Chapter 18

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Second release. Thanks avel for all the PR work!

The head nurse stayed to deal with the needle for Wen Nian and re-injected it. Jiang Ci stared at Lin Xiao, and there were cold shards in her beautiful pupils.

The rascal Lin Xiao brushed back his scattered hair, and said in a relaxed tone: “My sister-in-law is here, why are you so excited? Last time you splashed wine, this time you pushed me hard. Why, I thought you were joking with me. What’s wrong with President Wen? Hey! I have to count on her now!”

His face is really disgusting, Jiang Ci said with a cold face: “You caused her to have a miscarriage. If this is not a ‘bad thing’, then tell me, what counts?”

“Me? Caused her to have a miscarriage?” Lin Xiao acted like he was hearing a huge joke. He pointed to Wen Nian, his forehead burst into blue veins, and roared loudly: “She repeatedly provoked me and irritated me. As long as she is a woman, everyone is on her side. Mom got out of control! I just dumped her, and she ran into it herself! Now when I think about it, you use me as a stepping stone and the child as a springboard—Ms. Wen, I think you are no better than me!”

Lin Xiao straightened out his slanted collar and sneered: “Sister-in-law, how simple and innocent you are, think your sister is good? She lied to you too! You ask her, facing me with dead eyes all day long. Do you even want to give birth to a child?”

The head nurse was dumbfounded, and even the look in Wen Nian’s eyes changed.

Jiang Ci thought of Wen Nian’s cry last night, of her red eyes when she suffered from morning sickness, and of so many maternal and child books in her own home, she trembled uncontrollably.

“Aren’t you just asking for money? Lin Xiao, stop playing tricks, how much do you want? Just say it.” Wen Nian said lightly on the hospital bed, and Lin Xiao’s complexion changed from cloudy to sunny.

He licked his lips and stretched out five fingers.

Wen Nian: “Five hundred thousand?”

Lin Xiao said impatiently: “Five million!”

Wen Nian said nothing, picked up her mobile phone to transfer money to him.

The ward was so quiet that you could hear a needle drop, and from a distance, there seemed to be cluttered footsteps outside the corridor. With the nurse’s call of “here, here,” it should be the hospital security.

Wen Nian glanced at Lin Xiao and raised her phone to let him see the picture on the screen: “2.5 million.” She said, and repeated the transfer, shaking the phone lightly: “Five million, all transferred to you.”

Must be divided twice, two and a half million each, scolding him in disguise.

Lin Xiao stared at Wen Nian, just when Jiang Ci thought he was going to do it again, the security arrived.

Lin Xiao: “Xiao Wen is always generous! You, take care of yourself in the hospital. When the money is spent, I will find you again.”1

He went out swaggeringly. Seeing that the situation had subsided, the head nurse winked at the security guards, and everyone left one after another.

Jiang Ci and Wen Nian were silent for a while, Wen Nian went to pull Jiang Ci’s hand: “Don’t be afraid.”

Jiang Ci: “I’m not afraid.”

Wen Nian: “You’ve been shaking.”

Jiang Ci took a breath, resented, and aggrieved for her: “I’m very angry.”

Wen Nian soothed and said: “Don’t be angry, it’s not worth it….Ah-Ci, I don’t know when you still splashed his wine, when? For me?”

Jiang Ci was silent.

Wen Nian acquiesced: “Ah-Ci, you are angry for me, and you stand up for me, I am very touched. But if there is another time, you must stay away from him, it is terrible that he is crazy, otherwise I won’t be here. .”

“I know.” Jiang Ci nodded: “I’m going outside to clean up now.”

She hurried out of the ward, and took the scattered things back to the suitcase one by one. Her eyes were moistened several times, and they were pressed back by her.

From yesterday to the present, Wen Nian has never mentioned her future plans. Obviously, she has made up her mind and does not need the opinions of others to refer to.

Jiang Ci understood her choice, so she felt even more worthless.

Packing the suitcase, Jiang Ci tried her best to pack her emotions. She lifted the thermos and asked Wen Nian, “Are you hungry?…Forget it, if you don’t have an appetite now, you can drink it later.”

“I am.” Wen Nian asked Jiang Ci to sit next to her, “Auntie Jiang made the soup, Ah-Ci, you brought it specially, why would I lose my appetite?”

Hearing what she said, Jiang Ci opened the thermos and filled her bowl: “Be careful, it’s still very hot.”

