The Cultivator's Reborn to 1970s-Chapter 208 - 172

"I want to know everything about Lan Tian from her childhood up to now," Chu Yang suddenly said, his eyes flashing with determination.

"What about my job then?" Yanhua looked at Chu Yang. To get the information, the price must be paid in kind, she isn’t running a charity.

"I promise you."

"You’re smart, I like talking to smart people," Yanhua was pleased. She didn’t need Uncle’s help and could find a decent job on her own, also as a nurse, "Let me tell you, Lan Tian, at first, wasn’t from Mo Village. She is..." Yanhua began to recount Lan Tian’s story, how she wandered into Mo Village at the age of six and her life thereafter, up to her ongoing education in Shanghai, spilling every last detail.

"...After her great-grandfather returned to Mo Village, she came to Shanghai to study. Around half a year into her studies, her family quietly moved to Shanghai too, not wanting to mooch off my grandpa. I heard her great-grandfather is a very famous doctor in Shanghai, living in a very big house, though I’ve never seen it myself; it’s all from what I’ve heard around the village."

"A very famous doctor, also surnamed Mo."

Mo?

Chu Yang suddenly widened his eyes, exchanging a look with Zhou Yuwei. In Shanghai, there’s only one famously reputed doctor surnamed Mo, a towering figure in the medical field, unreachable by ordinary people, even Chu Yang had no access.

"Mr. Mo," Chu Yang said with a grave expression, "this explains it all. She received the genuine teaching from Mr. Mo, hence..." was able to cure Mo Junhua.

Everyone among the higher-ups knew about Mr. Mo’s matters in Shanghai, but they preferred to keep a stupid front, not suggesting to bring him over to check on Mo Junhua, who would have thought, after all the twists, Mo Junhua was still saved by someone related to him.

Lan Tian is Mo Junhua’s wife, and she is also Mr. Mo’s granddaughter.

Leaving Chu Yang’s room, as the two parted in the garden, Yanhua spontaneously said, "Given our cooperative friendship, a word of advice, drop the thought of moving Mo Junhua."

Zhou Yuwei glared at her fiercely, but Yanhua was not intimidated and continued, "The way Mo Junhua looks at Lan Tian, I think you know very well, he is deeply in love with her. Outsiders might not know, but I am very clear. Mo Junhua has had his eyes on Lan Tian since she was very young. His gaze has never changed. I didn’t realize it before, but after meeting more people and gaining more experience, I understood. You just can’t fit in, the closer you try to get, the more he dislikes you, the more he loves Lan Tian. If I were you, I’d think of other tactics, like ’cooking the rice before it’s done’, that would be smarter than just foolishly waiting."

Cooking the rice before it’s done?

Zhou Yuwei pondered.

...

Unbeknownst to Lan Tian, Yanhua had already teamed up with Zhou Yuwei, preparing to scheme against her, but she was unafraid. When Chunhua finished showering and came out, Lan Tian told her, "Chunhua, I’m going to buy you some food."

After Chunhua finished eating, Lan Tian let her sleep on the adjacent hospital bed. Although exhausted, she couldn’t fall asleep, her mind tangled with thoughts of her third brother’s leg, Zhou Yuwei pestering her third brother, issues with her father, mother, and elder sister-in-law, her affairs with Zhao Li, and Yanhua’s business, a messy bundle of various troubles.

"Can’t sleep?" Lan Tian glanced at Chunhua, who was tossing and turning in bed. "Something on your mind?"

"No, just thinking about Yanhua. Even Master doesn’t know she’s here. She’s always had ulterior motives, claims she came here looking for a job. I know her true weight. It’s one thing to seek treatment in our village, quite another in the big city. I’m worried she might do something to harm you or Master." Chunhua sat up, her face full of worry.

"Let her hit a wall, it’s good for her. That way she won’t think the world revolves around her, not knowing her limits. Once she runs out of money and can’t find a job, she’ll naturally go back." Lan Tian flipped through a book, "I didn’t want to ask earlier when there were too many people, but how’s everything at home? You seem unhappy this time you’re back."

"Lan Tian, do you think people always change?" Chunhua lay her head on the pillow, her voice muffled, glancing towards Mo Junhua. His breathing was long and steady, he must be asleep.

"Don’t look at your brother, he’s already asleep." Lan Tian said without looking up, as Chunhua wouldn’t be able to tell if Mo Junhua was pretending to sleep.

"A while ago, home sent a letter saying Mom was in bad shape. When I got there and saw Mom was fine, I asked her about the letter. It terrified me, but she said she hadn’t asked anyone to write such a letter. Later I found out it was my oldest brother and his wife who wrote it. My sister-in-law had her eye on a family and wanted me to come back for a matchmaking, they deceived me by writing the letter that way."

"..." Chunlai’s wife really would do something like that.

"What did Mom say?" Wang Guiyu had always loved the kids at home, and she wouldn’t force Chunhua if she disagreed.

"Mom was furious, she was so angry that she wanted to divide the family. She wanted my elder brother, his wife, my second brother, and his wife to split up and live separately. They didn’t agree, and there was still a commotion in the house when I left." Chunhua sighed deeply.

"Don’t worry, with Mom, they can’t stir up much trouble. You, don’t fret too much. The day I came to the hospital, guess who I saw? I really didn’t expect to meet them so quickly." Since neither could sleep, Lan Tian closed his book and chatted with Chunhua.

"Who?" She might not know the people Lan Tian knew.

"You would never guess," Lan Tian smiled, "Shitou, Tie Jun, and Hei Gouzi. Haven’t seen them in years, they’ve gotten taller and stouter, quite spirited. Some young nurses in the hospital blushed when they saw them." frёeωebɳovel.com

Lan Tian felt the pride of watching his children grow.

"It’s them!" Chunhua was momentarily lost in thought, remembering when they enlisted in the military, a story she had shared with Lan Tian, "Those who stayed in the army are all promising."

"Yes, they were so little back then and have grown up so much now. Shitou is still as talkative as ever, Tie Jun is still impulsive, and Hei Gouzi has grown more sly. Fortunately, the three of them are together, otherwise, who knows how much trouble they’d stir up."

"Let’s not talk about them anymore. You should try to sleep, we’ll have plenty of time to talk later." With a sleepy gesture, Mo Junhua and Chunhua, the siblings, both drifted into slumber.

Lan Tian had been at the hospital for almost half a month, Chunhua had just arrived, and she couldn’t stay any longer. When she woke up, Lan Tian took out a bottle of medicine and handed it to her, "These ointments, you know how to use them, right? No need for me to explain. Apply them once a day to your brother, continue for a month, then you can stop. These pills, start giving them to your brother tomorrow, he should be able to walk after a month. I’ll leave the rest to you, I’m heading back now."

"Okay, have you been able to keep up with your studies, being away so long? It’s also the year of the college entrance exam." Chunhua worried about Lan Tian’s grades dropping, which would be disappointing for Grandma Sun and the others if he couldn’t enter college.

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