"Aren't you abroad? Why are you back?" The old man's tone was a bit reproachful, but also concerned.
Bai Xiao helped the old man sit down, poured a glass of water and handed it to grandma, "I've been staying there for more than a week, and I came back when I had nothing to do."
Grandma sighed: "As I get older, I become more and more useless. I always run to the hospital."
Bai Xiao looked at the old man's leg. The old man said it didn't matter, but Bai Xiao was still worried and wanted to ask a doctor.
Grandma looked at her with a smile: "It's not like you are terminally ill. How can I still lie to you?"
"Don't say that, it's unlucky." When Bai Xiao heard her grandmother say this, she held her thin hand tightly: "Your health is fine."
"Your mother told me everything." The old man suddenly said.
Bai Xiao knew what was going on, and when her grandmother was about to speak again, she stopped the old man's words: "You can rest in peace and recuperate, don't worry about these things."
Grandma shook her head: "I can't control these things, but since they are related to you, I have to worry about them."
"..." Bai Xiao didn't know what to say. She only heard the old man asking her: "He came to see you?"
‘He’ refers to Xu Jingyan.
Bai Xiao remembered the time she saw Xu Jingyan at the gate of the compound, and Xu Ruiling who had traveled all the way to Las Vegas, and she remained silent.
"It is inevitable for people to make mistakes when they are young, and grandma did not speak for them. Although I don't know what happened between your mother and him back then, but I can see that your mother really planned to live with him at that time, otherwise she would have
I won’t give birth to you.”
The old man took Bai Xiao's hand and put his left hand on the back of her hand: "In that era, few unmarried women were willing to give birth to children for men they didn't love."
Seeing that Bai Xiao remained silent, the old man did not continue the topic, but told her everything about the fall.
"It was Qi You who sent me to the hospital that day."
"I know." Bai Xiao smiled. Seeing the old man's surprise, she told Mrs. Wu what she said.
The old man nodded and added: "He also paid for the initial hospitalization fee. When I woke up after the operation, I could no longer find his person."
"Don't worry, I will find a way to return the money to him when I return to Fengcheng."
Grandma looked at her with loving eyes and said, "I was doing surgery in Fengcheng at that time. Xiao Shao must have helped you a lot, right?"
"...Why did you mention this all of a sudden?" Bai Xiao recalled that moment when she fell to the ground in a hysterical embarrassment, and she still couldn't help but feel embarrassed.
"You lied to me about Xiao Shao and said it was Qi You's fault. I haven't settled the score with you yet!"
The old man glared at her, but then his expression softened: "Fortunately, you are a reliable person, otherwise, I wouldn't know how you are now."
"Xiao Shao was still here yesterday. I heard from Mrs. Wu that he rushed here as soon as he got off the plane." Grandma smiled happily and glanced at the glass window on the door from the corner of her eye: "It's rare for him to have this
Xin, if you come here today, I don’t have to think about it, and I know it was him who sent you here.”
Bai Xiao turned around and saw the tall figure outside the window. He was standing in the corridor, his head lowered, and he might be talking to someone.
Looking at him, her cheeks turned red inexplicably.
The old man smiled more reservedly: "You also have to love your man. Don't just know how to enjoy, but also remember to pay. Only when you pay will you get rewards."
Bai Xiao squeezed her grandmother's hands and nodded solemnly: "I will."
"As for the Xu family, whether you want to recognize him as your father or not is entirely up to you. Don't take into account what other people think."
Bai Xiao raised her head, but the old man urged her: "I just heard Jing Xi's voice. Let him come in quickly and talk to me."
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After the little guy came in, he walked around the patient's bed and noticed that "Grandma" was longer than "Grandma", which coaxed the old man into giving him another red envelope.
Yu Jingxi was about to put it in his pocket when he saw Yu Shaoting looking at him coldly, and immediately returned the red envelope: "Grandma, you can use it yourself."
