Chapter 230: Chapter 230: Outsourced Filial Piety

"What era are we in now? These harmful concoctions have long been banned, how can you still believe in these harmful things?" Xu Yan slammed his hand heavily on the table, with a stern face.

Startling Grandma Wang.

"Is... is it really that serious?" Grandma Wang cautiously glanced at Xu Yan, frightened of his gaze.

"Your daughter-in-law’s health has been ruined by your fake medicine. Do you know if she continues drinking it, she’ll never have her own children in this lifetime?" Xu Yan was so angry that he kept pounding the table when he saw Grandma Wang still didn’t realize her mistake.

"What? Doctor, you have to help cure my daughter-in-law’s body, she can’t have anything wrong! My precious golden grandson..." Grandma Wang was truly panicking now.

If Zhang Xiaomei were gone, what would happen to her golden grandson?

Zhang Xiaomei looked at Xu Yan seriously. "Doctor, do I still have hope? No matter the conditions, I must cure my body."

"Fortunately, you came early, another couple of days and even a god couldn’t save you." Xu Yan sighed heavily, his face was stern.

"Thank goodness, does that mean there is still hope?" Grandma Wang patted her chest, scared to death.

"Do you still think it’s good? Do you know what’s become of her previously healthy body? She’s now like a sieve, holes everywhere. Fixing it will be anything but easy." Xu Yan looked at Grandma Wang with a stern face. "Your kind of thinking causes harm to people."

"Just to have a son, treating someone else’s life as insignificant." Xu Yan scolded harshly while Zhang Xiaomei stared coldly at Grandma Wang.

"I know I was wrong, Xiao Mei, good daughter-in-law, I won’t force you anymore." Grandma Wang looked at Zhang Xiaomei, wanting to hold her hand.

Zhang Xiaomei’s face was gloomy, she withdrew her hand.

"I said I don’t want to drink it, I don’t want to drink it, yet you repeatedly used your son to pressure me. Now my body suffers from it, and you think a few words will make it all go away? I’m the one suffering, I’m the one feeling miserable, why should your sins be so easily wiped away?"

Zhang Xiaomei really was angry this time, Grandma Wang not only forced her to drink those strange things several times, she used Wang Wenqiang to pressure her, or used filial duty, and in the worst case, brought up the ancestors.

Compromising time and again, Zhang Xiaomei felt she was nothing to Grandma Wang, just a tool for childbirth.

"Which woman doesn’t have children? Without a son, how will she face the ancestors..." Grandma Wang looked at Zhang Xiaomei, muttering.

"Doctor, please prescribe some medicine to nourish her." Grandma Wang glanced at Xu Yan, urging him to write a prescription.

Xu Yan wasn’t polite and directly wrote down a whole sheet of medicine.

"How much will this medicine cost?" Grandma Wang looked at the paper full of herbs, nervously asking.

"Not much, not much, roughly ten bucks!" Xu Yan waved his hand. "There’s all good stuff in here to nourish the body, and since medicine is scarce now, you want to recuperate the body, right? Otherwise, if the foundation is damaged, how can she pass on the family line for you?"

Xu Yan’s words made Grandma Wang fret, of course she wanted her precious grandson, but ten bucks! That could buy so many things...

"Can’t some eggs do the job?" Grandma Wang was heartbroken for the money and couldn’t bear to part with it.

Zhang Xiaomei saw it clearly and felt even more disheartened.

"You’re willing to spend a hundred on your precious grandson, but when it comes to spending ten bucks on the mother of your precious grandson, you get all distressed. Old woman, your heart is a bit too biased now?" Xu Yan saw through Grandma Wang’s thoughts at once; she was unwilling to spend money on her daughter-in-law.

Too expensive?

Understood.

"It’s not the same..." Grandma Wang tried to argue, but Xu Yan wasn’t going to give her that chance.

"No worries, eventually when her health is bad, the precious grandson born will be congenitally deficient, and you’ll still have to spend the money." Xu Yan curled his lips coldly, she thought she could escape.

All of it will eventually come back to her.

"Xiao Mei! How are you?" Wang Wenqiang arrived at the hospital after receiving the message and rushed to Zhang Xiaomei’s side, asking nervously.

"Wenqiang, your mom is bullying me too much..." All the suppressed emotions of Zhang Xiaomei erupted immediately upon seeing Wang Wenqiang.

She hugged him with grievance, crying sorrowfully.

"What’s going on here?" Seeing Zhang Xiaomei crying like this, Wang Wenqiang looked nervously at Xu Yan.

"It’s nothing big, just that your mom spent a hundred on some secret formula for childbirth for your wife to drink, and now your wife’s health is ruined from drinking it. She asked me to prescribe some nourishing medicine, but felt spending ten bucks on it for your wife is too expensive, reluctantly wanting to settle for some eggs." Xu Yan said bluntly.

Fu Xiaoxiao’s lips curled slightly upon hearing Xu Yan’s words.

This Xu Yan certainly is good at delivering punches! Such a detailed complaint.

Sure enough, upon hearing what his mother did, Wang Wenqiang’s face instantly turned grim.

"Mom, I’ve already said you can’t trust those things, why are you still stubbornly persisting?" Wang Wenqiang’s question made Grandma Wang lower her head, accomplishing what Xu Yan couldn’t with just a word.

Grandma Wang was regretful too. "Son, mom just wishes for a child, you’re not young anymore..."

"Who would’ve thought this medicine turned out to be harmful, I... I just..." Grandma Wang looked pitiable at Wang Wenqiang, all she did was for her son.

"Xiao Mei, you’ve been wronged." Wang Wenqiang glared at his mother, then turned to comfort Zhang Xiaomei with a hug. "Don’t worry, I won’t let mom treat you like this again."

"Once there’s a first there’ll be a second, didn’t he see you struggling to drink it before? Did he say anything? You’ve been drinking this medicine for more than just a day or two..." Xu Yan tactfully drove the knife in, making Zhang Xiaomei remember Wang Wenqiang’s indifference over the time when she nearly forgave Grandma Wang.

Saying it was bad, yet when his mom forced her to drink the medicine, he never stopped her, watching as his mother pressured her to drink.

Fu Xiaoxiao silently cheered, Xu Yan’s stab was right on target, hitting home.

Double the effect.

Indeed! During her suffering, Wang Wenqiang merely made symbolic remarks but never took any action to stop his mother’s antics, Zhang Xiaomei was the one drinking the medicine, suffering the pain, and having her body hurt.

What did Wang Wenqiang do from start to finish!

He was being his dutiful son.

"Wenqiang, let’s make it clear today, if my body doesn’t recover, don’t expect to force me to have children this lifetime!" Zhang Xiaomei’s heart had been full of Wang Wenqiang, she thought he would be her lifelong reliance.

Now it seemed he truly was the dutiful son, after marriage he brought grandma in to live with them but wrapped filial duty around her, making grandma her responsibility.

Wang Wenqiang continued living his good life, not seeing anything happening at home.

He allowed grandma to do whatever she wanted, knowing everything she did.

"Xiao Mei, what are you saying! How can a wife be married and not have kids! Just take care of your body a bit, don’t be unreasonable." Grandma Wang was immediately unhappy upon hearing Zhang Xiaomei’s words.

With her son here, Grandma Wang was emboldened.

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