Chapter 556: Xu family father and son

I decided to go to the sanatorium to visit Xu Mengda.

After Xu Mengda passed the danger period at Hengyue City Hospital, the province sent a special car and dispatched several doctors with superb skills to take him back to the provincial hospital for treatment.

When Duanmu told me this situation, he let out a long sigh of relief.

Xu Mengda being able to keep his life was already something to thank heaven and earth for. For Duanmu, if Xu Mengda had lost his life in Hengyue City, his future would have come to an abrupt end.

Before Xu Mengda went to Hengyue City, he should have stopped him. Xu Mengda's father, Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department Minister Xu Da, had once personally urged him that Mengda was nearly forty years old and still hadn't married, nor had he left a son or daughter for the Xu family, which in the past was the act of an unfilial son.

Xu Mengda didn't marry because he hadn't found the person he wanted to marry. He didn't lack women around him, and the women were all of the delicate type, which in the eyes of many men, meant Xu Mengda was living a life like a god. All the female anchors of the prefecture-level television stations in Central Province were honored to be able to have a meal with him.

Xu Mengda was used to seeing spring flowers and autumn moons; all the delicate beauties in his eyes were just a pile of stinking skin, a pile of vulgar fat and common powder.

It wasn't until he met Xue Bing that he first saw her at the Suxi Town relocation ceremony and was immediately amazed.

When he was secretly investigating Xue Bing, he learned that she had a lover named Guo Wei. Xu Mengda liked to go straight to the point; he personally found Guo Wei and asked him to withdraw.

Guo Wei didn't know what kind of background Xu Mengda had at the time; he always thought Xu Mengda was just an ordinary businessman who only had eyes for money. Therefore, he refused Xu Mengda's request without hesitation.

Unexpectedly, Xu Mengda had already investigated clearly that Guo Wei and Xue Bing were in a situation where only one side was interested.

So Xu Mengda directly offered a price: "Name your own price, what kind of position do you want?"

Xu Mengda knew that people like Guo Wei would absolutely not sell their love for money. Although his love was built on an illusory foundation, he had already taken the lead, and Xue Bing had never denied or refused his love on any occasion.

To deal with people like Guo Wei, only official positions and future prospects could kill them with one blow.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Guo Wei's eyes shone, but he wouldn't show it. He was still questioning the energy of this businessman; why could he satisfy him just by naming a price?

Guo Wei only surrendered after Minister Huang Shan of the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department personally talked to him. Because Minister Huang told him that in all Party and government organs in Hengyue City, as long as he was willing, he could serve as a deputy in any unit with a high ranking.

Guo Wei finally chose the Hengyue City Finance Bureau. On the day Xue Bing left Hengyue City and was transferred to the Central Province Song and Dance Troupe, he parachuted into the Municipal Finance Bureau as Deputy Director.

Later, Xu Mengda arranged for Xue Bing to participate in the Youth Singer Competition and arranged for Central Province Normal University to hire her as a guest professor. While he was doing all this, Xue Bing was completely in the dark and knew nothing about it.

Xu Mengda once asked me to find Xue Bing. I didn't know if he knew about our past. If he knew and deliberately arranged it this way, was it testing me? Or trusting me?

If he didn't know about our past? This thought had just arisen before I suppressed it. Based on Xu Mengda's ability, he couldn't have not known about the story between me and Xue Bing.

A man who pays silently for love, if not a great man, can at least be considered a noble man.

Xu Mengda's image in my heart became taller and taller, so much so that when I called him "Big Brother," it was truly sincere.

Xue Bing gradually understood a truth: there must be someone standing behind her. Without this person, she wouldn't have been transferred to the province so smoothly, nor could she have easily obtained the honor of the Youth Singer Competition.

She was very surprised when Guo Wei took the initiative to propose a breakup. Because ever since Guo Wei was introduced to her by me, he had been swimming around Xue Bing like a leech; any sound of water, and he would swim over at the first opportunity.

Xue Bing had once seriously told Guo Wei that she was not suitable for Guo Wei and would not fall in love with him.

But Guo Wei always laughed and didn't take it seriously. Guo Wei believed that constant dripping wears away the stone, and he would eventually move her. He didn't think of one fact: for water to drip through a stone, it might take hundreds of centuries. And his love might wither after experiencing one autumn.

Xu Mengda's appearance solved Guo Wei's awkward situation; he used a Xue Bing who didn't love him to exchange for a position as Deputy Director of the Finance Bureau that he might never be able to look up to in his life.

Xue Bing finally learned about Xu Mengda when she was recording a program at the Provincial Television Station.

During a break in the recording, a man sent her a bouquet of roses, 999 in total. The flowers were carried onto the stage by two people. Just as Xue Bing was moved by who had gone to such great lengths for her, Xu Mengda appeared. He brought people who trampled the flowers to pieces and beat the man who sent the flowers until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen in the studio hall.

None of this was strange; what was strange was that when Xu Mengda was trampling flowers and beating people, no one in the entire television station came out to speak. You must know that the person who was beaten was the god of wealth for the Central Province Television Station. The money he invested in the Central Province Television Station every year was enough to build another new television station.

