Chapter 218: Believe Me

Li Xuewu stood by the wall, looked at Ji Wang Weidong, and said to David: "He says: 'You old bastard, where the hell are you from? If you don't talk, he's going to beat the hell out of you, you son of a bitch.'"

Ji Wang Weidong was amused by Li Xuewu's deadpan "translation" and let out a snort of laughter, saying, "Fuck!"

He took out a cigarette case, lit one for Li Xuewu, and said, "You're a real talent, man. Your Northeast dialect is spot on, and your translation didn't miss a single word." After finishing, he gestured toward David and asked, "Smoke?"

David maintained his head-held-high, disdainful expression, as if even at this point, Ji Wang Weidong couldn't do anything to him.

Ji Wang Weidong put the cigarette case back in his pocket, paced around the room, walked to the desk by the balcony, pulled a ping-pong paddle from a pile of messy magazines, checked the rubber, and swung it twice with a serious air.

"I can't learn your methods. I prefer using my own way to ask questions."

Li Xuewu, who had been frowning, was left between laughter and tears by Ji Wang Weidong's antics. Watching Ji Wang Weidong test the feel of the paddle, he finally understood: Ji Wang Weidong's polite words earlier were just an attempt to mimic Li Xuewu's interrogation style with Dong Wenwen and the woman in the other room—overcoming hardness with softness.

"Your name is David, right? You like ping-pong too? What a coincidence, so do I. I play often at work, and my technique isn't bad. Even my leaders can't beat me. Let's have a match today."

Ji Wang Weidong stood in front of David with the paddle, looked at David's pale face, swung his arm in a full circle, and slapped him across the face with a loud "smack."

"Fu...!"

Before David could spit out any more letters, Ji Wang Weidong, as if he were really playing ping-pong, swung his arms in a "left-right horizontal" motion, slapping him repeatedly with a rapid-fire *pitter-patter*.

David was a standard European, with a prominent jawbone and little flesh on his cheeks, so even though the rubber on the paddle had a bit of elasticity, it was all offset by Ji Wang Weidong's strength.

David, whose face had turned from white to "red," had blood leaking from the corner of his mouth. In the gap between Ji Wang Weidong's slaps, he shouted, "What do you want to ask? I'll talk! Stop hitting me!"

Ji Wang Weidong's control over his strength was clearly better than Li Xuewu's; the paddle he had prepared to swing down brushed past the tip of David's nose instead.

"Hoo~ hoo~ Haven't exercised in a long time. My ball skills have gotten a bit rusty," Ji Wang Weidong said, shaking the paddle in his hand.

This wasn't because Ji Wang Weidong was in the mood for jokes, nor was it "useless chatter" between him and Li Xuewu during interrogation; it was an interrogation technique. There's no need to explain too much here.

Ji Wang Weidong leaned against the cabinet, paddle in hand, and said, "Who is the woman you hid? What is the purpose? Your position, your handler, and who you serve."

David looked at Ji Wang Weidong, trying to gauge from his face how much the woman had said and how much these people already knew.

But he miscalculated. The two people interrogating him in the room were both fierce-looking; they didn't play the "courtesy before force" game, nor did they follow the rules of the game.

Ji Wang Weidong spent the time it took to smoke a full cigarette, threw the butt on the wool carpet, and crushed it. Li Xuewu took out the cigarette case, lit one for Ji Wang Weidong, then lit one for himself. After a night of tossing and turning, he was exhausted and sleepy, and his stomach was growling with hunger.

"Don't hold onto any illusions. We're all grown men. If you're straightforward, we'll be polite, and you'll suffer less. What he just did was just a joke to 'warm up.' If he really went for real, you wouldn't have the heart to roll your eyes around like that right now."

"I am foreign affairs personnel. Our countries have diplomatic relations. I enjoy immunity. You have no right to interrogate me."

Looking at the stubborn David, Li Xuewu shook his head, stopped Ji Wang Weidong, who was about to play "ping-pong" again, and said, "This won't work. It's too conventional, not fresh at all. They aren't having fun."

He held the cigarette between his fingers in his mouth, took out an M1911 from his chest, waved it at the Investigation Department personnel, and signaled for them to open David's handcuffs.

"Table, press his hands onto the table."

The Investigation Department personnel, at Ji Wang Weidong's signal, unlocked David's handcuffs and pressed his hands onto the table.

