Chapter 8 Healing and Saving Lives
Xia Qianqian smiled and said, "My surname is indeed Xia, but I am not the Xia Wenwen you know. My name is Xia Qianqian. Xia Wenwen and I were switched at birth, and we were only recently switched back. So, I am your father's fiancée."
Her words left the two children completely bewildered.
Xia Qianqian smiled as she looked at their bewildered expressions, then took out some snacks from the bag and said, "Here, I'll treat you to some snacks."
These are special snacks made by high-end hotels in the city. Er Ya glanced at them and couldn't help but swallow.
She cautiously looked in Lu Zheng's direction, and seeing Lu Zheng nod slightly, she carefully picked out the most exquisite-looking pastry and put it in her mouth.
"Be careful, don't choke." Xia Qianqian took out a handkerchief and wiped Er Ya's mouth when she saw that Er Ya was eating too fast.
A faint smile graced her face, her eyes lowered, and her dark eyelashes cast a shadow, making her so beautiful that Er Ya, who usually loved to adorn herself, forgot to chew.
"Er Ya, go pick some corn, I'm going to make corn rice."
Lu Zheng knew that Er Yatou was competitive and ambitious, and he was afraid that she would say something unpleasant, so he quickly sent her away.
It wasn't that he felt sorry for Xia Qianqian, but rather that he was afraid his mother would hear about it and have her sad memories resurface.
At this moment, Er Ya finally came to her senses. Thinking about how she had just been staring blankly at Xia Qianqian, she said with a mixture of shame and anger, "I don't care who you are. There isn't a single good person in your Xia family."
He said that, but his feet betrayed him as he went outside to pick corn.
Da Ya observed Xia Qianqian discreetly, and seeing that she didn't show any disgust towards her younger sister, she asked, "Aunt Xia, are you really planning to marry my father? Don't you mind that he has two children with him?"
It seems she's a girl with her own opinions.
Xia Qianqian was confident that she could quickly win over someone like Er Ya, but this girl was different.
[Is the female lead going to just say she doesn't mind? If she does, Da Ya's affection for her will plummet, and it will be difficult to gain her trust again.]
Just as Xia Qianqian was about to answer, she saw this sentence appear in the barrage of comments.
She looked at Daya and saw her smiling face. Most people would probably just treat her like a young girl and say something casually, but Xia Qianqian saw the wariness in her eyes.
She laughed: "Whether I dislike it or not, it's not that important. The most important thing is what I do. Your name is Daya, right? This is a gift for you."
She took out two bottles of skin cream: "Go and share them with your sister."
Daya was surprised by her answer. Looking at the skin cream in her hand, she remained silent for a while before saying to her, "Thank you, Auntie. I'll help you tidy up your place."
"Then I'll have to trouble Daya. Daya is so sensible," Xia Qianqian said. She knew in her heart that she had temporarily gotten through this hurdle.
But finding a place to sleep proved to be a problem for Daya.
The rooms they usually used were already occupied by family members, and the remaining two rooms were being used as storage rooms. Aunt Xia was, after all, Dad's fiancée, so it didn't seem appropriate for her to live in the storage rooms.
Daya said to Lu Zheng in a soft voice, "Dad, how about Aunt Xia sleeps with me, and my little sister sleeps with Grandma tonight?"
By this time, Lu Zheng had already ground the corn that Er Ya had picked and put it into the pot. The steaming water emitted an enticing aroma. He checked the heat, then took the pot off the stove and said to Daya, "You steam the dry food here, I'll go arrange a place for your Aunt Xia to stay."
At this point, he untied his apron and naturally took Xia Qianqian's large suitcase. Xia Qianqian then followed him in the opposite direction from the kitchen.
That's the main house. Xia Qianqian wondered to herself: He wouldn't just arrange for her to go there, would he?
Lu Zheng stopped and said to Xia Qianqian, "You can stay here tonight. This is where I usually sleep. It's relatively quiet. I'll go and change your bedding."
"So fast?" Xia Qianqian glanced furtively at the man's muscular body and muttered to herself.
Before she could finish speaking, she noticed that Lu Zheng's ears had turned red.
“Miss Xia, please don’t misunderstand, that’s not what I meant. You’ll stay here tonight, I’ll go to another room. Uh, why don’t you rest here for a while, and come back for dinner in ten minutes.”
After he finished speaking, his strides were noticeably longer than when he arrived, and he left in a few quick steps.
Xia Qianqian watched his back, a slight smile playing on her lips. She thought to herself, "I didn't expect this man to be even more shy than me. If I didn't see that he has two such big daughters, I would have thought he was unmarried."
Just then, she suddenly heard Er Ya's shouts.
"Grandma, what's wrong? Wake up! Dad, sister, come quick, Grandma has fainted!"
Upon hearing this, Xia Qianqian immediately stood up. Lu's mother was so angry about Xia Wenwen that she couldn't get out of bed; if something bad happened to her, all the good situation she had worked so hard to create would be ruined.
She was about to walk outside when she stopped.
I'm not a doctor, so what could I do even if I went?
At this moment, comments started appearing on the screen.
[Why did Madam Lu fall ill at this time? It seems unlikely she'll recover this time. I'm really worried about the female lead. If anything happens to Madam Lu, the male lead will definitely blame her.]
[It wasn't the female lead who made Madam Lu sick. The male lead wouldn't really kick her out, would he? That would be too tragic. She already has no home; if she's kicked out, where would she go?]
[The female lead had medicine in her suitcase; I remember she packed nitroglycerin tablets—]
Before the comments section had even finished scrolling, Xia Qianqian rushed to her suitcase as soon as she saw the words "quick-acting heart medicine".
Knowing that there was a lack of medical care and medicine in the countryside, she packed a lot of various kinds of medicine when she left the Xia family.
Found it!
She spotted the bottle containing nitroglycerin tablets immediately. To avoid being noticed by viewers in the live chat, she also packed a few other medications and then hurriedly ran towards the room where Lu's mother lived.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw Er Ya wiping away tears. Daya said, "Dad, you should go find the barefoot doctor. I'll stay here and watch over him."
Lu Zheng was extremely anxious. Last time, his mother had been saved with great difficulty. The doctor said it was a heart disease and told him to pay close attention to the possibility of recurrence. He never expected that his mother would have the same symptoms again so soon.
This could be fatal!
He was about to step out the door when he heard Xia Qianqian's voice.
"Don't move! I have medicine!"
She grabbed the bottle of nitroglycerin pills and rushed toward where Lu's mother was, but Er Ya opened her arms and blocked her way.
"You wicked woman, are you trying to poison Grandma?!"
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