The Secrets of Harrison's Domain Chapter 8

Asher Cheng felt that he had lost control of himself. When he walked out of the hospital gate, the cold wind blew on his face and head, and he slowly came out of his previous emotions.

Leg pain doesn’t mean there is any problem. It could be caused by muscle pain, a bump or a knock... various reasons.

He reacted like this to Logan Xiang's words. People who didn't know him would think he was sick.

However, if he had been even one percent as nervous as he is now when Cheng Boyu first told him that his legs hurt, maybe...

Never mind, what else could there be?

Asher Cheng adjusted his mood before going to the parking lot to pick up the car.

When I drove back home, my mother had already prepared the meal and my father was still sitting in front of the computer looking at information.

"Are you going to a meeting tomorrow?" Asher Cheng took off his coat and put it in the cabinet by the door. He squeezed some disinfectant from the bottle in the shoe cabinet, rubbed it, and walked to the computer.

There is another computer in the study, but it belongs to my mother. She often has lectures to prepare, so in order not to affect each other, my father's computer is placed in the corner of the living room.

"Well, a forum on minimally invasive cardiac surgery," Dad stood up and looked at him, "Is your department very busy these days? I see you don't look very well."

"It's OK," Asher Cheng smiled, "There's a lot of physical work these days."

"Resist," Dad stretched his waist, "your mother must be worried."

"Boyan," the mother brought out a can of soup from the kitchen, "has Hu Xin contacted you during this period?"

"Hu Xin? No," Asher Cheng went to wash his hands, and came out to serve soup to his parents. "He just called during the Chinese New Year. What's wrong?"

Hu Xin is Asher Cheng's cousin and the son of his eldest aunt. They were very good friends when they were young. However, after Asher Cheng went to college, Hu Xin started working and changed jobs one after another. Then he had endless love affairs, and their relationship was not as close as before.

"He asked your aunt for money to open a cartoon store. He was never reliable, so your aunt didn't give him any money," my mother frowned, "because she was afraid he would ask you for a loan."

"How can I lend him the money? I have to pay off my mortgage for two years," Asher Cheng smiled. Hu Xin was indeed not cut out for business. He had even lost money selling beef jerky for his classmate's small factory before. "And I just got robbed..."

Logan Xiang! I actually forgot to ask him about the money!

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet, do you have enough money?" Mom took a sip of soup.

"That's enough. I don't have any place to spend money. I spend all my time sleeping. Where can I spend money?" said Asher Cheng.

After resting for a while after dinner, Mom and Dad went out for a walk, and Asher Cheng followed them out, preparing to go back to his place.

Taking a walk has been a habit of my parents for decades and it never changes. My dad also goes swimming every week.

Asher Cheng is really no match in this regard. He just plays on the treadmill at home, and he can almost fall asleep while sitting at other times.

When he got home today, he didn't even want to play on the treadmill. After taking a shower, he sat in front of the computer, clicked on the folder named as|mr, opened one at random, put on headphones, leaned back in the chair, put his legs on the table and closed his eyes.

The next day, as usual, he woke up to the screams of the hooligans. Asher Cheng found that after two or three months, he had actually become accustomed to the screams of these hooligans.

Some things are unbearable at first, but you gradually get used to them without realizing it.

Like the lost people.

For example, memories that are painful when you think about them.

For example, being single.

For example, every day when you open your eyes, you are busy.

For example...mixed bean porridge.

Logan Xiang never came to the hospital again, nor did he appear in front of him again.

Asher Cheng never encountered any scammers on the street or in the hospital again.

Occasionally he would think of his four thousand yuan, the little bear Band-Aid on Logan Xiang's eye... and the pain in his legs that made him lose control.

The steamed buns are missing.

Calculating the time, he must have had a plan on the day he went to the hospital for a physical examination with Logan Xiang. He left earlier than Logan Xiang that day and returned to Dawali in the middle of the night.

After that, I never went out with Logan Xiang again and always acted alone.

A month later, he disappeared.

Along with the steamed buns, two plates of 30,000 yuan also disappeared.

The weather has been good these days, and the sun is very warm. Logan Xiang would sit at the door of No. 17 every noon to bask in the sun and watch the cat.

A few days ago, when he was basking in the sun, he heard Levi's angry roar in the next room.

Logan Xiang's first reaction was that Owen, this idiot, was going to be doomed.

But Owen had been on the run for several days, but there was no news of his death.

