Chapter Eleven: Yèzi's Terminal Illness

  Tonight, Liu Xue's mood was not calm. The little deer hidden in her chest kept jumping around and bumping into things, especially when she intentionally or unintentionally met Zhou Yi's gaze, the little deer jumped even more violently.

  The Book of Changes says to walk together, but in fact it's out of a gentleman's courtesy. After all, there are two ladies in front of him. However, when they really start walking together, the inconvenience is immediately discovered.

  Before graduating from graduate school, he followed his tutor to do several topics. The bonus for the dividend alone was around 300,000 yuan, and he had a lot of money on hand. He was lazy and procrastinated, so when going out, he always took a taxi, while Liu Xue rode an electric tricycle.

  Then there is a problem.

  Since we're going together, Zhou Yi naturally didn't want to take a taxi, but having Liu Xiu, this little girl, ride a bike while sitting in the car with Xiao Yezi was also not good-looking.

  Then Zhou Yi suggested that he ride the bike and let Liu Xue and Ye Zi sit on it. As for this proposal, Little Ye naturally applauded, but Liu Xue blushed and disagreed with whatever was said.

  In Liu Xue's opinion, that appearance really looked like a family of three traveling together. The women in the Xiaodian community were all roles who would stir up trouble even when there was nothing to do, and if they saw this, who knows what rumors would spread; she and Zhou Yi lived opposite each other, alone and single, it's easy to talk nonsense...

  Zhou Yi quickly understood Liu Xue's concerns and suggested that he would run there himself, taking the opportunity to exercise. Although Liu Xue felt embarrassed about this, Zhou Yi patted his chest and said that even when he was free, he would go for a run to exercise, so this short distance was nothing, and she couldn't object to it.

  Two girls, one big and one small, sat on an electric vehicle, watching Zhou Yi run alone like a rabbit, the scene was inexplicably strange and interesting.

  Facing the long-awaited summer breeze, the red glow on Liu Xue's face gradually faded away. Looking at Zhou Yi's back, her mood began to become bewildered, with some expectation, yet also with a hint of vigilance. To put it in Cui Er's words, it was "a tangled mess that couldn't be cut off or sorted out".

  "Will he... be our benefactor, Yezhu and mine?"

  Willow catkins thought dazedly, still with some hesitation in her heart.

  These two years, she has been struggling too hard and is exhausted, her heart and mind are worn out, and she can't hold on much longer. She really hopes to have a broad shoulder to lean on, cry bitterly, or even be a little willful.

  Is this man in front of me really reliable?

  Two years ago, Liu Xue was still a happy college flower, surrounded by some high-ranking officials or ** silk, flattering her every day. When she had nothing to do, she would go shopping and discussing with her dormitory sisters when the Apple 5 would be listed...

  At that time, her father was the king of stir-fry powder in Chudu flea market, and her sister and brother-in-law also opened a chain restaurant "Doulai Le" with assets worth tens of millions. She was the little princess of the family, a heartless and reckless rich second generation, 2B young woman.

  But a sudden disaster made everything she once had disappear in an instant.

  During a self-driving tour, her brother-in-law's car crashed into the mountain cliff. Her sister and brother-in-law died on the spot, and her parents were seriously injured. Only Yezi was tightly protected by her mother and only suffered minor injuries.

  When Liu Xue received the bad news, she rushed from school and her mother had already passed away due to severe injuries.

  After her sister's husband passed away, 'Doulai' also fell into a huge economic crisis and was soon acquired by its competitors. Faced with those good friends and partners who had once been close to her brother-in-law, Liu Xue, this young girl, couldn't get even one cent.

  To pay for his father's enormous medical expenses, Liu Xue sold his sister and brother-in-law's house as well as their own family home. Eighty percent of the money was spent on hospitals, but in the end they still couldn't save his father's life, resulting in both a loss of property and wealth.

  The Liu family was left with only Liu Xue and Yezi relying on each other for survival; she wasn't unwilling to go seek help from relatives, but there were almost no relatives on their side of the family, and Yezi's grandparents were far away in the mountains of Yun Province, and she couldn't bear to let Yezi be trapped in the mountains, ruining his future.

  So she could only grit her teeth and struggle on, hoping to find a decent job to support Yezi, so that he would have a bright future ahead of him.

