Chapter 018 Still Lack of Love

"Xiaoyuan, are you awake?"

"Auntie Qian?" Tang Yuan showed a puzzled expression, "Why am I here? Is this a hospital? Does it cost a lot of money?"

As she said this, she threw back the quilt and was about to leave. Before she could even take a step, Aunt Qian pressed her down and made her lie down again: "It's okay. The factory leader knows your situation and said that he will reimburse your medical expenses. You can live here with peace of mind."

Tang Yuan raised his head and said bitterly: "It's my fault."

"It's not your fault. This has nothing to do with you," Aunt Qian said immediately. "You can work in the factory with peace of mind in the future and don't worry about anything else. The factory is trying to understand the situation at home and will definitely give you an explanation."

Tang Yuan leaned back on the pillow and continued to look at Aunt Qian with a blank look.

After that, she didn't need to say anything, Aunt Qian explained everything to her in detail.

Tang Yuan had actually heard about these things before. What happened was that the old lady of the Tang family was in the police station, Tang Jianguo was accompanying her in the police station, stepmother Liu Hongmei was going crazy in the factory, and the factory leaders were investigating.

If Tang Yuan hadn't fainted before, the whole thing would have been a family matter, and even if the factory leaders were concerned, they wouldn't have been able to intervene.

Who asked Old Mrs. Tang to make a big fuss at the gate of the machinery factory, letting everyone know that Tang Yuan had been beaten and scolded in her hometown, and even had her head broken and bleeding?

Aunt Qian became more and more excited as she spoke. When she came to the part about “beating people stupid”, she suddenly realized something and swallowed the word “idiot” and started to talk about the reactions of everyone inside and outside the factory.

She came later. The factory leader asked the people in the boiler room and found out that she had a good relationship with Tang Yuan, so he specially asked her to come over to take care of the company.

As they were talking, the doctor realized that Tang Yuan had woken up and came over to inquire about the situation.

Tang Yuan knew the purpose of the doctor's visit and did not pretend to be stupid. He just talked with the doctor as he did in his previous life in the factory. While the doctor was taking notes, he went back to lie down in the ward.

Aunt Qian took the elementary school textbook that she had been reading and placed in the boiler room. She took out the textbook and focused her attention on the game space, controlling Xiaofang's body to do things.

She still didn't have enough game coins to sell her inventory, so she couldn't store the things she grew, and she was too lazy to do anything fancy.

There are a lot of seeds in the sales window, but the time to buy the seeds is different, the time to harvest is different, and the time to sell is different. If you really calculate them one by one, the final profit margins of different seeds are not much different.

She picked out a few seeds that could be harvested in twelve hours. This way, she didn't need to set an alarm and could ensure that she could harvest on time every time. Most of what she grew was exchanged for game coins, and a small amount was kept for herself to occasionally improve her diet.

At the same time, not far from the door of her ward, Aunt Qian was talking to the doctor.

"Please tell me. Our factory leaders also want to know the specific situation."

"It's just a simple conversation, so I can't really tell what she's like. But from what we've said, I can tell that she's not very smart, but that's true for many people," the doctor said as tactfully as possible. "Some people have slightly lower intelligence, so they don't appear to be very smart."

"Isn't that stupid?" Aunt Qian only heard the four words "not very smart".

"You can say that," the doctor nodded, wanting to explain that what he called "slightly low intelligence" was different from what normal people knew, but he didn't know where to start, so he just said, "Some people may be born this way."

"Some people are born with this condition, I understand," Aunt Qian understood. "It turns out that this family is the one that killed people. How can there be such vicious people in the world?"

"Do you know what she was like before?" the doctor asked again. This time he only asked a few simple questions and could not get the full picture. He still had to make a judgment based on the patient's previous condition.

"I don't know, but I know she's definitely not stupid. Her father is very smart. How could such a smart person give birth to a stupid child? Oh, by the way," Aunt Qian remembered something, clapped her hands, looked at the doctor with shining eyes, and whispered, "Xiaoyuan has been reading a lot recently. It takes her more than half an hour to read a page. How can a normal person read like this? She must not know that she has become stupid. She still wants to study like before, but she can't learn anything."

"This……"

"I also brought her a book. Come on, let's go and have a look together."

As she spoke, Aunt Qian pulled the doctor to the door of the ward and opened a crack. As expected, she saw Tang Yuan sitting on the bed reading a book. "Look, look, that's it. She reads a page for a long time. She looks silly. But you know what, although she reads for a long time, she is really absorbed in it. She can answer when we ask her, and she is always right."

In the doctor's sight, Tang Yuan was sitting against the wall, with her head down and her eyes fixed on the book. It was impossible to tell how much she had read, but she had been silent for a long time and her reading speed was indeed slow.

The book was spread out, with the pages falling on the quilt, and it was impossible to tell what book she was reading.

But to be so serious, he must be a person who loves reading. If he had been stupid since childhood, he would not be in this state.

The doctor didn't know that Tang Yuan was currently reading a third-grade elementary school textbook. If he knew, his feelings would definitely be different right now.

