Chapter 51
Lu Wanru followed behind him like an aggrieved daughter-in-law.
Ling Yuanqi sobbed on Ling Yichen's shoulder, her chubby hands wrapped around his neck, and she was held by Ling Yichen all the time. Even though there were times when Ling Yuanqi made a move at Lu Wanru and wanted her to hold her, Ling Yichen did not hand her the baby.
When they returned to the Ling family, after all the people had retired, Lu Wanru sat down beside Ling Yichen and blamed herself, "I dropped Yuanqi today because I was careless."
"Wanru, you and I have been married for eight years, I still know your character, I know you are not someone who would take out your anger towards Xia Mao on the child."
Instead of soothing Lu Wanru, Ling Yichen's affirmation made her cry even more.
"I've always treated Yuan Qi as if he was my own, how could I possibly take out my anger on him? I love him more than anything else, how could I possibly hurt him? He can even call me 'mother', how could I let him get hurt?"
"Wanru, I said I believe you." Ling Yichen sighed, he was finding these messy relationships more and more annoying, not to mention Xia Mao, even he himself was getting annoyed, if he could choose, how nice it would be if it could be him and Xia Mao living with Yuan Qi now!
"I know you treat him well and like him very much, and I am relieved to leave him in your hands, but I still hope you can be more careful with him, he is the eldest son and grandson of the Ling family, and so far, he is the only sapling of the Ling family."
Lu Wanru's eyes snapped up, and she looked at Ling Yichen.
"I know." Nan Wanru nodded her head.
She understood Ling Yichen's meaning, he didn't want to acknowledge Lu Wanqiu's mother and son anymore.
No matter whether Ling Yichen attached too much importance to Xia Mao or Ling Yuanqi, but both showed that he didn't have Lu Wanqiu in his heart at all, and both such results made Lu Wanru very satisfied.
In her heart, Ling Yichen can have other women, but this woman can never be Lu Wanqiu.
The child, who had been crying for half a day, fell asleep in no time at all, with a coquettish smile on his lips and a pear swirl at one corner of his mouth, just like the end of summer.
Lu Wanru looked at Ling Yuanqi's red and swollen upper lip and shed a few tears of pain, and had to stay in Yuanqi's room at night.
After staying in Yuanqi's room for a while, he left the Ling residence.
Lu Wanru stood in front of the window, looking at Ling Yichen's back, and said softly to Wu's mother, "Let's find two more reliable people for Yuan Qi from tomorrow onwards."
"Do we have to change the current people?" Wu Ma also suspected that Yuan Qi's fall today was fishy, only that the two of them were also standing not far away at the time, so no one should dare to be so brazen.
"I'm not afraid of what if," Lu Wanru said softly as she returned to the bedside and looked at the cute child, "Now he's not just my heart, he's also Mister's, how many people must this get in the way?"
"Well, I know." Wu Ma nodded.
"Wu Ma," Lu Wanru lifted her red eyes and looked at Wu Ma, who was like a mother to her, and said in a warm voice, "I really like Yuan Qi, I really think of him as my own child, and it hurts my heart to see her hurt."
"I know, I know." Wu Ma's eyes couldn't help but be red too, the way the child was covered in blood today was so frightening, she was scared silly, "From tomorrow onwards, I won't look at young master with my eyes."
"We can't do it alone, we have to find two more reliable ...... ones who know some kung fu, and when he's a bit older, we'll follow along and learn, not only to strengthen his body, but also to protect himself."
"Mm, I know, I'll have someone keep an eye on it." Wu Ma nodded her head in agreement.
The news from the Ling Residence soon reached Lu Wanqiu.
"So Lu Wanqiu isn't stupid either, she still knows to use this opportunity to trick Ling Yichen back." She sneered and said to a man in front of her, "That's all you've got, to think that the boy didn't even get hurt!"
"The Ling family's carpet is just too thick." The man explained.
