I don't like the smell of hospitals."
Fan Xiao flicked the cigarette butt with his thumb and smiled: "But the Third Young Master is ill, so I have to come to visit him anyway."
Bai Yupeng, who looked like a thin dog, was lying on the hospital bed. His head was wrapped tightly in bandages, his face was bruised and purple, and there were thick blood scabs at the corners of his lips. When he spoke, the wounds would burst and blood would seep out.
"Fan Xiao!" He cursed through his teeth, "You attacked me secretly, and now you're pretending to be nice?!"
"Don't say anything careless." Fan Xiao bit the cigarette between his teeth and used his hands to peel an orange for Bai Yupeng. "Isn't Third Young Master wronging me?"
After peeling the orange in a few seconds, Fan Xiao handed it to Bai Yupeng and said slowly, "Third Young Master treats me as a friend. He keeps inviting me to get together even when I'm down and out. I'm grateful to him so much. How could he do something to harm you from behind?"
Bai Yupeng knocked Juzi down. He endured the pain in the corner of his mouth and roared, "I'm f*cking taking revenge on You, and you come here to help him vent his anger. You two really are a loving couple! Okay, okay, I admit defeat. Can't I just avoid you two mandarin ducks when I see you in the future? Now that you've beaten me and vented your anger, what else do you want to do?"
Fan Xiao bent down to pick up the orange on the ground, slowly walked to the bed, and said with a smile: "I don't want to do anything, I just want to remind the third young master to eat more fruits when he is sick."
He suddenly grabbed Bai Yupeng's hair and forced him to raise his face: "This orange is very sweet, Third Young Master, try it."
Holding a cigarette, smiling, and speaking in an almost gentle tone, Fan Xiao crushed the whole orange in his hand, letting the gushing and sour juice seep into the wound at the corner of Bai Yupeng's lips.
"Fan Xiao! It hurts, it hurts so much, take it away, take it away!"
"Don't waste it. I'm so poor now. It's not easy for me to buy these things." Fan Xiao lowered his eyes coldly and stuffed the orange, which was squeezed to no juice left, into Bai Yupeng's mouth!
The mouth opened and closed extremely hard, causing the corners of the lips that had just scabbed to tear into multiple deep bloody cuts that exposed the flesh. The orange juice on the face flowed into the wounds, triggering a new round of ghostly howling!
The painful cry attracted the nurse. Before she could ask, Fan Xiao straightened up, wiped his hands with a tissue and explained with a smile: "Sick people are not in a good mood. I advised him to eat more fruit and he turned his face away."
The female nurse was skeptical but didn't want to interfere. This patient was obscene and had harassed several nurses. Seeing that Bai Yupeng was not seriously injured, she just said "Silence" and turned around and left the ward.
"Fan Xiao, have you had enough fun?" Bai Yupeng covered his lips with his hands, his eyes wide open.
Fan Xiao threw away the tissue, nodded simply, and said coldly: "Bai Yupeng, if you respect me, I may not respect you, but if you mess with me, I will definitely get it back double. The grudge between you, me, and You Shulang ends here. If you are still not convinced, no matter what tricks you use, I, Fan Xiao, will take it on."
Bai Yupeng was surprisingly easy to talk to this time: "Okay, okay, I understand. I will avoid you two next time I see you two."
Fan Xiao threw away the cigarette, stamped it out with his toes, and put a smile on his face again: "Then it's a deal."
After leaving the hospital and turning into the back alley, a flashy sports car was parked on the narrow road. Fan Xiao opened the passenger door and got in.
The man in the driver's seat was answering the phone. When he saw Fan Xiao coming up, he just glanced at him.
He said into the phone, "Fan Xiao's entire family is ruined. He is now barefoot and is not afraid of anything. Why would you mess with him? I told you that he will never let go of any grudge."
The caller moved the phone to his ear and used his free right hand to pinch it with his middle and index fingers. Fan Xiao smiled, offered him a cigarette, and then attentively lit it with a match.
The car window was lowered a little, and the man took a puff of cigarette and continued to talk on the phone: "You beat up You Shulang, and Fan Xiao beat you up. From what I know about Fan Xiao, this matter is even. He won't keep an eye on you anymore."
