Seeing the nurse leaving the ward with a look of grievance on her face, Su Xian hurriedly chased after her and apologized repeatedly on behalf of his careless father. The nurse looked at the very polite girl in front of her and for a moment doubted whether this little girl was the biological daughter of the old man with a weird temper in the ward.
The moment Su Changlin saw his daughter, his wrinkled face was filled with the question, "Why did you come back?"
Seeing that he still had so much strength, Su Xian felt relieved.
At noon, Uncle Zhao came to the hospital to deliver food. He was so happy to see Su Xian that he took her to the bedside and chatted with her for a long time. His words were full of praise. Su Xian intentionally or unintentionally talked about her situation in school and mentioned the scholarship.
In fact, she wanted her father to hear that she was not completely useless. Unfortunately, the old man would occasionally pour a bucket of cold water on her enthusiasm and never give her any words of praise. So, she decided to give up struggling.
She stayed in the hospital for a week, during which Zuo Yueyao contacted her three times in total. In order not to worry him, Su Xian did not mention anything about family matters. Fortunately, the old man seemed to be much quieter, perhaps because he was in the hospital.
After being discharged from the hospital a week later, Su Xian sent his father back home and returned to town to buy some nutritional supplements and crutches. He placed a bunch of things in his father's room. Looking at his father, who had always been keen on making life difficult, and actually had white hair, he felt a bitter feeling in his heart, and he couldn't describe the feeling.
"I have to go back to school." Seeing that his father was recovering well, Su Xian had already asked Uncle Zhao and the neighbors to help take care of him on a daily basis. Now he could go back to school with peace of mind.
"Hurry back." Su Changlin said as if to order him to leave: "It's just a broken leg. I still have the other one. It's not like I can't walk anymore. What are you doing back here?" He pointed at a pile of nutritional supplements and said, "Take these back to eat. I don't need them. Simple meals are more nutritious than these. What's the use of your scholarship? Just keep it for yourself."
It seemed that he had listened to some of what she said. Su Xian patiently explained to him, "This is food for middle-aged and elderly people. It is not suitable for me."
She dragged Su Changlin's tattered recliner to a sunny spot near the gate, helped him to sit down, and covered his legs with a thin blanket. She looked around the house and for the first time felt a little nostalgic for this place.
"I am leaving."
She was about to leave with her bag on her back when she saw Uncle Zhao coming towards them. Uncle Zhao shouted to Su Changlin, "Your daughter is back, and you're still wearing that ugly face! You must be secretly happy."
Su Changlin didn't buy it at all: "Why should I be happy? I was just unlucky. My leg was broken for no reason."
"Alas." Uncle Zhao comforted helplessly: "This person is in danger at any time. Who can predict it? Fortunately, it's just a broken leg. It will heal after some rest."
"My daughter is leaving?"
"Yeah." Su Xian's heart always feels warm towards Uncle Zhao.
"Okay, wait for me for a moment. I'll drive the tricycle over and take you to the station." Su Xian nodded. After Uncle Zhao ran away, she waited there, listening to her father's complaints behind her without changing her expression.
She was used to it and didn't intend to listen carefully, but when the conversation suddenly involved sensitive words, Su Xian's ears instantly pricked up.
She heard her father say, "We came here to investigate, but I don't know what we investigated. Other families are living a good life, so our family should be the same as before."
"It's just that we didn't have anything to give as a gift. How could anyone look down upon that plate of eggs?"
"He left without even saying goodbye, as if he was afraid I would come to him and ask for money."
"Later, I called her and asked how the matter was going and whether there was any special care for a family like ours. She kept making excuses, saying this was not allowed, that was not possible. She looked like a decent person, but in fact, she was a bully. She just thought that we were easy to bully."
For now, let’s not worry about whether our father and son are easy to bully. Su Xian asked Su Changlin seriously: “Did you call Aunt Zhou Ling later?”
"Yeah." Su Changlin got even angrier when he mentioned it: "Didn't she say that if I have any problems, I can go to her? I went to her, but she didn't really help me. This person is just a mouth, pretending!"
Su Xian felt unhappy, but was mostly speechless.
"She just looked down on our family! I was so angry that I called to complain to her!"
Su Xian was angry: "Whether you look down on others or not depends on yourself, not on others! It's enough for us to look up to ourselves. What does it matter if others look down on us or not!"
"I'm still a patient, what's your attitude!"
Su Changlin also got angry, but Su Xian was even angrier than him: "Auntie Zhou Ling is here for routine work. She is not as bad as you think!"
"You stupid girl! You're so mean! Did she wear it for you or eat it for you?"
Zhou Ling didn't give her anything, but she was Zuo Yueyao's mother! She liked the person who had gently stroked her head and wanted to adopt her as his goddaughter.
