late bloomer

Chapter 158 Facing Life and Death
The man raised his head, and Lin Xiyao took a closer look, but it was her father, Lin Ziqiang!

She was taken aback, how did he become like this?
His hair was dirty and messy, his face was also dirty, his already thin face looked even thinner, he was holding a steamed bun tightly in his hand, no matter how those people beat him, he didn't care at all, Desperately put steamed buns in his mouth.

The moment a pair of dull eyes saw Lin Xiyao, they brightened up.

He stuffed the whole steamed bun into his mouth, gobbling it like a wolf, almost choking on it.

Finally put all the steamed buns into his stomach, he panted slightly, and shouted weakly to Lin Xiyao: "Yaoyao, help..."

Ye Lanfeng also saw that it was Lin Ziqiang, and was very surprised that he would be so downcast.

He held hands and called softly: "Xi Yao."

Lin Xiyao gave him a wry smile: "Afeng, I'm fine."

She let go of Ye Lanfeng's hand, and numbly walked towards Lin Ziqiang.

When the men who beat him saw her approaching with a blank face, they stopped their movements involuntarily, staring blankly at this girl with extraordinary clothes and looks.

When Lin Ziqiang saw Lin Xiyao approaching, he seemed to see a savior. After the beating stopped, he crawled towards Lin Xiyao like a dog. When he got to her feet, he opened his arms to hug her legs. Thinking of something, he immediately withdrew his hand embarrassingly.

Tears welled up in his eyes, and he said with snot and tears: "Yaoyao, where have you and Lan Feng been these few days? If you don't come back, I'm going to die!"

Lin Xiyao looked at her father with no expression on her face.

Ye Lanfeng walked up to her, put his arms around her, and pulled her away from Lin Ziqiang.

He looked coldly at the thin old man in ragged clothes on the ground, and asked coldly, "Lin Ziqiang, what are you doing?"

He had just heard the comments from the crowd that Lin Ziqiang was a beggar who suddenly appeared a few days ago, or a thief, to be more precise, he was not begging like other beggars, he was just stealing food from other people's shops, and had already been beaten Several times, but still stubborn.

Ye Lanfeng obviously only gave him 10 yuan more than a week ago, how could he become a beggar or a thief in just a few days?What happened?

Seeing Ye Lanfeng, Lin Ziqiang shrank his neck in fright, and said cautiously: "Lan Feng, the 10 yuan you gave is too little, it's not enough to spend at all!"

Ye Lanfeng sneered: "Then what do you mean, how much do you need to spend?"

Lin Ziqiang said cheekily: "Of course, the more the better!"

Lin Xiyao's heavy voice sounded at this moment: "You're going to gamble again, aren't you?"

Lin Ziqiang was surprised, his small eyes rolled around, his head was lowered, and he asked in a low voice, "How do you know?"

Those who were more sympathetic to him before, immediately showed contempt and disgust after hearing his words.It turned out to be a gambler!Then there is nothing to sympathize with!He deserves to be beaten!

When Lin Xiyao heard this, she turned around and left.

If you don't change your gambling nature, let him fend for himself!

Ye Lanfeng told her that she gave Lin Ziqiang 10 yuan, and she thought Lin Ziqiang would spend a long time with [-] yuan, so she didn't care about him anymore.

Who knew, he actually used that money to gamble!So infuriating!

"Yaoyao, you can't leave me alone! I worked so hard to bring you up, to feed you the best, and to wear the best clothes. Now that you have grown up, you have your own man, and your wings are hardened. Are you just ignoring your own biological father? Why are you so cruel? Everyone judges me, why do I have such an unfilial daughter? What is the law of heaven?"

Lin Ziqiang cried like a ghost, climbed up and hugged Lin Xiyao's legs.

Lin Xiyao screamed in fright, wanted to jump but couldn't, her legs were tightly hugged by Lin Ziqiang.

"Let go!" Ye Lanfeng ordered.

Lin Ziqiang refused: "Give me 100 million and I will let it go!"

