Chapter 28
Of course Jiang Mi heard Liang Jinyi’s words. He reached out and knocked Jinyi on the forehead. “Little Brother, you really are getting bolder and bolder. You even dare to joke about Brother now.”
Liang Jinyi smiled faintly and said nothing.
At that moment, the wedding host, wearing a dark-red round-collared robe, invited Jiang Mi and the other two groomsmen over. Some wedding etiquette needed to be explained.
So Jiang Mi went over.
Jiang Mi’s tasks at this wedding were not heavy. When the wedding ceremony began, he needed to follow behind the groom and go together to welcome the bride walking down the red carpet. Then he would act as part of the background for a while, hand over two props, and could leave the stage. After that, it would be other people’s turn.
The newlyweds wrote the marriage letter, knelt and bowed to Heaven and Earth, the parents came onstage, they bowed to their parents, drank the wedding wine, and carried out a modified bed-curtain scattering ritual.
By then, Jiang Mi had already sat down beside Liang Jinyi, watching the couple onstage go through the complicated but beautifully meaningful procedures.
The hotel lights only shone on the center of the ceremonial stage. Beneath the stage where the ceremony was being held, the lighting was dim. Jiang Mi watched as they finally completed all the procedures with difficulty, and the host began delivering the final blessing. Suddenly, a man wearing a gray jacket jumped onto the stage from the left side.
Before everyone could figure out what the man wanted to do, they saw him move extremely quickly and take off his jacket, revealing a white T-shirt underneath printed with two huge photos. Jiang Mi’s expression changed slightly, and he immediately stood up and walked toward the stage.
Seeing Brother stand up, Liang Jinyi hurriedly followed.
At this moment, the man who had rushed onto the stage began his plan. He turned around, displaying the two intimate bed photos of himself and the bride printed on the front and back of his shirt to all the guests. At the same time, he pressed play on the recording pen in his hand. When Zhou Tian’s gasps and voice saying she loved him rang out, the man said crazily, “Zhou Tian said she would marry me. I was her first man. Today—”
The person closest to the man was the wedding host. He reached out, wanting to cover the man’s mouth, but the man possessed brute strength and pushed him far away with one shove.
Sun Tianwang also wanted to drive the man off the stage, but the man had come prepared. While dodging, he shouted sharply, “Zhou Tian, this woman with no integrity—”
Jiang Mi and two male guests who were close by finally jumped onto the ceremonial stage. They wanted to cover the man’s mouth and take him away from the wedding venue. However, this man studied sports and was currently a boxing coach at a boxing gym. He was muscular and agile. Although the other two guests were adult men, they rarely exercised, and without much effort, the man knocked them both to the ground.
Jiang Mi exercised, Jiang Mi worked out, and Jiang Mi had also learned some self-defense techniques. But he still couldn’t beat a boxing coach. Just as the other party’s fist was about to land on his face, Liang Jinyi stepped forward and kicked him to the ground.
Qin Fan flew into a rage. He pulled a folding knife hidden in his pants, exerted force through his lower back, leapt up, and swung the fruit knife toward Liang Jinyi.
“Jinyi, be careful.” Jiang Mi subconsciously pulled Liang Jinyi.
The fruit knife scraped across the back of Jiang Mi’s hand. Liang Jinyi’s eyes narrowed. He raised his hand, grabbed Qin Fan’s wrist, and twisted it viciously with brutal force. Qin Fan cried out in pain, his expression twisting as he loosened his hand. As the fruit knife fell to the floor with a clatter, Liang Jinyi kicked hard toward his internal organs.
Qin Fan immediately collapsed to the ground and couldn’t get up. Other guests who had gone up onto the stage hurriedly dragged Qin Fan out.
Only then did Liang Jinyi turn his head and pick up the back of Jiang Mi’s right hand.
Jiang Mi exerted force, wanting to pull his hand out of Liang Jinyi’s grip, but he failed. He could only say, “It’s fine. Just a little scraped skin. It’ll be fine after sleeping two nights.”
What Jiang Mi said was true. Although the fruit knife had cut his skin and a little blood had seeped out, the wound actually wasn’t serious.
But the other person seemed to be quite serious.
