Chapter 203

The off-road vehicle was speeding along the provincial road. On both sides of the road was the endless Gobi Desert, which was sparsely populated. Occasionally, a group of sheep like clouds would appear on the wasteland by the roadside, licking the exposed salt alkali on the ground.

Inside the car, a man in a shirt was holding the steering wheel with an indifferent expression, looking straight ahead. There was no music playing in the car, so the atmosphere seemed a bit dull for a moment.

In the back seat of the car, Jiang Zhinian lifted the long hair beside her ear and looked at Shi Ye in the front seat with a smile: "Shi Ye, can you open the window? The weather is so nice, I want to feel the breeze."

Shi Ye glanced at her in the rearview mirror and unlocked the car window without saying a word. Shi Ye, who has now successfully been promoted to chief physician of pediatric cardiac surgery, although his face has not changed much from before, his overall temperament has become more stable and powerful.

Jiang Zhinian and his daughter Youyou beside him looked at each other and smiled guiltily.

Yoyo is now a twelve-year-old girl. Her appearance combines the advantages of her parents. Her gray eyes match Jiang Zhinian's fair skin, and her slight mixed-race look and delicate and bright facial features make her look like a character model in a game, beautiful like the creator's favorite work.

Yoyo hummed twice and said proudly, "Mom said that the person she loves the most is me, so isn't it normal for her to sleep with me tonight? As for someone who ranks second, don't be jealous. Jealousy is useless. Mom will still sleep with me tonight, hehe."

As she spoke, she hugged Jiang Zhinian's arm, snuggling and rubbing against her chest like a big, coquettish cat.

Shi Ye raised his eyes, exchanged a quick glance with Jiang Zhinian in the rearview mirror, and frowned, "You've already slept together for a night."

Last night, while Shi Ye was working overtime on an operation, Youyou took advantage of the fact that Jiang Zhinian was carried to her bed. The mother and daughter hugged each other and slept lovingly all night. Shi Ye finished the operation in the early morning and hurried back home, only to find that his daughter's room was locked from the inside and even the key was hidden.

Jiang Zhinian lowered her head guiltily. For a moment, she felt as embarrassed as if she had been caught red-handed by her husband and questioned for being a scumbag. Fortunately, Shi Ye did not childishly ask her whether she loved her daughter or her husband more.

She secretly glanced at Shi Ye's profile from the right rear, and couldn't help but wonder, isn't it said that mixed-blood people are not anti-aging? Why does this man in front of her look the same for more than ten years without even a wrinkle at the corners of his eyes? Could it be that emotional stability is the secret weapon for skin care?

Seeing Jiang Zhinian trying to hide behind his head and get away with it, Shi Ye snorted in displeasure and pressed, "Are you going to sleep with me tonight?"

Yoyo glanced at Jiang Zhinian out of the corner of her eye, alarm bells blaring in her heart. She quickly grabbed her mother's arm and shook it, "Sleep with me, sleep with me. You promised me this morning, Mom, please. You usually sleep with Dad at home. You finally get to come out for once, just sleep with me."

Jiang Zhinian wavered. After all, noisy children get candy. She turned her head away and whispered softly, "It's not safe for Yoyo to sleep alone. I'd better...sleep with her tonight..."

They are now in a relatively remote area, and there is no tourism development. The living conditions are not very good. When Jiang Zhinian and Shi Ye went out before, they encountered a situation where a stranger swiped the room card to open their room in the middle of the night. Jiang Zhinian was really worried about the child sleeping alone.

In this case, I can only let my husband suffer.

Jiang Zhinian softened her voice in a flattering manner and said coquettishly, "I'll look for a family room later and we can sleep together."

Shi Ye didn't say anything, but just gave Jiang Zhinian a look in the rearview mirror.

Jiang Zhinian was very familiar with this look. She paused, her cheeks flushed instantly, and she thought of some scenes that she shouldn't have thought of. After all, the two of them had been married for more than ten years. From the shyness and immaturity in the beginning, to the exploration and groping, to gradually becoming familiar with each other's bodies, many times, just a look or a hint would make each other's bodies instantly recall those memories engraved in their minds.

Jiang Zhinian moved uncomfortably, feeling a little tearful. She felt as if she had been forced to sign an unequal treaty that cost her the sovereignty of her body. Although she felt that she could no longer indulge Shi Ye, when they really got to bed, she always softened her heart. The other party didn't even need to ask, Jiang Zhinian would lie down obediently and cooperate without any bottom line.

