"Eat your breakfast, and take your medicine after. I'll try to be back as early as possible," Yu He said helplessly.
Qin Beiting then slowly pushed himself up, his deep eyes looking at her. "It hurts, feed me."
Yu He glanced at the laptop he had just placed on the bedside table and reminded him, "Mr. Qin, you injured your leg, not your hand."
"My leg hurts so much my hands are weak. If you don't feed me, I won't eat," Qin Beiting said, making a move to lie back down.
Yu He: "..."
Here he goes again, Qin · Master of playing pitiful · Beiting.
Seeing that she was unmoved, Qin Beiting added, "It's not like I'll starve to death if I skip one meal anyway."
Yu He: "..."
She glanced at the time. If she wasted more time with him, she wouldn't know what time she could leave. She had no choice but to pick up the porridge and feed him.
Qin Beiting took forty minutes to finish his breakfast, dawdling the whole time.
Before leaving.
"I've called a car for you. It's downstairs. The driver will pick you up and drop you off. Come back early, I'll be waiting for you at home."
Qin Beiting leaned against the headboard, looking at Yu He with affectionate eyes, as if four words were written on his face: Reluctant to part.
Yu He: "..."
Suddenly, she felt like she was raising a giant baby.
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City Central Hospital.
Yu He had arranged to meet Cheng Lizhu at the hospital entrance. Ye Zi Zheng also came along.
"Why did you leave yesterday without waiting for me?" Ye Zi Zheng asked Yu He with a hint of complaint. "You didn't even come home last night. I even wasted money buying you a cake to celebrate."
Seeing his proud demeanor, Yu He casually took out two chocolates from her pocket and handed them to him. "There, there, don't make a fuss."
Don't ask why she had candy. She had extra when she coaxed Qin Beiting to take his medicine earlier, so she just stuffed it into her pocket.
"Can you bring me a decent gift next time? You always treat me like a kid." Ye Zi Zheng grumbled, but his hand didn't let go of the candy.
He even remembered to take a picture and post it on his WeChat Moments: "Since she specifically brought me a gift, I'll forgive her. /Image/"
The three of them arrived at Old Mrs. Ye's ward.
She was staying in a VIP room by herself and had hired a caregiver. Cheng Lizhu and the caregiver took turns looking after her. At this time, the caregiver had already finished her shift.
"Mom, He He and Zheng Zheng are here to see you," Cheng Lizhu said as they entered the room, placing the soup she had brought on the table.
"Zheng Zheng, come here and let Grandma see if you've grown taller. Grandma misses you so much." Old Mrs. Ye beckoned to Ye Zi Zheng from her hospital bed with a smile.
"Grandma," Ye Zi Zheng walked over.
After a few pleasantries between grandmother and grandson, Old Mrs. Ye said to Cheng Lizhu in a serious tone:
"You're something else. Why did you bring Zheng Zheng here? There are so many germs in the hospital, and his resistance is weak. His rhinitis will act up again."
Cheng Lizhu pouted. She hadn't planned to bring Ye Zi Zheng, but he insisted on coming when he heard Yu He would be here.
"Grandma, it's not Mom's fault. I wanted to visit you, and my rhinitis is completely cured now," Ye Zi Zheng explained.
"Really?" Old Mrs. Ye was skeptical.
Ye Zi Zheng was a premature baby with poor health and chronic rhinitis. He had seen many doctors, but it kept recurring and was never cured.
Had she met a miracle doctor?
"Yes! My sister cured it for me!" Ye Zi Zheng said with certainty, looking at Yu He proudly. "Sister is here to see you today."
Ever since Yu He had given him acupuncture in the school infirmary that day, not only had the bruises on his face disappeared, but his rhinitis was also gone!
That was why he had such faith in Yu He's medical skills.
"Sister?" Old Mrs. Ye finally seemed to notice Yu He and said sarcastically, "Well, well, what wind blew you in today?"
Yu He hadn't visited her since she was hospitalized, which made her feel resentful and angry.
So, she had been deliberately ignoring Yu He since she arrived.
She was putting on airs, intending to put Yu He in her place.
However, Yu He completely ignored her attitude. She pulled over the only chair in the room, sat down, crossed her legs, and started playing games.
She projected an air of waiting for them to finish their conversation before engaging.
She was a woman of her word. She had only come because she promised Cheng Lizhu; otherwise, she wouldn't have bothered to visit this detestable old woman.
This attitude almost made Old Mrs. Ye jump out of bed.
"What kind of attitude is that! People from the sticks have no manners!"
"Mom, please don't say that. He He came specifically to see you and to treat you," Cheng Lizhu quickly explained.
"Treat me? With those rudimentary remedies she brought from the sticks? I think you want her to kill me! Get her out of here. Just looking at her gives me a headache," Old Mrs. Ye scolded fiercely.
Then, she looked towards the ward door. "Where is Zi Su? Why hasn't she come to see me for so long?"
Ye Zi Zheng was displeased when he heard this. "Grandma, don't you know yet? Our family went bankrupt because of Ye Zi Su. Ye Zi Su has long since returned to her own village..."
"Zheng Zheng!" Cheng Lizhu tried to interrupt him, but it was too late.
"What did you say?!" Old Mrs. Ye widened her cloudy eyes, her chest heaving with each breath.
"Our family is bankrupt? When did this happen? How come I don't know?!" She seemed to realize something and glared at Cheng Lizhu with her cloudy eyes. "Cheng Lizhu, what else have you been hiding from me?!"
"Mom, please don't be angry. I didn't tell you because I was afraid it would affect your recovery," Cheng Lizhu quickly explained.
Although the Ye family was bankrupt, there was still Ye Qichen.
His overseas business was developing well. Most of the debts incurred by the Ye family's bankruptcy were covered by him, with a small portion left for Ye Jianming to handle.
Ye Qichen also paid for Old Mrs. Ye's medical expenses, which was why she could still afford a VIP room. Otherwise, she would have been kicked out of the hospital long ago.
Cheng Lizhu was worried that the news of the bankruptcy would affect Old Mrs. Ye's condition, so she had never told her.
Old Mrs. Ye herself had no habit of watching the news. She spent her days eating, walking in the hospital garden with Old Wang from the next room, and living a more comfortable life than she did at home.
Telling her now that the Ye family was bankrupt, that her prosperity and wealth were gone, would be a greater blow than when she first heard about Yu He cheating.
She couldn't catch her breath, her eyes rolled back, her head tilted, and she fainted.
"Mom! Mom!" Cheng Lizhu panicked and immediately pressed the call button by the bed.
"Grandma?" Ye Zi Zheng shook Old Mrs. Ye. Seeing that she didn't respond, he also got scared. "Sister, come quickly and check on Grandma."
Yu He, annoyed by the commotion, "Tsked." "She won't die."
She unhurriedly put away her phone, got up, and walked to the bedside. Ye Zi Zheng immediately made way for her.
Yu He took out her acupuncture kit from her bag and spread it out.
Her slender fingers picked up a needle and located an acupuncture point.
"What's going on?" At this moment, a nurse, alerted by the call button, rushed in.
The nurse pushed open the ward door and happened to see Yu He holding a silver needle and placing it on Old Mrs. Ye. She was shocked. "What are you doing to the patient!"