
“Kakak Gu!” Mu Jiatong's expression brightened when he saw Gu Xiqiao and immediately wanted to stand up ignoring the needle that was piercing in his arm, and the boy next to him immediately held him back. “It wasn't your father, what got you so excited?”
“Brother Dalin 1 , this is Sister Gu! He's the one I told you about, you know, a great man in every way! ” Mu Jiatong sat back down, but his eyes were still fixed on Gu Xiqiao with prayers written all over his expression.
“How great is he, is he better than Xu Jiayin?” The boy patted Mu Jiatong on the head while rolling his eyes, not believing what he was saying.
The girl frowned and puffed her cheeks as she looked at the boy with a serious expression. “No, Sister Gu is amazing! He's as good as Dad! ”
The boy knew of Mu Zong's position in his daughter's heart, and seeing that the girl placed Gu Xiqiao on such a pedestal, he simply turned his head and looked back at the television.
Hello, Dalin. Gu Xiqiao was not a person who cared about the opinion of a child, so he simply put the fruit he had brought on the table and started peeling the apples with a knife.
Hearing her voice, the boy turned around and looked at her, only to look away with a red hue in his ear as he looked at her face.
“Official report says that the Academy of Arts has obtained Chinese paintings that have been accepted at national art exhibitions, but the artists of this work are still unknown.”.
Gu Xiqiao looked at the painting he had drawn on the screen, before the camera pointed at Xu Jiayin's face. After seeing this, he smiled. If he didn't want anyone to find him, no one would be able to, even if they overturned the entire country.
Seeing him also look at the television, the boy smiled proudly and said, “Saudari Xu is amazing! He's the smartest person in our region besides my brother, and he was accepted into the University B's Faculty of Arts! ”
Seeing that he was so proud of it as if it was his own achievement, Gu Xiqiao chuckled. “Alright, you better learn from Sister Xu, huh?”
“Sure... Of course.” The boy seemed to tend to be shy, but he still tried to show an unfazed attitude like he did.
Gu Xiqiao focused on peeling the apple with the fruit knife, deftly peeling the apple skin without stopping as he smiled warmly at the two children.
After she finished peeling the apple, she cut it and stabbed two pieces with two toothpicks before sticking the two pieces into the children's mouths. “What do you see me? Eat!”
Dalin bit the apple with a puzzled expression. Is he really the kind of person who values looks? How could he follow what he said to her without question?
After a while, a nurse came to the ward and started herding her two children out for chemotherapy, which Gu Xiqiao was here to accompany Mu Jiatong from the very beginning. He was quite surprised that the boy's parents were not here, while the friendly nurse raised the call of Dalin's older brother here.
“Please don't call my sister! I can do it myself! ” Hearing the suggestion, Dalin immediately clenched his hands and looked at the nurse pleading. “Suster Nurse, please? My sister is so busy! “
The nurse blinked in surprise, while Gu Xiqiao went to communicate with the nurse about keeping Dalin as well.
There is not much difference between caring for one child and two children.
The chemotherapy room was in another building, and when she brought her two children there, they were greeted by shocked gazes from some parents who were also queuing up. “Chemotherapy at a young age?”
Gu Xiqiao simply rubbed their heads before sending them to the chemotherapy room, not knowing how to answer.
Yeah, they're young. Too young to deal with this much pain, and too young to learn to stay positive even if life hits them.
“Halo... Hah, why are you here?” A familiar voice asked behind him.
Gu Xiqiao turned around, and saw a familiar boy standing there in the hospital hall.
It was Luo Wenlang.
“You... brother Dalin?” Gu Xiqiao immediately guessed the relationship between him and the younger boy, and he pointed to the chemotherapy room. “He just got in.”
Radiation was very strong in the chemotherapy room, so family members were not allowed in, and while Gu Xiqiao was not afraid of radiation, he was still waiting outside in connection with the hospital regulations.
Luo Wenlang gasped for breath as he tried to catch his breath. “Ya thank you.”
He helps deliveries for the fast food restaurant where he works. Although there were two workers hired for the purpose, but sometimes the customer would request that he deliver them, so he was so busy that he almost forgot about Luo Wenlin's appointment. After rushing to the hospital, he was told that the boy had been taken to the chemotherapy room, so he immediately went here after he found out.
He was quite surprised to see Gu Xiqiao there.
Thinking of this, Luo Wenlang's mood got better as he looked at the girl in front of him with a smile. “Mhm... Why are you here?”
“I'm here to accompany a girl.” Gu Xiqiao leaned against the wall, before looking at the door of the chemotherapy room for a long time before continuing, “Dalin is not bad.”
Suddenly, the door opened from the inside along with Luo Wenlin who was coming in and out followed by a doctor who shouted, “Hey, wait!”
Dalin's expression was terrifying as he looked at Luo Wenlang, before he immediately fled with pursed lips, not saying a word.
