Chapter 20 Li Huatong is back
After returning from the hospital, Li Huatong took three days of personal leave and will be raised at home. She felt so wronged, and she felt very cowardly, holding her breath in her heart, unable to spit it out at once. Xu Ruobin knew that she was sad, so she tried her best to follow her temper and bring good things such as fish soup and chicken soup to nourish her body when she came back from work every day.
Li Huatong lay down all day, barely talking. Yes, in this world, no one can empathize with her sadness. A little life came, and hurried away quietly, leaving no trace except for the pain on her body that proved that she had come. The sun still rises and sets every day, the water of the Qinghe River is still flowing quietly, Xu Ruobin still goes to and from work every day, it seems that the world has not changed at all, the only thing that has changed is Li Huatong's tired body and a heart full of sadness.
Xu Ruobin became cautious, even walking lightly. He knew that Li Huatong was seriously injured and needed time to heal. Every time he came back from work, he gave her a full hug, kissed her forehead, and gently comforted her: "Xiaotong, we are still young, and we will still have children." Don't be too sad!" Li Huatong nodded and replied, "I know, I will try to make myself better!"
Li Huatong knows that there is still a long way to go, and the two of them have to work their own to win a good life. She didn't have much time to heal.
Three days later, she went to work. The first thing I did was to go to the office to find Wu Yingyun, the deputy director, who happened to be sitting alone at her desk writing materials. Li Huatong asked calmly: "Hello Director Wu!" Wu Yingyun looked at her with a straight face, and was about to speak, Li Huatong hurriedly intercepted her and said, "I'm sorry, I came to you last time to talk about pregnancy, I went to the hospital to check, who knew that it was an oolong, I made a mistake." I'm sorry for your trouble!" Without waiting for her to speak, Li Huatong turned around and went out, leaving Wu Yingyun alone to sit there in a daze.
Li Huatong returned to the financial room, and Accountant Tu was looking for her, asking her if there was anything at home to ask for leave, Li Huatong said that there was no major matter, and a little thing had been dealt with. Accountant Tu said while assigning her a task, if there is anything you can help with, you must tell her. Li Huatong responded while taking the report handed to her, and was very grateful, almost unable to hold back her tears. She quickly pretended to cough and choked to cover up the past.
No one seems to have noticed that Li Huatong has changed. She talks less, no longer chatters as she used to, but is more calm and thoughtful, and her work is more and more planned and organized.
She often ran to the Qinghe River alone and quietly watched the river in a daze. Before you know it, the willow trees by the river have grown small green buds, and it seems that spring is coming.
One afternoon, Li Huatong was busy sorting out the reports in the office, and suddenly received a call from Xu Ruobin, his voice sounded a little excited, and he said quickly on the phone: "Xiaotong, I'm a little busy here, to make a long story short, your classmate Gu Xiaobo has a birthday today, and he called to invite us to go to his house to play in the evening." You get ready, I'll pick you up after work!" Without waiting for Li Huatong to answer, the phone hung up.
Li Huatong put down the phone and thought to herself, "Okay, you Xu Ruobin, my classmate has a birthday, why did you notify me!" Also, the notice is just that, why don't you ask me if I want to go! It's just a dictatorship! What a bad guy! She lazily cleaned up the things on the table while scolding Xu Ruobin in her heart. However, it has been almost a month since that incident, and Li Huatong and Xu Ruobin have hardly attended the reunions of friends and classmates, so Xu Ruobin, who has traveled a lot, must have been unable to bear it.
When the two of them arrived at Gu Xiaobo's house, they were almost there. Gu Xiaobo is a classmate of Li Huatong in high school, and he is in the same city when he goes to college, so he is also a very familiar friend. After Li Huatong and Xu Ruobin fell in love, the three of them often met, and after going back and forth, Xu Ruobin and Gu Xiaobo got closer and had a closer relationship.
Seeing Li Huatong and Xu Ruobin enter the door, Gu Xiaobo hurriedly came over and hugged Xu Ruobin, but looked at Li Huatong with a wicked smile on his face, and quipped: "What's the matter? After getting married, I became a mother-in-law and mother-in-law, this is not good, I was influenced by Li Huatong!" Li Huatong threw him a sentence: "Less!" sat down directly, put his thighs on his legs, and raised Erlang's legs. Gu Xiaobo laughed and said, "I can't afford to provoke, I can't afford to provoke!" He let go of Xu Ruobin, beckoned everyone to sit down, and then pulled a girl over to introduce to everyone: "Students, friends, I solemnly introduce to you, this is my girlfriend Huang Xiaoya." Everyone stood up enthusiastically, reported their names one by one, and greeted Huang Xiaoya.
Gu Xiaobo is a birthday star today, and he has a golden crown on his head early, shining in the light, shining and radiant. Gu Xiaobo has always been good at creating momentum and incitement, and the dinner of five or six people will be lively after a while.
