Reborn as a Tough Army Wife-Chapter 746 - 741: Settling Accounts with Xu He (Fourth Update)

(Today, Si Ye updated four Chapters, isn’t that powerful?)

Fang Pingying knew that the old lady wasn’t a bad person, she just cared deeply about her children, so she didn’t take it to heart and smiled while waving her hand, "It’s okay, it’s our own child, naturally no one wants anything to happen to them, it’s just that I didn’t explain myself clearly."

Seeing Fang Pingying speak like this, the old lady immediately nodded with a smile, "Mhm, that’s right."

Before, Fang Pingying wasn’t sure if there was something wrong with the child, so she hesitated to send her directly to the hospital. But having spent a few days with the child, Fang Pingying was now sure that something was indeed wrong with the child, and she felt it would be best if the old lady asked Shuanzi to take the child to the hospital as soon as possible.

If it could be treated, the earlier the better, for the child’s sake.

Due to Fang Pingying’s reminders, and also because Fang Pingying had privately spoken to Hui Zi’s wife about the child possibly being off, the day Shuanzi came back from outside, the old lady talked about going to the hospital for vaccination.

Then, Hui Zi’s wife also privately told Shuanzi about the child possibly being off, though she didn’t definitively state it, just said she was guessing, and felt it was safer to have the child checked out at the hospital.

No matter what Shuanzi’s attitude towards Xu He was, he still valued his son.

Firstly, Shuanzi was not young anymore, he would be thirty in a couple of years, and at this time, men who didn’t yet have sons at thirty were very rare.

Secondly, for someone of Shuanzi’s status, this child might be his only child in this lifetime, which made him treat him as precious.

Moreover, as his mother said, they had spent a lot of money on this child, for that money alone he had to treat his child well.

Therefore, after hearing what Hui Zi’s wife said, Shuanzi too seemed to have noticed something off about his son and even began to panic, so much so that he didn’t sleep well that night.

The very next morning, worried about his mother, he called Hui Zi’s wife to accompany him and the child to the hospital.

At the hospital, after Shuanzi explained the child’s situation to the doctor, the doctor had a specialized way of testing, and the result was: the child’s intelligence was lower than average, and because he was premature, his bones and such were not as well-developed as a full-term child’s.

However, things like bone development might still be treatable with subsequent treatment, but the intelligence issue was more difficult.

The doctor spoke a lot of professional jargon that Shuanzi couldn’t understand, making him quite agitated.

After the doctor rambled on, Shuanzi asked the question he most wanted to know, "Doctor, can you determine why the child has turned out this way?"

The doctor, being experienced, said with conviction after observing the child’s bones, "From what I see, it might have been caused by the premature birth." 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

He hesitated, then asked quite doubtfully, "Also, when your child was born, was he given some random medications in some small hospital?"

Shuanzi was not very clear about the childbirth, but hearing the doctor say that, he remembered Xu He once telling him that the child wasn’t even a month old when he had urgently needed to save his own mother’s life, so he had harshly told Xu He to deliver the child on time.

He assumed that even if Xu He really had to deliver the child, she would go to a proper hospital, at most it would be a cesarean delivery; after all, the child was Xu He’s own, she wouldn’t dismiss the safety of her child for the sake of money.

But now, hearing the doctor say this, he was almost certain that Xu He had disregarded the child’s safety for the sake of money, probably forcefully inducing birth, and not even in a proper hospital.

Thinking of how heartless Xu He was, Shuanzi also forgot his own coercion. He felt nothing but hatred for Xu He, and almost bit his teeth while telling the doctor, "I’m not sure, probably yes."

The doctor, hearing this, appeared quite reproachful about Shuanzi’s irresponsibility and asked with a bit of blame, "You are the child’s father, how can you not know about this?"

Shuanzi felt a bit embarrassed and mumbled, "I wasn’t there during the childbirth, I really don’t know much about it."

After a while, Shuanzi continued asking the doctor, "I just want to ask, can this be cured?"

"It’s hard to say, especially the intelligence issue, because the child is too young, no one knows how he will develop later on," the doctor wouldn’t make any definite statement, but suggested, "However, my advice is that you better bring your spouse to the hospital as well, let me understand the full situation, maybe there is a good treatment plan."

"I..." Shuanzi went silent upon hearing that.

Hui Zi’s wife, knowing the origins of the child, whispered to Shuanzi after hearing the doctor’s words, "Shuanzi Bro, why not bring the child’s mother here and ask her for clarity?"

"I’ll try." At this point, for the sake of the child, that was the only way.

Originally, after taking custody of the child, Shuanzi and Xu He had agreed to stay out of each other’s way from then on.

But given the current situation, Shuanzi couldn’t possibly not look for Xu He.

Moreover, Shuanzi went looking for Xu He furiously, wishing he could kill her once he found her.

He knew the price he paid for the child was no small sum, nearly half his fortune, but Xu He had given him a problematic child in return. If he had known it would be like this, would he have given the money so readily?

Therefore, after returning from the hospital that day, Shuanzi instructed Hui Zi’s wife not to tell his mother about this to prevent her from worrying. He sent the child back, then immediately took people to look for Xu He.

He planned, no matter what, to find Xu He first and force her to spit out the money.

Shuanzi wasn’t foolish, since even the doctor had confirmed the child’s intellectual issue, even if it truly could be cured, he might not be able to perform at a normal level, Shuanzi was not about to sacrifice so much for a mentally handicapped son.

But what he hadn’t expected was that Xu He was quite cunning. By the time he got there, she had long vacated the premises.

He asked around and was told that not long after the child’s first month, the whole family had moved away, more than a month ago, and seemingly to evade someone, they left quietly, even skipping out on that month’s rent. Even the landlord was looking for them.

After knowing this, one of Shuanzi’s men immediately said angrily, "Boss, it looks like that wretched woman must have known there was something wrong with the young master and moved the entire family away to avoid us."

Shuanzi also considered this possibility and snorted fiercely, "The monk can run away, but the temple won’t run with him. I really want to see where Xu He can go, the worst is that she returned to the countryside, and it’s not like I haven’t been there before."