Difficult to quit

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Zhuang's mother said, "Li Qinghai, I remember correctly, right?"

Li Qinghai paused for a few seconds.

Then she withdrew her hand and stood upright beside the bed, "Auntie has a good memory, I'm Li Qinghai."

Zhuang's mother narrowed her eyes and looked at him, "When did you and Zhuang Yi meet again?"

Li Qinghai frowned because of the word "again", but answered honestly: "April and May last year."

"It's been almost a year." Zhuang's mother murmured.

Li Qinghai's heart tightened, and he said with a smile, "Yes, auntie, it's been almost a year."

Zhuang's mother snorted softly, "You're still pretending to be stupid, do you really think I don't know anything?"

She took out the book she was reading just now from under the pillow and showed it to Li Qinghai. "Gay Subculture" was impressively printed on the cover.

Li Qinghai's heart turned cold for a moment, and he hurriedly explained: "Auntie, it's me——Zhuang Yi didn't..."

He bumped into Mama Zhuang's calm and wise eyes, and made her voice hoarse.

Zhuang's mother said in a calm voice, "Xiao Yi suddenly seemed to have changed in the past few years. He often fell into a daze for no reason, cried in secret, and his academic performance dropped badly... I thought about it later, since you left started."

Li Qinghai's heart felt uncomfortable as if it was stuffed with a piece of cotton.

"He has been good since he was a child. His father and I are busy with work, and he never troubled us." Zhuang's mother's eyes were gentle and sad, "We have always been very reassuring of him... This is our negligence."

Li Qinghai wanted to comfort her: "Auntie..."

Zhuang's mother suddenly changed the topic, "...he has his own ideas, and I won't interfere with this matter. But I have something to ask you."

Li Qinghai felt very ominous in his heart.

Zhuang's mother suddenly reached out and grabbed his hand. Her fingers were thin but strong, like the strong roots of an old tree.

She stared at Li Qinghai firmly, and asked him word by word, "I want to ask you, does Zhuang Yi's father's car accident have anything to do with you?"

Li Qinghai's breathing paused, and the feeling of suffocation seized him for a moment.

When Li Ze introduced him to the company for the first time, he gave a speech to all the senior management and shareholders of Wanhe Group, and he was not as nervous as he is now.

I don't know how long this matter has been lingering in this woman's mind. Instead of asking Zhuang Yi, she turned to him.

He knew that he could tell her the whole story of the past, and take himself out of it, so she wouldn't have a place to ask for proof. She could only believe what he said.

With his ability, now he can make the whole thing seamless without any flaws.

Li Qinghai looked into Shangzhuang's mother's eyes, the look in those eyes was too complicated, he felt for a moment that she wanted him to lie to her, and in a moment he felt that she wanted to tell the truth.

After being silent for a century, Li Qinghai made a decision.

"Auntie, Uncle's car accident," Li Qinghai said with difficulty, "has something to do with me."

The hand holding him tightened suddenly, and the protruding joints hurt him.

Li Qinghai closed his eyes, and then calmly looked at Zhuang's mother, "What happened back then is like this..."

Zhuang Yi bought decoction packs, carried a plastic lunch box and ran all the way back to the inpatient department, got off the elevator and ran all the way again, pushed open the door of the ward, and then leaned against the wall to gasp for breath.

Both people in the room looked back at him in surprise.

After a while, Zhuang's mother laughed first, "What are you doing in such a hurry, kid?"

Li Qinghai sat on the edge of the bed and lowered his head to continue peeling the apple in his hand, "I'm afraid the decoction won't taste good if it gets cold."

Zhuang Yi looked at the two of them in surprise, and asked pantingly, "You, what are you talking about?"

"Casual chat, I heard that you have changed to a new company," Zhuang's mother said, "The salary is higher than before, and the treatment is better, isn't it?"

She lacks understanding of artists, and feels that being an artist is a profession, similar to other office workers.

After peeling the apples, Li Qinghai cut the apples into small pieces and put them in a glass bowl. While inserting a toothpick into it, he said, "The new company pays you well, and the benefits are good, and the company will provide you with housing."

Zhuang's mother ate a piece of apple, "That's good."

Zhuang Yi took a breath, walked over and put the fried buns on the bedside table, his suspicious eyes swept back and forth between the two of them.

He asked suspiciously, "Are you talking about my new company just now?"

"Yes." Li Qinghai nodded, and your new boss.

Zhuang Yi couldn't figure out why, but felt that the moment he went out to buy fried buns, the atmosphere in the ward changed, and it became strange that he couldn't explain it.

The two sat in the ward for a while, then got up and prepared to leave.

Zhuang's mother suddenly called him from behind again, "Zhuang Yi, have you visited your father yet?"

Zhuang Yi was silent for a while, "I went there last November."

"Mom is not in good health. Go and see him for me." Zhuang's mother leaned against the bed, her eyes fell on the two people at the door, "Talk to him more, tell him about you, and Dad also hopes You're having a good time, okay?"

Zhuang Yi was silent, and answered "OK" in a hoarse voice.

Li Qinghai stood behind where he couldn't see, and nodded slightly to Mama Zhuang.

Zhuang's mother smiled gently, "I'm tired after talking for a long time, you go back, be careful on the way."

