"What features does the leader have?" Xu Ke asked, his eyes half-closed, his tone revealing little fluctuation.
"The leader is soone with dyed yellow hair, slightly slanted eyes, a scar on the brow bone about half an inch long, and a tattoo of a blue-eyed white tiger on his left arm, looks around six foot tall. Oh, right, he calls himself Brother Biao." The honest-looking worker replied while gesturing.
Xu Ke silently repeated it in his mind, ensuring he rembered everything before looking up and saying to the two workers, "I’ve noted everything you just said, but once ngyao wakes up, please do a favor and don’t tell her I was here." Xu Ke stood outside the corridor, watching Lin ngyao lying on the hospital bed through the glass window.
"Why not? Aren’t you two a couple?" asked the straightforward man in confusion.
Knowing he still needed their help for what’s coming, Xu Ke half-jokingly said, "We had a fight and we’re in a cold war now. The doctor just advised that her emotions shouldn’t be agitated, and I’m afraid she’ll get upset seeing and it might affect her condition."
Luckily, the two didn’t probe further and instead patted their chests, promising, "Don’t worry, we’ll keep this a secret for you."
"Alright, you two can rest a while. I’ll stay with her now, you can co over when she’s about to wake up."
The two nodded and found a spot to nap on the hospital’s long bench, while Xu Ke quietly walked in.
Lin ngyao’s face, initially dirty, was cleaned, revealing her original appearance. Xu Ke, slling of sweat and earth, didn’t sit on the bed but pulled a chair closer and silently observed ngyao’s face.
She had lost a lot of weight, her wounded face looked pale and her lips were colorless, resembling a fragile porcelain doll that might break with a slight touch, causing Xu Ke’s heart to ache painfully, making it hard even to breathe.
Xu Ke’s gaze was filled with affection and pain as he greedily looked for a few monts before taking out his phone to call Xu Jie. The call connected swiftly, with Xu Jie answering almost as soon as it started ringing.
"Mr. Xu, any instructions?" Xu Jie asked from the other end.
Xu Ke glanced at Lin ngyao on the bed, walked to the farthest corner of the room, and whispered, "Find soone called Brother Biao; he’s about six feet tall, with a half-inch scar on his brow bone, dyed yellow hair, and a blue-eyed white tiger tattoo on his left arm. Track down where their group is now and gather evidence of their cris over the years; tell where they are before dinner, and collect all evidence against them within three days. Use any thod necessary, but this must be done." Xu Ke’s voice carried endless coldness, and Xu Jie wondered if it was her illusion, as she seed to hear Xu Ke gritting his teeth as he spoke.
"Understood, I’ll get on it right away." After Xu Jie finished speaking, Xu Ke hung up, his gaze fell on Lin ngyao’s bandaged head. He wanted to drag out Brother Biao and beat him, returning ngyao’s pain tenfold a hundredfold, but for a thug like him, just that would be too easy; he had to make sure he spends the rest of his life repenting in prison.
Xu Ke stayed with Lin ngyao in the hospital room all afternoon, until the ti the doctor ntioned she’d wake approached, he left the room and let the two workers take over, "I’ve arranged for a special caregiver for ngyao here. Thank you for bringing her to the hospital today, here is the advance for dical fees, the card has no password and can be directly used." Although Xu Ke was reluctant to leave ngyao under the care of others, he knew why ngyao moved out, and he didn’t want to upset her or cause any emotional distress, considering her current injury and the doctor’s warning against emotional shocks; he didn’t want to gamble with ngyao’s health, so he had no choice but to hire a caregiver.
"It’s what we should do." The kindly man rubbed his freshly trimd stubbly head and smiled.
"Thank you all the sa." Xu Ke thanked the two n, "I’ll be staying nearby for the ti being; if anything happens with ngyao, I hope you can inform imdiately, including on the construction site. I don’t want sothing like today to happen again."
The two honest-looking n were startled by the sudden aura of Xu Ke, it took a mont before they reacted, nodding eagerly, "Absolutely."
anwhile, at the police station, Brother Biao and his crew were bailed out with money, each stretching and twisting with good spirits as if they were at ho. Known to frequent the place, the station was almost like a second ho.
Brother Biao stretched as he stepped out of the station, complaining with a face full of displeasure, "Damn, it was suffocating, what a gloomy place. Let’s go, dinner’s on tonight," he declared with a wave.
"Aren’t we going to watch over the construction site?" soone murmured.
"Watch what? The woman from today got hit into the hospital with my bat, their leader is there too, without a head to guide them, what work can they do, you idiot!" Brother Biao smacked the younger guy’s head, making him stagger before laughing loudly, "Now, let’s go eat."
Soon the juniors chid in, turning the police station’s entrance into a noisy market scene.
"What’s all the noise, get moving if you’re leaving, or else co inside and stop loitering at the entrance," an old officer scolded with a police baton pointed at the gang, appearing strict yet not intimidating them; anyway, the police station’s a regular haunt for them, familiar enough not to be fazed anymore.
Strutting out, the thugs were unaware that a prison term was speedily heading in their direction.
Xu Jie’s efficiency proved swift; before dinner, she’d already tracked down the gang’s movents, sending their dinner location to Xu Ke.
Xu Ke’s face darkened further as he looked at the address. ngyao still lay in the hospital bed, yet they leisurely dined—truly a bunch in need of a lesson, Xu Ke thought through gritted teeth.
After a brief goodbye to the two honest-faced n and asking them to contact him with any updates regarding ngyao, Xu Ke headed straight for the restaurant where the gang was.
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