Ji Yanzhi felt no pleasure at their misfortune upon hearing this. "Does Qin Zaiye know?"
"Not yet, but I think it's only a matter of time. Qin Mingzhong has already been released, after all."
Ji Yanzhi considered it. "Team Leader Sun, can I visit Qin Zaiye tomorrow?"
Team Leader Sun's voice rose slightly. "You want to visit him?"
Ji Yanzhi gave a faintly sardonic laugh. "Don't worry. I wouldn't stoop to using his mother's illness to get back at him. I'm not that low."
"All right. Call me before you come tomorrow."
After hanging up, Ji Yanzhi told Ji Ting about Mother Qin's stroke.
Ji Ting listened without offering an opinion.
[In the original story, Hu Xiaohua also suffered a sudden cerebral infarction after learning that her son and Ling Xi had privately pledged themselves to each other. It seems she already had cardiovascular and cerebrovascular problems, just with a slightly different trigger.]
The tail of Ji Yanzhi's brow lifted slightly. He didn't think there was any difference. In the original story, Ling Xi and Qin Zaiye had triggered her illness; now, it was still those two wreaking havoc. There was no fundamental difference.
He still remembered that after Hu Xiaohua's cerebral infarction left her paralyzed on one side, Qin Zaiye's guilt toward his mother kept him from being with Ling Xi without reservations, so he applied for an overseas peacekeeping assignment. Then an accident during a local gang riot left Qin Zaiye dead in Haiti.
"Ji Yanzhi, are you going to see Qin Zaiye tomorrow?"
Ji Yanzhi came back to himself and nodded. "Yes."
"Why?"
"To take care of the people and things that need taking care of while I have the time."
Ji Ting didn't quite understand what he meant by "take care of," but Ji Yanzhi had