“Mom, it’s nothing, I’ll just whip up some herbal medicine.
You try using it on Dad first!” Li Xiaobao said as he handed a lump of herbs to Luo Guiying.
After breakfast, Li Xiaobao told Luo Guiying and pushed out the old tricycle from the shed.
By the time Li Xiaobao reached the town, it was almost noon and the weather had turned hot all of a sudden.
His stomach rumbled loudly.
Li Xiaobao found a stall and had a bowl of cold noodles but still felt unsatisfied.
As he was considering whether to have another bowl, he suddenly saw an old man staggering toward him.
“Is this old man trying to scam me?” Li Xiaobao watched the old man totter over and his face fell, thinking, why not just walk on a clear path but instead head straight into me?
“I’m warning you, don’t bump into me!” Li Xiaobao didn’t wait for the old man to hit him; he jumped up from the bench and quickly retreated five or six meters.
“Young man, what kind of kung fu is that?” The noodle stall owner was immediately shocked.
“What kung fu?
I was just scared by that old man!” Li Xiaobao glared at the noodle stall owner annoyedly, then turned his head only to see the old man had disappeared.
“Could he be a master?” Li Xiaobao thought doubtfully.
“He’s on the ground!” The noodle stall owner, ‘kindly’, pointed to the old man who was lying on the ground.
Li Xiaobao instinctively looked down and his expression darkened even more.
What master?
It’s clearly just a man on his deathbed!
“Hey, old man, are you okay?
Don’t scare me!” Li Xiaobao looked at the old man lying in front of his table and rudely nudged his shoulder with his foot.
“Oh, I…
I…” the old man reached out his arm toward Li Xiaobao.
“I…
Old man, do you have any last words?” The words of Li Xiaobao drew looks from the people around, who promptly reminded him, “Call the emergency hotline!”
“Oh, got it!” Li Xiaobao said as he dialed the emergency number.
After calling emergency services, Li Xiaobao crouched beside the old man, watching his complexion grow worse, and said regretfully, “Old man, I’m afraid you won’t make it until the ambulance arrives!”
“Ah!
I~ bah~” Upon hearing Li Xiaobao’s words, the old man nearly died of anger on the spot, unable to speak anymore.
“Grandpa, grandpa!” Just then, a young woman in a caregiver’s outfit, crying, burst into the crowd.
It was the old man’s caregiver, Ah-Fang.
“I’m not your grandpa, he is!” Li Xiaobao pointed at the old man lying on the ground.
Ah-Fang glared angrily at Li Xiaobao and knelt on the ground, saying, “Grandpa, what’s wrong with you?
Don’t scare me!”
“He’s not scaring you, he really is gone!” Li Xiaobao said regretfully, as the people around looked like they wanted to come up and give him a piece of their mind; there was an old man nearly dying and he was still making insensitive remarks.
“I’m telling the truth!” Li Xiaobao looked around at the crowd innocently, trying to explain, but everyone’s gaze seemed to be drawn to Ah-Fang.
At that moment, Ah-Fang’s hair was a bit messy, and the buttons on the front of her shirt were done wrong, the top two not even fastened.
Moreover, the crowd felt that although Ah-Fang was crying, she wasn’t really sad as not a single tear fell; she just kept on wailing.
“Grandpa, quickly take your medicine!” Ah-Fang said as she took out a bottle of emergency heart pills from her pocket, almost wishing she could pour the whole bottle down the old man’s throat.
“What a caregiver!” The crowd also regretted for the old man, feeling that a whole bottle of these pills could end him right here.
“It was you, you pushed Uncle Wan!” Ah-Fang suddenly stopped crying, looked up at Li Xiaobao fiercely, and said.
“Which eye of yours saw me push your uncle?” Li Xiaobao jumped up angrily as soon as he heard Ah-Fang’s words.
“It was you, it was you who pushed Uncle Wan.
I saw it all clearly from over there, just you wait!” Ah-Fang spoke as she took out her phone and dialed a number, her voice turning gentle, “Brother Wan, it’s bad, the uncle fell down!
He’s having a heart attack and it’s serious!”
“What?
What did you say?
Where are you?
I’m coming right now!” Hearing this, Wan Feng got anxious immediately, hung up, and called Liu Ming, the director of the city hospital, rushing over after.
“Hmph!
Just you wait, I’ll see what you’ll do when Brother Wan gets here!” After finishing the call, Ah-Fang glared at Li Xiaobao furiously.
“Look, haven’t you done enough?
I didn’t touch your uncle, alright?” Li Xiaobao thought bitterly.
It was hard enough for him to make a trip to the city, and now this?
Over a bowl of cold noodles, he ended up in this mess.
“Boss, you have to testify for me later, I didn’t touch that old man!” Li Xiaobao said angrily, turning to the noodle shop owner.
“This, I…
was just making noodles and didn’t see clearly!” The noodle shop owner’s words made Li Xiaobao feel an urge to slap him.
Not see clearly?
You saw everything clearer than anyone, and now you’re telling me you didn’t?
Li Xiaobao turned to look at the others again.
But everyone else seemed indifferent, which chilled his heart, and he muttered, “You jerks.”
“Hmph!” Seeing the attitude of the people around her, Ah-Fang sneered confidently at Li Xiaobao.
Really?
So, you’re set on framing me, aren’t you?
Seeing Ah-Fang’s arrogant attitude, Li Xiaobao suddenly lost his temper, and the Five Elements Spiritual Energy inside him slowly began to circulate.
“Huh?” As the Five Elements Spiritual Energy began circulating inside him, Li Xiaobao got an idea.
His Spiritual Energy had healed his father and Zhang Jianjun’s legs; couldn’t it save the old man too?
Seeing the kind and benevolent look of the old man, Li Xiaobao decided to try.
“What are you trying to do?
Stop it!” Just then, Ah-Fang blocked Li Xiaobao’s way angrily, ready to face death.
“You’re Ah-Fang, right?
Seems like this year you’re aiming to bring glory to the nation and hit the Oscars!” Li Xiaobao looked at Ah-Fang and shook his head coldly, then said, “But not as the Best Actress, with that behavior, I’d at most give you Best Supporting Actress!”
“You…” Ah-Fang’s face turned red with rage, which girl doesn’t want to be the lead?
Li Xiaobao’s outright belittlement left her stunned.
“Move aside, or your uncle’s really going to die!” Li Xiaobao eyed Ah-Fang with disdain, wishing he could smack her.
Fairly speaking, Ah-Fang was quite attractive, but Li Xiaobao thought her character was incredibly ugly.
“Dad!” Just then, the sound of a screeching car was heard, and a man in his thirties got out of the car.
The man had an honest face, wore a short-sleeve shirt, business pants, black shoes, and had black-framed glasses—it was Wan Feng.
“Dad, how are you?” Wan Feng forced his way through the crowd and knelt in front of the old man, placing his palms on the old man’s arm but not daring to shake him.
After Wan Feng stopped crying, he lifted his head to look at Ah-Fang and asked, “Who?
Who knocked over my dad?”
“It was him, he knocked over Uncle Wan!” Ah-Fang pointed at Li Xiaobao nervously as Wan Feng looked furious.
“Oh come on, will you ever stop?” Li Xiaobao saw Ah-Fang point at him and firmly denied it.
“It was you?” Wan Feng seemed to have not heard Li Xiaobao’s defense at all, anger forming fists as he stood up.