Chapter 346: Sleep, Someone Beside Me
ow in some aspects."Don't talk about my family matters. How have you been lately What about your husband" Zhu Xiaowei looked at her, smiling with a sly, cunning glint in her eyes. " Qiao Baoer, didn't...Qiao Bao'er sat on the metal chair in the hospital, closed her eyes, and went to sleep.
Actually, she couldn't sleep.
She's now in room 7 on the cardiology floor, and the ward she's looking at is an isolated intensive care unit. Her father, Qiao Wenyu, is lying inside, his condition unknown.
Qiao Bao'er blinked her long eyelashes and adjusted her posture. The long night went on like this, sitting there pretending to be asleep.
She herself couldn't understand, whether it was because she was too anxious about her father's illness that she couldn't sleep, or because she knew Jun Zhi Mu was in this hospital.
In the midst of a severe winter, at 1 am.
The hospital corridor had no heating, Qiao Bao'er pulled at her pale pink long coat, her fair fingers were so cold they turned red.
Her aunt Gu Ruyue was with her grandmother in the ward on the fifth floor. At nine o'clock that night, Lu Qinnan had someone buy some takeout. Her grandmother and aunt ate some, but Qiao Bao'er wasn't hungry and couldn't eat.
Everyone knows her father suffered a serious brain hemorrhage this time, and everyone is very anxious. But they also understand that the only thing they can do now is wait.
The glass windows surrounding the hospital walls were all drawn shut, yet Qiao Bao'er still felt a chill run down her spine as she walked down the white corridor. There seemed to be an icy wind blowing intermittently, carrying with it the smell of disinfectant and something faintly metallic.
She really hates...I mean, is afraid of hospitals.
The more she thought about it, the tighter Qiao Bao'er's spirit became, and her face looked a little pale.
Suddenly she heard a very crisp click.
The sound of a man's leather shoe stepping on the floor was a single thud, then it seemed to vanish, as if the source had disappeared.
Qiao Bao'er immediately turned her head and looked in the direction of her left hand, but she stared for a long time and didn't see anyone passing by. Maybe she had misheard, but that direction made her very uncomfortable, as if there was a scorching gaze from over there.
The nurses' station wasn't far from her, and occasionally she could hear the voices of the young nurses chatting. Qiao Baoer retracted her gaze without giving it much thought.
She crossed her arms and hung her head, closing her eyes as if resting.
Unknowingly, Qiao Baoer suddenly fell asleep.
But she was still sensitive. When a figure approached her, she immediately stiffened and opened her eyes, "What are you doing"
A white sheet was handed to her, "Miss, you can catch a cold if you sit here and sleep." It was a nurse.
"Your father's illness is being watched by our shift, you sitting here won't help anything. You might as well take advantage of the time and get some more sleep now. You'll have a lot to do during the day. We have some empty beds on this floor. I can make arrangements for you. You can sleep there temporarily tonight..."
Qiao Baoer clutched the white bedsheet in her hands, staring at her with a dazed expression.
Is it that this hospital has too many beds, or is this nurse just too attentive, or something else entirely...
"No, thank you."
Finally, Qiao Baier simply said that she was going to spend the night in this chair.
The nurse smiled at her and didn't press the issue, returning to the nurses' station to work.
A long, cold night. Qiao Bao'er was wrapped in a white bedsheet, half asleep and half awake, in a daze. She always felt that there was someone sitting beside her.
By 6:00 AM, the hospital started to get busy, and doctors began their rounds around 8:00 AM.
Qiao Baoer used to have the habit of waking up early in the Jun family. She woke up feeling pretty good and neatly folded the white sheets before returning them to the nurse. She also took a quick look around, finding that no one was with her. Maybe last night was just an illusion.
Just as a few doctors had just walked into Qiao Wenyu's intensive care unit to check on him, Gu Ruyue and her grandmother also arrived at the right time. They waited nervously outside the door.
The door to the ward creaked open again, and the bald doctor in white at the front walked out. The doctor seemed to have let out a breath of relief as well.
"The patient has regained consciousness, the cerebral hemorrhage has been controlled, and the monitoring of temperature, blood pressure, and heartbeat throughout last night was normal. This afternoon, you can visit the patient in small groups in shifts, but please be quiet..."
Hearing that, everyone felt much better.
Grandma Qiao repeatedly expressed her gratitude to the doctors, saying, "Thank you so much." Gu Ruyue's eyes were glistening with tears as she also excitedly thanked them.
Qiao Bao'er didn't say those polite words to them, but instead stretched her neck and peered into the ward.
That bald doctor turned specially to Qiao Bao'er and said, "Miss Qiao, your father will definitely need a relatively long time of rehabilitation after he wakes up. I hope you are mentally prepared..."
Joe Wenyu suffered a hemorrhage in the right hemisphere of his brain. This will definitely affect his left limbs. It is currently unclear whether there will be any impact on his intelligence and speech, but his life has been saved.
"It's good to be alive, it's just good to be alive..." Old Mrs. Qiao wiped the tears from her eyes and murmured her gratitude to heaven repeatedly.
Gu Ruyi didn't force miracles, she knew this time Qiao Wenyu was brought back from the brink of death. As for how well he would recover physically in the future, that wasn't their top concern anymore. What mattered most was that he was alive.
Then Qiao Ba'er fell unusually silent.
In the afternoon, Gu Ruoyan supported Old Madam Qiao and entered the ward first to visit the unconscious Qiao Wenyuan. Because the doctor had instructed that it was best for no more than two people to enter at a time, Qiao Baoruo obediently continued to stand outside.
Actually, she was a little afraid to go in.
Grandma Qiao and the others were afraid that staying in the hospital for too long would affect Qiao Wenyu's illness, so they quickly came out. The old lady pushed open the door and said excitedly, "I just spoke to Wenyu, and his finger moved."
Qiao Baoer saw that her grandmother finally had a little bit of energy and managed to give a weak smile.
"Grandma, why don't you and your aunt go eat something at the hospital cafeteria I'll be there in a bit..."
Everyone was on edge all day and were truly tired and hungry.
Qiao Bao'er watched her aunt and grandmother slowly enter the elevator. She stood there until the elevator doors closed, her expression flickering for a moment.
Her hand gripped the doorknob of the hospital room, her heart heavy with emotion.
Her father, Qiao Wenyue, lay flat on the hospital bed. He had intravenous drips connected to both his hands. His face was pale and weak, and he was still unconscious.
Jo Bao'er walked lightly to the bedside and quietly looked at her father's face, which had already been weathered by the passage of time.
She couldn't describe the turbulent emotions surging within her, only feeling a lump in her throat, as if she dared not breathe deeply. Tears welled up at the corners of her eyes, slipping down her cheeks uncontrollably.
Her pale and slender fingers gently touched his rough, large palm.
Qiao Bao'er choked back the sobs that threatened to escape her, lowering her eyelids as large, glistening tears fell heavily onto the white sheets.
“I should be obedient, I should listen to you... I won't dare again in the future. You told me not to argue with Ye Wei and her sisters, so I won't. I'll be good from now on…”
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