Chapter 144 - More Injustice Than Dou E (1/2)

Chapter 144 - More Injustice Than Dou E

It was late when they left Zhang Sen’s place. Xia Lei and Liang Si-Yao had had quite a bit to drink. Xia Lei was a little better and could just barely drive but Liang Si-Yao was dead drunk and unsteady on her feet. Xia Lei had to help her into the car.

Xia Lei drove his car out of the villa and stopped before he entered the main road. He wanted to rest for a bit and drive only after his face lost its redness. The traffic police would flag him down for drink-driving for sure if he drove in the city with a red face. One test and his driving license would be gone.

Liang Si-Yao slumped bonelessly in the passenger seat, her face and neck flushed with alcohol. Her pair of beautiful legs extended from the office skirt, the stockings encasing them like a second skin; she looked peaceful, beautiful.

Xia Lei looked at her and she looked back with heavy-lidded eyes. A faint smile played about her lips; who knew what she was happy about.

“What do you think was going on with that Zhang Sen, Senior Disciple?” Xia Lei broke the silence in the car. “Even if he was not upset over me throwing him into the pool and wants to work with us, he didn’t want a percentage of the profits either. He would lose a lot of potential money if our products sell well on JD. Why do you think he’s doing this?”

Liang Si-Yao shook her head, her large eyes bleary. “I, I don’t know… I know.”

Xia Lei smiled wryly. “Do you know or not know?”

“I wanna peepee!”

“What?” Xia Lei felt a headache coming on.

“Quick! I can’t hold it anymore!”

Xia Lei quickly stopped the car.

Liang Si-Yao staggered onto the beach. Xia Lei was afraid that she’d fall so he hurried after her.

A few minutes later, Xia Lei drove the car back to the main road and went straight to Liang Si-Yao’s home.

When he arrived at the Liang household, he opened the door using the duplicate key Liang Si-Yao had given him and carried her into her bedroom. Liang Si-Yao slept soundly through all this. Xia Lei covered her with a blanket and left her room.

“Ahem.” A male voice came from behind him.

Xia Lei braced himself and turned around. “Master, were you not asleep yet?” said Xia Lei respectfully.

“You made so much noise that I came out to take a look,” said Liang Zheng-Chun. He looked at the red-faced Xia Lei and wrinkled his brows. “You drank?”

Xia Lei summoned his courage. “Senior Disciple and I went to meet with an investor to discuss sales avenues for our company’s products. Senior Disciple, she uh, is drunk and fell asleep.”

“Troublemakers.” Liang Zheng-Chun’s expression was stern. “Is work more important than your own health? What use is wealth when your health suffers for it?”

“I’m sorry, Master. I’ve erred and this will never happen again.” Xia Lei looked contrite.

Liang Zheng-Chun’s gaze landed on Xia Lei’s legs and he frowned when he saw his wet trousers. “Why are your trousers wet? Did you fall in water?”

The scene from the beach replayed itself in Xia Lei’s head - Liang Si-Yao squatting next to him, and Liang Si-Yao wetting his trousers and shoes. His face turned red. Good thing his face was already red so the blush couldn’t be seen.

“Uh, yes. I was relieving myself by the side of the road and accidentally fell in a ditch.” Xia Lei thought fast and came up with an explanation in line with Liang Zheng-Chun’s assumptions.

It wasn’t right to lie to his Master but he couldn’t say that his daughter had peed on him, could he?

“Forget it. I shall not bother to reprimand you. Go to the study and maintain the horse stance for an hour, then go to bed,” said Liang Zheng-Chun.

“Yes, Master.” Xia Lei couldn’t wait to finish this awkward conversation and hurried to the study.

As he passed him, Liang Zheng-Chun caught a whiff of Xia Lei and suspicion spread across his face. “This smell… What ditch did he fall into?”

Xia Lei obediently did the horse stance for an hour in the study. Perspiration beaded his body and the alcohol in him came out with the perspiration too, relieving his body. After he was done, he took a few books on traditional Chinese medicine from Liang Zheng-Chun’s bookshelves and brought them to the room which had been allocated to him.

He lay on the bed to read the Chinese medicine volumes after his shower.

Learning medicine was an idea he’d had when he was in Germany but he hadn’t time for it till now.

Martial art practitioners mostly had some knowledge of Chinese medicine like Tuina massage, acupuncture and moxibustion because they were both quintessential aspects of China and shared many similar theories. A simple example would be meridians and acupuncture points - every practitioner knew those. This knowledge was also the foundation of acupuncture and moxibustion. If one knew the meridians and acupuncture points it would be easy to be proficient in acupuncture and moxibustion.

The first book Xia Lei read was one on acupuncture and moxibustion.