Chapter 106: She Was Very Well-Behaved
"Yes, indeed! It's a charity fund with great rewards!" The salesman rubbed his hands together and said with a smile, "If you think it's suitable, why not sign up?"
"I'm very curious, do you have to go to many places every day for your charity foundation?"
"Ah, not everyone can get it, just a few lucky ones," the salesman said with a smile.
"Seems like a careful selection?"
"You don't need to know about that. If the amount doesn't satisfy you, we can always come back and add more," the salesman redirected the conversation back to money.
There's nothing that can't be solved by adding money.
It's simply because there isn't enough money, so we need a little more.
In reality, adding one more zero on the contract was still within the acceptable limit.
Bai Wei smiled with satisfaction.
The salesman also thought that the deal had been sealed.
Then his smile froze on his face. Bai Wei tore the paper into tiny pieces, crumpled it into a ball, and casually threw it. With precision, it landed right in the trash can twenty meters away.
He had no expression on his face. "Have you finished speaking… you can go now," he said calmly.
The salesman couldn't understand the meaning of these words right away. He quickly said, "Wait! Wait a moment, we can negotiate the price! How about triple, no, five times! Eight times? Eight times works too!"
He kept adding more chips to his pile.
Bai Wei ignored him and still said those words, "You can go now."
The salesman was filled with disbelief on his face. He said, "You are way too greedy! How about ten times? Is ten times enough?"
Bai Wei sighed and turned his head to look at the salesman. He spoke slowly, uttering just two words.
"Silly goose!"
Every word spoken was a waste of time.
The door closed, and two salesmen with leather bags were left outside, looking at each other in confusion. They didn't understand at all why they were being refused.
In the past, Sakurai refused them, which can be understood. These two people are father and daughter, with a strong family bond. Besides, the young man is from the Ming Country. So, there is no emotional foundation between them. How could they just let go of a large sum of money in the name of morals and justice?
Even though this girl won't live much longer, she could die at any moment. The doctors have even written a death sentence for her. She won't make it through this winter!
Inside her body, important organs were waiting to be harvested! Such a large sum of money shouldn't be missed out on!
"This person must be crazy!" the salesmen couldn't help but curse in pain. "Leaving behind a large sum of money! I was sure to get this commission fee, but now it's all ruined!"
"Maybe this person from the Ming Country really doesn't need money," the other person whispered. "People from the Ming Country are often wealthy and influential. They are born into privilege and might not care about it. Honestly, I kind of admire him."
"You admire him? What a load of nonsense!"
"No matter what you think, the other person rejected you… Go back."
"Go back? I won't go!" The salesman with the leather bag clenched his teeth. "He is still holding on to a fantasy deep down. What if this girl is really in critical condition, I don't believe he won't compromise. In any case, it's already doomed that we won't be able to save her! I need to come up with a plan. I've endured for so long, how can I return empty-handed?"
…
"I have to go back now."
"Stay well in the hospital, if you need anything, contact me anytime, okay?"
"Your father is very busy. Recently, he can't come to the hospital because of his situation. Be good and listen. Next time, I will bring my sister with me to introduce her to you. She will like you."
Bai Wei stood at the door of the hospital room, and saw Sakurai Shiru reluctantly raising her teddy bear, saying, "Goodbye, Uncle."
Bai Wei waved goodbye, closed the door, and took the elevator down to the first floor.
In the hospital room, Sakurai Shiru lay on the bed, holding two teddy bears. She stared at the white ceiling, looking at it for three years. It was the same room, the same view. She had become accustomed to it, both familiar and unfamiliar. Slowly, she grew capable of enduring loneliness and pain, becoming unaware of the passing of time.
Although she didn't go to school, she had grown into a mature girl. Naturally, she learned to observe people's words and expressions. She understood the sympathy and pity hidden in the eyes of the nurses and doctors. She remembered the exhaustion and sadness in her father's eyes every time he came to see her.
Gathering less, parting more.
She felt very lonely, but she didn't dare to say it, afraid of causing more trouble for her father.
She was actually a girl who loved to be playful. After all, which girl doesn't like being playful? But in this world, there weren't many people who allowed her to be playful.
In the past, every day upon waking up, she felt scared. She thought about having to get injections, take medicine, and undergo medical examinations. She also had to watch the serious expressions of the nurses and doctors every day.