"Isn't there a staircase there? Isn't there still a balcony?" Lu Wanqiu's face turned cold and she said sternly, "I can tell you, that money isn't that easy to earn, don't think I'm that easy to fool, you won't get a penny until the matter is done!"
"That's right, I know second sister is very shrewd, how could she try to fool you?" The man smiled sarcastically, "I'll never miss next time."
"Hmph!" Lu Wanqiu waved her hand indifferently and shooed the man away like a fly.
When Ling Yichen returned to his flat, Xia Mao was still asleep, Ling Yichen gently got into bed, got under the covers and held the naked woman in his arms, his heart couldn't help but think of Yuan Qi.
That guy's skin was also white and fine, exactly the same as Xia Mao's, and it was so comfortable to touch.
His big hands were unfaithfully soft on the woman's body twice, and she pouted and burrowed into his arms.
Knowing how sensitive the woman was, Ling Yichen smiled and tightened his arms, not disturbing her any more.
The next day, before dawn, the phone on the bedside table rang, and Ling Yichen woke up and reached for it.
"Hello?" Looking at the name "Lu Wanqiu" on it, his head wrinkled lightly.
"Yichen," Lu Wanqiu's sobbing voice came over the phone, "Peiqi is sick, his fever won't go down, it's been two days, what should we do?"
"Have you seen a doctor?" Ling Yichen looked back at Xia Mao who was looking at him with her eyes open, his voice sunk, "What did the doctor say?"
"The doctor said he couldn't find the cause, but if the temperature doesn't come down, it might hurt his brain," Lu Wanqiu whimpered, "Yichen, where are you? I'm scared, if anything happens to our son, what can I do?"
Ling Yichen watched as Xia Mao sat up from the bed, picked up the bath towel next to her and draped it over her body, he reached out and took her hand.
Xia Mao smiled back at him and pointed to the bathroom, and Ling Yichen let go of his hand.
Xia Mao took a shower in the bathroom, put on her pajamas, and when she came out again, she saw Ling Yichen already standing by the window fully dressed, and when he heard the sound, he looked back at her.
"Why aren't you leaving yet?" Xia Mao's smile was faint, "Didn't you say that the child was sick?"
Ling Yichen walked up to her and after looking around her face, he took her in his arms, "I'll be back as soon as I go check."
Xia Mao gave a sullen "mmm" in his arms.
Ling Yichen wrapped his arms around her and walked to the door, kissing her twice on the forehead, "Don't forget to eat breakfast, I'll be back at noon to take a nap with you."
Xia Mao smiled and watched him enter the lift before closing the door.
He thought she was asleep, but in fact she heard him answer the phone, he had gone out last night and it was one of his children who had fallen and today it was his other child who was sick.
Chapter 52
Xia Mao smiled bitterly and went to the kitchen to cook a bowl of noodles, not sure if they were ready to join forces or if the child was really sick?
She stayed in the flat in the morning and didn't go anywhere. She washed everything that needed to be washed, took out her school notes and sorted them out, and when she saw that it was almost noon, she set up an easel in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and began to draw with the skin she had only recently learned.
Ling Yichen looked at the child who was lying on the bed with a red face and then at Lu Wanqiu who was crying and sobbing next to him, "The doctor said the child would be fine."
"It's all my fault, if I hadn't suddenly fallen asleep last night, I wouldn't have delayed so long." Lu Wanqiu threw herself into Ling Yichen's arms and cried her heart out, "I have nothing left but this baby, if anything happens to him, what will I do?"
"He'll be fine." Ling Yichen reached out and patted her shoulder, and Lu Wanqiu raised her hand and wrapped her arms around his neck.
Ling Yichen stood there stiffly, not knowing for a moment where his hand should fall.
The woman in his arms was still crying endlessly, so Ling Yichen had to take her arm off, "Stop crying too, you'll wake the baby up."
Only then did Lu Wanqiu stop crying and got off his body, "I'll go wash my face."
"You go ahead, I'll stay here with him." Ling Yichen nodded and sat by the hospital bed.
