The dormitory is next to the sanatorium building, which is a separate small building with the exterior walls painted with blue sky and white clouds. Their room is on the second floor, a single suite with bunk beds.
"Just make do with what you have. There are no vacant dormitories at the moment, so you can only live together. Wait until one of you leaves and then move out." Sister Liu explained to the two.
Lu Rankong walked into the room, grabbed the iron bars of the bed and shook it twice.
The bed was very firm. He said with satisfaction: "We should also understand the actual situation in the hospital. Two people in one room is already very good. We have no objection. Besides, work is the most important thing."
The expression on Sister Liu's face softened a little.
"Our nursing home offers great employee benefits. Look at these rooms. They are spacious and well-equipped. They use the same bedding as the guests." Sister Liu walked to the bed, pressed the bed with her hand, and proudly introduced: "Even shower gel, shampoo, and face cream are all prepared for you, just like the guest suites."
"It's pretty good..." Lan Yu felt happy when she heard there was a face cream.
"It's the weekend now, so you can take two days off and start work the day after tomorrow," said Sister Liu.
"The day after tomorrow?" Lu Rankong frowned, "We want to work in advance."
There are only a few days left, so they have to hurry up and check everyone here.
This might be the first time that Sister Liu encountered such a request from a new employee. She was slightly surprised and asked, "Then tomorrow?"
Lu Rankong added: "Since we are already here, let's start in the afternoon. I am not used to being idle, and I feel uncomfortable all over."
Sister Liu's expression became gentler. She turned to Lan Yu and asked, "What about you? Are you going to rest in the dormitory or work today?"
"He's the same..." Lu Rankong interrupted.
Lan Yu smiled at Sister Liu and said, "Work is what makes people truly happy."
Sister Liu's face was full of relief. She smiled and said, "No matter how busy you are, you have to eat first. It's almost lunch time. You two can go directly to the cafeteria and show your work badges. After lunch, go to the sanatorium building to help."
"Okay..." the two replied.
After Sister Liu left, Lan Yu went to the bathroom to wash her hands and saw a bottle of facial cream on the sink. The bottle looked good and high-end, but after unscrewing the cap, a greasy sweet fragrance rushed out, and one could tell from the smell that the quality was not very good.
Lan Yu takes her skin very seriously and never uses skin care products that she is not familiar with. However, after touching her face which felt a little tight, she still scooped out a little and applied it on.
After putting away the suitcases, the two of them left the dormitory building, looked around, and slowly walked to the entrance of the sanatorium building.
"Go up and take a look?" Lan Yu asked Lu Rankong.
"Let's go and take a look."
After entering the elevator, there were six floors in total. Lu Rankong pressed the number six and said to Lan Yu, "Check each floor from the top to the bottom."
Just as he finished speaking, there was a sound of jogging footsteps in the hall. Lan Yu stretched out her hand to stop the elevator door, and a young man in a suit and tie rushed in.
The young man had an alpha gland patch on the back of his neck and wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. He looked like an elegant and elite man. He was carrying a briefcase and talking on the terminal.
"Sister, I'll come up right now... I've already eaten... Now I'm going to go see my good niece first. When I held her yesterday, she smiled at me. She must have recognized me as her uncle... She can recognize people at three months old..."
He glanced at the elevator number and didn't press it again. When the elevator stopped on the sixth floor, he walked out quickly.
Lu Rankong put his arm around Lan Yu's waist and motioned him to get out of the elevator. As soon as he raised his foot, he heard a baby crying loudly, and there was more than one cry.
He paused in his steps, took half a step back calmly, and then reached out to press the door closing button.
Lan Yu blocked his hand and said, "You have to check every floor."
"It's mainly the adults that need to be watched. There's no need to watch these children. It's impossible for the Lonte people to get into the body of a baby and make it unable to move or walk."
Lu Rankong's hand continued to reach for the door closing button. Lan Yu placed her foot between the elevator doors. "Since this is an investigation, we need to check every floor thoroughly."
