Chapter 040: She Likes to Eat Sweets When She Hurts
After two years, this is the second time they have mentioned the events of that year.
The first time was on Chinese New Year's Eve last year, Zhou Xin flew back from Hong Kong overnight to meet Zhou Xian, and the two also parted unhappily that night, and the second time was today.
It's just that today's attitude will be much calmer on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Zhou Xin didn't speak for a long time, letting the cigarette on his fingers burn quietly, and the wind was strong at night, and he was about to burn his fingers.
She suddenly smiled bitterly: "It turns out that you have been blaming me all along." ”
"No, it's not weird. ”
"Then what did you mean by that? Didn't you blame me for leaving you with all the mess when I left? But what did you tell me to do at the time? Who supported us to be together in the whole family except for my mother?"
"Support?" Zhou Wei suddenly raised his eyes and swiped, "Why do we need support from others for our affairs?"
"But they're no one else, they're ...... They are ......"
"What are they?" Zhou Wei pressed forward step by step, and a cold light gathered in his eyes.
Zhou Xin didn't dare to look at him for a while, so he turned his face away.
Zhou Wei snorted: "In the final analysis, I still don't have enough courage and can't go out!"
Zhou Xin made up his mind, "Yes, I can't get out, Xinghe was just getting a little better back then, my road has just begun, and I can't completely fall out with my family because of emotional matters." ”
"And what are you afraid of?"
"I'm afraid of losing my parents, losing my grandfather, and losing my family. Zhou Xin's voice trembled, with the coolness of the cold wind.
Zhou Wei looked at her twinkling eyes, which were bottomless in the night.
He laughed again: "It's all a lie, in fact, you are just afraid of losing the blessing of your family and the convenience brought to you by your surname, and in the final analysis, these lack of security are all because you don't believe me at all, and I don't believe that even if I leave the Zhou family, I can break out of the world by myself." ”
Zhou Wei is actually a very introverted person emotionally, and he never likes to show his heart to others.
If you are willing, you are willing, and if you don't want to, he is never reluctant, so even if Zhou Xin left back then, he never blamed her.
It's just that when it comes to the point today, he can't control it for a while, after all, the feelings he has paid are real, and the bitterness that has been hidden in his heart alone for so long is also true.
And what about Zhou Xin?
She brought the cigarette to her mouth again and took a puff, her hands shaking, and the smoke shaking.
"Yes, I admit it, I admit that there was part of the reason you said when you left, as Grandpa said, we are rebellious, Dad also said, insulting the lintel, the family is unfortunate, these crimes are too heavy, I can't afford it. ”
"You can't afford it, I can bear it with you!"
"No, you're different! You are a righteous Zhou Dashao, you have a blood relationship with them, even if you go too far and still have a way back, they will not really be willing to cut off relations with you, but I am different, I have known since I was sensible that I was adopted from an orphanage, I am an abandoned person, probably because of the accumulation of virtue and good deeds in the previous life to be brought to the Zhou family, so I can't and dare not cherish it. ”
Probably, the more afraid you are of losing, the more barren you are.
"And we were young at the time, and we thought there would be more opportunities in the future, so why couldn't we wait?"
Affection and affection, destiny and protection, when we are young, we are always too greedy, full of thinking that there is enough time, fate is wide enough, we can always embrace everything we want in our arms, but how is it possible?
Sometimes it's just a multiple-choice question, and if you choose A, you can't choose B.
Zhou Wei felt that this moment was really ridiculous.
"Wait, did you wait?"
"Of course, I was single when I first arrived in Hong Kong, I gave myself two years, and I will come back to face you after two years, but what about you..."
Zhou Xin turned around again with a sigh, the wetness in his eyes increased, it was really sad, he didn't cry when he and Chang An got married, and now he actually shed tears in front of him?
Absolutely not!
Zhou Xin raised his hand and twisted the corners of his eyes, then turned around again, with a firm expression, "Half a year, just half a year and you found a woman to marry, so the one who didn't wait was you!"
A relationship that is clearly in love but fails to bear fruit, in fact, looking for it can always find its own reasons.
Either lack courage, or love is not deep, but don't put all the responsibility on the "reality", the reality may be cruel, but the reality has no arms, if two people hug each other, how can the "reality" tear you apart?
