Chapter 64: Don't Go
Zhou Ji didn't care about Kyoto's affairs, and Xu Yuanning didn't continue on this topic. Thinking of Ren Yurong, he asked, "Ah He, do you want to go back and see Uncle Ren?" The people of the Tan family have already left. ”
After Tan Ziran's family came, Zhou He never came. Tan's mother felt sorry for her daughter in the palm of her hand, and she stayed there and never returned to Kyoto. It wasn't until recently that Ren Yurong's wounds had almost recovered, and he went back.
It was normal for Xu Yuanning to ask, and Zhou He didn't raise his head and said, "Isn't it okay?" ”
She didn't know what she remembered when she said this, and she lost her mind for a moment, and said, "Senior brother, I have something to do on Friday, I'm afraid I won't be able to go to the office." ”
There's no work now, but if she doesn't go, she has to say hello to Xu Yuanning.
Xu Yuanning nodded and said yes. He asked, "Need help talking." ”
Zhou He smiled slightly and said yes.
Time flies, and Friday is fast in coming. Zhou He woke up in the early hours of the morning, and it was drizzling outside, with the occasional droplet of water falling on the windowsill and making a crisp ticking sound.
She lay quietly on the bed, and the sky outside slowly brightened, and then she got up and put on her clothes and coat and went downstairs.
The lights were on in the kitchen, and Aunt Qi had already gotten up. Zhou Yiyi was stunned and walked over.
Hearing the footsteps, Aunt Qi turned around and said gently, "Get up, I steamed the buns, and I will be able to eat them immediately." ”
The steamer was steaming hot on the stove, and she had apparently been up for a while.
Zhou He entered the kitchen and said, "Why did you get up so early, I'll just eat out later." ”
Aunt Qi looked at the porridge on the pot, smiled gently, and said, "The ones bought outside are not as delicious as the ones I made." As I get older, I get less sleepy, and when I can't sleep, I get up and find something to do. There was a table of guests at noon, and I got up early to prepare. ”
After she finished speaking, she babbled and said, "I prepared everything yesterday, remember to take it later, it's hard to buy it when it's raining." I don't know when the rain will stop, remember to put on a raincoat and an umbrella when you get out of the car, don't get wet. ”
Zhou He nodded in response.
She got up too early to eat, so she ate a bun and drank a small half bowl of porridge. When she went out with her things, Aunt Qi told her to be careful.
Zhou He smiled and went out with an umbrella.
The iron door outside slammed shut, and Aunt Qi stood at the door melancholy for a long time before returning to the house.
Probably because of the rain, the bus station is deserted. I bought a ticket and got on the bus, and there were only two or three people on the bus. Zhou closed the car and kept looking sideways out the window. Outside, the rain slid down the window glass, and she didn't reach for it.
Because of the small number of people, the car left a little late. The rain gradually became heavier. Zhou He closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, and when it was almost there, he opened his eyes, put on his raincoat, and covered it tightly with a bag of fragrant wax paper candles.
The tomb of the old grandmother is in a small cemetery, probably because Zhou He arrived early, and the old man guarding the tomb was sitting in the duty room with his coat over and yawning, obviously just woke up.
In such weather, few people come to sweep the tomb, Zhou He comes almost every year, the old man has remembered her, greeted her, and said, "The little girl came so early, the road on the mountain is slippery, you have to be careful." ”
Zhou He responded, and took the bun brought by Aunt Qi to the old man. The old man is lonely here all the year round, and when he sees someone willing to talk, he chatters and says: "This year is even more deserted, except for the New Year and Qingming, there are not many people coming." ”
The cemetery has been moved to another location, and there has been no new cemetery here for nearly two years.