  It was already difficult for university graduates to find a job in 2011, let alone Liu Xue who had dropped out of school due to family changes. Moreover, at this time, Ye Zi fell seriously ill.

  The diagnosis is: uremia in the middle stage!

  This is indeed the case with the old saying, "When it rains, it pours." Originally already at a dead end, Liu Xue encountered another bolt from the blue. The illness that Ye Zi contracted was actually one of the most expensive to treat, requiring dialysis every half month just to sustain life, and each time costing 2-3 thousand yuan.

  In the nearly two years, Liu Xue took care of Yezi during the day and sold fried noodles at the flea market at night. With some money left over from selling their house, they could barely afford Yezi's medical expenses. However, uremia is an incurable disease, and dialysis only maintained her condition. The enormous medical expenses were like a bottomless black hole, slowly devouring Liu Xue and Yezi's last hope, pulling them down into the abyss.

  She was really struggling to hold on. If it weren't for the fact that she couldn't let go of Yezi, she would have probably left this world a long time ago to find her loved ones under the nine springs. But Zhouyi's appearance, especially his incredible skill in transforming rotten things into magic at the flea market, suddenly made Liu Xue feel a sense of relief after two years of heavy pressure.

  She still remembers when she saw guests arguing over buying stir-fried noodles; how happy she was when tasting that delicious stir-fry...

  The night was quiet, with only the sound of Zhou Yi's light footsteps and the humming of the electric tricycle. Liu Xue sat on the vehicle, gazing blankly at the man's back: "His shoulders... can I lean against them?"

  Two years of poor and helpless life made her mature and cautious, facing this possible incoming emotion, she was also careful, hesitant and indecisive.

  "Wow——occasionally running is really very comfortable."

  Before he knew it, they had already reached the bottom of the stairs. Zhou Yi stopped in his tracks and turned around with a smile, only to see Liu Xue's bright red eyes: "Liu Xue, what's wrong?"

  "Nothing... nothing, just got some sand blown into my eyes earlier."

  At this moment, Liu Xue was a bit flustered and hastily jumped off the car, saying incoherently: "Brother Zhou, thank you for sending me and Yezi back home."

  "Hehe, Liu Xue, you forgot, I also live here?"

  Zhou Yi looked at Liu Xue, this girl must have something on her mind. But since they weren't close, he didn't ask deeply, and with his carefree personality, he wasn't the type to pry into others' private matters, so he didn't pursue the question.

  "Hehe, Little Auntie is lying, Yezi saw you crying just now..."

  The leaves clapped their small hands, seemingly delighted that they had uncovered the adult's lie.

  "Don't talk nonsense, otherwise Auntie will get angry."

  Willow glanced back at her with a stern expression, but didn't dare look up at Zhou Yi again, instead focusing on packing up her things.

  "I'll help you pick these things up. It looks like the weather is going to change tonight, and the wind is getting stronger, so go ahead and take the leaves upstairs first..." Zhou Yi walked over and snatched the snake skin bag from Liu Xue's hand.

  "Then thank you... I'll go first."

  Willow fluff picked up the leaves and ran upstairs like escaping disaster. Zhou Yi shook his head, a woman's heart is like a needle at the bottom of the sea, this girl is really a bit strange?

  After finishing packing up everything and locking the electric bike to go upstairs, I saw Liu Xue standing alone at the door with red eyes, but didn't see Ye Zi.

  "Where is the leaf?"

  Zhou Yi handed over the snakeskin bag and car keys to Liu Xue, asking casually.

  "As soon as she got home, Yezi fell asleep."

  Willow took over the pocket and car keys, her face turned red again: "Brother Zhou, thank you so much today..."

  "Hehe, stop being so polite, okay? We're all neighbors after all."

  "Alright... it's nothing, I'll go in now, you should get some rest too."

  "Uh-huh, goodnight."

  "Good night..."

  Two guys with some 'thief heart' but clearly lacking a bit of 'thief guts', speaking words without nutrition, looked at each other and walked into their own homes...

  P.S. This chapter is a bit miserable, but with the protagonist and this god-like man around, I believe everything will be temporary, haha.

  Get a few tickets and collect them, for the sake of poor little Yezi:)

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