Chapter 17 - An Innocent Victim
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n“You’re such a liar.” Nalan Wushuang said with anger.
n“Why did you say that? I am such an honest guy, and I can guarantee you that all I said was true.”
nQin Haodong said with grievance.
n“Then how old are you?”
n“21!”
n“How old is the kid you mentioned?”
n“Four!”
n“So you’ve been in relationship for five years.”
n“No, we met each other only 2 days ago.”
n“You’re just talking nonsense, you as****.”
nNalan Wushuang would’ve kicked the slick guy out of the car if she weren’t driving. How could the guy be so serious while making up all those stories?
n“I am not talking nonsense, I am telling you the truth!”
nQin Haodong said innocently.
n“You…”
nIn anger, Nalan Wushuang closed her mouth because she knew she would totally lose it if she didn’t stop talking to him.
nThe Audi A6 darted out of the city and finally pulled over at the gate a big yard. The yard, with large-brick walls and houses with fancy tiles, was the special sanatorium set by in Jiangnan Military Force. It was said that all the residents here are military leaders above divisional commander level.
nNanlan Wushuang parked the car and lead Qin Haodong into the yard.
nQin Haodong checked out the sanatorium while he was walking. It was a nice place with much more Spiritual Qi around than the urban area, making it the best place for recuperation.
nFew steps later, a young man in his twenties ran into them at a sudden. The man had a large silk box in his hand, and judging by the fancy clothes wrapping him all over, he must be rich.
n“Shuangshuang, why didn’t you answer my calls?”
nThe young man ran to Nalan and smiled flatteringly.
n“Zhang Dazhi, I told you not to harass me if you have nothing important!”
nNalan Wushuang said with resentment.
n“Yes, I do have something important!” Said Zhang Dazhi who was apparently afraid of Nalan Wushuang. He raised the silk box in his hands and said, “I heard that you’re looking for Thousand-year Ginseng for your grandpa. I happen to have a friend who runs herb business. I asked him for help, and this is the best Korean Ginseng he found for me. I heard it was a hundred-year one, so I bring it here to give it to your grandpa as a gift.”
nAfter he said that, he opened the box with a flattered smile. There was a snow-white Korean Ginseng lying inside.
nAt first, Qin Haodong didn’t care about Zhang Dazhi at all, because he found him no more than another admirer of Nanan Wushuang, and it seemed that she hardly had any interest in him. But by the time when he saw the Korean Ginseng, he couldn’t help but widen his eyes. “What a nice Ginseng it is!”
nThe Korean Ginseng and his Blood Ginseng would make up the two main ingredients of his Foundation Core. “This good stuff has to be mine.”
nQin Haodong had every reason to be desired, because the 600 or 700 hundred-year-old Korean Ginseng was giving out very thick Spiritual Qi.
nIt was a nice gift, only to be sent here at the wrong time. He sighed for Zhang Dazhi in his mind because he knew it must have taken him a lot of efforts to find such an old-aged Korean Ginseng. Nalan Wushuang would’ve treated him in a totally different way if he was here two days earlier, but now, she wouldn’t even bother to look.
nNalan Wushuang barely took a look at the Korean Ginseng in the box. She stared at Zhang Dazhi, and said, “I don’t need it, just take it away.”
n“Well…” Zhang Dazhi was confused. He took it as the best chance to flatter Nalan Wushuang when he heard that she was looking for a Thousand-year Ginseng. He had used all his social connections to find the ginseng, and it cost him more than 10 million yuan to take it out of Korea. He did all this to win the beauty’s laugh.
nNanlan Wushuang didn’t smile at all, instead, she was becoming colder and colder to him.
n“Shuangshuang, don’t be so impulsive. This Korean Ginseng will help cure your grandpa…”
n“I said I don’t need it…”
nNalan Wushuang interrupted Zhang Dazhi before he could finish. She knew the better the ginseng was, the more harm it would do to his grandpa. So now she didn’t bear any good feeling toward Zhang Dazhi at all.
nShe also knew that if she didn’t make it clear to Zhang Dazhi, he would keep harassing him. She then pulled Qin Haodong and said, “My family has already invited Doctor Qin for grandpa. You can keep your hands away from this.”
nZhang Dazhi took a look at Qin Haodong, and said to the angry Nalan Wushuang, “He must be one of the gigolos of yours, how could he be a doctor?”
n“Watch your mouth, Zhang Dazhi,” said Nalan Wushuang, a quick-tempered one who had already lost her patience. She asked with a cold face, “How does it have anything to do with you even if he was a gigolo of mine?”
nQin Haodong felt awkward. He was such an innocent victim, because he was here just to cure. Now for no reason, he had become the idiot’s rival in love, and had been demeaned to be a “gigolo”. “You can get hurt by just walking in the streets!”
n“Shuangshuang, how can you not know my feelings for you after such a long time? We’ll make a perfect couple. What’s good in this gigolo? He was too pale and tender to look like a real man. I think he may be gay…”
n“Enough!” Before he could finish it, Nalan yelled in anger, “Zhang Dazhi, shut your hole!”
n“You…”
nZhang Dazhi was so angry that his eyes were glaring, but he was too afraid to flare up in front of Nalan Wushuang.
nThe reason he pursued Nalan Wushuang was partly her beauty and partly her powerful family, but all in all, he feared Miss Nalan because she was so quick-tempered.
nHe couldn’t afford to irritate Nalan Wushuang, but at least he could irritate Qin Haodong.
n“Stay away from Shuangshuang, you gigolo boy! Or you wouldn’t have known how you died.”
