Chapter 132
The old man suddenly grabbed the enamel pot and smashed it to the ground. The porcelain pieces splashed at Chen Hongxia's feet, scaring her so much that she staggered back.
Chen Hongxia's lips were pale and her nails dug deep into her palms.
She looked at Sun Hongtao, whose face was blue and purple on the hospital bed, and opened her mouth but was drowned out by a new round of curses.
Sun Hongtao's neck, with bulging veins, was stretched into a terrifying arc, and the blood from the wound had stained the gauze red.
He tried in vain to cover his mother's mouth with his other hand: "Mom! Don't..."
"Oh, is it the daughter-in-law who abused her son like this?"
The old man wrapped in a quilt in the next bed was eating melon seeds and shaking his head: "I heard that he stabbed himself with a knife, tsk tsk ..."
Mu Qingxuan felt her temples throbbing.
Just as she was about to take a step, she heard steady footsteps behind her.
Huo Changfeng gently held her hand.
"Please call security." He stretched out his hand to stop a passing nurse, and pointed his bony fingers at the ward, "Someone is disrupting medical order here."
The nurse nodded in panic, her white coat fluttering as she disappeared down the corridor.
The smell of disinfectant fermented in the stuffy ward. When Mu Qingxuan stepped over the threshold on the messy floor, Grandma Sun was still scolding Chen Hongxia, trying to vent her anger.
"Look at this scene."
Mu Qingxuan leaned against the door frame with her arms folded, her cold eyes swept across Grandma Sun's twisted face: "Grandma Sun, you are so obsessed with incense, why don't you go back to the furnace and make a new one? Or let Shi Jingyu remarry your old partner? In your eyes, ethics and morality are not as valuable as a womb to carry on the family line anyway."
As soon as the words were spoken, the ward fell into silence, and the old man who was eating melon seeds in the next bed was so shocked that he choked.
Mu Qingxuan's words were vulgar, but she knew that it was useless to reason with someone like Grandma Sun who was unreasonable and had a head full of feudal dregs.
Violence must be fought with violence.
As expected, as soon as Mu Qingxuan said this, Grandma Sun's face suddenly changed.
Her cloudy eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and the veins on her neck bulged like earthworms: "What nonsense are you talking about, you little bitch!"
She staggered over, her nails stopping abruptly half an inch away from Mu Qingxuan's cheek.
Huo Changfeng had stood in front of her without her noticing, and held Grandma Sun's hand tightly.
"Why don't you remember propriety, righteousness, and integrity when destroying other people's families?"
Mu Qingxuan leaned out from behind the man, her eyes wide open. "When Aunt Chen first married into the Sun family, you forced her to drink urine to give birth to a son. But she couldn't give birth, and she even knelt in the ancestral hall in the cold winter. The whole village remembers these things."
She suddenly approached and her eyes fell on Grandma Sun's astonished face with disgust.
"I finally gave birth to a son, but Brother Sun was only 19 years old at the time. You forced him to drop out of school and work. You didn't even let him rest even when he got caught in the rain or had a fever. In the end..."
"shut up!"
Grandma Sun's scream pierced my eardrums.
Mu Qingxuan continued, "You killed Aunt Chen's only child, and you blamed Aunt Chen for not having another child. How could you be so cruel?"
On the hospital bed, Sun Hongtao coughed violently, and the blood oozing from the bandage was particularly eye-catching on the white gauze.
Chen Hongxia seemed to hear nothing, her pale lips trembling violently: "Qingxuan...what did you say? My son..."
"It was this old woman who hid the medicine that Grandpa gave me and prevented Brother Sun from taking it."
"She has always disliked grandma, and she also disliked grandpa. She always felt that grandpa's medicine was deliberately harming big brother Sun. In the end, the bowl of medicine that could have saved big brother Sun was poured out by this old woman."
"Even when Big Brother Sun got sick, it was because she kept forcing Big Brother Sun to work in the fields and worked himself to death."
Seeing Grandma Sun's vicious look, Mu Qingxuan couldn't help herself and blurted out everything that she had kept in her heart for many years.
"Nonsense! It's all nonsense!"
Grandma Sun suddenly went crazy, her face twisted, "What does that little bastard know! If we don't force him to work, the whole family will starve? Chen Hongxia, that unlucky girl, couldn't even give birth to a boy, she deserved to die!"
“Shut up!”
Chen Hongxia's roar made the window glass buzz. This woman, who had always been patient, had picked up the enamel pot on the bedside table and smashed it hard on Grandma Sun's shoulder.
"Give me back my son!"
She rushed forward, digging her nails deep into the old man's loose flesh, and her face was covered with tears and snot.
"You old scoundrel, give me back my son!"
Amid the exclamations that came one after another, Grandma Sun’s wails and Chen Hongxia’s roars blended together.
Fortunately, the nurse rushed in with the security guard in time and separated the two people who were fighting.
The smell of disinfectant became more and more pungent in the stuffy ward. Mu Qingxuan straightened her back, pointed her finger at the threatening Grandma Sun, and said in a voice as cold as ice: "She is the one who has been causing trouble and seriously disrupting the order of the hospital. Take her away immediately!"
Behind her, Huo Changfeng folded his arms. His strong figure was out of place in the chaotic scene, but it gave her great confidence invisibly.
The security guards stepped forward as if facing a great enemy, and clamped Grandma Sun's arms tightly with their hands like iron pliers.
The old man struggled frantically in his muddy cloth shoes, his floral shirt torn crookedly: "Let me go! It was that bitch Chen Hongxia who started it first, if anyone wants to arrest someone, they should arrest her!"
Her spit splashed on the face of the nearest security guard.
But the security guards had no expression on their faces and dragged her out.
Grandma Sun looked at the bed in panic and cast a look of help to her only son: "Hongtao! Hurry up and save mom! This is all a misunderstanding!"
However, what responded to her was the hatred that almost burst out from Sun Hongtao's red eyes.
He propped up his injured body and half sat up. The blood oozing from under the bandage soaked the bed sheet. His voice was hoarse as if it was squeezed out from his throat: "Don't let her appear in front of me again, take her away!"
Grandma Sun's pupils suddenly contracted, the color on her face drained away, and she shook her head in disbelief: "You...you actually helped an outsider? I'm your biological mother!"
But the security guards did not stop at all. The dragging footsteps gradually disappeared at the end of the corridor, and her unwilling shouting also faded away.
The ward fell into an eerie silence, with only Sun Hongtao's heavy breathing and Chen Hongxia's uncontrollable sobbing being heard.
The patient in the next bed pretended to lower his head to adjust the quilt, but secretly glanced over here.
Mu Qingxuan pursed her lips and walked slowly to Chen Hongxia.
Chen Hongxia was seen slumped on the bed in a daze, her hair hanging messily on her face, her hands tightly grasping the corners of her clothes, her knuckles turning white.
Mu Qingxuan's throat tightened, and her voice was filled with guilt: "Aunt Chen, I'm sorry, I have been hiding this from you..."
Chen Hongxia slowly raised her head, tears welling up in her eyes but she stubbornly refused to let them fall.
Her cracked lips moved, and her voice was so soft that it seemed like it would break in the next second: "I know that you and Doctor Mu are doing this for my own good."
Her gaze passed Mu Qingxuan and fell on the mottled wall of the ward, as if she saw the night her son died.
"If I had known the truth back then, I...I really might not have been able to hold on."
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