The thirty-seventh piece of gossip: What gossip? Take thirty-seven bites...

The couple, Ren Xueni and her husband, who were being criticized, were speechless.

The two had been arguing fiercely just moments before, but now, in front of Ye Mo, who had likely overheard their argument, they couldn't even bear to be in the same space.

Ren Xueni's gaze darted around. "The doctor said it's just a fever, nothing serious... Ah, I'll go buy some porridge for the baby, he'll definitely be hungry when he wakes up!"

After saying that, the person turned and walked away, as if being chased by a dog, as if fleeing for their life.

After she left (ran away), only Ding Youcai and Ye Mo were left in the ward, staring at each other in bewilderment.

Ding Youcai: "..."

After a few seconds of distraction, his gaze, which had been wandering around the room, suddenly landed on the thermos flask beside him. He rushed over, picked it up, and said, "I'll go get some hot water. Teacher Ye, please sit inside for a while!"

As he spoke, he strode towards the door. By the time he finished speaking, he had already left the ward. With a clang, the ward door opened and closed again.

Ye Mo and Zhou Xiaoyu, witnessing this scene, were speechless.

Chapter 37 The thirty-seventh melon... what kind of melon is it? It's the one you take thirty-seven bites of...

After Ren Xueni and her husband left, only Ye Mo, Zhou Xiaoyu, and Yangyang, who was sleeping soundly in bed, remained in the ward, and the room instantly became quiet.

"..."

Zhou Xiaoyu breathed a huge sigh of relief, which made Ye Mo glance at her strangely, not understanding what she was so nervous about.

"Sister Momo, didn't you feel embarrassed about what just happened?" she couldn't help but ask Ye Mo.

Ye Mo: "... Why should I feel embarrassed?"

She glanced at Zhou Xiaoyu and said matter-of-factly, "If anyone should be embarrassed, it should be Teacher Ren and his wife... I wasn't the one caught arguing, so why should I be embarrassed?"

Zhou Xiaoyu: That makes a lot of sense.

However, while everyone understands the principle that Sister Momo is talking about, putting it into practice is not something everyone can do.

"... I really admire your attitude Sister Momo, that as long as I'm not embarrassed, it's others who are embarrassed!" Zhou Xiaoyu couldn't help but exclaim, her tone full of admiration for Ye Mo.

She can't learn from Sister Momo's strong mentality, she really can't.

The two looked at the child who was still unconscious on the bed.

After carefully examining the child's condition, Zhou Xiaoyu said, "The child's lips are all dry. Why don't Teacher Ren and the others use cotton swabs to moisten his mouth...?"

The child's lips were so dry and chapped from the fever, and his face was flushed red from the heat; he looked absolutely pitiful.

Fortunately, Zhou Xiaoyu had cotton swabs and water in her bag, which came in handy. She immediately poured out some water, dipped a cotton swab in the water, and moistened the child's lips.

After they finished, the child still hadn't woken up. Since Ren Xueni and her husband hadn't returned yet, Ye Mo and the others couldn't leave, so they sat in the ward for a while. However, they sat there until it was completely dark, but Ren Xueni and her husband still hadn't returned.

"... Teacher Ren and the others aren't not coming back, are they?" Zhou Xiaoyu asked dryly.

Ye Mo thought to himself: It shouldn't be that bad... right?

Just as she was thinking this, her phone chimed, indicating that a message had arrived.

Ye Mo picked up her phone and glanced at it. A few seconds later, the smile on her face froze slightly, and Momo put the phone down again.

"... Teacher Ren said she encountered a bit of an emergency and asked us to help take care of the child." She said calmly, but her smiling face betrayed a hint of menace.

"You want us to take care of them?" Zhou Xiaoyu asked incredulously. "No, we just came to visit them..." They weren't here to be caregivers.

besides...

"How could Teacher Ren entrust her child to two strangers like us? Isn't she afraid we'll abandon her? How careless can she be?"

It's not that I'm careless.

Ye Mo retorted inwardly that the couple simply didn't care about the child.

Although they knew different things, they both knew that Yangyang was not their biological child, so they were very stingy with their care for the child.

Thinking of this, Ye Mo felt even more disgusted by the two men's behavior.

Although they were dissatisfied with the couple's abandonment of their child, Ye Mo and Zhou Xiaoyu couldn't be as irresponsible as them. So, they didn't leave immediately but stayed in the ward until the child woke up.

"Mommy..." As soon as Yangyang woke up, he started calling for his mother.

Zhou Xiaoyu immediately leaned over happily. "You're awake?"

As soon as she opened her eyes, she was met with Yangyang's big face. "..."

Seeing his pale face, almost rolling his eyes in fright at Zhou Xiaoyu's close-up face, Ye Mo quickly pulled Zhou Xiaoyu away.

"Your parents had something come up, so they asked us to help take care of you..." Ye Mo didn't really have much experience interacting with children, so he could only try to make his voice gentler (although it still sounded dry).

She asked the child with concern, "How are you feeling now? Is there anything else that's bothering you? Do you want some water, or are you hungry?"

When Yangyang saw her, she blinked, and the look of fear on her face gradually subsided. It was clear that the fright she had felt because of Zhou Xiaoyu was slowly returning to her stomach.

Seeing this, Zhou Xiaoyu couldn't help but mutter to herself: This kid is quite superficial; he looked terrified when he saw her, but called Sister Momo" pretty sister."

"Pretty sister..." the child called out, pouting, looking around the ward. "Where's my mom? Where did she go?"

Because he didn't see anyone familiar, two tears immediately welled up in his eyes, threatening to fall.

--It 'Mingming to everyone that Ren Xueni isn't very good to the child, but even so, the first thing the child says when he opens his eyes is "Mom."

"Your mother?" Ye Mo thought for a moment before answering, "She has something urgent to attend to right now..."

Not seeing his mother or father, Yangyang was visibly depressed. He sat on the bed looking withdrawn and very downcast.

Zhou Xiaoyu and Ye Mo didn't know how to comfort him. Ye Mo thought for a moment and took out the toys they had brought for him to play with.

"Is it for me?" The child looked at her expectantly yet uncertainly.

Ye Mo nodded. "Yes, it's for you."

Upon hearing this, the child's eyes lit up, and he reached out to take the toy, visibly delighted.

While he played with his toys, Ye Mo and Zhou Xiaoyu took the opportunity to order takeout—they had come straight from filming and hadn't had dinner yet, so the sick child hadn't eaten either. They Ye Mo him a special hospital meal.

While the food delivery was arriving, the nurse at the nurses' station came over again to take the child's temperature. The child's temperature had gone down, but the child still had a sore throat and was swallowing water as if it were razor blades. One cup of water made the child's eyes water and the child looked like they were about to cry.

The doctor came over later, took a look, prescribed some medicine, and told me to take it after meals.

"... The child might still have a fever in the middle of the night, so you parents need to be careful," the doctor advised, also telling Ye Mo and the others to keep the child warm at night to prevent him from catching a cold and worsening his condition.

The two, now parents, were speechless.

What can they do? They can't just abandon them, can they?

Ye Mo sent Ren Xueni several messages, and it took a long time for her to reply. The message was very perfunctory, and she asked Ye Mo and the others to help her watch the child for a while longer.

Ye Mo so angry upon seeing the message that he laughed.

Yangyang wasn't a troublemaker. Although his eyes were filled with tears when he woke up, he didn't throw a tantrum. He ate when he was told to eat and took his medicine obediently without crying or making a fuss. So Ye Mo didn't mind helping to take care of him a little longer out of kindness. But that wasn't a reason for Ren Xueni to just push the child onto them like that.