When Lu Ya was on the phone at the door of the hospital, he saw He Xingzhi sitting on the steps smoking. They didn't pay much attention to each other at first, but after hanging up the phone, he kicked He Xingzhi from behind.
He Xingzhi turned around and looked at Lu Ya with confusion and anger. After seeing Lu Ya's face and the direction he was pointing, he put out his cigarette in embarrassment.
In that direction is the hospital's no-smoking sign.
"There is a smoking room inside. You can smoke wherever you want." Lu Ya put away his phone and walked in through the door.
Lu Ya returned to the room, explained to Hua Ling the content of the phone call just now, and planned to take the children away. Yin Mu and Xie Feng were both reluctant to leave.
Hua Ling was optimistic, still eating the food brought by the three people: "It's okay. He'll be fine soon. He's not missing any arms or legs. Don't worry."
Xie Feng grabbed Hua Ling's hand and said to him righteously: "Dad, don't worry, I will definitely take good care of my sister."
Then Lu Ya pressed his head down with the palm of his hand: "You brat, I haven't settled the accounts with you for breaking the glass while I was away yesterday."
"Ouch!"
Xie Feng fled from Lu Ya's men and hid behind Yin Mu in dejection, curling up like an eagle catching chickens.
"Okay, okay." Yin Mu put his hands flat to tell the two of them to stop making trouble, and then turned to Hua Ling and said, "Then, dad, let's go first?"
"Hmm, don't quarrel at home."
"Don't worry!" Xie Feng stuck his head out, raised his hand and extended his thumb.
Lu Ya took the children away, Hua Ling gave the food to Rui Mingyi, and asked: "How long have you lived here?"
"Six or seven days, it's so boring."
"It's quite boring, but sleeping is more comfortable." Hua Ling was half-lying on the bed, and the upper half of the bed was propped up for him to sit and lie down on.
Rui Mingyi looked at Hua Ling while eating the apple, and asked with a smile: "You seem to be quite comfortable normally. You have two children at home and you still enjoy fishing."
Hua Ling thought it was okay: "Now that the children have grown up, it's quite easy to worry about."
"Where's their mother? How come your uncle brought it here and your wife didn't come to see you when she heard you were injured like this?"
Rui Mingyi asked, thinking that he might be at work, but Rui Mingyi couldn't quite understand the fact that the child was brought by his uncle.
"Gone long ago."
After hearing this, Rui Mingyi choked on his apple and looked at Hua Ling in shock, thinking quickly about how to smooth things over.
Unexpectedly, Hua Ling said again: "She is not my wife, those two children were adopted by me."
"Then their parents..."
"Do you know about the floods in the Central Plains more than ten years ago? They were the parents who lost their lives in that disaster. I was a volunteer disaster relief worker at the time."
Hua Ling and Rui Mingyi looked at each other, one with the corner of his mouth raised, and the other with thousands of thoughts in his eyes.
This incident made Rui Mingyi so shocked that he could not speak. His neck seemed to be pinched by a pair of invisible hands. Recalling the appearance of the two children and looking at Hua Ling, he suddenly noticed something.
Rui Mingyi thought for a long time before asking: "Are you not married?"
"Yes, no." Hua Ling opened a pack of biscuits and ate them, "You can ask me anything you want?"
"The age difference between the legal adopter and the adoptee needs to be forty years. Your year..."
"forty."
"How did you convince them to let you adopt them?"
Rui Mingyi was confused when he heard Hua Ling say that he was only forty years old. Although Hua Ling had silver hair, his face was young and he looked like he was well-maintained.
After hearing Rui Mingyi's question, Hua Ling turned to look at him and grinned, looking scary under her silver hair: "If you have money, you can do whatever you want."
Rui Mingyi sat up in fright: "What do you mean? Have you bribed the agency?"
Hua Ling looked at Rui Mingyi's actions with amusement and said cheerfully: "It's not that serious. I'm not a villain who colludes with government and businessmen."
"That is?"
"There is a suspicion of bribery, but I just promised to take good care of the children." Hua Ling smiled playfully, as if recalling the scene at that time.
Rui Mingyi frowned: "How can anyone say that they are suspicious? Are you making up a story with me?"
Hua Ling smiled and waved her hands: "If I really told the truth, you wouldn't believe it."
When Rui Mingyi heard this, he thought Hua Ling was teasing him. He wondered why the other person, who was almost over fifty, still looked like a child. It seemed that Hua Ling would not tell an outsider the true story.
At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, Hua Ling woke up from his nap and saw a couple sitting beside Rui Mingyi's bed, seemingly chatting.
Hua Ling stretched and sat up. Rui Mingyi and the couple heard the sound and looked at Hua Ling. Hua Ling happened to look at them and met their eyes.
Hua Ling saw the couple stunned and frowned in confusion: "Why are you... here?"
The couple in front of them were Zeng Bai and Lan Jing. Lan Jing saw Hua Ling waking up and said happily: "I recognized you when you fell asleep, but why are you here?"
Rui Mingyi said: "This is my aunt, and my uncle... do you know each other?"
Zeng Bai explained to Rui Mingyi: "This is because your aunt recognizes her elder brother."
Rui Mingyi glanced at Hua Ling and then at Lan Jing: "Isn't that right? He is younger than you."
Lan Jing was unhappy when he heard this: "I just want to call him brother. Do you care?"
Rui Mingyi huddled on the bed and nodded: "As long as you are happy."
Hua Ling smiled and asked the couple with a bit of confusion: "Have you moved here?"
Zeng Bai shook his head and explained: "Didn't you call Ke Ning to come to Fengjiao? He was arranged to come to Guangzhou again."
"I didn't arrange this. Aze brought him here, right?"
Hua Ling could naturally think of Wang Ze's arrangements for Zeng Kening after he retired from the fire service. Hua Ling had given full authority to her. Wang Ze would not let Hua Ling down, let alone the one who was arranged was her husband.
Lan Jing nodded happily, as if he was relieved: "It's great that the two children can work and play at the same time, and they also said they would buy a new house for the couple of us."
Zeng Bai didn't really want to move. He just wanted to travel and stay in his own little house.
Rui Mingyi listened to the three people talking to each other, connecting the information inside and outside the words, and suddenly realized: "Hua Ling, are you Fengjiao's boss?"
Hua Ling, who was chatting with Zeng Bai Lanjing, heard Rui Mingyi's question and turned to look at him, nodding affirmatively: "Yes."
Rui Mingyi was stunned by these affirmative words. He asked questions repeatedly, confirmed repeatedly, and looked at Hua Ling repeatedly.
"What's wrong with you?" Hua Ling knew that Rui Mingyi was frightened by his identity, which was quite funny.
"If you want to talk about how much you earn in a year, you don't have to waste your time. I know it well." Hua Ling shrugged and spread his hands to let Rui Mingyi relax.
Rui Mingyi didn't know how to speak at all, so he looked at the hospital's internal facilities and the scenery outside the window, and then looked at Hua Ling.
Hua Ling was still drinking her drink calmly. She looked up and saw Rui Mingyi looking at her, squinting and smiling: "I almost know what you are going to say, you don't have to say anything."
Rui Mingyi's mouth was covered by a pair of invisible hands. He couldn't speak, and he didn't know where to ask.