The smell of disinfectant water in the hospital was very pungent, the doctors and nurses in white clothes and white coats in front of me were shuttling back and forth, and various instruments made a stiff "Di Di" sound, but I could only sit on the chair in the corridor in a daze, as if I did not exist in this space. Qin Chuyi beside him looked blankly at the shiny white floor tiles in front of him, as if something was attracting him.

"Xiaoxiao, what should I do," he finally spoke. A dry, hoarse voice came from his throat, as if he hadn't drunk water for days and nights, "My grandfather, he ......"

Seeing his dejected appearance made my heart clench. With his arms outstretched, he plunged in like a child, his wide body trembling in my arms, followed by low sobs echoing through the hallway.

Qin Sanyou survived the operation and was pushed into the ward. The blood that had accumulated in his brain was cleared, but due to his age, he didn't know when he would wake up from his coma. He must be accompanied by someone at all times, and Qin Chuyi and I worked shifts to guard his bedside, and waited until the next morning to notify Qin Chuyi's parents.

After some reprimands, the car was taken back by Uncle Qin, and Qin Chuyi also felt ashamed to never leave his grandfather's hospital bed. By the time I left, he seemed to have forgotten about the suspicious shadow of the car accident.

Lu Yao returned to City C at 10 o'clock this morning, and I took a taxi to pick him up. I have the impression that he is a tall, angular young man with a scruffy beard and a gray down jacket. So, when he appeared to me again like a new look, I was almost unrecognizable.

"Miss Wu!" He waved his hand and ran towards me.

A black casual blazer with a geometric shirt looms. Under the dark jeans is a pair of Mulan ginger lace-up shoes, which makes his legs extremely slender. After washing his yellow and blackened face before lack of sleep, he was radiant at this time, dancing with the vitality of a young man, and his clean and healthy complexion was very different from Qin Chu's pink and white face. I could feel the people around me staring at him.

Okay, give me a few minutes and let Auntie nymphomaniac give it a moment.

Handsome, so handsome.

"Miss Wu," he stopped in front of me breathlessly, and there seemed to be a light flashing in his eyes, "meet again, thank you for coming to pick me up." "He's still like that, humble and courteous at every moment.

Probably because of my somewhat withered face, the smile on his face suddenly turned into worry. He seemed to have a premonition that something bad was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" Is something wrong? Why didn't Ken come? ”

He ...... Something happened to his grandfather. ”

On the way to the hospital, he didn't speak, probably because he knew I was uncomfortable from my expression. When he and Qin Chu met, they also ended in a hurry after a few words of greeting. These two people, who had been staying together and couldn't finish talking, suddenly became rusty.

At the coffee shop opposite the hospital, the two of us chose a relatively quiet corner and sat down. I didn't want him to feel uncomfortable, so I opened my mouth and asked him what he was doing lately, and he seemed to finally have a chance to talk to me, and the conversation box opened.

"I went home and talked to my parents." He stirred the spoon in his coffee cup and said, "They agreed that I was developing in the south, so I bought houses in both C and N cities and prepared to settle down. He said so lightly as if buying a house was as easy as drinking coffee.

"Do you like the South?" I asked.

"Well, I love it. I love the weather, the scenery, and the people here. He smiled at me and continued, "Since the last time you helped me exorcise my dreams, I have decided that I will help you unconditionally whatever you ask in the future. I live here, so I can be closer to you. ”

My heart moved, and the quiet water of the lake made a little wave.

"So, from today onwards, I will be by your side whenever I am free."

"Okay, so that Grandpa Qin can have one more person to take care of." My breathing became a little rapid, and I hurriedly interrupted as if I didn't want to mention some memory.

His expression was visibly surprised, but he quickly regained his smile. "There's one more thing I think I have to sue you." He said with a stern expression.

"What's the matter?"

"Since I woke up from my last dream, I have been reverberating with one word in my head, up."

"Up?" What starts?

He raised his slender fingers and wrote on the table one by one: "Rise, the origin of the beginning." ”

"I don't know what this has to do with that dream, and I don't know where to start, so I think it's better to sue you." As he spoke, he picked up the steaming cup on the table and took a sip.

It's so familiar with the pronunciation, I should have heard it somewhere.

"Oh, yes," he said, digging something in his pocket, "there's something I want to give you." ”

As soon as I heard that something was going to be sent to me, I quickly waved my hand. I'm most afraid of being given something because I always feel like I owe someone. But when I saw that there was a book in front of me, I was a little stunned. The first time I saw someone give a book as a gift.

He pursed his lips a little embarrassedly and said, "I saw that you liked my dishes before, so you wrote down the dishes." ”

"After all, you're not like other girls, I don't think it's better to give anything than to give something you made yourself, so ...... Please take it. ”

I didn't expect this big man to be able to cook and write at the same time. Flipping through the recipes, each process is recorded in an orderly manner, and some are even accompanied by vivid handmade illustrations, which leap onto the page. Such an excellent boy, Sister Zui's vision is really to the point. I didn't have a bag with me, so I barely managed to fit into my jacket pocket.

