Chapter 86: Disengagement

Tan Mo was in a particularly good mood this weekend.

Although, when Qiao Lan returned to school on Sunday, she tried again to get Qiao Lan to give up school and stay at home.

Qiao Lan righteously refused.

Qiao Lan has done some simple calculations. Since she fell in love with Tan Mo, Qiao Lan has done three papers this weekend alone, and nothing else.

At the usual weekend pace, Qiao Lan will be able to do at least six papers and go through one more subject briefly.

So it still makes sense to say that early love is banned in schools.

Too much of a delay in study, too much of a drain on the will.

This is not going to work very well.

Someone who could have vowed to take a six-figure scholarship to the highest institution of learning.

Qiao Lan refused him because of his studies, and Tan Mo could not find any reason to refute this. In the past, when he was learning new things, Tan Mo could still say that he would ask Qiao Lan to come back so that he could tutor him, but now that it was late in his senior year and people did not need to learn new things but started to brush up on their old knowledge over and over again, Qiao Lan did not need Tan Mo's one-to-one tutoring either.

Tan Mo thought Qiao Lan was outrageous, saying things like it was better to play with you than to study for a paper.

In the end, Qiao Lan had no choice but to be sent back to school before the Sunday evening study session.

When Qiao Lan was dropped off and Tan Mo and Uncle Chan were alone in the car, Uncle Chan talked about other things that Qiao Lan could not hear.

About Qiao Family.

Uncle Chan's initial search for Qiao's father Qiao's mother was simple, and it was too easy for Uncle Chan to find out about such a family, and it was Uncle Chan who took the initiative to contact the Qiao Family when he first helped Qiao Yuan.

Uncle Chan and Tan Mo knew the Qiao family well, but Qiao's father Qiao's mother didn't even know Tan Mo's name, let alone Tan Mo's details. Uncle Chan had broken off contact with Qiao's father Qiao's mother, and as long as Uncle Chan and Tan Mo did not want to, there was no way Qiao's father Qiao's mother could find them.

It has been over a month since Qiao Yuan was discharged from hospital and in that time the Qiao Family has not given up looking for Tan Mo.

Tan Mo paid the bulk of the money for the operation and the Qiao Family paid for the rest of the medication themselves.

That's why people are always different. Some people are just insatiable and take the goodwill of others as their own.

This is the Qiao Family.

Tan Mo paid the biggest amount of money, and normal people should be grateful, but when it came to the Qiao family, it changed the taste, and in the words of Qiao's grandmother, since Tan Mo could put up hundreds of thousands of dollars, it was not as bad as the next hundred thousand.

It's not that bad anyway, so let's just pay for it.

What's more, Qiao's grandmother is now convinced that Tan Mo had nothing to do with the closure of Qiao's father and Qiao's mother's restaurant, and that Tan Mo is responsible for what happened to them.

It was clear that he was asking for something, but he acted as if he was the one who was justified.

Unfortunately, the Qiao Family were raring to go to Tan Mo for justice, but Tan Mo was nowhere to be found.

Qiao's father Qiao's mother was a bit scared, and Tan Mo's initial warning, although absurd, was inevitably cautious because it involved his own son.

But Tan Mo was nowhere to be found, the restaurant had been rented out and there was no hope of getting any money, and Qiao Yuan's illness required more money than she thought.

Qiao's eldest sister who came home to visit Qiao Yuan couldn't understand why Qiao's father and Qiao's mother were still looking for Qiao Lan. Qiao Lan has already left the Qiao Family's household. The condition for helping Qiao Yuan was that she should not bother Qiao Lan anymore, but she broke the contract after receiving the favour.

Qiao's eldest sister couldn't resist saying a few words, but Qiao's grandmother said a few words back.

Qiao's grandmother said that Qiao's eldest sister, a daughter who married out, had long since ceased to be a member of the Qiao Family.

Qiao's eldest sister suddenly feels like she's still thinking about these people all the time, for what exactly?

As Qiao's grandmother said, she had married and was no longer a member of the Qiao Family, so what did it matter to her what happened to the Qiao Family?

