The blind boss's nanny

"mom!"

Lu Tingxi stood up in disbelief.

"Do you know... the temperature difference between day and night is huge right now! You're going to kill someone!"

The noblewoman turned her face away, her eyes darting around.

She truly had no intention of harming anyone; she simply wanted to teach Lin Xiaoman a lesson. However, she was distracted by the ancestral worship ceremony and completely forgot that someone was locked up in the backyard.

She slowly took out her phone:

"I'll call the family doctor over right now."

Just then, Lu Tingzhao, who had been listening intently, suddenly spoke:

Who are you talking about?

Yuanbao let out a sad whimper and buried its wet head in its owner's palm.

Qin Xiu leaned down at the opportune moment and whispered in Lu Tingzhao's ear:

"Chairman, it's Lin Xiaoman."

Lin Xiaoman fell ill.

She lay in a guest room on the first floor, drifting in and out of consciousness.

Many people came and went during that time, including doctors, the Lu siblings, and Qin Xiu.

But the ones who came the most were probably Aunt Mei and Ah Zhe.

She could hear each of them talking, but she couldn't quite make it out.

Aunt Mei wiped her forehead with a warm towel, her tone filled with helpless concern:

"You're such a worry, just like my daughter!"

Ah Zhe would come and sit quietly for a while every day. Once, she heard the boy mutter to himself:

"Sister Xiaoman, Yuanbao hasn't eaten properly for two days."

Lu Xingyuan sighed and complained to the unconscious woman:

"Big sister, wake up! Big brother won't let me go to school anymore! If this keeps up, my buddies are going to max out my meal card!"

That afternoon, Qin Xiu helped Lu Tingzhao walk in.

Yuanbao immediately stood up from the foot of the bed, its tail wagging gently.

"Xingyuan, do you know why I left you here?"

Lu Tingzhao was facing his younger brother.

"I know, it's just a matter of apologizing to her when she wakes up."

Lu Xingyuan pouted.

"You've said it several times."

At first, Lu Xingyuan was quite excited that his older brother had asked him to stay overnight.

He has never spent the night here.

He had always been very interested in the swimming pool and e-sports room in the basement.

Who knew that his older brother would ask him to come here three times a day to take care of Lin Xiaoman.

"Big brother, I really didn't expect her to be your nanny..."

Lu Tingzhao took half a step forward:

"If she weren't my nanny, you could treat her however you want?"

The room was so quiet that you could hear birds chirping outside the window.

"Xingyuan,"

Lu Tingzhao's voice was steady yet carried a sense of pressure.

"Are you trying to cause a death here?"

He tilted his head slightly, his unfocused eyes seeming to see through everything:

"Or are you going to put yourself in legal trouble before you're even a minor?"

"No matter how much trouble you cause usually, I've never criticized you... But today, you really went too far!"

Lu Xingyuan subconsciously took half a step back.

As the youngest son born when his father was nearly fifty, he was spoiled rotten from a young age, but he was afraid of his older brother.

In Lu Xingyuan's mind, the name "Lu Tingzhao" represented an insurmountable order and authority.

"Big brother, I know I was wrong."

The boy lowered his head, a rare occurrence for him.

Lu Tingzhao nodded slightly:

"You can go now, and ask the school for a few more days off."

Lu Xingyuan walked out of the guest room dejectedly, feeling increasingly depressed.

This time, Qin Xiu, that bespectacled man, made a fool of himself again!

Just look at how he acted all high and mighty next to his older brother! It makes me so angry!

Watching Lu Xingyuan's departing figure, Qin Xiu spoke at the opportune moment:

"Chairman, should we hire another person?"

This was the second day that Lin Xiaoman had been in a coma.

During this period, Qin Xiu and Aunt Mei took turns taking over her work, but this was not a long-term solution.

They all have their own things to do, and their tasks are quite demanding.

They can't go on like this forever.

"or,"

Qin Xiu cautiously suggested,

"Should we transfer Miss Lin to the hospital?"

They all understood the subtext of this proposal... sending Lin Xiaoman to the hospital would mean terminating their employment relationship.

A brief silence filled the air.

Let's observe for another day.

I don't know who said the last sentence.

The speaker's tone was calm and even, as if he were merely assessing the usefulness of an item.

Lin Xiaoman drifted in and out of consciousness, vaguely sensing someone sitting by her bedside.

A cool hand gently stroked her forehead, and Aunt Mei's voice carried a sigh:

"Lin Xiaoman, if you don't wake up soon... the chairman will have to send you away."

These words pierced Lin Xiaoman's hazy consciousness.

Leaving here means losing her job and the income that is so vital to her.

No... absolutely not...

In the dead of night, Yuanbao quietly slipped in and pressed his warm nose against her palm.

Lin Xiaoman struggled repeatedly in her dream, as if she had returned to the winter before her grandmother passed away.

After being swindled out of their savings by their parents, the grandmother and grandson could only make a living from the vegetable garden in front of their house.

Every day at three o'clock in the morning, the grandfather and grandson would push a creaking cart, carrying vegetables covered in dew, into the city.

They always wait in the most secluded corner of the market, sometimes for the whole day.

Until one evening, a neighboring vendor, in a dispute over territory, pushed and verbally abused Grandma.

There was an unusually large amount of leftover food that day, and the grandfather and grandson huddled together in the cold wind until the moon was high in the sky.

"I'll take them all."

Lin Jiaqi, who was passing by, kindly bought the remaining vegetables.

From then on, the cooks from Sunshine Home would come and buy most of the vegetables every day.

"Is that enough?" he kept ordering more and more food. The grandfather and grandson decided to have it delivered to their door, and that's when they learned about Lin Jiaqi's past:

He was once a successful entrepreneur, but after experiencing ups and downs in the business world and a divorce, he gave up all his wealth to establish this private orphanage.

With media coverage and government support, Sunshine Home has gradually gained fame.

Grandma's health deteriorated, and she gradually began to consider sending Lin Xiaoman here.

"We have a rule that we only accept orphans without parents."

Lin Jiaqi looked troubled.

From that day on, Grandma refused to accept money for the vegetables she brought.

She would arrive at Sunshine Home before dawn, leaning on her cane, and sit on a small stool at the entrance of the courtyard, mending the children's worn-out clothes.

In the twelfth lunar month, she braved the wind and snow to deliver three large vats of pickled sauerkraut, her hands cracked and bleeding from the cold.

But what truly shook Lin Jiaqi was that snowy night.

The old man knelt shakily on the icy steps, his gray hair covered in snowflakes.

"Our Xiaoman is a good child. She was helping me start the fire and cook when she was six, and she could run her vegetable stall by herself when she was eight. It's her parents... who don't deserve such a wonderful child."

Tears streamed down his deep wrinkles and into his collar.

"She was originally adopted by us, and then abandoned by my son and daughter-in-law..."

Lin Jiaqi couldn't bear it.

Hiding behind the door, Kobayashi Ryosei tugged at his father's clothes:

"Dad, why can't we take her in?"

Lin Xiaoman stayed at Sunshine Home.

She wasn't originally surnamed Lin.

It was she who requested the change later.

Half of the children in the courtyard have the surname Lin, and the other half have the surname "Dang".

They are Lin Biao's children, and also the children of the Party.