The child on the hospital bed was thin and skinny, more than two turns older than Yuan Qi, and not as white as Yuan Qi, and his eyelashes were not as long as Yuan Qi's, but it could be seen that he was also quite beautiful, and resembled Lu Wanqiu in many ways, so I couldn't tell if he resembled him in any way.
Unlike Yuan Qi, when his face was slack, he did look a little like him.
This child was not what he was expecting, not only because he himself could not understand how he got him, but also because the relationship between him and Lu Wanqiu, his brother-in-law and aunt, was too awkward.
But looking at him with his face scrunched together and lying there in a not-so-large ball, his heart vaguely ached.
When he thought of the child's future, his head ached even more.
No matter how cruel he said he was, if anything really happened to him, how could he, as a father, not care?
The child didn't wake up until noon, so several people didn't eat and stayed with him until the afternoon, when he woke up, cried like a cat, ate some milk and then fell asleep again.
Ling Yichen looked at the time, turned around and went out of the ward and called the flat.
"Hello?" The woman's voice was full of energy, making him feel a lot brighter inside in the cold corridors of the hospital.
"What's up?" Ling Yichen asked with a smile.
"I'm painting."
"Have you eaten this morning?" Ling Yichen seemed to see her standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with her hair pulled back and wearing a long skirt, his heart instantly became impatient, but the child's situation was still unknown and he had no way to go back for the time being, "What are you going to eat for lunch? I'll have someone send it back to you?"
Xia Mao said, "I haven't thought about it yet, we'll see later, did you eat this morning?"
"I'm not hungry, I ate too much last night." Ling Yichen looked around and said in a deep voice, "You don't even have to eat lunch."
"Are you annoying?" Xia Mao heard what he meant and raised her eyebrows slightly with a red face, "Then are you coming back to eat tonight?"
"Yes, I'll take you out to eat something delicious tonight," Ling Yichen said, "If you don't want to stay at home, go out for a shopping trip, I'll send the driver's phone number and ask him to take you to ...... but not to a place with too many people. places with too many people."
The last thing I remembered was what they had said earlier about her body being sensitive, so I blushed even more and said in a delicate voice, "I want to go!"
"You're going to try?" Ling Yichen picked up.
"Yichen--" Lu Wanqiu's voice rang out not far away, Ling Yichen looked back at Lu Wanqiu standing a few meters away and said to the phone, "Don't forget to eat at noon, and don't forget to take your phone with you when you go out. "
"Mhm." Xia Mao hung up the phone, the woman's voice came to her ears so clearly, "Yichen", called soft and charming.
"What's wrong?" Ling Yichen looked at the phone that had blacked out and walked towards Lu Wanqiu.
"I want to ask you what you want to eat for lunch so I can have someone prepare it." Lu Wanqiu looked at him somewhat apologetically, "Am I interrupting your phone call?"
"It's alright." Ling Yichen shook his head, "I'm not hungry at noon, you go and eat, I'll stay here and watch the kids."
"I'm not hungry either." Lu Wanqiu stood a little haggard in front of him, Ling Yichen hesitated, "Let's go, let the nurse watch here first, I'll take you to have some food first."
Lu Wanqiu hung her head down, no longer the high and mighty person she used to be, just like an ordinary young mother, following closely behind the man in a state of confusion.
As she descended the stairs, she stumbled and almost fell, but luckily she grabbed the railing in time.
Ling Yichen reached out to hold her arm, "What's wrong?"
She raised her pitiful face and looked at the man in front of her, "Yichen, can we really not go back to the past?"
"Wanqiu, you'd better think more about your own future!" Ling Yichen loosened his grip when he saw that she had stood firm.
Lu Wanqiu looked at his background for half a day before she lifted her feet to follow him again.
Ling Yichen, you are so cruel, you were so gentle to other women just now, but now you are so cruel to her!
The fighting spirit in Lu Wanqiu's body was completely aroused, the more she could not get, the more she wanted to get.
