Li Yuee did not speak, she just watched Ye Xiao with a benevolent smile.
At her age, money was no longer important. What mattered was companionship, and over the years, Xiao Xiao had been with her. No matter whether the child was her actual granddaughter or not, she likd her just the same.
"Grandma, did you take your medicine on time today?"
Ye Xiao looked at the old lady's pale face and furrowed her brows.
"I took… I took it…"
As she spoke, Li Yuee cast a glance at Jian Ru with a strange expression.
"If you took the medicine, why do you still look so ill?"
Actually, Li Yuee's health had been deteriorating for years now, her physical strength was gone, her internal organs had aged and could no longer sustain her bodily functions; it was all thanks to Ye Xiao constantly keeping her alive with medicine.
"It might be that the required dosage needs to be increased. I'll get the medicine. From today, you should take double the dose," Ye Xiao said as she went to fetch the medicine from her room.
"Mom, you should come with me to the city. The big hospitals there can definitely cure you. That child should also return to her biological parents. It's not right for you to keep her; I can't explain this to her real parents. After all, she is their child. You can't keep her forever."
Jian Ru felt disgusted, as though she had swallowed a fly, thinking about how she had raised someone else's daughter for seventeen years while her own daughter suffered in another's home. Ye Xiao must return to her poor parents.
Ye Xiao took a small box out of the drawer in her room, went to the kitchen to pour some water, and as she was about to carry the water out, she caught sight of a black pill in the trash can. Her eyes instantly turned cold.
"Crack"
The porcelain cup filled with water was crushed in an instant, shards of ceramic falling from her fingertips to the ground.
After cleaning up the broken pieces on the floor and getting another cup filled with water, she stepped out of the kitchen. The ominous look had vanished from her eyes, replaced by a sweet and well-behaved smile.
"Grandma, take your medicine," Ye Xiao said, handing the pill to Li Yuee and squatting next to her with a cup in hand.
Li Yuee smiled kindly and was about to pop the pill into her mouth when it was suddenly snatched away by an unexpected hand.
"Mom, how can you just put anything in your mouth? What is this stuff? It smells weird, and who knows, it might even be deadly."
Jian Ru's tone was unpleasant as she looked at Ye Xiao with a gaze filled with loathing and disdain.
"Was it you who threw away the medicine in the kitchen?"
Ye Xiao's tone was sweet and her smile gentle, not at all like she was asking a question.
"What if it was me who threw it? Stop giving my mom these weird things. And besides, there won't be a next time. You're going back to your poor biological parents soon, and then we won't see each other again."
Jian Ru crushed the pill with her hand, its fragments falling to the ground and then she ground them under the heel of her red high-heeled shoe.
"Daughter-in-law of my youngest son, what do you think you're doing? The first time you disposed of my medicine I let it go, but now you've thrown it away again. Do you really want me dead or what? I've been taking this medicine for years—if it were harmful, I'd have died long ago. Xiao Xiao, go and get Grandma some more medicine," Li Yuee scolded Jian Ru, then looked kindly towards Ye Xiao.
For the first time, Jian Ru saw her mother-in-law this furious. The doctors said this stubborn old woman would not live more than a few years a decade ago, yet she lived on and on, refusing to die.
Barely containing her urge to choke Jian Ru to death, Ye Xiao smiled and offered another pill to Li Yuee.
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