Yiyi left the hospital

A Viper GT led twelve Land Rover Range Rovers in a grand procession toward the hospital entrance. Once they arrived, Li Rui had everyone park their vehicles by the roadside.

Such a luxurious convoy naturally drew crowds of people coming for treatment or leaving the hospital, all guessing what important figure had arrived, while Li Rui headed toward the hospital lobby with Li Yi and the other three.

Still several dozen meters from the lobby, Li Rui spotted his sister, his brother-in-law, and the adorable little girl in his sister's arms at a glance. He happily broke into a quick jog and called, "Sis! Brother-in-law!"

"Xiao Rui." Li Xiaoshuang and Zhang Huaiyuan simply called their younger brother's name without offering many words of thanks, but the gratitude in their eyes was almost spilling over.

Seeing his sister looking at him with tears about to spill from her eyes, Li Rui quickly turned toward Yiyi and asked, "Who am I, little one?" As he spoke, he reached out and pinched her little cheek.

"You're my uncle! I've seen you in videos on Mommy's phone. Mommy said you're her little brother, so you're Yiyi's uncle!" Four-year-old Yiyi was like a little grown-up, spelling out Li Rui's relationship to her mother and herself.

"Heh, heh, that's right. I'm your uncle. Come here and let Uncle hold you." He opened his arms to Yiyi.

Yiyi looked at her uncle, then turned back to look at her mother. When she saw her mother nod, she opened her arms to Li Rui too.

Taking Yiyi into his arms, Li Rui looked at her little face, which finally had some color again. He lifted her high and spun around, saying happily, "Our little sweetheart Yiyi is healthy!"

Yiyi giggled at this, but it gave Li Xiaoshuang a fright instead. "Xiao Rui, put Yiyi down right now. Her surgery was successful, but the doctor said she still needs a few months of quiet rest and regular checkups at the hospital. Be careful."

His sister's words startled Li Rui, and he hurriedly lowered Yiyi. "Ah, she still needs rest and checkups? I thought she was completely better already." He scratched his head and spoke sheepishly.

Seeing Li Rui's embarrassment, Zhang Huaiyuan spoke up. "What harm could that do? Your sister's just too cautious. Come on, let's go home. We'll have your sister make you something delicious today."

Hearing her father mention making something delicious, Yiyi cheered beside them. "We're going home! We're making yummy food!"

Li Rui then walked at the front with Yiyi in his arms, the couple following closely behind. The four bodyguards brought up the rear, carrying Zhang Huaiyuan and his wife's luggage. The group of eight followed Li Rui out of the hospital.

The sight of four imposing bodyguards carrying luggage had patients and medical staff alike guessing which important figure or powerful family they belonged to.

As soon as they stepped outside the hospital entrance, Zhang Huaiyuan spotted a purple supercar and more than a dozen Land Rover Range Rovers. He said enviously, "Who's this rich person? That car looks so cool."

Li Xiaoshuang agreed. "Exactly. Never mind the supercar in front-even those dozen or so cars behind it must cost a fortune. These rich people really are loaded. What filthy-rich moneybags."

Listening to his sister and brother-in-law's remarks up ahead, Li Rui's face darkened. He turned around and gave Li Xiaoshuang an awkward smile. "Could it be that this filthy-rich moneybags is your little brother?"

"Huh? Xiao Rui, this car is yours? Mom told me you bought a really expensive car. Don't tell me this is the one?" Li Xiaoshuang asked, her eyes wide.

"Not this one."

"You scared me! One look tells you this car isn't cheap. It must cost at least ten million, right? Then what did you mean just now?" Li Xiaoshuang patted her chest and pressed him in confusion.

"I mean, Mom was talking about another supercar that cost thirteen million. This is the one I bought most recently. Eighty million."

Hearing Li Rui's words, Li Xiaoshuang and her husband instantly turned to stone. First he had bought a thirteen-million supercar, then another worth over eighty million-nearly a hundred million altogether.

Over the past few days, the couple had been run ragged over their daughter's surgery. Although her mother had called her quite a few times, most of the conversations had concerned her granddaughter's condition. As for her younger brother, she had only briefly mentioned that he had bought a somewhat expensive car, spent a lot of money renovating the ancestral hall, and established a family conglomerate. Those things had only been mentioned in passing, and she had not listened closely.

