With a thud!
Suddenly, Divine Doctor Mo knelt before Zhang Xiaohao without warning. Before Xiaohao could react, Divine Doctor Mo kowtowed three times with reverence, completing the master-disciple ceremony, and said, "Master, from now on, your disciple Mo Shenggu is at your service."
Seeing that Divine Doctor Mo indeed honored their wager by acknowledging him as his master, Zhang Xiaohao was not a petty person. He calmly said, "Forget it, get up! Let's pretend that what happened just now didn't happen. Remember, when you're out in Jianghu in the future, never be arrogant or look down on others! Especially when you're unable to cure a patient, do not boast and hastily determine their fate. Alright, off you go!"
After speaking, Zhang Xiaohao indifferently waved his hand.
"Master, I was wrong. I should not have offended you just now. I earnestly ask for a chance to be your disciple, to follow by your side and humbly learn medical skills," Mo Shenggu said firmly.
"I'll say it again, are you leaving or not?" Zhang Xiaohao said.
"Unless Master agrees to take me as a disciple, I will not leave," Mo Shenggu replied.
"You won't leave, is that it? Fine! I'll show you out!" Having said that, Zhang Xiaohao grabbed Mo Shenggu by the neck, lifted him up, took him outside the villa, and threw him to the ground. With a clack, he closed the front door.
As a joke, a single request to be my disciple and you expect me to accept? To impart to you supreme medical knowledge? So that you can continue to be arrogant and haughty after you have learned? Who do you think you are? Are we familiar with each other?
Shaking his head, Zhang Xiaohao walked back into the room.
"Xiaohao, come and sit next to Grandpa," Mr. Cheng said gently.
Zhang Xiaohao complied with a sound, sat down beside Mr. Cheng, thought for a moment, and then said, "Grandfather, I have already inspected your health, and you have a terminal condition known as cirrhosis of the liver! By rights, even if you have this disease, since you've already taken medicine, it shouldn't relapse and cause fainting so soon, right? Why did it suddenly happen this time without warning?"
"As one ages, it's hard to endure the loneliness of the heart. While practicing Tai Chi in the villa, suddenly, I couldn't catch my breath, and then I fainted," Mr. Cheng said pensively.
"Hmm," Zhang Xiaohao responded with a sound, not giving it further thought.
"By the way, Xiaohao, have you and Xiao Xue registered and gotten your certificate?"
"We got the certificates this morning, and Xue'er even took me shopping for two sets of clothes," Zhang Xiaohao said, pointing to the suit he was wearing.
"Mmm, Xiao Xue has done well with this. You're both adults now, it's time to start a family and establish yourselves. Even if one day I am gone, I can leave in peace!"
After a pause, Mr. Cheng continued, "By the way, Xiaohao, when are you planning to have children?"
"Cough! Cough!" Zhang Xiaohao coughed violently, almost unable to catch his breath.
Cheng Tianxue, who was beside him, couldn't sit still any longer and preempted, "Grandfather, we are still young now and should prioritize our careers! When the career reaches a certain level and is fully stable, we will consider having children."
"Nonsense! On the matter of having children, Xiao Xue, I warn you, you don't have the authority to decide! And I won't allow you to take contraceptives behind Xiaohao's back! If I hear about it from Xiaohao, I'll take back your company and make you stay at home to raise children!" Mr. Cheng suddenly admonished with a stern face.
Hearing his words, Zhang Xiaohao silently applauded Mr. Cheng in his heart!
Ginger is indeed spicy with age! Even contraceptives were bluntly mentioned without hesitation.
Thinking about the scene that was about to unfold that evening, Cheng Tianxue lay freshly bathed on the soft, large bed waiting for herself, those astonishing jade rabbits, those deadly beautiful legs—biting into them would surely feel ecstatic.
Unconsciously, Zhang Xiaohao's gaze, hot, rested on Cheng Tianxue's chest, looking at the white ravine revealed between her breasts, his heart full of restless desire, yearning to immediately pounce on her and play roughly.
"Zhang Xiaohao, what are you leering at? Put away that disgusting gaze of yours!" Seeing Zhang Xiaohao's heated eyes fixed on her chest, Cheng Tianxue scolded with a cold face, her slight good impression from having just saved Mr. Cheng was lost again, eyes carrying a trace of disdain in their depths.
"Hmph!" Mr. Cheng scolded with a cold face, "Xiao Xue, how can you talk like that? Xiaohao is now your husband. What's wrong with him looking at you? To say nothing of just looking, even if he were to carry you off to have children right now, it would be proper! Apologize to him at once, or I will get angry."
"Grandpa, I..."
Cheng Tianxue's words were not yet finished when she was interrupted by Mr. Cheng, "Apologize!"
"I'm sorry!" Cheng Tianxue uttered, suppressing the aggrievance in her heart.
Having said that, she took out a black-and-white contract from her LV designer bag and said, "Grandpa, I've registered the marriage with him as you requested. Can you give me the money now?"
"Take it!" Mr. Cheng sighed and took out a cash cheque for five hundred million from under the pillow and handed it over.
"Grandpa, if there's nothing else, I won't disturb your rest. I will let Sister Zhou know later to take good care of you during this time," Cheng Tianxue stated.
"Xiao Xue, no matter what you think in your heart, I am informing you again now. Within a month, I must hear that you are pregnant! Otherwise, I will take back the company," Mr. Cheng said calmly.
"Grandpa, I have work at the company. I'm leaving now." Dropping a sentence, Cheng Tianxue rushed towards the outside.
"Old man, you lie in bed and slowly recuperate. I'm going to see what's happening," Zhang Xiaohao said, hurrying after Cheng Tianxue.
"Ah! Xiao Xue, I hope you can understand Grandpa's painstaking efforts. Grandpa is doing this for your own good! To make Xiaohao your husband, Grandpa used a precious opportunity that he has been reluctant to use for twenty years!" Watching their retreating backs, Mr. Cheng looked out the window with complex feelings.
Outside the villa.
Seeing Cheng Tianxue and Zhang Xiaohao coming out one after another, Divine Doctor Mo's eyes lit up, and he scrambled up from the ground, rushing towards Zhang Xiaohao.
With speed that belied his age of over sixty, he moved not like an elderly man but more like a twenty-something-year-old.
"Master above, please accept me!" Divine Doctor Mo said fawningly.
Delayed by him, Cheng Tianxue had already opened the car door and was about to drive away. Zhang Xiaohao, in a swift motion, had already reached the car, pulled open the passenger door, and sat down inside.
Cheng Tianxue gave Zhang Xiaohao a cold glance, saying nothing, treating him as if he were air, and started the car to drive away.
"Master, wait for me..." Seeing the car driving off, Divine Doctor Mo cried out anxiously.
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