Li Xuewu took the grenade pin he had pulled earlier out of his pocket, pressed it against the back of David's hand, and turned the gun around to hold it by the barrel.

"Thud!"

"Fu~ Ah~"

Just one hit!

Just one hit!

Li Xuewu only nailed it once, pinning David's hand to the table with the pin.

Ignoring David's roar, Li Xuewu said to the few people in the room, "Don't look at me like my first aid is amateurish. That's not my fault. My dad is a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, an internal medicine doctor, not good at manual labor. But I have a family tradition for nailing nails—my grandfather was a carpenter."

Ji Wang Weidong watched David's hand trembling uncontrollably on the table, and the corners of his own mouth couldn't help but twitch.

This Li Xuewu was truly good material for this line of work. Just a moment ago, he was reasoning with the man in a friendly manner, and now he was violently pinning the man's hand to the table, all while speaking nonsense in an unhurried tone as if it were perfectly natural.

It was this constant stream of nonsense that kept increasing the pressure on the person being interrogated. They say a biting dog doesn't bark; that's exactly how Li Xuewu felt to David right now.

A lunatic! This guy is a fucking lunatic!

Xu Ning, who was watching from the doorway, was sharp. He wouldn't miss this golden opportunity to suck up. Seeing the Li Kezhang nailing someone, he went off to find more nails.

Li Xuewu finished speaking and finished showing off. Xu Ning had already pulled a nail from the broken wardrobe in the next bedroom and handed it to Li Xuewu at the perfect moment.

"Mm-hmm."

Seeing Xu Ning hand him the nail without a trace, Li Xuewu, cigarette in mouth, flicked the ash that was about to fall onto his new overcoat and took the time to nod at Xu Ning with two "mm-hmms."

Xu Ning knew what the Li Kezhang's "mm-hmm" meant; it was the Li Kezhang expressing his approval.

Good man, I nail people, you hand me the nails—a good comrade.

Li Xuewu placed the gun on the table, took the cigarette butt from his mouth with his hand, took a fierce drag, took it down, and listening to David's roaring, said, "Stop yelling for a second. Listen to me first. Don't rush. Don't rush to confess yet. Let me perform for them again. Look at their expressions; they don't trust my words at all. Let's cooperate."

Li Xuewu pressed the cigarette butt against the back of David's other hand, causing David to scream in pain again.

No matter how painful it was, David didn't dare struggle. With his right hand pinned to the table, every movement was tearing pain. Even if the cigarette burn hurt, he only roared and didn't dare twist his body to dodge.

"Hoo, hoo." Li Xuewu blew on the smell of roasted meat in front of him and pressed the nail onto the back of David's left hand, right where the cigarette had burned him.

"Wait, I'll talk, I'll talk! Don't hammer it! That nail is rusty, I'll get tetanus!"

Li Xuewu, of course, knew what tetanus was, but he still picked up the pistol and compared it against the nail.

"What kind of wind? How could that be? It's so warm in this room, how could there be a draft? See? It's right where I marked it with the cigarette butt. I said if I nail it in from here, it'll definitely come out from here. Don't move. I'll be quick. Believe me, it won't hurt."

"No, no, no, don't! People will die, really!"

"How could that be? Pinning you here won't kill you that fast. If I don't give you water or food, you'll have to hang here for ten days or half a month before you die."

"I don't know that woman. Lily arranged for her to help me, really, I really don't know her."

Li Xuewu sighed with regret and said, "I told you not to talk yet. You don't trust me. My grandfather really was a carpenter."

"My position is Foreign Affairs Officer. I have part-time business. My handler is the intelligence chief at the Foreign Affairs Office. Lily contacted us on her own initiative at the dance. Really, she seduced me first."

Ji Wang Weidong frowned and asked, "Who is Lily?"

Li Xuewu said anxiously, "Wait until I finish my performance. It'll be quick. You can ask in a moment."

David saw Li Xuewu holding the nail over the back of his hand without stopping, the gun still held by the barrel, and said hurriedly, "We met at the club. She's very beautiful, a Chinese girl, really. I bought all this information from her, really! Don't hammer it, people will really die!"

Li Xuewu looked at David with a solemn expression and said, "Are you sure it's a girl, and not the woman you hid? What is her Chinese name?"

