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Chapter 58: The Second Knife

  Back at the Public Opinion Bureau, Sun Baozi thought that Wu Renyi would personally ask about what happened this time. However, after seeing Gao Liang, he didn't expect that this old fox wouldn't even ask a question, instead proactively changing the subject to somewhere else and not asking about how Wu Renyi was caught. It seems that Gao Liang had already guessed something, and it seemed like his guess was quite accurate.

  After coming out from the highlight, Sun Baozi went to see Hugo's injury. The burns on his body were not that serious, but when the red-haired man threw him down, he had some problems. When Hugo fell, he sprained his spine, although it was not too serious, but because he had been in a coma afterwards, until he regained consciousness and felt something wrong, he was already on the plane.

  If they had gone to the hospital in time, this injury could have been solved with a small operation. However, by the time they got off the plane and sent Hugo to the hospital, more than ten hours had passed. The best time for surgery was missed, and going under the knife at this point would carry some risk. The hospital suggested conservative treatment first, with regular physical therapy sessions. They would observe for a while before considering whether to operate next. However, both conservative physical therapy and pioneering surgical treatment would leave Hugo with some aftereffects.

  How to say Hugo's injury was also caused by saving Sun Baozi, this suddenly made Sun Pianchang start to feel a little guilty towards Hugo. If it were Wu Rendong or one of the two Yangs who had saved him at that time, no matter how badly they were injured, Sun Baozi would not have felt this way. But now seeing Hugo walking back and forth on a small double bar under the guidance of a small nurse, his heart feels awkward.

  From then on, Sun Pangzi was basically under Yu Huo's control. As long as it was Director Yu's request, he would satisfy him eight or nine times out of ten. Sometimes, even though he knew that Gao Liang didn't want Yu to come into contact with too many high-level documents from the Bureau of Civil Affairs, once Yu spoke up, Sun would turn a blind eye and let Yu take a look at them.

  After the Civil Affairs Bureau was disbanded later on, he and Hugo never met again. Who would have thought that after meeting again, he was almost made to vomit blood by this foreign devil?

  Looking at Sun Wukong's angry appearance, I couldn't help but laugh and said: "Great Sage, you can find your way to my house, it means you're not drunk at all. Don't you understand? That time when we went out drinking together, didn't you hold back on the amount? Besides pretending to be drunk, I didn't see you drink too much that time either...

  I had just said half of what I wanted to say when Sun Bao interrupted me: "No!" He seemed to have suddenly remembered something, blinking his eyes non-stop, and muttered slowly: "No, I think I forgot something. Laizi, wait for me. Let me recall what happened last night."

  As he spoke, Sun Baozi stood up from his chair, tilting his head to recall what had happened after he got drunk the night before: "Let me think... I went to my friend's wine shop and grabbed two bottles of vodka, then somehow I picked up this roasted goose, and then..."

  Here is the translation:

  "Up to here, Sun Dawei paused for a moment, and slowly recalled the thing he had forgotten last night. "I didn't come to your place, I went to Old Xiao's house. At the entrance of Old Xiao's house, I saw Xiao Shang holding onto the door frame and vomiting. I think I even asked him... He said he hadn't gone to the hospital, that he was fine on the way, but was afraid they would ask him for 120 yuan in medical fees, so he made an excuse to get off the bus and run away. When he got back to his doorstep, the alcohol kicked in, and he started vomiting."

  He said, "At this point, his thoughts were a bit blocked. Sun Baozi blinked his eyes and thought for half a day before continuing the previous segment, saying: 'I'm not saying that I was also drunk at the time and wanted to continue drinking foreign wine with him. But Lao Xiao said that two people didn't have enough to drink, and he wanted to find another person to drink together - damn it's bad!'"

  His words were not yet finished, his face turned pale, and the wine woke up suddenly. He pushed me away and rushed to the door. After pushing open the door, Sun Baozi rushed out while muttering to himself: "Old Xiao, old Xiao, where are you? Don't scare me, did I walk into my own home? Why didn't you call me when you got home - Old Xiao!"

  At that time, I also ran out and saw an old man squatting beside the garbage house at the entrance of the stairs. Who else could it be if not Xiao He Shang? After seeing me and Sun Baozi, the old man suddenly covered his mouth and burst into tears: "It was minus 8 degrees last night, little spicy, I knocked on your door for a whole night..."

  It turned out that Xiao He Shang followed Sun Peng to come over last night, and later Sun Peng called me to open the door. After Sun Peng came in, he directly locked the door, and Xiao He Shang was drunk at the time and didn't notice it, thinking that Sun Peng would open the door for him soon. However, after the wine woke him up from the cold, he still hadn't seen anyone opening the door for him. Knocking on the door for a while also didn't see anyone coming to open the door, so Old Xiao had no choice but to head towards his own home. But at this time, he suddenly remembered that he had jumped out of an ambulance, wearing his pajamas from home, with not a single penny in his pocket, and without bringing his phone... At this moment, it started snowing outside again...

  At this time, Xiao He's intoxication had completely dissipated. His whole body was shaking non-stop, and under helpless circumstances, he could only come back to knock on the door again, but no one opened it for him. At that time, Sun Baozi's intoxication had taken hold and he didn't know anything, I had a terrible nightmare, dreaming of city management bringing people to demolish houses...

