Chapter 70 Published
Ji Ruan developed a fever early in the morning of the next day.
At 5:40 in the morning, Gu Xiuyi got up as usual to warm up and do exercises. At that time, Ji Ruan was in good condition. Guailulu was sleeping soundly in the quilt. When Gu Xiuyi kissed him, he would subconsciously pout to cooperate.
But when Gu Xiuyi finished his exercise, washed and dressed, and came to give Ji Ruan a morning kiss, he found that the temperature of his face was a little off.
Ji Ruan's body temperature has always been low. Even after sleeping in his arms for a whole night, the temperature of her cheeks could only be considered warm. But now it is obviously much higher than usual.
Gu Xiuyi thought to himself that something was wrong, and quickly found the thermometer and dripped it on Ji Ruan's forehead. The temperature was 38.1 degrees, which was indeed a bit feverish.
He patted Ji Ruan's cheek gently, supported his shoulders and helped him sit up: "Ji Ruan? Baby, wake up."
Ji Ruan mumbled twice, frowned and rubbed his shoulder: "Hmm?"
He could feel himself being picked up by Gu Xiuyi, but his body felt sore and tired, and his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn't open them.
Gu Xiuyi put the external machine on Ji Ruan, lifted his arm to change his clothes, and coaxed him softly: "You have a little fever, let's get up and go to the hospital, okay?"
It wasn’t Gu Xiuyi who wanted to trouble Ji Ruan so early in the morning.
Although 38 degrees is not considered a high fever, an ordinary person may be able to get better by taking some antipyretics and sleeping, but Ji Ruan's physique is different from others. Once he has a fever, it is not easy to reduce it, and it may also affect his hearing. Gu Xiuyi really dare not take it lightly.
Perhaps the child is aware of how poor his physical condition is. Even though his cheeks are red with fever, he still cooperates obediently, raising his hands when asked and lowering his head when asked.
Gu Xiuyi simply helped Ji Ruan wash up, took out a fever-reducing patch from the drawer and gently tapped it on Ji Ruan's forehead, then carried him downstairs.
Aunt Zhao prepared breakfast while listening to the morning news. Just as she was about to go upstairs to call Gu Xiuyi, she saw Ji Ruan clinging to Gu Xiuyi like a little koala, with his head buried.
"Hey, what's going on?" She put down the plate and took a few steps forward.
Gu Xiuyi pulled out a stool and sat at the dining table. He put Ji Ruan on his lap and hugged his waist so that he could lean more comfortably against him.
"It's okay, I just have a slight fever," Gu Xiuyi said, "Aunt Zhao, please help me get a bowl of porridge and ask the driver to come over."
"Hey, okay."
Aunt Zhao could only see half of Ji Ruan's face, which was red, with a big fever-reducing patch on her forehead pressing against her eyebrows. She looked as pitiful as her friend's little granddaughter when she was sick.
Gu Xiuyi scooped a small spoonful of porridge and put it to Ji Ruan's mouth: "Come on, baby, eat a little to fill your stomach, and then we will go to see the doctor."
Ji Ruan's reaction was a little slow, and he paused for a few seconds before slowly opening his mouth.
He should be conscious, but he was having a fever and didn't have the strength to respond much. When he swallowed slowly, his eyes were red and his eyelashes were wet as if they were covered in water vapor.
Gu Xiuyi kissed the corner of his eye distressedly: "Does it hurt, baby?"
Ji Ruan looked listless, feeling aggrieved for being sick, and uttered a sticky "hmm".
Gu Xiuyi felt even more upset and coaxed her patiently: "Be good, let's eat one more bite, okay? Otherwise, your stomach will feel uncomfortable."
After feeding him half a bowl of food with a few coaxing sounds, Ji Ruan suddenly tilted his head and frowned, holding Gu Xiuyi's hand and panting a few times: "I, I feel a little uncomfortable..."
Gu Xiuyi immediately put down the spoon and supported his back: "Where does it hurt?"
Ji Ruan shook his head, bent down, pinched his eyebrows hard, then covered his mouth and retched twice in extreme pain.
"Do you want to vomit?" Gu Xiuyi kicked the trash can at his feet over to him: "It's okay to vomit, baby, it won't get dirty."
He hugged Ji Ruan and put one hand around his waist to prevent him from falling down due to lack of strength, and gently stroked Ji Ruan's back.
Ji Ruansu's white fingertips rested on Gu Xiuyi's forearm, his Adam's apple rolled a few times in unbearable pain, and finally he couldn't hold it in anymore and vomited.
