Chapter 7 Die Soon? (1/2)

Xiao Bing returned to the hotel room. He booked the room beforehand to exonerate himself. Therefore, the monitor in the hotel could only capture him entering but not leaving. As the former group leader of the best special force in Hua Xia, killing someone without getting caught was no doubt a piece of cake for him.

In the morning of the next day, Xiao-Bing had a casual breakfast after washing his face and rinsing his mouth. Then he went to the hospital and walked to the ward. At the door, he saw Su XiaoXiao chatting happily with her mother. It seemed her mother was recovering well. He knocked on the door gently, waited until the mother and the daughter noticed him, and opened the door.

”Here comes my lifesaver.” Su’s mother looked quite delighted. ”Yesterday, if it weren't you, I am afraid I am already dead by now. I just asked Xiao Xiao about you, but she didn't know anything.”

Xiao Bing walked to them and said with a smile, ”No need to call me a lifesaver, Auntie. Peiya is my comrade-in-arms, you are an elder-ship to me. What I did yesterday was little.”

”That means a lot to me already. Oh, you and Peiya are comrade-in-arms? Peiya hasn't come home for a long time. How is she doing now?” Su’s mother got excited and almost sat up. Su XiaoXiao held her hurriedly and glared at Xiao Bing in anger-they had agreed yesterday to keep this a secret. However, he couldn't keep his mouth shut, which showed his unreliability.

Xiao Bing smiled and said, ”You don't need to worry. She’s carrying out a mission that takes a while. That's why she couldn’t come home shortly. She wanted me to tell you she’s fine.”

”Alas, my girl......I can understand her. Work is important. Not to mention she is serving the country. It’s just my poor man, didn’t get to see her again before he died.......”

Su’s mother seemed quite sad. Xiao Bing and Su XiaoXiao had to comfort her right away.

After talking about this again and again for a while, Su’s mother realized that she had been neglecting her lifesaver. She said in an awkward voice, ”Sorry for being discourteous. And I still don’t know your name. Mine is Li Chunlan. You can call me Aunt Li.”

Xiao Bing smiled and also introduced himself, ”My name is Xiao Bing, you can call me Lil Bin, Auntie Li.”

”Lil Bin it is then.”

Xiao Bing laughed and said, ”You can call me as you like, Auntie Li.”

”Where are you from, Lil Bin? How old are you? Are you married?”

Su XiaoXiao frowned hearing these questions. And Xiao Bing also felt embarrassed. ”Is Auntie Li going to set me up with a girlfriend?” He thought to himself. However, it would be rude not to answer. Therefore, he smiled and replied, ”I am from Feng Lan City, 26 years old now. I am not married. I don’t even have a girlfriend.”

Li Chunlan felt delighted after hearing this. Other than her daughter Su Peiya who traveled a lot for work, she didn’t want to introduce anyone else to him. She thought since her daughter sent Xiao Bing to visit her, she must have liked this young man. What’s more, the fact that Xiao Bing saved her life made her believed that that’s the man her daughter should marry.

”26 is not that young now, my Peiya is also 23 already. People of your age should have a relationship. Why didn’t you find a girlfriend? Couldn’t find a good one? Your family didn’t introduce you to a girl?

Xiao Bing said in a down voice, ” I grew up in an orphanage. I didn’t have a family. And I didn’t even know my parents.”

”I am so sorry to hear that, I didn’t know that you...... ”

Xiao Bing smiled and said, ”It’s okay, Auntie, how are you recovering now?”

”I am doing much better now. I should have been discharged from the hospital now if they have listened to me. But they didn’t let me.”

Su XiaoXiao complained, ”Mom, the doctor said you are not even able to walk now and need to rest for two days. What’s more, the result of the general examination you had this morning is still yet to come out.”

”Alas, I know my condition. Staying in the hospital for two more days won’t change anything. And I need to be there for the noodle restaurant. Nobody knows how to make the special noodles but me. If I don’t go back, who can run the restaurant?”

Su XiaoXiao got mad and said, ”There are many more choices than noodles in the restaurant. Moreover, which is more important between business and your health? You are not going anywhere before getting better. You will leave here when you are allowed to.”

”You kiddo.......”

When Li Chunlan was about to complain, Xiao Bing said to her by side in a low voice, ”Aunt Li, actually, I can make your special noodles too......”

”You can too?” Li Chunlan looked at Xiao Bing stunned. In her memory, Su’s family never shared the noodle recipe to an outsider. After her husband passed away, only she and her older daughter Su Peiya could make the noodles. Knowing Xiao Bing could also make the noodles, her eyes got brightened. What would it mean when a girl taught a guy how to make the noodles only her family could make?

Xiao Bing felt a bit awkward and said, ”The true reason Peiya sent me here is to help you run the noodle restaurant. My retirement was early. And I am looking for something to do. I am just uncertain about whether you will take me or not, Aunt Li.”

Li Chunlan said with joy, ”Sure, Peiya has made a good friend. I already made a decision. From now on, you will help me to take care of the noodle restaurant.”

Su XiaoXiao shouted out, ”No!”

Suddenly the door to the ward was open from outside. The attending doctor in white gown stood at the door and said, ”The patient's family should come out.”

Xiao Bing smiled and said, ”Have some talk with your mom, Xiao Xiao. Let me see what the doctor will say.”

”Okay!” Seeing Xiao Bing willingly took himself as a family, Li Chunlan felt more delighted. ”He certainly knows who he wants to be.” Li Chunlan thought to herself. After Xiao Bing left the ward, she goggled at Xiao Xiao discontentedly and said, ”What a good lad Lil Bin is. He saved my life. What did he do to you to make you so angry with him?”

After the doctor took Xiao Bing to the end of the corridor, he looked at him and said with a sigh, ”You and your family should prepare, the patient might not survive long.”

”What?” Xiao Bing got extremely shocked, ”I thought Aunt Li is already recovering.”