Wagner, who ran over, immediately noticed Lele’s condition: “Ningning, he fainted!”
Ningning, upon hearing this, anxiously looked towards his older brother: “Brother, save Lele!”
Huo Lin: “...”
Huo Lin bent down, picked up Lele, and took him to see the doctor.
On the spaceship, Dr. Jean, who came along, examined Lele. After Dr. Jean checked him over, he immediately started administering nutrients to Lele: “This child passed out from hunger. With some nutrient infusion, he’ll recover in no time.”
Sitting nearby, Ningning heard Dr. Jean’s words and quickly thanked him.
Dr. Jean gently touched the little child’s cheek. “Ningning, you’ve also lost quite a bit of weight this time. Remember to replenish yourself properly.”
Although the little child still looked tender and delicate, he was clearly not as chubby as before.
Dr. Jean looked at him with some concern.
The little child, feeling Dr. Gene’s concern, glanced down and gently rubbed his own stomach, saying, “I’ve eaten a lot of food now!”
After seeing Dr. Jean off, the little child returned to sit by the bed.
Huo Lin sat beside him.
“Brother, Lele is very timid. Please don’t scare him in the future.”
“Okay.”
“He will call you uncle. Remember to agree.”
“…Okay.”
“Brother, you’re really nice.”
“Mm.”
The little child’s rainbow fart arrived a bit late, but he opened his arms, allowing his brother to give him a hug. (T/N: rainbow fart - something like exaggerated compliment.)
The little troublemaker, who had been smelly for days, hadn’t cuddled with his brother during this time.
Huo Lin held the soft and chubby child in his arms and finally felt a sense of relief. He let the little child sit on his lap and whispered, “Next time you go on a trip, I’ll accompany you.”
“Um, but brother is very busy.”
“I’ll make time to be with you.”
“Okay.”
They sat together, conversing. Savi looked at Huo Lin, then at Ningning, seemingly curious about their interaction.
While they were all in the room, the door creaked open.
Zhan Xi walked in.
An Nuo and Ling Qi had already heard from Dr. Jean that the child on the bed had passed out from hunger, so they were preparing food together.
Raphael and Twain were still dealing with business remotely.
Zhan Xi took a few steps forward, looking at the child in his brother’s arms. After watching for a few seconds, he asked knowingly, “What happened to Lele?”
“Lele passed out from hunger.”
The little child climbed down from his brother’s lap and sat on his father’s feet, hugging his father’s legs. “Daddy, Lele is very obedient. Can we take Lele home?”
“I can scavenge to support him.”
His father had supported himself by scavenging, so he could definitely scavenge to support Lele.
The child’s words amused Zhan Xi a bit. “With the little junk you collected, you can’t even afford a bag of spicy strips.”
It’s not that he didn’t want to take Lele home, it’s just that he wasn’t familiar with Lele. Although he heard from his own child, Wagner and Savi, that Lele was a timid, obedient, and pitiful little child.
But this little child was also a little prince.
“Ningning, you brought Lele back. Can you take responsibility for him in the future? Will you take good care of him?”
“I will!”
The little child straightened his chest and promised, “I will take care of him!”
He had been taking care of Lele for several days, so he was quite experienced.
Zhan Xi, being an adult, naturally had more considerations. Although he had many considerations, he still accepted another child in the family.
Lele had been receiving IV fluids for quite some time.
Adults on the spaceship came over to see him one after another. After days of turmoil, Lele, who was already thin and weak, looked as weak as a kitten cub, which softened people’s hearts.
Raphael, who came over in his spare time, saw the small gold lock hanging around Lele’s neck.
He raised an eyebrow. “You’re quite generous.”
Such a small gold lock, and it was given away just like that.
The little child looked at his aunt, acting like a baby, asking his aunt to hold him.
After Raphael picked him up, the child shamelessly started bargaining. “You have to pay to hold Ningning!”
“Auntie, buy another gold lock for Ningning.”
Raphael: “...”
Was it too late to let go now?
Without the gold lock, the little child clung to his aunt’s neck, being very sticky: “I told Roy and the others that I have a gold lock. If they don’t see it, they’ll think I’m lying.”
Being stingy, Raphael, after thinking for a few seconds, proposed a solution.
“You can wear the gold lock with Lele, each of you wearing it for one day.”
As soon as this solution was proposed, the little child blushed and opposed it vehemently.
The little child’s face turned red as he said, “I’ve already given the gold lock to Lele! If I take it back and wear it again, it will be embarrassing!”
The little child, who had already lost face before coming to the winter camp, didn’t want to lose face again.
He cuddled up to his aunt, speaking in a soft, babyish voice: “Auntie, give Ningning a gold lock, and when Ningning grows up, he will be filial to you!”
The little child tried to coax his aunt into giving him another gold lock.
He didn’t ask his dad or Uncle Ling Qi for it because it was hard for his dad and Uncle Ling Qi to earn money to support him. He couldn’t let them buy gold for him.
Uncle Lulu and Auntie Ai Wei bought the child many clothes, shoes, and toys, so the child couldn’t ask for more.
And his brother, his brother also bought him many things.
His uncle didn’t have any work and had no money.
After thinking it through, the little child still thought that his aunt was the only one he could ask for a gold lock.
