Chapter 73 Contradiction (Update 1) You're addicted to being corny, right? ...
Gu Zhao turned his head when he heard the voice and saw Ye Tan. He asked softly, "Are you awake?"
Ye Tan glanced at him and said, "If you don't wake up, I probably won't be able to find you in the hospital."
Gu Zhao coughed and glanced at Rongsheng. "I came out to check because I heard Rongsheng's voice. I'm going back now."
Ye Tan ignored him and turned to look at Rong Sheng: "Why are you in the hospital? And to the pediatric department? Is your child sick?"
Rongsheng gave a wry smile, "It's Beibei. The fever won't go away."
Beibei is the youngest child of Rongsheng and Zhou Xiuxiu, whose full name is Rong Beibei.
Ye Tan: "Ah, did you catch a cold? What did the doctor say?" She really didn't think it was Beibei who was sick. After all, the child was only two months old. It was heartbreaking to think that such a small child was sick.
Rongsheng: "The doctor said that we sent him here a little too late and the fever had turned into pneumonia. If it had been any later..." His eyes were red and his voice was shaking as he spoke. It was obvious that he was very scared.
Ye Tan was puzzled. When a child has a fever, adults usually send him to the hospital immediately. How could it develop into pneumonia?
Ye Tan looked into the ward door behind him: "Is the child in there?"
Rongsheng nodded. Ye Tan turned around, supported Gu Zhao, and said to him, "I'll take him back now. I'll come back to see the child later."
Rongsheng said nothing and watched them leave.
When the two returned to the ward, Ye Tan asked Gu Zhao what happened to Rongsheng and how the child got pneumonia?
Gu Zhao sighed, patted the bedside and asked her to sit down. "Actually, I don't know either. While you were asleep, I wanted to go for a walk outside. I happened to see Rongsheng and his family rushing over with their child. Zhou Xiuxiu was crying uncontrollably and started scolding her mother-in-law when she saw her. Rongsheng only felt better after he sent his mother back."
Ye Tan thought about it and said, "Could it be that the child's illness is related to Sister Xiuxiu's mother-in-law?"
Gu Zhao leaned against the head of the bed. His wound was a little painful after standing for so long. Ye Tan saw that he was frowning and knew that he was not feeling well. He didn't care about other people's affairs and told him to lie down and rest.
While scolding him, he said, "I told you not to listen. Now you know how hard it is, don't you?"
Gu Zhao raised his hand: "Wife, I won't dare to do it again."
Ye Tan gave him a look and then let it go. She checked the wound and saw that there was no bleeding before she covered him with the quilt and said, "You sleep for a while. I'll go see Sister Xiuxiu now."
Gu Zhao knew that Ye Tan and Zhou Xiuxiu had a good relationship. In the staff quarters, the people she interacted with the most were Zhao Xiaoya and Zhou Xiuxiu.
Gu Zhao let her go, and he would be obedient and sleep well.
Gu Zhao lay there obediently and even pulled the quilt himself. Ye Tan stared at him for a while before leaving.
Ye Tan returned to the pediatric department on the third floor. Rongsheng was no longer at the door, but the ward door was open. Ye Tan walked over and saw several doctors gathered inside, consulting on the child.
She didn't dare to disturb him and waited at the door for a while. After the doctor left, she knocked on the door quietly.
Zhou Xiuxiu, who was sitting on the bed crying, looked up and saw Ye Tan, her face was startled: "Xiao Tan, you're here?"
Ye Tan walked in and took a look at the red-faced child lying on the hospital bed. There were treatment tubes inserted into the child's body. The child was only two months old and lay like a tiny ball on the bed. He looked so pitiful that it was heartbreaking to see.
Ye Tan couldn't bear to watch and turned away.
Ask Zhou Xiuxiu: "Did the child get left out to dry during the heavy rain a few days ago?"
Zhou Xiuxiu patted the child's little body, letting her sleep more peacefully. Tears streaming down her face, she gritted her teeth and said, "The child slept with me the whole time those days. I was very careful, and the child is completely fine."
"It's all my mother-in-law's fault, that old hag." Zhou Xiuxiu hated her mother-in-law so much whenever she mentioned her. Ye Tan's arrival seemed to give her an outlet to vent, and she couldn't help but spit out all the resentment in her heart.
"I really want to strangle that old hag to death. It's okay if she has a grudge against me, but Beibei is her granddaughter. How could she be so cruel..."
After Zhou Xiuxiu's complaints and grievances, Ye Tan finally understood the reason why the child was sick.
It seems to be caused by the preference for boys over girls.
