Chapter 596 - 513: Returning to the Country
Chapter 596: Chapter 513: Returning to the Country
Xiao Man ran into the Jun Family at the hospital today and was utterly annoyed.
At the beginning of the year, she had agreed to Jun Rui’s request to personally diagnose and perform acupuncture on Elder Jun. Thanks to Elder Jun’s vast knowledge and wisdom, the old man and the young woman got along quite well during the treatments. Afterward, Elder Jun even invited Xiao Man to the Jun residence for a meal, but Xiao Man politely declined, citing a lack of free time. Elder Jun then had Jun Rui frequently deliver fresh fruit and rare sweets and snacks to the hospital. These weren’t just for Xiao Man; all the other doctors and nurses got a share. Consequently, everyone developed a very favorable impression of the Jun Family. Every time Jun Rui came to the hospital to pick up medicine for his grandfather, he would "happen to" find Xiao Man there as well.
Xiao Man didn’t mind this. Jun Rui was a smart and rational person with a proper and polite attitude. Their relationship was like that of classmates—not particularly close, but a bit more than mere acquaintances. Xiao Man thought this was fine. After all, the elders of their two families had worked together for a lifetime. Unless it was absolutely necessary, that bond couldn’t just be severed in an instant.
Today, however, Xiao Man wanted nothing to do with the Jun Family. When she found out which member of the Jun Family was being admitted, she hid. But she was still found by Madam Jun, Huang Wei. Huang Wei grabbed at her, tears streaming down her face, and tried to kneel, begging her to personally diagnose Jun Ran, perform acupuncture, and prescribe medicine. If Jun Rui hadn’t arrived just in time to drag Huang Wei away, the Traditional Chinese Medicine department might have witnessed a full-blown drama of someone kneeling and begging for a life to be saved. There happened to be a lot of patients today, so who knew what kind of rumors would spread about this.
That’s right. The person who came to the hospital today was the Jun Family’s eldest daughter, Jun Ran.
Miss Jun was supposedly on the verge of death. Mr. Jun and Lady Jun had taken matters into their own hands and brought her back to the country. She arrived in Beijing last night, and this morning, just as Xiao Man got to De Ren Hospital, the Jun Family’s car was pulling into the hospital grounds.
The Jun Family had once promised the Tang family that they would send Jun Ran abroad for three years and that she wouldn’t be allowed back until after Tang Manman and Gu Shaojun held their engagement ceremony.
Elder Jun had said this himself, so the Tang family hadn’t added any other conditions. Now, not even two years had passed, and she was back. Since the reason given was a serious illness that threatened her life, the Tang family naturally couldn’t accuse them of breaking their promise.
De Ren Hospital’s Traditional Chinese Medicine department had several reputable old doctors. For Huang Wei to cause a scene, searching several wards just to drag Xiao Man out to treat Jun Ran, was completely unreasonable. Xiao Man flatly refused.
Disregarding her own image, Huang Wei wailed and shouted, insinuating that it was all Xiao Man’s fault that Jun Ran was in this state and suffering so much. She claimed that Xiao Man had a duty to cure Jun Ran, or else heaven itself would not tolerate it!
Although her soul had lived for decades, Xiao Man knew very well that in this life she was still just a young woman. She suppressed her anger and didn’t argue with Huang Wei. Seeing Jun Rui drag Huang Wei away, she changed out of her work clothes and stormed off.
Jun Rui chased her downstairs and apologized to Xiao Man. "Manman, I’m sorry! I honestly didn’t know my sister was coming back to the country beforehand..."
Xiao Man gave a faint smile. "As long as she’s a Chinese citizen, she can return to the country from anywhere. That’s everyone’s right."
"In any case, my family broke its promise to you. I’m truly, truly sorry!"
Xiao Man remained silent. ’Was I supposed to say, "It’s okay"?’
Jun Rui’s face was creased with worry as he sighed. "There are so many hospitals in Beijing, but my parents insisted on sending her here. It’s because of Grandfather’s illness. He recovered so well, and people say it was for two reasons: one, your superb medical skills, and two, the Sun Family’s pharmaceuticals. The rumors on the street are that the Sun Family’s ancestral formulas are incredible, and that the medicine leads and herbs they use are all extremely precious and rare. Almost everyone believes it, including my parents, who witnessed it firsthand. So they didn’t consider anywhere else. They were dead set on coming to Deren, convinced that only this place could help my sister get better quickly."
