Chapter 28 Chapter 28 You four should live a good life, better than...
"Do you need me to go up with you?" The man driving the car held the woman's hand and asked in a warm and caring voice.
Looking up at the ward building, the woman didn't have the heart to deal with the man next to her, so she retracted her hand, "No need, I can go by myself, he should be upstairs."
He refers to Chen Weimin.
Regardless of whether he knew about her relationship with Qian Wanli or not, she thought that in an occasion like today, he probably wouldn't want to see another man appear in his child's ward.
Qian Wanli nodded in understanding, "Go ahead, I'll wait for you in the car."
"Wait a moment."
When getting off the car, Qian Wanli stopped her again and took out a bulging envelope from the back seat of the car, "Put it in your bag so you can pay the medical bills later."
He didn't know what disease her children had, so on the way here, he temporarily withdrew 10,000 yuan, which should be enough.
This money was too important to her. Looking at the man who was so kind to her, Ma Suhua couldn't help but give him a hug and whispered in his ear, "Thank you..."
Qian Wanli didn't do this to get her to throw herself into his arms. He just patted her on the back and said, "Okay, go ahead."
At this moment, in this situation, in the ward dozens of meters away, Shen Miao saw the whole scene of them being affectionate and affectionate in the car.
Although she didn’t know what they were mumbling about, Shen Miao knew that as a mother, her behavior of still talking about love with her “lover” when her children were poisoned and hospitalized was extremely excessive!
If you want to see the children, just hurry up. Why are you spending so much time in the car with a man?
Not only Shen Miao, but Chen Weimin who came out of the cafeteria also noticed the familiar car and the two people sitting in it.
Carrying hot meals in his left hand and a bag of snacks in his right hand, Chen Weimin had to pass by the parking lot on his way back to the ward building from the cafeteria. It was only a distance of a few dozen meters, but he did not turn back. Instead, he stood firmly behind the green plants.
He saw it, saw his wife fooling around with his leader.
But he was not as angry as Shen Miao imagined, like a hot-blooded man who was cuckolded. On the contrary, he was more like a thief who peeped into other people's privacy. He didn't dare to be discovered by the owner of the house, so he had to continue hiding in the dark.
At that moment, Shen Miao understood.
Chen Weimin must have known it in his heart, he knew about the shameful affair between Ma Suhua and Qian Wanli.
But why didn't he dare to ask for an explanation for his child? Was it because he felt guilty about what happened with Wu Guifang? Was he worried about Qian Wanli's power? Or was he afraid that he wouldn't be able to make more money after the falling out?
"What are you looking at?"
Seeing that Shen Miao had been standing in front of the window, Wu Guifang also followed over.
"Oh, no, nothing."
Shen Miao wanted to pull back his wandering thoughts along with the glass window, but it was too late.
Following Shen Miao's gaze, Wu Guifang saw another car from her family. She was not surprised, but said calmly: "Well, I thought she should come too."
When the company's front desk learned that Ping An'an had gone to the hospital, the first thing they did was to contact Qian Wanli, and then Qian Wanli would notify Wu Guifang, and let Wu Guifang pass the message to her driver Chen Weimin.
Since Qian Wanli knew everything, he would naturally tell Ma Suhua who was beside him. As a mother, she would definitely come to visit when she heard that something happened to her child.
Wu Guifang's casual words surprised Shen Miao even more. Her brain, which was working frantically, suddenly crashed because it could not process too much information at the moment...
Does Wu Guifang know about Ma Suhua and Qian Wanli?
And judging from her attitude, she should have accepted the fact that her husband was having an affair with her driver's wife. Wait...
"you……"
Shen Miao suppressed the surprise in her heart and tried to make her expression look normal.
"It's very strange, isn't it?" Wu Guifang didn't feel offended by her question, but instead said the second half of the sentence for her, "Why are we two families pretending to be ignorant of each other and eating from the same pot?"
Opening her handbag, Wu Guifang subconsciously wanted to take out a cigarette to relieve her fatigue, but then she remembered that she was pregnant. She had already replaced the cigarettes in her bag with more health-promoting tangerine peel candy.
So she peeled one and put it in her mouth, while answering the doubts in Shen Miao's heart like a spider spinning silk.
"Chen Weimin's family owes money. Three hundred thousand? Five hundred thousand? In short, it's a number they can't afford."
Chen Weimin was not born poor. He and Ma Suhua were originally an ordinary couple in a southern province. They managed to gain a foothold in the city through their own efforts.
The man drives a truck and the woman sells vegetables. Their living conditions are better than many families, but they have a pair of unreliable parents.