“Jinyi, that kick just now—I think that person probably has internal injuries.” When the man was kicked to the ground by Liang Jinyi, he had started coughing nonstop, the kind of cough that sounded hoarse and suffocated.
Liang Jinyi said coldly, “He deserves it.”
He stared at the back of Jiang Mi’s hand and frowned. “Brother, I’ll go find a Band-Aid for you.”
Jiang Mi wanted to say there was no need. Such a small wound didn’t require treatment. However, Little Brother had already left by then. By the time Liang Jinyi got alcohol wipes and a Band-Aid from the hotel front desk, cleaned Jiang Mi’s wound, and put the Band-Aid on him, the police had also arrived.
Although this wedding had an unexpected farce, they still had to brace themselves and continue. And the kick that left the man unable to get up had been done by Liang Jinyi, so Jiang Mi and Liang Jinyi, along with two relatives from the groom’s side and two relatives from the bride’s side, went with the police to give statements.
Because on the way to the hospital, Qin Fan kept saying his stomach hurt and his face was pale, the police were afraid something might happen, so they first took him to a nearby hospital. In the end, the doctor diagnosed him with massive internal bleeding that required hospitalization.
Now the police had no way of taking Qin Fan back to the station. They could only have Jiang Mi and the others return to the police station to give statements.
After learning that the kick that caused the other party’s internal organs to rupture and bleed had been delivered by Liang Jinyi, the elderly policeman, who was over fifty, carefully looked Liang Jinyi over and sighed. “Young man, there’s no small amount of strength in that foot of yours. Massive internal bleeding. His spleen and lungs are both ruptured.”
Jiang Mi said, “My little brother is studying sanda. His strength is a bit greater than an ordinary person’s.”
After the police asked further and learned that Liang Jinyi was still a minor, he reminded him, “With that much strength, you can’t use such heavy force in the future. Even if it’s self-defense, there’s still such a thing as excessive defense.”
Jiang Mi answered on Liang Jinyi’s behalf and said they would pay attention in the future.
Jiang Mi then looked at Liang Jinyi. Liang Jinyi promised the old policeman insincerely that he would pay attention in the future.
The two walked out of the police station. Jiang Mi looked at Liang Jinyi walking beside him with an expressionless face and laughed softly. “What, Jinyi, are you still feeling unwilling?”
Liang Jinyi’s tone was cold and fierce. “I don’t think that kick was very heavy.”
Jiang Mi looked somewhat surprised. “Jinyi, his internal organs ruptured, he had massive bleeding, and he was hospitalized. If you kicked any harder, I’m afraid you’d have to go to a detention center.”
“I don’t want to visit you in a detention center.”
A bit of grievance appeared on Liang Jinyi’s beautiful face. “Brother.”
“All right, all right. I know you did it because of me. But when we do things, we need a sense of proportion. He only cut the back of my hand. You made him stay in the hospital for ten days to half a month. That’s already quite worth it. You can’t keep thinking that what you did wasn’t ruthless enough,” Jiang Mi said.
Liang Jinyi knew Jiang Mi had always been someone with principles and a sense of limits. He also knew that to Jiang Mi, the price Qin Fan had paid was not small.
“All right,” Liang Jinyi temporarily promised.
“Good.” Jiang Mi wanted to reach out and rub Liang Jinyi’s head, only to discover that Liang Jinyi was taller than him and he would have to stand on tiptoe. Jiang Mi changed it to patting his shoulder instead.
At that moment, the guests who had given statements with them finally hailed two taxis and called for Jiang Mi and Liang Jinyi to hurry and get in.
“Let’s go, Jinyi. Get in the car.” Jiang Mi reached out and tugged Liang Jinyi’s arm.
Twenty minutes later, the group returned to the hotel.
It was already four in the afternoon now. The lunch banquet had long since ended, and more than half of the guests had dispersed. However, according to custom, close relatives and friends would still stay for dinner.
So everyone was resting in the entertainment room and the banquet hall provided by the hotel.
Before Jiang Mi even reached the banquet hall, he saw Sun Tianwang walking over. The people from the groom’s side who helped Sun Tianwang handle this matter were his eldest uncle and older male cousin. From the bride’s side, it was her maternal uncle and older male cousin. After the few of them briefly said a few words to Sun Tianwang, they separately entered the banquet hall to find Sun Tianwang’s parents and Zhou Tian’s parents.