Zhou Wei didn't understand this truth at first, but two years have passed, and he is no longer the person who can shed his blood for "love".
"Forget it, I don't want to talk about the past, it's late, you go back early!" he simply ended the topic and turned to walk towards the inpatient building.
Zhou Xin was like a mouthful of erupting enthusiasm blocked in the middle of the road, and the cigarette in his hand was about to burn out, almost burning his fingers.
She was so hot that she shivered, a large amount of cigarette ash fell to the ground, and seeing that Zhou Xin was about to go around the patio, Zhou Xin shouted again: "Wait!"
Zhou Wei: "Anything else?"
Zhou Xin sucked in the cold wind and walked over.
"Fang Rushan resigned from Xinghe and went to go through the formalities yesterday morning. ”
Zhou Xun seemed to sink, bowed his head, and looked at it "um".
……
When Zhou Wei returned to the ward, Chang An had not woken up.
Xu Nan sat on the chair and took a nap, he pushed it gently, which scared Xu Nan to jump up.
"Mr. Zhou..."
"Go back to sleep. ”
"No... No, I'll squint for a while, or you go back, you see you've been tossing for a day, and you're still injured. Xu Nan wanted to persuade him to go back, but Zhou Wei pulled a chair and sat down in front of the bed again, raising his hand, "Let's go, I have to go to work in the company tomorrow, and the battle has just begun." ”
Xu Nan couldn't be persuaded and yawned twice before leaving "reluctantly".
After Xu Nan left, there were finally only the two of them left in the ward.
Zhou Wei sat in front of the bed, thinking about the conversation with Zhou Xin just now, and suddenly felt that the life experience was really magical.
Many times we are full of confidence that everything will stay in the same place, so we dare to squander our willfulness, but the sun, moon and stars, time passes, and when we look back, we find that things have already changed.
Decisions, choices, many things are changed in a single thought.
The first thing Chang An saw when he woke up was Zhou Wei's face, he was lying on the head of the bed and fell asleep, his body was owed, his arms were propped up and his face was hanging.
In my impression, this is the first time Chang An has seen his sleeping face, his eyebrows are like blades, the bridge of his nose is high, and he has lost the seriousness and coldness of waking up in the past, and he looks a little more gentle.
Chang An thought, in fact, just looking at the skin bag is really the best, the appearance is dignified, and the bearing is extraordinary, but sometimes the temper is a little worse, if only he was more approachable, but then he was shocked by his own idea.
What does he have to do with himself? It's just a formal marriage, and when the time comes, he will end the relationship, and he won't stay together for the rest of his life.
Chang An got up by himself, and Zhou Wei opened his eyes at that time, just catching the smile she was in a daze alone, fuguine, ignorant and innocent.
Zhou Wei was even a little stunned, reminding him of the scene when she poked the little crab with a toothbrush when she was in Sanya.
Does she have two personalities? One is placed in front of people to deal with those troubles and sophistication, and the other is hidden behind people and left only for the people and things close to her?
At this time, Chang An suddenly realized that the person in front of him was awake and was staring at him, so he blinked his eyes violently in fright, and his smile was immediately gone.
"You... Awake?"
"Aren't you awake too!"
In a boring conversation, the two looked at each other and smiled, Zhou Wei got up, and Chang An also sat up from the bed.
What follows is the awkward chat between the two.
Zhou Wei: "How do you feel?"
Chang An: "It's okay. ”
Zhou Wei: "What do you mean it's okay?"
Chang An: "... I didn't think I was fine, I was just scared. ”
Zhou Wei: "It's not easy to faint from being scared, but at that time, when you pulled out your knife desperately, you didn't have any ambiguity, and you were so bold that I thought it was incredible, and I had practiced it before?"
Chang An: "......"
She rolled her eyes and turned away, ignoring her.
At around eight o'clock, the doctors went to work one after another, came to re-measure Chang'an's blood pressure for a check, and the results came out that everything was normal.
Zhou Wei went to the hospital to go through the discharge procedures.
Chang An stayed in the ward and waited, during which he received a call from Chang Jiahui.