Immersed in the joy of her victory, Yoyo proudly shook her hair and said, "Mom, how long will we stay this time?"

"About half a month." Jiang Zhinian came here as the head of the "Little Windmill" charity organization, and accompanied his hospital team to carry out charity medical assistance activities.

Especially for surgeries like congenital heart disease in children, which involve extremely difficult steps such as pediatric anesthesia and extracorporeal circulation, children in such remote areas often find it difficult to get medical treatment. Even if some parents spend all they have to go to big cities for surgery, postoperative follow-up is difficult to carry out.

Therefore, after Jiang Zhinian learned that Shi Ye had chosen this direction, he discussed with the staff of "Little Windmill" and set up a special fund for children with congenital heart disease to donate to these children.

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After driving for a few more hours, their medical team finally arrived in a county town. The hospital in the county that was responsible for the connection attached great importance to it. Not only did they arrange the best hotel in advance, but the hospital director also paid for the entire medical team to have dinner together out of his own pocket.

As the team leader, Shi Ye naturally needed to be present, so Jiang Zhinian took Youyou out to find food for dinner.

After dinner, they returned to the hotel. Shi Ye had not come back yet. Jiang Zhinian was not worried. After all, Shi Ye was well-known in the circle for not drinking. After she helped Youyou finish some of her summer homework, the video on her mobile phone was suddenly activated.

Jiang Zhinian helplessly threw the phone to Youyou: "Xiaoyu is looking for you."

Yoyo happily answered the call, and soon a man in his twenties appeared on the screen.

"Uncle!" Youyou greeted him happily, and asked him with a smile, "Where are you? It's still daytime where you are."

"In Germany." Jiang Yubai opened the hotel curtains and showed Youyou the scenery outside. "How is it? Do you regret not coming with your uncle?"

At the beginning of summer vacation, Jiang Zhinian asked Youyou to choose whether to go to the countryside with them to provide medical assistance, or to go to Germany with Jiang Yubai for a skiing vacation. Youyou decisively chose to stick with her mother and abandon her uncle who had worked hard to raise her since she was a child.

Yoyo laughed and said, "No, I'm happiest when I'm with my mom. Didn't we agree to go skiing in Switzerland together during the Chinese New Year this year?"

Jiang Yubai smiled and turned his head to look out the window. His hair was still very short. The originally bulky cochlear implant in his ear had become only the size of a fingernail after their team's research and development and improvements. If you didn't look closely, you wouldn't notice it at all.

However, even though he started his own business and became a boss, Jiang Yubai still looked like a cool guy. No one would have thought that a man with such a good appearance spent all his free time in college busy being "Dehua" for a couple who went out to do charity work, and took care of Yoyo with great effort.

This is also the reason why these two people are like family even though they are not related by blood.

The two men, one older and one younger, were more than ten years apart in age. They kept talking about meaningless things for a long time, and Jiang Zhinian, who was sitting on the side, laughed as he listened.

Jiang Yubai raised his hand to check the time. He had a meeting with a partner in the afternoon, so he said goodbye to Youyou and promised to bring her a gift. Then he said to Jiang Zhinian who was sitting next to him, "By the way, sister, how is Shiye using the 1.0 version of the medical manual? When I gave him the internal test version, he promised to give me feedback every week. Now it's been so long, and there's no news at all. I sent him a message and he blocked me."

Jiang Zhinian smiled and leaned in front of the camera to explain, "Shi Ye has been very busy lately, researching surgical plans for those children with congenital heart disease. He really doesn't have time, but I saw he's been using your medical manual. I heard it's quite good. When he's done, I'll have him send you some test feedback."

Jiang Yubai, who successfully started his own business last year and made it onto the Forbes Rich List, helped the couple develop a medical app that combines intelligent AI on a purely charitable basis in order to support their careers. The app is currently in the internal testing phase.

Jiang Yubai snorted and laughed: "Tell him that I have found solutions to the technical difficulties he mentioned to me before. We will launch version 2.0 soon. If he doesn't speed up, version 2.0 will not take his opinions into consideration."

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Jiang Zhinian waited until 10 o'clock in the evening, but still didn't receive a text message from Shi Ye saying he was back.

Yoyo has fallen asleep. She has had a very regular sleep pattern since she was young. She starts yawning at 9 o'clock, hugs her mother's elbow for a while, and then falls asleep in a daze.

Jiang Zhinian waited until she fell asleep, then reached out to grab the phone on the bedside table. After thinking about it with some worry, he sent a message to Shi Ye, asking if he had returned.

