Chapter 126 Chapter 126 She had no reason to doubt
The next morning, just at six o'clock, a low-key black Audi drove out of the gate of the Bai family manor.
It’s breakfast time at the Bai family in the morning.
The family members took their seats one after another. The two guests from the Ji family had also taken their seats. Even Bai Songxu, who always loved to sleep in, sat obediently at the dining table today. Only the seats for Ao Xinyi and Bai Shuting were still empty.
Jiang Muning's eyes fell on the vase in the restaurant, then he turned to the side and saw Ms. Xu walking in. She waved at her and asked, "Where are mom and dad? Why don't I see them?"
Ms. Xu bent over and lowered her voice to explain: "I was just about to say that. The gentleman and the lady went to the hospital early in the morning."
Hospital?
Jiang Muning was stunned for a moment, and wanted to ask more questions, but then he saw Ms. Xu had already walked up to Ji Ke and Ji Kui, and smiled respectfully and said, "Mr. Ji, Mr. Kui, good morning. My husband and his wife had to go to the hospital due to an emergency arrangement this morning, so they asked me to greet you two. If we are not good enough in hospitality, please forgive us, and please feel free to tell us what you want."
Ms. Xu's voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for everyone at the table to hear.
Bai Songxu was still looking at Jiang Muning in a trance with sleepy eyes. Upon hearing this, he turned his head and looked at Ms. Xu, and subconsciously shouted, "Aunt Xu..."
Bai Si pulled Bai Songxu's hand under the table.
Ms. Xu pretended not to hear anything and continued to look at Ji Ke and Ji Kui with a smile, remaining polite.
Ji Ke nodded slightly: "Got it. I ask how you are."
Ms. Xu extended her hand and said, "Please start."
She slowly left the restaurant, and Bai Songxu's eyes followed her. His mind slowly reacted: Why did my parents go to the hospital so early in the morning?
I didn’t hear them talk last night…
But Fourth Brother pinched his hand, clearly not wanting him to ask now.
Everyone at the table started to move. Ao Xinyi and Bai Shuting were not there in the morning, so Bai Lincheng and Bai Siqi took on the task of entertaining the guests.
The uncle and nephew of the Ji family were not talkative people to begin with, and from time to time their low conversations continued to flow around the dining table.
There was a buzzing sound in his ears, and Bai Songxu's sleepy mind became a little clearer. He looked at his sister across the table as if he remembered something, his eyes so dim that it seemed as if all the life had been drained out of his body.
Jiang Muning felt someone was looking at him. He withdrew his gaze from the white rabbit sculpture on the windowsill and looked at Bai Songxu. Seeing his expression, his lips tightened.
Bai Songxu is worried.
It's still about her.
Ever since she discovered that the candlestick on the shelf in her room was missing last night, she had been feeling a little uneasy. This feeling was even stronger when she heard that Ao Xinyi and Bai Shuting had gone to the hospital early in the morning.
She had been thinking that since the vases and white rabbit sculptures in the restaurant were still there, there should be nothing wrong with the things she sent, and whether she was overthinking it.
But the look Bai Songxu gave her sounded a wake-up call.
Bai Songxu did not participate in the recording of the fourth episode. They have been in normal contact these two days and nothing unusual has happened during this period. It is impossible for him to look at her like that.
She and Bai Songxu grew up together. Even though they are two years apart in age, they can be said to have grown up together. They have been attending the same school since kindergarten and are inseparable every day.
She could tell what he was thinking just by the movement of his eyes.
Although she had somewhat forgotten Bai Songxu ten years ago, which made her a little unfamiliar with this skill, he was clearer and more foolish ten years ago, and his mind was easier to discern than Bai Songxu's ten years later.
Or maybe something happened that she didn't know about.
Jiang Muning lowered his head and slowly drank the nourishing soup in his bowl. He intuitively felt that all these wrong things were related.
Just as I was lost in thought, I suddenly heard someone on the other side calling my name twice.
Jiang Mu Ning held the bowl of soup and looked up suddenly. Seeing that it was Ji Ke, his tense heartstrings relaxed a lot: "What's wrong? Sorry, I didn't hear you."
Seeing her stunned, Ji Ke laughed a little, and the corners of his jade-like lips curved slightly: "Nothing, I just wanted to ask how you are doing? Are we going back to Beijing today?"
He was entrusted by his family to take Jiang Mu Ning home. If Jiang Mu Ning didn't leave, he and his uncle would have to stay in the Bai family day by day.
One night is acceptable, but two or three days would be a bit too long.
