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At 10 o'clock in the evening, Xu Shaobai and Xu Wan rushed to the hospital from the airport after receiving the notification.

After graduating from high school, Xu Wan went abroad to study. She was studying in the same school as Xu Shaobai. Xu Zizheng sent her siblings abroad. Obviously, she wanted them to enter the family business directly after graduation to help out. However, Xu Shaobai was too gentle. Xu Wan is also a girl who always wants to marry. In Xu Zizheng's mind, only Xu Shaoqian, the eldest son of the Xu family, is a well-deserved successor.

So, that night, when Xu Wan and Xu Shaobai rushed to the hospital, Xu Zizheng and Xu Shaoqian were talking secretly in the ward.

Xu Shaoqian was sitting by the bed, Xu Zizheng was half leaning on the bed, and said calmly: "I have already said hello to the headquarters of the Emerald Family. If I have something to do, the lawyer will read the will directly at the shareholders' meeting. You don't have to Don't worry, the confidantes I have cultivated over the years will continue to support you."

"Fourth Uncle, you'll be fine." Xu Shaoqian's voice was hoarse because of exhaustion. This scene similar to confessing his last words made him feel very uncomfortable.He lost his parents when he was very young, and his fourth uncle single-handedly brought him up. For him, his fourth uncle is like a father.

Xu Zizheng said in a low voice: "Tomorrow's operation, if I can't wake up, how should you know what to do?"

Xu Shaoqian was silent for a moment before saying, "I know."

Xu Zizheng nodded, "I believe that you will never let me down."

At this moment, Xu Shaobai suddenly pushed the door open and entered. The young man's face was as pale as paper, and his fingers were trembling slightly. He rushed to Xu Zizheng's bedside, and said with a choked voice, "Dad! How are you doing?"

Xu Zizheng stretched out his hand, gently touched Xu Shaobai's head lying beside him, and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, you'll be fine after the operation tomorrow. I want to rest, you all go back."

Xu Shaobai glanced at his father, then looked back at Xu Shaoqian, "Brother..."

"Let's go, let fourth uncle have a good rest." Xu Shaoqian stood up, walked out of the hospital with Xu Shaobai and Xu Wan, took a taxi to the hotel booked in advance, let them sleep peacefully, and visit the hospital tomorrow morning.

After arriving at the hotel, Xu Shaoqian took a hot bath in the bathroom, and was about to fall asleep when the doorbell suddenly rang. When he walked to the door and looked through the peephole, it was actually Xu Shaobai.Xu Shaoqian opened the door and said with some doubts: "Shaobai, what's the matter?"

"Brother... I can't sleep." Xu Shaobai was wearing a large pajamas, his body looked very thin, he walked into the room with a pale face, sat by the bed, looked at Xu Shaoqian with red eyes and said, "I'm afraid that Dad will Something happened, if there is any accident in tomorrow's operation, will he... not be able to wake up?"

"Don't think about it." Xu Shaoqian walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder lightly, "A tough man like Fourth Uncle won't fall down so easily."

Xu Shaobai suddenly threw himself into his arms, and said softly: "Brother, I'm very scared, I'm afraid that Dad won't be able to get through this time...I have a...very bad premonition...I..."

The young man was pale and trembling in his arms, looking very pitiful, his thick eyelashes fluttered slightly, casting a faint shadow on his eyelids, he hugged Xu Shaoqian tightly with both hands, as if grasping a life-saving straw Same effort.

Xu Shaoqian was silent for a while, then he hesitated to reach out his hand, stroked his brother's soft hair lightly, and said in a low voice: "Okay, don't think about it, go back and have a good sleep, tomorrow will be fine."

Under Xu Shaoqian's patient comfort, Xu Shaobai finally calmed down, nodded, turned and returned to his room.

Xu Shaoqian actually doesn't know this cousin very well, especially after Xu Shaobai went abroad, the brothers rarely meet each other several times a year. In his impression, Xu Shaobai has always been that sickly, withdrawn, and distressing child.

Looking at the back of Xu Shaobai turning away, Xu Shaoqian always felt strange in his heart—this younger brother's personality is so soft, like a small animal in a cage, unable to withstand a little blow, it is really hard to imagine that he could be Xu Zizheng son.

