Chapter 118: Chapter 118: Would you believe if I said I want to harm soone?
Chapter 118: Chapter 118: Would you believe if I said I want to harm soone?
The doctor at Fushou Hall had a good reputation in the town.
He took one look at Lu Donghai and exclaid: “How could you overfeed this child to such an extent?
Don’t you understand anything?
This is like asking for his death!”
However, the doctor didn’t need to tactfully address the parents, Bai Ruoi and Lu Donghai; he got straight to the point.
Upon hearing the doctor’s words, both their faces changed, but they still found it hard to believe.
“Isn’t fat always considered healthy in children?
How can that harm him?” Lu Ming questioned confusedly.
The doctor shot him a glance as if he was an idiot, which greatly embarrassed Lu Ming, who nearly burst into anger.
Fortunately, the doctor did not pay him any further attention and began examining Lu Donghai.
“The child is too overweight; his heart ridian has already been damaged and he is in the early stage of Thirst-quenching Syndro,” the doctor stated while examining Lu Donghai, his brow furrows deepening.
“How much sugar has this child been eating?
His teeth are starting to decay.
Despite him being due for teething, rotten roots would soon lead to decay again.
You better get him so toothpaste from Du Family’s Pharmacy.
We’ll see if it’s not too late to mitigate the problem.”
As the doctor rattled on about the child’s condition, Bai Ruoi suddenly wailed at the diagnosis.
Thirst-quenching Syndro was considered incurable in ancient tis.
The doctor glared at her fiercely and berated: “Why are you crying now?
If you continue to spoil him, he will eventually beco thin, not by choice, but due to disease severity.”
In her panic, Bai Ruoi nodded continuously, promising that she would listen to the doctor’s advice.
After strictly admonishing the couple and prescribing them dication, the doctor gave Bai Ruoi a list of foods Lu Donghai should avoid.
The list made her go pale, as it mostly consisted of Lu Donghai’s favorites.
On returning ho, they explained the doctor’s diagnosis to Lu Family’s seniors, who refused to believe the prognosis.
They cursed the doctor as a quack, accusing him of spreading unnecessary fear.
They decided to take Lu Donghai to a clinic in Beiyu City the next day.
So, the next day, the Lu Family hired a vehicle and journeyed to Beiyu City.
During the journey, Lu Ming started feeling itchy, especially in his private parts.
Lu Ming, being the only child of the Lu’s, had never experienced hardship.
Hence the slight discomfort had him moaning, and sohow, the visit to the clinic increased by one person.
Bai Ruoi and Lu Ming did suspect that the clothing Er Lang wore might have so issues, but when they had the doctor examine it, he diagnosed it as skin allergies due to the excess liver-fire.
They also asked the doctor whether sobody poisoned him, to which the doctor shook his head affirmatively.
“How is that even possible?
Had there been any poison, I would have been able to tell at one glance.”
This made Bai Ruoi suspect that maybe Lu Ming would catch the disease due to his frivolous conduct, but she could not ask him directly.
Also, when the doctor checked up on Lu Donghai, even after consulting with multiple clinics—the reports always remained the sa, so of them were even more sorrowful.
The old lady started bawling right there in the hospital courtyard: “Oh, my poor grandson.
What have I done to deserve such suffering?
Why do the gods punish my precious grandchild like this?”
One employee at the clinic impatiently ca forward, “If you want to wail, go back ho and do it.
Your grandson isn’t dead!
You dare question your actions?
A perfectly healthy child was made obese by you, what else do you want to rant about?”
By the ti the old lady started wailing, a crowd had gathered around, most of them staring at Lu Donghai.
On seeing such an obese youngster, they were shocked and wondered, can anybody rear a child as if fattening a pig?
Lu Donghai, still being so young, got terrified at the crowd staring at him.
He fell and rolled on the ground, crying out, “Evil!
All of you are evil!
I want to go ho, I want dimsum!”
And thus, his last words shifted from wanting to go ho to wanting dimsum.
The old lady panicked and fumbled in her purse for so dimsum to give to Donghai.
Bai Ruoi stepped forward and snatched the dimsum away: “Mother, the doctor just told us he cannot have dimsum.”
The old lady’s patience snapped, already frustrated with her grandson’s condition, and the mont she was admonished by Ruoi, she slapped her in the face.
“How dare you tell what to do?
My perfectly good grandson has fallen into disarray because of you, you vile woman!”
Amidst all of this, Lu Ming kept scratching himself, completely ignoring Bai Ruoi getting slapped and making no effort to console his mother.
He behaved as if he was just a bystander.
Tears were welling up in Bai Ruoi’s eyes, but she swallowed her sobs and backed away without saying a word.
The crowd watched as Lu Donghai continued eating his dimsum while whispering amongst themselves, clearly discerning who the culprit was behind all this.
…
Over at Bai Ruozhu’s place, they had no idea about the events unfolding at Beiyu City.
However, news of Bai Ruoi and her husband taking their child to Fushou Hall was passed on by townsfolk from the village.
“Oh Ruozhu, you wouldn’t believe it!
Your grandmother is terribly worried back at the old mansion.
She said she would go to town and see what’s happening.
As for your uncle, he’s moping and drinking his sorrows away,” Fang Guizhi was gossiping to Bai Ruozhu.
Since Ruozhu couldn’t go out, and with the entire family busy in the fields, Fang Guizhi beca her source of information, passing on the village gossip to her.
“Drowning in his sorrows?” Bai Ruozhu asked with a mischievous smile.
“Ruozhu, what are you thinking?
Why is your laugh so eerie?” Fang Guizhi asked, she had never seen Ruozhu behave this way before.
Right now, Bai Ruozhu was busy strategizing her retaliation.
With outsiders, she knew to fight back.
But why should she always passively respond to the antics of her uncle’s family?
It was ti she made the first move.
“Oh nothing, I just thought of a business opportunity,” she said as she pulled out two jars of wine from under her bed.
As soon as Fang Guizhi heard about the possibility of making money, her eyes sparkled.
Regardless of Bai Ruozhu’s strange behavior, she imdiately grabbed her arm and asked, “What business?
Selling wine?”
“Yes, take these two jars of wine and sell them to the Old Wine House in the village.
Tell him these were sourced from a rchant in the Alien Domain and that they are of high alcohol degree.
The Old Wine House is an honest place; they won’t cheat you,” Bai Ruozhu instructed, pointing at the two jars.
Fang Guizhi was confused.
“Why sell them to the Old Wine House?
Wouldn’t it fetch a better price in the town?”
Bai Ruozhu grinned at her, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.
“Would you believe if I said I wanted to harm soone?”
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