Zhou Xiuxiu's mother-in-law Qian Jinhua has always wanted a grandson, but unfortunately, after four attempts, she only got granddaughters each time. She always calls her granddaughters a waste of money, and in front of Zhou Xiuxiu, she always complains that it is useless for the girls to give birth to so many children.
It just so happened that Zhou Xiuxiu caught a cold yesterday. She was afraid of infecting her little daughter, so she originally planned to stay in the living room for the night and let Rongsheng look after the child. But unfortunately, Rongsheng was urgently called away last night, and the child was left unattended. Zhou Xiuxiu could only ask her mother-in-law to help take care of the child for the night.
As a result, Zhou Xiuxiu got up in the middle of the night to see if her daughters had kicked off the quilt. She went to the bedroom and took a look, and found Qian Jinhua sleeping soundly on the bed with the quilt wrapped around her. The children were thrown on the small rocking bed by the window, with nothing on them except a thin quilt.
There was a crack in the window on one side, and the strong wind from outside blew in, making Zhou Xiuxiu feel cold. When she touched her little daughter's head, it was frighteningly hot.
Zhou Xiuxiu was so frightened that she almost fainted. Finally, she managed to hold on because her little daughter still needed her. Qian Jinhua, who was awakened by her crying, knew that the situation was not good as soon as she saw it.
Zhou Xiuxiu broke down in tears as she spoke: "I wanted to take Beibei to the hospital, but I don't know what she was up to. She kept making excuses to stop me. Sometimes she said it would frighten the child if she went out after dark, and sometimes she said it was not good for a child to go to the hospital. She asked me to find some fever-reducing medicine at home and feed her. Finally, she deliberately locked the door to stop me... I couldn't come out until Rongsheng came back."
Ye Tan was stunned when he heard this. This... this was simply the living wolf grandma.
Ye Tan really didn't understand. What good would it do to her if she harmed her own granddaughter like this? Could she get a grandson in return or something?
Ye Tan didn't understand and asked in confusion, "What is she trying to do?"
Zhou Xiuxiu sneered: "Who knows? Maybe she thinks that I will divorce Rongsheng, so that she can find a daughter-in-law who can give birth to grandchildren."
Ye Tan frowned: "There's no need to do this, right?" Who gave her the idea that killing her granddaughter could get her a new daughter-in-law?
"Maybe she is born vicious. I heard before that she threw my eldest sister-in-law into the urine bucket when she was just born and she almost drowned. At that time, I thought it was a rumor. Now it seems that I didn't think too much." Zhou Xiuxiu sneered and felt sick when she mentioned her mother-in-law.
Ye Tan sighed. After they got married, Lin Qiuyun never showed off her mother-in-law's status in front of her. She was always considerate and caring, and never lost her temper. She herself had never suffered from her mother-in-law's anger, so she didn't know how to comfort Zhou Xiuxiu now.
Fortunately, Zhou Xiuxiu just wanted someone to listen to her and have an outlet to vent. After she finished speaking to Ye Tan, her depressed mood improved a lot, and her expression also improved a lot. She even smiled at Ye Tan: "I'm sorry, I have been holding these words in my heart and I don't know who to talk to. Rongsheng... Oh, I made you listen to my complaints for so long..."
Ye Tan shook his head and said nonchalantly, "You are willing to tell me because you regard me as a friend. Although I am not good at comforting people, I am a good listener. If you have any unhappiness, just pour it out to me while I am here. When I leave later, I will take away all the unhappiness at once, and then you will only have happiness left."
Zhou Xiuxiu couldn't help laughing when she heard her words of comfort: "Xiao Tan, you are such a happy person. Just listening to you talk makes me happy."
Ye Tan said with a smile: "If you are happy, just talk to me more, and you will be happier and happier."
Rongsheng came back from outside with something in his hand. Seeing Ye Tan here, he greeted him. Zhou Xiuxiu glanced at him and didn't even want to pay attention to him.
Rongsheng put down his things and walked over to look at the child: "Has the doctor been here? What did he say?"
Zhou Xiuxiu turned away angrily: "Why don't you ask a doctor?"
Rongsheng was hurt and his face was a little dark, but seeing his little daughter like this and thinking of the person who caused all this, he didn't have the face to be angry, so he could only go to the hospital to inquire in silence.
Ye Tan waited until he left, then said to Zhou Xiuxiu, "I've noticed that Staff Officer Rong treats you very well and is also a family man."
Zhou Xiuxiu curled her lips: "What's the use of the Gu family? They still can't control his mother." Otherwise, she should have sent him back to his hometown as agreed after she was out of confinement. Instead, he stayed here, causing trouble all day long and making things worse.