When he said this, he took a disposable cup and poured a cup of hot water for Zhou He, and said: "I'm getting older and older, and I'll go home to care for the elderly after two years." You didn't come early today, someone went up the mountain just after dawn today, and I didn't go out when it was raining, and I don't know if I was still on the mountain or had already left. ”
He babbled, talking a word. Zhou He knew that he must have not spoken to him for a long time, and the rain outside was falling heavily at this time, she sat for a while, listened to him for a while, and then Zhou He put on a raincoat and took an umbrella to the mountain.
The road up the mountain was a little slippery, the cemetery of the old grandmother was halfway up the mountain, and it was very inconvenient to wear a raincoat, so Zhou He took some effort to climb up.
Because there are no children, almost no one will come to the cemetery of the old grandmother except during the Chinese New Year. Zhou He took out the prepared incense wax paper candle.
Because of the rain, the lighter didn't burn very well, so she covered it with an umbrella. After burning the paper and lighting the incense, she carefully took out the snacks that the old grandmother used to like and put them on the table.
The old grandmother's posthumous affairs were done simply, and there was not even a photo on the tombstone. Zhou He squatted down in front of the tombstone and talked about the trivial things in his life.
She comes here for a few hours every year, and this time it's raining, but it's still no exception. At one o'clock, she was ready to go down.
Her body was already cold, and no one came to sweep the grave in this weather, and she was the only one on the mountain.
The road down the mountain was even more slippery, and Zhou Hecai had just taken a few steps before he slipped down and fell to the ground all of a sudden. The palms of his hands were rubbed hot, and the skin was broken.
She took a breath and was about to get up from the ground, when she turned her head to one side and saw a black umbrella thrown from a tombstone in the distance.
Maybe someone came to sweep the grave again, but she didn't pay much attention to it, but when she stood up and looked over again, she found that there seemed to be someone upside down next to the umbrella.
There is some worry in her heart, not in the past, not in the past. But if it's really human, you can't really walk away.
She hesitated, but walked over anyway.
When I got closer, I realized that there was really a person next to the umbrella. Zhou He stopped and subconsciously clenched his phone.
She originally wanted to call the police, but she was afraid that it would be an oolong, but in the end she still didn't call, and she fed from afar, and saw that the person had no reaction, so she had to continue to approach.
When she got closer, she realized that the figure that had fallen to the ground was somewhat familiar. She stepped forward quickly, and the person who fell to the ground was not Cheng Wei.
His clothes were already wet, and his handsome face was blue from the cold.
Zhou He didn't expect him to fall here, and was taken aback. He half-crouched on the ground and called him, but he couldn't wake up.
This down the mountain calls people, and it takes more than half an hour to come and go. Zhou He gritted his teeth and laboriously pulled Cheng Wei up from the ground.
The road down the mountain was originally slippery, and it was even more laborious to take Cheng Wei with her. I fell several times along the way. She had been up for a long time, and the old man guarding the cemetery was a little uneasy, and halfway through, he saw Zhou He panting and helping Cheng Wei down.
The old man was startled, and while asking what was wrong, he slumped over and came up the hill.
Zhou He was no longer able to breathe, and the two of them fell to the ground at once. The old man walked over quickly, and when he saw Cheng Wei, he sighed, slapped his knee, and said, "Isn't this the person who just went up the mountain that day? ”
The old man's body was quite tough, and he helped Zhou He as he spoke, and helped Cheng Wei up again. With someone to help, Zhou He was a little more relaxed, but he was still sweating when he got to the bottom of the mountain.
It's in the middle of nowhere, and there's no one living nearby. Cheng Wei had to be sent to the hospital like this, and the old man said that a nephew was running a taxi, so he put Cheng Wei on the sofa, and then shuddered and flipped out the phone to call Zhou He.
The old man's nephew came quickly, and came over in ten minutes. I already said on the phone, and when he stopped the car, he helped get Cheng Wei into the car.
He and the old man are both enthusiastic people, Cheng Wei's clothes have to be changed, there is only a clinic nearby, there is no hospital, so he proposed to take Cheng Wei to his house to change his clothes first, and then he went to the opposite clinic to ask the doctor to come and see.
