Chapter 9 Chapter nine

If Monday had a soul of its own, it should be proud of it, because on this day all the agencies seemed busier than usual, as if they had more work to do than usual, and no one ever wondered why . Liu Yun walked down the stairs of the ward on the fifth floor. She knew it was best not to wait for the elevator today.She has had the impression for a long time that Monday is the day with the most patients, but like everyone else, she doesn't even think about why.Today, she was told to take the emergency shift, and she agreed without hesitation. She hoped to spend more time with more intense work, so that she would have no time to face things other than work.

She walked into the emergency room, and there was already a man standing there with a bloody face.She glanced at the man covering his head with his hands. The man seemed to see a savior, and immediately nodded sharply to Liu Yun. "What's going on?" Liu Yun walked to the table and sat down, and asked the nurse softly while arranging various test sheets and prescriptions on the table. "It was a fight." The nurse replied softly. "Why not deal with it?" Liu Yun asked. "People from the police station will come right away, there is no rule..." Before the nurse finished speaking, Liu Yun walked up to the patient, took his hand away, looked at the wound, and said softly, "Nonsense", and dragged the patient to the treatment room.

After Liu Yun treated the patient's wound, the police arrived.The policeman looked at Liu Yun, then at the patient whose head was half wrapped in a bandage, and said nothing.Liu Yun seemed to have experienced many such situations, so he ignored the police and told the patient to follow her.They went back to the consultation room together, and Liu Yun began to write the patient's medical records. "Sister," the patient brought the wrapped head closer to Liu Yun, "I will never forget you in this life. You saved my life." Liu Yun smiled, the patient's very simple attitude made Liu Yun feel kind.While writing the medical records, she said:

"So what if you can't forget me?" "What can I do?! All your troubles are covered by me. If you have something to ask, I will solve it." "Shut up." The policeman who stood aside felt a little uncomfortable, so he interrupted. "Why should I shut up?" The patient turned to the policeman confidently, "I know you want to arrest me, but you have to wait a while. Director Wu will be here soon, and he will have to arrest me if he wants to." The policeman suddenly made a move to hit him, and he instinctively made a dodging reaction.Liu Yun glanced at them, and the patient spoke to the police again, his attitude restrained a little.

"To be honest, what happened today is not bad for me. He hit me first, and I just fought back defensively, not really fighting back at all. You also know your cousin's physique. If I did fight back, then sit here The one in front of the eldest sister is not me, you know?" "Stupid X." The policeman cursed. "Hey, you scold me for this job. It's not called scolding, but a man's wordy mouth. However, I understand you quite well. You are cousin Xiao Wang, so you can't ignore it. However, I can advise you , don’t take me back so casually, today’s matter is definitely not bad for me. You see, I have to pay the elder sister later, and I will never run away. Besides, you don’t know, you Wu Suo The eldest is my uncle, I am so strict with myself, so I don't want to cause trouble for my uncle."

Liu Yun listened to his talk while writing his medical records, and found it ridiculous, but also a bit cute. "What's it called?" she asked the patient. "Chen Daming." Chen Daming said, "Chen's ear is bright." "How old is it?" Liu Yun continued to ask. "thirty." Liu Yun gave Chen Daming a lot of written forms and asked him to pay the money.Holding these lists, Chen Daming looked at Liu Yun excitedly: "Let me pay the money?" "You want to see a doctor for nothing?" Liu Yun said with a smile. "Sister, I have to thank you again. No one has ever trusted me like you. I fucking wish I could pay more now. You really treat me as a good person."

"Aren't you a good person?" Liu Yun said jokingly. "I am, I am too much, but these idiots just can't find it." As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the emergency room laughed. "Go and pay the money." Liu Yun said. "Hey, I'll go right away. I'll say it again, sister, I will help you if you need something." "Okay, you can't help me if I have something to do." "Who said, if you, for example, lost your wallet, as long as you tell me where you lost it, I will get it back for you the next day, and you will get a lot of money. It is useless for you to report to the police station. They I think such a case is too small."

Liu Yun looked at the policemen standing aside, and everyone couldn't help laughing. Although Liu Yun never lost her wallet, Chen Daming did not disappear from her life because of this... The company that Geng Lin and Lou Hong are in is like all companies with good profits and ties to joint ventures. They work in a building that looks good inside and out.The employees are all dressed neatly, and they greet each other in low voices, and the volume is kept below the average volume of Chinese people.Therefore, such a company has a different atmosphere from ordinary Chinese government agencies and enterprises. It seems that the people working here have an orderly life and have more reason than ordinary people.

