CHAPTER XLIV
When Hua Ting woke up, she found that she was no stranger to the furnishings around her.
It can be concluded that this is not the 21st century, nor is it the Bai Mansion, but Zhao Yiran's home.
Zhao Yiran's home?! Hua Ting suddenly woke up, "What time is it?" ”
"10 o'clock," Zhao Yiran sat on the edge of the bed, and when he saw that she was awake, he stood up and leaned over slightly to look at her, "How do you feel?" ”
"10 o'clock!?" Hua Ting turned over and sat up suddenly, and the wound was pulled vigorously and brought out a piercing pain, "I have to go back quickly, otherwise I will ...... in vain"
"I knew you would be in such a hurry," Zhao Yiran interrupted in her usual low and soft voice, "Chen Shu specially asked me to tell you that tonight is special, and it won't be too late to go back when you are in good shape." ”
"Tonight special?" Hua Ting instantly understood the meaning of his words, "What about Chen Shu and others?" ”
"He left not long after he sent you over."
should have rushed back to Cai Bingrong's side.
Zhao Yiran thoughtfully stuffed two soft goose feather pillows behind her so that she could lean on more comfortably.
Only then did Hua Ting notice that there was a third person in Zhao Yiran's room, but that person was not the inspector, but the middle-aged male doctor who changed the dressing for the inspector that day.
The middle-aged male doctor wearing round-framed glasses was neatly sorting out the medicine box on the table at the moment, and did not forget to turn around and tell her to come back in 7 days to change the medicine, and the cuffs of a plain robe were still stained with fresh blood.
Hua Ting's wound was already wrapped with a thick layer of bandages, but because her movements were too large just now, fresh blood beads appeared on the dark blood stains that had condensed at the bandage, which was quite shocking to look at.
"Is Chen Shu injured?" Hua Ting sat on her side slightly and felt a slight numbness in her buttocks.
"Hurt?" Zhao Yiran seemed to think about it for a moment, "That's not true," Seeing that Hua Ting was obviously relieved, Zhao Yiran raised his phoenix eyes, and a clear smile flashed in his eyes, "However, what happened to you at night?" ”
"Let's go ......" She wanted to talk to Zhao Yiran roughly, but Yu Guang glanced at the middle-aged male doctor who was still tinkering with the medicine box on the side, and the words changed again, "It's nothing, I was robbed on the road, and I just happened to meet Chen Shu to rescue him." ”
"Robbery?" Zhao Yiran didn't look surprised, thinking that robberies on the streets of Shanghai in this era happened from time to time, and it was not surprising to hear, "It's better for girls not to go out alone at night," she looked at the layers of bandages wrapped around Hua Ting's shoulders, Xu remembered the injuries on the day of the inspection, and her eyebrows were full of worry, "This time I was lucky, fortunately I didn't hurt my life." ”
But at that moment, Hua listened to it and was really out of breath, and she really thought that she was about to die, and she couldn't think of her life, and she wouldn't let her cross back if she couldn't die.
The middle-aged male doctor left her a few bottles of medicine for internal use and then got up to say goodbye, and only took half a sip of the hot tea on the table.
Hua Ting tried to move her legs, "Why isn't Sister Yiran at Paramount today?" "It's time to go, too.
"Today is my turn to take a vacation." She got up and went to close the door.
"I should also go, Sister Yiran," Hua Tinglisuo got out of bed, as long as the swing of her left arm was minimized, the wound would not be so painful, "Otherwise, Bai Fu...... My mom is going to be worried. ”
"Don't take a break?" Zhao Yiran paused as soon as he picked up the teapot on the table, "By the way, the car outside the door is waiting for you, right?" ”
"Car?" She thought of Lu Jinnian, "Oh yes, I'm going to leave quickly." ”
Zhao Yiran saw that her steps were speeding up, so he pulled a windbreaker jacket hanging upside down on the chair, opened it and draped it over her shoulders.
"It's windy at night, keep warm." A pair of smiling eyes are as warm as water.
"Thank you!"
Hua Ting wrapped her coat tightly with one hand and glanced back at her before leaving.
Zhao Yiran's gentle smile, even the subtle lines at the corners of his eyes are full of mellow charm given by the years.
She was approachable and understanding, and the gentle warmth that spread from between her eyebrows and eyes wrapped her entire chest cavity to the full.
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Bai Qihong did not return overnight.
The next day's Shanghai Daily was full of stories about the burning of Bai Qihong's opium warehouse and swallow house, which occupied the front page of the newspaper, and several large bold characters were eye-catching: Shanghai's number one tycoon's opium house was served by an unknown hero!
Hua Ting also read the contents of the newspaper over and over again with great interest, and Chen Shu's long figure in the moonlight and a handsome face under the brim of his hat kept appearing in his mind; Regardless of Chen Shu's status in the dark faction of the Dragon Gang, what he did is indeed worthy of the six words "Unsung Hero of Shanghai Tang"!
Looking at the whole of Shanghai, who has the courage to move Bai Qihong's mind?