Wen Nian slowly blew the chicken soup: “Ah-Ci, do you believe what Lin Xiao said?”

Jiang Ci: “I don’t believe it.”

Wen Nian didn’t say anything else, and drank a sip of the chicken soup.

Not long after, Ning Shuyue came.

She was sitting on the bedside cutting fruit for Wen Nian, Jiang Ci received a call from her assistant Xiao Chen, saying that she had encountered a problem at work. Jiang Ci went outside the ward while listening, when Wen Nian’s cell phone rang.

Ning Shuyue stretched her neck and glanced, and immediately put down the fruit knife in her hand: “Mrs. Wen.”

She wiped her hand, picked up the phone from the cabinet, and handed it to Wen Nian.

After Jiang Ci finished answering Xiao Chen’s doubts, she went back to the ward and saw Ning Shuyue carrying a bag and saying to Wen Nian: “Mom will go first.”

Jiang Ci casually said: “Aunt Ning, won’t you stay for a while?”

“No.” Ning Shuyue smiled at Jiang Ci, and left without saying a word.

Jiang Ci turned to Wen Nian, wondering why Aunt Ning was in such a hurry.

Wen Nian said in a low voice, “Mrs. Wen, and Lin Xiao’s mother are coming to pick me up and leave the hospital. They should be almost here now.”

It turned out that Ning Shuyue deliberately avoided them. Jiang Ci asked Wen Nian, “Do you still need me to be here now?”

Wen Nian looked at her, opened her arms, Jiang Ci leaned over, the two gave a light hug, and Wen Nian said, “I will meet you again in a few days.”

Jiang Ci: “Okay. Don’t go to the company in a hurry, take more rest, and wait until your body recovers.”

Wen Nian: “I know.”

Jiang Ci left the ward, walked a few steps, and then looked back.

On this road of life, whether it is flowers or thorns, you have to walk by yourself.

I hope that what Wen Nian can get is what she wants.

—

Outside the hospital, Jiang Ci stopped a cab and went straight home.

She hasn’t slept for almost the whole night, and Lin Xiao came to make trouble again, so she was exhausted physically and mentally.

She entered the house, walked through the living room, and was about to go upstairs, when there was a sound in the direction of the kitchen. Jiang Ci glanced at the time, at around two o’clock in the afternoon, Lu Xingxue was at home? Or is Aunt Zhuang preparing dinner?

Jiang Ci was about to see what happened when someone came out of the kitchen.

Jiang Ci was startled: “Assistant Yao?”

Assistant Yao finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her come back: “Madam, the porridge is almost ready, President Lu has a high fever, and she just finished her medicine.”

Before she could get to the bottom of why they changed their names in such a unified way, Jiang Ci asked, “Lu Xingxue has a fever?”

Assistant Yao explained to her as she walked: “The company had a board of directors meeting this morning, but President Lu did not show up for a long time. I called her several times, and Luo Mingliang and Wei Ning also said that they had not received any news. I was worried and ran away. When I came over, she was completely burnt out.”

Jiang Ci unknowingly sped up the pace of going upstairs: “Why? She was fine yesterday?”

Assistant Yao: “She has been under a lot of pressure at work recently, and she was exposed to the rain last night, so she collapsed at once.”

Exposed to the rain? Jiang Ci was thinking of how cold she must have been.

——Lu Xingxue waited for her until late in the restaurant, so she got caught in the rain.

I was already sorry for the appointment, Lu Xingxue fell ill because of it, Jiang Ci thought, she really can’t shirk the blame.

Assistant Yao urged: “The doctor will come tomorrow to give President Lu another shot. If she gets a fever again tonight, you must remember to give her medicine.”

While talking, Assistant Yao pushed open Lu Xingxue’s door, and Jiang Ci followed her in.

On the wide bed, Lu Xingxue only occupied a small corner. She curled up slightly, her black hair scattered by the pillow, her face pale, but her lips were sickly red.

Jiang Ci blamed herself the more she looked at her.

Assistant Yao whispered: “President Lu, I’m going back to the company first.”

Lu Xingxue closed his eyes, and after a while, she made a low “um” sound.

Assistant Yao thought to inform her: “President Lu, Mrs.——”

She wanted to say that Madam was back, but was interrupted by Lu Xingxue’s mute voice: “You don’t need to inform her, she is busy with something.”

Assistant Yao turned her head, Jiang Ci glanced at her, and Assistant Yao made a lip shape: “Then I will go first.”

