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Chapter 153: Daxi was carried away (1000 monthly tickets plus more)

Bingyang County People’s Hospital, third floor of the ward building, orthopedic ward, bed 15.

"Lie down, don't move. The most important thing for you now is to rest and take care of yourself." Xie Hushan pressed Taozi onto the bed, pulled a stool over and sat next to her, and started to peel an apple for Taozi:

"Why did you come all the way here? Don't listen to Daxi's nonsense. Can I be caught? Open your mouth."

He picked up a piece of apple and passed it to Taozi. Taozi took a bite, looked at Chen Daxi who was wrapped like a mummy in bed 16 next to him, and then looked at Xie Hushan, who was helping him peel the apple, and reminded him:
"Third brother, Daxi is almost strangled to death by the gauze..."

"Serves him right! Who told this bastard that he couldn't even report a message clearly, let alone strangle him? Shooting him wouldn't be too much. I told Han Laoer to go back and deliver the message, but he insisted on letting Daxi go back. When I recover and leave the hospital, Han Laoer will also have to give me a beating... I can't mention Daxi. The more I think about it, the angrier I get!"

Xie Hushan was originally speaking to his wife in a gentle voice, but in the end he could no longer hold back his anger, so he stood up, turned around, and walked to Chen Daxi, looking at Chen Daxi who looked like a mummy:
"Who told you to run to my house and tell my wife about this? Don't you know the difference between public and private? How can you do this?"

After Xie Hushan finished speaking, he picked up the gauze next to him and wrapped it around Chen Daxi's neck twice:
"It's fine if you're just delivering a letter, but how do you deliver a verbal message like that? How did you deliver the verbal message? Tell me again! You almost killed my aunt with just one shout!"

Chen Daxi's head was only exposed from his ears at this time. After hearing Xie Hushan's words, he struggled to peel off the gauze on his lips:

"Reporting to Chief Xie, I said at the beginning that you had a fight with someone in the steel factory guesthouse and refused to pay, so you were arrested by the steel factory..."

"But then my sister-in-law asked me again, and I was afraid she would worry about me, so I changed my words and said you weren't caught..."

"Shut your asshole!" Xie Hushan was so angry that he yelled at Chen Daxi:

"Nurse, do you have any dog-skin plasters? My brother has hemorrhoids in his mouth. Please apply two of these to him to drain the pus!"

Chen Daxixi was very attentive and lifted the gauze upwards and blocked his mouth again.

"Is it a question of whether I was caught or not? Is it a question of whether I failed to pay the money? Where the hell was I? Why did I bring you two here?" Xie Hushan asked, patting Chen Daxixi's mouth with his hand.

What man would bring his wife with him to fight?

Xie Hushan.

What kind of man goes out to fight without his wife, and then some loyal brother carries his sister-in-law over?

Chen was very happy.

Taozi got up in the middle of the night every day these days and went to the canteen of the steel mill to help the aunt and make breakfast for the workers who were off the night shift. Daxi didn't use his brain when he spoke. He went into the steel mill to call for people without telling anyone and shouted at the top of his voice in the factory yard:
"Commander Xie was arrested for breaking out in the county guesthouse! Everyone, get up and follow me. Let's go fight!"

Taozi was fine, but she didn't believe that if her man was really that kind of person, he wouldn't have waited until the county town to rob men and women at the cliff. He must have been unable to control his mouth and said weird things on purpose.

But the aunt was also busy in the cafeteria. When she heard Daxixi's shout, she was so angry that she almost passed out. After she came to her senses, she was about to pick up the rolling pin and go back to call Uncle Xie Qimao, preparing to go to the county town with her husband to break the legs of Xie Hushan who had done such a shameful and dirty thing.

The aunt had already thought it through. If it was true, she would beat Xie Hushan into a paraplegic and bring him back to live on the kang. She would not let him go out and embarrass himself again. When she and her husband were old and could no longer take care of him, she would stuff Xie Hushan with rat poison and send him away first.

It was Taozi who comforted the aunt for a long time, saying that she would ask Daxi first, and that the third brother was not the kind of person who was out of touch, so the aunt should be patient.

