286: Lack of Education

Yanjia saw the situation but didn't intervene. She was still unhappy with Su Hanyan. Every time they clashed, she ended up on the losing side. Now, she'd let Tuantuan handle her.

"Jiajia, aren't you going to do something about him?" Shen Xingchen couldn't bear it and approached Yanjia. "This kid is really out of line!"

Yanjia remained unmoved.

Seeing her lack of intention to intervene, Shen Xingchen moved forward to pull the child away.

"Don't interfere!" Yanjia stopped Shen Xingchen. "Do you know who this woman is?"

Shen Xingchen shook his head, clearly not recognizing her.

"This woman is the little fox who seduced Jin Chen Ge! Taking advantage of Yan Yan's absence, she took Jin Chen away! She even acts like she owns the Jin family now!"

"Her?" Shen Xingchen was astonished. "The shameless and unreasonable woman you mentioned?"

"Yes," Yanjia nodded. "That's her. You'll see today how annoying and unlikeable she is."

Su Hanyan grabbed Tuantuan's hand angrily and rebuked Yanjia, "Are you going to do something about this child? He's being uncontrollable!"

"Let go of me, you damn woman!" Tuantuan struggled against Su Hanyan's grip, snarling at her.

"I can't control him," Yanjia shrugged. "As you can see, he doesn't listen to me at all. Unless you give up this spot, he won't calm down!"

Su Hanyan frowned, finding no reason to argue.

"Fine, if you won't do anything, then I won't hold back." She sternly addressed the defiant child, "I'll let you go now, but listen carefully. If you cause any more trouble, I won't go easy on you! Your family might spoil you, but I won't!"

Su Hanyan's gaze was sharp, making him somewhat wary.

But as soon as Su Hanyan released him, he immediately returned to his previous behavior, though he dared not strike Su Hanyan and instead targeted the vulnerable Su Tong.

He grabbed Su Tong from the bench, causing her to fall onto the ground with a loud thud, luckily onto the soft grass that prevented her from injuring her face.

However, her already injured eye was hit again, causing Su Tong to cry out in pain.

Su Hanyan hurriedly helped Tongtong up and comforted her.

"Crybaby! Boo-hoo!" Tuantuan made faces at her and stuck out his tongue, behaving extremely arrogantly.

"You've gone too far!" Shen Xingchen couldn't stand by anymore and directly pulled Tuantuan away. "Apologize right now and then leave."

"I'm not apologizing! She deserves it! Hmph!" Tuantuan waved his hand dismissively. "Let's go! We're leaving!"

Yanjia smiled knowingly and followed Tuantuan.

"Hold on!" Su Hanyan stood up, grabbed Tuantuan's hand, and pushed him down onto the grass. She raised her hand and spanked him soundly on his buttocks.

The smacks made the mischievous child cry out in pain!

[as an eldest daughte, an older cousin in a big family, an aunt, and a godmother, im not really into hitting kids since one look is enough for them. but with kids spoiled like that? erm...]

"What are you doing?" Yanjia rushed over to shield him when she saw him crying. "You adults bullying a child! Su Hanyan, you're despicable!"

"Am I despicable? Look at you adults letting a child throw a tantrum and act unreasonably! What did you do when he started hitting people? I've said it before, if you won't do anything, I will!" Su Hanyan's tone grew more forceful as she continued to discipline him.

Such misbehaved children really lack proper education!

[but kids.. there's only one way u can get to them. explain it clearly and give an alternative]

287: You Are Unkind, Don't Blame Me for Being Unjust

"Stop it!" Yanjia pushed Su Hanyan away and hugged Tuantuan tightly, glaring at her with hatred. "Let me tell you, Su Hanyan, just because you're Jin Chen Ge's girlfriend, don't think I won't do anything to you! If anything happens to Tuantuan, I'll fight you!"

"What could possibly happen to him?" Su Hanyan clapped her hands, stood up, and pulled Tongtong beside her. "Did you all see that? This child's eye is injured and in pain. You adults are condoning him bullying her! Do you have any humanity left? Let me tell you, if anything is wrong with Tongtong's eye, I'll demand an explanation at your doorstep!"

The child had been hit, and the anger had been vented.

Su Hanyan sat down on the bench with Su Tong, handing her some popcorn. "Tongtong, eat!"

Tongtong obediently took the popcorn and started eating.

Tuantuan was furious and kept causing trouble. "No, I want you to hit her! Hit her!"

