"Li Peng, how long has it been since you cleaned your toilet? You're thirty-one or thirty-two and still haven't gotten married. You really need to pay more attention to hygiene!"

Before Zeng Yunchen could say anything, He Yu had already quickly mentioned Li Peng.

"Please sit, Mr. Zeng."

He Yu sat down.

Li Peng paid no attention to what they were saying, only poured each of them a glass of water, but kept his eyes on the bedroom.

Zeng Yunchen and He Yu exchanged a glance. This furtive behavior of Li Peng suggested that something was wrong with him, definitely wrong.

He Yu stood up and casually walked towards the bedroom. "You said you bought this house a while ago, but apart from our housewarming party, we haven't had much of a chance to come and see it."

Zeng Yunchen sat on the sofa without saying a word, wanting to see what Li Peng was up to.

He wasn't afraid of Li Peng's defection. He knew Li Peng's character very well. He was single-mindedly focused on medicine and was known as a medical genius, but in reality, he was just a simple-minded, honest, and straightforward person. He was not cunning and could not lie. If he ever lied, everyone in the surrounding villages would know.

When he went on blind dates, the girls asked him what he did for a living. He said he treated patients, and he had diagnosed nine out of ten girls. He didn't find a marriage partner, but they all became his regular customers. They would come to him for any minor ailment. He didn't know if this was a blessing or fate.

Mr. Li had worried about it, but there was really nothing he could do about his son's condition. Gradually, no one was willing to introduce him to anyone, and he himself lived a rather easy life every day.

For a while, Zeng Yunchen and He Yu suffered because Li's father sometimes pressured them to get married, hoping they could give Li Peng some advice.

They're so unreliable; they just listen, nod, and that's it.

Li Peng's marriage is a matter of fate.

But now, he's hiding things?

This pushed Zeng Yunchen and He Yu's curiosity to its limit.

Before He Yu could even reach the bedroom, Li Peng couldn't help but stand up, muttering to himself, "She just had her milk, I wonder if she's asleep. I'll go check on her again."

"Just had milk? Who had milk?"

This statement completely shocked Zeng Yunchen and He Yu. Li Peng had really gone too far; he actually dared to have a child out of wedlock?!

Zeng Yunchen also got up and walked towards the bedroom. Li Peng was such a hidden talent!

In the bedroom, Li Peng was lying on his side on the bed, looking at the "little person" on the bed.

The two stared at what was in front of them, dumbfounded, somewhat unable to believe that there really was a child inside.

But upon closer reflection, Li Peng's character is questionable.

Zeng Yunchen spoke first, "Li Peng, whose is this with? What you're doing isn't right."

"What girl? I picked her up."

"what!"

"what!"

Can you still find a baby these days?

Where did you find it?

"Hospital"

"Our hospital?" Zeng Yunchen asked in disbelief. He had never heard of any abandoned babies at his hospital.

"Um"

While answering Zeng Yunchen's question, Li Peng gently patted the baby next to him.

Zeng Yunchen and He Yu moved closer. The child was fair-skinned and looked quite healthy. How could he have been abandoned?

"What kind of parents are these little guy? They give birth to a child but don't raise him!" He Yu said angrily. He never thought that one day a case like this, which he only saw on TV, would happen to him.

"Dead"

Li Peng's casual remark left the two of them feeling like they had a fishbone stuck in their throats, and they swallowed back the words they wanted to say.

"Dead?" Tang Min, who was listening attentively, exclaimed in surprise. She had considered many possibilities, but she never expected that both her parents had passed away.

“Hmm,” Zeng Yunchen looked at Tang Min, his eyes filled with sadness.

"What about the other family members?"

At the time, Zeng Yunchen and He Yu also asked Li Peng the same question, "What about the other family members?"

"The child's father was a truck driver who died in a car accident. The child's mother had just given birth and suffered from postpartum depression, so she committed suicide by jumping off a building. The child's grandfather also passed away from illness, leaving only a grandmother who has difficulty walking."

