My Beloved Super Fierce Wife
Chapter 525 won’t be cut by a knife, right?... (Additional update)

Chapter 525: 525 won’t be cut by a knife, right?... (Additional update)

Grandma Yang was still in a daze when she was suddenly helped up by Lin Tang, and the old lady obviously didn’t quite respond.

Seeing that it was too hot outside, Lin Tang hastily helped Grandma Yang to sit in the courtyard.

She poured a glass of water and handed it to the elderly woman, "Grandma Yang, have some water first."

The courtyard was very refreshing, and Grandma Yang felt her mind becoming clearer.

She took a sip of water, put down the back of her hand, and took hold of Lin Tang’s hand.

"Tangtang, I really don’t know what to do..." Grandma Yang’s voice was unusually hoarse.

Lin Tang didn’t know what had happened, and asked gently, "What is it? Did you come by yourself? Have you eaten?"

Grandma Yang seemed unsure of where to begin, her lips moved, but she said nothing.

Lin Tang waited patiently.

She knew that at this moment she should be a listener.

After a while, Grandma Yang wiped her dry eyes that could not produce tears and shook her head.

"It’s nothing. Do you have something to eat?"

Seeing that she was reluctant to speak, Lin Tang did not insist and stood up, saying, "I’ll make something, it’ll be ready in no time."

With that, she turned and went straight to the kitchen without further ado.

Today she had made noodles, and there was still a bit of meat sauce left, just enough to prepare something for Grandma Yang.

After boiling the noodles and lifting them into a bowl, Lin Tang carried the noodles back to the courtyard and placed the bowl in front of Grandma Yang.

"The noodles are ready."

Grandma Yang came to her senses, said thank you, and silently ate her noodles.

She seemed truly hungry, eating bite after bite, and in no time at all, the bowl was empty.

After finishing, Grandma Yang stood up, intending to take the bowl back to the kitchen.

Lin Tang quickly pressed down on Grandma Yang’s hand and took away the bowl, "I’ll do it, you sit and rest for a while."

After washing the bowl in the kitchen, she sat down next to Grandma Yang.

"Would you like to sleep for a while?" Lin Tang asked softly, treating Grandma Yang as if she were her own grandmother.

Having been cared for thoroughly by Lin Tang, from her body to her heart, Grandma Yang felt as if she had been bathed in a spring breeze, dissipating half of the gloom inside her.

"I won’t sleep. I’ll just sit for a while and then head back. Your courtyard is quite comfortable."

"Thank you for today."

Lin Tang’s smile lifted the corners of her mouth, shining like a little sun.

"It’s no trouble. If you’re not happy staying in the village, just come over, I’ll take care of you."

Grandma Yang looked at Lin Tang’s lively little face, thinking how wonderful it would be if this were her granddaughter, to whom she would leave all her saved treasures.

Unfortunately, she wasn’t that fortunate.

She feared even in death she would have no face to see Xiao Heping.

"Ah!" Grandma Yang heaved a deep sigh.

Lin Tang pursed her lips and seemed to say casually, "Why the sigh? Uncle Heping is back. You should be joyful every day. Why the sighing?"

She hadn’t been back to the village in days and knew nothing, and didn’t suspect that someone in the village had upset Grandma Yang.

When Uncle Heping was out of contact, no one dared to upset her.

Now that Uncle Heping was back safe and sound and even had control over the brigade’s economic lifeline, there was even less reason for anyone to make her unhappy.

A glimmer of desolation passed in the depths of Grandma Yang’s eyes, "Your Uncle Heping..."

Her voice paused for a moment before she said, "Never mind."

Lin Tang was a person of intense curiosity, so at this moment... she was itching to know.

Though she wanted to ask, she saw that Grandma Yang seemed reluctant to talk more about it, so she had to hold back.

"Grandma Yang, have you finished the Medicinal Wine? If it’s gone, I have more here."