She had never done this kind of work of checking up on Shi Ye or urging him over the years, because Shi Ye never went out for social events or business trips. They were always together except for the time when they were working. If she hadn't brought You You out this time, they would have been hugging each other and resting on the bed at this point.

After a while, Shi Ye's message came.

"I'm back. I was just taking a shower."

"Why didn't you tell me you were back?"

"So, do you want to come over and sleep?"

Shi Ye’s room is actually right next door, very close and convenient.

Jiang Zhinian guessed that Shi Ye was probably a little unhappy, so she coaxed him, "Yoyo, you'll cry if you don't see me tomorrow morning."

Once, Yoyo was sick at home, and Jiang Zhinian agreed to sleep with her. However, the next morning, Yoyo woke up and found that her mother was not around. She cried loudly and no one could comfort her.

To be honest, it was Shi Ye's fault. He ran to his daughter's room in the middle of the night and took his sleeping wife away without saying a word.

Jiang Zhinian raised a smile and waited patiently for a while, but Shi Ye did not reply to the message.

Is this really angry?

Not really, Jiang Zhinian was a little unsure. She really wanted to go to Shi Ye's room to see what was going on. The feeling of not being able to see him made her feel a little uneasy and insecure.

Jiang Zhinian looked back at her daughter who was sleeping soundly and decided to just go over for a quick look and come back in ten minutes. Just as she got out of bed, there was a gentle knock on the door. Jiang Zhinian had an idea and walked quickly to open the door, only to see Shi Ye standing outside with one hand in his pocket.

"Shi Ye, what are you doing..."

"I'll come and sleep with you."

This is a twin room, and each bed is only 1.35 meters wide. It would be very crowded for two adults to sleep together, and no one would sleep well. Besides, Youyou is a grown-up girl. Jiang Zhinian guessed that her period would come soon, and she has her own privacy that needs to be protected. If she sleeps in the same room with her father, it would definitely be inconvenient for her to take a shower and change clothes.

But Shi Ye didn't care. He went into the room and replaced the bed that Jiang Zhinian slept on with the four-piece bedding set he brought for going out.

"I'll leave tomorrow morning before Yoyo wakes up."

Jiang Zhinian stood there blankly for a while, and suddenly realized that Shi Ye was worried that she was scared, so he came to accompany her.

After someone pushed her door open that time, she was scared for a long time. Every time she stayed in a hotel, she slept very uneasily, always feeling that someone would sneak in as soon as she fell asleep. She had to hug Shi Ye tightly and hide in his arms to sleep well.

This time, Shi Ye probably wanted to come and protect them, so he gave up his nice big bed room and squeezed into their room.

Jiang Zhinian's heart felt like it was soaked in warm water, soft and warm. She suddenly felt a desire to hug Shi Ye tightly, throw herself into his arms, and let him know how much she loved him.

Shi Ye turned around and saw Jiang Zhinian's eyes, smiled, and raised his hand. Jiang Zhinian took two quick steps and really threw himself into his arms.

Perhaps because the night view was too beautiful tonight, Jiang Zhinian took the initiative to stand on tiptoe and kissed Shi Ye's chin.

They have been together for twelve years. It is said that the longer a couple is together, the less passion they will have and the less interest they will have in each other. However, Jiang Zhinian feels that every day she is with Shi Ye, the more she loves him.

Both mentally and physically, she was like a fanatical believer, madly obsessed with this man named Shi Ye.

They started as two parallel lines that did not intersect, moving slowly, bit by bit, until they came close to each other. They became each other's best friends, most trusted family members, and most loving partners, longing for each other both physically and spiritually.

Shi Ye lowered his head, kissed Jiang Zhinian's lips lightly, and whispered, "I don't think I've ever told you that if you're not by my side, I won't be able to sleep at night."

Jiang Zhinian thought about the days and nights they had slept in the same bed. It seemed like Shi Ye had always been hugging her, sometimes touching her belly, sometimes touching her arms, and of course most of the time he was just touching... ahem, in short, there had to be some skin contact.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhinian's heart softened. She took the initiative to tiptoe to chase Shi Ye's lips, and then raised her hand and gently touched Shi Ye's back and shoulders.

The 36-year-old Jiang Zhinian has long lost the immaturity and ignorance of her girlhood, but has become more intellectual and elegant, especially the role of a mother, which has endowed her with more tenderness and tolerance. Every time Shi Ye feels her love, he will have a very wonderful trembling feeling all over his body, which makes him unable to help but want to touch her skin and smell her breath.