Xue Qiao'er's head was covered in black lines as she listened to them speak, utterly speechless.
She thought Li Xiuwu had an exceptionally rich imagination. She hadn't said a word yet, and he had already conjured up a whole string of assumptions! He had completely painted Qin Yi as a scoundrel who was morally corrupt, a coward, and selfishly greedy!
After a moment, Xue Qiao'er couldn't stand it any longer and forcefully interrupted, "Brother Li, you've made a huge mistake this time and misunderstood Qin Yi! In fact, it's all thanks to Qin Yi that I was able to successfully rescue those victims and apprehend Fan Zhiqi this time!"
"After you were injured and passed out, I also made a move, but I wasn't Fan Zhiqi's match! It was Qin Yi who defeated him!"
"???"
"!!!"
"..."
As soon as Xue Qiao'er uttered these two sentences, whether it was Li Xiuwu, Li Changsheng, or Fang Zheng'ao, they all froze, their expressions filled with utter shock.
Several seconds later, Fang Zheng'ao regained his composure and asked, "Group Leader Xue, is what you say true?"
Xue Qiao'er nodded with absolute certainty, "It's absolutely true! Do you think I would joke with you about something like this!"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Li Xiuwu, still on the stretcher, reacted with disbelief written all over his face. His emotions had even become somewhat agitated!
"Brother Li, you're just too prejudiced against Qin Yi. Before, influenced by you, I also thought he wasn't much..." Xue Qiao'er said with a hint of helplessness. "But this incident, I saw it with my own eyes! If it weren't for him, forget rescuing the victims and apprehending Fan Zhiqi, both of us would probably have died on Baihu Mountain!"
Li Xiuwu continued to shake his head, unwilling to believe, or perhaps unwilling to accept! After all, he had said so many bad things about Qin Yi earlier, and now this was clearly contradicting him!
Li Changsheng glanced at Fan Zhiqi and said thoughtfully, "If that's the case, then we need to re-evaluate Qin Yi."
"Vice Hall Master..."
Li Xiuwu wanted to say more, but Li Changsheng interrupted him with a raised hand, "Go down and recover from your injuries. Don't worry about anything else for now!"
Li Xiuwu had no choice but to shut his mouth and was carried away to recuperate.
Immediately, Li Changsheng had Fan Zhiqi taken away as well and said, "Group Leader Xue, let's go to the conference room. You can tell us all about what happened on Baihu Mountain."
...
It was already evening when Qin Yi and Han Xin returned home. Han Xin was driving and first dropped Qin Yi off at Fuguirenjia before heading to her own home.
Originally, Qin Yi wanted to go home with Han Xin, but because Han Sanwan was at home, Han Xin felt awkward and refused. Qin Yi suggested Han Xin go to their place, but with Zheng Shufen and Qin Lei there, Han Xin felt even more embarrassed.
In the end, seeing that he couldn't persuade Han Xin, Qin Yi gave up and decided they should each go their separate ways.
"Alright, Qin Yi, there's always tomorrow. There will be plenty of opportunities later!" Han Xin said as she drove, seeing Qin Yi's dejected look. She reached out a hand and rubbed his thigh to comfort him.
Qin Yi grabbed Han Xin's hand and said with feigned grievance, "I don't want 'tomorrow,' I want you right now..."
"What did you say?"
Clearly, Han Xin couldn't understand his meaning. It wasn't until the next moment, when she saw a wicked smile on Qin Yi's face and her mind suddenly flashed with understanding, that she realized. Instantly, her cheeks flushed, and she pinched Qin Yi's thigh, "You pervert..."
"Hiss!"
Qin Yi gasped in pain. Just as he grabbed her hand, about to say something, an old woman suddenly staggered out from the roadside and fell in front of their car. Han Xin immediately slammed on the brakes, bringing the car to an abrupt halt. Fortunately, Han Xin braked in time and did not hit the old woman.
Qin Yi and Han Xin pushed open their doors and quickly got out.
"Grandma, grandma..."
They walked to the old woman's side and found that she had already fainted. Han Xin called out several times, but there was no response. In this situation, Qin Yi immediately took one of her hands and began to check her pulse. After taking her pulse for about ten seconds, Qin Yi also flipped open her eyelids to examine them.
Han Xin asked from the side, "What's wrong with her???"
Qin Yi's brows furrowed slightly, and he said, "She has a serious illness. It's a sudden onset of her condition, which is why she fainted..."
As Qin Yi replied, he quickly pressed two fingers onto several acupoints on the old woman's body.
"Humph!"
As he pressed the last acupoint, although the old woman didn't wake up, she let out a soft groan, showing some reaction. Then, Qin Yi said, "She needs to be treated in a hospital. We should take her to the hospital immediately!"
"Okay!"
Han Xin agreed without hesitation, turned, and opened the car door. Qin Yi carefully carried the old woman into the car, and Han Xin started the engine, driving towards the hospital at the fastest speed possible. Not long after, they took the old woman to the First People's Hospital. Thanks to Han Xin's connections, the hospital immediately assigned the best doctor to treat the old woman upon their arrival. They quickly identified her and contacted her family by phone.
Qin Yi and Han Xin did not leave, waiting specifically for the old woman's family to arrive. The family, consisting of a man and a woman, the old woman's son and daughter-in-law, arrived at the hospital shortly after receiving the news. Qin Yi and Han Xin explained the situation to them and were about to leave after a few words.
However, just then, an unexpected scene unfolded. Before they could even take a step, the old woman's son blocked their path.
"Don't you dare leave..."
The old woman's daughter-in-law joined him, blocking them: "You hit our mother and sent her to the hospital. Do you think you can just walk away like this? Aren't you thinking a little too beautifully?"
"!!!"
Qin Yi and Han Xin were stunned simultaneously. Immediately, Han Xin said, "Sir, Madam, didn't you hear clearly? We didn't hit your mother. Our car didn't touch her at all. She fainted on the road due to her own illness!"
"Heh heh..."
The old woman's son chuckled at her words and said, "Do we look like three-year-old children? Do you think we'd believe that?"
"If you didn't hit her, why did you bring my mother to the hospital? Since you brought my mother to the hospital, it must be that you hit her. You're trying to cover your tracks!"
Qin Yi and Han Xin's faces both developed black lines! They had kindly brought the old woman to the hospital, only to be wrongly accused of being the culprits by the other party! This was something they had only seen on news reports before, and they never expected to encounter it in reality. They were utterly speechless!
Qin Yi said, "Whether you believe it or not, this is the fact! And our car has a driving recorder. If you truly don't believe us, we can go and check the recording!"