Ye Lanfeng smiled coldly and showed the dagger.

Who knows, Lin Ziqiang didn't accept this trick anymore, he closed his eyes and said loudly: "Even if you kill me, I won't let go! Unless you give me 100 million!"

This is robbery, right?The onlookers were talking about it.

I never thought that people could be so shameless!

With Lin Xiyao by his side, Ye Lanfeng would naturally not take his life, he couldn't let Lin Xiyao see too bloody scenes.

He retracted the dagger, squatted down, and forcefully broke Lin Ziqiang's hand that was stuck on Lin Xiyao's leg.

His strength was astonishing, how could the thin Lin Ziqiang withstand the pain like a broken bone?He wanted to grit his teeth to hold on, but was finally defeated by the pain and had to let go. He looked at his dirty hands, which were trembling with pain.

Seeing that Ye Lanfeng was about to leave with Lin Xiyao in his arms, he cheekily climbed up again, reaching out to hug Lin Xiyao's leg.

If they left, if he couldn't get money from them, well, his old life really didn't last for a few days.

Seeing that she was about to hug Lin Xiyao's leg, Ye Lanfeng turned around coldly, without even thinking about it, raised her right foot and kicked towards Lin Ziqiang, kicking him flying five meters away.

With a "slap", Lin Ziqiang fell heavily on the road. He let out a heavy scream, struggled twice, and then couldn't move.

Lin Xiyao closed her eyes in pain, unwilling to look back at her father's miserable situation.

"Ah... dead!" In the crowd, a woman's scream reached the eardrums of everyone present.

Lin Xiyao was stunned, and immediately turned around, looking at her father five meters away in horror.

Ye Lanfeng comforted: "Xi Yao, don't worry, how could he die so easily? Don't you know him yet? Maybe he just pretended to die and wanted us to give you money."

Lin Xiyao nodded, but her face was still full of uneasiness.

"Ah! His hands are bleeding!" Another screamed.

Lin Xiyao and Ye Lanfeng were stunned at the same time, and they both raised their eyes to look. Sure enough, the bloodstain on the ground under Lin Ziqiang's right hand was gradually expanding.

An unpleasant stench flowed into everyone's nostrils in an instant. Everyone covered their noses and retched again and again. Some people were so smoked that they fled.

Lin Xiyao immediately ran forward, ignoring the disgusting stench, and squatted down beside Lin Ziqiang, reaching out to shake his shoulders vigorously: "Dad, Dad..."

Lin Ziqiang did not respond.

His face and lips were pale without any color.

Lin Xiyao put her hands in front of his nostrils to test his breathing, but the breathing was still there, and the person was still alive.

But what about the blood and stench?

With the help of Ye Lanfeng, Lin Xiyao turned Lin Ziqiang's body, and saw that there was a festered wound on the palm of Lin Ziqiang's right hand, and the wound was bleeding. The stench was undoubtedly coming from this wound. from.

She stretched out her hand to open his right sleeve, only to see that there was also a festering wound above his wrist, which was also bleeding foul-smelling blood.

His entire arm was swollen and black, on the verge of necrosis...

It turned out that that day, Lin Ziqiang just knelt down in front of Ye Lanfeng and kowtowed a few times to get 10 yuan. He was very unhappy.

After he went to the bank to exchange money, he saw the wound was bleeding, so he went to a nearby private clinic to bandage the wound, and then went to an underground casino. He didn't dare to play big ones, so he played small ones, but it only took two days , he lost all his money. Seeing that the wound on his hand showed no sign of improvement, he panicked and went to Yeshi Group to find Ye Lanfeng. He couldn't wait for him, so he asked the front desk clerk, I just found out that he was on a business trip.

He couldn't find Lin Xiyao, thinking that she went with him.

After waiting for two days, before Ye Lanfeng arrived, his brother didn't care about him, and his former friends regarded him as a stranger, and no one cared about him. In the end, he was so hungry that he started stealing other people's food, stealing every day, every day. He is used to being beaten...