David hissed, "Yes, yes, yes, it's a girl, not that old woman."

Li Xuewu put away the gun, threw away the nail, took paper and pen from the table, and sketched Dong Wenwen's hairstyle, face shape, and facial features on the paper. He threw away the pencil and placed the portrait on the table.

"Is it her?"

David looked at the drawing Li Xuewu handed over. Although it was still very rough, the general features of the person could still be seen.

"Yes, it's her."

Ji Wang Weidong stared into David's eyes and asked, "What is her codename?"

David felt Li Xuewu's fierce gaze and answered quickly, "Professor."

"Ah! Hiss~"

David roared the moment Li Xuewu grabbed the ring and pulled it hard.

"And this piece of shit thinks he's a 007 agent?"

Li Xuewu threw the deformed safety ring onto the table and said.

Ji Wang Weidong had already run to the study to make a phone call. Although Li Xuewu's mood was complicated, he forced himself to stay calm, took a breath, and said to the Investigation Department personnel, "Take everyone in this building to the police station. Oh, right."

Li Xuewu pointed to David, who was clutching his injured hand to check it, and said, "Take him to the hospital for a tetanus shot. Even though the safety pin wasn't rusty, there's still a possibility of tetanus."

Hearing this, David suddenly raised his head and couldn't help but want to stand up, but was pressed down by the investigation personnel behind him.

"That's not right! You're lying to me!"

Li Xuewu ignored David's reaction. Watching the real Rose being escorted out, Li Xuewu said to Xu Ning, "Sorry, gather the comrades. We've got work to do."

Xu Ning greeted Li Xuewu with his arm in a sling and went downstairs to gather the team. The team members had also slept in a heap in the bedroom downstairs, and before they had even rested, they were gathered by Xu Ning, all of them coming out yawning.

Ji Wang Weidong walked out with a serious face and said, "It's a good thing we interrogated them in time. Taking advantage of the chaos during breakfast, your 'ex-girlfriend' wanted to go to the bathroom. Because we didn't have any female comrades, your 'doctor girlfriend' followed her in to monitor her."

Before Li Xuewu could ask, Ji Wang Weidong replied with a strange expression.

"Tsk tsk tsk, didn't expect her to be so fierce even after being injured. She unlocked the handcuffs herself, knocked the doctor down in the bathroom, and your ex-girlfriend wanted to jump out the window to escape. That doctor is also truly fierce, grabbing her leg and not letting go. The two of them hung on the second floor for a while, tearing at each other. Fortunately, our phone call was timely, and the guards rushed in and handcuffed them."

Li Xuewu frowned as he listened, then shouted to the hall downstairs, "Xu Ning, you take the motorcycle first. Go to the bun shop and buy enough breakfast for 60 people. Go straight to the police station and wait for us."

Without waiting for Xu Ning to agree, Li Xuewu turned to Ji Wang Weidong and said, "Escort everyone away. Let's go check the safe house first, then go to the hospital to pick up the people, and go straight back to the station."

Ji Wang Weidong raised an eyebrow and asked, "Not chasing that postman anymore?"

Li Xuewu smiled and whispered a few words to Ji Wang Weidong. He went into the room, took the wooden box containing the shotgun, and walked downstairs. He saw Ji Wang Weidong standing on the second floor as if he were a fool, looking at Li Xuewu's calm back.

"I wish I could be as carefree as you."

"Sometimes I want to be a lying ghost, but I can't."

"I believe that good looks are justice."

"But no one believes me."

"Yet they all believe you, you ugly monster."

When Ji Wang Weidong walked out of the villa, he was stunned. He didn't know that the top-secret document he had chased all night, regretted all night, and thought about all night was actually...

Shocking...!

Li Xuewu sat in the jeep and shouted at Ji Wang Weidong, "Hurry up. We can still make it to the police station for lunch. If we dawdle any longer, we'll be eating dinner."

Ji Wang Weidong jumped into the jeep and said to Li Xuewu, "Whose shitty idea was this? Why didn't you say so earlier?"

Li Xuewu said helplessly, "What do you think? Of course, it was my leader. I'm just a small section chief; where would I have the guts?"

Ji Wang Weidong looked at Li Xuewu with a constipated expression, clearly not believing what Li Xuewu said. Seeing the car moving, he asked, "You said letting Rose go was a lie, right?"