Gu Xiuyi took great pains to feed him half a bowl of porridge, which was finished in a moment.
It was impossible to continue eating. Ji Ruan was obviously not in good condition. Even if his fever was almost 39 degrees before, he wouldn't feel so uncomfortable.
Gu Xiuyi didn't dare to delay any longer, and quickly carried Ji Ruan into the car, and told the driver to rush to the hospital as quickly as possible.
Ji Ruan forced out a lot of tears when he vomited. After getting in the car, his eyes were still bloodshot. He leaned on Gu Xiuyi and gasped for breath. His cheeks, which had turned red due to the fever, turned pale.
Gu Xiuyi held Ji Ruan's face and forced him to look at him and stay awake: "Ji Ruan, Ji Ruan? How do you feel now?"
Ji Ruan couldn't tell how he felt.
He felt dizzy and wanted to vomit. The nerve behind his ear was pulled and hurt, and half of his scalp felt like it was going to explode.
"I..." He just opened his mouth but the words turned into a whimper under the threat of pain: "I have a headache... oooh, my ears hurt..."
"Your ears hurt?"
Gu Xiuyi held the back of Ji Ruan's head with his fingers and probed a little, feeling the slightly raised outline of the implant under the skin of his right ear. Before he could ask, Ji Ruan shuddered as if he had received an electric shock and dodged in extreme pain: "Ugh, don't touch it!"
Gu Xiuyi's entire hand froze in place.
Does it hurt so much?
Gu Xiuyi's fingertips trembled and his heart was in a knot.
For a long while, he could only stroke Ji Ruan's neck very carefully, trying to stay calm: "It's okay, don't be afraid, baby, it won't hurt soon, it will stop hurting when we get to the hospital..."
The villa is very close to the hospital. If the road conditions are good, it will take less than half an hour for the driver to drive all the way and it will take at most twenty minutes to get there.
But Gu Xiuyi still underestimated the severity of the disease.
Ji Ruan's body temperature rose at a terrifying rate and the fever-reducing patch had no effect at all.
It took no more than an hour from the time Ji Ruan woke up to the time he was sent to the hospital, but in the end he had a fever so severe that he was suffering from hypoxia, and his lips and fingertips began to turn purple.
The doctor immediately put an oxygen mask on Ji Ruan, used the most effective medicine to force his body temperature down, and then pushed him through a series of examinations without stopping.
Gu Xiuyi only felt that his memory after arriving at the hospital was in a mess. The noisy environment of the emergency department made him feel as if he was in a big theater. All around him were other people's life experiences. Ji Ruan's life was so fragile that it could be easily destroyed and would even slip away if he was not careful.
So much so that after finishing the examination and entering the quiet ward, Gu Xiuyi was inexplicably unable to calm down.
The test results will take some time to come out. Ji Ruan was lying on the bed with an oxygen mask on. His long eyelashes rested lightly on his lower eyelid, trembling slightly with his breathing, like a beautiful butterfly that was tired of flying and needed to rest its wings briefly on his eyelashes.
When Ji Ruan first entered the hospital, he had a high fever and his breathing and heart rate were not very good. Although his body temperature is now under control, before the specific test results come out, the doctor installed a monitor on him to observe his vital signs in real time for safety reasons.
The ward was still the same ward. Song Ling took the initiative to decorate it into a pink princess' room. Although he disliked it, Gu Xiuyi had lived in it with Ji Ruan for quite a while and was very familiar with all the furnishings there.
But even in such a familiar and reassuring environment, Gu Xiuyi still felt frightened when he heard the beeping sound of the monitor beside his ear.
This kind of fear is not concrete, but more like a pair of invisible hands slowly and kindly pulling Gu Xiuyi towards an extremely cold place.
At noon, when the sun quietly passed over the treetops, Ji Ruan opened his eyes tremblingly.
Gu Xiuyi was holding a cotton swab and was dipping it on his lips for the third time. Seeing this, he smiled softly, put down the cotton swab and touched Ji Ruan's face: "Are you awake, kid?"
He was as gentle as when he gave Ji Ruan a good morning kiss every morning, without any trace of his previous panic.
Ji Ruan's body temperature dropped a little, and his eyes were not as red as at the beginning, but they were still watery and pitiful. He looked at Gu Xiuyi with a blank look.
His ears had been hurting badly before, so Gu Xiuyi took off the external earphone for him. He was probably so confused now because he couldn't hear clearly.
