Chapter 140
Chapter 140
After Du Yuwei left, my legs gave out, and I slumped onto the ground.
If she had actually killed me today, I wouldn’t have cared much, but if she had, she definitely would have moved on to kill Su Qian. Song Xiaotian and Meng Yifan probably would have met a grim end too.
At the moment, Song Xiaotian and Meng Yifan were supporting Su Qian and couldn’t easily come over to help me up.
“Are you okay?”
“I’m fine…”
I scrambled up from the ground and hurried over to check on Su Qian’s injuries.
Su Qian had taken a nasty hit to the head and was bleeding profusely. Although she had returned to normal and was currently conscious, she was extremely weak.
With this much blood loss, she could easily go into shock.
“Let’s get her to a hospital. We’ll get her wounds treated and then send her out of Lanjiang City.”
Du Yuwei failed to kill her this time, but there was no guarantee there wouldn’t be a next time.
The safest way was to send Su Qian away.
“I’m not going to the hospital…”
Su Qian suddenly spoke, her voice choked with sobs. “The hospital costs money. I don’t have much… If I spend it, I won’t have enough to eat.”
Hearing her words, we all let out a heavy sigh.
“Sister, we’ll pay for you. If you don’t go to the hospital and lose too much blood, it’ll affect your brain,” Song Xiaotian said.
Su Qian didn’t say anything else. She just kept crying, whether out of heartache or gratitude, her face a mess of blood and tears.
We helped her out of the alley and back to the barbecue stall.
Su Qian was stubborn; she insisted on collecting her wages before going to the hospital.
When we arrived back at the stall, the owner and his wife were startled to see Su Qian in such a state.
However, instead of showing any concern, they scolded her for being useless. “We just asked you to move some things, how did you end up like this? If you couldn’t carry it, you should have said so. College students these days are so pampered and fragile!”
“Hurry up and go to a nearby clinic to get that fixed. You did this to yourself, so we’re not paying for the medical bills.”
They spoke like absolute animals.
“She’s in this condition!” Song Xiaotian roared, unable to contain his rage. “If you won’t pay the bills, fine, but what gives you the right to talk to her like that!”
The owner was intimidated by Song Xiaotian and didn’t dare say anything too extreme, but he still remained stubborn. “Well, it’s true… she did it to herself…”
“Fine. Give her the wages she’s owed. Pay her right now!”
“Fine, fine, pay her… Women are so much trouble. If I’d known, I would’ve hired a man…”
The owner looked reluctant as he pulled out seven hundred yuan and slapped it onto the table.
When we saw those seven hundred-yuan bills, we grew even angrier.
Who the hell paid a wage of seven hundred these days? He was a regular skinflint!
“The monthly wage is fifteen hundred. The month is only half over, so seven hundred is correct,” the owner explained quickly, seeing the looks on our faces.
I was speechless. Fifteen hundred? Even the ladies washing dishes in restaurants made more than fifteen hundred.
Working a barbecue stall was exhausting labor, yet he was only paying fifteen hundred. Besides, for half a month, he should have given her seven hundred and fifty; he had even skimped on that fifty.
“You’re bullying her, aren’t you!”
Song Xiaotian was like a powder keg, exploding with a roar. “Tell me, where else do people get paid fifteen hundred? You saw how naive and easy to bully she is, didn’t you!”
“Give her another eight hundred, or I’ll come here every day to raise hell. You won’t be able to do a lick of business!”
The owner’s face turned beet red, a mix of anger and fear. “We agreed on the price beforehand! If she thought it was too little, she didn’t have to take the job. You’re just extorting me!”
“I don’t even want this seven hundred!” Song Xiaotian grabbed the seven hundred yuan and threw it in the owner’s face. “But if you’re still able to do business here after today, I’ll take your damn last name!”
The owner was the type to bully the weak and fear the strong. Seeing Song Xiaotian’s stance, he likely got scared. He quickly scraped together another fifteen hundred and handed it politely to Su Qian.
It took someone like Song Xiaotian to handle a person like that boss.
Fifteen hundred-it was practically exploitation. If we hadn’t been in such a rush to get Su Qian to the hospital, Song Xiaotian probably would have squeezed last month’s wages out of him too.
Once he had the money, he didn’t drag the scene out any further. He stuffed the fifteen hundred into Su Qian’s hands, and the three of us helped her into the car and drove her to the nearest hospital.
At the hospital, she had to get over twenty stitches in her head.
I paid the medical bills. Normally, given her condition, she should have been hospitalized and put on an IV drip. However, fearing that Du Yuwei might come looking for her, we had to get her out of there immediately. We could only ask the doctor to prescribe some medication instead.
After leaving the hospital, we took her to the high-speed rail station.
Meng Yifan took her ID card and went to buy a ticket to Yu City.
Yu City was quite close to us; the high-speed train only took about an hour.
“Listen, kid, once you get there, live a good life. Find a decent job and don’t let people cheat you. Nobody works for a thousand bucks these days; you can make over two thousand just being a server in a restaurant.”
As Meng Yifan gave her advice, he had Su Qian take out her phone and transferred eight thousand yuan to her.
“Keep this money. It’ll last you at least two months. Save all three of our phone numbers; call us if anything happens.”
“Thank you… thank you so much.” Su Qian began to cry. Likely not knowing how else to express her gratitude, she nearly dropped to her knees in front of us.
Meng Yifan quickly caught her. “Don’t do that. Just live well. Even though your parents are gone, you have to keep going. Once things are settled here, if you still want to go back to school, you can. I’ll even help you with the tuition if you’re short on cash.”
Hearing Meng Yifan’s words, Su Qian broke down into uncontrollable sobs.
Her home was destroyed, her education was cut short, and now she had to flee her hometown just to stay alive.
To be honest, she was truly pitiful.
We escorted her to the station entrance. Meng Yifan had even bought a bag full of food for her journey.
Clutching the bag, she looked back at us every few steps until she finally vanished from our sight.
Once she reached Yu City, she would be completely safe. No matter how powerful Du Yuwei was, it was unlikely she would hunt her all the way there.
“I’m so fucking done with this. Pushing a person to this point…”
“Just because she’s pitiful doesn’t mean she can just slaughter innocent people!”
“Aren’t the others pitiful too? What did they ever do to her?”
“How is she any different from Du Ruhai? This is too fucking much!”
Meng Yifan kept cursing, venting his frustration all the way out of the station.
We stood outside the car, smoking. Song Xiaotian exhaled a cloud of gray mist, his expression unreadable. “Su Qian is safe for now, but that doesn’t mean the killing will stop. As long as Du Ruhai is alive, who knows how many more Su Qians there will be?”
With that, Song Xiaotian glanced at me. “The knife Seventh Master gave you-why didn’t you take it out earlier?”
“I forgot to bring it…”
“Forgot?”
Song Xiaotian reached out and patted my waist. “Then what’s this?”
I lowered my head, not daring to meet his eyes.
“If Seventh Master finds out about this, see if he doesn’t beat you to death.”
“You saw Su Qian’s situation. As long as Du Yuwei is around, countless more like her will be born in the future.”
Song Xiaotian patted my shoulder and said, “Think about it for yourself.”