56. In the past
Time passed minute by minute, people came and went in the corridor, Xiao Xubai kept this posture and hugged her motionless, until she gradually turned into a sob, and the sound was like a whimper that made her heart twist.
"South Wind" she also held her face with red eyes, and gently wiped her tears, "You listen to me, the person inside is also my grandmother, and I feel your discomfort"
She herself was still sick, the temperature on her body was hot again, and Xiao Xubai's eyes were also distressed, "You are still sick yourself, so even if grandma knows, she won't feel at ease, if she wakes up, how can you take care of her?"
Gu Nanfeng raised her head blankly, her eyes gradually focused on her face, and her chaotic mind finally found a trace of peace.
"I'm going to buy something, you're waiting for me here, don't leave, I'll be back soon"
Xiao Xubai said and got up in a hurry, stopped the nurse who was passing by and asked where the boiling water room and the pharmacy were, and trotted all the way downstairs.
When Ye Qiu knew the news and hurried over, she was curled up on the seat alone and hugged herself tightly, "Nanfeng, are you okay?" ”
Gu Nanfeng shook his head, glanced up at her, and couldn't help but shed tears as soon as he opened his mouth, "It's okay...... Grandma ......"
"Let one go, let one let go, are you Xu Shuzhen's family member, the patient had a successful operation, and now he is being transferred to the ICU ward to continue treatment, please pay the fee"
Gu Nanfeng nodded, got up quickly, there was also a trace of joy on her face, and finally broke into tears and smiled, Ye Qiu pulled her to follow the doctor through the crowd and walk towards the payment office.
Xiao Xubai was still carrying a plastic bag with steaming soy milk and buns in his hand, and a thermos cup in his other hand and a box of cold medicine.
She froze in place, didn't catch up, calmed down a little because of the rapid breathing of running, in the cool night forehead oozed beads of sweat, sat on the seat for a while and rubbed her sore knees, feeling that her eyes were also a little astringent.
"It's a total of ......" Before the staff could finish speaking, Ye Qiu had already taken out her wallet, and Gu Nanfeng stopped her.
"I'll come," he said, touching his pocket, but found that he was in too much of a hurry to go out and didn't even take the key, and his face suddenly became embarrassed.
Ye Qiu smiled, took out a card and handed it over, "It's okay"
"Thanks, I'll get you the money when I get home later"
"I would prefer that Teacher Gu would thank me in another way, such as ......" She blinked, deliberately trying to amuse her, and tilted her head slightly to joke with her.
Gu Nanfeng caught a sharp glimpse of a yellowed old photo in her wallet, and her grandmother's successful operation also made her breathe a sigh of relief, and her hanging heart finally let go.
"Girlfriend?"
Ye Qiu shook his head, took the photo out of his wallet and handed it to her, "No, family photo"
Gu Nanfeng took it and took a look, it was a family of four, the girl who looked seven or eight years old had her sister's head, with the same outline as Ye Qiu, her eyebrows and eyes were immature and cheerful, while the boy who was standing next to her and holding her shoulder and laughing was a little familiar.
Ye Qiu took the slip and pulled her back, and looked at her carefully and said seriously: "That's my brother, who was imprisoned for drug trafficking five years ago."
She said that the cloud was light and light, but it was difficult to hide a trace of pain, Gu Nanfeng returned the photo to her, "I'm sorry"
"It's okay, let's go see your grandma"
The ICU ward did not allow the patient's family to enter, Xiao Xubai had to stand at the door and wait, lying on the window and seeing Grandma Gu plugged in the ventilator, sleeping peacefully before relieving his heart, and when he turned around, he saw the two people who came hand in hand, his eyes darkened, and he quickly packed up his feelings.
The moment she saw Xiao Xubai, Gu Nanfeng subconsciously let go of Ye Qiu's hand, this detail may not even have been noticed by herself, but Ye Qiu was obviously stunned for a moment before she quickly followed her.
"This is the key to the door" Xiao Xubai turned out the key from his bag as if he remembered something, and handed it to her, and handed over the food by the way.
"You eat something first, and then you can drink the medicine, grandma's situation has stabilized."
Gu Nanfeng nodded and took the key from her hand, "Thank you, otherwise you will have to find someone to open the lock when you go back."
Seeing that Xiao Xu Bai Yeqiu didn't have too much expression, he just stood next to her and whispered: "Then you go back and rest for a while, I'll watch here, I'll call you if I have something."
Gu Nanfeng shook his head, stood on tiptoe and observed his grandmother's situation through the glass window, "It's very late, you go back first, I don't feel at ease if I don't stay here."
Although the voices of the two people were low between the words, Xiao Xubai was not deaf, his fists clenched and released, and finally got up silently from the seat and left the scene gloomily.
In the dead of night, I still couldn't help but feel sleepy, little by little, like a chick pecking rice, Ye Qiu chuckled and patted his shoulder, "Borrow you, sleep for a while"
Gu Nanfeng was taken aback, immediately sat up straight again, looked back at his grandmother was safe and sound, and all the indicators were normal before he breathed a sigh of relief again, and replied to her words: "I used to stay up all night and go to work in good spirits the next day, but now it's really not good."
has been shrouded in negativity for a long time, both psychologically and physically, her body is not as good as before, especially after experiencing such a tragic car accident and ......