If Jiang Muning wants to recuperate, the Jiang family will definitely want her to return to Beijing to recuperate instead of staying with Bai Shuting.
Jiang Mu Ning put down the bowl in his hand, with a worried look on his face: "I may have to trouble you for another two days. My mother went to the hospital early in the morning and hasn't come back yet. I want to hear the results of her examination before deciding when to go back. Today... I shouldn't leave."
Ji Ke guessed that he probably couldn't leave today, and he only asked one more question because the topic happened to come to this point.
He nodded and smiled, "Okay, no problem."
Jiang Muning smiled faintly and lowered her head, not noticing the slightly deep look Bai Lincheng gave her.
After meal.
As soon as Ji Ke and Ji Kui left their seats, Jiang Muning couldn't wait to call Ms. Xu, wanting to ask her in detail about Ao Xinyi's condition and whether he had any sudden health problems that made him go to the hospital so early in the morning.
Ms. Xu came hurriedly holding a long box in her arms and shook her head, saying, "It looks like nothing unusual. Madam didn't call a doctor last night. It might be a routine checkup."
She laughed as she spoke, opened the box in her hand and showed it to Jiang Mu Ning, and said softly, "This is the candlestick that the young lady was looking for last night. Do you want to put it back in its original place? But there is no candle yet... According to the brand of the original candle that the young lady ordered from Germany, it will be two days late."
Jiang Muning paused as he looked at the silver candlestick, then took it out of the box and tilted it slightly towards the light.
There were signs of cleaning and wear, as well as slight scratches. It was the one that originally existed in her room.
She naturally put the candlestick back into the box in Ms. Xu's arms: "It's okay, just put the candlestick back to its place, thank you Aunt Xu."
Ms. Xu smiled and closed the box.
Jiang Mu Ning seemed to remember something: "Oh, by the way, where is Sister Qingqing? Why didn't I see her this morning? Did she go to the hospital with us?"
"Not up yet." Ms. Xu said quietly, then her voice returned to normal and she raised the long box in her hand: "Then I'll go first."
Jiang Muning nodded, watched her leave, turned and went into the kitchen, asked Aunt Qiao to prepare two breakfasts and put them in thermos buckets, then called his driver and drove to the hospital.
Everything at home seemed normal, but there was something strange and inexplicable about it.
Now that E01 is gone, she can only guess at many things but has no way to verify them.
In her mind, she recalled everything that had happened from the time she returned to her room last night to this morning until now, everyone's expression, and every conversation that had taken place.
There is a reason for everything.
There was no reason for Ao Xinyi to suddenly check the things she sent home. The candlestick must have been broken by the maid when she was cleaning and was taken down.
...She must be overthinking it.
Jiang Muning breathed a sigh of relief, watched the car stop in front of the hospital, waited for the driver to open the door, and stood beside her holding the thermos bucket.
Jiang Muning took the thermos bucket from his hand and said, "Wait for me in the car. I can go up by myself."
This hospital belongs to the Bai family. Jiang Muning has been seeing a doctor since he was a child. He either goes through a family doctor or comes to this hospital. He is very familiar with the place.
Every time Ao Xinyi came, he was naturally received by the dean in person, which was convenient and could protect his privacy well.
After she took the thermos, she went directly to the dean's office, knocked on the door, and stood at the door and greeted with a smile: "Uncle Tang, good morning, my parents came to the hospital this morning, right? Which department are they in? How is their situation now?"
…
Twenty minutes later.
Ao Xinyi received a call from the director of her own hospital, who asked about her health in a very attentive tone.
She had just finished the examination and is now under observation.
At this moment, listening to the earnest voices from the other side, his eyes gradually darkened under his sunglasses, his thin eyebrows knitted, and he smiled: "This child, she still thought of sending me breakfast, it's really thoughtful... Is she still with you?"
"No, no, the young lady has already left. She just walked away from me!"
I guess the dean would be embarrassed to say that in front of Mu Ning.
It was hard for Ao Xinyi not to wonder in her heart what Mu Ning meant by going to the hospital to find her without even saying hello. She found it difficult to maintain a smile on her face and coughed lightly a few times into the phone.
The director immediately told her to take better care of her throat and talk less. After asking her if she would continue to come to the hospital for an IV drip today, he asked her to hang up the phone first.
Ao Xinyi let out a long sigh and said to her husband, "You heard it all."
Bai Shuting nodded.
"What do you think?"
Bai Shuting was silent for a moment, then interlocked his fingers with hers: "... Let's wait for the test results to come out before we talk."
