Chapter 36

Hua Mao and Lao Liang received the news that Fang Yu had come out, and they rushed to the hospital. When Hua Mao saw Fang Yu’s appearance, he even cried.

“Fuck, don’t be like a girl!” Lao Liang scolded Hua Mao, but his own eyes were bright red.

“Who made him like this? I’ll kill him!!” Hua Mao roared outside the hospital room, causing the people inside the hospital to stay far away in fear.

Lao Liang didn’t say anything. He sat alone on the chair outside the hospital room, expressionless. He fiddled with a small knife in his hands, a very small fruit knife.

No one dared to get close to him.

In the corridor outside of this hospital room stood twenty or so men who ordinary people would want to avoid the moment they saw them, but not a sound could be heard.

Luo Jiu himself also came. After seeing Fang Yu, he motioned Yang Lei to follow him out.

Finding somewhere quiet, Luo Jiu looked at Yang Lei: “Tell me the truth. How did you get him out?”

Luo Jiu had found someone and prepared money, but before he could use this money, he heard that Yang Lei didn’t use a single cent. One phone call, and as soon as he entered the bureau, he was able to get him out. The car that picked him up was even a police car.

“Jiu Ge, I beg one thing of you, okay?” Yang Lei said.

When Luo Jiu left, he said just one sentence to his subordinates: “No one is allowed to cause trouble.”

“If I can’t touch the police, I can still touch that Zhou Er, right?” Hua Mao couldn’t let this go at all. “Lao Liang! Are you going or not?!” Hua Mao stood up, and Lao Liang stood up with him. For Fang Yu’s sake, these two people didn’t even listen to Luo Jiu’s words.

“No one move,” Yang Lei said, lifting his gaze.

“Leave this matter to me. Leave him to me as well,” Yang Lei said, speaking very calmly.

Not long after Fang Yu entered the hospital, Sun Ke came over with a few policemen under his leadership.

Sun Ke brought along big and small bags, his face all smiles, like he was a different person from the one who had shouted at Yang Lei that morning.

When Sun Ke’s policemen appeared, all of the men outside in the corridor all stood up, staring at them. Lao Liang and Hua Mao didn’t recognize him, and they looked at these uniformed policemen suspiciously.

Sun Ke saw this formation, and guessed that the one inside was Fang Yu. Sun Ke braced himself and entered the hospital room.

Only Yang Lei sat by Fang Yu’s bedside. Fang Yu still hadn’t woken up.

“Xiao Lei, sorry for the disturbance… This matter was really a misunderstanding… misunderstanding… We came here specifically to apologize… This is… a small token of my regards…”

Sun Ke looked into Yang Lei’s eyes that looked back at him. As he spoke, he was sweating all over.

Ever since he became aware of Yang Lei’s background, Sun Ke’s heart had become cold.

He knew that he was done for this time. But could he be blamed? How could he have thought that the Public Security Bureau chief’s blood nephew and this big gangster at the bottom of society were brothers? By blood? If he had known, even if he were at gunpoint, he wouldn’t do such a stupid thing. Was there someone who wouldn’t hug the thigh of the Public Security Bureau chief and go hug the thigh of the office director? Which one was the thigh and which one was the toe? Could Sun Ke be that blind?

It was a pity that he didn’t know. It was a pity that he touched the one person he shouldn’t have.

Yang Lei looked at them and didn’t say anything.

“You guys can leave. Take the things back, too,” Yang Lei said, his tone very calm. There wasn’t even a little anger.

The calmer Yang Lei was, the more Sun Ke’s heart became unsettled. He had a feeling a storm was about to come. His sensitivity gained from his occupation told him that the calmness right now didn’t mean that this matter was over. On the contrary, it had just started.

“Xiao Lei, it’s really a misunderstanding… That Director Zhou’s son was the one who didn’t tell me the truth. I really wasn’t targeting anyone…”

Sun Ke was still sweating and chattering nonstop, trying to redeem himself. He obdurately presented a thick envelope.

“This is a small token of my regards for Xiao Fang… Of course, Xiao Fang’s medical expenses, I’ll cover it all…”

Yang Lei didn’t even extend his hand. Sun Ke’s extended hand was very awkward.

“Comrade Sun, my brother needs to rest.” Yang Lei was still very calm and very polite.

When Sun Ke and his fellow officers gloomily walked out of the hospital room and walked to the stairway, Hua Mao and Lao Liang, who were inside and knew what was going on with the visitors, picked up everything and threw them hard out of the hospital room.

Sun Ke quickened his steps.

If it weren’t for Yang Lei stopping them, that day, Sun Ke wouldn’t have even been able to leave the building.

After being hooked up to three consecutive IV bags, Fang Yu’s fever finally subsided. When Fang Yu woke up, Yang Lei smiled as he gently poked his face.

“You sure can sleep. Are you hungry? What do you want to eat?”

Fang Yu looked at him and considered.

“Vermicelli soup,” Fang Yu said.

“Look at how little you’re capable of. Don’t you want to eat something good?” Yang Lei joked with him, but his tone was very gentle. He softly wiped Fang Yu’s forehead.

Vermicelli soup was a famous local dish. It was very delicious and very cheap.

“I’m just capable of this much,” Fang Yu also joked.

“Okay, okay. You’re the oldest. You’re the boss.”

Yang Lei spoke like he was coaxing a child. He turned around and called a brother to buy takeout.

Hearing that Fang Yu had woken up, Hua Mao and Lao Liang came in.

