I am weak and friendly

Chapter 167 We have no choice
At the Third Hospital, Wen Rui and Li Chongshan walked out of the outpatient building.

Li Chongshan held a medical record book in his hand and carried a bag of medicine, with a somewhat pleased expression on his face.

"Thankfully, the doctor said it wasn't norovirus or H1N1, just a common cold. He said I should go home, take some medicine, and get plenty of rest. "Sigh, thank goodness the teacher called me, otherwise I wouldn't have known Guoguo had a fever."

Beside him, Wen Rui scolded him: "You're such an irresponsible father! Guoguo has a fever of 39 degrees Celsius, and you didn't even know..."

“Guoguo doesn’t like to talk. She’s already dressed and waiting for me when she gets up in the morning…” Li Chongshan said helplessly, and also felt sorry for his daughter. “It’s probably because I took her to play in the water a couple of days ago and she got cold.”

"You really went all out, soaking your own daughter to the bone," Wen Rui teased him. "Is this how you have a water fight?"

"But she provoked me first!" Li Chongshan argued, earning only a glare from Wen Rui.

Guoguo has an unreliable father, and his uncle is constantly worried about him.

"So you should hurry up and find Guoguo a new mother... It's too difficult for you to raise Guoguo."

Why don't you find Guoguo an aunt?

Wen Rui: "..."

Never mind, I shouldn't have brought this up. It was my fault.

"Alright, alright, hurry back. You're so careless to leave Guoguo at home alone. If you had told me earlier, I would have watched over Guoguo for you and you could have come to get the results yourself. You made me drive you there. Guoguo is all alone at home, who knows how badly she's burning up..."

"Parking is difficult at the hospital, I'm afraid I won't be able to find a spot..."

"Then why did I stop?"

"She doesn't need to come for a follow-up appointment, I want her to rest a little longer..."

Li Chongshan offered various excuses.

This morning, the teacher called to tell him that Guoguo had a fever, which startled him. He quickly took Guoguo to get checked out, including blood tests and various test strips. This afternoon, he took the test results to see the doctor for a follow-up appointment.

In this situation, as long as there's a result, it doesn't matter whether people come or not.

So Li Chongshan left Guoguo at home.

Fortunately, it was a close call and nothing serious happened.

Li Chongshan felt much more relaxed.

"By the way, my salary arrived this morning. Did yours arrive?" Li Chongshan changed the subject.

“We’ve arrived,” Wen Rui said. “I thought Zhou Beichuan wouldn’t pay us our wages… I asked a few of them, and they’ve all received their wages.”

Li Chongshan said, "Yes, I also thought we wouldn't get paid this month."

To my surprise, not a single penny was missing.

Li Chongshan was already prepared to find another job.

He can't just laze around like a bachelor like Wen Rui; he has to save up for Guo Guo's dowry.

"Why do you think Zhou Beichuan still pays us salaries?"

"He wouldn't dare report it. After something like this happened, how could he expect to get away with it?"

"He can't keep not reporting it... If we all leave, who will do the work for him?"

"There's not much work now... You know, we have a server, and all the tasks are assigned to us by that server," Wen Rui said. "I heard that Zhou Beichuan hired someone to fix the server, and as a result, the server crashed..."

"Hey, Zhou Beichuan did a great job! Isn't he doomed?"

Wen Rui said, "I heard that the person who repaired the server was a teenager who used a wheelchair."

Li Chongshan: "???"

He looked at Wen Rui, and Wen Rui looked at him.

"Well, I heard that when the higher-ups asked him what happened, he said he didn't know, but I don't know if he really didn't know or he was just pretending..."

"Even if you don't know, you have to pretend you really don't know!" Li Chongshan was all too familiar with the workplace.

"Tang is really amazing!" Li Chongshan exclaimed. "He even managed to break through..."

He understood a little better why Tang wasn't contacting them anymore.

This shows they don't think highly of their abilities.

"Our server got sabotaged, and it seems like it was infected with a Trojan. Their operation was leaked beforehand. You heard about what happened a few days ago, right? I heard those guys came to the Third Hospital that day to kidnap a young girl, but they were ambushed and captured. They managed to escape, but then they were cornered again, and many of them died... I think a few of them were killed by a boy in a wheelchair!"

Wen Rui is a busybody, probably due to the occupational hazard of being a ride-hailing driver. As the saying goes, snakes have their paths and rats have their ways.

Li Chongshan was speechless with astonishment.

"They've brought in a lot of people to fix the server, but they still can't fix it. I heard they said they weren't skilled enough. The higher-ups are furious." "Did Tang do all this?" Li Chongshan asked.

"Who else is there besides Tang?" Wen Rui asked. "Those guys are all hiding now and refuse to come out no matter what. I can't find out anything else about them."

No... you're still not satisfied?
Could you be any more of a busybody?

"So, the reason Tang isn't contacting us is probably because he looks down on us. People like us are probably not even good enough to be Tang's drivers," Wen Rui added.

“So that’s how it is…” Li Chongshan said.

For some reason, he wasn't particularly happy.

In fact, both Li Chongshan and Wen Rui were already prepared.

We need to do something.

Tang recruited them so they would be of some use, right?

They all understood what Tang was going to do.

They also knew how terrifying the people Tang was going to fight were.

They remember everything they have done before.

They had a premonition about the fate of these pawns.

A while ago, Li Chongshan took Guoguo to many places.

He visited all the aquariums, zoos, and amusement parks that he hadn't had time to go to before.

Every day, he devoted himself to being with Guoguo, because he wanted to live each day as if it were his last.

But what about the results?

It turned into a blissful life where I didn't have to go to work, didn't have to do any labor, and still got paid...

Even the guilt that had kept him awake every night was released by Tang.

Because Tang punished me, I felt like a good person again, and I ate and slept well every day.

However, he has started having trouble sleeping these past two days.

He felt he didn't deserve this kind of life.

"How long do you think this will last?" he asked Wen Rui.

Wen Rui shrugged: "Let's just take it one day at a time. When have we ever had a choice?"

Yes, when have we ever had a choice?

It didn't exist before, it didn't exist later, so what's different now?

We are just going with the flow; what does it matter to you when the waves capsize you?
“Right, what’s the point of thinking about all this nonsense? Tang can’t possibly forget about us, can he? He’ll call on us when he needs us,” Wen Rui said. “Let’s think about what to feed Guoguo tonight. I told you, you can’t eat anything too greasy when you have a cold. My mom used to cook me plain porridge and some pickled vegetables…”

Wen Rui kept rambling on and on, and Li Chongshan just hummed and hawed in response.

Then Li Chongshan suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong."

Wen Rui looked up and then his expression froze.

"Don't talk, don't look at them, let's go!" He grabbed Li Chongshan and pulled him away.

Li Chongshan lowered his head and took a few steps, then stopped.

"You mean when they came last time, they came to kidnap a young girl?" Li Chongshan asked Wen Rui.

"What are you trying to do? Don't do anything foolish, Guoguo is still waiting for you at home," Wen Rui said.

"Could you take the medicine back for me first, and let Guoguo take it?" Li Chongshan said. "I'll go check on her."

Li Chongshan heard a voice whispering in his mind.

He didn't hear it clearly at first, but then he did.

He heard the voice say:

Sometimes, we do have a choice.

"It's nothing, I'm just going to take a look."

Li Chongshan said.

(End of this chapter)