Chapter 19: Unexpected (Please Collect)

  "Let's go, Bai Ye!" A guard drove a large cart over and said to Bai Huashui, who was gazing thoughtfully at Zhen Niang's receding figure.

  Bai Huashui flipped his eyes, pinched a few sparse whiskers and began to ponder. Although the problem of Hu Lao Si had been solved, temporarily eliminating Bai Zonglin's anger, the tiger skin still hadn't been found. To win over Old Master's favor, another method was needed. And this beautiful young daughter-in-law who had delivered herself to his doorstep was a good choice. Wasn't Old Master always reminiscing about the beauty he had picked up from the Mu Rong family? Sending this little daughter-in-law over wouldn't be a bad idea. Besides, there was Zhang Xiaosuo, who had helped Fatso humiliate him at the market.

  Thinking of this, Bai Huashui got on the horse cart, pointed to the road where Zhang Laosuo came from and ordered: "Take that road."

  Several bodyguards were unclear, and could only follow. After walking for a while, they saw that the mountain road was getting harder to walk on, one of the bodyguards asked stiffly: "Master Bai, where are we going?"

  Bai Huo Shui lifted the car curtain, looked around at the surroundings, and smiled gloomily: "Let's wait for that little wife here."

  ……

  The weather is like a one-year-old child, crying when it wants to cry and laughing when it wants to laugh. At dusk, the sky only had a few wispy clouds drifting by, sometimes gathering together, sometimes dispersing, without much energy; before long, in an instant, the wind direction changed, pushing the clouds back from the northwest, growing bigger and bigger, suddenly covering up the whole sky, everything also becoming dimmer.

  "Friends, cheers." Vogg silently sighed and raised his glass towards Huang Li.

  "Dry." Huang Li downed the whiskey in his cup in one gulp and slowly exhaled a long breath.

  Zhang Yuan and Zhang Xiaohui returned to the county to handle affairs, Huang Li had nothing to do, and in this town, there were no friends, so he was dragged by Vogel to drink together.

  "Father Jürgen wants to baptize you and bring you into the faith." Vogt said with a hint of an inexplicable smile, shaking his head: "God will bless you, but my sins cannot be washed away."

  Huang Li stuffed a piece of braised beef into his mouth and mumbled, "I think I'm not devout enough. The Bible says: if someone slaps your right cheek, you should turn the other cheek for them to hit. But me, if someone punches me, I might beat him half to death."

  "Half dead?" Vogel shook his head and smiled: "Hu Lao Si is not half dead."

  "Will a broken rib kill someone?" Huang Li sneered and said: "That's because of poor treatment, what does it have to do with me."

  Vogel thought for a moment, nodded in agreement and said: "A mediocre doctor, just like me when I'm drunk, must never be given a knife, and especially not dressed in respectable clothes."

  "You're quite self-aware." Huang Li smiled and said: "However, what you said is indeed true."

  Wog took another sip of wine, leaned forward with interest and asked: "You Chinese have a legend, an old man uses ropes to tie the feet of men and women, no matter how far apart they are, thousands of miles away, they will eventually become a couple. What's it called...?"

  "A thread of fate entwines a thousand miles!" Huang Li flipped her eyes, amused by the foreigner's description of the lunar old man's vocabulary. "What an old man? That's called Yue Lao, who ties the feet of men and women with red strings to determine their marriage destiny. But I want to tell you, find your own happiness yourself, don't wait for Yue Lao. Yue Lao can neither see nor hear, he is too busy to pray for you."

  "Yes, he's busy, so busy that he forgot about me." Wog sighed and poured himself another drink, saying: "Besides, I'm a foreigner, what would the old man under the moon care about me?"

  Just as Huang Li was about to speak, a sudden and urgent knocking sound came from outside. Vog shouted loudly, "We're closed! Come back tomorrow!"

  The knocking stopped and a voice pleaded: "Mr. Yang, Doctor Yang, please be kind, it's a matter of life and death, please open the door and take a look!"

  Wokang was about to scold again, but was stopped by Huang Li's outstretched hand. He pricked up his ears and felt that the voice was quite familiar.

  "A doctor's heart is like a parent's, saving lives and healing wounds is their duty, how can they shirk it with rest?" Another somewhat aged voice came in.

  Huang Li stood up and said to Vogt: "I'll go open the door. I should know this person. Trouble you to take a look."

  As soon as the door opened, it was indeed an acquaintance of Huang Li's calendar, Old Man Meng and his son Meng Shitou, as well as two unknown young men.

  "Huang brother, you, you're here?" Old Man Meng's expression changed to one of surprise as soon as he saw Huang Li.

  Huang Li saw Niu Niu in Old Man Meng's arms at a glance and anxiously said, "Is Niu Niu sick? Hurry up and let the doctor take a look."

  "Niang Niang is just a superficial wound, nothing serious." Old Man Meng gently patted the sleeping child and urged Meng Shi Tou and another young man: "Quickly, quickly carry Lao Suo inside."

  The almanac only saw a simple stretcher on the ground, Meng Shitou and the young man lifted the stretcher and rushed into the house.

  By the light of the lamps in the house, Huang Li saw Zhang Lao Suo's pale face on the stretcher, with strips of fresh blood seeping from the bandages on his body.

  "What's wrong with Old Zhang?" Huang Li anxiously asked, and stretched out his hand to pull Vogt up. "Come quickly, this is my lifesaver."

  Although Wok had been drinking, he was far from drunk and neatly opened the blood-stained bandage, furrowing his brow as he said in a low voice: "A gunshot wound, it's a gunshot wound."

  "It was the White family's dog legs that beat her." Old Man Meng put Niu Niu on a small bed to check her condition, and walked over with a resentful expression, saying: "White Bad Water led four dog legs to collect tiger skins in Shili Pulu, but somehow they encountered Lao Suo and Zhen Niang. He had evil intentions and robbed them on the mountain road. Zhen Niang was taken away, Lao Suo was shot, and he rolled down the mountain slope with Niu Niu in his arms."

  "Mr. Yang, please hurry up and save him! On the way here, Zhang Bo was still able to speak!" Meng Shitou wiped away tears from his face with his hand and begged: "Jian Niang has been taken away, Xiao Suo is dead, if Zhang Bo can't be saved, what are we going to do?"

  "Quiet." Vogt rebuked seriously and walked aside, collecting instruments and making preparations before the operation.

  Huang Li pulled Meng Shi's head aside and asked in a low voice, "What did you just say? Is Xiao Suo also dead?"

  Meng Shitou nodded, choking back tears: "After Zhang Laobo was injured, he barely ran back to my home. My dad treated his wounds, and I went to the mountain to tell Xiaosuo. Xiaosuo immediately got angry, ran to my house to see Zhang Bo and Niu Niu, then carried a shotgun to chase after Bai Huai Shui and his gang. I...I followed him too. Later, Xiaosuo finally caught up with those scoundrels on the bridge outside the town, fired a shot, and rushed forward to fight them desperately. But they had more people and guns, I heard the gunshots from afar and saw Xiaosuo being thrown into the river by them. I swam to rescue him, but he was washed away without a trace."

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