When Lin Tang mentioned the Medicinal Wine, Grandma Yang felt a warmth in her heart.

"There’s still some left, thank you Tangtang, you’re the only one who still thinks of me, this old lady."

Lin Tang replied with a smile, "Uncle Heping also thinks of you."

Upon hearing her voluntarily bring up the Medicinal Wine, Grandma Yang’s lips twitched, and hesitation filled her heart.

She wanted to ask something, but it was difficult to ask directly; after all, it was her son’s privacy...

And Tangtang was still a minor, a young girl—how could she ask without feeling embarrassed?

Forget it!

She was desperate for a cure.

Lin Tang saw a small furrow form between Grandma Yang’s brows and took the initiative to ask, "Grandma Yang, did you come to see me because there’s something you want to ask? Just ask me, you don’t have to be polite."

Grandma Yang’s lips moved slightly, but she swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue, "Let’s not talk about that now."

No sooner had she spoken these words than someone suddenly knocked loudly at the courtyard door.

Lin Tang went to open it.

At the door were Xiao Heping and his bodyguard Song Yi.

"Tangtang, is my mother here with you?" Xiao Heping’s usually stern face showed worry.

He was anxious about his mother leaving home without a word.

"She’s here, in the courtyard."

As she spoke, Lin Tang led the two men into the courtyard.

Seeing her son, Grandma Yang’s face showed a flash of anger; she turned her body and thwacked Xiao Heping on the back of his head.

The brat had grown too confident, keeping such a big matter from her.

Xiao Heping’s face bore a bitter smile.

"Mother!"

Remembering something she had overheard by chance, Grandma Yang turned her head and glared at him fiercely.

"Don’t ’Mother’ me. If you still recognized me as your mother, you wouldn’t have kept everything from me."

"It’s about your health, how could you hide it from me? If there’s a problem, we should go see a doctor. If Chinese medicine doesn’t work, we’ll try Western medicine. If you don’t have any children, how can I be at ease?"

"Even if... even if it truly doesn’t work out in the end, I will find you a good girl who already has a child. So that when I go to meet your father, at least there will be someone to keep you company..."

Thinking about Heping’s injury, which she had only heard about this morning, and that he could no longer have children, she felt utterly hopeless.

Without children, what would she do when her son grew old?

As she spoke, Grandma Yang’s cloudy eyes filled with tears, and it felt like a stone was lodged in her chest, making it painful even to breathe.

She spoke so urgently and quickly that Lin Tang heard everything despite wanting to avoid it.

Her eyes instinctively swept over the tall and robust Uncle Heping before quickly looking away.

Now that she knew such a big secret, would she get into trouble...

Xiao Heping’s expression didn’t change, his eyes as determined and fearless as they were when he returned.

He said, "I have never regretted protecting our home and country. Whether or not I have my own children doesn’t matter; all the children in the world are my children. Mother, don’t worry too much, I’ve made my peace with it."

When he first heard from the military doctor that he could no longer have children due to a nerve injury, he did feel some disappointment, but only a little.

During the twenty-plus years he devoted his youth and passion to the national border, he was prepared to make any sacrifice.

The issue of having children had never crossed his mind.

Since returning, he had been hesitant to tell his mother about his injury; first, because it was a difficult topic, and second, he worried it would upset her.

Little did he know that when he mentioned the incident to Song Yi, his mother, who was so eager to find him a partner, overheard them.

Lin Tang looked at Uncle Heping, with his resolute and powerful gaze, and felt a deep respect for his enlightenment.

Those who could say "all the children in the world are my children" were surely people with great love in their hearts.

Grandma Yang’s heart ached, "How can that be the same?"

Xiao Heping knew that the truth had come too suddenly and that his mother must be shocked and overwhelmed; he didn’t insist on her accepting it immediately.

"It’s all the same." Worried about the distress harming Grandma Yang’s health, Xiao Heping casually added, "If it really comes to it, I’ll adopt a child."