Zhuang Yi agreed, and Li Qinghai added beside him: "Auntie, let's go first, Zhuang Yi will come to see you next time."

"Let's go, let's go." Zhuang's mother waved her hand, her eyes swept over the identical green watch straps on the two wrists, feeling a little helpless.

The two of them didn't even realize that they just stood together, and the aura between them was different, and anyone with a discerning eye could see it at a glance.

Still a child.

She sighed softly, took the "Gay Subculture", and opened one of the pages. There was a photo in the middle, which was a photo of her and Zhuang's father when she was young.

Mother Zhuang's thin fingers gently caressed the handsome smiling face of the man in the photo.

"Xiao Yi has been unhappy all these years, only that bastard has a solution. You want this too, don't you?"

A drop of water fell on the photo, and the man's smile seemed to be more three-dimensional.

Li Qinghai and Zhuang Yi got into the car when the phone rang.

He picks up the phone.

Li Qingxiang's sinister voice came from the receiver: "Second Brother, Wanhe Group is losing money every minute now, you are not worried at all, and you still have the heart to take your little lover back to your hometown for a date?"

Li Qinghai smiled, "Wanhe belongs to the elder brother, he is not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry?"

If it weren't for the British man's control, Li Ze wouldn't have learned the news so late, and Wanhe wouldn't have been in such a mess.

Li Qingxiang gritted his teeth, "What good will Wanhe's collapse do to you? Second brother, are you really going to destroy Wanhe?"

"How could it be?" Li Qinghai casually comforted him: "Wanhe can't collapse so easily. Father will return to China soon, and elder brother will soon return to China. Don't be afraid."

"What's the matter with us when the elder brother returns to China?" Li Qingxiang's emotions exploded in an instant, "We have been working as cattle and horses for Li's family for so many years, and we just wait for Li Qingyang to return to China and hand over everything?!"

Li Qinghai's tone was unhurried, "No, elder brother also needs help. Even if he comes back, Mrs. Li still has a place for you."

"Helper?" Li Qingxiang let out a "ha", as if he had heard some big joke, "My surname is also Li, so why should I only be his helper?! Li Qinghai, second brother, have you never thought about it? Should you have a share of the things from the Li family? Just because we are illegitimate children, should we only work for Li Qingyang?"

He seemed to have suddenly understood something, and his tone suddenly turned cold, "Did you treat me like this in the past six months to please Li Qingyang?"

"You're so stupid. Do you think that Li Qingyang can give you the family property after you've broken me up? He wished he didn't have us two brothers, and he wouldn't give it to anyone!"

Li Qinghai waited for him to finish yelling before he said calmly: "Since you know that he won't give it to anyone, what's the point of arguing?"

"I don't fight, I don't fight, why should I not fight?" Li Qingxiang said in a crazy tone, "I am also my father's son, and I have worked as hard as Li Qingyang since I was a child. Why is he born with everything and I have nothing?"

"Second brother, you can cooperate with me. Let's join forces. In the future, we will have half of the family property. What do you think?"

Before Li Qinghai answered, he said again: "Siliu, as long as you help me get rid of Li Qingyang, I'll give you [-]%!"

Li Qinghai said: "What if I disagree."

Li Qingxiang laughed abruptly, the laughter was dark and cold, "Would you rather be Li Qingyang's dog than fight with him?"

"Third brother, look at yourself," Li Qinghai sighed softly, "You've got Li Yan's collar around your neck."

A string of obscenities came from Li Qingxiang, and Li Qinghai hung up the phone directly.

He rubbed the center of his eyebrows irritably, and Zhuang Yi next to him gave him a questioning look.

"It's okay." Li Qinghai started the car, "Li Qingxiang is not a character who can endure, and he never leaves behind when doing things. Let's go back to City B now."

Both he and Li Qingxiang knew very well that if he didn't take Li Qingxiang's side among the three brothers, it must be Li Qingyang's side.

Most of Li's property is now in his hands. When Li Qingyang comes back and hands it over, Li Qingxiang will basically lose.

So the best way is to get rid of Li Qinghai before Li Qingyang comes back, whether it is to make him defect or use other methods.

Although there is a branch of Wanhe in City A, it is not within Li Qinghai's sphere of influence after all. If Li Qingxiang makes trouble here, it will be more troublesome.

Li Qinghai refused the hospitality of the person in charge of the branch, and drove Zhuang Yi back to City B. Before leaving, he called City B and asked someone to come over to pick him up.

There is a section of tunnel road construction between city A and city B. Li Qinghai frowned on the mountain road that Li Qinghai drove around.

Zhuang Yi was drowsy at first, so he woke up by speeding up, and asked a little confused: "What's wrong?"

"Someone is following." Li Qinghai glanced at the cars behind him in the rearview mirror, but he didn't expect Li Qingxiang to move so fast.

No, no, these people should have been following him secretly since he left City B, waiting for Li Qingxiang's order.

He couldn't help pinching the center of his brows. Maybe he should wait until he returns to City B before showing his side to Li Qingxiang. Confessing everything that happened back then in front of Zhuang's mother was a bit of a shock to him and affected his judgment.

At this time, an off-road vehicle behind suddenly accelerated, and then slammed into the back of their car!