Luo Wenlin's! Luo Wenlang finally reacted to what happened and he immediately chased after the boy, shouting as he did, “Luo Wenlin, stay where you are!”
Gu Xiqiao saw this, not so sure what had happened, before he heard the doctor from before explain to a gossip patient who saw what had happened, he said, “This boy may not have known about his condition from the start, and he heard me and Dr. Zhang talked about how he could not make a full recovery no matter how much money they spent, and. ”.
The doctor sighed as he returned to the chemotherapy room and closed the door.
***
A young boy and a handsome young man were standing under the sun, both of them staring at each other and unwilling to retreat from their respective points of view.
Luo Wenlang's hand was clasped on Luo Wenlin's shoulder with a tight metal grip as he glared at the boy firmly, but the younger boy was not even bothered in the slightest as he looked towards her with the exact same intensity. It was clear that Luo Wenlin was a stubborn boy that even Luo Wenlang could not do anything about.
“Luo Wenlang, your phone has been ringing for a while now. If you have a problem to solve, you can go, OK? I will take care of Wenlin for you, ”Gu Xiqiao walked slowly and said.
Seeing that this matter could not be resolved in a short period of time, Luo Wenlang let go of Dalin and looked at him for a while before taking a deep breath and turning to face Gu Xiqiao. “Thank you, I'll be back after finished.”
There was a camphor tree in the courtyard near the bench, and Gu Xiqiao sat with Dalin in the shade. “Now your brother is gone, do you want to tell me what it is about?”
Upon hearing his question, Dalin simply raised his foot to the bench and hugged him, before curling up, not answering the question at all.
When Gu Xiqiao thought that this silence would continue, he spoke.
“Brother Wenlang is not my brother by blood.”
Luo Wenlin had been left in front of the door of the orphanage just a few days after she was born, and Luo Wenlang was the one who picked her up and named her, and brought her to her home like she was her own brother.
Ever since he could remember, he had been following behind Luo Wenlang, and from the words of the people around them, he knew that his brother was a genius. Many families had tried to adopt Luo Wenlang, but she had always refused because of Luo Wenlin.
Until one day, he is diagnosed with leukemia, and the older boy sells all his favorite trinkets and works his hardest to earn money for his medical bills. Every day, he would go out and work until midnight before leaving for school at six in the morning, without even a shred of free time.
Luo Wenlang always told her that she was not too sick.
“Sister Gu, my brother is an amazing person, and I cannot be a burden to him. The doctors said that I only had a ten percent chance of recovery, and it was only in a state of having a suitable donor for me, he just finished his national final with good grades! Both University A and University B have called her many times, and she will stay in N City for me, and I hope he can have a great life .. “Dalin speaks because his head is still buried in his knees. “If I knew things would be like this, I would never agree to be hospitalized.”
She had not done chemotherapy, and she had already started to feel her chest tighten and her gaze had become blurred.. But if she died like this, it wouldn't be bad, would it? His life was lifted, and at least he wouldn't be a burden to his brother if he died here.
Luo Wenlang's mind was in a daze, when he suddenly felt a stream of warmth flowing into his arm, and his vision began to become clear again, along with a tightness in his chest.
“Sister Gu, you..”.
Gu Xiqiao held onto his palm, his skin color became paler as his eyelashes fluttered slightly, before he stood up again. “Alright, let's grab Tong Tong and get some food, okay?”
She stood there for a while to regain her attitude before she took her two children to a nearby restaurant to eat.
Luo Wenlin's height had already reached Gu Xiqiao's ears, and she had eyes as clear and bright as hers. As the two of them stood together, they looked like brothers and sisters.
Of course, who had to convince this stubborn brat to accept treatment was definitely Luo Wenlang.
As they ate, Gu Xiqiao sent Luo Wenlang's phone number to Mu Zong, and obtained a system to make a contract and send it to Mu Zong as well, and the man was quite surprised when he heard Luo Wenlang's name.
Mu Zong already knew who Luo Wenlang was. After all, there was a reason why a genius was in such a state without any external help, he was not just an ordinary unfortunate child.
According to rumors, after her mother gave birth to her, her father went to make a name for himself in the Imperial Capital, only to fall in love with a rich girl and marry into their family, which is the, while Luo Wenlang's mother died in a car accident soon after.
Thus, Luo Wenlang became an orphan, and the rich girl from the Imperial Capital seemed to be very dislikeful of him, too, and have sent word many times to everyone in N City not to help in any way!
No one dared to get into trouble with the powerful families of the Imperial Capital, and even those who did not know about the situation and wanted to sponsor were all advised not to do so by those in the know, and even those who did not know about the situation, and they immediately canceled their plans. To them, it was not worth risking their entire family and business on a boy of unknown value, so even now he had earned a second rank across the country, he had been ranked second, he still has no financial help.