Chapter 812: Perfectly Fine, How Did She End Up in the Hospital

Hearing Xiao Yude say this, she felt deeply comforted. After all these years, he had at last taken her feelings to heart: "It's been arranged, she can understand. Besides, it's just a baby's one-month feast, and the guests are all women anyway—how could she possibly have any objection?"

When it came to his son's return to the clan, Xiao Yude was no less deeply moved. She had truly kept the promise she made back then, doing everything in her power for the second son's return: a person's heart is made of flesh, all the more so since she had also borne him a daughter. "I was only thinking that in the capital you only have this one branch of relatives left, afraid you'd feel uncomfortable about it."

"What sort of person do you take me for? You know perfectly well—stop saying things that make people misunderstand."

Xiao Yude, hearing this, did not pursue the topic further. The union between the two of them had begun because Miao Yiqiu first set her heart on it. After Xiao Yude refused several times to no avail, and with many people acting as matchmakers, the two finally came together.

The old man had said at the time that he could not forget his late wife and could not give her any feelings. Miao Yiqiu not only did not back down, but said that as long as she could stay by his side, that was enough.

So many years had passed, and she had indeed kept her word—bearing only one child. Even though Xiao Nianchun was a girl, she had not had a second child. Moreover, the child's name had been the subject of much gossip back then, since the name alone sounded as though it had something to do with Han Chunyi. Yet Miao Yiqiu said that if not for Han Chunyi saving her back then, she would long since have become a handful of yellow earth—she would never forget Sister Chunyi.

After that, no one dared bring up Xiao Nianchun's name as gossip again. Only later did people have mixed opinions of her, but she paid them no heed.

Xiao Yude looked up at her: "Yiqiu, these years you've worked hard."

Miao Yiqiu kept her face composed, but her heart was full of feeling: "Those words from you are enough. By the way, are we going to visit Sister Chunyi before the new year?"

Xiao Yude nodded lightly: "Changsheng said the place Jiang Huiwen mentioned—because of the heavy autumn rains, a section of the mountain road had a landslide. The village cadre has already privately told him that the village will organize people to go up the mountain to clear the obstruction in a few days."

Mentioning Han Chunyi left a bitter taste in both their hearts—such a kind, elegant person, gone far too early, lying alone in that place for decades on end.

What Xiao Yude did not mention was that the second son said he would first report to his unit, and when the village began clearing the obstruction, he would take leave to go back.

He did not object, and in order to clear the obstruction as quickly as possible, he had even pulled strings to get a special batch of blasting materials approved for Willow Village.

As the two were talking, the telephone in the living room outside rang. They had only just heard the nanny, Sister Jiang, pick up the receiver when she cried out in panic: "Yes, yes, yes, I'll tell Comrade Miao right away, we'll be there at once."

Miao Yiqiu, hearing this, hurried out of the study: "Sister Jiang, what's wrong?"

Sister Jiang set the phone down as she spoke anxiously: "Nianchun has been taken to the hospital."

Miao Yiqiu, hearing that her eldest daughter was about to give birth: "She was perfectly fine—how on earth did she end up in the hospital?"

Sister Jiang did not know either: "They didn't say on that end, only that she's at the hospital, and Nianchun asked him to help notify the family."

Miao Yiqiu was in a terrible panic. She first ran a few steps toward the door, then rushed back into the room, hastily stuffing some money into her bag, and only then ran outside again.

Xiao Laoyezi Xiao, seeing her flustered state: "Hold on—make a call and have the driver pool send a car over."

In just this short while, cold sweat had broken out on Miao Yiqiu's forehead. She had only this one daughter, and she truly feared something might have happened to her.

Fortunately, the car arrived quickly. The couple could think of nothing else, and once in the car they urged the driver at once to head for the hospital.