CHAPTER 397 HEALTH IS BLESSING
However, the condition of the child didn’t look so good. He’s afraid that his baby would be disappointed and sad.
“Okay, I believe you. Let’s go and check on Olive first, then you’ll bring me to Dandan.” Annie took his hand, didn’t need anyone to lead her. Even if it’s full of winding corridors, she had already remembered the way to Olive’s ward.
Olive was in a daze while sitting next to the window. Even after both father and daughter came in, she didn’t respond.
Alan walked over and put his arms on her shoulders, “Wifey, what are you thinking about that you’re so engrossed in it?”
It’s rare to see her like this, sitting her, as if she’s out of herself.
Was she being engrossed in it? She only had a difficult decision.
When she saw her daughter, the confusion she had just now, faded away. Then, she smiled with joy, “Why are you bringing Annie here again?”
The immune of a kid isn’t as strong as an adult. There are more bacteria and germs in the hospital. A kid should visit the hospital less.
Alan whispered, “The kid that she wants to meet, is also in this hospital. She has congenital heart disease and her condition isn’t so good at this moment. I’m afraid that Annie will be sad when she knows.”
Olive was startled, congenital?
“But you’ve promised her, that she will meet the kid today.”
“Right” Alan let out a sigh, “Let's bring her there. She will definitely be sad and after learning that her best friend is seriously ill and could die anytime. If we don’t take her there, she would feel being abandoned by her best friend. I’m afraid that it will affect her trust in her friends in the future.”
It’s actually hard being parents. You have to consider a lot to your children since you’re afraid that she’s hurt.
“Just let her visit then. Dandan has helped Annie a lot at the nursery. We should go and visit her based on this.” It was such a pity for such a young kid to suffer severely from a serious illness.
Dandan’s ward was located next building on the third floor. It was clamorous here. There were three to five patients in each ward. Some of them were sitting in the corridor while having the IV drip.
The cry of children and the curse of adults were all mixed up with a peculiar smell.
The doctors and nurses here didn’t seem to be as gentle and polite as the ward that she came from. All of them yelled in loud voices.
Dandan’s ward was located at the end of the corridor.
The people didn’t pass by here frequently, so it seemed to be quieter. But, there’s still the screaming of some patients and family members.
As the door of the ward was opened, there were six beds inside. Every bed was occupied with a patient. Dandan’s mother, Li Xiaoyun, was sitting at the edge of the third bed, quietly looking at the thin little girl on the bed. Her daughter received an injection just now and had fallen asleep.
The cost of the surgery was expensive. Even if she sold the house that was left by her parents, it was still far from enough. Even if the cost was covered, where could she find a suitable heart for her
daughter? Moreover, her daughter was too young, even if they found a heart for her, she wouldn’t be suitable for the transplantation at all.
“Auntie, is Dandan sick?” Annie quietly asked.
Her voice made Li Xiaoyun raised her head. When she saw them, she was startled. Then she quickly wiped her tears and got up, “Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle, why are you here?”
Nobody knew about Dandan being hospitalized. She had no relatives in this city and her parents had passed away a long time ago. Her daughter was her only precious one, but now God also wanted to take her away.
Annie then said, “Dandan hasn’t come to the nursery for a week. I went to your house, but you’ve moved out. I thought that Dandan didn’t want me as a friend anymore. Auntie, is Dandan seriously ill?”
She had arrived for quite some time, but Dandan didn’t open her eyes to look at her.
Li Xiaoyun patted Annie’s head. It must be good for a girl as big as Dandan to be so healthy. Her daughter didn’t have many friends in the nursery. So, it’s enough to have someone concerned about her.
“Annie, you’re such a good girl. Dandan is sleeping now. When she wakes up later, Auntie will tell her that you came and visit her. She will be very happy. Recently, she kept telling me that she wants to go to nursery.”
“Then, I’ll often visit her in the future. After she’s recovered, she can go to the nursery together with me.”
“Okay,” Li Xiaoyun turned her back against the kid and quietly wiped her tears. She didn’t know if her daughter could return to school one day.
After knowing that she wasn’t abandoned by her best friend, Annie’s disappointment was gradually gone. But, Dandan’s illness also made her sad again.
Annie took Alan’s hand as they walked out of the ward, “Uncle, aren’t you very good?”
As he walked, he lowered his head to speak with the small lady. In this crowded corridor, he would bump into people frequently. Alan casually carried his daughter, “What happened?”
“Can you find a good doctor to cure Dandan soon? I see that those people wearing white coats here are very fierce. There aren’t as cute as those in Mommy’s ward.”
Even a kid could feel this level of treatment, which showed a big difference.
Alan sent his daughter home and called Olive, “Wifey, I still have something to do. I’ll come over later.” holds © this.
“Okay!”
His little wife also didn’t ask him about what he’s going to do, causing him didn’t even know how should he start teasing her.
