"Xiao Ran, you..." Lan Jingqian was unprepared, and took a few seconds to react before he reacted, "Why do you suddenly ask such a question?"
Tang Ran shook his head: "It's not suddenly, I think this question has been on my mind for a long time."
She hesitated and said honestly, "Actually, after knowing my uncle for a while, I became suspicious."
"Doubt what?"
"...Uncle is not my new driver at all, right?" Tang Ran supported the bedside on both sides of her legs, slowly raised her face, and then she laughed lightly. "It may not be a good thing to say, but since we met with your uncle, your conversation and vision are not like an ordinary driver."
Lan Jingqian's expression was complicated: "Just because of this, does Xiaoran doubt it?"
"Of course not." The girl shook her head again and raised her fingers, "Also, uncle seems to be able to enter and leave Tang's house at any time without applying in advance, and the places where uncle took me to relax, and …”
At this point, even if Lan Jingqian didn't want to make Tang Ran's mood fluctuate at this juncture, he had to admit it.
He smiled helplessly: "Is our little ran too smart, or am I showing too much?"
The little girl who was listing doubts was stunned. After a few seconds, she slowly put down her counting hand and whispered, "Actually, there is one more important point."
Lan Jingqian asked, "What is it?"
Tang Ran said, "Luo Zhan."
Lan Jingqian was startled.
There was silence in the ward for a moment.
The girl sitting beside the bed shook her drooping calf lightly: "Uncle's attitude towards Luo Zhan is different from that of other people. You seem to have known each other since the first time you met, like, two old friends. "
"… "
Lan Jingqian, who was poked, felt guilty, and instinctively concealed his smile: "Xiao Ran, Luo Zhan and I have different personalities. It can be said that we are a bit tit-for-tat. How can we be old friends?"
"That's right." Tang Ran nodded earnestly, "but your confrontation is not malicious, and sometimes it is a little naive, so it is like a familiar old friend who is awkward."
Lan Jingqian froze.
"I don't know my uncle that well, but I know Luo Luo." Tang Ran added, "Before my uncle became my driver, I had never seen Luo Luo get along with anyone else like this."
Lan Jingqian's thoughts were distracted for a second, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "You know Luo Zhan no longer than you know me, right?"
Tang Ran was stunned. Even the swaying calf beside the hospital bed stopped.
After a while, the girl came back to her senses and smiled a little embarrassedly: "I don't know why, I always have a feeling that I have known Luo Luo for a long time."
"… "
Lan Jingqian sighed silently.
Tang Ran: "Luo Luo is very good and proud. Such a proud Luo Luo will be regarded as a friend who gets along with you and is in line with your age, uncle. I only know one person."
Lan Jingqian's expression stopped, and he slowly raised his eyes.
Tang Ran: "When I thought of that person, I remembered again, on the day Uncle you first appeared, someone at home told me that Luo Zhan's friend named Lan Jingqian had been to Tang's house that day, and he asked about it. past me."
"… "
"So uncle," Tang Ran asked softly, "are you Lan Jingqian?"
After a long silence, Lan Jingqian sighed slowly, "It's me."
Tang Ran's closed eyelashes trembled slightly: "Then uncle, who am I?"
Lan Jingqian's hand that was hanging by his side shook, then clenched into a fist. After a few seconds he turned his head away, his cheekbones twitching slightly as he gritted his teeth.
"uncle?"
"—" Lan Jingqian spit out the breath he held back with a trembling voice.
He turned around and said in a hoarse voice, "Tang Shixin is not your father."
Tang Ran was stunned suddenly.
As if being stretched to a still time, she heard the voice in her ear so dazed it seemed to come back from the sky—
"I'm the."
"...!"
"There is no change in the dripping, mainly to reduce intraocular pressure before surgery, and 0.25% eserin eye ointment will be prepared in advance for eye wrapping. In order to facilitate the operation, the patient will also have some preparations to do before entering the operating room. When I enter the ward, I remind the patient and tell the family what to do."
"it is good."
On the corridor, Luo Zhan went back to the single ward where Tang Ran was, while listening to the nurse in charge explaining the preoperative medication and examination.
Turning the corner, Luo Zhan saw Lan Jingqian standing in front of the window directly outside the ward.
Luo Zhan stopped, and he frowned slightly: "Why didn't you go in and let Ran Ran in there alone?"
"Don't go in yet." Lan Jingqian turned around and stopped Luo Zhan who was about to open the door.
Luo Zhan frowned and looked back: "What's wrong?"
"Xiao Ran said she wanted to stay by herself for a while."
"Why did Ranran suddenly say this?"
"..." Lan Jingqian was silent for a long time, "She knows."
"Know what-"
Luo Zhan's voice stopped abruptly.
An overly intelligent brain quickly and instinctively associates the greatest possibility that would lead to the situation in front of it within a second or two.
The hand he held on the sliding door of the ward fell down and clenched into a fist.
Before the nurse could react, Luo Zhan, whose expression instantly cooled down, walked to Lan Jingqian in a few steps, raised his hand and grabbed the man's collar—
"Are you fucking crazy? Why did you tell her at this time!? Jia Junxi said that you can't have mood swings before surgery, didn't you hear that, what would you do if it affected her surgery?!"