"I gave it to you, there's no reason to take it back." The old man pretended to be unhappy and refused to take it.
Yu Shaoting said at the right time: "Take it."
The little guy looked at Yu Shaoting with a look to make sure he wouldn't be angry, then he carefully hid the red envelope and didn't forget to say thank you to his grandma.
Grandma learned that the family of three got off the expressway and came directly to the hospital without having lunch, so she immediately urged them to have a meal.
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When she came out of the ward, Yu Jingxi's round-toed calfskin shoes clicked extremely hard on the ground, and she felt surprisingly good after receiving a red envelope.
He turned around and ran back to Bai Xiao, asking her where she was going to eat.
Bai Xiao looked at the man next to him, and Yu Shaoting closed the door of the ward with his backhand: "Just find a restaurant nearby."
…
Finally, they went to the row of snack bars outside the hospital. Bai Xiao never asked for much about food.
At this point, Yu Jingxi followed her, but there was one person... Bai Xiao stood at the door of a small restaurant, turning to look at Yu Shaoting: "How about changing to another restaurant."
But he had already entered first and said: "If you don't want to drive anymore, just go in."
Indeed, there are many small shops like this around here. If you want to go to a high-end restaurant, you have to drive for five or six minutes.
In the restaurant, because it was past dinner, there was no one around. The proprietress and waiter brought the menu. Bai Xiao ordered a few light dishes and asked Yu Shaoting what he liked to eat. He said "whatever", but Bai Xiao felt that this answer
It was even harder, but Yu Jingxi groaned in dissatisfaction, holding his chin in his little hands without asking him.
Bai Xiao deliberately soaked the sterilized dishes and chopsticks in hot water again, and looked up at Yu Shaoting opposite. He was sitting there in a suit. Neither his aura nor his slight frowning movements suited this kind of place.
Bai Xiao handed him the chopsticks and asked, "Would you like a drink?"
"..."
Yu Jingxi came over and said, "How about drinking orange juice?"
Yu Shaoting looked up at her, and seeing her careful look to please, he chuckled, his eyebrows softened a lot, and he said, "Just order it."
One advantage of a small restaurant is that the food is served very quickly.
Before eating, Bai Xiao specially stuffed two tissues into Yu Jingxi's neck. The little guy wanted to pull it off uncomfortably, but Bai Xiao's glare made him retract his hand.
"Why would you choose a place like this? The food is unhygienic and eating it will not be good for the baby in my belly!"
When she heard Yu Yiwei's voice, Bai Xiao was helping Yu Jingxi peel shrimps. When she turned around, she saw two people with different opinions at the door.
It was not strange to see Yu Yiwei, nor was it strange to see Pei Qiyou, but seeing the two of them together, Bai Xiao couldn't help but look surprised.
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"I don't care, I don't want to eat here anyway!"
Yu Yiwei was wearing five-centimeter stiletto heels, with delicate light makeup on her face, and she didn’t look like a pregnant woman: “I’ve been riding in the car for several hours, and I’m already feeling uncomfortable, and you still want me to eat food from a place like this…
…”
Pei Qiyou looked impatient. He was about to smoke a cigarette when he turned around and saw a family of three in the restaurant.
Especially when he saw Bai Xiao looking back at them, Pei Qiyou let out a bitter smile in his heart, filled with endless bitterness.
Yu Yiwei noticed something strange about him and looked into the restaurant. When she saw Bai Xiao, she was stunned. Then the unhappiness on her face was wiped away. She was about to go to the restaurant with her bag: "Forget it, since I'm here
Yes, let’s go in and eat.”
However, as soon as she took a step forward, her arm was pulled by someone, and her whole body was dragged away. She shouted: "Pei Qiyou, what are you doing!"
Pei Qiyou directly pulled her back to the car.
"Pei Qiyou, why are you crazy!" Yu Yiwei was dragged so hard by him that her crotch hit the car door: "Are you so excited to see her?"