Gu Xiuyi put his arm through the back of Ji Ruan's neck, put his arm around his shoulders and let him lean slowly against him, then lowered his head to his left ear and asked, "Can you hear me now?"
Ji Ruan nodded, blinked, and subconsciously wanted to pull Gu Xiuyi's hand, but Gu Xiuyi held his wrist to stop him: "I'm having an IV, be careful of the needle moving."
Ji Ruan could only give up and drooped his eyelashes in disappointment.
Gu Xiuyi kissed the corner of his eye to comfort him. He wanted to touch the skin behind Ji Ruan's ear, but after raising his hand, he didn't dare to do it. He withdrew his hand in mid-air and dropped it on Ji Ruan's shoulder.
"Does your ear still hurt?"
It was indeed very painful in the car, but it is much better now. The pain is gone completely, but it feels a little numb instead.
Ji Ruan thought about it and shook his head slightly.
Knock knock——
There were two knocks on the ward door, and Li Suian pushed it open and walked in.
The test results were almost out at this time, but the doctor who first saw Ji Ruan was not Li Suian.
Gu Xiuyi raised his eyebrows: "Why are you here?"
Li Suian: "Aren't you coming to see the little patient?"
Ji Ruan glanced at Li Suian from the corner of his eye, and subconsciously nodded and greeted him, calling out "Doctor Li", but because he was still breathing oxygen, the weak greeting turned into a white mist that puffed on the oxygen mask.
But Li Suian could see clearly. He walked over and took a look at Ji Ruan's face, which was pale and haggard: "Poor thing..."
He sighed, pointed at Ji Ruan and whispered to Gu Xiuyi: "Can he hear me now?"
Gu Xiuyi nodded: "Come closer and speak slowly, I can basically understand you."
"That's fine..." Li Suian muttered, pursed his lips and waved to Gu Xiuyi: "Come out with me."
He has smooth facial features and narrow eyes, and has a romantic and amorous look. Normally, he is always smiling and sometimes a little annoying, but now he is very normal, so normal that he looks serious.
Gu Xiuyi keenly sensed something was wrong, his eyes darkened, and then he helped Ji Ruan lie back on the bed as if nothing had happened.
Li Suian stood aside, wanting to say something but stopping himself. Before leaving, he returned to the bedside and said in the tone of a pediatrician, "Little Ji Ruan? Just lie here obediently for a while."
"It's best not to move. If you need anything, just ring the bell and ask the nurse to help you."
He paused: "Well...don't get out of bed and walk around by yourself. Wait for Gu Xiuyi to come back. Can you do that?"
Ji Ruan was sick and confused. He didn't think too much about the meaning of the words and nodded obediently.
Gu Xiuyi was standing at the door. His heart sank when he heard these instructions, and his hand holding the door handle tightened unconsciously.
After reaching the corridor, Li Suian patted Gu Xiuyi on the shoulder and said calmly, "Come to my office and talk."
But this tone is definitely not what should be used between friends. Instead, it is completely the calm, yet extremely unsettling professionalism of a doctor towards a patient's family.
Li Suian's office was downstairs. When the elevator opened, he ran into Song Ling who came to report on his work with his bodyguards.
Song Ling did not get out of the elevator and went down with them. He said behind Gu Xiuyi: "We just came back from the mental hospital. Lin Qing has been arranged. Don't worry."
He flipped through his phone, and when he looked up again, he was already a long distance away from the two of them. They were walking at an abnormally fast speed today.
He trotted to catch up and continued, "Bai Yue's company is completely bankrupt. The seizure notice has just come down, and the airport customs has also restricted his parents from leaving the country..."
Li Suian opened the office door.
Song Ling followed Gu Xiuyi in: "Then it was the funeral—"
"That doesn't need to be discussed." Gu Xiuyi interrupted: "It's not important."
The lights in the office were on. Li Suian took out a few report sheets. Song Ling then noticed the two men's unusually serious expressions and suddenly fell silent.
Judging from the situation, it can only be that something went wrong on Ji Ruan's side.
But isn’t it just a fever?
Song Ling was a little unsure and waved to the bodyguard: "You stay outside first."
The bodyguard was tall and strong in a black uniform. He nodded expressionlessly at the three men, then turned around and closed the door quickly.
Song Ling pulled a chair over and sat opposite Li Suian with Gu Xiuyi.
"Let me tell you the conclusion first." Li Suian took a pen and tapped on the report in front of him, then looked at Gu Xiuyi: "Ji Ruan needs an operation."
