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    Cheng Ming hugged the soft and boneless Shen Xiao onto the motorcycle and said, “Hold me tight, don’t fall off.”

    “Uh-huh.”

    Shen Xiao’s arms encircled Cheng Ming’s waist in response, her whole body and mind pressed against Cheng Ming’s body, closing her eyes, always feeling like she was losing the strength to even open them.

    Shen Xiao sitting in Cheng Ming’s arms should be the most reassuring.

    But Cheng Ming’s motorcycle didn’t have a windshield or anything, so the head wind might aggravate Shen Xiao’s condition, and Shen Xiao’s body wasn’t fit to sit in the front.

    Cheng Ming drove very slowly, and every now and then he even stopped at the side of the road to check if Shen Xiao was holding herself tightly.

    Ride gracefully to the entrance of the city hospital.

    “Sister Shen Xiao, we’re at the hospital, get off.” Cheng Ming shouted.

    Shen Shin asked in a trance, “Here?”

    “The hospital.”

    “I don’t want to go to the hospital, and I especially don’t want to go into this hospital, I’m scared ……”

    Shen Shin lightly bit her lower lip and shook her head, a face of resistance.

    Before gathering the medical expenses, Sister Shen Xi had been staying in the city hospital, and Sister Shen Shiao, who had a dream of her past life, had an inexplicable fear of the city hospital.

    “Today is the weekend, the people on duty is less than usual, the registration line should be waiting for a long time, let’s change a more formal small clinic to take a look at it, if the condition is serious then go back to the hospital ……”

    There was a doctor and two little nurses sitting around, and a mother with a little boy who was getting an injection, wincing in pain and crying rather miserably, and the mother comforted him by saying, “I’ll treat you to a good Gagi when you’re better.”

    The crying subsided.

    Though subtle, Ching clearly and indirectly affects some people’s lives.

    There’s an old man and a middle-aged man in front of them who need to see a doctor.

    Cheng Ming led Shen Xiao to sit on a chair and wait while the nurse thoughtfully poured two cups of hot water.

    “Thanks, we just need one glass.”

    Cheng Ming took a cup of water and fed Shen Xiao.

    “What symptoms?” The doctor asked.

    Shen Xiao leaned on Cheng Ming’s shoulder and didn’t move for a second, and could only be answered by Cheng Ming on his behalf.

    “Got a cold and a fever.”

    “Looks like a bad fever, been sick for a couple days?”

    “It burned from the day before yesterday.”

    “Got a cough and a runny nose?”

    “No.”

    “Is there an inflammation in your throat?”

    “This needs to be looked at, open your mouth.” The doctor said as he pulled out his flashlight.

    “Sister Shen Xiao, open your mouth.” Cheng Ming shouted.

    Shen Shin’s eyes narrowed a slit this time, opening his mouth slightly.

    “Open your mouth a little wider.”

    Cheng Ming had to lift Shen Xiao’s nose and then pull down her jaw, making her open her mouth wide.

    “Tonsils are a little swollen, let’s take a temperature first.”

    The nurse flung the mercury thermometer and handed it to Cheng Ming.

    Cheng Ming’s hand poked in through the collar and held the thermometer under his armpit, his fingers grazed the soft white rabbit, and he didn’t bother to enjoy it.

    The nurse admonished, “Clamp it, don’t drop it.”

    Cheng Ming wrapped his arm around Shen Shin’s shoulders and clamped the thermometer.

    “Time to take it out.” The nurse reminded on time.

    Cheng Ming took out the thermometer, but did not show off, he first looked at the thermometer himself and left it to the professional to come.

    “Thirty-nine degrees, what’s your name and how old are you?”

    “Shen Shin, twenty-four years old ……”

    After Cheng Ming finished answering, the doctor filled out the chart and told the nurse to go get the medicine.

    “Come in and get your injection.” The nurse in charge of injections shouted.

    Cheng Ming assisted Shen Xiao into the inner hall covered by the cloth curtains and sat on the stool.

    After mixing the medication, the nurse wiped the buttocks with an alcohol-coated swab, before the syringe was inserted.

    The feeling of ice whooshing made Shen Xiao’s body tremble slightly, her calves were shaking, and she didn’t know when she would get stuck in.

    The syringe went in without notice and it hurt.

    “Uh-huh. ……”

    The pain-eating Shen Shin had tears in her eyes, but she didn’t cry out like a child.

    After pulling it out there was a continuous pain, Cheng Ming felt a chill in his buttocks even as he watched the scene.

    “It’s fine it’s fine.” Cheng Ming stroked Shen Xiao’s head to comfort him.

    “Little brother, please hold down this swab.”

    “Good.”

    There was another shot coming, and Shen Shin’s other flap of ass wasn’t immune.

    “Lay down and sleep when you get back, you’ll feel a lot better if you sweat it out ……”

    “Got it.”