Her mother-in-law always scolded her for being soft-hearted and unambitious, and Qiao's eldest sister kept retorting that after all, these were her biological parents, but after this time and time again, Qiao's eldest sister suddenly felt that there was really no point anymore.

Do what you like.

Whatever happens to the Qiao Family in the future, she absolutely, literally, wants nothing more to do with it.

So the last of the Qiao Family who had some sense of perspective left, Qiao's father, Qiao's mother and Qiao's grandmother started looking for Qiao Lan in every way possible.

However, because of Qiao Yuan's case, several guards at the school remembered Qiao's father Qiao's mother, and almost the whole school knew that the couple had taken their daughter, who was a high achiever, to the hospital for a kidney transplant for their son.

Qiao's mother could not get into the school at all, so she never saw Qiao Lan.

Tan Mo and Uncle Chan took it all in their stride, not stopping or adding fuel to the fire, waiting quietly for the Qiao Family to make their final move.

As a result, before Qiao's father, Qiao's mother, could do anything, the Qiao Family got themselves into trouble.

Uncle Chan told Tan Mo that Qiao Yuan had had a big fight with the family and had run away.

Qiao Yuan was discharged from the hospital with great difficulty, and was nurtured by Qiao's father Qiao's mother every day, after all, a kidney transplant requires a very high quality of rest and recuperation, and only after more than a month did she finally return to school.

As a result, once Qiao Yuan returned, everything had changed.

The girl Qiao Yuan had liked for so long was as disgusting to him as she was to her former best friends.

Qiao Yuan realized that when she was in hospital, Qiao's mother came to the school every day and scolded all the boys who played well with Qiao Yuan, as if they had caused Qiao Yuan's fall; this was not enough, the worst was the girl. If not, Qiao Yuan would not have gone to play basketball for no reason and ended up in hospital.

It would be disgusting to anyone to insult a girl with such harsh words and then use the opportunity to blackmail her for money.

Qiao Yuan is the opposite of a good-looking boy who is a good student.

Qiao Yuan, a man who steals money from his family again and again for the sake of the girl he likes and for the sake of his so-called brothers, can see how vain he is. The "brotherhood" he had managed to build up and the girl he had managed to get to smile at him had all been ruined by his own mother.

Although everything Qiao's mother did was for the sake of Qiao Yuan.

But Qiao Yuan doesn't care.

Almost everyone in the school knew that Qiao's mother had asked Qiao Lan to have a kidney transplant for him, and everywhere he went there were people who knew that this was Qiao Lan's brother.

It was only two days before Qiao Yuan couldn't take it anymore.

When he returned home, he said he was dead set on not going to school.

Although Qiao's father Qiao's mother spoils Qiao Yuan, she spends a lot of money on Qiao Yuan's tuition, which shows that she still attaches great importance to her son's studies.

Qiao's father Qiao's mother disagreed, Qiao Yuan was already angry with Qiao's mother, and if it weren't for Qiao's mother, he wouldn't be in this situation where everyone hated him, and if it weren't for Qiao's mother, the girls he liked wouldn't hate him so much.

Qiao's mother, who was dedicated to Qiao Yuan, could never have imagined that her son would resent her so much in the end.

The more Qiao's mother was like this, the more Qiao Yuan felt that Qiao's mother was really what everyone said she was, uncultured and unqualified, a shrew.

Qiao Yuan used to resent Qiao's mother for being uneducated, but now she uses the same words to insult her own mother directly.

Qiao's mother was dumbfounded, unable to speak a word.

Qiao's mother slapped Qiao Yuan severely.

Things came to a head when Uncle Chan and Tan Mo said, "Qiao Yuan ran away straight away, taking 20,000 yuan from the family."

Qiao Yuan has become a repeat offender in stealing money from the family, but this is definitely the most he has ever stolen, taking almost all the cash the Qiao Family could find.

Tan Mo sneers.

Before he could do anything, it turned out that the Qiao Family people themselves were in disarray.

That's fine.

Tan Mo helped Qiao Lan get out of the Qiao Family, but never told Qiao Lan that he was not prepared to let the Qiao Family go.

