The raindrops crackled on the windowsill, making a crisp sound.

The second hand of the clock beat steadily, walking slowly by one by one, time was quietly lost, the whole ward had completely darkened, and she sat by the bed, like a puppet, with a pale face, holding his hand motionlessly.

His eyes were on his temple at the corner of his eyes. David said that when he broke his leg in a car accident in Shanghai, he had a full body examination and found that there was a tumor growing in his head. This disease is not necessarily fatal, it depends on the timing of discovery and treatment methods. Shaoqian's mother died of this disease back then, because of her passive treatment.

David also said: Shaoqian's current situation has not worsened yet. If the surgery is performed early, it is entirely possible to recover health. The tumor growth stage often presses on the optic nerve, so there will be transient blindness. Occasionally, the headache will be split when it occurs. Shaoqian has always relied on analgesics to survive.

She felt extremely scared. She had never been so scared and was trembling.

David clearly said it might not be fatal, but she was inexplicably fearful. Fear was like a hand stretched out from the darkness, pulling her down and falling.

When she asked, she touched her lips and teeth because of trembling: "If the surgery is immediately, what is the success rate?"

David closed his eyebrows and thought for a long time. Even his cheerful personality was so heavy at this moment. Finally, he compared the number: "Before, there might be sixty percent. Now this situation is probably only forty percent."

Forty percent... This number may not be small if it is put into normal times. After all, there are many miracles in this world that are less than a hundred percent likely to happen. But once applied to human life, especially those who are closest relatives, this number seems so small!

Less than half!

If the surgery is performed, he will have half of the chance of staying away from this world and leaving her forever!

"No, no... Not to mention forty percent, eighty percent may not take risks..." She finally couldn't help but cry, and tears slammed on the back of his hand: "I beg you, you are such a good doctor, you must have other ways, right? You can definitely save Shaoqian, he must not have any trouble!"

David just let her hold on, motionless, and let her cry and make fun of her, which was more like a kind of pity for her.

She doesn’t want any mercy! She just needs Shaoqian to survive well!

After staying at his bedside all night, he still slept so quietly, without any sign of waking up. A trace of lifeless ash gradually appeared in the sky outside the window. When the darkness finally disappeared, she became more and more scared. She held his hands tightly, because he had been hanging a little bit, and his hands were very cold. She held them with both hands and warmed them with her palms.

He seemed to have had a long dream, and he never stretched his eyebrows in the dream. She carefully stroked his forehead with her fingers, but failed to scrub his wrinkles, and instead started to tremble.

As dawn approached, many people rushed into the other end of the corridor. She stood up and opened the door and saw the middle-aged beauty walking in the front. Her black fox-haired shawl on her shoulders was trembling because her steps were too fast, like the wings of a black dove. Behind her were several surgical experts in white coats, and a whole row of guards with uniform steps. She lined up in the hospital corridor in an instant, with a very scary momentum.

Xia Xiaobei stood at the door in a daze. The woman she knew was Qin Shulan.

It was five or six o'clock in the morning, but the leaders of the hospital came immediately. Qin Shulan seemed to have not seen her, or had deliberately ignored her, and went around her and talked to the leaders of the hospital, with a quiet alienation in her eyes. After a brief communication between the two sides, Qin Shulan let several Beijing brain experts from behind shake hands and greet the president and vice president one by one, and then entered the ward one by one.

"The patient's condition may not be suitable for moving, and it is unlikely to be transferred to the hospital."

"Fortunately, the medical conditions here are not bad. Let's observe the situation here and discuss the next countermeasures."

Several experts exchanged opinions quickly, and Qin Shulan nodded while listening: "Then please stay and observe his situation at any time."

"Where, this is what we should."

Several doctors have standard expert faces on TV. Xia Xiaobei noticed that one of them had blue eyes and hooked noses. I wonder how many domestic and foreign experts Qin Shulan invited. It seems that the Lei family also knew about Shaoqian's illness.

A long time later, the ward became quiet again. Qin Shulan looked at her and walked over calmly and said, "When did Shaoqian faint?"

She did not greet her politely, and directly questioned her straight to the point. Her cold tone and arrogant expression suddenly made Xia Xiaobei realize that she and herself are not in the same world.

Seeing that she was just stunned, Qin Shulan once again asked the main point: "You already know his condition, right? If you don't plan to leave him, then please take good care of him during this period."

"Yeah." She just nodded. Not to mention leaving, at this critical moment, even a thousand cows could not pull her away. She was just surprised that Qin Shulan could be so calm about her. She once thought that the other party wanted to expel her and never show up in front of the Lei family.

Qin Shulan just looked at her thoughtfully and said, "Shaoqian is not convenient to transfer to the hospital now, and he cannot move the ward. I have asked someone to prepare a room for you alone. It's on this floor. You can stay overnight and go and rest first."

She shook her head stubbornly: "I want to wait for him to wake up."

Qin Shulan seemed to make a cry of ridicule: "The expert has checked him just now. His optic nerve is under pressure and will not wake up in a short period of time. If you want to hold on until he opens his eyes and lets him see you, the best way is to go and rest now."

