Free Web Novel“Two Older sisters, wait a moment, please wait!”
As Lu Yibei and Jiang Hao had just walked out of Inpatient Building No. 4, a clear, crisp call came from behind them.
Following the sound, an old man with silver hair walked over, pushing a wheelchair. In the wheelchair sat a sallow-faced Little Girl with one right leg missing.
The arrivals were the two patients from 202 Ward.
First, they kicked me out, and now they're chasing me. What kind of scumbag PUA tactic is this? Lu Yibei muttered to herself, looking at the old man and Little Girl who had come before her, “Grandpa He, Tingting, what are you doing?”
“Hmph!” The Old man turned his face away and snorted coldly, glaring sideways at Lu Yibei. He touched the Little Girl’s head and said, “Don’t misunderstand, this Old man doesn’t want to see you again. It’s just this Tingting, while her dad went to wash dishes, she insisted on dragging me here. I couldn’t refuse her.”
Although the Old man didn’t give Lu Yibei a good look, she still respectfully bowed to him, both as a greeting and an apology.
She could somewhat understand the Old man’s feelings—it was the indignation of discovering that a beloved junior was entangled with a law-breaking scoundrel, feeling a sense of disappointment.
But what could she do? She couldn’t tell the Old man that she was entangled with Tan Qiuming to investigate the terrifying urban legend hidden behind him, could she?
After greeting the Old man, Lu Yibei squatted down, bringing her eyes level with the Little Girl’s. She stroked her head and asked softly, “Tingting, did you come out to chase us because you have something to tell us?”
“I...” A blush spread across the Little Girl’s sallow face. After stammering for a moment, she whispered, “I came to apologize for my daddy.”
“Sister, my daddy actually didn’t mean any harm. He just... just when he heard that big bad guy’s name, he... oh, I don’t know how to say it either.”
The Little Girl could feel that her father’s anger was entirely directed at Tan Qiuming, not at the two Older sisters in front of her, but she didn’t know how to describe it appropriately, and the words got stuck in her throat.
“Couldn’t control his emotions?” Lu Yibei asked tentatively.
“Mm-hmm, that’s exactly what Tingting wanted to say!” The Little Girl’s eyes lit up, and she nodded. “Oh, Sister, close your eyes. Tingting has something she wants to give you.”
Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment, then slowly closed her eyes.
After she closed her eyes, the Little Girl looked at Jiang Hao, “Sister, you close your eyes too!”
Jiang Li looked at Lu Yibei, then at the Little Girl, and also closed her eyes.
Once both had closed their eyes, the Little Girl turned around, tugged at the Old man’s clothes, and pleaded with him.
The Old man lowered his head, met the Little Girl’s clear eyes, and shook his head helplessly. Then, from the pocket of his patient gown, he pulled out two small red flowers and handed them to the Little Girl.
“Okay, Older sisters, you can open your eyes now!”
Hearing the Little Girl’s words, Lu Yibei and Jiang Li opened their eyes simultaneously. The next moment, they saw the Little Girl holding out two bright red paper flowers to them.
“Ta-da! Little red flowers! These are what Daddy gives Tingting every time she gets an injection. Now Tingting is giving them to you!
“Older sister... Thank you for coming to see us and chatting with us. Tingting is very happy today!”
Having said so much at once, the Little Girl seemed a bit tired, her chest rising and falling with heavy breaths.
Watching her sallow little face gradually turn pale, Jiang Hao said, “Thank you,” then turned her face away with a somber expression.
Although she still had many doubts and wanted the Little Girl to help answer them, she couldn't bear to ask any more.
Lu Yibei caught Jiang Li’s change in expression from the corner of her eye and sighed silently. As she reached out to take the small red flower from the Little Girl’s hand, she asked, “Since Tingting is so happy, can you give Older sister one more reward?”
Since Jiang Li didn’t want to be the bad guy, she would be it.
Anyway, she was the Disaster Witch, deceitful, swindling, bullying the old and abusing the young, committing all kinds of evil—a true villain!
“Okay, Older sister, what do you want? If, if Tingting has it...”
“Yes, yes!” Lu Yibei nodded and said, “Older sister wants to know what that big bad guy does. Can you tell Older sister?”
Upon hearing this, a hint of fear appeared in the Little Girl’s eyes, and her small eyebrows furrowed.
