Chapter 157: Fu Family
“Jiaming!”
Ma Xiuzhen, who had her hands open and was standing in front of the sickbed, was immediately both shocked and delighted upon seeing her youngest son rush in like a gust of wind.
Even though she had been infuriated by the shameless Ren Family to the point of bloodshot eyes, at this moment, they suddenly became moistened.
Fu Jiaming took a quick step to block in front of his frail mother, grabbing the finger that his older brother hadn’t had time to retract which was pointing at him, and viciously bent it outward, “Ren Yuan, do you want to die? I’ll fucking grant you that!”
“Ah, my hand!”
“Son!” “Let go of him quickly!”
The Ren Family couldn’t hold back upon hearing their treasure son’s miserable scream and all spoke up one after another.
Ren Mother was even more filled with malice in her eyes, rushing forward and extending her long nails to viciously scratch at his neck while he wasn’t paying attention.
Five bright red streaks from Fu Jiaming’s chin down to below his collarbone immediately drew blood.
“You old hag, what are you doing!”
Luo Shuangshuang, who had arrived a few steps late into the hospital room, hadn’t figured out the situation yet and didn’t even know who was who, when she saw a middle-aged woman sneakily clawing out while Fu Jiaming was confronting someone.
Seeing those claw marks where the skin and flesh were flipped outward, her eyes reddened with anger and she shouted loudly, picking up her bag and rushing over, kicking right on her fat buttocks.
If the bag in her hand hadn’t contained important life-saving things, she definitely would have smashed it down on her head until even her own mother wouldn’t recognize her!
“Where did this little fox spirit come from, daring to kick your old lady!”
“You’re the fox spirit, your whole family are slutty foxes!”
Seeing her twist her body and prepare to step forward to scratch at Shuangshuang, Fu Jiaming lifted his leg and delivered a harsh kick to Ren Mother’s belly, directly knocking her to the ground where she could only groan and wail.
His own woman was meant to be pampered, and he had no principle against hitting other people’s women!
“Have you made enough noise!”
The entire hospital room was a chaotic mess, and the doorway and window edges were packed with people crowding to watch the excitement.
Ma Xiuzhen’s hair was somewhat disheveled from the previous hair-pulling, but it didn’t affect her powerful aura at all right now.
Pushing aside her youngest son who was blocking in front of her, she scanned the Ren Family.
Ren Yuan, whose finger was being bent by Jiaming in a weird twisted position as he howled in pain and cursed; Ren Father, who was hiding in the back with a gloomy face but hadn’t spoken; and Ren Xuan, who had entered the door and only knew to cover her face crying “wah wah wah.”
She walked forward a few steps, looking down condescendingly at Ren Mother on the ground who was hugging her belly with tears and snot flying everywhere.
In no more than three seconds, Ma Xiuzhen unexpectedly took off her thick-heeled leather shoes and smashed them down on her repeatedly, “I said retreat means retreat, do you understand human speech? Do you understand!”
“Want to make trouble, huh? Bullying our two patients and one weak woman, huh!”
The shoe heel in her hand hammered down even more viciously with each word she said, like dense raindrops poking thud thud thud onto Ren Mother.
“Ouch, murder! Help! The teacher is committing murder!”
This farce ended with Ma Xiuzhen’s complete victory thanks to Fu Jiaming’s timely arrival, allowing her to vent all the negative emotions from the past few days through this opportunity.
Until the Ren Family slunk away defeated and covered in dirt, Ma Xiuzhen, who had beaten them to her heart’s content, felt utterly refreshed all over, even her fingertips trembling with uncontrollable excitement.
“Mom, are you okay?”
“I’m fine, what could be wrong with me.”
“Big brother…”
“Jiaming is back.”
Supporting his mother whose legs were clearly weak, Fu Jiaming finally had a moment to turn his head and look at his older brother lying on the bed.
On the face that resembled his own by five or six parts, there was still the gentle smile he was familiar with.
His exposed hands and feet were wrapped in thick gauze bandages, with faint bloodstains seeping through.
The man who had once told him, “Don’t be afraid, do whatever you want, big brother is here.”
The man who had taken the blame for him and his sister countless times, always smiling gently and saying, “Whoever bullies you, pay them back tenfold, big brother will take the punishment for you.”
That big brother, as refreshing as a clear breeze and bright moon, proud like a blazing sun, was he really crippled, never able to stand again?
His nose suddenly soured, and he turned his head away so he wouldn’t see the big teardrops falling.
“Jiaming…”
Standing beside him, meeting his turned face silently crying in pain with tears streaming down, Luo Shuangshuang’s heart couldn’t help but ache repeatedly, her vision blurring right after.
“Who is this?”
