"That’s because your mom didn’t have any money, so she thought of finding me,"
"Does staying in the hospital cost nothing?"
At this reply, he found himself at a loss for words!
That was true, though; he was her boss—If she didn’t ask him for the money, who was she supposed to ask? After all, she worked in his company, didn’t she? Could she not offset it with her salary?
Ye Xiaobao reluctantly accepted this answer.
After sitting for another ten minutes or so, Ye Xiaobao had finally eaten almost enough. Ou Mucen saw this and waved to signal the waiter to come over and bring the bill.
"Remember not to run around after we go back to the hospital. Stay properly in the ward, okay?" After paying the bill, Ou Mucen saw Little Baozi still sitting on the chair and reached out to lift him down.
The child was round and plump. He didn’t know what that woman fed him, but once he held him in his arms, he felt like a little weight, emanating the milky scent of a child.
Ye Xiaobao nodded, got down from Uncle’s embrace, and without noticing that his little hands were still dirty, he reached out and grabbed Uncle’s broad palm, "When will Uncle come then?"
"I’ll come over after work. If you get hungry, there is a nurse in the ward; you can ask her to order something for you to eat."
Ou Mucen didn’t notice the dirt in his palm; he only felt that the chubby little hand enveloped in his palm was soft and small. With a gentle squeeze, something tender stirred within him, filling his heart with comfort.
It was indeed a very peculiar sensation...
In the end, Ye Xiaobao didn’t ask for anything more and obediently followed Uncle back to the hospital. He stayed in the ward all afternoon.
Ye Ning woke up at almost five o’clock in the afternoon. Upon awakening and seeing the familiar ward and the small figure sitting cross-legged on the floor playing with something, her heart, which had been hanging, finally settled.
Hearing this, Ye Xiaobao turned around, saw that his mom had woken up, immediately threw away the paper airplane, and dashed over from the windowsill.
Ye Ning slightly tilted her head up to find a comfortable position, then stretched out her arms to embrace her son who was throwing himself at her, "Have you been naughty? Mommy was sleeping just now. You didn’t bother anyone, did you?"
Ye Xiaobao immediately snuggled in her arms and laughed, "No, the director was really nice, gave me toys to play with. And Uncle Bingshan took me out to have a meal."
That man took him out for a meal again?
Upon hearing this, Ye Ning immediately became anxious, "Why did you let Uncle take you out for a meal again? He’s very busy, you can’t keep bothering him."
Indeed, what kind of person was that man? He was the lofty Crown Prince. How could she and her son keep bothering him? It was already very good of him to bring her to the hospital.
Ye Ning felt both anxious and embarrassed, and she wished she could scold her son.
But Little Baozi, seeing her so agitated, looked entirely innocent, "I didn’t bother him. He said he had a task for me, and then he took me to have a meal."
Ye Ning was taken aback for a moment, "What task?"
Ye Xiaobao blinked, "To take care of you. Uncle said if I take good care of you and don’t run around, he will give me a reward."
Lying there, she stared at her son for a long time and then with a flushed face, she hesitantly asked, "You’re saying, he told you to take care of me?"