Logan Xiang stared at the cat on the opposite wall. Where was this guy hiding?

People at the train station, bus station and other places all know each other. Don't even think about going through those places. Even if you pass by them once, Uncle Harrison and Levi will know them.

Unless...get out.

Logan Xiang found it inexplicably funny and laughed at the cat. The cat sat on the wall, hugged its tail, licked it for a while, then turned and walked away.

The one who suffers the most after Owen left may not be Owen, but Ava Li.

I got beaten once a day. This morning, when Levi kicked me out of the house, I lay under the ice-covered wall for half a day without getting up.

It took Logan Xiang a long time to pull her up. She held on to Logan Xiang's hand tightly and her nails dug into the skin of his hand.

"Help me," Ava Li's eyes were full of tears, and her voice was trembling, "Xiao Zhan, please help me... I will die..."

The sun was very warm. Logan Xiang stretched himself, leaned back in his chair, raised his hands, and faced the light.

The wounds on my hands were painful, but I couldn't see anything in the strong sunlight.

Everyone knew what would happen if Ava Li stayed here. The girl was not good-looking and was very stubborn, but she could always make the best use of her resources.

Do what you can, Uncle Harrison said.

He still said it with a smile. Logan Xiang looked at Uncle Harrison's smile and felt that sooner or later he would say goodbye to this different life in the eyes of others with Uncle Harrison's smile.

Silently.

In the afternoon, Uncle Harrison bought a live duck and gave it to Logan Xiang to cook.

Logan Xiang doesn't know how to cook, and Uncle Harrison didn't let him cook before. There were a lot of people running errands and doing the work, so cooking was easy. But in the past two years, Logan Xiang has cooked more often.

Logan Xiang held the duck in the kitchen and pondered for a long time. Finally, he took it to the nearby vegetable market and spent ten yuan to find someone to take care of it.

I went back and chopped it up, then stuffed it into the pressure cooker.

During the meal, two plates came over and two bottles of Moutai were brought to Uncle Harrison. Uncle Harrison didn't drink much, and he probably thought holding a teapot was more stylish than holding a wine glass.

Levi drank most of the bottle by himself, and finally poured all the wine in the bottle into the glass and placed it in front of Logan Xiang with a clang.

"Drink it!" Levi stared at him.

"My stomach hurts." Logan Xiang said.

"Bullsh!t," the two chopsticks were almost pointing at the tip of his nose, "You can already drink three taels of wine at the age of ten!"

"I didn't have a stomachache at that time." Logan Xiang picked up a piece of chopped duck and put it on the second plate of chopsticks.

Levi was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously and carefully maintained his balance and put the duck into his mouth.

Uncle Harrison suddenly burst into laughter and couldn't stop laughing while drinking his soup.

"Fcuk!" Levi came to his senses and slapped Logan Xiang's hand with his chopsticks, "How dare you play tricks on me!"

Logan Xiang almost dropped the bowl on the table in so much pain. He glanced at the second plate and said nothing.

"You're getting more and more arrogant now," Levi threw the cup and stood up, kicked the chair aside, grabbed Logan Xiang's collar and pulled him up, "If I don't teach you a lesson today, you really think you are Uncle Harrison's biological son!"

"What are you doing!" Uncle Harrison slammed the table.

Levi stopped his raised fist in the air, turned around and looked at Uncle Harrison: "Uncle Harrison! You can't spoil him like this anymore. You have good intentions, but this kid is not an easy person to deal with! The departure of Owen must have something to do with him..."

"This is the child I raised," Uncle Harrison interrupted Levi and stared at him, "Whether he is beaten or scolded, whether he lives or dies, it's all my business."

Uncle Harrison had already said this, Er Pan didn't dare to attack Logan Xiang in front of him. He was so angry that he could only throw Logan Xiang onto the chair and cursed: "You deserve it! Uncle Harrison should let you freeze to death in the wild!"

Logan Xiang's hands trembled and his eyes narrowed. When Levi opened the door and prepared to go out, he suddenly jumped up from his chair.

"Xiao Zhan!" Uncle Harrison roared.

Logan Xiang stopped. All the blood in his body seemed to be surging up, but with nowhere to go. Even without poison, he was about to bleed from all his orifices.

He kicked the door behind Levi and it closed with a loud bang.

"Sit down." Uncle Harrison pointed to the chair, picked up the teapot, took a sip slowly, and started eating again.

