Chapter 151: Chapter 144: The Disconnected Call
Zhou Mengqin said slowly, "You can not want me as your mom, but a mother can’t bear to leave her son, her grandson and granddaughter."
Yin Shixiu somewhat understood what Zhou Mengqin wanted to say, and quickly interjected, "Xiao Meng is not an irresponsible person, today was just an accident."
"Perhaps..."
"But she is the mother of the children, even though she is still young, she is already the mother of two kids, Huang Huang and Shuang Shuang are still so small and need care every moment."
Zhou Mengqin turned to look at Yin Shixiu, "She can be immature, but a child only grows up once. She can’t repeatedly make the children suffer for her to learn and adapt to being a mother, right?"
Yin Shixiu wanted to say more for Xiao Meng, but found it difficult to speak.
"No matter how many nannies you hire, they are still outsiders. No matter how well they care, they can’t compare to the care of parents. Moreover, people’s hearts are hard to predict."
"No matter how experienced Nanny Chen is, Huang Huang and Shuang Shuang are not her children. If the children are hungry or cold when you’re not around, we don’t know if she’s being diligent."
Yin Shixiu took a deep breath, feeling his scalp tense.
"I just want you to think carefully and tell me, what exactly do you see in her?"
Zhou Mengqin asked this but didn’t expect Yin Shixiu to answer immediately, merely throwing the question at him before opening the door and returning to the ward area.
Yin Shixiu rubbed his forehead; with two more children, the weight on his shoulders seemed as heavy as a thousand catties. Someone who had never fretted about anything in life seemed... knocked down.
"Are you going to give me my phone or not! If you don’t, do you believe I will call the police?!"
Su Xiaomeng stood in front of Bai Shunyuan, seeing his smug expression as he leaned on the sofa, her face flushed with anger.
"Call the police, how will you do that without a phone?"
"Senior, what’s the harm in turning off the phone for a little while..."
"Xiaomeng, stop it, just sing a couple of songs to liven things up a bit." Qiu Yuanyuan advised, but no one took Su Xiaomeng’s anger seriously at the moment.
Bai Shunyuan squinted his eyes, straightened up, picked up a bottle of mixer and put it in front of her, "Finish drinking this bottle, and the phone is yours."
"I won’t drink!"
"Then I won’t give it to you!"
Su Xiaomeng had never met such a shameless person!
She knew she couldn’t hold her alcohol, and if she were with Meng Meng, drinking a bit didn’t matter, since Meng Meng was there.
But these people were either new members of the basketball club or OMG Club, and she only knew a couple of them well.
In this situation, she’d be silly to drink!
"Senior, this is juice-flavored alcohol, with just a little over three percent, it’s not excessive..."
This girl, who looked cute and spoke coyly, had been sitting beside Bai Shunyuan the whole time.
Su Xiaomeng didn’t intend to argue with this girl who had been chatting nonstop, but hearing her words, she couldn’t help but glare at her, "If you don’t want to stay in the club, just say so!"
"Senior..."
The girl was suddenly frightened.
"So fierce..."
Bai Shunyuan continued to smile lightly at Su Xiaomeng, unmoved, "If you want the phone, drink up, if not, forget it."
"Drink up, and our accounts are cleared. Don’t drink... then it’s not over."
Bai Shunyuan said softly.
Su Xiaomeng stared closely at Bai Shunyuan’s eyes, seemingly considering the credibility of his words.
The mischievousness in Bai Shunyuan’s mouth faded, and his eyes showed sincerity.
A little over three degrees...
Su Xiaomeng glanced at the bottle of mixer, it’s just like juice...
"You better keep your word!"
Bai Shunyuan raised his eyebrows, "Of course."
Su Xiaomeng opened the beverage bottle with an opener and gulped down several big sips. Because the alcohol content wasn’t high, she didn’t feel much discomfort after drinking.
Bai Shunyuan didn’t make things difficult for her and returned her phone.
Su Xiaomeng took the phone and quickly checked the record, seeing that the call just now was from home, she left the box and went to the restroom to call back in a quiet place.
The call was answered by Nanny Chen.
"Nanny Chen, was it you who called me just now?"
"Ah, madam, yes."
"Is there something going on?"
"Yes, yes... Huang Huang is sick."
Su Xiaomeng’s heart sank suddenly, feeling like it dropped to the bottom of a lake, "What’s going on?"
"Fever, high fever, sir took him to the children’s hospital."
Su Xiaomeng was stunned, hung up the phone, went back to the box and grabbed her bag, determined to leave immediately, Bai Shunyuan quickly grabbed her arm, "Are you trying to run away again?"
"Bai Shunyuan, if anything happens to my son, I’ll fight you to the death!"
Su Xiaomeng’s eyes were red! After yelling this, her whole body trembled!
Bai Shunyuan was startled by Su Xiaomeng’s expression, "What happened?"
"Let go! Bastard!"
Su Xiaomeng forcefully tried to shake off his hand, but failed, and in her fury, she lowered her head and bit his hand!
Bai Shunyuan seemed to realize something was wrong, frowned slightly due to the pain but didn’t care, took the car keys next to him, "Hey, I’m borrowing your car."
He finished speaking and dragged Su Xiaomeng out.
"What are you doing! What do you want to do now!"
Su Xiaomeng saw him dragging her again and got even more anxious!
"Where’s your son, I’ll take you there!"
"... Who wants your insincere help!"
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Bai Shunyuan didn’t allow her to continue struggling and forcibly dragged her into the car!