News about Bai Qihong dominated the front page of Shanghai Daily for a week, and during this week, Bai Qihong was almost so busy that he rarely went home for the night; Looking at Madame Bai's increasingly thin face, as well as the small body that had lost a full 8 kilograms, Hua Tingzhi wanted to ask her why bother?
Mrs. Bai, the "lady", is competent and competent, although she does not understand Bai Qihong's business, she can always share joys and sorrows with him.
Hua Ting is just the opposite, although he has been seriously injured in the past few days, he has a radiant appearance, and the marriage between him and Jian Yi was naturally deliberately sabotaged by his own party and ended without a problem; Bai Qihong has no time to take care of their marriage now, and is ******** busy taking remedial measures for his warehouse and opium den.
In fact, burning opium warehouses is just a palliative rather than a cure, and they all know in their hearts that Bai Qihong will make a comeback one day; For example, in the case of the burning of the warehouse at the 16 Pu Wharf, Bai Qihong rebuilt the warehouse in just one month, which did not affect the operation of the past at all, and for him the loss was only a batch of goods and a sum of money, and the amount of loss this time was 10 times that time, but with Bai Qihong's ability, it was only a matter of time before the opium was reopened.
These flowers understand it, but it's really happy at the moment.
Because this incident was big enough to alarm the entire Shanghai government, the number of times Jian Maosheng appeared in the Bai Mansion also increased frequently, but every time he pounced, Hua listened to the kind reminder, with the current form, the chance of going to the dock to meet Bai Qihong is relatively large, and it is useless to come to the Bai Mansion. Jian Maosheng looked very embarrassed, but he still took steps and left in a hurry, leaving Jian Yi to look at her with a smile on her face in the hall of the Bai Mansion.
"How do you feel, Sister Hana?"
Hua Ting turned to pour water, and Jane followed her around.
"It's okay." In fact, I couldn't help but raise the corners of my mouth.
"You don't want to marry me so much?" Jane also stood in front of her, blocking her way.
was suddenly blocked by him, Hua Ting stopped his feet in time and was almost burned.
In fact, her left hand is more flexible, but she is not left-handed, but she habitually uses her left hand for daily small things such as serving tea and pouring water, but her left arm is not injured, and her movements are inevitably weird these days, but Mrs. Bai is secretly injured and has no time to care about her, but this action of pouring water seems to have been seen by Jian Yi to have some clues.
He stretched out his hand and put it on Hua Ting's left shoulder, which seemed to be casual, but actually put a little bit of strength on it, "Sister Hua, what are you doing these days?" ”
Hua Ting's heart tightened, and she suddenly felt a little pain, "Sleep at home." ”
A slight frown couldn't escape Jian Yi's eyes.
"Sister Hua, you say, what day should you choose for your next engagement?" Jian also tightened the strength of his hand, and the smile on the face on the other side froze as he expected.
"Let go of your hands." The pain made her right hand, which was holding the cup, tremble slightly.
"What's wrong, Sister Hua?" Jian Yi had a big smile on her face.
The place covered by his palm was where Hua Ting was shot, and he was still squeezing it in at the moment, and the pain made her break out in a cold sweat.
"Let go of your hands." Hua Ting's tail trembled violently, but the strength of his speech was very heavy, and he jumped out of his teeth with inexplicable anger.
She only put a thin velvet jacket on the outside of the lace shirt, and it was impossible for Jane to put the hand on her shoulder without noticing the raised bandage texture inside, and he not only refused to let go, but also increased the force, clearly deliberately.
"What's wrong?" Jian also saw that she looked like she couldn't hold back, obviously her lips were bloodless, her face was blue, and there was a little sweat on her forehead, but her expression was as casual as a leisurely walk, he suddenly felt funny, he took the celadon teacup in her hand, and rubbed the thick hair that fell down on her shoulders with his right hand before withdrawing his right hand, and laughed in a low voice, "Sister Hua doesn't have to be nervous." ”
Jian Yi let go of his hand, and the pain was relieved, Hua Ting breathed a sigh of relief, and subconsciously covered the wound, suddenly thinking that he had forgotten to go to Zhao Yiran to change the medicine in the past few days.
Jane also rested the cup on the coffee table in the hall, and then walked over from the other side of the sofa with a smile on her eyebrows, "Let's go," and raised her hand slightly to hook her right arm, "Take you somewhere." ”
Hua Ting frowned helplessly, "I don't want to go anywhere." ”
Jian Yi turned her head and looked into her sight with crooked smiling eyes, "Don't worry, I won't sell you." The hard face was blurred by the warm light of the hall, and every facial muscle had a soft smile.
"No, no."
Jane didn't pay any attention to it, and hooked her right arm tightly.
Hua Ting overwhelmed his strength, and was taken by him all the way to the door of the hall.
"Where the hell are you going to take Lao Tzu?!" Hua Ting was furious, if he didn't have his left arm and couldn't move, how could he be at his mercy?
"Change the dressing."
"Huh?"
She subconsciously looked down and saw that part of the fabric on her left shoulder had already been soaked with blood.