It's the students' fault if they are too popular.

On a winter night, the Christmas atmosphere has just faded away, and it is quiet and peaceful.

"Ruanruan, are you asleep?"

In the dormitory, Ruan Qian tilted her head, clamped her phone between her face and shoulder, stared at the computer, and concentrated:

"Not yet. What made you suddenly think of calling me?"

"nothing."

She swallowed back the words "I just want to hear your voice" because they were too corny.

"Is that insomnia?" Ruan Qian laughed, "I used to suffer from insomnia before exams."

"I'm not suffering from insomnia." She pouted, "I just want to know...how you've been doing lately."

"not good."

"What's wrong?" She felt nervous.

"No rumors."

"..." The corners of her lips curled up unconsciously, and even her stomach felt a little better.

After that, we chatted about some trivial daily things. The sleepiness overwhelmed the discomfort, so she said:

"No more talking, I'm going to sleep first."

"Good night then."

"Good night."

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Tong Yao woke up in the drowsy early morning and looked at the time. It was not yet one o'clock.

She rarely woke up in the middle of her sleep, feeling groggy, and only noticed after a while that her stomach was becoming more uncomfortable.

She roughly understood that something was wrong with her body. It didn't hurt, but it was very uncomfortable.

She was not a doctor, so she could only go to the hospital. Slowly, sweat began to form on her forehead, and she struggled to find her medical card and other information. When she was about to go out, Dongyang's bedroom door quietly opened, and the child stood there, wearing bunny slippers and with his ears drooping, looking at her worriedly:

"Aunt, where are you going?"

Tong Yao paused, turned around, and said soothingly:

"Auntie is out for something and will be back soon. Go to bed."

"Are you going to the hospital?" Dong Yang stared at the hospital logo on her handbag, raised his head, and his eyes were slightly red. "I want to go too."

Then I went in and changed my clothes immediately, and it only took me a few seconds to come out.

Tong Yao pursed her lips and stood still, not refusing. It wasn't serious, so she didn't want to worry her family, but going to a place like the hospital, with someone accompanying her, she would feel more at ease - even if it was just a six-year-old child.

"Get in the car." She went downstairs and sat in the driver's seat. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but after going downstairs, the discomfort seemed to suddenly turn into pain. Her pretty eyebrows twisted together and she stepped on the accelerator despite the pain.

City Hospital, Emergency Department.

The pain increased exponentially. Tong Yao was in so much pain that she could hardly walk, but she didn't dare to show it, for fear of scaring Dong Yang. When she registered, she was covered in cold sweat. The pain was like a hole in her stomach.

The doctor on duty at the emergency room was a young female doctor. She asked Tong Yao to lie down, asked about her symptoms, and pressed her stomach. When she pressed her lower abdomen, she felt a sharp pain. "It could be appendicitis," the doctor said.

"Appendix? But I had stomach pain before..." She bit her lip and covered her stomach with her hands.

"Many appendixes start to hurt from the top, making you think it's the stomach." The doctor walked to the side, "I'm not sure, so go get a CT scan, on the underground first floor."

The CT scan process is a long and painful one.

The yawning doctor operated the instrument, and she was in excruciating pain on the CT table. After the scan, she sat weakly on the chair waiting for the results. Dong Yangguang was so anxious just looking at her that he was about to cry.

"I'll call grandma..."

"Not yet," Tong Yao shook her head, wiped the sweat off her face, panted and smiled at Dong Yang, "It's so late, let's talk about it tomorrow."

She happened to watch Conan that night, and she hoped that there would be a Gin who could knock her out with a stick unexpectedly, so that she wouldn't have to feel the pain.

After an unknown amount of time, the results came out. She had lost track of time and just wanted to be relieved as soon as possible, so she took the results to see a doctor.

In the emergency department, the doctor looked at the CT results and confirmed acute appendicitis.

"Then... do I need surgery?" Tong Yao asked nervously.

The doctor looked at her and said, "It should be possible to have conservative treatment. Go to the inpatient department and ask the doctor for details."

Half past two in the morning.

Tong Yao walked slowly on the road, Dong Yang held her hand and tried hard not to cry. The child's world looked colorful, but her aunt was her heaven. When her aunt fell ill, Dong Yang's world seemed to collapse.

Tong Yao stepped onto the steps. At this moment, a dazzling car light shone behind her. She turned back blankly and saw Jiang Wu park the car and get out. She turned to Dong Yang, who whispered:

"I called them."

How could Tong Yao have the heart to blame her?

Although she didn't want to worry her family, she was no longer afraid or anxious after seeing Jiang Wu. However, the people who bore these emotions became her family.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Wu snatched her medical record anxiously and read it from beginning to end.

"...Appendicitis." She said with difficulty.

Jiang Wu flipped through the medical records, lifted her hair from her forehead, and frowned: "How did you get appendicitis out of nowhere?"

"Mom, let's find a doctor first."

"Okay, okay," Jiang Wu agreed with her, "Your father is out of town, I haven't told him yet."

"Then don't tell it." She panted, "Save trouble."

When she arrived at the inpatient department, the benefits of having family around her immediately became apparent. She only needed to sit down with her hands on her abdomen, and Jiang Wu found a doctor for her and transferred her to a high-end ward. If it wasn't so late at night that she couldn't find any acquaintances, it would have been even simpler.

Half an hour later, Tong Yao was lying on the bed with a bottle of anti-inflammatory medicine hanging on her neck.

The temporary doctor was a man in his forties. The reason he was temporary was because Jiang Wu insisted on finding the best doctor, but most doctors were sleeping at home, so she could only let the doctor on night shift see how to treat the patient first.

Conservative or surgical.

Tong Yao answered without hesitation: "Conservative."

Jiang Wu advised her: "Conservative treatment may lead to recurrence."

