Ch38 - Beaten up

Xu Luo did not dare to take this astonishing discovery lightly. Looking at the miserable situation of the mice, the poison was extremely fierce and if he continued to let it lurk in Ji Qinghuai’s body, the consequences would be disastrous.

Despite this, he did not intend to tell Ji Qinghuai about the incident immediately. He had yet to figure out what poison was lurking in Ji Qinghuai’s body. He would only add to his worries by telling Ji Qinghuai prematurely.

Xu Luo leaned back on the chair and sighed.

Ji Qinghuai’s poison must be taken care of quickly. He can’t stand by and watch him suffer.

So on Monday night, when Xiang Yunfei ended his one-week detention, Xu Luo personally escorted him back home in case someone targeted him. Xu Luo euphemistically told him, “I’ve learnt some fortune-telling before, your face is shrouded in black fog and you’ll have bad luck recently. It’s better to go out less.”

Xu Luo remembered that there was not only Xie Yan finding trouble for Xiang Yunfei, but also Qin Lang, but Qin Lang wouldn’t initiate anything in broad daylight. He continued, “Especially at night, sit tight at home.”

Xiang Yunfei didn’t take his words seriously. “I’ve been fined and detained already, stop cursing me and let me change my luck.”

Do you think I want to control you? It's not like I owe you my hand just because I was concerned for your safety.

“If you want to change your luck, save yourself some medical virtue. This time, you were treated leniently because you’re a first-time offender, but if you were in the hands of others, you might not have been so lucky.”

Two big bosses are waiting to clean up you right now.

Xu Luo got a headache when he thought of this.

If he had known this earlier, he would have shut him in for a while longer. Now, he was hitting the gun and trying to save someone from Xie Yan.

But he had a guilty conscience and couldn’t ignore Xiang Yunfei. He could only forcibly stuff one of his business cards to Xiang Yunfei. “Don’t throw it away, call me immediately if something happens.”

“Okay okay, I got it.” Xiang Yunfei was still hung over the fine and Xu Luo harping on his poor luck made him even more upset so he blasted him out.

Xu Luo stood at the entrance of the clinic and looked at the closed door in front of him. He didn’t know where to direct his temper and smiled angrily as the autumn wind blew over him.

None of them were worry-free.

And Xiang Yunfei still didn’t know what he was about to face. He glanced at Xu Luo’s business card in his hand and planned to throw it into the trash can. After thinking about it, he put it in his pocket.

He didn’t take it seriously when Xu Luo said he was going to be unlucky recently.

A medical practitioner could even say he could divine one’s luck. Eighty percent of them were deluded! He even asked him to stay at home and not leave. If something truly happened, then it would prove that he was right and had the foresight to predict one’s luck.

Who are you fooling?!

Xiang Yunfei took off his shoes and lay on the sofa, taking out his mobile phone to start a game.

He was going to make up for the pain of losing money by winning.

He played round after another, and the time passed by unconsciously. By the time Xiang Yunfei remembered that it was time for dinner, it was already after ten o’clock in the evening.

He sat up from the sofa and glanced around the quiet room. He had been away for a week and there was nothing to eat at home, so he could only go out to buy food.

Thinking of this, he put on his shoes and went out. He didn’t plan to go far, only heading to a nearby noodle restaurant to eat a bowl of noodles.

At this time, all the shops on the street where Yunfei Clinic was located were closed. Due to the relatively remote location, there were not even street lights by the road and both ends of the street were dark as far as he could see.

Xiang Yunfei was familiar with this path and didn’t feel scared at all. His footsteps were quite light. He had just taken a few steps when he heard a sudden movement behind him.

Xiang Yunfei glanced back and saw that there was nothing behind him. Thinking that it was a small animal moving about, he didn’t think too much of it. Who knew that once he turned his head back, a sack was shoved over his head and he was kicked to the ground.

Before Xiang Yunfei had time to react, he was struck hard while pressed on the ground.

Soon after, loud shrieks rang through the long street.

Not far away, two young men secretly watched the movements in the street and glanced at each other.

The taller man spoke, “Are we being robbed of our work?”

The young man next to him wore a black suit, blending into the darkness around him. Only half of his neck and head was visible.

The young man in black looked into the distance and tried hard to distinguish the man who was beating up Xiang Yunfei, “Why do I feel that the brother in a shirt looks familiar?”

The tall man heard the words and scrutinized the mentioned person, “Oh, he really does look familiar.”

The tall young man thought for a while, and suddenly realized, “Eh, isn’t this Zheng Lin?”

“Ah, it’s him.” The young man in black also recalled, and wondered, “He also has a grudge against this doctor?”

The tall man shook his head, “I don’t know.”

The black-clothed youth couldn’t think of any reason for a while, so he no longer thought about it and instead asked, “Then what shall we do?”

“The boss asked us to teach this doctor a lesson, do you still want to do it?”

“Of course, we must teach him a lesson!” The tall man declared as he walked out of the dark and headed straight to Zheng Lin.

With the same understanding and purpose, there was no need to hide.

Zheng Lin was someone cultivated by Xie Yan so his actions were somewhat influenced by Xie Yan, and he was similarly merciless in his actions. After a while, Xiang Yunfei’s screams weakened.

The tall young man walked over quickly and stopped ZhengLin’s movements, “That’s enough.”

Zheng Lin turned his head sharply and stopped when he saw that the other person was Qin Lang’s subordinate.

“Don’t worry, I haven’t beaten him to death.”

Xie Yan’s original instructions to him were: “Just beat him up, but not to death. Let that person accumulate some virtue.”

