Sole decision

"My life was saved, but my father is getting old. It's hard to say how much he can recover. The situation is not optimistic."

Zhou Jian sat in the middle of the dining table and talked about the situation in the hospital.Although Zhou Xiangyun was out of danger, he was still in a coma. In the past half a day, the situation in Lucheng changed suddenly, and all kinds of news hit the glass of Zhou's house like a torrential rain.

It was indeed raining today, and while listening to Zhou Jian, Zhou Ce distractedly looked out of the window from the corner of his eye.This is a family meeting. There are not only a few people surnamed Zhou at the dinner table, but also senior executives such as Liu Rui.In a sense, here, "family" is not a blood bond, but a more solid and ancient contract and belief relationship.

"Where's Zhou Ling?" Zhou Jian asked sharply, "Where did Zhou Ling go?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, Pei Zhaoxue said, "Yesterday he went home after leaving the hospital in the middle of the night."

Zhou Jian whispered: "It's outrageous." Since Zhou Xiangyun's accident, Zhou Jian's mood has been not very good, contrary to the normal calm, he has become a little vicious.But this is also reasonable. His father suffered such a serious injury, and even Zhou Ce, who had always been outside the family system, had to face things he had been unwilling to face.

"Second brother said he would come." Zhou Ang said, "Maybe something has delayed it, brother, don't worry about it with him."

"What can he do?" Zhou Jian said, "All the problems now should be dealt with by him."

Zhou Ang said: "...Maybe he just went to deal with some things?"

Zhou Jian glared at Zhou Ang, Zhou Ang shrank his head immediately, Zhou Jian smiled and said, "No matter what, I will always be your eldest brother in this family."

Zhou Ang said, "I didn't mean that."

Pei Zhaoxue seemed unable to listen to their nonsensical fight, coughed lightly, and said, "The most urgent thing is..."

"The most urgent thing is to stabilize the situation. It doesn't matter who is behind the scenes. The important thing is to know what they want to do." Zhou Ce said, "Dad is not dead, the murderer has committed suicide. I can't find out the details. I'm afraid this is not the case. It'll be over easily..." He roughly stated his opinion, Zhou Jian was a little surprised and a little saddened to see Zhou Ce, who had never intervened in family meetings, analyze the situation so calmly.

However, Zhou Ce knew very little about the family business, and he could say very little. Just as he paused, Zhou Ling came in with a group of people. He looked serious and kept his eyes fixed on Zhou Jian.Zhou Jian watched him walk in, until he stood beside her, he just raised his head slightly without any movement or language.

Zhou Ling put one hand on the back of Zhou Jian's chair and said, "Brother, let me go."

Zhou Jian got up and sat aside after tens of seconds of saying this. Everyone was looking at them. The current situation was tacitly understood. He needed to make his every move decent, without losing his identity.

After Zhou Ling sat down, he explained his reasons for being late.Regarding Zhou Xiangyun, everyone in the family had the same attitude and thoughts, but Zhou Ce felt a strange and subtle flow of breath on this table. He subconsciously went to see Pei Zhaoxue, but Pei Zhaoxue did not know when he stood up to Zhou Jian. behind.

Zhou Ce frowned. At this moment, he heard Zhou Ling tell him to pack his things and go back to school in two days. Don't worry about things at home. Zhou Jian also agreed to do so.Zhou Ce was even more puzzled, but he didn't contradict Zhou Ling face to face.Afterwards, people around Zhou Ling told Zhou Ce privately that Zhou Ling did this to protect him.

He looked at the empty yard, the rain hadn't stopped, and the rain made the scenery in front of him foggy, which made him withdraw from time to time, and his mood was uneasy. He could only see the rain line, but there was no sound in his ears.

"Are you going?" Pei Zhaoxue pulled Zhou Ce back without a sound, and he heard the noisy sound of rain again.Pei Zhaoxue's voice was caught in the rain, like a wind blowing over his ears, distant and vain.

