering. Sober up and think before you speak."
The lingering smell of alcohol mixed with the smell of cooking oil from someone's house made Sheng Min feel nauseous. In the living room, Zhao Yi was frightened by Li Xuan and stopped struggling, only howling like a ghost. Sheng Min really didn't want to see such a scene. She walked to the window to get some fresh air, but found that the bedroom door was ajar, and a pair of black eyes were looking out from inside.
Sheng Min was stunned: "Who is in there?"
"What?" Li Xuan turned his head. Sheng Min pointed to the bedroom, where a little girl, about five or six years old, appeared.
"My daughter." Zhao Yi looked at Sheng Min from afar, his voice still trembling, "She knows nothing. I really didn't mean it. I really didn't mean it..."
"Of course she doesn't know. It's hard to say whether you did it on purpose. Could it be that someone wanted to crash into your car to get himself killed?" Li Xuan retracted his gaze and looked down at Zhao Yi, "I'm very busy and don't like to talk nonsense with people. Just nod and shake your head to what I say."
Zhao Yi looked at him fearfully: "Who are you..."
"It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is that I can make the decision." Li Xuan dragged a chair over and sat down: "Do you want to go to jail?"
Zhao Yi reacted very quickly this time: "No, I don't want to."
"Don't stutter. If you can't explain clearly, don't talk." Li Xuan knocked on the table. "If you don't want to go to jail, just settle it privately. I won't blackmail you. According to the standard of traffic accident death compensation, the disposable income of urban residents multiplied by 20 years is a total of 1.12 million. By the way, you have to cancel your driver's license."
Zhao Yi seemed to be shocked. After coming to his senses, he pulled Li Xuan's sleeve in panic: "No, I don't have that much money! I can't take it out!"
"That's even easier." Li Xuan pulled the corner of his mouth and took out a knife from his pocket, "Chop off your hand."
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