Rong Yan seriously suggested, "Dad, if you’re worried, why not sleep on the floor in this living room tonight? It’s spacious, quiet, and no one will bother you!"
Still, my own dear daughter? What kind of absurd idea is this?
At that moment, he understood his old partner’s feelings.
"Sigh, just joking with you. What kind of person is my mom? She’s so open-minded and cheerful, knowledgeable and reasonable, and..." He couldn’t continue.
Madam Rong just walked back in, "Humph, no matter how many nice words you say now, it’s too late. Tomorrow morning, you’ll be drinking porridge!"
Rong Yan, "Mom, could you add some rice or something to it?"
Drinking porridge... people who don’t know would think the worst.
It successfully eliminated her appetite.
Fortunately, the family crisis had been averted.
However, Xu Guilan indeed couldn’t keep her mouth shut.
She returned home in a daze.
Since it wasn’t particularly far, even though Xu Guilan walked very slowly, it only took her a little over half an hour.
Pushing open the door and entering, she found her mother-in-law still sitting in the courtyard, not yet asleep.
Xu Guilan immediately approached with quick steps, "Mother, why haven’t you gone to bed yet?"
Old Lady Zhao’s face looked unhealthy, "Where have you been?"
"I, my aunt needed me for something...so I went there." Xu Guilan nervously replied.
Upon hearing this, Old Lady Zhao’s face grew even darker, her eyes glaring, "What urgent matter does she have in the dead of night?"
Xu Guilan was most afraid of her mother-in-law’s glare.
Whenever Old Lady Zhao glared, she trembled uncontrollably from nervousness.
"...My aunt, she found someone to check up on me... wanted me to get better..."
"She found someone to check up on you? Her? What good people does she even know?" Old Lady Zhao’s voice was strong and severe, her eyes menacing, "Is she trying to con money out of you?"
Xu Guilan quickly shook her head, "No, my aunt isn’t like that..."
Old Lady Zhao pressed, "Then tell me, who did she find? Where do they live? What’s their surname and name?"
Xu Guilan’s face turned pale.
"I, I...don’t know..."
Upon hearing this, Old Lady Zhao stood up abruptly, "Don’t know? See, I knew she was trying to scam money out of you. No, I have to confront her about this."
Saying so, she moved to go outside.
Xu Guilan was terribly frightened; if her mother-in-law really went to trouble her aunt, she would be too ashamed to face her aunt.
"Mother, it’s really not my aunt scamming me. That doctor...she..." Bracing herself, she blurted out, "Mother, were there problems with the medicine you used to give me? Were those medicines the reason I can’t have children?"
Old Lady Zhao was taken aback at first, her eyes panicked, but she quickly regained her composure.
Then her expression became fiercer, her presence more imposing, and her voice louder.
"Xu Guilan, are you trying to kill this old woman? How dare you accuse me of causing your infertility... Do you have no conscience? Come, I’m going to ask your parents... how they raised a daughter like you...who can’t have children, and yet dares to throw such accusations at her mother-in-law..."
She grabbed Xu Guilan’s hand and started to drag her outside.
Xu Guilan was so frightened her legs went weak, and her face lost all its color.
"Mother, it wasn’t me... I didn’t say that... it was the person who treated me... she said my body was originally fine, but it got ruined by those messy medicines... and also, the last time I went to the hospital, the doctor said the same thing..."
Old Lady Zhao’s face looked terrible, "You went to the doctor last time? Why didn’t you tell me? No, where did you get the money for the doctor? Did you secretly save some private money?"
Xu Guilan was terrified, "I didn’t hide any money... my mother paid for me to see the doctor..."