"Watch yourselves! This is a Capital City hospital, not some stage in the countryside. Why are you all shouting at the top of your lungs? Putting on an opera?"
The Lu family relatives had surrounded Lu Jingyao and chattered away nonstop, finally drawing the anger of the patients' families nearby. Once people entered a place like this, even the best temper turned irritable. No one could stand the Lu family's endless nagging for long.
"Sorry! We're sorry!"
Lu Jingyao apologized to them, then said to Lu Ruiming, "It's almost lunchtime. Second Uncle, take everyone out to eat first! I'll discuss things with Doctor Qiao later."
"Fine, we'll go eat first. We'll talk at the guesthouse tonight. The people in these wards sure have a lot of damn nonsense going on."
Lu Ruiming agreed verbally, but his feet did not move. After a long while, he said awkwardly, "Xiao Yao, food in the Capital City is expensive. You have to give me some money~"
Lu Jingyao pressed her lips together, nearly bursting into curses.
Just the day before yesterday, she had given Lu Ruiming three hundred yuan and told him to handle meals for all the relatives. How had it all been spent in only three days?
Even if prices had soared these past few years, even if they ate banquet food every meal, they could not possibly have spent that much, could they?
"Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi."
Instead of giving her second uncle more money, Lu Jingyao turned and called her younger sister out of the ward.
There were three siblings in the Lu family. The youngest, Lu Jingqi, had only just started high school, but their father Lu Ruichang's illness was clearly not something that would be resolved anytime soon. Lu Zixue was at the critical juncture of graduation,