The second time, Chen Daxixi barely managed to explain the matter clearly, which made the aunt give up the idea of ​​beating her nephew into a paralytic. Instead, she took a rolling pin and chased after her cousin Chen Daxixi from the Chen family and beat him up.

What the hell is this Daxi? Just one sentence almost ruined his nephew Xie Hushan's innocence!

But the aunt was worried because her nephew had a fight with others, and she couldn't leave as she had to cook for the workers, so she asked Daxi to carry Taozi to the county town and asked Taozi to tell Hu Saner not to cause trouble.

So Taozi is now in the hospital, responsible for taking care of Xie Hushan, who has suffered comminuted fractures all over his body.

Chen Daxi pulled the gauze off and answered honestly, "You said you would take us to do business."

"You just say you're doing business, but why are you calling me a scapegoat in the whole factory? Most of the workers are from Yakou, and you ruined my reputation. How can I face people in Yakou in the future?" Xie Hushan was so angry that he raised his hand to slap Chen Daxi's mouth several times, but he couldn't bear to do it, so he could only curse:

"You must be unable to find a wife, so you want me to be single with you! How come Ma Saner was able to become a brigade commander? Don't you reflect on this? His mouth is filled with honey, but yours is filled with shit!"

After scolding, Xie Hushan returned to Taozi's bedside, opened a can of hawthorn, picked up one with chopsticks and said, "Open your mouth."

"Third brother, calm down after scolding and go back. You still have a lot of things to do in the factory, right?" Taozi ate the hawthorn and advised Xie Hushan in a gentle voice:
"Zhang can definitely help the steel mill get things done."

"Thank you, Chief, sister-in-law..."

"Shut up!" Xie Hushan told Chen Daxi to shut up before he could finish. He picked up a hawthorn and said to Taozi:

"I can't leave. Do you think Lao Zhang asked me to come to the hospital just to pretend to recover from an injury? That old bastard is nothing. Not only is he not a human being, but I..."

"Ahem!" Taozi coughed, sat up from the bed, and said to Xie Hushan in a serious tone with a stern face:

"Don't talk nonsense. Zhang Da came all the way to help you solve your problem, and you're still scolding him behind his back?"

Xie Hushan reached out and pushed Taozi down again:

"Do you know why Da Xi is wrapped like this?" Taozi shook her head. Xie Hushan opened another box of luncheon meat and put it into Taozi's mouth:
"You'll find out when you wait and see. I'm his apprentice, taught by him and Ge Baosheng. If you talk about inhumanity in Zhongping, I can't even be ranked in the top five. First, Han Laogou, second, Zhang Cheng, third, Ge Baosheng, fourth, Lao Yang, fifth... Anyway, it's not me, so whoever loves me can do it."

Taozi felt that she might not be sick when she came, but after lying in the hospital for more than an hour, her stomach became unwell.

The third brother fed himself all kinds of food, and Chen Daxi, who was standing next to him, was so greedy that he didn't even give him a sip of water.

Suddenly, quick footsteps were heard in the corridor outside, and soon several people came in, all wearing police uniforms. They opened the door and walked to the bed where Chen Daxi was lying. They looked up at the hospital card:
"Bed 16, Xie Hushan, yes, that's him, take him away!"

Without further ado, the people around him picked up Chen Daxi, who was covered in gauze, and walked out. Chen Daxi whimpered, "Put me down! Put me down!"

These people came and left quickly. They didn't even look at Taozi and Xie Hushan on the bed next to them. It was obvious that they got the news and arrested people by name and bed number.

Xie Hushan protected Taozi who was lying on the bed with his upper body, and after the other party walked away, he said to Taozi:

"Do you understand? These people must be the public security comrades inside the factory. Lao Zhang must have been talking to them in front, saying that his apprentice Xie Hushan was beaten to a bloody pulp and looked miserable. They took advantage of him to grab Xie Hushan. They won't beat you or scold you, but send you to their own factory hospital for examination. Then they will bring the living person and the medical examination report directly to the scene and catch Lao Zhang off guard."

Taozi looked at Xie Hushan who didn't care if Daxi was caught and would be beaten:

"I didn't see Zhang say a few words to you at that time."

"How old are you? It's just a matter of a glance. Do you still need to wait for the master to teach you word by word? Aren't you going to be expelled from the sect by Old Zhang for being stupid?" Xie Hushan said as he picked up a can of malted milk and opened it.

