Chapter 20 Will She Eat Children?
Mumu has a fever!
Zhou Yue hurriedly picked up Zhou Mu and ran towards the clinic.
"What kind of mother are you? Your child has a fever of 40 degrees Celsius! If this continues, she'll become mentally impaired!" The female doctor's eyes were extremely unfriendly. "And what happened to this little girl's face? Did you hit her?"
"I...I wasn't home." Zhou Yue looked at the female doctor's suspicious eyes and didn't dare to admit it at all. "I brought her to the clinic as soon as I got back."
"It's not that you're the best; this child is always badly injured every time he comes here." The female doctor didn't quite believe Zhou Yue's words.
The female doctor remembered that a year ago, a little girl named Xiaomu was brought to see a neighbor for burns. She had a lot of blisters on her feet, which seemed to be caused by her mother keeping her locked up at home.
As a mother herself, she couldn't bear to see her child suffer even a little. With a warning tone, she said to Zhou Yue, "You look beautiful and respectable, but abusing children is illegal. Just because you're a parent doesn't mean you can beat or scold your child at will."
Zhou Yue lowered her head and endured the scolding, her mind filled with mixed emotions.
Logically, she should be happy to see her daughter being pampered by Yan Songyu like a precious jewel, while Yan Songyu's daughter was suffering under her care. However, seeing Zhou Mu's swollen face, she felt an indescribable irritation.
After Zhou Mu woke up, the female doctor gently coaxed her, "Little girl, Auntie has applied some medicine for you. You'll get better soon. It doesn't hurt anymore, does it?"
The ointment prescribed by the female doctor for Zhou Mu had the effect of reducing swelling and relieving pain. The green paste applied to Zhou Mu's face made him look even more ferocious.
"Thank you, Doctor!" Zhou Mu's voice was very soft, like a kitten's meow.
"You're welcome, it's my duty." The female doctor patted Zhou Mu's hair. "Tell me, who hit you? I'll call the police for you. Even parents shouldn't hit their children."
As she spoke, she glanced at Zhou Yue, whose heart instantly leaped into her throat.
Zhou Mu didn't look at Zhou Yue, nor did he dare to look at the female doctor. After a long while, he stammered, "I was beaten up outside by an uncle I didn't know."
The female doctor, seeing her evasive gaze, sighed, patted her hand, and left.
Watching the female doctor's retreating figure, Zhou Mu silently murmured, "I'm sorry."
After Zhou Mu's fever subsided, Zhou Yue carried her home, and the mother and daughter remained silent the whole way.
*
Feifei visits Jiang Chengli every day, and the usually cold father-daughter relationship warms up because of Jiang Chengli's car accident.
This was not the outcome Yan Songyu wanted. She didn't want Feifei to have any expectations of Jiang Chengli, her father. As a result, Jiang Chengli overheard the caregivers' conversation.
His left eye vision is beyond repair? His right leg is completely crippled? And he can no longer hold a paintbrush with his right hand?
"You're lying to me, aren't you?" Jiang Chengli grabbed the caregiver's shoulders like a madman, demanding an answer. "You're talking nonsense, aren't you?"
"I aspire to become a master of traditional Chinese painting like Kong Lingqi!"
"Tell me you're lying! Admit it!"
The caregiver dared not struggle too much, for if anything happened to the patient, he would be finished too. "Mr. Jiang, please calm down. We were just talking nonsense. The Yan family is so rich, you will definitely be fine."
Just as the caregiver was racking her brains trying to soothe him, Jiang Chengli suddenly collapsed. Another caregiver called a doctor, who gave Jiang Chengli a sedative injection.
Yan Songyu, still shaken, carried Feifei into the ward. "Don't be afraid, Mommy's here."
She clearly saw the fear in Feifei's eyes, but she had no choice. She couldn't let Feifei get close to Jiang Chengli; he wasn't a good father, or even a good person.
After that day, Yan Songyu never took Feifei to the hospital again, and Feifei herself didn't mention it either, as if she had forgotten about Jiang Chengli.
"Feifei, are you dressed? Uncle Feng is here to pick us up."
On the day of the parent-teacher conference, Yan Songyu changed into the sportswear she had specially bought with Feifei the day before. It was a pink bunny outfit with two long ears on the hood.
"Here I am!"
Feifei's cheerful voice rang out. She quickly opened the door and twirled in front of Yan Songyu, asking, "Mommy, am I pretty?"
"Super pretty!" Yan Songyu always gave her daughter an overwhelming amount of emotional support. She also spun around like Feifei, "Look, isn't Mommy pretty?"
Feifei nodded vigorously, "Mom is the most beautiful mom in the world!"
"Hehe~" Feng Yu leaned against the pillar and laughed. "Alright, my two prettiest ladies, we're going to be late if we don't leave now."
Today, Feng Yu was also wearing a light gray tracksuit. His usual slicked-back hair was down, with soft wisps of hair falling gently across his forehead, swaying slightly as he walked. When Feng Yu smiled, all his sharpness and imposing manner disappeared, and he looked like a youthful and sunny college student, exceptionally gentle.
Feifei couldn't help but exclaim, "Uncle Feng, you look super handsome today too!"
Feng Yu picked up Feifei and went out. "That's right. I dressed up specially to match the two most beautiful girls. It seems to have worked well."
The final parent-teacher meeting before graduation for the 2007 graduating class of Brilliant Star Kindergarten was exceptionally grand.
Zhou Yue had been paying close attention to Fei Fei's affairs and naturally found out about it. Although she repeatedly warned herself to stay away from Fei Fei, she couldn't help but come. Fortunately, there were many people outside the fence who were curious about the elite kindergarten, so she didn't seem out of place.
Feng Yu's car stopped right in front of Zhou Yue. When she saw Yan Songyu leading Fei Fei out, Zhou Yue quickly lowered her head and dared not look anymore. But a sudden gust of wind blew away the headscarf covering Zhou Yue's face, which landed right at Fei Fei's feet.
Feifei picked up the headscarf and immediately saw Zhou Yue covering her face.
Yan Songyu also noticed. Oh, right, Zhou Yue is disfigured. No wonder she had most of her face covered up at the hospital last time.
She did indeed have someone protect Zhou Yue from Wang Laosan's clutches, not out of a sudden burst of maternal instinct, but simply because—she was also a woman, and she had a daughter.
However, Zhou Yue harbored a deep grudge against her for the woman's swap and the man who had killed her, so she didn't want Zhou Yue to have received her favors for nothing. Therefore, she took away Zhou Yue's prized appearance.
Feng Yu had Zhao Qi bribe Wang Laosan's henchmen, who then slashed Zhou Yue's face in the chaos when they came to pressure her.
A long, centipede-like scar stretched across Zhou Yue's face from her earlobe to the corner of her mouth. After the stitches, her mouth was slightly crooked, and coupled with her gloomy aura, the children around her were so frightened that they ran into their parents' arms.
Some children even cried out in fear, "Waaah~ Mommy, her mouth is so big, is she going to eat us?"
Zhou Yue covered her face, her eyes filled with terror. What should she do? Had she frightened Feifei? The strange looks around her made her feel like she was being pricked by needles. She hurriedly pushed people away and tried to run away.
"Aunt."
A clear, sweet voice rang out behind her.
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