Chapter 15 Chapter fifteen

It was the first time in Jiaqi's life that she was first aided. The injury was not serious. There was a gash on her ear, as well as on her arm. Although the wound was long, it was extremely shallow, and the location was not critical.The 110 police arrived in time and sent her to a nearby hospital. The doctor examined the wound very carefully and said that there was no need for stitches, but disinfection and bandaging would do. The policeman on the side said: "Those robbers are all desperadoes, you are so courageous, a girl, you dare to get out of the car and chase after her." Jiaqi was afraid after thinking about it, she didn't understand why she chased after her when her forehead got hot, but she still didn't forget to pick up her bag and take it away when she was sent to the hospital.

The policeman asked, "Is there a lot of money in the bag? Fortunately, it was recovered, but I still need to trouble you to provide an approximate figure so that we can write a report." Jiaqi suddenly felt sad, and whispered: "No, except for the mobile phone, which is less than 1,000 yuan, and there are two cards, but there is my key in the bag." The police comrades shook their heads: "What kind of key is worth such a desperate effort? Isn't it enough to change the door lock? If you encounter this kind of thing in the future, first call 110 to call the police. You are a girl, how can you single-handedly chase the robbers? It's too bad. Watch out for self-protection."

The training was good, but he was obedient, and suddenly remembered that he had thrown the silk, Ding Ding, and the Maybach worth several million at the intersection, and couldn't help screaming.The nurse next to her thought she touched her wound and was startled. This urgency is no small matter, not to mention anything else, the silk is still dinged, the child will be frightened, not to mention the Maybach, if something goes wrong, what will she have to pay Ruan Zhengdong? Jiaqi's face turned pale with anxiety. Just now I was only talking to Juanzi and forgot to ask her new mobile phone number, what should I do now.

The police comrades were quite sympathetic to her and said, "Call your family and ask your family to pick you up. I think you are really scared." She couldn't call Ruan Zhengdong, so she didn't need to worry him, so she called Xu Shifeng's phone, but it was turned off, and then called Xu Shifeng's secretary, only to find out that he had an urgent case and flew to Shanghai half an hour ago.Just as he was about to call Zhou Jingan for help, the phone rang suddenly.She looked at the number and answered it anyway. "Jia Qi? Are you okay? Where are you?" "I'm in the hospital, I'm fine."

A few seconds later, it changed into the voice of Juanzi, all crying: "Jiaqi, are you okay? You scared me to death." "Are you and Ding Ding all right?" "We are all fine. I have a British driver's license, and your car is left-hand drive. I dare not drive. The cars behind are all blocked there, and the driver is about to start cursing. Fortunately, Meng Heping happened to be driving by. Just help to park the car on the side of the road." The phone was returned to Meng Heping, who said, "We will pick you up at the hospital." Jia Qi was a little taken aback, he had never used this tone before, as if there was no doubt about it.

Everything today made her a little dazed. In such a huge city with a population of tens of millions, how could she still go around and run into him again. As soon as the nurse finished bandaging her, Meng Heping and the others found her. Juanzi looked at Jiaqi's ear full of gauze and was terrified: "How did you get hurt like this? You said you're fine, look at you—is it okay?" Jiaqi forced herself to joke with her: "Are you afraid that I will turn into an ear? Actually, I was cut by a knife. The doctor said that there is no need for stitches. Don't be scared."

Meng Heping asked the doctor and negotiated with the police before returning to them and saying, "Just sign and we can leave." He was wearing a gray suit, gray shirt, different shades of gray, and a silver-gray tie, which was unobtrusive.The heating in the hospital was too warm, so he took off his coat, casually put it on his arm, and talked sideways with the attending doctor, his voice was low and sweet. After Jiaqi signed the record, he said, "Let's go." After getting into Meng Heping's Chopster, she asked in a low voice, "That...car..." Meng Heping was reversing the car, his eyes were fixed on the radar screen, and he told her casually: "I parked the car for you in the supermarket parking lot near that intersection. Don't worry, his car has global positioning and cannot be lost."

