Chapter 685
The hotel security rushed over, intending to expel the old lady. Xiao Yun stopped the two guards’ harsh attitude and personally escorted the old lady home.
The log cabin near the hotel was easy to find. After Xiao Yun escorted the elderly woman home, he found another middle-aged woman in the wooden house. The woman confessed to Xiao Yun that she was hired by the elderly woman’s children as caregiver, specifically to take care of her.
The middle-aged woman’s surname was Wang, so Xiao Yun addressed her as Auntie Wang. “Auntie Wang, I am leaving granny in your care. The hotel has explicitly stated that she is not allowed in the hotel for three days. Please keep an eye on her.”
“Ah? Has she caused trouble?” Auntie Wang asked.
Xiao Yun updated her about the incident at the hotel.
Upon hearing this, Auntie Wang began to scold the hunched-backed elderly woman. She seemed quite short-tempered. Xiao Yun, standing nearby, suggested Auntie Wang to be more patient with the old woman, who hadn’t done anything wrong.
Auntie Wang said, “You don’t understand. Taking care of this old woman is completely exhausting. Inattentively, she likes to run into the hotel. The old woman suffers from dementia. What if she wanders into the heavy snow and loses her way back? You cannot comprehend how tiring it is to care for someone with dementia. If the pay wasn’t decent, I truly don’t want to do it.”
Xiao Yun noticed several medical newspaper clippings on the cabin’s wall. “What was granny’s occupation before she retired?”
“She was an obstetrician and gynecologist, an excellent one. Unfortunately, even she couldn’t prevent dementia in old age. She prays to Jesus every day, always saying she has done something wrong. Let me tell you, don’t believe a word she says. She’s not in her right mind.”
Xiao Yun smirked, without a word. He stood by the wall, reading the newspapers, most of which were medical weekly publications from T city.
Xiao Yun noticed a photo hanging on the wall. By comparing facial features, he identified a woman in her forties, wearing a white coat, in the photograph, presumably the hunched-back woman.
“Young man, do you want some tea?”
“No, thank you. You just take good care of her. Don’t let her wander around. It’s freezing outside. I must go now.”
“Alright, then. Safe travels, and thank you.”noveldrama
Xiao Yun returned to the hotel and heard the bodyguard mention that Master Qing was looking for him. He rushed over to find a completed snowman on the ground.
“Where have you been?” Ye Junqing stood before the snowman, his hands tucked into his down jacket pockets, admiring his handy work.
Xiao Yun said, “I dropped an elderly woman home. Heard a little secret about a baby swap.”
“Hmm?”
Xiao Yun lit a cigarette and said, melodramatically, “There lives an elderly woman nearby who was an obstetrician when she was young. She allegedly swapped a healthy male infant with a sick female infant. Consumed by guilt, she recalls only this incident in her dementia days, plagued by remorse over her illicit act.”
Ye Junqing, staring at the cigarette in Xiao Yun’s hand, said in a deep voice, “Put it out. Don’t let my son inhale secondhand smoke.”
Xiao Yun was taken aback. “Master Qing, when did you have a son?”
“I will soon. We’re trying,” he said, with a hint of smugness as if he already had a son.
Xiao Yun extinguished the cigarette in his hand, speechless: “…”
As Ye Junqing headed indoors, he continued talking, “It serves her right. Those who sin must pay the price. The two families affected by her action, at least one of them, had to endure immense pain. I wonder which child it was. You should look into it.”
“Is that really necessary?”
Ye Junqing, stepping inside, threw out another boastful statement: “I’m accumulating good deeds for my son in advance so that God can bless him with a safe life. You, a bachelor, wouldn’t understand the concern a father, like myself, has for his son.”