Chapter 64
Shi Yu was taken home. He was exhausted from vomiting on the way, so as soon as the car stopped outside the garden, Yun Lin'ai carried him back to the bedroom to lie down.
"Don't you want to rest for a few more days?" Yun Lin'ai ignored the car blocking the entrance to the garden and handed the car keys to Aunt Wang.
Shi Yu was placed on the recliner in the bedroom. Just as he was about to speak, he was given a mouthful of warm water, which he drank from the other person's hand.
"I can only take this much leave, no more."
The director specially approved that Shi Yu could only rest at home for two days before returning to work at the hospital because she felt embarrassed to ask for leave except for the maternity leave.
Yun Linai: "Then I'll have to ask the unemployed to drive you to and from get off work every day."
Shi Yu raised his head and kissed the corner of his mouth: "Thank you, Captain Yun."
When Yun Lin'ai received Lu Yichuang's call, he was on his way to pick up Shi Yu.
As expected, the other party still took the risk and went to the North District, bringing Dr. Jiang with him.
"Do you have time to pick up Jiang Kuo?" Lu Yichuang had a headache. He panicked when he thought about the other party applying for a medical team to enter the virus zone for rescue.
Yun Linai asked back, "Do you think I can persuade him to leave?"
Lu Yichuang, who never smoked, suddenly felt addicted to smoking. However, he could only walk back and forth a few steps, and the sound of his footsteps was so light that it seemed as if it did not exist.
"I've noticed something's not right with him lately. Every time I ask him about it, he just brushes me off. Can I trust my intuition?" Lu Yichuang began to doubt himself.
"Not really credible." Yun Lin'ai commented decisively.
"But your observation skills are still good," he added.
The car had already arrived downstairs of the hospital. Yun Lin'ai bent down and glanced at the door. Shi Yu had not come out yet, so he planned to go upstairs and wait for him.
As he closed the car door, he replied to the person on the other end of the phone: "If there is any situation over there, please report it to the North District Supervision Bureau at any time and someone will respond."
Yun Linai then thought for a moment and replied, "Don't get too close without permission. I'll be there if anything goes wrong."
Lu Yichuan hesitated on the other end of the phone: "Are you still free to come over?"
"Don't be so stubborn. Take good care of your Omega. I'm just a deputy captain after all, so don't worry." Lu Yichuang comforted him generously before hanging up the phone.
Yun Lin'ai put away her phone and just as she reached the hospital lobby, she saw Shi Yu coming out of the elevator. From a distance, she still looked thin and her bulging belly was barely noticeable after she put on her coat. She walked as slowly as before and looked quite reassuring.
As soon as he saw Yun Lin'ai, a faint smile appeared in his eyes above the mask. He unconsciously quickened his pace, and after just two steps, Yun Lin'ai came in front of him.
"Why are you unhappy?" Yun Lin'ai saw through it at a glance.
Shi Yu hadn't reacted yet. His brain had already shut down after a day of seeing patients, but he quickly replied, "I'm not unhappy."
Yun Lin'ai didn't say anything, but put his arm around his shoulders and walked towards the parking lot through the side door.
Throughout Shi Yu's pregnancy and even now, Yun Lin'ai has been very responsible. Every time she put him in the passenger seat, she would turn on the heater and air conditioning in advance, personally take off his coat, and even hold his frozen hands in the air conditioner to let them cool.
Shi Yu was used to his actions, and was in a daze for a while and didn't notice the gazes cast on him.
Later, he felt someone touching his stomach. Shi Yu came back to his senses and looked up. Yun Lin'ai was waiting for him. The dim light of the chandelier just happened to shine on the back of Yun Lin'ai's head. Shi Yu couldn't see his face clearly from this angle.
He realized it later, so he leaned forward and naturally hugged him, took off one side of the mask and kissed him. Yun Linai held his waist, lifted the mask from his ear with one hand, and bent over to kiss him back while standing by the car door.
"The wind is strong." He left without permission and told Shi Yu.
After saying that, Shi Yu really stopped kissing him, nodded, and sat down in the passenger seat.
Yun Lin'ai pursed her lips, slowly closed the door, raised her arm, and threw the rolled-up mask into the trash can with a parabolic motion.
