Cao Kouwen's expression changed, but he didn't take the wine from Li Sheng's hand after all. He took two deep breaths.
He silently poured himself a glass and drank it in one gulp, while the two drank and talked about the past.
Li Sheng was his best friend in elementary school. Although his family background was not as good as Cao Kouwen's, it was not too bad. His parents were both ordinary working-class people. He had been working as a technical director at Chengli Technology after graduation.
Li Sheng said: "When you were abroad, I was always worried about you. Now that you have returned to China, we haven't gotten together for a long time."
Having said this, he picked up the wine glass and took a sip, then continued: "What happened back then, I really didn't expect that you would actually..."
Li Sheng said, with a complicated expression on his face.
The expression on Cao Kouwen's face became even more ugly. He took a big gulp of wine and was silent for a while before saying, "It's all over."
His eyes were a little erratic, as if he was caught in some kind of memory.
Thirteen years ago, a girl suddenly appeared in the family. Her mother said she was adopted from an orphanage. Since then, Cao Kouwen's life has completely changed.
When we first met, the little girl was still very thin, with a sickly pale face. She was as lovable as a porcelain doll, wearing a somewhat old pink dress, with a pair of big dark eyes looking at everything around her.
She greeted everyone awkwardly, and was so well-behaved and sensible that her family liked her.
But at that time, 12-year-old Cao Kouwen didn't feel any happiness. He just stared blankly at the thin girl in front of him.
Until her grandfather led her to Cao Kouwen and told him: "This is your sister Ai Qian, Kou Wen, you must take care of your sister in the future."
Only then did Cao Kouwen come to his senses and nodded dully.
That night, Cao Kouwen didn't sleep for a long time. He ran to his father's room and asked: "Why do you want to take in a girl who has no blood relationship?"
At that time, my father's answer was that my grandfather had always wanted to have a granddaughter, but Cao's mother suffered a serious illness after giving birth to him and could not conceive again.
Cao Kowen has heard his grandfather mention since he was a child that his family has never given birth to a girl for several generations. This is like a curse that has never been broken.
My grandfather’s generation was a bit superstitious, so he heard from a master that he should adopt a daughter, which would change the cycle of only having sons but not daughters.
Thinking of this, Cao Kouwen laughed to himself.
Li Sheng looked at his expression, picked up the wine glass, shook it in front of his eyes and said, "Are you stupid?"
Cao Kouwen reacted at this time, picked up the wine glass, clinked it with him, and then drank all the wine in the glass.
After finishing the drink, Li Sheng filled it up for him again. This time he didn't hesitate, he raised his head and took a big sip.
"Um...how is the investigation into your sister's case going?" Li Sheng looked at Cao Kouwen and asked.
Cao Kouwen said: "Well, Ran He is indeed Ran Jiang's sister, but according to the information provided by the orphanage, they are not biological siblings."
Li Sheng nodded understandingly.
"Ran He's hospitalization seems to be related to Hope Primary School. That school has always been an outstanding model school district in the province, and the school's confidentiality work is very good." Cao Kouwen continued.
"Do you know the reason why Ran He was hospitalized?" Li Sheng asked.
Cao Kouwen shook his head.
"As far as we know, Ran He does very well in Hope Primary School, but his personality is withdrawn and he is not very gregarious," Li Sheng said.
Cao Kouwen nodded and said, "Yes."
"Then take your sister back!" Li Sheng said quickly, "She is too loyal to his so-called buddies before and is afraid of causing unnecessary trouble..."
Cao Kouwen naturally knew what trouble Li Sheng was talking about, because he was afraid that the paparazzi media would find out about Cao Aiqian's move out.
It is known to the world that the Cao family loves Cao Aiqian. If she moved out because her brother returned to China, wouldn't it confirm the rumors that the brother and sister are at odds? That would definitely be the biggest revelation in the media this year.
Cao Kouwen was stunned for a while: "I don't want to pick her up for the time being. She has been acting strangely recently?"
"Don't you think that many things she does now are very different from before?" Cao Kowen asked Li Sheng again.
Li Sheng thought for a moment: "Okay, then you should observe it first, I'm just afraid that she will make some trouble and you will be asked to end it again!"
Cao Kouwen didn't say anything. He sat down and put food into his mouth silently.
"If you don't tell me, I've had enough to drink, so I'll go home first!" Li Sheng waved and left, but Cao Kouwen didn't hold him back.
Li Sheng had always had a good drinking capacity, but Cao Kouwen was very dizzy after not drinking for a long time, and was helped upstairs by Aunt Liu.
After returning to the room, Cao Kowen lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to calm down.
He looked at the three big characters in the address book on his mobile phone, but never called them.
He hoped that Cao Aiqian would cause him some trouble, so that he could find her in the name of helping her clean up the mess.
