Chapter 387: Sudden Incident
Chapter 387: Chapter 387: Sudden Incident
Her own daughter was pushing her to get married!
Li Wan felt her face flush. She stammered, "Qing... Qingqing, why... why are you suddenly talking... talking about this?"
Su Qing smiled brightly. "Mom, it’s perfectly normal. You and Uncle Gu have such a great relationship, so you should get married soon. Who knows, I might even get a little brother or sister."
Su Qing genuinely wanted Li Wan to have another child. After all, the original owner of this body was gone. Although Su Qing now occupied her body, she couldn’t be considered Li Wan’s real daughter. Li Wan’s true daughter was no longer here.
Su Qing’s words made Li Wan’s face turn an even deeper shade of red.
Mrs. Li chuckled. "Qingqing isn’t wrong."
"Mom, how could you join in on the teasing too?" Li Wan grew even more embarrassed.
Gu Xinsheng smiled. "Actually, Wan and I have already discussed getting married. We plan to renovate my house, then pick an auspicious date. We were going to wait until the renovations were nearly finished to tell you all."
Since Gu Xinsheng had been transferred to Beijing, he was naturally assigned housing. It was also in this compound, but it was an apartment in a multi-story building. The layout was three bedrooms and one living room, and it was quite spacious.
The Li family was pleasantly surprised by Gu Xinsheng’s words. Soon, the conversation turned entirely to Li Wan and Gu Xinsheng’s wedding. For the Li family, this was the first time they were truly marrying off a daughter, so it was an event they had to take very seriously.
They began discussing everything down to the smallest detail, from the dowry and additional gifts to the room decorations. All the talk made Li Wan’s face burn even redder. Seeing Su Qing sitting beside her, grinning from ear to ear, Li Wan smiled and gently patted her shoulder, her face overflowing with happiness.
Meanwhile, Su Qing was thinking to herself, ’When I get to Xiangcheng, I’ll pick out a set of jadeite jewelry for Mom. It’s common knowledge that I have money, so no one can say anything if a daughter buys a set of jewelry for her own mother.’
As for the wedding gift for Cheng Beilin on this trip to Xiangcheng, she had already decided on that too. She would give her a sixty-year-old wild ginseng. During her several trips into the mountains, aside from the few medicinal herbs she needed, she had also collected quite a few wild ginseng roots. Most were fifty or sixty years old, but she even had a few hundred-year-old old ginsengs. Of course, bringing out a century-old wild ginseng would be a bit too shocking, so she decided not to draw that kind of attention to herself.
The next evening, Su Qing and Li Huan boarded the southbound train with their luggage. Once the train started moving, Li Huan said to Su Qing with a giggle, "Qingqing, you know, this is the first time I’ve ever gone on a long trip so openly and legitimately."
Su Qing couldn’t help but laugh. "That’s right. All the other times, you snuck out."
"Hehe, that just shows how capable I am. Anyway, as long as I have a letter of introduction, I’m not afraid of traveling," Li Huan said with a grin.
Li Fenghuo had bought them tickets for the sleeper car. The sleeper car wasn’t crowded, and Su Qing and Li Huan had their compartment all to themselves, which was nice and quiet. After dinner and a bit of idle chat, they prepared for bed.
But just as they lay down, they heard an anxious shout from the next car. "Quick, get a train attendant! Someone collapsed! Hurry up, find a doctor to save them!"
The voice was especially jarring in the quiet of the night. Li Huan shot up from her bunk, her heart pounding. "What’s happening?"
"It sounds like someone fainted."
The words had barely left Su Qing’s mouth when they heard the sound of hurried footsteps, followed by an announcement over the train’s broadcast system: "Attention all passengers. An elderly passenger has suffered a sudden medical emergency and is in urgent need of help. If there is a doctor on board, please come to car number five immediately."
After the announcement was broadcast three times, Su Qing said to Li Huan, "You stay here and don’t move. I’m going to go take a look."
"I’ll go too," Li Huan said quickly.
Su Qing replied, "It’s probably crowded out there. You should just stay here. Our luggage is here, after all."
"Oh, okay then. I’ll watch the luggage. You go, but come back quickly," Li Huan urged.
"Okay."
When Su Qing left her compartment and went to the next car, she saw a group of people crowded around one spot. A woman’s panicked sobs could be heard from the middle of the crowd, punctuated by her desperate questions: "Is there a doctor? Please, save my father."
Su Qing made her way through the crowd and saw a man in his sixties lying on the floor of the train car. Because he had collapsed so suddenly, no one had dared to move him, leaving him to lie there.
"Oh no, why hasn’t a doctor come yet?"
"Don’t tell me there aren’t any doctors on this train."
The surrounding passengers were also murmuring anxiously amongst themselves.
A young man in the crowd spoke up. "I’m a medical student. I can take a look, but I can’t guarantee I can treat him."
The woman was in a complete panic by now. Hearing someone offer to help, she threw all other concerns aside and pleaded, "Please, hurry and take a look at my father. What’s wrong with him?"