Even if she destroys it after getting it, she is still willing to do so.
The two of them finished their meal and went back to the hospital.
The doctor and doctor's staff spent half a day tossing and turning before they could bring his temperature down.
Ling Yichen stood in the corridor and called Xia Mao back.
Xia Mao was walking outside to her flat, "Hello?"
"I still have some things to do here, I can't go back for now." Ling Yichen heard the sound of her car siren, "Still out there?"
"He's heading back." Xia Mao looked at the beef mix she had packed in her hand, "Will you be back tonight?"
"Maybe, we'll see later, I'll try to get back."
"It's okay, you go about your business, I was just asking in passing," Xia Mao said busily, "Then if there's nothing else, I'll hang up first."
"Give me a call when you get home." Ling Yichen instructed uneasily, "Don't go anywhere, go straight home."
"Mm." Xia Mao hung up the phone and let out a breath.
She put the phone back into her bag and quickened her pace, one more intersection and she would be home.
But at that junction, a man on a motorbike rushed up behind her, reached out and grabbed her shoulder bag, pulling it down with one force, and the unsuspecting Xia Mao was thrown onto the road.
Chapter 53
The car thief had already run away before Summer had a chance to scream.
She was so scared that her heart almost jumped out of her chest. Looking at the empty streets in front and behind her, she got up from the ground and ran towards the front door of the district without looking at where she had been hurt.
It was only when she got into the lift of the flat that she took a breath and looked down to see that she had fallen on her leg with two large cuts and was bleeding continuously.
She felt a concentrated pain at once, and her legs were so sore and numb that she was even holding on to the wall to get out of the lift.
When she opened the door to her room, Tian's mother was busy welcoming her from the room.
"You're back? Sir even called just now ...... My goodness," waiting until she saw her wretched appearance, Tian's mother hurriedly went forward to hold her up, "What happened to you?"
"Nothing, I ran into a bag snatcher on the road."
Xia Mao stood in the doorway and unzipped her trousers, about to take them off, Tian Ma was busy stopping her, "Don't take them off yet, I'll cut your trousers, I'll get blood on them."
"Better take them off, I'll go back to my room and change my skirt." Xia Mao took a look at Tian Ma standing here, she was embarrassed instead, "I'd better go to the bathroom to change."
Tian Ma also wanted to go in and help, but was refused by Xia Mo.
Tian Ma turned around and went back to the living room to call Ling Yichen.
"Robbed of your bag?" Ling Yichen was shocked at the news and helped walk out of the ward, "Go and see if she's badly hurt, I'll be right back."
He took a few steps outside and then retreated, whispering to Lu Wanqiu in the ward, "I have to go out in a bit of a hurry, call me if you need anything."
"Yichen, I'm in trouble ......"
Before Lu Wanqiu could finish her sentence, Ling Yichen interrupted her and said, "I've said hello to the director, there will be doctors and nurses to take care of the child alone in the evening, if you are tired, go to the inner room and take a rest."
Lu Wanqiu looked at his hurried appearance and was so angry that she almost vomited blood in her heart, but no matter what she thought, Ling Yichen was already gone.
"Ling Yichen!" Lu Wanqiu gritted her teeth and said word by word, "You forced me to do this!"
Xia Mao changed into her dress and sat on the sofa for Tian Ma to administer the medicine.
"Gently, gently ......," Xia Mao begged vocally as she bared her teeth in pain.
"There's sand in there, what can we do if we don't clean it up and grow it on the city side?" Tian Ma looked at the two spots on her leg that were bleeding out, and advised heartily, "It's better to go to the hospital, let the doctor clean it properly, don't leave scars again."
"I don't want to go to the hospital, I'm afraid of the pain." Xia Mo almost shed tears in pain, "The doctor's hands are too heavy to care if it hurts or not."
"But in case it scars, Mister should blame me." Tian's mother dabbed a cotton swab with the salve, only daring to wipe around it, but not the area with the sand.
