"Ahem." After Zhong Minglou was called away by Qin's mother, Xia Tian struggled to sit up and coughed twice feebly. She looked like she was only thirty years old, with sunken eye sockets, a bloodless face, and a faint tint on her lips. The green color looks very unhealthy.
"Mom, drink water." A little girl of seven or eight years old quickly brought a glass of warm water and handed it over. He carefully supported her and put the warm water to her mouth.
"Yingying, I'm sorry, it was mom who dragged you down." Xia Tian looked at her daughter's hands covered with frostbite and said with distress and self-blame.
"How could it be? Mom worked too hard to support me, which is why she got sick and the root cause of the disease. It's my duty to take care of mom now. Mom should get well soon!" the little girl said in a relaxed tone on purpose.
"Mom has no nostalgia for this person in the world, but she can't worry about you. If your mother dies and you are still so young, how will you live in the future?" Xia Tian looked at her daughter, her eyes full of reluctance.
"Mom, you won't die. Why are you arriving in the capital soon? There is the best hospital there, which will definitely cure your disease." The little girl said with great certainty.
Xia Tian smiled with some difficulty, not to mention that her body would not be able to reach the capital. Even if they arrived, their mother and daughter were penniless and couldn't even eat. How could they treat their illnesses?
"Yingying, let's see what delicious food grandma made for you? Come, Xia Tian, mom knows you have a bad appetite, so she specially made wild vegetable porridge." Zhong Minglou had just been called out by Zhong Mu, and when he came back, he suddenly said The mother and daughter became enthusiastic and brought over a plate of wild vegetable pancakes and two steaming bowls of wild vegetable porridge.
Zhong Yingying glanced at Zhong Minglou expressionlessly and said nothing. Xia Tian twitched her lips and showed an ugly smile, "Zhong Minglou, what are you planning?"
There has long been no love between the two of them as husband and wife. If it weren't for the fear that he would not be able to survive alone with the child, how could Xia Tian possibly compromise and stay with this family?
"Looking at what you said, what can I do? We are just a couple. Seeing you like this makes me feel uncomfortable." Zhong Minglou looked at Xia Tian with concern.
"If you knew how hard it was, my mother wouldn't be like this." Zhong Yingying said coldly.
"Yingying, don't talk to your dad like that." Xia Tian scolded Zhong Yingying anxiously.
"It's okay, it's okay, Xia Tian, I was the one who did not do well in the past. I don't blame the child." Zhong Minglou looked at Zhong Yingying with a good temper, but he was not angry at all.
"I don't have a few more days to live. You don't have to be pretentious in front of me. If you have anything to say, just tell me. I just ask you to raise the child well for the sake of brotherly love, so that I can leave with peace of mind. "Xia Tian said feebly.
"Xia Tian, you just want to be too strong. When I said I didn't care about you, it was just an angry word I said out of anger. It would be over if you just gave in. But you just showed off your strength and ran out in the ice and snow." Zhong Minglou tried his best to defend himself. .
"Haha." Xia Tian smiled lightly. She no longer had the energy to argue with this man. At that time, the mother and daughter had not eaten for three days. If she had not gone out, she would have starved to death.
"Xia Tian, I have good news to tell you." Zhong Minglou said pretending to be mysterious.
Xia Tian's heart was calm, and his good news had nothing to do with her.
"Your brother, Xia Kai, is still alive. Our dad just saw him." Zhong Minglou said one after another.
Xia Tian's eyes lit up and he grabbed Zhong Minglu fiercely, "Are you telling the truth? Is it really Xia Kai?"
"Of course it's true. He is doing well now. He is neatly dressed, carries weapons, and drives a cool off-road vehicle. He is a cultivator at first glance. From now on, our Yingying will have an uncle who will love you." Zhong Minglou looked at Zhong Yingying affectionately. Xia Tian was not in good health. If she died, this daughter would be the only person related to Xia Kai by blood. She might have to rely on this daughter to tie Xia Kai down.
No wonder he was so courteous to her all of a sudden. It turned out that he wanted to take advantage of Xia Kai. Xia Tian sneered in his heart.
"Then why don't you bring him to see me?" Xia Tian suppressed his excitement and said, if Xia Kai is really a cultivator, there might be a powerful doctor who can cure her disease when she gets to the capital.
"Don't worry, I just want to tell you first, Yingying, dad and mom have something to say, you go to grandma's place to play for a while first, grandma has prepared delicious food for you!" Zhong Minglou said to Zhong Yingying .
"Go, Yingying, mom is fine." Xia Tian knew that Zhong Minglou had something to say, so he cooperated and sent his daughter out.
Zhong Yingying left the tent and walked a few steps forward, turned a corner, and came back. She found a corner outside the tent that blocked the car, and squatted there to eavesdrop.
"Xia Tian, my parents have always been with us. When Xia Kai sees you, he will definitely ask his parents, what are you going to say then?" Zhong Minglou asked tentatively.
Mentioning his parents, Xia Tian showed a sad expression on his face and asked sarcastically, "What do you want me to say? Why, are you feeling guilty?"
"Guilty, what do I have to feel guilty about? I haven't done anything to offend my conscience." Zhong Minglou said a little funny.
"Zhong Minglou, it's not that you haven't done anything that is sorry for your conscience, you have no conscience at all. You live in the house bought by my parents and drive the car bought by my parents. As a result, the end of the world has come, and the whole family has come to my house. They ate up all the food my parents saved and forced my parents to go out and die." Xia Tian said through gritted teeth as he looked at the man in front of him.
"When did I force them to die? I still have to support my father and my sister. Of course you have to support your parents by yourself. It's because you are timid and cowardly and don't dare to go out. They are looking for food for you mother and daughter. If you are willing to go out, how can you blame me if you die? If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for your own inability." Zhong Minglou snorted coldly, showing no sign of weakness.
"My parents were so good to you before. They bought us a house and a car, helped us take care of our children, and cooked for us. But when we encountered difficulties, this is how you treated them." Xia Tian was immersed in sadness and did not notice Zhong Ming Lou's expression of disgust.
"Stop looking through those old almanacs. The top priority now is to figure out how to tell Xia Kai about this? Should he lie to him and say he doesn't know, or should he tell him directly that we didn't protect them well and they are gone. What if Xia Kai wants details? What to do?" Zhong Minglu said impatiently.
"Why lie? Just tell the truth, how nice!" Xia Tian looked at Zhong Minglou mockingly. Her relationship with Xia Kai could not be said to be close, but they were biological siblings after all. Knowing that Xia Kai was still alive, Xia Tian felt in her heart Hopefully, my mental state is much better.
