CH 13

“Dr. Mu? Aren’t you on a business trip abroad? Why are you back?” 

The nurse who was passing by,recognized Mu Qingting at a glance and stopped to look at him with some surprise for a moment.

Dr. Mu usually went to work in the hospital with an extremely refined appearance. All day long, he didn’t even mess up his hair. He was the male god (prince charming) of the young nurses in the hospital but today he seemed to have fallen from grace. 

He was wearing big slippers, big trousers and a white shirt. He didn’t wear the sparkling diamond stud earring in his ears. His hair was in a mess and there was a layer of greenish grey scruff on his chin.

If it wasn’t for the fact that they had worked together for two years, Mu Qingting’s face was also really the type which left a deep impression on people, the nurse would never have dared to recognize it.

“Er ……” Mu Qingting was stunned for a moment, rubbing his hair and smiling, “I have a twin older brother.”

Before the nurse could react, Mu Qingting left with quick steps. 

He had just left the house in a hurry so he didn’t even have time to clean up. His image was going to be completely ruined this time.

Song Zhi Xu was his star of calamity, he was out of luck whenever he met him. 

On the other hand, Song Zhi Xu carried Lin Ran and looked for an empty ward. The ward was right next to Mu Qingting’s office and this was a high class single patient ward. As long as the hospital was not full, this ward was always empty. Song Zhi Xu usually stayed here when he came to the hospital so later Mu Qingting would know how to find him.

He walked over to the hospital bed, tried to put Lin Ran on it, but Lin Ran was leaning on his arms while his two hands were tightly wrapped around his neck and wouldn’t let go, so he could only sit on the bed himself, letting Lin Ran lean on him. 

Only after he sat down on the bed, Lin Ran raised his white little face from his embrace, his voice had no strength as he whispered.

“Song Zhi Xu, are you going to give Ran Ran eat that candy?” 

Song Zhi Xu frowned slightly, not quite understanding what he meant.

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He was afraid that if he told Lin Ran now that they were going to give him an injection, Lin Ran would be scared, so it would be better to wait for Mu Qingting to come later and let him see for himself.

“When we get out of the hospital, I’ll buy you some candy.” Song Zhi Xu was silent for a while before he said it gently. 

Lin Ran’s eyes lit up as he gave him a happy “Hn” and after a while he asked in a small voice, “Then can I buy that candy?”

Song Zhi Xu thought of the large white rabbit milk candy that Mu Qingting had given him and nodded slightly. 

It was good that Lin Ran liked it, he didn’t care what kind of candy it was.

“Song Zhi Xu, you’re so nice, Ran Ran likes you.” Lin Ran had no strength so he leaned back into Song Zhi Xu’s chest again. 

Although he was now much better than before, his head was still a little dizzy.

Song Zhi Xu lowered his head and looked at Lin Ran’s pale face and didn’t say anything. 

It didn’t take long for Mu Qingting, who had brought the medicine and needles, to push open the door, hang the intravenous glucose drip bottle on a high shelf and insert the needle as he prepared to stick it into Lin Ran’s hand.

Lin Ran thought he was getting some candy soon. The moment he opened his eyes he happened to see Mu Qingting smoothing down the liquid in the IV tube. He also flicked the thin needle and there were droplets of water being flicked out with his movements. 

“Ah~” Lin Ran was frightened and cried out in surprise, his whole body shrank back into Song Zhi Xu’s arms, tightly grabbing his clothes and trembling. His voice seemed to tremble along with it, “Don’t, don’t stick (the needle into) Ran Ran! Song Zhi Xu, Ran Ran afraid.”

“This… you just didn’t tell him?” Mu Qingting’s hand holding the needle suddenly paused. 

Song Zhi Xu shook his head, he didn’t know what and how he should tell Lin Ran either.

After a while, he still gently patted Lin Ran who was in his arms and whispered, “Ran Ran, you’re sick, an injection will make you feel better. I’ll go buy candy with you after that.” 

Listening to Song Zhi Xu’s words, Lin Ran then raised his head from Song Zhi Xu’s embrace, looked at him for a moment, then bit his lip and nodded.

He was still afraid of needles but if Song Zhi Xu wanted him to take it, he wouldn’t resist, he was afraid that Song Zhi Xu would hate him and would not want him. 

Mu Qingting didn’t expect Song Zhi Xu’s words to work so well. He asked Song Zhi Xu to hold Lin Ran’s hand, before then he quickly stuck the syringe needle into the back of Lin Ran’s hand, fixed it with the transparent packing tape afterwards and adjusted the flow rate of the IV.

Lin Ran’s face had been buried in Song Zhi Xu’s embrace and the moment the syringe needle pierced the flesh, his body tensed up and tears flowed out uncontrollably. 

He buried himself in Song Zhi Xu’s arms, sobbing in a small voice.

He didn’t know if it was because the little body in his arms was too fragile or because his clothes were wet with Lin Ran’s tears but Song Zhi Xu felt a little stifled and depressed, his heart ache inside. 

The teenager who had just been looking at him with the bright smiling eyes and carefully asking him for candy would be crying in his embrace …

Last night, Lin Ran didn’t get much sleep, plus he wasn’t feeling well. He was leaning on Song Zhi Xu’s arms, crying before then falling asleep. 

Song Zhi Xu carefully put him on the bed. His gaze falling on his red eyes and eyelashes wet with tears, he paused for a moment before turning to Mu Qingting on the other side and lowering his voice.

“He… malnutrition and ‘environmental inadaptability conditions’, what I need pay attention to?” 

“There’s … a lot.” Mu Qingting sighed, “I really don’t know how this poor little fool has lived before, it’s the first time I’ve seen a twenty year old youth with such poor health that he can’t even stand to eat more meat.”

Song Zhi Xu pursed his lips and waited for him to continue talking. 

Mu Qingting sighed and then added.

“He probably ate too poorly before and there was no nutrition. However, in the past two days at your place there was too much of a supplement, so his digestive system couldn’t take it. You should supplement him with nutrition in the future but follow in order and advance step by step.Take your time, since this body of his right now by only eating a few meat may make his stomach unable to take it, so he needs to pay extra attention to it.” 

Song Zhi Xu nodded his head. He then asked Mu Qingting to go and make a nutritional diet for Lin Ran.

After Mu Qingting left, Song Zhi Xu sat by the bedside and watched over Lin Ran. 

Lin Ran slept until he finished the hanging glucose IV drip and only woke up in pain when Mu Qingting pulled the needle out of him.

When he opened his eyes, Song Zhi Xu pressed the needle hole in his hand and Mu Qingting had already put the IV tube away. 

Lin Ran lay on the bed for a while before he realized what was going on now and then he moved over to rub against Song Zhi Xu with a pitiful, bitter face, calling his name in a soft voice.

Song Zhi Xu waited until the needle hole in Lin Ran’s hand no longer oozed blood before he threw away the cotton swab he was pressing and reached out to touch the top of Lin Ran’s hair. 

“Didn’t you say you wanted to eat candy? Get up, I’ll go buy some with you.”

Lin Ran was like a little child, even if he was feeling unwell just now, he forgot all about it once Song Zhi Xu talked about buying him the candy. 

After Song Zhi Xu finished speaking, he immediately got up from the bed and slid onto the floor, put on his own shoes back and stood next to Song Zhi Xu again.

“Song Zhi Xu, go buy candy.”