Lin Xiyao stayed in the hospital for several years, and when she understood what this was, she felt a "thump" in her heart, and her face instantly became as pale as paper.

"Afeng, send him to the hospital quickly, it will be too late!" She said in a trembling voice.

Seeing that she looked wrong, Ye Lanfeng finally understood the seriousness of the matter, and without caring much, picked up Lin Ziqiang and ran towards the nearest hospital.

Upon arriving at the hospital, Lin Ziqiang was pushed directly into the emergency room.

The doctor said that if he came one step later, he might never be able to save him.

Lin Ziqiang suffered from septic shock caused by sepsis caused by wound infection. His injury has been dragged on for too long, his liver and kidneys have been affected, and his prognosis is very poor.

After listening to the doctor's explanation with a serious face, Lin Xiyao said, "Doctor, no matter how much it costs, please make sure you save him!"

She looks calm on the surface, but she is terrified inside.

She used to be a nurse in a hospital, and she was used to seeing too much life and death. She thought she could face life and death calmly, but when the patient lying on the hospital bed was her father, waiting for the sentence of fate, she realized that, It turned out that she was not that strong. For the first time, she felt the fear of losing a loved one.

No matter what he did to his mother and her in the past, he is his father after all, the father who gave him life and raised him. In the face of death, all past mistakes are expelled by grief. .

Lin Ziqiang was finally rescued, but his right arm could no longer be saved, and he was amputated.

He lay in a coma on the bed and suffered from respiratory failure for a while. He survived only by maintaining his breathing with his respiratory muscles.

After more than a week, Lin Ziqiang narrowly escaped death, and his vital signs finally returned to normal.

Lin Xiyao begged the doctors and nurses several times, but finally the doctor couldn't bear it anymore and asked her to put on an isolation gown and allowed her to go to the intensive care unit to see Lin Ziqiang.

Looking at Lin Ziqiang's dry and thin face, Lin Xiyao burst into tears.

She said silently: "Dad, please wake up, okay? I don't blame you. I have forgiven you, please wake up..."

But Lin Ziqiang's eyes were still tightly closed, Lin Xiyao didn't know if he could hear.

When she turned to leave, Lin Ziqiang's eyes slipped two turbid tears. Is it his subconscious remorse or remorse?Nobody knows.

Lin Xiyao guarded the door of the intensive care unit every day, and Ye Lanfeng brought her nutritious meals every day, but Lin Xiyao didn't have any appetite at all.

Ye Lanfeng was very distressed, but there was nothing she could do.

She neither sad nor cried, Ye Lanfeng thought she could take it easy, after all, such a father deserved his death.

How did he know the infinite pain in Lin Xiyao's heart?She just didn't want to shed tears in front of him.

Finally, one time, Lin Xiyao couldn't restrain her emotions any longer, and put her arms around his neck and cried loudly. Only then did he realize that Lin Xiyao had actually been suppressing her emotions.

He let her cry without persuading her. He knew that after crying, he felt less uncomfortable.

Lin Xiyao cried for a long time, until a large area of ​​Ye Lanfeng's shirt was wet.

She gradually stopped crying and left Ye Lanfeng's shoulder. Ye Lanfeng saw that both of her eyes were crying like peaches.

"I'm sorry, I really can't control my emotions. I... I don't want to cry either... Don't be angry, okay?" Lin Xiyao wiped her tears.

Ye Lanfeng felt sad for a while, this stupid woman was already very sad, and she still had to worry about whether he would be angry or not!
He put his arms around her and murmured: "Xi Yao, why are you so stupid?"

"Are you not angry with me?" Lin Xiyao raised her head, looked at him and asked, with many emotions in her eyes.

"How could I be angry with you? I'm not angry." He gently stroked her back and said softly.

The two hugged like no one else, until Lin Xiyao calmed down.

"Afeng, do you think my father should die?" Lin Xiyao asked after a long time.

Ye Lanfeng nodded: "He is damned. After all, he hurt you so deeply."