But at noon, if you have the opportunity to go to the staff canteen usually located in the basement, you will get the opposite impression. The staff canteen is all colorful plastic tables and chairs. The Chinese channel makes the Hong Kong accent on TV and the soft language of the young female staff blend naturally, no one will feel uncomfortable, at least everyone has restored their normal speaking volume, as if they were at home. If Geng Lin and Lou Hong come here to eat, they seldom sit alone together.Lou Hong once pointed out that this place obviously has no silver three hundred taels, so Geng Lin agreed, and occasionally they sat together, and they were alone.But today, when Geng Lin came in, he saw Lou Hong sitting alone with the new director of the sales department, so he had no choice but to join the group of female colleagues not far from them after lunch.These girls, mostly in their twenties, were playing a trick, and Geng Lin was involved as soon as he put the first bite of rice into his mouth.

"Describe your wife in one sentence." A data officer who often speaks Hong Kong accent asked Geng Lin loudly, which also attracted Lou Hong to take a look here.But Geng Lin continued to bury his head in his meal, pretending that he didn't want to buy it. "Hey, look, this guy is guaranteed to have a problem, but he actually avoided such a sharp question." Geng Lin's roommate Qiu Jun provoked everyone. "Only the mentally ill can describe his wife in one sentence." Geng Lin threw out a sentence while eating.Lou Hong smiled in her heart when she heard it.