Aunt Qian didn't say anything, and the doctor didn't ask. After the peek, the doctor nodded and said, "I understand. Then tell your factory leader that there is indeed something wrong with her condition. She needs to be nursed back to health. As for whether she can recover...if it's a problem in her brain, we can't treat it now. Let's see if she can get through it on her own."

"I said she must have been beaten stupid," Aunt Qian said angrily, "That shameless old thing should be locked up in jail for a few more days!"

Tang Yuan was currently planting a new crop of seeds and selling all the produce he had just harvested, which saved him just enough money to sell the bathroom.

This amount of money was a little more than she expected. At first, she only wanted to buy the lowest grade, but after looking at the recycling price, she found that if she bought the lowest grade and recycled it, she could only get a 10% discount.

That is to say, if she bought something for 200 yuan and then let the game space recycle it, she could only get back 20 yuan.

With this calculation, she might as well buy a better one at the beginning, so that she can plant crops in the farm area every day and earn more game coins in one go, and buy a better bathroom, so that she doesn't have to upgrade and replace it with a new one later when she has more game coins.

It's better than losing 90% of your game coins.

After confirming that the crops on hand were sold, she opened the shopping interface and found a mid-range bathroom facility priced at 800 coins.

But there are shower areas, washing areas, toilet areas, as well as warm lights and hot water. Among these facilities, what she values ​​most is hot water. The cheap one is the most basic bathroom, which doesn't even have hot water.

As the summer was almost over and the weather was getting cooler, she could no longer shower outside with cold water. A bathroom with hot water would be worth the money.

After confirming the purchase, a "under renovation" notice will appear in front of you, and it is expected to be available for use in 12 hours.

After spending the money, there were only a few game coins left in her account. She had agreed with the chicken seller to trade in five days. These five days were enough for her to save up some game coins and exchange them for cotton cloth to sell.

Let’s set a small goal first, to earn a hundred dollars.

The thought flashed through her mind, and her main consciousness returned to the ward. Just then, Aunt Qian pushed the door open and she looked up and smiled at her.

Aunt Qian looked at her with sympathy, walked to the bed and tucked in the quilt for her.

Tang Yuan: ...It’s quite hot.

Her quilt was originally just loosely draped over her belly, but now it was tucked in tightly.

But facing Aunt Qian's loving gaze, he swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

Just let it be hot for now.

Aunt Qian sat beside her legs, holding her hand, and said a bunch of words until the palms of both of their hands gradually became warm and sticky with sweat. Only then did she let go of her hands and wiped them on the quilt.

Tang Yuan glanced over quickly and just spread out his hands, exposing them to the outside and waiting for the sweat in his palms to evaporate.

"The doctor said that you are not seriously injured, but you need to stay in the hospital for a few days to recuperate. So you should rest well in the hospital," Aunt Qian said. "I have to go back and talk to the factory leader about your situation. I also have to go to work, so I can't stay with you overnight."

"I can't leave now?" Tang Yuan asked. She had just changed the bathroom with great difficulty and was planning to use it to her heart's content.

"Hey, why are you walking? I told you to take good care of yourself, so just take good care of yourself. Don't rush to leave the hospital. I've already told you about the money. Don't worry, the factory will reimburse you," Aunt Qian emphasized to her again, "I will deliver three meals a day to you, and the factory should be able to reimburse you. Your lunch box is in the cafeteria, right?"

"Yes," Tang Yuan nodded, "In the steamer."

"Okay, then I'll send it to you in the evening. I'll go home now and come over when it's time for dinner." Aunt Qian stood up and when she looked down, she saw Tang Yuan's hands still outstretched. She sighed and shook her hands vigorously.

As she turned and walked toward the ward door, she couldn't help but sigh softly, "Poor child."

Tang Yuan sighed as he looked at the sweat on his palms.

Aunt Qian meant well, but she had worked so hard to dry her hands!

No, I still have to wash my hands.

She stood up, folded her books and placed them on the bedside, put on her cloth shoes as slippers, and went all the way to the hospital restroom. She entered the game space in the cubicle, enjoyed the familiar flush toilet, washed her hands in it, and then came out.

Just as I was about to push the door open, I heard voices outside.

"The new little girl is so pitiful. Not only is she stupid, but she also lacks love. She treated the aunt who came to take care of her today as a relative. When the aunt left, her eyes were red. She cursed and called the bastard a thousand knives, and said that the little girl was so pitiful that no one loved her. But people just shook her hand and couldn't forget her."

"It's really damn shameless. They say there are no bad parents in the world. I think some people are not worthy of being parents."

"That's right. Some time ago, someone gave birth in our hospital. When they found out it was a girl, they ran away overnight, not wanting the child anymore. After all, the one who suffered the most was the child."

"Girls are more pitiful."

The two talked and left.

Tang Yuan looked confused. What these two people said was a bit like her, but also a bit unlike her.

She admitted that she was stupid. After all, she was distracted during this period, which did cause the subject to be dazed at times. Coupled with today's farce, she had to "play dumb".

But what is it like to lack love?

What does it mean to still remember someone's hand after shaking theirs?

She looked down at her freshly washed hands and suddenly remembered the scene before Aunt Qian left.

Ah this...