Chapter 157, Part 1: Ten dollars a kick, no upper limit!

A menacing voice rang out: "Shen Qingrong?"

After asking the question, without waiting for their reply, a flashlight shone in.

The other person held up the photo, grabbed Shen Qingrong's hair, compared it carefully, and then confirmed to themselves: "That's right, you've found the right one!"

Before Shen Qingrong could understand what was happening, he was dragged out, and then everything went black as several layers of burlap sacks that were smelly, foul-smelling, and opaque were put over his head.

I could hear someone's excited voice.

"Brothers! Let's go! The employer said that as long as you don't kill someone, you'll get ten dollars per kick! The more you kick, the more money you get, there's no limit!"

"Ten dollars, ten dollars!"

"Forty! Forty!"

"Eighty! Eighty!"

"One hundred! One hundred!"

Amidst the clicking sounds, Shen Qingrong's cries of pain, and Bi Yatong's screams, the sound of counting money seemed particularly strange.

The driver, who was forced to stop, went from fear and terror to utter astonishment in just half a minute.

As the group left, having made a fortune, they seemed to only then notice the driver in the driver's seat. Pairs of eyes hidden under black plastic bags swept over them like searchlights.

The driver was so frightened that he kept closing his eyes, muttering to himself, "I'm dizzy, I'm dizzy, ahh, I'm dizzy, I didn't see anything, I didn't see anything..."

Then he lay back, closed his eyes, and "fainted".

"..." A group of people who earned over a thousand yuan.

That evening, Shen Qingrong, who had just been discharged from the hospital, went back to the hospital, where Bi Yatong shared a ward with him.

Shen Qingrong had three broken ribs, a broken leg bone, and more than thirty bruises all over his body, with almost no unscathed flesh.

Bi Yatong had no external injuries. She fainted entirely because she scared herself. The other person didn't even touch her. She was screaming and clutching her head when she rolled down the hillside from the roadside and then hit a crooked tree and passed out.

The group of people forced their car to stop on a suburban road with few people and vehicles, surrounded by woods and no houses on either side.

By the time they were taken to the hospital, it was already past midnight.

Shen Qingrong was taken to the emergency room.

Even after emerging, he was half-dead. No matter how many painkillers he took, he was still in so much pain that he couldn't sleep all night and stayed awake until dawn.

Meanwhile, Baoyi City is thousands of miles away.

The Qiao family, on the other hand, slept exceptionally well.

Yan Liti used her silver tongue to finally coax the Qiao family into sleeping in a grand hotel instead of staying in the guesthouse that she felt was a waste of her precious granddaughter's space.

Of course, she didn't complain that the Qiao family hadn't provided her granddaughter with good living conditions.

She was deeply grateful to the Qiao family.

She knew that although the Qiao family was not wealthy, they had done everything they could to give her granddaughter the best of everything.

She simply felt that since she was here, her precious granddaughter didn't need to stay in that poor-quality guesthouse.

Her fortune is enough for her beloved granddaughter to live a life of extravagance for a hundred lifetimes!

And all of her assets are destined to go to her granddaughter.

No one else can have a piece of it, not even Shen Qingyan is qualified to inherit it; it can only be her precious granddaughter's!

Yan Liti booked the two largest suites on the top floor of the hotel.

However, in order not to feel inferior, Qiao Changdong still paid for his own portion when it came time to pay.

The next day, when Qiao Qiao woke up, she was met with a pair of burning eyes that were anxiously staring at her.

That gaze, perhaps due to the lighting, seemed to have a faint red glow, startling her so much that her curly hair stood on end.

"Oh dear, baby's awake! Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's Grandma, not a bad person." Yan Liti had been sitting by the bedside for a full half hour.

Seeing Qiao Qiao's hair standing on end in fright, he quickly comforted her with heartache.

His hand reached out and gently stroked her frizzy hair.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Let me pet your fur. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

Hearing her gentle coaxing voice, Qiao Qiao wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, rubbed her face against the warm quilt beneath her, and her first reaction was to ask instinctively.

"Where's my dad?"

Her voice was soft and sweet, just like Grandma's gentle voice.

Yan Liti's heart melted upon hearing this.

Her voice also became even gentler, as if raising it even slightly would frighten the little one in front of her.

"Your dad and your aunt took your grandma to the hospital to get the test results. Hmm, your dad drove them there. Your second uncle and aunt are outside... Baby, Grandma will pick you up, okay?"

That last sentence carried a hint of cautious flattery.

Qiao Qiao yawned.

She rubbed her little face against the blanket beneath her before nodding her head.

The little girl was nestled in the blanket, looking so small and well-behaved.

Yan Liti involuntarily clutched her heart.

Her mind was screaming: Ahhhhhh, this adorable child is her granddaughter! She's hers!! How can she be so happy?!

"Grandma Chen?" Qiao Qiao tilted her head in confusion and called out softly to Yan Liti, who was clutching her heart and staring blankly at her with her eyes seemingly dazed.

“Baby…” Yan Liti came back to her senses, looking aggrieved: “Can you drop the ‘Chen’ part and just call me Grandma?”

"Look, you call Grandma Qiao 'Grandma,' which means 'grandma.' If you call me 'Grandma,' there won't be any confusion. Please call me 'Grandma,' okay?"

"..." Qiao Qiao.

This was the first time an adult had ever acted like a child towards her, and Qiao Qiao felt a little uncomfortable but also quite curious.

“No, baby…” Yan Liti thought she was unwilling, and her eyebrows drooped down.

"Grandma." Qiao Qiao responded by stretching her little arms out from under the covers, wrapping them around the woman's neck, and nuzzling her cheek against hers.

"!!!" Yan Liti.

My whole body stiffened, and my eyes reddened.

My mind was screaming: Ahhhhhh, my baby is being affectionate with her! My baby is rubbing against her! Ahhhhhh, how can she be so happy?!

Feeling happy again, Yan Liti hugged the soft little body in her arms, took two deep breaths, and then carried her to wash up.

Yan Liti actually didn't take care of the children much.

When Shen Qingyan was born, her family doted on her and hired two maids for her before she even gave birth.

One took care of her, and the other took care of the child.

So when Shen Qingyan was born, she didn't have to worry about him much except for feeding him.

But now she is quite adept at taking care of Qiao Qiao, probably because she is patient and gentle enough that taking care of her is very easy for her.

Karen Mok, who was watching TV outside, heard the noise and came in to check it out.

Seeing that Yan Liti was taking good care of them, she quietly withdrew without forcibly squeezing in to disturb the grandmother and granddaughter's time together.