Ye Tan listened to Zhou Xiuxiu complain for a while, and after the doctor came over to observe the child's condition again, Ye Tan stood up and said goodbye.
"Go back and see Gu Zhao first, and come back to see the child when you have time."
Zhou Xiuxiu then remembered that Gu Zhao was also in the hospital and asked with concern, "I heard that Captain Gu was injured. Is he okay now?"
Ye Tan: "I rubbed a hole in my stomach, but it's getting better now."
"That's good." Zhou Xiuxiu sent Ye Tan to the door and said, "I won't see you off. I'll go see Captain Gu when I have time."
Ye Tan waved at her, telling her not to worry about it, and turned away.
In the ward, the doctor changed the instrument for the child. Rongsheng also came back and stood beside Zhou Xiuxiu. "Xiuxiu, I just went back and told Mom, she already knows she was wrong."
Zhou Xiuxiu's face turned cold, and she looked straight at Rongsheng: "You know you're wrong? Can you let it go just by saying you're wrong?"
Zhou Xiuxiu stood up angrily and faced Rong Shengsheng, pointing at the child on the bed. "I know she's your biological mother and you can't bear it, but the one lying on the bed is also your biological daughter. Do you completely disregard her life or death?"
Rongsheng frowned as he listened to Zhou Xiuxiu's desperate words: "Saying such things is unlucky. We can just not let her look after the child from now on. We can worry about it ourselves."
Seeing that he still hadn't gotten to the point, Zhou Xiuxiu's chest heaved with anger. She took a deep breath and said, "We all live under the same roof. Can you guarantee that you'll keep an eye on the child at all times? Can you guarantee that she won't harm the child a second time?"
"Xiu Xiu!" Rong Sheng scolded, "My mother said it was an accident. She simply forgot she was looking after the child. Besides, she's a grandmother. How could she deliberately harm her granddaughter?"
Zhou Xiuxiu's heart turned cold when she heard Rongsheng's words. She was stunned and couldn't say a word. After a long while, she laughed at herself and said, "Yes, she is your biological mother and you are her biological son. Of course you trust each other. As for me, I am just an outsider."
The couple in the pediatric ward are in a cold war, but the couple in the surgical ward are sweet and harmonious.
Gu Zhao was sitting on the hospital bed peeling an apple for Ye Tan. Half of Ye Tan's body was on another bed, with his head resting on Gu Zhao's shoulder.
I don’t know what Gu Zhao did when Ye Tan was away. Anyway, when Ye Tan came back, the two beds had been put together. When Ye Tan saw it, he was too lazy to say anything to him.
No matter how many times I say it, men just won't change their ways and have to move to feel comfortable.
Gu Zhao peeled the apple, cut it into small pieces, put them in a bowl, and fed Ye Tan.
At this moment, it seemed as if Ye Tan was the one who was sick and needed care. One was happy to feed the other was happy to eat. While eating, Ye Tan told Gu Zhao what he had just heard from Zhou Xiuxiu.
After all, Rongsheng belongs to Gu Zhao's regiment, and it is also the responsibility of Gu Zhao, the commander of the regiment, to care about the families of his subordinates.
After hearing the whole story, Gu Zhao didn't know how to comment on Rongsheng's family problems. He pondered, "No one else can comment on this kind of thing. It's up to Rongsheng to figure it out and handle the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law issue."
"But the biggest problem between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law is that they have no grandson. This is not easy to solve. You can't just go and find someone to give birth to a grandson and bring him back." Not to mention whether this kind of thing is allowed here, even if they really bring the child back, can Zhou Xiuxiu and Rongsheng still live?
Ye Tan thought about it and shook his head: "If that's the case, then it's better to just get a divorce. There are plenty of men anyway. If I divorce this one, the next one will be better."
Gu Zhao pinched her nose and told her not to talk nonsense: "Don't say this to anyone, otherwise you will be accused of destroying a military marriage."
Ye Tan pouted: "I'm not stupid. I'm telling you the truth only because of you." No one else is worthy of her opening up to him.
"You're just being ungrateful." Ye Tan snorted.
Gu Zhao smiled softly, lowered his head and kissed the tip of her nose: "I know you care about me, and you are also in my heart, at the very top of my heart."
Ye Tan pursed her lips, feeling that he was so corny, but at the same time, she felt sweet and happy in her heart. She said stubbornly, "It's just a small space at the tip of my heart, you are so stingy."
Gu Zhao took Ye Tan's hand and placed it on his chest, letting her feel his heartbeat: "Do you hear it? Every thump, thump, thump is beating for you."
Ye Tan...I think you are addicted to being corny, right?
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