Chapter 63
Chapter 63
Chapter 63
The next afternoon.
Gu Wen picked up his pup and took him to the hospital, at the same time, holding a stack of contracts and a pile of account books for Shang Xi to sign and put handprints on. The street where Shang Xi worked was a prosperous area in Qingcheng, with high consumption and high shop front rents.
Shang Xi had heard him mention it in passing yesterday, and didn't take it to heart, she didn't expect Gu Wen to really come.
Baby Shang stood by the bed, holding a bottle of milk, gulping it down, his wet big eyes staring at his mother, his father had taught him in the car which places he needed his mother to sign and put handprints on.
This was a gift for his mother.
That’s what his father said.
Seeing his mother silent and not speaking, he drank a mouthful of milk, stretched out his little hand and pointed at the first page of the contract, the place to sign her name. "Mom, here, write your name."
Shang Xi looked at her son with his chubby cheeks, smelling of milk all over, his eyelashes were long and straight, his pupils pitch black, he was still so small, he still didn’t understand anything, his future life was still very long.
Sister Dao's words rang out in her mind again.
"Whatever Gu Wen gives you, you keep it, you deserve it. Even if the King of Heaven comes, it still has to be said that it is what he should give. Once it reaches your hands, isn't it in little Baby Shang’s hands?
Gu Wen is still not married now. With his status, he will certainly have children in the future, oh, maybe he already has other children. You see which family is so rich, the ones at home, the ones outside, has twenty or thirty children right.
The more children to divide the family property, the more each gets. You ask for more things for little Baby Shang. Little Baby Shang is still small now and doesn’t know the benefits of money. He will thank you in the future."
Sister Dao has an elder brother and sister. She is the youngest. She is easygoing and not competitive. Most of the family business is under her elder brother. As for her, having a few buildings, a few hotels, a few bars is enough.
Shang Xi looked at her son who didn't understand anything yet. Ah, how could she not understand this earlier, what Gu Wen was giving to her was for their son!
She didn't think too much, just bowed her head and signed.
She accepted it.
Gu Wen looked at the slender figure of the woman sitting on the bed, with long hair draped casually, head lowered signing documents in patient clothing. There was a sweet sense of joy slowly filling his chest.
She accepted it. It was a good start.
He had tried to give her the card twice before, but failed to hand it out, leaving him somewhat scarred.
These two days, Baby Shang always went back to Nanfeng Courtyard to drink the cold spring water, before his father sent him to the hospital. He was very sticky with Shang Xi, and didn’t want his mother to be alone in a strange hospital.
Once the cold spring water leaves the ice room, it would rapidly increase in temperature after a few minutes. It was unrealistic to bring the cold spring water from Nanfeng Courtyard to the hospital.
There was extra room in the ward for family members to rest. Baby Shang refused to sleep with his mother for the first time. He had a small, serious expression, “What if I touch mom’s wound?”
He took the initiative to sleep in the relative’s room. That bed was very big for a four-year-old pup.
The first night, Shang Xi was worried, and would slowly walk into the room in the middle of the night to see if the little guy had kicked off his quilt, afraid that he would catch a cold.
It was good that she came.
On the big bed, the little guy had long kicked the quilt to the side, exposing his little belly, both hands placed on both sides of his head, revealing his little wolf ears, sleeping very soundly.
Qingcheng was famously a good place to avoid summer heat. It didn’t get very hot at any time of the year, and would start snowing in late August.
Now it was mid-June, the nights were cool.
Shang Xi had heard Black Tail and the others say that wolf people liked to stay in Qingcheng because it was cool here. They liked the cold and feared heat.
Shang Xi put the quilt back on for her son.
The next morning, she woke up early and went to the room to see that the little guy had kicked off the quilt again.
Gu Wen came to the hospital early in the morning to pick up his pup to take him to school, and heard the conversation between the mother and child.
"You can't kick off the quilt, or you'll catch a cold."
Shang Xi stretched out her index finger and gently poked her son's chubby little belly, "Not only did you kick off the quilt, you even exposed your little belly. What if you catch a cold?"
"Okay." Baby Shang lowered his head to look at his stomach, grabbed his clothes with his little hands and pulled them down a bit. "Mom, I've covered it now."
"Of course you've covered it now. You’ll still sleep with mom at night. I’m worried."
"No!" Baby Shang frowned, tightening his little face, "Don't want to kick the quilt at mom's wound either."
Shang Xi pursed her lips, "...still wanting to kick off the quilt?"
Baby Shang whispered softly, "Don't want to anymore."
"Or you can go back to Nanfeng Courtyard and sleep with your dad. He can keep an eye on you."
Baby Shang shook his head hard and protested, "I want to stay with mom."
Hearing this, Gu Wen's long eyes moved, and he opened his mouth, "I'll stay here at night these few days too. I'll keep an eye on the pup."
Shang Xi glanced at him. "If Mr. Gu doesn't mind, that would be great."
Her son was unwilling to go back to Nanfeng Courtyard to sleep with his dad, and wouldn’t sleep in the same bed with her in the hospital. He insisted on sleeping alone in another bed and even kicked off the quilt... Her son had always been obedient and sensible. Shang Xi felt relieved, but also distressed at the same time. She generally wouldn’t force her son to do anything, nor decide arrangements for him. She respected his opinions, and couldn’t bear to be fierce with him.
On this point, Gu Wen was similar to her. As the father of the child, he would not make any demands as to how his son should behave. This was very different from the human fathers Shang Xi had met before.
Since Gu Wen took the initiative to speak, the matter was settled.
So.
On the second night in the hospital.
There was a bathroom and toilet outside the relatives' room in the ward. Gu Wen bathed his pup first, then washed up himself before coming out of the bathroom in his pajamas to Shang Xi’s sickbed.
At night, pajamas, bedroom, adult men and women.
Somehow, both adults felt a little awkward.
Luckily there was a pup as a buffer.
Shang Xi held a storybook with Baby Shang lying next to her, resting his cheek on her leg, grabbing a strand of his mother’s hair to play with while listening to the story.
Gu Wen quietly walked past and sat down on the sofa, pretending to look at his phone but actually listening to Shang Xi telling the story in a gentle and pleasing voice.
"......The little hippo lost its friend, lost it forever. Its friend would never come back. The little hippo sat on the shore every day, waiting for its friend to come back, crying while waiting. The old crocodile passing by asked: Little hippo, little hippo, why are you crying so sadly?"
"The little hippo said aggrievedly: I upset my friend and made it sad. It left. I don't know where it went. I can't find it."
"The old crocodile comforted it, In our long life, there will be many friends. Don't cry, your new friend may be just around the corner.”
"The little hippo shook its head, tears streaming down like broken pearls, No, I don't want new friends. My friend is unique and irreplaceable. I only want it."
"The little hippo who said this, however, never left the river. It thought that as long as it waited, its friend would come back. But it was disappointed, its friend never came back."