After entering the city for more than an hour, Zhou Heying came down and thanked him repeatedly.
He waved his hand to say goodbye, and asked the house to boil hot water.
It took about ten minutes to get to his house, and it was a small two-story building. He carried Cheng Wei into the upstairs room, found his clothes to change Cheng Wei's wet clothes, and then ran to call the doctor.
He thought very thoughtfully, and arranged for his daughter to carry a well-lit brazier into the house, and the room instantly warmed up.
The doctor soon came, and although Cheng Wei's face was blue from the cold, he was feverish. The doctor quickly gave him fluids and told him to wake up and go back to the clinic.
Zhou He's tense nerves relaxed, his whole body was weak, and his hands and feet were weak for a while. It's dark outside, and there's no going back tonight. Zhou He relieved himself and took out his mobile phone to call Aunt Qi.
She didn't tell her about Cheng Wei, she just said that she had something to do with Xu Yuanning and wouldn't go back at night.
originally thought that Cheng Wei would wake up soon, but he didn't. When Zhou He went to find hot water to scrub Cheng Wei, he found that his right hand, palm and back of his hand were injured, and the flesh and blood were blurred.
Such an injury could not have come from falling down the mountain just now, she stayed for a while, quickly wiped it clean and went to the opposite clinic to find a doctor to get medicine and bandages.
originally thought that Cheng Wei would wake up soon, but he didn't. He didn't wake up until about nine o'clock in the evening. The doctor's family lives at the end of the village, and he came after work, and after the examination, he said that he did not wake up, maybe because he had not rested well for a long time, and as long as the fever subsided, it was fine.
Having said that, he left the medicine behind. Let him call him if there is any unusual reaction before leaving.
Cheng Wei is still infused with medicine, and he has not woken up because he has been guarded. Uncle Li saw that Zhou He's face was tired, so he asked her to rest, and he would guard it.
It's enough to trouble him, where is the trouble anymore. Zhou He repeatedly said no, let him rest, and thanked him again.
Uncle Li couldn't resist her, so she was called to rest if she had something. There were only two people left in the room, Zhou He and Cheng Wei.
The charcoal basin was filled with charcoal, and it burned vigorously. Zhou He was indeed tired, and after seeing that Cheng Wei still had more potions, he leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
Cheng Wei's medicine was not lost until more than twelve o'clock, Zhou He pulled out the needle himself, and was just about to go back to the chair to continue pretending to sleep, when Cheng Wei, who had been asleep, suddenly grabbed her hand.
Zhou He thought he was awake, and subconsciously asked him how he felt. Before the words could be spoken, I heard Cheng Wei mutter: "Don't go, don't go......"
Zhou Yiyi was stunned, and was about to speak, when he lowered his head to look, only to find that he had his eyes closed. It's talking in a dream.
His face was pale, he must have been sitting in a nightmare, and a dense sweat broke out on his forehead. grabbed Zhou He's hand and squeezed it tightly, and the back of his white hand turned red.
Zhou Yiyi didn't know what to do, and just as he wanted to break free from Cheng Wei's hand, he saw a painful look appear on his face. A low voice murmured: "Don't go...... Don't ......"
These words are obviously not meant to be said to Zhou He. She didn't let go of the hand that was squeezing her painfully, and just stood still. The room was warm, but she was cold.
Cheng Wei, who was asleep in a daze, whispered in a low voice, and vaguely called the words of the suspected name, and soon fell asleep again. It wasn't until he quieted down that Zhou He took his hand away little by little, returned to the chair and sat down.
Obviously very tired, she didn't feel sleepy at all. There was a blank piece in her mind, obviously they had been together, and only now did she really feel that Cheng Wei was completely strange to her.
Whether it was his past, or his present, she knew nothing.
Her mind suddenly appeared of the tomb where Cheng Wei fainted, and she glanced at it, and there was not even a simple name and surname on the tombstone.
Zhou He didn't think about it anymore and closed his eyes.