Tong Yao was silent for a moment, turned away, and whispered:

“I don’t want surgery.”

Jiang Wu couldn't do anything about her, so she told the doctor to use conservative treatment.

One of the costs of being conservative is that even with an IV drip, it hurts a lot. This pain is unbearable and unrelieved. Tong Yao's face turned pale. Jiang Wu sat beside her, wishing she could take her daughter's place in the pain.

Dong Yang sat on the other side of the bed, crying silently.

"Luckily, you are not like your brother, who lives far away in Guangzhou. If you were out of town, how could your mother help you?" Jiang Wu's face was filled with worry. "I urged you to fall in love before because I was afraid that you would run into a situation where you would not even have someone to take care of you."

"Mom, stop talking." She said sullenly, "Ruanruan has to go to school and has other things to do."

She turned her head, took out a piece of paper, wiped Dong Yang's tears, and smiled tiredly with a morbid beauty, "Don't cry, Auntie is fine, appendicitis is just a minor illness."

But this minor illness is as deadly as a toothache. A toothache can make a grown man cry, and appendicitis is no less serious.

At five o'clock, she was still awake. The sky outside the window was dark. She had not become numb after such a long time of pain, and the effect of the infusion was minimal.

At eight o'clock, the doctor came to work. Jiang Wu left temporarily, as if she wanted to talk directly with the dean. Tong Yao didn't sleep all night, yawning constantly but couldn't fall asleep. She was almost used to this pain, it was very painful, but there was nothing she could do.

The door of the ward was opened. She was in so much pain that she didn't have time to look. She thought it was Jiang Wu who came back, but she didn't expect Dong Yang to shout:

"Ruan Qian!"

She turned her head subconsciously.

At the door, Ruan Qian was panting, sweat dripping from her down jacket. She came back on a red-eye flight, and her eyes were still red. She stood there leaning against the door frame and watching the nursery rhyme, as if she could cry at any moment:

“…Rumor.”

Tong Yao stared blankly at Ruan Qian who came over and sat beside her. The little girl leaned against her gently. The child, who hadn't cried for a long time, burst into tears again because of her.

“I…I wanted to call you, but my phone was out of battery.

"If only... I could come back from vacation."

Hearing the little girl's sobs, she also wanted to cry. After holding it back, her voice was a little hoarse:

"What's the point of you coming back? It's not like you won't get sick just because you're here. Besides, it's just a minor illness."

Ruan Qian shook her head, sobbing, and slowly raised her head, looking at her with moist eyes, and asked softly:

"Does it hurt?"

Tong Yao didn't want to make Ruan Ruan more sad, so she tilted her head and smiled, saying, "It doesn't hurt that much anymore."

"That's because it hurt a lot before." Ruan Qian felt extremely guilty.

Why didn’t I sound weak when I talked to Teacher Tong on the phone yesterday?

When you need me, you are not there.

The two people around her, one big and one small, cried harder than each other. Tong Yao's heart was weakened by their crying, and she almost thought she had an incurable disease. But the little girl didn't let her comfort her. She wiped her tears and went to ask the nurse this and that. Not long after, Jiang Wu came back, followed by a female doctor wearing glasses, who was said to be the backbone of general surgery here. After asking Tong Yao about her condition, Tong Yao answered truthfully that she was in so much pain that she was almost dying.

When she heard that Tong Yao had been lying to them, Ruan Qian lowered her head in distress, and Dong Yang almost cried again.

"Let's have surgery," the doctor said. "You are unlikely to recover with conservative treatment."

Tong Yao shuddered at the thought of someone cutting her open or making holes in her.

Conservative treatment is unlikely...but isn't there still a slight possibility?

She wanted to back out, but she knew in her heart what was the right thing to do.

"Can we try conservative treatment first to see the effect, and then have surgery?" Ruan Qian suddenly said.

"Yes." The doctor nodded.

"Then let's be conservative, how about that?" Ruan Qian looked at Tong Yao, "Maybe it can be cured."

She knew what Teacher Tong was afraid of.

Conservative treatment would most likely waste an extra day or two, and surgery would still be required in the end, but she didn't mind accompanying Teacher Tong to prepare herself mentally.

Just as Tong Yao was about to say conservative treatment, he held the words back in his stomach.

She sighed and thought to herself, I'm not that timid.

"Let's have surgery."

As a woman in this life, I raised Dongyang and saved myself a caesarean section, so I can consider it as paying off my debt.

Chapter 166: Warmth

When you wake up, it is no longer the ceiling of your home.

Tong Yao opened her eyes blankly and found that everyone was staring at her, as if the next sentence would be "Miss, you're awake."

That's too far-fetched.

"Auntie..." Dongyang looked at her with tears in his eyes.

Jiang Wu said: "Maybe the effect of the anesthetic hasn't worn off yet."

Ruan Qian looked nervous: "How do you feel?"

It turns out the operation is completed.

She was given general anesthesia, and the abdominal cramps had disappeared. She looked at her blue and white striped hospital gown and saw that there were several more pieces of gauze on her body. She didn't feel any pain after the operation, except... She struggled, but couldn't get up.

"It's pretty good," she said.

Jiang Wu breathed a sigh of relief: "The wound from laparoscopy is very small, and it doesn't hurt much. It won't leave a scar."

"Mom, I want to take a nap." She was sleep deprived and had no strength. She leaned against the soft pillow and fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes.

The other people in the ward were again in a situation where they had nothing to do.

"Auntie, if you have anything to do, please go back first." Noticing that Jiang Wu had hung up several calls, Ruan Qian said softly, "I will take good care of Yaoyao."

It's just a minor operation and the patient can be discharged from the hospital in a few days, so it really doesn't require several people to take care of him.

Jiang Wu does have a lot of things to do.