Logan Xiang felt that all the joints in his body were stiff, and it took him a long time to sit down on the chair with a creaking sound.

Uncle Harrison ate a few more mouthfuls of food very slowly, chewing it carefully for a long time before putting down his chopsticks and looking at him: "Do you know about the steamed buns?"

"I know he ran away." Logan Xiang said in a muffled voice.

"Do you know where you went?" Uncle Harrison asked, "You two are as close as brothers, you should know."

"I don't know," Logan Xiang felt a stomachache. He forgot to take his medicine today. No, it wasn't that he forgot to take the medicine. When he got up in the morning, the medicine he put on the bedside table was gone. "Uncle, where are my medicines?"

"Medicine? What medicine?" Uncle Harrison thought for a moment, "Oh, those medicine boxes by the bed? There were medicines in them, I didn't know, I threw them away as empty boxes."

Logan Xiang didn't say anything, his hands were shaking violently, and he didn't know whether it was because of the pain or anger.

"Remember to wash the dishes later. Use hot water to wash them. Don't catch a cold." Uncle Harrison stood up and took the teapot upstairs. "Look at you, why are you still taking medicine when your good friend has disappeared? It's so painful..."

Logan Xiang clenched his fists against his stomach and took a long time to slowly straighten up.

He cleared the dishes and went into the kitchen. While washing the dishes, he kept looking down at his hands. The red mark next to the wound caused by Ava Li's pinching was already swollen.

Owen is not his good friend, not even a friend.

He has always made this division, very clearly, just like anyone else, for the sake of self-protection.

But I still can't avoid it.

He bit his lip and cursed Owen in his heart as an idiot.

We can't live like this anymore. It's so sad that we can't even live like this anymore.

He especially wanted to go to the small house in Tongkui Hutong to find the business card and call the life photographer, asking if he wanted to come and see a different life.

Asher Cheng was not on duty today, but Doctor Carter next door had a fever all afternoon, so he replaced Doctor Carter in the evening.

Asher Cheng is in good health and seldom suffers from headaches or fevers. However, a patient with a fracture who came to his job sneezed three times in his face. He wondered if he would catch a cold.

The man had a cold and after taking medicine, he drove his motorcycle dizzy and crashed into a trash can on the side of the road. He sneezed at Asher Cheng before he explained the situation clearly.

After finishing the filming, Asher Cheng sneezed again and felt like he was going crazy.

He endured it and wiped his face with a piece of paper, then lowered his head and began to write the medical record.

The patient reported that he had fallen and injured his left calf more than an hour ago. At that time, he felt pain in his left calf and could not move the affected limb. No active bleeding or bone exposure was found.

"Doctor, I want to stay in the ..." The man frowned and sneezed again, "Hospital?"

Mild swelling was seen in the middle and lower part of the left calf, with no skin damage and no active bleeding...

"It is recommended to be hospitalized." Asher Cheng glanced at him.

"Can I not be hospitalized?" The man rubbed his nose, "My mother is sick at home, I can't be hospitalized."

Spiral fracture of the middle and lower part of the left tibia.

Recommendation for hospitalization (patient refused)...

The reason why this person refused to be hospitalized reminded him of Logan Xiang. He didn't know if this kid had a father, a mother he had never seen, or whether he was 18 years old...

Plaster fixation, dehydration, swelling reduction, hemostasis treatment...

After treating the patient, Asher Cheng ran to the toilet to wash his face for five minutes. On his way back, he heard the nurse on duty say, "It's snowing again!"

He walked to the window in the corridor and looked out. It was really snowing again. He thought it would not snow this year.

Asher Cheng lowered his head and sneezed.

In the drowsy darkness of Zhaojiayao, Logan Xiang watched the snowflakes floating down from the sky, occasionally flashing in the light that came from nowhere.

It was very quiet all around, even the curses in the middle of the night disappeared.

Logan Xiang opened the door leading to the back alley and walked out, turning to the downstairs of the second house.

He picked up a small stone from the snow, raised his hand and flicked it with his finger. The stone flew to the second floor and hit the glass lightly.

The sound was not loud, but loud enough for people in the room to hear.

The window was not opened, but the curtains shook and then closed. Two minutes later, Ava Li tiptoed out from the back door, wearing thick clothes and holding a small bag in her hand.

Logan Xiang went over, grabbed her arm, and walked quickly along the wall of the back alley towards the street corner. Ava Li followed him silently, her whole body shaking.

