Chapter 1172 — Something Has Gone Wrong! And Yu Ren, on Little Mule's Money, Bulk-Ordered a Whole Load of Plumbing and Renovation Supplies, and Business Grew More and More Prosperous! So, While Making Money, the More Yu Ren Looked at Er Goudan the More He Liked Him — This Young Man Was His Family's Lucky Star; If He Became His Son-in-Law, That Would Be Quite a Fine Thing Indeed!

By then, he and Er Goudan would build the grocery store into something big, and with Er Goudan standing guard like a door god, any petty thug who came looking for trouble would be nothing but a wisp of cloud — no matter how many came, there would never be enough of them for Er Goudan to beat! The days ahead would be good indeed!

"Yuanyuan, are the ribs done yet? Give Er Goudan a bit first — he's been at heavy work all day long, the poor fellow's worn out!" Yu Ren said.

"Mm..." Yu Yuanyuan answered obediently, then went and fetched a rib and handed it to Er Goudan: "Zhou Jiaming, here..."

Yu Ren called him Er Goudan, but Yu Yuanyuan, naturally, would never call him that; Yu Yuanyuan only ever called him by his name.

"Thanks!" Er Goudan took the rib happily and fell to eating: "So good!"

"Eat slowly..." Yu Yuanyuan shot Er Goudan a look and said, half pouting, half coy.

After several days in each other's company, a shadow of Er Goudan had taken root in Yu Yuanyuan's heart as well. Beauties love heroes — and that was precisely Yu Yuanyuan's case now.

Watching Yu Yuanyuan's shyness, Er Goudan could not help but be struck dumb. Though Yu Yuanyuan was by no means a peerless beauty, in Er Goudan's eyes she was lovelier than a fairy from heaven.

"Ring—" A shrill ringing of the telephone broke the ambiguity between the two of them.

Yu Yuanyuan hurried over and picked up the phone: "Hello? ... What? You're Manager Zhang from the housekeeping agency? My mother was bitten by a dog? She's at the First People's Hospital right now? All right, we'll be there as fast as we can..."

Hanging up the phone, Yu Yuanyuan could not help but fly into a panic: "Dad, something's wrong! Manager Zhang from Mom's company just called — he says Mom was bitten by a dog and is being treated at the First People's Hospital, and he wants us to get over there right away..."

"What!" Yu Ren was struck dumb as well. Everything had been fine this morning — how could she have been bitten by a dog by evening?

Yu Ren did not dare dawdle. With Yu Yuanyuan and Er Goudan in tow, he flagged down a taxi and raced to the First People's Hospital! There, in a ward of the First People's Hospital, Yu Ren finally saw his wife!

"Mom, what happened to you!" Yu Yuanyuan rushed over excitedly, ran to her mother's bedside, and clutched her mother's hand!

"Yuanyuan..." Yu's mother gave Yu Yuanyuan a weak, anguished look, and a painful smile surfaced on her face...

"Manager Zhang, what's going on here? What on earth happened? What happened to my wife? How did she come to be bitten by a dog?" Catching sight of Manager Zhang, Yu Ren hurriedly asked.

"Ah!" Manager Zhang sighed. "Your wife went to clean house for a wealthy family today, and somehow or other she provoked that family's lion dog, and the lion dog bit her. Her leg is bitten clean through now — if she hadn't been treated in time, I'm afraid the whole leg would have been ruined!"

"What! That serious?" Yu Ren was startled, his eyes wide. "What does that family say? Their dog bit someone — have they nothing to say for it? And what kind of dog is it that can bite a person's leg clean off?"

"They call it a lion dog, but really it's just a big lion!" Manager Zhang said, somewhat resigned. "The doctor said this was no dog bite at all!"

"What? They keep a lion? That's downright vicious! Where are these people? Where are they? They'd better make themselves clear — what is this supposed to mean? Aren't they trying to do someone harm?" At the sound of it, Yu Ren grew anxious at once.

"You're Old Yu, right? Don't get excited just yet... The other party has wealth and power, and the mistress of the house is utterly unreasonable. When I went to negotiate, I nearly got bitten by the lion myself! And I've confirmed it — what they're keeping really is a lion!" Manager Zhang smiled bitterly. "They won't hear a word of reason. They flung fifty thousand yuan at me and told me to get lost..."

"Ah!" Yu Ren was taken aback, and only then did he recall the earlier business with Master Li the boxer. Yes — he was one of the lowliest, with neither power nor influence; how could he dare provoke such wicked people? The other party lived in a villa, clearly no ordinary folk, and they even kept a lion — how could that be anything he could take on?

"Old Yu, the fifty thousand yuan — the company won't keep a cent of it; it's all been put down at the hospital. And the general manager of our parent group called me just now, saying these are people of the Xiao family, that we can't afford to cross them. I think we'd best let this matter drop, and the company will compensate you with a sum as well... Don't go looking for trouble, or you'll drag the company into it..." Manager Zhang sighed. "Here in the middle of it, we're in a hard spot too!"

Hearing Manager Zhang say all this, Yu Ren of course had even less recourse! If even Manager Zhang's superiors were helpless, every one of them cowed by the other side's power, what could he possibly do?

"Then my wife's leg... will it heal?" Yu Ren looked at his wife on the bed in some agony.

"The doctor said a full recovery is no problem, but there will be a slight limp..." Manager Zhang did not hide it either. "It won't affect her movement, though, and the company will compensate you with a sum — enough for the two of you to live on. As for this matter, the group's stance is to let it go... don't make a big fuss!"

"Money? Money solves this? What about the lion? I'm going to settle accounts with that woman, and kill that lion with one punch!" Er Goudan flew into a rage at Manager Zhang's words. What kind of world was this? How could a lion and a vicious woman frighten these people so badly?

What was so great about it? If it came down to it, he would just go beat them to death!

"Zhou Jiaming, don't be rash..." Yu Yuanyuan was startled and quickly caught hold of Er Goudan, checking his impulse!

This business was plainly different from the earlier affair at the underground fight ring. When a man died at the underground fight ring, he died, because that whole thing was illegal to begin with; dead, they dared not make a fuss either, they could only swallow the loss — could they call the police?

But this time was different. The other party's pet had merely bitten and injured her mother. If Er Goudan went and beat someone to death, the affair would blow up enormously, and when it did Er Goudan would end up in prison for certain. How could Yu Yuanyuan let Er Goudan do such a foolish thing?

So Yu Yuanyuan kept shooting Er Goudan looks, telling him not to be rash!

Luckily, though Er Goudan was simple and honest, he was not stupid. Seeing the looks Yu Yuanyuan was giving him, he shut his mouth as well, though the anger on his face had not faded.

Manager Zhang glanced at Er Goudan and shook his head, thinking, Where did this hotheaded young fool come from? Is he kin to Yu Ren, or his son-in-law? How can he act with so little brains? He wants to beat them to death? He'd better not get himself bitten by that lion next!

"Old Yu, that's all I have to say on the matter, and this is as much as the company can do. I'll be off first — I'll go back and apply for compensation for you!" Manager Zhang shook his head. There was no need for him to stay here any longer.

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