Chapter 103 Double Bad News
In the Shen family courtyard, the main hall is brightly lit.
Meng Shuyue ran with disheveled hair on the dark street, having long forgotten that it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening.
I ran too fast halfway and my plastic slippers tripped over a raised stone slab, bruising my knees and palms. But I didn't feel it at all and just got up and kept running forward regardless.
When she arrived at the Shen family courtyard, the aunt who usually took care of Mr. Shen was already waiting in the living room with her child in her arms.
The baby's hoarse cry was particularly loud in the silent night, like a sharp blade piercing Meng Shuyue's heart and stirring constantly.
Meng Shuyue didn't even have time to catch his breath, and hurriedly took the crying head from his aunt's hand, and anxiously put it on his knees to examine it.
There are no wet diapers and no poop that would make the child uncomfortable.
"Is the child hungry?"
The aunt shook her head and kept explaining, "No, each of the three children drank a lot of milk before going to bed. Little Head and Toffee both slept very soundly, but I don't know what happened to Big Head?"
"Also, I just saw the young master crying like this, so I went to the old man's room to look for him, but found that the old man would not open the door no matter how I called. I had no choice but to call and disturb your wedding."
The aunt was already extremely anxious. She was the one who took care of Meng Shuyue when she was in confinement after childbirth, and she had never encountered a situation where the child cried non-stop.
"Oh, by the way, did you bring the keys? And what about the young master? Didn't he come?"
"He went out to buy something. I left him a note. He will come over immediately after seeing it."
Meng Shuyue hurriedly wrapped the child in the quilt again. Listening to the child's increasingly hoarse voice becoming quieter and quieter, she was almost frightened to death.
With trembling hands, she pried open Big Head's mouth and saw that the child's originally smooth throat was red and swollen. She screamed in shock.
"ah!"
She looked at her aunt in horror and asked sharply, "Did you feed the big head hot milk without testing the temperature?"
“No, no!”
The aunt hurriedly waved her hands in denial, "How could I be so stupid? It was the old man who was feeding Datou just now!"
She slapped her thigh and remembered something, and said anxiously, "Xiao Meng, you brought the key, go and unlock the old man's room quickly, he never sleeps so soundly!"
"You can also ask the old man if he used hot water to feed the young master..."
Meng Shuyue's hands were shaking as she held the child. At this moment, she only wanted to send the child to the hospital immediately. She was anxious why Shen Jinxiao hadn't driven over yet, but she had to take the key from her pocket with trembling hands and walked quickly to Mr. Shen's room at the urging of her aunt.
The doors in the courtyards all have locks that can be opened from the inside but require a key to open from the outside.
During her confinement period, Mr. Shen gave her the keys to every room in the house.
Originally, the aunt was following Meng Shuyue, but when she heard the crying of Xiaotou and Naitang from the room outside where the children were kept, she retracted her steps and hurried to the outer room first.
Meng Shuyue hugged Big Head, whose crying voice was gradually getting quieter. Her heart was already in a knot. In a daze, she still had to find the key and open the room where Grandpa Shen was resting.
"Dad, are you okay..."
The lights in the house are on.
But I didn't see my father-in-law.
Meng Shuyue endured the burning pain in his knee and walked quickly inside. Seeing that there was no one on the messy bed, he couldn't help but feel puzzled.
She turned around and was about to leave, but when her eyes fell on Mr. Shen who had fainted on the ground behind the desk, she covered her mouth in fear...
This was the scene Shen Jinxiao saw when he rushed in.
Meng Shuyue slumped on the ground holding the child, her eyes filled with tears. She looked at Mr. Shen lying motionless under the desk, her whole body trembling.
"Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Shen Jinxiao rushed forward and tried to pull the person on the ground, but his hands were covered in blood.
The blood-red hand touched his old father's nostrils, and for a long time, he was unable to recover from the buzzing sounds in his ears.
"No... Dad, why are you lying here? The ground is cold, get up quickly..."
