"Eat first." Fang Meiyun quickly served up the food she had been keeping warm for them and told them to eat.
Yun Xiaoxiao answered their questions while eating, "Du Ruo is sick."
Grandma Fang remembered this girl.
"What’s wrong with her?"
"Appendicitis, she had surgery, needs to be hospitalized for a few days."
Grandma Fang knew all too well that hospital stays weren’t cheap.
"Sister-in-law, what is appendicitis?" Fang Meiyun genuinely didn’t know, she had never heard the term before growing up.
Yun Xiaoxiao, worried that explaining it too technically would confuse them, used simple terms, "It’s when a piece of the intestine gets inflamed and must be removed by surgery. If it isn’t operated on, the person can just die in agony."
Upon hearing this, Fang Meiyun’s face changed, and she looked at Grandma Fang, "Grandma, in the brigade where my grandma lives, someone died just like that in agony."
Grandma Fang was aware of this incident too.
But she really didn’t know who it was that had appendicitis.
Er Dan and the two little ones listened, confused.
So people could really die in agony.
It was still a bit chilly sitting inside the hospital.
After eating and soaking her feet in hot water, Yun Xiaoxiao got into bed.
"How are you so warm?" Yun Xiaoxiao hugged Zhao Tianlei directly, as he was like a warm furnace, truly very warm.
"I’m a man, my body runs hotter."
His wife had rushed out so quickly that she hadn’t even brought her gloves, and even with him warming her hands, they were still not very warm.
"It’s really so warm."
Zhao Tianlei couldn’t help but kiss Yun Xiaoxiao’s face a few times, the cold of winter meant that their two children shared their bed, which certainly put a damper on the more intimate things he wanted to do with his wife.
Because his wife said, she was afraid of waking the two little ones.
His eagerness to have his brothers buy their own houses did have a selfish motive.
"Was Xiao Yang nervous about Ruoruo today?"
Zhao Tianlei affirmed this, "Xiao Yang usually doesn’t show his feelings, but today, waiting outside the operating room, I could see the worry in his eyes."
"It’s good that he’s worried."
That indicated there might be a story there.
"Xiao Yang, you go to work, and on the way, visit Ruoruo at the hospital for me. I have to take Da Bao and the others to school, and I’ve got an early class this morning."
Fang Chaoyang’s gaze settled on his two nephews, "Alright."
Joy was apparent in Grandma Fang’s eyes.
"Xiao Yang, take this millet porridge with you. Miss Du, all alone here in Capital City studying without family, could use it."
Grandma, aren’t you saying a bit too much?
But Fang Chaoyang still listened to Grandma Fang and took a thermos of millet porridge to the hospital.
Du Ruo was still afraid to move, even going to the bathroom was with Aunt Li’s help.
Fang Chaoyang immediately explained his presence, "My sister-in-law has an early class, she asked me to bring this millet porridge."
Embarrassment colored Du Ruo’s cheeks even redder, "I haven’t passed gas yet, I can’t eat anything."
She couldn’t be blamed for this.
"This is a thermos, it’ll keep warm for several hours. You can eat some after you’ve passed gas."
"Thank you, Comrade Fang."
Fang Chaoyang, needing to go to work, didn’t stay long in Du Ruo’s ward and soon left.
"Xiao Du, is he your boyfriend?"
Du Ruo immediately denied it, "No, he’s a friend of my brother-in-law."
"Where does this comrade work? He’s quite handsome, though he’s a bit short."