After Nurse Li's casual reply, she looked at Xili seriously and said, "You know, when treating illnesses, the patient's own mood and will to survive are also very important. If you can coax her and make her happy, it will indirectly help us doctors lighten our load and alleviate your sister's suffering, right?"
Hearing these kind words, Xili nodded repeatedly. "Since Nurse Li said so, I will definitely try my best!"
As soon as Xili finished speaking, someone called out loudly from the other end, "Nurse Li, remove the needle, remove the needle, I'm almost done!"
Nurse Li shouted back in a loud voice, "Slow down a bit, I'm coming!"
With that, she poured a basin of bloody water into a large yellow container and hurried towards the source of the shouting.
Xili, leading Bai Xi, walked into the ward area and stopped outside a tiled room. "Sister Bai Xi, my sister lives here."
Saying this, he pushed the door open and went inside.
It was a large tiled house, divided into two halves. One half was a private room, and the other was a dormitory-style ward. The dormitory-style room, less than thirty square meters, had more than a dozen hospital beds placed horizontally and vertically. Beside each bed was a small stool, on which sat a patient's family member.
Xili's sister had leukemia, so her condition was more serious, and she was not staying in the dormitory-style ward but in a private room, so they had to go further inside.
Passing by the hospital beds, they reached the private rooms. Opening the partition led to a long corridor, with a window at the end and doors to each private room on the sides.
A small space had been carved out into six private hospital rooms.
Xili led Bai Xi to Room Number Four. As the door opened, everything inside came into view.
The private room was very small, only large enough to accommodate one hospital bed, a bedside table, and a tall stand on the bedside table with a hook, presumably for an IV drip. Besides that, there were only two round stools. Accompanying family members either squeezed onto the bed with the patient or sat directly on the round stools. Night after night, they passed countless nights.
It was clear that this hospital room was not the same place as the one in the photo Xili had shown on the bus.
The environment in the photo was better, and the patient's complexion was also better.
The girl on the bed was very thin, her eye sockets had begun to sink, and her complexion was poor, her entire face looking ashen and lifeless. Perhaps because she was too thin, her eyes appeared large, but they seemed to lack any spirit.
It was those eyes that, upon seeing Xili approach, showed a faint glimmer. "Brother..."
Her voice was crisp and pleasant, like a silver bell, but it sounded a bit weak.
She excitedly tried to sit up, but Xili stopped her, a gentle smile on his face. "Beibei, don't get up. Lie down and rest well. Today, brother has brought you a lot of delicious food. Later, I'll have mom prepare it for you to eat."
Hearing this, Xi Bei nodded obediently and stopped trying to get up. "Mhm."
Xili looked at the woman sitting beside Xi Bei. "Mom."
As he spoke, he placed the items he had specially bought for Xi Bei on the ground.
The woman said softly, "You've worked hard too. You must take care of yourself and pay attention to your nutrition."
Xili smiled and raised his strong arm, flexing his bicep to show his robustness. "Mom, don't worry about me. Just take care of yourself and sister. I'm doing great!"
The woman smiled warmly. "This child."
Bai Xi looked at the family of three before her, her gaze calm.
The woman's hair was already streaked with white, and she appeared somewhat stooped. Her face was etched with many wrinkles, and she had severe dark circles under her eyes. However, her eyes always held a gentle and loving smile. The smile was not beautiful, but it was warm.
These were Xili's family.
There was more to the investigation of Shen Mingxun and more about this family of four.
In fact, the woman before them and Xili's so-called father were not Xili and Xi Bei's biological parents.
Xili's father was named Xi Lu, and his mother was Yan Zhao. They had a very good relationship and had one son.
When their son was twelve years old, he climbed a coconut tree to pick coconuts, fell, and died.
From then on, the two of them relied on each other until they were fifty years old.
Later, Xili and Xi Bei's biological father had died when they were only a few years old. Xili was only three at the time, and Xi Bei was still in swaddling clothes. These two nearly fifty-year-olds, seeing how pitiful the two siblings were, brought them home to raise. The young Xili voluntarily asked to change his name and also gave Xi Bei a new name. From then on, the family of four relied on each other. They were not truly related by blood, but they were closer than blood.
As Bai Xi was looking at the woman, the woman also looked at Bai Xi. "And this is..."
Her son bringing a girl home was indeed something that surprised her.
While Xili was excellent in both appearance and personality, and many girls had liked him before, as they grew older, fewer and fewer young girls followed Xili.
Yes, playing required happiness.
But life always needed real money.
In fact, before Beibei fell ill, Xili had a girlfriend he was planning to marry, but after Beibei fell ill, the girl's family reneged.
Although she had felt sad in her heart, she also understood that this was inevitable.
But... it was unfair to Xili.
Now, Xili had brought another girl back. But she could tell at a glance that this girl was definitely not Xili's girlfriend, because how could a girl so full of nobility take a liking to a family like theirs?
Could it be... the boss of the new job Xili had found?
Or perhaps... she was treating her son as a plaything?
Thinking of this, the woman's eyes held a trace of hostility, but also a hint of helplessness and sadness.
Bai Xi said calmly, "Hello, Auntie. My name is Bai Xi. Xili is my hired private tour guide."
Yan Zhao slightly furrowed her brows. "Tour guide?"
Bai Xi nodded calmly. "Yes, a tour guide. With the care of Xili and your husband before, we had a very pleasant time in Haidao City. Today, my mother was injured, and Xili specifically arranged a suitable itinerary for her and took good care of her. I am very grateful. Today, Xili said he was going to the hospital to see his sister, so I also wanted to come and see."
Actually, her visit here was a bit abrupt.
It was only because she had seen the kindness of Xili's family at the entrance of Haidao City that she wanted to protect them, even if they encountered danger. Some people, even if you are in the light, want to drag you into the darkness when they are in the mud. Others, even if they are in the abyss, do not want others to fall into the abyss with them.
She would not give the former a second glance.
As for the latter, she felt they should not be forever lost in the abyss.
This was what she truly wanted to do when she became the God of War of the Dark Department.