Chapter 508: I am a gambler, and I always have been! (Bonus Chapter 1)

However, in her phone call, she had told Guo Ge to go directly to Pengcheng; she hadn't expected the couple to travel so far to come to Shanghai.

"Your sister-in-law is worried about your health; she wouldn't be at ease without coming to see for herself," Guo Tiexiong said.

"Guo Ge, I've revised some plans during this time. You can use them as a reference when you get to Pengcheng." An Yinan handed a stack of white paper to Guo Tiexiong; these were all things she had written by hand.

She had planned out many things, including key investment projects and the purchase of land plots...

"You! Take a rest. Your brain is spinning all day long; no wonder the little one is making you feel sleepy," Guo Tiexiong couldn't help but say.

Looking at this stack of paper, one could tell she had been staying up late for a long time.

An Yinan rubbed her belly. "It's fine. There isn't much more I can do. As for how Pengcheng chooses to develop later, I might truly be beyond my reach."

She could not leave Beijing for a short period of time.

Moreover, she had already begun laying the groundwork in Hong Kong. Previously, she thought she could manage both sides.

Now, with the arrival of this little one, she could only attend to one side; her energy was no longer keeping up.

"You have me!" Guo Tiexiong smiled.

"In Beijing, I've left behind a few suitable people. The management of the Food Factory has been in place for over two years; they are reliable people who have retired from the Military, and with Xiaokang watching over things there, there won't be any trouble."

"Kang Jian was watching over Yangcheng before. Can you be at ease now?" Guo Tiexiong asked.

They hadn't intended to move Kang Jian before; this was a spur-of-the-moment idea from Nan Nan, but he respected Nan Nan's decision.

Going to Pengcheng, a new battlefield, required someone like Kang Jian who dared to fight and work hard.

Letting him guard a city was indeed a bit of a waste of talent.

"The new factory has Xiao Wang, Xiao Zhao, and Sun Ge. The person who took over the shop is someone Kang Jian specifically trained; this is also the part of him I admire." When An Yinan spoke of Kang Jian, she was truly very satisfied.

Many people are selfish.

The people you send from Beijing are naturally closer to you than his people in Yangcheng, and being from the Military, they are more trustworthy than his own, yet Kang Jian still brought them in and trained them.

For this point alone.

He is worth admiring.

"Indeed!" Guo Tiexiong also nodded.

Kang Jian had taken the initiative to request more people from Beijing, with the excuse that there were more and more shops and he couldn't watch them all by himself.

But here in Beijing, they had never told him to train people, nor had they told him to bring people up.

Yet he did it.

It was his own way of expressing his loyalty and attitude.

An Yinan received it, so she was willing to promote him and give him a broader world.

"So, have you decided on Pengcheng?" Guo Tiexiong asked.

For Pengcheng, they had never discussed a suitable person; few people from the Military who go into management are able to retire.

Most are combat personnel, who only retire due to injury or illness.

Therefore, management personnel here were still lacking.

"I've decided." An Yinan looked up at Guo Tiexiong. "I trust him."

Just as she had trusted him two years ago.

"I am a gambler, and I always have been!" An Yinan smiled, explaining her own behavior.

Guo Tiexiong looked deeply at An Yinan.

"It's hard to imagine that one day, I would also become someone who gambles along with you." Guo Tiexiong laughed.

Both of them understood that in the time it took to say these few sentences, Kang Jian's future development had already been decided.

And at this moment, Kang Jian did not know.

At this time, he felt uncomfortable all over; he used to wake up at three in the morning to go to the shop and start unloading goods.

Every day at three in the afternoon, he would bring the goods back to the shop, arrange them, and then go back to sleep.

Now that he had nothing to do every day, he felt like something was missing. He was eating well and drinking well, but this body full of flesh had nowhere to be put to use.

The two of them discussed the details for another hour before it was settled.

"Now that it's decided you are going to Pengcheng, it's just right for me to apply the needles for you." An Yinan took the Silver Needle out of her backpack.

Since arriving at the Frontline, the number of her Silver Needles had increased to thirteen packs...

When saving people, she always felt it wasn't enough.

Now, she realized she didn't need that many!

"Your body is weak now; can we do the needles later?" Guo Tiexiong asked.

What he worried about most was Nan Nan's health, and Nan Nan's personality was too strong; as long as she could persist even a little, she would do her best.

"I said before, since we have started the treatment, it cannot be interrupted."

"This is also the reason why I wasn't in a hurry to treat you two years ago," An Yinan explained calmly.

Actually, two years ago, she could have treated him. The needle technique was very unique and required her to practice without interruption every day, but when the war on the Southern Front broke out, she chose the Southern Front over Guo Ge and saving people in the south.

She could have applied needles to Guo Ge's legs at any time, but the south...

But Guo Ge's legs could not be interrupted; the needles and the medicine could not be stopped.

There was another reason: the medicine given to Guo Ge was actually beneficial to his own bones. The poison was indeed poison, but it could be extracted.

The antidote was easy to find, but this medicine that caused the legs to lose sensation was not easy to find.

Guo Ge smiled. "It's fine. I know my own legs. I tried walking; my legs seem to have more strength now, but I feel like a baby learning to walk, needing to adapt to the strength in my legs little by little."

It was more than just not knowing how to walk.

He still couldn't adapt to his own Vajra Legs...

When he was at home, not used to the strength of his legs, he stepped right through an iron basin with one foot.

At that moment, he realized that he seemed unable to control the strength in his legs.

"Let's apply the needles first." An Yinan gestured for her sister-in-law to roll up Guo Ge's pant leg; she had originally been squatting on the ground.

Qiu Hua was afraid she would get cold, so she folded up a quilt and placed it on the ground, letting her squat on the quilt.

Applying needles to Guo Ge was extremely mentally draining; the acupoints for this set of needle techniques were particularly tricky, as they were both life points and Deadly Acupoints.

There could not be the slightest error.

Half an hour passed...

An Yinan's forehead was already covered in sweat, and Zhao Qiu Hua squatted anxiously by her side, wiping the sweat for her.

Her sister-in-law was also quite worried; Nan Nan's complexion was becoming paler and paler.

"Nan Nan, if you can't do it, stop." Guo Tiexiong was in great pain, but seeing Nan Nan like this, he gritted his teeth and spoke.

His legs were already used to it; he had lived like this for so many years.

But Nan Nan was still carrying a child.

He could not be so selfish as to let Nan Nan suffer because of him.

"Almost there." An Yinan spoke, the speed of the Silver Needle in her hand becoming faster and faster.

Every time she applied needles to Guo Ge, she could feel her strength draining away, and her mental energy needed to be completely focused.

Another half hour passed, and An Yinan slumped onto the quilt.

Zhao Qiu Hua had been guarding by her side the whole time and hurriedly supported her, "How are you? Are you dizzy?"

An Yinan shook her head, letting her eyes regain their clarity; she had just been seeing stars.