Li Xuewu nodded and said, "How could I let her leave? And she even wanted to take the money with her. No matter what her purpose is, no matter how miserable her background is, if she makes a mistake, she has to bear the consequences."

Ji Wang Weidong looked at Li Xuewu and asked, "Then what you promised your ex-girlfriend in the hospital room was also a lie?"

Li Xuewu said helplessly, "If I don't coax her, how can I get the truth out? Even then, I was still tricked. Do you really think everything she said is true? Hehe, I never believed that someone I hadn't seen in three years would still have such deep feelings. I also don't believe the words of anyone in this profession. Let alone an ex-girlfriend, hehe!"

Ji Wang Weidong felt offended, glared, and asked again, "You said your family was extremely poor, that was also a lie, right? Take off that overcoat for me."

Li Xuewu grabbed the collar of the overcoat and dodged, saying, "That's true, that's true. Every word I told you that day was true."

Ji Wang Weidong asked suspiciously, "Really?"

Li Xuewu emphasized again, "Really, every word is true."

Ji Wang Weidong let go of Li Xuewu's overcoat and said, "I'll believe you for now."

Li Xuewu said between laughter and tears, "I'm a good person. Lying is also a professional necessity. In life, I am a very upright and reliable person. I never lie. I am a pure person, a person who has left behind low-level tastes."

Ji Wang Weidong didn't think much of it at first, but when he heard the end and saw Li Xuewu becoming more and more shameless, he looked at the overcoat on Li Xuewu again.

The two were of similar age and had similar professions. Although they had only met a few times, they got along quite "harmoniously."

Entering Chaoyang Gate and heading north to Yuncang, the houses here were much more regulated than those near Li Xuewu's home. Because it was opposite the hospital where they were going to pick up people, Li Xuewu and the others chose to come to the safe house first. The truck carrying the yellow-haired ones and Rose went to the hospital to pick up the people.

Including the jeep Ji Wang Weidong and Li Xuewu were sitting in and the two motorcycles behind, a total of ten people stood at the gate of No. 1 Courtyard on Haiyun Road.

Ji Wang Weidong waved his hand, took the people to open the door, and entered the courtyard. Li Xuewu didn't rush in, but lit a cigarette and stood on the sidewalk, looking at the surrounding environment.

The houses here were not traditional tile-roofed houses, but a villa area with independent courtyards. Every house was a small two-story building. The regulations and styles were similar, with only slight differences in courtyard style and building facade decoration.

Although it looked gray and dusty now, judging by the shape, it didn't look like it was built recently. It should be an old residential area from the Republican era, with a reinforced concrete structure, sturdy as hell.

The two-story villa in the small courtyard where Ji Wang Weidong and the others entered was covered with the roots of Boston ivy, and other houses were the same.

This house was located at the corner of two streets, facing south. The courtyard gate opened at the southwest corner, with a fully enclosed large iron gate, a doorbell button, and a mailbox at the gate.

Both streets were two-way streets with brick-paved surfaces, clean and tidy. There were sidewalks more than two meters wide on both sides of the street, and a row of ginkgo trees in the middle of the road.

It is worth mentioning that there were even sewers under the curb, which shows how high-level the people who lived in this small villa area were at that time.

The two streets were not flat; the east side was high, the west side was low, the north side was high, and the south side was low. This design was particular. Li Xuewu couldn't see much else, but it was certain that water and dust would not accumulate on the street surface.

Li Xuewu stood by the road and looked to the west. There was a small park. It seems that the rainwater here all gathered in the park. This designer is really extraordinary.

After smoking a cigarette, he flicked the butt into the sewer and turned into the courtyard. Not bad, the people living on this street also had high status. At this time, there was really no one wandering on the street, and no unlucky children running around.

There were team members and Investigation Department personnel searching in the courtyard, but it was winter, and it had just snowed heavily. The courtyard was white, and only the snake-shaped path leading to the villa entrance had footprints stepped out by Ji Wang Weidong and the others.

"No need to dig too deep in the snow; it'll have to be sealed anyway. First, check for anything unusual. Focus on the interior."

Li Xuewu tested the lawn pool next to the gate. Good man, it was deeper than his knees. The courtyard here was surrounded by large trees, and the snow couldn't be blown out at all; it was all piled up in the courtyard.

