Chapter 493 What's the Boss's Surname?

Who are you?

The nurse frowned slightly and looked up at Su Hongmei.

"I...I'm his sister." Su Hongmei pursed her lips.

The nurse, unsuspecting, smiled and said, "Don't worry, the person has been saved. They will be observed in the ICU for a few days to avoid the risk of postoperative infection. At most, a week. If everything is confirmed to be fine, they will be transferred to a regular ward."

"……Thanks."

Su Hongmei breathed a slight sigh of relief, thanked them, and left.

As she walked out of the building, she subconsciously looked up and glanced towards the operating room on the third floor.

Two familiar figures happened to be standing by the window. Su Hongmei was slightly taken aback. Just as she realized that the two figures were Su Laoda and Su Laosan, she saw Su Laosan looking down.

Su Hongmei paused, realizing that she and Su Laosan had locked eyes.

He quickly turned and ran out of the hospital.

"What's wrong? What are you looking at? It's Mom and Grandma..."

When Su Laoda saw Su Laosan glance downstairs with a look of 'seeing a ghost', he also peeked downstairs. Apart from a few dim streetlights and a few patients' family members and medical staff walking around, there was no one else.

Before the eldest brother could finish speaking, he frowned and called out, "Third brother?"

Su Laosan wiped his eyes.

Shaking his head, "Big brother, I think I just saw Su Hongmei, but I don't know if I was mistaken..."

Boss Su was stunned for a moment.

He sighed, "Why would she come to the hospital so late?"

"...I wonder when my second brother will wake up?"

Following his gaze, Su Laoda looked at the operating room and said, "I don't know either, but the doctor said your second brother has a strong will to live and should wake up soon."

"I hope so," Su Laosan murmured.

Su Hongmei ran out of the hospital and took a night bus home.

Before going to bed, he would hide the money on the roof beam and take it down when he got up the next morning, fearing that Old Lady Su and Su Youfu would sneak through his clothes and take the money while he was asleep.

That's her living expenses and next semester's tuition.

The next day, when Su Hongmei went to her part-time job at the restaurant after school, everyone was talking about what happened the night before. They were all surprised to see her. "We all thought you weren't coming. One hundred milliliters of blood gets you a thousand yuan, two hundred milliliters is two thousand yuan, enough for your school expenses..."

Su Hongmei shook her head and said, "I didn't donate."

"Ah, why? It's two thousand yuan. Aren't you short of money?" A full-time housewife looked at Su Hongmei as if she were a fool.

Su Hongmei smiled but didn't say anything.

She couldn't very well tell others that the person lying there was her own brother, and that the nurse was loudly proclaiming that blood relatives shouldn't donate blood, could she?

Someone exclaimed in support of Su Hongmei, "What kind of look is that? So many people are after that two thousand yuan. It's perfectly normal that a young girl like Hongmei can't compete with those burly men, isn't it?"

The young woman smacked her lips, glanced at the man, and gave a soft snort.

"What kind of look did I give her? I was just feeling sorry for her. By the way, even those who didn't donate blood and had a check-up received fifty yuan, but you didn't get it either?"

Su Hongmei shook her head again.

"You didn't even manage to get this one?!"

The young wife looked pained, "Su Hongmei, that's fifty yuan! That's equivalent to almost half a month's salary for us full-time workers! You really are..."

Others also felt sorry for Su Hongmei.

Su Hongmei smiled and changed the subject, "Fortunately, no one is hurt."

A group of people laughed and agreed.

"...The boss is really going all out for his friend; this friend must be very important to him."

"Of course, these days, let alone a thousand, anyone who can give you a hundred is considered a true friend."

"That's not a thousand, that's a thousand dollars for one hundred milliliters of blood. The surgery needs much more than one hundred milliliters of blood..."

"Yes, yes, yes..."

A group of people chatted while they worked.

Su Hongmei, for some reason, held back all night, and went to ask Sister Li before leaving get off work.

"Sister Li, do you know what our boss's last name is?"

"Your surname is Feng? Why are you asking that?" Sister Li looked up at her and frowned slightly.

Su Hongmei gave a slightly disappointed yet relieved "oh," shook her head, and said, "It's nothing, I was just a little curious. The boss is so good to us part-time workers, I always want to do something for him..."

Sister Li smiled.

He said, "Is it because the boss asked me to donate blood for his friend? A lot of people didn't get a chance. The boss has many branches and many people under him, so it's normal that they can't get a chance to donate blood."

Su Hongmei nodded.

"...You've come at the perfect time. The boss just called to ask about this, and I immediately reported the names of the people from our restaurant who went. He said that since our restaurant volunteered to help, in addition to reimbursing the taxi fares immediately, everyone will receive an extra bonus of twenty yuan at the end of the month as a token of appreciation for our hard work."

Su Hongmei's heart skipped a beat, her lips twitched slightly, and she asked Sister Li, "Did we also give this list to the boss's friend?"

Sister Li glanced at her.

"What do you mean 'report to the boss's friend'? It means 'report to our boss.' How much was your taxi fare? I've reimbursed you."

Su Hongmei told the truth, and Sister Li gave her the money as it was, saying, "...Twenty yuan is equivalent to a week's full-time salary for you. Work hard, and I'll help you apply for a year-end bonus."

"Thank you, Sister Li."

Sister Li laughed, "You should thank the boss. I'm just a messenger. You go out and pass on a message to them, and I won't go around saying anything more."

"good."

When Su Hongmei went out and told them the news, the mouths of the several part-time workers practically stretched to their ears in a wide grin.

They can only come for a limited time each day, and it takes them several days to accumulate eight hours. This extra twenty yuan is like free money, so of course they're happy.

Even when it was almost closing time, customers would still order complicated dishes, but the staff didn't get angry and greeted them with a cheerful smile.

Xu Ying received the news the next afternoon. She skipped her afternoon shift, took leave, and went straight to the hospital to see Su Lao Er.

Su Laosan led her to the outside of the large glass wall of the ICU.

The moment Xu Ying saw Su Lao Er, her legs went weak.

She couldn't reconcile the man in front of her, covered in tubes, pale as paper, and seemingly lifeless, with the man who had called her to ask her out and earnestly said he wanted to marry her.

For a moment, her heart was filled with fear and panic.

She was terrified.

I'm afraid that Su Lao Er will just disappear like this.

She admitted that she had never considered Su Lao Er before he said those things, but he did!

After he said those words, she would think of him from time to time.

They will soberly assess all aspects of the two people.

She tried to find someone she loved who also loved her, but love can be acted out. How could she be sure that the person who wanted to marry her truly loved her?

Zheng Huaixin serves as a cautionary tale for her.

Thinking about Su Lao Er's looks, Xu Ying sometimes thought that the children born to a man like that should be good-looking, since Le Bao'er and Mingwa were both quite good-looking.

She believed she was pretty and came from a decent family. Given Li Banxia's character, the second son of Su, whom she had raised, was a man who would think of climbing to a high position to protect his family, so his character couldn't be too bad.

Therefore, there shouldn't be any problems with her child's genes.

But can a marriage without love really last?

Xu Ying touched the glass, let out a long sigh, and murmured, "Su Min'an, if you can wake up, how about we try dating with marriage in mind?"