Number One Scholar's Spicy Wife

  "However, two days later, those medicines can be drunk normally. I have replaced all of them with radish, which is indistinguishable from the real thing in terms of appearance and taste, but it will benefit you by quickly flushing out the precious medicinal materials from your body."

  Xie Chengyu's eyes suddenly became moist, this daughter was actually able to do it so quietly, so to speak, as long as she cooperated with her daughter and pretended not to be well for a while, would she really be able to fully recover?

  What if she suddenly got better on her own? Wouldn't that woman know that her own affairs had been exposed?

  "Dad, don't worry, that old woman has someone to take care of her, she won't have time to bother us again. You just need to get better soon, and our family can finally be free from those heartless and ruthless grandparents."

  Xie Chengyu suddenly became gloomy, his own father, after he fell ill, almost forgot about him, and that woman plotted against him to this extent, yet he didn't have any feeling.

  He has been bedridden for two years, can't he ask a doctor to take another look at himself? He just doesn't have the heart to do so.

  My wife and I, in front of my stepmother, it's impossible to ask a doctor to come over again, that's unfilial. But Father can do it! However, Father doesn't have the heart to do so. If only Father had a little bit of concern for himself, why would he allow himself to be poisoned to such an extent by inviting several doctors to examine him?

  "Sorry, Wenjing, Father is no good, and you all have to suffer with him!" Xie Chengyu's hoarse and weak voice.

  "Dad, we are the real family. Don't think too much now. Let's work together and get better soon. I'll go make some rice porridge for you. Even if you can't eat it, drinking some rice soup is fine."

  Xie Wenjing's eyes were filled with heartache. Father! The suffering you endured, I must make that old woman experience the same thing.

  Xie Chengyu nodded in agreement, matching his daughter's filial piety.

  When Xie Wenjing's mother learned that her husband had woken up and was willing to drink rice porridge, she was overjoyed and cried. Indeed, it was still her daughter who had a way.

  After Xie Wenjing fed her father half a bowl of rice porridge, Xie Chengyu shook his head. He really wanted to eat more, but he felt bloated in his stomach. Over the past two years, he felt like his stomach had shrunk a lot.

  "Daughter, look! The rice porridge I fed him, Father ate half of it!" Xie Wenjing's mother came over with Liu Lingling, carrying medicine.

  "Is Wenjing alright, Chengyu? Are you feeling better?" Wenjing's mother walked over quietly and placed the medicine on the bedside cabinet.

  "Alright, you all go back to sleep, Wenjing is here!" Xie Chengyu waved his hand at his wife and Liu Lingling, telling them to go back to sleep.

  Xie Wenjing's mother was a bit embarrassed and wanted to stay to serve her husband medicine, but his face looked like he was driving them away.

  "Mother, Aunt Liu, you both work hard every night guarding Father's bedside. You must take care of your bodies too. If you also fall ill, who will take care of Father?"

  "These days, I've taken leave from work to come over and take care of Father during the day, so you can rest a bit. It's also my intention to do so. Father has agreed, Mother, so please feel at ease leaving Father in my care. Didn't you see me feeding him medicine yesterday? I did it very well!"

  Xie Wenjing said as she pulled her mother and Liu Niang back, telling them to go rest. It wasn't that she and her father didn't want to tell her mother the truth, but her mother was too kind-hearted and couldn't imagine how cruel that old woman was, nor could she believe in Liu Lingling's hypocrisy.

  If mother knew, she would not be able to contain her anger, and if Liu Lingling found out, it wouldn't be a good thing. She still needed time, at least ten or more days, so she could only bear with it and let mother continue to worry for another ten or more days.

  Sorry, Mother. With you being so anxious, Liu Lingling will believe that Father is still weak and that old woman will also believe that Father is still under her control. Only then can I secretly take action to rescue Father, save money, and ruin the reputation of that old woman.

  After everyone was asked to leave, Xie Wenjing helped her father sit up and accompanied him in slow, deep breathing exercises. The medicine was naturally poured onto the thick cotton cloth that Xie Wenjing had brought with her on purpose, which she would take away later, so no one would discover that her father hadn't taken his medicine.