If this were to be searched carefully, wouldn't it take until the middle of the night? He gave an instruction and walked toward the building.

This villa should also be designed as a whole. The foundation of the house was very high. The further in you went, the higher the terrain. There were three steps at the entrance. Seeing the door wide open, the team members were still rummaging inside.

Before Li Xuewu could go upstairs, Ji Wang Weidong came down from upstairs, holding a box in his arms.

"Found it. Document files numbered by time, a miniature camera, matching film, and a complete set of developing equipment."

Li Xuewu rummaged through the box Ji Wang Weidong was holding. It was nothing more than these things, but such a good safe house shouldn't be used for this.

"Didn't find anything else?"

Ji Wang Weidong handed the box to the person beside him, patted the dust off his hands, and said, "How could that be? The grenades in the basement are packed in boxes. Machine guns, pistols, and foreign currency and gold bars—the comrades are cleaning them up."

Li Xuewu stood at the door without going in. Since they had already been unearthed, why dawdle here? Coming here wasn't just to see what was there, but to confirm the evidence so he could take the yellow-haired ones away, to avoid other trouble later.

"Let's go, go to the opposite side."

It was indeed not far from the military hospital. Standing on the street, you could see the hospital building, just over a mile away.

Ji Wang Weidong followed Li Xuewu out, leaving a group of people to clean up. He had already contacted the headquarters via the phone in the building, and reinforcements would arrive later.

Li Xuewu jumped into the car. Ji Wang Weidong looked at Xiao Liu and the driver in front and whispered, "If you feel it's inconvenient, you can go to the station and wait for me. It's the same if I go over to pick up the people."

"We've already met once, what's one more time? Let's go. It's not like you're a young lady; what's convenient or inconvenient about it?"

Ji Wang Weidong nodded and patted the driver's seat to signal him to drive.

"Fine, as long as you don't feel awkward."

Li Xuewu glared at Ji Wang Weidong and said, "You have such a considerate and caring side for your comrades?"

Ji Wang Weidong leaned against the backrest as the car shook and said, "That's right. We're comrades who have been through life and death together. How could I watch you sink into depression for love?"

Knowing that Ji Wang Weidong was testing him, Li Xuewu was also bad. He just wouldn't say it clearly. He adopted an attitude of silence is gold, and didn't speak until they were about to get off at the hospital. "Before I became a soldier, I had dated more than twenty such partners. If I were as sentimental as you said, I'd be lying in a coffin by now."

Ji Wang Weidong just thought Li Xuewu was saving face and bragging. More than twenty? Tsk tsk tsk, what did they look like? What a character.

The two only brought one jeep and one motorcycle, but the Security Section's large truck was already there, having arrived early and waiting at the gate.

Ji Wang Weidong took the lead, and the two went up to the second floor. It was still the room at the end of the hall, but the security had been increased by more than double. Everyone was on alert with guns, and who knows how many were inside.

Just before reaching the ward, Li Xuewu stopped and said to Ji Wang Weidong, "You go first. I'll go see Dr. Gu, who was injured."

Ji Wang Weidong turned his head and laughed slyly, "I knew it. Hey, you were acting tough when I told you to wait for me, but it turns out you were setting an ambush for me."

Li Xuewu ignored Ji Wang Weidong's sarcasm, knocked on the door of the surgical office beside him. The one who opened the door was Sister Fang from last time.

"Who are you?"

Li Xuewu was wearing a general's wool overcoat, but not the full set. Sister Fang in the office couldn't figure out what Li Xuewu wanted to do, but he looked familiar because Li Xuewu's features were too distinct.

"I am Li Xuewu, handling the case in Room 201. I heard that Dr. Gu was injured because of our case, so I came to ask."

Before Sister Fang could answer, someone inside responded, "Is that Xuewu? Wait for me a moment."

Li Xuewu looked inside. It turned out to be Gu Ning's sister-in-law, whom he had met that day, remembered as Mu Hongyan.

"Dr. Mu, sorry to bother you at work."

Mu Hongyan, like Gu Ning, was over 1.7 meters tall, with a standard, well-proportioned figure. It's just that Gu Ning looked slim, while Mu Hongyan was fuller. Wearing a white coat made her look even more beautiful and moving, with a melon-seed face and a magnetic voice.