Now she suddenly learned that her younger brother had spent nearly a hundred million just on cars. Although she knew he had made some money over the past few years, this was nearly a hundred million, after all.

For a housewife living in a small county town, the impact was simply outrageously huge. Although Zhang Huaiyuan was a low-level company employee, he also only worked in the county town, drawing a monthly salary of four or five thousand yuan. Hearing about an eighty-million-yuan sports car dealt him an enormous shock too.

"Xiao Rui, how much did you spend renovating the ancestral hall?" Li Xiaoshuang asked cautiously. The car her mother had called a little expensive had cost thirteen million, and then her brother had bought another for eighty million. Just how much had that ancestral hall, which had supposedly cost a lot to renovate, actually cost? She was very curious.

"Not much, just fifty million or so. Oh, right, I also spent over twenty million building a new house. Our old house was a little too small," Li Rui answered calmly.

Hearing Li Rui's words, Li Xiaoshuang and Zhang Huaiyuan exchanged a glance, the corners of their mouths twitching. Their own younger brother had actually become a filthy-rich moneybags?

"Come on, come on, let's hurry back. Yiyi's hungry already," Li Rui urged as he looked at his sister and brother-in-law, who stood speechless with twitching mouths.

"Yes, yes, Yiyi's hungry already," Yiyi said plaintively, rubbing her little tummy and pouting.

Since the Viper GT could only seat two people, Li Rui had Li Yi drive it so he could chat with his sister and Yiyi. He and his sister's family got into a Land Rover Range Rover and headed toward his sister's rented place.

They had rented this place specifically to stay with Yiyi while she received treatment. Her treatment had used up all the couple's savings, and they had even borrowed some money, so naturally, the place they rented was not very good. For convenient access to treatment, however, it was not far from the hospital. After driving for a little over ten minutes, they reached the area where the rental was located.

It was a dilapidated resettlement complex, and there was naturally no need to describe the crowds such a convoy drew as it entered.

Since the rental was very small, Li Rui did not bring a single bodyguard upstairs, having them all wait below.

The moment he entered the rental, Li Rui frowned. It was simply too small. His sister, brother-in-law, and Yiyi all lived in a room of barely more than ten square meters. The toilet had grime that would not scrub off and looked terribly dirty. The window was covered in rust, leaving even the air smelling rusty.

Seeing Li Rui frown, Li Xiaoshuang explained, "We've been busy with Yiyi's surgery, so we haven't had time to find another place. After we finish eating, we'll rent somewhere a little better this afternoon."

At this point, Li Xiaoshuang was not short of money. Of the five million Li Rui had given her, a million had gone toward medical expenses and two hundred thousand toward thanking the donor, leaving 3.8 million. In Star City, that was enough to buy a home, let alone rent one.

"All right, we'll find a better rental this afternoon. Yiyi needs a good environment to recuperate." Although Li Rui readily agreed, he had other ideas in mind. Rent? I'm not short of money. Of course I'll just buy a place.

"Mm." Li Xiaoshuang nodded in agreement, then lowered her head to ask her daughter, who was playing with Li Rui's phone, "Yiyi, what would you like to eat? Mommy will make it for you."

"I want lobster, and crab, and... and lots and lots of yummy things." Yiyi counted off the things she wanted to eat on her fingers, but no matter how she counted, she only knew that lobster and crab tasted good. Ever since falling ill, she had not eaten anything particularly delicious.

"All right, Mommy will go buy you lobster and crab. Xiao Rui, stay home and look after Yiyi. Your brother-in-law and I will go buy groceries."

"Sis, you don't have to go to all that trouble. I'll have Li Yi buy them." Before Li Xiaoshuang could refuse, Li Rui took out his phone, called Li Yi, and instructed him to buy lobster and crab.

Seeing that her brother had already made the arrangements, Li Xiaoshuang could only shake her head and helplessly drop the matter.

Half an hour later, Li Yi knocked and came in, carrying two large lobsters in his left hand and two enormous crabs in his right.

Li Xiaoshuang and her husband stared dumbfounded at the two lobsters and two enormous crabs, while Yiyi clapped her hands and shouted, "Such big crabs!"

Boston lobsters weighing three and a half kilograms apiece and king crabs weighing six kilograms each, bought for a total of nearly twenty thousand yuan-how could they not be big?