Chapter 19
In the Aofei Hospital, Yin Zheng held Jiaojiao in his arms and registered, then sat in the corridor waiting for his number to be called.
The corridors of the pediatric department are pink and sky blue, two very relaxing colors, intended to make children less afraid and nervous, but it is obvious that this does not have much effect.
From each clinic came the sounds of children crying and shouting that they didn't want injections, accompanied by the voices of parents either scolding or coaxing, making the entire pediatric department noisy.
Jiaojiao, who was in her father's arms, wrinkled her nose when she smelled the unpleasant smell of disinfectant in the air. Her dark and ignorant eyes were full of curiosity when she saw a group of crying children sitting on the ground in front of her, being lazy and refusing to get their shots.
"Dad, they are crying." As if she had discovered something new, Jiaojiao leaned close to her father's ear and whispered this discovery to Yin Zheng.
In the corridor, a group of children were throwing tantrums and crying loudly, trying their best to avoid getting injections. They used all their tricks.
This was also the first time that Yin Zheng had seen such a situation, because Jiaojiao had received medical treatment through the emergency room last time, so it was not until now that he knew that a child could cry so hard that his throat would split in order to avoid an injection.
He turned his head to look at Jiaojiao in his arms. The child had never cried during the entire time she was hospitalized. "Are you not afraid of injections?"
Jiaojiao raised her chin and said with a little pride: "Jiaojiao is amazing. She never cries no matter how hard I hit her."
Yin Zheng didn't know if he had misunderstood what he meant, but he felt his heart tighten when he heard him say that he wouldn't cry no matter how much he was beaten.
"Is it better to not cry when you get an injection, or not cry when you get a shot?"
"Don't cry!"
Yin Zheng's throat tightened, and his already hoarse voice became even more awkward: "Does Jiaojiao get beaten often?"
The child nodded seriously: "But Jiaojiao doesn't cry."
"Don't cry, don't make a fuss." Jiaojiao waved her little hands, and her dark eyes on her soft and white face looked at him brightly as if they were filled with broken stars.
After being together for such a long time, Yin Zheng also understood that his bright little expression meant that he wanted to praise me.
It’s just that Yin Zheng didn’t brag about it, and he couldn’t brag about it.
Although he himself would not cry no matter how badly he was beaten or how severely he was injured, that was because he was born with emotional problems. So he did not look down on those who cried loudly because of minor injuries and pains, nor did he think that holding back tears after being beaten was something worthy of praise.
He raised his hand to tidy up the messy hair on Jiaojiao's forehead: "If it hurts, you can cry loudly, but don't make a noise."
Jiaojiao was not disappointed even though she didn't get any praise. She nodded ignorantly and buried herself in her father's arms again. After a while, she quietly poked her head out and looked at the children who were rolling around in the corridor.
Looking at his stealthy appearance, Yin Zheng chuckled twice. He even knew to be sneaky.
"Still crying? Look, the little brother over there is laughing at you." A woman said to her son who was sitting on the ground and throwing a tantrum.
The little boy was about four years old, crying so hard that his nose was full of snot. When he heard his mother say that, he looked over and saw a very cute child hiding in his father's arms, looking over here quietly.
"???!" Jiaojiao, who was curiously watching his snot bubbles, quickly retracted her head and buried it in her father's arms, saying in a muffled voice, "No, it's not a joke."
The little boy, suddenly wanting to save face, stopped crying, pulled his mother's trouser leg to wipe away his tears and snot bubbles, stood up from the ground and strode towards the treatment room. As he walked, he held his head high and shouted, "I'm going to get a shot, and I'm not afraid at all."
After saying that, the little boy looked back before entering the treatment room. When he found that the child was still buried in his father's arms, he turned back depressedly and walked into the treatment room.
After a while, Jiaojiao, who didn't hear the little boy's voice, tentatively stuck her head out. After finding that the little boy was really gone, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest with her little hands to calm herself down.
Seeing that this trick seemed to be effective, other parents nearby said to their crying and struggling children, "Look, Curry, that very beautiful child over there is looking at you. He must be wondering why his big brother is crying."
"Eri, look, your little brother is laughing at you."
"That child must be thinking, 'I'm so young and I don't cry, why isn't my older sister as brave as me?'"
"That child is so brave. He didn't cry the whole time. Rilian can't be less brave than that kid, or he'll be laughed at."
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Jiaojiao, who understood what they were saying, kept waving her hands and said anxiously in her baby voice, "No, no joke."
