Chapter 120 - 120 Is It Very Hard To Leave A Scum?
The Chief Minister's Ferocious Wife
120 Is It Very Hard To Leave A Scum?
âSheâs pretty much fine now. But she suffered very severe injuries, so she would need to rest and recover for quite a while. You canât return to Fu City right now.â Zhao Chuchu looked toward Kang Xiuwan.
âReally? Thatâs great, Chuchu. Thank you. If you werenât here, I would have had no idea what to do.â Kang Xiuwanâs eyes started turning red as she thanked Zhao Chuchu.
âNo need to be so polite. Just pay me.â Zhao Chuchu didnât warm up to Kang Xiuwan.
They had never come to search for the original owner before.
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They came to Yuanjiang County this time to search for Mrs. Xie, the miracle doctor. Xia Chenglan was only a secondary goal.
Kang Xiuwan felt like someone had just poured a pail of cold water on her head. She couldnât cry anymore.
Just then, Xie Heng came out of the kitchen with a bowl of glutinous rice balls. He placed the bowl on the stone table in the courtyard and waved at Zhao Chuchu to go over. âChuchu, come and eat. Itâs going to get cold.â
âOkay.â Zhao Chuchu walked over. She ate an entire glutinous rice ball with each bite.
âSlowly, thereâs still a lot left in the kitchen.â Xie Heng sat beside Zhao Chuchu and watched her. He didnât even realize how gentle his eyes looked.
âI used to feel that glutinous rice balls made me sick if I ate too many of them. But the ones you cook donât feel greasy at all. Theyâre delicious. It would be great if we had sweet glutinous rice wine. Sweet rice wine glutinous rice balls are delicious too!â
âLetâs try it next time.â
Kang Xiuwan looked at them interact as though no one else was present. Her eyes were filled with surprise.
She heard that Xie Heng was a scholar, yet he cooked for Zhao Chuchu.
That was a rare sight!
After Zhao Chuchu finished the bowl of rice balls, she passed the bowl to Xie Heng naturally. Xie Heng took it, stood up, and went to the kitchen to scoop another bowl for Zhao Chuchu.
âWhere are Junjun and the others?â
âTheyâre still at the hotel. I followed you and came over.â
âAlright, then, letâs return in a while.
âOkay.â
Xie Hengâs gaze was fixated on Zhao Chuchu the entire time.
This was the first time that Kang Xiuwan saw such tenderness and care in a manâs eyes.
Not to mention how handsome this man was.
Zhao Chuchu realized that Kang Xiuwan had been staring at Xie Heng the entire time.
She felt a little uncomfortable, so she looked at her and asked, âDo you want some?â
Kang Xiuwan regained her senses. She felt a little nervous, as though she had just been caught doing something wrong. She said frantically, with her face a little red, âNo need, Iâm not hungry.â
âOkay.â Zhao Chuchu continued eating. She had no intention of introducing Xie Heng to Kang Xiuwan at all.
She had never interacted with the original owner before, so she was no different from a complete stranger.
She looked like she had been living a rather luxurious life. The original owner suffered alone for so many years, yet none of her relatives had come to search for her before.
Now that the soul in Zhao Chuchuâs body had been swapped, Zhao Chuchu felt no emotions toward them at all.
As for Xie Heng?
Xie Heng ignored her from the very beginning.
Kang Xiuwan stood around for a while. After feeling Zhao Chuchuâs cold attitude, she took off the only two gold accessories left on her and presented them to Zhao Chuchu. She said, âChuchu, we lost all our belongings in the chaos. These are the only ones left. Please accept them. After I return home, I will send over the consultation fee.â
Zhao Chuchu took the gold accessories and said, âThis is enough.â
Kang Xiuwan wanted to say something, but Zhao Chuchu was clearly not interested in talking to her.
âIâll go look after my mother.â
âGo ahead. Iâll write down the prescription for you later. Come to my place tomorrow or the day after.â
âOkay!â
Kang Xiuwan thought that Zhao Chuchu was inviting her over for a gathering, which made her very glad.
