These two words were like a brand, gradually penetrating his heart and lungs. His chest suddenly felt slightly warm, causing a faint smile to appear at the corners of his mouth.
"Xieyi, does it hurt?" Even though he knew she couldn't hear him, he still couldn't help but ask.
The medicine in the IV seemed to drip a little too fast. He reached out and touched her hand, which was always warm, but it was a little cold. He pulled a stool, sat down, and gently covered her hand in his palm.
And so, we stayed up all night.
Early in the morning, nurses and doctors had come to take over their shifts. Li Zeliang went to the bathroom and came back. As soon as he entered the room, he found that Xieyi had woken up, staring at the leaves outside the window with his big black and white eyes.
It was the same situation many years ago. They said she didn't remember many people and things, but he didn't believe it. He struggled to go to the hospital to see her. She also sat quietly in a corner of the hospital garden, staring at the leaves on the tree in a daze.
She probably looked up for too long, her neck was sore, she lowered her head, her eyes flowed across his face without a pause. After a while, she turned back to look at him in the wheelchair, whispering to the nurse next to her: "Is that gentleman's leg gone?"
"Probably," said the nurse.
"What a pity! It's so rare to see such a handsome Oriental man." She nodded silently and stopped staring at him out of politeness.
At that time, she was very ill and often looked dazed. She could not remember what she had done the previous second, so she forgot. In fact, they had seen each other after the car accident.
The sound of Li Zeliang closing the door startled Xie Yi who was leaning on the bed in a daze. She looked over and saw Li Zeliang, narrowed her eyes and smiled, "A Yan."
"Well, do you feel anything is wrong?" He was afraid that she would get hurt from the fall.
"Yes," she said.
"Where?" he asked warily.
"I'm hungry." She laughed.
"Ji Yingsong will bring breakfast in a while."
"I want to drink the porridge you made." She said coquettishly, "The fragrant and sweet lotus leaf porridge, the one you made for me last week when I had a stomachache. You said that next time I eat it, I can try adding mint leaves."
The nurse who was changing her dressing couldn't help but smile when she heard this.
Xieyi said this to him in front of strangers, which made him feel a little embarrassed, so he coughed awkwardly.
After coming out of the CT scan and passing by other wards, she heard someone shouting into the phone in the corridor: "Sell, sell, you must sell out for me as soon as the market opens today." The voice was not calm at all.
"Is everyone going crazy about the stock market?" she said suspiciously.
"You should be glad you didn't buy it, otherwise I would have been downstairs collecting your body," he said.
"I guess you've lost a lot, Brother Li. It seems that you are a broad-minded person and have a strong heart." She laughed.
"Not only my heart, there is another part of me that is also strong." He said lightly.
"… "
Xieyi was silent for a moment and looked around to see if anyone was eavesdropping. He really didn't know why this man was so evil.
Sure enough, every three sentences are about the main business.
"You are so bad," she said.
"What did I say wrong?"
"Bad people only think about that kind of thing."
"I'm talking about freehand writing," he looked at her and taught her righteously, "What do you think about all day long? You should think about that in every sentence you say."
“…” Xieyi was defeated again.
Xieyi returned to the ward and started eating breakfast while recounting how he fell down the stairs.
Uh... Of course she automatically filtered out the words in which Zhu Anhuai insulted Li Zeliang for being inhumane, otherwise she couldn't guarantee that this man would not immediately pick up a knife and attack someone.
"I wish I could cut this kind of person into pieces. How could such a scum exist in the world? I must make him pay for my medical expenses and the loss of work time." After saying this, Xie Yi took a bite of the apple viciously.
Li Zeliang sat nearby and listened, but didn't say much.
Xie Yi frowned, "You should at least agree with me, otherwise I won't feel fulfilled if I scold you like this."
"How do you agree?" he asked.
"You can say, yes, he is a scumbag, and he must pay for the medical expenses." After Xieyi taught him as a prank, he actually imitated her and said it again.
Xie Yi was so flattered that she reached out and touched his forehead, "A Yan, you are not going crazy because you saw me fall, are you?"
Li Zeliang smiled and didn't seem annoyed, but Xieyi could clearly feel that he was absent-minded.
Many people came to visit her during those days, whether it was Tang Qiao or Li Shi, she suddenly felt that she was quite popular. Usually, Li Zeliang appeared at night and disappeared during the day when there were people around. Xie Yi pondered in her heart, wondering if it was because they were having an underground romance in the office or because he was busy with other things. However, his appearance in the ward still let most of his acquaintances know about Xie Yi's relationship with him.
After being discharged from the hospital, Li Zeliang called the cook from the old house to make lunch for Xieyi every day. She ate and drank at home and recuperated for several days.
One day, I suddenly received a call from Wu Weiming.
"Xieyi, Huihu is in trouble."
"ah."
"when?"
"This morning."
"What's wrong?"