The little boy's look with eyes wide open and anxious to explain was so adorable that it made the parents around him smile.
After explaining to no avail, Jiaojiao pouted in grievance. Sitting in her father's arms, she held Yin Zheng's index finger and said aggrievedly, "Jiaojiao didn't laugh at them."
"Yeah." Yin Zheng rubbed his head soothingly, raised his eyes and glanced at the parents around him with a warning.
After being frightened by Yin Zheng, the parents stopped and no longer tried to use the child to provoke their own naughty children.
I was so focused on looking at the fair and tender child that I didn't notice that the man holding the child had such a ferocious look.
To be honest, if they hadn't seen how close the child was to the man, they would have thought he was kidnapping the child.
Jiaojiao's main purpose of coming here today is to have a physical examination and check whether all aspects are within normal indicators, so there are many examinations that need to be done.
The doctor examined Jiaojiao, then prescribed a treatment plan and asked Yin Zheng to pay the bill.
Yin Zheng, holding the project list, looked at Jiaojiao who was sitting next to the instrument and staring at him without moving a step, so he planned to wait until Jiaojiao finished the examination and then take Jiaojiao to pay the fee.
Seeing this, the doctor who was examining Jiaojiao paused and glanced at Yin Zheng imperceptibly.
Yin Zheng, who was keenly aware of the situation, looked over and met the doctor's slightly panicked eyes, and thoughts flashed in his eyes.
In the various examinations that followed, there were always doctors and nurses who wanted to send Yin Zheng out and leave Jiaojiao alone, but Yin Zheng just stood beside Jiaojiao with an expressionless face, ignoring whatever they said.
When checking the various trace elements in Jiaojiao's body, blood draw was required. Yin Zheng, who usually kept his eyes straight ahead, subconsciously avoided looking when the needle pierced Jiaojiao's fair and tender arm. All the muscles in his body tensed up instantly, and a strong and aggressive aura burst out from his body, scaring the nurse who was giving the injection so much that her hand trembled and the needle almost slipped.
After a busy morning and drawing four tubes of blood, the final conclusion was malnutrition, low immunity, mild iron deficiency anemia, poor gastrointestinal digestion - and a series of other symptoms. In a word, the patient needed to be well-nourished and well-cared for.
The child had a hard time before!
Yin Zheng's face did not look good after he came to this conclusion.
As for looking at the bone age, the doctor said it was unnecessary. The normal bone age and the actual age have a deviation of about one year, so it is impossible to tell whether it is three years old or two years old.
After hearing Yin Zheng say that Jiaojiao's weight had not changed for a long time, a doctor suggested that in Jiaojiao's case, it would be best to raise her in a better city or central city.
Those cities generally have good environments, less radiation, a wide variety of delicious food, and no threats from alien species, making them very suitable for the health of weak children.
Yin Zheng ignored it and bought a bunch of calcium tablets when he left the hospital. He also asked other doctors to list a series of nutritious foods suitable for children, determined to restore Jiaojiao's health.
When he left, he was carrying a lot of things in his hands. Someone came up and offered to help him hold Jiaojiao. Yin Zheng turned his head to note his face, then walked away in the cold sweat covering the man.
On the way out of the hospital, there were more than one group of people following Yin Zheng, all of whom were looking for opportunities to cause trouble.
Yin Zheng hid Jiaojiao in his arms, feeling as if he was raising a treasure, and there were people constantly coveting her and trying to snatch her away from him.
He turned into an alley, checked around, and found no threats. He put Jiaojiao down and said, "Let's play a game."
"Blindfold your eyes later and count to tens before opening them."
"But Jiaojiao can't count." Jiaojiao, who had never learned to count, said blankly.
Yin Zheng poked his fair little face and said, "Then cover your eyes. You can open them when I say it's okay."
"Okay." Jiaojiao nodded and squatted on the ground obediently, covering her eyes with her little hands.
Hearing the sound of her father's footsteps leaving, Jiaojiao, feeling a little panicked, remained obedient and did not open her eyes.
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Yin Zheng, who had quickly dealt with the person, saw a small group of people squatting on the ground with their eyes tightly covered. He walked up to them and said, "Okay."
Jiaojiao took her hands away from her eyes, opened them, looked up at her father and smiled foolishly.
Yin Zheng squatted down, picked him up and left.
Yin Zheng, who was playing games with Jiaojiao for the first time, didn't know that when a child followed the rules of the game and completed it perfectly, he should give him a compliment or reward.
