Chapter 281: Tracking Down
“It could only be done during that time. Now, I have to trouble you to help me find out the specifics that happened during my stem cell transplant with Zhong Qianqian before I was three years old.”
“Big Boss, leave this matter to me, I’ll definitely check it out for you.” Selina angrily patted her chest and promised, “When we find out what happened, I’ll definitely want Jiang Shuwan and Zhong Qianqian to die a dog’s death!”
This was just too much!
Just too infuriating!
Aiden kept a sullen expression for a long time before saying, “You started remembering things at three years old. Such a big feat already counts as a big event that should be rooted in memory, yet you have no knowledge about this incident, Big Boss. Therefore, Big Boss, we can hypothesize that you weren’t even three years old yet when this operation was done.
“It’s life-threatening to have a stem cell transplantation done before the age of three, but your biological father actually approved it. Big Boss, I have reason to suspect that your father is not a good person either.”
Zhong Nuannuan smiled indifferently. “He has always been a person who never does anything without a purpose. He will stand on the side of whoever benefits him.”
She even suspected that Nangong Yu’s death might be related to Zhong Kuijun.
“That’s why I asked you to find out about what had happened to Nangong Yu back then. How’s your investigation going?”
“It’s beginning to take shape. Nangong Yu was indeed the Nangong Family’s little princess, and Camino’s top socialite at that time. However, due to some unknown reason, Nangong Yu had been very well protected since she was born, and the Nangong Family almost completely barred her from meeting others.
“Therefore, even though she was the top socialite in Emperor District, very few people had ever seen her. Especially after Nangong Yu grew up. By then, almost no one ever saw her. It took me a lot of effort to find a picture of her when she was 15 years old.”
After taking the photo and looking at the girl smiling happily with her family inside, Zhong Nuannuan believed that Nangong Yu had a very happy childhood. However, after looking at Nangong Yu’s appearance, Zhong Nuannuan frowned slightly.
Unidentical!
She looked nothing like Nangong Yu.
Noticing Zhong Nuannuan’s uncertainty, Aiden took out another photo and gave it to Zhong Nuannuan. “This is Zhong Kuijun and Pu Yu’s wedding photo back then. Selina did some hacking and pulled it out of the archives of the Civil Affairs Bureau.”
Zhong Nuannuan took the other photo, and raised her eyebrows slightly after looking at it.
“Big Boss, are you sure that Pu Yu is Nangong Yu, the Nangong Family’s little princess?”
“Yeah.” Zhong Nuannuan nodded. After all, she had experienced all this during her previous life, so she was entirely convinced of Nangong Yu’s identity.
“Then Nangong Yu must’ve undergone plastic surgery.” Selina never doubted anything her big boss was sure of.
“However, why did Nangong Yu have to undergo plastic surgery? Did she get plastic surgery before she met Zhong Kuijun, or did Zhong Kuijun make her get plastic surgery after her memory loss? Big Boss, why do I feel that the Zhong Family is hiding a huge secret?” When Selina said this, a bright light shone in her eyes.
Her life was so boring now, so she had a strong yearning to get to the bottom of big mysteries like this.
“Recently, Selina and I wanted to investigate Nangong Yu, but when we dug into the Nangong Family, we were almost counter-tracked by the other party, so we haven’t dared to take action since. However, I’ve already told Dan Qi about this. Once that guy takes action, the Nangong Family will definitely not be able to track us.”
Zhong Nuannuan nodded. “Then the two of you should keep investigating the cause of Nangong Yu’s death as well as the transplantation of my hematopoietic stem cells to Zhong Qianqian.”
“Okay.”
Chapter 282: Painless Reward
“Alright, why don’t you guys go and play your games. I have to go back and protect Jiang Shuwan.”
“Boss, Jiang Shuwan isn’t even your mother. She treats you this way, yet you still take the night watch for her?”
“Yes.” Zhong Nuannuan nodded.
Just as Selina and Aiden couldn’t take it anymore and were convinced that their boss had been possessed by a ghost, Zhong Nuannuan smiled and said. “These are the last few days of kinship, I have to at least leave them with some ‘happy’ memories.”
Alright, that shocked them.
By the time Zhong Nuannuan returned, an hour had already passed.
Seeing that Zhong Nuannuan had return empty-handed, Jiang Shuwan was so angry that her heart and lungs were about to explode.
“Where are the things you bought? You went out for one hour and ten minutes, yet you return empty-handed? What do you mean by this, Zhong Nuannuan? If you are unwilling to buy it for me, just say so.”
“Mom, you can’t blame me for this. It’s so late, so the fruit shops are all closed. I went to several places, but none of them were selling anything. Just tolerate it for a bit, when Zhong Qianqian or Dad comes tomorrow, you can get him to buy it for you.”