"Sister, what ward are you in? My mother and I want to go and see you. ”
Chang An immediately refused: "No need, I have nothing to do, I am going to be discharged from the hospital." ”
After that, the two on the other side of the phone seemed to discuss for a while, and finally it became Wei Suying's voice: "Xiao An, are you okay? Then I'll go to see you at home with Jiahui in a while, what do you want to eat at noon?" I'll take it with you..."
“……”
Chang An sometimes really can't stand Wei Suying's thoughtful enthusiasm, in fact, it's not necessary, it's obviously two people who are not related by blood and should "turn against each other", why do they have to play this kind of "love each other" drama?
Chang An felt annoyed.
After dealing with Wei Suying, she threw her phone on the bed and habitually knocked her brain.
"Knock again?"
“……”
"I'm not smart in the first place, and I'll be a fool if I knock it down again!"
Chang An slammed up from the bed, looking for the direction the voice came from.
Chen Haodong slowly walked in from the door of the ward with a bag.
Chang An was stupid, thinking that it might be dazzling or dreaming.
"Why are you here?"
"Come and see you, let's see if you have been blown up to charred corpses by sacrificing your life to save your husband!"
“……”
Chang An was so angry that his face turned white, and he was always unforgiving.
"See it now?"
"Well, I see, it's still good to stand here, and it's become pretty again after a few days?"
“……”
"It's the wound on the forehead, what's going on, come, show my brother!" Chen Haodong was about to touch it, Chang An subconsciously dodged it, but it was only for a moment, and when he raised his eyes and saw the cold air in Chen Haodong's eyes, he immediately obediently leaned his head over again.
Chen Haodong was satisfied, laughed again, showed a mouth full of white teeth, and slowly pulled the hair from her forehead.
After a night, the bruises had spread even more, and the bruises had formed a thin scab.
Chen Haodong pressed his finger on it.
"Shhhhh
"Do you know it hurts?"
“……”
"Why did you go when you could? You deserve it, why didn't I blow you up!" As she spoke, she covered the hair she had picked up again, and rubbed it a few times, messing up all the hair on Chang An's forehead, so angry that she pushed it away and scolded: "You are sick, your hair is knotted by you!"
"Then you quickly cover it, such a big scar, ugly!"
Chang An glared and saw the cardboard box in his hand again.
"What's in your hand?"
"Soufflé. ”
Chang An immediately laughed when he heard this, "Did you bring it to me?"
Chen Haodong scooped the back of his neck, "I just happened to pass by, I bought it by the way, I can't come to see a patient empty-handed!" He threw the box on the table, "Eat it while it's hot, I still have something to do, so I'll go first." After saying that, he turned around and was about to go out.
Chang An chased two steps.
"Brother..."
Chen Haodong, who had almost reached the door, immediately stood still.
Chang An swallowed slowly.
This is the first time the two have met since the last time in Sanya, and the situation is not bad, but it is not said that there is any change.
She felt sad and tensed, but still smiled, "It's okay, just call you." ”
Here Chen Haodong bit the root of his mouth, didn't turn around, only lightly "um", and said: "Take care of yourself, you will be less involved in Zhou Wei's affairs in the future, and go!"
Chang An looked at the air in front of him, the dust swirling around in the sunlight.
In the past, every time she was hurt somewhere, Chen Haodong would buy a sweet to coax her, and soufflé was her favorite food.
There was a sign printed on the carton in front of him, and Chang An knew that the store was not on the way to the hospital at all.
……
Zhou Wei came over after completing the discharge procedures, and when he got out of the elevator, he happened to see Chen Haodong going downstairs, dressed in black and pants, walking fast.
When he returned to the ward, Chang An was sitting in a chair in a daze, and a box was thrown on the table.
Zhou Wei: "Someone just came?"
Chang An: "Hmm!"
Zhou Wei: "Who?"
Chang An: "......"
Zhou Wei: "Who has been here to ask you?"
Chang An finally glanced up at him, but it was better not to look at it.
Zhou Yan put his breath in his throat, wanted to have a seizure but couldn't have a seizure, and held it for a while before asking, "Crying?"
Chang An shook his head: "No!"
"No, why are your eyes red like this?"
