Chapter 529 Night Fury
At about six o'clock in the afternoon, the early spring sunset had already sunk in the west, the sky was getting darker, and dusk had fallen. Zhang Yunqi drove at full speed and sent Liu A's wife and her daughter to the City Center Hospital.

A male doctor examined Mrs. Liu, then told Liu Ying about her condition and prescribed some medicine.

Mrs. Liu was kicked by Manager Xue, and her forehead was cut and there were bruises on her shoulder blade. These were all superficial injuries and nothing serious. It was just that the mental stimulation was too great, which caused a stress reaction, insufficient blood supply to the brain and mental disorders. After her emotions were extremely out of control, she developed a series of symptoms such as confusion, slowness, sluggishness, tinnitus, dizziness, etc.

Liu Ying's eyes were red and swollen. She asked, "Will my mother get better? Will there be any sequelae?"

The male doctor adjusted his glasses and said seriously, "Let your mother take medicine and rest well. She will probably be fine in two or three days. In fact, this situation can be improved with medication, timely adjustments, a stable and comfortable living environment, and no more stimulation. However, in most cases, once this symptom occurs, it will occur countless times. The patient's mental state will fluctuate, especially as they age. Mental disorders such as auditory hallucinations, tinnitus, and confusion will only become more and more serious."

Liu Ying's heart sank to the bottom of the valley all of a sudden, as if it was instantly gripped by despair!
Not to mention her mother's tragic past experiences and age factors, the world is full of ups and downs. How can ordinary people like them who are struggling in real life have a stable and comfortable living environment?

Aunt Liu lay on the hospital bed without waking up. The doctor gave her a simple bandage and left.

The ward became exceptionally quiet, with a kind of silent depression and silence. Time passed quietly. Liu Ying sat beside her, holding her mother's hands covered with pus-covered calluses, in a daze. After a long, long time, the tears in the corners of her eyes had dried up. She turned her head and said to Zhang Yunqi who was standing in front of the window: "Do you want to know about my family?"

Zhang Yunqi nodded.

Liu Ying told the story quietly.

Her father's name is Liu Kui. He used to be a maintenance worker at a cement factory in Pulin Town, Tianxin. He was seriously injured in a crusher accident and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, but in the end he could not save his life and instead had to spend a huge amount of medical expenses.

At that time, the state-owned cement factory was not doing well and was facing the dilemma of not being able to pay wages. The factory director gritted his teeth and paid half of the medical expenses, and was no longer willing to take care of this tragedy.

Zhang Yunqi heard this and asked, "Is that cement factory closed now?"

Liu Ying was silent for a while, then shook her head and said, "It was privatized. The factory director teamed up with a few people to acquire all the shares of the cement factory, and now they are all rich."

Zhang Yunqi nodded.

At this time, the cell phone rang.

Zhang Yunqi took out his phone and answered it. It was Lin Shiyu.

She had already rushed downstairs to the hospital. Zhang Yunqi told her the floor and ward number.

Three or five minutes later, Lin Shiyu and Xiao Wu caught up.

Just now, Xiao Wu beat up three staff members of the Red Star State-owned Restaurant, and the three of them went into the restaurant and never dared to come out. After Lin Shiyu took pictures at the scene, she contacted the vendors and shoppers around to understand the situation at the scene, and then rushed back to the hospital.

In order to report this news and uphold justice, it is necessary to get more detailed information from the parties involved. Now that Aunt Liu has not woken up yet, Lin Shiyu plans to ask Liu Ying.

Now Zhang Yunqi had invited a journalist friend to help her family solve the problem. He was a well-known reporter from the Xiangnan Daily. A glimmer of hope rose in Liu Ying's heart. She wiped away her tears and told him in detail about her family's situation and the conflict between them and the Red Star State-owned Hotel.

The death of her father Liu Kui in an accident not only destroyed the family mentally, but also made the already difficult economy worse, leaving them in debt. She also had a grandfather who worked as a farmer at home. His income was very limited, and he could only barely feed three mouths. The debt was difficult to repay, so the family situation was very bleak. In addition, school tuition fees have been rising year after year in recent years, especially after Liu Ying entered university, the tuition fee for one semester was 2400 yuan! It is very difficult to support a dual-income family today, not to mention that Liu Ying's family only had the hard-earned money earned by her grandfather and mother digging in the fields.

Being poor is changing.

