mijobooks Chapter 226 Grandma's Mediation
Chapter 226 Grandma's Mediation
Shen Yourong was so frightened by her daughter's hysterical state that she backed away, her face turning pale, her lips trembling, unable to utter a single word.
She had never seen her daughter so distraught.
"No...it's not what you think..." She stammered, frantically weaving a clumsy lie. "It's...it's because your grandma and I were discharged from the hospital last night, and we ran into Ning on the street. He...he kindly offered to give us a ride home, and the clothes...he accidentally left them behind..."
"A chance encounter? Or out of kindness?"
Shen Youyou laughed bitterly, as if she had heard the funniest joke in the world, and sneered, "You're kidding me! A chance encounter and I'd leave my clothes in your bedroom? Shen Yourong, do you think I'm a three-year-old?!"
She didn't believe her mother's flawed explanation at all.
An even more terrifying thought surfaced in her mind at that moment.
Grandma!
My mother said she was discharged from the hospital with my grandmother...
Her heart, burning with jealousy and anger, instantly plunged into an icy abyss.
In order to please this man, she even disregarded the old woman's illness.
Shen Youyou shoved her mother aside and rushed towards her grandmother's room like a madwoman. She wanted to expose her mother's lies and see just how far her mother had fallen for this man!
She suddenly pushed open the old woman's door.
The expected empty hospital bed did not appear.
The room was bright and clean, with perfect sunlight.
The old woman who should have been lying in the hospital, surrounded by various medical instruments and on the verge of death, was now dressed in clean clothes, looking energetic and sitting on the bed watching TV!
When Shen Youyou rushed in, the old man even showed a kind smile.
"Youyou's back?"
Shen Youyou's brain completely shut down.
She stood blankly at the door, looking at the unharmed old woman, then turned to look at her mother standing at the door, her face full of pain and shame.
A chilling and malicious thought instantly filled her mind.
money!
It's all about the money!
Ning Xiuyang gave his mother money, which is why his mother was able to pretend to have cured his grandmother's illness in front of him!
But that's late-stage breast cancer! How can it just get better like that!
The only explanation is... she gave up!
In order to please that man, she took his money and then took the old woman back without any qualms, leaving her to fend for herself!
"You...you actually brought Grandma back?!"
Shen Youyou turned around abruptly, pointed a trembling finger at Shen Yourong, her voice filled with uncontrollable anger and disappointment—a despair born from the collapse of her beliefs.
"Shen Yourong! Have you gone mad?!"
"For that man, to please him, you're even neglecting your mother's illness?!"
These hurtful words were like a resounding slap across Shen Yourong's face.
She staggered back a step and leaned against the cold wall. All her explanations and shame turned into endless pain at that moment.
She was speechless with anger, and tears finally broke free, welling up in her eyes but stubbornly refusing to fall.
Inside the room, Zhou Xiulan, who had been smiling, gradually froze as she listened to her granddaughter's heart-wrenching questions outside the door. She looked at her daughter's deathly pale face, then at her granddaughter's familiar men's jacket, and sighed inwardly.
The old man slowly spoke.
"Youyou, why are you taking your anger out on your mother?"
Zhou Xiulan's voice came from the room, carrying a hint of the weakness of an old woman, yet containing an undeniable authority.
Shen Yourong turned deathly pale at her daughter's question, "You won't even treat your mother's illness anymore." All her strength seemed to drain away, and she could only turn her head away in anguish, letting the humiliating and heartbroken tears silently slide down her cheeks.
The heartache of being misunderstood by one's daughter is indescribable for a mother.
She couldn't say a word, she couldn't utter a single utterance.
Upon hearing the old woman's voice, Shen Youyou felt even more aggrieved and angry, rather than calm down.
The old woman actually defended her!
She was convinced that this was something her mother had conspired to do all along, and that they had teamed up to deceive her!
Her eyes were red, and she stubbornly snorted without saying a word. She just gripped the men's jacket tightly in her hands, so tightly that her knuckles turned white, as if it were not just a piece of clothing, but all her trampled dignity.
Zhou Xiulan, who was in the room, saw all of this.
Her gaze swept over the coat in her granddaughter's hand, then looked at her daughter's absent-minded appearance, and she roughly understood what was going on.
She didn't scold her granddaughter anymore. She just sighed softly, gently patted the edge of the bed beside her, and said in an incredibly gentle tone, "Child, come here, come to Grandma."
Shen Youyou hesitated for a moment, but her affection for her grandmother ultimately overcame her anger. She sniffed and walked heavily into the room.
Zhou Xiulan took her granddaughter's cold hand, which was still trembling slightly with anger and agitation.
The old man gently enveloped her with his wrinkled yet exceptionally warm hands before speaking slowly, his voice soft but each word clear:
"Youyou, you've misunderstood your mother."
She glanced at the coat and continued, "That young man, is his name Ning Xiuyang? He's your mother's friend and a great benefactor to our family."
"Benefactor?" Shen Youyou scoffed, her tone full of sarcasm; she didn't believe it.
Zhou Xiulan ignored her attitude and continued to speak slowly, in a tone as if recounting a miracle:
"The night before last, your mother was worried about my medical expenses. It was Xiaoyang... that classmate Ning, who somehow found an amazing old doctor and specially obtained a pill that could cure my illness."
"Pills?" Shen Youyou frowned.
"Yes, it was just a dark, round pill that even smelled nice." Zhou Xiulan's face showed deep gratitude and lingering fear. "At the time, Dr. Zhang at the hospital was furious, saying we were fooling around and believing in a quack. But your mother believed him, and she fed it to me herself."
The old man's voice trembled slightly as he recalled the scene.
"After I finished eating, guess what? My whole body warmed up instantly, and that pain that pierced through my bones melted away little by little, like ice and snow meeting the sun! I felt energetic all over!"
"The doctors at the hospital didn't believe it, so they brought in a whole bunch of machines to do tests on me, and guess what happened?" Zhou Xiulan's eyes lit up. "That Dr. Zhang, looking at the screen, his mouth was agape! He said, he said the cancer cells in my body were disappearing at a visible speed! He said... it's a medical miracle!"
"After the doctor examined me, he said that I didn't need to be hospitalized anymore. He told me to go home and rest well, and I would be fully recovered in less than six months. That's why I asked your mother to process my discharge."
At this point, Zhou Xiulan tightly grasped Shen Youyou's hand, her face filled with relief and endless gratitude for surviving the ordeal.