"Where to?"
Bai Shunyuan asked.
Su Xiaomeng gritted her teeth, "Children’s Hospital."
Bai Shunyuan started the car, stepped on the gas, and sped away quickly.
The 3.8-degree alcohol seemed to have aftereffects on this girl who couldn’t handle her liquor. She felt dizzy, but she didn’t forget to call Yin Shixiu...
"Beep... beep... beep beep beep..."
The call was hung up.
Su Xiaomeng’s heart sank completely.
Yin Shixiu didn’t answer her call, so Su Xiaomeng had to call Yin Meng, but Yin Meng seemed unaware of the situation.
Su Xiaomeng was very anxious, but all she could do was stay anxious the whole way.
Bai Shunyuan glanced at her sideways, took a shallow breath, and said, "It’s going to be okay."
It would have been better if he hadn’t spoken. Once he did, Su Xiaomeng’s anxiety and unease turned into anger. She glared at him fiercely and gritted her teeth, "It better be okay!"
Bai Shunyuan moved his lips but ultimately said nothing more.
The car stopped at the hospital entrance, and Su Xiaomeng ran towards the hospital’s main entrance as soon as she got out. Bai Shunyuan parked the car, came out, and she was already out of sight.
Su Xiaomeng rushed into the pediatric area and went to the duty nurse at the service desk to ask, "Hello, could you help me check which ward a child named Yin Huaiyu, who was admitted tonight, is in?"
"Who are you to him?"
"Mom."
The nurse glanced at Su Xiaomeng, seemingly a little incredulous but still checked the child’s ward, saying, "V207, the innermost room on the left."
"Okay, thank you!"
Su Xiaomeng hurried into the ward area. The V-marked rooms were a special intensive care, independent ward area.
The two elders of the Yin family and Yin Shixiu were in the lounge of the independent ward area, with a small ward inside separated by glass walls.
This ensured they could talk outside without affecting the child inside.
Su Xiaomeng breathlessly pushed open the door and walked in. Zhou Mengqin, who was sitting on the lounge chair, looked at her upon hearing the sound.
Seeing the two elders of the Yin family, Su Xiaomeng paused. Nanny Chen only told her that Yin Shixiu had brought the child to the hospital; she didn’t know that Mr. and Mrs. Yin were here.
"Mr. Yin, Mrs. Yin..."
Zhou Mengqin stood up, walked up to her, and squinted slightly, "You’re here now? Not continuing singing?"
Su Xiaomeng pressed her lips together, and her heart sank deeper. She instantly realized that it wasn’t anyone else who called her using the home’s landline earlier but Mrs. Yin herself.
"It’s not what you think, I can expla—"
Before she could finish her sentence, Zhou Mengqin suddenly frowned, her nose twitched as if she smelled something, but she wasn’t sure.
"You... drank?" she asked tentatively.
As soon as she said this, both Yin Shaohui, sitting aside, and Yin Shixiu, leaning against the wall by the door, perked up.
"I... I... drank a bit of flavored wine, not much, just a bit—"
"Slap!"
Zhou Mengqin raised her hand and slapped Su Xiaomeng across the face.
The slap wasn’t too heavy, but it wasn’t light either.
"Is this how you act as a mother?!"
For a moment, Zhou Mengqin was furious. Usually composed, the elegant and gentle lady lost her temper.
Su Xiaomeng only felt a burning pain on her face.
"You want to go to school, fine, no one stopped you, the fourth brother arranged everything well for you! But the two babies are only three months old! At least after class, you should come home, right? Going out to play with classmates without thinking about the two kids at home?!"
"The child fell ill and wasn’t sent to the hospital in time!"
"Fine, you’re still young, and you like to play, you go out and play! That’s okay! But the two kids are nursing, and you actually drank wine?! Su Xiaomeng, don’t you have any sense of motherhood?"
Su Xiaomeng was dazed, tilting her head, unable to say anything...
Her eyes reddened, and her peripheral vision caught sight of Yin Shixiu, leaning there, indifferent.
Meeting his somewhat heavy gaze, Su Xiaomeng felt even sadder...
Yin Shixiu took a deep breath. It was unexpected for his mother to hit her, but he understood that if she didn’t let out this anger now, it would be harder later...
Initially resolved not to intervene, but when faced with Su Xiaomeng’s pitiful look, his heart softened.
Sigh...
He sighed inwardly, straightened his back from the wall, and just when he was about to step forward, the VIP ward door opened automatically...
Bai Shunyuan walked in.
"This is not Su Xiaomeng’s fault!"
Yin Shixiu’s eyes narrowed slightly.
Bai Shunyuan had listened outside the door for a while...
He originally intended to turn around and leave; after all, it was Su Xiaomeng getting scolded, not his business.
Besides, he didn’t want to let Su Xiaomeng off easily!
But...
He couldn’t step his foot in the direction he should have gone; instead, he stepped into the VIP ward area and stood in front of Grandma and Grandpa Yin.
Zhou Mengqin and Yin Shaohui looked at Bai Shunyuan with a slight change in their expressions...
"Grandpa Yin, Grandma Yin, I am Bai Shunyuan."
"Shunyuan... are you Fengmao’s older brother’s grandson?"
Yin Shaohui seemed to remember him vaguely.
Bai Shunyuan nodded, "Yes, Grandpa Yin. I was the one who asked Su Xiaomeng to go to the club meeting, she didn’t want to, but I forced her into the car... I didn’t know her baby would get sick..."