Xu Mengda appeared in front of Xue Bing in this way, making Xue Bing feel fresh and surprised.

When Xu Mengda proposed, she said she could agree to Xu Mengda, but the premise was that she must study abroad before marriage to complete her lifelong wish.

Xu Mengda agreed to Xue Bing's request without any consideration. In Xu Mengda's view, as long as Xue Bing agreed to his proposal, even if she wanted the stars in the sky, he would exhaust all means to pick them for her.

Xue Bing returned to Hengyue City because she wanted to feel the taste of her hometown before going abroad.

And her journey of feeling directly sent Xu Mengda to the hospital.

When I arrived at the sanatorium, the sky was already dark.

In the middle of the lawn outside, there was a wheelchair, and a person was sitting on the chair with a thick towel draped over his knees. He was affectionately browsing the bare branches and the lush grass under his feet.

Not far from him, two old people were leaning against each other, watching him affectionately.

I walked straight over, squatted at his feet, picked up one of his hands, and called out, "Big Brother."

Xu Mengda saw it at a glance, and his eyebrows immediately came alive. He squeezed my hand tightly and looked at me without saying a word.

I looked at him with tears in my eyes, thinking about his elegance and bearing in the past, but the person in front of me was almost like a piece of waste wood; except for still breathing, I couldn't see half a bit of the passion for life.

He was paralyzed!

The car accident made his lower body lose sensation, and he now couldn't even stand up. For the rest of his life, he could only spend his remaining years in a wheelchair.

My heart was extremely uncomfortable! Xu Mengda had the grace of knowing me. When my cousin He Jiaxiao introduced me to him, we were defensive and hostile to each other. In my eyes, he was a playboy. And in his eyes, I was just a small rural cadre full of earthy taste.

We later became close friends because we were both people of temperament.

"Chen Feng! Kid!" Xu Mengda smiled softly. Now his smile had lost its past dominance and depth, replaced by a soft, compliant, and peaceful manner.

"Big Brother!" I called out again, my voice choking.

This time I wasn't pretending; it was a true outpouring of emotion.

"Life and death are determined by fate! Don't you think?" Xu Mengda held my hand and said, "In this life, fighting is just a breath, and not fighting is still a breath. Now I feel that although one cannot live for a breath in this life, one must always maintain justice. If justice dies, even if a person is alive, it is nothing more than a wine bag and a rice sack. Chen Feng, one must have justice!"

I wasn't surprised at all by his feelings. When Xu Mengda talked to us about life and ideals in the past, he had said many times that one must have a conscience, a bottom line, and true colors.

I once joked that a person like Big Brother really shouldn't leave the officialdom.

Xu Mengda sighed, saying that it was because he was blinded by a pool of water that he resolutely wanted to leave the officialdom. He joked that leaving the officialdom didn't mean he couldn't serve the people, because there were no fetters on his body, and perhaps he could serve even better.

He signaled for me to help him push the wheelchair and said, "Let's go back."

I had only taken two steps pushing the wheelchair when the two old people not far away hurried over, wanting to take the wheelchair handles from my hands.

Xu Mengda said, "Let Chen Feng push it, we haven't seen each other for months."

The old man heard him call me Chen Feng and paid special attention to me.

My heart was pounding, because I could already see from the old man's eyebrows and bearing that his relationship with Xu Mengda was unusual. He should be the Propaganda Minister of Central Province, Xu Da! Xu Mengda's father!

I carefully pushed Xu Mengda into his room, and the two old people followed, greeting me to sit down faintly.

I didn't dare to sit, but instead greeted them, saying, "You two elders sit, I'll pour tea."

Xu Mengda waved his hand and said, "Chen Feng, no need to be polite, we are all family."

I smiled awkwardly, my eyes not daring to look at the old man.

Xu Mengda waited for me to sit down before pointing to the two old people and saying, "Chen Feng, let me introduce you, they are my mom and dad."

I stood up as if I had suddenly known, as if there were a spring under my butt, and shouted respectfully, "Hello, Uncle and Aunt!"

Xu Da smiled kindly, looked at me a few times, and didn't say a word.

I secretly looked at him a few times; he had an extraordinary bearing, and every gesture revealed a calm and unhurried manner. He seemed to always have a smile on his face, but behind the smile, there was a murderous aura that was hard for people to detect.

He was dressed simply, wearing an old-fashioned Zhongshan suit, with the buttons at the collar buttoned meticulously. His hair was gray, and it shone silver in the light.

He sat upright, majesty was everywhere, but in this small room, it was dissolved without a trace by Xu Mengda's wheelchair.

"Are you leaving?" Xu Mengda asked me.

I knew what he was asking, nodded, and said, "In another day, after we finish the graduation meeting, we will go back."

"What are your plans?" Xu Mengda lifted the blanket covering his legs. I saw that the trouser legs below were empty, as if his legs were already gone.

My heart ached, and I didn't answer his words. My eyes went to look at his legs, and the light revealed was not sorrow, but excitement that made people tremble.

"Still there," Xu Mengda said with a bitter smile, "just can't exert any strength anymore."

"Big Brother!" I squatted down again, touched his legs, and tears flowed. ===== CHAPTER 557 =====