After hearing her mother’s words, Xiao Yiqing hesitated for a moment before she said."I don’t want to make you worry."
"You are my daughter, I will always be worried about you. Have you eaten?" Mother Xiao asked.
"Not yet."
Mother Xiao sighed again and said, "Your Aunt Pan is here with me. We will go visit you and Zigu. You should find something to eat first."
"Alright."
"Which room is your husband staying in?" Mother Xiao asked again.
"It’s room number 328."
"Okay, go eat something. We will be there soon, don’t worry too much. Everything will be alright," Mother Xiao reassured her daughter.
"Mn, thank you, Mother."
"Silly child, is there a need for thanks between mother and daughter? Alright, Mother won’t chat with you for now. I’m hanging up," Mother Xiao said.
"Okay."
After her mother hung up, Xiao Yiqing paid the phone call fee before going to buy a bowl of light fish soup for her husband and two steamed buns for herself. When she returned to her husband’s ward, she saw him still sleeping. So, she sat beside his bed and ate her breakfast.
Meanwhile, in the Xiao family’s house, Mother Pan noticed her friend’s worried expression and asked, "Xirui, what’s wrong?"
"My son-in-law was injured during his mission and hospitalized. I want to go visit him," Mother Xiao said.
Mother Pan nodded and replied, "I will go with you, but I want to go back to get something first."
Hearing this, Mother Xiao said, "There’s no need to bother yourself. I will just ask the kitchen to boil some chicken soup and pack lunch for them."
Mother Pan leaned closer to her friend and said in a low voice, "I want to get the ginseng powder sent by my daughter. I heard from her that it was made from 500-year-old ginseng found by Jueyu and mixed with several rare medicinal herbs."
The moment Mother Xiao heard this, she was surprised and quickly said, "No, you should keep it for your family. It’s too precious."
"It’s precious, but is it more precious than human life?" Mother Pan asked with a frown.
Seeing that her friend wanted to refuse again, she held her hands and said, "Xirui, being injured during a mission might leave some problems in the body. Those are gunshot wounds, not just a fever or a knife cut."
"No matter how precious the ginseng powder is, it only serves its function when used. If it’s just stored at my house, it will just become a useless powder."
"But—"
Before Mother Xiao could say another word, Mother Pan interrupted her, "I saw your children grow up and treat them as my own. What’s wrong with a mother giving something to her son-in-law? Alright, that’s settled. I will go back first and meet you at the hospital."
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