The old couple had been farming all their lives. After being brought to the city, they saw that their lives were getting better and better, so they thought that their son and daughter-in-law would definitely earn more money in the future. Having nothing to do at home, they unknowingly developed bad habits.
Gambling, just a simple word, can tear so many families apart.
At the beginning, Chen Weimin's father played mahjong for a small amount of money, at most a few cents. Later, he was set up by someone and played outside for a whole night. When he came home, he brought back more than a dozen IOUs with his handprint, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Hundreds of thousands of yuan, in this era when even a millionaire with an annual income of ten thousand yuan is not uncommon, is an astronomical figure that is impossible for any family to repay.
That day, the old man committed suicide, and the old woman died of a sudden heart attack because she couldn't accept it.
Hundreds of thousands of debts fell on the couple.
After selling their house and the land in the village, they still couldn't scrape together enough money. The debt collectors said that if they didn't pay back the money, their children would be kidnapped and sold. So they had no choice but to leave their homeland and come to Yu City overnight with Ping An in their arms.
But as long as the debt is not paid off, it will be like a sword hanging over their heads, so they must find a way to make money.
They have bad luck, as they have unreliable parents; they are also lucky, as they are born with handsome and beautiful faces.
So, when Chen Weimin gave Qian Wanli a driver, Wu Guifang was attracted by his appearance and hardworking and capable character, and secretly gave him a "high-paying" job.
When Qian Wanli accidentally met the young and beautiful Ma Suhua in the company, he also proposed an exchange to help her solve the unspeakable problems at home.
So they each get what they want. Maybe these relationships are not open to the public, but they can both get what they want from them.
Qian Wanli gained face and happiness. He could get great satisfaction both mentally and physically when he went out with a beautiful female secretary.
Wu Guifang got the child, and the worry that had troubled her for many years was finally solved by Chen Weimin;
Chen Weimin and Ma Suhua got the money and saved their family which was about to fall apart...
After listening to Wu Guifang’s explanation, Shen Miao roughly understood the relationship of mutual satisfaction and giving between them.
Just as Wu Guifang said, as long as we don't deliberately break this layer of window paper, even if both parties know it in their hearts, we can still live in peace.
Shen Miao couldn’t quite understand their relationship, but she still chose to respect it.
Well, as long as the four of them can live a good life, that's better than anything else.
Seeing Ma Suhua getting off the car, Wu Guifang also picked up her bag and prepared to leave, "Let's go, let's take the girls to eat something, and come back later."
Shen Miao knew that Wu Guifang was deliberately avoiding Ma Suhua to avoid being too embarrassed when they met.
"OK."
At the same time, perhaps because the pair of eyes hiding behind the tree were too scorching, Ma Suhua turned her head and saw Chen Weimin behind her on the way to the ward building.
When their eyes met, Chen Weimin no longer avoided her, but walked towards her with a smile, pretending nothing had happened.
“You’re here.”
"Um."
"I'm fine, I just ate something wrong. The doctor said I'll be fine after an injection."
"That's fine."
They both knew what the other had paid to make money, but even so, they were still a little awkward when they met, especially when he saw Ma Suhua's newly bought handmade cheongsam, which he had brought back from the tailor shop for Qian Wanli a few days ago.
One was on her body and the other was in Wu Guifang's closet.
The atmosphere of the meeting was a bit awkward. They were clearly a couple who once walked hand in hand, but at this moment, as they walked to the ward one after the other, they looked like exes who met again after a long separation.
When going upstairs, Ma Suhua opened her bag and handed him the envelope of money. "With these, it should be enough for this month."
"You can put this aside for next month," Chen Weimin pinched the thickness of the envelope and replied with a smile, "I've already given this month's share."
With a long sigh, Ma Suhua tried to move closer to him, "It's almost there, right?"
Chen Weimin did not dodge, but freed his hands to hold her shoulders, and replied gently as before: "Yes, it will be soon."
In the past few months, they have been pretending to be someone they are in order to make money. Only when there are no outsiders around can they gradually return to the state of a couple.
It will be soon. I can pay off the debt if I work harder.
Once the debt is paid off, they won't have to live this parasitic, shady life anymore.
Before arriving at the ward, Chen Weimin was still worried that they would run into each other, but fortunately... maybe they saw them upstairs just now, so they left in time.
"Mother!"
"Woo woo woo! Mom, you're finally here..."
"Pingping, be good, don't cry~"
No matter what their daily life is like, at this moment, in the ward separated by a door, there is only their family, a happy, harmonious and beautiful family of four.
*
The relationship between the four of Chen Weimin was too complicated, and Shen Miao repeatedly lamented when she talked to Shen Wanshan the next day.
