NFBE Chapter 290 "The Goddess of Mercy Who Grants a Child"
Chapter 290 "The Goddess of Mercy Who Grants a Child"
"Looking for me?" Xie Qingdu slowly processed Yan Xun's meaning for a moment. He looked around, then gestured for Yan Xun to come behind the stall, and whispered.
"Did your stomach hurt because of what you ate yesterday?"
Yan Xun: "..."
"I assure you my procedures were perfectly followed," Xie Qingdu said softly. "I don't think it's a problem."
Yan Xun: "..."
"Don't worry, we won't come to inspect your food hygiene."
As he spoke, he stood behind the stall. The stall owner next to him overheard the keyword "food hygiene" and immediately looked at Yan Xun warily, as if he were some kind of undercover inspector.
“He’s my friend.” Xie Qingdu noticed the wary look in the eyes of the stall owner next to him and quickly explained, “We were just joking.”
"You should have said so earlier!" The stall owner next door breathed a sigh of relief. "I thought you were really here to inspect food hygiene."
"..."
What is this? A confession without being asked? Yan Xun wondered.
Xie Qingdu didn't think too much about it. When he heard that Yan Xun had come to see him, he happily let Yan Xun sit on a small stool behind the stall.
"I can't leave for now," Xie Qingdu said. "Please sit here for now."
Just then, someone came to buy it. Xie Qingdu skillfully operated the machine, and in no time, a rose-shaped one was made and placed in the customer's hand.
After the customer left, he rolled up another one and handed it to Yan Xun, saying, "This is for you."
Yan Xun grabbed it with his hand, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it a few times like a goat chewing.
It melted in his mouth, so he couldn't really chew it; he could only taste the sweetness. Xie Qingdu, seeing how much he appreciated it, scratched his face a little embarrassed and said, "This is just so-so."
He moved closer to Yan Xun and said, "I did it on purpose."
"If it's just so-so, consider it a bad one and give it to you."
He whispered to Yan Xun, "Otherwise, the stall owner next to us might tell the boss."
"Even if I give him money, he'll still nag."
Yan Xun, holding up a stick, asked, "You used to work at Anxin Sanatorium?"
Just then, more parents brought their children to the stall, so Xie Qingdu had to attend to the customers first. After finishing two customers, he took a moment to turn around and say, "I'll help out there for a while."
“I have a distant relative who is in poor health. I visit him at Anxin Sanatorium whenever I have time and help him with chores,” Xie Qingdu said. At this point, the customer who bought the product had already left. He told Yan Xun, “I saw photos in the group chat yesterday, and it seems that Duan Songen also worked at the sanatorium.”
"Have you met them before?" Yan Xun asked.
“I may have seen her, but I don’t remember her,” Xie Qingdu recalled. “I heard that there was a young girl at the caregiver’s place who, like me, went to Yunshan University.”
"However, I was always in a rush when I went there, so I didn't get to see the girl much."
“I heard from my dad a few days ago that my grandma’s condition is better than when they last met.” Yan Xun sat on a plastic stool, tearing at the things in her hands.
"He said that when he visited his grandmother before, there was a relative of someone in the same ward who was also at Yunshan University."
Yan Xun put it in his mouth, "From that description, it sounds a bit like you."
“Grandma?” Xie Qingdu recalled, “There was indeed an elderly woman in my uncle’s hospital room.”
He looked at Yan Xun in surprise, "She's your grandmother?"
Yan Xun swallowed and nodded.
“She seems to have a good relationship with my uncle,” Xie Qingdu said. “Every time I go to the ward, I see them chatting…”
"She did mention to me that she has a grandson who is also at Yunshan University."
"I never imagined the world was so small," Xie Qingdu remarked.
Yan Xun remained silent for a moment, but when Xie Qingdu sensed something was amiss, he slowly spoke, "But now I suspect that she isn't actually my grandmother."
Xie Qingdu looked puzzled. "Did I mistake you for someone else?"
"No." Yan Xun lowered his head, looking somewhat dejected.
He glanced around a few times, and seeing that no one was paying attention to them, he beckoned to Xie Qingdu with his finger.
Xie Qingdu squatted down and moved closer to Yan Xun.
“I suspect I’m not my parents’ child,” Yan Xun suddenly said to Xie Qingdu, who had moved closer to him.
"Huh?" Xie Qingdu immediately looked up at Yan Xun. "How could this be!"
He instinctively wanted to ask if Yan Xun was overthinking things.
Could it be that Yan Xun's misunderstanding stemmed from his parents being too strict with him?
But when he looked up and saw the dark circles under Yan Xun's eyes, he couldn't say a word—
"Have you been losing sleep because of this?" Xie Qingdu couldn't help but ask.
Yan Xun: "Huh? Hmm."
Although he didn't know how Xie Qingdu came to the conclusion that he had insomnia.
"[Because of your dark circles, right?]" the system suddenly spoke in Yan Xun's mind. "[Your dark circles are so heavy, it looks like you haven't slept in eight lifetimes.]"
Yan Xun: "..."
"Shut up, you green-skinned, short-armed dinosaur."
While thinking this in his mind, Yan Xun maintained the appearance of being "shocked and unable to sleep because of learning a big secret." "I've been very concerned about this ever since I found out about it yesterday."
