ATBWSTBP Chapter 72

Chapter 72: Give Me Some Money

After Jin Baiyan came out of the restroom, he went straight to the bed, sat down, picked up the thermos, stirred it with a spoon, and then poured a bowl of porridge for each of them.

Jin Mo handed the peeled egg in his hand to Jin Baiyan.

The two ate on their own, as if nothing had happened a few minutes ago.

Zhao Chengxi looked at this one and then at that one. In the end, he had to admit that there was a unique magnetic field between these two that no one could break into.

“Jin Mo, isn’t all of your brother’s money with you?” Zhao Chengxi asked, arms crossed and leaning forward slightly.

Jin Mo took a sip of porridge, swallowed it, without even lifting his eyelids.

“Yeah! What’s up?”

Jin Baiyan didn’t change his expression at all, as if the conversation had nothing to do with him.

“Last night we interrogated those two by surprise and found the residences of the other two, but…” Zhao Chengxi stopped as he spoke, then touched his nose. “It’s just that one of them broke a leg and the other broke an arm. They’ve both been sent to the hospital for surgery!”

Jin Mo “humphed” once, “Want me to give money? No way. It would be nice if I didn’t beat them up. Look at Jin Baiyan’s face.”

While speaking angrily, he pointed to the scar on Jin Baiyan’s face that had half scabbed over, “It’s disfigured! Even with the best scar removal cream, it may not disappear!”

Jin Baiyan took Jin Mo’s hand away and stuffed the egg into his hand.

“Don’t be angry, eat!”

Jin Mo nodded vigorously, “Okay, you eat too. The porridge is delicious today, you should have another bowl!”

Jin Baiyan smiled and nodded, “Okay!”

Zhao Chengxi couldn’t bear to watch anymore, but when he thought of Li Boxiao’s information, he had no choice but to speak to Jin Mo in a low voice.

“Just treat it as a little bit of humanitarianism, okay? Those two families are dirt poor. The one with the broken leg has a little kid at home, only three or four years old, and they can’t come up with any money at all. I have to wait until after the surgery to interrogate them, and you know I’m poor too!”

“That’s what they deserve!”

“Exactly!” Xiao Feiwu echoed.

“Can’t you get a government subsidy?” Xu Jiahao asked.

Zhao Chengxi shook his head, “They weren’t injured during the arrest, so they can’t get a subsidy! This missing person case on my hands is related to these two, so I can’t ignore it.”

Jin Mo looked at Jin Baiyan, quietly leaned over, and asked, “Help?”

Jin Baiyan smiled and reached out to grab Jin Mo’s arm.

“Whatever you want!”

Jin Mo pouted and muttered, “I don’t want to help!”

“Then don’t help!” Jin Baiyan said with a smile, looking at Jin Mo.

“Help, we must help! Helping them is helping ourselves.” Zhao Chengxi quickly interjected, “Once they have surgery, I can interrogate them. It’s basically confirmed that the missing person case is related to them. The person is most likely already dead. Even if these guys don’t get the death penalty, they’ll have to spend ten or eight years inside, so they can’t come and harass you again. Isn’t it killing two birds with one stone?”

Jin Mo thought about it, and that was true. That way, he wouldn’t have to worry about these people harming Jin Baiyan behind his back.

“How much money do you need?” He squeezed out a few words from between his teeth.

Zhao Chengxi picked up his phone, took a look, and held up three fingers.

“Three thousand!”

Jin Mo almost fell over backward, “You can’t even come up with that little bit of money? You’re a team leader, how badly are you doing?”

Zhao Chengxi blushed a little after being ridiculed and made a last-ditch effort, “I just finished paying off my mortgage, I only have two thousand left.”

Jin Mo gave him a disdainful look, picked up his phone, and transferred three thousand to him.

“If you do this with every suspect, won’t you go bankrupt!”

“How is that possible? My master hasn’t encountered this kind of situation in decades. Forget it, never mind. I’m going to meet up with Little Li and get the surgery done as soon as possible so we can take them away!”

Zhao Chengxi didn’t bother to argue with Jin Mo, picked up his phone, grabbed his small bag, stood up, and waved to Jin Baiyan.

