“Let’s go then.”

Han Zhou sighed, “Go and complete the discharge procedures, and then go home.”

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 392: Departure with the Sunset Behind

“go home?”

Hearing this familiar yet unfamiliar word, Xiao Xiaoxiao suddenly became a little nervous. She subconsciously grabbed the wheelchair and refused to let anyone push it. “Which home are you going back to?”

She heard from the police who came to see her that if a minor like her could not find her biological parents or any relatives, the government would most likely find a family to adopt her, or send her to an orphanage. In short, they would try their best to give her a relatively complete childhood.

Although she repeatedly stated that she did not need to be adopted and did not want to go to an orphanage, the police just shook their heads and smiled bitterly without making any further comments.

She was worried that she would be sent to a strange family.

No wonder Han Zhou took me out to play today. Was it because they were about to separate?

“I still want to continue…”

“Back to my house, of course.”

The words “I still want to stay in the hospital” were still on her lips when Han Zhou suddenly said something that made her breath stop.

“Go back…to your home?”

“Where else do you want to go?”

Han Zhou gave her a strange look and said, “I heard from the police that you neither wanted to be adopted nor go to an orphanage. I had to persuade them to agree to place you in my home. Since you are in a hurry to be discharged from the hospital, you have no choice but to come back with me.”

Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned for a long time, and her eyes suddenly dimmed: “I don’t want to go to your house.”

Han Zhou was not surprised and asked, “Where do you want to go?”

“I…I want to stay in the hospital.”

“You’re dreaming.” Han Zhou said unhappily, “The hospital bill is too expensive. If I wasn’t about to be unable to pay, I wouldn’t want to take you home.”

Xiao Xiaoxiao said that just now because she didn’t want to drag Han Zhou down. Seeing the other party’s tone of disgust, she was immediately furious: “What do you mean by that? I will not return your money!”

“Besides, you obviously don’t want me to stay in the hospital anymore. Why don’t you just say it directly? Why did you test me in various ways just now and make me say that I don’t want to be hospitalized!”

Han Zhou said seriously: “I’m not testing you, I just want you to understand the pros and cons of early discharge. Since you don’t care, then of course there is no problem.”

“I care, I want to stay in the hospital!”

“But I really don’t have the money to pay for your hospitalization. I have almost completed the hospitalization procedures and am just waiting for your signature.”

“I won’t sign!”

“Don’t you really want to go to my house?” Han Zhou sighed and said helplessly, “Actually, if Director Wang hadn’t said that he would come to visit my home in a while, I wouldn’t want to bring you home.”

“What do you mean by that?” Xiao Xiaoxiao’s eyes widened. “So you want to take me back to your house just to use me?”

“It’s too much to say that you’re taking advantage of me.” Han Zhou coughed dryly, “At most, it’s mutually beneficial.”

“Where is the mutual benefit?” Xiao Xiaoxiao asked with a vigilant look.

“Look, I have applied to the school to become a day student. It will be more convenient for me to go home and take care of you, and you can help me with housework. Is this mutually beneficial?”

After a pause, Han Zhou continued, “Of course, the most important point is that you owe me a large sum of money. I know very well that a creditor who stays by your side is a good creditor, so it is safer for me to leave you at home.”

In fact, he knew very well in his heart that Xiao Xiaoxiao would not refuse his proposal to go home with him. The reason why he went around in circles was just to make it easier for the other party to accept it.

And Xiao Xiaoxiao certainly understood this.

She understood that she owed Han Zhou a lot. If she really followed him home, she would be completely dependent on him. If she could recover, it would be fine, but if not, she would just become a burden to him.

She could accept that one day in the future the other person would abandon her because he could no longer take care of her, but she was worried that if that day really came, this incident might cast a shadow on this guy’s heart.

So she was very conflicted, and the more Han Zhou tried to tell her not to care in this way, the more conflicted she became.

This guy is really a good person, even though he always denies it, he is indeed a good person.

She could turn herself into an unwanted defective product to torture those hateful human traffickers, but she couldn’t drag down such a good man.

Xiao Xiaoxiao secretly decided that even if she went to the welfare home, she would never go home with Han Zhou. However, just as she was about to say that, she heard Han Zhou suddenly smile bitterly: “It just so happens that I don’t have any family. It would be nice to see someone in the house every day when I come home.”

Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned and couldn’t speak for a long time.

“I told you that you are a scumbag.”

After a while, she pouted and muttered, “This is what everyone often calls PUA.”

Han Zhou smiled and said, “So we go to complete the discharge procedures?”

“Ah.”

Perhaps because he felt that his persistence was too vulnerable, Xiao Xiaoxiao lowered his head somewhat embarrassedly and said in a whisper, “Whether it’s the money I owe you or the favor I owe you, I will pay it back in the future… I hope you can live longer.”

The last sentence was spoken so softly that Han Zhou couldn’t hear it even when he got closer. He wondered, “What was your last sentence?”

“I said–“

Xiao Xiaoxiao took a deep breath and shouted loudly in his ear, “Good people don’t live long, evil people last for a thousand years, you will definitely live a hundred years!”

The loud voice echoed on both sides of the street, attracting a lot of people’s attention.

Fortunately, Han Zhou never cared about other people’s looks, and was not embarrassed. He just smiled and said, “Then I’ll borrow your good words.”