"Could there be some misunderstanding?" Xie Qingdu asked.
“I don’t think so.” Yan Xun said solemnly, taking out a photo from his phone. “I found it yesterday.”
Xie Qingdu immediately noticed the large keywords, then hesitated as he looked at Yan Xun, "This is you..."
"This is my dad."
Yan Xun rested his chin on his hand, holding a bamboo skewer wrapped with sugar threads in one hand. "I read the report. The results were the same before and after my birth."
"So I suspect I'm not my parents' child."
Xie Qingdu hesitated, the report coming from Yan Xun's father himself, who knew his own health best... Xie Qingdu looked at Yan Xun, then hesitantly reached out and patted Yan Xun's shoulder, "So, do you think you were adopted?"
“But it doesn’t matter if they’re adopted,” Xie Qingdu said. “I was adopted too.”
Yan Xun propped her chin on her hand and looked at him, "You too?"
"Yes, but the couple who adopted me passed away unexpectedly not long after they adopted me." Xie Qingdu comforted Yan Xun. "So, it doesn't matter that your parents were adopted, since they were so good to you."
“But the problem is…” Yan Xun interrupted Xie Qingdu, “I don’t think I was adopted.”
Just as Xie Qingdu's mind was filled with a melodramatic ethical drama, he heard Yan Xun say, "I suspect I am a child obtained through magic."
"...Hmm?" Xie Qingdu didn't understand Yan Xun's meaning for a moment. "A child obtained through magic?"
“Yes!” Yan Xun showed Xie Qingdu the post he had found online.
“Look, everyone who went to see this Dr. Du had a child soon after, and they all made a vow in the post.” Yan Xun said “naively”, “I’m wondering if Dr. Du used some kind of magic or secret formula to make their dreams come true.”
Xie Qingdu was a little confused by Yan Xun's astonishing thought process. "Is it possible that Dr. Du's medical skills are exceptional?"
Who would think Dr. Du used some kind of sorcery or secret formula after seeing this post?
"Or perhaps, this group of people are just online trolls hired by Dr. Du," Xie Qingdu analyzed rationally. "They were hired by the hospital to create momentum online."
"Impossible!" Yan Xun said firmly. "The reports I received before and after my birth can't lie."
“My dad went to this hospital to see Dr. Du,” Yan Xun said. “I saw his medical records.”
“And I heard…” Yan Xun suddenly lowered his voice mysteriously.
"What?" Xie Qingdu wisely leaned closer to listen.
“That Dr. Du knows a master who helps people change their luck,” Yan Xun said, looking at Lou Yanchuan. “Haven’t you read those kinds of novels?”
“A middle-aged couple who had never had children prayed to a master, who said that they could have a child as long as they knelt and prayed sincerely. Little did they know that the person they were praying to was not a true god at all.” Yan Xun gave an example, “Maybe Dr. Du used this kind of evil and crooked method.”
Xie Qingdu noticed the master Yan Xun mentioned. He instinctively felt disgusted, but he didn't show it so that Yan Xun wouldn't notice.
"A master who can change your luck?" he repeated. "Are there really such powerful masters?" He seemed to have no belief whatsoever.
Xie Qingdu then asked Yan Xun for the name of the hospital.
Upon hearing that it was XX Men's Hospital, Xie Qingdu seemed to recall something and said to Yan Xun, "I worked temporarily at that hospital for a while; it's not a legitimate hospital."
He probably wanted to say it was a fraudulent hospital, but he held back.
"I remember there was a time when people would often come to present us with banners."
"Everyone says there's a doctor in the hospital nicknamed 'Goddess of Fertility'," Xie Qingdu recalled. "Every couple who came to see him conceived within six months of going home..."
"But I didn't pay attention to what the doctor's name was at the time."
He looked at Yan Xun, "Could he be Dr. Du?"
"Definitely!" Yan Xun slapped his knee. "You also felt something was off, right!"
Xie Qingdu didn't answer immediately, but recalled an incident from the past, "I remember, one Friday afternoon, a man rushed to find Dr. Du, and even banged on the door frantically."
"Everyone in the hospital was startled at the time."
"The security guards rushed over and pulled him away."
"Unexpectedly, as soon as Dr. Du opened the door, this man immediately knelt down, grabbed Dr. Du's leg, and cried out that he was wrong and shouldn't have questioned Dr. Du..."
"He cried his heart out, as if something had happened to his own child."
“I heard from some elderly people in the hospital that he was someone who had finally had a child. When the child was first born, he would come to see Dr. Du every month, but he hasn’t seen him for the past six months.”
“Someone overheard him making a phone call in the stairwell, saying that Dr. Du was a fraud and that there was no need to come for a follow-up visit every month.”
"Dr. Du is just making a fuss and cheating people out of his child's health."
Xie Qingdu said to Yan Xun, "Many of the onlookers were just there to watch the show. Dr. Du probably couldn't bear it, so he helped him up and took him into the examination room."
"And then?" Yan Xun asked.
“I had classes at the time, so I went back to school as soon as I finished what I was doing,” Xie Qingdu said. “But it seems like Dr. Du will help him.”