Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s

Chapter 1160: Chapter 1161: Attitudes Have Changed

Meng Chaojun, after drinking the medicine for two days, indeed felt a significant improvement in his condition; the excruciating headaches that seemed to drive him mad had stopped.

It was as if the agony he had suffered those past few days had been an illusion.

While deeply sighing with relief, he finally realized the true value of the potions Chiang Xiao had prepared.

Only those tortured severely by illness can understand the bliss of pain’s cessation and recognize the rarity of a medicine that brings such comfort.

With Chiang Xiao’s intent to trade these potions for money and power, and with Meng Xinian’s help, how could she not succeed in her exchange?

What could he possibly offer her in return?

Meng Chaojun deeply acknowledged his prior narrow-mindedness.

But to apologize to Chiang Xiao was something he truly could not bring himself to do.

So, these past few days, whenever he saw Chiang Xiao, he was noticeably uneasy, though nobody paid much attention to his discomfort.

Duan Qingqing noticed something very strange.

Whenever she tried to speak ill of Chiang Xiao, she would inevitably be scolded.

If not by Old Meng, then by Meng Chaojun, who would interrupt with a rebuke.

Sometimes what she wanted to say wasn’t even intended to be malicious.

For example, she would ask Chiang Xiao, ”Chiang Xiao, your study period here is coming to an end, right? When are you planning to return?”

Old Meng would bark at her in response, ”Little will go back whenever she decides to go back! It’s not for you to concern yourself with!”

Meng Chaojun would also sternly retort, ”With such excellent results, it doesn’t matter even if she takes a little more leave!”

Duan Qingqing was stunned at the time and also felt extremely wronged.

She had this feeling that both Old Meng and Meng Chaojun genuinely did not want Chiang Xiao to leave.

In fact, Duan Qingqing did not know that the medicine Chiang Xiao prepared for Meng Chaojun was different from what she usually made. She thought they were displeased with her clumsiness and impressed by Chiang Xiao’s meticulousness, which was why they let Chiang Xiao prepare the potions, assuming they were still the ones provided by Chen Baoshen.

Meng Chaojun hadn’t shared a word of this with her, either.

But now, there were two more people in the Meng Household who had come to help and had moved in, Meng Cunhui and his wife.

They were particularly helpful, ensuring everything at home was well looked after.

When Meng Xinian’s vacation came to an end, it coincided with Chiang Xiao’s time to return to Huaming County.

On the day of their departure, Old Meng’s evident reluctance and sorrowful farewell pained Duan Qingqing. What was even more irritating was that Meng Qingshan and the others, somehow aware of their leaving, all came to see them off!

The swift change in these people’s attitudes left her quite perplexed.

These past few days, she’d often been out, thus unaware that Meng Qingshan and the others had already visited several times, competitively bringing gifts for Chiang Xiao.

Yet their gifts never actually reached Chiang Xiao, being thrown out by Meng Xinian instead.

Now, they didn’t seem the least bit upset and had come specially to bid farewell to Chiang Xiao and Meng Xinian.

Duan Qingqing felt as if she no longer understood the world.

Just after Meng Xinian and Chiang Xiao had left, she found an excuse to leave the compound and was immediately stopped by her elder brother.

Kuang Feian’s hair was a mess, his face marked with several thin scratches, clearly inflicted by a woman’s nails.

These past few days, Duan Qingqing had been avoiding her family, feeling somewhat irritable herself and dreading her brother’s incessant requests to find a way to place that child.