"It's okay. Gu Ning is being kept in the ward for observation. I'll take you there."

Li Xuewu only learned from Ji Wang Weidong that Gu Ning was injured, but didn't know she was injured so severely that she needed hospitalization for observation.

"Is Dr. Gu's injury very serious?"

Mu Hongyan took Li Xuewu to the ward, saying as they walked, "She has a head injury, and there are external wounds on her hands and legs. I'm the one who made her stay in the hospital. She's been working overtime recently and hasn't had any rest. Take this opportunity to have a good rest."

As she spoke, she took Li Xuewu to a ward not far from 201, pushed the door open, and said to Li Xuewu, "Come in."

After greeting Li Xuewu, she said to Gu Ning inside, "Xiao Ning, Xuewu is here to see you."

Li Xuewu walked into the room and saw Gu Ning with a bandage on her head, bloodstains on the bandage, and her hands also bandaged, sitting up in the hospital bed looking at him.

"Smack."

Li Xuewu gave a salute to Gu Ning in the hospital bed and said, "I am very sorry for the harm caused to you due to our work negligence. I also thank you for your bravery, which helped us avoid a loss."

Mu Hongyan stood on the side, looking at this iron-blooded man who had the same personality as her husband. Thinking of Li Xuewu's blind date with her sister-in-law, she felt a wave of regret.

At home, every time her mother-in-law said she wanted to find a blind date for her sister-in-law, her father-in-law would frown and say he was looking for someone like Li Xuewu.

It's hard to find a three-legged toad, but there are plenty of two-legged people. However, her father-in-law had a revolutionary friendship with Dong Wenwen's family. Dong Wenwen had always been trying to matchmake his students, and her mother-in-law couldn't say anything, so she could only worry.

Thinking of these two happy enemies, they were clearly very polite to each other, but they were too polite. This politeness kept them from getting together.

"Don't be polite, Xuewu. Sit down. I have things to do in my department, so I won't accompany you."

Mu Hongyan let Li Xuewu into the ward, said hello, closed the door, and went out.

Li Xuewu looked at the closed door and, under Gu Ning's gaze, walked to the side of the hospital bed and sat down.

"No need to apologize. I was temporarily responsible for her custody. I am a military doctor, but I am a soldier first and a doctor second. I have an obligation to stop her from escaping."

Seeing Gu Ning frown slightly because she touched her wound while speaking, Li Xuewu looked at Gu Ning's wound and said, "I still feel admiration for your bravery."

Gu Ning looked at Li Xuewu, who had a stubbly beard and a greasy face, and said, "I also feel respect for your heroism and hard work."

"Hahaha."

"O(∩_∩)O Hahaha~"

Both of them felt an inexplicable sense of humor about the compliments they paid each other and laughed. Mu Hongyan, who was eavesdropping outside the ward door, waved her hand at the nurse who was looking at her with an inquisitive look, stopping the nurse from entering, and returned to the office with a smile on her face.

"If your hand is injured, take a rest for a while. Dr. Mu said you've been working overtime recently. Just take this opportunity to have a good rest. See what you need, just ask, and I'll find a way."

Gu Ning smiled and then withdrew her smile, as if smiling was a rare thing for her. She said calmly to Li Xuewu, "I don't need anything. This is my unit, it's very convenient."

Li Xuewu didn't say any more polite or caring words. There were too many things that were hard to say between men and women. If you say too many caring words, it seems fake.

Just then, Ji Wang Weidong shouted in the hallway, "Li Xuewu, where did you go? We're leaving."

Li Xuewu knew that Ji Wang Weidong was in a hurry to get results. There were still 5 people lying in the morgue, and he also needed to report to his superiors, so he didn't waste any more time.

"I really didn't know you were so seriously injured. The case is urgent, so I didn't bring any fruit or anything when I came to see you."

Gu Ning waved her bandaged hand, felt pain, frowned, and said, "No need, no need. You have a case, go get busy. I heard your comrade calling you."

Li Xuewu stood up, took the Browning M1906 pocket pistol that Ji Wang Weidong had given him earlier from his pocket, and placed it by Gu Ning's pillow.

"I'll give this to you for self-defense. Don't be so reckless in the future."

Gu Ning looked at the small pistol Li Xuewu put down, then looked at the rude man who saluted her and walked out, and said, "Li... Li Xuewu!"