Even though the Qiao Family had no boundaries, they were Qiao Lan's family and Tan Mo was worried about what would happen if he went too far and Qiao Lan found out later.

There are some things Tan Mo hopes Qiao Lan will never know in her lifetime.

Like when he threatened Xiang Xiaohan, like when he once broke the Luo family's fortune, or when he was about to re-destruct the kidney he had stuffed into Qiao Yuan's body.

Tan Mo has done a lot of shady and unsavoury things in places that Qiao Lan doesn't know about.

Qiao Lan was always thought of as sunny and simple, but in reality he was anything but.

It's a dark side that Qiao Lan would never like, and Tan Mo would never let Qiao Lan find out.

Tan Mo had already made arrangements for Qiao Yuan, but now that Qiao Yuan had taken it upon himself to give him a chance, Tan Mo felt relieved.

A man like Qiao Yuan could play himself to death without him having to do anything at all.

Qiao Lan had no idea what was going on, Uncle Chan had recruited people to keep a close eye on Qiao's father Qiao's mother, and Qiao's father Qiao's mother had no access to Qiao Lan.

Qiao's father, Qiao's mother, has no time to go after Qiao Lan for money.

The heart's son has run away.

Qiao's grandmother cried and scolded Qiao's mother, saying that if Qiao's mother hadn't slapped Qiao Yuan, Qiao Yuan wouldn't have run away like that.

"How will you let him live out there alone", Qiao's grandmother cried, her eyes swollen.

When I think of my own grandson, who is less than 16 years old, still a child who doesn't know any better and has never been away from his parents, I wonder where he is now.

Qiao Yuan had only been discharged from hospital for a month or so, and it would take at least three to four months to recuperate after the kidney transplant, three to four months to take proper medication and be very careful with her diet.

As a result, Qiao Yuan ran without any medicine at all.

The doctor said at the time that people who had just undergone surgery must recuperate well and must not bump themselves, as the new kidney was more fragile than the previous one, and there was a high risk of kidney failure if it was accidentally infected.

The more Qiao's mother thought about it, the more she regretted it. Even though she had cried all night long because of Qiao Yuan's anger, she didn't care any more after her son ran away.

As long as Qiao Yuan can come back and be healthy, what can we do if we don't study?

This time it is true that there is nothing to do and the only thing in life every day is to look for my son.

They searched on their own and had to pay people to find them, they were in the newspapers and on TV, money was spent in large amounts, but there was never any news.

In a month or so, Qiao's father, a fat man, no longer looked fat, and Qiao's mother looked as if she had aged a few years.

At this time, Qiao Yuan has finally been heard from.

The call came from another city, nearly a thousand kilometres away, saying that Qiao Yuan had been hospitalised and that the family should get there quickly.

Qiao's mother, who had been worried for over a month, passed out on the spot.

Qiao Yuan was hospitalised and was beaten, although she had been in hospital for a short while before this.

It had not been long since the operation, and the Qiao Family had served Qiao Yuan well. Qiao Yuan felt that there were no problems with her health, which is why she was so bold as to not bring any medicine.

Qiao's mother Qiao's grandmother followed the doctor's advice and gave Qiao Yuan protein supplements, not allowing him to eat greasy and salty food, and keeping his meals under strict control as obesity is dangerous.

Qiao Yuan was already fat and loved to eat, but after a month of being on a diet every day, she finally went outside and didn't know what she was avoiding.

Qiao Yuan had only 20,000 yuan with him, and he was used to using the money to make friends by treating them to meals.

When he was hospitalized and his money was running low, Qiao Yuan started to pay attention to it, but he was a child who had never left home before, so others saw him as a fool and saw him as a bully.

It's easy to follow someone who doesn't learn, not to mention the fact that Qiao Yuan was already spoiled by her family.

Once Qiao Yuan stole money from the family, the Qiao family did not blame him and even gave him more pocket money so that he would not steal from the family. After Qiao Yuan stole once, he stole a second time, and then a third time and a fourth time, and the more he stole, the more the Qiao Family could no longer control him.

But that was stealing money from the family, so even if they were angry, they would not really hurt Qiao Yuan, but Qiao Yuan eventually brought this bad habit into society.