“Hmph, what else could he do?!” Before the Little Girl could speak, she heard the Old man behind her, his voice filled with disgust and impatience, saying,
“He just swindles and murders for money.”
As he spoke, his hands, covered in needle marks, gripped the armrests of the wheelchair tightly. His silver hair trembled slightly with his heaving chest, looking utterly enraged.
“If it weren’t for Tingting’s dad finding out early, everyone in our room would probably have been harmed by that bastard.”
Mid-sentence, the Old man paused, sizing up Lu Yibei for a moment. Perhaps it was out of consideration for Lu Yibei’s “Grandpa” and their wartime friendship, or perhaps Lu Yibei had indeed made him very happy just now, he sighed silently, and when he spoke again, his tone had softened considerably.
“Girl, if you have any conscience left,”
“Listen to this Old man’s advice: don’t get entangled with that guy surnamed Tan anymore. That bastard is no good!”
“Old man, have you had contact with Tan Qiuming?” Jiang Hao, who had been observing for a long time, interjected, “If it’s convenient, could you tell us the specifics? The more detailed, the better!” freeweɓnovel.cѳm
Upon hearing this, the Old man’s face suddenly darkened. He turned to look at Jiang Li, about to get angry, then seemed to recall something, and a look of hesitation appeared on his wrinkled face.
He had traveled extensively throughout his life, met all sorts of people, and could be considered worldly.
Earlier in the ward, as soon as he heard Tan Qiuming’s name, he, like others, just wanted to kick Lu Yibei out. But now, having calmed down a bit and seeing Lu Yibei and Jiang Hao’s behavior, he carefully considered it and noticed a different flavor.
Something’s not right! Logically, if these two Little Girls were with the guy named Tan, they shouldn’t be unaware of what he did.
Their tone, however, was somewhat like they were interrogating.
Given that, if they hadn’t heard rumors and thought the guy named Tan really had the ability to cure cancer, then they might have been sent by relevant departments to investigate?
With this thought, the Old man collected his thoughts, hesitated slightly, and said seriously, “It’s fine to tell you, but the matter is a bit complicated. I’ll send Tingting back first, and then I’ll come out to tell you in detail.”
With that suspicion in his mind, he felt that telling the two Misses about Tan Qiuming’s messy affairs wouldn’t hurt.
Whether it was helping the relevant departments eradicate evil or reminding them how dangerous Tan Qiuming was to prevent them from being deceived, it was all good.
Seeing the Old man pushing the Little Girl away, Lu Yibei quickly got up and stepped forward, “Grandpa He, let me? I’ll send Tingting back. You can rest here for a bit and tell my colleague about Tan Qiuming.”
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The Old man gently bumped away Lu Yibei’s outstretched hands with his shoulder, saying ungraciously, “What? Do you want to be kicked out by them again?”
“Uh, hey...” Lu Yibei let out two dry laughs expressionlessly, reluctantly withdrew her hand, and stepped aside, watching as the Old man pushed the Little Girl towards Inpatient Building No. 4.
“Goodbye, Older sister, we’re leaving!”
“Hmm, goodbye.”
The Old man and the Little Girl walked on, stopping just as they reached the entrance of the inpatient building. Immediately after, the Little Girl leaned out of the wheelchair and waved to the two from afar, “Older sister, if you’re free next time, remember to come play with Tingting again!”
From afar, looking at the Little Girl’s smiling face, half illuminated by the sun and half hidden in the corridor’s shadow, Lu Yibei suddenly felt her heart leap. The emotions that had been dormant since entering the hospital seemed to be reawakened, causing a ripple.
“Mm, definitely coming,” she murmured.
“She seems to like you very much?” Jiang Hao looked at Lu Yibei’s profile, tilting her head.
Lu Yibei turned to look at Jiang Li and shrugged, “Who wouldn’t like someone as likable as me? Don’t you like me?”
“I like you, but it’s different.” Jiang Hao opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but instinctively felt that at this moment, it was best not to respond and let Lu Yibei get carried away.
After waiting a few seconds and seeing that Jiang Li completely ignored her trash talk, Lu Yibei pouted and began to talk to herself, “That Little Girl was admitted to the hospital at the age of three due to osteosarcoma. Growing up, besides the patients who came and went from the ward, she never had a friend.”
“So, it’s rare for someone from outside the hospital to visit her and chat with her, that’s why she’s so happy, right?” Jiang Li nodded.
