Chapter 44: The Other You in the World
"Listen to what?" Chu Di didn't understand, except for the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the leaves, there was no other sound here.
Lin Xiangwan ignored him, squinted her eyes to herself, looking for clues in the air like a cat, and finally she determined a direction, "Did you hear it, someone is crying." ”
On such a dark night, in the small secluded garden, there were bursts of mournful cries, which was an extremely terrifying thing to think about. But no matter how hard Chu Di tried, he only heard the wind, and he began to suspect that this was just a means for Lin Xiangwan to push himself away.
"Lin Xiangwan, don't lie to me again, if I don't get a clear answer today, I'll ......"
"Over there, you can't get through?" Treating his words as air, Lin Xiangwan said to himself. Although it was an inquiring tone, before she could finish speaking, she had already picked up her skirt and ran towards the lush shadows of flowers and trees.
Chu Di scolded in a low voice, there was no way, so he had to follow her.
It is early summer, the flowers and plants are flourishing in the wind, although Lin Xiangwan said that it was the first time to come back to Baili Villa, but like an old acquaintance, she shuttled quickly between the flowers and trees, her body was light, and the corners of her skirt flew in the summer breeze, like a beautiful butterfly, passing through the flowers, just startled a fragrant fragrance, and there was no other movement. But Chu Di was miserable, and after her, from time to time he was hooked by a branch to his clothes, or whipped in the face by a flower vine...... It's not embarrassing.
Just when Chu Di began to wonder if Lin Xiangwan was deliberately tossing himself, he suddenly faintly heard a cry.
The woman's cry is mournful and tactful, like a sad song, and there is indescribable sorrow and sorrow in the song.
Man is a very strange animal, obviously joy, anger and sorrow are emotions, but everyone likes to show their smiling faces to others, but very few people are willing to let others see their crying appearance.
Lin Xiangwan is not a nosy person, she also knows that this is someone else's territory, even if she really bumps into something, she should treat it as if she didn't see it, turn around and leave, she did this, but she was too lazy to deal with Chu Di.
How should she answer him?
Promise him?
Not to him? He certainly didn't want to.
I just said it in a moment of anger, but I didn't expect Chu Di to really do it desperately, and I didn't expect his life to be so big, so badly injured, and let him survive......
It's really shooting yourself in the foot, how can it end now?
Lin Xiangwan couldn't think of a perfect way to deal with it for the time being, so he simply chose an ostrich countermeasure, which could be dealt with for a while.
After running for a while, the lush woods slowly spread out in front of her eyes, and a white church-like building appeared in front of Lin Xiangwan's eyes.
The door of the church was wide open, and the sound of crying came from there.
Accompanied by the crying, there was the sound of men screaming and panting, and the sound of "duh, duh," and I don't know what was hitting the ground.
Lin Xiangwan glanced back, Chu Di was not far behind her, she didn't stop, but rushed directly into the church.
"Ah, is that you?"
Xu Mingfei fell on the red oilwood floor, her face was covered with tears, around her body was sprinkled with fragments of porcelain, a man with a cane in his hand, was approaching her step by step, Xu Mingfei sobbed in a low voice, as if he was very afraid of that person, kept retreating, one was careless, his palm was pressed on the shard, and blood gushed out.
The man saw that she was injured, and the anger between his eyebrows became thicker, he stepped forward quickly with a cane, but Xu Mingfei hid even more, and the blood that flowed from her palm left a dripping blood mark on the ground, Lin Xiangwan couldn't look at it, so he took down something like an incense burner from the low Roman pillar next to him, and rushed to Xu Mingfei in a few steps, protecting her behind him.
"Hey, are you enough? She's already injured like this, what else are you going to do? I warn you, don't come over again!" Lin Xiangwan said, domineeringly raising the incense burner in his hand. The man's eyes flashed with a very bright brilliance like a falcon, and then he pointed at Xu Mingfei with a crutch as if threatening, as if signaling her not to talk nonsense, and then limped out of the church.
When he went out, he happened to take a picture with Chu Di who came in, and Chu Di was stunned, "Mr. Baili......"
The man also recognized Chu Di, but ignored him, just snorted from his nose and walked straight away.
Lin Xiangwan threw the incense burner aside, carefully opened Xu Mingfei's palm, the sharp porcelain piece cut a long scar on her palm, and there were some small porcelain pieces inlaid in it, Lin Xiangwan frowned, and said to Chu Di, "Find me a medicine box, and tweezers." ”
Chu Di didn't know when she became Lin Xiangwan's follower, and seeing that she was so worried about Xu Mingfei, and then thinking about her treatment, she felt a little uncomfortable, so she didn't move.
