After Being Blackened All Over the Internet, I Ruled the Military Variety
Chapter 711 - 701: How Did A Good Person End Up Like This

Chapter 711: Chapter 701: How Did A Good Person End Up Like This

Halfway through dinner, Shen Yunqing received a phone call.

Upon returning, Jiang Lingxi noticed a certain sternness in his expression, and immediately guessed something. After downing the juice in her glass in one gulp, she stood up and said, "Yunqing and I might have to leave for something urgent. Please continue, everyone."

Shen Yunqing nodded in agreement.

The people in the private room watched them leave.

Wei Minmin couldn’t help but click her tongue lightly, "They really have such chemistry!"

Wei Xiao glanced at his niece, "You’re not getting any younger either. Don’t you want to find someone with that kind of chemistry?"

In this private setting, Wei Minmin directly called him uncle, "That’s the kind of thing you can’t just wish for. We don’t harbor such hopes!"

This provoked Wei Xiao to tap her on the head.

He muttered, "Both you and little Ke, clearly excellent in your respective fields, and good-looking, yet both are tough nuts to crack!"

Wei Minmin suddenly felt like she was being urged to find a partner way ahead of schedule, so she immediately took her cup and utensils over to Pei Xinyuan’s side.

"Come, come, let’s keep eating. Wonder what was so urgent for Sister Lingxi and Mr. Shen. We haven’t even had the big dish yet."

Jiang Lingxi and Shen Yunqing, who were being talked about, were already in the car that Huzi came to pick them up in.

As for Tong Yue and the others, they had been dismissed by Jiang Lingxi after the program recording.

Without Tong Yue and the others, Jiang Lingxi directly asked upon getting in the car, "Has there been any result in the investigation regarding that hitman?"

"Yes," Shen Yunqing opened the newly received information on his phone, "He was hired by Zhang Lingzhou."

"Zhang Lingzhou?" Jiang Lingxi couldn’t help but be surprised, "I suspected him less than his parents. It seems his relationship with his sister is better than I thought, is he seeking revenge for her?"

"Not entirely for that reason," Shen Yunqing shook his head, "To be precise, he blames you for being stabbed and losing a kidney during a hospital stay."

"How does that make any sense?"

"He got into a fight and got stabbed because the other party mocked that his family is poor, showing off even with a sister in jail."

Jiang Lingxi: "..."

She was silent for a moment, pointing to herself, "So, he thinks all these misfortunes his family is facing are caused by me?"

It’s not entirely wrong to say that, but if Zhang Anfeng had just done business honestly without trying to exploit the already bankrupt Jiang Runcheng, who was still fantasizing about making a comeback, she wouldn’t care about how Zhang Anfeng ran his business at all.

Similarly, if Zhang Lingxuan wasn’t so jealous and genuinely accepted An’an’s arrival, how would Mr. Zhang give up on the granddaughter he always doted on?

For Zhang Anfeng’s family, she had only one thing to say: Those who do evil will bring about their own destruction!

"What do you plan to do?"

"It’s nearly the New Year, and Mr. Zhang just got out of the hospital," Jiang Lingxi genuinely felt that she had become much softer-hearted now, "Let’s give him a small lesson first and deal with it in more detail after the New Year."

If it were in her past life, she would never allow those who wanted to harm her to have a peaceful New Year.

But for Zhang Lingzhou, who still had to lie in the hospital for a small lesson, this New Year probably wouldn’t be very good for him either.

"Alright, I’ll handle it."

Shen Yunqing had already thought of what kind of lesson to give Zhang Lingzhou.

If he had the energy to hire a hitman while being down a kidney and bedridden, then he should first experience what it’s like to not be able to speak or act.

That night, Zhang Lingzhou, half asleep, suddenly felt a chill on his body.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a dark figure standing at the foot of his bed.

There’s an old saying that if you don’t do bad things, you don’t have to fear ghosts knocking. But he had just done a bad deed, even if unsuccessful, leaving him with constant fear.

Instinctively he was about to open his mouth to scream.

The next second, his throat was tightly grasped.

He then heard a crisp sound from each of his two arms, and then there was no more feeling.

His eyes bulged instantly.

"Save..."

Zhang Lingzhou thought that having been stabbed with a fruit knife and losing a kidney was the biggest injury he’d face in his life.

Until now.

His arms felt like they’d been broken, completely numb. After a sharp pain, his throat couldn’t make a sound anymore either.

He was too afraid to move much, worried it would affect his still-unhealed waist injury.

No nurse or caregiver came to check on him.

He lay there with eyes wide open, calling to the heavens unanswered, all night.

Until early the next morning, when Lin Yi arrived with breakfast, first startled by the redness of her son’s eyes, then noticing the unnatural bend in his arms, she hurriedly called for a doctor and asked her son what had happened the previous night.

Zhang Lingzhou wanted to speak, but his mouth was too sore to make a sound.

A wave of frustration followed, causing Lin Yi to roll her eyes and almost faint.

"How did things ever end up like this?"

This incident was too bizarre, prompting Zhang Nachuan to be alarmed by mid-morning.

Upon arriving at the hospital and seeing his grandson still lying on the bed, unable to move his arms or speak, he immediately struck his cane and demanded, "What are we waiting for? Call the police!"

"We can’t, Dad," Lin Yi grimaced and shook her head, "Before you arrived, I suggested it, but Xiao Zhou kept shaking his head no as if he almost shook his head off. The child has suffered enough; don’t push him further."

Zhang Nachuan paused at these words, lowered his eyes to meet his grandson’s gaze, causing Zhang Lingzhou to instinctively look away.

Suspicion welled in Zhang Nachuan’s heart.

"Xiao Zhou, be honest with me, did you secretly do something again, prompting someone to retaliate?"

Zhang Lingzhou’s face twitched involuntarily.

He couldn’t help but think of the shadow from last night—could Jiang Lingxi have found out about the hitman he hired?

It’s the only clandestine thing he’s done recently.

But he’d hired someone so secretive, not even in Huazhou, so how did Jiang Lingxi find any clues?

His thoughts were interrupted by sudden leg pain, wanting to whimper but only managing a silent scream.

Zhang Nachuan retracted his cane, his face dark, gazing at his grandson with deep disappointment.

He hadn’t expected this reaction from his probing question; it was clear he had a guilty conscience and didn’t dare to involve the police.

Lin Yi, as the mother, was apparently blind to this.

"You just keep playing like this, until one day you play yourself to death!"

"Dad, what are you saying? How can you speak so harshly when Xiao Zhou’s already like this..."

Zhang Nachuan pressed his temples and turned to leave.

He couldn’t bear to stay any longer with this mother-son pair.

Xiyuan.

Jiang Lingxi listened to Xu Ling’an’s recount of Zhang Lingzhou’s miserable state and Mr. Zhang’s suspicions, feeling as if something was missing, "By the way, what about Zhang Anfeng?"

Xu Ling’an pouted, feeling that explaining would tarnish her sister’s ears. After deliberating over her words, she replied, "Lin Yi let slip during her talk, but fortunately, Grandpa was too upset to hear clearly. Zhang Anfeng, it seems, has gone to another residence."

Jiang Lingxi: "..."

An’an, this girl, was a bit too tactful.

But does this mean Zhang Anfeng is ready to nurture a side affair now that his primary effort has been wasted?

What a messed-up family, just disgustingly so even in thought.

She felt that even if she didn’t intervene, this family by themselves would bring about their own downfall right after the new year.