chapter 52

Qin Shu was injured. She kept it from Grandpa Ling all along for fearing that he would be too worried.

She had planned to visit Grandpa Ling with Ling Mohan on the weekend, but in the end, she could only use overtime working as an excuse to cancel it.

Grandpa Ling did not say anything, nor did he doubt anything.

After all, Qin Shu worked in the First Military Industry Group, sometimes it was inevitable for the military to have urgent work.

However, Qin Shu could still tell from the phone that Grandpa Ling really wanted them to go back.

She said guiltily, “Grandpa, I’m sorry. When the work is done, I’ll definitely come and see you.”

“Humph, just do whatever you have to. Don’t disturb my peace and quiet time.” Grandpa Ling lay on the bench leisurely.

In fact, he missed his grandson and his grandson-daughter-in-law, but he was too stubborn and reluctant to express it frankly.

Qin Shu held back her laughter. “That won’t do. You’ve got a lot of delicious food in your house. I have to go over and have meals for free.”

“Good, good, good!” Grandpa Ling was coaxed to be wild with joy in his heart.

In the end, he said meaningfully, “Little Shu, Grandpa is old. I don’t want to run affairs about the family, I just want to enjoy the pleasure of family in my free time. If I can see four generations in the same hall in my lifetime, it will be the greatest blessing of my life. I would have no regrets and leave the world peacefully then.”

Qin Shu’s smile immediately froze on her face.

She knew what Grandpa Ling meant, but the great-grandson of the Ling family would definitely not be given birth by her. It was impossible for her to do so for the rest of her life.

A bone-piercing chillness suddenly grew from the bottom of her heart.

Qin Shu pretended not to understand Grandpa Ling’s words and said like a spoiled child, “Grandpa, you are in good health. Don’t talk about these death topics. I still want you to teach me the military sports boxing when you’re free. Meanwhile, I also want to let those soldiers see how powerful you are as the commander-in-chief of the military area.”

Grandpa Ling was coaxed into laughter by her again.

A week later, Qin Shu was finally able to move, but she still couldn’t walk on the ground, and she had to use a wheelchair to go anywhere.

On this morning, the weather was very good with warm breeze and sunshine.

Qin Shu was extremely bored in the ward, so she asked someone to push her downstairs to the garden.

There were all sorts of brightly colored flowers growing in the garden. Qin Shu didn’t know their names, but they looked colorful and very beautiful.

Qin Shu was in a better mood. She said to the guard who was guarding and following her closely, “Please carry me to the bench. I want to see those flowers.”

The guard was a young man who came from the special forces. He was specially selected by Ling Mohan to stay at Qin Shu’s side, so that no one would take advantage of this time to hurt Qin Shu.

Hearing Qin Shu’s words, the guard bent down and picked her up from the wheelchair, then put her on the bench.

Suddenly, the guard sensed a cool chillness attacked from behind his back, which seemed to fiercely flash past his neck. This made him unable help but feel a terror in his heart even though he was a special forces soldier.

The guard turned around abruptly and looked over at the other party vigilantly. But then, he was stunned immediately. “Colonel?”

“Humph!” Ling Mohan strode over, his eyes cold and frightening, and he stared at the guard fixedly. “What were you doing?”

The guard immediately stood at attention and saluted him. “Reporting to Colonel, I was carrying Miss Qin to the bench!”

Ling Mohan looked at him coldly. “Go run five thousand meters!”

“Yes, Colonel!” the guard said loudly, but he was puzzled in his heart.

Why did the Colonel order him to run five thousand meters as soon as he arrived? What did he do wrong? Could it be that the Colonel was punishing him for not protecting Miss Qin well? He shouldn’t have taken Miss Qin out to get some air?

“Reporting to Colonel, I have a question!”

“Speak.”

“Why did you order me to run five thousand meters? I want to know what I did wrong!”

Ling Mohan kicked the guard and said expressionlessly, “When I order you to do something, follow the order and do it. Cut the crap!”

Alright, the first rule for soldiers was to obey the orders from their superiors.