With no money and no desire to find a job, Qiao Yuan took to stealing with little hesitation.

He was caught stealing from his so-called best buddies, whom he had recently befriended, before he could spend the money. After a verbal altercation, a few young men, none of them older, moved in Qiao Yuan, a glass man who had undergone surgery, shattered before he could receive a few blows.

The transplanted kidney is placed in the iliac fossa, which is superficial to the surface of the body and has only skin, subcutaneous tissue and muscle layers on its surface. It lacks the cushioning effect of the renal fat capsule and is easily bruised by external forces.

The doctor said before that even if you are riding in a car, you should choose a good position to avoid the transplanted kidney from hitting other objects when the car turns or brakes sharply, which shows how fragile it is.

As a result, Qiao Yuan was beaten straight away and by the time a few people realised something was wrong, Qiao Yuan had passed out.

A few young men got scared and hurriedly got their money back and ran away, while some kind-hearted people passed by and called an ambulance to take Qiao Yuan to the hospital.

Qiao's father Qiao's mother The call received was from the hospital.

Qiao Yuan's kidney, which had just been replaced less than two months ago, had broken down again, and although it had not shattered, kidney failure was a foregone conclusion.

And it's even more damaging to a person's vitality to have the surgery done all over again.

The doctor told them not to worry too much, that one kidney could still maintain a basic life, and that if they took good care of it, there would be no difference between them and the average person.

Last time Qiao's mother could still make a scene at the hospital and say that she would do anything for her son without even thinking about it, but now, after what she has been through once, and now that the family has no source of income, Qiao's mother doesn't dare to say anything.

Qiao's father said hesitantly that he would not go to Tan Mo, or if that was not possible, to Qiao Lan, but Qiao's mother suddenly remembered the sorrowful words of the teenager a few months earlier.

The teenager said that if they dared to look for Qiao Lan again, they would take out the kidney the way it was put into Qiao Lan's body in the first place.

Qiao's mother shuddered.

She couldn't help thinking about it, because she had gone to Qiao Lan, more than once, and although she hadn't seen anyone, she did look. And the scariest thing of all was that Qiao Yuan's kidney, just this newly replaced kidney, was once again taken out of the operating theatre.

Qiao's mother doesn't want to think about whether Tan Mo did it or not.

She dared not ask Tan Mo and could not find Tan Mo, so she had to spill her guts to the police to find out the truth about her son's injury, but the truth came out that her son had stolen someone else's money and that was why he was beaten up and put in hospital.

It was not someone who beat Qiao Yuan for no reason, but he made the mistake first. A few punks who were arrested at the police station accused Qiao Yuan of stealing their money and told them how good they were to Qiao Yuan, but Qiao Yuan turned his head and denied it.

Qiao's mother would not dare to make any more noise, for if she did, Qiao Yuan would still be in hospital and would have a record that could never be erased.

The Qiao Family finally collapsed due to overindulgence in their son, the wrong kind of education and insatiable greed.

At this time, the Annexe was quiet, and Qiao Lan, at this time, knew nothing.

Tan Mo did not mention a word to Qiao Lan.

The weather is getting warmer and the exams are getting closer and closer, and people like Qiao Lan, who has been through the exams twice, are getting more and more nervous.

After the last mock exam, Qiao Lan got the best result ever, just 20 minutes below Tan Mo. The class teacher, who had recently lost a lot of weight, patted Qiao Lan on the shoulder and said that if Qiao Lan played his cards right, he would have no problem getting into Peking University.

Qiao Lan looks at the countdown, which is already in single digits, but gets even more nervous.

Qiao Lan didn't know if students who had repeated the exams would be more nervous the second time around, but she was just overly nervous. In the last few days, teachers were still grasping for papers, desperate to cram everything in their heads into their students' heads, and only on the last day before the exam did they start to stop lecturing and give all the students thought after thought.

Tan Mo listens distractedly to the class lecture and suddenly looks down with a slight start.

Qiao Lan took Tan Mo's hand in his and looked at him with bright eyes.

"Go for it!"