“That Grandpa He fought many battles when he was young, and he’s stubborn. After he fell ill, he secretly hid it from his children; he also told his wife that if he won this last battle in his life, he would tell the children.”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Hao, who had originally intended to mention the hairpin, suddenly realized that Lu Yibei was telling her the information she had just gathered in 202 Ward. She temporarily chose to remain silent, watching Lu Yibei’s profile and listening quietly.
“That Miss with the shaved head has a fiancé who loves her very much, but she hasn’t seen her fiancé in half a year. She said she didn’t want him to see her looking so ugly, so that if she unfortunately passed away, she could at least leave her loved one with her most beautiful side.”
“And that young man, his family is actually quite poor. He always believed that studying could change his fate, but he never expected...”
“Unexpectedly, illness changes fate more easily than studying.”
Lu Yibei added a sentence in her mind, paused slightly, and looked at Jiang Hao; “Do you know? They actually wouldn’t have suffered these things.”
“Hmm?” Jiang Hao was stunned for a moment, her face showing confusion.
“They all became like this after encountering Tan Qiuming.”
Jiang Li became even more confused, “How do you know? They told you?”
“I guessed!” Lu Yibei explained, “While chatting with them, I casually asked about their experiences before they discovered they were ill. As a result, two of them immediately fell silent, and the other two...”
“That young man said his mother also had a tumor before. During the time she was ill, his mother was very uncooperative with hospital treatment and always liked to find some folk remedies outside, most...”
“Gone?” Jiang Li asked.
She got a tumor, not only didn’t cooperate with treatment, but also believed in folk remedies.
It’s like playing mahjong when the other three people are already standing straight, but you’re still trying to make a big hand to turn the tables. In the end, you’ll most likely lose everything.
“No, it’s not,” Lu Yibei shook her head and said, “After her mother recovered, he got sick again, making their already difficult family even worse. His mother saw that the situation was bad and left him and his father.”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Li seemed to understand Lu Yibei’s meaning and frowned, “You think his mother recovered because she accidentally met Tan Qiuming while looking for folk remedies?”
Lu Yibei shrugged noncommittally, “The other one was that Miss. At first, she was just recalling the past while feeding me dog food, until she mentioned that half a year ago, she attended an offline painting exchange meeting. Her expression immediately changed, and she stopped talking. I...”
Jiang Li’s eyes lit up, and she spoke Lu Yibei’s thoughts aloud, “She met Tan Qiuming at the exchange meeting?!”
If it was really as Lu Yibei guessed...
Did Tan Qiuming cause their tumors?
Did he do this just to sell his paintings? Or was he helping to recruit followers for the upcoming x god’s offspring? Jiang Li thought.
“As expected of you!” Lu Yibei praised, then reached out and said, “This is all my gains from 202 Ward, as I said earlier. After that, they realized I was trying to get information out of them, and then as soon as I confessed, I was kicked out.”
“As for whether my guess is correct, we should be able to confirm it after hearing what that Old man has to say later.”
After speaking, she waited a few seconds. Seeing that Jiang Li didn’t seem to have any comments, she changed the subject and asked, “Didn’t you say you had something /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ important to tell me earlier? Are you going to tell me now?”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Hao’s thin lips parted slightly. The words reached her mouth, then she hesitated again. Finally, she simply pulled out a peacock hairpin from the close-fitting pocket of her top, opened her hand, and held it out to Lu Yibei.
Looking at the hairpin, which seemed to have been dug out of a trash heap, Lu Yibei asked in confusion, “What is this? A love token?”
Before she finished speaking, she noticed Jiang Hao’s expression becoming increasingly wrong, with a look of “I’m very disappointed in you” in her eyes, and immediately shut her mouth tactfully.
Once Lu Yibei quieted down, Jiang Hao sighed silently and said calmly, “This was the first birthday gift I gave my mother when I was little.”
Lu Yibei, “!!!”
Goodness! She even brought out something like this. Is she proposing to me?
As she thought this, after hearing Jiang Li’s next words, she immediately felt an urge to slap herself.
Annoying thing!
“Earlier, I found someone with the same name, surname, and age as my mother on Tan Qiuming’s buyer list. I suddenly left the ward just now, not because I felt uncomfortable, but because I saw a figure very similar to my mother’s back.”
“I chased that figure all the way to the rooftop, and that’s where I found this hairpin.”
“Lu Yibei, what should I do now?”