"Early in the morning, Zhu Anhuai and his father were taken to the Economic Investigation Department by the police. I guess we'll see it on the news before tomorrow."
"What happened? Could it be..." Could it be that Li Zeliang did it? Xie Yi asked nervously.
Wu Weiming picked up the phone and repeated to Xieyi the inside information he had obtained.
It turned out that although Zhu Anhuai was only the general manager of Huihu but had no real power, he could manipulate the accounts because of his father's relationship.
He embezzled Huihu's public funds to speculate in stocks and buy futures. After making a profit in the first half of the year, he became even greedier and did not withdraw the funds to make up for the loss. Since the stock index began to decline in May, the two stock indexes have fallen to less than 70% of their highest point in the past three months.
What does this mean? The average price of 10,000 has dropped to 7,000!
"If you were Zhu Anhuai, how would you repay these public funds?" Wu Weiming asked.
"I can't be that kind of scum, and I will never do such sneaky things."
"If, I say if, let me test your IQ to see if your brain is damaged."
"If I were him," Xie Yi thought for a moment, "to do the worst possible thing, I would simply get a batch of short loans for big projects and cook the books. Once people inside the company find out, I'd say it was an internal relationship and then use the chairman's name as a guarantee." But this would become a vicious cycle.
In short, they used the bank's money to invest in stocks, and when they lost money, they could not fill the gap in the public funds that needed to be paid back urgently, so they created some fake loans to fill the previous gap. However, those loans were basically empty accounts. If the borrower was Zhang San's company, there was no place in the world to find this company, and it would be exposed once checked.
Although his family owns a bank, he is just helping others keep the money, and the money still belongs to them.
"If you want to do bad things, you must be much smarter than Zhu Anhuai. He becomes weak when faced with big troubles. This method was not his idea, but was done by his father to cover up for him. So when the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the Economic Investigation Department came to check the accounts, they implicated both father and son."
But to open a blank loan like Huihu did, one has to be very brave.
But why did they find Hui Hu by such coincidence, and why did they find out the truth right away? Neither Xie Yi nor Wu Weiming pointed it out to each other.
This freehand writing is clear.
She said that she asked Zhu Anhuai to pay for the medical expenses only because she was very dissatisfied at the time. Dealing with that kind of person, a little loss is just like being bitten by a dog. She has always thought so, because she really can't afford to offend him.
But judging from this incident, if it wasn't Li Zeliang, who else could have accomplished it within a day or two
It is estimated that Hui Hu has a confidant as his insider. How much time and energy does it take to cultivate a confidant? Therefore, he must have planned this matter for a long time, and then destroyed Hui Hu overnight.
He is not a simple businessman.
Thinking of this, Xieyi tightened his arms around the pillow little by little.
"Actually, you shouldn't use that inside player like this." Xue Qigui said.
They cultivated insiders and got hold of Hui Hu's shameful handles. Their original intention was not to bring down Hui Hu, but to prepare a bargaining chip for Li's rebound when the situation became desperate.
However, Li Zeliang actually used it in advance just to vent his anger.
Li Zeliang looked out the window without answering, Xue Qigui tactfully said nothing more and left the office. He tilted his head, not knowing what was going on, Li Zeliang had been talking less and less in the company recently, and his personality had become increasingly gloomy.
When he got home and found Xieyi a little strange, he asked, "Did you watch the news?"
"Well, isn't this medical bill a bit too much?" she said.
"Xie Yi," he stopped while picking up the bowl and chopsticks, "You are with me now. If anyone touches even a hair on your head, it will be against me."
He seemed a little unhappy. Indeed—he was venting his anger for her, but she was pitying him.
Xie Yi noticed his abnormality, put her arms around his waist from behind, and said, "Ayan, are you angry?"
"No." He denied it directly.
"If you're not angry, then you're jealous?" She said deliberately, "I sympathize with Zhu Anhuai, are you jealous?"
"Impossible," he said again.
He was obviously extremely angry, yet he still insisted on being stubborn.
"Yeah, why would you be jealous of him? That Zhu guy can't possibly compare to my A Yan. Besides, this kind of person has always done bad things. We are doing this to eliminate harm for the people, to enforce justice, to eliminate violence and protect the good, to help the weak and to rob the rich..." Xie Yi said halfway and realized that the last idiom was wrong. The phrase "rob the rich and help the poor" was not appropriate for Li Zeliang, so he changed his words and said, "It's all about working for the people and serving the country with loyalty."
He loved to hear Xie Yi flattering people the most, and after listening to that nonsense, his expression actually relaxed.
Narcissism, narcissism, narcissism, what a narcissism! Xie Yi wrinkled her facial features, made a face at his back, and complained in her heart.
"What did you say?" Li Zeliang turned his head as if possessed by a ghost.
Xie Yi quickly changed his expression and said with a simple smile: "I am talking about the greatest hero, Mr. Li."
She was bored at home alone and had nothing to do, so she asked Zhou Pingxin to rent a lot of DVDs to watch at home.
