Chapter 24 - Teleportation? (1/2)

“Anqi, are you abusing your stepdaughter?”

Su Anqi lost it at Old Lady Yi’s question. Her status in the Chu family was even lower than Wan Wan as she joined the Yi family as Yi Xianzong’s stepdaughter after Su Yuzhi remarried. If the accusation of her abusing Wan Wan stood, not only Old Lady Yi would disdain her, her mother’s status in the Yi family would get affected too.

“Granny, you’ve misunderstood!” Su Anqi explained hurriedly, “She defied me, I was just educating her!”

“With physical violence?” Old Lady Yi lowered herself into a crouch to check on Wan Wan’s swollen cheeks and she shook her head in disapproval. “That was harsh, only you can be this cruel!”

Su Anqi was angry that Old Lady Yi was helping Wan Wan but she had to suppress it as she could not lash out. “She is lazy, arrogant and she infuriates me! Granny, you can’t just trust what you saw, you have to know the whole story before you conclude!”

“Treating such a young child with violence is wrong regardless of what she did!” Old Lady Yi stared at Su Anqi with disgust and scoffed before she continued, “If your son did the same thing, will you beat him then?”

Su Anqi could not rebut her.

“Mother, please calm yourself.” Fang Yaqin stood out to defuse the situation. “Perhaps Anqi was in a bad mood, no one from our family would do anything like this as we are educated well!”

Old Lady Yi sneered, “It’s a shame that she isn’t educated like our family members!”

Su Anqi was furious but she did not dare to talk back.

Ignoring Su Anqi, Old Lady Yi proceeded to pick up the teddy bear and patted it to clean the dirt before giving it to Wan Wan. “Look at how swollen her fair, pretty cheeks are! Yaqin, get Chi to take her to a hospital nearby to check on it.”

Chi was Yi Liangze’s personal driver but he was asked to drive Su Yaqin and Old Lady Yi that day.

Su Anqi could no longer hold her anger when she heard that. “Granny, that is not necessary! Why are you taking her to a hospital? She’s not even bleeding!”

“How ignorant can you be? Children’s eardrums are fragile, what if hers are ruptured?” Old Lady Yi explained, “The Yi family will never allow such thing to happen. Also, I don’t think that you will be able to account for that to Chu Tianyi if that really happens!”

Su Anqi stuttered as she defended herself, “But…Tianyi asked me to take them to Aunt Piaoyun’s house for dinner!”

She received a call from Chu Tianyi before she could finish and he sounded impatient. “Why are you not back yet? I told you that we’re going to my aunt’s house for dinner!”

“We’re going back right now!” Su Anqi hung up the call and turned to beg Fang Yaqin as she knew that begging Old Lady Yi would be fruitless. “Aunt, you know how Aunt Piaoyun is! She will definitely criticize me for not being able to do simple stuff like fetching the kids after school on time if I get to her house late! Can you please talk to Granny so that I can take the kids to Aunt Piaoyun’s house first? I’ll take her to a hospital to check on her eardrums after that!”

Fang Yaqin blinked and gave her a gentle smile. “Don’t be anxious, checking eardrums is a simple procedure. There is a clinic nearby, we’ll get Chi to take her there. It wouldn’t take up much of your time, only five minutes. Old Lady Yi will feel assured and you can clear the suspicion, it’s killing two birds with one stone!”

Su Anqi had no other option but to agree since Fang Yaqin said so.

Fang Yaqin walked to Chi and talked to him for a while, perhaps to give him instructions to take Wan Wan to check on her eardrums. Chi nodded in acknowledgment before walking to Wan Wan smilingly, “Little beauty, let’s go!”

Old Lady Yi caressed Wan Wan’s tiny head lovingly and coaxed her gently when she refused to go, “Good girl, you’ll be back in no time. I know that you’re a brave little girl!”

The little girl in front was too similar to Bao Bao, Old Lady Yi could not help but projected her love and care to Bao Bao to her.