The carriage was well heated. Shi Yu was tired after a day and felt a little sleepy at this time, but his heavy worries made him more awake. From the corner of Yun Lin'ai's eye, he saw a thief who wanted to sleep but didn't dare to.
The bright black car temporarily stopped by the roadside. Yun Lin'ai was about to ask Shi Yu something when he saw his body tremble reflexively after noticing what was outside the window, and then he raised his hands to cover his face.
"......" Yun Lin'ai suddenly stopped talking.
She quickly reached out to hold Shi Yu's wrist, placed her other hand on the back of his head, and asked him softly, "What did you see?"
Shi Yu looked nervous: "I saw my colleague and was afraid he would see me."
The problem was serious. Yun Lin'ai frowned slightly but didn't ask why. Instead, he glanced out the window and moved closer to him. "He can't see it. It's protected by privacy screen."
The man outside the car had already walked away. Yun Lin'ai looked at his back deeply for a second, then put his hands around Shi Yu's head, with his palms on his forehead, and had already put them down.
Shi Yu looked out the window cautiously at first, but then he relaxed visibly and noticed that Yun Lin'ai, who was very close to him, was looking at him with his head down and without blinking.
There was a look of exploration in his eyes, yet he was waiting in moderation.
Shi Yu clasped his hands together and scratched his fingers uncontrollably a few times, which was quickly discovered by others.
Hesitant and unable to utter a complete sentence, Yun Lin'ai did not wait any longer: "What are they talking about you?"
Just as he was thinking about how to organize his words, Shi Yu raised his eyes and looked up at Yun Linai in surprise, "How come..."
There are many departments in the hospital, and gossip is rampant. Even Qin Yue, who has worked there for more than ten years, cannot avoid being slandered, let alone Shi Yu, who has been specially transferred here for less than a year.
Yun Lin Ai knew it all, and he didn't want Shi Yu to be depressed at this critical moment: "How should I know? This is not important. What matters is that you are unhappy."
Yun Linai gently brushed the corner of the Omega's mouth with his thumb, lowering his head to touch it. When Shi Yu didn't say anything, he continued to touch it.
Shi Yu couldn't avoid it, so he had to tell him: "They said I was... materialistic..."
A chuckle came from above. Yun Lin'ai rested his arm leisurely on the back of the chair. "Is money worship a derogatory term?"
Shi Yu blinked, not understanding what he meant: "Isn't it?"
"They said I only liked your money, and that I had to beg you to get the position of deputy section chief."
"What else?"
Shi Yu frowned, recalling the conversation he had overheard in the tea room that day, and told Yun Linai honestly: "...said I was not worthy of you, and also said..."
Shi Yu didn't dare to say anything anymore. He put his palm on his abdomen and suddenly became silent. When Yun Lin'ai saw this, his brows suddenly sank.
Shi Yu recalled what his colleagues had said together about how they relied on their children to get to their positions, but he didn't tell Yun Lin'ai or the child who already had the ability to hear.
Yun Linai caressed Shi Yu's cheek as he lifted her up, her voice softening as she said, "They say you worship money, but I actually hope you'll worship me more."
Shi Yu was puzzled: "I have money to spend."
All the money he once owed to Yun Lin'ai was considered as pre-marital property and was returned to him. Shi Yu did not touch a single cent of the dozens of additional properties added by Yun Lin'ai in the post-nuptial agreement.
It's really unfair.
Yun Lin'ai picked up a cat that was not too smart but too kind. He sighed and said.
"You have an emotional bonus for me, so what's wrong with me spending some money on you?"
Shi Yu listened to the other party's words in a daze, and didn't say anything for a long time.
In fact, Shi Yu did not behave unnaturally in front of other people the whole day, and he was not too sad in the elevator on the way home from get off work. But when he got out of the elevator and saw Yun Lin'ai walking towards him, his emotions bubbled up like soda.
Yun Lin'ai took care of all his anxiety and whispered to him, "The soft furnishings for the baby's room have all arrived. Do you want to go back and install them together?"
Shi Yu responded and nodded.
Knowing that the other party was not completely comforted, Yun Linai simply started the car and continued driving. Shi Yu noticed that the road ahead was not the one he usually took home, so he turned around and asked, "Aren't you going home?"
