I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 118 Hairdressing Business Goes Bankrupt (All the money went to Lixin for medical treatment,

Yu Mei runs her hair salon from dawn till dusk, employing over thirty hairdressers of all ages. Li Xin, similarly, gets up before daybreak every day to deliver fruit wholesale to small vendors via pedicab.

Just as Yu Mei's three hair salons were packed with customers and business was booming, Chen Lixin's health deteriorated.

When Chen Lixin was in his early twenties, Yu Mei had not yet entered his family. The two had no connection and did not know each other at all. At that time, he was working as a bricklayer on the fifth floor of the Second Construction Company of the city.

Because the construction team did not set up any safety precautions for the workers, he fell from the fifth floor of the Soul Eater. He was really lucky. He not only survived the fall, but he was also not seriously injured. He was not hit in the head, but he was hospitalized with comminuted fractures of his waist and ankle.

Then he was hospitalized and recovered, and steel plates were inserted into the two injured areas and a steel wire was inserted into one of his ankles.

The steel wire around my ankle wasn't removed a few years ago because of the family's financial difficulties, and now the wire ends are exposed.

Normally, when a person suffers a fracture, the steel wires and plates are removed about six months later. When he was discharged from the hospital, the Second Construction Company gave him a one-time settlement of four thousand yuan, which was considered the end of the incident.

After the wire end of one of his ankles was exposed, he ignored Yu Mei's advice and continued to do as he pleased, delivering fruit to small vendors by rickshaw every day.

Every night, Yu Mei would see thick white pus and a few streaks of red blood oozing from the exposed end of the wire at his ankle. He would wipe it himself with white cotton wool before going to sleep. Then, at dawn, he would continue pedaling his tricycle to deliver fruit.

Of course, he wanted to avoid Yu Mei's gaze, but they lived in the same building and slept in the same bed. In the middle of the night, Yu Mei would accidentally stretch out her leg and kick his thick, gauze-wrapped ankle, the end of which was sticking out. He was kicked so hard by Yu Mei's half-asleep foot that he let out a scream, then sat up abruptly, looked at his ankle, and lay back down to continue sleeping.

Later, under Yang Yumei's strong persuasion, he finally cooperated and said, "It's okay, this kind of minor injury is nothing. It's just that I don't want to affect your hairdressing career. I don't want to delay making money. Helping you in your career is the most important mission of my life!"

Yu Mei chuckled after hearing this, "Then you really are great. Okay, remove the wire from your ankle, then rest for a few days, and then remove the metal plate from your waist."

Chen Lixin smiled, agreeing only to remove the steel wire from his ankle, but still refusing to remove the steel plate from his lower back. He said that once Yu Mei's hair salon expands to other places, there will be at least ten chain stores, and he will remove the steel plate from his lower back then.

Although he earns only one percent of Yu Mei's daily earnings from cycling, he doesn't want his injury to affect her hairdressing career.

At least I can prevent my health from causing her to delay her career. If I'm hospitalized, I won't have any relatives by my side. In that case, I'll have to rely on Yu Mei and my two daughters, as well as Liu Shulan and Liu Shuqin from my family.

Then they actually only removed the wire from one ankle. At that time, Yu Mei was alone, waiting outside the operating room. Actually, it could be any kind of operating room, but it wasn't even a minor surgery. There was no anesthesia. The doctor used two nurses to hold the wire protruding from his ankle on both sides, holding his leg still, and then the doctor used a large pair of iron forceps to forcefully pull out the thin, long iron wire that was protruding.

All that was heard from the operating room was a cry of "Ouch, that hurts!" followed by silence. A moment later, the person slowly emerged from the operating room. After resting for about ten days, they went back to cycling.

After removing the wire from his ankle, he still thought the same way and didn't want to trouble Yu Mei. At this point, his lower back was really too weak, so he was hospitalized and was in the intensive care unit.

Then, a large amount of funds are urgently needed to treat Lixin's severe lumbar lesion.

For at least six months, he had been experiencing daily discharge of pus and blood from his lower back. He repeatedly refused Yu Mei's kind offer to take him to the hospital to remove the metal plate. Liu Shulan, Liu Shuqin, and Yang Yuhan also tried to persuade him, but he eventually listened, as if he were reluctant to remove an old friend that had been in his lower back for many years, and had developed a sense of dependence on it.

People often have a bad habit of turning bad things into long-term habits!

For example, I heard a true story about a couple who got divorced. The woman, in order to get revenge on the man, locked her two children, aged four or six, who lived with her, in a very dark room with no light for more than ten years.

Then, when the two children grew up and the door was opened, the son and daughter were both blind and paralyzed, while the son was able to get out of bed and move around for a long time, but he did not want to see any light or go out.

Then, in order to cure Chen Lixin's lumbar infection, a large amount of money was used. While Lixin was unconscious, Yu Mei sold her three operating Huosheng Hair Salons.

Finally, due to insufficient funds, they sold that apartment building as well.

Then, after Lixin's condition stabilized and he fully recovered and was discharged from the hospital, the family moved into the three mud-brick houses.

Lixin recovered from his illness in a few months without any aftereffects, and then he learned about all the changes that had happened in his family!

He sighed and said, "Yu Mei, I'm so sorry. In the end, I'm the one who hindered your promising career. I'm so useless. The more I tried to help, the more I ended up making things worse."

Yu Mei chuckled and let it go!

Then Chen Lixin continued to pedal his bicycle, delivering fruit to vendors on both sides of the street at the fruit wholesale market! He worked even harder, getting up early to deliver fruit to the vendors, then buying a large iron shovel and squatting down to do manual labor, loading coal carts for others to earn money. He did this to make up for all the guilt he felt towards Yu Mei!

The following spring, when the flowers bloomed, Yu Mei used the money Li Xin had earned from working to learn art and decoration skills at a roadside art and decoration shop. Li Xin agreed and supported her; he never hindered Yu Mei from pursuing any ambitious endeavor.

Then she entered an art and decoration studio whose shop window had a sign advertising for students. She pushed open the door and casually asked a young girl who was practicing calligraphy. The girl nodded and confirmed that the owner was indeed recruiting students.

Then a short man in his thirties, surnamed Liang, the owner of an art and decoration company, came out and greeted Yu Mei with a smile, asking her to sit down first.

Yu Mei sat down to look at the calligraphy written by the little girl student. It was very well written. Then she picked up an unused calligraphy brush on the wooden table, dipped it in ink, and looked at what the girl had written. She also imitated her and wrote a few of the same characters. She wrote them very well, exactly the same as the little girl.

Her action was seen by the male owner of the art shop, whose smile immediately froze. He coughed twice and said to Yu Mei, "You're not ready to practice calligraphy yet. Observe for a few days first, and if it suits you, then pay the tuition. After that, I'll teach you what to learn first." After saying that, he went to another part of the room where three or five young male students were working on the wooden frames for signboards and light boxes.

Yu Mei had no choice but to put down her brush.

The next day, Yu Mei arrived at the art studio on time. Just as she was about to sit down, the short male owner coldly said to her, "You can leave now. The studio is full. Go find another place to study art and decoration."