Quietly wiping the corner of her eye, Ma Xiuzhen didn’t want to see her two sons sad, so she took the lead to perk up and only then noticed the very unfamiliar girl standing next to her youngest son.
Willow-leaf eyebrows and almond eyes, a small mole on the side of her nose, paired with that delicate face so tender it seemed water could be pinched out, beautiful yet with a touch of playful cuteness.
She wore a floral shirt with puffed sleeves, matched with work overalls made from labor cloth, plus Huili shoes on her feet, her whole body radiating full youthful vitality.
“Mom, big brother, this is my partner Luo Shuangshuang.”
“Auntie, hello big brother!”
Looking at the person smiling brightly and greeting her so naturally and poised, Ma Xiuzhen and Fu Jiatan clearly had some panic in their eyes, but they responded in unison from their mouths.
This was the first time her youngest son brought his partner home, and it was under these circumstances.
Thinking again of her own rare ferocious appearance just now, which the girl had seen fully, Ma Xiuzhen couldn’t help but feel nervous inside: would the future daughter-in-law think she was a wicked mother-in-law?
Able to follow Jiaming back resolutely at a time like this, no need to think much to know what kind of good girl she was.
“Shuangshuang, look at us like this…”
“Auntie.”
As if reading the embarrassment and guilt in her eyes for not being able to properly host, Luo Shuangshuang’s eyes sparkled as her smile grew even sweeter, “Special situation, special treatment.”
“Good, good.”
Well-behaved and sensible, generous and appropriate.
Ma Xiuzhen, who liked her more and more, couldn’t help but hold her small hand and pat it gently, “When Uncle Fu and big brother are discharged, we’ll start over properly from the beginning.”
“Oh, right!”
Luo Shuangshuang only then remembered the most urgent matter at hand, quickly withdrawing her hand from hers and opening the bag she had been protecting well.
There were three porcelain bottles in the bag, one large and two small, with the small one only two finger joints high and the large one half a palm big.
“Auntie, this is medicine that I and Jiaming’s friend made ourselves, using her family’s ancestral secret recipe, and it’s especially effective.”
“Is it that Comrade Su Ning?”
“Mm!”
Thinking of Su Ning who had sent the medicinal water at the critical moment to save her husband and eldest son’s lives, Ma Xiuzhen excitedly looked at her, “I haven’t had the chance to properly thank her yet, did she come this time too?”
“Mom, Yan Qi has something going on over there so Su Ning has to stay with him to handle it, she didn’t come back with us this time.”
Fu Jiaming simply explained, softly comforting his mother whose eyes flashed with disappointment, “There will be opportunities later.”
There might even be plenty of opportunities.
Fu Jiaming didn’t say the latter sentence, temporarily setting aside extra thoughts, and continued, “Mom, let’s go see Dad first, to let him wake up as soon as possible.”
“You mean, this medicine?”
Ma Xiuzhen and Fu Jiatan’s gazes both turned to the medicine bottle in Luo Shuangshuang’s hands, asking in unison, “Is it real?!”
“I believe Su Ning.”
“Right, trusting Ning Bao Gai is definitely right!”
With her personality of never speaking fully, if she said there was a seventy percent chance to turn Fu Rong from danger to safety and fully wake him up, then it was ninety-nine percent!
“Come, follow me!”
Ma Xiuzhen excitedly turned around, and before her words finished, she opened the hospital room door herself.
Turning to glance at his big brother who also showed an excited expression, Fu Jiaming could only quickly instruct, “Big brother, wait here first…”
“Don’t mind me, go quickly!”
“Okay.”
Nodding to him, Fu Jiaming took Luo Shuangshuang and closely followed out of the hospital room, quickly heading to the ICU.
No time to feel heartbroken seeing his once majestic father become like this now, he and Ma Xiuzhen simultaneously made space and turned to look at her, “Shuangshuang.”
Understandingly nodding, Luo Shuangshuang stepped forward a few steps, just as her friend had instructed, placing the bottle by the pillow on the sickbed, first opening the palm-sized porcelain bottle.
Aligning the bottle mouth to the mouth of Fu Rong who lay silently, she silently apologized in her heart, used her other hand to forcefully pinch open his mouth, and carefully poured the medicinal water in.
She stopped only after feeling half the amount had gone in, putting the wooden stopper back in the bottle and capping it securely.
Immediately switching to one of the small porcelain bottles, “Jiaming, help tilt Uncle’s head a bit.”
“Okay.”
The two cooperated, using the ointment from the small porcelain bottle to evenly apply it to all the wounds on his head.
“Done, now we just wait.”
“That’s all it takes?”
“Mm, Ning Bao Gai said these two medicines, one for external application and one for internal use, will take effect faster.”