Memories of alcohol paralysis began to spread. In the memory, Cao Aiqian was frighteningly well-behaved and sensible when she first came here. She sat silently in the courtyard in a daze, unwilling to communicate with others, and she just answered every question asked by others.
Others thought she was just quiet and well-behaved, but her grandfather thought of many ways to do this and gave her a lot of doting, hoping that she would get out of her inner loneliness.
This kind of love goes beyond the grandfather's concern for his own grandson Cao Kouwen.
Until she reached the stage of schooling, her adoptive parents sent her to a noble school in order to give her a better education.
Everyone knows that she is the adopted daughter of the Cao family and is envied by everyone, but her classmates who grew up in aristocratic families do not regard her as noble and are often bullied.
I remember that since Cao Aiqian came to the Cao family, he took away 80% of the care and love the Cao family gave to Cao Kouwen. For this reason, he hated Cao Aiqian for a long time.
If something hadn't happened later, Cao Aiqian wouldn't have become arrogant and domineering, but Cao Kouwen really didn't want to think about these things.
Every time he thought of something from his childhood, he felt uncomfortable.
However, Cao's family regarded her change as a testament to her coming out of her inner loneliness.
In the eyes of Grandpa Cao and the Cao family, she must be a real rich young lady, with the ability to be unruly, proud and domineering.
The next morning at six o'clock on the third floor of the Municipal Hospital.
Since it was winter and it was still dark, Cao Aiqian chose this time to come, mainly because there were fewer people in the hospital at this time and it was easier to get things done!
"Bang!" The door to the ward was kicked open hard, and Liu Liwen, who was lying on the bed, sat upright.
With the faint light emitted from the wall, he saw that the person coming was just an underage student, so he scolded him contemptuously: "Sick!"
After that, he lay back down and continued to sleep.
Cao Aiqian rushed to his bed, opened his quilt with one hand, and picked up the water glass on the table with the other hand and poured it over him.
"Wow!" There was a splash of water, and Liu Liwen's hair and face were all soaked. He glared at Cao Aiqian and angrily yelled: "Is there something wrong with you...is there something wrong with you?"
Cao Aiqian looked at him with wide eyes and sneered: "Don't you like to bully people very much? What? Doesn't it feel better to be bullied now?"
Her words made Liu Liwen feel baffled, but the anger at this time made his brain unable to think. He suddenly burst into anger, pointed at her and yelled: "You...you crazy woman!"
After saying that, he wanted to get up and hit her, but because the movement was too violent, it involved the wound, and he suddenly took a breath of pain.
"Don't move!" Cao Aiqian laughed at him and quickly held him down. "You want to try cracking the wound?"
Liu Liwen glared at her angrily.
"It doesn't matter if you don't know me. You know Ran Jiang, right? Where's Ran He? You know me, right? You bastard, you actually dare to stay in a high-end ward."
Cao Aiqian said, raised his hand and slapped Liu Liwen, knocking him down on the bed.
He has the strength to bully a patient. I remember when I was the vice president of the Taekwondo club in college.
Liu Liwen covered his red and swollen cheek, looked at Cao Aiqian in disbelief, and said in horror: "You...who are you? I'm an academic staff member? I tell you, don't annoy me, I...my boss Someone!"
"Oh! I'm so scared!" Cao Aiqian patted his chest, looking frightened, and then turned into a look of contempt, "I came here to tell you, get me out of the hospital quickly, even if you are here I have lived here for ten or eight years and still hope to get compensation!”
"Do you deserve to be compensated by the victim for the harm you caused to Ran He? You deserve Ran Jiang's beating. You are not discharged from the hospital because of the high hospitalization fees, so you can just enjoy your life here, right?"
"I already have all the evidence that you hurt Ran He. If you want to reduce the legal consequences by being hospitalized, you have made a mistake. If you are a smart person, you would kneel down and beg for forgiveness at this time!"
After speaking, Cao Aiqian turned around and walked out.
"You..." Liu Liwen was furious, but due to the pain in his back, he could only lie back on the bed angrily, gritting his teeth and said, "Damn! You stinky bitch, how dare you hit me? You won't have surgery until I'm discharged from the hospital." You can't die!"
Cao Aiqian came out of the ward with a smile still on her face.
She walked to the hospital's tuck shop and bought two lollipops.
Then he went to a dessert shop outside the school and bought two boxes of mango cake.
While eating mango cake, Cao Aiqian couldn't help laughing when she thought of the scene in the ward just now.
Liu Liwen's pig-headed face is so funny.
Thinking about that scene, she couldn't help but burst into laughter.
It was past seven o'clock when she returned to the rental house. Cao Aiqian simply dressed up and prepared to go to school.
I have taken a lot of leave recently, and Teacher Yan is obviously getting impatient.
