A few days later, Yin Xiao told Yang Wangjie the conclusion.
"Hairun's boss Shen Zhihong has two daughters, the elder one is Shen Xieqing and the younger one is Shen Xieyi." Yin Xiao said, "Shen Xieyi is an illegitimate daughter. Due to external and family pressure, she was not allowed to enter the Shen family until she reached adulthood."
"Shen Xieyi is Shen Zhihong's illegitimate daughter?"
"good."
Yang Wangjie felt a little strange. He didn't know that Xie Yi had such a background. No wonder he heard that she always provided free legal aid in the community to women struggling at the bottom of society.
At 7:30 in the evening, Xieyi was washing the dishes after finishing the dinner Li Zeliang had prepared. This was the division of labor they had made clear over the past few days. She had thought that a job like his would involve a lot of socializing, but she had never expected that most of the time she was the one working overtime while he would go home on time to cook.
At this time, financial news was being broadcast on TV.
"This week, the Nasdaq index continued to fall and the price of crude oil has caused global stock markets to continue to fall. The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock indexes have broken through the largest decline in three years. From May to now, in just three months, the total market value has evaporated 120 billion yuan."
Xieyi glanced at the TV and raised his eyebrows. Everyone in the office was secretly watching the stock market, and as soon as there was any sign of movement, they all rushed over to take a look.
Unfortunately, even though the stock market continued to fall, it did not affect Mr. Li's mood for cooking at home at all.
"Don't you buy stocks?" Xie Yi asked. Strangely, when Wu Weiming and others complained to her about the stock market on the phone, they cried like pigs being slaughtered.
"you bought?"
"No, I value money more than anything else. How can I bear to take risks? If the price drops by 50,000 or 60,000, I will definitely jump off this balcony."
"Then don't jump from this balcony, otherwise the body will be left there and the owner will have to check out from the Li family."
"Did you build this building?" Xie Yi asked in surprise. After a while, he looked at him with a sad look and said, "Can't you have a little sympathy? If I jump off the building, you won't help me and even say something sarcastic?"
She was halfway through washing when the phone rang.
"Phone," he said.
Xieyi wiped her hands on her apron and reached for her cell phone. It was her good friend Zhou Pingxin who came to look for her. She was crying and it turned out that she had had a fight with her husband and came to complain to Xieyi.
Xie Yi coaxed her: "Don't cry, Ping Xin, I'm coming, wait for me at home."
"I want to go drink."
"Okay, let's go drink."
"All men are bad!" Zhou Pingxin said with tears and resentment.
"Well, men are indeed not..." She glanced at Li Zeliang, and the last three words became weaker, and she did not agree.
Xieyi finished the call and went to change clothes. "I want to go out. Pingxin is crying so hard."
"It's so late." He sat on the sofa somewhat unhappy.
"Ayan," Xieyi put her arms around his neck from behind, "I'll be back in a moment."
"I'll accompany you."
"No, I just want to chat with her, you wait for me at home."
She picked up her handbag and prepared to change her shoes, but Li Zeliang stopped her: "Xie Yi."
"What?" She turned around.
He walked over and reached out to take the thread out of her hair. "You never look in the mirror before going out. You're still the same as always."
"Sometimes you are quite nagging." Xieyi said.
Li Zeliang raised the corners of his lips and smiled slightly.
"Are you going or not?" he reminded her.
"Yeah." Xieyi put on his shoes, suddenly remembered something, turned around, "Wait for me to come back." Then he put his mouth close to him and kissed his lips like a dragonfly touching the water, stealing a goodbye kiss from him.
She was not short to begin with, but she still stood on tiptoe to get the right position. Unexpectedly, he reacted very quickly, and pulled her in, locked her in his arms, and bent down to kiss her deeply.
Xieyi was so flustered by his kiss that she lay on his chest with a red face.
"Freehand." he said.
"Hmm?" Her ear was pressed against his chest, and she could hear the muffled vibration whenever he spoke.
"We'll stay like this forever, okay?"
He lowered his head and stared at her. His eyes, originally light in color, now seemed a little darker under the light, with a hint of waves in them, a complex look that was difficult to read.
Xie Yi blinked his eyes and said, "Mr. Li, are you confessing your love to me?"
The originally serious topic was ruined by her funny words.
"You always go against me." He rubbed his forehead.
"How could that be?" she protested. "If you told me to eat tomatoes, I wouldn't dare to pick up potatoes. If you asked me to work overtime, I wouldn't dare to leave. Where can I find such an obedient woman? And you even accused me of going against you in everything."
He waved his hand helplessly, telling her to leave quickly, and emphasized, "You are not allowed to drink with others. Call me when you come back and I will pick you up."
Unexpectedly, she rushed to Zhou Pingxin's door and knocked for a long time but no one answered. She searched through her handbag and found that she forgot to bring her cell phone, so she went to the street to call a public phone. After the call was connected, Zhou Pingxin told her that she was drinking in a disco, and the music on the other end of the phone was deafening. Xieyi knew that this woman was drinking to relieve her sorrow, so she rushed over in a hurry.