Lao Zhang is a smart man. He learned his military skills from the army, and his interpersonal skills were taught half by Han Laogou and half by Secretary Yin of the commune.

He learned how to bully people by taking advantage of their right in fights, and how to squeeze the urine out of frogs from Han Laogou. He learned how to deal with official affairs and the ways of the world from Secretary Yin of the commune.

Let me put it this way, when Han Laogou gets old and can no longer work, and Lao Zhang is old enough to retire from the commune, he will definitely return to Zhongping to be the brigade secretary. He will definitely be the third generation head of the Zhongping Production Brigade.

"Don't worry, they won't touch Daxi at all. We're just afraid that Daxi will get hurt. Then we have to treat him like a master. After he finishes drinking this bucket, we'll be discharged from the hospital."

It was a rare opportunity for him and Taozi to improve their relationship, and it had to be in the hospital. At this moment, as a series of footsteps approached from afar, Yang Limin's voice rang out in the corridor:

"Comrade nurse, which ward is the patient Xie Hushan staying in?"

"Ward 16, beds."

"Thank you!" Yang Liming pushed open the door of Ward No. 4 and saw Xie Hushan, who was said to have suffered comminuted fractures all over his body, sitting on a stool with a cup of malted milk in his hand. Taozi covered her mouth with her hands and was not going to put them down no matter what Xie Hushan said.

Seeing Yang Limin coming in, Taozi put down her hand and greeted Yang Limin: "Brother Yang."

Yang Limin smiled at Taozi, then looked at Xie Hushan unhappily. Seeing the lazy behavior of this kid who was unharmed, he breathed a sigh of relief, sat on bed No. 16, and then laughed at himself:
"I just don't learn my lesson. From now on, don't mention Zhang. Even if Taozi told me that you were injured, I would have to see it with my own eyes for it to count. I pedaled my bike like a hot wheel."

Xie Hushan handed the malted milk in his hand to Yang Limin:
"Nephew, uncle just made some. It's still hot. Do you want some?"

"Get out!" Yang Liming glared.

Taozi, who was standing next to him, also used her little hands to pat the back of Xie Hushan's hands frantically, asking him to pay attention to her expressions.

My man is so bold as to say anything, even calling the secretary of the Youth League Committee of the commune his nephew...

It's just that Yang Limin has a good temper. If another leader heard him taking advantage of his seniority, he would have dealt with him long ago.

Xie Hushan put down the malted milk and pulled out a pile of hospital reports from under Taozi's pillow.

These are the medical certificates issued by Lao Zhang's comrades-in-arms. Just looking at these certificates, there is not a single good spot on Xie Hushan's body. He has sores on his head, pus on his feet, and his chest is rotten.

"You were on your way to help Lao Zhang as a cadre of Zhongping Commune and came to see me and get these reports for Lao Zhang, right?" Xie Hushan handed the report to Yang Liming.

Yang Limin took it and pointed at Xie Hushan with gritted teeth: "Why is it so difficult for you to...be an honest worker in the factory?"

"I can kill two birds with one stone while dealing with those bastards who ruined Yaoshan's reputation. Isn't that good?" Xie Hushan took out a cigarette and gave it to Yang Limin:

"It's not the first day you've known me. I'll kill anyone who points a gun at a good person."

Yang Limin was flipping through the report when he suddenly paused and picked up the paper alone:
"How come I just got hospitalized and...what's the matter with this discharge certificate..."

Without waiting for Xie Hushan to explain, he pushed up the frame of his glasses on his nose:

"I understand. Because of the medical level and the severity of the patient's injuries, Taozi took you out of the hospital and went to Yanjing to save his life. The other party couldn't find you in the whole incident, and there was a reasonable explanation. This way, both parties can save face."

Xie Hushan lit a cigarette and looked at Yang Limin:
"The steps are the steps, but the compensation must be sufficient. And those people must be dismissed. I don't know how many outsiders have been killed. You can ask Han Lao Er for a confession. In short, if the steel factory dares to protect these bastards, I will continue to play with them after I am discharged from the hospital. I may not be able to make a good deal, but I can ruin it. There is no need to teach me this."

(End of this chapter)