"Care about me?"

"Do not care."

"Then what are you asking?"

"You don't have to answer either."

"Go? Where are you going?" Zhou Ce said helplessly, "My vacation is not over yet, and what Dad promised me has not been fulfilled. I have to wait for him to recover."

"I don't know what you agreed with Uncle Yun, but now is not a good time." Pei Zhaoxue said, "Maybe you should listen to your brothers' advice and go back to school. They will protect you. Lucheng is still not safe. .”

Zhou Ce snorted coldly: "Will I do what they want me to do?" He turned to look at Pei Zhaoxue, "I have a question for you."

"what?"

"You..." At this point, Zhou Ce felt that he should not ask.Pei Zhaoxue's position was vague to him, and the current situation at home was also very complicated. He was not sure whether he could get a real answer from Pei Zhaoxue, so he changed the subject, "I want to go to the hospital to see my dad, you Can you go with me?"

With Pei Zhaoxue's indifferent and contemptuous attitude towards him, Zhou Ce felt that he might not agree, but he also liked to look at others in a difficult way, just like he would always pull Pei Zhaoxue's hair when he was a child.Does he have to play tricks on Pei Zhaoxue?Not necessarily, he just likes to provoke.

So he made a helpless look, and said softly: "My brother and the others are very busy, and no one else in the family wants to talk to me, except you."

Weird.

He nodded slightly, raised his eyes to look at Pei Zhaoxue, it was very innocent to look at people like this.Sure enough, Pei Zhaoxue didn't expect him to say such words, and after a pause, she nodded slowly.

It seems that Pei Zhaoxue doesn't like it, but she has no choice.

The hospital is full of people from Zhou's family, and a lot of defenses have been deployed on the inside and outside to ensure Zhou Xiangyun's safety during his hospitalization. Even Zhou Ce has to go through many inspections if he wants to visit the doctor.

Zhou Xiangyun didn't wake up, Zhou Ce could only sit by the bed and watch him.The father in the memory has a tall and handsome figure, Zhou Ce is the youngest son, and Zhou Xiangyun loves him the most, and always let Zhou Ce sit on his shoulders.He held Zhou Ang with the other hand, and Zhou Jian and Zhou Ling bouncingly followed behind...Zhou Ce felt very strange, why those images that should have been blurred when he was a child always appeared in his mind very clearly recently?

Comparing his memories, he did realize that Zhou Xiangyun was getting old, and his life was unstoppably rushing towards the end, never to return.The huge empire he built with one hand also showed signs of loosening as he aged.

Pei Zhaoxue was waiting for Zhou Ce outside the ward. It was still early, but due to the rain, it was getting darker.After Zhou Ce came out, he told Pei Zhaoxue that he wanted to go home. Pei Zhaoxue asked the driver to drive the car to the back door of the hospital. At this time, there were no other people waiting there.

The rain was not small but heavy. Pei Zhaoxue held an umbrella to accompany Zhou Ce and waited. Most of the umbrellas were given to Zhou Ce, and half of his shoulders were wet by the rain.After Zhou Ce came out of the ward, he remained silent for a while, not knowing what he was thinking. Until then, he asked Pei Zhaoxue, "Who do you suspect?"

Pei Zhaoxue shook her head.

The black car approached slowly, and Pei Zhaoxue took a step forward to open the door for Zhou Ce. Although the speed was slow, there was no sign of stopping. He was puzzled, and saw the window of the driver's seat lowered.

The unknown driver, the black muzzle of the gun, Pei Zhaoxue was pushed out by Zhou Ce as soon as he reacted, and the gun went off almost instantly.

The sound was very small, not as loud as the rain hitting the glass, but the bullet had already passed through Zhou Ce's body.Pei Zhaoxue was shocked, and Zhou Ce didn't know where the strength came from. He took out his pistol and chased after him. Several "bang bang bang" shots were fired. The people in the car were shot, and the car uncontrollably crashed into a nearby tree. The car body was severely twisted and squeezed together.