Lin Xiyao bowed her head and said: "Actually, I don't care anymore. I used to hate him very much, and wished that he would disappear without a trace in my world immediately. But Afeng, I have a little hatred, I shouldn't exist forever, no Should let it be the fetters of your life, shouldn't you?"

Ye Lanfeng was stunned, not knowing how to answer.

Lin Xiyao raised her head and looked forward, and murmured: "When the doctor issued a critical illness notice, when he was amputated, when he suffered from respiratory failure and heart failure, and walked into the gate of hell, I have already forgiven him. It's really tiring to live with this kind of hatred. Afeng, since you can forgive me, why can't I forgive my own father?"

Ye Lanfeng's heart moved. When she said that he forgave her, she meant that she was the descendant of his father and enemy.

He hugged her tightly and said nothing.

He was right, a little hate, it shouldn't exist forever!

Doesn't she know?As early as when he had her in his heart, he no longer hated her!
Now that she has forgiven Lin Ziqiang, he has nothing to hate, but as long as anyone dares to hurt her, he will never be soft.

Another week passed, Lin Ziqiang finally came to his senses, and he was transferred from the intensive care unit to the general ward.

During this period, Lin Xiyao has been taking care of him.

When facing Lin Xiyao, Lin Ziqiang's eyes were full of guilt, and he kept saying every day: "Yaoyao, Dad is sorry for you!"

And every time, Lin Xiyao always smiled at him: "Dad, what nonsense are you talking about? What have you done to me? I don't remember anything about the past!"

Hearing this, Lin Ziqiang felt even more sad.

Whenever Lin Xiyao went out, he hid under the blanket and secretly wiped his tears.

Humans are like this, only when they face life and death can they see many things clearly.

On the day he was discharged from the hospital, Lin Ziqiang knelt down in front of Lin Xiyao in front of the doctors, nurses and Ye Lanfeng. She was so frightened that Lin Xiyao rushed to help him: "Dad, don't do this, I can't bear it!"

But Lin Ziqiang refused to stand up until he died. He said, "Yaoyao, thank you for forgiving Dad for the absurd things he did. Not only did you not bear any grudges against Dad, but you also stayed by the hospital bed without any complaints. It is said that there is no filial son after a long illness." , you are a filial daughter, it was my father who made a mistake, and my father kowtows to you!"

After he finished speaking, he kowtowed three times in front of Lin Xiyao, until his forehead was pierced, and bright red blood leaked out.

Lin Xiyao was frightened to death. How could she bear to ask her father to kneel and kowtow to her?
"Dad, don't do this, okay?" She begged, wanting to pull him, but Lin Ziqiang turned to Ye Lanfeng again, and kowtowed to him three times.

"Master Ye, I'm sorry for the past, I'm sorry, I caused the Ye Group to lose more than a billion yuan. From now on, Yaoyao will be handed over to you, don't let her down!"

Lin Xiyao always felt that these words were parting of life and death, she looked at Lin Ziqiang very uneasy: "Dad, what are you doing?"

Lin Ziqiang didn't answer her. He looked at Ye Lanfeng and asked softly, "Master Ye, can you forgive me?"

Ye Langou looked at him suspiciously, not knowing what was going on in this guy's stomach, but he still nodded: "I've been worried about it for a long time."

"Thank you!" Lin Ziqiang said softly, "Then, Yaoyao will be handed over to you. You will always treat her well, right?"

"You don't need to worry about this!" Ye Lanfeng responded lightly.He is good to his own woman, why does he need others to intervene?

"Then I'm relieved!" Lin Ziqiang smiled. Although his smile looked warm, it made people feel sad for no reason.

He stood up and said easily, "Let's go! I can finally be discharged from the hospital, and I can finally bask in the sun!"

His anomalies before and after made everyone present look at each other in blank dismay, Lin Xiyao was even more confused, she was even worried, did her father have a mental problem?

Lin Xiyao quickly denied her idle speculation, except for the abnormal words just now, everything about her father is normal.