It would have been fine if she had not mentioned Zhong Kuijun, but the minute he was mentioned, Jiang Shuwan became furious. It was already considered good that he had not divorced her, so how could she expect him to buy her anything nice, or to even visit her?
“Lil Xu, you go buy it for me. I would like to see if the shops are actually closed.”
In her desperation, Jiang Shuwan was determined to make things ugly.
The nurse rubbed her hands together. “Big Sister, you will have to give me some money, I don’t have enough money here to pay for you.”
Jiang Shuwan turned to Zhong Nuannuan and said: “Get some money for Lil Xu, let her buy it.”
“Oh.” Zhong Nuannuan replied before proceeding to go through Jiang Shuwan’s purse.
When she noticed this, Jiang Shuwan nearly spat blood out of anger.
“Zhong Nuannuan, I gave you so much money just to buy some yellow pears, but you would rather use that money to go on a date with some man instead of buying fruits for your mother, right?”
Zhong Nuannuan didn’t even raise her head as she continued going through Jiang Shuwan’s purse.
Seeing three bundles of cash in her purse, Zhong Nuannuan generously gave one bundle to the nurse.
The nurse’s eyes grew wide as she looked at the ten thousand dollars in front of her. She looked at Zhong Nuannuan, confusion evident in her eyes.
After getting a wink from Zhong Nuannuan, she immediately understood. Happily pocketing her ten-thousand-dollar tip, she used her mouth to quietly gesture to the surveillance camera by the door frame before leaving.
Zhong Nuannuan had noticed the surveillance camera the minute she entered. After all, there had been no such thing there when she entered the ward that morning.
However, it seemed that Jiang Shuwan did not know about the surveillance camera. Therefore, it was obviously Zhong Kuijun who had gotten the nurse to install the surveillance camera.
Nevertheless, the angle at which the surveillance camera was positioned made it such that only Jiang Shuwan was recorded. Thus, the camera did not catch the fact that she had given money to the nurse.
Jiang Shuwan had no idea what Zhong Nuannuan and the nurse had done.
Half an hour later, the nurse returned.
“Madame Zhong, Miss Zhong was not lying to you. I don’t know what’s going on with the fruit shops outside, but they’re all closed. Here is your money.”
When she finished speaking, Lil Xu took a 100 dollar bill out of her purse and returned it to Jiang Shuwan.
“See, I told you that the shops weren’t selling, but you wouldn’t believe me. If you don’t believe me, why let me go out shopping at all?”
Looking at Zhong Nuannuan’s smiling face, Jiang Shuwan was angry, yet she could not refute. Thus, she could only put up with it.
“I want to drink water!”
“Okay.” Zhong Nuannuan replied patiently as she immediately poured her some water.
Chapter 283: Pranked
The water was poured and served in front of Jiang Shuwan, but Jiang Shuwan became furious after glancing at it. “How can I drink this plain water you’ve given me? Pour another cup! I want to drink honey water!”
“Mom, it’s easy to have diarrhea after drinking honey water.” Zhong Nuannuan was still being very good-tempered, as if she had resigned herself to adversity.
“Haha, I’ve been drinking honey water for decades, so why haven’t I had any diarrhea before? If you don’t want to pour me any honey water, just say it straight!”
“Mom, it’s really not that I don’t want to buy you honey. You’re hurting now, so even if you didn’t had any diarrhea before, you might have it now.”
“I’m lying down now and my bowel movements have slowed down already, why can’t I drink honey water? I only want to drink honey water, I’m not drinking plain water.”
After saying that, she reached out, swept the glass of plain water onto the ground, and then let out a scream.
The glass that Zhong Nuannuan poured had freshly boiled water in it. Jiang Shuwan’s hands immediately pulled back after being scalded, but unfortunately, Zhong Nuannuan had placed the hot water bottle in the way of her hands when they suddenly retracted.
In the next moment, the whole bottle of hot water spilled out just like that.
Although most of it landed on the quilt, a small bit spilt onto Jiang Shuwan’s arm, which made her scream in pain.
“Zhong Nuannuan, you heartless person, you want to scald me to death!”
What happened later was a complete mess. When the doctor came in, Jiang Shuwan’s hands were already bright red from the burn, while the sheets and quilts were wet as well, meaning they had to be changed. Besides that, since her ribs were injured, she had to be moved onto a portable bed while the bedsheets were being changed, and had to be moved back again after the changing was done. So much movement almost made Jiang Shuwan want to die in pain.
Since then, she loathed Zhong Nuannuan even more.
She felt that everything was caused by Zhong Nuannuan, and she kept scolding Zhong Nuannuan.