Jiang Ci nodded silently.

The door opened and closed lightly. After Assistant Yao left, the room was quiet again.

It rained in the evening. Today’s temperature is slightly lower than yesterday, but the sun is still warm in the afternoon. The gauze curtain leading to the terrace was pulled up, and it was blown and bulging by the wind.

Lu Xingxue should be very uncomfortable, always frowning slightly.

“Lu Xingxue.” Jiang Ci said softly.

Lu Xingxue heard her voice and slowly raised her heavy eyelids.

“I’m sorry.” Jiang Ci lay on the edge of the bed, level with her sight, “I made you have a fever in the rain.”

Lu Xingxue walked in the rain before getting a high fever, her eyes were soft and moist, she looked at Jiang Ci: “It’s not your responsibility, don’t say that.”

Jiang Ci’s guilt overwhelmed her because of Lu Xingxue’s tolerance: “…Assistant Yao has cooked the porridge and it’s almost over. Have you not eaten for a day?”

Lu Xingxue: “I’m a little dizzy, I want to sleep a little longer.”

The voice is dull and soft, and the eyelashes are closed one by one, very sweet, and very pitiful.

Jiang Ci followed her and said, “Then you sleep for a while, I will come back later.”

Lu Xingxue closed his eyes.

Jiang Ci went out, went back to the room and showered briefly, and came out of the shower room while wiping her hair, only to find a cardboard box more than half a meter high on the table.

The logo of Forest is printed on the box, and the mouth is open. The inside code is neat and complete. It is unopened cosmetics and skin care, and it is almost impossible to fit it. Some are her usual brands, some are not.

The top box is lipstick. The new series is not yet on the market. The brand she lent to Lu Xingxue last time appeared in her room, naturally Lu Xingxue gave it to her.

Jiang Ci thought, when Lu Xingxue brought the cartons home, she might have been exposed to the rain.

The inner guilt reached its peak at this moment.

Jiang Ci contacted Aunt Zhuang and asked her to come over later and cook some light dishes. Then she tied her hair with rubber bands and went downstairs to the kitchen.

The porridge was cooked, she checked in the refrigerator.

The broccoli is very fresh, and the carrots look good. Jiang Ci planned to cook two dishes for Lu Xing’s porridge.

She rarely cooks, so naturally she has no cooking skills. She checked the cooking tutorial, went through it again in her heart, and set about blanching broccoli.

The water boiled, and Jiang Lin’s call came. Jiang Ci poured broccoli into the pot while listening to the phone while distracted.

Ning Shuyue contacted Jiang Lin shortly after leaving the hospital, thanked her for the chicken soup, and praised Jiang Ci for her caring. Jiang Lin repeated to Jiang Ci, and then asked her: “Now? I heard Mrs. Wen and Lin. The wife went to pick up Wen Nian from the hospital?”

Jiang Ci wondered how long it would take to boil the broccoli before it can be cut off. Is it possible to catch it now: “…I didn’t see them, I will come back first.”

The broccoli kept tumbling in the boiling water, Jiang Ci decided to pick it up, and on the first turn, the plate was not ready yet. She hurriedly turned off the fire and opened the cabinet to get the dinner plate.

Jiang Lin heard her pots and pans keep ringing, and said suspiciously: “What are you doing?”

Jiang Ci: “Cooking.”

Jiang Lin was curious: “You, cook? Who are you cooking for? The aunt who cooks is not available today?”

Jiang Ci took out the broccoli and put it on the plate: “Lu Xingxue is sick, I will cook two dishes first, for fear that she will not taste the porridge.

“Lu Xingxue is sick!? Why is she sick? Where is she sick? Have you seen a doctor?” Jiang Lin’s questions came one after another, and her voice passed.

Jiang Ci: “…The doctor has already been here, now her fever has gone down, and she’s still asleep.”

Jiang Lin felt a little relieved, and then she was very pleased with Jiang Ci’s personal cooking: “People who are sick are sensitive and need care and care most. Ah-Ci, you did the right thing, and finally became sensible.”

Jiang Ci: “……”

Jiang Lin: “That’s right, Lu Xingxue is someone who wants to accompany you for the rest of your life. No matter how strong her career is, she still needs someone to spoil her. Do you know how to spoil her?”

Spoil her, spoil her…

Jiang Ci dealt with Jiang Lin indiscriminately, and hung up the phone in a hurry.

1: avel: what a prick

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