"Master, do you think there are really people who would accept their man being with another woman just for money?"
Using the pestle to twist the herbs in the bowl repeatedly, Shen Wanshan curled his lips and replied: "You are a yellow-haired girl, why do you think about these men and women's affairs when you have nothing to do?"
"Curious."
Since she was a child, she had seen too many couples quarreling over trivial matters. Not to mention letting someone else get pregnant with their child, even looking at someone else a few more times would make the wife so angry that she would start a fight, not to mention that both husband and wife were mistresses of others at the same time.
After they pay off the money, can they continue to live as if nothing happened?
"It's all for the children, there's nothing wrong with that." Reaching out and twisting the medicine powder, Shen Wanshan said slowly, "It's better for us to live closer to the city. If you go further into the mountains, you'll know how many families have five or six people living together."
Poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people. Shen Wanshan has a deep understanding of this saying, especially in the more remote mountainous areas in the southwest.
When Shen Wanshan was a child, he followed his father out of the province to practice medicine for more than ten years. This kind of intertwined relationship between husband and wife is not uncommon, but they are not doing it for money, but to give birth to a son who can carry on the family line.
The mountainous areas are very poor and many men cannot find wives. Even if they do find wives, they do not expect the girls to have trouble finding a husband in the future, but instead hope to have a male child to continue the family line.
A woman who can give birth to a son is a hot commodity. It is common to spend ten kilograms of grain to borrow a wife to give birth in one's home. In some families, four or five sons share one wife, and they raise the children together. After all, they are their own blood and there is no need to distinguish them so clearly.
After pouring out the medicine powder, Shen Wanshan grabbed another handful of medicine and put it into the medicine bowl and began to grind it: “You, don’t think so well of them. The days you see may not be their real days.”
What Shen Miao saw was a scene of a poor couple who were forced to live with a rich couple for the sake of their child, but after Shen Wanshan heard her description, what came to his mind were four ugly faces of humanity.
A gentleman loves money but he gets it in a proper way. From the moment Chen Weimin became Wu Guifang's mistress for money, he was destined to be not a good person.
"There are so many people in this world who are forced into poor alleys, but why don't we see everyone stealing, robbing, killing and setting fires?" Shen Wanshan snorted, then asked himself and answered, "Because they have integrity, they would not do such shameless things. Since Chen Weimin did it, he is a shameless person."
"And that Ma Suhua, she can be anyone's mistress, but she has to find her husband's family. You also said that she is beautiful, but do you dare to say that she has never thought about becoming the first wife by giving birth to a child? Kick Wu Guifang out and become the first wife yourself?"
After all, he is an old hand who has seen the world, and his perspective on things is more profound than hers.
Shen Miao felt that they were pitiful, but Shen Wanshan felt that there must be something hateful about pitiful people. Having no bottom line and no face were what made them hateful.
Dividing the ground medicinal powder into several portions, Shen Miao couldn’t help but ask again: “Then after they pay back the money, should they get divorced?”
"They can't be divorced," Shen Wanshan replied bluntly, "A broken pot goes with a rotten bowl, and a stinky gong goes with a broken drum. They are a perfect match, so they can't be divorced."
It's not just Chen Weimin and Ma Suhua. Even if Qian Wanli finds out in the future that the child in Wu Guifang's belly is not his, and that he is cuckolded, he probably won't get angry.
Because Ma Suhua had not been able to get pregnant in the past six months, and Wu Guifang's belly had been still for the past ten years or so, he probably understood what was going on.
Therefore, he would not remove the title of "real father" and the green hat from his head by himself.
The seemingly complicated relationship was sorted out by Shen Wanshan, and it turned out that all of them were villains.
The only one who was not obviously evil was Wu Guifang who was willing to confess to Shen Miao. At least she was evil and rotten, unlike other people who always had to find a high-sounding excuse for their cheating.
Fortunately, Shen Miao did not have a virgin heart and interfere too much in their affairs, otherwise she would definitely get herself into trouble.
"So, don't ask about other people's affairs, don't interfere, just treat them, don't you understand?"
"oh……"
Shen Miao lowered her head and responded, then honestly put away the divided medicinal powder.
It was getting late, and Shen Miao estimated that her parents would soon return from the fields, so she packed up the herbs in the yard and prepared to go home and cook.
"Miao Miao, your friend in the city called you."
As soon as she entered the house with the basket, Shen Miao heard Xiao Min calling her from outside the yard.
Friends in the city? Wang Qin? Or Wu Guifang? But they are at most his patients, not his friends...