He called out to his old father, who always mentioned him, in a choked voice, his voice already shaking uncontrollably.
His mother passed away when he was ten years old. His old father was afraid that he would be mistreated by a stepmother, so his old father acted as both father and mother to him and raised him.
He never thought that his healthy father would suddenly leave him.
Just then, Aunt Liu appeared in the room holding the awakened Xiaotou and Naitang.
Seeing this scene, he screamed out loud.
Shen Jinxiao's eyes went dark, and he could hardly breathe through his tearful eyes.
"What happened? Why did my dad fall to the ground? How did you take care of him, Aunt Liu?"
As he spoke, he burst into tears again.
"You know, Dad...he..."
Meng Shuyue wiped the tears from her face in a daze, and looked at Datou beside her, whose voice had become hoarse and only a weak cry remained. She staggered to her feet and hurried to pull Shen Jinxiao, "Jinxiao, Datou's throat seems to be burned. I don't know if his stomach is also burned. It seems to be very serious. You should take Datou to the hospital first..."
After all, as a Chinese medicine practitioner, she was helpless in dealing with this kind of digestive tract burns.
Shen Jinxiao came back to his senses from the overwhelming grief, glanced at Datou worriedly, quickly got up and called the Song family, then drove Meng Shuyue to the hospital.
Half an hour later.
At the emergency room entrance.
Meng Shuyue, who was lying limp on the ground, was still immersed in the grief of her son's uncertain life or death and her father-in-law's sudden death. A sudden heavy slap in the face brought her back to her senses in an instant. She looked at the aggressive Shen Ting in front of her in a daze, with a face full of question marks.
Shen Jinxiao, who had just returned from paying the fees, rushed over and stood in front of Meng Shuyue, glaring at her, "Sister, you are not at home to deal with Dad's funeral, and you come here..."
“Bang!”
Another heavy slap landed directly on Shen Jinxiao’s face.
As Shen Ting finished slapping him, she collapsed and screamed at him, "Shen Jinxiao, you are simply hopelessly in love!"
"Your father's body is still at home, yet you brought a bastard to see a doctor. Are you still a human being?"
Shen Jinxiao opened his mouth to make a few excuses, but he felt so uncomfortable listening to what Shen Ting said that his soul was torn apart.
Shen Ting cried and accused Meng Shuyue at the door of the emergency room.
"Did you think my father made hot milk for your child, so you pushed him down in a rage, and the back of his head hit the corner of the table, and he died immediately?"
Faced with the sudden slander, Meng Shuyue quickly denied it, "No, don't..."
"Don't deny it. Aunt Liu just told me what happened. She said that as soon as you entered the study, something happened to the old man. It must have been you who pushed him. You are a jinx and a disaster!"
Chen Ting grabbed Meng Shuyue's hair and shook her while pulling. She had lost her usual dignified appearance and was frantically venting the pain of losing her father.
Shen Jinxiao froze in place, watching his wife, whom he usually didn't want to see get hurt, being beaten by her own sister, and his heart ached as if it was being torn apart.
He pulled Shen Ting's hand away, turned his head and looked at Meng Shuyue whose hair was messy, and asked her with tears in his eyes, "Shuyue, I ask you, did you push my father?"
Meng Shuyue looked up at him numbly. She was exhausted physically and mentally, but suddenly she smiled, and tears came out of her eyes. "You don't believe me?"
She pointed at the emergency room and screamed in pain, "Your son is still in there receiving treatment, and you believe your sister's random accusations against me?"
"You bastard son, who knows whose bastard you gave birth to? My father and I originally thought that the child in your belly was Shi Jing's, so we married you. Now you've killed my father. You should take your three bastards and get out of here!"
Shen Ting cursed angrily, and dragged Shen Jinxiao, who seemed to have lost his soul, out without caring about anything.
Meng Shuyue was left alone standing at the door of the empty emergency room, sitting helplessly on the ground.
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