“Jin Baiyan, I’ll come see you later!”

Jin Baiyan raised an eyebrow and glanced at Zhao Chengxi.

“My name is Jin Baiyan, not Jin Baiyan!”

The smile on Zhao Chengxi’s face faltered for a moment, then he pointed at Jin Mo and said, “If you were really a completely new Jin Baiyan, how could you still like this heartless guy!”

Jin Mo was instantly enraged, and without thinking, he blurted out,

“How am I heartless? If it wasn’t for you, my brother would have misunderstood that I don’t like the same gender! That I don’t like him!”

Zhao Chengxi immediately felt guilty, “Okay, okay, it’s all my fault, okay? I’m leaving, I’m not arguing with you anymore!”

After saying that, he waved to the dumbfounded Jin Baiyan and “scurried” out.

Xu Jiahao had good sense and pulled Xiao Feiwu, saying, “We’re going to the orchard to pick fruit!”

After saying that, he also quickly slipped out.

In just a few dozen seconds, only the two of them were left in the once-lively ward.

Jin Mo was extremely annoyed at his slip of the tongue just now.

He actually mentioned his brother in front of Jin Baiyan!

What should he do?

And he even brought up the topic of not liking the same gender?

Ah? What should he do?

He stole a glance at Jin Baiyan, and seeing that he was staring at him without blinking, he felt even more guilty.

“Jin Baiyan…, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have mentioned my brother!” Jin Mo began to examine himself in a low voice, “You are Jin Baiyan, not my brother, I can tell the difference, please don’t be angry, okay?”

He tugged on the hem of Jin Baiyan’s clothes and shook it again and again.

Jin Baiyan pulled his chair closer to Jin Mo.

He looked at Jin Mo, his voice trembling slightly, “What misunderstanding?”

Jin Mo opened his mouth wide, making a single-syllable sound.

Jin Baiyan didn’t say anything more, just stared fixedly at Jin Mo.

Jin Mo frowned, thought about it, and understood.

“It’s just that before, when I was chatting with my classmate, we talked about the topic of likes and dislikes. My classmate asked me if I liked the same gender, and I said I didn’t. It just so happened that my brother heard it, and then Zhao Chengxi pulled my brother away, so he didn’t hear what I said after that.”

“After… what did you say?” Jin Baiyan’s hands gripped the blanket tightly, squeezing out wrinkles.

Jin Mo reached out and took Jin Baiyan’s hand, staring straight into Jin Baiyan’s eyes, his eyes full of smiles.

“I said I don’t like the opposite gender, and I don’t like the same gender, I only like my brother. If my brother is male, then I like the same gender, if my brother is female, then I like the opposite gender.”

Jin Mo spoke very slowly, wanting to convey every word to Jin Baiyan.

After listening, Jin Baiyan didn’t say anything for a long time.

Jin Mo felt that the hand he was holding was shaking non-stop and couldn’t help but gently comfort it.

In Jin Baiyan’s mind, some images suddenly appeared.

He saw himself walking down the street listlessly, saw himself sitting in the dark for an entire night, saw the vitality in his body slowly dissipating, saw himself tightly wrapping his heart, no longer revealing a trace of emotion.

So, it was just a misunderstanding!

Now, he felt those dissipated energies returning to his body little by little.

His blood was surging, his heart was beating powerfully, his emotions were high, and even the sunlight outside the window was so bright.

Everything in front of him was as if infused with spiritual power, becoming alive and vivid.

“Little Mo!” He softly called out, then reached out and hugged Jin Mo into his arms.

Jin Mo felt Jin Baiyan trembling all over, his heartbeat was abnormal, and his pulse was fluctuating. He reached out and hugged Jin Baiyan, gently patting his back.

“Jin Baiyan!” He put his mouth to Jin Baiyan’s ear and gently called out.

“Little Mo!”

The two hugged tightly, face to face, the heat they exhaled pouring into each other’s necks.

The two awkwardly let go of each other, then looked at each other and laughed.

Jin Baiyan sat down and unnaturally tugged at his pant legs.

Jin Mo quietly turned sideways, pulling the blanket up a little.

The sound of a nurse’s trolley came from the door, shattering the ambiguity in the room.