mutual benefit [gl]

In the waiting table of the hospital, rows of steel seats are crowded with patients in all kinds of thick cotton clothes, like red meat on a barbecue skewer.

Pregnant women with big bellies accounted for the majority of these people. They sat with their husbands, lowered their heads and carefully studied the parenting manual in their hands.

Ji Cixi raised her head and glanced at the dimly lit green sign hanging high not far away, the three pale characters of obstetrics and gynecology made her eyes dizzy.

"Number 0107, Ji Cixi."

The nurse yelled into the microphone with a hoarse voice, repeated it three times, and then lowered her head to go about her own business.

Ji Cixi stood up, gathered the collar of her slightly loose coat, and walked into the corridor of the obstetrics and gynecology department unhurriedly.

Looking over the worried and melancholy eyes of many women on the benches in the corridor, Ji Cixi felt as if she had come to the wrong place.

She obviously came here for the same reason as these women, but she didn't have any worries in her heart.

Although the door of the consulting room was open, Ji Cixi knocked on the door habitually.

The old and thin female doctor turned her astonished gaze from the computer screen to Ji Cixi's body, and she said a little stiffly, please come in, before Ji Cixi entered the consulting room.She stretched the hem of the coat with her hands and sat opposite her.

Ji Cixi silently handed over a few pieces of paper in his hand, the female doctor took it and turned it over a few times, Ji Cixi saw that her face suddenly became serious, and the skin that was loose due to old age wrinkled together instantly, There are several folds.

Ji Cixi knew in her heart that this expression was not a good sign, but she still didn't speak.

Until she heard the doctor make a "tsk" sound from the back of her throat.

"You...it's not very good." The doctor raised his eyes and gave Ji Cixi a heavy look.Looking at it this way, she looks even more worried than Ji Cixi.

"A young girl... oh."

"Excuse me... what is it?" Ji Cixi didn't speak until now, she looked at the doctor with searching eyes.In fact, Ji Cixi had already guessed something from the doctor's expression and tone just now.

"Bilateral fallopian tubes are severely blocked. In layman's terms, it is difficult to conceive naturally."

Ji Cixi had already been mentally prepared, so even if she really heard what the doctor said, she wouldn't be too surprised.She paused and asked:

"That means infertility?"

"Specifically, you need to have a laparoscopic surgery to see... In fact, you can also try test-tube babies in the future."

The doctor wanted to say something more to comfort her, but Ji Cixi interrupted her very abruptly.

"I see."

She stood up and reached out to take the film handed back by the doctor, thanked the doctor and turned to leave the consulting room.

The doctor looked at her back as she walked away quickly, and couldn't help but smacked his lips regretfully again.

so young.

Walking to the lobby on the first floor of the hospital, Ji Cixi unfolded the film in his hand, tore off the personal information on the top, then randomly balled them up and threw them into the trash can without even looking at them again.

Before he walked out of the hospital, Ji Cixi suddenly felt a shock in his leg.Taking out the phone from his trouser pocket, an unfamiliar number was displayed on the screen.

"Hey."

"Hello, is this Ji Xu's mother?"

Ji Cixi was taken aback for a moment, and Dazed didn't answer for a moment.The person on the other side of the receiver seemed a little embarrassed by Ji Cixi's silence, so he added in a little panic:

"The mother in the address book filled out by the child is this number...so..."

"Oh." Ji Cixi came back to her senses, she calmly said: "I am."

"Oh..." The voice on the phone breathed a sigh of relief, and said slowly: "Then please come to the school now, there is something between Ji Xu and another student, and the other parent wants to deal with it face to face with you."

As soon as the words "handle face to face" came out, Ji Cixi knew that nothing good would happen.She asked, "What kind of thing?"

"This... is actually just a small conflict between the children. It's just that the student's face is bleeding, so..."

The teacher hesitated to speak, and Ji Cixi didn't want to get entangled, so she answered in a low voice and left, then ended the call.

The hospital is only three bus stops away from No. [-] Primary School in City Z. Relying on his height and long legs, Ji Cixi braved the cold wind and walked to the school.

As soon as Ji Cixi entered the office, she heard a sharp and ear-piercing cry.She glanced at the little boy standing beside the adult in front who was crying with his back turned to her, stretched her neck again, and saw another little boy standing next to the teacher with a thin body and slightly pale skin. boy.

"mom--"

The little boy standing beside the teacher saw Ji Cixi first, and hurriedly shouted, for fear that others would not hear that it was his mother.

Ji Cixi walked to his side, bent slightly and grabbed Ji Xu's thin shoulders, feeling Ji Xu's small body shrank in her arms, she frowned slightly.Then he raised his head and said, "Hello, I'm Ji Xu's mother."

Ji Cixi's eyes that looked like a pool of stagnant water directly met the eyes of the fat woman opposite, she snorted disdainfully and then turned her face away, Ji Cixi didn't care, she only caressed Ji Xu's back in secret, not to let him panic anymore .

