Zhou Guozheng was standing in the corridor of the hospital. He was carrying a bag of Snow Meiniang that he had just bought from the cake shop. When he came to the ward, he looked at the clean clothes he had just changed out of and made sure that there was no trace of anything on his body.
It was dirty, so he opened the door with a smile.
"Dad, you're here." When the little girl lying on the hospital bed saw him, a sweet smile immediately broke out on her face.
"Niuniu, look what this is." Zhou Guozheng closed the door, lifted the bag on his hand, put it in front of his daughter and shook it.
"Wow, it's Xue Mei Niang." The little girl's pale face flushed with excitement as she struggled to get up from the bed.
Zhou Guozheng was startled, and quickly hugged his precious daughter, held her small body in his arms, and said gently, "Niuniu's favorite food is Snow Meiniang, try it and see if it tastes good."
Niu Niu picked up the snow-white Snow Meiniang in the box and was reluctant to eat it. Just then the nurse who patrolled the ward came in. When she saw the Snow Meiniang in Niu Niu's hand, she frowned but didn't say anything.
It wasn't until she saw Zhou Guozheng going out that she stopped him and called him, "Mr. Zhou, Xue Mei Niang is cold. With Qingqing's condition, try to feed her as little as possible."
Zhou Guozheng panicked all of a sudden and said at a loss, "Can't Qingqing eat Xue Mei Niang? I don't know, what should I do..."
The nurse reassured him, "It's not that you must not eat it. It's okay to eat it occasionally, as long as you don't eat it regularly. I just want to remind you to try to give Qingqing hot, easy-to-digest food in the future."
Zhou Guozheng slowly calmed down and looked at the nurse gratefully, "I will not buy these things for Qingqing in the future."
The nurse sighed inwardly after thinking of the well-behaved and sensible little girl. She took out a piece of paper from the bookfold next to her and handed it to Zhou Guozheng, "These are the precautions I have compiled about leukemia. Take a look."
"Thank you." The content on the paper in his hand was all handwritten. Zhou Guozheng took a quick glance at it. It ranged from treatment medicines to dietary precautions. They were written in great detail. It can be seen that the person who wrote this wasted a lot of money.
A lot of thought.
"I have to go to work in a while. Can my Qingqing..." Zhou Guozheng pursed his lips twice and lowered his head, feeling embarrassed to say the next words.
"I happen to be working the day shift today. If nothing happens, I will go there often to check." The nurse said openly.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you very much." Zhou Guozheng said these few words over and over again. The 1.8 meter tall man who kept bowing and thanking him seemed inexplicably humble at this moment.
After Zhou Guozheng left, an old nurse came next to the nurse and said, "Xiao Zhang, do you like him?"
The nurse acted dumbfounded on the spot: "Sister Liu, what did you say?"
Sister Liu pursed her lips and said, "Although his father is slovenly, he is very energetic. If you hadn't fallen in love with him, why would you have taken such good care of this family, checking information and taking care of their children."
"Sister Liu, you really think too much." Xiao Zhang was angry and funny, "I just see the shadow of my past in him."
Sister Liu suddenly stopped talking. They have been colleagues for more than ten years. They knew all about Xiao Zhang's past, so they did not dare to poke her sadness, so they had to forcefully change the topic.
"I heard that the child Qingqing has been without a mother since she was a child. She was raised by her father who pooped on her every time. Now that she has this disease, her father feels so uncomfortable."
"Who says it's not the case? Alas."
Zhou Guozheng returned to the ward. Niu Niu had just finished one Snow Mei Niang and there were two left in the box. The little girl handed him the box containing Snow Mei Niang and said, "Dad, eat it too."
A dignified man of eight feet, faced with his daughter's sensibleness, he almost burst into tears without holding back.
"Dad, I'm not hungry now. I'll take it home to eat." Zhou Guozheng closed the box.
"Okay, then daddy must eat it." Niu Niu raised her little face and said seriously.
"Daddy must eat it." Zhou Guozheng touched his daughter's head, then squatted down in front of the hospital bed, "Niuniu, daddy is going to work soon. You must not run around alone. You have to wait here for daddy to come back, you know?"
"Dad, are you leaving?" Niuniu was reluctant to leave her father, but she knew that her father was working hard to earn money to support her, so she said obediently, "Niuniu knows, Niuniu will not run around."
"If you feel uncomfortable or something happens, Niuniu just ring this bell. The nurse will come over to see Niuniu in a moment. Remember?" Zhou Guozheng pointed to the call bell on the bedside. "But if nothing happens, you can't ring it and you can't give it to the nurse."
Auntie is causing trouble."
"Well, Niu Niu knows that." Niu Niu climbed into the quilt and pretended to be impatient and urged, "Dad is so verbose. Niu Niu is already a big child and will take care of herself."
"Our Niu Niu is sensible now. She is really a big kid." Zhou Guozheng looked at the time and saw that he was about to be late. He had to repeat that Niu Niu must not run around before leaving.
If he could, he didn't want to leave the child alone in the hospital, but he had no choice. Neither he nor his wife had any relatives alive. The money in his hand was not even enough to buy medicine for Niu Niu. How could he have any money left to hire someone?
Take care of Niuniu.
Fortunately, Niuniu has been sensible since she was a child. If she doesn't run around, she will never run around. She will wait for him to get off work every day.
There was no sound of conversation in the ward, and Niu Niu quietly revealed her little head. When she saw that her father was really not here anymore, she immediately showed a depressed expression.
But soon, she clenched her little fist again and cheered herself up, Zhou Qingqing, you are already a big child, not a little baby who stays in daddy's arms all day long.
Zhou Qingqing, you have to work hard, work hard to cure your illness, and then go to and from school with your father every day.
Speaking of which, I haven’t seen my friends for a long time, and I miss them a little bit.
Over there, Zhou Guozheng left the hospital and hurried to his place of work, which was his current only source of income.
Unexpectedly, shortly after he left the hospital, a black car stopped in front of him, and a young man in a suit and leather shoes got out of it. He politely said to the overwhelmed Zhou Guozheng, "Hello, Mr. Zhou,
My husband has something to do with you, could you please come into the car and discuss it in detail?"
Zhou Guozheng looked confused and said at a loss, "You have found the wrong person. I am not the person you are looking for. I am still in a hurry to get to work."
After he finished speaking, he prepared to bypass the young man and leave.
The young man stopped him again very patiently, "Your daughter has leukemia, and the medical expenses will probably be an astronomical sum for you. But if you agree to my husband's conditions, we will cover your daughter's medical expenses."
This sentence successfully stopped Zhou Guozheng from leaving.
