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Chapter 74 Susceptibility Period (1)
Outside the window, the wind is howling, and the thunder and lightning are interspersed.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky in the distance showed an inky blue that was close to black.
The raindrops clapped against the glass windows, covering up the beeping sound of the treatment equipment, and becoming the only sound in Xu Xinghe's ears.
There was only a small light on in the ward. Against the backdrop of the white light and the dim sky outside, the originally snow-white walls, roof, and bed sheets all showed a lifeless gray.
A quiet and depressing atmosphere.
The woman on the hospital bed was as pale as ever, and lay there motionless, as if she had fallen asleep.
Xu Xinghe stood at the door for a while, then finally gathered up his courage and walked towards the hospital bed.
Footsteps as light as a cat.
The woman on the hospital bed had her eyes closed and her brows slightly wrinkled. She lay on the bed for a long time without moving, only her chest was still slightly heaving.
Xu Xinghe licked his dry lips and did not wake her up, but just stood in front of the bed and quietly observed the patient on the bed.
The woman is full of various instruments and tubes. Although her face is haggard and her facial features are almost sunken, her bones are still beautiful, and her charm is still there. It can be vaguely seen that she was a beauty when she was young.
Xu Xinghe stared at the woman's pale and haggard face silently, and his heart was full of five flavors.
At this moment, the woman suddenly opened her eyes.
Those eyes didn't have focus at first, they just stared at the ceiling indifferently, and said in a hoarse voice, "Lily?"
Xu Xinghe did not answer.
The woman slowly turned her head, and her pupils gradually regained their focus.
When those beautiful black eyes looked at Xu Xinghe, both of them were shocked.
Xu Xinghe didn't think about how to face his biological mother along the way.
They have been separated for so long that they have become strangers to each other.
But he thought that even if there was no such relationship, even in the face of a terminally ill patient, the innate sympathy and compassion made him try to give her some comfort in the last days.
However, when he tried to speak, he was caught off guard by those eyes that were seven or eight similar to himself.
The brain suddenly went blank.
Something exploded silently in his heart, causing him to instantly lose the ability to speak.
The woman on the hospital bed trembled slightly, even her lips were shaking.
The originally withered eyes were instantly covered with a layer of water, and they stared at Xu Xinghe without blinking.
Xu Xinghe suspected that she recognized herself, just as she could recognize her at a glance.
They are very similar, especially the eyes.
The woman tremblingly stretched out a hand with an infusion tube inserted, trying to touch the big boy in front of the hospital bed.
Xu Xinghe dodged subconsciously.
Immediately, he froze in place.
He didn't know why he was hiding.
He recalled that when he was a volunteer nurse at a community center in college, he had clearly held the hands of many people many times.
But at this moment, the mood is completely different.
Perhaps the irreparable 20-odd years stretched between the two of them, and finally formed a chasm that could not be seen clearly and could not be crossed.
So much so that he couldn't even treat her like an ordinary patient.
Lightning pierced through the sky outside the window, illuminating the faces of the two people in the house pale.
The woman on the hospital bed suddenly smiled bleakly: "Am I dreaming?"
The woman's brain is not stupid. Ever since she was suddenly transferred to the VIP ward of a big hospital, she has vaguely guessed something.
Xu Xinghe still did not speak.
From now on, he also felt like he was dreaming.
This was obviously the reunion he had looked forward to countless times when he was a child, but as time passed, people's moods also changed.
At this moment, the two of them looked at each other, and the words that were hidden in their hearts when they were young could not be said.
Xu Xinghe lowered his eyes slightly, and after a while he said, "It's not a dream."
After speaking, he sat down on the small bench by the bed and repeated: "It's not a dream, I'll see you."
The torrential rain outside the window continued, and in a trance, he seemed to hear the woman's subtle sobbing, but it seemed that he didn't.
He lowered his head and fiddled with his fingers, not daring to look back for fear of meeting a pair of tearful eyes.
After an unknown amount of time, the woman spoke again, her voice infinitely soft: "How have you been all these years?"
Xu Xinghe was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "It's okay."
