Shen Batian suddenly fainted, so Young Master Shen rushed back to New York that night. Looking at his white-haired father lying in the hospital bed, Young Master Shen finally realized that the earthshaking power of the underworld was old.
"Young Master!"
Young Master Shen turned back, "Brother w.a.n.g, what happened to this old guy..."
"The doctor said that when he was young, he tossed himself off too hard. Now in his old age, many of his organs are beginning to age, and the body can not support him." Ahao had followed Shen Batian for 20 years, just like his other son, and now he said with red eyes, "When he wakes up, don"t make him angry. The doctor said he could not hold on for several years."
Young Master Shen closed his eyes and tried to keep his voice from shaking, "How many years?"
"Three years, no more than five years at most."
"Does he know this?"
Ahao shook his head. "He doesn"t know, he always thinks he just has high blood pressure."
"Then, don"t let him know." Young Master Shen stood up. "You have been responsible for the affairs in New York for many years. No matter he is alive or not, you will still be responsible for them."
"Young Master, you know that your father"s only wish is to watch you get married and bring him a grandson..."
Young Master Shen interrupted his words. "I know." He went to the door. "I"m going to talk to the doctor. You take care of him."
When Shen Batian woke up, he saw Young Master Shen sitting next to him. At first, he was frozen up, and then he roared in an angry voice. "You finally remember to come back."
"You seem to be all right, and still have the strength to call names." Young Master Shen stared at Shen Batian for a long time and found that there seemed to be nothing wrong with him except his pale face.
"Of course, I"m all right." Shen Batian rolled his eyes. "Why didn"t you bring Mimi back?"
Young Master Shen opened his eyes widely, "Why should I bring her back? You really took her as your daughter!"
"Then why do you come back?" Shen Batian kicked him and shouted, "Ahao, Ahao? I"m going to leave the hospital. I"m not going to stay in this miserable place."
On the night of the day when Shen Batian left the hospital, he ate even two more bowls of rice than usual. Young Master Shen saw that Shen Batian"s appet.i.te was good, so he was relieved.
"I will go back tomorrow. You should take care of yourself. You are old. Don"t always flaunt your superiority."
"I am still very young. If you don"t believe it, you can fight with me, I will put you down in a few seconds." When Shen Batian heard Young Master Shen say he was leaving, he wanted to bang the table but heard Young Master Shen asking, "Where is the Dragon King"s Token?"
"Ah?" Shen Batian did not follow his words. "What are you going to do with the Dragon King"s Token?"
Young Master Shen said sulkily, "I want to bring you a daughter-in-law. If you don"t give me the Dragon King"s Token, how can I marry her?"
"Didn"t Mimi tell you?"
"What does it matter to her?" Young Master Shen suddenly had a bad feeling.
Shen Batian said with a smug look, "I was afraid that you were too stupid to marry her. I have already given the Dragon King"s Token to Mimi!"
Young Master Shen looked at the sky and had an impulse to kill his father.
Xin Qing and Zhang Mi had just sent Chen Ming and Lu Manman away. The instant they stepped into the house, they heard someone ringing the doorbell.
"Why are you here?" Zhang Mi opened the door and saw Young Master Shen standing at the doorway.
Young Master Shen grinned. "Because I miss you! So, I come to see you."
"Ha-ha, do you have a fever?" Ignoring him, Zhang Mi threw herself onto the sofa and ate a bag of potato chips. Xin Qing changed her clothes and came down from the upstairs, and was surprised to see Young Master Shen. "Didn"t you say it was inconvenient to come here?"
"That"s all right. I came to see her." Young Master Shen pointed to Zhang Mi and asked Xin Qing, "How do you feel?"
Xin Qing had started taking the medicine made by Chen Huan. She had not been ill this month.
"Now, I"m fine, but I hope that after a month of taking the medicine, it will really be fine." Xin Qing did not give herself a special expectation, so if it didn"t work, she would not be too disappointed and just take it easy.
"Are you looking for Mimi?" Xin Qing looked at Zhang Mi, who pouted at her. "What do you want with me?" Suddenly she jumped up and said, "You"re not going to settle with me now for being bitten by a snake, are you?"
Zhang Mi stared at him unsatisfactorily. "Are you a man? You"re so stingy. Look at Li Xiaoru. She almost lost her life for Chen Ming, and She was willing to do so!"
"That reminds me of something." Young Master Shen touched his chin. "Li Xiaoru saved Chen Ming, so Chen Ming pledged to marry her. Then I saved you too. Now it"s your turn to pledge to marry me."
Not only Zhang Mi, but Xin Qing was shocked.
"What... What did you say?" Zhang Mi"s mouth trembled.
Young Master Shen looked at her and said, "I said I wanted to marry you."
Puff... Zhang Mi sprayed potato chip residue in her mouth on Young Master Shen"s face. "You should go home and sleep, or you can climb to the bed of any female star and have s.e.x with them. Anyway, quickly disappear from my eyes."
Xin Qing went over and touched Young Master Shen"s forehead. "Are you sick?"
"I"m serious." Young Master Shen looked at her, not knowing whether to cry or to laugh. "I want to marry her."
"Don"t tell me that you fell in love with me when you woke up." Zhang Mi looked sarcastic as if he was cheating on the ghost.