When she saw that he was silent, she sneered: "Why, are you afraid that she will know that you are with me again?"
Pei Qiyou looked at her coldly with a sullen face: "Don't you want to go to eat Western food? Get in the car."
When Yu Yiwei thought of him seeing Bai Xiao running away, she wanted to laugh but cry at the same time. She felt aggrieved in her heart and sarcastically said to him: "Are you so wronged by being with me? Since she is there,
Go and tell her, tell her how you are sacrificing yourself for others."
"That's enough." Pei Qiyou interrupted her and opened the car door: "Are you leaving or not?"
"I'm not leaving." Yu Yiwei's mood calmed down again, and she glanced sideways at Pei Qiyou, who was standing by the car: "It's still too late for you to regret it now."
Pei Qiyou looked at her and said without any emotion in his voice: "Get in the car, didn't you say you were hungry?"
"I know that you must hate me in your heart when I force you like this. However, other than this method, I don't know how to calm down my unwillingness. Pei Qiyou, you can't blame me. It was you who sorry for me first. As long as you marry me well
Live your life, I promise not to tell anything about Bai Xiao."
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Although Pei Qiyou quickly pulled Yu Yiwei away, Bai Xiao was sure that it was not his hallucination.
She withdrew her gaze, turned around, and saw Yu Shaoting pouring orange juice into his cup. As for the scene at the door just now, she didn't know if he had seen it, so she thought about it and told him: "I just saw it."
Pei Qiyou and Yiwei."
Yu Shaoting said lightly, "Hmm", as if he didn't care much.
Bai Xiao was not very satisfied with his response. He picked up his chopsticks and was not very interested in picking up food. However, Yu Shaoting raised his eyes and looked at her: "I saw it too."
Yu Jingxi gnawed on the braised chicken feet, looked at the one next to her and then the one across from her, and then buried her head again, like a greedy little hamster.
Yu Shaoting handed her a can of milk. Bai Xiao glanced at it and didn't remember what she ordered just now.
"When you turned around just now, I got up to get it." He explained calmly and pulled the tab for her.
"Why didn't I pay attention?" Bai Xiao took a sip of milk. He looked at her with a half-smile and said nothing.
But Bai Xiao felt that every time he laughed like this, he had no good intentions. It was like a kind of ridicule. She put the milk on the table: "Why are you laughing again?"
He didn't answer, but smiled more obviously.
Bai Xiao: "..."
…
After finishing the meal and paying the bill, the landlady came over and said, "A total of eighty-six yuan."
"Boss boss, you forgot to give us a bottle of yogurt." Yu Jingxi suddenly stood next to him, shaking his calves to remind the boss lady who was about to leave.
The landlady was confused, and Yu Jingxi kindly pointed to the sign at the door: "I saw it before I came in."
"Well, that event ended yesterday."
"Then why didn't you tell me earlier, otherwise we wouldn't come to your house for dinner."
Boss lady: “…”
When she finally left, Yu Jingxi still took a bottle of yogurt from the refrigerator. The landlady twitched the corner of her mouth, maybe she had never seen such a child who didn't suffer a lot.
Bai Xiao wanted to give the money for the yogurt to the lady boss, but the lady boss hurriedly waved her hand and said, "No, no, no."
"The boss lady took a lot of money from our meal, so she won't care about this little money." Yu Jingxi interjected from the side.
Bai Xiao covered his mouth, but the proprietress was amused by him and said to Bai Xiao: "Your nephew is so cute, he is as handsome as your brother."
Yu Shaoting took out his wallet and paused.
Bai Xiao twitched the corners of her lips and was about to ask Yu Shaoting for change, but he pulled her away and she ran after him for two steps: "I haven't paid for the yogurt yet."
Yu Shaoting kept a straight face and said nothing, but just took her out of the restaurant.