He and Aoba went to see their Empress like mother. Dr. Gu was giving her a massage.
Seeing them coming, Madam Hoyle waved her hand. After Dr. Gu nodded slightly at the brothers, he left quietly, and closed the door.
Madam Hoyle was obviously still angry, “Didn’t both of you request me not to make a move yesterday? The woman is so important, even when it didn’t matter when your old mother was so angry about it. Why are you in the mood to care about your unfamiliar mother? Why don’t you stay with your women, spend the days with them? You don’t have care about what this old lady does.”
Alan frowned slightly. His little wife was right. Jealously wasn’t simply between men and women, but a mother-in-law could also be jealous of her daughter-in-law.
“The reason for my visit, first, Olive asked me to apologize to you. Second, there are some documents that you need to see.”
Madam Hoyle raised her eyes slightly and looked at him, “She asked you to apologize to me?”
“Yes,” Alan valued his words like gold.
Madam Hoyle opened her mouth, hesitated to say something, only to drop her intention. Her eyes fell on the archive envelope in his hands and asked coldly, “What document?”
Alan handed over without speaking much.
Madam Hoyle glanced at both her sons, unwrapped the white cover on the envelope, and took out several pages of the documents. She didn’t respond when she looked at the first page, frowned slightly as she reached the second page, and dumbfounded as she reached the third one.
These documents contained the secret of Finn Meyer’s thoughts that nobody knew.
Over the past few months, the Hoyle Group’s scattered shares of several shareholders had been continuously acquired by an unknown company, to the point where its shares came close to the Hoyle’s. Finn also generously poured a lot of money to compete with this company, which looked like he was on the Hoyle’s side. But in the end, the result was still the same.
“How is this possible? How could Finn do this?” Madam Hoyle’s hand trembled. She obviously couldn’t process this sudden information, “Why didn’t you inform me earlier?”
Alan was indifferent, “I’ve reminded you already. But you were confident in your relationship with them for so many years and that their characters are worthy of your trust.”
Madam Hoyle was speechless by her son’s reminder. After a long while, because of her tight grip, the corner of the document was torn.
“How long have you got these?”
“Just a few months”
It’s also been a few months since that company attacked theirs.
“Then, why don’t you give this to me earlier?”
She had always been grateful for what the Meyer family had done to the Hoyle family. So she worked hard to match Alan and Ophelia up for marriage. Although when Alan had magnificently married Olive now, she still felt that the suitable one as the wife of Hoyle’s Group CEO still belonged to Ophelia.
But it turned out, she was just a laughing stock, who didn’t even know that she was someone else’s pawn.
Alan faintly said, “In order not to act rashly and alerted the enemy, also to eliminate them clearly.”
“The reason that eldest brother didn’t inform you, was because he knew your temper. You would definitely go to Uncle Finn and ask him.” Aoba said on the side. It was him, who noticed this, and it only took him a few days. His eldest brother had been burdened by it all this time.
“So, you deliberately neglected the Hoyle Group.” Madam Hoyle suddenly completely understood.
“That’s how it was.” Alan didn’t deny it.
“You once said that your father’s death was related to Finn. Is it true?” Madam Hoyle grabbed her chest. Because she held it tightly, the veins on her hand bulged out. They were such good brothers, how could he be so cruel?
Alan said, “Whether it’s real or not, it is already so obvious. It’s just, if we want to convict him, I haven’t got all the evidence yet. Not only for Dad’s death, but also for Karl’s suicide, also Zhou Wannian being dismissed from the board of directors, he would be held responsible for all of it.”
“What do you think his purpose of scheming all of this?” Madam Hoyle couldn’t figure it out.
“We should ask him about it.” Alan took the documents off her hands, walked to the bathroom, took out a lighter, and burned it. In just a few seconds, it turned into ashes, and was flushed down to the drain.
Madam Hoyle understood that this was because he didn’t want Ophelia to know that they already acquired these pieces of evidence, and needed her to pretend to be ignorant.
She wondered a bit now. Ophelia, did she know about her father’s scheme or she participated completely in his plan? If it was the latter, then this woman’s thought was too frightening.
“How long have you suspected Finn?”
“Five years”
Madam Hoyle was startled, Aoba also couldn’t help but yell, “Five years?”
That means, eldest brother was really putting up with it. He didn’t miss the slightest hint and had been dealing with that old fox, Finn Meyer, for five years. He couldn’t imagine his hardship.
Alan smiled sternly, “Everyone thinks that the changes in the Hoyle Group five years ago were because of internal dispute. They didn’t expect that it was because of a dispute between brothers. At that time, I could only suspect without any hard pieces of evidence. I could only collect each of it in the past two to three years.”
Madam Hoyle sank weakly into the couch. She rubbed her forehead, couldn’t imagine that things suddenly would turn out this way.
“Then, what will happen to Hoyle Group now?” This was her husband’s hard work in his life. She mustn’t ruin it.