Lu Rankong was silent for a moment, and said in between his cries: "You check this floor, I'll go to the next floor to speed up the process."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was dragged out of the elevator by Lan Yu.
This floor is the activity area for babies, and the doorplates on both sides say bathing room, massage room, etc. The two walked forward amid the deafening crying and stopped outside the nursery.
The room has an entire glass wall and is filled with a row of small beds. The babies lying on the beds were crying with their mouths open, their little hands and feet flapping in the air.
A beta woman in a pink nursery dress was walking back and forth with a baby in her arms, sweating profusely and coaxing the baby softly.
Several smart caregivers, holding diapers and small basins in their hands, stood by the wall, at a loss.
The young man with gold-rimmed glasses whom they met in the elevator was also in the room, standing in front of a crib, sucking his lips to coax a crying baby, his eyes full of love and affection.
"You baby, you are crying so sadly. Why are you so sad? Don't be sad..." Lan Yu's face was almost pressed against the glass wall, talking to the baby in the crib nearest to her.
"He can't hear you and he doesn't look at you. Let's go quickly and check on the fifth floor." Lu Rankong urged.
"Let's go, let's go..." Lan Yu said this, but her feet did not move. She pushed Lu Rankong beside her and said, "Look at that baby. Everyone is crying, but he is sleeping so soundly."
On a small bed in the corner, there lay a baby who was about two or three months old. Amidst the deafening cries, he was sleeping soundly with his pink mouth open.
"It's quite interesting..." Lu Rankong said perfunctorily and began to look around the passage on the sixth floor.
"Look, he even blew a saliva bubble." Lan Yu's voice was full of excitement, "Look..."
Lu Rankong said: "Ha, this is really interesting. Let's go to the fifth floor."
After a moment, he turned back to look at Lan Yu and saw that he was staring at him.
"What's wrong?"
"You didn't even look at it..." Lan Yu said.
Lu Rankong defended himself: "I saw it..."
"So which one do you think I'm referring to?"
"Just...that one." Lu Rankong pointed randomly.
Lan Yu curled her lips and said, "Forget it, let's go. It seems like you can't stay here for even a minute."
As the two were about to leave, the busy and sweaty keeper looked up and noticed them. After seeing the work badges on their chests, he showed a look of surprise.
"No, let's go."
Lu Rankong decisively pulled Lan Yu up and left, and the nanny chased after him, holding the child.
"Wait, wait."
Lu Rankong wanted to pretend that he didn't hear anything and ran away, but Lan Yu pulled him back and said, "See what he has to say."
The nursery teacher ran up and asked hurriedly, "Are you two the new employees of the institution?"
"Yes, a new employee who came in today."
"I haven't decided whether to stay yet, so I'll take a look around first."
Lan Yu and Lu Rankong answered at the same time.
The nursery teacher asked, "Can you help me with this, if you don't have anything else to do?"
"It shouldn't be anything."
"We heard that the water pipes were rusted, so we were just about to go take a look."
They both answered at the same time.
The nursery teacher noticed that Lan Yu was more talkative, so she looked at him and said, "I'm short of staff here, can you help take care of the children first?"
"If it doesn't take too long, yes."
"It concerns the water supply of the entire hospital. I don't have time."
The nursery teacher only said to Lan Yu: "Thank you."
Seeing that Lan Yu was about to follow him, Lu Rankong quickly pointed in the direction of the room and said, "Aren't there several smart caregivers inside?"
The nursery teacher sighed, "The child won't let the smart nursery teacher coax him, so I can't do anything about it. Besides, the smart nursery teacher can do other things, but coaxing the child is still a bit rigid."
Lan Yu pulled the motionless Lu Rankong and whispered, "Let's go, those babies are crying miserably."
Lu Rankong scratched his head and said irritably: "It's terrible to hear those cries."
"What are you afraid of? They are just babies. Can they be scarier than the Lonte people?"
"What's so scary about the Lonte people? These children are the real murderers."