Seeing the situation at home, Liu Ying started working during the winter and summer vacations in high school, while Aunt Liu set up a stall to sell food. Regardless of how the food tasted, the stall fee was low and there were no costs such as store employees, water and electricity. It was really cheap and affordable. The business became more and more prosperous, and the family situation improved step by step.

However, under the favorable policies of reform and opening up, the family saw that their lives were gradually getting better. But misery once again befell this family that could no longer withstand the slightest wind and rain. Because of its low prices, Aunt Liu's food stall attracted many customers from the market, causing the Red Star State Restaurant's turnover to continue to decline, which annoyed the other party.

The leaders of the Red Star State-owned Restaurant made things difficult for Aunt Liu, verbally insulting her or making small troubles, and even asked the market manager to threaten Aunt Liu to take back her stall after next year. Even more exaggerated, they found the land rogues to eat and make trouble, etc. In short, they tried every means to make her move to another place to set up her stall. However, Aunt Liu had a formal business with the seal of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and her business was so prosperous. This stall was also related to the food rations of the whole family and the tuition fees of her daughter. How could she bear to give it up? The old woman continued to set up the food stall in the dark under the huge psychological pressure and the constant provocation of the other party, so today's scene appeared.

When Lin Shiyu heard this, she gnashed with hatred.

Even a well-educated journalist like her couldn't help but curse: "What a bastard! It's simply lawless!"

Liu Ying wiped her tears again and asked, "Reporter sister, can the newspaper report my family's story?"

"Don't worry! I will definitely do it. I will give your mother justice when the time comes." Lin Shiyu nodded with certainty. With the current national trend of vigorously promoting the development of the individual private economy, it is not difficult for such news to be published in the newspaper, and it is also quite typical. If it can trigger a large-scale discussion in the province, it will certainly further promote the vigorous development of the individual private economy.

Liu Ying finally felt relieved, twisted her fingers together and said, "Well, thank you."

"It's my job. You're welcome." Lin Shiyu closed her notebook. She had finished the interview and said to Zhang Yunqi in a hurry, "Boss Zhang, I'm going to the newspaper office and I'll treat you to dinner later. I'm not using my power for personal gain!"

Zhang Yunqi smiled and nodded, then asked Xiao Wu to take her there.

The two left the hospital together.

Only Zhang Yunqi, Liu Ying, and Aunt Liu who was still in a coma were left in the ward.

Zhang Yunqi stood up and drew open the curtains. Night had fallen outside the window. The street lights in the distance were just coming on. Fresh air rushed into the ward, removing some of the smell of soda water. He turned around and said to Liu Ying, "Don't worry about your food stall. It's easy to solve. I think the demolition of your house may be quite tricky. Your mother is already like this now. She can't stand any stimulation at all. You have to be mentally prepared and think about how to deal with it."

Liu Ying didn't have time to think about this issue: "Now most of the hundreds of households in Xiaogudao Lane do not agree to sign the demolition agreement."

Zhang Yunqi said, "The company responsible for the demolition and reconstruction of Xiaogudao Lane will definitely do everything they can. You have to consider that if you don't sign, they will go to the hospital to force your mother to sign. Will she be able to bear it?" Liu Ying opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say. After all, she was only an 18-year-old freshman girl. Facing one dilemma after another, her mind was in a mess. The feeling of depression and suffocation almost made her breathless.

Zhang Yunqi thought for a while and said, "Let your mother stay in the hospital for a while to recover her body and mind. Don't worry about the money."

Liu Ying was a little at a loss: "Well, how can I be so embarrassed..."

Zhang Yunqi said, "Then consider it as a loan from me. You can pay it back when you have money."

Liu Ying's eyes turned red again: "Well, thank you."

After a pause, she wiped her eyes and said, "Oh, by the way, I still have to go home to get some clean clothes for my mother, and I have to clean up the food stall. My grandfather is alone at home, and he will probably be worried."

Zhang Yunqi said, "It's okay. I'll take you home. There are nurses in the hospital. Ask one to help take care of your mother. It will be more convenient for you to go to school in the future."

Although Liu Ying was embarrassed, the poor girl had no choice at the moment. She could only say thank you and accept this gift of unknown value.

When Zhang Yunqi went out and paid the hospital fees downstairs, he hired a female nurse in her forties, Zhao Yumei. This kind of female nurse would stay by the patient's side during the hospital's ward rounds from 8 to 9 a.m. every day to provide daily care and assistance. Today's situation was special, so Zhang Yunqi asked her to help take care of the patient until 12 o'clock in the evening, and left his phone number so that she could call him if Mrs. Liu woke up or there was any emergency.

