Chapter 54
"Hello?" Ling Yichen's eyes looked at her as he picked up the phone.
"Yichen, the baby has a fever again, ah... he's starting to convulse, Yichen..." There was a scattering on the other end of the line, followed by the woman's screams, the baby's cries, and some other sounds coming through.
Ling Yichen and Xia Mao both turned pale, and Xia Mao reached for the car door, "I'll take a taxi back myself, you should go to the hospital."
Ling Yichen pulled her back and told the driver to drive to the hospital now, "Send me to the hospital and then let the driver take you back."
Ling Yichen's hand tightly gripped hers, Xia Mao could feel his unusual nervousness, she was busy holding his hand back, not quite natural, and said comfortingly, "The baby will be fine."
He reached out and held her head down in his arms.
It was hard to think of that fragile child.
After all, it was his child too, and watching him suffer so much, his heart was aching.
When the car arrived at the hospital, Ling Yichen got out of the car and instructed the driver to take Xia Mao to the flat and hand her over to Tian Ma.
The car had just started when Xia Mao turned around and saw him running up the hospital steps in stride. She turned her head and pressed the window down a little, looking out into the thick night air and sighed softly.
It looked as if the boy was really quite ill.
He should be quite tired too, right?
This night Ling Yichen did not go back to the flat, Tian Ma stayed with Xia Mao in the flat.
At noon the next day, Ling Yichen returned to the flat with a tired face.
"Does the injury still hurt?" His chin was covered in stubble as he went to the sofa first and looked at Xia Mao's leg, "Don't get it wet and don't let it sweat."
"Yeah, I know." Xia Mao reached out and touched his stubble, looked at the dark circles under his eyes and said heartily, "Didn't you sleep last night? You've got dark circles under your eyes."
"The boy wasn't too good last night, so I went to take a shower first." Ling Yichen, who hadn't changed his clothes all day and night, didn't even dare to get too close to the woman who looked like a porcelain doll, "Have Tian Ma put down a bowl of noodles for me, I haven't had breakfast yet."
"Okay." Xia Mao watched him enter the bathroom, and then she busily asked Tian Ma to bring out the newly bought knife-cut noodles, and made him a bowl of oil-poured noodles.
Ling Yichen came out of the shower and sat next to her, looking at the red oil glistening with oil splashed noodles and smiled, "You had it made?"
"How do you know?" Xia Mo stretched her head and looked at the noodles, licking her lips, "Try it, it looks quite delicious."
"Tasty has nothing to do with you," Ling Yichen held the bowl and made it to the other side, "You can't eat spicy food now, when you've recovered from your injury, I'll take you to eat it for three days in a row."
"Liar again!" Xia Mao beamed in disbelief and leaned back on the sofa, flipping him straight with her eyes.
"Kind of, why would I lie to you if I have nothing to do?" Ling Yichen ate the bowl of noodles in three bites and drank another bowl of noodle soup before saying, "It tastes really good."
"Are you craving me, or are you just angry at me?" The woman who had been smelling it for half a day next to him glared at him.
Ling Yichen smiled and put the bowl next to him before standing up and carrying her back to the bedroom, "I'll make it for you to eat when you've recovered from your injuries."
"Really?" Xia Mo laughed at his words, "It's a dog that lies."
"If I become a dog, what do you become?" Ling Yichen put her on the bed and tried to hug her himself from behind her, but only when he reached out his hand did he lie to the side again, "I'd better stay away from you, don't touch your wound again."
Although Xia Mao liked to let him hold her, her injury was really painful, so she obediently lay on her side and looked at him sideways.
Ling Yichen, who had already closed his eyes, opened one eye to look at her and asked her flirtatiously, "What's wrong, did you miss me?"
"I don't."
Xia Mo then pursed her lips and closed her eyes, Ling Yichen smiled and raised his head to give her a bite on her mouth before saying, "I'm really a bit sleepy."
Not long after, he fell asleep.
Xia Mao, who was not sleepy, was afraid that she might disturb him, so she lay next to him and didn't move, and after a while, she actually fell asleep with him.