    After listening to the medical advice on medication, Cheng Ming paid and left.

    “Sister Shen Xiao, this side is closer to my house, do you want to go to my house and lie down first?” Cheng Ming ghostly asked.

    Shen Shin gave a light ‘hmm’.

    He didn’t know how the idea came to him. Did he want to see Xu Juan?

    But as soon as she lifted her head, she could see Cheng Ming’s new home, which was very close indeed, and Sister Shen Xiao was in dire need of news now.

    Xu Juan should be in her new home and can help take care of Sister Shen Xiao, and Cheng Ming has many inconveniences as a man.

    Although the most inconvenient thing of going to the bathroom has been done, everything else instead doesn’t matter.

    Xu Juan, who heard the movement at the entrance, poked his head out of the study.

    “Xu Juan, did you have a proper meal at noon? What did you eat?” Cheng Ming asked.

    “Scrambled eggs.”

    Xu Juan didn’t seem to have seen Shen Xiao before, so Cheng Ming had to introduce her first.

    “This one is Sister Shen Shiao, my governess, she was sick with a high fever and there was no one at home who could take care of her, so I took her to our home to rest after her visit to the doctor, and we have a lot of beds at home anyway.”

    If one person sleeps in a bed, the bed may not be enough. But it is preferred that two people squeeze into a bed or three people squeeze into a bed.

    When it’s hot, they all sleep together in a huddle, and when it’s cold there’s even less reason to separate and huddle together.

    “Xu Juan, come and give me a hand to move her to the bed.”

    To be honest, holding Shen Shin’s body all the time was great, but it was also really tiring.

    “Good.”

    Luckily, the only one in the new house is Xu Juan ah, she will not talk too much. Even if there are a lot of question marks, she won’t ask questions, saving a lot of trouble.

    Although Cheng Ming wanted to let Shen Xiao sleep on the bed in his own room, the girls who had laid on this bed could be added to one. But thinking about it, he still let her lie on his sister’s bed that was piled with all kinds of muppets.

    Putting a pillow on the backrest of the bed and letting Shen Shin lean on it, he helped her take off her jacket and pulled the quilt over her to cover her up.

    “Sister Shen Xiao, you shouldn’t have eaten anything for a day, right? I’ll go and cook some congee for you, so you can pad your stomach first and then drink the medicine.”

    Cheng Ming was about to pull out and leave, when Shen Xiao grabbed Cheng Ming’s hand under the covers and wouldn’t let go.

    “Don’t go!”

    “I won’t leave, this is my home, where else can I go?” Cheng Ming said with a bitter smile.

    Shen Shin said almost irrationally, “Just don’t.”

    Luckily, Xu Juan was still in the house, Cheng Ming turned his head and said, “Xu Juan, can I trouble you to cook some white porridge? And boil a pot of boiling water.”

    Xu Juan nodded slightly.

    Going back to this home to take care of Shen Shin was really the right thing to do, otherwise it would be hard to move an inch in Shen Shin’s home and not be able to take care of her at all.

    If her parents came back, what would they think if they saw their daughter so close to them? It’s a bit hard to explain.

    Cheng Ming fed Shen Xiao the porridge and then took the medicine, then coaxed her to sleep.

    Xu Juan went inside to clear away the dishes and cups.

    Cheng Ming said with a straight face, “Xu Juan, I have a question for you.”

    Xu Juan blinked, a little unsure.

    “Do you have a weird kind of dream? Dreams about me and you and my dad and Aunt Liam living in an old mansion that leaks, any dreams about me doing really bad things to you?”

    Cheng Ming could only substitute it with something very excessive, directly saying I forced myself on you would be too inappropriate.

    Shen Xiao could dream about, or remember, her past life, but what about the others?

    “Excessive?” Xu Juan asked rhetorically, decidedly incomprehensible.

    “It’s the bullying and making you cry thing.”

    Being able to make Xu Juan cry is an improvement, isn’t it? She’s not crying or laughing now.

    “No.”

    “I see, so do you dream?”

    Cheng Ming felt like he had asked a nonsense question, after all, rambling is also considered a kind of dream, right?

    “Will.”

    “So what kind of dream did you have, can you tell me about it? Can’t remember the details, a general dream is fine.”

    “Secret.”

    “Eh?”

    “Not telling you.”

    Xu Juan turned to leave, although her face was expressionless and her words that should have been playful did not have a single fluctuation of emotion, but this seemed to be the first time she had rejected Cheng Ming.

    That’s a huge step forward for her who does what she’s told.

    Was it some kind of shameful dream? Cheng Ming could easily think the wrong way.

    After all, everyone has secrets.

    But the suspicion of Xu Juan’s ‘rebirth’ should be able to be scratched first.

    If she had known that Cheng Ming had done something so outrageous to her, she should have asked him to eat a big mouth or confiscated his tools of the trade a long time ago.

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