Hearing her words, Mother Meng suddenly shed tears from the corners of her eyes. She covered her mouth with her big palm, and sobs escaped through her fingers. "During the car accident, I was holding Shengnan. I tried my best to protect him, but he still hit his head. After the emergency treatment by the doctor, he was taken to the nursery. The doctor was observing his condition. When I went to see him, he was still in a coma."
Meng Nianchu's face instantly turned deathly pale.
Mother Meng sniffed and wiped the tears off her face. "I'll wait here for your father. You go to the nursery to see Shengnan first. I'll take care of things here."
Meng Nianchu took off running in the direction of the nursery, with Mu Junze closely following behind.
The nursery was on the third floor. It wasn't a long distance, but at this moment, Meng Nianchu felt as if she had walked quickly for a long time before arriving. Extremely anxious, she stopped at the nursery door. Seeing Shengnan lying in the nursery with his eyelids closed, Meng Nianchu felt as if a knife was stabbing her heart.
The surgeon who performed the operation on Shengnan guessed Meng Nianchu's relationship with Shengnan from her reaction. He went to the office and took out Shengnan's brain scan, pointing to a black area for Meng Nianchu.
"Fortunately, your mother was there to protect him. There's no major problem with his brain. But there is still some congestion in his brain. For now, we'll use drug treatment first. If he still doesn't recover later, we'll have to perform surgery."
"Then why is he still in a coma..."
"Don't worry. He's just still under the effect of the anesthetic after the operation. He'll wake up soon."
Hearing this, the worry in Meng Nianchu's heart eased a little.
Mu Junze tightly held her hand, giving Meng Nianchu a lot of strength invisibly.
During the time when Meng Nianchu was discussing the risks of Shengnan's operation with the doctor, Father Meng's operation was already over. A cut had been made in Father Meng's chest and it was stitched up with five stitches. When Meng Nianchu received the call from Mother Meng and rushed to the ward, Father Meng was still unconscious.
"Don't worry too much." Meng Nianchu squeezed Mother Meng's shoulder. Looking at Father Meng lying on the hospital bed, she was also very worried.
About half an hour after Meng Nianchu and Mu Junze returned to the old house to get Father Meng's things and then came back to the hospital, Father Meng woke up.
Meng Nianchu helped him sit up and placed a pillow behind him.
"Did you go to see Shengnan?" The first thing Father Meng said after taking a sip of water was about Shengnan.
He had seen Shengnan snuggled in Mother Meng's arms with blood on him when he was about to lose consciousness, so he couldn't help but be worried.
Meng Nianchu sat beside him and answered truthfully, "He hit his head, but it's not a serious injury. There's congestion in his brain. We'll use drug treatment first. You don't have to worry about Shengnan. I'll take good care of him and he'll be fine. But the doctor told you that you must pay attention to your health in the next two days. Don't be so busy with work and take more care of yourself."
"That won't do. There are so many things in the company waiting for me to handle. If I don't take care of them, the company will just sit idle and run out of resources!"
Father Meng shook his head as soon as he heard this.
Meng Nianchu gritted her teeth and said, "Over the years, haven't you always wanted me to inherit the company? Today, I discussed with Mu Junze. I'll inherit the company and merge it under Mu Junze's company to operate as a subsidiary. Mu Junze will manage it for the time being, and I'll take over later."
"This..." Father Meng glanced at Mother Meng. How come Meng Nianchu had changed so much after just one operation?
He had tried to persuade Meng Nianchu to inherit the family business with both good and bad words before, but he had never succeeded. Now, she agreed so easily?
The entertainment industry was a complex place, and it was easy to get involved in scandals. Naturally, Father Meng was happy that Meng Nianchu had agreed to inherit the company.
But he was also afraid that Meng Nianchu was reluctant and would feel wronged.
After thinking it over and over again, he finally chose to say euphemistically, "Dad's body is still okay. Dad can still handle the company's affairs. If you want to act, just keep acting. Dad doesn't need you to give up your dream for me."
"Stop it." Meng Nianchu pulled the quilt up to cover Father Meng's chest. "I've already made the decision. Just do it like this. You should rest well first and don't think about other things."
Father Meng was already injured like this, so Meng Nianchu naturally wouldn't let him go back to the company to worry about things. She had been involved in many scandals recently, and she was a little tired of it. Inheriting the company was also a new challenge for her, not a form of grievance.
Not long after Father Meng woke up, he lay back on the bed and fell asleep. Mother Meng's arm was injured, so Meng Nianchu asked Mu Junze to take her back to the old house to rest. She didn't want her to be too tired.
Meng Nianchu sat by Father Meng's bedside. She would go to the third floor to check on Shengnan from time to time and then come back to take care of Father Meng.
The stars outside the window gradually disappeared, and the night gradually gave way to dawn.
At six o'clock in the morning, the police in charge of Father Meng's car accident suddenly came to the hospital and told Meng Nianchu all the clues they had investigated one by one.
"We investigated Linda's activities during the time when Mr. Meng had the car accident last night. We found that she wasn't at the scene when the accident happened, and she was on the phone with an actress at the birthday party. Moreover, early this morning, we found the hit - and - run car, and we found that the owner wasn't her. The car was stolen a few days ago."
At that time, Linda and Father Meng hadn't met yet.
Meng Nianchu lowered her eyes. Could it really not be Linda?
Then who else would want to harm Father Meng!
After confirming that Linda wasn't a suspect, the police had no other clues to tell Meng Nianchu. After repeatedly assuring her that they would find the murderer as soon as possible, they didn't stay in the hospital any longer.
Although she heard from the police that Linda didn't have the time to commit the crime, Meng Nianchu still had a great deal of suspicion in her heart.
She found Aunt Li Cai's phone number on Father Meng's phone and dialed it. A female voice came from the receiver.
But it wasn't Aunt Li Cai's voice. It was a mechanical voice.
"The number you dialed is out of service area. Please try again later..."
Meng Nianchu dialed again, but the result was the same.
Aunt Li Cai was the person Father Meng had secretly arranged beside Meng Rong to monitor her actions when he sent Meng Rong to the United States. She was supposed to notify Father Meng in time if anything happened.
However, except for the first two days after Meng Rong went to the United States when Father Meng had called Aunt Li Cai a few times to ask about the situation and knew that Meng Rong was having a hard time there, he felt heartache but didn't dare to let Meng Rong come back. So, to stop himself from being soft - hearted, he didn't call again.
After that, there had been no more phone calls from Aunt Li Cai.
This was the first time she had called her again.
A bad premonition welled up in Meng Nianchu's heart, and the feeling that something was going to happen became stronger and stronger.
She tightened her grip on the phone, and her whole body tensed up.
The merger of the two companies meant a huge workload for Mu Junze. Mu Junze didn't have time to come to the hospital until noon. He brought the food that Meng Nianchu liked.