Midnight Bookstore - Chapter 410
The blue enchantment disappeared as Zhou Ze closed his eyes.
Everyone in the bookstore prostrated on the ground. They were panting and exhausted. It had to be known that even shouting “6666” at the side during a fight was a very tiring thing.
Lawyer An looked at the deep pit in front of him and then at his boss. Zhou Ze stood there motionless with his eyes closed.
This was the power hidden in his boss’ body that Lin Ke had mentioned. He swallowed with some difficulty. He had only heard of it in the past but he had never seen it with his own eyes.
Now, he had seen it with his own eyes and he was in great shock. He swallowed with some difficulty again.
Lawyer An suddenly felt a little ashamed. Ashamed that he had persuaded the boss time and time again to be diligent, to be up, not to be idle, not to slack off, and not to muddle along. He had even been disappointed with the boss.
However, now it seemed that he had the ghost of the Prefectural Government Lord and the Ancient Great Zombie sealed in his body. This was equivalent to giving you the full-grade account and the divine equipment. If he forced his boss to do medicine or letter delivery to the novice village, isn’t he forcing the person in him?
How can I be so insensible! Is it wrong for such a boss to bask in the sun and be idle?
“Plop!” Zhou Ze sat on the ground. His chest kept rising and falling. His eyes slowly opened. Then, he closed them tiredly.
Bai Yingying immediately came over and helped Zhou Ze up, “Boss, are you okay?”
Zhou Ze shook his head and subconsciously clenched his fists. He was a little surprised that his broken arm and his broken fingernails had recovered.
Of course, even this little joy was not enough to excite him. It was just another way to quench thirst by drinking poison. The idiot’s seal was not permanent. When it was unsealed earlier, Zhou Ze could feel that the word “Seal” was no longer as bright and thick as before no matter how much the idiot continued to redraw it. It had become fainter.
The Little Monkey’s belly was swollen. It sat beside Zhou Ze and secretly looked at him. Little Monkey was a little embarrassed because it knew that it had started this incident. There would not have been any trouble if it had not foolishly walked straight into the police station.
Zhou Ze reached out and touched the Little Monkey’s head. The Little Monkey seemed very obedient. It did not resist and it rubbed against Zhou Ze’s palm instead.
“Little Monkey, I don’t owe you anything from now on.”
The Little Monkey stood up and timidly pointed inside the wall. The meaning was very simple. Since everyone was here, could he save the Old Daoist at the same time?
“Not now.” Lawyer An immediately walked over. His left hand was dripping with blood and looked very terrifying. However, he still endured his pain and said, “Xiezhi’s original body must have sensed something when the shadow of Xiezhi here has been taken care of. Although it may not know what exactly happened, it will be alerted to this place.”
“We can not make a move at this police station anymore. We can not show our strength even if we go in and out of the police station in the future. If we are not careful, we will be detected by Xiezhi who is deliberately watching this place.”
Zhou Ze nodded. He knew what the person in his body had done just now. He had swallowed the shadow of Xiezhi so that it could not go out and report to the police. The matter seemed to be dealt with cleanly. The unspoken reality was the eternal damnation that he had missed!
If this news had leaked because he had not successfully put a stop to it or if he did not have this bronze ring…
Perhaps while he was lying down on the sofa tomorrow morning, the enemies of the Gods, Buddhas, and Hell Almighty would already gather on the first floor of the bookstore. They would play rock-paper-scissors to decide who could dismember the body and fight to get revenge. Just thinking about that scene made him shudder.
Everyone packed up and returned to the bookstore together. In the detention center, the Old Daoist was still sleeping soundly. He was tired of yelling about grievances. He didn’t sense the commotion outside caused by his matter at all.
“…”
It was already past five in the morning when he returned to the bookstore. Zhou Ze took a shower and was about to go upstairs to sleep.
At that moment, someone knocked on the door. It was a man and a woman. They looked to be about fifty years old.
Both of them were dressed simply and their faces were full of worry.
Bai Yingying went to open the door and asked, “Excuse me, what can I do for you?”
The woman and the man knelt down at that moment.
“Please… Please help us.”
The woman was about to open the plastic bag in her hand as she spoke. It seemed to contain a lot of things.
“Bai Yingying, chase them away. Don’t let her open the bag!” Zhou Ze, who was still standing on the stairs, immediately shouted.
“Okay!”
Bai Yingying thought that these two people had other motives. She immediately kicked away the bag in the woman’s hand. The bag flew and papers spilled out. She grabbed the woman by her neck and lifted her.
“Tell me. What are your motives?!”