The landlady was confused. This man was handsome, but had a bad temper. He would fall out with him all the time, as if someone owed him money. When he turned around, he saw the chubby little boy coming out of the refrigerator again.
He took a cup of yogurt from the cabinet and glanced at her sideways: "That's my dad's wife!" Then he chased her out in a hurry.
Bai Xiao didn't realize why he was so grim at first, but then she understood and pulled him: "Jing Xi is still behind, please walk slowly."
Looking at his tense side face, and thinking of the way he laughed at her at the dinner table, she felt as if she had turned over to become a serf and took over. She took his arm and said, "Brother, do you think we should buy some fruit?"
See grandma?"
The owner of the fruit stall next to him said warmly: "Buy some. The weather is hot. It's just right to buy a fruit basket to send to the patients."
Yu Shaoting looked sideways at her, looking at her triumphant virtue, whether he was smiling or not, it was more like he was getting angry, and he said four words: "The villain succeeds."
Bai Xiao felt proud, but when she looked up and saw Xu Jingyan not far away, her smile faded. In an instant, she lost the desire to buy the fruits.
Yu Jingxi also saw Xu Jingyan and immediately waved his hands and shouted: "Little grandpa, little grandpa!"
Xu Jingyan turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw Bai Xiao from a distance away, but he also saw her turning her head away, and for a moment he didn't know whether he should come over or not.
Bai Xiao let go of Yu Shaoting's arm: "I'll go up first."
Especially when she saw Yu Jingxi running past, she curled her lips, muttered "little traitor" and turned around to leave.
Yu Shaoting didn't try to persuade her to stay, probably because he saw that she didn't want to see Xu Jingyan.
Bai Xiao knew that it would be unreasonable for him to stop Yu Shaoting from greeting Xu Jingyan. After all, he had no deep grudge against that person.
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Bai Xiao took the elevator back to the ward, and Su Manrong was there, or in other words, Su Manrong was waiting for her specially.
Seeing her coming, Su Manrong got up from the chair and looked at her eagerly: "Xiaoxiao, can you come out for a moment? I have something to tell you."
Bai Xiao didn't want her grandmother to worry, so she nodded and followed her to a corner of the corridor.
"He called me a few days ago." When Su Manrong mentioned Xu Jingyan, she also avoided it. That past incident was a sorrow in her heart. She couldn't help but not care about it at all. She looked at Bai Xiao: "He
Tell me...he didn't know what happened back then, and when I took you back to Liyang, he was still in the hospital due to a work injury."
Su Manrong spoke incoherently, and Bai Xiao actually didn't understand much. She didn't know much about the past between Su Manrong and Xu Jingyan.
"That's your business, what does it have to do with me?"
Su Manrong saw Bai Xiao's indifferent expression, and when Xu Jingyan said "I'm sorry" to her on the other end of the phone and cried silently, she couldn't bear the bitterness in her heart. She had complained about what happened back then for so many years, but she really didn't think he behaved like that.
The moment she felt regretful, she discovered that instead of being as happy as she had imagined, she felt melancholy.
Especially after Xu Ruiling came to Fengcheng to find her and explained the misunderstandings back then, she was left in disbelief and confused.
Su Manrong stretched out her hand to take Bai Xiao's hand: "Xiao Xiao..."
Bai Xiao avoided it without leaving any trace: "You don't need to tell me these things, I'm going to see grandma." After saying that, he turned around and left.
Su Manrong wanted to call her to stop, but the elevator door opened next to her. She saw Yu Shaoting and Yu Jingxi coming up, and she quickly turned around and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Over there, Yu Jingxi saw Su Manrong and called out "Auntie" obediently. Su Manrong responded quickly. Looking at the child with red lips and white teeth, she couldn't help but think of Bai Xiao's appearance when she was young. Her eyes were red again. She looked up at Yu Shaoting, something was wrong.
Bai Xiao didn't want to listen, so she could only say to Yu Shaoting: "Xiao Xiao over there——"