“……”
On the way back to Changhe from the hospital, Zhou Xun was still driving, and the two of them didn't say anything all the way, and the atmosphere was still lukewarm.
It's just that Zhou Yan answered several phone calls in the middle, it should be all about the company, and his expression was not quite right after listening to it, but Chang An didn't bother to ask.
Back to the long river about half past ten.
Zhou Wei hurriedly took a shower, changed his clothes, went to the kitchen to take two pills, and when he came out, Chang An still sat on the sofa in a daze.
The box of soufflés was still there, and she carried it all the way from the hospital to her home, and she was now on the small table.
"What do you want to eat at noon? I probably don't have time to stay here and have someone bring it to you?"
“……”
"Chang'an?"
Chang An came back to his senses and raised his eyelids: "What?"
Zhou endured and scratched his forehead.
"Forget it, I'll go to the company first, you can rest at home by yourself, and call if you have something!"
He grabbed his suit and car keys and was about to go out when the doorbell rang.
Zhou Wei pressed the video phone with his hand, and an enlarged version of Chang Jiahui's face appeared on the screen, followed by Wei Suying with an anxious face.
He frowned and shouted to Chang An, who was sitting on the sofa, "Your sister and mother are here." ”
In the end, he shouted more affectionately than Chang An, and everyone before and after him liked to call Wei Suying "Mom".
Chang An let out a "hmm" and lazily sucked his slippers to open the door.
As soon as the door opened, Chang Jiahui's voice rushed in first: "Oh my God, sister, I heard that you went to block the explosives bag yesterday? You belong to the cow, do you want to be so awesome? Quickly show me, do you have two angel wings on your body?"
Chang Jiahui-style daily ridicule.
Chang An was made to cry and laugh by her, and pulled his hand back: "What are you talking nonsense?"
"I'm not talking nonsense, you don't know that when our dad called back in the middle of the night last night, my mother was in a hurry, and I had to go to the hospital to see you, and I finally stopped you until dawn, and you too, what kind of young grandmother should you run to do it? What explosives bag did you block, do you think you are a woman?"
Chang Jiahui counted them again, and then suddenly pointed to Zhou Wei who was standing at the entrance, "And you, anyway, those high-level dinner auction jewelry bags have never been my sister's turn, you will let her do this kind of work of pulling out and blocking explosives?"
Zhou Wei: "......"
Chang An: "......"
Later, Wei Suying finally couldn't listen to it anymore, and scolded: "Okay Jiahui, it's not big or small, how can you talk to your brother-in-law?"
"Am I wrong? If it weren't for the one he raised out there the other day..."
"Enough!" Wei Suying said coldly, rarely revealing a fierce face.
Zhou Tao is also not bad, and his expression is calm: "Mom, my company still has something to deal with, why don't you and Jiahui stay here to accompany Chang'an, if you have time, I will rush back to eat together in the evening?"
His attitude was respectful, and Wei Suying nodded vigorously, "Okay, okay, no problem, the work is important, Xiao An has me, you can rest assured to go to the company." ”
After the politeness, Zhou Wei put on his shoes again and went out, but when he walked to the door, he suddenly turned around.
"Mom, is Dad busy these days? I called him a few times and didn't answer. ”
Wei Suying replied honestly: "It's a little busy, I just attended a summit a few days ago, but I left again yesterday afternoon, and went to the grassroots level to visit." ”
"That's it, then I'll contact him when he's free, you guys talk first, let's go!"
After Zhou Wei left, Wei Suying immediately turned to Chang'an, "Hungry, hurry up and enter the house, I will boil mullet soup for you, specifically to mend the wound." ”
……
As soon as Zhou Wei arrived at the company, he called Xu Nan to the office.
"How's it going?"
"Not very optimistic, although Mr. Ye has been trying to find a way to suppress things, but there are still several websites reported last night's events, and in the morning many owners are gathered at the door of the sales center clamoring to check out, until now people have not dispersed, this is Manager Li just sent me a few photos of the scene. ”
Xu Nan handed over the phone.
Zhou Wei flipped through a few casually, and sure enough, it was the head of the black press gathered at the door of Shang Linyuan, and he also held a few banners.