Yun Linai: "Not going home, going on a date first."
Every time the words were described in such an ambiguous way, Shi Yu could hardly bear it, his ears turned red, and the heating was still too high.
The car stopped outside the gate of Golden Bay Commercial Building. Yun Linai got out first and handed the car keys to the doorman, raising his hand politely, "Wait a moment."
The doorman was waiting by the car, but was surprised to see the owner of the car actually walking around to the passenger seat to pick someone up. He wanted to lean over to see what the other person looked like, but because the owner of the car was so tall, he put his arm around the other person's shoulders and blocked his face.
"What do you want to eat?" Yun Lin'ai led everyone directly to the rooftop restaurant. He covered Shi Yu's hand with one hand and put it in his pocket.
Shi Yu had a poor appetite, so he thought for a while and said, "You decide."
The two of them sat in the same row of seats in the viewing box. Shi Yu leaned on Yun Lin'ai, staring at the menu in his hand boredly, and his chin always rubbed his shoulder.
Yun Lin'ai was telling the waiter a few dishes, and when he noticed it, he secretly scratched Shi Yu's palm from under the table.
Shi Yu frowned: "I can't finish it."
"Auntie Wang is visiting her little son in the evening, so she ordered a few more portions to take home." Yun Lin explained to him patiently.
He took off his coat, took the dishes in front of Shi Yu, boiled them with hot water and put them back in their original places, then poured a cup of hot water for the other person and drank pineapple juice for himself.
It was icy, but Shi Yu was curious about the original taste.
"Can I drink?" he asked, looking up.
Yun Linai felt the temperature of the cup and said, "I'll have someone bring you a cup at room temperature."
Just as he was about to press the service bell, Shi Yu stopped him: "What a waste."
"A small sip." Yun Lin'ai told Shi Yu before feeding him.
The other party agreed, but after drinking it, he was still shocked by the ice and frowned.
The freshly squeezed juice filled his mouth with the aroma of fruit, neither sour nor sweet, and the taste was much richer than anything he had tasted before. Shi Yu was about to raise his hand to grab the cup himself when Yun Lin'ai dodged him, "It's too cold."
Shi Yu: “It’s delicious.”
Yun Lin'ai glanced at Shi Yu, who was already wearing a sweater, and said, "Do you still want to have a fever?"
However, after saying that, he still asked someone to bring a glass of pineapple juice at room temperature so that Shi Yu could drink as much as he wanted.
Shi Yu quickly ate his fill, but he still didn't want to disappoint Yun Lin'ai. He opened his mouth and ate the shrimp that Yun Lin'ai peeled for him before saying, "I'm already very full."
Fearing that the other party would vomit, Yun Lin'ai immediately stopped forcing him, then opened his mouth and naturally took the pastries that the other party fed him.
After they finished eating, Yun Linai suddenly wanted to take Shi Yu downstairs to buy some clothes before going back. Shi Yu wanted to stop him: "We have too many clothes at home to wear, don't buy them."
Unexpectedly, Yun Linai said, "The clothes you can't wear are out of date. We need to buy some more."
Shi Yu, who wears a different outfit every day to work, just like she’s on a fashion show: “…”
As they were talking, they walked into a familiar store. Shi Yu looked up at the doorplate and realized that Yun Linai had brought him here six years ago. He was even more surprised that the clerk knew him.
"Hello Mr. Yun, long time no see Mr. Shi."
The other party smiled and looked at Shi Yu gently, "What styles do you want to see today?"
Shi Yu has a habit of getting awkward around strangers, but he doesn't know what's so weird about this shop. Every time he comes in, he runs into acquaintances he doesn't want to see...
Yun Linai had just finished paying and had the clothes taken home. Shi Yu turned around first and ran into the person he had just seen in the car.
The doctor who spoke ill of him.
The other party had obviously just noticed him, and hadn't expected that the doctor he had just complained to his friend about was standing in front of him.
Shi Yu first greeted politely: "Doctor Li."
The other person suddenly reacted and smiled awkwardly: "Doctor Shi, are you here shopping too?"
Shi Yu smiled and nodded: "You too?"