He dragged her like this, half running and half walking, all the way to the main street. Logan Xiang stopped, hesitated for a moment, and then took him to turn into another small street, walking in the back alleys.

Ava Li had lived in Dawali for several years and had never left this place. She didn't know any of the roads, so she just silently let Logan Xiang pull her and jog along.

Finally, Logan Xiang took her back to the street, took out an envelope from his pocket and stuffed it into Ava Li's hand, then pushed Ava Li into a taxi on the side of the road.

After telling the driver the address, he turned and left.

He didn't know why he asked the driver to drive there, but he remembered the address very clearly. The place where Uncle Harrison picked him up was a dirt road leading out of the city.

If Ava Li was lucky, she might be able to start a different life by hiking in the snow like Owen.

After finishing this task, Logan Xiang did not return to No. 17 in the dark.

He went to Tongkui Hutong, sorted out all the things he had left there, packed them in a small package so that he could take them away at any time.

I can't go back to Uncle Harrison.

Whether Ava Li can run away or not, he can't go back.

The reason why he had ignored Ava Li's request for help was that he had no idea how to help her, and Ava Li herself didn't know either.

Uncle Harrison didn't have much ability, but he was able to nail them here, and no matter how they moved, it would be heartbreaking.

Logan Xiang didn't know why he suddenly decided to do this.

But I know very well that this way of cutting off one's own path can actually rewrite one's "life".

It was late at night and it was still a long time before dawn. Looking out the window of the inpatient corridor, I could see the street not far away, with flashing neon lights and the occasional car lights speeding by.

This seemingly prosperous scene made Asher Cheng feel a little lonely.

When he was a child, he liked to look out the window with a telescope, at the tall buildings in the distance, the playground of a nearby school, people coming and going on the road... and the figure standing under the tree in the middle of the night.

Asher Cheng squinted his eyes and saw a figure swaying under a tree on the roadside outside the hospital. He didn't know if it was an illusion because he was too tired, but Asher Cheng always felt that he saw a small fluorescent color on the sleeve of the person's down jacket.

Every time I saw Logan Xiang, he was wearing the same down jacket, which was very old and had a fluorescent yellow triangle on the sleeve.

He yawned, and a van stopped by the roadside. Two people got out of the car and stood face to face with the figure under the tree for a while. Then the man got into the car.

Asher Cheng rubbed his eyes and turned away from the window. He still had two hospitalization records to complete.

I'm a little hungry, but there's nothing to eat.

What should I eat tomorrow morning? Let's cook some dumplings. There are some dumplings in the refrigerator that my mother had packed earlier...

"Xiao Zhan, why are you doing this?" Uncle Harrison said slowly while sitting in the passenger seat. "You're making it so no one can even sleep."

The van had two seats and the back seats were removed. Logan Xiang sat on a cardboard. He turned his head to the right and tried to look out the window, but was blocked by Dajian's face. He did not try to look to the left because there was a second seat on the left.

"I've been watching you for many days, you know that," Levi whispered in his ear, his voice full of excitement, he took out Logan Xiang's phone, put it under his feet and stepped hard, "You really send people away one after another, and you even know to walk along the side road before calling a taxi."

"Xiao Zhan, I have been very kind to you over the years..." Uncle Harrison said in front, his tone quite sad, "You have been a worry to me since you were a child, and you have become more and more difficult to deal with in the past two years."

Logan Xiang remained silent. His cell phone was a broken one. He got it for free after paying 200 yuan for phone calls plus 1 yuan. However, he had been using it for three years and had developed an attachment to it. He felt sad when he heard the sound of it breaking under Levi's feet.

The car drove westward. No one in the car spoke anymore. Logan Xiang sat cross-legged and did not say a word. Levi probably wanted to see him cry and beg for mercy, but his silence made Levi very unhappy and he put out a cigarette B*tt on his arm.

The car stopped after shaking for a while, and Dajian opened the door and jumped out.

Logan Xiang did not move. When he saw Ava Li curled up outside, crying with tears frozen on her face, he sighed softly.

"Look, in order not to wrongly accuse you, I even kept the scene for you," Levi patted his shoulder, jumped out of the car, and slapped Ava Li in the face, "You want to run? You'll run quite far!"

Ava Li stopped crying and bit her lips to remain silent.

"You're not going to cry, are you? That's awesome!" Levi slapped her again, then pointed at Logan Xiang in the car and said, "Wait and applaud after the show!"