Chapter 13
Xia Qingtang looked at Zhao Meizhen's red eyes and said calmly, "I was injured so badly that I was hospitalized for several days, but my mother never came to see me. She finally came here, but I didn't expect that she didn't come to see me, but to scold me."
"What's wrong with me scolding you? Shouldn't you scold me? If you hadn't offended Xiao Kong, would your father be hurt? Would he be ostracized by others? Now even your brother has been implicated by you! Xia Qingtang, I tell you, if you don't coax Xiao Kong to change his mind, I will strangle you to death, and then give your job to your brother! Other people's daughters know to buy a good future for their older brothers. It's fine if you can't help, but how can you harm your brother? You useless thing, I really wish I had never given birth to you!" Zhao Meizhen's shouting was deafening, and the hatred in her words was overwhelming. Everyone else in the ward showed a surprised expression, only Xia Qingtang's face remained calm.
She had long been accustomed to the fact that in Zhao Meizhen's eyes, only Xia Qinghai was her child, and she, Xia Qingtang, was worse than trash.
But this kind of thing that he had long been accustomed to still made Xia Qingtang feel a little pain in his heart.
It was only a moment, and the pain was so slight that it was almost imperceptible, but Xia Qingtang still gently covered his chest.
A young nurse immediately supported her: "Are you okay? You had a concussion before, you can't be stimulated."
The doctor also reacted and began to scold: "Are you a family member of the patient? Don't you know that you can't make loud noises in the ward? What are you shouting about here? Please keep quiet and don't disturb the patient's recuperation and treatment."
"What the hell! She's not missing any limbs, why should we treat her?" Zhao Meizhen scolded the doctor together: "Hurry up and discharge her from the hospital. I want to take her back to do my business!"
"She's not well yet and can't be discharged from the hospital! I don't care who you are to her, you are the one who should go out!" The doctor would not tolerate Zhao Meizhen. He called a few more people in, and they all drove Zhao Meizhen out.
But less than an hour later, Zhao Meizhen slipped in again when the medical staff were not paying attention.
"Get out of the hospital as soon as possible!" Zhao Meizhen didn't dare to shout loudly this time, but her attitude was still very fierce.
Xia Qingtang sat on the head of the bed and said weakly: "The doctor said that I can't be discharged from the hospital now."
"Do you really want me to strangle you to death?" Zhao Meizhen was so angry that she actually stretched out her hand.
Xia Qingtang slapped her hand away and said in a deep voice: "If you really strangle me to death, you will be a dead man, and I will be the son of a dead man. Forget about my job position. In this life, I will never be able to marry and have children. If you have the guts, strangle me to death, and see if your good son will dig your bones out of the ground and curse you for the rest of his life!"
Xia Qinghai is not a filial son or grandson. He has never been filial to Xia Daming and Zhao Meizhen. He has always been thinking about making more money from his parents and sister to make his life easier.
In recent years, Zhao Meizhen has been eating coarse food and living frugally in the city. She is reluctant to even use toothpaste, but she is willing to use the industrial coupons earned by the three people in her family to buy vanishing cream and floral water for Xia Qinghai.
Xia Qinghai must know how frugal his family had to be in order to send him those good things, but he still enjoyed it all with peace of mind, which showed that he didn't care about his parents at all.
Although Zhao Meizhen was a fool, she could still understand what people said. When she heard this, she knew that she could not threaten Xia Qingtang. If she really did anything to her daughter, it would only harm her son. She was so angry that she stomped her feet beside the bed, asking why she had raised such a beast!
Xia Qingtang waited for her to finish scolding him, then said nonchalantly, "You are not solving the problem this way."
She found that she really didn't care about what Zhao Meizhen said or did, and looking at Zhao Meizhen was like looking at a clown.
"What are you talking about?" Zhao Meizhen didn't understand.
"Do you really want me to ask Kong Liangchao to change his mind and let us go?"
"What else? Qinghai can't come back! My Qinghai! If you don't go to ask Kong Liangchao for help, what will happen to my Qinghai?" Zhao Meizhen burst into tears when she thought of her son.
Xia Qingtang said coldly: "I can ask Kong Liangchao to change his mind, but I have conditions."
"What conditions?" Zhao Meizhen glared at Xia Qingtang, "You are my daughter, how dare you make conditions?"
