Chapter 271 Don't you want to save your mother anymore?

For a moment, Xie Nanzhi's mind went blank.

She stood frozen, phone in hand, until the maid's anxious voice came through the line again, "Miss Nan, can you hear me?"

Xie Nanzhi snapped out of her daze, "I'm going to the hospital right now."

Ignoring Wei Huaibo, Xie Nanzhi hurriedly ran out of the group.

Upon seeing this, the adult and two children who had just disembarked from the pirate ship rushed over. Wei Chi asked anxiously, "What happened?"

Xie Nanzhi seemed not to hear her and continued walking towards the door.

Wei Chi was anxious. He had never seen Xie Nanzhi so dazed. She was always calm and composed. This was the first time he had seen her so flustered.

Wei Chizheng grabbed her arm. "Nanzhi, don't scare me. What happened?"

Xie Nanzhi's face was expressionless, but tears streamed down her face like beads from a broken string. "My mother suddenly fainted and is on her way to the hospital."

Wei Chizheng suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem, and both children became serious as well.

Wei Chi tried to calm her down, "Nanzhi, Mom will be alright. We'll go there now."

Holding Xie Nanzhi's hand, Wei Chizheng instructed Nianchi, "Nianchi, take good care of your sister."

Nian Chi said, "Okay."

The family of four got into the car, and Wei Chizheng called Mu Lin again. He wanted to stay with Xie Nanzhi every step of the way and had no time to take care of the two children.

Mu Lin and the others arrived at the hospital almost at the same time. Mu Lin took care of the child, while Wei Chizheng led Xie Nanzhi straight to the ward.

Although it's already the third day of the Lunar New Year, the festive atmosphere is still very strong.

This contrasts sharply with the bleak and oppressive atmosphere of the hospital.

The smell of disinfectant, like an invisible net, permeated the entire hospital, making my nose sting.

Xie Nanzhi entered the ward and saw Wang Shufen covered in tubes. Her eyes were closed, and she was unusually quiet. The monitor emitted a regular "beep" sound, each beep like a needle pricking Xie Nanzhi's tense nerves.

Wang Shufen lay on the hospital bed, her face as pale as paper, with a few strands of hair clinging to her forehead. Only today did she realize how much weight her mother had lost.

Xie Nanzhi walked over, trembling, and choked with sobs, "Mom, I'm here."

Xie Nanzhi lowered her voice and reached out to touch Wang Shufen's exposed hand, but was startled by the icy coldness and withdrew her hand.

Almost reflexively, she tucked the blanket in, her gaze falling on the electrocardiogram chart on the bedside table. The crooked lines lay lifelessly on the tray, like ribbons crumpled by a gale.

Just then, a nurse pushed in a treatment cart, the clanging of metal instruments particularly jarring in the silence. "Ms. Nan, I'm going to change the IV bag for the patient."

As she spoke, the nurse began to change the IV bag.

The nurse's hands were very steady; she was clearly a very experienced nurse. The tape on the back of her hand was torn off, and the purplish-blue needle marks on Wang Shufen's hand stung her eyes.

Xie Nanzhi couldn't hold back any longer and turned her back to pretend to tidy the curtains, her reddened eyes reflected in the glass window.

Thinking of what the attending physician had said in the corridor, Xie Nanzhi's hands trembled uncontrollably.

"If a kidney donor cannot be found within three days, the patient may not make it out of the first month of the lunar calendar."

Xie Nanzhi looked at the branches and leaves outside. A bleak, cold wind swirled up and pounded against the glass, as if someone was sobbing softly. She clenched her fists to keep the sobs from spilling out.

Xie Nanzhi didn't close her eyes all night.

Wei Chizheng also stayed with her all night.

Seeing how haggard she looked, Wei Chizheng felt nothing but heartache.

In the early morning, Wang Shufen still showed no signs of waking up, so Wei Chizheng bought Xie Nanzhi her favorite wontons.

"Nanzhi, eat a little something. Mom needs you now. You need to take care of yourself first."

Xie Nanzhi mechanically looked at the steaming hot wontons in Wei Chizheng's hand. They looked delicious, but she had no appetite at all.

However, Xie Nanzhi knew that Wei Chizheng's words were for her own good, so she took the wontons from his hand and swallowed them one after another.

Seeing that things were not going well, Wei Chizheng immediately tried to snatch the chopsticks from her hand, saying, "Nanzhi, don't do this."

Xie Nanzhi remained unmoved. She snatched the chopsticks back and continued to stuff them into her mouth, her eyes fixed on the wontons in the bowl.

Wei Chizheng frowned, his heart aching. "Nanzhi, don't torture yourself like this."

She stuffed her mouth full, her face turning red, but she continued to swallow frantically until she couldn't swallow any more and vomited it all out.

At the same time, tears streamed down her face. "I hate myself. Do you know how much I hate myself? I wish I were the one lying here."

From last night until now, Xie Nanzhi has been forcibly suppressing her emotions and pretending to be calm. But in the end, she is just a person of flesh and blood, an ordinary person.

That taut string will eventually reach its fatigue limit and snap suddenly.

Unable to suppress her emotions any longer, she broke down in tears, crying out, "We lived together, and I should have noticed her health problems much sooner. It shouldn't have come to this. But I only found out today. I'm not a good daughter at all. I'm trash, a piece of trash."

Xie Nanzhi hit herself with her fist, and Wei Chizheng hugged her from behind, saying, "Nanzhi, this is not your fault, it's not."

Xie Nanzhi wept bitterly, completely losing her composure.

She truly hated herself for realizing it so late.

In recent years, she has devoted all her energy to her work, leaving early and returning late every day, and business trips have become the norm.

She neglected Wang Shufen, which led to the current situation.

She bit her lower lip hard, the taste of blood spreading in her mouth. It seemed that only this pain could lessen her guilt.

After a long while, Xie Nanzhi cried herself to sleep. She sat by the hospital bedside, staying by her side without leaving for a moment.

For every sixteen beeps from the monitor, the sound of a trolley rolling could be heard in the corridor. Wang Shufen's temperature was 36.1 degrees Celsius at 10:07 a.m., a decrease of 0.3 degrees Celsius from the morning.

The attending physician drew a long horizontal line on the medical record with his pen and sighed, "The kidney function indicators have dropped again."

Xie Nanzhi subconsciously stared at the cuff of the doctor's white coat, where there was a stain of ink that hadn't been washed off.

After a long while, Xie Nanzhi got up and poured a glass of warm water. At the bottom of the glass was a piece of undissolved vitamin C.

The nurse told Wang Shufen to drink more water yesterday, but she didn't, and she won't drink any today either.

Looking out the window at the birds flying over the high-voltage lines, it flapped its wings lightly and soon flew away; it probably would never come back.

With Wei Chizheng absent, he personally went to the black market to search for a kidney donor.

But time is too tight, and the chances of finding a suitable one in such a short time are extremely slim.

Xie Nanzhi's expression was calm, a blank expression that resembled that of a walking corpse.

Suddenly, her phone, which was lying to the side, rang. She was startled, thinking it was good news, and answered it without even looking at it.

Xie Nanzhi: "So, any news?"

A deep, cold voice came from the other end of the line, "Nanzhi, it's me."

That sound...

It's Pei Jingchuan.

Just as Xie Nanzhi was about to hang up, she heard Pei Jingchuan sneer, "Nanzhi, don't you want to save your mother anymore?"