Chapter 424: Chapter 424 Fear

Gu Beihuai immediately understood what Tang Chuxia meant and quickly cupped her face to make her look outside.

At this moment, it’s crucial not to bring the conflict onto oneself.

Tang Chuxia temporarily let him off the hook, at least not making Gu Beihuai cry embarrassingly at this time.

Seeing this scene, Madam Tang couldn’t help but laugh.

The strong feelings between the young couple were a good thing for her.

Gu Beihuai had just returned, and those two outside were already giving him a headache, which made Madam Tang very displeased.

“Alright, alright, since you’re back, you young couple should go first, stay out of the adults’ matters!”

Grandma was shooing them away.

Tang Chuxia had no choice but to drag Gu Beihuai to their small courtyard. On the way back, she said to Madam Tang, “Mom, don’t let yourself be fooled by sweet words, a good horse doesn’t return to its old pasture!”

Madam Tang scoffed, thinking Tang Chuxia was worrying too much.

Gu Beihuai, on the other hand, pulled Tang Chuxia away, “Aren’t you curious about how I’ve been living abroad lately?”

The more he acted like this, the more curious Tang Chuxia became.

“How did you manage?”

Tang Chuxia had been abroad before, but that was in her previous life. This time Gu Beihuai went on a mission, so the schedule was probably very tight.

“Thrilling and exciting, what do you want to hear about?”

Gu Beihuai waited for Tang Chuxia’s answer, only to hear her say, “I don’t want to hear any of it. I’m more interested in whether you fancied any blonde-haired blue-eyed beauties abroad.”

The place they went to this time was Northern Europe, known for having some beauties.

Gu Beihuai pinched Tang Chuxia’s nose tip, “What do you take me for? Why should I be interested in that kind of person?”

You should know that many Northern European beauties have a strong body odor, and Gu Beihuai, being a typical local person, has a very low tolerance for such odors, even though those women wore perfume.

For someone used to the faint natural scent of Tang Chuxia, he really couldn’t stand such overwhelmingly strong fragrances.

No matter how beautiful a woman is, if there’s body odor involved, the attraction greatly diminishes.

After hearing Gu Beihuai’s reasoning, Tang Chuxia burst into laughter and hung on Gu Beihuai’s arm, “Tsk tsk tsk, I thought you would choose to take on a challenge!”

Gu Beihuai’s face darkened.

He didn’t have such hobbies.

Suddenly, Tang Chuxia thought of something.

“Did you or anyone in your group have a fling with any beauties abroad?”

The sudden question from Tang Chuxia puzzled Gu Beihuai, “What’s with your expression? Even if someone did, it’s none of my business, right?”

Tang Chuxia recalled a little piece of trivia she stumbled upon in her previous life, which mentioned that AIDS spread in the seventies and eighties.

Although this timeline wasn’t a one-to-one remake of the one she remembered, the general background was quite similar, so it was possible that some infectious diseases might also spread around similar times.

She didn’t want Gu Beihuai and his group to be caught up in that. It would be really upsetting with nowhere to vent.

There wasn’t much Tang Chuxia could explain, so she just vaguely said, “There are many infectious diseases abroad, who knows if they would catch something if they had contact with locals! Anyway, if anyone slept with a woman, you have to submit a report and pay close attention. Of course, if they slept with someone of the same sex, they are key observation targets!”

If Tang Chuxia remembered correctly, contact between the same sexes was more likely to spread.

Gu Beihuai was speechless.

He couldn’t believe Tang Chuxia would say something like that.

“What is your mind occupied with all day? They are all decent people focused on recording those things, who would dare mess around?”

After receiving Gu Beihuai’s affirmative answer, Tang Chuxia was relieved.

Anyway, it was just a reminder, better if there’s nothing.

But she was apparently too happy too quickly because, although those terrifying infectious diseases weren’t brought back, some other infectious diseases unique to Northern European countries were.

On the third day after Gu Beihuai returned to the country, someone started showing strange symptoms.

Gu Beihuai was immediately quarantined, as were all the people he had been in contact with.

Tang Chuxia accompanied Gu Beihuai too.

Well, her plans to make money outside had to be temporarily shelved. Fortunately, she hadn’t gone to the factory in those three days, or else too many people would need to be quarantined.

A few days later, all the people who developed symptoms were under control, and Gu Beihuai and Tang Chuxia had no issues.

But Father Tang and Xue Zhanyi were not so lucky.

Father Tang had a high fever and continuously cursed Xue Zhanyi, believing Xue came back just to make trouble for him, seemingly to kill him off.

Xue Zhanyi, who was coughing violently from the bed next to him, didn’t forget to defend himself.

“You’re talking nonsense. If I were that bad, why would I make myself sick too? Am I an idiot?”

Xue Zhanyi’s cursing triggered Father Tang’s fury.

“You’re not an idiot; you’re a scoundrel. You leaving my wife back then fully proves this point!”

Now lying in the hospital bed, there wasn’t much Xue Zhanyi could do, so bickering with Father Tang became his only amusement.

“Bullshit, why would I go through so much trouble to come back if not for something important? Even if others don’t know, don’t you?”

He was coughing violently, arguing until he was red-faced and neck-thick, but unfortunately, Father Tang said, “I don’t know!”

Xue Zhanyi was panting heavily, his whole body starting to tremble, you’d think he was having febrile convulsions.

“Stop shaking, keep shaking, and you get epilepsy; no one will pity you!”

Father Tang was quite a vicious tongued man to say something like that.

Xue Zhanyi suddenly sighed, collapsed on the bed, looking at the IV tube, “All these years, I’ve always regretted it!”

Scenes from decades ago began to flood his mind.

Back then, he and Madam Tang were still unmarried, and their relationship was good, but due to various reasons, he was taken away without leaving a word. He had always regretted it over the years.

“I shouldn’t have been so scared back then, if I had jumped into the sea, I might have swum back, and you’d have nothing to do with it.”

Xue Zhanyi might have been delirious from the high fever, muttering nonsense.

Father Tang smirked, “Even if you jumped into the sea, besides feeding the sharks, it wouldn’t change anything. Ah Lan is my wife, the one who went through everything with her was me!”

Xue Zhanyi chuckled, “When you say that, can you do it with a clear conscience? Who doesn’t know about you and that Wen Wenqing? If I hadn’t learned about how Minglan had been doing all these years, I wouldn’t have thought of a way to come back and see. You’re the real animal!”

Regardless of who was the beast, the two of them kept attacking each other in the hospital room.

When Tang Chuxia came to visit, the faces of the two were red and flushed like monkey butts from the high fever, yet they were still bickering back and forth.

Even schoolboys bickering had more sophistication.

“What brings you here? Don’t you want to live?”