The guard had no choice but to turn around and run away. After running for more than twenty meters, he suddenly realized: the Colonel must be punishing him for hugging Miss Qin!

The guard was sad in his heart. If he had known that the Colonel was right behind him, he shouldn’t have carried Miss Qin.

Now, after teaching the stupid guard a lesson, Ling Mohan stared at Qin Shu with a poker face as ever and said, “In the future, you are not allowed to have intimate physical contact with men other than me!”

Qin Shu was leaning against the bench, basking in the sun and smelling the refreshing fragrance of flowers. When she suddenly heard his order, she felt it very inexplicable.

“What’s wrong with you again?” she asked lazily, not taking this sentence to heart at all.

Ling Mohan frowned and he pinched her chin. “This is a military order, you can’t disobey it!”

Qin Shu exclaimed, “Heh, isn’t it a military order you privately set? I’m bothered to talk to you. Don’t stand in my way, I’m enjoying the flowers. I’m tired of seeing your face.”

“You will see my face for the rest of your life anyway!” Ling Mohan’s tone was domineering, and his gaze was firm. He acted like this marriage was not a show, but his unshakable faith.

Qin Shu’s heartbeat missed a beat. She and Ling Mohan looked at each other for two seconds, and then she gave a pleasant smile. “I know. As long as I’m your soldier for one day, I’ll be your soldier for the rest of my life.”

She deliberately stressed the word 'soldier” very hard.

Ling Mohan raised his eyebrows. He thought to himself: Look at her, she’s playing a word game with me!

Now that he had firmly confirmed that Qin Shu was his own woman, it would be impossible for him to let her leave, unless he died!

This kind of persistence towards the target was refined through thousands of times of training and through rain of bullets. It would definitely not disappear with time.

It had been deeply embedded in the bones of him as a soldier!

Ling Mohan gently rubbed the part of tender skin behind Qin Shu’s neck with his big hand. The warm and fragrant skin under his palm made him feel very comfortable. Then, when he looked at the little woman who was showing her picturesque eyes and brows in front of him, he felt that every part of her seemed to have grown in the way he liked.

The more he looked at her, the more beautiful he felt she was, and the more difficult it was for him to restrain himself.

“You…” Suddenly, Qin Shu somewhat couldn’t stand the man’s straightforward gaze, and she lowered her eyes uncomfortably. “I told you to step aside, you’re blocking my line of sight.”

She was clearly complaining, but her tone contained an unconscious effeminacy.

And, Ling Mohan loved this kind of effeminacy to the extreme.

“Alright.” With a trace of undetectable pampering flashed in Ling Mohan’s eyes, he sat down beside Qin Shu when he firmly held her hand.

In ordinary times, Ling Mohan would rather contest with his comrade-in-arms in the army than watch these delicate flowers here, but now he was willing to do so.

However, Qin Shu was enjoying the flowers of the surrounding lawn, while the man was watching her as a beautiful woman flower.

The two of them sat quietly together. This didn’t happen often.

However, in less than ten minutes, this silence was broken by someone.

Two police officers from the police station came over, followed by Yang Bin, whose face was haggard and eyes were dull!

Qin Shu raised her eyebrows slightly. It seemed that keeping this idiot locked up for a few days was very effective.

The two police officers and Ling Mohan saluted each other.

One of the police officers said to Qin Shu, “Hi, Miss Qin. According to our police investigation, Yang Bin confessed that he had ordered others to conduct personal attacks on you. From a legal point of view, this is related to civil responsibility. He needs a letter of consent and understanding signed by you to be exempted from detention.”

Qin Shu already knew this, but how could she let Yang Bin off so easily? She was not the kind of virtuous and pure good person like Tang Anru!

“Oh, if I don’t sign the letter of understanding, how many days will he be detained?” Qin Shu deliberately asked.

“Three months,” the officer said.

Qin Shu tapped the bench twice with her fingers before she smiled and said, “I need to think over it.”

Hearing this, Yang Bin, who had been muddle-headed all this time, suddenly raised his head and stared fixedly at Qin Shu. There were shame, fear, expectation and uneasiness in his eyes.

