Chapter 30 Ye Tianming, A Brother Who Protects His Sister (1/2)
Xiao Bing held up his glass, and Ye Tianming volunteered to fill Xiao Bing's glass. Xiao Bing took a small sip and said with a smile, ”Master Ye has something to ask from me. You are going out of your way to enlist me. It is kind of an honour.”
Ye Tianming said with a serious face, ”I am just lucky to be born into a rich family. I have never known who's high-class or who's low-class.”
Xiao Bing raised his eyes and looked to him, asked, ”Is it for your father?”
”Exactly.” Ye Tianming said with a worried face, ”My father's physical condition is getting worse and worse. His illness was very sudden. During this period, he visited famous doctors at home and abroad. No one was able to cure him. The only thing he could do was to look for the old Mr. Zhang Yizhi, who is reputed as a medical sage in Hua Xia. However, Mr. Zhang retired two years ago and never treated anyone again. We had already given up our plan until Brother Xiao invited Mr. Zhang to Jiang City...”
Seeing that Xiao Bing didn't get impatient, Ye Tianming continued, ”Since Brother Xiao asked Mr. Zhang to treat your friend, there must be a way to ask him to treat my father. And it could happen if Brother Xiao helps us. Saving a life is better than building a Class Seven pagoda. Since Brother Xiao was a soldier before, I believe Brother Xiao would never just watch on as a life died in front of you.”
”Soldiers are duty-bound to defend their country. It is the nature of soldiers to guard their own country and people. There exists kindness and justice in the hearts of soldiers. Perhaps Brother Xiao would say that there are many people in Hua Xia dying of illness. Even if you help my family, you cannot help everyone. But now there is a life you could save by just changing your mind. If you don't help, are you still a soldier? Can your conscience be at ease?”
Xiao Bing's eyes gleamed slightly. He smiled and asked, ”Are you goading me?”
”I am goading you. To save my father.” Ye Tianming said, ”But I am also speaking the truth!”
When Ye Tianming saw Xiao Bing's calm face, it was hard for him to guess Xiao Bing's real feelings. He sighed slightly and continued, ”The following words are what I will say to you as my father's son.”
Xiao Bing's body gently leaned against the seat, willing to hear him out.
”I have 2 sisters who are excellent. Our parents loved us very much since we were born, especially my mother. Because my father was busy with his career every day and didn't have much time to spend with us, my mother was the one who took care of us. Our family was happy. Until five years ago, my mother died suddenly at home. No one could find out the real cause of her death. Before long, my father took another woman home. And that was our stepmother.”
Xiao Bing didn't expect such a story to have happened to the Ye family. It was like a soap opera of a rich and powerful family.
”Since then, my father has spent all his energy on that woman. And he has become estranged from us... But he is still very good to my sister, probably because of her young age. I also hate him... My mother just died, but before her body turned cold, another woman already moved into the house of our Ye family, as my dad's legal wife!”
”But it was not until he got sick this time that I realized... That he is my father after all.” Ye Tianming looked at Xiao Bing, with a pleading face and said, ”Now I ask you for help, not as the son of a rich family. No matter how many identities we have, there is only one identity that remains the purest and most important… Brother and sister, father and son, husbund and wife... Now I am asking you to help me as the son of a dying patient.”
It was really not easy for the son of a wealthy family to do this. Xiao Bing felt moved by him and was about to speak when his cell phone rang. Xiao Bing took out his cell phone and looked at it. It was Yezi. His face immediately showed a happy and slightly spoiled smile. After the phone call got through, the nifty voice of Yezi came through the phone, ”Brother Bing, I'm almost arriving at the noodle house. How about we go out and have lunch together?”
Xiao Bing said with a wry smile, ”I'm meeting a friend. And we are discussing something right now.”
”Discussing something?” Yezi asked with a voice full of alert, ”Is it a man or a woman?”
Xiao Bing smiled, ”A man.”
On the other side of the table, Ye Tianming said with a subtle smile on his face, ”Girlfriend? Invite her to join us. We have just started eating.”
Xiao Bing explained, ”She may not come.”
Hearing this, Yezi snorted and said in a nifty voice, ”Who said that? I am still hungry. Give me the address. I am going.”
Xiao Bing thought for a moment and told Yezi the specific address. Then he hung up the phone. God knows how surprised the two siblings would be when they meet.
After hanging up the phone, Xiao Bing looked at Ye Tianming and said with a serious face, ”I have heard every word you said. And I have decided to help you with this.”
Ye Tianming said excitedly, ”Brother Xiao, are you serious?”
Xiao Bing smiled and asked, ”Don't call me Brother Xiao. How old are you this year?”
”Twenty-three.”
”Oh.” Xiao Bing asked casually, ”How old are your sisters?”
”My sister Ye Xinyi is twenty-five this year, and my sister Ye Xiaoxi just turned twenty.”
”Holy cr*p, I am robbing the cradle. But Yezi is only six years younger than me, which is not really a big age gap.”
Xiao Bing nodded and said, ”Then call me Brother Bing. They usually call me Brother Bing.”
”Now you call me Brother Bing, but it may soon be the other way around - I'll call you my brother-in-law.”
Ye Tianming didn't mind either. He smiled and raised his glass, ”Brother Bing, then I thank you. Thank you for helping me with this. Now I can fulfill my filial duty as a son. I will make a toast to you with this glass of wine.”
The two men clinked their glasses and drank the wine at the same time.
”Brother Bing, from which army did you retire from?”
Xiao Bing smiled subtly and did not answer.