Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse-Chapter 472 - 467: Troublesome Matters When Returning Home 02

Chapter 472: Chapter 467: Troublesome Matters When Returning Home 02

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Fan Fengshou cradled his daughter in the middle of the night seeking medical treatment, and it wasn’t until eight or nine in the morning after continuous IV drips that his daughter’s fever finally began to subside. Behind him, both his elderly mother and his wife were equally on edge, following and lending a hand. Seeing Fan Baozhen’s condition improve, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Gurgle~~"

From eight in the evening to eight the next morning, the family was in chaos for over ten hours, missing both dinner and breakfast. The child’s fever was relentless, and if not for the resistance provided by the IV fluids and fever-reducing medication, the family would have considered transferring to the county town hospital.

Now, everyone was famished. Li Xiaochun, being older, and his wife, appeared to be drained of energy, Fan Fengshou saw his daughter sleeping soundly, so he decided to go get some food and bring back rice and some plain porridge.

His beloved daughter hadn’t eaten anything all night, although she had received plenty of medication and IV fluids. She was bound to be hungry upon waking, and now that she was ill, plain porridge was all she could have.

Li Xiaoxia saw her husband leave the bedside and sat down herself. As for where he had gone, she didn’t even bother to ask.

At this moment, seeing her daughter so ill, she felt deeply guilty and blamed herself, questioning incessantly within her heart. Lately, because her husband had difficulties and coupled with her mother-in-law’s antics, she was preoccupied with nursing her grievances, neglecting her daughter’s physical and emotional health!

Such a person, she thought, was far from a good mother!

With this thought, Li Xiaoxia’s tears began to fall. From now on, no one could be more important than Baozhen!

Li Xiaochun, upon hearing that her granddaughter’s condition had improved and that she was out of danger, collapsed onto another hospital bed, unable to resist the exhaustion that besieged her after a night without rest.

Her younger son was still around when she had already begun to fall into a half-sleep state, and then gradually, her snoring grew louder, indicating she was falling into a deeper sleep.

Fan Jiefang returned from his father-in-law’s home and when he heard from neighbors that his mother had arrived, he wasn’t concerned.

These days, the widowed mother visited daily, and he had grown accustomed to it.

Thinking that with his wife having gone to her parental home and his mother-in-law locked out, she would surely return to his younger brother’s place, he worried even less.

All night long, troubled by Xie Jinghong’s wary gazes and her resentful words, along with her resolute persistence, Fan Jiefang tossed and turned with sleep eluding him.

How could he regain his wife’s heart?

Even his three sons, during meals, were unwilling to come close to him. Xiao Xian, in particular, had changed from previously clinging to him and now dodged away at sight. He had tried several times and his heart truly ached.

Clearly, the three sons were no longer little and had begun to understand the implications of adult conversations.

Da Hong showed wariness when he approached his younger brother.

Although Er Qiang didn’t look at him, he moved closer to his mother with his younger brother.

The mother and her four children all showed him no goodwill. Their behavior at home previously had certainly not been so apparent!

This was because Xie Jinghong knew that with her parents back, she had support behind her!

If not for the knowledge that a woman taking three children on a train journey was too risky, Xie Jinghong might have already taken the kids to seek refuge with her parents.

Absent his wife and children, Fan Jiefang started to reflect on how cruel his continued silence had been to the four of them.

Even if his heart was unwilling, he had truly never spoken out against it, and in the eyes of Xie Jinghong and her children, that was tacit approval!

Fan Fengshou had no idea of his elder brother’s predicament. At this moment, he saw Qiu Yan Yan suddenly appear in his line of sight, especially when he noticed the name of the clinic behind her, his brow immediately furrowed deeply into a character for "chuan."

Could it be this unlucky? To be hit by misfortune so suddenly?

Fan Fengshou abruptly remembered the last time he slept with Qiu Yan Yan. Startled by the shouting outside, he finished inside her in an instant, not managing to withdraw!

He had yet to consider the significance of Qiu Yan Yan’s pregnancy to him; the first thoughts that came to his mind were his daughter in the hospital and his wife’s family background!

Seeing the cautious way Qiu Yan Yan left, Fan Fengshou’s mood didn’t improve. He just felt that a family crisis was truly imminent!

At the same time, he couldn’t help but wonder if Qiu Yan Yan was playing him. Maybe the child wasn’t even his?!

After all, if Qiu Yan Yan was really pregnant, it had been two months already, why had she not come to him?!

Thinking this, Fan Fengshou felt somewhat relieved.

It wasn’t that he was overthinking; it was that after Qiu Yan Yan, a recent widow, opened a small private restaurant and slowly started to save some money, her attitude towards Fan Fengshou gradually changed.

Fan Fengshou had a family, and she knew that from the start. After she managed to set up a small restaurant with Fan Fengshou’s help and had some money in hand, she didn’t want to continue living ambiguously with a man without a proper status for the rest of her life.

She became distant towards Fan Fengshou, and how could he not notice?

Moreover, Qiu Yan Yan had expressed her desire to get married. Fan Fengshou was even more open-handed, immediately indicating that if she truly wanted to get married, he would not seek her out anymore.

Men, although Qiu Yan Yan tasted good, to divorce his wife to marry a widow was simply impossible.

What mattered most was his wife’s family background. Did Qiu Yan Yan have it? All she had was a pancake stall!

Every man knew how to make this choice. It wasn’t fair to blame Fan Fengshou for being too realistic.

Besides, Fan Fengshou dared to speak this way because he thought Qiu Yan Yan was testing him. She should know in her heart that without the face Fan Fengshou gave her, who would be willing to patronize her small private restaurant again and again?

How did that reputation come about? Wasn’t it the face of his elder brother and brother-in-law!

But, obviously, he had never really considered a woman’s persistence towards marriage!

Especially Qiu Yan Yan, who wanted to remarry to extricate herself from the entanglements of her late husband’s family!

Fan Fengshou made it clear he was unwilling to marry her, and seeing that she had money and skills, in addition to Qiu Yan Yan’s looks, he felt truly quite proud.

However, Fan Fengshou really did not expect that the woman he was proud of in his heart, did not truly see the ’reality’ and was having other thoughts.

Compared to Li Xiaoxia, setting family conditions aside, Qiu Yan Yan was more beautiful by no small margin in looks!

So, after a period of observation and inquiries, Qiu Yan Yan really did set her sights on a new prospect.

She originally thought that after the last time with Fan Fengshou, the two could part on good terms... Who would have thought she’d be caught in bed by her late husband’s younger brother, dragging both their reputations through the mud. It was as if they were taking her life!

This situation really caught Qiu Yan Yan off guard!

What made her even more unprepared was that Fan Fengshou was injured in his pride, angry at her, and unwilling to pay her any attention anymore! Her brother-in-law even lost his job because of what Fan Fengshou did. Her husband’s family was initially unwilling to deal with her and her child; now they targeted them every day!

It turned her life into a mess.

Even her sister blamed her for not handling things well, causing her brother-in-law to lose his good job. The whole family treated her as if she were an enemy!

Without the care of her brother-in-law Wu Jinming and without the referrals and support of Fan Fengshou, her private restaurant had no customers at all!

Even if there were one or two regular customers who came to order food, the way they looked at her was blatantly opportunistic and made her dare not venture out often.

Now she realized, without Fan Fengshou, her little restaurant was nothing!