“How could I possibly want that?”

“It’s good that you don’t.” Qin Muyang’s face had already darkened. “Ning Wenhao’s father sacrificed himself on the battlefield. As his son, Ning Wenhao is the focus of the campaign department and also someone very important to the country’s protection. Although you’re not his biological mother, you should be kinder. He’s the orphan of a martyr, after all.”

With that, Qin Muyang could no longer be bothered to argue with a woman like Xiao Yushan. He nodded at Old Master Ning and Ning Haoran and left.

Xiao Yushan was about to find trouble with Mao Yating when a nurse beside her asked with a smile, “Mrs. Ning, you only have five hours to see the patient today. Would you like to go in now?”

“Yes!” Mao Yating immediately nodded.

“Please come in with me. I’ll tell you some things to take note of over the next few days.”

“Okay.”

Mao Yating was extremely disheartened by the Ning family. She did not even look at Old Master Ning before she followed the nurse into the intensive care unit.

“What kind of attitude is that?!” Xiao Yushan’s face instantly darkened, and she could not help but say angrily, “Do you really think you can look down on the Ning family now that you have Chi Yang and

Nangong Nuannuan’s backing?”

Ning Haoran glanced at Xiao Yushan and said, “Dad, don’t be angry. It’s not like you didn’t know about this woman, Mao Yating. When you gave her money to leave Haoyu, she didn’t take a single cent before leaving. Right now, Hao is the most important thing to her. The Ning family and money mean nothing to her. If we really want her to help the Ning family, she has to be able to feel our kindness.”

Old Master Ning thought about it and felt like that made sense. He could only swallow his anger and order Ning Haoran, “Tell her to come home for dinner tomorrow night.”

“Yes.”

Xiao Yushan glanced at Ning Haoran, her eyes full of depression.

Nuannuan and Chi Yang left the military hospital. After they got into the car, Chi Yang asked, “Nuannuan, you looked at Ning Wenhao’s body just now. Do you know why his illness is so serious? Is his illness coming from a source we have yet to pinpoint?”

At first, Chi Yang thought that Ning Wenhao had only gotten pneumonia because his body was frail due to his injury and his immune system had been weakened. However, Ning Wenhao’s sudden coma and the fact that even the best anti-inflammatory drugs in the world could not suppress his illness made Chi Yang a little suspicious.

Ning Wenhao was his subordinate and brother. Among ordinary people with no special abilities, he was considered the cream of the crop. Even if he suffered a serious injury, he would recover faster than ordinary people, and his resistance was better than that of ordinary people.

Nuannuan said with a serious expression, “1 observed him carefully. The infection in his lungs is not pneumonia caused by a cold. Instead, it’s a large area of infection caused by some special bacteria in a wound of his that was triggered by the cold. In other words, an enemy of his planted this cold-activated bacteria in his body. Even if he manages to clear up his infection now, after he recovers from his injury and is discharged from the hospital, as long as he has a cold again, it will retrigger the infection.”

“Have you ever seen this kind of infection before?

Nuannuan shook her head. “Never. The necrotic cells in his lungs look very strange, so I have to study them carefully.”

Chi Yang looked at Nuannuan and wanted to ask her more. However, in the end, he did not. Because he did not want to put too much pressure on Nuannuan..