Siheyuan: Since 1962

Chapter 174 Grievance
"Okay, go upstairs and pack up, and go to the hospital to see Xiao'e. I still have to go to the police station, so I won't go with you."

Lou Ruizhong patted Xu Damao on the shoulder and said, "I heard that you have been performing well in the factory recently. Do you think your boss wants to promote you?"

"Just do what you need to do, and sometimes show movies to your boss."

If it were any other day, Xu Damao would definitely brag about it, but now he really wasn't in the mood to say that.

"It's good to be conscientious in your duties. Keep up the good work. I will talk to your leader and try to get you promoted."

Lou Ruizhong gave a rare smile and said a few words of encouragement. After Xu Damao went upstairs, he turned around and left.

……

On the other side, Lou Xiao'e slowly woke up in the hospital.

When I opened my eyes and saw the unfamiliar ceiling, I was a little confused for a moment.

Lou's mother sensed the movement and immediately asked with concern: "Xiao'e, you are awake, are you hungry?"

"Where is this, I..."

Feeling the pain from the back of her head, Lou Xiao'e finally remembered what happened. She forced a smile and held her mother's hand and said, "I'm fine, Mom. I'm not hungry, but it still hurts a little."

"Mom will call the doctor now. Xiao'e, close your eyes and rest for a while. The person who beat you has been caught. Don't worry about it."

Lou's mother said a few words of comfort, then hurriedly got up to call the doctor. In her haste, she knocked over the fruits on the bedside table, not looking as gentle and quiet as usual.

She loved her little daughter the most and couldn't bear to see her suffer any injustice.

This time my daughter encountered such a thing and it was her head that was injured. She was a little confused.

Lou Xiao'e wanted to comfort her mother and say that she was fine, but before she could say anything, her mother had already left the ward.

I struggled to sit up, and the pain in the back of my head came back, accompanied by a slight dizziness.

Looking around, she didn't see Xu Damao. She sniffed and tears of grievance flowed down her face.

Even though she was in this state, Xu Damao didn't even come to see her.

She just took care of the deaf old lady and didn't do anything to let Xu Damao down, so couldn't he come and comfort her?

After crying, I felt the wound hurt even more. I didn’t dare to cry out loud and could only hold back my tears.

At this moment, the grievance in my heart reached its peak. Although my crying was not loud, I couldn't stop the tears.

Mother Lou acted quickly and came back with the doctor in a short while.

Seeing Lou Xiao'e crying on the bed, she ran to the bedside distressed, hugged her daughter and coaxed her softly, "Don't cry, don't cry, the doctor is here, the doctor is here."

"Mom, it hurts so much..."

Lou Xiao'e threw herself into her mother's arms and burst into tears. All her grievances turned into tears at this moment.

This scared Lou's mother so much that she thought the doctor had missed some injury during the examination.

Amidst Lou's mother's comfort and Lou Xiao'e's sobbing, the doctor completed the questioning and physical examination with difficulty.

Seeing Lou Xiao'e gasping for breath while crying just now, the doctor had a moment of self-doubt when examining her and asked a few more questions cautiously.

Finally, with a helpless expression, he gave a result that everything was normal and that he needed to continue hospitalization for observation.

"Mom knows you feel wronged. Your dad has already taught Xu Damao a lesson. It's important to take care of yourself and don't strain your wound." Mother Lou patted Lou Xiao'e on the back, comforting her softly, her eyes full of heartache.

After crying for a long time, Lou Xiao'e finally stopped crying.

Coming out of his mother's arms, he leaned on the hospital bed, and said with red eyes, "Mom, I just took care of the old lady. Why did Xu Damao get angry with me?"

Mother Lou was originally still distressed, but after hearing what she said, she couldn't help but sigh, holding her daughter's hand, and said angrily: "Why don't you listen to my advice? Are you going to live your life for an old lady?"

"Mom, why do you say that to me?"

Lou Xiao'e pursed her lips and looked at her mother aggrievedly.

"Silly child, this old lady in your courtyard is not a good person. The relationship between Damao's family and her was not good before you married her. Your family didn't care about taking care of her. How could Damao have no objection?"

Mother Lou looked at her silly daughter helplessly, thought for a moment and continued, "Think about it, if Damao always helps someone you hate and even neglects his family for that person, would you feel comfortable?"

"I……"

Lou Xiao'e suddenly thought of Liu Haizhong, and imagined Xu Damao drinking and not coming home every day, and she immediately understood Xu Damao's feelings.

At this moment, she realized belatedly how excessive she had been.

Seeing that her daughter had figured it out, Lou's mother said, "Silly child, no one would be nice to you for no reason except your parents. This old lady is not a good person. She made Master He abandon his two children to defend the city. Yi Zhonghai alone cannot do it."

When things got to this point, she realized that her daughter couldn't figure out the deaf old lady's character on her own, and there were some things she should know.

"How could it be...Yi Zhonghai clearly said it was all him..."

Lou Xiao'e covered her mouth in shock, and at this moment, everything that happened in the yard flashed through her mind one by one.

He Daqing's attitude, Yi Zhonghai's compromise, and the deaf old lady's anger, all of a sudden everything was connected together.

She is not stupid, she just never thought about it in this way before.

Now that my mother reminded me, I suddenly understood everything.

But she couldn't figure out what the deaf old lady was plotting against her. After thinking for a while, she asked with some doubt:

"The old lady is nice to me in order to break up Damao and me, but why does she do this? What good will it do her if Damao and I break up?"

Mother Lou shook her head slightly. She didn't know the deaf old lady or the people in the courtyard very well, so she couldn't figure out what the deaf old lady was doing.

"There must be some benefits, but we just can't see them. Xiao'e, you don't have to guess what she wants to do. As long as you draw a clear line between you and her in the future, no matter how many schemes she has, they won't be able to target you."

"Mom, I understand. I will never take care of her again. I will just close the door and live a good life with Damao."

"Just think it through. Damao will be here soon, so have a good talk with him. You've gotten into such a big trouble this time, even if Damao is still angry, he should calm down. Live a good life with Damao in the future. Your parents are old and can't help you for the rest of your life."

Mother Lou patted her daughter's hand and spoke softly, with an expression of worry that could not be hidden between her brows.

The recent news is very bad. Many people have lost contact with their family, and several old friends have fled to the south.

Ruizhong has been on the move recently and his condition isn’t very good. Who knows when they will go south.

If Xiao'e continues to get along with Xu Damao like this, life will not be easy once they leave.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, she didn't want her daughter to take the risk of going south with them.

(End of this chapter)