After she had finished reprimanding the latter, she became thirsty for real, and shouted, “Zhong Nuannuan, are you dead? I told you that I’m thirsty, I want to drink honey water.”
“Oh okay, sure, hold on, I’ll go out to buy you some honey water.”
Zhong Nuannuan held back her smile. She ran to the 24-hour supermarket and bought the cheapest jar of honey available, then bought some medicine at the drugstore, mixed them together, and returned.
Seeing the plastic can of honey in Zhong Nuannuan’s hands, Jiang Shuwan started to complain again that the honey she bought was of poor quality.
“Mom, the supermarket only sells this kind of honey. If you want to drink other types of honey that have better quality, then how about this? Since the mall should not be closed yet, I can go to the mall and check if they have the type that you want to drink.”
“In your dreams! You just don’t want to serve me and want to go shopping at the mall instead, right? If I want to drink that type of honey, I’ll have Qianqian buy it for me!”
“Okay then, so you’ll just make do with drinking this type of honey tonight.”
Jiang Shuwan was speechless. Why did she feel as if she was causing hardships for herself?
Zhong Nuannuan soon prepared a cup of honey water with added ingredients for Jiang Shuwan. Jiang Shuwan drank it, and felt tired after some tossing and turning, so she fell asleep very quickly.
Zhong Nuannuan even covered Jiang Shuwan with the quilt dutifully, displaying the image of a good daughter in front of the camera.
However, hidden in the camera’s blind spot, a silver needle was stuck directly into Jiang Shuwan’s stomach.
Zhong Nuannuan’s silver needles were very, very thin, and, in addition to that, the position in which she had stuck the needle was an acupuncture point near the previously done Caesarean section. The muscles there had been severed during the Caesarean section, so even if they were stitched back, they were no longer as sensitive. As a result, even when Jiang Shuwan was pricked, she did not react at all.
At night, Jiang Shuwan was literally awakened by the pain.
It was not her ribs that hurt, but her stomach.
She felt like taking a dump!!!
Chapter 284: Lunatic
As soon as she woke up from the pain, Jiang Shuwan immediately felt that she was unable to hold herself back, and quickly called for the nurse.
Unexpectedly, she found herself unable to make a sound anymore.
In shock, she thought of knocking over the water glass onto the floor so that she could wake the nurse up. However, unknown whether it was due to the shock or the sudden movement, she suddenly felt that the energy channels all over her body were not flowing smoothly. This one movement gave her a sudden shock in the chest as a heart-searing pain spread throughout her entire abdomen.
Jiang Shuwan was in fright and pain, but the nurse was sleeping like a pig and snoring happily, not realizing that anything was wrong with her at all.
After that, Jiang Shuwan turned her head to look toward Zhong Nuannuan. Due to the good conditions here, the wards were of the suite type, and since Zhong Nuannuan was sleeping in another room, it was totally impossible for her to notice the situation here.
Therefore, Jiang Shuwan defecated all over herself in despair.
She felt extremely disgusted, but since it was late autumn, and she was a patient who was afraid of the cold, the quilt was tightly covered. She could smell the stench through the tiny gaps, but the nurse who had fallen into a deep sleep beside her could not smell it at all. Zhong Nuannuan, who was in the other bedroom far away, had covered Jiang Shuwan’s quilt tightly and firmly beforehand, so of course she could not smell a thing.
Jiang Shuwan spent the whole night struggling with the severe pain in her chest and the atrocious stench, and even fainted several times.
When the sun rose the next morning, Jiang Shuwan, who had been mute all night, could suddenly speak.
The nurse and Zhong Nuannuan were both yelled awake in the next moment.
“Are all of you dead? I screamed my lungs sore last night but none of you could be awakened. Are you here to sleep or to take care of the sick? You’re a nurse, but your snores are louder than thunder, how are you supposed to earn money like this? Let me tell you, there’s no way! I want to complain to your hospital, I want to change nurses! This is just too horrible.”
“Mom, don’t do this! I think that Aunt Xu is quite nice, and she’s very diligent. If you’re not satisfied with me, you can voice it out, why do you have to scold Aunt Xu? You didn’t call us at all last night, so how can you say that you couldn’t wake us up even after screaming yourself mute?”
It was not easy for Zhong Nuannuan to hold back her laugh when she saw Jiang Shuwan’s face turn green with her foul mood.
After receiving Zhong Nuannuan’s defense, the nurse felt even more aggrieved.
“Yes, Mrs Zhong, I’m very alert when I sleep. I can wake up at your slightest movement without you telling me. Although I snore, it doesn’t prevent me from hearing your voice.”
“Hehe, do you know that I’ve pooped myself all over the bed then? Do you think that I would torture myself like this all night just to frame you two? Do you think I’m crazy?”