I have to say that at some critical moments, Qin Shulan is correct. Her calm and rational attitude often makes people feel heartbroken and they don’t feel the warmth of the family at all.

Xia Xiaobei stopped talking and was about to go out with the young nurse, when Qin Shulan suddenly said: "Shaoqian is not used to the hospital's things. He still has several sets of pajamas and daily necessities at home. When you wake up, go over and help him take all the things."

She was stunned for a moment and turned around and asked, "Where to get it?"

"The Lei family's ancestral home. The driver was waiting downstairs. The license plate was Jing ag6xxx."

She nodded in confusion. The hospital came over and took her to a large suite. She had actually recovered from a serious illness. The needles on her back and the back of her head had not been removed yet. The young nurse checked her wounds to see if she wanted to change the medicine and reband. The room was quiet. She was sitting there, and white light had already bloomed outside the window, but she felt extremely tired, as if she had lived so long.

Later, when she was lying down, she heard the young nurses chatting at the door, talking in a low voice, saying that she didn't know what the patients were in the special care ward on this floor were. Even Qin Shulan came to see it in person. There were a whole line of armed police lined up at the door, and those who didn't know thought that the national leaders were here to stay in their hospital.

It was only eight or nine o'clock when she woke up. She was thinking about Shaoqian and she had not slept for two or three hours. Qin Shulan had already left. After all, she was the leader of the country, so it was not easy to take time to take a look in a hurry.

She went to see Shao Qian again, and he was still lying quietly, sinking into white, and the infusion never stopped. The dropper winded to the back of his hand and finally fixed it with tape. At some point, an oxygen mask was added, and his face was covered by the white mist of breath, which was hazy and unreal. There was a monotonous and cold sound from the instrument, and there was no breath of vitality in the entire ward. The silence continued. At one time, she thought that the person lying on the bed was actually a dead person.

She was startled by this idea and remembered that Qin Shulan asked her to go to the Lei family's ancestral home to get Shaoqian's clothes. She hurriedly wiped away the tears from her face and turned around and left in a hurry.

The moment she brought the door, her fingers with the dropper seemed to curl up slightly.

The driver was also wearing an armed police uniform. The young man smiled and showed his white teeth. He was fucking authentic Beijing movies while talking. He said that the driver Lao Wu wanted to go to inspect with Commissioner Qin, so he was responsible for driving for her.

Xia Xiaobei smiled, without saying a word, and watched him silently drive the car into the depths of the city. It was actually a very inconspicuous alley. The road was surrounded by the Metasequoia of the Year and the Month. The car slid across the guard table. The guard in the police uniform raised his hand and gave a military salute. Xia Xiaobei was looking over and felt immediately frightened.

The Lei family is also an old house. The young man from the armed police drove the car to the entrance of the Siheyuan and stopped and said, "I'll send you here, you can go in by yourself."

She nodded and walked out of the car, which was very old blue brick floor. In the courtyard, there were sparsely planted plum blossoms and crabapples. The green leaves were shaded, covering a corner of the house. There were many flower pots under the corridor, and there were two pairs of old stone drums on both sides of the Yuedong Gate, and the patterns on the top were vaguely visible... She felt a little panic and a little inexplicably excited. It turned out that this was the home where he grew up, and there were memories of his childhood here.

She described in her heart that with Shaoqian's temperament, she must have been naughty when she was young. The large round ebony table in the yard had traces left over from years. Maybe he had lying on it when he was a child to practice calligraphy, because birds and birds always attracted attention, so he was bound to be beaten. If it were Lei Yunze, he should be a mature person, pursing his lips, holding one hand behind, holding the brush in the other hand, and writing in a regular manner.

Because his eyes fell on the big round table as bright as black jade, he thought of being enlightened, and he curled his lips slightly. At this time, Qin Shulan called her not far away: "Miss Xia, are you here?"

"Ah," she suddenly came back to her senses, turned around and bowed apologetically. Last night, the drizzle was drizzling today, and the spring was brighter. Qin Shulan was wearing a chicken-collared velvet sweater that was comfortable and yet elegant at home. Seeing that she was not as sharp as before, she just said homely: "Have you eaten breakfast yet? I asked someone to clean up Shaoqian's things. You can just go up and get them later. Sit down and eat something first."

She was reluctant to refuse, so she had to sit in the dining room. The kitchen seemed to have been prepared early in the morning, and soon served porridge and a few plates of pickles. A delicate plate also contained salted duck eggs that were cut from it.

Xia Xiaobei was tightly restrained because of the presence of the elders. After taking a few bites, he put down his chopsticks.

Seeing her like this, Qin Shulan couldn't help but smile and said, "I'm so afraid of me? I'm not a tiger that eats people."

This was quite self-deprecating, but Xia Xiaobei dared not comment. She only heard her regretful words: "My mother is probably the most failed. Yunze is the same. She is always afraid of me and doesn't tell me anything. The most wrong thing I did six years ago, you may have heard of it, was his elder sister's marriage."