In the afternoon of the next day, Xiao Rang also rushed over from China. When he saw Xu Shaoqian, he said, "How is uncle?" Xu Shaoqian said, "He is preparing for surgery." go.

Not long after, Xu Shaoqian's second aunt Xu Jiaying and her British husband Will also arrived at the hospital. The Xu family hadn't gathered so many people for a long time. A group of people watched Xu Zizheng enter the operating room, and then sat in the corridor and waited anxiously. .

Time passed by, and everyone sat in the corridor without saying a word, and the atmosphere was a little indescribably dull.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly, the door of the operating room opened, and two doctors came out together, one of them was an assistant for this operation, and the other looked like a young intern. The older doctor bowed his head and rushed. After the intern explained a few words, the intern immediately turned around and left in a hurry.

Only then did the elderly doctor say: "Xu Zizheng's family members, please come with me."

Xu Shaoqian stood up immediately, followed the doctor to the office next door, and asked in a low voice, "Doctor, how is the patient's condition?"

The doctor patiently explained: "The hidden aneurysm ruptured during the operation, and emergency rescue is underway. The patient now needs a large amount of blood transfusion, and the pre-operative blood has been used up. Because the patient has type AB blood, the hospital's blood bank has AB type blood. It happens to be in short supply recently, we just applied for an emergency transfer of type AB blood from the blood center, and we have already sent someone to get it.”

"Is he blood type AB?" Xu Shaoqian frowned slightly.

The doctor nodded, and took out a notice from the drawer, "He is in a critical condition now. This is a critical illness notice, and the family members need to sign it. Also, regarding the rescue, I want to know what the family members can bear." .”

Xu Shaoqian was silent for a moment, took the critical illness notice from the doctor's hand, swiped it twice, signed his name, and said as calmly as possible: "Please, use all means to rescue him, and absolutely don't let him have an accident!"

The doctor nodded and said seriously: "Don't worry, we will try our best to rescue your father."

The doctor probably made a mistake in haste, thinking that Xu Shaoqian who signed the consent form was Xu Zizheng's son.

The unintentional words of "your father" suddenly caused a strange feeling in Xu Shaoqian's heart.

Father?The word was undoubtedly unfamiliar to him, and his father had long since died.When I was a child, I also secretly wished that it would be great if my fourth uncle was my father. Seeing my fourth uncle holding the frail and sick Shaobai and feeding him, Xu Shaoqian even felt a little envious in his heart.

However, the fourth uncle has type AB blood, just like himself.If I remember correctly, Shaobai was in poor health when he was a child, and he often went to the hospital for blood transfusions because of anemia. What blood type was the transfused blood...?

Xu Shaoqian's thoughts were a little confused, he turned around and sat down in the corridor, frowning.

Xu Shaobai walked up to him, shook his hand lightly, and asked worriedly: "Brother, are you okay? Your face is ugly."

Xu Shaoqian shook his head and said, "It's okay."

After a while, the door of the operating room was pushed open again, and Xu Zizheng, who was in a coma, was pushed out, with thick gauze wrapped around his head and a mask for oxygen inhalation on his face.The surgeon in charge said briefly to the family members: "The patient's hidden aneurysm ruptured during the operation. We carried out emergency rescue. Now he is out of danger, but he doesn't know when he will fully wake up."

Xu Shaobai raised his head and asked, "I don't know when he will be able to wake up? You mean, he may not be able to wake up...or even become a vegetable?"

The doctor was silent for a moment, then nodded with a serious expression and said, "It is possible."

"How could this happen?!" Xu Shaobai suddenly stood up from his seat, his eyes were red like a wounded little beast, he walked to Xu Zizheng's bedside, tightly held his hand and said, "Dad, I am Shaobai , can you hear me, Dad!"

The boy's slightly trembling voice revealed hysterical desperation, and the atmosphere in the corridor was driven by him, creating a suffocating sense of oppression.

Everyone was silent for a long time with a heavy heart, but in the end Xu Shaoqian couldn't see it, he stepped forward and gently pulled Xu Shaobai away, and said in a low voice: "Shaobai, send fourth uncle back to the ward first."