The man immediately stood up to save his wife but his strength could not loosen Bai Yingying’s hand.
“…” Zhou Ze.
He had a headache.
Zhou Ze could only walk down the stairs and signal his maid to let go.
The woman fell to the ground and panted heavily.
The man knelt beside her, looking angry but not daring to speak up.
“Boss?” Bai Yingying could not understand.
Zhou Ze sighed. He bent down and picked up all the things that Bai Yingying had kicked out of the plastic bag.
There was a certificate from the local village committee proving that the husband and wife were from local poor households. There were also copies of various laboratory tests as well as medical records.
Boss Zhou was a professional in this. In this day and age, cases of crowdfunding for treatment could cause a stir. This was largely because the public was unfamiliar with medical problems.
For example, how much would it cost to treat an illness? How much could be reimbursed by urban or rural medical insurances? Only the professional medical workers and a small number of people who had similar patients at home knew these. The rest of the public was basically clueless.
However, Zhou Ze took a look. The patient was their daughter with leukemia. She had been matched successfully and needed a transplant.
What surprised Zhou Ze was that the name of the girl in the report was Zhou Zeya. There was only one more word in her name.
“How much more?” Zhou Ze asked.
The man answered, “100,000.”
“Bai Yingying, how much more money do we have at the counter?”
Bai Yingying sneaked up to the boss and whispered, “Boss, we haven’t had much money since we bought the coffee last time. How about I burn some ghost money now?”
Zhou Ze looked at Lawyer An, who was drinking old coffee with the Super Super Cup in his hand.
“Old An,” Zhou Ze shouted.
“Huh?” Lawyer An looked at him.
Zhou Ze rubbed his fingertips.
Lawyer An frowned. “Are you running a charity hall, boss?”
“So I asked Bai Yingying not to let them open the bag. I didn’t want to see what their hardship was. If I don’t see, I won’t feel upset. Then, I can go to sleep with peace of mind. However, Bai Yingying directly kicked the bag away. If I didn’t come down and stop her, she might really hurt these people.”
“Boss, there’s a disease that can never be cured.”
“I know.”
Lawyer An took out a card from his wallet and threw it forward. “There’s about seventy or eighty thousand yuan in this card. The password is 116114.”
Zhou Ze held the card in his hand and spun it around on the table.
“Aren’t you going to give it to them?” Lawyer An asked.
“I’ll make a call and ask.”
Zhou Ze remembered the name of the hospital written on the medical record. It belonged to Director Lin.
He dialed Director Lin’s number. After a long while, the person answered. She was probably still asleep.
“Hello, what’s the matter?”
“Let me ask you something. Do you have a leukemia patient named Zhou Zeya over there?”
“Yes, we do.”
“You haven’t collected the treatment fees?”
“I have.”
Zhou Ze was stunned for a moment. Then, he turned to look at the man and woman who were still standing at the door.
“You’ve collected the fees?”
“The hospital had donated money. There was money from crowdfunding too. The full cost of the surgery is about 250,000 yuan. I’ve collected the fees, but the patient has been taken away by her family. So she’s not going to have the surgery.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know either. I’ve also sent people to look for them. I originally planned to go to the police station to report it if I couldn’t find them today.”
“Oh, right. That girl isn’t even 20 years old. She’s quite good-looking. She’s fated to be with you, her name is so close to yours.”
She didn’t know whether it was because she had just woken up or something, but Director Lin made a rare joke.
However, Zhou Ze felt that this joke wasn’t funny at all when he thought about the two nurses she had arranged in the pharmacy next door.
The woman who didn’t mean what she said.
“Alright, I got it.”
Zhou Ze hung up the phone. He pointed at Bai Yingying, “Bring them over.”
Bai Yingying didn’t say anything. She had one of them in each hand. The man and woman were brought over.
Both men and women were stunned. Didn’t he say that he would donate money? It seemed like he would give a lot more. They were still waiting.
“I’ve asked. The hospital said that the surgery fees have been collected. Why aren’t you doing the surgery? Also, where is the patient?”
“We plan to change to a better hospital,” the man replied.
Zhou Ze frowned. His instincts told him that the two of them were lying.
“Let me do it.”
Lawyer An stood up and walked over. He placed his left hand on the man’s forehead, and the man’s gaze instantly became dull.
“Why aren’t you doing the surgery anymore?” Lawyer An asked.
The man said in a daze, “Our son is getting married and buying a new house. We still need another 100,000 yuan besides the money raised for his sister’s illness to make the down payment. The house is so expensive now. How can we get married without a house?”
“How can I afford her operation?”