23: Chapter 23 Gu's Mother Agrees to Surgery
Su Yue clicked her tongue. Truly, money makes the world go round. Just a moment ago, he had righteously refused, but it hadn't taken long for him to change his tune.
The doctor personally escorted Su Yue to the door, his eyes filled with uncontrollable joy. He could earn extra money again this month.
Su Yue caught a glimpse of Gu Yanchen by the door and frowned slightly. How much had he heard?
Gu Yanchen moved his lips: "Su Yue, thank you!"
Su Yue opened her arms towards him: "Gu Yanchen, I want to thank you too."
In her previous life, he was the only one who hadn't mocked her and had even given her food.
Returning to Mother Gu's room in the Hospital, Su Yue told Mother Gu the good news.
Mother Gu beamed with joy, thanking the heavens, but then her face clouded with worry.
"It must cost a lot of money, right? I'm already halfway into the grave; there's no need to spend this money for nothing." She knew perfectly well whether her family had money or not.
Gu Yanchen comforted her: "Mom, it won't cost much. Just set your mind at ease."
"Do you take your mother for a three-year-old child? Do you think I don't know how much it costs?"
"A-Yan, listen to Mom and don't get the treatment. I know my own body best."
After saying these few words, Mother Gu started coughing incessantly, and Gu Yanchen became frightened.
"Mom, don't get upset. Whatever you say, goes!"
Su Yue was anxious on the side. She had spent a whole building's worth of money; how could they just call off the treatment like that?
"Auntie, the surgery fee this time won't cost too much because the Hospital has a policy to assist impoverished families."
After Su Yue finished speaking, both of them stared at her in unison.
Mother Gu was somewhat suspicious: "Su Yue, is what you said true?"
It was good enough that the Hospital didn't suck you dry of money; would they actually have such a policy? Could this young girl be making up a lie to trick her?
Gu Yanchen received the look she cast, understood instantly, and said: "Yes, Mom, I'm not lying to you. The doctor just called me over specifically for this matter."
Su Yue patted her chest and said: "Auntie, I can vouch for it."
Mother Gu wasn't so easily fooled, her suspicious gaze sweeping back and forth between the two.
Mother Gu was quite difficult to fool.
Su Yue: "Auntie, if you really don't believe it, we can go ask the doctor and you'll know."
Just then, the doctor came by for rounds. Su Yue grabbed him and pulled him inside, winking at him: "Doctor, tell her, doesn't the Hospital have a policy to assist impoverished families, and that the Hospital will cover the entire cost of Auntie's surgery?"
The doctor understood in a second and cooperated: "Yes, there is such a policy. Ma'am, you can rest assured and undergo the treatment."
With the doctor's guarantee, Mother Gu finally agreed to the surgery.
Gu Yanchen and Su Yue both breathed a sigh of relief.
In the evening, Gu Yanchen walked Su Yue home, and both spoke at the same time with tacit understanding.
"Um..."
"Um..."
Su Yue laughed: "You go first."
Gu Yanchen hugged Su Yue, resting his head in the crook of her neck, his voice slightly choked with emotion: "Baby, thank you for saving my mom. I really don't know how to thank you enough."
"From now on, my life is yours. Whatever you want to do with it, just say the word. I won't even blink."
Su Yue chuckled: "What would I want your life for! Just protecting me well is enough."
"You should hurry back to the Hospital. Auntie is quite lonely there by herself."
Su Yue pushed his body, and Gu Yanchen let her go, looking back every few steps.
"I'm really leaving now!"
Su Yue waved her hand, signaling him to leave quickly.
Once his figure was no longer visible, Su Yue returned to her home happily.
The butler stepped forward respectfully: "Miss, Mr. Su just called and said you should call him back when you return."
Su Yue only then remembered the matter of asking her dad to donate the building today and instantly got a headache: "Can I not call? Uncle Butler."
The butler smiled: "I'm afraid not, Miss."
Su Yue picked up her phone, resigned to her fate.
"Dad, it's been a long time since we talked. Did you miss your Baby daughter?"
Her dad's stern voice came from the other end of the phone: "Stop with the glib talk. Why did you make me donate a building to the Hospital?"
"I did a good deed. Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda."
"Using your dad's money to save people, you really are noble!"
Su Yue heard the sarcasm in his tone and pursed her lips nonchalantly.
"Dad, I'm also accumulating good karma for you."
"Beep, beep, beep..."
Listening to the beeping sound on the phone, Su Yue collapsed onto the sofa, exhausted. As the saying goes, if you have a stepmother, you have a stepfather.
She was the classic case of being unloved by both father and mother.
The butler: "Miss, are you alright?"
Su Yue sat up straight: "Butler, tomorrow, find someone to reinforce the house. Make the courtyard walls higher and stronger, and replace the front gate with a thicker, impact-resistant one."
"Buy plenty of food and daily necessities tomorrow and bring them home. It should be just enough to fill up the third floor."
Once the third floor is full, she probably wouldn't have to worry about food or clothing for half a year.
The butler was shocked by her words: "Miss, can you tell me why you are doing this?"
"No matter how much I explain, you wouldn't believe me. Just do as I say." She might even be considered crazy.
"Very well, Miss."
Although the butler was full of questions, he still retreated.
Su Yue lay down on the bed. Thinking about the apocalypse that was coming, it would be a lie to say she wasn't afraid.
In this lifetime, she had changed the current situation and hoped for a good ending. Anyway, clinging tightly to Gu Yanchen's thigh certainly couldn't be wrong.