Jiaqi was a little embarrassed, Juanzi squeezed her hand secretly, and whispered, "I'm sorry, I panicked at that time." Jia Qi said: "I was too reckless to leave you and Ding Ding behind." Meng Heping was very silent along the way, Jiaqi pretended to be relaxed, and said to Juanzi: "I'm so hungry, it's already eight o'clock, let's go to the small restaurant outside Ximen as originally planned." Said to Meng Heping: "Trouble You take us to the parking lot, and I'll just drive that car back by myself." Both she and Juanzi were sitting in the back row, and only the lower half of Meng Heping's face could be seen in the rearview mirror. He seemed to be thinner than she remembered, and his chin looked very stiff because of his tightly pursed mouth.It took him a while before he said, "You can't drive with that hand."

Juanzi also said: "Yeah, you're all hurt like this, why don't you send you back first." Jiaqi was illuminated by the passing street lights outside the car window, and when she lowered her head, she realized that her front coat was covered with blood spots, and the goose-yellow coat was dotted with dripping black, which looked shocking.Moreover, with gauze wrapped around her ears and gauze wrapped around her arms, she was in such a terrible mess that it would definitely not be appropriate to eat like this.So he said: "Then let's send you and Ding Ding home first. I'm really sorry, I've made you feel scared enough today. I look like a mess, so I have to treat you to dinner next time."

Juanzi said, "Fortunately, you're fine. Why are we still talking like this? I'm almost worried about you." While talking, the phone rang again. Jiaqi fumbled in the bag with one hand for a while before finding it, and it turned out to be Ruan Zhengdong. He seemed to be in a good mood, so he asked, "How is it? Have you finished eating with the school girl who is holding the child?" Jiaqi hesitated for a moment and said, "Not yet." He suddenly laughed twice: "I made you suffer a bit today, but I didn't mean it." The wedding day was like falling into the clouds, and I just felt inexplicable: "What?"

