The last sentence from Xu Zhengyang made Brother Zhao shiver with astonishment.
He stared at Xu Zhengyang in surprise.
"Brother, are you... serious?"
"A child needs four doses, so eight doses should be enough for both children," Xu Zhengyang nodded and smiled.
Earlier, when Brother Zhao showed them the medical bills, Xu Zhengyang's keen eyes had noticed two diagnoses—one for Level Two and one for Level One—both were postnatal conditions that could be cured with special medicine.
[Detected consumption, but the host is suspected of extracting points. This time, 100 points were earned.]
Xu Zhengyang smiled widely on the surface, but inwardly he felt a pang of frustration.
Is this extracting points?
I'm just doing a good deed!
He genuinely intended to do a good deed.
Perhaps, "poor people devise schemes, rich people have a conscience," describes someone like him.
Though he can't help the world, he's still willing to accumulate some good karma when the opportunity arises.
After all, with the system in place, 100 yuan is just a drop in the bucket; the monthly interest alone is more than he can spend.
Brother Zhao's eyes immediately reddened.
Without saying a word, he gently pushed away the glasses-wearing girl and slowly knelt down on the ground.
His movements were slow but incredibly resolute.
Cheng Baola and the girl with glasses quickly reached out to help.
But they couldn't hold back this determined man; Brother Zhao's knees hit the ground.
A man in his forties, tears streaming down his face, was beyond words.
Xu Zhengyang also felt a pang in his heart and pulled the elder brother up who was about to bow his head.
"Brother Zhao, there's really no need for this."
Brother Zhao could only repeatedly shake his head, opening his mouth to speak but only tears came out, unable to utter a single word. Cheng Baola and others watched with worried hearts.
Peter, watching this scene, first appeared confused. He didn't know about Brother Zhao's situation.
But soon, his expression turned dark.
Xu Zhengyang's words earlier had made him feel quite embarrassed.
And now it seemed that 100 yuan for Xu Zhengyang wasn't just a drop in the bucket.
This drop in the bucket had also helped a family on the brink of collapse.
This was infinitely more noble than his pretense of wanting to buy the shop just to impress Cheng Baola.
But he wasn't giving up.
"I hope the landlord will thank me as well, after all, if it weren't for my bidding, this gentleman wouldn't have raised the price to 100, would he?"
Although this kind of overt self-praise was somewhat annoying, it did seem to make sense.
He hoped that Cheng Baola would at least see some of his merit and not focus all her admiration on Xu Zhengyang.
But Xu Zhengyang didn't give him a chance:
"If I had bid 50, do you think you would have been able to raise the price?"
Peter's face turned red instantly, speechless.
"Do you still think my bid of 100 has anything to do with you now?"
Even Xiaoya felt pity for Peter.
Xu Zhengyang didn't leave him any chance to show off and took all the credit for himself.
But now she didn't dare to say anything.
Someone who can casually put out 100 yuan to buy a shop is not someone she can provoke.
Although Peter's face was gloomy, he could only snort coldly and turn to leave.
Xiaoya, also unwilling, cast a resentful glance at the glasses-wearing girl and followed Peter out.
If this deal really went through for 100 yuan, the commission alone would make the glasses-wearing girl rich!
With a 1% commission fee, that's a whole yuan!
After they left, Brother Zhao took some time to recover. Xu Zhengyang didn't delay, asking the glasses-wearing girl to call the manager.
They went directly to the housing authority to complete the transfer.
Xu Zhengyang covered the full intermediary fee.
Just paying the intermediary fee earned him 100 points, and no one could stop him from spending money!
Brother Zhao was also enthusiastic, insisting on taking Xu Zhengyang and Cheng Baola to the hospital, first to confirm his children's illness and reassure Xu Zhengyang that he wasn't deceiving him.
Second, he wanted his family to personally thank this benefactor.
Xu Zhengyang and Cheng Baola declined, citing other commitments, leaving their contact information to arrange for future communication.
They could already imagine that if they went to the hospital, his family would be crying and kneeling, and Xu Zhengyang didn't want to extend his lifespan unnecessarily.
After all the arrangements, it was already evening.
"Even though you did it to help him, buying a shop for 100 yuan means we can't possibly earn it back!" Cheng Baola said with a pout, clearly conflicted.
She knew Xu Zhengyang had money, but she hadn't expected him to be able to spend 100 so casually.
She certainly supported Xu Zhengyang in helping Brother Zhao, but this was a huge loss; they couldn't make it back running a restaurant.
"You don't understand. This is called accumulating good karma! And do you know, from a feng shui perspective, this shop is like my Wulong Ridge; it's very auspicious for me! As long as I buy it, I can earn back 100 yuan in ten days to half a month!" Xu Zhengyang said excitedly, making things up.
"Really?" Cheng Baola asked, her mouth slightly agape in surprise.
"More real than pearls," Xu Zhengyang said with a smile, starting the car to take the excited Cheng Baola to look at the shop one more time.
When they arrived in front of the shop and got out of the car, Xu Zhengyang suddenly saw someone at the street corner, seemingly watching him.
He turned abruptly, and the person, startled, immediately darted away!
Although it was getting dark and streetlights were coming on, with Xu Zhengyang's current vision, he could see clearly even from a hundred meters away.
He stood frozen in shock!
The person looked remarkably like someone from his memories!
His biological mother!
Was it an illusion?
His mother was already dead!
Xu Zhengyang snapped back to his senses and ran towards the street corner!
Cheng Baola looked back and saw he had disappeared, calling out in confusion, not knowing what had happened.
Xu Zhengyang reached the corner and saw the familiar figure turning into a small alley.
He quickened his pace to catch up.
At his running speed, the surrounding people could still see a shadow flicker past, but the person's face was indistinct.
The figure seemed surprised by Xu Zhengyang's speed.
Once in the alley, she suddenly sped up.
They began a chase in the narrow alley.
Xu Zhengyang was alarmed; the person ahead ran even faster than him, despite his enhanced physical abilities, and moved with ease.
"Stop! Stop!!"
Xu Zhengyang shouted twice.
Hearing the shout, the figure visibly hesitated.
She paused for two seconds, turned her head, and glanced sideways at Xu Zhengyang. Then, she did something that left Xu Zhengyang speechless.
She stamped hard on the wall, leaping three to five meters high, then used the opposite wall to propel herself.
She soared over ten meters into the air, reaching the fifth-floor terrace of a nearby hotel with a light touch of her toes, and then shot away into the night sky like a meteor, disappearing from Xu Zhengyang's sight.
Dressed in black, leaping from eaves and walls…