Chapter 427 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (38)
Chapter 427 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (38)
"He's teaching the kids weird things?"
Not only Lu Liruan and Liao Tingyuan, but the other two people in the room had never heard of this either.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Dr. Miao pulled up a chair and sat down: "I heard it from Sister Liang. You know Sister Liang... she's very strong-willed. She's been good to us these past few years. I thought... this is just her family's dirty laundry."
"I feel like Sister Liang wouldn't have told me unless she really didn't know who else to talk to." Dr. Miao rubbed his lower back, having done too much work these past few days.
"Looking back now... if I had advised Sister Liang to insist on getting a divorce back then, wouldn't she be spared all this mess now?"
“You said it yourself, it was their family matter, and it wasn’t that serious at the time. It wouldn’t be right for you to try to persuade them,” Dr. Zhu comforted her.
Nurse Gu seemed to sense something was going on between the two of them, glancing left and right before urging, "What exactly did Sister Liang say?"
Lu Liruan glanced at him and thought to herself, with him urging her so eagerly, she could save herself some trouble.
Dr. Miao thought for a moment, then hesitated before speaking: "Sister Liang said that he told Yuanyuan to study hard and make something of himself in the future."
"Isn't that normal? Which parent doesn't hope their son will become a dragon and their daughter a phoenix?" Dr. Zhu added.
"It's not wrong to hope that your child will be successful..." Dr. Miao indicated that she hadn't finished speaking: "Sister Liang said that she didn't think anything of it at the time. Sister Liang was busy with work and said that she didn't have much time to take care of her child. At that time, it was the child's maternal grandmother who would pick up and drop off the child from time to time, to school, to tutoring classes and so on."
“But Yuanyuan was always crying at the time. Her maternal grandmother told Sister Liang that the child always seemed to be in a bad mood, and would cry while studying. She used to love to play, but now she always locks herself in her room.”
Lu Liruan found it hard to imagine that state of mind, the mentality of some academic underachievers who never took studying seriously from a young age.
Zhun turned to look at Liao Tingyuan, only to see Liao Tingyuan with a slight frown, listening intently.
He didn't even notice the gaze he himself had cast at him.
"Sister Liang asked the child at the time, but Yuan Yuan only said that his grades had dropped recently, he felt uncomfortable, and that other classmates had surpassed him, so he wanted to study hard," Dr. Miao continued.
"Isn't this great? I remember when Yuan Yuan was here during summer vacation, he didn't like studying much. When I was explaining problems to him, he would sneak out to buy snacks behind my back. I thought he had run away and was so scared!" Dr. Zhu didn't know what the problem was.
But Lu Liruan felt that Liao Tingyuan seemed to have noticed something, and his expression became more and more serious. Lu Liruan rarely saw him with such a stern face.
"Sister Liang thought so too at the time, and thought that... it was a good thing that Yuan Yuan was so ambitious. His family all had high levels of education, and Sister Liang herself wanted Yuan Yuan to study hard and attend good schools all the way. So she praised Yuan Yuan at the time and said that when his grades improved, she would buy him the game console he wanted and allow him to play for two hours occasionally."
Dr. Miao sighed as she spoke. She herself was not married yet, but when she heard Sister Liang talk about raising children, she already felt exhausted just listening to her.
"But Yuan Yuan... cried to Sister Liang back then, saying he didn't want anything, he would definitely study hard!"
"Huh?" Lu Liruan couldn't help but ask, puzzled.
This is completely unlike the reaction a child of that age should have, isn't it?
At this point, Lu Liruan also subtly noticed that even from Doctor Miao's narration, this sense of inconsistency had emerged.
"You all know, back then, Dean Lu's father and mother..." Dr. Miao raised his head, and everyone understood that he was referring to the incident where the couple were in a car accident and tragically died.
"What does this have to do with kids?" Lu Liruan didn't understand how they had gotten in touch.
"Sister Liang told me at that time that the child's grandparents... weren't that close to the child. The child's grandparents were very serious people, but they were very good to the child and were willing to spend money on the child, especially on the child's education. The tuition for the child's several tutoring classes was paid by the grandparents." Dr. Miao said, as if she had already said all that.
The rest of the conversation flowed much more smoothly.
