"How could something so terrible happen? No one even sent me a message, only telling me the baby was born. Then your sister-in-law and I busied ourselves with things and came to see you with some gifts." After his initial shock, Qiao Haisheng said, "What about Qiao Lingling? Such a grown girl, just gone like that?"
I had some doubts about the possibility that this was something the second son did in collusion with his daughter, given how unreliable he was.
"I don't know if the person has been found. Our mother is devastated. She's been lying in the house for days, only getting up to go to the toilet."
His face looked increasingly pale, and he coughed for most of last night. What should we do about this? Qiao Hainan sighed after saying this.
Qiao Haisheng was helpless against the biased old lady, who was so troublesome, so he took out 20 yuan from his pocket.
“I won’t go see her. Take this money and go see the village doctor. If she’s sick, get her treated.”
"If you don't have the money, just tell me, and I'll try to scrape it together with you." He didn't offer to take on everything; Mom isn't just one person, why should they not contribute a single penny?
Qiao Hainan: "Yeah, I'm relieved to hear that from you, brother. I'll go find the village doctor to come and take a look. But I reckon the old lady is worried; all that money has been stolen."
It's like having your raised child stolen – the pain is unbearable.
Qiao Haisheng: "In the end, it was all just me making a mess of things. If I had kept the money safe, it wouldn't have been stolen."
The two brothers chatted for a while until the child inside started crying, and Qiao Hainan went inside to comfort the child.
Qiao Haisheng couldn't go in; he'd been through it all before, and he knew a crying baby needed nursing. So he turned back to the main house and chatted with the old man for a while. When he felt it was about time, he told him he was leaving.
Qiao Tianli followed behind to see them off, all the way to the main gate.
Qiao Haisheng saw that the door to the side room was tightly closed and felt sorry for the person who wanted to go in and take a look. However, he was afraid that he would lose his temper and start a fight.
"Let's wait until your mother is feeling better before she comes to see you! Going in now will only make her take her anger out on you." Qiao Tianli knew his eldest son was kind-hearted. Because he had narrowly escaped death during childbirth, his wife had taken her anger out on him. He also blamed himself for not saying more, which had caused the rift between mother and son.
"Okay, then I'll head back now. If anything happens at home, I'll ask someone to pass on a message." Qiao Haisheng turned and rode away on his bicycle.
Qiao Tianli walked into the yard with his hands behind his back. He heard the coughing inside the house was even louder than yesterday, and he felt that he couldn't let it drag on any longer.
He went to find his second son and asked him to quickly fetch a doctor back.
Qiao Hainan also felt that he should hire a doctor for his mother, so he went to the village to find Zhao Hongmei.
After the village doctor arrived and examined the patient, he started an IV drip.
Qiao Sunshi's face was pale and her eyes were lifeless, as if her time was about to come.
Fearing responsibility, the village doctor told the Qiao family everything and told them to be prepared.
This startled Qiao Tianli, who quickly had his son move Qiao Sunshi out of the side room to take care of her himself...
Jiuzhou City.
Another week passed, and with Cao Minghui's help, Qiao Xiaoni successfully met his parents at their shop. Today happened to be Saturday, so they arranged to meet in the morning to avoid disrupting business.
Cao Ping was slightly overweight and wore a blue suit jacket. His eyes gleamed with a sharp light, and he looked like the kind of person who was a bit clever.
Mei Lan looked around and asked, "Your shop is quite large. When did you open it?"
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