The homeroom teacher, who had been acting as the fat woman's punching bag until Ji Cixi arrived, was relieved when she saw Ji Cixi, and she hurriedly said: "Mother Han Hao, you have seen Ji Xu's mother now, so please speak clearly in person if you have anything to say." She said with a smile on her face, "It's not a big deal. It gets dark quickly in winter. Let's solve it quickly so we can go home early and rest, right?"

"It's not a big deal?!"

The woman raised her putty-like face and glared at the class teacher, her two eyebrows almost flying to the back of her head.

"Hey, Mr. Zhang, take a look!" She stretched out her hand and roughly brushed off the hair on her son's forehead and said angrily, "My son's head is bleeding, so it's not a big deal?! What if he breaks his brain? ?!"

After all, the woman turned her face and sneered at Ji Cixi, "My son will go to university and go abroad in the future, if something bad happens, none of you can afford it!"

Ji Cixi remained expressionless, she glanced at the little boy beside the woman, then at Ji Xu beside herself, then turned to ask the head teacher:

"Excuse me, why did the children fight?"

"I said Ji Xu's mother—" the woman roared again.

"It's fine if your child doesn't admit his mistake after beating someone. Why are you so ignorant as a parent?! It's really rude——"

Before she finished speaking, Ji Cixi interrupted: "It's not bad that your son was injured, but Ji Xu's body is also injured." She said, pulling Ji Xu's arm, rolling up the sleeve of the school uniform jacket, A few bruises were exposed.

"Your son will go to university and go abroad in the future, and my son is no exception. No matter who has an accident with these two children, you and I can't afford it. That's why I asked the head teacher about the situation."

Looking at the woman's slightly flushed face from anger, Ji Cixi laughed.

"Why, don't you trust the head teacher?"

"This..." The woman was at a loss for words for a moment, Ji Cixi didn't look at her anymore, but turned to look at the head teacher, waiting for the head teacher's answer.

When asked suddenly, the homeroom teacher didn't react for a while, she was stunned for a moment before she said: "Both children said it was because of some quarrel, but they just asked what it was, and they refused to say anything."

"A quarrel." Hearing this, Ji Cixi looked at Han Hao who had already stopped crying, Ji Cixi glanced at the Band-Aid on his forehead, and saw no blood stains, so she felt relieved immediately.She squatted down and looked at Han Hao, and smiled gently: "Ji Xu beat you, so Auntie didn't ask him, but you."

Han Hao took a step back in fright, shaking like chaff, and curled up into a ball.

"What are you doing! Are you scaring my son!" The woman hurriedly stopped in front of her son and asked loudly.

Ji Cixi slowly raised her eyes. From her current posture, she was obviously looking up at the woman, but her eyes had a condescending feeling, which actually made the woman look a head shorter.

"Two six or seven-year-old children were fighting, and they were bleeding. There must be a reason for this. I was afraid that you would say that Ji Xu was lying, so I asked your son. Why, isn't this right?"

"You are making a confession to my son!" the woman roared.

"Then you are extorting a confession from my son!" Ji Cixi's words were resounding, without showing any weakness.

The woman stomped her feet angrily, but had nothing to say.Ji Cixi stood up and regained her smiling face, and said, "Since you don't want to say it, then Ji Xu, tell me, why did you hit your classmate."

Ji Xu, who was finally allowed to speak, couldn't bear it anymore, his immature voice was full of resentment.

"He said I'm a bastard with no parents!"

Ji Xu's crying voice resounded throughout the office.

For a moment, the office fell silent.The faces of the three adults became extremely ugly.

The atmosphere froze to freezing point, and an awkward silence filled the air.

Ji Cixi raised her eyebrows, she broke the silence first, and said coldly: "Is it true?"

She looked at Han Hao with cold eyes, and she didn't feel any pity for him because he was still a child.

"This..." The head teacher was also a little embarrassed for a while, she bit her lip and said, "Mother Ji Xu, I really didn't know why the two children did it..."

"Mother Han Hao, your son is trembling like this, you should ask him yourself." Ji Cixi ignored the head teacher, but looked at the woman again.Her voice was so peaceful that there were almost no ups and downs. After she finished speaking, she said softly, seemingly casually:

"How can such words come from the mouth of a six or seven-year-old child?"

The woman's face turned blue and pale, she gritted her teeth and glared at her son in secret, but on the surface she was still unwilling to give in, so she had to turn her head away from Ji Cixi.

"Han Hao, then you saw it today." Ji Cixi squatted down again, she pulled Ji Xu in front of her and said: "I am Ji Xu's mother, so he is not a bastard like you who has no father or mother. Understood?"

Hearing Ji Cixi repeat those words again, the teacher in charge couldn't hold back.She hurriedly came out and said to Xi Ni: "This misunderstanding has been resolved. It's winter, shouldn't the two parents go home earlier to rest? Children, it's a small fight..."

"Wait a minute." Ji Cixi abruptly interrupted the head teacher's voice, she turned her head and said seriously to Ji Xu:

"Ji Xu, apologize to Han Hao."

Not just Ji Xu, everyone present except her cast their astonished gazes over.

"Mom?!" Ji Xu looked at Ji Cixi in disbelief, his red and swollen eyes widened from crying.