"The child's grandparents died too suddenly, but for a child of that age, the sadness will pass after a while, because he didn't see his grandparents very often, but he saw his maternal grandparents more often."
"Sister Liang said that when he first asked Yuanyuan, Yuanyuan just said he missed his grandparents, and his grandparents told him to study hard, so he had to study hard..."
"Actually, it was the child's father who said something to the child, right?" Liao Tingyuan suddenly asked.
His voice was cold, a kind of coldness that Lu Liruan had never heard before.
Lu Liruan instinctively felt that Liao Tingyuan must be angry right now.
"Hmm...yes." Dr. Miao glanced at Liao Tingyuan and nodded.
"What did you say?" Nurse Gu also noticed something was wrong and asked with a frown.
“At first, Sister Liang didn’t know. Later, the child’s maternal grandmother told her that the child would sometimes have nightmares in the middle of the night and suddenly start crying and shouting. In the dream, the child would cry and shout things like ‘Mom, Grandma, Grandpa, Grandma—’. She felt that something was wrong, but no matter how she asked the child, he wouldn’t say anything. She told Sister Liang to ask him carefully.”
"Only then did Sister Liang patiently take the child out to play and patiently ask Yuanyuan again and again what exactly happened."
Dr. Miao looked displeased: "Later, when I found out what they said, I was terrified, let alone a little kid like Yuan Yuan."
“Yuanyuan said that his father told him... that if he didn’t study hard and couldn’t make something of himself, his mother would die a terrible death like his grandparents.”
"Are you sick in the head?!" Nurse Gu exclaimed first, unable to sit still any longer and standing up!
“He also told Yuanyuan that if other children surpassed him in their studies, his mother would get sick, suffer greatly, and die a terrible death. He added that if Yuanyuan didn’t do well in his studies and couldn’t bring him honor, his maternal grandparents would also die after his mother died.”
"What a nutcase!" Lu Liruan was so angry that her heart felt choked up. She and Nurse Gu were so angry that they paced around the room, one clockwise and the other counterclockwise.
When I was on the third lap, I passed by Liao Tingyuan and he grabbed my arm.
Liao Tingyuan grasped her wrist, keeping her by his side.
Lu Liruan looked down at him and noticed that Liao Tingyuan's chest was also rising and falling slightly. Under the white shirt with all the buttons fastened, it was clear that he was just as angry.
Lu Liruan had always felt that no matter what he faced, his emotions didn't fluctuate much. Today was the first time she had seen him so angry. He was radiating coldness and looked very unapproachable.
Lu Liruan pursed her lips, not daring to disobey him, and stood obediently beside him.
"Yes! I've never heard such outrageous words, especially from a biological father to his own child!" Dr. Miao has probably been holding this in for a long time.
Now that I'm about to leave this job, I just want to get it off my chest.
“And there’s something even more outrageous. Sister Liang said that Yuan Yuan told her that he was very angry at the time and asked his father, ‘Why did Mom die, but Dad didn’t?’”
Lu Liruan thought to herself, "That's a good question! This child is quick-witted!"
"Then he slapped the child and said to Yuanyuan, 'You better study hard and behave yourself, or after your mother and grandparents are dead, I will slap you like this every day. Remember what I told you today. If you dare to tell your mother, I guarantee your mother will die a terrible death!'"
"Depend on!"
Even the usually refined Dr. Zhu couldn't help but slam his fist on the table upon hearing this.
"Is he crazy? No wonder..."
“The child kept it all bottled up inside. What does a child Yuan Yuan that age understand? Hearing his father curse his mother so viciously, he didn’t dare to say anything, afraid that if he spoke out, something bad would really happen to his mother. If Sister Liang hadn’t pressed him, who knows how long he would have kept it a secret!”
Dr. Miao was also getting angry at herself: "Wouldn't that scare the child to death! He even hit the child! If Sister Liang hadn't said anything, who would have guessed that he's such a respectable person, but behind the scenes..."
"Sister Liang should have divorced him back then!" Dr. Miao slapped her leg, looking very regretful, but she hadn't tried to persuade him otherwise.
"Why haven't you divorced? Why aren't you divorced even after all this?" Lu Liruan asked, puzzled.
He's already said such things to the child, and what's even more terrifying is that he's openly saying he wants his wife to die, or even cursing her to a miserable death.