Yanjia dared to curse Su Hanyan, but when it came to taking action, she hesitated. "Let's go, let's go! There's no reasoning with her!"

Su Hanyan coldly snorted and ignored her.

Tuantuan had never been wronged since he was little, so he kept causing trouble and refused to leave.

Shen Xingchen couldn't stand it anymore and directly picked up Tuantuan. "Let's go, let's go, Uncle will take you away!"

Tuantuan bit Shen Xingchen's shoulder fiercely. "No, I won't go! I want you to hit her! Hit that stinky woman to death! Hit that stinky woman and the one-eyed dragon!"

Shen Xingchen winced in pain.

Su Hanyan looked on coldly, curious to see how far these two would go to spoil the child!

"If you keep causing trouble, I'll hit you too!" Shen Xingchen was headache-stricken. "Tuantuan, let me tell you, if you hit people and cause trouble again, this will be the last time I take you out to play. Do you understand?"

This tactic finally worked.

Tuantuan quieted down.

"Let's go, hurry up!" Yanjia breathed a sigh of relief. "Let's go, even if we're unlucky today! When we get back, Auntie will make it up to you and buy you delicious food!"

"Okay!" Tuantuan cheered up. He turned his head and looked at Su Tong, who was eating popcorn. He ran over and spat directly onto her popcorn.

Tongtong was so angry that she burst into tears again.

Su Hanyan felt a headache coming on.

Yanjia hurriedly hugged Tuantuan protectively. "Let's go, let's go, hurry up!"

"Fine, if you're unkind, don't blame me for being unjust." She said, taking out an ice cream from her bag and walking towards Tuantuan. "Little friend, our war ends here. Take this ice cream as a peace offering, alright?"

Seeing that Su Hanyan was offering him peace with ice cream, Tuantuan immediately nodded in agreement.

He had been wanting to eat this ice cream all along. Neither Auntie nor Uncle would buy it for him. Now that someone was giving it to him directly, he eagerly reached out to take it.

"Don't eat it!" Yanjia dared not let him eat it, snatching the ice cream away and tossing it into the lake with a wave of her hand. "Are you trying to get a stomachache?"

Seeing this, Tuantuan started causing trouble again. He rolled on the ground, crying and shouting, causing endless trouble.

Yanjia couldn't get close to him at all.

"Su Hanyan! This is all your fault! You did it on purpose, you vicious woman, full of malice! My Brother Jin Chen must be blind to fall for you!" Yanjia stomped her feet in anger.

Su Hanyan casually lifted a soda bottle and leisurely took a sip. "Okay, I'll remember that. I'll tell Jin Chen Ge everything you just said when I see him. Let's see how he reacts!"

288: You Brought This Upon Yourself

"Su Hanyan!! You shameless woman! I knew early on that you weren't a good person! Xingchen, did you see that? Did you see this shrew?" Yan Jia vented angrily, hurling insults.

Su Hanyan reached up to scratch her ear, set her soda bottle down on the bench, and stood up beside Yan Jia. "Say one more word and see what happens! I've already tolerated you enough! Don't always challenge my limits!"

"I'll say it! You shameless... not a good..." Yan Jia's words were cut short as Su Hanyan smirked, lifted her leg, and kicked Yan Jia straight into the lake behind her. "You brought this upon yourself!"

Yan Jia fell into the water, panicked and shouted, "Help! I can't swim!"

Shen Xingchen dove in, quickly pulling Yan Jia out. He stared at Su Hanyan with a hint of anger in his eyes. "You're going too far, aren't you? What if someone drowned?"

Su Hanyan sneered, "If she drowned, it'd just be one less scoundrel in the world! Wouldn't that be nice?"

With that said, she took Su Tong's hand and walked away. "Tongtong, this place isn't good. Let's go somewhere else."

Yan Jia climbed out of the water, clothes soaked and sticking to her body. Ignoring her wet clothes, she hugged a large willow tree on the shore, then vomited violently into the tree hollow.

She had just swallowed a few gulps of water, her mouth full of the fishy taste of lake water, which she couldn't stand.

"This is unbearable." She vomited for a long time, feeling that everything in her stomach had been emptied, and then leaned against the big tree to catch her breath. "See that? This woman is too hateful! What does she mean by calling me a scoundrel?"

"Probably means you're social scum," Shen Xingchen analyzed.

"Damn it!" Yan Jia felt weak from vomiting, "Let's go home! I'm not in the mood to play anymore!"