"Because you shouldn't hit someone no matter what, so you should apologize." Ji Cixi looked at Ji Xu and said seriously.

Seeing Ji Cixi's seriousness, no matter how dissatisfied and depressed Ji Xu felt, he could only take a step forward, bent down and said sorry to Han Hao reluctantly.

Feeling that she had regained some face, the woman tugged at the white fox fur scarf wrapped around her neck, and snorted coldly.

"Well done." Ji Cixi said with a smile in Ji Xu's ear.After all, she looked up at Han Hao and said coldly:

"Han Hao, you have to apologize to Ji Xu. You not only beat him, you also insulted him with words."

"Hey, I said you—"

"Apologize!" Ji Cixi suddenly raised her voice, not to mention the aura of a six or seven-year-old child, even the other two adults in the room were startled by her.

"Yes, I'm sorry..." Han Hao cried out in fright.

"Not to me, but to Ji Xu."

Han Hao had to apologize to Ji Xu again.

"The apology this time is because you insulted him with words, and you didn't apologize for beating him." Ji Cixi said expressionlessly.

"You don't push yourself!" The woman said angrily, but Han Hao, who was too scared, bowed his head and apologized again before she finished speaking.

Only then did Ji Cixi stand up in satisfaction, she turned to the head teacher and said, "The matter is now settled." She then said to Han Hao's mother, "You should already have my contact information, if you take the child to the hospital for an examination If you have any problems, please come to me with your medical records and bills, and I will compensate you." After that, she helped Ji Xu adjust the collar of her school uniform, and said in a low voice, "Say goodbye to the teacher and auntie."

Ji Xu laughed through his tears, said goodbye to the teacher cheerfully, and then jumped out of the office holding Ji Cixi's hand.

Ji Cixi's back was very chic, she tossed her long hair, forgetting Han Hao's mother's cursing in a low voice.

Walking out of the school gate, Ji Cixi immediately let go of Ji Xu's hand, turned around and frowned slightly, "Why didn't you wear cotton clothes when you went out?"

Ji Xu lowered his head and muttered: "I, I forgot."

"Then go back in the cold." After saying that, Ji Cixi turned around and walked forward on her own.Ji Xu, who was left behind by her, hurriedly trotted to keep up with her. He held his schoolbag tightly with both hands, and said flatteringly with his little face up:

"Auntie, are you angry?"

"If it means you're not wearing a padded jacket, um."

"No, I mean..." Ji Xu lowered his head, muttering without knowing what to say.

"Don't be twitchy when a man speaks, just say what you want to say." Kicking away a dried up leaf at his feet, Ji Cixi gradually slowed down his pace, but his clear face was still expressionless.

"I wrote your phone number on it, you won't be angry..." Ji Xu said cautiously.

"Your mother is still lying in the hospital, what else can I do." Ji Cixi said.She turned her face away, leaning against the faint warm light of the street lamp, she glanced at Ji Xu's hanging hand with a little distaste.

"If your mother sees you being beaten like this today, she will be so distressed."

Hearing this, Ji Xu was so frightened that he quickly put his little hands behind his back, and said anxiously, "Don't tell my mother!"

Ji Cixi didn't answer, and continued to walk forward.

The two walked in silence for a while, and then Ji Xu raised his head again, and tentatively asked in a low voice:

"Auntie, have you...to see your mother today?"

"Ah."

A light flashed in Ji Xu's eyes, and he asked excitedly, "Is Mom feeling better?!"

Ji Cixi glanced at Ji Xu, then turned her gaze back.

"Ah."

"Then can I go see her?"

"No." Ji Cixi's voice was full of doubts.

"Ah..." Ji Xu cried out in disappointment, pouted.

A gust of cold wind blew by, Ji Xu subconsciously shivered with his arms folded, Ji Cixi quickened his pace and walked to the street intersection, just in time for a taxi to drive towards him, she waved her hand.

"Taxi is so expensive!" Ji Xu hurriedly ran over to hold her hand, "I'm not very cold!"

"I'm cold." Ji Cixi said, she went to the front of the car and opened the door, and ordered Ji Xu: "Go in!"

Ji Xu shrank his neck, still muttering no need, Ji Cixi had already stepped forward and pushed him into the car forcibly.Seeing him sitting firmly in the back seat of the car, Ji Cixi slammed the door and sat on the co-pilot herself.

The car started, kicking up some dust and floating in the air.

In the distance, the headlights of a high-end black car flickered, and the man in a suit and leather shoes on the driver's seat looked down at the woman sitting behind him through the front mirror of the car.

The woman's eyes hidden in the dark made it hard to see clearly, and the shadow cast on her delicate face seemed to have covered her with a very thin black veil.

There was a beautiful arc drawn from the corner of the woman's mouth, and a voice as clear as a jade pendant sounded in the car.

"Let's go back."

The man raised his eyebrows and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure?"

"Ah, it's probably close to ten." After she finished speaking, she gave a light laugh.

"I thought the child was already very interesting, but I didn't expect the mother to be more interesting."