Xiao Man nodded. "They’re not wrong to think that way. When you’re sick, of course you want to find the best hospital. Is your sister’s condition very serious? Did she have to be carried back? Can someone like that even get on a plane?"
Jun Rui watched Xiao Man’s long, butterfly-wing-like eyelashes flutter and couldn’t help but chuckle. ’How did this girl turn out like this? She’s just too cute. She’s already a young woman, yet she has the curiosity of a six or seven-year-old.’
"My sister’s illness is completely self-inflicted. She claimed she couldn’t get used to anything in the foreign country—couldn’t eat the food, couldn’t even stomach the water. She kept making a fuss about wanting to come back. This is just her being willful, deliberately going against the family. She had been preparing to study abroad for a long time and has a lot of friends and classmates over there. Everyone else is fine, no problems at all, but not her! So what happens? She gives herself anorexia. She throws up everything she eats, leading to severe malnutrition. She’s tried to kill herself by slitting her wrists twice. She’s nothing but skin and bones... You’d be shocked if you saw her."
Xiao Man was speechless. She couldn’t care less what happened to Jun Ran, whether she lived or died. She just reminded herself to stay as far away from that woman as possible. Jun Ran wasn’t just scheming, insidious, and vicious; she was also an expert at causing trouble. Just now, Huang Wei had yelled at her, "If anything happens to my Ranran, could you live with yourself?" The implication was obvious.
Heh. ’Trying to make me feel guilty? In your dreams.’
Xiao Man and Jun Rui were talking in a corner of the lobby for a while when she suddenly saw Sun Yiming coming from the direction of the emergency room. Just as he was about to go upstairs, he spotted Xiao Man and changed course, walking over to her with a slight smile. "Your friend, Miss Yang, is in the emergency room. Her husband is injured."
Xiao Man froze. ’Brother Lu just recovered from his leg injury, and now he’s hurt again? What happened?’
"What’s the situation? Is it serious?"
"A brawl. We just finished treating him. He looked pretty miserable, covered in blood, but it’s not too serious. No broken bones, so he doesn’t need to be admitted. I had them put him in a temporary bed to rest for a bit. Do you want to go see them?"
"Yes, I should go see them."
"Want me to go with you?"
"No, it’s fine. You’re too busy. Go on."
"Alright then. Take the external staircase of Building Two up. It’s the first room on the third floor."
"Okay, thanks."
Jun Rui’s lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but Xiao Man had already waved goodbye and turned to leave gracefully.
Sun Yiming and Jun Rui gave each other a polite nod before going their separate ways.
Xiao Man ran to the door of the hospital room and heard Lu Jian Country’s voice from inside. He was comforting Yang Liu’er. "There, there, Liu’er, be good. Don’t cry anymore. It really doesn’t hurt! You’ve cried so much your eyes are swollen and your voice is hoarse. It breaks my heart!"
Yang Liu’er’s voice was indeed hoarse. She sobbed, "I’m begging you, okay? From now on, you are absolutely forbidden from going near him! That bastard beat you up like this... I told you before, be careful and don’t provoke him! His family practices Ancient Martial Arts! Do you know what Ancient Martial Arts are? It’s super, super powerful! You can’t beat him! Look at you, you’re such a big guy, and you couldn’t even get close. He knocked you down with one punch and then kicked you off a dry bridge! There isn’t a single spot on your body that isn’t hurt... You scared me to death, you know that? If you had really died, I couldn’t have gone on living! How would I ever explain it to Dad and Jianling? And Weiwei is still so little! What would he do without his parents?"
"It was my fault this time. I’ll listen to you from now on. Whenever I run into Young Master Bai, I just won’t argue with him."
"You can’t run into him! If you see him, you have to steer clear!"
"Alright! Steer clear! We’ll definitely steer clear of him!"
Standing outside the door, Xiao Man covered her mouth to hide a giggle. ’That oddball Yang Liu’er... is she trying to train Lu Jian Country to be a total pushover?’