After dealing with these minor matters, Zhang Yunqi and Liu Ying left the hospital and drove back to Jiefang West.

After parking the car at the gate of Taiping Street, Zhang Yunqi accompanied Liu Ying to the Taiping Street Agricultural Products Market. It was already past nine o'clock in the evening, and the market was deserted. The door of the Red Star State-owned Hotel was closed, and the citizens who came to watch the fun had all dispersed. No one cleaned up the broken pots and pans, and more than a dozen wild cats were gnawing on the spilled food on the ground. The cat's eyes emitted a cold blue light in the dark, and creepy cries were heard from time to time.

Zhang Yunqi turned on the light of his mobile phone and did not chase the cat away. All the bowls were broken, but the wooden stools and table were still intact. He and Liu Ying moved the intact wooden stools, table, pots and vegetable baskets onto the cart.

After finishing the cleaning, Zhang Yunqi pulled the cart in front, and Liu Ying, who was very embarrassed, pushed it hard from behind, which made Zhang Yunqi want to laugh: "Don't use so much force, you will even push me later. It's easy to pull a cart in front on a flat road. Besides, I was born in a poor family and I have pulled carts many times before."

When he said this, he thought of Xiao Chunlan who used to pull the cart with him on the loess slope.

Liu Ying uttered a low "hmm" but continued pushing hard from behind.

Zhang Yunqi said again: "Do you have any questions for me?"

Liu Ying was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's the problem?"

Zhang Yunqi said, "When your mother's stall was smashed, I was standing behind and watched the people from the Red Star State-owned Restaurant smash your stall before they went upstairs. Don't you have any other ideas?"

Liu Ying was silent for a moment, then said, "You have no responsibility or obligation to help me with something like this."

Zhang Yunqi smiled.

As they were talking, the two men dragged the cart out of the Taiping Street Vegetable Market. After crossing Qinglou Street, they soon approached the Xiaogudao Alley. However, the closer they got, the more they heard the roar of machines coming from the alley.

Zhang Yunqi looked up and saw that a yellow line had been drawn at the entrance of the alley. A group of burly thugs with tattoos on their bodies were gathered there. They were probably hired by the demolition and reconstruction company of the Qingwu South Road Pedestrian Street project. From time to time, they pulled out a few original residents from the alley, dragged them and threw them outside the yellow line.

Under the high-powered spotlight, this small area was as bright as day, with every detail clearly visible. Three or five excavators and dump trucks were working, raising a cloud of dust. There were still a few small buildings within the yellow line that had not been demolished, but the walls had been torn down, standing alone in the ruins. There were also traces of high-pressure water gun impacts, which were quite eye-catching.

Liu Ying ran over immediately, and Zhang Yunqi followed her forward. Then they heard an unusual sound coming from a private house. The lights were still on in the inner room of the house, and there were shadows swaying.

The door opened with a bang!

Under the glaring light, Zhang Yunqi saw an old man stumbling out of the house, followed by two burly young men. They kicked the old man in the back, and the old man fell headfirst into a pile of broken bricks, and didn't get up for a long time.

Then, two more people walked out of the house. One of them was not very old, about twenty years old, wearing a well-cut high-end black suit, with a high nose bridge, sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes.

Zhang Yunqi immediately recognized the young man as Lu Yuanzhou, the owner of the BMW 740i, whom he had met by chance when he picked up Li Yufei at Xiangnan Normal University a few years ago. Lu Yuanzhou was the vice president of Xiangbei Xiongsen Group and the general manager of Jinzhao Industry.

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded beside me: "My home! Grandpa! Grandpa!"

Zhang Yunqi tilted his head.

Liu Ying has already rushed towards the entrance of the alley!

However, before she even got close to the yellow line, she was stopped by two strong men who pushed her outwards. She fell to the ground and had a bruised forehead. But she immediately got up and tried to rush back into the yellow line. Zhang Yunqi had already reacted and pulled her back: "This is useless. Trust me!"

Liu Ying's tears flowed down her cheeks: "That was my grandfather. They sold my house to them."

It was already very late at night.

The sound of machinery roared cruelly in the night sky. Lu Yuanzhou heard the movement here, turned his head, and his eyes met Zhang Yunqi's.

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