Then another guard crawled in and took out her equipment—a water bottle, snacks, and a mat.
Qi Yuan quickly stepped forward.
"Grandpa!" Xia Tianxiu burst into tears.
"You silly child! Sigh!" Qi Yuan sighed, then chuckled when he saw the things. "Not bad, she's my granddaughter, Qi Yuan's granddaughter. Even when she ran away from home, she knew to find a good place and even brought some food for herself!"
"Grandpa!" Xia Tianxiu continued to cry, "Mom doesn't like me that much. She likes the Qiao Tianyue in her imagination, not me, the living Qiao Tianyue standing in front of her."
Qi Yuan's face darkened. He gave a signal, and the people following him understood and walked away.
Xia Tianxiu sobbed, and Qi Yuan took off his coat and put it on her.
He was silent for a moment, then sighed again, "Moon, no one is perfect. Your mother has a good heart, but her temper is really hard to get along with. Moon, can you tell your grandfather what you need the money for?"
“I heard from my mom that next Friday is your birthday, and I thought… I thought I would buy you… buy…” Xia Tianxiu’s voice trailed off as she spoke, “Never mind, my mom said that you have everything, Grandpa, and you don’t care about what I buy.”
"Don't listen to her nonsense!" Qi Yuan was furious again. "Of course Grandpa likes the things Yue'er buys! Grandpa likes whatever Yue'er buys!"
"Really?" Xia Tianxiu looked up, her eyes glistening with tears. "Yue'er wants to give Grandpa a tube of ointment! The kind that you apply to the skin and can slowly smooth out old scars!"
Su Ruyi frowned deeply upon hearing this. If she wasn't mistaken, Xia Tianxiu was referring to the scar-removing cream she had prescribed for the villagers of Dingjiatun!
Qi Yuan asked curiously, "What's wrong? Did Grandpa's scars frighten Yue'er?!"
As he spoke, he looked at his own arm.
"No! No!" Xia Tianxiu shook her head vigorously. "Grandpa! I used to have scars on my arms too! I know that painful and itchy feeling when it's cloudy or rainy. Later, I used Dr. Su's medicine and the scars were removed. So, I was thinking of buying a tube of ointment from Dr. Su to give to you, Grandpa."
That's true.
Su Ruyi's ointment will sell to anyone who wants to buy it.
Xia Tianxiu had also come to buy it once, so Su Ruyi naturally sold it to her.
The ointment was so effective that it sold out in no time.
Because of what happened later that left Su Ruyi preoccupied with her own affairs and the lack of seasonal medicinal herbs, she stopped making the ointment.
Everyone in Dingjiatun knows about this, and many people have even pre-ordered her scar removal cream for the following year.
But who would have thought that Xia Xiu would use this to curry favor with Qi Yuan this summer?
Qi Yuan was deeply moved by these words: "Alright, then I'll wait for my Yue'er to buy the ointment for Grandpa. Yue'er, a girl really can't be without money. Grandpa has already prepared a small box for you with three hundred yuan inside, which is under your pillow. Now, let's go back and take a look?"
Xia Tianxiu shook her head upon hearing this, saying, "Three hundred yuan isn't enough. Su Ruyi said she'd only sell me one tube of that ointment if I gave her five hundred yuan!"
Upon hearing this, Su Ruyi was furious.
At this moment, she only resented the overly attentive Director Li for arriving a few minutes early!
If he had arrived any later, she could have taken care of Xia Tianxiu!
Upon hearing Xia Tianxiu's words, Qi Yuan asked in surprise, "Five hundred yuan? What kind of ointment is so expensive? Is Doctor Su joking with you?"
"I'm not kidding! That medicine is dark and called scar removal cream. It's Dr. Su's own formula, which she treasures very much. She doesn't let anyone know about it and prepares the medicine behind closed doors."
Xia Tianxiu said, "I know that Dr. Su also looks down on me because I used to be the nanny of the Xia sisters..."
As she spoke, Xia Tianxiu started crying again. "When I went to Dr. Su to buy this ointment, she told me that it was all sold out and that I had to buy new raw materials to make it! The raw materials cost at least five hundred yuan to make one tub! She asked me to come up with five hundred yuan before she would make another tub. Grandpa, even a magic pill wouldn't be this expensive, would it?"
"That Dr. Su, how could she say that?!" Qi Yuan's face darkened. "Did you tell her it was for me?"
“I didn’t say anything,” Xia Tianxiu said. “I wanted to give you a surprise, and I was afraid that when Dr. Su came to see you again, he might accidentally let it slip…”
"I see..." Qi Yuan pondered for a moment, "Yue'er, you don't need to give me any gift. Just being with Grandpa on his birthday is better than any gift!"
"Really?" Xia Tianxiu smiled through her tears. "Then I want to stay with Grandpa all day! Grandpa, you can't find me annoying!"
"No, how could I find you annoying?" Qi Yuan was also a little teary-eyed. "Grandpa is just afraid that he won't have enough time to spend with Yue'er in this lifetime!"
"Grandpa, please don't say that! Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!" Xia Tianxiu exclaimed anxiously, "Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!"
"We don't do that kind of superstition." Qi Yuan was already beaming.
"No! Quickly spit it out!" Xia Tianxiu shook Qi Yuan's arm.
"Alright, alright! Ptooey, ptooey!" Qi Yuan said, going along with her. "Yue'er, let's go back. It's windy on autumn nights! Your mother has taken sleeping pills and is asleep. Let's not disturb her tonight. Tomorrow morning, I'll have her apologize to you, okay?"
“No need to apologize, Grandpa,” Xia Tianxiu said. “She’s my mother, so it’s only right that she hits and scolds me. Before… I wanted my mother to hit and scold me, but she never did…”
"Sigh!" Qi Yuan sighed again, reaching out to pull Xia Tianxiu into his arms, comforting her, "It won't happen again. My Yue'er, you won't be all alone anymore..."
The grandfather and grandson walked away hand in hand.
Su Ruyi stayed in the space and did not come out.
She was so angry she felt like her lungs were about to explode—Xia Tianxiu is such a venomous snake!
She never imagined that her scar removal cream, which was just a small benefit for the villagers of Dingjiatun, could be used and manipulated in this way.
I have nowhere to reason with them!
When a feisty aunt from the village came to buy the ointment, Su Ruyi said it was sold out, and the woman wouldn't let it go.
In the heat of the moment, Su Ruyi casually mentioned that making another tub of ointment would cost 500 yuan this year, but would only cost 5 yuan next year when it's in season, which finally made the village auntie give up!
These words probably reached Xia Tianxiu's ears, which gave her the opportunity to make a fuss about it!
Xia Tianxiu's thoughts are truly terrifyingly deep!
While Su Ruyi was listening, Xia Tianxiu had already subtly smeared Su Ruyi in front of Qi Yuan and poisoned Qi Yaqin's mind several times!
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