Chapter 67: She Came

“Oh my god, what kind of outdated thinking is that? Can’t you broaden your horizons?” Lin Xiangnan stretched out her hand and gestured, “Broaden, your horizons!”

Hu Meili was getting more and more heartbroken, but Lin Xiangnan’s interruption made her emotions hang in the air, neither up nor down.

“It’s useless to talk to you. You’re a fool.”

“You and your brother are both the same. You were both clamoring to go to the countryside, jumping higher than anyone else. The only thing you’re better than your brother is that you can’t take hardship.”

“If you could endure the hardship of farming, you might still be happily digging sweet potatoes in the countryside now.”

Hu Meili blamed her again.

Lin Xiangnan sighed and said earnestly, “Comrade Hu, you really can’t use your current thinking to guess the future development of the country. You were born before liberation, you have seen the great changes after the founding of the country. The changes in the future will only be greater. Big brother will definitely have other opportunities in the future. You’re forcing him like this, no matter what he chooses, he will feel guilty.”

Four years later, the college entrance exam will resume.

If he really can’t get into college, with the opening up and reform, he can go into business. There will be plenty of opportunities.

Hu Meili’s operation made Lin Xiangdong caught in the middle, in a difficult position.

If he chooses his girlfriend, he will betray his mother. If he chooses his mother, he will betray his girlfriend.

No matter what he chooses, he will be a heartless son.

If he were really a heartless son, it would be simple, he would abandon his girlfriend in the countryside and return to the city. But he wasn’t, otherwise he wouldn’t have refused Hu Meili’s request for him to return to the city.

Lin Xiangnan felt that she had made a lot of sense.

But Hu Meili not only didn’t listen, but also gave her a disdainful look and asked arrogantly, “Are you teaching me how to do things? Do I need your teaching?”

Lin Xiangnan laughed angrily.

“Then tell me. You get Big Brother back to the city. What about the girl in the countryside?”

“I don’t care what happens to her. She’s not my daughter.” Hu Meili said confidently, “I’m only capable of taking care of myself and my own children. How can I take care of other people?”

Those words sounded so reasonable.

Lin Xiangnan instantly changed from an observer to a self-involved person, “Yeah. It’s not like she’ll die without a man. If they break up, she can remarry.”

“That’s the way it is. A few years later, they’ll get married and have children, this matter will be over. Xiangdong won’t blame me for a few years.” Hu Meili said seriously, “But if Xiangdong can’t return to the city this time, he’ll regret it for the rest of his life.”

Whether or not a knot in the heart can be untied, no one can say for sure.

But Lin Xiangnan didn’t intend to persuade her anymore, she just said, “Be careful. Don’t push Big Brother too hard.”

“I don’t need you to tell me that.”

When Lin Xiangdong returned to the hospital with things from home, the slap marks on his face looked even more obvious. He was about to say something, “Mom, I…”

“Don’t talk. You’ll make me angry as soon as you open your mouth.” Hu Meili’s tears came at once, “I raised you from a baby. It turns out I was raising someone else’s child. Anyway, you’re going to leave eventually, don’t pretend to be nice to me, just go.”

Lin Xiangnan lowered her head and pretended to be dead, thinking she wouldn’t have a part in this.

But Hu Meili gave her a role.

“Xiaonan, I’m probably not going to live long. When I really die someday, you and Xiao Xi will take care of my funeral, don’t tell your brother. He doesn’t want me, I don’t want him either!”

Grandma Hu knew Hu Meili was fine, so she persuaded everyone else to go home, leaving only Lin Xiangnan to help with the aftermath.

So now she was the only actor.

Lin Xiangnan wiped her face, “Mom, what are you talking about dying? You just have heart disease, take good care of yourself, nothing will happen.”

Lin Xiangdong followed awkwardly and persuaded, “Yes, Mom, don’t get angry, your body can’t handle it.”

In this current situation, Hu Meili wouldn’t be able to rest at night.

Lin Xiangnan simply said, “Big brother, you stay with Mom tonight, I’ll go back first, and I’ll come to take your shift tomorrow.”

Anyway, she didn’t like going to work, and tomorrow would be a good excuse to take a day off.

Lin Xiangxi didn’t like going to school, so he also took a day off from school.

The two of them packed up and rode their bicycles to deliver breakfast to Hu Meili.

The porridge was made by Lin Xiangnan herself, she had recently learned a lot from Zhang Dapang, and her cooking skills had improved greatly. The salted duck eggs were also obtained from Zhang Dapang by Lin Xiangnan.

On the way, she also bought four meat buns from the bun shop.

These three things were all very fragrant, but Hu Meili pretended not to eat.

“Oh, I have no appetite, I don’t want to eat.”

Lin Xiangxi had learned the truth last night, he exchanged a look with Lin Xiangnan and said, “Mom doesn’t eat, then we’ll eat.”

Lin Xiangdong was burdened with things in his heart, and he didn’t have much appetite either. He drank a bowl of porridge and couldn’t eat anymore.

Lin Xiangnan and her brother each ate two salted duck eggs and two meat buns.

Watching this, Hu Meili secretly gnashed her teeth, “The family hasn’t been able to save money for so many years, it’s all because you two eat too much!”

A half-grown boy eats a father poor, after eating so much, Lin Xiangxi was only half-full, so he agreed very much, “Mom, you’re right.”

“Right, right, right, what’s right about that.” Hu Meili grumbled, she was starving herself, and Lin Xiangnan and her brother were eating and drinking in front of her, how could she stand it.

But she could only be tough in front of Lin Xiangnan and her brother, when she met Grandma Hu, her momentum immediately shrank.

When no one was around, Grandma Hu would scold her, and she would behave like a good girl.

“You just faint, you know, your father and I are so old, we have to worry about you. Why didn’t you say anything beforehand?”

“It wasn’t that I didn’t have time.” Hu Meili said pitifully, “You even pinched my Renzhong point until it bled, I haven’t even blamed you yet, and you’re scolding me first.”

“Who dare you blame? You deserve it!” Grandma Hu glared at her and muttered, “There’s such a big scab under your nose, you look like a Japanese devil.”

Hu Meili was instantly devastated, “Mom, I’m your biological daughter, how can you talk to me like that! It’s so insulting!”

“See if you dare to faint again next time. Faint again and I’ll strangle you.”

Although Grandma Hu was disgusted, she was putting on a good show. Not only did she come to the hospital to see Hu Meili when she had time, but she also spent a fortune to buy half a chicken from the grocery store and stewed chicken soup for Hu Meili.

Seeing this, Lin Xiangnan also stewed an old hen, the soup was incredibly delicious.

She sipped the soup from her bowl, asking as she drank, “How is it? Did Big Brother give in?”

Hu Meili chewed a chicken leg with a bitter face, “Not yet. Not only did he not give in, he even suspects me.”

“It’s already the fourth day. Today Dr. Liu even hinted that I can be discharged from the hospital soon, what should I do next?”

Hu Meili was thinking of a solution.

The door to the ward was knocked, a woman wearing a green army shirt, carrying a small package, stood at the door and asked cautiously, “Is Lin Xiangdong’s family in this ward?”

With a “pop”, the chicken leg in Hu Meili’s hand fell into the bowl.

It’s over, this woman has come.