Chapter 1167: Chapter 1167: Turning Point (8)
Xiu Xi looked at her suspiciously, while Ruan Jiaojiao didn’t rush to explain and just crouched at the street corner. About ten minutes later, Ruan Jianguo’s car drove out, and Ruan Jiaojiao, peeking her head out, immediately saw that Ruanlin Family was sitting in the back of his car, going in the opposite direction of the school.
Ruan Jiaojiao didn’t even care about her leg injury, hurriedly pulling Xiu Xi along as they chased after the car.
Of course, they couldn’t naturally catch up, but Ruan Jiaojiao knew where that direction led. When she finally chased all the way to the hospital entrance, she indeed saw a small car parked at the hospital entrance.
If it wasn’t Ruan Jianguo’s, whose could it be!
Ruan Jiaojiao’s hand, holding Xiu Xi’s, was slightly trembling.
Her suspicion was confirmed, her grandmother was sick, and the whole family was keeping it from her!
Inside the hospital, Ruan Jianguo helped Ruanlin Family into the ward that had been opened yesterday. The doctor who examined Ruanlin Family yesterday walked in; he was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a bit of a belly, wearing glasses. Upon seeing Ruanlin Family enter the ward, he disapprovingly said, “Ma’am, your health shouldn’t be put through such strain.”
Speaking, he took out a file folder from his hand and said to Ruan Jianguo, “You must be the patient’s family. Come to the office; I have something to discuss with you.”
A female nurse, following by his side, was taking Ruanlin Family’s temperature.
“Doctor, say whatever you have here. I’m at this age; what can’t I handle?” Ruanlin Family said as she placed the thermometer under her arm.
Upon hearing this, the doctor hesitated, then looked at Ruan Jianguo. As Ruan Jianguo nodded, the doctor seemed to sigh and continued, “Yesterday, the old lady felt dizzy and nauseous, but we couldn’t find the cause. So we did a CT scan overnight, and look here, there’s a shadow. Our preliminary diagnosis suggests it might be a brain tumor, but further examinations are needed to be certain.”
The doctor pointed at the scan from yesterday, indicating a spot to Ruan Jianguo and Ruanlin Family.
A brain tumor?!
Ruan Jianguo’s eyes widened, looking at the doctor in disbelief, “You must have made a mistake! What brain tumor? My mom is perfectly fine, how could she have a brain tumor?”
Sitting on the bed and following the nurse’s instructions to remove the thermometer, Ruanlin Family was also stunned.
A brain tumor?
Me?
Ruan Jiaojiao, who had searched several wards before finally finding the one where Ruanlin Family was, happened to overhear this, her face turning ghostly pale with shock.
On the way here, Ruan Jiaojiao imagined many scenarios, speculating that Ruanlin Family might be ill, but at most she thought it was because of aging, a weak body, or fatigue, maybe a cold.
But she never expected it to be a brain tumor!
She clutched her chest, almost unable to breathe. Whatever was being said in the ward afterward, she couldn’t hear any of it, as “brain tumor” kept echoing in her mind.
Led out of the ward into the hallway by Xiu Xi, sitting on the steps at the hospital entrance, Ruan Jiaojiao was trembling all over.
“Brother Xiu…” Before she could even utter the words, tears were already streaming down.
How could her grandmother have a brain tumor? How could it be possible?!
Ruan Jiaojiao felt utterly hopeless. She had never felt so clearly as at this moment that everything she had might indeed be stolen. She had lived the happiest six years, stolen six years, so now her retribution had come. She could die from an accident at any moment, and her grandmother, living six more years than in her previous life, was now beginning to experience misfortune.