"No, you misunderstood." The data officer speaking in Hong Kong accent explained very seriously, "That's right, this is a psychological test, a popular psychological test all over the world." "Come on, the only thing that can spread around the world is a cold." Geng Lin's words made everyone laugh, but after everyone laughed, they immediately forced Geng Lin to submit. "Don't talk nonsense, be serious." "Listen carefully first." "That's right, be serious, as long as you seriously participate, you will benefit immediately." The Hong Kong accent data officer said, "People can judge your current marital status and quality level based on your words." Yangyang placed the small notebook next to the rice bowl, as if all the judgment criteria were in the notebook. "Are you doing product appraisal?" "Hey, Geng Lin, do you know that there is another one that says that 100% of those who refuse to answer have a marital crisis, and they dare not face it squarely." Geng Lin himself couldn't explain why he was suddenly attracted by such a stupid game, so he swallowed the food in his mouth and said without thinking: "Integrity, dignified, and professionalism." As soon as he finished speaking, everyone booed.The Hong Kong cavity data officer hurriedly looked through the small book.At this time, Lou Hong and the new director of the sales department walked past Geng Lin.The director of the sales department walking behind took Geng Lin's shoulder as a greeting, but Lou Hong walked over with her head held high and her chest held high without saying anything.Geng Lin was sure that Lou Hong heard what he said, and would not fail to bring him "consequences".For a moment, he regretted that he had participated in this damn game. "Hey, hey, I found it, listen up, listen up." A girl sitting next to the information officer in Hong Kong reminded Geng Lin loudly. "A man who evaluates his wife like this," the Hong Kong accent data officer said in a long voice deliberately. Geng Lin glanced at the distance, and Lou Hong had already left. "First of all, they lack passion for their wives. They often hope that such a wife is their mother. Second, this type of men are more likely to have affairs than the fifth type of men. Oh, yes, the fifth type of men's wives are messy, love It's unreasonable to quarrel. Oh, it's not that it's easier to have an affair, but it's more likely to cause strong consequences after having an affair, because their feelings are always ignored..." "Okay, it's all nonsense." Geng Lin interrupted her. "Is it all right?" one person asked Geng Lin, and everyone laughed. Geng Lin also laughed, but he felt a bit bitter. When he returned to the office, he was a little uneasy because he was worried that Lou Hong would have a bad mood because of the incident in the restaurant.He called Lou Hong's office. "Is there something wrong?" Lou Hong asked him quite enthusiastically, which made him feel relieved. "No, shall we meet at the old place tonight? Nothing changed, right?" Geng Lin asked. "Unless you change." Lou Hong said. "How can I change, okay, see you tonight." There are two old places where Lou Hong and Geng Lin date. One is the "Behind" bar. They always go there together, because the possibility of meeting Geng Lin's acquaintances is very small.The other is the old place they talked about on the phone in the afternoon - a small restaurant opened by a Japanese called "Yamashita".The Shanxia Restaurant is located in a very secluded street, and it is a bit confident that the smell of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley.The interior decoration is also typical Japanese style: dark maroon floor, milky white paper lampshade, short curtain, and waitresses in kimonos, which is a bit exotic.What attracted Geng Lin and Lou Hong was not these things, but the lack of big tables in this small restaurant.A small table with two chairs seems to only accept customers who come in pairs, and of course they do not object to customers of the same gender.The owner, Yamashita, seems to aim at only two people sitting together to eat, so as not to spoil the style and atmosphere of his small shop, and this small shop has gradually become famous for it. Geng Lin arrived early, and he had a good seat, but as soon as he entered the door, he found that Lou Hong was already sitting where they usually liked to sit, drinking the Japanese rice sticky tea specially provided by the shop. "Why so early!" Geng Lin sat down, took the tea offered by the waiter, and took a sip. "I want to experience what it's like to wait for someone." Lou Hong finished speaking and handed the recipe to Geng Lin, "I haven't ordered yet." "How about the same old routine?" Geng Lin said so, still flipping through the manual. "I want a change, I want eel rice bowl." Geng Lin beckoned to the waiter, "Okay, I'm still doing the same thing. What do you want for cold salad?" "I see that they have added a new cold dish called crushed mushroom puree. I want to try it." Geng Lin told the waiter, then drank tea, and looked at Lou Hong affectionately. "How does it feel to wait for someone?" Geng Lin only asked this question to bring up a topic. For some reason, he felt uneasy today.Usually, Lou Hong is often late, but she never annoys Geng Lin.He would like to stay alone for a while before seeing Lou Hong, as if this prolongs his happiness. "Actually, I've been waiting for you all the time, don't look at me always late for appointments." Geng Lin looked at Lou Hong and said nothing, because he hadn't figured out Lou Hong's current emotional state. "Don't you think so?" Seeing that Geng Lin didn't answer, Lou Hong emphasized, "You wait for me a little longer, but you can still wait for me in the end. What I wait for may never come ." "What are you waiting for?" Geng Lin didn't want to talk about this topic from the bottom of his heart. "I'll wait for you." "I'm not by your side." "Being someone else's husband." Lou Hong said softly, but these words made Geng Lin feel like a bullet passed through his body, hit the wall behind, bounced back and hit him again. "You seem to have said that you didn't want married life." "Yeah, but I don't want my boyfriend to be someone else's husband, don't you think that feels wonderful?" "Of course not. But I don't understand why you brought it up again today, didn't we all agree? Of course I want a divorce, and I did it step by step. I'm moving out now, and then I will mention it to her, But it will take some time. I think you have always understood very well." When Geng Lin said this, the waiter brought cold dishes. "I still understand now, who knows what's wrong with me today, just talking nonsense. Come, try this dish, let's talk about something else." Lou Hong adjusted her mood and began to eat crushed mushroom puree . But Lou Hong overestimated her ability to control.When they were about