"Eldest brother."
Xia Sanghuan, who had been in a daze on the hospital bed, called out to Fu Lingshi as soon as she saw him push open the door.
"Huanhuan."
Fu Lingshi walked over with a thermos bucket in his hand.
He placed the thermos bucket on the bedside table and then sat down on the edge of the bed.
"How are you feeling now?"
"I'm much better already."
The girl shifted her body slightly.
"Are you here alone?"
"Dad went out to answer a call."
"My sisters went to get food for me. They haven't come back yet."
She looked up at what her eldest brother had brought in.
"What's this?"
"This is..."
He paused for a moment, feeling as if something was stuck in his throat.
After roughly learning about what had happened last night, he had even flown into a rage at Leng Chuanjin. As the person involved, Xia Sanghuan must be even less willing to hear his name.
But he didn't know how to tell her.
He should have known better than to bring it in for Leng Chuanjin.
"Is it from Brother Chuanjin?"
Fu Lingshi didn't say a word, which was a kind of tacit admission.
The hospital ward fell into a brief silence until the girl spoke up and broke the ice.
"So, what happened in the end?"
"About Wei Linjun..."
"He's dead."
"He was burned to death by the fire from the explosion."
Fu Lingshi picked up where she left off.
"Then this threat is gone."
"Why do you say he was a threat?"
"Because the poison that was put on Brother Chuanjin and Jing Zhan before was developed by him."
Although the experimental procedure she currently had in hand didn't exactly match the previous poison, there were many similar components.
So she guessed that Wei Linjun was one of the people who developed the poison.
This guess was confirmed last night.
"The other side should be in a hurry now," the girl suddenly said.
Fu Lingshi looked at his younger sister in surprise for a moment, and then quickly regained his usual composure.
"Really, there's nothing that can be hidden from you."
Xia Sanghuan weakly returned a smile.
"Wei Linjun didn't actually need to expose himself."
She recalled the words that man had said to her before he died.
His voice had been desperate and crazy, making the tips of her clasped fingers tremble uncontrollably.
"He kept saying to me last night that he was going to be abandoned."
"And the result of being abandoned was only death."
The girl said calmly.
"After he lit the gasoline, he pressed the button to close the door."
"He didn't leave himself any chance to escape at all."
"However,"
She turned to look at her eldest brother.
"There's one thing I don't quite understand."
"During this period, we haven't really taken any action. Why did Xie Qiaoyang push one of his trump cards out as a pawn?"
Fu Lingshi was silent for a while.
"You already know?"
"I can only guess a little bit based on the known information."
Although she said "a little bit", Fu Lingshi always felt that except for the things that he and Leng Chuanjin had deliberately hidden, she had already thought of everything else.
Although he knew that his younger sister was extremely talented, he didn't expect her to be this outstanding.
"Is something wrong with the Xie family recently?"
"Why?"
"Xie Qian has started to deal with his younger brother."
The girl remembered the public notice about the replacement of the police chief before, as well as the previous police chief who had been arrested. She more or less understood what was going on.
"It's really tough," she said.
"What?"
"The four prestigious families, which seem so glorious on the surface, actually have so many dirty things inside."
She raised her hand and looked at the hideous scabs on her palm.
"If one isn't careful, one might even lose their life."
She hooked the corners of her mouth, not knowing whether she was joking about herself or mocking someone.
This made Fu Lingshi feel really uncomfortable.
"Is the next plan already in place?"
"Almost."
The girl looked at her eldest brother and smiled.
"What's that look on your face?"
"Don't worry. I won't ask any more unnecessary questions."
However, Fu Lingshi rarely opened his mouth to her.
"After the internal strife between Xie Qian and Xie Qiaoyang, it will take most of Xie Qiaoyang's energy."
"While he's slack, we can find out a lot of things."
"Their family's background isn't clean. If Chuanjin and I want to investigate, we will definitely find some evidence."
Watching her eldest brother's face gradually become solemn, the girl knew that some big things were about to happen.
She turned her head and looked out of the window. She found that the rain, which had just stopped not long ago, had started to fall again.
Not long after they finished talking, there was a knock on the door.
"Huanhuan, we're back," Fu Moning said as she opened the door, carrying a big bag of things in her hand.
"Look, all these were sent by Grandpa and Grandma."
Behind her was Fu Youqing, carrying two thermos buckets.
"Huanhuan, come and try the soup that Grandma made for you."
"Grandpa and Grandma originally wanted to come up and see you."
"But I was afraid that it would be too much of a shock for them, so I told them to come after you get better."
That's what she said, but in fact, they were still worried about the attitude of the two elders towards their younger sister.
Now that Huanhuan was still recovering from her injury, they didn't dare to let those two "uncertain factors" in.
"What's this?"
Fu Youqing looked at the thermos bucket on the bedside table.
"This is..."
"This was sent by Brother Chuanjin," Xia Sanghuan said crisply before Fu Lingshi could finish.
Fu Youqing stared at the thermos bucket for a second, then put it on the ground to make room for the things in her hands.
Watching the soup that his friend had stayed up all night to make being silently disdained like this, Fu Lingshi didn't know how to react for a moment.
Fu Moning gently helped her younger sister sit up and found a soft pillow to put behind her waist so that she could feel a little more comfortable.
Although Xia Sanghuan had no appetite at all now, in order to get better quickly, she still forced herself to eat a little.
Unlike last time, this time her father, elder brother, and sisters hardly left her side. They even handed over the company to their subordinates to manage and only went when they absolutely had to.
Fu Youqing hadn't let her agent take on any advertisements or movie roles during this period. She didn't plan to show up in the entertainment circle again until her younger sister had fully recovered.
As for the public opinion? Let the team figure it out. Those baseless things were not as important as her younger sister.
This state continued for two days. Xia Sanghuan either slept or ate every day.
Because they were afraid that her physical condition was not good enough, they didn't allow her to read books or do research at all.
On the third day, while her father and sisters were not around, she suddenly said to her eldest brother:
"I want to see Brother Chuanjin."
Her eldest brother looked up from the pile of documents and stared at her in surprise.
"What, is it inconvenient?"
"It's not inconvenient, but..."
"Then please make an appointment for me."
She put the water cup back on the bedside table.
"I have something to ask him."
Looking at his younger sister's rarely serious face, Fu Lingshi knew that he couldn't refuse this request.
Because they knew some things, they had been very tacitly not mentioning Leng Chuanjin these days.