nSeeing the idiot getting more and more ignorant, Qin Haodong felt annoyed, so he said coldly, “Get out of here.”
n“What? How dare you speak to me like that! I’ll disable you for your tongue!”
nZhang Dazhi jumped at Qin Haodong while he was speaking. Nalan Wushuang then moved and blocked in front of Qin Haodong. She said in anger, “What are you doing, Zhang Dazhi? He’s a guest of my family. Now get out of here while I still act in manners!”
nShe had been suppressing the anger inside. She would have already punched Zhang Dazhi if their father weren’t good friends.
nSeeing that Nalan Wushuang was nearly rampaging, Zhang took a few steps backward. He certainly knew how capable the woman could be. He might have learned Taekwondo for a few years, but he was no match for her. If the fights broke out, he would be slaughtered.
nBut he still didn’t give up. He pointed to Qin Haodong and yelling. “Gigolo boy! No man would hide behind a woman! I dare you to come forward and have a man-to-man fight with me!”
nHe thought Qin Haodong was a coward gigolo who wouldn’t dare to answer his challenge. The moment Qin Haodong quailed, quick-temper Nalan Wushuang would favor him.
nQin Haodong had a flash of wit. He was just considering how he could get the ginseng for himself, and now the idiot came to send it by himself.
nHe lifted his hand and pushed Nalan Wushuang aside. Then he smiled and said to Zhang Dazhi, “You want to fight?”
n“I bet you will. No hide behind a woman if you are a real man.”
nHe was so confident because he had been learning Wushu since he was young. He knew he was definitely no match for Nalan Yan, but he believed to beat the gigolo before him would be simple enough.
n“Why wouldn’t I dare?” Qin Haodong answered, “But I am not fighting just because you want me to, how about we make a gamble?”
n“What do you want to gamble for?”
nZhang Dazhi asked.
n“Then ginseng in your hand, and if I beat you, you’ll give it to me. Are you in?”
n“Well…” Zhang Dazhi was hesitating. He did not expect Qin Haodong to make the gamble on his ginseng which was worth ten million.
n“What? Are you quailing? Weren’t you the real man here just now?” said Qin Haodong. Then he held Nalan Wushuang’s slender waist in his arm. He had to have the Korean Ginseng, so he was using Nalan Wushuang to irritate Zhang Dazhi.
nNalan Wushuang flushed but for the unknown reason, she didn’t dodge, she let him hold her.
nSeeing his loved woman being so intimate with another man, Zhang Dazhi went outrageous and yelled. “Let’s do it! But how about if you lose?”
n“If I lose, you can do whatever you want.”
nQin Haodong didn’t care because there was no way he could lose when facing such an idiot.
nZhang Dazhi said wickedly, “If you lose, I’ll break your legs. And you’ll have to stay away from Shuangshuang forever.”
n“Zhang Dazhi, you’ve crossed the line!” Nalan Wushuang yelled.
n“Really? I’ll say I am the one suffering loss because the ginseng is worth ten million, and all he has are his legs!”
nQin Haodong stopped Nalan Wushuang before she was going to continue, “He was right. The gamble was fair enough for me. I’ll gamble my two legs for his ten million.”
n“Are you sure this is going to work? Zhang Dazhi has learned Taekwondo.” Nalan Wushuang whispered to Qin Haodong.
nShe only knew that Qin Haodong’s medical skills were extraordinary, but she did not know how his fighting skills were.
n“Don’t worry, he’s just an idiot!”
nQin Haodong said and pulled Nalan Wushuang aside, then he faced Zhang Dazhi by himself.
nZhang Dazhi’s lungs were nearly exploding because of the anger when he saw his loved woman was so intimate with Qin Haodong. His feet moved and kicked straightly on Qin Haodong’s temple.
n“Messing up with my woman? I’ll blow your head today.”
nAs his left foot got closer and closer to Qin Haodong’s head, cold but proud smiled emerged at Zhang Dazhi’s mouth corner.
nBut before he finished laughing, he felt like a train had run into his chest, and his ribs were almost crushed by the power. He flew backward like a cloth bag, then fell heavily on the ground.
n“It’s mine!”
nQin Haodong ran over happily after he kicked Zhang Dazhi away, picking up the silk box in his hand.
nNalan Wushuang was shocked inside seeing Qin Haodong defeated Zhang Dazhi so easily, because it wouldn’t be such an easy job even if she did it by herself. What kind of freak was he? His medical skill was amazing, so was his fighting skills.
n“You bastard, how could you play tricks on me!”
nAs stupid as Zhang Dazhi might be, he could figure out that Qin Haodong had set him up. He struggled to pick himself up from the ground, but he failed after trying several times.
nThe kick was heavy enough, but Qin Haodong had pulled his feet a little for the sake of the Korean Ginseng, or Zhang Dazhi would be disabled for the rest of his life.
nQin Haodong held the ginseng, smiled and said, “That’s not right. It was you that initiate the fight, and how could I play trick on you for that? People have to pay for their arrogance.”
n“Gigolo boy! Just wait for me, this is not over yet!” Zhang Dazhi shouted as his face was twisted.
n“You want to mess up with me? Fine, but next time I won’t show any mercy except you send me ginseng as good as this one.”
nSurely, Qin Haodong couldn’t care less about the threat from such a weak person.
nAt the same time, several guards of the military area ran over here. They noticed Zhang Dazhi lying on the ground, and asked Nalan Wushuang, “Miss Nalan, what has happened here?” .
nNalan Wushuang waved her hand, and said, “It’s not your concern, just go and do what you have to do.”
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