Husband, Spend Some Gold Coins

Xie Qi pulled the curtain, assisted Jiang Sining to the toilet, cleaned the bedpan, and placed it back under her bed.

Jiang Sining, extremely embarrassed, suggested, “How about we find a female nurse?”

Xie Qi glanced at her and remarked, “How can I afford that? If I’d known, it would have been more convenient for you to have a daughter to take care of you.”

Jiang Sining remained silent.

Xie Qi, realizing he had spoken hastily, softened his tone, saying, “I will take care of the teacher when he wakes up.”

Feeling suddenly exhausted, Xie Qi thought about the time. He couldn’t always ask for leave to be in the hospital, right?

Considering this, he asked, “Can you call my aunt to take care of you?”

Jiang Sining replied, “I asked too, and she said she didn’t have time.”

Puzzled, Xie Qi questioned, “Where are your friends?”

Jiang Sining responded, “…No. Time.”

Xie Qi sighed, “Okay, it’s necessary for me to come.”

Suddenly, Xie Qi’s phone rang. It was a message from Wu Zhuang, asking, [Can you give the patient another massage at five o’clock?]

Xie Qi replied, [Okay.]

Feeling like there was still a few hours left, he wasn’t in a hurry to pass by.

He informed Jiang Sining about this, and she was shocked, “You can get two hundred yuan for two massages a day? How about I do it.”

Xie Qi chuckled, “The outsourcing was good.” He then said, “Forget it, he’s a man; you’d better avoid suspicion.”

Unable to be always in the hospital, and lacking time, he told Jiang Sining, “I’ll deliver food in the morning and noon, and you can do it in the evening. Just eat the food here by yourself.”

Jiang Sining thought for a moment and said, “Forget it in the morning and evening; just bring lunch.”

Xie Qi agreed, “Okay.”

Initially, he wanted to tell Jiang Sining to drink less water, but seeing her still wearing a sling bottle, he realized she probably couldn’t hold it in even if she wanted to go to the toilet.

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Feeling tired, Xie Qi reflected on his recent busy schedule. His eyes hurt more frequently. After leaving the ward, he leaned against the wall and applied eye drops. His golden eyes seemed to dim.

He headed to the canteen next to the hospital and bought some bread and cakes for Jiang Sining.

After arranging dinner for Jiang Sining, he hurried to the vegetative patient’s ward, hoping to finish early and return home sooner.

Upon reaching the ward, he received a message from Wu Zhuang: [Hey, wait, his mother is here. Hold off for now; let me come.]

Rolling his eyes at the situation, Xie Qi sighed. [Alright, I’ll clean him up first, and you can come over for the massage.]

Wu Zhuang reassured, [Okay, your salary won’t be deducted.]

Xie Qi simply replied, [Yeah.]

Xie Qi fetched water and gave the patient a massage. As he lifted up his clothes and began wiping, he noticed, “Did you have chest muscles before? They seem deflated. You’ll cry when you wake up.”

Xie Qi knew the man had added muscles to his body. Judging by the weight, the man had a broad build, with some remaining chest muscles and abdominal lines. He appeared to be a former athlete dedicated to exercise.

Distracted while wiping, Xie Qi thought about Teacher Hou. If he also became a vegetative state, he might not hold on for long.

Serious in thought, when Xie Qi reached to lift the man’s arm to wipe his armpit, the man’s fingers moved. Thinking he made a mistake, Xie Qi stopped and stared at the man’s hand.

After a long look, the finger didn’t move. Just as Xie Qi thought he made a mistake; he noticed the man’s hand was remarkably large.

Unaware of the cramped tendon, Xie Qi straightened the man’s finger, compared it with his own, and clicked his tongue. The man’s finger was longer.

This hand was perfect for playing basketball.

Taking a towel, Xie Qi wiped the back of his palms and between his fingers. As he was about to switch sides, the man suddenly grabbed his hand tightly.

Startled, Xie Qi’s hands trembled, and the towel fell. His eyes fell on the man’s tightly closed eyelids. His heart pounded, and his vision blurred. Trying to calm down, he attempted to twitch his hand, finding the man’s grip too tight.

They were indeed hands suitable for basketball, sticking to the ball without falling.

Xie Qi took out his phone with one hand and took a photo for Wu Zhuang, [Is he really in a vegetative state? Why is his hand holding me so tightly?]

Wu Zhuang: [???]

Wu Zhuang: [How could this be? Is it a fraud corpse!]

Xie Qi: [?]

No, was this the first time?

Wu Zhuang: [Damn it, I’ll be there soon.]

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Xie Qi put away the phone, twitched his hand vigorously, but still couldn’t pull it out. Staring at the man’s face, he tried to find evidence of waking up.

After watching for a while, he saw nothing. Remembering TV series knowledge, he extended his hand to check the man’s eyelids. Finding nothing abnormal, he patiently waited for Wu Zhuang to arrive.

After a while, Wu Zhuang arrived in a hurry and saw the man on the bed holding Xie Qi tightly.

He immediately took a photo and seemed to send it to the man’s family.

Xie Qi didn’t speak on the side. He felt a bit tired; the man’s tight grip had reddened the edges of his skin. It wasn’t painful, just a little sore.

Wu Zhuang put down his phone and said to Xie Qi, “Remember! You must say you are my brother; do you understand?”

Xie Qi’s eyes stinging, he endured and replied, “Yes, I know.”

As Wu Zhuang was about to leave, Xie Qi hastily said, “Wait a minute, can you help and ask him to let go?”

Wu Zhuang looked at him with jealousy in his eyes, “Why do you want to let go? This is a good thing, do you understand?”

Xie Qi: “I don’t understand. I want to go back. If you don’t help me, I’ll find a way on my own.”

Wu Zhuang quickly stopped him, “Wait, just keep it like this, I’ll give you a salary increase!”

Xie Qi, upon hearing this, thought for a moment and said, “Okay, how much more?”

Wu Zhuang reluctantly said, “One hundred.”

Wu Zhuang walked out in hurry, and Xie Qi waited. While waiting, he attempted to pull away slightly, but the man’s grip persisted, and he couldn’t free himself.

Xie Qi had no choice but to take out the eye drops with one hand, open the lid with his teeth, raised his head, and carefully dripped it into his eyes.

After dripping the left eye, dripping the right eye, but before finishing, a loud female voice came from the door, “Yizhi!!! Mom is here!”

Xie Qi shook his finger, accidentally squeezing out a lot of eye drops at once. It stung!

‘Damn it!!! It hurts!’

Xie Qi hurriedly put away the eye drops and fumbled for some paper in the cabinet.

A familiar female voice came from behind, “Who are you?”

Xie Qi finally found the paper, wiped his eyes hastily, and turned around. Though his eyes were ‘moist with tears’ he couldn’t see the woman. But not recognizing her wasn’t an option – she was that noble lady!

‘Is it such a coincidence?’

The man on this bed was actually her son??

When the woman saw Xie Qi’s red eyes, filled with tears, she quickly reacted, rushed up, and held Xie Qi’s other hand, “Good boy, I didn’t expect you to come here! You must love Yizhi dearly!”

Xie Qi: “??”

Confused, Xie Qi wondered, what was going on?