Chapter 421: Chapter 419: Touching Words of Love
In this icy and snowy weather, why are we eating grilled fish?
"Put on your clothes and I’ll accompany you to the infirmary." Lin Wan used cold water to dampen a towel and applied it to Han Yi’s head.
"Okay." Han Yi’s voice was already a bit hoarse.
Upon hearing this, Lin Wan’s eyes turned red. She had always thought Han Yi was her safe haven. No matter what happened, as long as he was there, she didn’t worry at all. But it turned out, the safe haven couldn’t withstand the turmoil.
"Why cry? It’s just a cold. I’ll take some medicine and be fine." Han Yi was only feeling feverish and weak and had an uncomfortable throat. It wasn’t anything serious.
"It’s all my fault. If I hadn’t wanted grilled fish, you wouldn’t have caught a cold."
"Silly girl." What is this compared to the hardships Lin Wan didn’t know about during the war years ago, where not only were conditions harsh, but cold and hunger were common?
Seeing his wife blame herself, Han Yi smiled helplessly, "Alright, stop crying. Yes, it’s all your fault, okay? Now your punishment is to accompany me to see the doctor."
Lin Wan blinked her eyes and pushed the tears back. She quickly helped Han Yi put on his military coat.
She took out the military water bottle, filled it, and supported Han Yi as they headed to the infirmary.
The doctor on duty today was the one who argued with her last time.
Seeing Han Yi come over, she acted as if she didn’t see her standing there. She walked over with a smile to Han Yi’s side, raised her hand to pull Han Yi’s arm, saying, "Captain Han, what’s wrong?"
Han Yi smiled faintly and discreetly shrugged off her touch, saying with a distant tone, "I have a bit of a fever. Please get me some medicine."
"Fever, huh? Quickly sit down, let’s measure your temperature first." The female doctor’s nervousness matched Lin Wan’s earlier.
Using the convenience of her position as a nurse, she wasn’t just feeling Han Yi’s forehead with her hand but also touching his chest.
Lin Wan frowned as she watched from the side. Touching the forehead was understandable, but why was she touching the chest?
"Miss Nurse, do you know what you’re doing? If you don’t, please call a doctor over. My husband is running a high fever. We can’t afford any delay." Lin Wan’s cold voice reached the nurse’s ears, making her turn around, raise her eyebrows, and glare at Lin Wan impatiently, saying, "Can’t even take care of your own husband. What kind of wife are you?"
"I don’t need you to teach me how to be a wife. I’m curious how you became a nurse when, after so long, you haven’t even diagnosed my husband’s illness." Lin Wan realized this female doctor was probably interested in her man and couldn’t stand her.
"If you don’t trust me, you can leave. Anyway, you’re not welcome here. Captain Han, why did you marry such an uncivilized woman when you could have married me? I could have helped create a warm home for us within the team. But you married a country girl instead."
"Nurse Yang, I’m here to see a doctor, not to have my wife criticized. Please watch your words and call Doctor Wang for me."
"Hey? You..."
Lin Wan looked at Nurse Yang’s disgruntled face, her mischievous delight showing brazenly before Nurse Yang.
She intended to infuriate this ill-intentioned woman, and since Doctor Wang wasn’t summoned, another nurse on duty, Nurse Chen, came over to attend to Han Yi. "Captain Han has tonsillitis. Quite a few people in the team have caught this recently. It’s better to have him on a IV for two days." Everyone at the infirmary knew that Yang Ting had gotten in through connections and knew nothing beyond administering injections.
Everyone knew she was here for Captain Han, yet he completely ignored her. To avoid her, he preferred marrying a country girl.
Now with his legitimate wife by his side, she shamelessly approached him, as though she was out of her mind. It’s no surprise she was unpopular.
Lin Wan smiled slightly at the nurse, saying, "Thank you, nurse, please set that up for us."
"Just a moment, I’ll go prepare it." Captain Han’s country wife was much better than Yang Ting in so many ways. Beautiful and considerate.
Captain Han clearly wasn’t blind.
Yang Ting felt very embarrassed after Han Yi’s remark and sat down gloomily to the side, occasionally casting a plaintive glance at Han Yi.
