Zhan Yue said, “Don’t bring anything. I already drink tonic soup to replenish qi and blood every day.”
He looked at his butler.
The butler prepared three meals for him daily, and two of them always included tonic soup. After drinking it for so many days, he was truly tired of it.
“Brother, just come empty-handed. You don’t need to bring anything. I’m not short of those things here.”
“When visiting a patient in the hospital, how can we come empty-handed? Buying a fruit basket is only proper.”
Zhan Yue: “…”
Zhan Haoyu pulled over a chair and sat down by his younger brother’s bed.
The butler poured Zhan Haoyu a cup of warm water, then quietly left the ward to give the brothers some private space for topics he was not meant to hear.
“Third sister-in-law has gone back to Jiangcheng?”
Zhan Yue asked.
“Yes, she’s gone back. There’s a lot going on at the company, and she can’t be away for long.”
Zhan Yue smiled. “I think third sister-in-law couldn’t wait to return to Jiangcheng. It’s the summer holidays, a rare chance for you both to be free from looking after the kids.”
His eldest brother had twins in one go, two boys who were now at the age even dogs would dislike.
Only the Qiao family spoiled them rotten because the Qiao family had few descendants and not many children.
Qiao Xuan was married, but he and his wife had not yet had children. Qiao Xuan said they would enjoy a couple more years of just the two of them before having a baby.
Anyway, their parents already had two grandsons to dote on, so they wouldn’t pressure him and his wife to have children.
“I’m going back to work in Jiangcheng tomorrow. When are you planning to be discharged, kid? When you leave the hospital, I won’t be home, so I’ll ask second brother to come pick you up.”
The second brother he mentioned was Fifth Young Master.
Among this generation of Zhan family young masters, numbers three, five, eight, and nine were born to the third branch. Outside, their ranking included cousins, but when the blood brothers were alone, they used their ranking among themselves.
“No need to trouble second brother. My injury isn’t serious. When the nurse changed my dressing earlier, she said I could be discharged.”
He was reluctant to leave Zeng Xiaoya, that was why he didn’t want to be discharged.
“You could have been discharged ages ago. Staying three to five days is normal. You can’t stay until you marry Dr Zeng, can you?”
Zhan Haoyu teased his younger brother.
Zhan Yue wasn’t annoyed. He said, “I’ll leave in a couple of days. Then, while I still need to recuperate and have some time, I’ll start pursuing her.”
“Dr Zeng is on the night shift tonight. After I’m discharged, I can come every morning, wait for her to finish work, invite her to breakfast, and then take her home.”
Zhan Haoyu said, “If you suddenly start pursuing her like that without warning, she won’t be mentally prepared and probably won’t accept you.”
“You should first create a few more chance encounters, let her get to know you better, move beyond the doctor-patient relationship, gradually become familiar, and then confess and pursue her properly.”
“Take it step by step. Don’t frighten the girl.”
Zhan Haoyu was passing on his experience27 to his brother.
Zhan Yue thought for a moment, then nodded. “I’ll listen to you, brother. Dr Zeng is quite bold, so I don’t think she’ll be scared.”
“I feel she has a very good impression of me. Every time she does rounds, her attitude is excellent, very warm. Brother, I’m liking her more and more.”
“She comes from a medical family. Everyone in her family is a doctor.”
Zhan Haoyu hummed in acknowledgement. “As long as her family background is clean, that’s fine.”
Old Eight didn’t need his brothers to investigate Zeng Xiaoya, but every single one of them had gone and checked her background anyway.
Only after confirming her original family circumstances were clear did they feel at ease letting Old Eight fall in love.
“Grandma asked about you today.”
Zhan Haoyu suddenly said.