When she woke up again, it was already dark.
She looked at the man who was still asleep next to her, quietly got out of bed, went out of the bedroom and went to see what Tian Ma had cooked.
The two of them had been working in the kitchen for half a day, and the meal was almost done. Xia Mo was hesitant to go in and tell him to get up for dinner, when the bedroom door opened and a fully dressed Ling Yichen appeared in the doorway.
"You're going out?" Xia Mao asked, raising an eyebrow.
"There's something going on over at the hospital, I'm going to check it out." Ling Yichen smelled the room full of dishes and apologetically went up and hugged her, "You eat more tonight, go to bed early, and if you don't go to school tomorrow, I'll have someone ask for leave."
"The pain is gone by now, it won't affect my school tomorrow." Xia Mao got up from his arms and looked at him and urged, "You should go to the hospital quickly."
Ling Yichen thought about the chaotic sounds on the other end of the phone just now, he sighed and hurried to the hospital again.
"What's going on?" By the time Ling Yichen arrived, the hospital was already quiet again, with only a swollen-eyed Lu Wanqiu and the child's nurse staying in the ward.
"The child started another fever today and almost didn't smoke." Lu Wanqiu looked at him with some desperation, "Yichen, I'm so scared, don't you leave us again, okay? I almost didn't die of fear just now."
Ling Yichen looked at the child who had lost a lot of weight in just a few days, his heart jumped at her words and he turned around and left the ward.
Lu Wanqiu was busy following him, "Yichen, Yichen, you've only just arrived, are you going back?"
Ling Yichen didn't turn around, he went straight to the doctor's lounge and pushed the door open with a slap, looking at the two doctors inside who were startled, he said angrily, "I'm asking you now, can you cure the child's illness or not? If you can't, then tell me immediately. If you have recurring attacks like this, then you will all go away! If you can't cure it, if you can't even find out the cause of it, how can you be doctors?"
The two doctors' faces changed and they both looked at Lu Wanqiu.
Lu Wanqiu was busy pulling Ling Yichen to persuade him, "The doctor just said that he had found the cause, that Pei Qi's body is special and is resistant to some drugs.
"You're saying that after using this time's medicine it can't happen again?" Ling Yichen's eyes burned at Lu Wanqiu.
"This time the medicine is right, of course it won't happen again." Lu Wanqiu looked at the doctor and asked enquiringly.
"Yes, the medicine is right this time, it won't happen again." The two doctors were busy nodding their heads.
Ling Yichen's dark, ink-like eyes looked at Lu Wanqiu for half a day before he said, "The child can't resist such a torment."
Lu Wanqiu's heart trembled and she nodded with red eyes, "That's not true, looking at Peiqi like that, I'm dying of pain."
Ling Yichen gave her a deep look and turned around to go back to the ward.
Lu Wanqiu's heart immediately "thump thump thump", she raised her hand to try to hold it down ......
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"Second sister?" The two doctors looked at Lu Wanru.
"Young master will be well from today, so you guys don't need to worry anymore." Lu Wanqiu finished in a low voice, turned around and followed Ling Yichen back to the ward.
By nine o'clock, Ling Yichen went out of the ward and called Xia Mao: "Don't take a bath at night, just use a towel to wipe."
"Mm." Xia Mao sipped her yogurt while looking at a book.
"I'll call Tian Ma later, if I know you don't listen to me, you'll have a good time waiting for me to go back." Although Ling Yichen was threatening, the doting meaning in his words was overflowing.
"If you keep threatening people, I won't follow you anymore," Xia Mao beamed and snapped, "I'm scared and my cell regeneration ability is diminished!"
Ling Yichen then laughed in a low voice, "It's okay, I have a way to make your blood circulation speed up."
"Are you annoying? Why are you getting hornier and hornier?" Xia Mao shouted in a low voice with a red face.
"It's not because of you?" Ling Yichen fooled around with her.
Lu Wanqiu stood at the door of the ward, listening to Ling Yichen's low laughter and gentle tone in the corridor, she was so angry she wanted to go out and ask him if he was still human. His son was dying in his room, and he still had the time to flirt with other women?