"Okay, then you can go out. I've thought about this a long time ago. Even if I work as a porter in a warehouse for the rest of my life, I won't ask the Kongs for help." Xia Qingtang said with a smile, "It doesn't matter if I die. Whether your precious son can return to the city depends on me..."
Zhao Meizhen was so angry that her stomach hurt, and she coughed as if she was going to cough out her lungs.
When she finally calmed down, she saw that Xia Qingtang was still as unfazed as ever, so she could only swallow her anger and ask, "What conditions do you want to propose?"
"I want two hundred yuan." Xia Qingtang said, "I know you have that much money at home. As long as you give me two hundred yuan, I will go to ask Kong Liangchao for help right away."
"You're dreaming!" Zhao Meizhen screamed, "You might as well kill me!"
Two hundred yuan was a huge sum of money in that era. A working-class family like theirs could save so much money purely by living frugally. She wanted to save this money for her son to get married when he returned to the city.
But Xia Qingtang is also a child of the family. Since they are all children of the family, why can't we give money to Xia Qinghai? Just because she is a girl?
Xia Qingtang still smiled, and her smile was particularly sweet and lovely: "Why should I kill you? As long as your internal retirement cannot be processed and my brother cannot return to the city, it will make you feel worse than killing you."
This is someone who knows how to control Zhao Meizhen's lifeline. Sure enough, Zhao Meizhen screamed and rushed towards Xia Qingtang: "I will fight you! I might as well strangle you to death! I will fight you!"
Xia Qingtang jumped down from the bed, ran out of the ward and called the nurse for support.
The nurse and her men drove Zhao Meizhen out again. This time, they also told the doorman not to let Zhao Meizhen in.
Therefore, before Xia Qingtang was discharged from the hospital, Zhao Meizhen was never able to sneak in and cause trouble for Xia Qingtang.
Xia Qingtang recuperated comfortably until he no longer felt any discomfort all over his body, and then he was discharged from the hospital following the doctor's instructions.
She walked out of the hospital gate carrying a big bag and saw Zhao Meizhen with a hateful look on her face and Xia Daming with an embarrassed look on his face.
"Mom and Dad, are you here to pick me up from the hospital?" Xia Qingtang said with a smile, as if his expression could not be seen at all.
Xia Daming coughed lightly and said, "Yes, we are here to pick you up from the hospital. You see, it's not a good idea for you to stay at your classmate's house after you leave the hospital. What if they are superstitious about these things... What do you think? So, you should just go home with us, ah, go home."
"Then did you agree to the condition I proposed?"
Zhao Meizhen immediately rolled her eyes in anger. Xia Daming clamped her arm tightly and said seriously: "Yes, I promise you, it's not too much for you to ask for 200 yuan. After all, you are asking that Kong guy for help for the sake of your family. Since you are so wronged, it is only right to give you some compensation. After all, it was your mother who made the mistake first. If she hadn't provoked Kong guy, our family wouldn't be like this now."
"What about the money?" Xia Qingtang still smiled.
"You definitely don't have that much money on you, but don't you trust your dad? I will definitely do what I promised you." Xia Daming said sincerely.
Xia Qingtang said, "My biological mother would strangle me to death and give me to someone with the surname Kong for the sake of her son. Now you want me to believe my own father? If it were you, would you dare to believe it?"
Xia Daming shuddered, his expression suddenly becoming sad and complicated: "Qingtang...your mother didn't..."
"She didn't do anything? Didn't she strangle me to death and force my brother to return to the city to take my job? Or didn't she hand me over to that Kong guy in exchange for your benefits?" Xia Qingtang sneered, "You guys have done it, and you still want to deny it?"
Xia Daming was suddenly speechless. His eyes just turned slightly red. Looking at Xia Qingtang's distant and wary expression, he didn't know why she had ended up like this with her daughter.
Zhao Meizhen stood there and kept cursing "little beast". Xia Daming heard it and scolded him again.
Xia Qingtang said, "Now that we've come to this, let's be simple and direct. I will be back to work at the factory tomorrow. You can bring the money to the factory and give it to me. As soon as I receive the money, I will go to ask Kong Liangchao for help after work. You don't need to rush me."
After saying that, she turned around and left, not worrying at all that Zhao Meizhen would not give her the money.
In order for her precious son to return to the city, Zhao Meizhen will definitely go to Xia Qingtang tomorrow with two hundred yuan.
As for Xia Qingtang herself, the two hundred yuan was the compensation she asked for from the Xia family. From now on, she would never have any trouble because of her parents and brother's affairs.
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