Lin Yuqing paused for a moment, separated from her daughter, and the two looked towards the door together.
Lu Lishan stood there with a simple and honest smile on his face.
He had been there for a long time; he had been lingering outside his daughter's room long before Lin Yuqing brought up the tray.
He was also worried that his daughter hadn't eaten, that she was in a bad mood, and that the daughter they had gone through so much trouble to find would leave them again...
But he didn't know how to go in and talk to her.
He's a father, a man, and there are some things... that girls might not want to tell him.
Just as he was caught in a dilemma, he saw Lin Yuqing come upstairs. He immediately hid to the side, and after Lin Yuqing knocked on the door, he peeked out from behind the door and listened intently.
However, the more they listened, the more something seemed off. Why were these two hugging each other and crying?
In his haste, Lu Lishan knocked on the door and came over, but he didn't dare to be too obvious, pretending to be just passing by.
"I...I was just on my way to the study," he said with a smile. "I just passed by and heard you and your daughter crying...Hey, Lin Yuqing, did you bully my precious daughter?"
When Lu Lishan said this, he winked at Lin Yuqing, trying to get her to cooperate. However, his attempt to be humorous but failing to do so made his wife laugh.
“It’s not funny at all.” Lin Yuqing said this, but the corners of her mouth turned up as she looked at Jiang Mianmian and said, “Don’t mind your dad, he’s just not a comedian. When he was young, he caused trouble at your Uncle Huo and Aunt Jiang’s coffee shop, scaring all the customers away with his grin!”
"You must be mistaken!" Lu Lishan retorted, his eyes wide. "That devilish face is clearly Huo Zhixing!"
"So what kind of face do you have?" Lin Yuqing laughed. "A pig's kidney face?"
Lu Lishan was embarrassed, and then the whole family burst into laughter.
Jiang Mianmian held her father's arm with one hand and her mother's arm with the other, just like when she was a child, she held Jiang Youcai's hand with one hand and Su Aiqian's hand with the other. She was particularly attached to this feeling of happiness.
“My dear daughter, don’t worry about it.” Lu Lishan patted her head. “I know everything about your adoptive mother. To be honest, your father and I blame them. We blame them for saving you back then but not sending you back, causing us twenty years of pain, but…”
“But I keep telling your mother, and I keep telling myself, that the past can’t be undone, and the only thing we can do is cherish the present.”
“Now that you’re back, we won’t pursue the matter any further… Besides, they’ve done so much for you over the past twenty years. They raised you, and you should repay their kindness.”
"dad……"
“Your adoptive mother needs you right now.” Lu Lishan’s eyes were full of affection as he held her small hand. “You are to take care of her, but not in that hospital.”
"What?"
"What? What?" Lu Lishan became arrogant. "Isn't now the time for that kid Huo Junyu to show off? His family owns a joint hospital, which is run by his maternal grandfather. Didn't he tell you about it?"
"That brat, if he can't even help with this little thing, don't expect me to marry my daughter to him!"
"Are you senile? How can you say something like that!" Lin Yuqing looked at him reproachfully and pinched him hard. "Go, go, go to sleep. Don't disturb your daughter's rest!"
"Hey honey, I'm serious!"
While being pushed out by his wife, Lu Lishan continued to act like a father-in-law.
"That brat Huo Junyu, I have to put him to a good test! If he doesn't pass my test, he can forget about my precious daughter!"
"Now you're calling him a brat? You used to treat him like your own son!"
"Hmm...that was before!" Lu Lishan retorted. "Going back further, Huo Zhixing even kicked me in the waist! I'll get my revenge on his son!"
"Lu Lishan! Don't forget you kicked him too!"
Lin Yuqing pulled out her trump card, pinched his ear, and Brother Shan cried out in pain.
"You old man, go back to sleep! Don't make me take out the washboard!"
"Alright, alright... Honey, be gentle!"
Jiang Mianmian couldn't help but laugh as she watched her parents' backs as they bickered and argued.
She returned to her room and lay on the bed, feeling relaxed. Huo Junyu's goodnight call arrived as expected.
His first words were in a low, slightly hoarse voice: "Did you miss me?"
Jiang Mianmian just smiled and didn't answer.
Huo Junyu didn't tease her and said seriously, "I've already arranged for Auntie to be transferred to another hospital."
"So fast?"
"If I don't hurry, Uncle Ashan might never let you into our Huo family, right?"
Jiang Mianmian was stunned. She really suspected that Huo Junyu had installed a listening device in her house.
"Don't be surprised." Huo Junyu chuckled. "Actually, I understood from the look Uncle Shan gave me when I took you home last time... My dad said that all fathers-in-law look at their sons-in-law the same way. My grandfather also disliked him in every way back then!"
"You don't like him?" Jiang Mianmian laughed mischievously. "If you don't like him, why do you keep sending him 'Secret Recipe Vajra Pills'?"
"you……"
Huo Junyu finally understood. It turned out she knew everything; she had deliberately watched him get nervous that night!
At that moment, her giggling voice on the phone was like a kitten's claws scratching at his heart, making his heart itch.
As Jiang Mianmian laughed, she rolled over, and a sharp pain suddenly shot through her waist! She couldn't help but let out a soft cry.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"It's nothing," she said, rubbing her back. "Junyu, those ointments you found last time don't seem to work very well... they're not very effective for my back pain."
Huo Junyu's face darkened, and a thought flashed through his mind like lightning...
The medicines from Southeast Asia are all for treating external injuries; they are applied to the surface and only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.
Perhaps the real wound she suffered was inside!
"Mianmian," he said in a low voice, "while Aunt Su is being transferred to another hospital, you should also get a check-up at the United Hospital!"
Jiang Mianmian was stunned for a moment, and after a long while, she asked him softly, "Do you think it's serious? But this pain only lasts for a moment, and it doesn't usually hurt much."
"That's precisely why it's even more suspicious," Huo Junyu sighed. "Let's investigate this further, just to put my mind at ease."
"Okay," Jiang Mianmian said softly with a smile, "I'll do whatever you say!"
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