Ye Qiu wrapped her slightly cool fingertips into her palm, "Why don't we chat and pass the time?"
"What are you talking about?"
She's not a good chatter.
"Let's exchange secrets," her eyes lit up on a whim.
"What secrets can I have?" Gu Nanfeng laughed, thinking back on her life in the past twenty-six years, except that she had been wandering all the time, there seemed to be no secrets, even the secret relationship she thought she had with Xiao Xubai had been exposed to the sun.
"Aren't you curious about my secret?"
Ye Qiu chuckled, and his voice was also dyed with a hint of coolness in the dark night, which was a little intriguing.
"Okay, then you say" Gu Nanfeng had a rare curiosity, and she also wanted to know the legendary story of how she transformed from a working girl to a top tattoo artist.
"The first secret, when I was a child, our family of four was crammed into a small shack in a rental house, and there was a fat woman upstairs with a very loud voice, and her voice crackled like a machine gun.
"And then? Have you been splashed? Her colorful performance made Gu Nanfeng finally have a smile.
"Who hasn't been splashed, the most excessive thing is that she even washed the underwear water to splash downstairs, that time my brother and I were angry and took advantage of her to go out to climb onto the roof of the shed, took a bamboo pole to pick her underwear and threw it into the sloppy uncle's house next door, and then the quarrel was earth-shattering, and finally developed into a bloody story of the uncle coveting the fat woman who stole her underwear and was found by his wife, and finally tore the door to the door"
"Poof...... Hahaha...... I didn't see that you were actually like this Ye Qiu" Gu Nanfeng finally couldn't help laughing, the coldness between his eyebrows and eyes was swept away, like a spring breeze pear snow blooming on the branches after the ice and snow melted.
It seemed that he had returned to that period of poor but carefree days, Ye Qiu also smiled, turned his head to look at her and suddenly said: "Nanfeng, you look so good when you smile"
Gu Nanfeng coughed lightly, broke his hand out of her palm, and a trace of blush appeared on her pale face.
"I'm done, what about you?" Ye Qiu spread her hands, not caring about her incomprehensible style at all.
"That's it?"
"Of course, if you still want to hear it, you'll have to exchange it for a secret."
Gu Nanfeng racked his brains to think of an interesting thing that happened in elementary school, although it was not funny, Ye Qiu still laughed very cooperatively.
In the corridor of the hospital late at night, the two of them chatted, from the green years to the work career, with the tiredness eliminated little by little, there was also the anxiety and uneasiness in the heart, Ye Qiu has such a kind of magic, she has the same reassuring temperament as Fu Lin before.
When talking about her brother, her face is full of pride, although the poor parents in the family are working on the construction site, but the brother has excellent academic performance since he was a child, in order to provide for his brother to go to college and the family smashed the pot and sold iron, she also dropped out of school to work, worked as a hotel waiter, accompanied the bar, handed out flyers on the flyover and set up a stall, and was bullied and cold-eyed, until she met someone.
She smiled, and there was nostalgia in her eyes, "It's the former proprietress of the tattoo parlor, and then she died of breast cancer, her biggest wish is to participate in an international competition for tattoo artists in her lifetime, and then I won that award for her, but she is no longer there."
Because it is rare to have a dream, and for Ye Qiu, the reason why she worked so hard was probably mixed with some feelings that she didn't have time to say.
Gu Nanfeng sighed for a while, then remembered the yellowed old photo again, and deliberately changed the topic, "I see that your brother is quite familiar, as if he has seen it somewhere."
Ye Qiu shook his shoulders and said in a brisk tone, "Maybe, he used to be B big"
Gu Nanfeng nodded, "Then maybe I've really seen it somewhere, and I don't have to say that I passed by."
"I'm done, it's your turn" Ye Qiu suddenly turned his head and stared at her eyes very seriously, her pupils were dark and translucent, full of tenderness and quietness.
Regarding Xiao Xubai in the past, she has never mentioned it over the years, every touch is bloody, love and hate are intertwined with sweetness and pain, which makes her sink deeper and deeper into the abyss of depression.
She had self-harmed, swallowed sleeping pills, was sent to a psychiatric hospital and was tortured inhumanely, if it weren't for Lin Zhen's efforts to carry out protracted psychological treatment for her, she still doesn't know what she would be like now?
In this quiet night in the middle of summer, she spoke for the first time about the past, the things that Song Zhixia didn't know, the things that Fu Lin didn't know, and the things that Xiao Xubai didn't know.
That year, she was a teenager, and the collection of paintings published in collaboration with Fu Lin caused a huge response, and she also had some fans in the society, and the relationship with Xiao Xubai was also getting strong, she thought that the so-called career and love were just like that, but she didn't know that as early as the moment she set foot on B City again, there was an invisible net open overhead, ready to drag her into the darkness at any time.