"Why did the illness relapse, how could this happen?!"
Everyone panicked and immediately called Lin Qingxue, asking what exactly had happened.
Lin Zhiping, meanwhile, thought of what Lin Qingxue had said some time ago.
The grandfather's illness had not completely healed after taking the Spring of Life; it still required her specially learned massage techniques to assist, activating the muscles and tendons and dispersing it throughout the body.
"Could it be... is it because the massage wasn't done, and combined with today's string of distressing events, it caused grandfather's anger to surge to his heart, leading to the old illness relapsing?"
Lin Zhiping suddenly felt his hands and feet go cold.
Meanwhile, Lin Qingxue, who hadn't gone too far from the Lin Family home, hurried back after receiving everyone's reprimands and questions.
"Grandfather, what happened to grandfather?!"
Lin Qingxue rushed into the Lin Family Villa and, seeing a group of people taking away valuable items from the Lin Family, did not pay much attention to them but instead went straight to the conference room and anxiously asked.
"It's all your fault, you drove the Lin Family to bankruptcy, and you made grandfather sick from anger!"
"You wretch, bring out the spring water from last time right now to save grandfather!"
"Right, hurry up, and... have your lover stop Jinyu Group immediately and salvage our bankrupt Lin Family, or else grandfather won't let you off even as a ghost!"
"..."
As soon as Lin Qingxue entered the conference room.
People of Lin Family, some scolded her, some urged her to save the grandfather urgently, and some demanded that she make Jinyu Group back off and restore Lin Family to its former tens of billions in assets!
Lin Qingxue didn't bother with these; she simply said, I don't have that kind of spring water, I don't know what happened with the bankruptcy, don't block me.
After saying that, she forcefully tried to push through the crowd to check on Elder Lin.
"We won't let you see the grandfather today unless you give us an explanation!"
A twenty-year-old boy with a face full of pimple scars blocked Lin Qingxue's path, shouting angrily.
"Slap!"
Lin Qingxue gave him a slap directly, stunning him.
Then Lin Qingxue moved past him and walked towards the grandfather.
"You little slut, how dare you... "
The pimple-faced boy, touching his face that had been slapped to the point of oozing pus, was furious and began hopping with rage, wanting to deal with Lin Qingxue, but was held back by others.
"Have you lost your mind? Are you looking for death?"
While speaking, the others pointed to a corner of the conference room, where just now a woman in plain clothes had slapped down a guard, who still didn't have the strength to get up.
The pimple-faced boy realized the situation and immediately backed down.
After getting past the crowd, Lin Qingxue went to the grandfather's side and after a brief examination realized that the situation was very serious, even more so than before the Spring of Life treatment, and she began to panic.
Although the grandfather wasn't very nice to her, she was ultimately his biological granddaughter!
She couldn't just watch her grandfather die!
So, Lin Qingxue hurriedly took out her phone and called Mu Jinyu.
Mu Jinyu answered the call, and upon hearing Lin Qingxue's account, she hadn't expected that the Lin Family's bankruptcy would bring the old man's illness back.
Afterwards, he thought something wasn't right. Even if the old man's condition had been worsened by anger, he shouldn't have been harmed again after recovery unless... he hadn't been cured in the first place.
So, Mu Jinyu hung up the phone, switched to video communication, and then asked Lin Qingxue to turn the camera towards the old man so that he could check on him.
After taking a look at the elder in the video, Mu Jinyu asked, "After the elder took the Spring of Life, did you stop the massages once you saw an improvement in his condition?!"
Lin Qingxue's expression turned ugly, and she nodded, "Yes... that's right..."
She wanted to say that she had planned to continue massaging the elder daily, but the People of Lin Family had convinced him that he was cured and no longer needed such superstitious methods, so she had not continued.
But after some thought, she realized it sounded like she was shirking responsibility. In the end, it was her own lack of resolve in not insisting on the daily massages for the elder.
Therefore, Lin Qingxue did not argue.
She could only hope that Mu Jinyu would come and save her grandfather soon. When that time came, she would obediently follow his instructions, and no matter how much the treatment cost, she would bear it. She'd be indebted to Mu Jinyu for the rest of her life.
Mu Jinyu let out a light sigh and said, "There's no helping it now, he's beyond saving."
"What?!" Lin Qingxue felt as if struck by lightning, completely dumbstruck.
Mu Jinyu explained, "The old man wasn't really ill; his natural time was simply drawing close. There weren't many days left for him to live. The Spring of Life I gave you, along with the massages, could have distributed its power throughout his body, potentially extending his life by a few years."
"However, since he stopped the massages after his condition improved from taking the Spring of Life, the Origin Source of Life was expelled from his body with each day's waste. And because he has taken the Spring of Life, he has developed a resistance. Now he's truly beyond any medical help. Prepare for his end," Mu Jinyu concluded.
After saying this, Mu Jinyu didn't want to see Lin Qingxue crying and making a fuss, which would annoy him, so he immediately hung up the video call.
In fact, there was still a chance to save the old man, but it would require Mu Jinyu to use the Ten Thousand Year Wood Core!
But what was this old man to him? Did he deserve Mu Jinyu to use the immensely precious Ten Thousand Year Wood Core for his rescue?!
And what benefit would there be after saving him?
Therefore, with Mu Jinyu unwilling to use the Ten Thousand Year Wood Core, Elder Lin was truly destined to die without a doubt.
Mu Jinyu had not exactly lied to Lin Qingxue. If ordinary treatment could have saved the old man's life, he would not have minded saving him.
As soon as Mu Jinyu ended the video call, Lin Qingxue stood there, dazed, unable to speak for a long time...
Meanwhile, Elder Lin, who had overheard Mu Jinyu and Lin Qingxue's conversation, struggled to open his eyelids and looked at the People of Lin Family scrambling to grab the valuable items from the Lin Family Villa, as well as Lin Qingxue standing stunned in place. He felt very cynical.
The granddaughter he didn't care for turned out to be more filial than his grandsons. When the Lin Family faced disaster and he was on his deathbed, she, bearing no grudges, still stood by his side.
Reflecting on recent events, Elder Lin's previously muddled mind cleared up considerably. He turned to Lin Qingxue and asked, "Who was on the phone just now?"
Seeing her grandfather still able to speak, Lin Qingxue quickly answered, "It's the Chairman of Jinyu Group, the one who previously gave me the Spring of Life, saving your life. He is the benefactor I met in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains of Miao Zombie!"
"I see!" Upon hearing Lin Qingxue's explanation, everything clicked for the elder.
"Heh... I guess this is the karma for my own misdeeds!"
The elder laughed at himself.
He thought about how, if he had listened to Lin Qingxue before and paid back the five hundred million to Mu Jinyu to repay him for saving his life, and continued to let Lin Qingxue massage him daily, would he have ended up like this?
If he hadn't listened to Lin Zhiping and others, he would not only have had plenty more good days to live, but also the five hundred million paid would have quickly returned as Lin Group and Jinyu Group worked together.
Instead of ending up in a situation where his family was broken and its people were gone!
"Heh... hehe..."
The elder continued to laugh at himself, and with a final glare, he passed away completely.