Li Peng naturally recounted the child's life, a short one.

Tang Min, like Zeng Yunchen and He Yu at the time, remained silent. They had no right to judge this grandmother for such abandonment. Perhaps in her eyes, the hospital could offer the child a glimmer of hope.

"How did it end up with Li Peng? He wasn't married or had any children at the time," Tang Min continued to ask.

The baby was wrapped up and left at the hospital entrance. Li Peng happened to see it and immediately took the baby to the obstetrics and gynecology department. Fortunately, the baby was fine.

However, the question of whether the child should stay or leave has become a major problem for the hospital. Li Peng said that the hospital has had cases of abandoned infants in the past, and they were eventually taken away by the rescue station. But this child clearly knows his family members, and one of them is still alive. It is uncertain whether he can be taken away.

Before Li Peng took the child home, several doctors and nurses in the obstetrics and gynecology department had been taking care of the child for many days.

But most people have families to support, and sometimes they don't have the energy to take care of him.

Perhaps it was fate that he found the child, but Li Peng often went to see him. After hearing about their difficulties, he took it upon himself to say that he could take the child back and care for him for a couple of days.

"Did the OB-GYN doctors agree?"

"They didn't agree. How could he agree when he doesn't know anything? It was Li Peng who was diligent and learned from them for more than a week before they felt comfortable letting him bring him back."

"He probably didn't really intend to raise it himself after bringing it home."

He really did think about it.

Tang Min pursed her lips. This Dr. Li looks honest, but he's got quite a wild mind.

"But his family disagreed. At the time, there was a girl who is now his wife, and they were getting along very well, and it seemed like they were about to get married."

"So you brought it back?"

"Um"

Aren't you afraid that when your good time is almost here...

“Now that I’ve brought him back, I’m not afraid. And as it turns out, there’s really nothing to be afraid of, isn’t there?” Zeng Yunchen raised the corners of his mouth smugly and looked at Tang Min.

Tang Min shyly tucked her hair behind her ears, feeling a little guilty. He still didn't know she wasn't "Tang Min".

"Is this child Chengyu?"

"Hmm," Zeng Yunchen nodded.

From then on, Zeng Yunchen frequented the hospital, and it was only then that he understood what his mother meant when she said that the hospital was a place where one could witness all aspects of life.

There were people there who were happy, and people who were sad. Those who wanted to live and those who didn't wanted to live all gathered together. The hospital was very busy every day, and the doctors and nurses always had a lot to do.

Around lunchtime, there are always three or four small carts gathered at the hospital entrance, selling boxed lunches, the price of which hasn't increased for years.

Zeng Yunchen's memories were filled with sadness about his time in the hospital. Tang Min wanted to comfort him, but felt it was inappropriate, so she withdrew her hand from Zeng Yunchen's shoulder.

"Are Cheng Xue and Cheng Jing like this too?"

"Um"

Zeng Yunchen was not in a good mood, and his tone became sullen.

“But after Chengjing, my mother forbade me from bringing any more children home. My thinking at the time was very simple: the Zeng family was rich, raising a few children was no problem.”

"But you haven't considered that there will always be children abandoned, and the chain of abandonment won't be broken."

"Yes, that's what my mother said too, so I didn't adopt any more."

Do the little ones know about their origins?

"Of course I know. Even if I don't say it, others will. I might as well tell them myself that I only raised them, and I won't stop them from going back to their biological families when they grow up."

Zeng Yunchen said this, but his expression was completely the opposite. Tang Min had reason to suspect that if the three little ones really left, he would be the first to cry.

Tang Min then began to understand why the three little ones were so obedient; their lives were hard-won.

Tang Min couldn't resist and gently hugged Zeng Yunchen, patting his back.

"You've raised them very well; they're very well-behaved," Tang Min secretly vowed to herself, never again calling the three little ones old-fashioned.

Zeng Yunchen leaned his head on Tang Min's shoulder. "I've always wanted them to know that they are no different from the other children in the Zeng family."

"So what happened today?"

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