Zhou Pingxin was fine, she didn't get drunk, she just stared at the dance floor in a daze. She only had Zhou Pingxin as a friend in City A, or maybe she seemed to have been a little autistic since the accident, and never made friends with people except for work, but meeting Zhou Pingxin in Tangqiao made her want to spread her wings to protect him.
"Xieyi, I want a divorce." Zhou Pingxin shouted across the harsh electronic music.
"Aren't you two getting along well?"
"There was a receipt for women's clothing in his wallet, but it wasn't for me. I asked him about it, but he didn't explain. He just said I didn't trust him and drove away." Zhou Pingxin shouted loudly in the noise, and Xieyi only heard about 70% of it.
She pinched Zhou Pingxin's cheeks. "All men are like this. They would rather vomit blood than explain to others. This is the charm, Pingxin. Just ask him and don't get angry with yourself."
"What if he really has a woman outside?"
Then just snap his bottom off, Xieyi wanted to say that, but she was trying not to persuade people to do that, so she could only say, "No, your husband's heart is as strong as gold."
"Stop making sarcastic remarks." Zhou Pingxin said. She knew Xie Yi was living with Li Zeliang now. "You are in the honeymoon period of your relationship and don't know the hardship of marriage."
They kept persuading each other, because in this kind of place you have to shout, so after a while, both of them had become hoarse. I don't know when it was, Xieyi just remembered to tell Li Zeliang, otherwise Mr. Li would be very angry and the consequences would be serious. The noise was so loud that it could kill people's hearing. She knew he was most afraid of noise, so she borrowed Zhou Pingxin's phone and moved outside to make the call.
It was a basement, and she had to climb more than ten steps to get to the street. She climbed the stairs while dialing a number, but she bumped into someone in front of her without noticing, and her phone fell to the ground.
"Lawyer Shen!" the man called her in a vulgar tone.
Xieyi looked up and saw that the god of plague had come to his door—it was Zhu Anhuai.
"Mr. Zhu." Xieyi smiled at him with a gloomy face.
"It's fate again." Zhu Anhuai said. There were two younger brothers following him, and it was obvious that they were just hanging out in the middle of the night.
The last time she dealt with him alone, Xie Yi had to break into the men's restroom before escaping, and he didn't wait for her, probably because Li Zeliang was inside. Now she is alone, and Zhu Anhuai has two more helpers, which may be even more difficult.
They stood in the dark corner of the stairs. Although there were people coming in and out around them, due to the location and the fact that there were three men standing together, some passers-by looked over but no one stopped.
Xieyi weighed the situation and fortunately Zhou Pingxin didn't come out, otherwise with her personality, who knows what kind of chaos she would become. Under normal circumstances, it would be like meeting a gangster, and the worst that could happen would be that he would rob her of her money and her body.
There is no need to rob him of his money, he is just a small fry.
If it was rape, a few touches wouldn't kill her. Although no man passing by saw that something was wrong and came out to speak for her, Zhu Anhuai didn't really want to do anything.
Thinking of this, she calmed herself down and kept encouraging herself. The more she panicked, the more he would feel that he could do whatever he wanted.
"I'm afraid there is no one to protect you today. Actually, Lawyer Shen, you don't know that I admire intellectual women like you the most. You are beautiful, have a good figure, and are a lawyer. Especially when you righteously sued me on behalf of that woman in court, I wanted to eat you up at that time. A sentence of ten or eight years is worth it, but unfortunately..." Zhu Anhuai's tone became extremely frivolous, and he reached out to lift the hair that was casually draped over his shoulders and sniffed it in front of his nose.
"Master Zhu, your old illness has come back again." Xieyi said.
"Don't act noble in front of me. Doesn't Li have more money than me? Do you think he's any good? A cripple like him can't do the work as well as I let you enjoy." After saying that, Zhu Anhuai smiled maliciously at the two people next to him, "Besides, maybe he's not good enough at all."
Xie Yi frowned. She had originally decided not to bother with him and just ignore it. Unfortunately, she overestimated her tolerance for the opposite sex except for Li Zeliang. She usually hated physical contact with people, especially people like Zhu Anhuai.
Besides, it doesn't matter if she is insulted, but if Li Zeliang is also insulted by him, she will be really angry. She slapped his hand away with disgust, but suddenly smiled and said, "But, if you really have the guts, go and tell Li Zeliang. What's the point of gossiping about him behind his back? People like you can only show off in front of women, and in the end, you still have to let the Zhu family come out to clean up your mess. Now so many people have seen it, Master Zhu, if you touch me again, I promise to make you the headlines tomorrow."
Xieyi said this with a hint of sarcasm, glanced at him coldly, waved his hand, and said, "Please move aside." Then he bent down to pick up Zhou Pingxin's cell phone, but was suddenly pulled back by Zhu Anhuai.
"Let go!" Xie Yi glared at him.
"You want to scare me like this?" Zhu Anhuai gritted his teeth and said, "Do you think I really can't do anything to you? Do you want us to take you somewhere else to have some fun?"
Before he finished speaking, Xie Yi couldn't hold back any longer and raised his palm to slap Zhu Anhuai, and the palm landed on his face with a crisp sound. He waved his hands in anger, and Xie Yi subconsciously took a half step back, but he missed the stairs and fell down.
