88: Chapter 88: Misfortunes Never Come Singly 88: Chapter 88: Misfortunes Never Come Singly The toppled chairs, cabinets, and tables—Chen Hai set each one upright once again.
Seeing her son bustling about, Jiang Meixian wiped away her tears and hurried over to help.
Nearly an hour of busy work passed before their home started to brighten up, barely resembling its former self.
“Mom, the money I gave you, there wasn’t any problem with it, right?”
Quite worn out, Chen Hai sat on a chair, gasping deeply several times.
Once his breath had leveled out, he began to inquire.
“Rest assured, Hai, I hid your money very well.”
“When it comes to kitchen knives, those robbers might have taken our stuff, but if they dared to steal the money, I would have definitely fought them with my life!”
Wiping the sweat off her forehead, Jiang Meixian replied.
“It doesn’t matter if things are gone, as long as people are alright!”
“Haven’t you and Dad always said there’s no future in the countryside, that farming leads to nothing but a dead end?”
“After I make some money, I’ll help you move your household registration to the county or some other city and buy you a house!”
Sighing, Chen Hai promised.
This wasn’t just empty talk; it was a genuine thought in his heart.
Unfortunately, since Boss Li returned to Yuedong, perhaps too busy with his new factory, there had been no news from him recently.
Chen Hai’s hopes to earn money, buy a house, and move the household registration depended on the collection of bottles and jars he had amassed.
If he wanted to sell these items himself, he had no way of finding buyers.
Without news from Boss Li, these potentially valuable bottles and jars could only remain piled under his bed.
Just now, when he was cleaning the house, he had paid special attention to the condition of those bottles and jars.
Apart from a pen holder and a nose snuff bottle that already had some cracks being broken during Chen Erleng and his gang’s ransacking, the rest remained undamaged.
“Hai, stop talking nonsense.
Moving to the county and buying a house, changing the household registration?
How could it be that easy?”
“Besides, for us country folks, the land is our foundation.
If we really moved to the county, what would happen to our fields?
How would your father and I make a living?”
“But the fact that you have this desire makes your father and me feel very comforted!”
Jiang Meixian replied with a smile.
Although she did not believe that her son’s promises could become reality, she was still very pleased to hear them.
“Mom, you have me, your son here.
Do you think Dad and you will starve?”
“Besides, if we can buy a house, we can definitely buy a shop.”
“With a shop in hand, you and Dad could easily run a small grocery store, and it would be more than enough to support yourselves!”
In front of his mother, he temporarily suppressed the limitless rage in his heart.
The handcart’s not inside, has he gone to town again?” Recalling his father, Chen Hai asked.
“Your father just can’t sit still.
Early in the morning, he took the handcart to town.”
“Lucky for us, he wasn’t here.
Otherwise, seeing Chen Erleng and his group carrying away the TV, he would have fought them for sure!”
Sighing, Jiang Meixian lamented.
Something terrible has happened…”
While the two were chatting, an urgent voice reached their ears.
Following closely, a rough man in his forties with dark skin hurriedly entered their home and appeared before Chen Hai and Jiang Meixian.
This man was Chen Sanpao, also from Chenjiaping Village.
Ordinarily, when Chen Zhonghua took the handcart to the town to do odd jobs, he liked to hang around with this Chen Sanpao.
“Sanpao, what happened?
What’s wrong?” After a brief moment of shock, Jiang Meixian quickly asked.
“Meixian, come with me to the town quickly, Brother Hua has been beaten up, and he’s still unconscious, lying in the town’s central hospital!”
Chen Sanpao urgently replied with a worried expression on his face.
“What…” Jiang Meixian’s complexion, which had just improved slightly, instantly turned pale, and her whole being seemed to wobble unsteadily.
“Uncle Sanpao, I know my dad, he never provokes trouble, and if he’s bullied, he would just keep it to himself.”
“How could he suddenly get into a fight and end up in the hospital?”
Hastily supporting his mother, Chen Hai’s face looked equally grim as he quickly inquired.
“I don’t know exactly what happened!”
“All I saw was a few guys carrying a cardboard box, and when they passed by, they bumped into Brother Hua.”
“The box fell to the ground, and after a few words were exchanged with Brother Hua, they started fighting!”
“Those men looked like no good at first glance, and when they fought, they were brutal.
After they knocked Brother Hua unconscious, they gave him a few vicious kicks before strutting away!”
Chen Sanpao recounted what he knew to Chen Hai and Jiang Meixian.
From Chen Sanpao’s words, Chen Hai had a rough idea of what might have happened.
However, at this moment, the priority was definitely to visit his father in the hospital; other matters would have to wait.
After locking the front door, they followed Chen Sanpao with hurried steps, but by the time they arrived at the town central hospital, more than an hour had passed.
Chen Sanpao left first, as he had his own matters to attend to.
As a fellow villager, he had a good relationship with Chen Zhonghua.
After Chen Zhonghua fell unconscious, Chen Sanpao brought him to the hospital, advanced the medical expenses, and then hurried back to Chenjiaping to notify Jiang Meixian and Chen Hai.
Chen Sanpao had done as much as he could, having fulfilled his moral obligations to the utmost.
On the hospital bed, Chen Zhonghua was still unconscious.
“Doctor, how is my dad?
When can he wake up?”
Jiang Meixian stayed by Chen Zhonghua’s side, and after Chen Hai found the male doctor treating his father, he tentatively inquired.
“Are you a family member of Chen Zhonghua?”
“The patient has internal bleeding and has also broken two ribs, but there’s no life-threatening danger for now, you can be assured of that.”
“According to my estimation, he should wake up by tomorrow at the latest!”
“However, currently, his condition requires him to stay in the hospital for at least ten days to a fortnight.”
“The person who brought your father in only paid two hundred yuan, you came just in time, go to the payment counter and advance the hospitalization fee!”
The male doctor spoke without any expression, handling the matter in a purely official manner, and pointed to the nearby payment counter.
“How much do I need to pay?” The source of thɪs content is 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡~𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢~𝙣𝙚𝙩
“Pay a thousand first, we will refund any excess or ask for more if it’s not enough!”
“Okay, I’ll go pay now!”
Chen Hai nodded; when he left home, not only did his mother bring money, but he also carried all his savings with him.
His father was still unconscious on the hospital bed.
Whatever the cost, as long as it would help his father recover, he was prepared to bear it.
“Little scoundrel, we must be fated to meet even in the hospital, huh?”
As Chen Hai approached the payment counter, not yet having paid, Liu Dafa, with a crew cut, swaggered over surrounded by several brawny men.
Upon seeing Chen Hai, he even deliberately waved and greeted him.