"You are not suitable to answer his call now." Zhang Yali guessed who the caller was without looking.
Ruan Bai lowered his head and kept crying.
"Come, wipe your tears and come up with me." Zhang Yali couldn't say any words of comfort, so she took out a tissue and handed it to Ruan Bai. This seemed to be the maximum concern she could give.
Ruan Bai refused the two tissues offered by Zhang Yali, took a breath, wiped the tears on his face, and walked to the hospital.
A person who is so sad that he sheds tears walking in the hospital will attract other people's attention, but he will not be looked at twice. In a place like this, there are more than one or two sad people.
The hospital elevator is not busy in the afternoon.
Ruan Bai quickly arrived at the floor where his father was hospitalized.
"I'm going to the bathroom."
She had to consider her father's feelings and not let him see her in embarrassment.
Zhang Yali stood silently at the door of the bathroom, waiting.
Ruan Bai went in, washed his face with cold water, and then looked at himself in the mirror with a dull expression, his eyes red from crying, his slightly frowning brows unable to relax.
When Ruan Bai came out, Zhang Yali reminded him: "If you don't want your father's condition to worsen, you should be happy."
Ruan Bai raised his head and looked at this woman, wanting to ask, please tell me, how can I be happy?
Passing by Zhang Yali, Ruan Bai went to the ward.
The nurse saw the patient's daughter coming and walked out.
Ruan Likang had a good expression when he saw his daughter, but when he saw Zhang Yali following behind her, his whole face suddenly darkened.
"Dad." Ruan Bai called.
Ruan Likang's expression as he stared at Zhang Yali directly stated the fact that it was indeed the look of a man who hated his ex-wife.
In fact, on the way here, Ruan Bai understood that since Zhang Yali dared to say it, this matter was probably an unchangeable fact.
"I came here to tell you something." Zhang Yali took the initiative and said to Ruan Likang: "Originally, I wanted not to disturb you father and daughter for the rest of my life, but by chance, I met Xiaobai, who is very sensible.
, I like her so much, and I was even more excited when I accidentally learned that her surname was Ruan."
Saying that, Zhang Yali came over and hugged Ruan Bai's shoulders with a false smile, smiling contentedly: "I didn't expect my daughter to be so old. Now that we have met, it is our fate as mother and daughter. You are not in good health now.
The old man was also kicked back from Japan, and Xiaobai's burden was too heavy. I think it wouldn't be bad for Xiaobai to have a mother like me at this time."
Ruan Bai did not break away from Zhang Yali, fearing that her father would see the flaw.
Ruan Likang's eyes looked again and again between Zhang Yali and Ruan Bai.
Zhang Yali suddenly wanted to recognize her daughter, which made him deeply confused, but if her daughter did not reject it, this matter was her own business. As a father, he would not use his own morals to restrain his daughter.
"In this case, you father and daughter have a chat, and I'll go out and wait." Zhang Yali hugged Ruan Bai's hand and patted Ruan Bai's shoulder as a warning.
Don't say the wrong thing.
When only the father and daughter were left in the ward, Ruan Likang hesitated for a long time and then said weakly: "Xiaobai, come here, daddy wants to ask you..."
"Dad, don't say anything." Ruan Bai didn't want to be forced to recall the pain of being abandoned since childhood through his father's words.
At this time, she just wanted to stay quietly.
Before today, she didn't think it mattered at all who her biological mother was.
Now, it's not a matter of recognizing this mother or not.
"Okay, you calm down and dad won't say anything." Ruan Likang didn't understand the truth and thought that his daughter couldn't bear to be found by her own mother for a while.
Ruan Bai lowered his head and remained silent for a long, long time.
"It's your freedom whether you want to recognize this mother or not... Dad thinks that after I leave and am no longer in this world, you will at least still have a relative around." Ruan Likang couldn't hold back and said it anyway.
I hope my daughter can see the pros and cons clearly.
Ruan Bai finally reacted, shook his head, raised his eyes and asked: "Back then, my neighbor said that my mother left with a rich man after she gave birth to me. My grandpa also told me this before, so why, now she has a better relationship?"
My son who is four years older?”
After thinking for a long time, she finally sorted out every clue that was tangled in her mind.
But she didn't see "what she wanted to see" from Ruan Likang's expression. Ruan Likang looked like he understood the whole story: "Dad knows about this..."
"Back when your mother was with me, she was no longer a young lady. She had been hurt by others and had given birth to a child for others, but that child... was not recognized by others."
"Later, my father found out that the man who hurt your mother was a powerful and wealthy businessman, and your mother gave birth to a son for him."
"Dad just thought that such an illegitimate son from a wealthy family might be recognized sooner or later. Dad was also worried that your mother would return to that beast in the future because of that son."
At the end, Ruan Likang stopped talking.
The answer is obvious, everything bad he expected eventually happened.
The illegitimate child of a rich family was brought back to recognize his ancestors. The mother of the child also left the ordinary man who healed her "wound" and returned to the rich man without hesitation.
…
Ruan Bai didn't know how he got home.
Like a soulless and unconscious walking zombie, I made dinner for Grandpa and Li Ni.
While Li Ni was putting rice into her mouth, she looked at Ruan Bai and asked, "Why do you seem to have lost your soul?"
"No, please eat more." Ruan Bai quickly behaved normally and smiled reluctantly.
"Stop laughing, it's uglier than crying." Li Ni concluded that Ruan Bai had something on his mind, and it felt like he was getting more and more worried since he came back at noon.
Afraid that grandpa would be too preoccupied, the two of them didn't talk much at the dinner table.
After finally finishing the meal, Ruan Bai went to wash the dishes without raising his head.
Li Ni was beside her, frowning and saying, "I think you seemed to have cried..."
"My father's condition has not improved yet." Ruan Bai made an excuse to explain why he was crying.
"Is it really because of this?" Li Ni didn't believe it.
Ruan Bai was afraid that he would not be able to help but talk to Li Ni, or that he could not help but say some unspeakable things. Finally, after washing the dishes, he gritted his teeth and sent Li Ni out.
Li Ni will officially go home from tonight.
Grandpa sits on the balcony in a rocking chair and plays with the birds.
Li Ni bought a bird from somewhere in the afternoon, and the bird's cage was hung on the balcony.
Ruan Bai held on and held on, but she couldn't hold on anymore. In the empty living room, not long after she closed the door and sent Li Ni away, she leaned in front of the bathroom door and started crying.
"Click."
The key is inserted into the door hole and the door is opened.
A man dressed in dusty clothes walked in.
Mu Shaoling was wearing a suit and leather shoes, with a mature and calm appearance, his brows were furrowed, and his facial features were extremely cold. He not only held his car keys in his hand, but also the house key that Li Nicai took away.
Their eyes met, Ruan Bai's stagnant eyes turned panic again.
