Yuan Jie tried hard to persuade herself not to pay attention to those bad voices, but her heart could no longer calm down.
She immediately called Sun Aimin and recounted what Zhang Lin had just said and what she had read online. She then asked, "Aimin, what should we do now? The content online is clearly untrue. I think we need to clarify it."
And about Xiaohao's fundraising, he clearly lied about his financial situation. He's now on the wrong path..."
At this point, both of them fell silent.
After two seconds, Sun Aimin said, "We still need to have a serious talk with Xiaohao about this. He's estranged from us now. At the time, we wanted his parents to pay for his treatment, but we didn't expect these two bastards to lead their child astray. As for what's going on online, we don't understand. We'll ask the children at home what to do."
At this time, Sun Xiaohao had been admitted to the hospital to begin the next course of chemotherapy. Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou arranged for Zhan Yingying to be Sun Xiaohao's caregiver, so they didn't spend much time with Sun Xiaohao.
Shi Xuejiao rarely appears in the hospital unless there is something special going on. She has to take care of her two children. She usually contacts the hospital over the phone regarding fundraising matters.
After Yuan Jie finished her phone call with Sun Aimin, she immediately rushed to the hospital, hoping to enter the ward and have a good talk with Sun Xiaohao, but was ultimately denied a visit on the grounds of avoiding cross infection.
Calls to Sun Xiaohao and messages on WeChat went unanswered. It seemed they had suddenly lost any way to communicate with her.
Helpless, Yuan Jie had to find another way. She contacted Shi Xuejiao and asked her to meet her in the evening.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Shi Xuejiao arrived at the tea bar at the entrance of her community on time to keep her appointment. At this time, Yuan Jie had been sitting there quietly for ten minutes.
The house Shi Xuejiao lived in was bought by Sun Aimin and Yuan Jie. After Sun Xiaohao was hospitalized, the 140-square-meter house became the home of Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou.
Shi Xuejiao walked straight to where Yuan Jie was and asked, "Mom, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Yuan Jie gestured for her to sit down first, then asked, "Who's taking care of Xiaohao now? Your parents-in-law don't seem to care much. When I went to the hospital today, only his cousin was there."
Shi Xuejiao acted as if it had nothing to do with her and replied, "Oh, that's just how they are. After all, they just got to know each other not long ago and they don't know each other well yet, so everyone feels awkward being together. But his cousin is carefree and very outgoing, so we let her stay."
Yuan Jie asked again: "What's the situation with Xiaohao now? Can only one person accompany her? Can't she visit?"
Shi Xuejiao shrugged and said, "Maybe! He's only been in the hospital for two days. I haven't had time to visit him yet. I don't really know the specific situation!"
Yuan Jie was somewhat dissatisfied with Shi Xuejiao's indifferent attitude: "He is your husband and the father of your child. Can't you care about him more? He is sick now and his emotions are fragile. It is easy for him to go astray.
Husband and wife are one. If something bad happens to him, it will affect you and your children.
Now, I don't know if he doesn't want to see me, or if someone is deliberately preventing us from interacting. Your father and I already know about his fundraising initiative. When you visit him at the hospital or talk to him on the phone, try to persuade him not to continue making these mistakes.
Doing so is not only immoral, but also illegal. When Xiaohao wanted to marry you, we tried to stop her, but after you got married, we never gave you any trouble. And Mom can see that you're a good child. Although you care about your parents, you've never done anything out of line.
Your parents have seen how much you care about your children. Xiaohao's face is always filled with happiness every time she mentions her children. If you love your children so much, you should also think more about them.
They are still young and don’t understand anything. But what will happen when they grow up? Will their children always live in the shadows because their parents did something wrong?
Shi Xuejiao listened to Yuan Jie's words and was silent for a while, as if thinking about something. Then she said, "Mom, I understand. I know you are doing this for our own good. But he needed to be hospitalized at the time, and you didn't give any money, and his parents were stingy, so we didn't know what to do. This fundraising was also his parents' idea.
You know, we're both extravagant, we don't have much savings, we haven't had decent jobs, and we have two children to raise. When I heard that the money for his second hospitalization hadn't been paid for, I was really anxious and didn't know what to do next. That's why I tried all kinds of treatments..."
Yuan Jie gently patted Shi Xuejiao's tightly clenched hands and comforted her, "It's not too late to make amends now, don't worry. Your parents were inconsiderate before. They didn't expect your in-laws to come up with such a mean trick. When you get along with them, you must be more careful about everything and don't let them lead you astray.
There's one more thing I haven't told you because I'm afraid Xiaohao might feel overwhelmed. "
Shi Xuejiao's curiosity was aroused, and she pricked up her ears and asked, "What's the matter?"
Yuan Jie continued, "Your father and I suspect that Xiaohao was abandoned by his biological parents. He was in very poor condition when he was born. We tried to save him for several days, but the doctors were powerless and told us to leave it to fate."
When we brought him home, we didn't dare to be vague at all. Several adults in the family watched over and served him around the clock, and it was with great difficulty that we managed to raise him.
Now I think about it, maybe he was abandoned by his parents intentionally because of his situation at the time. But there are still some things we haven't figured out, such as how they took the child away from under our noses.
At that time, several adults in the family were guarding outside the operating room. When they saw the nurse carrying out the skinny and small Xiaohao, they hurriedly sent him to the neonatal intensive care unit for emergency treatment.
Your father and your aunt couldn't recall if there were other women giving birth in the operating room at the time. I remember being unconscious after the anesthesia, so I have no recollection of what happened. But then I remembered you told me after the birth that you were lucid during the surgery, and I found that a bit strange.
Shi Xuejiao listened carefully to what Yuan Jie said and felt that Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin's suspicions were not unreasonable.
After Yuan Jie finished speaking, Shi Xuejiao said thoughtfully, "If that's the case, they're really mean. No wonder they're unwilling to spend a penny on my husband. It seems they've long regarded him as a worthless pawn."
Poor girl, she foolishly believed what Zhan Jinhua said, waiting for Zhan Jinhua to fulfill her promise and give two houses to Sun Xiaohao's children.
I am really stupid. When I recognized my relatives, I only gave Sun Xiaohao a gift of 1,000 yuan. How could I be willing to leave a house to that dying person?
It would have been fine if they only had Sun Xiaohao, but during her conversation with Zhan Yingying, she heard that the two old men had three other children together. Besides that, Qian Jindou had divorced and remarried, and had another son, who was now about ten years old.
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