"What about him?" Shen Xingchen pointed to Tuantuan, who was still rolling on the ground, frowning and saying, "How did Yan Jing let him become like this?"

"Buy him ice cream! Let him eat, let him eat! Eating will make him behave! I'm out of tricks, if he wants to have diarrhea, he'll have it, purely his own doing."

"Alright." Shen Xingchen was also out of ideas. Dealing with this little guy was really beyond ordinary people.

Tuantuan finally got his ice cream, wiping away tears of sorrow. "You adults are really something. If you had bought it for me earlier, wouldn't that have been better? You made me cry so hard!"

"Go ahead, eat it. If it makes you uncomfortable, we'll give you an injection at the hospital!" Yan Jia said angrily.

"I won't."

As a result, this one ice cream cone caused trouble. Before they even got home, Tuantuan had stomach pain, diarrhea, and a fever.

Helpless, Yan Jia and Shen Xingchen had to take him to the hospital.

By the time they were waiting in line at the hospital, he had caused trouble several times with vomiting and diarrhea. By the time he saw the doctor, he was completely wilted.

"Hang an IV." The doctor said, "Look at his condition, he's already dehydrated and has electrolyte imbalance. He needs fluids to resolve the problem."

The doctor wrote a prescription, and Shen Xingchen and Yan Jia took him to the ward for the infusion. As a result, when the nurse came, the struggle resumed.

Two nurses couldn't control a child of eight or nine.

"What should we do? This child isn't cooperating! Let's comfort him first. When he calms down, we'll try again!" The nurse was busy and didn't have time to waste here.

"Ah, I'll go find my brother." Shen Xingchen sighed helplessly. "Maybe Tuantuan will listen to him."

289: Guess Who She Is

Shen Xingchen knocked on Jin Chen's office door and found Jin Chen already packing up to leave for the day.

"Brother! Are you leaving?" Shen Xingchen asked.

"No surgeries today, so I'm heading home," Jin Chen replied. "What brings you here? Is someone in the family unwell?"

"No," Shen Xingchen leaned against his desk with his hands in his pockets. "Brother, Tuantuan is sick. The doctor recommended an IV, but he's been causing a scene and not listening. I'm at my wit's end, so I came to find you!"

Jin Chen furrowed his brow. "A good beating would straighten him out."

"Brother, you can't say that! You know how old Yan Jingjie was when she finally had this little treasure. He's treated like a fragile gem, too precious to drop and too delicate to mishandle! He's like the apple of her eye!"

"That's why he's so unruly."

"Brother, come on! Let's go see him! He's been crying so hard he's almost passed out!"

"Let's go," Jin Chen pursed his lips.

In the hospital room, the child was still causing a commotion, crying hoarsely as if someone were trying to kill him.

Yan Jia was sweating profusely, desperate to soothe him but without success.

Shen Xingchen rushed in and said to Yan Jia, "Here, here, the savior is here!"

Shortly after, Jin Chen arrived. He approached the bed and looked at the crying Tuantuan, speaking in a deep voice, "Do you still want to see your mom?"

Tuantuan heard someone speaking to him, opened his eyes, and saw Jin Chen. He immediately shrank back. "I... want to see."

"If you want to see, then behave."

"I'm scared! I'm scared of needles! Can I just take medicine? I don't want needles, Uncle..." Tuantuan cried, snot and tears streaming down. "Please, can I?"

"Medicine won't cure your illness!" Jin Chen looked down at him, his voice calm and steady. "You have to have the IV."

"But... but..."

"No 'buts'." Jin Chen locked eyes with him, "Tuantuan, you have to listen. Now I'm going to put in the needle. If you cause any more trouble, it won't be just a needle waiting for you."

"What will it be?" he wiped his tears.

"A surgical knife," Jin Chen said, "I'll cut open your belly with a surgical knife..."

"I'll have the needle, the needle... I don't want surgery! I don't want it!" Tuantuan was scared and immediately quieted down, obediently extending his hand to cooperate with the IV.

Jin Chen took the IV needle from the nurse's hand, skillfully inserted it into Tuantuan's vein. He glanced up and saw Tuantuan tightly closing his eyes, teeth clenched.

"Good job," Jin Chen smiled faintly. "Getting a needle isn't so bad. Don't cause any more trouble from now on!"

Tuantuan nodded eagerly.

"I knew you could do it!" Shen Xingchen sighed with relief. "This kid is really hard to handle. No one else can control him but you."

