Reborn as a Rich Woman in the Eighties
Chapter 415 - 414: The Mouth is Bitter, the Heart is Even More Bitter

Chapter 415: Chapter 414: The Mouth is Bitter, the Heart is Even More Bitter

Fang Youlan was already of advanced age, and after so many sudden incidents, both her emotions and body were on the brink of collapse. How could she endure spending a night on the train?

She had boarded the train enduring the pain, clenching her teeth, only because she didn’t want her eldest son and his wife to become even more estranged.

Thus, upon arriving in the provincial city, she didn’t even go home but went straight to the hospital where Shao Meifang worked.

At the hospital, Fang Youlan was undergoing various examinations, while Lu Pengcheng and Lu Qing were with her.

Shao Meirou had gone to her sister’s office to call the Lu family.

Seeing her sister’s haggard appearance, Shao Meifang felt deeply pained. When had her sister ever been in such a sorry state?

It wasn’t just that her clothes were wrinkled and disheveled, but also her pallid complexion, bloodshot eyes, and dried, chapped lips.

Shao Meifang got up and tenderly prepared a cup of milk powder for her.

When Shao Meirou hung up the phone, Shao Meifang handed it over, "Sis, have something to drink! Your mother-in-law shouldn’t be in any serious trouble! Don’t worry too much!"

She was not yet privy to the situation, so she naively thought Shao Meirou was like this because she had been looking after the old lady all the way.

Shao Meirou held the hot cup in both hands. Perhaps only in this way could she feel a bit of warmth.

She lowered her gaze and murmured softly, "I hope so!"

The old lady had complained several times on the way about breathing difficulties, and Shao Meirou’s heart had been in suspense the whole trip.

If something serious had happened on the road, she would not only lose a source of support, but her heart would endure immense torment.

After all, it was she who had encouraged the old lady to go to Spring City to find Lin Xia, despite her health.

Seeing that her sister’s mood had stabilized a bit, Shao Meifang quietly asked about the matter she was particularly concerned about.

"Sis, how did it go? Is that matter with Lin Xia resolved?"

In her mind, Lin Xia, even if for the sake of her older brother, wouldn’t cling to her nephew anymore.

As soon as the name Lin Xia was mentioned, Shao Meirou’s originally vacant expression suddenly turned cold, "Don’t mention her to me!"

If it hadn’t been for Lin Xia insisting on being with her son, angering the old lady into hospitalization, would all the subsequent trouble have happened?

If she had once merely disdained Lin Xia, now she truly despised her!

This was nothing but a troublemaker!

She had turned her originally peaceful life into a complete mess!

"What happened?" Shao Meifang felt something was wrong, the hatred in her sister’s tone made her anxious.

Shao Meirou, weary, covered her face with both hands, "Meifang, don’t ask anymore! I’m very tired, and my mind is a mess! I don’t want to talk about it! When I feel like saying something, I’ll naturally tell you!"

How could she bring herself to tell her sister that Lu Pengcheng had encountered his first love and had a daughter older than his son? And that he was going to divorce her?

"Okay! Okay! Sis, I won’t ask any more!" Shao Meifang’s heart clenched; she knew her sister well—this time it must be a really troublesome issue.

After downing a cup of the milk mixture, Shao Meirou left her sister’s office.

The Lu family members began to arrive at the hospital one after another.

Lu Guangqi looked at his bedridden, dispirited, and weakened spouse, not knowing upon whom to direct his anger.

Once everyone had left the sickroom, alone in the living room, Lu Guangqi fixed his gaze on his granddaughter.

"Lu Qing, tell me what happened. How did you end up with your grandmother there? And how did you end up in the hospital afterward? What exactly took place?"

Lu Qing shrank her shoulders timidly. Now that the house’s elders had arrived, she was the only junior present. Her grandmother had also accompanied her to Spring City this time.

So it was all too natural for her grandfather to direct the questions at her instead of anyone else.

Lu Qing’s mother, Song Wanjun, gently pushed her daughter from behind, "Qingqing! Hurry up and tell your grandfather everything you know!"

She understood her daughter well, certain that this whole incident must have been orchestrated by her mother-in-law.

Now that something had gone wrong, of course, it couldn’t be blamed on her daughter!

"Um... Grandfather, I really don’t know why Grandma wanted to go there or what she was going to do. She told me she just wanted to see what the family of my older brother’s girlfriend was like.

Then, after we arrived, Grandma had me go see a classmate first, and when I came back to the hotel after meeting them, she had disappeared.

It was only later that I found the brother of my classmate to help, and we managed to find Grandma in the hospital..."

Lu Qing recounted the events objectively, without letting her personal feelings interfere.

"Later, Grandma asked me to call my older brother and my aunt, telling me to exaggerate the seriousness of her condition. However, my brother wasn’t there... My uncle and aunt had rushed over yesterday..."

As for Nurse Luo and her mother, Lu Qing glanced at her uncle and his family and tightly shut her mouth.

The expressions of the Lu Family varied upon hearing this.

Lu Shuhui was furious: "Dad! Listen to this! That Lin Xia has gone too far! My mom is already of such age, and she was aggravated by her to the point of being hospitalized!

If something serious happens to her there, I will be left without a mother!"

Lu Guangqi’s expression was serious, and he didn’t respond to Lu Shuhui’s words. Instead, he looked towards the silent Lu Pengcheng and the red-eyed Shao Meirou.

"What’s the matter with you two? Your mother was ill, so why didn’t you properly take care of her and let her recover before returning? What’s the rush? Lu Qing is young and doesn’t understand anything; surely you aren’t as well?"

Although his spouse had gone to Spring City to find Lin Xia without telling him, and he was very angry, now that things had come to this, what more could he say?

Besides, having been sick and then enduring a night on the train, if any complication had arisen, it might have been too late for rescue!

For this reason alone, he was very dissatisfied with his eldest son and daughter-in-law! They were too reckless!

Shao Meirou felt wronged, with a bitterness in her mouth and even more in her heart.

Having been in the Lu Family for over thirty years, this was the first time she was reprimanded and scolded in front of so many people.

If it hadn’t been for that mother and daughter stirring up trouble, they would never have hurried back like this.

Lu Pengcheng also looked unwell. He understood why his mother had been so anxious to leave the hospital.

But he hadn’t stopped her, as he had his own considerations.

Now, the fact that his mother hadn’t met any misfortune was a relief.

He said solemnly, "Dad! Something unforeseen happened! All of this is my fault! Please, don’t be angry anymore!"

Lu Guangqi heard the implication in his son’s words. After scrutinizing everyone’s faces, he did not press further.

"Alright! With the eldest here and me, that’s enough! Everyone else can go do what they need to. Lu Qing, go home and rest well. Meirou, you should also go home and rest. Come back when you’ve recovered!"

Lu Shuhui didn’t want to leave, but she couldn’t withstand the old man’s insistence.

In no time at all, only the grandfather and grandson were left in the hospital’s living room.

Lu Guangqi stared intensely at Lu Pengcheng, "What exactly happened?"

Lu Pengcheng sat opposite his grandfather, pinching his forehead hard before he began to tell him.

"Dad! I found Xinyan! She gave me a daughter..."

"What?" Lu Guangqi’s eyes widened with excitement as he sat up straight. How could he have guessed that his eldest son’s unforeseen occurrence would be...

It simply struck him like a bolt out of the blue!

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