Jiaojiao, who had never had any experience in this area, didn't know any of this and thought the game of blindfolding herself and waiting for her father to disappear and come back after a while was fun.
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After Luo Andeli completed the adoption procedures for Yin Zheng and Jiaojiao, and successfully registered Jiaojiao's household registration with Yin Zheng's, he walked back with a sky blue children's terminal.
Terminals can usually be obtained free of charge from the household registration office after you have completed your household registration. Of course, they are only the most common basic models.
Back in Yin Zheng's yard, Luo Andeli walked towards Jiaojiao, who was sitting on the sofa drinking milk from a bottle, holding the terminal in his hand and asked, "Look, what is this?"
Jiaojiao looked at the terminal in his hand and mumbled through her pacifier, "Daddy has it."
He had seen the same terminal in Yin Zheng's hand, but it was black.
Luo Andeli sat next to him, took his little hand, and put the terminal on his thin wrist: "With this, you can make video calls to me."
"Come, I'll teach you how to use it."
As he spoke, he took Jiaojiao's other little hand and patiently taught him how to use it step by step.
Jiaojiao, leaning in his arms, looked at the terminal on her wrist with curiosity and listened attentively.
Jiaojiao is very smart, but she didn't understand some of the words and had to ask Luo Andeli to explain them repeatedly. Apart from that, the teaching of how to use the basic functions of the terminal went smoothly, and it gave Luo Andeli a small sense of accomplishment.
Even he didn't expect that he had the potential gene to be a role model.
After learning how to use the terminal, Jiaojiao added her father's terminal number and Uncle Luo An's terminal number.
Feeling curious, he would play a video to his father or Uncle Luo An from time to time. When he saw his father's and Uncle Luo An's faces floating in the virtual video, he would bend his eyes with joy and clap his hands like seals: "Great, great, awesome, awesome."
Being video-called by the person sitting next to him, such a seemingly strange thing, actually made Luo Andeli feel a little bit fresh.
After being curious for a while, Jiaojiao pulled Luo Andeli to play the new game she had just learned.
"You squat here and cover your eyes with your hands like Jiaojiao did." Jiaojiao, who looked small as she squatted on the ground, looked up at Luo Andeli and said.
Luo Andeli obediently squatted down and followed his lead, blindfolding himself: "And then?"
"Jiaojiao didn't say it's okay, you can't open your eyes."
Listening to the footsteps leaving, Luo Andelina was expecting what kind of surprise Jiaojiao would give him. He was surprised that Yin Zheng would actually play such an expectant and novel game with Jiaojiao?
After a while, Jiaojiao's footsteps were heard again, followed by a babyish "OK" voice.
Luo Andeli put down his hands and opened his eyes. Jiaojiao looked at him and smiled: "Is it fun?"
“…………?” Is this the game?
Luo Andeli's face was full of disbelief, no grimace, no shock, and no gifts or candies suddenly appearing?
As expected, I shouldn't have any expectations of Yin Zheng, that boring guy. He's just a piece of wood.
Speechless, Luo Andeli stood up, picked up Jiaojiao, threw her high into the air, and caught her again. Amidst soft exclamations and laughter, he said, "I'll teach you a game."
He put Jiaojiao down and said, "I'll hide in the house later. You blindfold yourself and count to tens, then come find me. If you find me, I'll give you a gift."
"I can't count." Jiaojiao said.
"It doesn't matter if you can't count. Just cover your eyes and say, 'Uncle Luo An is the most handsome man in the world,' and then come find me."
"good."
When Jiaojiao raised her hands to cover her eyes, Luo Andeli tiptoed away quickly.
Jiaojiao, squatting on the ground, said word by word: "Uncle Luo An is the most handsome man in the world."
After saying this, he opened his eyes, looked around, and when he didn't see Uncle Luo An, he began to search all over the house with his short legs.
He looked behind the sofa, under the table, under the sofa, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, and even opened the small cabinet under the water dispenser.
After searching for a while without success, Jiaojiao ran into the yard and asked Yin Zheng, who was busy with something, "Dad, have you seen Uncle Luo An?"
Yin Zheng raised his eyes and glanced at Luo An, who was clinging to the ceiling of the living room and desperately gesturing to him not to tell anyone.
“…………”
This was the first time he had seen someone who was so serious even when playing with a child. Although Yin Zheng didn't actually know anyone else, it didn't stop him from having such thoughts.
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