Ao Xinyi laughed and leaned weakly on the back of the chair.
People will not do things without reason or against the norm. If they do, it means that they must be covering up their true purpose.
When she was young and filming, she paid most attention to the inner character when interpreting the script. No matter what the voice, action or behavior showed, it must come from within the character.
One of the things that cannot be ignored is character continuity.
Any change in a character's behavior must be related to the previous event.
Would Mu Ning go to the hospital to see her with his weak body and breakfast without calling her in advance?
She and Shu Ting have been out for so long, isn't she afraid of missing them or that they are already on their way back?
So, before today's incident, what happened to Mu Ning that made her suspect that he was hiding his illness and let her find out in this way?
"Brother Ting... maybe we don't really understand our daughter anymore..."
Jiang Muning and Ao Xinyi finally met at home.
As soon as the couple got home, Jiang Mu Ning came to greet them with a smile on his face. He was relieved to see his parents who had gone to the hospital finally return home. His eyes contained just the right amount of worry: "Mom! You're back! What were the results of the checkup? What did the doctor say?"
Ao Xinyi looked at his daughter's face, subconsciously studying it in his heart, and replied, "The results haven't come out yet, how can it be so fast."
The three of them walked home while talking.
Jiang Muning thought about it and felt that it was true, so he changed the subject: "Why did you go to another hospital? Uncle Tang was very nervous when he heard that you went to another hospital. I was thinking of sending breakfast to you and dad this morning, but I thought you must have gone out so early and didn't have any breakfast, so I was disappointed."
Bai Shuting said in a muffled voice: "I came back after eating."
Ao Xinyi sighed and patted Jiang Mu Ning's head: "You, you should have called me and your dad before you left. Look, you missed the opportunity."
"I'm afraid that if I tell you, you won't let me go to you." Jiang Mu Ning said this in a coquettish way, and asked, "So why did you suddenly change hospitals? Is there a problem?"
Ao Xinyi got angry when he talked about this. He took off his sunglasses and complained with a bit of irritability on his face: "I felt much better after a few days of drip. Today should have been the last day, but I don't know what happened last night. I coughed the whole night. I didn't sleep much the whole night! As a result, both your dad and I didn't sleep well!"
Bai Shuting glanced at his wife silently and poured her a glass of warm water: "Go back to your room and sleep for a while."
Ao Xinyi drank a glass of water in one gulp. She seemed to be comforted by her husband's words, but she was still unhappy and said, "You haven't slept either. You still have to go to work today."
"...I won't go either. I'll stay at home with you."
As the couple talked, they only had eyes for each other and discussed whether or not to go to work today.
Jiang Muning originally wanted to ask her which hospital she changed to, but she and Bai Shuting kept talking so much that he couldn't find the words to ask.
He had no choice but to listen from the side, while carefully observing their expressions. He felt that Ao Xinyi's reaction and the current conversation between the couple were no different from usual.
I really didn't sleep well last night, so I went to a different hospital early this morning to see a doctor.
Jiang Muning rolled up the corner of her clothes silently, lowered her eyelids thoughtfully, and did not notice that the flirting couple just looked at her silently. She decided that they would both go back to sleep and let Bai Lincheng go to work alone today.
Ao Xinyi laughed as he spoke, and finally patted Jiang Mu Ning on the shoulder: "Ning Ning, are you taking a rest today or do you have any plans? The weather is good today, and you can't lie down all the time to recuperate. If possible, just take a walk around the house."
Jiang Mu Ning completely dispelled his doubts, nodded and smiled, "I'll take Ji Ke around the house. After all, he's a guest, so we can't ignore him."
Ao Xinyi: "Okay, then remember not to be blown by the wind when you go out for a walk, walk for a while less, and come back quickly if you feel uncomfortable."
"Oh, by the way, and Mr. Kui, you two are guests, so you can't show partiality to each other."
After Ao Xinyi finished speaking, he went upstairs to his room with Bai Shuting to rest with a tired look on his face. Jiang Muning also returned to his room and sent a message to Ji Ke, inviting him to visit the manor.
*
Three days later.
Uncle Yan knocked on the door of Ao Bai and his wife with the second allergic reaction test report.
There was a slight sigh on his face, and he spread out the electronic files and documents on the table.
Ao Xinyi was sitting in front of the window reading a script. He hadn't gone over to look at the documents yet, but just by looking at Lao Yan's expression he could tell that the thin hand holding the script was trembling for a moment.
"Madam, you want..."
"You go out first, I'll take a look myself." Ao Xinyi stood up and said.
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