Chapter Thirty-Four: Trouble at Home

  "Sister-in-law, don't worry, I'll be right back. You first tell me what's going on at home?"

  Li Yang hastily asked a question, his face had already changed to look very bad. From Fang Shuqin's voice, it could be heard that something big must have happened at home this time, otherwise she wouldn't be so anxious.

  Slowly, Fang Shuqin cried and told Li Yang the whole thing. Li Yang's eyebrows were tightly furrowed together, something big had indeed happened at home.

  "What's wrong, Li Yang?" Wu Xiaoli asked hastily as she saw Li Yang hang up the phone.

  "Xiao Li, sorry about this, something's come up at home and I need to head back right away. I'll make it up to you another time!"

  Li Yang shook his head and quickly walked out. He wanted to hail a taxi back home, from Mingyang to his house would take about an hour if the traffic was good.

  "Wait, I'll give you a ride, Li Yang! We'll take the highway and it will be faster!"

  Wu Xiaoli behind him came after, Li Yang looked at her in surprise, Wu Xiaoli knew she was a person from Licheng County, but Wu Xiaoli had never treated herself like that before.

  "Alright, thank you, I will definitely repay you when I return!"

  After some thought, Li Yang nodded and agreed. Family matters were urgent, and having Wu Xiaoli drive him would indeed save time. Taking the highway home would only take fifty minutes, and if they drove fast, it would only take forty minutes to get home.

  Wu Xiaoli's sedan was parked next to the supermarket, Wu Xiaoli started the car and quickly drove away, as if she understood Li Yang's anxious mood at this time.

  Wu Xiaoli drove very fast, and this speed was quite dangerous in the city, but fortunately it was not rush hour now, and there were no red lights on the road, so the car soon passed the toll station and got onto the highway.

  The expressway from Mingyang to Licheng is the Lianhuo Expressway. Wu Xiaoli directly accelerated to 150 km/h on the overtaking lane, Li Yang looked at her with gratitude but still reminded her to slow down a bit. Wu Xiaoli's face looked very tense, apparently she had never driven so fast before.

  Looking out the window at the rapidly passing highway guardrail, Li Yang's tightly furrowed brow never relaxed. Fang Shuqin didn't say much on the phone, but it was enough to give Li Yang a general understanding of what had happened.

  It turned out that Li Yang's older brother, Li Cheng, wanted to get the school built as soon as possible after the new year, so he hired a construction team to lay the foundation before the new year. Recently, the entire city of Mingyang has not had any rain or snow, and the temperature has been above zero all along, under these conditions, laying the foundation is also feasible.

  The trouble lies in the foundation, just this afternoon, the workers who were digging the foundation unexpectedly dug up an ancient tomb. Inside the tomb there were a large number of copper coins and a small amount of silver ingots. At that time, Mr. and Mrs. Li happened to be present, they immediately ordered the workers to seal the tomb first and wait for relevant departments to handle it.

  Mr. and Mrs. Li are cultured people who knew that these things were cultural relics belonging to the state, and at the time they had no other thoughts but to hand them over to the country.

  Unfortunately, some workers had different ideas from Li Cheng and his team. After Li Yang called the Public Security Bureau and the Cultural Relics Bureau, a bold worker took the lead in looting things from the ancient tomb. With this one move, others who had been thinking about it also followed suit, and soon they looted everything from the ancient tomb, leaving nothing behind.

  Mr. and Mrs. Li Cheng were shocked by the scene, and Mr. Li rushed over to stop them, but was pushed to the ground by several workers. The workers, who were in a hurry to grab things, didn't care if there were people under their feet, and as a result, Mr. Li was trampled on and fainted at the scene. He has been sent to the hospital, where Fang Shuqin called Li Yang.

  Now, since the school's construction site has dug up an ancient tomb, it is certain that work cannot continue, and may even affect future projects. However, this is not the most important thing; Li Yang is now most worried about Li Cheng's injuries. The harm caused by trampling can be said to be very great, with many places around the world experiencing trampling deaths every year.

  "Li Yang, where are we going!"

  Li Yang was thinking, when Wu Xiaoli suddenly said a sentence to him. Li Yang only then discovered that they had already exited the highway toll station. Li Yang had been too engrossed in his thoughts and didn't even notice paying the toll and exiting the station.