The nurse who came with Luo Zhan's face changed, and quickly stepped forward to stop the two: "This family member, calm down - don't quarrel outside the ward, it will disturb the patient!"
The last sentence successfully made Luo Zhan suppressed his emotions with scruples, and he looked back at the closed door of the ward.
When he turned back again, Luo Zhan's eyes were as cold as frost: "You'd better explain it to me."
Lan Jingqian smoothed his wrinkled shirt, and said calmly, "Tang Ran is my daughter, and the matter between our father and daughter has nothing to do with you."
"She is your daughter, but she means no less to me than to you." Luo Zhan gritted his teeth, his cheekbones trembled, "I swore that I would never let anyone hurt her again. —Even if you are her father, no exception!"
"yes?"
After a long silence, Lan Jingqian raised his eyes slowly.
"But what step can you do for her, Young Master Luo?"
Luo Zhan: "What I can do for her, I will show her one by one in the future. No one needs nor deserves to know."
Lan Jingqian said in a deep voice, "I am her father."
"Father?"
Luo Zhan turned his head, and there was an angry smile in his voice. He turned back, his eyes cold as ice.
"Tang Ran is soft-hearted, I knew she would recognize you one day in the future, so I respect you and respect you - but don't think that means you are qualified to speak up in front of her!"
"!"
Lan Jingqian was stabbed in the sore spot, but he didn't hold back his anger and glared at Luo Zhan.
Luo Zhan looked at him without any weakness: "Why, Mr. Lan doesn't agree? But I was too euphemistic and too scruples in the past, and Mr. Lan really thought that you had any capital to think of yourself as Tang Ran's biological father!"
Lan Jingqian frowned: "What did you say?"
Luo Zhan raised his right hand, and the clenched fist slowly slammed under Lan Jingqian's shoulder.
"You remember what I said today, Lan Jingqian."
"In front of Tang Ran, whether it's you or the Tang family, or even your old lover who married abroad - you have no right to say anything or do to Tang Ran, even if you are her parents and family? Seventeen years If you don't ask your daughter, let her suffer and suffer, what kind of bullshit parents are you?! Who the hell cares about your hardships!"
Lan Jingqian was extremely ashamed, and before long his eyes were covered with a touch of red blood: "What about you?"
Luo Zhan did not speak, and looked at him coldly.
Lan Jingqian raised his head: "Yes, we are not qualified, so I have been blaming myself and suffering day and night after knowing the truth. I tried my best to make up for her and make her happy - but why are you?"
Luo Zhan's eyes froze.
Lan Jingqian's voice was low: "Do you know why I don't want you to be with Xiaoran? Because you are too strange, Luo Zhan."
Luo Zhan's eyes were cold: "I'm strange? I like dyeing, what's so strange?"
"Like it?" Lan Jingqian repeated mockingly, "I know more about what kind of person you are than Xiao Ran, so everything you do to Xiao Ran aggravates my doubts - the more you treat her, the better you are. Going against my own nature, even against the selfishness in human nature and animal instincts, the more uneasy I am, the more I want to know, what is the reason that you have hidden the most!"
Luo Zhan clenched his fists: "As I just said, any reason or hardship is not important, only the behavior and the result are important."
"No, it's very important to me." Lan Jingqian said, "If you want to protect Xiaoran, I will too. Even if you hate me for not being a father and condemn me, I will accept it all. But the same Yes - until I know your reason, in the identity of Tang Ran's biological father, I will never accept you."
"…!"
Under the tense atmosphere, the nurse standing next to him stared at the two bullfighting men with a headache. She was afraid that if she was not careful, the two would scuffle together.
Fortunately, the closed door to the ward was opened before the disturbed nurse called the security guard.
As soon as the door slammed, the two who were still facing each other froze at the same time. Luo Zhan lowered his hand when he regained his senses, and quickly turned to look behind him—
The girl in the hospital gown supported the warm wooden sliding door, her brows and eyes calm and serene.
There wasn't the slightest bit of emotional excitement or out of control he imagined.
Luo Zhan's stiff body suddenly loosened.
He exhaled the breath that was hanging high, and he had the feeling that he had just been pulled back from the edge of the cliff—
The second he saw Tang Ran, who was safe and sound, was still very calm, and the heart in Luo Zhan's chest was relieved from the state of being frozen in fear, and it began to beat again.
The nurse also showed a happy expression.
Tang Ran's surgery was performed by their dean himself, and he followed the progress personally, which shows the background of this patient.
And these two accompanying "family members" who are a lot different in age, they don't look like they are easy to provoke. If something happens to the little girl, then she probably won't be able to eat good fruit.
"I came out because I heard a little noise outside," the girl holding the door said softly, "Is Luo Luo back?"
Luo Zhan didn't even think about it, he pressed his emotions and stepped forward: "It's me."
Tang Ran nodded and turned around.
She groped and moved back cautiously.
"Then come in."
The girl paused.
"you alone."