After being discharged from the hospital, Lin Xiyao took Lin Ziqiang to a community where she rented a very comfortable house for him.The community is very close to Ye Lanfeng's villa.Because she lives with Ye Lanfeng, she can't rent the house too far away, otherwise if something happens to Lin Ziqiang, she can't take care of it.

Lin Ziqiang said before that in the neighborhood he could find someone to play cards, chat, go for a walk, so Lin Xiyao tried her best to satisfy him.

She knew that Lin Ziqiang must be very uncomfortable, after all, his good arm was gone.

In fact, Lin Ziqiang had already opened his mind, he didn't blame Ye Lanfeng for cutting him, it was because he was too shameless in the past, and he deserved some retribution.

Life is back, more important than anything else.

"Yaoyao, thank you!" Lin Ziqiang thanked Lin Xiyao again.

Ye Lanfeng came with them. Although Lin Ziqiang appeared very calm on the surface, he was still worried that this man who used to be like a beast would do something excessive to his own daughter.So he had to stay by Lin Xiyao's side.

Hearing Lin Ziqiang kept saying "thank you" and "sorry" to Lin Xiyao, Ye Lanfeng's handsome eyebrows were tightly knit together.

This Lin Ziqiang is really abnormal, I don't know what he wants to do.

He stared at him intently, trying to see some clues from his face or eyes, but his sharp eyes couldn't see through Lin Ziqiang's thoughts.

His intuition told him that Xi Yao should not be allowed to meet him alone, if she wants to visit this so-called father in the future, she must be accompanied by him.

After Lin Ziqiang was settled, Lin Xiyao proposed to cook a delicious meal for her father to celebrate his recovery and discharge from the hospital.

Lin Ziqiang said gratefully: "Yaoyao, thank you."

Lin Xiyao smiled: "Dad, I'm your daughter, why do you keep saying thank you? You chat slowly, I'm cooking!"

"Xi Yao, you are too tired these days, so don't rush around, let's eat outside." Ye Lanfeng stopped her.

"Why are you tired? I'm so happy that Dad can be discharged from the hospital in good health. Besides, Dad only likes my cooking!"

After she finished speaking, she went into the kitchen and got busy.

Lin Ziqiang said again: "Yaoyao, thank you!"

Seeing Lin Xiyao's back disappear into the kitchen, Ye Lanfeng looked at Lin Ziqiang coldly, and said aggressively, "Lin Ziqiang, what the hell are you doing?"

Lin Ziqiang was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled faintly: "Master Ye, I know you don't believe me anymore."

Ye Lanfeng snorted coldly: "Of course I don't believe you!"

"It's okay. Some people and things should have ended long ago." Lin Ziqiang said calmly while looking out the window.

Ye Lanfeng looked at him suspiciously again, wondering what the man meant by saying this.

"If you dare to do something wrong to Yaoyao again, don't even think about keeping your old life!" Ye Lanfeng warned coldly.

Lin Ziqiang turned around slowly, facing Ye Lanfeng, with a serious look in his eyes: "Master Ye, I know you still hate me very much. But please do one more thing for me, okay?"

"What's the matter?" Ye Lanfeng felt that Lin Ziqiang was getting more and more wrong.

……

That night, Lin Xiyao was very happy.

At the dinner table, she served Ye Lanfeng and Lin Ziqiang with food from time to time, and from time to time advised them to eat more.

She also drank some wine, and it was Ye Lanfeng who carried her out of the rental house in the end.

Lin Xiyao was actually just a little dizzy. After returning to the villa, she took the initiative to kiss Ye Lanfeng's lips.

Ye Lanfeng looked at her in astonishment, not sure whether her psychological barrier had been eliminated, because when she took her to play last time, she was still very resistant to him, but tonight, she took the initiative and took the initiative to replace him Unbutton your clothes...

"Afeng, I miss you so much!" she said with enthusiasm.

The raging fire of desire was ignited by her.

Unexpectedly, this time, they were able to proceed smoothly.

Ye Lanfeng finally understood what at this moment!
(End of this chapter)