Therefore, Zheng was still cautious when carrying out his task.

The tall man was relieved.

Although Qin Lang’s original words to them were: “Beat him to death, I’ll take care of the rest.”

But one must know how to be flexible. Qin Lang did not give a death order, so he couldn’t kill anyone.

As a senior executive taking the lead in committing crimes, things would be bad if he took a life. A beating was enough to teach a lesson.

“Then you can’t beat him anymore either.” The tall man smiled, “I’ve been ordered to do something, please be considerate.”

Ji Qinghuai and Qin Lang claimed that they were very close friends and many people knew this.

Zheng Lin understood and then smiled. He glanced at Xiang Yunfei, whose body was half inside the sack and patted the tall man on the shoulder, “Then I’ll leave it to you.”

“No problem.”

The tall man replied politely, then moved his hands and said to the black-clothed young man, “Don’t just stand there, get to work.”

Then, another round of screams echoed in the street.

The next day, when Xu Luo saw Xiang Yunfei again, Xiang Yunfei’s face had been swollen into a pig’s head and he sported a lot of injuries on his body.

Xu Luo helped Xiang Yunfei check his injuries and asked what had happened. Xiang Yunfei briefly explained that he had been sacked and beaten up.

Xu Luo breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Xiang Yunfei say that two groups of people had beaten him.

Fortunately, Xie Yan didn’t kill him.

Xiang Yunfei had a lot of injuries, both large and small with varying degrees of severity. It took Xu Luo a long time to treat him and by the end, Xiang Yunfei resembled a mummy fully wrapped with gauze.

Xiang Yunfei was lying on the bed and it was difficult for him to move even a bit. He would never forget this beating.

Xu Luo took a chair and sat next to Xiang Yunfei, “Fortunately, only a few bones were broken, but it’s not too serious.”

Xiang Yunfei was unhappy when he heard this.

It wasn’t a big deal that he was beaten to this state?

Xiang Yunfei was about to scold Xu Luo but he was so exasperated that he stirred up his wounds. He immediately grimaced in pain.

Xiang Yunfei could only glare at Xu Luo, “You advised me not to go out and you even gave me your business card. You knew that I was going to be beaten up?”

The more Xiang Yunfei thought about it, the more it felt wrong, “You’re on the same side as them!”

The tone of his firm voice was as if he had grasped all the evidence.

But Xu Luo did have a part in Xiang Yunfei’s beating. He felt a little guilty, so he didn’t argue with Xiang Yunfei.

“Think what you want, I don’t care about you.”

After speaking, Xu Luo stood up and walked directly to the door.

“Hey, don’t go.” Xiang Yunfei shouted behind Xu Luo, “I’m like this now, what am I supposed to do if you leave?”

Seeing Xu Luo ignoring him, Xiang Yunfei became anxious and urged hurriedly, “Big brother, I was wrong, I was just saying that, I won’t talk nonsense anymore, don’t care about me…”

Xu Luo stopped with a helpless expression on his face. He turned back to Xiang Yunfei and said, “You shut up.”

“Ai.” Xiang Yunfei sighed and honestly shut up.

Xu Luo turned around slowly and sat back on the chair again. Xiang Yunfei turned his head slightly to look at Xu Luo and only dared to speak after a while.

“You say ah, I’ve already been beaten like this, Young Master Ji won’t come to find trouble for me again right?”

“He doesn’t have the spare time to find someone to beat you up.” Xu Luo casually defended Ji Qinghuai.

“Young Master Ji isn’t looking for anyone?” Xiang Yunfei was dumbfounded, “Then who beat me up last night?”

Xu Luo no longer spoke.

Xiang Yunfei didn’t wait for an answer and stopped pursuing the matter.

At this moment, the innocent Ji Qinghuai, who had been doubted, didn’t know that Xiang Yunfei had been beaten up by Qin Lang and Xie Yan. Indeed, as Xu Luo had said, he didn’t have the time to settle accounts with Xiang Yunfei at all.

During the two days of rest at home, Ji Qinghuai’s body recovered a bit. Today, he was going to a banquet with Ji Xianzhi and Qin Lang.

The invitation letter had been delivered to them a week ago. The banquet was to celebrate a coming-of-age ceremony.

According to the rules of the demons, the coming-of-age ceremony was a big event comparable to a wedding. When they turned two hundred years old, they would celebrate it regardless of whether the family was well-off or not. The higher the status of the family, the more importance placed on it.

The one that Ji Qinghuai and the others were going to participate in today was very grand.

At this banquet, all the distinguished figures from the demon race were present and those invited attached great importance to it.

Qin Lang wore a carefully arranged suit. He couldn’t pick a single fault from top to bottom. His attire was simple and balanced, unadorned with accessories.

Ji Qinghuai didn’t want to wear such formal clothes, so he took out a thin dark blue windbreaker from the cabinet. The windbreaker was not as formal as a suit but it complemented his liveliness better and didn’t restrain him too much.

Ji Qinghuai put on the windbreaker and took out a bottle of cologne from his table. After thinking about it, he stretched out his hand and misted the Qin Lang beside him.

All of a sudden, the perfume enveloped Qin Lang’s body.

Qin Lang: “…”

Smelling the fragrance envelope him, Qin Lang’s eyes were somewhat disgusted, but Ji Qinghuai was very satisfied.

“Little cutie, you have to make yourself smell good so you can attract others. Maybe when you look back, fate will tie the red thread.”

He took the perfume and sprayed it on himself twice, leaving a light scent.

Qin Lang: “…”

Thank you.

The most sincere thank you haha