How could they wait until now to argue and talk about divorce?
The people in the room, perhaps thinking Lu Liruan was too young, glanced at her and fell silent for a moment...
“It’s not that easy to get a divorce. You’ve been together for so many years, there’s the issue of property, children… You’re still young, you don’t understand these things,” Dr. Zhu said first.
"Wow! It's precisely because it's not easy that we have to prepare actively. Otherwise, if it keeps getting difficult and we keep putting it off, we won't even know when we die!" Lu Liruan said this from the bottom of her heart.
After all, the people in front of them didn't know, but Liao Tingyuan and I did: the male head of the household was now... dead.
died!
I rely on!
Lu Liruan was jolted awake! She felt goosebumps rise all over her arms, and she suddenly grabbed Liao Tingyuan's hand.
She stared at him, wide-eyed.
Liao Tingyuan was habitually holding her when she suddenly struggled like a live fish. He looked up at her and saw the little girl blinking and pouting, as if she had something to say right away.
Liao Tingyuan didn't know what she was going to say.
So he beckoned to her, signaling her to whisper in his ear.
Lu Liruan placed one hand on his shoulder and leaned closer.
Unexpectedly, the movement was too hasty, and the finger actually touched Liao Tingyuan's ear!
Lu Liruan was anxious and didn't react much. She didn't notice that Liao Tingyuan's body trembled slightly, and then the ear that had spoken to her turned bright red.
“You said…” Lu Liruan said softly.
"Was the person who came to kill the male homeowner related to the female homeowner? Did the female homeowner, after realizing she couldn't get a divorce, hire someone to kill the male homeowner, only to be killed by him instead?" Lu Liruan suddenly thought of this possibility.
After all, based on the clues she and Liao Tingyuan had analyzed over the past few days, it seemed that only the child was normal in this family.
The mother also seemed to have mental problems, and the father, needless to say, had more than just mental issues; you could tell from his physical abuse of the children that he was even more...uncontrollable than the woman of the house.
It is dangerous.
"Maybe the male homeowner really did kill his wife first, and then the female homeowner found out... so that's why..." Lu Liruan felt like she was about to conjure up a detective novel in her mind.
This is... far too complicated.
Liao Tingyuan took a deep breath, nodded slightly, and then shook his head.
Lu Liruan sensed that he had something to say, so she quickly leaned her head closer.
It turned out that Liao Tingyuan suddenly moved back very dramatically.
Lu Liruan: ?
Their commotion attracted the attention of several other people, who were puzzled as to what the two of them were up to.
Liao Tingyuan coughed lightly, unable to continue whispering to Lu Liruan in front of her.
So he took out his phone, typed a line in the notes app, and handed it to Lu Liruan to show her.
"It's possible that the husband did something even more unacceptable, otherwise the wife wouldn't be so determined to get a divorce."
Lu Liruan agreed.
She was able to tolerate being treated like that with the child before.
Although Lu Liruan didn't know what the mistress's difficulties were, or what she was really thinking, whether she felt that the man's behavior didn't interfere with anything.
I still think she has the ability to protect her child under the shadow of this father.
Whatever it may be, Lu Liruan felt that she shouldn't continue to expose herself and her child to danger.
"You should know why the child's mother insists on getting a divorce now, right?" Liao Tingyuan looked at them, his voice steady yet firm.
Sure enough, the expressions on their faces became strange, and they looked at each other.
Finally, Nurse Gu spoke first: "Ha! Don't even mention Sister Liang, anyone would get a divorce! That guy surnamed Lu is a pervert! A pervert! A complete pervert!"
He repeated it three times to express his emotions.
Dr. Miao seemed to have already said everything and wasn't afraid to say anything more.
“Actually, we don’t want to meddle in Sister Liang’s family affairs, but this has already involved our professional reputation. I got into this line of work because I really love animals,” she said earnestly.
“Although I work here, I fully support him. Anyone who can find him will be taught a lesson!” Dr. Miao took a deep breath:
"He abused cats and even filmed the abuse and spread the videos."
"Later, his identity was exposed, and his personal information was revealed, so the hospital had to close down!"
"He deserves it! He abuses small animals, why doesn't he just die!"
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