Erhu Was Beaten Up

Su Ye went to the vegetable garden and, sure enough, saw his parents busy working in the vegetable patch.

At that moment, the elderly couple also saw Su Ye return. They put down their farming tools and walked over to him.

"Mom, Dad, what are you doing?"

Su Ye asked.

"Your dad and I couldn't sit still, so we came to help weed the garden!" his mother replied.

"Oh, you don't need to do that. Erhu and I will take care of it!" Su Ye said.

"What? You brat, do you think your dad and I are too old?" Ye Xiaoning said to Su Ye, pretending to be angry.

"No..." Su Ye was speechless.

"By the way, didn't Erhu have something to take care of a while ago? How's he doing now?"

When Su Ye asked about Erhu, the elderly couple's expressions changed. They said to him:

"That boy Erhu got beaten up. A while back, he went into the city to find that ex-girlfriend of his or whatever, and someone beat him up. He's in the county hospital now," Su Ye's mother explained.

"What? Something like that happened?" When Su Ye heard that Zhang Erhu had been beaten badly enough to be hospitalized, his expression turned serious.

"Is he at the county people's hospital?" Su Ye asked.

"Yes. Buy him something and go see him when you have time. Oh, he's such a good boy, and he got beaten up for no good reason," his mother said.

"All right, I'll buy something and go visit him tonight," Su Ye said.

The mandarin trees had fully recovered, so they no longer needed watering every day. Once every few days was enough, and besides, letting the water in the pond settle for a few more days would make its spiritual energy a little more concentrated.

As soon as the pond had been built, Su Ye and Zhang Erhu had fenced it off with netting to keep those sensitive animals from coming back and causing more damage.

The little wild boars had already eaten breakfast and were sleeping soundly in the pigpen.

The puppies had been eating organic vegetables and drinking pond water infused with spiritual energy every day. They seemed to have grown a little taller, and their eyes were becoming brighter and brighter. They looked increasingly full of spiritual intelligence.

Su Ye played with the puppies for a while, then watered all the mandarin trees with water from the spirit pond. He no longer dared use his cultivation spells recklessly. The last time he had practiced the Sweet Rain Technique on ginseng and Solomon's seal in the space, almost all the ginseng had mutated, turning bright red from top to bottom.

If he used the Sweet Rain Technique in the real world, he didn't know whether it might cause some mutation.

The Solomon's seal in the Immortal Spirit Space hadn't changed color, though it was growing larger and larger. One of the fruits on the unidentified spirit fruit tree transplanted from Little White's cave was almost ripe, while the other two had also begun to take on a faint red tint.

The nine tea trees had sprouted dense clusters of tender new tea leaves from the places Su Ye had pruned!

More than half the Immortal Spirit Space was still empty, so Su Ye planned to plant another crop of spirit rice in the vacant area. He had left some of the previous harvest at home, and with what he had eaten himself, it was almost gone!

After finishing the watering, Su Ye went home with his parents to eat.

When his parents got home and saw the supercar parked outside the gate, they were stunned.

"Little Ye, is this yours?"

His mother pointed at the silver sports car outside the gate and asked him.

"A business partner gave it to me!" Su Ye explained.

"Would someone really give you such a beautiful car? Besides, even if they did, you can't just accept it for nothing!"

"This must have cost a lot, right? Little Ye, you've become capable and met some important people, but you must never do anything bad!" Ye Xiaoning cautioned him.

"Oh, Mom, don't worry. Don't you know what kind of person your son is?" Su Ye said, looking at her.

His father, meanwhile, folded his arms and went over to look the sports car up and down.

Seeing this, Su Ye's mother said with some amusement:

"Have you never seen such a beautiful car before?"

"I'm just looking. Now that our son has made something of himself, it's about time I retired too," his father said with a sigh.

"Never mind your dad. Look at him, acting like he's never seen the world!" his mother said with amusement.

"When I make a fortune someday, I'll buy each of you one!" Su Ye said to his mother with a smile.

"What would you buy us cars for? We can't drive. Your dad and I will be fine with our little three-wheeler!" his mother said, beaming.

"Oh, right. Tomorrow I'll call someone to build you a garage on the vacant lot next to our house. Such a beautiful car must be expensive, right? If the wind and rain damage it, repairs will cost a fortune!"

After lunch, Su Ye asked exactly where Zhang Erhu was hospitalized, then drove the silver Porsche supercar to the county hospital.

Su Ye parked the sports car downstairs from the hospital's inpatient department, then went to a small supermarket nearby to buy some nutritional supplements before heading upstairs.

In the hospital room, Zhang Erhu was lying in bed, while his parents sat beside him, their faces creased with worry.

When Su Ye appeared in the doorway, Zhang Erhu was the first to react. He called out:

"Brother Ye, what brings you here?"

At that, Zhang Erhu's parents also came to their senses and saw Su Ye.

"Little Ye, you're here! Come, sit down!"

Zhang Erhu's mother was called Li Xiuqin, a middle-aged woman in her forties.

His father was called Zhang Yuxuan, and he looked to be in his fifties.

"Uncle Zhang, Auntie Li!"

Su Ye put the things down to one side and greeted the elderly couple, then sat on a stool beside the bed.

Su Ye looked at Zhang Erhu. His head and arms were wrapped in white gauze, which bulged as though medicine had been packed underneath. One leg had also been immobilized in a plaster cast, and he had a scattering of other injuries.

Su Ye couldn't help frowning. He asked Zhang Erhu:

"Didn't you tell me you had something to take care of? How did you end up like this?"

"I..." For a moment, Zhang Erhu couldn't bring himself to say it.

"Oh, Little Ye, here's what happened..." Seeing that her son couldn't get the words out, Li Xiuqin took over and began explaining to Su Ye.

"Mom..." Zhang Erhu called out.

"Be quiet. Now all we can do is ask Little Ye if he can find a way to solve this."

"Little Ye, you and Erhu grew up playing together. You must save him now. Our whole family will be endlessly grateful to you," Li Xiuqin pleaded to Su Ye, her emotions running high. As she spoke, tears even began to well up in her eyes.

"Don't worry, Auntie Li. Erhu is my friend. If there's anything I can do to help, I certainly will. Take your time."

Su Ye comforted Auntie Li for a while. She restrained her emotions and took a moment to compose herself before slowly beginning:

"A few years ago, when Erhu went to the city with his dad to find work, he met a girl. While that girl was seeing Erhu, she also got involved with another thug!"

"Erhu and that thug had a clash back then, but luckily, some of your Uncle Zhang's coworkers spoke up for us, and the matter was dropped."

"But three days ago, that girl got Erhu's contact information from somewhere and called him. She said she was pregnant and that the thug had abandoned her. She urgently needed 5,000 yuan for an abortion."

"After Erhu found out, he took the money and came to the city the next day without telling your Uncle Zhang or me. Who would have thought that while he was accompanying her to the hospital, he'd run into that thug on the way? The thug taunted and mocked him, and Erhu couldn't take it. In a fit of anger, he started fighting with him."

"Those thugs didn't dare do anything to Erhu in broad daylight, with everyone watching. But when Erhu came out of the hospital, they blocked his way and beat him up like this."

Li Xiuqin wiped away her tears as she explained everything to Su Ye.