"Then don't run around. Wait for me, just for a while." Seeing that the keeper had already walked back, Lan Yu gave Lu Rankong a quick kiss on the face.
"Then I'll go with you."
Lu Rankong followed Lan Yu into the nursery.
The nursery had six small beds in a row, all with babies lying on them and covered with small blankets.
The young man had picked up the baby from bed No. 2 and was walking around the room, ignoring the deafening crying and teasing the child in his arms with a smile on his face.
"This uncle is really amazing." Lu Rankong said softly to Lan Yu: "Extremely great..."
Lan Yu glanced at him.
"Just hold the child and coax him for a while, do you know how to do that?" asked the child caregiver.
Lu Rankong shook his head quickly, "I won't. I'll just wait for him."
After saying that, he leaned against the wall and stood with the smart caregivers.
The nursery teacher looked at him and said, "It's not difficult to coax a child. Children cry mainly because they are seeking a sense of security. You can learn it if you try."
Lu Rankong remained unmoved and just turned his head to look out the window.
"Now is a good opportunity for you alphas to learn how to take care of children. When you have your own children, it will be so much easier and you won't even have to go to training classes in advance." The caregiver continued to persuade.
After hearing this, Lu Rankong's eyes lit up and he turned around. Then he saw the baby in the crib with frowning brows, eyes closed and mouth wide open. He instantly put away his eager urge to try.
"Go, try to comfort her. Her voice has become hoarse from crying for so long." Lan Yu squatted beside a small bed and turned to say to him.
"I heard that when a child cries, it helps to exercise his lung capacity."
"They have been exercising for a long time." The caregiver said.
Lu Rankong stood there for a while, and seeing Lan Yu and the caregiver busying around, he finally took a deep breath and walked to the nearest crib number 5.
On the crib No. 5 lay a fat baby boy, about three or four months old, crying loudly.
Lu Rankong lowered his head and said to him: "Don't cry, I'm here to accompany you. ”
The fat baby boy heard the voice, opened his eyes, looked at him, and continued crying.
Lu Rankong looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he bent down and whispered in the baby boy's ear: "Really, don't cry, I'm here to protect you, and no demons or monsters can get close to you. Do you know my ability? I once killed 13 star bandits with only 12 bullets, the most vicious ones, so you can rest assured..."
His whispering was drowned out by the fat baby boy's heart-wrenching cry.
"What should I do? He doesn't listen to me at all." Lu Rankong wiped his face and turned to ask Lan Yu, "My ears are buzzing now."
Lan Yu was holding a baby girl and rocking her gently. She said, "She is too young and can only sense the tone of your voice. You have to speak softly and add some body movements and expressions."
Lu Rankong stared at the baby boy for a while, then smiled and said in a soft voice: "Do you know? I once killed 13 star bandits with only 12 bullets. I was very brave. So you don't have to be afraid at all. I can make this place safe. Shooting is fun, just like this, bang, bang..."
The little fat boy looked at him and almost died of tears.
"He might have some disease? I saw him holding his breath for a long time and his breathing was not smooth." Lu Rankong turned his head and said to Lan Yu.
Lan Yu walked over here holding a little baby girl, saying, "It's okay, just don't scare him, and speak to him softly."
"I didn't scare him. I was very gentle, with my movements and expressions."
Lu Rankong leaned over to look at the little baby girl in Lan Yu's arms and saw that she was crying in high notes. Her cry was so piercing that it made people's eardrums tremble.
"Put it back quickly, put it back quickly." When he saw Lan Yu approaching, he wanted to run away as if facing a powerful enemy, but in the end he just took two steps back and covered his ears.
Lan Yu stopped, gently patted the baby girl's back, and coaxed her softly.
Perhaps it was because his voice was too gentle and his embrace was too comfortable, Lu Rankong was surprised to find that the little baby girl really stopped crying slowly, opened her tearful eyes, and calmed down by smacking her pink lips.