"That's good..." After the woman finished speaking, she suddenly coughed violently, so much that Xu Xinghe was worried that she would be out of breath.
After coughing for a while, the woman stopped and gasped: "It's good... I can see you again at the end... You are a good boy and deserve a better life... Don't stay here any longer, go back to the capital. Go. I'm glad you could come and see me..."
Xu Xinghe's eyes flashed with surprise and confusion. He didn't understand how a woman would drive him away without saying anything.
Does she plan to run out of fuel like this, and then leave her two children to live in this rainy place for the rest of her life?
Xu Xinghe licked his dry lips and asked knowingly, "Why didn't you start the treatment earlier? You obviously still have some money saved. If the treatment was done earlier, it probably wouldn't have dragged on to where it is today."
The woman smiled miserably and said, "Treatment is a bottomless pit. I always have to keep some money to let... let them live on."
Xu Xinghe turned his head to look at her, endured again and again, but his emotions suddenly burst at that moment: "Do you only have those two children?"
After Xu Xinghe asked this sentence, his nose was sour, and he simply turned around and stopped looking at her.
The woman's face suddenly turned pale.
After being sluggish for a while, when he spoke again, his voice trembled a little: "I, I have three children..."
"Then—" Xu Xinghe lowered his head, stared blankly at the lines on his palm, and asked, "Your first child, why don't you want him anymore?"
Hearing the words, the woman suddenly trembled violently.
Xu Xinghe turned his head, but saw the big tears rolling down the woman's eyes.
He trembled, as if scalded by those tears.
"I don't want you..." The woman asked with wide eyes, "Did your father tell you that?"
Xu Xinghe was suddenly shocked, stared at the woman on the hospital bed and asked, "What do you mean?"
The woman took a deep breath and seemed to want to say something, but in the end, she was discouraged just before she spoke.
Her spirit, which was briefly ignited because of her unwillingness and resentment, slumped again, and in the end she just smiled miserably: "You grew up with your father. You should have a good relationship, right? Since that's the case, let's do it..."
She thought that she was already a dying person, but that man would probably stay with him for a long time. In this case, does the truth that will make the living people more troublesome is still important? Why did she have to add a conflict between their father and son at the last moment?
Xu Xinghe looked at her, not knowing what to say for a while.
Did she actually think that she had lived with her father all these years?
Xu Xinghe bit his inner lip and said softly, "I haven't met my father. I grew up in the welfare home of Capital Star."
The woman turned her head sharply, as if she didn't hear him clearly, and asked again tremblingly, "Welfare Home?"
Xu Xinghe lowered his eyes and nodded.
The woman suddenly grabbed the hospital gown on her chest and gasped violently.
She started coughing and even retching, and she seemed to be in great pain, almost out of breath.
Xu Xinghe suddenly panicked. He wanted to ring the bell to call the nurse, but when he got up, he heard the woman's cry.
The cry was suppressed at first, but suddenly broke out after a long suppression.
She clearly suppressed her emotions when she first met, but at the moment she couldn't control it and cried so hard: "How could this happen... He clearly said that he would treat you well... He promised me that I would treat you well... of……"
Xu Xinghe stood in front of the hospital bed, at a loss.
He wanted to appease the woman's emotions, but he didn't know what to do.
His lips moved, and his voice was a little hoarse: "I have lived a good life all these years, don't worry."
The woman shook her head and opened her mouth several times to say something, but she couldn't stop her tears.
After an unknown period of time, her emotions slowly calmed down, and she said intermittently: "I grew up in Pelpa, and smuggled to Capital Star when I became an adult... After arriving in Capital Star, because I never had a legal identity, I could only work in the dungeon, until by chance, I met your father. He was a very rich businessman, and we had a good relationship for a while... But then, he had a new love..."