to finish their meal, Geng Lin asked her where she was going after the meal, which aroused the bad mood that Lou Hong had suppressed just now.Lou Hong felt hurt every time they discussed where to go, even though she knew from the beginning that she was in love with a married man.The premise helped her in the beginning, but it slowly lost its effect.She began to hate this sneaky feeling, and felt that her world had become smaller because of this love: "downhill" restaurant, "behind" bar, their hut, there was no other place.Of course, Lou Hong enjoyed everything they could do in the cabin, but like all young girls, she was also interested in the busy world outside. "How about going behind the back?" Seeing that Lou Hong hadn't spoken for a long time, Geng Lin proposed again. "Today is not the weekend," Lou Hong obviously disagreed, "I don't want to go behind the scenes if it's not the weekend, it's boring." "Then let's go home?" Geng Lin asked tentatively. "Don't you have any friends? We can go and see your friends." Lou Hong didn't want to go back to the hut, she didn't think it was a home, but a bed to sleep with a man. Geng Lin quickly filtered through his friends in his mind, but he couldn't find anyone he could visit with Lou Hong at this time. "Go and see how Wang Shu's wife Peng Li is doing?" Lou Hong said, "I sympathize with this woman who has been cheated by her lover for half her life." "Don't say that, if she doesn't know, her happiness is real." "A man's logic." Lou Hong said contemptuously. "Okay, it's easy for you, let's go to the store. There are fewer people in the store at this time." "Okay." Geng Lin readily agreed.He knew in his heart that firstly, the business district near here was far away from his home; secondly, Liu Yun didn't like to go shopping.So far, he couldn't imagine running into Liu Yun on the street when he was with Lou Hong. But another thing happened that he didn't expect, and he finally understood why he was always a little uneasy today. At closing time, the store is empty, with only a few customers wandering around or shopping in a hurry.Geng Lin and Lou Hong first went downstairs to look at cosmetics, but Lou Hong didn't show much interest in it, so they went up the escalator to go to the second floor to look at women's shoes and women's clothing.Geng Lin stepped up the escalator first, and Lou Hong stood under him and stepped up. When the escalator was halfway up, Geng Lin occasionally turned to look at Lou Hong, and was shocked--Lou Hong burst into tears, but smiled at him.Geng Lin wanted to come over to pull Lou Hong, but was stopped by Lou Hong's blocking gesture.When Geng Lin didn't know what to do, they came to the second floor.Lou Hong went straight up the escalator that rolled to the third floor, and Geng Lin followed. "What's wrong? What happened?" Geng Lin stood beside Lou Hong and asked anxiously. "I suddenly understood my situation," said Lou Hong, wiping the tears off her face with her hands, "and also saw my ending." "Don't think nonsense, don't talk nonsense." Geng Lin was confused, he was worried that Lou Hong would lose control in the store and start arguing with him. "It's going too far for you to say I'm talking nonsense before I say what I think." "But you know I love you." Geng Lin approached her and said in a low voice.But his words seemed to be the last thing Lou Hong wanted to hear at this moment, so she hurried up a few steps, reached the third floor before Geng Lin, and then went to take the escalator leading to the fourth floor.Geng Lin also followed. "Would you like to hear my opinion?" Lou Hong asked Geng Lin on the escalator leading to the fourth floor.Geng Lin nodded. "Do you know who the last woman you're going to dump is?" Hearing what Lou Hong said, Geng Lin turned his head to the side impatiently, as if Lou Hong was talking nonsense. "It's me." Lou Hong said. Geng Lin turned his head to look at Lou Hong, and found that she was bursting into tears again.A man standing behind them suddenly coughed violently.Geng Lin pulled Lou Hong up and walked a few steps quickly, and climbed up the escalator leading to the fifth floor. "What do you mean?" Geng Lin asked Lou Hong seeing that there were only the two of them on the escalator. "It means that you have left your wife and come closer to me. This is equivalent to saying that there is a wonderful distance between you and your wife. No matter which book you read, the distance produces beauty. So you can imagine now, What can happen between us. Misunderstandings, quarrels, hurts, what else?" Lou Hong went up the escalator leading to the sixth floor, and Geng Lin followed her all the time.She stared at Geng Lin with a special look, as if waiting for his answer. "What's the use of saying this, I left her, I love you." "Yes, you left her, so you can better discover her strengths, dignified, upright and dedicated." Lou Hong said these words in one breath, and she has reached the sixth floor, the highest floor.Lou Hong stood by the escalator, unexpectedly, the sixth floor was full of fur products. "So what, I love you." Geng Lin looked at the fur coat scarves hanging in various ways around him, smelling the unique smell of such products, he felt a little suffocated. "I'm neither dignified nor upright, nor professional." Lou Hong was also looking at the surrounding environment, and she found that the idle salespeople were all focusing on them.Look at them, a man and a woman arguing loudly over their fur coats. "I knew it earlier, but I still love you." "Yes, I also know that you love me." Lou Hong looked at Geng Lin, neither intending to leave here, nor caring about those staring at them, "I also know that I will not endure this state for a long time, so Will argue with you until it annoys you. Then you start to miss your wife's virtues and benefits. With a distance, you can easily find that she is better than me. Then you will find a way to find a reason to leave Me, go back to her, and she is not young enough to easily forgive your mistake. This is the end of those unlucky third parties, and it will be my end." "Then why don't you think about those lucky third parties?" Geng Lin was very annoyed, because he didn't think Lou Hong's words were unreasonable. "Because there is no lucky third party." Lou Hong's eyes were wet again when she said this.Geng Lin's heart was moved by Lou Hong's helpless expression at this moment. "What can I do?" Geng Lin put his arms around Lou Hong and walked down the escalator, when the bell for the store rang.The salesmen who had changed their clothes immediately flocked to the escalator from all directions.They passed Geng Lin and Lou Hong, but all looked back at them as if they were the strangest customers the fur counter had ever seen. "It's not about leaving your wife." Lou Hong stopped and said. "What is it?" "divorce."