"I fell down in the bathroom, but I didn't get up for a long time. Fortunately, the nurse came in and heard me, and helped me up... Your boyfriend and I were wearing a little less clothes at the time. Didn't you suffer indirectly?" It took Jiaqi a while to understand, she didn't care about his joking at all, she just asked, "How did you fall? Is it important?" "It's okay, just scratched the skin on my knee, and I don't know what happened. Suddenly my mind became confused, and I slipped and fell. The floor tiles in the bathroom in the hospital are not good at all." Yes, it must be far, far worse than the non-slip floor tiles of a luxury German brand in his bathroom.Jiaqi's arm was hurting, and she had no choice but to switch to her left hand to hold the phone.He said: "When you come at night, bring me something to eat. I want to eat the wontons you wrapped, but I didn't eat them last time." Jiaqi hesitated for a moment, and said: "Tonight... I'm afraid I'll be late home, I won't have time to cook, besides, I have to go shopping." She felt that she looked too embarrassed, so when she went to the hospital, Ruan Zhengdong naturally wanted to ask, is he Patient, it is always wrong to make him worry.She said, "Well, I'll make it for you tomorrow. I'm afraid it will be a little late after dinner today, so I won't go to the hospital." He was obviously startled for a moment, and then slowly said: "Alright." Jiaqi hung up the phone, Juanzi smiled at her and asked in a low voice, "Maybach?" Distraught, Jiaqi nodded indiscriminately.After a while, Juanzi's house arrived, she hugged Ding Ding and got off the car, the child was already asleep.Juanzi was afraid that the child would catch a cold, and while he was thinking, Meng Heping had already got out of the car and wrapped the child in his coat. Juanzi was very moved and thanked him repeatedly.He has always been so careful and takes good care of his friends, Jiaqi thought in his heart, if it wasn't for this, he wouldn't be willing to meddle in his own business today.The night wind was blowing outside the car, and it was so cold that people breathed out white air when talking, Juanzi hurriedly said to Jiaqi: "I will call you tomorrow, pay attention to your wound, remember to go to the hospital to change the dressing." The car door was closed again, and the small space became warm again. He asked, "Where do you live?" She gave the address. He didn't speak any more, turned the car around and drove back onto the main road. It was the time when the city was at its most bustling night, and the flowing car lights merged into a flowing river of lights, winding forward quietly.And their car is sandwiched in the middle, just two small bright spots, following the arc of the street, disappearing in an instant. Jiaqi felt embarrassed, the atmosphere in the car was extremely dull, when she stopped at the red light, she looked out of the car window in a daze, and he suddenly asked: "Can I have a cigarette?" It was a very gentlemanly question, she nodded, remembering that she was sitting in the back row and he couldn't see him, so she quickly said, "Yes." He smoked a cigarette, then struck a match, and failed to strike it several times. He seemed a little impatient, so he took the cigarette out and rubbed it with his hands. The signal light changed, he shifted gears, and the car merged into Chehe again. The two of them were just silent all the way. After finally reaching the apartment downstairs, Jiaqi unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's it, thank you." He turned off the car and said, "I'll take you up." Jiaqi wanted to object, but he had already opened the car door for her, took her handbag, turned around and left without saying a word. Jiaqi had no choice but to catch up. He had long legs and big strides, she almost had to trot to keep up, and she was still panting a little when she entered the elevator.He was holding her handbag, his knuckles turned white from exertion, Jiaqi didn't know what he was thinking, her heart was pounding, so she had to randomly search for topics: "Is Jiangxi okay?" He glanced at her, answered "yes", and then closed his mouth again, as if he really didn't want to talk to her. Jiaqi felt pain in her ears and hands, and she was too tired to think.I can only look at the numbers on the control panel, 1, 2, 3... After changing, I finally arrived, and the elevator dinged and slid open the double doors. Standing in the empty corridor, she tried to smile: "Thank you for sending me back. Thank you for what happened today." He said, "You're welcome." He returned the handbag to her, and then took out the car keys, "Is this for you, or should I park the car for you to the hospital?" She only noticed that his lips were moving, and his voice had a buzzing echo, which she couldn't hear clearly.She tried very hard to hear what he was saying, but his voice was getting louder and louder, pressing on him like a rumbling. She felt that her eyes were dark, and suddenly her legs felt weak, and she had already fallen down. When she woke up, there was still buzzing in her ears, and the lights on the ceiling were dazzlingly bright. Jiaqi closed her eyes to adapt to the light, and only then did she realize that she was lying flat on the sofa.Meng Heping was close at hand. He was half squatting and half kneeling in front of the sofa. There were fine silvery white sand grains on the front of his clothes.She didn't dare to look into his eyes, so she lowered her eyelids and struggled to sit up. He handed her a cup of boiling water, and said in a calm voice, "I didn't find any sugar." She has a little anemia and hypoglycemia, and she is prone to dizziness when she is tired. He knows that she has such problems, and a glass of sugar water is fine. "I'm fine," she said. The air gradually seemed to be stagnant, she felt embarrassed, took a sip of plain water, and finally went to the kitchen with the cup, and saw at a glance that the seasoning box on the kitchen cabinet was messed up by him, and salt was sprinkled, a snow-white arc The