“I think you’re a lunatic!”
Suddenly, Zhong Kuijun’s deep voice penetrated the room, which was followed by a tall figure.
“Nuannuan, you go to school. From today onwards until your mom is discharged from the hospital, you don’t have to come again.”
“Okay.”
Zhong Nuannuan gave Jiang Shuwan a helpless look behind Zhong Kuijun’s back, which made Jiang Shuwan yell with anger.
“Zhong Kuijun, she’s my daughter. I’m hurt and hospitalized now, so why can’t you let her come to see me? Do you know how out of line she was? She colluded with this nurse and paid no heed to my life or death last night. I was in so much pain, but even when I yelled and screamed, they just ignored me. Boo hoo… I know you’re angry with me because of Qianqian’s matter, but do you dare to open my quilt to see how much I’ve been tortured by her?”
Chapter 285: Too Talented
Zhong Kuijun sneered. “Sure, I want to see how insane you are too.”
After saying that, he pulled Jiang Shuwan’s quilt off.
Almost instantly, a stench filled the room, and Zhong Kuijun almost vomited from the smell. He did not call someone to change the quilt immediately, but instead covered Jiang Shuwan with the quilt again to mask the stench.
Jiang Shuwan and Zhong Nuannuan were speechless.
“Do you see this? This is what my good daughter did. In order to retaliate against me, she ignored me when I wanted to go to the bathroom at night. You can’t keep saying that I’m biased toward Qianqian this time, right? Although Qianqian is not my daughter, but…”
“Smack!”
Before Jiang Shuwan finished speaking, Zhong Kuijun stepped forward and gave Jiang Shuwan a heavy slap, making her face crooked from the blow.
At this moment, the old lady of the Jiang Family had also brought Xie Congrong over, and they coincidentally saw the scene of Jiang Shuwan being struck.
“You… You hit me!” Jiang Shuwan’s tears fell at once. She looked as wronged as ever.
Zhong Kuijun was determined to deduct 10% of the Jiang Family’s income because of the incident Zhong Nuannuan. Although this was already agreed upon yesterday, 10% of their income was too much a price for the Jiang Family to pay. Since it was not suitable for Jiang Hanlin to come forward, Grandma Jiang had specifically come to the hospital today to discuss with Jiang Shuwan how the 10% deduction issue can be ironed out. As a result, she saw another family battle as soon as she entered.
Grandma Jiang was very upset. While feeling sorry for her daughter, she was also angry because of the fact that her stubbornness had brought unwarranted disasters upon the Jiang Family.
“Kuijun, what are you doing? Wanwan is still sick, how can you hit her? Look… Oh my goodness, you beat the sh*t out of her!”
…Pfft hahaha!
Zhong Nuannuan, who had been holding back her laughter all this while, almost lost it when she heard the old lady’s words.
The old lady was just too talented!
Zhong Kuijun’s facial expression could no longer be described with the word ‘black’ anymore. Before he could even speak about Jiang Shuwan’s crimes, Jiang Shuwan was already crying and complaining, while exaggerating the story of Zhong Nuannuan not taking good care of her.
Grandma Jiang looked toward Zhong Nuannuan but did not dare to hit her in front of Zhong Kuijun, so she could only stamp the ground with her cane repeatedly, and point at her with a distressed look. “You… You just can’t stand to see your parents doing well, right? You’ve never had to worry about food or clothing since you’ve returned home, and your life is a hundred, thousand times better than before, so why are you still not satisfied? Do you think that your life will get better after you’ve broken your family up?”
“Enough!”
Before Zhong Nuannuan had time to reply, Zhong Kuijun shouted angrily. After that, he took out his cell phone, clicked on a video, and rudely stuffed it in the old lady’s face.
“Watch this yourself!”
The video began with Zhong Nuannuan entering the door the night before. During that period, her good attitude and Jiang Shuwan’s nasty demeanor formed a sharp contrast.
Jiang Shuwan cried out for her to buy her snow pears to eat, screamed to drink water, then smashed the glass. What followed was a series of yells to drink honey water.
Zhong Kuijun’s cell phone volume was turned on very loudly, and Jiang Shuwan, who was lying on the bed, changed her expression instantly after hearing the audio.
“Just now, she said that she wanted to go to the bathroom at night, but claimed that Nuannuan had schemed with the nurse to ignore her. Let’s see now, did Nuannuan ignore her, or did she do nasty things like defecating on the bed in order to frame Nuannuan? Watch properly and see whether your good daughter was wrong, or if Nuannuan was wrong!”
When Zhong Kuijun was speaking, he had already fast-forwarded the video on his cell phone to the part where Jiang Shuwan had awoken during the previous night.