In the next few days, except for going to the hospital to take care of Qin Sanyou, who was still in a coma, I spent the rest of my time frantically looking for information on the Internet about the Xu family's blood disease, dream tapir and Qi. Although I had long expected that there would be no clues, I was surprised that the search bar was almost empty, after all, any entry will always leave clues on the Internet, and the content of these words is really rare.

On the other side, Qin Chu told me that my uncle, who had not been in contact with their family for decades, suddenly appeared in the hospital. Qin Chuyi hadn't seen this uncle since he was born, and he himself was taken aback. His father, in particular, drove him out with a scolding and beating when he saw his uncle coming. After Qin Chu asked, he learned that the uncle had not studied well since he was a child, and was kicked out of the house by his grandfather. Now it is estimated that I heard that Qin Sanyou was in a coma and hospitalized, and I want to come to divide the family property. While sighing at the great temptation of interests to people, I asked him to guard Grandpa Qin well and wait for him to wake up.

When I received Zhao Cheng's text message, I slept in front of the computer door all night, and quickly washed up and dressed and went out. When I got into the taxi, I realized that I was wearing clothes from a few days ago, so I put them on and smelled them, but fortunately there was no smell. I don't want to be the impression that when people mention me in the future, they will be all weird editors who don't change their clothes.

The municipal library in City C is in a sparsely populated neighborhood in a remote neighborhood where only true book lovers visit the nearby shops. The rise of online books has made many people lose the quiet heart of reading paper books. I don't know how Zhao Cheng found here, he arrived a little earlier than me.

The municipal library has not been renovated for a long time, and even the large letters on the upper floor have fallen off, leaving a black mark that makes the word "library" vaguely recognizable. The entire building is hollowed out in the middle to form a top-down permeable structure. A spiral staircase winds its way down from the third floor to the first floor, giving it the feel of the Tower of Babel when viewed upwards. It is precisely because of this Zhongtong structure that the entire library does not need to install air conditioning, and it is very pleasant to be warm in winter and cool in summer. Professor Zhao chose this place as the place to meet, and he probably had this intention in mind.

When I got to the door, I texted him and asked him where to meet.

"Editor-in-Chief Wu, I'm on the third floor." There is not a single nonsense in seven words, and there is no mud and water.

The first floor of the library is an electronic lending room and rest area, the second floor is a social science book and self-study room, the third floor is a natural science book, and there is also an ancient books area with some copies of ancient texts. There was no elevator here, so I hummed and climbed to the third floor. There are still some people on the first and second floors, and the third floor is simply another world, so quiet that there is no sound of footsteps. I looked around, but I didn't find any shadow of Professor Zhao.

"I'm on the third floor, where are you?"

As soon as the editing was finished, a new message popped up: "Ancient Books Area, "Wei and Jin Metaphysical Theories and Others". "As if I expected me to ask.

I followed the title of the book row by row, and before I knew it, I had reached the innermost, and finally found the book "Wei and Jin Metaphysical Theory and Others" on the last row of bookshelves. But Professor Zhao wasn't there.

"What, this book is not an ancient book, how can it be placed here." I muttered and pulled the book out of the shelf.

Just as I was crouching on the ground and flipping through the book, my phone suddenly vibrate. The moment I took out my phone, I suddenly saw a figure reflected on the reflective screen, right behind me.

I quickly stood up and turned my head, Professor Zhao's smiling face almost against mine. I wanted to go back, but the small space between the shelves and the shelves left me with no way out. Immediately afterward, there was a sudden sharp pain in my abdomen, as if something had entered my abdominal cavity, and it was extremely cold.

I touched the sore spot, and the blood on my hand made me faint a little. Warm blood kept coming out of the wound in the abdomen. I opened my mouth to speak, but when I opened my mouth, I couldn't help but breathe heavily, and fine sweat oozed from my forehead. My vision began to blur and blacken like a snowflake on my TV. I couldn't stand on my feet with my wounds, my hands propped up tightly on the bookshelf, and the tinnitus "ding" sound echoed in my head. Zhao Cheng, who was wearing an army green coat and a black round-brimmed hat, still had a weird smile on his face, standing motionless in front of me.

I finally couldn't hold on anymore and fell to the ground. Vaguely saw Zhao Cheng standing in front of him, and slowly took out a bright red and almost transparent thing from his pocket.

On the other side, the phone that rolled down next to me showed this message:

"Little sickness! Good news for you, my grandfather has woken up! Hey! I'll sue you as soon as possible! Oh yes, he asked me to sue you, the Gu Yu bird feathers you brought over are fake, they belong to the high imitation of the high imitation, ordinary people really can't tell the difference, and there are ......"

I didn't have the strength to look any further, and the blood from the wound kept gushing out of my abdomen, and my body suddenly became so cold. Gradually, I fell into darkness, a heavy sleepiness hit, and I felt light......

Am I going to die......