The next moment, Kang Xiuwan realized that she was overthinking it.
âI only brought enough external wound ointment for one day. Iâll make more in the next two days. So come over and get them.â
It was just to get the medicine!
Zhao Chuchu had no intention of establishing a connection with them. In fact, she wanted to treat them as complete strangers.
âChuchu, Iâm not sure what happened in the past, but we were a family, and we will take care of you in the future,â Kang Xiuwan said. âI heard that there were no more elders in your family. How about you come back to Fu City with us? Your husband wants to study, right?â
âYuanjiang County is great. I can study here,â Xie Heng said impassively. âI appreciate the goodwill, but Chuchu is quite timid, so Fu City probably isnât suitable for her. However, we can discuss it again when sheâs older.â
Timid?
Kang Xiuwan nearly couldnât hold herself back from rebutting Xie Heng.
She made the mammy afraid of even seeing her.
But she couldnât say something like that.
Xie Heng was her cousinâs husband, after all.
Since both Zhao Chuchu and Xie Heng looked like they didnât want to get close to them, Kang Xiuwan didnât continue to bother them.
She entered the room.
Doctor Lu walked out.
âChuchu, is she fine now?â Doctor Lu asked.
âIf I decide to treat the patient, that means I can save her.â
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If anyone else had said something like that, Doctor Lu would have thought that it was nonsense.
But he believed Zhao Chuchu.
âDoctor Lu, do you know them?â
âArenât they your relatives?â
âTo be honest, this is my first time seeing them.â
Doctor Lu was somewhat surprised.
âTheyâve never come to look for you?â
âNo.â
Doctor Lu understood the situation.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
âDonât worry. I will take care of them.â
He will charge whatever fees are necessary.
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âOkay. Sheâs pretty much fine now, but sheâll need to rest for quite a while. So itâs best to let them stay at a hotel.â
âI know what to do.â
Zhao Chuchu pondered for a while, then said, âSince there are bandits outside the county, we should report it to the governing bureau!â
Doctor Lu understood what she was trying to say.
âBring the mammy straight to the court,â Xie Heng said. âSheâs completely unharmed. Itâs not impossible that she was an accomplice. It could become very troublesome for us if they decide to be soft-hearted with her.â
âShould we ask them first?â
âNo need. After all, theyâre my aunt and cousinâ¦I think itâs normal for me to want to seek justice for them.â
âBut the mammyâs jawâ¦â
âDonât worry. She can still speak.â
It was just dislocated. She could fix it back quite easily.
However, Zhao Chuchu didnât expect that Kang Xiuwan wasnât soft-hearted. She simply refused to report this to the governing bureau.
âIf other people knew about this, it would damage the reputation of both my mother and me. Cousin, you might not know this, but our lives in the Kang clan arenât comfortable. Mother took someone elseâs place. Now, someone wants her to move away from that place,â Kang Xiuwan said softly.
âIf Mother dies, that person can replace her. If Mother is alive and the encounter with the bandits gets leaked, she will be divorced because her reputation will be tarnished. So regardless of what we do, this is a dead end. Iâm sorry, cousin. I would rather my mother remain alive, even if itâs a little more miserable.â
Zhao Chuchu was speechless.
âBased on how youâre putting it, your dad knows about this, right?â
âHeâ¦might not know about it.â
Kang Xiuwan wasnât too sure herself.
She was her motherâs only child, but they wanted a son. Now, someone else gave birth to a son for him, so they want Mother to move from her position.
Her father was probablyâ¦thinking the same thing.
For a moment, Zhao Chuchu didnât know how to comment on this situation.
âSo youâre just going to let it happen and pretend like nothing is going on?â
âYes, weâve already experienced the worst possible outcome. Compared to that, the situation right now is good,â Kang Xiuwan said. âI know you would say that Iâm a coward. However, I only have one mother. I canât just watch her die in front of me.â
Zhao Chuchu stared at her, then asked coldly, âWhen the mammy forced you to return home, you almost had to watch her die once. That was the worst possible outcome. Is it really that difficult to leave those people?â