Young Master Shen rubbed his eyebrows and sat down on the sofa. "Come and sit down."
Xin Qing sat down and stood up again. "Should I leave you alone?"
"No, her brain always doesn"t work, so I can"t make it clear with her without you." Young Master Shen quickly stopped her, and Zhang Mi threw a pillow from the opposite side. "It "s you who don"t have a good brain."
Young Master Shen looked at her and said, "Did my father give you the Dragon King"s Token?"
"What?" Zhang Mi looked puzzled, "what token?"
"The Dragon King"s Token!" Young Master Shen gesticulated. "About palm size, a black token."
Zhang Mi thought about it for a long time, but she couldn"t remember. Xin Qing said, "it looks like you have a piece of this on your dressing table."
"Really?" Zhang Mi stood up. "I"ll go and have a look!
She rushed upstairs and quickly rushed down again, holding a black token in her hand. "Is it this one?"
"There are words on it. Haven"t you read them?" Young Master Shen asked her curiously.
Zhang Mi glanced at him. "Traditional Chinese, I can"t understand it."
Xin Qing took it with a smile and looked at it. "Well, it"s the Dragon King"s Token. I remembered hearing you say it was from Uncle Shen?"
"Yes, give me such a good iron thing, and I don"t know what to do with it." Zhang Mi stared at Young Master Shen. "What do you want to do? This is from Uncle Shen. Don"t try to take it back."
Young Master Shen leaned on the sofa and smiled at her leisurely, "Are you sure you don"t want to give it back to me?"
"No way, this is mine!" No matter what it was, Zhang Mi felt that since Young Master Shen came here to ask for it, it must be something extraordinary. She was thus more determined not to give it back to him.
Xin Qing frowned. She always thought Young Master Shen"s expression made him look like a human trafficker.
"Well, since you agreed, just follow me back to see the old man! Then we will set the wedding date." Young Master Shen clapped his hands and controlled the overall situation.
Zhang Mi said with a silly smile, "Are you sick? What did I agree with you? I"ll never marry you!"
"The Dragon King"s Token is the ident.i.ty symbol of the three generations of the Shen Family. The owner of the family will pa.s.s it to only the hostess of Shen. Even if the next generation homeowner marries others, no one would admit. Only the holder of the Dragon King"s Token would be called sister-in-law by all brothers!"
Xin Qing touched the Dragon King"s Token with an admiring look. "This thing sounds so powerful!"
"Of course, it can command the whole underworld in the country. With this, you can walk sideways." Young Master Shen narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhang Mi. "If you take such an important thing from Shen Family and refuse to return it, then I"ll have to marry you."
Zhang Mi took the Dragon King"s Token from Xin Qing"s hand and threw it on Young Master Shen. "Take it away! Take it away quickly!"
"Usually, we have two ways to withdraw the Dragon King"s Token." Young Master Shen"s innocent smile and words made Zhang Mi want to choke him.
"One is that the Dragon King"s Token"s chosen one dies. The other is that she betrays the Shen Family. Which one will you choose?"
Zhang Mi bit her teeth, "What will happen if one betrays the Shen Family?"
"Die with capital punishment." Young Master Shen fluttered out a sentence. Zhang Mi shivered. She didn"t have to ask what capital punishment was. She knew with her knees that it was absolutely the kind which made people suffer a miserable death.
"Xin Qing..." She pounced at Xin Qing with a flat mouth. "Help me, let him take this token away."
Young Master Shen was pleased by her. "I don"t want to marry you, neither. But you"ve taken the Dragon King"s Token!"
"All right!" Xin Qing stared at him. "Don"t tease her, just tell her what"s going on."
Young Master Shen stopped laughing and looked at Zhang Mi seriously, "My father is in poor health. The doctor said he could not hold on for another five years."
"Why is he in poor health?" Zhang Mi was anxious. "He was fine during the New Year."
Young Master Shen told Zhang Mi what the doctor said, and then helplessly said, "You know, I don"t want to get married. But now, I don"t want him to die unsatisfied. He wants you to be a daughter-in-law of the Shen Family. Otherwise, he would not have given you the Dragon King"s Token. You just think of it as helping me perform a play so that his last days can be happy. "
"That"s not a play!" That"s marriage, and it"s going to take five years!" Zhang Mi stood up and walked around the house. Shen Batian was like her father in her heart, but... but she had never thought of marrying Young Master Shen!
Xin Qing looked at her and could not help saying, "Zhang Mi, think clearly for yourself. We respect your choice." After that, she looked at Young Master Shen, who understood what she meant.
"Zhang Mi, we are married ostensibly, but I will not touch you. I will treat you in the same way as I do now. Don"t you always like the villa next to Xin Qing"s house? When we get married, we"ll live in it, and the house will be under your name. In addition, when the old man is gone, we will divorce. Whether you will get married again or not, I will give you alimony every month."
Zhang Mi thought about it for a while and asked tentatively, "Can I spend your money freely?"
"Spend it on whatever you like!"
"You will buy me anything I want?"
"If you can buy it, I"ll buy it for you; if you can"t, I"ll find a way to buy it, as long as you want!"
Zhang Mi laughed happily. "It"s a deal!"
Young Master Shen just wanted to speak, and she said, "But, I have one condition of the most significance. If you can"t follow it, then, no deal between us."