“Tomorrow I will go find Dr Zeng and ask her exactly what happened last night. A-Jian’s drunkenness must definitely be connected to her.”
“She does not love our son. Tell her to move far away, so far that A-Jian can never see her again. Then A-Jian will slowly let go of his feelings for her and live a good life with Yuehua in the future.”
Father Lin said, “She is a native of Dongguan city. Her family has lived there for generations. Telling her to move far away is really too unreasonable.”
“I do not care. In any case, my son got drunk and hurt his body because of her. She either moves away, moves very far, cuts all contact with my son, or else she accepts my son’s feelings.”
“Seeing A-Jian so drunk made my heart ache.”
Mother Lin did not care whether she was right or wrong. She simply felt heartbroken for her son.
She said those words and really acted on them.
As soon as it was light, she went to the hospital to find Zeng Xiaoya. Zeng Xiaoya was working, but she ignored all the patients waiting to see the doctor. She walked straight into Zeng Xiaoya’s clinic and slammed the table while questioning her.
“Zeng Xiaoya, let me ask you what exactly you said to my son last night? What did you do?”
“It made my son run to a bar and drink himself into a stupor. He could not even walk.”
“This is not the first time he got dead drunk because of you. I know you, Dr Zeng, have climbed up to a higher branch and now look down on my son. If you look down on him, then stay far away from him. Move house quickly, the farther the better. Best if my son never sees you again for the rest of his life.”
The patients waiting for treatment were all startled by Mother Lin’s aggressive questioning.
Zeng Xiaoya was completely speechless.
She said to Mother Lin, “Auntie, I did not say anything to Senior Lin last night, and I did not do anything either.”
“Senior Lin did come to my house, but he was not looking for me. He got drunk. What does that have to do with me? I did not ask him to go drinking.”
“I have always treated Senior Lin only as a senior. I never gave him any hope and never promised him anything. If Senior Lin wants to drink, it really has nothing to do with me. That is his freedom. He is not a three-year-old child. He is an adult. He must bear the consequences of whatever he does.”
“Also, my rejection of Senior Lin has nothing to do with anyone else. Please do not talk nonsense here. I do not look down on Senior Lin.”
Zeng Xiaoya never expected Mother Lin to be so utterly unreasonable.
Last night, after Senior Lin talked with Zhan Yue, he left. Where he went, Zhan Yue said he did not know, and she knew even less.
So it turned out Senior Lin went drinking and got drunk. His mother felt heartbroken for him. Zeng Xiaoya could understand that, but Mother Lin should not blame her for Senior Lin getting drunk.
She did not love Senior Lin, and that was that. She had refused him long ago, never gave him hope, and never promised anything.
Mother Lin was completely unreasonable. Not only did she blame everything on her, but she even demanded that she move house.
“I do not care. My son got drunk because of you. You either move away, or accept my son’s feelings. But a woman like you, I do not like. What good would it do to marry you into our family?”
“You are not as attentive and considerate as Yuehua. You do not know how to take care of my son. Apart from a bit of medical skill, what else can you do?”
“My son is also a doctor. He is not inferior to you at all. He earns much more money than you. Do you really think that just because your family has a little better conditions you can act superior? That wealth was accumulated by your grandfather’s generation, not by you.”
“You even look down on my A-Jian. Pah, I am the one who looks down on you. Let me tell you, my daughter-in-law will only be Yuehua. Get as far away from me as you can. Just seeing your face makes me sick.”
