Chapter 74 Could it be my uncle?

Chapter 74 Could it be my uncle?

"Okay." She followed Bai Jian's words, a slight smile appearing in her eyes. "Thank you, Sister Bai Jian."

Bai Jian remained as calm as ever: "Do a good job."

Jiang Ruan nodded: "Mm."

That morning, Jiang Ruan made a minor adjustment to what she had just finished and continued drawing the remaining unfinished parts. Once she got busy, Liang Qi didn't bother her anymore, nor did she gossip.

It was almost noon.

Jiang Ruan went straight to the hospital without eating.

The hospital wasn't far from her company; it took about half an hour by subway to get there and back. From Monday to Friday, she would use her lunch break to visit her mother, talk to her, and hope that her mother could wake up soon.

As for lunch...

She ordered takeout and had it delivered to the hospital before she got off work, and it was just about time for her to eat when she arrived.

Seeing that she was so busy yet still came to the hospital, Dr. Zhou felt a complex mix of emotions, so much so that he came to her ward after dinner and said, "I'll take care of things here at the hospital, you don't need to come here every day."

He's been coming over every day at noon these past few days, and he looks so tired.

"Didn't you say that talking to her more would help her wake up?" Jiang Ruan had high hopes. "Anyway, I had nothing to do at noon, so coming over was perfect."

“Even if we don’t talk to her or she doesn’t come to see me, she will wake up within two months,” Dr. Zhou told her.

Jiang Ruan looked at her mother, who was still lying in the hospital bed.

She still wants to come.

I want to spend some time with her.

A person sleeping in boundless darkness must be lonely.

"There's something I've been thinking about, and I've decided to tell you," Dr. Zhou said after much consideration.

Jiang Ruan was eating: "What is it?"

"Besides you, another man came to see your mother today." Dr. Zhou was referring to the man he had mentioned to Huo Zhizhou before, but he hadn't told Huo Zhizhou about him this time. "He stayed in the ward for about half an hour."

Jiang Ruan stopped eating.

My first reaction was that Jiang Chenren was here to cause trouble.

She immediately pulled up a photo of her father on her phone and handed it to him, a hint of worry in her eyes: "Is that him?"

"No," Dr. Zhou told the truth without hiding anything. "The person who came is much better looking than the person in your photo. They are also dressed very well and look like they are rich and noble."

Jiang Ruan racked her brains for a while.

I don't recall ever hearing of such a person.

"What did he do in the ward?" That was all she could ask.

“He didn’t do anything, he just sat in the care chair,” Dr. Zhou said. “Someone called him but he didn’t answer; he just sat there watching your mother.”

"That must be Mom's friend," Jiang Ruan guessed boldly.

She had never met any of her mother's relatives from childhood to adulthood. Neither her maternal grandparents nor her aunts, uncles, or cousins ​​existed. The only person she was close to was her friend, Aunt Xu.

However, after her mother's accident, Aunt Xu waited for two years but her mother never woke up, so she went out to have fun and asked Aunt Xu to tell her after her mother woke up.

My mother said she was an orphan, but my father's words that day implied something else entirely.

"Have you talked to him?" Jiang Ruan asked.

"No, I only found out afterward." Dr. Zhou's gaze shifted to Jiang An, looking at her still unconscious state. "A nurse asked him, and he said he was an old friend of your mother's."

Jiang Ruan pursed her lips, then suddenly thought of something: "Do you have a photo of him?"

If you haven't seen them before, Dr. Zhou will say that according to the nurse's description, that person is like this or that.

But he didn't seem to have said that just now.

“There are surveillance cameras.” Dr. Zhou took out his phone and tapped a few times. “I’ve sent them to you, take a look.”

Jiang Ruan zoomed in on the screen. In the surveillance footage, the man was wearing a well-tailored suit, exuding composure and coldness as he sat on the caregiver's chair. From this angle, it was difficult to see the emotions in his eyes.

But Jiang Ruan's usually emotionless eyes showed a hint of surprise.

"You know him?" Dr. Zhou noticed her emotions.

Jiang Ruan shook her head: "I don't know him."

She was surprised simply because this person looked exactly like the one Su Zhu had photographed and sent to her; Su Zhu had even teased her about looking like this person.

Dr. Zhou looked more suspicious. Why would someone react like this if they didn't know him?

He didn't ask any more questions.

This is the privacy of the patient's family.

"Dr. Zhou," Jiang Ruan said with curiosity, as if she had discovered something new, "If this person comes again, could you please tell me as soon as possible?"

"No problem," Dr. Zhou readily agreed.

Jiang Ruan said thank you.

Dr. Zhou didn't linger there, leaving the space to her.

Jiang Ruan looked back and forth between the surveillance footage and the photos Su Zhu sent her. Unable to discern Duan Lei's true intentions, she focused her gaze on her mother's face and talked to her to herself, not caring whether her mother would reply.

"Mom, an old friend of yours has come to see you."

"I don't know who he is, I've never seen him before, but this person looks a bit like me. Could he be my uncle?"

"Isn't it said that nieces resemble their uncles?"

Jiang Ruan chatted with Jiang An for a long time, and only left after packing up twenty minutes before she had to go to work.

On her way back to the company by subway, an idea popped into her head. She didn't know much about her mother, but Aunt Xu was her friend since childhood. If this person really was her uncle, she would definitely know him.

Thinking this way.

So I decided to call and ask when I got home that night.

Before she even arrived at the company, she received a call on her phone. It was from Lu Ershao: "Ms. Jiang, I've been seriously considering it. Xin Xin really likes you. You can continue teaching her dance from now on."

Jiang Ruan relaxed her grip on the phone a little: "Thank you."

"This is simply my duty, so there's no need for thanks," Lu Er said calmly. "It's just that Xin Xin is eager to compete with her classmate and wants to add extra classes. Do you think Saturday is a good option?"

"Practicing dance all day might be too much for the child." Jiang Ruan personally doesn't recommend it.

Lu Er asked, "What about the weekend?"

Jiang Ruan: "I'm going to stay home with Sui Sui this weekend."

Lu Er: "You can bring Sui Sui over."

Jiang Ruan remained silent, unable to confirm the matter at the moment.

"Take your time to think about it, and you can give me an answer over the weekend," Lu Er said, seemingly sensing her mood. "No rush."

Jiang Ruan said "okay".

As the call ended, she was almost at the company.

Lu Er looked at the phone that had ended the call and said to the person sitting next to him, "I said it."

Huo Sinian: "Hmm."

Lu Er sat on the sofa: "If you hadn't reminded me, I almost would have fallen for his trick."

He resigned from Jiang Ruan. Huo Zhizhou would indeed inform him of Qiao Qiao's whereabouts, but Si Nian had confirmed that Qiao Qiao was working for Huo Zhizhou. Therefore, even if Huo Zhizhou told him the news, he would not get anything.

No one could take anything from Huo Zhizhou.

He won't let anyone else have it.

“It’s normal to not see clearly when you’re in the thick of things.” Huo Sinian rubbed the cup in his hand, the wristwatch on his wrist highlighting his long, white fingers with distinct knuckles. “His mind is much deeper than that of ordinary people.”