Chapter 740: Questioning Mother Xia

"You’re nervous?" Xia Chuyi saw Mother Xia react like this and immediately furrowed her brows, unable to resist asking Mother Xia.

"No, not nervous." Mother Xia was acting awkwardly, completely avoiding Xia Chuyi’s gaze.

Seeing this, Xia Chuyi’s brows furrowed even more deeply as she glanced at her elder brother.

Xia Chengzong was also looking at her with confusion.

What exactly was going on?

Suddenly, it dawned on Xia Chuyi, "How did you hurt your leg?"

"She pushed me!" Mother Xia blurted out the answer almost reflexively.

Hearing this "expected" answer, Xia Chuyi turned her head to look at Xia Chengzong.

Xia Chengzong’s expression was complicated and somewhat embarrassed.

"How did she push you?" Xia Chuyi didn’t give Mother Xia much time to think, continuing to press.

"We had an argument, and she pushed me." Just like before, Mother Xia answered very quickly.

"Why did you have an argument with the elder aunt?" Xia Chuyi kept on pressing,

"Because she was unhappy with me for deciding to have Chengzong adopted into the second branch, so we argued." Mother Xia’s response speed was too "perfect," as if rehearsed.

That aside, when Xia Chuyi started questioning Mother Xia, Mother Xia didn’t look at Xia Chengzong from beginning to end.

This was all very strange—Mother Xia, a person who loved her "child" more than life itself, was suddenly ignoring Xia Chengzong?

Beside them, Xia Chengzong also noticed this odd situation, his eyes filled with confusion amidst the bewilderment.

Xia Chuyi narrowed her eyes slightly and asked again, "Who was with you in the hospital the other days?"

Hearing Xia Chuyi’s question, Mother Xia blanked for a moment, "Ah? Ah... It was Er Lan."

Clearly, this was a question that no one had "coached" Mother Xia on, and she answered normally.

Xia Lan?

So, did Xia Lan specifically come back to Ling County?

What did she come back for? Just to take care of Mother Xia?

While Xia Chuyi was thinking this, she bluntly asked, "Did she come back for something specific?"

"Ah?" Mother Xia blanked out again, this question also not in Mother Xia’s "question bank," "I, I don’t know what you’re talking about."

Talking and talking, Mother Xia hung her head.

"I, I need to rest now..." Mother Xia suddenly said.

After speaking, she quickly covered her slightly shaking body with the quilt, hiding her panic—obviously an evasive attitude.

Seeing this, Xia Chuyi was somewhat speechless.

However, from the current situation, Mother Xia’s injury wasn’t as severe as she had imagined, but it was still likely to affect her for some time.

"Let’s go," Xia Chuyi said to Mother Xia after thinking it over.

Instead of lingering here, it would be better to ask Chang Luhui what exactly had happened.

"Brother, let’s go outside," Xia Chuyi said to Xia Chengzong.

Xia Chengzong looked at Xia Chuyi, then at Mother Xia who was now pretending to be resting with the quilt over her head on the hospital bed, and simply responded with, "Mm."

The two left the hospital.

Not far outside the hospital, Xia Chengzong suddenly took the initiative to apologize to Xia Chuyi, "I’m sorry."

Hearing Xia Chengzong’s apology, and combining it with the earlier events, Xia Chuyi knew that Xia Chengzong was once again taking the blame upon himself.

"Brother, this has nothing to do with you," Xia Chuyi said, "It’s the elders’ own previous conflicts."

If it really had something to do with someone—she actually began to suspect Xia Lan.