The woman's tone paused, skipping the past and continuing: "After I parted with him, it took more than a month before I found out that I was pregnant, my belly was getting bigger and bigger, and I couldn't work in the underground city anymore... Next, I found your father again, hoping he can pay a little alimony... He was shocked, you know, the odds of unmatched parties being able to get pregnant are very, very low... He took me to do a fetal paternity test, Then he suddenly changed his attitude and said he wanted to marry me and let me stay. I believed it and lived in his villa until you were born, but after that—"
Tears flashed in the woman's eyes: "In less than a month after you were born, he said he wanted to give me a sum of money to let me go, and he would raise you well... I didn't agree, so he threatened me and said , I am a black household with no financial ability. If I don’t give the child to him, then once the breastfeeding period is over, he will go to the court and sue me, depriving me of my custody, and the child will still be sentenced to him, and I will Will be sent back to Pelpa... I still don't agree. I think it's good to spend one more day with you. As for the post-breastfeeding period, let's talk about it after the lactation period... But later, he He changed his mind and said that if the child develops a relationship with me, then he will... don't want this child, he will report me directly, and then both my child and I will be sent back to Pelpa... You know what? , where I was born, it's the norm that people don't have enough to eat and don't get warm, sometimes, nursing mothers are so hungry that they don't even have milk...I can't let you follow me back to that kind of place...I dare not bet……"
When the woman said this, she whimpered again: "But he said that he would treat you well and raise you well... He clearly promised me that..."
Xu Xinghe looked at her, suddenly sad.
He wanted to tell his biological mother that Capital Star is not Pelpa Star. At a time when the birth rate in the alliance is so low, according to Capital Star's emphasis on the protection of newborns, even a woman who has smuggled in can be found pregnant. Live in the capital city with the children.
That is to say, she could actually stay at the beginning, and she could even enjoy a series of government benefits and live a good life.
His father lied to her, and the environment she grew up in and the education she received made her take it for granted.
She might have thought about giving it a go, but in the end, like she said, she didn't dare to gamble.
Even from the results, she still lost the bet.
She was sent to an orphanage, and she was sent back to Pelpa.
Xu Xinghe vaguely felt a little tingling in the palm of his hand, and when he lowered his head, he realized that his fingernails were almost embedded in the flesh.
He let go of his hand weakly, thinking to himself, what's the point of talking to her at this time?
Her life is full of lies and deceit. Do you have to tell her at the last moment that she has been deceived again?
Xu Xinghe took a deep breath, slowed down his voice as much as possible, and comforted her: "Don't worry, everything will be fine."
She looked at him and held out her hand again.
This time Xu Xinghe did not hide, but gently held her hand back.
The woman knew that he was lying to herself, but she still smiled and nodded: "Okay."
There was a knock on the door, and several doctors and nurses walked in to perform routine checks and change medications.
The woman's mood fluctuated too much just now, and seemed to have exhausted all her strength. Before the examination was over, she couldn't hold back and fell back into a drowsiness.
Xu Xinghe stayed in front of her bed for a long time, sending away waves of doctors and nurses before finally getting up and walking towards the door lightly.
Ling Changfeng was standing outside the door of the ward, and he was already a little irritable.
He looked down at his watch, his little spouse had been in for almost an hour.
He started pacing back and forth outside the ward like a restless lion, and the low pressure made the surrounding guards afraid to let out the atmosphere.
For some reason, the fact that his little spouse disappeared from his sight for nearly an hour seemed to suddenly become a little difficult for him to accept.
Finally, the door was pushed open again.
Xu Xinghe walked out.
Ling Changfeng hurriedly stepped forward to meet him, looking down at the other party: "Are you okay?"
Xu Xinghe panicked.
He shook his head, raised his head and asked Ling Changfeng, "Really, is there no other way?"
Ling Changfeng was silent.
Although Qin Yuan often jokes that he is omnipotent, but in the face of life, old age, sickness and death, the omnipotent alliance marshal is powerless.
Xu Xinghe got the answer in his silence.
There was a sudden sense of powerlessness in my heart.
Ling Changfeng looked at his little spouse with some worry.
The latter probably doesn't know how bad his face is at the moment.
It's like a kitten with wet fur on a rainy day, helpless and helpless, making people want to rub him into his arms and comfort him.
Marshal Ling has always been a man of action. He thought so, so he did the same.
He opened his arms and embraced Xu Xinghe in his embrace.