But she had to put up with it!
After Ling Yichen hung up the phone, he thought of Xu Yongqiang saying that the person who robbed Xia Mao's bag yesterday had been caught, so he called Xu Yongqiang: "What did they say? Was there any instruction behind it?"
"They only said that they had to use the money urgently and robbed Xia at random," Xu Yongqiang said on the phone, "They did have an extra amount of money in their bank account, but the money came from a used car recycling shop, and that owner also had someone ask about it, saying that they had sold an old car. "
"Check his phone records again carefully, or if anyone in the family has been in contact with anyone." Ling Yichen always felt that something like this shouldn't have happened at that junction at seven o'clock, so he wanted to check properly if there was someone who wanted to do something against his woman.
Back in the ward, looking at Lu Wanqiu who was leaning against the bed and dozing, Ling Yichen gently pursed his thin lips.
He really had some suspicions that Lu Peiqi's current situation was due to some kind of manipulation by Lu Wanqiu, and if he thought so, then it was very likely that she was also responsible for what happened to Xia Mao.
But could she? Can she use her own son as a tool?
I don't think she could!
When she saw a sparrow get hurt she had to cry for half a day, how could she possibly count on her own child?
Ling Yichen stayed in the sick bay for another night, and when he saw that it was almost time for Xia Mao to go to school at dawn, he called Xia Mao again and told her to ask Tian Ma to take her to school with the driver, and to be more careful when she went to school, and not to let anyone touch her when she went to the canteen at noon.
"Why are you being so motherly?" Xia Mao was helped downstairs by Tian Ma, "I'm not a three-year-old, I know."
"I'll pick you up tonight." Ling Yichen said two more words to make her heart grow fonder before hanging up the phone.
Ling Yichen sent Lu Wanqiu and the child back to Lu Wanqiu's place, and Lu Wanqiu looked at him expectantly, "Aren't you coming in for a while?"
"No, the company has a meeting waiting to be held," Ling Yichen got out and stood by the car, looking at the child in the nurse's arms, "The child is too big, if one person can't take care of it, get two more people."
"Mm." Lu Wanqiu nodded and reached out to take Ling Yichen's hand, "Then can you come and see us more often when you have time?"
Ling Yichen forced himself not to shake off her hand, "Take the child inside!"
Lu Wanqiu said no more and went into the courtyard with the child in her arms.
Ling Yichen's heart was troubled and he turned around and went to the office.
When it was almost noon, he was still thinking of calling Xia Mao when his assistant Xu Yongqiang pushed open the door and walked in sharply.
"Mr. Ling, there's some news about you on now."
"What news?" Ling Yichen didn't care too much, the news media normally didn't dare to publish negative news about Ling's.
"News about your ...... private life," Xu Yongqiang saw Ling Yichen's eyebrows frowning slightly and busily handed the tablet in his hand to him, "This time the news is circulating from WeChat, it's not very good to control. "
Ling Yichen looked at the headline on it, "Magnate president has multiple wives", he then pulled it down to see that the photos on it were not only of him accompanying Lu Wanru and Yuan Qi to the hospital, but also of him accompanying Lu Wanqiu in the hospital in the past few days, and also of him carrying Xia Mao to the hospital.
"Find out where it came from." Ling Yichen looked at the photos from the beginning until the end, except for the two single photos of him which were relatively clear, the photos of other faces were not too clear, but again, people who knew them could see who they were.
"Checked, it was uploaded from three mobile phone numbers, all people who had a record of going to the hospital that day, and was finally put together and reissued with a caption by an entertainment reporter." Xu Yongqiang reported all the information he had found to Ling Yichen, "We are now having people start blocking and deleting it, but the forwarding and clicking speed of WeChat is too fast, so far, there have been nearly 100,000 clicks, and it is doubling at a rate of every minute."
Ling Yichen's face sank as he pushed away the file in front of him and flipped through the news once more before saying, "Keep an eye on some of them, and try not to let the names appear."