There was a hollow in my head, and there was an inexplicable emptiness and pain. She didn't want to think about anything anymore.
In the second half of the night, Cheng Wei's fever subsided, and Zhou He almost didn't sleep all night, closed his eyes and squinted for a while.
Not long after I fell asleep, I heard the sound of rustling from the other side of the bed. When she opened her eyes, Cheng Wei had already sat up.
It was already bright outside, and he was surprised to see Zhou He, rubbing his forehead and asking in a dumb voice, "Where is this?"
I don't know if it's another nightmare, his handsome face is full of fatigue.
Zhou He simply told what happened.
Cheng Wei's complexion didn't change much, and he was obviously not going to stay here and go to find his mobile phone to make a call. Zhou He handed over his mobile phone and said, "Your mobile phone is turned off when it enters the water." ”
Cheng Wei didn't speak, took his mobile phone, dialed a call, asked Zhou He about the approximate location here, and asked someone to come and pick him up.
After making the call, he returned the mobile phone to Zhou He, and the master didn't get up yet, he didn't get up, closed his eyes and leaned on the head of the bed and pretended to sleep. Didn't speak again.
He had been burning for a long time, Zhou He was silent for a while, and asked, "Do you want to drink some water?"
Cheng Wei closed his eyes and still didn't speak.
Zhou He took the cup and poured the water aside, and heard a sound downstairs, it should be the master who got up. She didn't stay in the room anymore and went out with the door.
The lights downstairs were on, and Aunt Li was ready to start making breakfast. Zhou He had nothing to do, so he stepped forward to help.
Cheng Wei's people came quickly, and as soon as breakfast was served to the table, a car stopped outside the courtyard.
Zhou He went out, and it was the man who wore gold wire glasses last time, he was carrying a bag of things, and when he saw Zhou He, he asked, "Where is Mr. Cheng?"
Zhou He took him to the staircase and said, "The first room to go up." ”
He quickly went upstairs, and it didn't take long for Cheng Wei to change his clothes and come down.
His face was still pale, and his eyes were bloodshot. Aunt Li had already set up the dishes and chopsticks, and seeing that Cheng Wei didn't mean to eat, she rubbed her hand on her apron and said, "Are you going to leave now......?"
Cheng Wei was polite and thanked her.
The man with gold-rimmed glasses took out another wad of money, saying that he was troublesome to them, which was a little careful.
Uncle Li and Aunt Li both refused, but he refused to take it back. Say polite and grateful words and let them take it.
Where can he collect so much money, Uncle Li wants to take some and return it to him, but he refuses to ask for it, saying what the boss means at this time. Waiting for the couple to accept the money, he looked at Zhou He and said, "Miss Zhou, let's go together." ”
At this time, there was no car, she came here because of Cheng Wei, and she was not polite, but simply said thank you. As he walked to the car.
Cheng Wei was sitting in the back, Zhou He hesitated slightly, opened the door of the passenger seat, and sat down.
No one spoke along the way, and it was quiet in the car. In the back seat, Cheng Wei closed his eyes to recuperate, while Zhou He kept looking sideways at the window. When he arrived in the city, Zhou He asked the man with glasses to stop, saying that she was here.
The man with glasses subconsciously went to look at Cheng Wei behind him, and saw that Cheng Wei had his eyes closed and did not react, so he slowly parked the car in front of the bus stop on the side.
Zhou He said thank you and got out of the car.
The car left quickly, and Zhou He took out his mobile phone and looked at the time. After driving for more than an hour, it was only seven o'clock at this time, and the station was deserted. She stood for a long time in the foggy early morning before the bus came and she got on.
At this time, it was still very early to go home, and Zhou He was afraid that Aunt Qi would be suspicious, so he did not go back, but went to Xu Yuanning's office.
There was no one in the office, so she took the thin blanket she usually took and lay down on the sofa.
Xu was so tired that she fell asleep in a daze.