“shameless.”

Xiao Xiaoxiao spoke with disdain, but the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

Winter nights come quickly. After just a few steps, the night has completely spread. The cool air keeps swirling under the street lights.

Han Zhou pushed the wheelchair for a while, then suddenly thought of something and said, “Xiao Xiao, there is something I think it’s time to tell you.”

“Is it about my parents?” Xiao Xiaoxiao asked.

She was not stupid. When the police came to see her before, they hesitated many times. It was obvious that they wanted to tell her something but didn’t know how to start.

In order to catch all the human traffickers in one fell swoop, she has told the police all the clues she knows under Han Zhou’s persuasion, including information about her previous parents and her biological parents.

The police were very grateful to her for providing these clues and sympathized with her situation. It was normal that they didn’t know how to start the conversation for a while, so they should have told Han Zhou the relevant content, hoping that the other party could find a suitable time to convey these words to her.

“Yes.”

As expected, Han Zhou nodded.

After a moment of silence, Xiao Xiaoxiao clenched the piggy bank in her hand and said, “Tell me, I can accept any result. Have they been caught? Or are they dead?”

“neither.”

Han Zhou shook his head and smiled bitterly, “They are gone. The police have been looking for your biological parents for a long time but couldn’t find them. According to the villagers nearby, they moved away a long time ago and no one knows where they went.”

Xiao Xiaoxiao said “hmm”.

Whether disappearance or not, in a sense, this was actually the most acceptable outcome for her – no matter whether those two people were dead or alive, happy or unhappy, everything in the future had nothing to do with her.

I already have a new home.

“Don’t you have anything to say?” Han Zhou asked curiously.

“Should I say something?”

Xiao Xiaoxiao glared at him, hesitated for a moment and said, “If I have to say something… I am very grateful for their kindness in raising me, so even if they abandoned me, I don’t hate them at all, really.”

She was hinting to Han Zhou that if one day in the future the other party no longer wanted her, it didn’t matter, she would not hate him.

Han Zhou smiled, shook his head and said with emotion: “That’s why I said you are a child.”

A few white shadows passed across the sky, they seemed to be pigeons, but I didn’t know if they were the same ones I saw not long ago.

Xiao Xiaoxiao didn’t dare to look up at him, but said with a dissatisfied look: “I will get my ears pierced and wear earrings in two days, so that you won’t say such stupid things again.”

“Using earrings to show maturity, isn’t that stupid of you to say?” Han Zhou laughed.

He put his hands in his pockets and suddenly felt a little cold. He stretched out his hands and found two silver rose earrings in his hands.

If I remember correctly, this earring suddenly appeared in his pocket last week. He asked many people afterwards, and no one said they had lost the earring.

“Speaking of which, I do have a pair of earrings that I got from somewhere. They’re pretty nice. If you like them, I’ll give them to you.”

He put the earring into Xiao Xiaoxiao’s hand.

“I don’t know where it came from?” Xiao Xiaoxiao looked at the earrings and said disdainfully, “Don’t you know what it means to return lost property?”

Although she said that, she was immediately attracted by the silver earrings on her hand.

“I already said I don’t know where it came from. I’ve asked everyone I know, but I can’t just go around the streets asking if any strangers have lost their earrings, right?”

Seeing Xiao Xiaoxiao staring at the earrings in her hand with great interest, Han Zhou smiled and said, “Since you like it so much, I’ll give it to you, but I have to disinfect it first.”

“Are you sure this pair of earrings really has no owner?” Xiao Xiaoxiao asked worriedly.

“I’m not sure, but it’s been a week and no one has come to ask me for it. I can’t possibly keep it as a family heirloom, can I? I was planning to throw it away. If you like it, take it. It looks like it would suit you.”

After thinking for a while, Han Zhou reminded, “But I heard that piercing your ears is quite painful. Can you bear it?”

He regretted asking this question as soon as he asked it, feeling that he had said something nonsense. This was a girl who had the courage to jump out of the car and roll down the slope little by little. How could she be afraid of getting her ears pierced?

“Of course.”

As expected, Xiao Xiaoxiao gave an affirmative answer.

She didn’t really want to get her ears pierced, but in order to wear the pair of earrings on her hands, she gritted her teeth and persevered even though she was afraid of the pain.

She carefully put away the earrings and held up the piggy bank in her hand: “Then this piggy bank is for you.”

The little pig painted with gold looks adorable, with the word “Fu” written on its body, making it look particularly festive.

Han Zhou took the piggy bank with some surprise: “Is this considered a return gift?”

Xiao Xiaoxiao nodded first, then shook her head and said seriously: “I will work hard to fill this piggy bank in the future, and then it will be a return gift to you.”

Han Zhou was happy: “Then I am looking forward to it, but this shouldn’t be considered as you paying me back, right?”

He suddenly became alert.

“It doesn’t count!”

Xiao Xiaoxiao’s face immediately fell and she secretly cursed this guy for being a miser.

The two went to the hospital, found the doctor and went through the discharge procedures. They patiently wrote down the various precautions after discharge that the other party had mentioned. Han Zhou promised to come to the hospital regularly for checkups and dressing changes, and then pushed Xiao Xiaoxiao out of the hospital.