Hua Mao was about to throw himself on Fang Yu, but Yang Lei stopped him.

“What are you doing? Don’t touch him!”

“Is my Da Ge your person? Are you the only one who can touch him?” Seeing that Fang Yu was awake, Hua Mao’s mood was excited, and he bickered with Yang Lei again.

“He is my person. So what, you’re not okay with that?”

“Don’t show off!”

“Enough, enough…” Fang Yu exasperatedly interrupted them and felt happy again. This familiar atmosphere and brothers for life before his eyes, put him at ease and made him feel relaxed. Fang Yu’s heart was assured, especially seeing that Lao Liang was safe and sound.

Yang Lei had already told Hua Mao and Lao Liang about how he had gotten Fang Yu out. Later, he would tell Fang Yu in detail. Right now, he asked none of them to mention it, and just to say that Jiu Ge had spent money to bail him out.

In fact, Yang Lei had brought Fang Yu back the moment he got to Jianghai. If Lao Liang and Hua Mao still couldn’t detect something from Sun Ke and his fellow officers’ recent visit, then they really were fools.

They were both very surprised, but no one asked.

At that time, although Yang Lei had already been in the gangdom for a while, there truly weren’t many on the streets who really knew about his family’s connections. Yang Lei also never mentioned it. Even Yan Ziyi only gradually knew about it after becoming his boss, while Luo Jiu and Fang Yu knew nothing.

Yang Lei also knew that Fang Yu would discover this matter sooner or later. But he didn’t want him to know right now. Or rather, Yang Lei didn’t want to mention anything related to his family at all.

WhenYang Lei had fought in the past, he had also been arrested by the police, and he had been locked in the police station and the detention center. None of the local officers in those police stations knew that this was the director of the city police bureau’s blood nephew. Yang Lei had never even bailed himself out.

“Ge.” Lao Liang called him once and didn’t say anything.

“How is Lu-zi?” Fang Yu was still concerned about the brother who had been stabbed by Huo Tui.

“He’s fine. He’s been rescued. Ge, recover well.” Lao Liang’s words were very simple.

Someone like Lao Liang was like this. No matter how great the act of kindness, he wouldn’t say anything. He wouldn’t even say a word of thanks.

But he would remember it in his heart for a lifetime. When you needed him, he could die for you.

“Enough. You guys can go back. I’ll stay here to watch,” Yang Lei said.

He wanted to be with Fang Yu alone.

When they all left, Yang Lei handed the purchased takeout vermicelli soup to Fang Yu. Fang Yu was really hungry. From last night until now, he hadn’t eaten anything.

Fang Yu sat at the head of the bed, eating the vermicelli soup. Yang Lei just watched him eat.

“Didn’t you go to the provincial capital? Why did you come back?” Fang Yu asked him.

“What do you think?” Yang Lei said.

“Unnecessary,” Fang Yu said.

“Why is it unnecessary? You’re like this, and it’s still unnecessary?” Yang Lei said.

Fang Yu paused for a while and glanced at Yang Lei.

“It’s really unnecessary. Does anyone in the gangdom not know how to go to prison?”

Fang Yu even smiled at Yang Lei.

Yang Lei could tell that Fang Yu was afraid that he was upset and was comforting him.

“…Can you not do that in the future? I know you’re the big brother and you cover for your brothers, but can you really cover them? You have so many people under your leadership. If they all get in trouble, how many can you cover?”

Yang Lei could be calm, mature, and clever in front of outsiders. But once he was in front of Fang Yu, he also didn’t know why he couldn’t hide any of his emotions at all. His temper was very impulsive. He wanted to throw everything at Fang Yu, so that every time, he appeared to be an immature, irritable child in Fang Yu’s eyes.

Right now, he couldn’t help it again. His heart hurt so much that it was nearly kneaded into a lump, but he knew that if something like this happened again, Fang Yu would definitely still do the same thing and behave like this.

“Enough, don’t scold me. I’m still sick.”

Fang Yu showed his weakness for once.

One sentence made Yang Lei’s heart soften. He didn’t scold and just watched Fang Yu eat the vermicelli soup.

Fang Yu was someone who really paid attention to his appearance and liked cleanliness. When he came out of the Public Security Bureau, Fang Yu changed into the clothes that Yong Ge had brought and quickly washed his face. But right now, Fang Yu’s face was wounded. It really wasn’t that attractive.

But Yang Lei seemed unable to see enough of him. He didn’t talk and just looked at him.

Yang Lei felt that he didn’t watch Fang Yu well yesterday, so that in the blink of an eye, Fang Yu disappeared from before his eyes and suffered to this extent. Right now, he didn’t want Fang Yu to leave his line of sight for even a minute. He was afraid that if he blinked again, Fang Yu would disappear again and get into trouble.

On the train from the provincial capital back to Jianghai, Yang Lei’s heart felt as if it were always tightening. Once he thought about how much Fang Yu had suffered that night, it was like scattering salt on a wound. It hurt so much that his heart was pierced.

Fang Yu raised his head, his eyes meeting Yang Lei’s gaze. Both of them didn’t speak. After making eye contact for a while, Fang Yu looked away.

Fang Yu could see that Yang Lei’s eyes were full of worry, heartache, and a little infatuation.

Outsiders could never feel that kind of infatuation, but the person involved could be touched at a glance.

That night, in the most difficult time, Fang Yu also longed for Yang Lei.

Really longed for him.

But Fang Yu didn’t want Yang Lei to see him as he was now.