Shen Miao patted the dust off her clothes and prepared to answer the phone. Before leaving, she was poked at by Shen Wanshan with resentment. Although he didn't say anything, Shen Miao still heard him secretly cursing herself for getting too close to the patient.
I've been warned many times not to be friends with patients, but look, now I'm calling you when nothing happens, right?
Shen Miao walked out of the door under Shen Wanshan's gaze, and felt a chill on her back. Following Xiao Min to the store, Shen Miao deliberately made her tone sound a little colder when answering the phone, just like her grandfather had instructed, to keep a proper distance from the patients.
"Hello, who is this?"
"It's me, did you hear that?"
It was not Wang Qin, nor Wu Guifang, but Jiang Xiaozhen, the female reporter from the provincial TV station who had come to interview her before.
"Just now, the store owner asked me who I was, and I said I was your friend. Is that okay?" Jiang Xiaozhen's tone was a little cautious, as if she was seeking her consent.
Seeing that the person on the other end of the phone was not her patient, Shen Miao's tone softened, "Of course."
She is a reporter for the provincial TV station. It would be great to be her friend.
Moreover, Shen Miao had borrowed a lot of light from her. Last time, it was also thanks to her that she was able to eat a mouthful of the fragrant and juicy melon, and she also became a skilled melon distributor. Whenever the villagers came to her to inquire about the "Heaven-fallen Divine Ice", she was extremely proud.
"Are you calling to see a doctor because you feel unwell?"
Jiang Xiaozhen wanted to beat around the bush, but there was really nothing to say, so she got straight to the point: "Actually, I want to ask you for help with something..."
The last time the news of "magical ice falling from the sky" broke out, the popularity remained high for half a month, so the TV station decided to continue the program "Science and Me" and film more things that seem bizarre but can actually be explained by science.
As a participant of the program, Jiang Xiaozhen has received many submissions in the past period of time. After discussion, she finally decided on the theme of the next episode: Crazy Genius.
This is a case handed over from the Provincial People’s Hospital a few days ago.
The person who went crazy was a man in his twenties who was still studying. His family said that he was smart since he was young and was the best student in their alley. He had been top of his grade since elementary school. After ten years of hard work, he was admitted to one of the best universities in Haishi City.
But since he entered college, he has been suffering from a strange disease, which often occurs at night. The symptoms of an attack are going crazy and talking nonsense, smashing things as if he has lost his mind. If he wants to treat it, he can only rely on eating ginseng regularly to suppress it.
Ginseng is very expensive, especially the aged ones, which not every family can afford.
In order to cure their son's strange disease, his parents took him to the hospital for examination. However, several sets of internal and external tests could not find out what the problem was. They had to ask the TV station for help to find out what was going on.
Jiang Xiaozhen immediately thought of Shen Miao, after all, she had seen her medical skills, and if she could cure the man’s strange disease, then there would be a topic for the new episode of the show.
"...So I would like to invite you to come and see what is wrong with this man." After explaining what happened, Jiang Xiaozhen solemnly invited her.
"We will pay you for the interview materials. If the patient is cured, his parents will definitely give him a generous amount of medical fees."
“Okay,” Shen Miao agreed without even thinking about it, and when the words came out of her mouth, she realized that there was still a hurdle to overcome, “But I have to go back and discuss it with Grandpa.”
This sounds like a good thing. If the man’s madness can really be cured, the clinic can get a lot of publicity by appearing on TV. However, after all, grandfather has the final say in the family, so Shen Miao still has to go back and ask for his opinion.
"Sure," Jiang Xiaozhen replied, "It would be great if Grandpa Shen could also join the show!"
After hanging up the phone, Shen Miao quickly ran home and told Shen Wanshan the news.
"Yes, when shall we go?"
As soon as he heard that he was going to treat people, Shen Wanshan agreed immediately, and he seemed very interested in this crazy man.
As a doctor for decades, Shen Wanshan has treated many difficult and complicated diseases. The more difficult the disease is, the more it can stimulate his interest, just like the top students in the school. Ordinary exercises are boring and uninteresting to do, and only tricky problems can make him want to overcome them.
“Are you really going?” After Shen Wanshan agreed, Shen Miao became a little worried, “She said that the man would throw things and hit people when he gets crazy. What if he accidentally hits you…”
"oh?"
Shen Wanshan stroked his long beard with one hand and slowly raised the other hand.
Instantly, with a "snap" sound, the wooden stick held by three fingers broke into two pieces, broken into two pieces...
"Miao Miao, you really underestimate me. I'm not that delicate old man. If he really gets crazy, I have the strength and means to deal with him!"
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