"Here, I'll do it myself." Xia Mao said with a bite of her silver teeth and a heartbeat.
When Ling Yichen was in the lift, he saw a few drops of blood on the floor and his heart clenched together.
When he opened the door, he saw Xia Mao gritting her teeth and her red eyes, holding a cotton swab to her bloodied leg as if she wanted to wipe it but didn't dare to, his eyes sank, and without taking off his shoes, he rushed to her.
Xia Mao raised her face and looked at him with tears streaming down her face as soon as her eyes blinked, "Why did you come back?"
"How did you get it?" Both of them opened their mouths at the same time, Ling Yichen squatted in front of her, took a serious look at her leg, reached out and picked her up, "It's better to go to the hospital."
"I'm not going." Xia Mao wrapped her arms around his neck and beamed, "The doctor is too ruthless, I'm scared, I'll just rub some salve at home, or I can rub some medicine to stop the bleeding."
"I'll find you a doctor who isn't ruthless, do as you're told." Ling Yichen carried her out of the flat and got into the car and had the driver drive the car directly to the hospital where Lu Peiqi was staying.
He called the director in the car and told the two doctors from the paediatrics department to wait in the outpatient clinic.
When he carried her into the outpatient clinic, the doctors waiting there froze, and the two doctors looked at each other before they heartily helped Xia Mao clean her wounds.
Xia Mao tightly pulled on Ling Yichen's clothes, and tears were welling up in her eyes.
Ling Yichen heartily held her head and pressed her face against his waist, while telling the doctor, "Be gentle."
While coaxing her, "It doesn't hurt."
When the doctor had finished cleaning her wound, Ling Yichen carried her back to the car, and only then did he ask what was going on.
Ling Yichen picked up the phone and said in a cold voice to the caller, "Find out who robbed the people at the intersection of Xiang Dao Road and Yunhui Road today, make sure you catch them, beat them up first when you catch them, and then ask if there was anyone directing them or not."
"Don't fight, just get the stuff back and hand it over to the police!" Xia Mo was pulling at his clothes next to him.
Ling Yichen patted her hand and then said to the phone, "Make sure to check carefully whether he has any previous convictions and whether he has contacted anyone recently."
Xia Mao blinked twice next to him and watched him hang up the phone before asking, "Do you suspect that someone did it on purpose?"
"Next time, don't go out on your own again, do you hear me?" Ling Yichen looked at the swelling around her injured area and winced in pain, "If you go out again, you must have someone with you."
"You still have the nerve to say that? I came back at such a late hour, isn't that why I waited for you?" Xia Mao skimmed her mouth, "When you didn't come even though I waited for you, I packed you a beef bibimbap, thinking that it wasn't far from home, so I walked back, who would have thought that I would run into such a thing!"
"Where's the bibimbap?"
"It fell on the ground at the intersection." I thought if you didn't eat it, I'd save it for tomorrow morning."
"Where did you buy the rice mix?" Ling Yichen took her hand and looked at a bruised spot on her hand, rubbing it gently.
"It's at a Korean restaurant two blocks away from our district, they make superb beef bibimbap." Xia Mao's eyes were red, but there was a smile on the corner of her mouth, "I'll take you there next time."
Ling Yichen tapped the front partition and gave the driver the address.
"I haven't had dinner yet, I want to go now." Ling Yichen moved towards Xia Mao's side and reached out to take her in his arms, "You go with me."
"So you're not going to the hospital?" Xia Mao asked, looking at him.
Ling Yichen's answer was not a question, "What do you think you should do? Do I have to take you with me wherever I go after this?"
"I'm not the waistband of your trousers." Summer ended up muttering.
"I wish you were my waistband."
When they arrived at the entrance of the restaurant, the car had just stopped when Ling Yichen's phone rang, he took out the phone and looked at the three words "Lu Wanqiu" on it.
Ling Yichen looked at Xia Mao, whose eyes also looked at him, "Why didn't you answer it?"