Li Xuewu grabbed the door handle and looked back at Gu Ning, who had called him. He saw Gu Ning say nervously, "You also pay attention to safety, don't be so reckless."

Hearing Gu Ning's words, Li Xuewu smiled, and Gu Ning also lowered her head and smiled. The two of them had a sense of "meeting with a smile and forgetting the grudges."

"I know. You rest. I'll come to visit you again when I have time."

After speaking, he went out. Just as he pulled the door handle, he saw Gu Ning's mother, Ding Bianji, blocking Ji Wang Weidong against the wall and lecturing him.

"It's wrong to be loud in public places, let alone in a hospital? You're in a hurry, you have a mission, you can call a nurse..."

Ji Wang Weidong looked at this aunt in military uniform and really didn't dare to say anything, because this aunt had a guard behind her. He couldn't guess her identity and could only stand there awkwardly with a red face.

Li Xuewu walked up and saluted Ding Bianji, saying, "Hello, Aunt Ding. I'm really sorry, it's my fault. My comrade was looking for me."

Ding Bianji saw Li Xuewu coming from behind, turned to look at Li Xuewu, and said, "Is that Xuewu? How is Xiao Ning?"

Li Xuewu looked at Ding Bianji's gossipy expression and thought, your daughter-in-law is a doctor, you're asking me? Besides, Li Xuewu didn't believe Ding Bianji didn't know he was in Gu Ning's ward.

"Dr. Gu's injury is due to our negligence. I apologize to you, I'm sorry, Aunt Ding."

Ding Bianji waved her hand and said to Li Xuewu, "She is a soldier, this is what she should do. Well, go in and sit for a while. I brought breakfast. You should eat a bite too. Look at how tired you are, oh my."

Damn! I'm hungry too. I'm also covered in grease and exhausted, why didn't you ask me to eat breakfast?

Ji Wang Weidong's face wasn't red anymore, he wasn't panting, and he was full of energy. He had the energy to watch the fun.

Li Xuewu saw Ji Wang Weidong winking at him and said awkwardly to Ding Bianji, "Aunt, I have a mission. I've been busy all night. I have to go now. I'm in a hurry. I've made an appointment with my teacher. After this is done, I'll go see you and Counselor Gu. I also want to thank Counselor Gu for his care."

Ding Bianji, of course, knew what Li Xuewu meant. She looked at Li Xuewu's tired face and said, "Then go get busy. Come to the house to play when you have time. We are all close, don't say anything about care or no care. Come back when it's convenient, go, go get busy."

Li Xuewu agreed and hurriedly took Ji Wang Weidong, who was still watching the fun, downstairs.

"You fucking lied to me."

"I didn't."

"You fucking lied to me."

"I didn't."

"You did! Who was that just now?"

"......"

"Nothing to say, right? That's your mother-in-law, right? She has a guard with her. She looks like the family of a high-level cadre. She's very fierce when lecturing people. Look at her again when she sees you, tsk tsk tsk, it's really a mother-in-law looking at a son-in-law. Not bad, you're hiding your true self."

"It's really not."

"Fine, fine, it's meaningless to keep saying that. Tsk tsk tsk, Counselor Gu, in the capital's high-level counselors, the one surnamed Gu... hmm?... Holy shit! You fucking!!! Give me back that overcoat! Your father-in-law has plenty of them!"

Li Xuewu dragged Ji Wang Weidong and stuffed him into the back seat of the jeep, and said to the driver who was watching the fun, "Drive, drive. Haven't you ever seen someone with rabies?"

After the driver started the car while holding back his laughter, Li Xuewu tightened his overcoat and said to the gossipy Ji Wang Weidong, "Do you think it's possible?"

Ji Wang Weidong had an expression of "I see through you" and said, "I don't care, you lied to me!"

Seeing that Ji Wang Weidong was repeating the same thing, he had no choice but to be like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water. He let Ji Wang Weidong grab him and ask questions, but just pretended to sleep, making Ji Wang Weidong very itchy.

Just as Li Xuewu and the others left, Mu Hongyan walked out of the office and saw her mother-in-law standing in the hallway looking at Li Xuewu's back. When she walked to her mother-in-law, she smiled and said, "Why did he leave? He only just went in."

