Chapter 424 426 Relatives
"Cough cough." After Zhong Minglou was called away by Qin's mother, Xia Tian struggled to sit up and coughed twice weakly. She looked no more than thirty years old, with sunken eye sockets, pale face, and lips with a faint blue tint. She looked very unhealthy.
"Mom, drink some water." A little girl of seven or eight years old swiftly brought a cup of warm water and handed it to her. She carefully supported her and put the warm water to her mouth.
"Yingying, I'm sorry. It's mom who has dragged you down." Xia Tian said with heartache and self-blame as she looked at her daughter's hands covered with frostbite.
"How could that be? Mom worked so hard to raise me that she fell ill and developed a chronic illness. It's my duty to take care of her now. I hope she gets better soon!" The little girl deliberately said in a relaxed tone.
"Mom has nothing to cling to this world anymore, but I'm worried about you. If mom dies, and you're still so young, how will you live in the future?" Xia Tian looked at her daughter, her eyes full of reluctance.
"Mom, you won't die. We are going to Beijing soon. There is the best hospital there. It will definitely cure your illness." The little girl said with certainty.
Xia Tian smiled with some difficulty. Not to mention that her body couldn't hold on until she reached the capital, even if she did, she and her daughter were penniless and couldn't even afford to eat. How could they use to treat their illness?
"Yingying, look what delicious food grandma has made for you. Come, Xia Tian, mom knows you don't have a good appetite, so I made some wild vegetable porridge for you." Zhong Minglou had just been called out by Zhong's mother. When he came back, he suddenly became enthusiastic towards the mother and daughter, and brought a plate of wild vegetable cakes and two bowls of steaming wild vegetable porridge.
Zhong Yingying looked at Zhong Minglou without any expression and said nothing. Xia Tian pulled the corner of his mouth and showed an ugly smile, "Zhong Minglou, what are you planning to do?"
There was no love between the two of them anymore. If Xia Tian hadn't been afraid that she couldn't survive with the child, how could she have compromised and stayed with this family?
"Looking at what you said, what can I do? We are husband and wife, and it makes me sad to see you like this." Zhong Minglou looked at Xia Tian with concern.
"If you knew how painful it is, my mother would never become like this today." Zhong Yingying said coldly.
"Yingying, you are not allowed to talk to your dad like that." Xia Tian reprimanded Zhong Yingying anxiously.
"It's okay, it's okay, Xia Tian, it was my fault before, don't blame the child." Zhong Minglou looked at Zhong Yingying with good temper, and he was not angry at all.
"I don't have many days left to live, so you don't have to pretend in front of me. Just tell me what's wrong. I only ask that you consider our relationship and raise the child well, so that I can leave with peace of mind." Xia Tian said weakly.
"Xia Tian, you are just too stubborn. When I said I didn't care about you, I was just saying it in anger. It would have been fine if you had just given in. But you insisted on being stubborn and ran out in the snow." Zhong Minglou tried his best to defend himself.
"Hehe." Xia Tian smiled faintly. She no longer had the energy to argue with this man. At that time, she and her daughter had not eaten for three days. If she had not gone out, she would have starved to death.
"Xia Tian, I have good news to tell you." Zhong Minglou said mysteriously.
Xia Tian felt calm, his good news had nothing to do with her.
"Your brother, Xia Kai, is still alive. Our father just saw him." Zhong Minglou said word by word.
Xia Tian's eyes lit up, and he grabbed Zhong Minglou fiercely, "Are you telling the truth? Is it really Xia Kai?"
"Of course it's true. He's doing well now. He's dressed neatly, carries weapons, and drives a cool off-road vehicle. You can tell at first glance that he's a cultivator. From now on, our Yingying has an uncle who loves you." Zhong Minglou looked at Zhong Yingying affectionately. Xia Tian was in poor health. If she died, this daughter would be the only person related to Xia Kai by blood. Maybe he would have to rely on this daughter to tie Xia Kai down.
No wonder he suddenly showed his attention to her. It turned out that he wanted to take advantage of Xia Kai. Xia Tian sneered in her heart.
"Then why don't you bring him to see me?" Xia Tian said, suppressing her excitement. If Xia Kai was really a cultivator, once they arrived in the capital, maybe he would be able to find a good doctor to cure her illness.
"Don't worry. I just wanted to tell you first, Yingying, that dad and mom have something to say. You should go to grandma's place and play for a while. Grandma has prepared some delicious food for you!" Zhong Minglou said to Zhong Yingying.
"Go, Yingying, Mommy's fine." Xia Tian knew that Zhong Minglou had something to say, so she cooperated and sent her daughter out.
Zhong Yingying walked out of the tent, walked forward a few steps, turned a corner, and came back. She found a corner outside the tent that was blocked by cars and squatted there to eavesdrop.
"Xia Tian, your parents have always been with us. When Xia Kai sees you, he will definitely ask about your parents. What are you going to say then?" Zhong Minglou asked tentatively.
When talking about his parents, Xia Tian showed a sad expression on his face and asked sarcastically, "How do you want me to say it? What, are you feeling guilty?"
"Feeling guilty? Why should I feel guilty? I haven't done anything that goes against my conscience." Zhong Minglou said with a smile.
"Zhong Minglou, it's not that you haven't done anything against your conscience, you just have no conscience at all. You live in the house my parents bought and drive the car my parents bought. As a result, when the world ended, your family came to my house and ate up all the food my parents had stored, forcing my parents to go out and die." Xia Tian said gritting his teeth as he looked at the man in front of him.
"When did I force them to die? I have to support my father and my sister. Of course you have to support your parents yourself. It's you who are timid and cowardly and dare not go out. They were willing to go out in order to find food for you and your daughter. How can you blame me for their death? You can only blame yourself for your incompetence." Zhong Minglou snorted coldly, not showing any weakness.
"My parents used to be so good to you. They bought us a house and a car, helped us take care of our children, and cooked for us. But now that they are in trouble, you treat them like this." Xia Tian was immersed in sadness and did not notice Zhong Minglou's disgusted expression.
"Don't look up those old things. The most urgent thing now is to figure out how to tell Xia Kai about this? Should we lie to him and say we don't know, or should we just say that we failed to protect them and they are gone. What if Xia Kai wants details?" Zhong Minglou said impatiently.
"Why lie? It would be better to just tell the truth!" Xia Tian looked at Zhong Minglou with mockery. She and Xia Kai's relationship was not very close, but they were siblings after all. Knowing that Xia Kai was still alive, Xia Tian felt hopeful and her mental state improved a lot.
(End of this chapter)
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