Chapter 201: The First to Strike

The night passed quietly, no matter how many people had shed tears and broken hearts in the darkness, it did not make any noise and gave the earth to the sun when the time came. Jiang Tao’s eyes rolled only when the sunlight poured into the windows of every house, and his beard grew a little longer after a night of no sleep.

He left the window and went to wash up, as if last night’s tears hadn’t existed, a new day was just another beginning, and as long as life went on he had no reason to hide in his corner and not show up in front of people, everyone had a story behind them, and he wasn’t any more unlucky than anyone else. Even if it is more unlucky, he is also the same to live on, that at least should be to the mirror of their own smile and say hello, as a good start to a new day.

Jiang Tao didn’t have an appetite but he still gave himself noodles, his mood was one thing, his body’s needs were another, he would never mix the two things, no matter how much he didn’t want to eat, he still ate a big bowl of food, then picked up his briefcase and went to work.

Work always had to be done, and if it didn’t what else was there for him to do? There would be even less meaningful things in his life. His busy work had gradually improved his spirits, but he had a dilemma – today, should he still go to the hospital to see Zi Shan? And, what exactly was Lin Hao so annoyed about humiliating him like that for?

Lin Hao arrived early at the hospital and brought Zi Shan breakfast. He ate with Zi Shan, which made the caregiver who was on duty in the evening get off work a little earlier. Two people laughing and eating always smells much better than one person eating. Although Zi Shan couldn’t eat much, she drank a bowl of congee and was certainly in a good mood.

When Xue Jing and Chu Xiang came in with breakfast, their hearts sank when they saw the smile on Zi Shan’s face – Zi Shan didn’t know anything at all, and Lin Hao was superficially good to Zi Shan – as for Lin Hao not being able to be with Zi Shan’s bed every day, Zi Shan didn’t care because she was an adult. didn’t care, because she was an adult.

Zi Shan didn’t think she had to let Lin Hao stay with her, she wasn’t a little girl, she knew what it meant to live a life, she had her responsibilities, the same way Lin Hao had Lin Hao’s responsibilities, just like Chu Xiang and Xue Jing – not being able to stay with her twenty-four hours a day didn’t mean that they didn’t care about her, didn’t worry about her.

Besides, she also thought that she had caused a lot of trouble for everyone, so how could she even think of asking for company? There were nurses and doctors in the hospital, and there were also caregivers present, she really didn’t need everyone to take care of her like a child.

As for Lin Hao, Zi Shan still really misses him a bit, but doesn’t have the same thoughts as before when she fell in love with Feng Dayong, maybe it’s just because she’s an adult now? Or is it because of too much experience? Anyway, she thinks that in a few more days even without an escort she’ll be fine staying in the hospital by herself.

Xue Jing and Chu Xiang looked at each other – Zi Shan didn’t know that Lin Hao wasn’t there when she had her operation, they knew about that misunderstanding, but now that Zi Shan hadn’t recovered they couldn’t tell her and let her get too emotional and hurt herself, and the usual unusual behavior about Lin Hao- -Lin Hao doesn’t call in front of Zi Shan, and when he guards Zi Shan, he tells her jokes, gets her something to eat, and is very careful and considerate – they can’t just open their mouths and say anything even if they’re friends.

Zi Shan sees them and smiles, “Just now I forgot to call you guys so you don’t have to deliver the food, is the store busy, exhausted you guys, right?”

Chu Xiang glanced at Lin Hao, “I’ll make a trip even if I get a call, how can I feel at ease if I don’t see you? Two trips a day is essential, otherwise you can’t settle down to work in the store, and how can you explain to our little princess? I have to give her a detailed report every day.”

“That’s not true.” Xue Jing took over, “The baby will be angry if we don’t come, that child understands so much that it makes one’s heart ache. Alas, you give your daughter to me as a goddaughter, I really can not help but love her, my mother-in-law now can not be less in front of her, do not know the people think the baby is her granddaughter it, the old lady listening to people say it is happy to be able to close their mouths.”

Zishan laughed: “I’ll give it to you, I’m afraid I’ll bore you to tears later. You guys sit for a while, have you eaten yet?” She looked at Chu Xiang: “You seem to have lost weight it, so and so Jing also black – business I did not say do not be in too much of a hurry, do not think of adding new customers, the body is the most important, we make money is not just for the sake of making money Oh, you do not forget our original intention. ” She was worried that her two best friends were tired in her absence.

Xue Jing laughed: “You are biased as hell, why is it just Chu Xiang who has lost weight? I’ve been on a diet for so long and not a single person has said that I’ve lost weight, that’s even if it’s not enough, but also to say that I’ve gotten darker, Zi Shan how can you hit me like this. Without seeing you as a patient, I won’t spare you.”

Chu Xiang looked at herself, “I’ve lost weight? There isn’t. The store is doing well and we haven’t bothered adding new customers, but if you don’t get better soon, I might actually lose weight. What do you want to eat for lunch, say it, I’ll fix it and have Fatty or Jiang Tao send it over to you.”