  Xie Wenjing's mother couldn't sleep either and came over after a while to take a look at the father-daughter pair.

  At this time, Xie Wenjing had already accompanied her father in finishing his breathing exercises and was chatting with him about casual things.

  "Dad, I want to learn how to make millet porridge like Auntie. Starting tomorrow, I'll personally cook a bowl of millet porridge every night and bring it over for you. Will you give me face and eat it?"

  Xie Chengyu nodded slightly: "Okay, go see Wen Bao more often when you have time."

  "Uh-huh, we'll wait for little brother to finish school and then go see him. Don't worry about little brother, Dad, he's fine!"

  It was just that in my previous life, I was spoiled by that old woman into a delicate and pampered person. However, this life will definitely not be the same.

  Xie Wenjing's mother had just stepped into her husband's house when she heard the soft conversation between the father and daughter, feeling both sour and moved in her heart.

  It's still good that his daughter has a way with him. Normally, her father rarely speaks, but when she comes, he becomes more spirited and is willing to eat the rice porridge.

  "Wenjing, have you taken your father's medicine?"

  Xie Wenjing's mother entered the house and her first question was about her husband's medicine, which was the most important thing.

  "Mother, let's eat. Look at that empty bowl! Did Father listen to me?" Xie Wenjing smiled and pulled her mother over to sit beside Father.

  "Good girl!" Xie Wenjing's mother looked at the empty bowl with delight, tapping Wenjing's forehead and scolding her for a moment for daring to say that her father listened to her words.

  "Wenjing, you should also go back and rest! Your mother accompanying me is enough!" Xie Chengyu knew that his wife had eyes only for him, but unfortunately she was too kind and didn't know the evil of human hearts. In fact, he himself had just found out a few months ago.

  "Dad, mom, you both rest well and take care of your bodies, that's the most important thing. I'm going back now! Oh, mom, I'll come back tonight to help dad with his medicine!"

  Xie Wenjing finished speaking and didn't wait for her parents to return, she turned around and ran away.

  Xie Chengyu looked at his daughter's quick footsteps, with a mix of relief and worry in his eyes. However, judging from his daughter's behavior, she was actually more capable and tactful than himself. In just over two years, the change in her was so great that even an average adult wouldn't have such thoughts.

  All these were forced out by that old woman. Otherwise, at this time, the daughter should be in her innocent and lively years, but she has already become so profound.

  "Look at our daughter, she's all grown up!" Xie Wenjing's mother also followed her husband's gaze and looked at the back of their daughter.

  "Ah, it's all thanks to your teachings!" Xie Chengyu gently grasped his wife's hand, gazing deeply at her who had overworked herself for him.

  His wife was less than thirty years old, and there were already fine lines at the corners of her eyes. She had exhausted herself!

  Xie Chengyu couldn't help but reach out his hand and gently try to smooth out the fine lines at the corner of his wife's eyes.

  Xie Chengyu's rare intimate move in two years made his wife cry.

  Such a warm scene was seen by Liu Lingling, who lowered her eyelids and ignored the scene in front of her. Although this man is nominally her husband, his fate has long been sealed, and with nearly eight years to go, he should be dead by then?

  During this time, the man found it hard to even stand up. A man who relied on a woman for everything, including using the restroom, was nothing but a waste of space, no matter how elegant and refined he looked like a young master from a noble family; his body had long since withered away, leaving him barely clinging to life.

  The two of them noticed Liu Lingling coming in, and they both restrained themselves a bit. Xie Wenjing's mother looked at the shy Liu Lingling and suddenly said apologetically to her husband: "Husband, you must get better soon, you still owe Liu's wife a wedding ceremony!"

  "Madam! I'll go take a look at the small kitchen, what soup shall we make for lunch!"

  Liu Lingling pretended to be shy and ran away, but in her heart she was full of contempt. Bah! Such a man is nothing more than a living dead person, how can he still share the same bridal chamber with me?