"Me and Fan Xiao?" The man holding the cigarette glanced at the passenger seat. "There's nothing going on between him and me right now. I heard that the mess in his family hasn't been resolved yet. I have to stay away from him. Say something good for you? Okay, okay, it's all because of me that you got into this trouble. I just arrived in China, I'll set up a group to make amends for you someday. Don't worry, Fan Xiao has to make money to support himself now, and he won't stare at you anymore after he vents his anger. I'll go to the hospital to see you someday. I just landed and I was frozen to death. He's dead."
The phone was hung up impatiently, and most of the cigarette was thrown out through the window.
Fan Xiao looked at the quickly closing car window and said with a smile: "Shi Lihua, Bai Yupeng can be considered your friend, you seem to have no pressure in selling him."
"If I don't sell him out, will I sell you out?" Shi Lihua tightened his coat. "You beat up Bai Yupeng on purpose just to make him feel at ease and let him think that you won't keep an eye on him anymore?"
"Yes." Fan Xiao took out the hand cream from his pocket, squeezed half a pump and carefully applied it to the skin on his hands. "He has been a little alert recently. Maybe he is afraid that I will investigate him. Those shady things he did secretly have stopped. I couldn't wait any longer, so I beat him up to make him feel at ease."
"Wait until he continues to do those things before you take action?"
Fan Xiao raised his moist hands and looked at them: "One strike kills him."
Shi Lihua sighed, "Fan Xiao, you are becoming more and more gay." He stretched out his hand, "Give me some too, this damn weather is so dry and cold."
Fan Xiao threw the hand cream over and said, "Send it to where I parked my car."
"Where to park?" Shi Lihua rubbed the back of his hand. "What about your broken motorcycle? Fan Xiao, why are you doing this? You also have a company in Thailand. Although things may not be as good as before, no one dares to do anything to you. Why do you have to stay in this damn place? Didn't You Shulang not want you anymore?"
The hand cream was snatched back, and Fan Xiao looked downcast: "Let's drive."
Shi Lihua is not a person who can sit idle. After staying at home for two days, he started to hang out in nightclubs.
"Really not coming?" He called Fan Xiao, "Unloading? With the workers? Damn, I suspect someone has replaced you."
After hanging up the phone, he pushed open the door of the private room, opened his arms, and shouted, "Happy Birthday!"
The person celebrating the birthday was a second-generation man, another drinking buddy of Shi Lihua.
New faces, familiar faces, and semi-familiar faces mixed together, it was lively and crazy. In person, they were all close friends, but behind the scenes, they were all strangers.
Everyone was having a great time, except for one person who didn't fit in. He was like a hole in a giant web of decadence and corruption, and he happened to be just outside the hole.
The man sat upright in the corner, drinking alone, and would occasionally greet people, but his smile was so faint that it did not reach his eyes.
"Who is it?" Shi Lihua asked, looking at the corner.
"Oh, my dad's business partner came to celebrate my birthday in order to find a way out. The birthday present he gave me was pretty good. I'll mention it to my dad someday." The birthday boy asked, "He's in the new energy business. Can you introduce him to me?"
Shi Lihua lazily refused: "Forget it, I'm just a rice seller, why should I know him?"
The man in the corner stood up and said goodbye after sitting for a while. The birthday boy treated him politely and sent him to the elevator, where he unexpectedly saw Shi Lihua waiting for the elevator.
"Are you leaving too?" asked the birthday man.
"Let's go, I'm going to get something from the car."
The elevator arrived, and Shi Lihua and the man naturally rode together. No one spoke during the descent, but they just nodded to each other.
With a ding, the yellow light came on and the elevator stopped at the basement level. The temperature in the underground parking lot was not too warm for Shi Lihua, so he wrapped his clothes tightly and followed the man out of the elevator.
A horn was heard, and the man in front paused slightly, then turned and walked towards the car with its lights flashing.
Shi Lihua's eyes followed him subconsciously, and when he saw the person in the driver's seat, he blurted out subconsciously: "You Shulang?"
When three people stood together, only Shi Lihua looked awkward.
You Shulang was indifferent, but the man working on new energy was calm. He smiled and asked, "Mr. Shi, right? Do you know Shulang?"
"Forget it."
"That's such a coincidence, I'm his boyfriend."
Shi Lihua's voice was inflected: "What are you to him?"
"Boy friend."
Shi Lihua's eyes rolled around, and finally sneered: "Then you fucking touched the little male model's butt in the club up there!"