Why it never ends

After leaving the ward, Ding Yuqing ran to the end of the corridor and cried for a while. Hesta stood guard two or three steps away from her.Not long after, Hesta heard the door opening and footsteps behind her. She turned around and saw a patient coming out of the ward next to Miaomiao and approaching them.

"Yu Qing?" The visitor called softly, "Your mother asked you to come over."

Ding Yuqing responded, wiped her tears and ran away.Hesta followed her a few steps, but did not follow her into the ward.

Hesta looked at the time. She originally thought she could go to Songxueyuan tonight after sending Ding Xueyang home, but now it seems... the situation here is more complicated than she imagined.

Hesta stood alone in the corridor for a while. She wrote a text message to Si Lei, postponing tonight's meeting to next week, and then returned to Miaomiao's ward.

Miaomiao stopped crying now. She was finally willing to lie down on the bed, but she still held Ding Xueyang's hand.

Hesta sat down next to Ding Xueyang.

"Yuqing asked me to take you home later."

"...Don't use you," Ding Xueyang said apologetically, "It's really troublesome for you tonight... Let's wait until Miao Miao goes to bed first."

"Does she have to sleep here tonight? Can she come with us?"

"No," Ding Xueyang shook his head quickly, "Miao Miao's fever has not gone away. If she has another convulsion, it is safer to stay in the hospital."

"Then you get up. I'll help you pull out the nursing bed, and you can lie down as well."

Ding Xueyang was startled, "Ah... ok."

She got up and walked around to the other side of the bed, watching Hesta move the two chairs and open the cabinet door under the bedside table - inside the cabinet was a folding single bed, with one end fixed in the cabinet door and the other end. It has a push-pull design. Hesta leaned over and adjusted the six support points, then sat on it and tried it before inviting Ding Xueyang over.
"...I'm so busy," Ding Xueyang couldn't help but laugh, "I even forgot that there is a bed here."

"I have to go back. Do you need anything from home? Make me a list and I'll go back and get it."

Ding Xueyang still didn't react. She looked at Hesta blankly, and after a while she nodded again and again.As she answered, she turned around and went to her bag to get a pen and paper to make a list for Hestad.

After leaving the ward, Hesta went to look at Xu Ruyi's room next door. Ding Yuqing was sitting on the bedside talking to her mother in a low voice. They both stopped talking when they saw Hesta come in.

"You're here," Xu Ruyi tried her best to look in Hesta's direction.Hesta quickly walked to her bedside and held the hand extended by Xu Ruyi. Xu Ruyi smiled sheepishly, "I don't know what happened today, but I made it so embarrassing..."

"I'm going back to help Sister Xueyang bring some supplements and Miaomiao's toys." Hesta said softly, "Do you have anything you need me to bring?"

Ding Yuqing raised her head, "Can you help me get my toiletries? There is a folding basin on my sink -"

"No, no need!" Xu Ruyi said immediately, "Both of you, go back. When you get home, Xiaoqing, bring the things your sister wants, and then you go back to rest -"

"It doesn't matter," Hesta looked at her, "I'll be here later."

"No, no, you are a guest at home——"

"If you say this again, I will leave directly." Hesta looked at her, "Is there anything you need me to bring?"

Xu Ruyi was speechless for a moment. She looked at Hesta, her slightly startled expression was exactly the same as Ding Xueyang's before.Ding Yuqing still frowned, "You really don't need me to stay here with you? If you have to get up at night -"

"I'll call the nurse," Xu Ruyi interrupted her daughter, "I'm just going to sleep for one night, and I'll need someone to keep an eye on me wherever I go... Go back as soon as possible. I've already called your dad, and he'll be here early tomorrow morning."

Hesta looked at Ding Yuqing, "Will you go home with me?"

Xu Ruyi looked at her daughter with complicated eyes and called out Ding Yuqing's name in a low voice.

"Okay...I'll go back."

……

It started to rain again on the way back, so Ding Yuqing called a car and the two of them sat in the back seat together.From the moment he got in the car, Hesta closed his eyes and leaned against the window. Ding Yuqing wanted to say something several times, but seeing Hesta's sad and tired look on his face, he swallowed all his words.

Hesta did not want to say a word. She felt exhausted after just soaking in the hospital for more than half an hour.

The two of them went upstairs in silence. Ding Yuqing went to her mother's room to pack her things, while Hesta opened Ding Xueyang's door with a list.

The moment he turned on the light, Hesta was surprised by how messy the room was - the floor, the bed, even Ding Xueyang's desk... there were Miao Miao's toys everywhere.

She carefully stepped on the open space among the debris, searching for the items on Ding Xueyang's list according to the map.

Different from the types of toys seen in the living room before, there are a large number of ship models placed on the cabinets in this room. Hesta cannot identify the model of each ship at a glance. He often has to look closely for the labels attached to the hull. Know their names.

She quickly found a few supplements on the bedside, but it was not easy to find a "lighthouse ship" among this huge pile of toys...

She simply pulled out her chair and began to sit and search for the lighthouse captain.

"Jian...?" The door opened from the outside, and Ding Yuqing poked her head in. "Have you found all your things? Do you want help?"

"Yes." Hesta handed over the order, "What is this 'lighthouse'? Do you recognize it?"

"I recognize it." Ding Yuqing said immediately, "Miaomiao's birthday gift last year. She treasures it... It should be put away. I'll look for it."

Ding Yuqing opened several cabinets and quickly took out a transparent glass bottle from one of them. Inside the bottle was a bright red ship, with the ship's name painted in white paint on the side.

"I found it, this is it." Ding Yuqing carefully took out the bottle and base, "It's so expensive... It seems that the trustee named Shi bought it from District [-]. I'll look for the box for you."

……

Ten minutes later, Hestad and Ding Yuqing left the house with two bags - Ding Yuqing refused to let Hestad go out alone no matter what. She called a car and held an umbrella, still with Hestad. Go to the hospital.

When the two stepped into the corridor of Miao Miao's floor again, they almost immediately saw Miao Miao and Ding Xueyang sitting on chairs in the corridor.

"You are here." Ding Xueyang raised his head when he heard the voice, with a helpless smile on his face, "Miaomiao heard that you went back to get the model, and refused to sleep. She had to wait in the corridor."