In the hospital, Zhou Pingxin held back her tears and called Li Zeliang to inform him.
Li Zeliang asked for the address of the hospital with a trembling voice, and repeatedly told her to take good care of Xie Yi. Almost ten minutes later, the handsome man appeared in the hospital like a gust of wind.
Zhou Pingxin had only seen him a few times from a distance before, and knew that he was usually famous for his neatness, but now he was wearing a simple short-sleeved shirt with even the buttons unbuttoned.
After asking anxiously at the nurse's station, he ran straight towards her.
"Are you Zhou Pingxin?" he pulled her over and asked.
Zhou Pingxin bit her lip and nodded. She could clearly feel that Li Zeliang's hands were shaking violently, his palms were cold, and his expression was uncertain. Probably no one had ever seen him so out of control.
"Is the freehand writing inside?"
Before Zhou Pingxin could answer, he pushed the door open and walked in. He saw Xie Yi lying on the bed, his eyebrows twisted together, gauze wrapped around his forehead, and his exposed arm was covered with medicine because of the abrasion.
He walked over and brushed away the hair that was caught in the corner of her mouth.
"The doctor said that as long as she didn't vomit, the fall wouldn't be a big problem. She just woke up for a while and asked me to call you, Mr. Li, in a daze." Zhou Pingxin said in a low voice. Of course, Xieyi didn't say it so clearly, but just murmured and called A Yan.
Fortunately, Zhou Pingxin still knew who A Yan was, and then she realized that she should be the first to inform Li Zeliang.
But I don't know if Li Zeliang heard her or not. He frowned slightly, and the look in his eyes made others feel distressed. He stood in front of the bed and gently stroked her face with his fingers, not avoiding her and the nurse who was giving Xie Yi an injection. It can be seen that he usually doesn't take anyone seriously.
But he was distracted for just a few seconds, and the moment he turned around, his previous expression disappeared completely. When he faced Zhou Pingxin, he became the Li Zeliang of the Li family who looked down on everyone.
His eyes suddenly sank, but he asked in a calm tone, "What's going on?" That look made Zhou Pingxin tremble with fear.
"Xieyi accompanied me to drink. In the middle of the meal she said she would call you and came out alone. Unexpectedly, she fell down the stairs." Zhou Pingxin said.
"She fell by herself?"
"It is said that there were several other people nearby at the time."
"Where are the people?"
"When they saw something was wrong, they ran away. I didn't see it either."
Li Zeliang narrowed his eyes slightly, opened and closed his five fingers, suppressed his anger, and said lightly: "It's late, you should go back."
This sounded like a polite remark, but the awe-inspiring aura behind it was an extremely serious order that could not be resisted. Zhou Pingxin was really afraid that he would blame her in his heart, so she didn't dare to stay any longer. She glanced at Xie Yi and immediately obeyed his order. After Zhou Pingxin left, he went to the duty room to ask the doctor about Xie Yi's condition and confirmed that apart from skin injuries, there was nothing particularly serious.
"It's just..." the doctor on duty said, "I'm afraid she may have hit her head, but there's no way to be sure right now. We can only pay attention to whether she vomits or not. It's best to do a comprehensive examination tomorrow morning, just in case."
Li Zeliang nodded, returned to the ward and called Ji Yingsong and Xue Qigui.
He pushed the door open and stared at Xieyi for a long time. Xieyi had an IV drip on her hand and slept uneasily. In fact, she had never been afraid of injections or medication since she was a child, and seemed to be braver than him.
At this time, Ji Yingsong rushed over.
Li Zeliang quietly retreated to the corridor. Just then Xue Qigui called back. The two of them exchanged a few simple words and then hung up.
"Is it Zhu Anhuai?" Ji Yingsong asked.
"Yeah." Li Zeliang's eyes narrowed, "I was negligent." He originally had a trick up his sleeve, intending to teach this young master a lesson, but he didn't expect that he would actually attack Xie Yi.
"What are you going to do?"
"Tell him to chop off his hands and come here to apologize."
"How could the Zhu family agree to do that?" Zhu Anhuai didn't have any special abilities, but unfortunately he was the apple of the eye of three generations of Hui Hu. How could the Zhu family let him suffer any injustice
“Otherwise the cost will be terrible.”
"You..." Ji Yingsong knew that Li Zeliang was not that kind of person, but he was really afraid that he would act on impulse just to express himself, because there was no guarantee that the person lying inside might get into trouble and he might do something extreme.
Li Zeliang sneered, "Yingsong, there are many ways to kill people in this world. Paying someone to take your life and bleed you is the stupidest. I don't want to do it."
After hearing this, Ji Yingsong said no more. He knew that Li Zeliang had made up his mind and was determined to take out his anger on Zhu Anhuai.
Such a cold-blooded person, when he returned to the ward, his fierce spirit was completely gone. He placed the daily necessities that Ji Yingsong had brought just now on the bedside, and looked at Xie Yi again.
Her lips were tightly pursed, showing that she was dreaming and sleeping very restlessly. He tucked the quilt for her, but she murmured something in her sleep: "Ayan..."