Phoenix chess and card room.
Lu Tao saw Guan Lei lying on the ground, and quickly stepped forward to check his pulse to confirm that he was still breathing, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, there was another sound of footsteps outside.
Lu Tao heard the sound, picked up the military thorn on the ground, and walked out with red eyes.
In the room outside, Jin Rui smelled the pungent smell of blood when he came in. He looked at Binbin, who was also unconscious, and rushed forward: "Binbin! What's wrong with you?"
When Lu Tao saw Jin Rui appearing at this moment, his eyes were filled with vigilance: "Why are you here?"
"I just drove another car to see someone off. Binbin asked me to come back here to meet him after seeing him off."
Jin Rui looked pale and took out his PHS cell phone in his pocket: "Brother Tao, I'm calling the police right now..."
"Don't call the police!"
Lu Tao looked at the blood-stained photo and turned around with a gloomy face: "Call 120, call an ambulance first!"
Jin Rui thought he was hearing hallucinations: "Brother Tao..."
Lu Tao looked at Guan Lei's broken knee and did not dare to move him without permission. He growled, "I told you to call an ambulance!"
"Why!"
Jin Rui was shocked by the roar, reached out to cover the wound on Binbin's stomach, and dialed the emergency number.
…
Four hours later, Binbin and Guan Lei were pushed out of the operating room one after another.
After Lu Tao paid the surgery fee of more than 40,000 yuan for the two of them, he rushed to the doctor's office, knocked on the open door, and walked into the room: "Director Wang, I'm here..."
"I remember you. You sent Guan Lei and Kang Manbin here, right?"
The doctor looked at the case in his hand: "Are you their family member?"
"Guan Lei is my younger brother. Kang Manbin's mother is ill in bed and his father works outside. I don't want these things to upset the family, so I will handle them together."
Lu Tao stepped forward and stuffed a thousand yuan in cash into the doctor's pocket: "Director Wang, how are the conditions of my two friends?"
"It must be hard to be seriously injured, but I'm lucky, at least no one was killed!"
The doctor generously accepted Lu Tao's red envelope, and his tone became gentler unconsciously: "Kang Manbin had 20 centimeters of his intestines removed, and Guan Lei's left knee suffered a transverse fracture. This kind of fracture mostly occurs under direct violence. His local soft tissue damage was relatively serious, and he also suffered vascular damage..."
Lu Tao couldn't understand these medical terms and asked eagerly: "Then will he leave any sequelae?"
"It's hard to say! Guan Lei's surgery was very successful, and his fracture was not serious. It was the patella that was injured instead of the meniscus. According to my experience, it should not affect future actions, but the specific situation remains. We need to wait until he wakes up and after the anesthesia period to see if the nerves have been damaged."
The doctor glanced at the cash in his pocket from the corner of his eye, smiled and comforted: "Of course, the possibility of sequelae is not very high. According to my experience, he will not be disabled!"
When Lu Tao heard this answer, his hanging heart finally calmed down: "Director Wang, these two brothers of mine are causing you trouble!"
The doctor smiled familiarly: "You are too polite for what is within your duty."
Lu Tao walked to the door, thought for a moment, then turned back and stuffed another five hundred dollars in his hand: "Director Wang, can I trouble you one more thing? Can I use pseudonyms for the medical records of my two friends? I'm afraid. When their relatives and friends come to the hospital, they may accidentally see them, which makes their family members anxious.”
"According to the rules and regulations, it is not allowed, but the hospital is not obliged to verify the authenticity of the name you use to register. If you want to change your name, you have to apply for hospitalization again."
The doctor reminded: "However, if the patient's payment receipts and medical records do not match the medical insurance information, it may result in the inability to reimburse!"
Lu Tao nodded: "That's no problem. We will bear the medical expenses ourselves."
…
At four o'clock in the morning, Binbin woke up first.
After receiving the news, Lu Tao rushed over from Guan Lei and sat beside the hospital bed: "How do you feel?"
"I……"
Binbin lay there for several hours, his throat feeling like he had swallowed a piece of hot coal, and he asked hoarsely: "Brother Tao, Brother Lei..."
"Don't worry, Leizi is fine! He has been sent to the hospital!"
Lu Tao took advantage of Binbin's consciousness and asked quickly: "Is the person who attacked you today Li Jifeng?"
"No...he is from Tiexi, his name is Ma, Ma Hanhua...he is Ma Hancai's biological brother..."
Binbin's anesthetic had not yet fully recovered. After saying a few words, his consciousness became drowsy again: "That person came for you... He asked Brother Lei to call you and call you to the chess and card room... But Lei Brother...refuses..."
Binbin said half a sentence intermittently, his eyelids became heavy, and he fell asleep again.
At this time, the doctor on duty who came after hearing the news also walked into the ward and waved to Lu Tao and Jin Rui: "We have to examine the patient. Please stay away, please!"
…
In the corridor outside the ward.
Lu Tao took out two thousand yuan from his pocket and handed it to Jin Rui: "Take this money and go downstairs later and hire two caregivers to help take care of them. I'll go out."
"Brother Tao, do you want revenge? I'll go with you!"
Jin Rui stood up from the bench: "Binbin is my childhood friend. He has caused such trouble. I can't pretend I didn't see anything!"
"You have also seen their condition. No one can take care of them here! Be obedient and stay here. I will call you when necessary."
Lu Tao patted Jin Rui on the shoulder, and then dragged his tired body and strode toward the stairs.
Although Binbin did not mention Li Jifeng's name, Lu Tao had never offended anyone since he was released from prison, and the previous grudges had long since disappeared with the death of Zhang Bing.
Therefore, the moment he saw Guan Lei injured, he had guessed the whole story and stopped Jin Rui from calling the police.
Ma Hanhua is just a gangster with no capital backing him. As long as Lu Tao reports the crime now, he will definitely get involved.
But Lu Tao didn't want this result.
For a veteran like Ma Hanhua, going to jail is equivalent to returning to his hometown, and he will not suffer any crime.
Although Guan Shuai did not entrust Guan Lei to him, Lu Tao knew very well what his old friend was thinking at the moment before his death.
Regarding Guan Lei's matter, Lu Tao could come up with countless solutions, but the only option that allowed him to vent his anger was to pay with blood!
…
Six o'clock in the morning.
In Tiexi Workers' Village, an old tile-roofed house built in the 1960s opened the door. A young man in his early twenties was carrying a dirty urine bucket and limping toward the roadside drainage channel. Go.
Lu Tao looked at the figure in front of him, emerged from the darkness, and spoke in a low voice: "Second friends!"
"Who?"
The young man was startled. He turned around and shined his flashlight at Lu Tao. The urine bucket in his hand suddenly fell to the ground: "Xiao Tao, are you out?"
"Well, it was released years ago."
Lu Tao nodded: "I wanted to show off and come see you again, but the time was moved forward."
The second friend grinned: "It's good to come now. After all, I live a life of neither human nor ghost. If you come back after getting along well, I will be even more worried!"
Lu Tao also laughed: "When I was in the detention center, I heard that you stopped working, but your legs..."
"I used to drive for Brother Zhang Bing, and I always felt that being a driver for him was so awesome! The day he was shot, my leg was also shot. If I hadn't driven out with all my life, I probably would have also been injured. ”
The second friend looked at his lame leg: "After the death of the elder brother Zhang Bing, there were no relatives in the family. His stepfather inherited all the inheritance, sold it and ran away to the south! I have nothing left and my leg is disabled, so naturally I will wander around. Can’t go down anymore.”
Lu Tao looked at his old friend and was speechless.