He had been locked up inside for a whole week!

During this period, Yang Bin was forbidden from communicating with the outside world. He had no idea what was happening outside, and no one went to visit him.

Obviously, his family and friends did not know that he was locked up inside.

In other words, even if he died inside, no one would know!

Upon thinking of this, Yang Bin was terrified and uneasy. One day of being detained seemed like a year. His mind was filled with all sorts of stories he had read in the past, stories about people who were killed secretly inside the jail.

Of course, the most important thing was that Yang Bin was locked up with seven or eight other people.

There were many fierce-looking hooligans amongst these people, who were not afraid of committing crimes at all. When they saw Yang Bin who looked like a typical pretty boy and second rich generation, they naturally wouldn’t treat him nice!

Yang Bin was on the verge of collapse!

Today, as soon as he heard that the police officer was going to take him out, even though it was coming to apologize to Qin Shu, whom he always looked down upon, he still couldn’t wait to be taken out.

As to face and self-esteem, he could give them up as long as he wouldn’t be detained!

He thought so in his heart. But after seeing Qin Shu, Yang Bin was still ashamed and resentful with embarrassment to the extreme.

The police officer said, “Miss Qin, Yang Bin, you can discuss how to settle this matter.”

“Apologize first!” Ling Mohan’s voice was piercingly cold, and his imposing manner was extremely oppressive, with an invisible strong aura emitting from his entire body.

Yang Bin involuntarily trembled. He didn’t dare to look over at Ling Mohan at all. He even felt his arm in pain again.

This was a kind of psychological pain.

From this, it could be seen that the psychological pressure Yang Bin experienced was too much when Ling Mohan broke Yang Bin’s arm!

The police officer said to Yang Bin, “Talk to Miss Qin properly and try to get her forgiveness. Otherwise, you will be detained for three months and leave behind a criminal record.”

Qin Shu looked at Yang Bin with interest.

Yang Bin clenched his fists tightly and he walked step by step to the front of Qin Shu. He said in a voice that was too low to hear, “I’m sorry.”

“Louder!” Ling Mohan shouted angrily, which sounded cold and terrifying. “You speak more softly than a mosquito’s cry. If you were my soldier, you would be long driven to the logistics department to raise pigs!”

The two police officers held back their laughter, but Qin Shu laughed unscrupulously.

Yang Bin’s face flushed to the color of pig liver.

He gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and shouted loudly like he was facing death, “Qin Shu, I’m sorry!”

This time, his voice was loud enough to attract all the surrounding patients, family members, and nurses to look at him.

Yang Bin was so embarrassed that his face was almost buried beneath the ground. Meanwhile, he was faintly glad in his heart that Tang Anru wouldn’t know this.

However, in the next second, he heard Qin Shu slowly saying, “Not enough, I have two more conditions.”

“Qin Shu, don’t go too far!” Yang Bin was finally enraged. He glared at Qin Shu angrily, clenching his fists. It looked like he was about to rush over.

Ling Mohan slapped Yang Bin in the face, producing buzzing sound in his ears.

“Don’t be shameless!” he sneered and said.

The two police officers pretended not to see anything. They turned around separately to look up at the sky and appreciate the flowers and grass.

Yang Bin had accumulated the courage to shout with great efforts, but now the courage collapsed instantly. His cheeks were swollen high and the corners of his mouth were bleeding. He fell to sit on the ground. “You, what exactly do you want?”

Qin Shu did not sympathize with him at all. Instead, she felt very happy.

She clearly remembered that those women rushed over and slapped her twice fiercely. They almost stripped her naked on the street!

The hardship Yang Bin was suffering now was nothing.

Humph, I’ll deal with Yang Bin first, as for those women, we’ll talk about them later. Qin Shu thought so in her heart.

Qin Shu looked at Yang Bin coldly with a faint smile. “Very simple. The first condition is, you must completely publicize what you did in the circle of friends on WeChat, and solemnly apologize to me.”

Yang Bin stared at her in disbelief.

Publicize what he did? Didn’t that mean that all of his friends, including Anru, would know that he had done such an unspeakable thing?