Chapter 796: Chapter 796: No Such Person?!
The lively family reunion night ca to an abrupt halt, and the atmosphere in the dining room suddenly turned cold.
“Why did Wanzhi suddenly co back with her child out of the blue?” Lin Manru spoke as she put on her coat.
The old man’s expression looked quite displeased as well. “It’s simply ridiculous. Why didn’t she let us know in advance? Now look what’s happened.”
Jiang Mingchuan had already grabbed the car keys. “Dad, it’s New Year’s Eve. You all should stay ho. I can go and check on them alone.”
“You’re being reckless too,” Jiang Zhao Yuan snorted angrily. “You drank tonight, and you still want to drive?”
It was then that Jiang Mingchuan realized.
But almost all the household staff had gone ho for the holiday, including the driver. Only Uncle Jiang was left, and he couldn’t drive.
People’s Hospital was still so distance away, and it was hard to get a taxi on New Year’s Eve, especially with the snow falling outside.
At that mont, Jiang Li’s voice indistinctly resonated from the side.
“There’s one person here who hasn’t drunk. Wouldn’t it be perfect for him to drive?”
Jiang Yan: “…..”
So they were waiting for him!
Left with no choice, Jiang Yan had to shoulder the responsibility of driving.
Jiang Zhao Yuan originally wanted to go too, but eventually, everyone persuaded him to stay ho for the sake of his health.
Besides, hospitals were not ideal for too many visitors. In the end, it was decided that Lin Manru would go with Jiang Li.
The others stayed back ho waiting for news.
However, looking at the table full of food, those who remained had lost their appetite.
After all, who could have anticipated such an incident?
The sedan drove slowly through the snowy night, and Jiang Mingchuan started making calls as soon as he got in the car.
After about fifteen minutes, he put down his phone.
“I contacted a friend at the hospital. The two kids are fine; it was Wanzhi who fainted. But there’s nothing serious now; she’s out of any life-threatening danger. I’ve just arranged for her to be moved to a private room.”
“That’s a relief,” Lin Manru sighed. “But really, it’s New Year’s Eve; Wanzhi should have at least told us she was coming back with the children, sigh.”
Jiang Mingchuan stayed silent, staring into the heavy night outside with furrowed brows.
In the backseat, Jiang Li took the opportunity to cast a divination. Void, ChiKou, ChiKou — the hexagrams were very inauspicious.
It seed there would be no peaceful sleep tonight.
They had received news that Third Aunt ng WanZhi had set out early in the morning with her children to co back for New Year’s Eve, but they encountered heavy snow halfway, and driving on the mountain road was already challenging. Then, they crashed head-on into a truck.
The truck flipped imdiately, scattering its load all over the road, and their sedan also collided into the mountain wall.
ng WanZhi had fainted on the spot and was taken to a nearby hospital, and only later that night was she transferred to People’s Hospital in the city center.
Fortunately, the damage was mainly at the front of the sedan. The driver and ng WanZhi in the front seats were slightly injured, but the two little ones in the back were seated in child safety seats and were rely shook up without any serious injuries.
That was, at least, so good news.
Thankfully, Jiang Yan’s driving skills were steady enough to get them to the hospital in less than half an hour.
The mont they erged from the underground parking lot, Jiang Yan gasped in the cold air.
The temperature in the Capital was close to negative ten degrees tonight. He had rushed out from ho wearing only a down jacket, and now was shivering severely.
“A perfectly good New Year’s Eve, and you had to drag to the hospital,” he complained. “If I end up falling ill, what will happen to the film crew? I need to return to work on the fifth day of the New Year.”
Lin Manru glared at him, “Speak less, and you’re not going back tonight. Stay with in the hospital!”
Jiang Yan pursed his lips and stopped talking.
Several people hurried toward the inpatient departnt.
But at the nurse’s station, there was a mix-up.
After searching for a long ti, the nurse, looking perplexed, turned to Jiang Mingchuan. “Are you sure the inpatient’s na is ng Wanzhi?”
“Absolutely,” Jiang Mingchuan was getting anxious, “Did you find her? She was hospitalized because of a car accident.”
“We’ve had quite a few car accident admissions today, but there’s no lady nad ng Wanzhi among them.”
“How can that be? Let see the computer.”
“Sorry, sir, that’s the patient’s privacy. You don’t have the right to see it.”
Jiang Mingchuan was so anxious he almost started arguing with the nurse.
It was clearly People’s Hospital on the phone, so how co there was no trace of her here?
Hearing the commotion, Lin Manru also rushed over, but ended up with the sa outco as Jiang Mingchuan.
With ng Wanzhi’s phone also turned off, they surely couldn’t go knocking on every room in the inpatient departnt, could they? They’d probably not finish even by tomorrow morning.
Jiang Yan, yawning, seated on a stool, lowered his voice and complained, “If you ask , it’s all because the old man insisted on listening to that fortune teller who suggested that Uncle marry ng Wanzhi. Have they ever stopped arguing since they got married? That lousy charlatan never speaks the truth. He even tried to set up with that Qiao lady before, fortunately, you, my sister, saw through it.”
Jiang Li gave him a slight glare, “You can say that in front of , but if Uncle or Grandpa heard, you’d be in trouble. You stay here; I’ll go see what’s really going on.”
With that, she got up and approached.
“Nurse, may I ask if there’s a patient with the last na ng in the single suite rooms?”
After checking, the nurse shockingly shook her head again, “There’s no patient with the last na ng in the suites.”
Jiang Mingchuan’s expression turned completely grim.
“How could this happen?”
Where on earth did the child and ng Wanzhi go?
Jiang Li quickly tried to comfort him, “Uncle, don’t panic. She’s definitely in the hospital; there must be so mix-up in the information. Just verify it again.”
Then Jiang Li asked, “Do you have any female patient with the last na ng admitted today, about 30 years old, hospitalized due to a car accident? Please help us check.”
Fortunately, the nurse was quite patient and quickly found sothing.
“There’s no ng Wanzhi, but there is a ng Xuezhi. Could you possibly know this person? Could there be a mistake in the na?”
“ng Xuezhi?” Lin Manru and Jiang Mingchuan exclaid in shock, both of their expressions turning foul.
Jiang Li was puzzled, “Who is ng Xuezhi?”
She knew even less about her uncle and Third Aunt.
What she rembered most was their wedding day wasn’t going so smoothly, and being rebellious, she disliked the noisy wedding scene and escaped to an internet café to play gas after eating a few pastries.
The next ti she saw ng Wanzhi was when the twins were a month old.
Afterward, she went ho even less, and ng Wanzhi always stayed in the countryside with the children.
She, who generally didn’t care about family, had completely forgotten about this Third Aunt up in the clouds.
Jiang Mingchuan, stern-faced, got the room number and ran to find the person.
Lin Manru didn’t follow him, but with a complex expression, started to explain to Jiang Li.
“ng Xuezhi is your Third Aunt’s elder sister, and she’s not an easy woman to deal with.”
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