"Yes." Xu Yongqiang said with some difficulty, "I'll have the technical department scan and monitor at 4 o'clock."
"Go down!" Ling Yichen knew that it was difficult to control the contact now, so he didn't say much, but in his heart he couldn't help but worry about Xia Mao, he didn't know if she could see this news?
I don't know if she can see the news, but she doesn't seem to play with computers or mobile phones much, so she shouldn't see it, right?
At this moment, Xia Mao was sitting in the spectator's seat in the playground, helping her classmates to look after their things, and there were many things around her, clothes, cups and school bags piled up everywhere.
Xia Mao looked enviously at the male students playing on the basketball court, the female students learning the cheerleading dance next to her, and she was the only one sitting here in boredom.
She held a book in her hand, flipping through the pages for a while, smiling at the energetic students on the playground, her heart calm and happy, this was the college life she had always wanted, it would be even better if she could recover her memory again and find her own dad and mum.
She couldn't help but see Ling Yichen before her eyes, and her eyes darkened.
This man didn't belong to her, yet he was so good to her, what should she do?
What should she do? Just stay her mistress and be the third party that everyone scorned?
Xia Mao shook her head, she knew that was impossible, if he treated herself with single-mindedness, she might stay by his side, but if he didn't treat her sincerely, but only treated her as a lover, as a pet to keep, then she would never stay by her side.
"Xia Mao, what's wrong?" Li Jiyao, the captain of Xia Mao's classmate basketball team, sat next to her, picked up his water bottle and took two sips before looking at her leg, which was wrapped in half a meter wide gauze, "Why did you fall so badly? Are you sitting here in the sun? Let me help you to sit under the tree over there!"
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"No," Xia Mao smiled and shook her head, "I'm sitting here in the sun, just in time to catch up on my calcium."
Li Ji Yao looked at the bright and delicate smile on her face, his face couldn't help but blush, he looked down and saw the book on her lap and asked, "What book are you reading?"
"Say." Xia Mao smiled, "Zhang Eiling's."
"Oh." Li Ji Yao took another sip of water and looked at his classmates on the court before asking half a day, "Do you need to change the medicine on your leg?"
"No," Xia Mo thought that if Ling Yichen hadn't had to say that he was afraid of getting dust and bacteria on it, she wouldn't have wanted to wrap it in gauze today, "It's not a serious injury, just go back tonight and put some medicine on it."
The two sat here and didn't say a few words before the boys on the court collected their balls and ran over together in a blaze of glory.
"Why aren't you playing?" Li Ji Yao stood up and said to them, "There are still fifteen minutes before class ends."
"We're here to see how long the captain has to drink this water?" Liu Chang smiled and sat in front of Xia Mao.
"I've come to see how badly Xia Mao is hurt." Another male student smiled and sat next to Xia Mao, picked up the glass of water and took two sips before looking at the wide piece of gauze wrapped around Xia Mao's leg and said in surprise, "My God, this is quite a heavy injury, where did this fall from?"
Xia Mao was feeling a bit hot from the leg wrap and thought of lifting her skirt to get some air, but in an inattentive daze, she let them see it.
She reached out and tugged her skirt down to wrap her leg, smiling a little awkwardly, "It's really nothing, it just looks scary, but it's not heavy."
The female students who were learning to dance together not far away couldn't help but look over.
"I heard from the other classes that Xia Mao from our class is the class flower." A girl said.
"Class flower? I think the department flower is all her." Another girl said, "She's the best-looking girl I've ever seen, better looking than all those actresses."
"I think the school flower might have to be replaced." Another woman said sourly, "Can't you see that our boys treat her like a princess?"
"Of course she's a princess, the clothes she wears cost thousands of dollars, she joined the student council on her first day, the teachers of every subject are all around her, even the headmaster has to nod when he sees her." As soon as the other girl's words fell, the crowd was instantly abuzz.
"Isn't that so? Last time at the entrance to the canteen, the headmaster even gave way to her."
"Her family is either rich or powerful, right?"
