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In the end, she still gave the injection to her brother. Wen Lan did not personally administer the injection, but the other nurses came over to help her, she wanted to accompany the boy that her mother had abandoned.

He kept his eyes open, staring at the top of the dugout. He said nothing, nor did he cry.

The boy slowly turned his head and looked at Wen Lan with a shallow gaze.

Wen Lan looked at the boy, trying his best to give him a warm smile.

"I promise, I won't let anything happen to you, okay?"

The boy turned his head back and continued to stare at the ceiling.

"Elder sister, you are a good person." He said, and there was finally a faint tremor in his voice: "He's the best person I've ever met."

"Your mother …" Wen Lan knew that Mu Bai would say such words, because the injuries he had received just now were too great. His mother had given up her life, and despair might have taken Mu Bai's life, even more than an illness.

Wen Lan wanted to console him: "Perhaps she thinks that little brother is young, and hopes that mother and brother can protect him."

"Elder sister, you don't know how to comfort people." Mu Bai was truly as the name suggested, straightforward.

He turned around and took a deep breath as he looked at Wen Lan, "But … "Still, thank you."

"Will you bury me in the northernmost mignonette when I die?"

"Melilotus Tea Garden?" When Wen Lan armed the carriage and came to the dugout, she seemed to have seen this place before.

It was an abandoned tea garden. The door was broken and the metal door was crooked. There were traces of a huge fire. Only broken branches and broken branches were left inside the tea garden.

"Why?" Wen Lan did not understand why she was buried there.

"It's my father's tea garden." Mu Bai said: "This is the first time the armed forces have come to the town to kill and rob, and they have set their sights on father's teahouse." Mu Bai took a deep breath. "There's a secret room at home, under Mom's bed, but it's very small, only the size of a double bed. After Mom, Big Brother, and I squeezed in, it would be hard to squeeze our way in."

Wen Lan seemed to have guessed what would happen next.

"Mommy was closed by the secret door before Daddy came in."

Wen Lan's eyebrows sunk and trembled.

"After the gunshot, there was a long, long time until Mom thought we were safe. Then she opened the door and we came out from under the bed and Dad was lying there, covered in blood and not breathing."

"Mu Bai..." Wen Lan trembled as he called out his name, but he could not even say a word to comfort him. No matter how much comfort there was, it would all be in vain.

"Therefore, I can understand why mom abandoned me to save my brother." Mu Bai took a deep breath, "She has always been like this. If there is a need to sacrifice herself, she will definitely make a decision without hesitation. She will abandon those that she should have and leave behind those that are more valuable or worth living for."

"But this is a living life, how can there be a difference between surviving and not living?!"

Wen Lan could not hold it in, she really could not.

Anger, grief, but also deep helplessness.

"If Mom hadn't abandoned Dad that day, my brother and I and Mom wouldn't have survived."

Wen Lan sighed dejectedly.

"But your father's life, and …" Wen Lan only felt that the word "sacrifice" sounded great at times, but at times, it sounded lonely.

Even if Mu Bai's father was willing to sacrifice his life for his family, if he found out that he was abandoned in the end of his life, it would be too painful to accept.

"Today, my mother sacrificed me for my brother's life. It was also because she felt that my brother should live on, because he was smarter than me, more capable than me, and more capable than me. He could make our family continue and become something to be proud of in the future." Mu Bai looked at Wen Lan, his gaze was filled with anticipation, but it was only a small part of it.

"Mom was right, sister, don't you think so?"

Wen Lan resisted her tears and resolutely shook her head.

"There has never been anyone who deserves to live." Wen Lan said in a determined voice, "Even if she is your mother, she has no right to decide your life or death."

"I will save you, definitely." It was rare for Wen Lan to make such a decision. She had to save Mu Bai, she had to save him.

Wen Lan gently held the boy's hand.

"Trust me, okay?"

Mu Bai finally smiled again. Although the light in his eyes didn't ignite anew, the corners of his eyes were bent soft like a crescent moon.

Wen Lan felt that if Mu Bai was a healthy boy, he would definitely be extremely handsome.

Wen Lan used all of the knowledge she had learned and used all of the available medicinal ingredients. She did not sleep for three days and three nights, so she stayed by Mu Bai's side and observed his body's condition.

Every time Mu Bai got sick, he would have to endure a huge amount of pain. It was as if his entire body was bitten by an ant and it was extremely painful.

Wen Lan carried him, and used a towel that had been soaked in cold water to press against the hottest spot on his chest. On one hand, she wanted to help him cool it down and make him feel better.

Occasionally, Wen Lan would sing for him, helping him to distract himself with the singing.

