"Yeah." Qiao Nian walked down the hospital stairs, one hand in his pocket, the other holding his cell phone, and walked to the side of the road to call a taxi.
"That means I'm back." Chen Yuan said briskly on the other end of the phone, "I'll call my mom and ask her not to go out to the stall tonight and stew chicken for you at home. Sister Nian, are you free tonight?"
"Have time."
Qiao Nian remembered that she had promised him to go to his house for dinner before going to Jiusuo, and it was quite natural.
Just after she finished speaking, she was holding her phone and thinking about whether she should send a message to Gu San to tell him that she would not be back for dinner that night, when she saw a suspicious van driving towards her.
The roads around the city are all equipped with traffic lights and road monitoring equipment, but the silver-white van has no license plate number, which is obviously wrong.
"…Then let's make a deal. You come to my house for dinner tonight, and I'll go home after school."
Chen Yuan was in a pleasant mood. "Besides the stewed chicken, do you have any other dishes you want to eat, Sister Nian? I'll bring them back to you when I pass by the vegetable market."
Chen Yuan was still talking to her about dinner in the evening.
"..." Qiao Nian half-closed her eyes, her pupils were extremely dark, and watched the van speeding and stopping in front of her, and then, there was a sound of the door opening.
Seven or eight men holding steel pipes got off the car. The muscular man leading the group looked frivolous and had a frivolous look in his eyes. He glanced at her and asked the person next to him, "Is that her?"
The person next to him took out his cell phone, compared the girl in front of him with the photo in the phone, and nodded hurriedly.
"Brother Hu, the person in the photo is her!"
There were many pedestrians in front of the Municipal Hospital. From time to time, someone passed by here and saw a group of people holding steel pipes and surrounding a little girl in broad daylight. It was obvious that they were gangsters bullying people.
There were many people watching from afar and pointing fingers, but when they saw a group of people holding steel pipes in their hands, no one dared to step forward to stop them.
"These people are... gang members, right?"
"That girl doesn't look very old, how could she get involved with these people? Hey, call the police immediately, don't let anything happen."
Someone sneaked over with a cell phone and called the police.
…
"Are you Qiao Nian?" The man called Brother Hu raised his chin slightly, his eyes ferocious, and raised the steel pipe as thick as a bowl in his hand.
Qiao Nian was surrounded by several people. Her delicate and beautiful face did not show any fear. She raised the corners of her eyes when she heard the words, raised her hand coldly, pulled the brim of her hat, and ignored him.
"I want to ask if your name is Qiao Nian?!"
"… "
Still no one paid any attention to him.
The muscular man frowned, a little annoyed, but seeing that she didn't say anything and wasn't afraid, he spat on the ground and cursed in a vulgar tone: "Damn, it's so unlucky, you're a mute!"
The subordinate next to him whistled with a smile and said frivolously: "Brother Hu, this woman is not only dumb, but also a fool. Look, she didn't react when she saw us. She didn't even know how to be afraid."
The muscular man looked up at the increasing number of onlookers around him, then glared at him, telling him to stop talking, and said to Qiao Nian, "Little mute, someone paid us to deal with you. I didn't want to hit a woman, but it's only natural to do it for money! If you want to feel resentful, don't feel resentful towards me. Think carefully about who you have offended. In the future, be more careful when you walk and don't offend anyone again!"
(End of this chapter)