She woke up in a low voice, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Xu Yuanning and Senior Brother Qiu talking at the desk not far away. She sat up quickly.
Xu Yuanning turned around when he heard the sound, said that he woke up, walked over, and asked, "Why did you come here so early?"
Zhou He didn't expect that he would oversleep, and he couldn't find an excuse for a while, so he said, "I'll come over when I get up." ”
Xu Yuanning didn't think much about it, looked at the dark circles under her eyes, and said, "Didn't you sleep well last night?"
Qi Jingran had seen it last time, and without waiting for Zhou He to speak, he took out the spare key from the apartment and gave it to her, saying: "There is no one living in the apartment, if it is not convenient in the future, go there to sleep." ”
Where can Zhou He pick it up, he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, I really don't need a senior brother." I slept pretty well. ”
Xu Yuanning raised his eyebrows and said, "Your Senior Brother Qiu also has it, are you planning to meet us outside?"
Senior Brother Qiu immediately came over, and said with a smile: "Take it, Ahe, we will be busy in the future, and we will go over there to work at night." Remember to get more food to put in the refrigerator when the time comes. ”
Zhou He had to take it over and say hello.
At the cocktail party that day, Li Peiyuan said that he invited Xu Yuanning to dinner, and Zhou He didn't think about it until he was going home in the afternoon and told Xu Yuanning.
Xu Yuanning agreed, saying that he happened to have something to ask Li Peiyuan.
This time it was Li Peiyuan who invited a treat, perhaps because he took care of Zhouhe, and the place he booked was very ordinary. It's just an ordinary restaurant. He was originally going to go over to pick up Zhou He, but in the end he didn't go, so he asked Xu Yuanning to bring Zhou He over.
He had already arrived by the time the two of them arrived, standing at the window smoking a cigarette. I heard the sound of footsteps before I extinguished the cigarette butt and came back to my senses.
Afraid that the two of them would be hungry, he had already ordered some snacks to cushion his stomach. After sitting down, he poured tea for the two of them.
Xu Yuanning and Li Peiyuan were quite casual when they talked, and after taking a sip of tea, he asked, "Why didn't Uncle Xiao Li bring Miss Han over?"
There was temptation in his words.
Li Peiyuan glanced at him and said, "Miss Han has returned to Kyoto." ”
He doesn't explain anything.
Xu Yuanning stretched out his hand and turned around Zhou He, and said with a smile: "Will you change your mind next time you meet Ahe?"
Li Pei glanced at him and said, "Your eighth woman's ability is on the rise. ”
"No, no, it's Uncle Xiao Li that I care so much about you. Xu Yuanning had a hippie smile.
Li Peiyuan poured himself tea slowly, and said, "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you, Miss Han and I are not suitable." ”
Xu Yuanning sighed and said, "But Uncle Li, you should get married at your age." At your age, children will play soy sauce. ”
He said this unceremoniously.
Li Peiyuan's face did not change at all, and said, "You still have to worry about yourself first." ”
Xu Yuanning was taken aback, and subconsciously glanced at Zhou He, who was listening to their bickering, and said, "I'm still early." ”
He was not willing to continue on the topic and immediately changed the subject.
Xu Yuanning looked for Li Peiyuan and asked about business. Li Peiyuan opened a company before returning to China, and later transferred the equity to his partners after returning to China. In this regard, his experience is more than Xu Yuanning.
Although he knew that Xu Yuanning would not be doing it for long, he still enjoyed it. He has a wide range of knowledge, and it is not boring for him to say business matters, Zhou He has not spoken, and listened carefully.
Xu Yuanning asked questions from time to time, and occasionally the two discussed. When they finished eating, the two still had no intention of leaving. Zhou He listened in a daze, and it was difficult to interrupt and ask, so he got up and went to the bathroom after sitting for a while.
When she came back, the two were still talking fiercely, she took a sip of tea, and when she inadvertently looked out the window, she saw Cheng Wei sitting in the car on the opposite road at a glance.