Reborn as a Rich Woman in the Eighties
Chapter 520 - 519: Excitement

Chapter 520: Chapter 519: Excitement

Lu Guangqi gently touched his chest and kept silent.

Lu Pengfei looked exhausted. He rubbed his face hard, "They are still trying to save her!"

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Lin Xia, now facing his niece-in-law, he didn’t know what to say!

To be honest, the old lady’s incident was inseparable from her!

Lu Shuhui stood with Lu Hailing, tears reddening her eyes. She was indignant at Lin Xia’s presence, deeply resentful in her heart.

If it weren’t for Lin Xia, would her mother have been so agitated as to be sent to the hospital? The thought made her anger hard to dismiss!

If it hadn’t been for her sister Lu Hailing grabbing her arm in time, she really wanted to say some harsh words.

But reason returned in a flash, and she knew making a scene at this time would not look good. After all, she couldn’t say that the old lady was upset because Lin Xia’s grandfather was Qin Zeming, could she?

Yet some words she held back were too painful, so after glaring fiercely at Lin Xia, she turned to Lu Pengcheng and lashed out, "Big Brother! Do you even care whether mom lives or dies?"

Lu Pengcheng knew his big sister was angry, angry at him, and angry at Lin Xia! But he believed that if anyone should be blamed, it was himself the most!

"How could I not care? Shuhui! I know it’s all my fault! Mom was upset because of me! If you want to blame someone, blame me! Hit me, yell at me, anything!"

"What good does hitting or yelling at you do? Will it make mom healthy again?" Lu Shuhui couldn’t help but wipe away her tears again.

Lu Hailing started to cry too, she lived far away and wasn’t often with the elderly; seeing her mother so sick, how could any daughter’s heart not ache?

Song Wanjun stood with Lu Qing, both mother and daughter looking at Lin Xia with blame in their eyes.

Lu Qing already disliked Lin Xia because of Jiang Mingyuan; now that grandma was hospitalized because of Lin Xia, she almost got blamed by the whole family. Her prejudice against Lin Xia deepened!

Lin Xia saw all the hidden resentment and blame from everyone, and it didn’t feel good to her. Who would want to be treated this way?

Fortunately, none of them verbally hurt or blamed her outright; otherwise, she really wouldn’t know whether to talk back or just tough it out and take the scolding.

According to her character, to tough it out would be too difficult, but wouldn’t talking back just make relations even worse?

All she could hope for now was that Lu Zheng’s grandmother would pull through...

When Fang Youlan woke up, she found herself alone in the hospital room. She blinked weakly and let out a long, deep sigh.

Since she was bedridden with illness caused by anger from the eldest Lu, she blamed everyone and everything, gave up on rehabilitation out of despair, which made her illness linger without improvement!

But what was the end result?

Lu Zheng still married Lin Xia, didn’t he?

D id any of them care about what she thought, her feelings?

So she had to get better! Only then would she have a say. Otherwise, she would just be seen as a useless person with nothing to offer!

Even now knowing that Lin Xia was Qin Zeming’s granddaughter, she still looked down on her!

If she hadn’t worked herself into the hospital, would all those other things have happened?

So, she particularly hated her!

At that moment, voices could be heard in the corridor—Lu Shuhui and eldest brother Lu Pengcheng’s voices were faintly discernible.

Fang Youlan licked her dry lips, just about to make a noise, when the door to the ward was pushed open from the outside.

"Mom! You’re awake!" Lu Shuhui’s eyes lit up with joy as she rushed to the bedside and took Fang Youlan’s hand. "Mom! You nearly scared us to death!"

Seeing her mother faint had truly terrified her.

Even as her mother lay paralyzed in bed needing care, the fact that she was alive and breathing had always been a great comfort to her.

Fang Youlan spoke in a slurred voice, and Lu Shuhui managed to understand the gist of her words, asking about Lu Guangqi and the others.

She looked down and answered, "My second brother and my dad went out to eat, and my older brother went to fetch water..." After explaining, Lu Shuhui noticed Fang Youlan seemed very thirsty and quickly said, "Mom, let me get you some water to drink!"

As she turned to get the water, she hid her expression; in fact, Lu Guangqi was not feeling well with his heart, and Lu Pengfei, his wife, and Shao Meirou had accompanied him for a checkup.

But the old lady was still weak now, how could she dare to speak the truth?

Fang Youlan nodded slightly. After this fainting spell, she felt like she had been in a very long dream.

Some things that had been blurry and confusing to her now seemed to be clear at last.

After giving her mother water, Lu Shuhui’s heart ached as she saw Fang Youlan’s sickly and haggard face, her eyes moistening again. "Mom! Don’t blame us! Actually, we didn’t want to keep it from you! Now that things have come to this, it’s better for you to focus on recovering your health, which is more important than anything else!"

They had originally dared not tell the old lady the truth for fear that she couldn’t withstand the shock.

But some things can’t be contained forever, and the truth would come out eventually.

Reaching this point, Lu Shuhui glanced at the door of the hospital room to make sure no one was there before leaning in to whisper to Fang Youlan, "Mom! She has already entered our Lu Family’s door, there will be plenty of opportunities to deal with her... as long as you get better..."

She wanted to stimulate the old lady with these words, to encourage her to have the will to recover!

Otherwise, if the patient herself had no desire to get better, whatever they, as her children, did was futile.

Sparks of clarity burst forth in Fang Youlan’s dull eyes. What her daughter said made sense! That was exactly what she was thinking!

Now that her grandson, Lu Zheng, had completed the wedding with Lin Xia, her reluctance made no difference.

Besides, lying sick in bed, even if she did have the desire to trouble that small-time vendor, she couldn’t do it.

She could only work hard to recover, to say what she wanted to say, to do what she wanted to do...

Lin Xia sneezed twice. After seeing Fang Youlan unharmed, she followed Lu Zheng to the train station to see Lin Chun and the others off.

Song Yinran’s plan was to go back to the south with Song Zhiyi to handle some matters, while Song Zhiya accompanied Lin Chun back.

Once Song Yinran finished his business and returned to Spring City, she would go south to celebrate the New Year with Song Yinran and Luo Xinyan.

Lin Chun and Lin Qiu could stay here for a few more days, but Lin Dong was about to face final exams and was in the midst of intense revision.

How could Lin Xia allow Lin Dong to be delayed for so long? No matter how good his studies, losing focus could affect his exams.

Lu Zheng looked at her with concern, "Do you have a cold?"

If not for the several high-wattage light bulbs nearby, he would have liked to reach out and check if Lin Xia’s forehead was hot.

"No!" Lin Xia rubbed her nose, feeling that someone must be talking about her behind her back, but she decided it was best not to mention it in front of Lu Zheng.

She admonished Lin Chun and the others, "Big brother! Don’t skimp on meals when you get back! We’ll probably return in a few days too..."

Traditionally, a bride is supposed to return home three days after the wedding, but given the uncertain state of Lu Zheng’s grandmother, it wasn’t the right moment for Lin Xia to make firm promises.