The two quickly arrived at the hospital and found the intensive care unit on the top floor.
Sitting at the door was an old man, at least seventy years old, with a head full of white hair and a weathered face.
He looked haggard, as if he hadn't rested properly for days, his eyes bloodshot. As he looked at Li Tian, who was not far away, he immediately stood up.
His eyes were filled with uncontrollable excitement: "You're finally here. I've been waiting for you here for two days. If you can't raise the money within these two days, then I'll really have to jump off the building."
"My wife has been with me her whole life, and I've never given her a day of good living."
"But now she's seriously ill, and I can't afford to treat her. I don't even have enough money, so I can only take out my ancestral treasure."
"Only you know how valuable these treasures are, so can you give me the money now? I don't want a million anymore, eighty thousand is enough."
As the elder spoke, he tightly grabbed Li Tian's hand and then knelt down in front of Li Tian, his knees bent.
Li Tian said helplessly, "Old man, even if you offered me eight yuan now, I wouldn't be able to take that painting of yours."
Hearing this, the elder's eyes widened in disbelief.
"What do you mean? Are you suspecting the painting is fake? Didn't you appraise it before and say it was definitely worth the highest price? You already agreed, how can you go back on your word?"
"I'm waiting here for money to save a life. You can't just cheat me like this!"
"If I had known you wouldn't buy it, I would have found someone else. Even if I got less money, I would have been willing, at least it's better than not getting a single cent now."
"My wife's illness has been dragging on for a long time, and I'm drowning in debt that I can't repay."
"If you cheat me again at this time, I'll be truly ruined. Believe it or not, I'll jump off the building right now."
As he said this, the elder ran directly to the window, his eyes filled with the last of his helplessness and madness.
"Before, you said you absolutely had to ensure the news didn't leak out, and I listened to you. Because you offered the highest price, others only gave tens of thousands, but you gave me over nine hundred thousand and said you'd give me two days to raise the money. Now the time is almost up, and you're telling me you won't buy it."
His voice was choked with sobs, and his mind was on the verge of collapse. He had been waiting in agony, unable to sleep.
Receiving this result now, he couldn't bear it.
Li Tian quickly shouted, "Me not buying it doesn't mean others won't. I simply couldn't gather that much money, so I brought a big boss for you. You can sell the painting directly to him. Forget eighty thousand, even if you ask him for one million eight hundred thousand, he can give it to you."
In his haste, he blurted it out.
He knew best how valuable it was. If he hadn't been short of money, why would he have given Lin Xiaotian such an opportunity?
At this moment, his heart was bleeding, and at the same time, he cautiously turned his gaze to Lin Xiaotian. Seeing that Lin Xiaotian wasn't angry with him, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
He quickly said, "What are you standing around for? Hurry down! Do you really want to jump? Aren't you afraid your wife won't be saved?"
Hearing this, the elder finally came to his senses, quickly climbed down from the window, took a couple of quick steps, and was about to kneel down to Lin Xiaotian.
Lin Xiaotian reached out and supported him. He had seen everything that had happened and knew that this old man was genuinely moved and truly at his wit's end.
A brilliant smile appeared on his face: "Old man, can you let me see your painting first? If it's confirmed to be authentic, I will definitely give you the money, and this money will be more than one million eight hundred thousand. I can even afford ten times that amount."
"What?"
The elder's eyes widened: "Our family's ancestral painting is that valuable?"
Lin Xiaotian nodded with a smile: "Of course, how could I cheat you? You're not one of those rich bosses, I can't get any profit from you."
"Besides, your wife's condition is already so critical. At this time, I naturally want to bring you some fortune, after all, I can also make a lot of money after I take the painting."
"I'm not like some heartless person."
The elder didn't hesitate, his lips trembling slightly. It was truly a ray of hope in despair.
"I'll take you to see the painting right now. It was too valuable, so I didn't dare to carry it with me."
"The painting is locked in a cabinet at my home. My home is not far from here, it will only take a few minutes to walk there."
Lin Xiaotian had expected that the painting wouldn't be on the elder, so he didn't mind and followed him towards the bungalows not far from the hospital.
The bungalows looked like old courtyards, but they were in disrepair and had a strong sense of age.
The corners of his mouth curved slightly upwards, and his gaze flickered towards a distant corner, but the glance was fleeting before his gaze moved away.
When he looked back, the elder had already opened the door and led them into the courtyard.
The furniture in the house had been sold off completely, and the surroundings were bare, but there was a clear sense of life.
"Old man, where are your children?"
Lin Xiaotian asked with a smile.
The elder shook his head with a bitter smile: "I don't have children, only a nephew."
"Now the only valuable thing I have is this house. I promised my nephew that if he takes care of both of us in our old age and sees us off, this house will be his."
"I haven't been willing to sell this house, and even if I sold it, it wouldn't be enough for my wife's medical expenses, so I can only take out the family heirloom."
"Look, this is my painting."
He had just opened the cabinet and was about to reach in to get it, but he found that the cabinet was empty.
There was nothing there.
His eyes suddenly widened, his pupils contracting violently, and his whole body trembled.
He opened his mouth but couldn't utter a sound. This was his last hope, and now the painting was gone?
At this moment, he felt an unspeakable sense of suffocation, as if he couldn't feel pain or joy.
The next second, he directly opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Lin Xiaotian quickly walked over, a few silver needles appeared in his hand, and he quickly inserted them into the elder's body.
He knew this was a case of qi and blood rushing to the head due to old age.