To someone unaware, it might look as if Han Yi were a heartless man.
Lin Wan didn’t want to stay under her watchful eyes any longer, so she took Han Yi to the IV room, helping him lie down.
The IV room was very large, with four or five beds inside.
Getting an IV would take at least two or three hours. Worried Han Yi might feel cold, she found a bed close to the heater for him.
Aside from the coal heater, the infirmary didn’t have any heated beds.
Soon, Nurse Chen brought Lin Wan an antipyretic pill, instructing her to have Han Yi take it first.
Nurse Chen had just gone out when Yang Ting returned with a jug of hot water.
"Captain Han, you’ll need hot water to take your medicine. I was afraid you wouldn’t like the communal cups, so this is my personal one. Make do with it for now."
Regardless of if Han Yi would use it or not, he would rather use the communal one than Chen Ting’s cup. Naturally, with Lin Wan around, she wouldn’t give her the chance.
"We brought some water, no need for Nurse Yang’s kindness." Lin Wan said tersely, not bothering with a thank you. "Nurse Yang should leave before a patient arrives and you miss them."
Yang Ting cast a plaintive glance at Han Yi, and when she saw he hadn’t even looked her way, her eyes reddened as she ran off with her cup.
This left Lin Wan speechless; she hadn’t even started picking on her, and she was already crying! What was going on?
Lin Wan shot Han Yi an annoyed glance, snorted angrily.
She didn’t forget to put the medicine in his hand, and opened the water for him.
Han Yi pressed his lips into a smile. After swallowing the medicine, he carefully held Lin Wan’s hand, coaxing her, "Don’t be angry."
Just as Lin Wan was about to ask what the deal was with Nurse Yang, Nurse Chen had already mixed the medicine and walked back in.
Lin Wan held her tongue until Nurse Chen had set up the IV.
Seeing Lin Wan was upset, as soon as Nurse Yang left, Han Yi hurriedly pulled her to sit at the bedside, and said, "That Yang Ting, was a fiancée Mei Shuping arranged for me."
"Ah... You..." Fiancée? When did that happen?
"Calm down, calm down, be careful not to hurt the baby."
Lin Wan was full of curiosity, her face nearly scrunching into a hill.
"It was before I married you. I didn’t agree. She’s no one significant to me, what’s the point of arranging a wife for me?"
"So, you rushed to find someone to marry so that he wouldn’t keep scheming in this aspect?"
"Yes." "So, if you hadn’t met me, you’d have been quick to marry some other woman, right?"
Lin Wan had lived two lifetimes, and was just now realizing why Han Yi was so eager to marry. Although she knew he approached her, initially not for love, it still bothered her a little.
"Silly girl, I wanted to get married, but I was also very cautious. A lifetime partner, of course, I’d want to pick someone who suits me. Otherwise, why would I drag it out so long, right?"
Han Yi had indeed mentioned this to her before, anyway, marrying him was a good thing.
"Then, do you like me?" Lin Wan leaned into his arms, asking softly yet shyly, afraid someone outside might hear.
"I do." Han Yi grinned, wrapping his un-IV’d hand around Lin Wan. If he didn’t like her, why would he marry her?
"Speaking of that, I haven’t asked you yet. Last time I returned to Huai Town, I heard from my comrades, a girl came to deliver a sweater. It was blue, very pretty. As I recall, the one you gave me in S City was the same color. Was it...just a coincidence?"
Han Yi’s words made Lin Wan’s heart thud with shyness, burying her face in his chest, she murmured, "Gentleman of virtue, of course I like him. Tried to chase him to be my husband. Could it work?"
"Congratulations, my lady, for getting your wish." Han Yi chuckled, teasingly whispering in Lin Wan’s ear.
Lin Wan braced herself, lifting her head, glancing at the door. Seeing no one, she quickly pecked Han Yi’s chin, saying, "Han Yi, I love you."
Han Yi wanted to say that this was the most melodious thing he’d heard in his twenty-plus years. The most touching.
With this confession, Lin Wan had also thrown caution to the wind, her face flushed and heart racing, not noticing Han Yi’s reaction, she added, "Do you love me?" Such mushy words, Lin Wan vowed this was the first and last time she would say them to Han Yi.