Lan Yu waited until she was completely quiet, then put her back in the crib and went to hug the still crying baby next to her.
“There’s nothing we can do. Children in the nursery are like this. They were sleeping well, but if one cries, all the others will start crying too.” The nanny coaxed one child to sleep, slowly put him back in the crib, and stood up to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
"Fortunately, I stopped crying after being comforted." The young man with gold-rimmed glasses spoke while holding his niece.
Lu Rankong stood there for a while, and saw Lan Yu leaning over the bed, making the little girl laugh with tears in her eyes. He turned to look at the fat baby boy who was still kicking his arms and legs, and slowly approached him, rubbing his hands and asking tentatively: "Brother, can you cooperate with me?"
The fat baby boy kept crying and ignored him.
"Do you mean you are willing to cooperate?" Lu Rankong carefully reached out his hand, held the baby boy's armpit, and slowly lifted him in front of him.
The little fat boy looked into his eyes, first gasped, then clenched his little fists and let out a loud cry, his face flushed red, as if he was about to die.
"Ah... why are you crying so miserably? I didn't hit you, right?" Lu Rankong said to him with a headache: "Can't you just bear it? In fact, a lot of the pain in your heart can be overcome by enduring it."
Lan Yu saw the baby's two fat feet kicking in the air and said quickly, "Don't hold him like this. He will be scared if he doesn't have a foothold. Hold him in your arms."
Lu Rankong fumbled with his posture and held the baby in his arms.
"He's still crying, you see. It's not a question of holding him."
"Hold him, not hold him horizontally." Lan Yu picked up another baby and instructed Lu Rankong, "Put your hand across his body."
The young man with gold-rimmed glasses held his niece in his arms and watched her the whole time. He couldn't help but give instructions, "Look, do it like me. Right, right, right."
The babies were comforted and gradually calmed down, and their crying became less and less. As if in some kind of chain reaction, all the babies stopped crying, and those who were still asleep began to suck their fingers and look around.
The baby boy in Lu Rankong's arms slowly stopped crying and only sobbed.
"Brother, I'm going to put you on the bed now. That's your throne." Lu Rankong moved carefully and put him on the small bed. "That's it. Stay steady. You can do it. Be strong..."
After putting the baby boy back into crib No. 5, Lu Rankong stood up and found that he was sweating profusely and his vest was wet.
The young man with gold-rimmed glasses also carefully placed the sleeping baby girl in his arms back into crib No. 2, bent down to look at her with fondness for a while, then turned and walked out the door.
"Thank you so much, otherwise I really don't know what to do." The caregiver also breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Lan Yu and the others.
Lu Rankong's eyes were full of sympathy, and he asked with lingering fear: "Are these children just going to lie here, crying and making a fuss?"
The nursery teacher smiled and said, "These are children who have just had a bath and massage. They will be sent back to their rooms in the afternoon and brought back to sleep at night. They usually won't cry or make a fuss."
The smart caregivers standing by the wall also started moving, moving silently around the small beds and doing things like covering them with small blankets from time to time.
The nursery teacher sighed and complained to Lan Yu: "Our hospital sounds good, it's all intelligent, and even that big shot is coming to visit soon. The intelligent nursery teachers are indeed hardworking, but they can't replace real people after all. Even though the children are small and smart, the intelligent nursery teachers can't comfort them when they cry."
Lan Yu looked down at the babies, some of whom were making humming sounds, while others were chewing on their little feet. Her heart melted.
"After I retire, we will have a baby too." He leaned close to Lu Rankong's ear and whispered.
For the first time, Lu Rankong did not respond. He just touched his forehead and pretended not to hear.
"How is it?" Lan Yu nudged him with her shoulder.
Lu Rankong boldly expressed his thoughts: "I think we can wait."
He then explained: "My eldest brother doesn't have one yet. If I squeeze in front of him, it will seem disrespectful."
Lan Yu chuckled and said nothing. Lu Rankong glanced at him stealthily, not knowing whether he believed it or not.
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