Chapter 36: A Heart-to-Heart with a Heart-to-Heart

County People’s Hospital, inpatient department.

Jiang’s mother was sobbing by the bedside, “My poor old man, at his age he still has to take care of the household, and he fell while working in the fields, it’s truly a sin!”

“The children are unfilial, they don’t even take care of their own father. You know, it would have been better to have strangled him at birth…”

Jiang Mei frowned, disliking her mother’s tone, but didn’t stop her.

She peeked outside the door, seeing a figure in the corridor, and quickly ran back to Li Songdi, reminding her, “Mom! Jiang Ning is here!”

Li Songdi, upon hearing this, immediately cried even louder, her words filled with misery, startling the other patients in the ward.

“Waaah, my old man! You know, you loved your precious son so much, but when you got hurt like this, he didn’t even care! Waaah, I’m a sinner, I gave birth to such a useless son…”

Jiang Ning entered the ward and heard her mother’s wailing. This was her first encounter with her original parents, and it was like this?

Fine, a family of weirdos, she’d be weirder.

She stood at the door, staring blankly.

Jiang Mei saw her and frowned, quickly saying, “Xiao Ning, you’re finally here, look at Dad…”

But before she could finish, she saw her sister, who was standing at the door, suddenly rush over, her face filled with grief and disbelief, “Dad!! How could you just leave like this?!”

Jiang Dayue was lying in bed, covered with a blanket, pretending to be seriously ill, his eyes tightly closed. Suddenly, a shrill cry pierced his ears, followed by someone shaking him so hard that his brains were about to scatter. He almost got scared and really ascended to heaven!

“Dad, you left at the worst possible time, how could you leave your lonely and helpless second daughter like this?!”

Jiang Ning cried as she shook the person on the bed, the scene scared even Li Songdi, who was wailing.

Jiang Mei, standing beside her, reacted first. Seeing that her father was about to fall apart from being shaken, she quickly stepped forward and pulled Jiang Ning away.

“What are you doing? Dad is fine, he’s not dead! What are you talking about?!”

Li Songdi also hurriedly got up and pulled her, “Ning, what are you doing? How can you curse your dad to death?”

Jiang Ning stopped, raised her head in a daze, “What? My dad, my dad is still here?”

Jiang Dayue, who had been pretending to be unconscious following his wife’s instructions, couldn’t hold back any longer. He threw off the blanket and sat up, “You unfilial daughter! You’re cursing your old man to death!”

He held his head, feeling dizzy, almost falling off the bed. Fortunately, Jiang Mei caught him in time.

Jiang Ning, however, was stunned for a moment, her face showing relief, “Dad! You’re alright, you should have said so earlier! You scared me to death. When I came in and saw Mom like this, I thought you were gone!”

The people in the next bed couldn’t help but laugh, all of them snickering at the spectacle.

This family was truly bizarre. The old man had only suffered a leg injury, but insisted on being hospitalized. He went through all sorts of tests, and when the slightest abnormality was found, he would panic, crying about how miserable and difficult his life was, probably hoping his children would come and take care of him.

But it turned out that he had a clueless daughter who rushed in thinking her father had died and started wailing! It was so funny!

Jiang Ning sighed in relief, stopped wailing, and smiled, “My mom sounded so urgent on the phone, I thought Dad had really suffered a major accident. But it seems he’s fine! Hey, you two really scared me, I didn’t even eat before rushing here.”

Li Songdi’s face fell, and she said angrily, “Pfft, you want to curse your dad to death?”

Her spell was interrupted, and she winked at her eldest daughter, Jiang Mei.

Jiang Mei immediately understood and helped Jiang Dayue lie back down, raising her head to reprimand Jiang Ning, “Xiao Ning, how can you curse Dad like that? You don’t even know that Dad fell while working in the fields today, and when he came to the hospital, they found a lot of problems. Dad has really suffered!”

Jiang Ning frowned and sighed, “Sister, I have to take care of Lao Lu. He’s already complaining that I’m never home. If I have to stay in the hospital every day, he’s going to divorce me for sure.”

Jiang Mei knew that her sister was lazy and wouldn’t agree, so she exchanged a look with her mother.

Li Songdi said with a stern face, “What’s the use of raising you all? Your elder brother is useless, Jiang Mei has to work and go back to her in-laws’ to cook. We were hoping to rely on our second daughter, but look, she has to take care of my factory manager son-in-law, she can’t even take care of her own father.”

Her words were filled with complaints, but also a hint of boasting.

She glanced at the patient in the next bed, as if afraid that they wouldn’t hear that her son-in-law was a factory manager.

After complaining for a while, Li Songdi finally got to the point.

“Xiao Ning, everyone in our village knows that I favor you the most among my daughters. You don’t want to come and stay with Dad, so I, your mother, will say a word, and let your sister suffer a little and take care of your father.”

“But our family’s big and small matters, you can’t rely entirely on your sister, can you? I’ll be straight with you, if your sister comes to take care of Dad, then the medical expenses, hospitalization fees, and Dad’s nutritional expenses, plus your sister’s lost wages for taking care of your father, you have to pay for it. That way, your father can stay here peacefully! We can stay for a while, get all the problems in his body fixed, that’s the best, don’t you think?”

Jiang Dayue also feebly echoed, “Yes, yes, that’s what the doctor said, to let me stay for a while.”

Jiang Ning looked puzzled, “Did the doctor really say that?”

“Of course, your mom wouldn’t lie to you, would she?”

Li Songdi felt that this was a sure thing. Her second daughter was lazy and wouldn’t want to come to the hospital to take care of her father, so she would definitely agree.

She wasn’t short of money, her factory manager son-in-law was rich!

Li Songdi thought that her second daughter would obediently hand over the money after hearing a few sweet words.

But Li Songdi didn’t expect that her second daughter would say this.

Jiang Dayue listened, his heart suddenly filled with anxiety. He threw off the blanket and sat up abruptly, “Who told you that? I was relieving myself, yes, I was relieving myself, but I definitely pulled up my pants! How could I not pull up my pants…”

He couldn’t help but doubt himself. He was drunk at the time and didn’t really remember if he pulled up his pants.

Could it be that he really didn’t pull them up?

Li Songdi originally thought Jiang Ning was making things up, but seeing her husband’s hesitant tone, she immediately glared at him in disbelief, “You old fool! You really didn’t pull up your pants?”

“Jiang Dayue, you old rascal, at your age, you’re still messing around? Are you not ashamed? Tell me, did you intentionally not pull them up?!”