"You spoil him too much," Jin Chen said, then glanced at Yan Jia, noticing her soaking wet clothes and muddy pants. He casually asked, "What happened to you?"

"I was pushed into the water by that shrew!!!" Yan Jia had been holding back, waiting to complain to Jin Chen. "I've had the worst luck today, encountered a shameless woman. She got into an argument with the child she brought along, then pushed me into the water!"

"Really?" Jin Chen was somewhat skeptical.

"It's true," Shen Xingchen nodded, "Brother, guess who that woman is?"

290: Pity for You

"I couldn't care less about whoever loves whom. I have urgent matters to attend to," Jin Chen glanced at his watch. "I'm leaving now, you two can stay."

With that said, without waiting for their response, he turned and left the hospital room.

"Hey!" Yan Jia chased after him. "Don't go! Yan Yan will be here soon. It's been so long since we've gathered together. Wait for her to come, let's have a meal together?"

"No time," Jin Chen replied without looking back, and walked away.

"Jin Chen, today it was Su Hanyan who pushed me into the water! You like that shrewish woman, I really pity you!"

Jin Chen hesitated for a moment, then continued walking away with long strides.

Back in the hospital room, Yan Jia's mood was downcast. "It's been several years, and Jin Chen is still the same, completely indifferent! Xingchen, you have no idea how much Yan Yan wants to have a meal with him... Every time we try to arrange something, it's either no response or an excuse of being busy..."

"Maybe he really is busy?" Shen Xingchen suggested. "I've tried to contact him several times, but each time he's been at work."

"He's free today, isn't he?"

"Haven't you heard he had something important to do?"

"What could be so important? I bet he went to see his girlfriend!"

Shen Xingchen tried to imagine it in his mind, but he couldn't picture Jin Chen with a girlfriend.

Especially with Su Hanyan, that woman was so fierce. She was attractive, yes, but his cousin wasn't the type to only appreciate a woman's appearance.

"That woman is quite something..." Shen Xingchen muttered to himself. "I never knew my cousin liked that kind of woman."

"It's all that vixen seducing him!" Yan Jia fumed. "I can't stand this anymore. I need to find a way to vent this frustration!"

...

When Su Hanyan returned to the courtyard with Su Tong, the sky was almost dark. Su Dajiang had already prepared dinner and was waiting for them to return.

"Hanyan, let's eat before going back?" Su Dajiang suggested.

"Okay," Su Hanyan agreed readily.

Dinner was served in Su Dajiang and Wei Guiqin's room. Aside from Wei Guiqin, who couldn't get out of bed, everyone else gathered around the table.

"Let's eat." Su Dajiang picked up his chopsticks, picked up a piece of meat, and put it in Su Tong's bowl. "Tongtong, eat more meat. The more you eat, the faster your eyes will heal."

"Thank you, Grandpa." Tongtong smiled at Su Dajiang and earnestly started eating.

"Hanyan, how are the child's eyes? What did the doctor say, and..." Su Dajiang paused halfway through his words, but everyone could guess what he meant.

"There's a cure." Su Hanyan affirmed. "The reason I stayed for dinner today is to explain this matter."

Upon hearing about a cure, everyone put down their chopsticks and looked at Su Hanyan.

"What kind of treatment is it? Tell us quickly!" Su Dajiang asked anxiously.

"This will require quite a bit of money, right?" Wu Jiaojiao immediately thought of the money issue. "If it's too much, I don't have it. You're the one who makes money, you have to give the child some money."

"Sister-in-law!" Su Jingrui couldn't stand it anymore. "It's already this late, and you're still talking about money issues. Tongtong's eyes are important. Is your money more important?"

"Third Brother, don't stand here and talk nonsense. If you're worried, you'll have to pay for Tongtong!" Wu Jiaojiao straightened up and rubbed her stomach. "In a few months, my belly won't hide anymore! I'm definitely not staying here! I have to find another place. When the child is born, I'll definitely have to pay a fine, and it's a big sum of money!"

"Let's set aside the issue of money for now." Su Hanyan stared at her coldly. "Right now, I need something from you!"

"As long as it's not money, you can have it."

"Okay." Su Hanyan said, "Tongtong wants to regain her sight, she needs a cornea! You are her mother, so I'll ask you to donate a cornea!"

"What's a cornea?" Wu Jiaojiao didn't understand.

"Let me explain it simply. Tongtong can't see because her cornea is ruptured! If you can transplant your cornea to her, she'll be able to see again!"