  "Sorry!" Li Yang apologetically shook his head, looked at the time, and found that it had only been half an hour since he received Fang Shuqin's phone call. This speed could be said to be very fast.

  Mingyang drove to Licheng County, a distance of 54 kilometers. They had already spent over 10 minutes in the city, and these more than 50 kilometers were covered in just over 20 minutes. For a girl, driving so fast is really not easy.

  "It's okay, I can understand that you're in a hurry with something going on at home." Wu Xiaoli smiled and shook her head, continuing to say: "I've been to Licheng County many times, so it's not unfamiliar to me. Just tell me where to go!"

  "Let's go to People's Hospital first!" Li Yang nodded, at this time he didn't bother with politeness towards Wu Xiaoli either, now he was more worried about Li Cheng's injury.

  Seven or eight minutes later, Wu Xiaoli's car stopped in the parking lot of Licheng County People's Hospital. Li Yang got out of the car and made a phone call, then rushed to the operating room with Wu Xiaoli, while Li Cheng was still being rescued.

  Outside the operating room, both Li's mother and Fang Shuqin were sitting on a chair with red eyes. Li Junshan was pacing back and forth. After Fang Shuqin called Li Yang, she immediately called his parents. The first thing that came to her mind after the accident was Li Yang. It wasn't until after she hung up the phone that she remembered it would take Li Yang some time to get home, so she quickly notified his parents.

  "It's okay, definitely nothing wrong!"

  Li Yang hadn't spoken yet, when Li Junshan said a sentence to him. Li Yang was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood that his father was too worried about his older brother, so he saw himself and didn't think before saying what had been on his mind all along.

  "Dad, big brother will definitely be fine!"

  Li Yang stepped forward and grabbed his father's arm, just as Li Junshan was about to speak, the door of the operating room opened, and several people rushed to crowd in front of the doctor.

  "It's fortunate that the rescue was timely, and the patient is now out of danger!" The doctor's first sentence let everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and Li Yang's tense face also relaxed.

  "However, since the patient has just cleared out the blood clots in his abdominal cavity, he won't regain consciousness for a short period of time. For now, he still needs to be observed in the ICU for some time. Who's going to go take care of the hospital admission procedures?"

  The doctor finished speaking and left first. Fang Shuqin and her mother hugged each other and cried again, having been worried for so long, they finally felt at ease.

  Li Junshan's face also showed a hint of excitement, Li Yang hurriedly asked Wu Xiaoli to help take care of his parents, and followed the doctor to handle the hospitalization procedures. His parents and sister-in-law were not in a suitable state to deal with these trivial matters now.

  When Fang Shuqin was hospitalized, she had already paid a deposit of 10,000 yuan. Li Yang added another 20,000 yuan. The intensive care unit is the ICU, and the daily cost inside is not low.

  More than two hours later, Li Chengcai was transferred to the ICU from the operating room. After Li Yang and others had settled Li Cheng down and finished their busy work, it was already 9 o'clock in the evening. Only then did Li Yang suddenly remember that none of them had eaten yet, including Wu Xiaoli who had been following beside him all along.

  "Sorry, I've been busy just now, otherwise let's go out and have something to eat, then you can head back, thanks for the trouble today!"

  Looking at Wu Xiaoli, Li Yang felt a little shy for the first time. When Wu Xiaoli was facing him, there was nothing, but this change in attitude made him very uncomfortable.

  "It's okay, I've already called my family and told them I won't be coming back today since it's too late!" Wu Xiaoli smiled, and Li Yang suddenly realized that Wu Xiaoli looked even more beautiful when she smiled, something he had never noticed before.

  "Is that all right?" Li Yang furrowed his brow, he was indeed worried that Wu Xiaoli's family would blame her, after all, a girl not returning home at night wasn't a good thing.

  "Why can't I? It's not like it hasn't happened before. Besides, it's so late and it's dangerous for me to drive alone. I might as well stay here!"

  Wu Xiaoli smiled and shook her head, Li Yang thought about it too, a girl driving alone on such a late night road is even more dangerous. Anyway, the hotel conditions in Licheng are not bad, go open a suite for Wu Xiaoli later, let her go back tomorrow morning as well.

  "Alright then, you can stay in a hotel for the next few nights. One of my classmates works at a big hotel and I'll call him to book a room for you right away!"

  "Alright, it's settled then!" Wu Xiaoli quickly nodded her head, a bright smile once again appearing on her face.

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