20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3469 Xia Changhai's Family

Guided by Lin Xiaojie, the car turned a corner, and Zhao Chang'an saw a cluster of buildings a few hundred meters ahead. On the roof of one of the six-story main buildings were the four large characters "Pengzhou Hospital".

It was the third day of the Lunar New Year, and there were few people and vehicles at the hospital entrance, making it seem quite empty.

From a distance, Zhao Chang'an saw a middle-aged man, two doctors, and two female nurses standing at the entrance, with a hospital-specific trolley next to them.

To his surprise, he actually saw Xia Changhai, Jiang Jie, and Xia Momo.

Two years had passed since they last met, and Xia Changhai and Jiang Jie looked noticeably older and more weathered. Even from such a distance, one could see that under the sunlight, the couple's once jet-black hair had turned into a mix of black and white, reflecting a silvery hue in the sunlight.

Beside them was a bald old man in his fifties and a woman of the same age, dressed like a wealthy lady from a small town, holding a two- or three-year-old child in her arms.

The child was crying loudly, and the lady was shaking him helplessly to soothe him.

Xia Momo was making a scene with her hair disheveled. Her face, which was originally full of collagen and had an average appearance but was youthful, had now become dull and withered, giving off a vicious look.

The bald old man and the middle-aged man were talking, but the middle-aged man's mind was clearly not on the matter. He was shouting something loudly, seemingly telling someone to take Xia Momo away and stop making noise.

Two security guards and two men in white coats ran out of the hospital's security room and dragged the frantically struggling Xia Momo into the hospital.

Xia Momo naturally resisted going, shouting and struggling desperately. Her voice could be heard from a distance, like a pig being slaughtered. She deliberately lost her strength in her legs and slumped to the ground.

The bald man was initially shouting angrily for the security guards and the men in white coats to stop, but the middle-aged man seemed to say something sternly, which Zhao Chang'an guessed meant that Wu Yudong was coming.

At the same time, their eyes all turned towards this side.

Zhao Chang'an really didn't want to appear in front of Xia Changhai and his wife at this time, because they also had their own pride.

But at this point, it's really not advisable to slow down or even stop the car until the commotion over there has subsided and Xia Changhai and his wife and Xia Momo have left before driving over.

We had no choice but to grit our teeth and maintain our speed, continuing to move forward.

However, Zhao Chang'an was clearly overthinking it. After seeing the car, the bald man immediately ran to Xia Momo like a madman, grabbed the still crying Xia Momo, and ran towards the hospital as fast as he could.

Xia Changhai and Jiang Jie, along with the wealthy woman from the small town holding the child, hurriedly followed.

Before Zhao Chang'an's car arrived, the hospital entrance had become completely quiet.

"It's Lao Lei, what are they doing?"

Wu Yudong looked completely bewildered.

"They're probably seeing a doctor, so let's not worry about them."

Zhao Chang'an said calmly.

After dropping Lin Xiaojie and her brother off at the hospital, Wu Yudong sat in the passenger seat after Lin Xiaojie left and gave Zhao Chang'an directions to his home.

"These siblings are quite interesting. One seems foolish and talks like a complete idiot, but sometimes she's surprisingly perceptive. For example, when she complained about not having money for hospitalization, she guessed that the man was likely to dump her. But the other one is genuinely foolish. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, when someone came to their door, he immediately said that. Any ordinary person would be scared away. The person hadn't even graduated from university yet, and he was already expecting them to be responsible for building a house and getting married. You have to understand that this is just the beginning; the future is a bottomless pit. Anyone would run away in that situation!"

After holding it in the whole way, Zou Xiaojun finally burst into laughter as he commented: "The other one seems smart, but she's really stupid. She thinks that if she gives her boyfriend money every month, he'll treat her the same way after he graduates and becomes successful. Is this what she considers sacred love? Is she making a wish?"

"This is a typical example of resources naturally having an upward flow, or rather, an upward siphon effect that defies gravity, which is also the natural survival instinct of living things to rise. Moreover, if we're being honest, Lin Xiaojie's motives don't seem so pure; it's more like she's making stock investments. A college student majoring in Chinese literature at Zhengzhou University, is she really worth investing in like this?"

Zhao Chang'an didn't know if Zou Xiaojun, Wu Yudong, Tian Xue, and Zhang Xiaoxue inside the car could understand, but he had no interest in explaining and just sighed inwardly.

"Zhao Chang'an, uh, Mr. Zhao, what did you mean by what you said earlier? I don't understand!"

Tian Xue, who was sitting in the back, watched the gossip drama with a smile the whole way and asked Zhao Chang'an a question.

"This is a thought-provoking question. You and Zhang Xiaoxue can both think about it. I'll test you both tonight to see how you understand it."

Zhao Chang'an, of course, did not want to waste time on this matter, so he casually said something and let it go.

Sitting in the row behind Zhao Chang'an, Zou Xiaojun had a strange, smug smile on his face. Clearly, he had misunderstood the situation and misinterpreted a normal thought question as something like the pleasures between men and women.

Although he really wanted to turn around and see if Tian Xue and Zhang Xiaoxue had grasped the essence of Zhao Chang'an's words, Zou Xiaojun knew that doing so would be impolite.

He firmly remembered the saying, "One should not trifle with a friend's wife."

Speaking of beautiful women, Zou Xiaojun has been surrounded by many beautiful women with various motives over the years. Before meeting and falling in love with his current secret girlfriend, he had also had his share of fun with other beautiful women.

So Zou Xiaojun had seen and grown tired of so-called beautiful women. Now, apart from his girlfriend, he had long since reached a state of complete detachment from other women.

In this respect, Zou Xiaojun, Xiao Zijie, and Pei Xuezhe all possess similar potential and personality traits.

This includes Liu Yihui, Zhong Lianwei, and Wen Ye.

This forms a stark contrast with Zhao Chang'an, Qi Peng, Lou Chengxiang, and Wu Yue and Zheng Chi, whose lecherous nature has just been exposed.

In his previous life, Zhao Chang'an was driven to desperation by Li Shiya, so he relentlessly vented and possessed her whenever he had the chance. He also harbored a suppressed, repressed inner energy, thinking, "If you won't let me play, then I'll play with other women!"

Qi Peng and Lou Chengxiang, these rich second-generation kids, have little interest in taking over their fathers' businesses. They possess a mysterious, naive, and arrogant confidence, as if they have the "Evil-Repelling Sword Manual in hand, I own the world."

So, aside from making money and chasing women, there doesn't seem to be anything else in their lives that they need to do or challenge.