Zhou Ce still maintained the motion of raising the gun. His body heaved a lot, and the blood gushing out was melted by the rain, and his body seemed to have turned crimson. At that moment, it was a murderous look that had never been seen before, and then disappeared.

There was only him between the sky and the earth, he swayed and fell down.

"Zhou Ce!" Pei Zhaoxue yelled.

Zhou Jian led people to the hospital first, and saw Pei Zhaoxue sitting in the corridor wet all over, and Zhou Ce was pushed out of the operating room. The doctor said that the bullet did not hurt the vitals, and he just needed to recuperate.

Zhou Xiangyun was assassinated first, followed by Zhou Ce. It is not known who had such an enmity with the Zhou family.After Zhou Ling got the news, he immediately let out a message, asking for blood to pay.

Although the rest of the family seemed peaceful, they couldn't help but think about their past festivals with the Zhou family, so as not to be slaughtered together.

After such a commotion, the relationship between the various families fell into a state of calm confrontation, and the unresolved position of the president of the union was not mentioned for the time being.

Zhou Jian told Pei Zhaoxue that the killer killed the driver, hijacked the car and came to assassinate him disguised as the driver, but his identity could not be found for the time being.However, there were already many people on guard around the hospital. To be able to make such a move at that time and place, the other party must be very familiar with their rotation methods, and there may be ghosts inside.He said this very cautiously, and he seemed unwilling to conceive things in this direction.

After Pei Zhaoxue listened silently, he said, "What if I told you that the gun was originally pointed at me?"

"What?" Zhou Jian was shocked.He would not be surprised that someone wanted to kill Zhou Ce, because Zhou Ce was the most precious younger brother of the Zhou family. If something happened to him, it would undoubtedly be a very powerful act of demonstration, and it would also be a serious blow to the Zhou family.But Pei Zhaoxue certainly has a high status in the Zhou family, but what's the benefit of killing him?Disturb the muddy water?

"Zhou Ce saved me." Pei Zhaoxue bowed her head and said.

Zhou Jian's heart was complicated and she couldn't speak for a while, so she went to find a blanket to cover Pei Zhaoxue's body, "Go home first, eat something and have a good rest. There are guards here tonight, don't worry, they are all from us, so it's safe , Zhou Ce will be fine. Dad has also sent more people."

Pei Zhaoxue didn't follow Zhou Jian's words, he blamed himself very much, and wanted to stay in the hospital until Zhou Ce woke up to make sure everything was fine.Zhou Jian looked at him for a while, sat next to him and asked him about the specific situation at that time. He told it in detail, except for the details of Zhou Ce's gun.

The children of the Zhou family have been trained in various aspects since childhood, including gun fighting, but Zhou Ce has always shown a lack of interest in this, and likes to be lazy and not do business.

That was something that happened when I was a child. No one would have thought that Zhou Ce was seriously injured and could shoot several consecutive shots accurately under the interference of heavy rain. One click pierced the bulletproof glass, and he shot the murderer through the forehead with the last bullet and took his life. Life.

Calm, sharp, determined and skilled.

Later, Zhou Ling and Zhou Ang also arrived. They had common concerns about Zhou Ce and asked Pei Zhaoxue a lot, but Pei Zhaoxue still answered the same way.

At night, Pei Zhaoxue stood guard by Zhou Ce's hospital bed.The water on his body had already dried up, his clothes were a little wrinkled, but he didn't look slumped, and even the posture he was sitting there was straight, like a statue.He blinked very slowly, and his gaze never left Zhou Ce.

Zhou Ce closed his eyes tightly, with a white bandage wrapped around his body, his lines could be seen at a glance.Pei Zhaoxue's gaze unconsciously swept down the bridge of his nose. Halfway through, she felt that it was inappropriate, so she retracted it flickeringly.