thread was spilled on the countertop of the cabinet, and only then did she realize that it was salt stuck to his skirt.She tiptoed to open the door of the cupboard, but without making a sound, he stretched out his hand from the side and opened the door of the hanging cupboard for her. There was a porcelain apple inside. She took it down and opened it, and it turned out that it was a sugar bowl. She added sugar to the cup, and there was a lamp under the wall cabinet. A faint orange light illuminated the silver stainless steel spoon.The lamp didn't exist originally, but after she moved in, she greeted the landlord and hired someone to install it herself.She often turns on this light at night, and when she wakes up by chance, she always feels at ease when she sees the warm orange light in the kitchen. When she was sleeping in the past, he often worked overtime and turned on a small orange desk lamp in the outer room.On a hot summer night, the window air conditioner was buzzing. She woke up drenched in sweat with drowsy eyes. She could always see the orange light and countless small insects and gnats flying around the lamp. He picked up toilet water and wiped it on his arms. His shadow under the light was like a brand, deeply imprinted on the wall. There was always a scent of toilet water in the dream, which was light and cool. He slept very late, and the lamp was always on, shining in her dream. He finally said, "Jia Qi?" She turned around. "You added four teaspoons of sugar." Almost half of the cup was filled with sugar sand, which gradually melted, as if collapsing. Only the light reflected in his eyes, like a small flame, dark and vain. She felt dizzy again. His breath was shallow and light, warmly caressing her face, and his soft lips finally fell on hers. In an instant, the memories were like overwhelming mountains and seas, sweeping everything with a roar, her mind went blank, and she just instinctively clung to him. She couldn't breathe, afraid that every time she inhaled, she would choke. After such a long time, she really thought she had forgotten, but she still remembered, she still remembered everything she had, so beautiful and so good.He hugged her tightly, as if he had never let go, just sucked her breath almost greedily.And she is like a drowning person, no longer able to struggle, no longer able to resist, just wallow in inextricable. "boom!" The cup was unintentionally knocked off by her hand and shattered into pieces. The warm water splashed all over the floor, and a few drops splashed on her ankles. Through the socks, the damp warmth gradually cooled, it was cold. As if waking up from a dream, she pushed him away hard. He stood there without moving, just looking at her. Jiaqi feels that all this is like a dream, but she will wake up eventually. Finally, he finally spoke, the voice was strange and distant. He said, "I'm sorry." Jiaqi felt desolate. After so many years, separated by mountains and rivers, when he stood in front of her again, he only had these three words. It's been so hard, I've loved so hard, I've let go so hard. She had thought countless times, if she could meet, if she could be in his arms, she would cry bitterly. But this kind of hard work is getting farther and farther away. Even if they get closer again, the middle is insurmountable. She can't, and she can't, she can only watch helplessly. Just let it go and there's no going back.She had chosen another path, and they would never be the same again. He is gone at last. The bend of snow-white salt sprinkled on the cupboard is like a pool of snow under the lamp. Jiaqi slowly disperses it with her fingers, rubs it with the tip of her finger, and puts it into her mouth hesitantly and tentatively. It is salty. , Squeeze it into your mouth, it's salty, so salty that it makes you feel astringent. He must have been very flustered when he carried her into the room, because he didn't take off his shoes, and there were his footprints on the floor tiles, one in light gray, one, two... messy and messy.Jiaqi knelt down and wiped off the footprints bit by bit with her hands, but she couldn't wipe it off, and the wound on her hand was also aching from the pain. She just wiped it stubbornly, bit by bit, stubbornly and tenaciously. In the end, I went to the balcony to get a mop and came in to mop it up. After washing the mop, I went into the kitchen again. I took a rag to clean the cabinets, put all the seasoning boxes back in their original places, covered them one by one, and put away the sugar bowl.The kitchen was originally a small place, and there was only one narrow window. The landlord put frosted stickers on the glass, which looked like flowers blooming like frost on the window in winter. It is already winter now. She went back to the living room and called Ruan Zhengdong. He was still awake, and he seemed a little surprised when he received her call. She called his name: "Zhengdong?" He asked: "What's wrong with you?" She continued in one breath: "I was unlucky to die today. I met a robber who snatched a bag. I chased after him stupidly, but was cut by a knife. Fortunately, someone came later, and the robber ran away." She heard him take a breath. She smiled and continued with tears in her eyes: "I didn't dare to see you at night because I was afraid that you would worry about me like this, but now I think it's not good to keep it from you, so I'll tell you after thinking about it. Don't worry, I'm fine. I just had two cuts, one on the ear side and the other on the arm. The wounds are very shallow. The doctor said that there is no need for stitches, just bandage and change the dressing, and there will be no scars. If you don't worry If so, I will go to the hospital for you to see now." He didn't speak for a while, and after a while, he called her: "Jia Qi." She hummed, and he asked, "Why are you crying again?" She said, "No." She raised her hand to wipe away her tears and said, "I'm not a child, and besides, the wound doesn't hurt anymore." For some reason, he seemed to know every time she shed tears.