She could only endure her emotions, trying her best to remain expressionless, and then the adults would praise her for being very sensible.
She had no choice but to be obedient.
Because being obedient was the only thing she could do.
The more obedient she became, the more it made others feel sorry for her, and the more she felt unable to express her true feelings to others.
However…
This time was different.
Sakurai Shiru smiled and met her uncle and sister. In the future, she would get to know other people too, and that made her very happy.
"If Daddy was here, it would be even better," she thought.
"What would it be like if Daddy was here?" she wondered.
By then, Uncle would definitely engage in playful banter with Dad. Uncle always seemed confident and mature, quite different from Dad, who sometimes acted childishly. Just thinking about the two of them conversing together made her very happy.
They wanted to gather together and talk, eat together, watch cartoons together, and bask in the sunlight together.
Sitting in the wheelchair herself, Dad pushed her for a while, and then it was Uncle's turn to push her for a while.
They playfully bantered with each other behind her, while she giggled and listened attentively up front.
That would be nice.
It was already very, very good.
"Hoping to see Dad again soon," murmured Sakurai Shiru softly, as she gazed out the window and expressed her wish.
At that moment, there was a sound coming from the door of the room.
Sakurai Shiru eagerly looked ahead, longing for someone. "Uncle?" she whispered, her eyes filled with anticipation.
But instead of her uncle, a greasy middle-aged man walked through the door. She sensed danger and instinctively gripped the nearby alarm button.
"Sakurai Shiru, isn't it?" approached the middle-aged man with false familiarity, maintaining a disingenuous smile. "You don't need to press that, I'm not a bad person… I'm just here to tell you something."
"What… what is it?" asked Sakurai Shiru nervously.
The salesman had a gloomy expression on his face, and he slowly uttered a sentence.
The wise and cheerful young girl's little wish was cast aside and instantly shattered on the ground.
The sparkle in her eyes faded away.
…
At the entrance of the hospital, Bai Wei spotted a salesman looking around nervously.
"Sir…" the salesman approached and initiated a conversation.
"Have you not given up yet?" Bai Wei asked the salesman, who was relatively less talkative, in a somewhat calm manner.
"No, no, that's not what I meant," the salesman swallowed hard, trying to clarify. "I just wanted to ask if you have seen my colleague. It seems like he hasn't come downstairs, and I've been waiting for quite a while now."
Bai Wei suddenly turned his head and looked beyond the courtyard. He spotted a silhouette in the hospital building window. His heart skipped a beat, and he swiftly dashed towards the entrance stairs of the hospital. The ground's green bricks crumbled under his footsteps, and the air seemed to collapse under the sudden change. The salesman beside him was thrown to the ground by the violent pressure.
Bai Wei didn't take a breath and sprinted back to the ward from the stairs. Right in front of him, he saw the salesman just emerging from the ward.
He slowed down his pace, his steps heavy and his face gloomy. A stifling aura of anger and danger was overflowing and difficult to contain.
The salesman realized that he had been caught off guard. He hurriedly tried to explain, still wearing his deceptive fake smile.
"You, please listen to what I have to say…"
His voice got stuck in his throat as a hand gripped his neck tightly. With one hand, the person lifted his body, weighing over 100 kilograms, off the ground. The salesman desperately flailed and pounded his wrists, but couldn't break free. His breathing became rapid, his neck locked, and his head started to suffocate due to lack of oxygen.
"Please, spare my life…" he pleaded, his mouth foaming heavily. "Don't… don't kill me…"
Bai Wei's gaze turned icy as he released his grip just moments before snapping the other person's neck.
The salesman fell to the ground, like a puddle of mud, clutching his throat, emitting a raspy and labored cough.
"This account, I will settle with you later little by little, but for now… Go away!"
Bai Wei's voice was hoarse, he couldn't kill anyone here, and he couldn't go in to see her covered in blood.
The man who left in a hurry, crawling and tumbling, didn't even realize that he had just escaped with his life.
The entire floor was very quiet. Bai Wei concealed his murderous intent and let out a sigh of relief. He pushed open the door of the ward, but Sakurai Shiru was not there in the bed. The room was empty, except for faint sobbing sounds coming intermittently from the bathroom, filled with a heavy sense of suppression.
He didn't knock on the door, instead, he gently pushed it open.
The sensible little girl curled up into a tiny ball, sitting on the ground, hugging her knees, as if the whole world had abandoned her.