The grief brought to Li Huatong by that incident was hidden deep in his heart, and he was also suppressed by Li Huatong with a strong force. However, people are sensitive animals, and a casual word, a small movement, or even a caring look from Xu Ruobin will evoke her memory, make her sad, and make her sad.
There will always be wine at the party, and the wine is really good. Packed in a wine glass, dangling, clear and translucent, innocent, attracting people who don't know how powerful she is, pouring it into their mouths one by one. In this way, it is easy to escape hell and enter the paradise of great joy.
Without listening to Xu Ruobin's persuasion, Li Huatong drank liquor.
Yes, it is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and human beings are the most forgetful animals. Anything that is painful, humiliating, and uncomfortable instinctively chooses to deliberately ignore it, to forget it quickly, and pretend that it didn't happen. And like now, it is much easier to numb yourself and chase the pleasures of the present, you just need to follow your instinct and go with the flow.
After a few cups, the people and things in front of Li Huatong became in a trance. The birthday star greeted everyone, sang birthday songs, blew out candles, cut cakes, and everyone pushed cups and changed lamps, so lively! All faces were so happy, and everything was so festive, like a scene in a film and television drama.
I don't know when the party ended, and I don't know how I and Xu Ruobin went home, I vaguely remember that I seemed to have drunk too much, and I was embarrassed by Xu Ruobin to be desperately vomiting at home.
The next morning, Li Huatong woke up, breakfast was on the bedside table, and Xu Ruobin had already gone to work.
Li Huatong raised his fist and hit his head hard, his heart full of chagrin. She really wanted to stay in bed, sleep forever, and never wake up again. However, what should Xu Ruobin do? What should her parents and sisters do in her hometown? She covered her face with her hands helplessly, and tears could not help but flow.
Life has to go on, and Li Huatong still has to go to work.
It turns out that going to work is completely correct. As soon as he walked into the financial room, Accountant Tu, who was just about to go out, grabbed Li Huatong and explained three things to her in one go, and asked to do it today.
Li Huatong briefly sorted out the work in hand, things are not difficult, but they need to run back and forth. She made a rough plan to avoid wasting time and energy through repetition, so as to maximize the efficiency of her work. Then, one by one, it is carried out in an orderly manner.
One morning, I ran around, went to several places, met a few people, and talked a lot, but I only accomplished one thing, and the other thing was still a half-pulled project. At lunchtime, Li Huatong sorted out his head again, because the afternoon work time was relatively short, and Li Huatong still needed to hurry up in order to barely complete the work task.
The day's work was finally over, and despite the hectic, Li Huatong still completed the things assigned by Accountant Tu as scheduled.
On the way to work, she bought some groceries and prepared to go home and cook a good meal. After entering the house and taking off her coat, she began to work inside and outside the house, picking vegetables, washing vegetables, cutting vegetables, and garnishγγγγγγ
Xu Ruobin came back, he looked at Li Huatong as if he had changed into a different person, the whole person was refreshed, like a butterfly, flying from the house to the outside of the house, and flying back to the house outside the house, still humming a little song in his mouth. He grabbed her, stared at her with bright eyes, and asked curiously: "What's the good thing, tell me quickly!" Li Huatong shook him off and replied, "I haven't seen this girl make soup!" Xu Ruobin grabbed her again, and was still asking: "Tell me quickly, what good things happened today! Let my lady be so happy?" Li Huatong shook off his hand again, and said happily: "You have to have something good to eat, if there is something good, that is, this lady is happy today, can't you?" Xu Ruobin let go of her in disbelief, changed his face with a smile, put down his briefcase, rolled up his sleeves, and said: "It's too good, the lady cooks, I'll take care of the official!" Li Huatong blocked him with his arm and said, "Don't, go, go while resting, it'll be fine for a while!"
Xu Ruobin is a smart person, and he never mentioned the mess of Li Huatong getting drunk last night. He also knew that Li Huatong was a smart woman, and she must have felt that she had neglected Xu Ruobin a little recently because she bothered to buy vegetables and cook like this, and she wanted to compensate Xu Ruobin in this way because she didn't listen to dissuasion last night.
Some things don't need to be explained, and some things can only be figured out after the fact. Xu Ruobin felt pity for Li Huatong, knowing that she was physically and mentally exhausted and seriously injured during this period of time. She must have gone through a very difficult mental journey to stand in front of him again with such a posture, and it is really not easy for her to pass this hurdle.
Xu Ruobin stood dumbfounded, with a pair of eyes following Li Huatong's figure, looking at the busy Li Huatong with pity. Li Huatong, who was once sad and vicissitudes, is now like a peach blossom, his eyes are bright and bright, his long eyelashes blink up and down, and his well-proportioned and dexterous body is dangling in front of his eyes. He suddenly remembered a poem: "Pretty as a peach in three springs, pure as a chrysanthemum in nine autumns", isn't this exactly talking about his beloved Xiaotong?
Oh, that beautiful, generous and high-spirited Li Huatong is back.