Ding Bianji sighed and frowned again, saying, "It's all because of that clumsy kid who shouted Li Xuewu's name in the hallway. That's why Li Xuewu was called out. Otherwise, he would have stayed for a while longer."

Mu Hongyan took the lunch box from her mother-in-law and hugged her mother-in-law's arm, saying, "Alright, Li Xuewu and the others have a mission today, a special one. They didn't have much time to begin with. They've been handling it since last night, just brought the people away, the one who injured Xiao Ning. Fortunately, the two of them got along very happily just now. Didn't they laugh in the ward?"

Ding Bianji didn't care about any special mission. In her heart, her daughter's future was more special. She didn't care about Gu Ning's injury. She had been mentally prepared since Gu Ning entered the military hospital. Now she was very sorry that she didn't see her daughter's good news.

"Did you really hear them laughing in the room?"

Seeing that her mother-in-law still didn't believe her, Mu Hongyan squeezed her mother-in-law's arm and said, "Really, I heard it clearly. Can I lie to you?"

Ding Bianji patted her daughter-in-law's hand and said, "It's not that Mom doesn't believe you, it's that Xiao Ning has made me worry to death. I've introduced so many, and the only one who can satisfy your father and make Xiao Ning nod is this one. You say, as a mother..."

Mu Hongyan knew her mother-in-law's thoughts. She was very good at coaxing her mother-in-law to be happy, otherwise, she wouldn't be like this now, getting along with her mother-in-law like a real mother.

While hugging her mother-in-law and walking to her sister-in-law's ward, she said, "Mom, how much you've paid for this family, don't I know? But Xiao Ning, you know, she can't be forced, her personality is stubborn. Fortunately, there is a good start now. I'll say, a blessing in disguise. Look, this injury has opened up the situation. Good things take time."

Ding Bianji nodded in agreement, still feeling that her daughter-in-law was the most thoughtful, as everything she said hit the mark. When her daughter-in-law opened the door, her heart shattered at the sight of her daughter wrapped in gauze.

"Xiao Ning, this is, oh my."

Mu Hongyan hurriedly helped her mother-in-law sit down in front of the hospital bed, whispering, "It's nothing serious. Just a bit of skin scraped off her forehead, and her hands were bruised from hitting the window sill, so I wrapped them up. I just wanted Xiao Ning to get more rest. She works overtime whenever the director tells her to; she doesn't know how to be lazy."

Ding Bianji also knew about her daughter's injuries, but Gu Ning looked a bit frightening right now, though her spirits were still quite good. Seeing her eldest daughter-in-law's reassurance, she reined in her emotions.

Looking at her daughter's forehead again, she leaned on the edge of the pillow, wanting to touch her daughter's head, but as soon as she reached out, she was poked by something under the pillow. She reached in to pull it out and was startled—it was a small, exquisite handgun.

"This is?"

Gu Ning's hands were both wrapped up. Li Xuewu hadn't hidden the gun under the pillow when he put it down earlier; Gu Ning had just used her elbow to shove it under the pillow, fearing a misunderstanding if colleagues visited her in the hospital. She never expected her mother to accidentally pull it out while visiting.

Seeing her mother holding the gun that man had given her and looking at her, she could only lower her head and pretend to read, trying to say in an indifferent tone, "He gave it to me."

Ding Bianji and her daughter-in-law exchanged a glance. The fire of gossip in each other's eyes was burning fiercely, and they were so excited they could have jumped, but seeing Gu Ning trying to pretend to be calm, they both chose to purse their lips and giggle, determined not to laugh out loud here.

"You know, this man is really something. He's become foolish from being a soldier. Not to mention he's unshaven, but when coming to see a patient, it's one thing not to bring fruit, but what's with bringing a gun?"

"No, he said..."

Gu Ning looked up to defend Li Xuewu, but as soon as the words left her mouth, she saw her mother and sister-in-law looking at her with smiles on their faces. How could she not know she had been tricked?

"I'm sleepy, I'm going to sleep for a while." Gu Ning threw the book aside, abruptly pulled the quilt up to cover her head, and refused to let go, no matter how her mother and sister-in-law asked or persuaded her from the outside, just like someone who was truly sleepy and wanted to sleep.

Gu Ning's sleepiness might not be real, but Li Xuewu's sleepiness was definitely real.

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