Only then did Sun Tianwang look at Jiang Mi and let out a sigh.
Jiang Mi placed his hand on Sun Tianwang’s shoulder. Sun Tianwang had changed out of the Ming-style wedding attire he had worn in the morning and changed into the black suit prepared in advance. Jiang Mi comforted him. “It’s already over. Don’t think about it.”
Sun Tianwang forced out a smile with difficulty. “Mm, it’s over.”
“You and Jinyi didn’t eat lunch. Stay and have dinner.”
Jiang Mi’s lunch had been eaten at the hospital. He had bought some bread to stave off hunger.
He thought it over for a moment, then nodded. “Okay.”
After dinner, when they left the hotel, it was already seven in the evening.
Before dinner, Jiang Mi and Liang Jinyi had gone back to the Sun house and driven the Audi parked downstairs at the Sun house to the hotel parking lot. Jiang Mi had also changed out of the dark-red robe and back into his sapphire-blue suit.
After dinner, Jiang Mi said goodbye to Sun Tianwang, then left with Liang Jinyi.
At night, Bei City’s lights were brilliant. The dazzling streetlights on both sides of the road fell across Jiang Mi’s handsome side profile.
Liang Jinyi sat in the front passenger seat and looked at Jiang Mi’s tightly furrowed brows. He asked with concern, “Brother, what are you thinking about? Why are you so unhappy?”
Someone in the right lane turned on their signal, intending to overtake. Jiang Mi lowered his speed slightly to make it easier for them to pass, and at the same time, he sighed. “The atmosphere at tonight’s dinner…”
In fact, it wasn’t just the atmosphere at dinner that had been abnormally heavy. He had left with the police at noon, but high school friends like Lu Chenghe and Zhang Rui had been there. They had sent him messages in the afternoon about the atmosphere at noon, which had been even heavier. Some guests had even taken photos of the intimate pictures of Qin Fan and Zhou Tian printed on Qin Fan’s shirt and discussed them in whispers.
Of course, Zhou Tian could sue Qin Fan and accuse him of violating her privacy. Even if Qin Fan would pay a certain price, the impact this matter brought to Zhou Tian and Sun Tianwang was clearly greater.
Sun Tianwang and Zhou Tian had been introduced by a friend. They had a certain degree of feelings for each other. But during dinner today, Jiang Mi had observed that Sun Tianwang was already somewhat avoiding Zhou Tian’s gaze.
The two of them had only gotten their marriage certificate half a month ago.
Their married life had only just begun.
“So, Brother, you’re worrying over Brother Tianwang and Sister Zhou Tian?” Liang Jinyi asked.
There was a red light ahead. Jiang Mi stepped on the brake and maintained about a meter of distance from the Volkswagen in front. Hearing Liang Jinyi ask this, he gave an irritable “Mm.”
“Brother.” Liang Jinyi suddenly turned sideways and leaned toward Jiang Mi in the driver’s seat.
Jiang Mi turned his head and looked at Liang Jinyi.
The car interior lights were not on. Only colorful neon lights shone in through the windows. Liang Jinyi reached out, lifted Jiang Mi’s chin, and said, “I don’t like you worrying over other people.”
He asked in great confusion, “You have me. Am I not enough for you to worry about?”
Little Brother was indeed still the same possessive Little Brother. Jiang Mi smiled and took his hand down. “All right, all right. Brother will only worry about you.”
“Are you about to have monthly exams?” The red light turned green. The Volkswagen ahead started its engine, and Jiang Mi followed closely behind.
Liang Jinyi said, “The monthly exams are coming soon.”
“Your biological brother said that when you were in first year of high school, you were always in the top fifty of the grade, but in the start-of-term exam last time, you dropped to over eighty. Little Brother, this time, you have to test back into the top fifty for me,” Jiang Mi said.
Hearing this, Liang Jinyi smiled. “Then if I don’t make it into the top fifty of the grade? Brother, will you tutor me?”
Jiang Mi glanced from the corner of his eye at Big Friend Liang Jinyi, whose possessiveness was the same as when he was little, and said, “No. I won’t tutor you. I’ll only despise you for being stupid.”
Author’s Note
Brother: The grade’s number one is qualified to despise the grade’s fiftieth-place idiot.
