Aunt Chen was also worried, so she was silent for a moment, patted his chest and told him to stop talking.
Uncle Chen sighed, and after a moment of silence, he said, "From what I heard from those people, they won't just let it go."
Since Qiao Nian went to Beijing, she has become the future granddaughter-in-law of the Ye family.
People often come to her place.
She knew the faces of those people, so she patted the back of his hand and said, "Let them do whatever they want. They are just trying to embarrass us. We are a small family with little money. Let them embarrass us if they want. I won't let them have their way anyway, and I won't bother Nian Nian for them."
Uncle Chen thought so too and stopped talking.
**
Things turned out just as Uncle Chen had expected.
In the afternoon, when Aunt Chen went out to set up a stall, she encountered hooligans making trouble. First, they scared away all the diners. Then later, people who claimed to be inspectors came and told her that she could not set up a stall here in the future because it was against the rules.
That’s not all.
In the evening, when Aunt Chen was exhausted and packed up to go home, she received a call saying that someone had eaten at her house in the afternoon and had food poisoning and was in the hospital for emergency treatment, so she was asked to hurry over.
After she settled Uncle Chen down, she had to rush to the hospital.
When they arrived at the hospital, the patient's family members rushed up to her, crying and beating her, and then asked her to pay the medical expenses, insisting that their husband had food poisoning after eating her spicy and sour noodles.
The doctor also urged gastric lavage.
Aunt Chen had no choice but to advance 20,000 yuan for medical expenses, and was asked by the family to wait until the gastric lavage operation was over before she could leave.
Aunt Chen left in a hurry and didn't have time to cook for Uncle Chen before leaving.
She sat on the cold bench in the hospital corridor, extremely anxious, but no matter how she told the patient's family that she would not run away, those people held her back and would not let her leave.
She was helpless and had to send a message to Chen Yuan, who was studying in Beijing, and asked Chen Yuan to ask his high school classmates to deliver food to her.
…
Beijing. Chen Yuan opened his phone after class and saw a text message from his mother.
He quickly walked out of the classroom and called Aunt Chen.
The phone rang for more than ten seconds before it was connected.
Chen Yuan immediately asked: "Mom, what happened at home? Why aren't you home?"
"…I can't explain it to you right away. Yuanyuan, you can find a classmate you know from high school to bring food to your dad first. I'll be back in the evening."
Aunt Chen didn't want him to know what was going on at home, mainly because she didn't want him to tell Qiao Nian.
"Oh, I'm worried about delivering the key. Just ask him to find a locksmith company. I'll pay for it. If they refuse to open the lock for him, ask the locksmith to call me and I'll explain to them."
Aunt Chen was very thoughtful and even thought of a locksmith company.
She carefully instructed Chen Yuan and never mentioned where she was now.
Chen Yuan could tell that this was a serious matter, so he didn't insist on asking the reason. He just agreed obediently and said that he would contact his classmates to send him food after he hung up the phone.
Only then did Aunt Chen hang up the phone with relief.
Chen Yuan waited for her to hang up the phone, thought for a while, found Qiao Nian's phone number, rubbed it with his fingertips several times, but ultimately did not call.
He bought a flight ticket to the nearest airport on the app, asked his professor for leave, and hurried to the airport.
During this period, he also found a way to contact a high school classmate and asked him to help him deliver meals to his home. He also told him about finding a lock-opening company to open the lock as Aunt Chen had asked.
**
The next morning.
Aunt Chen was harassed by the family members all night, and finally got rid of them in the morning and returned home exhausted.
(End of this chapter)