She raised her eyelids and looked at Xia Xiaobei. Xia Xiaobei actually didn't understand why this woman who seemed strong and calm and did not need anyone to comfort her had the desire to tell her at this time, but she still continued the story.

"Of the three children, Yunqing and Yunze are my biological children. I treat them as well, but I always feel biased. Maybe my mother kissed my daughter a little, and the one I loved the most among the three children was Yunqing. At that time, I saw that she was thinking about the eldest son of the Lu family but was embarrassed to say it, so I took the initiative to go to the Lu family to tell the marriage. Unexpectedly, after returning home, Yunqing cried and begged me to terminate the engagement. I thought that my little daughter's family was just shy and embarrassed, and thought that she would marry the person she liked was always happy. Until the day before marriage, I went to her room to see her, and she cried and said to me: Mom, if I marry him like this, he will never love me in his life."

She sighed long: "I always thought I was thinking about the child, but unfortunately, in the end I didn't even know what she really wanted."

Xia Xiaobei was fascinated by the fact that she had been a mother for nearly five years, but she had never fulfilled her mother's responsibilities. Now, when she heard a mother telling her story in this way, she couldn't help but feel deeply moved. In fact, when she asked in the ward that Shao Qian was not used to the hospital's things, Xia Xiaobei vaguely felt that she was not as cold as she seemed, but that there were too many external occasions that forced her to hide her loving side.

Qin Shulan looked at her and smiled: "I firmly opposed you and Yunze being together. Yunze was so fussing that I had never wanted to talk to me. Afterwards, I asked myself if I had done something wrong again. But when I returned to Shanghai again, Shaoqian brought you to see me. After he sent you away, he told me alone that he wanted to take care of you for the rest of his life and let me agree to him go away with you. The child has been naughty since he was a child, and he has been very popular in everything he does. The first time I saw such a serious expression in his eyes, I agreed to him for some reason."

Xia Xiaobei felt shocked. After that, she was entangled in all kinds of ways, trying to find out what Shaoqian had said to the old woman, which could make her feel relaxed so easily, and agreed to them together. He kept his mouth shut and refused to leak it to her for a word. She thought he had used some tricks, but it turned out...it turned out to be just that simple...

The simplest thing in this world is to face her sincerity, but she has never done such a simple thing before.

Qin Shulan looked at her carefully: "Although you did something wrong, I can see that your character is not bad. In the past, I misunderstood you. Not only that, you taught your child very well. I liked that child very much. If you have time, you often bring him back to China and let me see my grandson. If Shaoqian can escape danger this time, you can go to the United States together. Whether it is treatment there or... getting married, Shaoqian's child has suffered a lot since childhood. If someone is by my side to take care of him, I can rest assured as a mother."

When she said "marriage", Xia Xiaobei's heart trembled slightly and she looked at her in disbelief. Her tone was solemn and gentle, as if a ceremony entrusted her most precious things to her.

Before this, she might still be hesitant, because of Lei Yunze's favor and a stack of photos, she began to shake her heart. Now she only feels regretful. With such a person who loves himself as much as she wants, what else can her husband ask for?

She has always been confused, and she has always been uncertain, and he has been so firm from beginning to end, as long as she is alone.

After waiting for so long and spending so much effort, he never said he was tired. No matter whether she wanted to escape or refuse, he had never left. He had been there, waiting for her, waiting for her to see him as soon as she turned around.

If, from now on, he really can't see it again, then let her be his eyes and see the world for him.

Xia Xiaobei stood up with some difficulty, smiled at Qin Shulan, and nodded.

"Auntie, don't worry, as long as I'm still alive for one day, I won't leave Shaoqian. I will definitely take good care of him, like loving myself... no, I love him more than loving myself."

From now on, I will not be confused anymore, but will only double down. I love him and only love him.

Qin Shulan smiled with satisfaction and said, "Go up, Shaoqian's room is on the second floor. He has lived there before high school. You may see a lot of interesting things when you go up."

"Yeah." She nodded, bowed to her again, got up and entered the room.

She went up the handrail to the second floor, and the servant had been standing at the door waiting for her. She knew that the room was Shaoqian's room.

His room was much simpler than she thought. The windows were locked firmly, and there were years of dust in the corner. The cabinet was opened. Maybe the servant was helping to find clothes just now, but she found something interesting because he put all the certificates he received in the cabinet. If the clothes hanging outside were not removed, he would not have seen them at all.

It was impossible to tell that such a young age was a contradictory and indulgent complex. She thought Ye Shaoqian's temperament would be like winning the award, but she was afraid that the world would not know. She used a small round nail to nail a few photos on the desk, including when he joined the Young Pioneers in elementary school, and the moment he was sprinting to the finish line of the sports meet, and the photo was standing in the flower bed at the school gate with the award certificate. The most recent one was about the bachelor's uniform photos when he graduated, each one was her Shaoqian. From childhood to adulthood, like other children, he also had a hard work history.
Chapter completed!