"Rongbang Real Estate deceived the owners and made huge profits by building buildings on poisonous land!"
"Shang Lin Yuan, I want to check out!"
"Rongbang black-hearted developer, pay back my hard-earned money!"
This posture of gearing up is not like coming to collect debts, but like coming to make trouble, but Zhou Wei is quite calm after reading it.
Xu Nan asked, "Mr. Zhou, what should we do now?"
Zhou Wei slowly rubbed his mobile phone, "You go to contact a professional testing company and find out the foundation problem first!"
Xu Nan: "Okay!"
As he spoke, the secretary came knocking on the door.
"Mr. Zhou, there are two policemen looking for you in the city bureau. ”
Zhou Wei's expression sank.
Xu Nan couldn't help but complain: "I didn't see them when I had an accident yesterday, but now that the matter is over, I am more anxious than anyone else." ”
Zhou Wei sneered: "Normal!" Then he raised his hand and told the secretary, "You take them to the conference room first, and then say that I will come in five minutes." ”
"Good!" the secretary ordered to go out.
Zhou Tao slowly tapped his fingers, was the owner surnamed Ma holding sulfuric acid in his hand yesterday?"
Xu Nan: "I don't think so, but the evidence at the scene has been taken away by the Public Security Bureau, and the composition report may come out in a few days." ”
Zhou Wei: "What about the explosives bag he was carrying?"
Xu Nan: "This didn't blow up last night, and it has been verified afterwards, just a small amount of gunpowder from fireworks and firecrackers, and then stuffed cotton around." ”
Zhou Wei: "......"
More than half an hour later, Zhou finished recording his confession.
The secretary sent the police downstairs, and Xu Nan, who had been waiting at the door, walked into the conference room.
Zhou Wei was sitting in a chair in a daze, with an empty cup of coffee in front of him.
"Mr. Zhou, is this over?"
Zhou Wei pinched the bridge of his nose, "Then what do you want?"
Xu Nan thought about it and made sense, and asked again: "What about the owner who tied up the explosives last night?
Zhou Wei didn't look up, but just covered his face with his hand.
"Dead!"
"Dead?"
"Yes, I was shot several times, but I couldn't be rescued, and I died in the hospital at about two o'clock in the morning. ”
Although Xu Nan had already guessed this answer, he still felt that he couldn't turn a corner.
It's a life, after all!
In the afternoon, the company held an emergency meeting, and all departments discussed the Shanglinyuan incident and confirmed the later plan.
After lunch, Chang An finally sent Chang Jiahui and Wei Suying's mother and daughter away, and they were quiet.
I went upstairs and took a shower and changed into clean clothes.
My mind is still in chaos, because of what happened last night, and for seeing Chen Haodong once in the morning, messing up like a roller coaster, and feeling weak, I was about to go upstairs to take a nap, and my mobile phone rang.
Chang An glanced at the number and was quite surprised.
"Hey, Assistant Xu?"
"Miss Chang, I'm sorry to disturb you, Mr. Zhou was sent to the hospital, is it inconvenient for you to come over?"
Chang An felt that he had to find a day to burn incense, and he had not stopped since he came back from London.
Wounded, hospital, wounded, hospital, almost killed by explosives last night.
Soon Xu Nan sent the address of the hospital to Chang An's mobile phone, and Chang An took a taxi over.
“… The doctor said that the burn on Mr. Zhou's shoulder was not complete, the inflammation was serious, the low-grade fever did not go away, plus he stayed up all night last night, and today he held a meeting in the company for most of the day, probably he couldn't hold it, how could he be so tormented like him, and he fainted directly in the conference room!"
Chang An saw Xu Nan at the door of the ward, he looked anxious, and explained to her: "When I was first sent to the hospital, the nurse took my temperature, 39 degrees 4, and the nurse was frightened, saying that if I burned again, I might have to burn my brain, but I just got a fever reduction injection, and you took your temperature again before you came, and it was 38 degrees 7, and now you are asleep." ”
Chang An glanced towards the ward, the quilt on the bed was tucked together, and he couldn't see Zhou Xian's appearance.
She nodded at Xu Nan: "Okay, I'll go in and have a look, thank you!"
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