"Brother, dad..." Xu Shaobai looked back at Xu Shaoqian, his eyes were red with sobs.

"It's okay, don't be afraid." Xu Shaoqian patted his younger brother's shoulder lightly, turned around and walked towards the ward with the doctor pushing the hospital bed.

After some tossing, Xu Zizheng was finally sent to the VIP ward.His blood pressure and heart rate are all normal, but he has been in a coma. The doctor said that the specific time of waking up depends on the recovery of the patient's body and his own willpower.

By the time everything settled down, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening.

Xu Shaobai was tired from crying, and fell asleep on the sofa in the ward. Xu Wan took the second aunt and his wife back to the hotel. Only Xu Shaoqian and Xiao Rang were left in the ward.

Xu Shaoqian said in a low voice: "Xiao Rang, come out, I have something to tell you."

Xiao Rang nodded, turned around with Xu Shaoqian and went out.

The two walked along the corridor of the hospital together. It was already late at night, and the corridor of the hospital was empty, so quiet that they could almost hear each other's breathing.

It was only when Xiao Rang walked to the end of the corridor that he stopped, turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xu Shaoqian tidied up his messy thoughts, and said as calmly as possible: "Shaobai has been anemic since he was a child, and he had to go to the hospital for blood transfusions every month. I remember that my fourth uncle was too busy to take care of him for a while, so I temporarily sent him to Your family, you and your aunt have accompanied him to the hospital many times...do you remember his blood type?"

Xiao Rang replied almost without hesitation: "Remember, it's type O."

Xu Shaoqian frowned, and after a long time, he whispered, "Fourth uncle is type AB."

"..." Xiao Rang was silent for a moment, "Human blood types are divided into four types according to the agglutinogens on the red blood cell membrane. Blood with only A agglutinogen is type A blood, and blood with only B agglutinogen is type B blood. The blood with the agglutinogen is type AB, and the blood with neither is type O blood."

"According to the law of inheritance, both parents inherit a blood type gene for their children. If the uncle has blood type AB, he will definitely inherit an A or B gene for the child. As long as the father inherits an A or B dominant gene for the child, no matter the child's No matter what blood type the mother is, the child cannot be double recessive type O anyway.”

Type O blood is double recessive, and both parents must give the child a recessive gene.Xu Zi is type AB, both A and B are dominant. If he is the biological father, he must inherit a dominant gene of A or B to the child. Even if the child gets a recessive gene from the mother, Xu Zizheng cannot give it to him He's another stealth.

Xu Shaobai is double recessive, which is equivalent to completely ignoring Xu Zizheng's AB dominance, so there is only one possibility-his father is someone else.

Xu Shaoqian frowned and said, "So, Shaobai...isn't Fourth Uncle's biological son?"

Xiao Rang nodded: "I have been a forensic doctor for many years, and I have done in-depth research on human blood types. A father with type AB gave birth to a son with type O blood, that is to say, the father's dominant gene is not expressed at all. The probability of something happening will not exceed 0.01%, and it is difficult to find one among tens of millions of people."

Xu Shaoqian was silent for a long time, finally took a deep breath, adjusted his emotions, and said in a low voice: "Xiao Rang, do me another favor. After returning to China, go to the forensic center for a paternity test. I need to find out... I, Shaobai, Xiao Wan, and fourth uncle... the blood relationship of everyone."

"I can do a paternity test for you in private, but you need to get blood samples or hair samples from the three of them, try to avoid contamination, and bring them to me as soon as you return home."

"it is good."

After the two finished talking and returned to the ward, Xu Shaobai had already woken up.

The boy sat up from the sofa rubbing his eyes, his pale face looked weaker under the light.He walked in front of Xu Shaoqian, smiled slightly and said, "Brother, you are back. Dad hasn't woken up yet."

Looking at the obvious dependence and trust in his elder brother in the eyes of the young man, Xu Shaoqian suddenly didn't know how to face this younger brother.If the guess is correct, Shaobai is not the fourth uncle's son at all, so where did he come from?Who are his parents?Could it be that the disaster that happened to the Xu family in the legend was also related to this incident?