At the door.
Ding Ning was carrying a packed lunch box. Seeing Qi Tan there, she nervously said, "Director Qi."
Qi Tan: "You guys eat, I'm leaving."
Ding Ning: "Goodbye, Director Qi."
Qi Tan smiled slightly, turned around and said goodbye to Duan Feng again.
Duan Feng said angrily, "Get out of here!"
Qi Tan was not annoyed at all. Instead, he left with a smile on his face.
Ding Ning put the lunch box on the cabinet next to him.
He bent down and slowly rocked Duan Feng's bed, allowing him to sit up slowly so that he could eat more conveniently.
Compared to when he first came to the general ward, Duan Feng can now sit for a short while and get out of bed to go to the bathroom.
"I bought some noodles from the place you like," Ding Ning said. "Business is booming today, and luckily the owner knows you. He saw me and gave me some first."
"Yeah," Duan Feng responded lightly.
"Good things happen to good people," Ding Ning said. "The shop owner said you treated him before. He knew I was buying food for you and wanted to keep it for free. I felt that was not a good idea, so I transferred the money to him. Brother..."
"Don't call me 'brother'," Duan Feng interrupted, "I'm an orphan, I have no family."
Ding Ning stood by, at a loss for what to do for a moment.
"Don't be like this, brother..." Ding Ning felt very uncomfortable. "When you recover from your injuries, I will take you home. Mom will definitely be very happy to see you..."
"I told you, I don't have any family!" Duan Feng said coldly, "Do you want to eat or not?"
"Eat," Ding Ning held back her tears, set up a small table beside the bed, and placed the noodles she had bought on the table.
She bought noodles with soybean paste.
The beef is braised in soy sauce. Duan Feng likes to eat beef.
Xu Qingli told her.
She bought two meals, one for him and one for herself.
She didn't like noodles very much, but Duan Feng liked them, so she accompanied Duan Feng to eat together.
I don’t know if it’s because the noodles are too hard or if there’s something wrong with my throat, but the more I eat, the harder it becomes to swallow.
My throat hurts terribly.
"Cry, cry, cry, what's there to cry about?" Duan Feng reached out, pulled two tissues from the bedside table, and handed them to Ding Ning, "Wipe them quickly. It affects your appetite."
Ding Ning looked at him, but he didn't look at her, and his face seemed full of impatience.
"Sorry," Ding Ning took the tissue, put down the lunch box, and turned to go to the bathroom.
Duan Feng is staying in the VIP ward, and the bathroom is in the room outside.
Ding Ning went to the bathroom to wash his face, then calmed down in the outer room for a while before returning to the inner ward.
She knew that she had never been a strong person. She could even be said to be timid, sensitive, fragile and crybaby.
Not only Duan Feng, but even if it was anyone else who might say something harsh to her or scold her, she would also be unable to stop crying.
But if it were Duan Feng, she would only want to cry even more.
Because of grievances, apologies, and cautious love.
Ding Ning came back and saw Duan Feng lying on the hospital bed without moving his chopsticks, as if he was waiting for her.
"Eat quickly," she said, walked to the bed and sat down, picking up the lunch box she had placed aside.
Duan Feng didn't respond either. He just glanced at her briefly and buried his head in eating.
They both have been like this all the time.
She brought him food and they ate separately.
At the beginning, Duan Feng couldn't sit up, so he could only be fed some liquid food. Duan Feng also had a stubborn temper and would not eat food given out of pity.
No matter how she tried to persuade him, it was of no use.
He would rather let the nurse feed him than let her touch him.
Later, she and the nurse stayed with him for several nights, and Duan Feng's attitude towards her gradually improved. Now Duan Feng can get out of bed and sit up, but he still needs to stay in bed most of the time, and the nurse is no longer needed. Ding Ning only needs to come and deliver meals every day.
"Isn't today a working day? Aren't you going to work?" Duan Feng suddenly asked.
"Go to work," Ding Ning said, and nothing else.
"Since you're at work, why would you send me food if you don't work properly?"
Ding Ning bit her lip, her eyes moistening again. After holding it in for a while, she said, "The nurse is not here."
Duan Feng glanced at her sideways, feeling upset.
Crying again.
Why does she cry so much?
Ding Ning is the crybaby girl he has ever met, no doubt about it.
Just a few words and she would burst into tears, leaving everyone at a loss for words.
Seeing her disappointing appearance, I felt annoyed and anxious.
"If you are discharged from the hospital, will you go home with me?" Ding Ning asked cautiously.
"Won't."
Ding Ning held the lunch box, lowered his head, and asked without daring to question, "Why?"
"I have no home."
"But you have it now," Ding Ning said, "Mom has never forgotten you. If she knew you were still here, she would definitely be..."
"I told you, I don't have any parents," Duan Feng said coldly, "If you really want to talk about parents, then at most I have a pair of unreliable adoptive parents. Other than that, I have no other relatives."
Ding Ning was speechless.
What else could she say? It was all a mistake.
She shouldn't have gone to the basketball game with her senior sisters, otherwise she wouldn't have met him.
I shouldn't have accompanied my senior sister to the table tennis competition, so I wouldn't have met him again, and I wouldn't have added him on WeChat because I helped him return the car keys to Han Chen.
The most inappropriate thing was that she clicked on Duan Feng's circle of friends and saw a link he forwarded to raise funds for the welfare home. Under that circle of friends, she saw a message from the director of the welfare home that he liked the post, as well as a few brief conversations between the two under the link.
She then learned that Duan Feng had previously lived in an orphanage.
She had the director's WeChat account because she had gone to the welfare home to inquire about the matter and added the director's WeChat account in order to help her mother find her lost son.
It's all such a coincidence.
Even Ding Ning herself did not expect that the half-brother she had been looking for was actually Duan Feng.
Ding Ning's mother married her father for the second time.
When she got married, she brought a little boy with her. Ding Ning was not born at that time. Ding's father and mother took four-year-old Duan Feng back to their hometown by train from Dongjiang. Both of them were migrant workers. In the 1990s, the train station was very chaotic. It was the time when the floating population was the largest, and scalpers and human traffickers were rampant.
While Ding's mother went to buy food, Ding's father took Duan Feng to the convenience store next to the train station to buy cigarettes. However, when they were paying, Duan Feng disappeared.
The couple called the police immediately, but there was no surveillance and no good investigative means at the time. Even with the help of the police, it would be extremely difficult to find a four-year-old child in such a large crowd.
Even the police shook their heads. The child was missing, and it was a boy, so it was likely that he was abducted.
It's good enough to meet a good family. The worst thing is that you'll be sent to some illegal mine and kept as a child laborer, where missing limbs is common.
When Ding's mother heard the word "black mine", she burst into tears.
Because her ex-husband and his brother were both miners, and both died in mining accidents.
What was even more painful was that her ex-husband's sister-in-law, who was pregnant at the time, learned that her husband had passed away, and the servants started complaining about stomachaches.
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