Gu Xiuyi's eyebrows moved uncontrollably, and he leaned forward slightly, clasping his fingers together on the desk. "What do you mean? Did the fever affect anything?"
Li Suian shook his head: "From what I can see, his fever is mainly caused by emotional fluctuations and catching a cold. Maybe he got scared last night. This is not serious, but it is not normal for him to have such a high fever in such a short period of time, and accompanied by severe spasmodic pain behind his ear."
He pointed to the report on the table and said, "After examination, we found that the cochlear implant in his right ear had shifted."
Gu Xiuyi was speechless: "...What?"
"That's right. I suspect it was because of Lin yesterday..." Li Suian covered his lips and said, "Well, he hit his head when he fell on the cruise ship, which caused the displacement. His dizziness, vomiting and severe headache today are also due to this..."
He deliberately omitted Lin Qing's name and glanced at Gu Xiuyi carefully, fearing that this man would not be able to resist rushing to the mental hospital and beating Lin Qing up.
Gu Xiuyi sat there without moving, but his knuckles, which were white from exertion, and his clenched jaw clearly revealed his desire to dagger Lin Qing.
Song Ling felt a chill on his back, knowing that he would have to go to the mental hospital again and ask his bodyguard to greet Lin Qing again.
Gu Xiuyi took a deep breath and restrained his thoughts under the legal bottom line: "How do I perform the surgery?"
"Take out the implant now, and replace it with a new one." Li Suian swallowed.
It sounds like this amount of work is beyond what Ji Ruan's small body can handle.
Gu Xiuyi couldn't help but rub the ring on his ring finger, as if seeking some kind of comfort.
It was rare for him to show such uneasiness: "Can't you try to move back to the original position?"
"Of course you can, but I don't recommend it." Li Suian said solemnly.
"What do you mean?"
"The implant in his ear is an old model from ten years ago, and the quality is very average. It is possible that it has been damaged," Li Suian said. "Even if we only have a small operation to remove it now, we may have to have another operation to replace it with a new one in a few months. This means he will suffer twice."
Gu Xiuyi was silent.
His brows were tightly furrowed, and from Li Suian's perspective, it was like two huge mountains pressing down on his eye sockets, making it hard to breathe.
After a long while, he slowly spoke: "Is it dangerous? Ji Ruan's body..."
Li Suian smiled bitterly: "That's the difficult part. None of your child's current examination reports meet the surgical criteria."
"It's not that we can't do it at all," Li Suian said carefully, "but it may be a little difficult to recover after the operation, and the risk of infection is also very high."
Gu Xiuyi licked his dry lips: "...What's your suggestion?"
Li Suian leaned forward and put on a professional attitude: "My suggestion is that the surgery must be done, but you can maintain the indicators first."
Gu Xiuyi nodded, motioning for him to continue.
"His displacement is not too serious now. He just needs to take good care of himself for a month before the surgery. The recovery will be relatively easy," said Li Suian.
"But the risk is that as time goes on, there will be more uncertainty. If there is another bump that causes the displacement to become more serious, it will compress the nerves and cause trouble."
"That's why I told him not to move."
As Li Suian spoke, he carefully studied Gu Xiuyi's expression and patted his arm comfortingly: "It's okay, don't worry, you can go back and discuss it with him, and give me an answer tomorrow."
Bang, bang, bang——
Someone knocked twice tentatively on the office door from outside.
The two people beside him were motionless and looked solemn. Song Ling stood up and opened the door.
"Brother Song..." The bodyguard stood outside the door, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
"What's wrong? It's okay, just tell me."
The bodyguard nodded: "I just... seemed to have seen Mr. Bai."
Gu Xiuyi turned his head quickly, and the look he gave the bodyguard made his back go cold. He quickly explained, "But I'm not sure. He was far away, and I only saw him once on the ship. It's possible that I made a mistake."
The interior of the hospital is in a U-shaped structure, with offices on one side of the corridor and a half-person-high glass wall on the other. If someone takes the elevator up from downstairs, it is indeed possible that they would be seen by the bodyguards.
"Oh, why do you care whether you recognized it wrong or not? Go and take a look!" Song Ling said anxiously.
Ji Ruan was originally Gu Xiuyi's golden nugget, and now he has a fragile buff with a crystal cover that cannot be touched at all. Can Gu Xiuyi tolerate the slightest safety hazard around him? !
"Mr. Li, please call the nurse and ask..."
Before Song Ling uttered the word "next", a gust of wind blew in front of his eyes. When he came to his senses, Gu Xiuyi had already run far away with his bodyguards.
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