Lin Xiangwan glanced at him impatiently, "What are you waiting for? Will you go and get it when her blood is all gone?" I really don't know what you men have in their heads. You bear with me, I'll take out the bigger porcelain pieces first. Sure enough, the little white face has no kind eyes, and he looks like a dog, but he doesn't do anything......"
Lin Xiangwan's voice was not high, but it was enough for the other two present to hear it clearly.
She looked like she was scolding the people of the Baili family, but Chu Di didn't know why, and the more she listened, the more awkward she became.
Don't be angry, don't be like her, she is deliberately angry with you, you can't fall into her trap, she is waiting for you to lose her temper, and then she has the opportunity to reject you, you must not be really angry, just treat her as a puppy barking, endure it, bear with it.
Chu Di comforted himself in his heart, turned around and walked outside, Lin Xiangwan shouted to his background, "Don't rub it off, hurry up, give you five minutes, run and run back!!"
Chudi, "......"
Although the wound on Xu Mingfei's hand was cut very long, and the blood looked very terrifying, but fortunately, the injury was not too deep, and it did not hurt the muscles and veins.
She bit her lip and stared vacantly at the starlight path outside, letting Lin Xiangwan toss on her palm, not moving.
Lin Xiangwan noticed that since the lame man left, Xu Mingfei stopped crying, her hand trembled slightly in her palm, I don't know if it was because of pain or something else.
"You...... Are you okay?Are there any injuries?" Lin Xiangwan grabbed Xu Mingfei's wrist tightly, so that the blood no longer flowed wantonly.
When Xu Mingfei heard her words, it was as if she had regained a trace of clarity, she turned her gaze to Lin Xiangwan, and then threw a sad smile at her, "I'm sorry for you...... Ms. Lin...... It would be my remiss to let the guests see such a thing. ”
Xu Mingfei said, and struggled to stand up, Lin Xiangwan found that when she got up, her right leg seemed to be unable to bear the strength, and thought that her leg was also cut, Lin Xiangwan slashed and rolled up the corners of Xu Mingfei's pants.
When he saw her calves, Lin Xiangwan couldn't help but gasp.
"It's ...... What did he do?"
The white and slender calf was covered with old and new bruises, and the wounds were exactly the same, a long one, as if it had been repeatedly knocked it by something.
Lin Xiangwan suddenly thought of the crutches in the man's hand, the green tendons on her forehead appeared, and there was a lot of ruthlessness in her voice.
Xu Mingfei gently lowered the corner of his trousers, then shook his head and said, "It's not the second young master...... I accidentally bumped into ......"
"Don't lie to people!" Lin Xiangwan said hatefully, she is just a housekeeper, and she is not a boxer, how can there be such messy scars on her body?!"That cripple is Baili Tong?!Why did he beat you?Aren't you his sister-in-law?Why doesn't anyone care about him?"
Hearing Lin Xiangwan call Baili Tong lame, Xu Mingfei's face immediately turned a little pale, and she hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand, "The second young master didn't mean it, he sometimes can't control himself, he doesn't want to, and he himself is very sad......"
"What do you mean by not being able to control yourself? Could it be that he has a mental problem?" Lin Xiangwan thought of the secret of the Baili family that he had just heard from Mo Luoluo, and couldn't help but think that Baili Tong had been in a car accident, could it be that he not only had a lame leg, but also a broken head?
It's just that this time, Xu Mingfei didn't answer her again, she closed her lips tightly, and her face was full of desperate gray.
I don't know why, Lin Xiangwan has a special feeling for Xu Mingfei who met for the first time, although she can't describe this feeling, but if she has to say it, it is probably what people often say at first sight.
When she sees someone, it feels like she sees you in the mirror and meets another self in the world.
Even the way she was injured and in distress at the moment was so consistent with herself in her memory.
They are all women, and they have a lifelong desire to be collected, properly placed, and carefully preserved. Lest she be frightened, lest she suffer, lest she be displaced, lest she have no branches to rely on, but the man, she knew, they always knew, that he would never come, and that man they met in their best years gave them a wound.
The scars don't go away, but the scars will always remain. The mottled ones reminded them that everything they thought was precious to that person was just an insignificant existence like ants.
He was never the man she hoped for, and never would be.
"The ...... Is it Mr. Chu?" was silent for too long, Xu Mingfei asked, she could feel that Lin Xiangwan was really worried about her, and unlike some people, they just wanted to inquire about her privacy, but these things were too wide-ranging, and it was really inconvenient for her to say.
Lin Xiangwan didn't know how the topic was introduced to her, but she didn't hide it, and nodded, "It's him." ”
"No wonder. Xu Mingfei smiled lightly, "Only such a special man can be worthy of you." ”