Yun Lin'ai had just finished paying, holding an extremely long receipt and looking down at it. He seemed to treat people like air and said to Shi Yu, "You bought a little too little. Let's go to other places and have a look."
Feeling a slight pain in his arm, Yun Lin'ai raised his head.
"An acquaintance?" he asked Shi Yu.
Shi Yu knew he was pretending, so he also pretended to introduce him: "Doctor Li from the Department of Neurosurgery, my colleague."
Yun Lin'ai then shook hands politely without introducing himself. "Hello, my wife always says Dr. Li is a miracle doctor. I didn't expect to see him today."
Doctor Li smiled awkwardly and nodded, "I can't afford it, I can't afford it."
Shi Yu had no intention of chatting with the other party and was ready to say goodbye to him politely, but he really didn't expect the huge magic of this store.
"team leader?"
An Alpha man in casual clothes entered the store and called out.
He noticed the bill in Yun Lin'ai's hand and couldn't help but sneer, "You're paying for your own things yourself?"
The other party was a member of the Alliance's Army Team 1. He had been through life and death with Yun Lin'ai too many times. He was usually heartless when joking around, and Yun Lin'ai never took it seriously.
But his tone was a little colder, "Forgot what I told you?"
"Oh." The other party quickly stood up, turned his body five degrees, and bowed slightly to Shi Yu, "Hello, sister-in-law!"
Shi Yu: “?”
Doctor Li: “…”
Yun Linai's complexion improved a lot. Later, he held up the extra-long receipt and told him, "This is not what I paid for."
His teammates looked puzzled, not understanding why their captain was so eager to share tonight.
"Your sister-in-law paid for it."
A question mark popped up above Shi Yu's head again, and he looked at him.
Yun Linai: "I'm sorry, I'm out of the house now, so I can only ask him to give me money."
What with what...
The team member looked disappointed. "I was just about to ask you for a fifty-thousand-yuan membership card, but I didn't expect you to be so poor."
Yun Linai didn't forget to put his arm around Shi Yu's waist and said, "Ask my wife for it. She has it in her pocket."
After he finished speaking, Shi Yu saw the other person's eyes shining as he looked at him. He opened his lips slightly, wanting to say that he didn't have any membership card, but then he touched the wad of cash deep in his pocket...
Shi Yu, who had never given money before, handed over a piece of paper awkwardly: "Here..."
"Thank you, sister-in-law!" The team member quickly took it, said hello and left to spend their time.
Dr. Li was left alone, feeling awkward, not knowing whether to leave or not.
Logically speaking, Shi Yu should give him one out of consideration, but he just didn't want to give it tonight.
Even though those tens of thousands of dollars were just a matter of moving his fingers for Yun Lin'ai, he still wanted to save some for others.
Shi Yu took a deep breath and said, "Doctor Li, if there's nothing else, I'll leave with you. Can you take your time shopping?"
Being left out without any benefit, Doctor Li tapped his toes awkwardly. "Okay, okay, Doctor Shi, take care. I'll just wander around on my own."
Yun Lin'ai didn't even look at the doctor again before taking Shi Yu's hand and walking away.
As soon as they left the store, Shi Yu asked, "Have you had enough of pretending, Captain Yun?"
Yunlin chuckled, "Isn't my performance very natural?"
Shi Yu clasped his palm and said, "You're lying so loudly. No one would believe that I paid the bill. Why don't you just say that the entire Golden Bay Commercial Building belongs to me?"
Yun Linai was obviously silent for a moment, and had to explain: "I didn't lie."
Shi Yu still didn't believe it, so Yun Linai said helplessly, "You forgot the agreement after reading it? In the third part of the first article on the property system, Party A voluntarily donates all the property and cash under Party B's name."
Shi Yu suddenly stopped and looked at him in disbelief.
"Are you crazy?" he asked tremblingly.
Yun Lin'ai had already guessed Shi Yu's reaction, and he was not surprised at all.
"It's already been signed, so there's no point in retracting it even if it has legal effect."
...When he returned home, Yu was in a daze, completely forgetting the bad mood he felt after being slandered during the day. He sat on the soft chair, staring seriously at Yun Lin'ai who was leisurely assembling the baby crib not far away.
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