Gu Yunzhu walked into the ward with a frown on her face. Dong Ge raised his eyebrows and looked at Gu Xiao: "Who is this?"
Gu Xiao half-lay down with difficulty, expressionless: "My mother."
Dong Ge greeted him, and Gu Yunzhu responded with a forced smile, then said, "I want to talk to my son, can you..."
Dong Ge quickly said, "I just need to go back, you guys chat."
When facing outsiders, Gu Yunzhu was gentle, but as soon as Dong Ge left, her face darkened: "What's wrong with you?"
Gu Xiao lowered his eyes, as if he had long been accustomed to her dramatic changes in expression, and said nothing.
Gu Yunzhu slammed the private room in her hand on the bedside table: "How could you get sick when you are fine?"
Gu Xiao looked up at her and said coldly, "Do you think I like being sick?"
Gu Yunzhu seemed a little annoyed: "I asked you to exercise and signed you up for a fitness class, why didn't you go? How can you do it without a good body? The body is the capital of revolution, don't you know?"
Gu Xiao lowered his eyes again: "I'm in good health."
"In good health? Then why do you always have stomachaches? And why do you have acute gastroenteritis?"
Gu Xiao smiled sarcastically: "Maybe it's because I couldn't eat home-cooked meals when I was abroad, my diet was irregular, and I often ate junk food and instant noodles. As for why I can only eat these, you should know better than anyone else, right?"
Gu Yunzhu lit a cigarette and smoked in front of her sick son, her face full of anger: "Are you blaming me? You are blaming me?"
The nurse came in to help Gu Xiao change the IV bag. Seeing Gu Yunzhu smoking, she immediately shouted, "What's wrong with you, family member? This is a hospital, a ward, you can't smoke. Can't you see there are patients here? What's wrong with you?"
Gu Yunzhu quickly put out the cigarette.
The nurse changed the infusion bag, looked back at Gu Yunzhu, and muttered a few words as she walked to the door of the ward.
Gu Xiao began to close his eyes and rest, seemingly not intending to pay any attention to his mother.
Gu Yunzhu sat aside, her irritability subsided a little: "I am just concerned about you, and concern makes me confused, so my tone is not very good, please understand."
Gu Xiao still closed his eyes: "Understand."
There was no emotion in his tone.
Gu Yunzhu was a little annoyed and instinctively took out a cigarette box from her bag. When she thought of the nurse's accusation, she put the cigarette box back into her bag. "I told you not to come back, but you insisted on coming back. It must be because you are not used to the local climate."
Gu Xiao seemed to be in a trance. He couldn't hear what she said and didn't reply to her.
"MIT is so good, why did you want to come back with me? Can Fukai compare with MIT?"
Gu Xiao finally opened his eyes, "Because grandma needs someone to take care of her, and because grandma doesn't want you to get close to her."
"She's my mother, how can she not let me get close to her? Even if she really doesn't let me get close to her, I can hire a nanny or a caregiver for her. I have money."
Gu Xiao closed his eyes again and murmured to himself: "Yes, you have money, you have money."
Gu Yunzhu's eyes turned red. "Gu Xiao, all my hopes are on you. You must do your best for me, you know? Otherwise, I will contact your professor. He likes you very much. If you are willing to return to MIT, he will definitely welcome you."
"No, I'm doing fine in Fukai, and the professors here are very nice to me."
Gu Yunzhu was furious: "Why don't you listen to me? I'm your mother, how could I harm you? Isn't it all for your own good?"
(End of this chapter)