"My goodness, that's really a princess, good looking, good studies, good personality, good family conditions again, it's so perfect." A woman said what all the girls had in mind.
"Hey?" Suddenly a girl took out the mobile phone in her pocket and said to the crowd, "I saw a news this morning, it was talking about the president of Ling Group, you guys should also take a look, this president Ling is a recognized high wealthy and handsome person, he gives a lot of money to our school every year."
"Is that so? How handsome is he? Is it as handsome as Li Ji Yao?"
One girl grabbed a look, and the other girls followed suit, and within a short while they were all letting out all sorts of praise, "So handsome!"
"It's so classy!"
"This body is really the devil's body."
"Women are the ones with devilish figures, men should have model figures." Another girl discerned.
"He's a walking clothes rack anyway."
"Looks like a walking testosterone to me ......"
"But why do I look at this last picture, it kind of looks like the end of summer?" Suddenly a girl said.
"You really don't say, even the date of the injury and the place where it happened are the same!"
......
Xia Mao was still awkwardly thinking about how to find an excuse to walk away from this group of boys when she noticed the girls gathered not far away, all looking towards this way.
Their gazes made her body all of a sudden uncomfortable.
And this situation reached its peak in the afternoon when the three classes were having a big lesson.
Not only the girls in their class, but also the few boys she had been talking and laughing with in the morning, looked at her differently in the afternoon.
What was even more puzzling to her was that the students in the other two classes looked at her differently, and some of them had faces full of disdain.
Xia Mao frowned lightly, took her books and embarrassingly did not go any further, but moved one step at a time to sit at the back where no one was sitting.
When class was almost over, a man sat down hurriedly next to her, and Xia Mao looked up to see that it was Li Jiyao.
The two looked at each other and Xia Mao pursed her lips at him, while Li Jiyao gave her a thoughtful look.
Xia Mao's face changed slightly, she knew something must have happened!
And what she was most worried about was her relationship with Ling Yichen being discovered by her classmates.
Her heart was pounding as if she had stolen something from someone else, her eyes involuntarily watching the students in front of her and her ears straining to listen to their whispers.
But everything seemed to be in vain, she could not hear anything.
Suddenly she noticed an extra piece of paper on her desk, she looked next to her and was looking at Li Ji Yao without looking away, and gently opened the paper.
"Do you know Ling Yichen?"
The simple six words instantly made Xia Mao feel like a thunderstorm, her eyes kept staring at the note for half a day before she picked up the pen and wrote on it, "No."
Li Ji Yao took the paper over and gave her a big smile after reading it, before writing on the paper, "Rumours stop at the wise man".
Xia Mao instantly understood that the affair between herself and Ling Yichen had been revealed.
She looked at Li Ji Yao next to her with wide eyes and flashed them several times before turning her head to look at the teacher absentmindedly.
Her mind raced with thoughts of what she had to do.
How did her classmates know?
What would she have to say if someone asked her?
Her mind was in turmoil and she didn't know what the teacher had said in front of her, until the bell rang and she stood up with a start, kicking her injured leg on the table and letting out a low cry.
"Xia Mao, what happened to you?" Li Jiyao reached out to help her.
"No ...... it's fine." Xia Mao blushed white as she avoided Li Jiyao's hand.
"Why don't I go with you to the infirmary?" Li Ji Yao asked with some concern.
"No bumps and bruises, thanks." Xia Mao gathered up her things and put them in her bag, turned her head and was ready to go out.
But as soon as he turned around, Li Ji Yao saw that blood was flowing from Xia Mao's leg under her skirt.
"You're bleeding, and you still say you didn't bump it?" Li Ji Yao looked shocked and took two steps forward, picking her up in a princess hug.
The classroom was instantly silent, and Xia Mao's low screams became more and more piercing.
Xia Mao's snow-white face turned red as she looked at Li Jiyao with her hands nowhere else to put them, screaming in a low voice, "Put me down!"
"I'll take you to the infirmary!" Li Jiyao was resolute as he walked out in big strides.
There was a loud noise from the back of the classroom and the sound of mobile phones clicking pictures.