The willow tree at the front of his hometown is swaying in the wind, and the river water is long behind him, leaving him only the lonely moonlight, year after year. On Mr. Book's fan, there are two lines of family written on it, and Su Si only realized how big the world is, and how long the world is.

"He said how short life is for you, and how long it is for you."

Mu Bai was able to hold on for three days, but his condition did not worsen. Wait for the new medicine, and slowly, he began to recover.

One day, he was lying in Wen Lan's embrace, raising his head and asking.

"Do you miss home?"

Wen Lan nodded.

"What's China like?" Every time Mu Bai brought up China, his eyes would fill with anticipation and yearning: "I was born in the Sri Lanka and have never returned to my homeland."

Wen Lan helped him peel an apple to eat, it was very rare, causing the fruits here to be extremely precious. Every week, only the medical personnel would provide a small amount of fruits, and Wen Lan would always give them to Mu Bai to eat.

"I want to see the Great Wall, the Yellow River, and. And the Himalayas! "

"Definitely." Wen Lan said: "When you get better, I will bring you back to China okay?"

"Really?" Mu Bai sprung up from the blankets, "I'm fine now! When can we set off?! "

Wen Lan smiled, pressed on Mu Bai's shoulders and pushed him back into the blanket.

Cut off an apple and give it to Mu Bai: "It's still early, you're still very weak. You need to take good care of yourself. "When it's almost time, I will file a request to return home. When that time comes, I will bring you along with me."

Last time, late into the night, Wen Lan wrote down an application report. It was still pressed under the pillow and had not been delivered out yet.

Unknowingly, she had already taken care of Mu Bai for so long.

He obediently lied down on the bed and ate the apple. His eyes that were not moving for a second looked at Wen Lan, filled with satisfaction.

"Right..." He swallowed the apple in his mouth and asked carefully, "Brother, he …"

"Did he survive?"

In these past few days, Wen Lan had been trying his best to avoid this topic and prevent him from bringing it up.

But now, he couldn't hide it anymore.

Wen Lan shook her head.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't save your brother."

"His body is too weak. Even if the injection continues, his body won't be able to produce any antibodies, so..."

"When did he leave?"

"Last week."

Mu Bai took a deep breath, "Then, where is my mother?"

"I left with your brother."

"My mother is cruel, isn't she?" Mu Bai was trying his best to hold back his tears.

"Mu Bai..." She reached into the blanket and took her hand. "You and me."

Mu Bai shrunk into Wen Lan's embrace, his body faintly twitching.

"Mom and brother can go reunite with dad. It's so good …"

Wen Lan felt her chest heating up. She knew that it was Mu Bai's tears.

"Mu Bai..."

Wen Lan hugged him even more tightly.

"Right now, you are the bearer of the entire family's hope, so you must work hard to survive, okay?"

Mu Bai closed his eyes heavily, and the last tear fell from the corner of his eye.

"Wen Lan, you won't abandon me, right?"

After a long while, he asked, "Promise me you won't abandon me, okay?"

When he got to know her, he called her by her first name and never called her sister again.

He said he wasn't young anymore, not just to be her brother.

Wen Lan hugged Mu Bai, his body still having the fragrance of an apple. His hair was soft, as it passed through Wen Lan's finger, causing him to feel a bit itchy.

"You too." As Wen Lan said this, she suddenly couldn't bear the tears anymore.

A tear fell onto the back of Mu Bai's hand.

He suddenly opened his eyes.

"You, what happened?"

Wen Lan laughed as she wiped away her tears, her voice hoarse. "I just, remember my daughter."

That was the first time Mu Bai looked at Wen Lan with such a shocked expression.

"You, have a child?"

Wen Lan nodded.

"I even thought that you were very lonely …."

Mu Bai's expression was gloomy, "You look like you're not much older than me."

Wen Lan grew up young, probably because her family's mister was rich enough to start using the most expensive skincare products since she was young. Right now, she looked like she was at most 27 or 28.

She smiled. "That sounds good."

The atmosphere suddenly became quiet. It was somewhat solemn.

"Does that mean …" Mu Bai's expression was dejected. He only glanced at Wen Lan once, then quickly shifted his gaze away, not daring to look anymore. "You're already married?"

Wen Lan nodded.

"So you're saying..." Mu Bai refused to give up. "Do you have a boy you like?"

This time, Wen Lan did not nod her head.

"My marriage …" Wen Lan thought for a while, then said hesitantly: "It's very complicated."

"You don't love him, do you?"

Wen Lan did not answer.

In fact, in these few days, Wen Lan and Mu Bai's relationship was not only related to patients and doctors. They had lived together from day to night, and they relied on each other to support each other during times of difficulty.

Even if she didn't dare face it, she had no choice but to admit that Mu Bai had changed her and given her meaning in her life.

It was what she had been looking for.