Zi Shan thought for a moment, “I want to eat something vegetarian, small cabbages, small greens or something, no more meat soup, chicken soup, fish soup, I beg you.” She wrinkled her bitter face and looked at Chuxiang, “I can eat baby bok choy or something when I get it together with noodles, I’ve asked the doctor.” The pitiful look was like a small child who couldn’t eat candy.

Chu Xiang smiled, “Noodles, okay. Use broth w……”

“No broth!” Zi Shan was very against it because she ate too much these days, and was very skeptical that she would turn into a little fat pig by the time she was discharged from the hospital.

Xue Jing laughed: “You don’t want the broth Fatty and Jiang Tao will protest, they definitely don’t ……” The two big men who managed to deliver the meals at noon also ate Zishan’s sick meals – at least half of the of the things are the same as Zi Shan, and the two meatless guys, of course, can not stand the all-vegetarian meals.

Lin Hao couldn’t get a word in edgewise when Chu Xiang and Zi Shan started talking, which was only later, as he had been joking with Chu Xiang and Chu Jing.

Lin Hao put away the dishes to a place on the table, know a moment to protect the labor union wash, then sat there smiling and listening to Zi Shan three people talk, heard Xue Jing words, he finally could not help but open his mouth: “Trouble fat man to send food on the line, Jiang Tao or don’t always trouble him.”

Zi Shan looked at him as she listened, “Is the firm busy now?”

Xue Jing’s tone with a hint of hidden harshness: “Jiang Tao is not busy he has a mouth, if he does not have time he will naturally say, at noon I and Chu Xiang can not go, there are times when the fat man also has a job, not to find Jiang Tao we want to let Zi Shan hungry?” She even gouged out Lin Hao when she finished speaking, naturally avoiding Zi Shan’s gaze.

Chu Xiang’s eyebrows also raised, “Jiang Tao isn’t busy right, usually he doesn’t take many cases, lately I heard him talking he took one case right? Or that kind of small case of rent increase, what’s there to be busy about?” She glanced at Zi Shan and finally swallowed the sentence “Jiang Tao can’t catch up with Barrister Lin’s busyness”.

Now was not the time to be explicit with Zi Shan, not to mention that Zi Shan was not well, even if Zi Shan was well, Chu Xiang did not know how to talk to Zi Shan – there were some things that even the best of friends could not easily say ah.

Lin Hao glanced at them and then back to Zi Shan, “It’s not that Jiang Tao is busy, I just think that, well, it’s better not to bother him.” He looked like he was about to say something.

Xue Jing and Chu Xiang don’t know what’s gotten into him today, “We’ll call Jiang Tao if he’s busy, if he’s busy we won’t have the good sense to trouble him.”

Zi Shan was also a bit strange: “Did you guys have a fight? You are very close friends and adults, you can’t really have a fight, can you?” She was a bit disbelieving even as she said it, but other than that she couldn’t think of any reason why Lin Hao would want to be polite to Jiang Tao.

“Well,” Lin Hao looked at Zi Shan, “I was afraid to add to your troubles, in the end you are recuperating well, Jiang Tao and I have nothing but ……” he paused: “But he likes you very much, to use accurate words to describe is that he is secretly in love with you, Zi Shan. I think, with your nature do not want to have any misunderstanding, I will say do not bother him words.”

He pulled the covers over Zixan, “It’s the kind of thing that can only be allowed to fade slowly, and he and I and you and he will still end up being friends, or else I’m really afraid of what might, uh, happen, right?”

Zi Shan looked at him and didn’t say anything, her face was stunned, she didn’t know if she was shocked by Lin Hao’s words, she just looked at Lin Hao straight on, her mouth slightly opened and she couldn’t say a single word.

Chu Xiang’s face flashed with anger: “Lin ……” but was stopped by Xue Jing tugging: “Barrister Lin is really good at joking, how can we not see it, know Jiang Tao and know you Lin Barrister as long as you know, but Jiang Tao is never like Barrister Lin like love to us. But Jiang Tao has never been like Barrister Lin who loves to come to our Zishan’s side, he likes our family’s plateau very much.”

Chu Xiang lowered her head and did not want Zi Shan to see the anger on her face, a pair of hands clasped together anxiously – how can this person be like this, so vilified Jiang Tao, so that Zi Shan is angry with Jiang Tao is naturally in his heart, I do not know, Lin Hao will be how to Zi Shan later on to say bad things about her and so and so quiet, do lawyers is really a belly of bad water.

Lin Hao did not change his face: “He still often to where you run? This is what he said to me after he got drunk, originally I thought it was a brotherhood, but now he dislikes me more and more to come to the hospital to accompany Zi Shan, when I arrive he will always find all kinds of reasons to let me leave, alas–” he shook his head, did not say any more, as if there were too many words that were inconvenient to say.

Zisan looked at him with wide eyes, “Jiang Tao, he likes me?!”