But her father's behavior made Su Xian feel for the first time what inferiority was. How should she face Zhou Ling
Su Xian even thought about the fact that Zuo Yueyao didn't tell her about Zhou Ling coming to school during her freshman year. Could it be related to this? Could it be that Zuo Yueyao also knew about this and avoided their meeting to avoid embarrassing her, or because his mother's attitude towards her had changed
Many questions were swirling in her mind, and she wanted to find Zuo Yueyao to ask them immediately, but with the phone in her hand, she never dared to send the text message.
Everyone wants to save face.
Uncle Zhao's tricycle arrived at the roadside and he shouted at Su Xian. Su Xian took two steps and looked back at his father, feeling helpless. "Dad, I can give you everything you want in the future. Please save some face for me in the future. I beg you, okay?"
She thought she would cry after saying these words, but in the end, she didn't shed a single tear.
For the first time, she felt helpless against her father's tyranny.
As soon as I got on the train, Lu Xiran sent me a text message, "Are you okay?"
Su Xian thought Lu Xiran was concerned about the problems at home, so he replied, "I'm fine."
After a while, another text message came: "Are you really okay?"
Su Xian then became suspicious: "Should I say something is wrong or nothing?"
I was just joking, but I didn't expect to receive an inexplicable reply from the other party: "How could this happen? Did Senior Brother Zuo quarrel with you?"
Zuo Yueyao quarreled with her? It was simply a fantasy. Su Xian realized that Lu Xiran's question about whether there was anything wrong should not be a simple matter.
For some unknown reason, she opened the forum of Nanjing University. Different news contents were pinned to the top of the forum every day. Because of the matter with Zuo Yueyao, she had enjoyed the pinning service once.
Unexpectedly, after only being away for a few days, Su Xian was pinned to the top of the post again, and this time the content of the post was a false accusation.
The content was about her secretly going to the hospital to have an abortion, and dragging Zuo Yueyao into it, accusing him of being irresponsible under his so-called loyalty, and not caring about his girlfriend's pregnancy, causing her to go to the hospital alone and sadly to have an abortion. If this had not happened to him, Su Xian almost believed it himself after reading this moving article.
This was probably what they called "when it rains it pours". Su Xian couldn't even cry now even if she wanted to.
She had clearly done a good thing, why did it suddenly become like this? How should she explain to others that she was not the one who had the abortion, she was just accompanying out of good intentions, but if she told the truth, how should Yao Jing face the criticism and pointers from everyone, how should a person bear all this
What's more, even if she explained, others might not believe her.
Su Xian arrived at school in a daze. Fortunately, it was evening when he arrived. He ran back to the dormitory and was surprised to see Chen Biyu sitting on Lu Xiran's bed. Seeing Su Xian, Chen Biyu rushed over and pointed to the sky: "I swear! I didn't say that! If I tell others about this, I will be struck by lightning and die! Really, you believe me!"
Su Xian knew Chen Biyu's character. She believed her because she said she hadn't said anything. Although she was outspoken and annoying, she would never do such a thing. She felt uncomfortable in her chest. She couldn't think of anyone else who knew about this except Chen Biyu.
Chen Biyu accompanied her quietly for a while, and finally, seeing that the atmosphere was depressing, she stood up suddenly and patted Su Xian on the shoulder: "Don't think about it. As the saying goes, a person with a clear conscience has nothing to fear. You didn't really do this, so let them gossip about it."
Lu Xiran nodded in agreement.
"Let's take a step back and say that even if this is true, so what? You are both adults, and you have a boyfriend. If you two don't want to have a baby soon, it's normal to abort it."
Lu Xiran opened his mouth and didn't dare to nod.
Su Xian was so upset that he pointed at the dormitory door and said, "You should leave now. Remember to close the door."
Chen Biyu left, and Su Xian and Lu Xiran both sat there in a daze. Lu Xiran asked the most concerned question with concern: "Will Senior Brother Zuo be angry with you because of this?"
It is normal for such a self-disciplined person to be angry suddenly getting branded as irresponsible. But in Su Xian's mind, she is not worried that Zuo Yueyao will be angry. What she is worried about is the negative impact this incident will bring to him.
In the professor's heart, Zuo Yueyao is the most outstanding person, a leader and rising star in the medical field, without a trace of dust, without any negative news, a nearly perfect person. If this incident leaves a stain on his reputation, Su Xian will really feel guilty.
She doesn't care, even if she has to take the blame, but Zuo Yueyao can't.
But she didn't know how to solve this problem.
What made her even more sad was that after the incident fermented, Yao Jing remained silent. For this, Su Xian smiled bitterly and regretted it deeply. If she had listened to Zuo Yueyao and not gotten involved in this muddy water, things would still be as peaceful as before.
Zuo Yueyao never had the habit of paying attention to campus forums, and he was also busy. As the protagonist of the news, he was probably the last one to know about it.
And it was Ren Shang who told him over the phone.
At that time, Zuo Yueyao was discussing surgical complications with the professor. After receiving Ren Shang's call, he just said lightly, "Okay, hang up."