Since he couldn't hide, Sang Xiao Yu could only brace himself and enter. He uncomfortably cleared his throat and said, "Cough, I have nothing to do after work, so I came over to check on you. Are you good today?"
"Yes, if you don't believe me, ask your doctor uncle!" The little boy nodded with a smile.
Qin Si Nian had come to deliver the medicine and was drawing out the pen in the white coat's breast pocket. He was using the medicine bag on the bedside to write on the method of consumption and the things to be taken care of.
Hearing that, his hands paused as he raised his eyes to look at her.
Their four eyes met, and Sang Xiao Yu gulped as she hurriedly moved her gaze away.
"Miss Sang, you came at the right time. Can I ask you for a favor?" The old granny said somewhat embarrassedly, "I'll go back to deliver some things. I'll be back in an hour at the most. Can you help me stay here with the baby?"
Sang Xiao Yu naturally agreed without thinking, "Of course you can, Grandma, don't be anxious, I'm fine!"
"Alright!" The old granny responded gratefully.
After the old man hobbled away, the little boy ate two mouthfuls of the wonton she fed him before lightly grabbing her hand, "Sister Xiaoyu, I want to go out for a walk. It's so boring staying in the ward every day!"
"Alright, finish this bowl of wontons. I'll take you downstairs and have a look!"
The little boy revealed his canine teeth and turned around to look at the man who was putting the pen back in his breast pocket. With an expectant tone, he asked, "Uncle Doctor, can you come with me?"
Sang Xiao Yu could not help but hold tightly to the spoon in her hand, her heart waiting for the next second when he would reject it, but she heard him spitting out a word in a low voice.
"Sure."
Just like this, after finishing a bowl of wontons, the little boy held onto her left hand and Qin Si Nian's right hand as he walked into the garden below the hospital building. The sunset made their silhouettes elongate, making them look like a family of three.
What the hell!
Sang Xiao Yu shook her head, shaking off this terrifying thought.
There were quite a few children playing ball in the garden. The little boy ran over and quickly blended in with them.
From the corner of his eyes, Sang Xiao Yu had been glancing at Qin Si Nian beside him, thinking that he had only taken care of the little boy symbolically.
She took a few steps to the side, trying her best to keep a safe distance between them.
This place was in broad daylight, and there were so many flowers blooming in the motherland. He probably wouldn't touch them in public!
While he was daydreaming, he heard the low voice of his male voice suddenly ring out, "Why would you think of helping him?"
Qin Si Nian still remembered her anxious expression that afternoon. Perhaps, as a doctor, he had the professional instinct to save the dying and help the injured, and she and this grandfather and grandson pair might just have met by chance and were not related at all.
"There's nothing special about it. I just feel that they're very pitiful, and …" Sang Xiao Yu paused, and looked at the little boy who was playing ball excitedly with his peach blossom eyes, and said softly, "I seem to see myself in him."
Hearing that, Qin Si Nian turned and looked at her.
Sang Xiao Yu gazed lightly, and pursed her lips like a child, "When I was just like him, my parents suddenly left, and I was the only one left. That day, when I saw him lying on the bed alone with no parents, I felt that if I was as sick as him when I was young, I would have felt helpless, and wanted him to get better!"
Her voice was low and sad, like an invisible hand, gripping at the heart.
Qin Si Nian's Adam's apple suddenly moved slightly, and a peculiar feeling surfaced in his heart.
After she finished speaking, even Sang Xiao Yu was a little surprised. Other than her close friends Lin Wan Bai and Li Xiang Si, she rarely mentioned her parents, and even if someone asked her, she would only say it a few words. She had never taken the initiative to speak to anyone like this, much less to a beast like him.
She opened her mouth, wanting to bring the topic over, but when she heard a burst of phone vibrations, Qin Si Nian took out a phone from his white coat pocket. There, she didn't know what he had said, but his expression suddenly changed, "Alright, I understand, I'll go over now!"
With that, he turned around and ran out of the garden.
Sang Xiao Yu could not help but bite her lips. As she watched his flustered steps, she did not know what kind of troublesome matters she had, but along the way she had almost bumped into people.
Qin Si Nian rushed all the way into the hospitalized building, but didn't return to his cardiology floor. Instead, he went to his digestive system, knocked on the office door and anxiously asked, "Manager Li, what happened to my grandmother?"
Hearing that, he indicated for to sit down. With a serious expression, he said, "Si Nian, I don't want to hide it from you, the patient's condition is not very good, this is the latest examination results, take a look!"
Being a doctor, Qin Si Nian could understand what those words represented.
"For the past half year, we have been using Chinese and Western medicine to choose conservative treatment to control the development of the disease. But now the cancer cells are spreading further and the patient is getting old and his body is degenerating. If we don't go through the surgery now, I'm afraid …" Dean Li paused, he did not say anything else, and sighed: "Si Nian, you better advise the old man, make her agree to the operation, you really can't drag it out any longer!"
"I got it!" Qin Si Nian was speechless.
Pushing open the door of the high levelled ward, Qin Si Nian walked in with light footsteps. There was an old man in his seventies lying on the sickbed, his hair was all white, and after a series of inspections, he looked a little weak.
After he stood at the side for a long time, the old man slowly opened his eyes, and smiled kindly: "Si Nian, you've come!"
Qin Si Nian walked forward and held the old man's hand. He was not as strict and serious as he was normally, nor was he as lazy and unruly as he was in private. The light in his peach blossom eyes were very gentle.
"It's much better now!" The old man smiled. After all, he was his grandson who had been brought up, so it wasn't hard for him to see through his mood. "Why are you so depressed? Did Director Li say something to you?"
"Grandmother …" Qin Si Nian wanted to say something but hesitated.
"I know, you're trying to persuade me to have surgery again, right?" The old man interrupted him, his eyes filled with the lines of time, he waved his hand at him, "Si Nian, you know I will not agree! Grandma is old and only has one last wish left, which is to see you get married one day. If I agree to the operation, then it's very likely that I won't be able to get off the operating table, so I might as well drag it out for one day like this! "
"Grandmother …" Qin Si Nian frowned, this time his tone was filled with helplessness.
The old man's smile didn't change, but his tone was very unyielding. "You don't have to persuade me anymore. I've already made up my mind!"