  Xiao He Shang was really frozen to the point of unbearable, so he started paying attention to the trash house. As a result, he actually found several pieces of discarded men's and women's underwear, summer short-sleeved shirts, single-layer quilt covers, etc. inside.

  At that time, Xiao He Shang had already forgotten about everything else. Losing face was better than losing his life. Xiao He Shang hastily put on all the underwear, clothes and bedding on himself. However, he still left a bit of room for caution, fearing that these few pieces of underwear were not clean, so he wore them on the outside. Pointing to the outermost lingerie on his body, he said: "I don't have many good clothes, I'm lucky I didn't freeze to death. Look at what you're all looking at. Is there even any fabric left on this bra? What can it hold?"

  I let Xiao He and Shang enter the house, changed into my pajamas, and put on a quilted jacket. After drinking four or five bowls of ginger soup, Sun Baozi heated up the roasted goose congee he made and had Xiao He and Shang eat a mouthful. I also gave him a bowl of hot wonton noodles for the night, and after this set of treatments, Xiao He and Shang seemed to have recovered a bit.

  Don't look at Xiao He Shang's 70-year-old body, his physical quality is not inferior to that of young people. After staying in -8°C temperature for a night, he recovered after resting for a while. Finally, he took a hot shower here and completely eliminated the chill. Originally wanted to take him to the hospital for a check-up, but looking at his energetic appearance now, it should be unnecessary to go.

  However, Xiao He Shang still had a bellyful of resentment and kept talking about the previous night's encounter. Sun Baozi and I were in the wrong, so we didn't dare argue back, but instead accompanied him with smiles, taking turns to persuade Xiao He Shang until lunchtime, when he finally calmed down: "This is all because you two did something unkind, so for lunch and dinner today, you'll treat me as compensation."

  As long as he can get this off his chest, a meal or two is nothing. But what Xiao Hei said next made me speechless: "Let's just follow the standard of that dinner the other night, don't look at me like that, since you guys left the airport I've been following you several people, originally thought you'd still give me a call to be polite, didn't expect you guys are really not being polite with me, so now I won't be polite with you either"

  That meal cost Huang Ran 30,000 yuan. I wouldn't be able to spend that much on food in a year. If someone else had treated us, it would have been fine, but if I had spent 30,000 yuan on a meal myself, I couldn't guarantee that I'd be there when the bill came. So, I quickly explained to Xiao He Shang: "Old Xiao, Huang Ran invited us for that meal. When have you ever seen me take guests to such an expensive place? We're all family, let's just go somewhere affordable and delicious - San Da Bao has a great set menu with white meat hot pot and braised pork belly. Old Xiao, those are your signature dishes!"

  My words were not finished, when I saw Sun Wukong had already taken out his phone and dialed a number to make a call. After the call was connected, he smiled and said: "Old Huang, have you eaten lunch? Coincidentally, it's not me who said it, guess who I just saw? I saw Xiao He Shang, he said it's been a long time since we met, and he misses you a bit, so he wants to invite you to dinner. Don't, don't, this is not about seniority, it's all his intention. So, let's meet at the Cantonese restaurant from two days ago at 12 o'clock, if you don't come, it won't be good."

  After finishing speaking, Sun Baozi hung up the phone and smiled at Xiao He Shang, saying: "Whoever invites me is the same, I guarantee that you will eat comfortably..."

  Three days of killing Huang Ran, six Wan, my heart rose to mutter. After hesitating for a while, I wanted to find an excuse to avoid the banquet, but was blocked by Xiao He Shang, possibly because he was afraid that no one would pay the bill when it was time to settle the account, and he had to have me and Sun Baozi accompany him, otherwise Xiao He Shang wouldn't go.

  Helpless, I had no choice but to grit my teeth and accompany them to slaughter Huang Ran once again.

  When we arrived at the Cantonese restaurant, we found out that Huang Ran had already arrived and had booked a private room, which was the same one as last night. Now it's clear that he wants to be slaughtered for the second time, so he came with his neck stretched out.

  After a few polite words, it was still the manager who settled the bill yesterday morning. He walked in with a smile, holding the menu card and looked at us one by one. Then he naturally handed the menu card to Huang Ran, who was farther away from him.

  However, Huang Ran didn't take it. He smiled and used his hand to block the menu in front of Xiao He Shang. After looking at the menu for a while, Xiao He Shang closed it and handed it back to the manager, saying: "It's dazzling just by looking at it, no need to order, let's just have another table like they did the night before last."

  The manager heard it and after being polite for a few words, he had already calculated in his heart how much tips he could get. Thinking of this, he smiled and retreated.

  When Xiao He Shang was ordering food, I secretly observed Huang Ran's expression. He still had an indifferent expression, as if this time's order wasn't his idea at all.

  After watching the manager leave, we continued to start making small talk. Only Xiao and Shang started picking faults with this restaurant. The taste of the dishes is not right, the service staff are not good-looking, the decoration style is not good, just like the person who invited us today was him...

  I'm afraid Xiao He Shang will get more and more off track, so I took the opportunity to interrupt him when he was about to take a breath and said to Sun Wukong: "Great Sage, let's continue with the topic of my home. What happened after that incident?"

  Xiao Pangzi nodded, he took a glance at Huang Ran, seeing that Huang Ran seemed to have not heard anything and was still echoing Xiao He's words. Only then did Sun Baozi say: "It's not me saying it, but later on... I'd rather those things hadn't happened..."

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