"Instead of watching the news, how about we watch a DVD?"
After dinner, she lay on the sofa with her bloated belly. She was so lucky because of her recent illness that she didn't even have to wash the dishes. So, it really is true that the sick have privileges.
"I want to watch the financial news," he said. As soon as I praised him, he started to be unkind, took off his apron and went to change the channel.
"But..." She glanced at Li Zeliang, "But I feel dizzy, and I feel even more dizzy when I see those news anchors talking about international current affairs with expressionless faces. Even my arm that was scratched that day is starting to hurt." She was just making it up, but she acted very seriously, half begging and half acting coquettishly.
He looked at her, not knowing what he was thinking, and then he said, for the first time in his life, "Then let's go to the cinema to watch a movie."
Huh? Xieyi opened his mouth wide. This otaku was actually going to leave the cave.
"Not happy?" Li Zeliang asked her with a squint.
"With pleasure!" She nodded immediately.
In September in City A, the sun is still scorching hot during the day, but it becomes a little cool at night.
After getting the tickets, Xieyi bought popcorn and Coke, and took Li Zeliang to the cinema lobby to wait for admission.
"Do you want to eat?" She handed the popcorn to Li Zeliang. However, the answer was easy to guess, most likely it would be those two words.
"I don't want to eat." As expected.
He raised his eyebrows casually, couldn't he change his catchphrases
"I know a difficult way to eat it." Xie Yi blinked, "I'll show you."
As she spoke, she picked up a popcorn from the box and threw it high into the air. She tilted her head back, opened her mouth, and accurately took the falling object into her mouth.
She squinted her eyes and smiled proudly, chewing and saying, "Isn't it awesome?"
"childish."
He calmly defined her behavior with just two words.
Xieyi glared at him unconvincedly, "I can do it more difficult." Then he threw two at the same time, raised his head and moved his feet to catch them. At this time, a man and a woman walked over, neither of them noticed, and they were about to bump into each other.
He was quick and pulled her over.
She bumped heavily into his arms, the popcorn in her hands scattered all over the floor, and the Coke spilled onto Li Zeliang's pants. Many people looked over.
He looked down at the Cokes helplessly.
Xieyi hid in his chest, feeling extremely embarrassed.
"I made a fool of myself again."
"I'm used to it." He patted her on the shoulder. "So, it's best to avoid doing childish things, especially when there are many people around." This was the first time he spoke so earnestly.
"What should I do? It's so embarrassing."
"If you don't get off me, more people will probably see you embarrassed," he said.
Xieyi then remembered and quickly separated from him. Her posture just now was like she was throwing herself affectionately into the arms of a handsome guy in public.
Her blushing face remained until she entered the theater, the movie started, and the lights were turned off.
The movie was "City of Angels" a long time ago. It happened to be a romantic movie show in the theater, but it was Xieyi's first time to watch this movie. When she saw the heroine Maggie in the forest, letting go of her arms holding the handlebars of the bicycle, flying in the wind with a bright smile on her face, Xieyi suddenly found Li Zeliang's hand in the darkness and held it tightly.
He turned around to look at her, and with the help of the light from the screen, he saw tears on her face. In such extreme happiness, when everyone in the audience was smiling knowingly for the love between the two protagonists, she was the only one crying silently.
He held her hand and asked in a low voice: "Xie Yi, what's wrong with you?"
"I don't know. I always feel that they are too sweet. It gives me a bad feeling."
Upon hearing this, Li Zeliang stood up and pulled her up.
"Then let's go."
Xie Yi wondered, "Why?" Did she make him angry again
"Let's go."
She was inexplicably dragged out of the cinema in the middle of the movie by him. As soon as she reached the street, she met Huang's widow Meng Lili coming out of the department store. She handed the bag in her hand to the driver and turned to walk over.
"Boss Li, Lawyer Shen."
Li Zeliang nodded and greeted her.
Meng Lili's gaze moved to their holding hands, and Xie Yi let go of them somewhat embarrassedly.
"I didn't expect that Lawyer Shen found such a good fate. Congratulations." She smiled and sighed sincerely.
After a few pleasantries, the two sides parted ways.
"You are also very familiar with Meng Lili?" Xieyi asked.
"My friend from the business world. I can't say whether I know him or not. Do you know him?"
"Before Mr. Huang passed away, the young master and young lady of the Huang family fought with her for the inheritance, and I happened to be in charge."
Li Zeliang nodded: "She managed the Huang family's Zhengyuan Bank well."
After a while, she asked him again: "Why don't you finish reading it?"
Although he didn't say anything, he didn't look angry at all. Why
"Ayan, what's wrong with you?" she continued to ask.
After a long while, he said calmly, "If we don't look behind, then won't they stay there forever?"
After hearing this, Xieyi couldn't help but laugh.
After a while, she responded to him with four words in a serious tone, even with interest: "You are childish."