Chapter 416 Yearning for Warmth

Xiang Xianglan didn't know why she came here.

Mingming had plenty of friends and classmates in Haishi, besides the Xiang family. She could easily stay with any of them for a few days.

However, after being slapped by Madam Xiang, she subconsciously walked to the hotel where Qiao Qiao and the others were staying.

She had the money and could have booked a room, but she insisted on waiting in the lobby downstairs.

It wasn't until she was pulled upstairs, and Yan Liti had the hotel staff boil eggs and bring them up, gently rolling a silk scarf over her swollen cheek, that Xiang Xianglan finally understood why she had insisted on waiting for them.

She was craving the warmth these people showed to Fu Yu, and she hoped that the warmth would fall on her.

She was the youngest child in the Xiang family. Perhaps in other families, she would be the most pampered one.

But quite the opposite.

Her two older brothers were valued by their parents because they were boys.

Her older sister, being the parents' first child, was especially pampered.

She was born into a family with both a son and a daughter, but her parents didn't love her.

She had previously thought that once she got into university and became a college student, her family would pay more attention to her.

But her parents said that in a family like theirs, girls don't need to study so much. Her greatest value is to get married, like her older sister, to marry a man who is interested in the family business.

This time, regarding Xiang Jiajia's matter, her mother glared at her angrily, scolding her for being heartless, ruthless, and even harming her own sister, calling her a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Xiang Xianglan didn't understand. Looking at Yan Liti, who was rubbing her face with a silk handkerchief, she choked up and asked, "Aunt Yan, did I really do something wrong?"

"What do you think?" Yan Liti didn't answer, but instead asked in return.

Xiang Xianglan lowered her head: "I don't know."

Her mother said that if Fu Yu did not withdraw the charges against her sister, her sister's life would be ruined.

She shouldn't have kept this a secret; she should have informed them first.

What was originally a private family matter has now escalated into a public issue, making it impossible to resolve.

But.

But how can this be considered a family matter?

Fu Tengfei and her sister actually tried to kill Xiaoyu back then.

They even tracked Xiaoyu to the city where she was abducted; they were determined to wipe her out completely.

This is murder! It's murder for money!

The knowledge Xiang Xianglan had acquired told her that she couldn't turn a blind eye; she should help Xiao Yu.

“I did nothing wrong, did I?” Xiang Xianglan looked up and asked Yan Liti.

Yan Liti looked at her with a smile.

"Auntie." Fu Yu sat down next to Xiang Xianglan without her noticing, touched her hand, and after Xiang Xianglan looked at him, he said to her earnestly, "Thank you, Auntie."

"Auntie, here you go." Qiao Qiao also took out a small dried fruit that she had recently made from her pocket.

This dried fruit is made from green fruit.

When she left Jinshi, it had just ripened in the bracelet space. It was about the size of a thumb and was green. She ate it like a fruit.

For ordinary people in this world, this fruit has healing properties that can remove blood stasis and reduce swelling, and it is especially effective for injuries caused by external forces.

While eating the fruit herself, Qiao Qiao also made dried fruit using the same method, planning to keep some for her biological father, Shen Qingyan, as a reserve medicine, and send the rest to her uncle, Qiao Changqing.

She hasn't helped treat her uncle Qiao Changqing's health yet, so she doesn't know if this fruit will be effective.

If it works, that would be great. If it doesn't, we can only wait until she has more spiritual power before we can help her heal.

When unripe fruit is dried, it looks very much like green raisins.

At first, Xiang Xianglan thought it really was raisins. She found it a little funny, thinking that Qiao Qiao was trying to coax her like a child.

However, she didn't refuse, but accepted it: "Thank you, Qiaoqiao."

Xiang Xianglan put a raisin-sized piece of dried fruit into her mouth. Just as she was about to chew, she felt it melt into a sweet, juicy liquid in her mouth and instantly slide down her throat.

She stared in surprise, her eyes widening.

She asked in confusion, "Qiaoqiao, isn't this a raisin? How come it melts in my mouth?"

And she didn't know if it was just her imagination, but she felt that as the sweet water slid down, the stinging spot on her right cheek from the slap suddenly stopped hurting.

“They’re not raisins, they’re candied beans,” Qiao Qiao replied. Seeing the slap mark on her face disappear at a visible speed, she took out two more: “Does Auntie want some more?”

Xiang Xianglan smiled and accepted it: "Okay, thank you, it's quite delicious."

Xiang Xianglan didn't think much of it, assuming that Qiao Qiao had bought the candy somewhere.

Little girls all love to eat candy.

After coaxing Xiang Xianglan, Qiao Qiao pulled Fu Yu into a corner and this time turned the whole bag inside out, pouring a handful of dried fruit into his palm.

"Brother Yu, you should eat this too. It's good for your leg injury."

She lifted his palm, which was full of dried fruit, and urged him to put it all in his mouth.

Fu Yu's leg injury has almost fully recovered. Apart from a gruesome scar at the surgical incision site that prevents her from running vigorously, there is basically no abnormality when she walks normally.

However, since there were quite a few ripe green fruits in the bracelet space, they weren't particularly rare, and Qiao Qiao thought it wouldn't hurt to give Fu Yu more to eat.

Maybe after eating it, his leg will really recover to its pre-fracture state.

Looking at the handful of dried green fruit in her palm, which was many times more than Xiang Xianglan's, Fu Yu's eyes flashed with joy.

"Don't you feel bad about giving me so much?" Of course he knew how precious Qiao Qiao's things were.

"What's there to feel bad about?" Qiao Qiao looked at him, puzzled.

Fu Yu smiled, the corners of her mouth turning up.

But he didn't listen to her and stuff it all into his mouth. Instead, he carefully put it all into his pocket.

"I'll eat slowly," he explained in response to Qiao Qiao's puzzled look.

"???" Qiao Qiao.

Does this thing have a different therapeutic effect if you take it all at once versus taking it slowly?

Qiao Qiao didn't understand.

However, she didn't ask. It's their right to use what they've given them.

Judging from the Xiang family's reaction today, Xiang Jiajia's matter won't be resolved so easily; everyone knows there's more to come.

However, no one expected that Old Madam Xiang could be so shameless.

She actually knelt down in the bustling hotel lobby in front of Fu Yu, who was in a hurry to go back to his room upstairs after seeing him.

They had just come down from the elevator to have breakfast, and after finishing, they were preparing to go back to their rooms to rest for a while.

After a night of rest, Xiang Xianglan had regained her energy and walked at the front, occasionally turning back to introduce the most interesting places in Haishi to Yan Liti.

As I approached the corner between the elevator and the lobby, I accidentally bumped into someone.

She quickly turned around and apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, is there anything wrong...?"

Before he could finish speaking, he met the gaze of the pale-faced Old Madam Xiang.

"Mom..." Xiang Xianglan called out subconsciously.