Chapter 67: A Fragile Life
"What's wrong with you?!"
Xiao Huang immediately let out a low breath, a little at a loss. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Medicine ......"
Zhao Ruirui was short of breath like asthma, and struggled to spit out a word.
Zhou Chen frowned, quickly groped around in the wheelchair next to him, and immediately found a small medicine bottle in a pocket on the back of the wheelchair.
After quickly glancing at the English on the label of the vial, and knowing the amount of medicine to be taken at one time, Zhou Chen poured out two small pills and put them in his hand and brought them to Zhao Ruirui's mouth.
The latter shivered and ate the pills, drank the drink that Zhou Chen brought over, and then his body softened backwards, and he collapsed on the sofa panting.
Zhou Chen took a few more tissues and helped her wipe the blood from her face. Seeing that there was no more bleeding from her nose, I knew that she should be fine.
A few minutes later, Zhao Ruirui finally recovered and reluctantly showed a smile to Zhou Chen: "Thank you, brother, otherwise I would have died." ”
Her face was sickly pale, and there were a few freckles around her nose, but that didn't stop her from being a pretty girl.
She reminded Zhou Chen of Xiaomei, the two girls are of the same age, but their personalities are very different.
Seeing her look like this at this moment, and saying the word "death" so easily, Zhou Chen's brows furrowed, and his mood couldn't get better.
"Don't talk, get some rest. ”
Zhou Chen reached out and touched her head, which was an action he often did on Xiaomei.
"Hmm. ”
It seemed that it was very comfortable to be touched by Zhou Chen, Zhao Ruirui squinted her eyes, showed a sweet smile, and responded softly.
After a while, a slight breathing sounded, and she fell asleep on the couch.
"Brother Zhou, she ......"
Xiao Huang finally couldn't help but speak, but halfway through speaking, she saw Zhou Chen shaking her head at her, and swallowed the following words.
Dozens of minutes later, the dance continued, with no sign of ending, and Zhao Hongbo also reappeared.
"I'm sorry, Brother Zhou, for keeping you waiting so long. ”
He approached, and as soon as he saw his daughter asleep on the sofa, he lowered his voice and continued: "If you want me to say, brother, you don't like to deal with people, but some important people, you still have to make friends. What a great opportunity this time, I wanted to introduce you to the organizer of this ball, but, alas, ......"
"I understand Brother Zhao's kindness, it's the younger brother I don't know how to lift, and I didn't follow the elder brother to see the world, but I am quite comfortable eating and drinking here. ”
Zhou Chen was not interested in following Zhao Hongbo to meet someone, so he kept sitting in this corner and helped take care of Zhao Ruirui by the way. After all, the other party's two bodyguards were lost by him, so that no one took care of the little girl.
"By the way, Brother Zhao, is this kid suffering from any disease? Just now, he suddenly had a bleeding nose and looked weak all over. ”
Zhou Chen glanced at Zhao Ruirui, who was asleep, and asked.
"What! she's sick again?"
Zhao Hongbo's face changed, and he looked at Zhao Ruirui carefully, and found that she was indeed sleeping soundly and soundly, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
He sighed and said, "My precious daughter suffers from a congenital terminal disease, I have seen countless famous doctors, and I have come to the conclusion that she will not live to be 10 years old. Now she is 10 and a half years old, the incidence is getting higher and higher, each episode makes her weaker, her legs are actually good, but her body bones, no longer have the strength to let her stand. ”
"Don't live to be 10 years old?"
Zhou Chen understood what this meant. The little girl is 10 and a half years old, indicating that she could be taken away by a terminal illness at any time.
"It's pathetic. ”
Xiao Huang covered her mouth with her hands, and she also felt sorry for Zhao Ruirui.
"Alas, it's all fate. ”
Zhao Hongbo waved his hand, as if he didn't want to talk about this heavy topic.
He glanced at the little bear cub who had never stopped talking, and said: "Brother Zhou, my daughter's favorite is the little bear, on this boat, if you are free, please accompany her more, thank you here." ”
After speaking, he actually took off his top hat and bent down to bow to Zhou Chen.
"Yes, I like this little sister a lot. ”
Zhao Hongbo's bow made Zhou Chen have a different opinion of him, thinking that even if this person is an old fox, he is no different from most fathers for his children.
"But I'm going to be out of company today," Zhou Chen turned his words again, pointed to his body, and said, "Brother, didn't you see it, I was almost watched just now, I'd better go back to the guest room and change my clothes first." ”
Zhao Hongbo laughed: "These ordinary people are just making a fuss, and it doesn't matter if their clothes are dirty, and this is what our contractor doesn't pay attention to." ”
What Zhao Hongbo said was indeed the truth, he didn't care about the blood stains on Zhou Chen's body at all, and he wanted to take him to meet the two senior contractors just now.
Contractors often have to train in the wild, or run around in order to subdue monsters, so most people can't maintain a clean image at all. Most of the encounters and encounters of contractors are in the wild, so over time, the group of contractors basically doesn't care about the image.
Except, of course, for a few extreme cleanliness addicts.
Zhou Chen is not a cleanliness fetish, but he naturally loves cleanliness, and it is not a matter of wearing bloodstained clothes in public all the time, it is too eye-catching, so he said goodbye to Zhao Hongbo and left with Xiao Huang.
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"Hahaha, little mouse, you're so stupid, you've lost again!"
On the deck at the stern of the boat, in an open-air dining area, Zhou Chen, Xiao Huang, and Zhao Ruirui sat around a small round table.
Two little girls, along with Cubcub and Thundermouse, are playing a poker game called "Ghost Drawing".
Zhou Chen didn't get involved, because he taught Zhao Ruirui the rules of the game on the side at first.
And after playing a few games, it became, the little girl sat on Zhou Chen's lap, and while showing great intimacy with him, she happily played "drawing ghost cards".
This game is very simple, and after getting started, Zhao Ruirui has never lost, which makes her very happy.
"Little mouse, come here, if you lose, you need a sticker!"
Zhao Ruirui picked up a piece of white paper and shook it in front of her, and the thunder mouse was very frustrated, "chirping" and screaming, expressing her dissatisfaction, it was not a mouse! But it still obediently approached and asked the little girl to stick the note on her forehead.
"In the past few days, Zhao Hongbo has been running to the two senior contractors, or visiting the wealthy businessmen with the highest status, probably preparing for the auction. ”
Zhou Chen sat Zhao Ruirui in his arms, but he was thinking about something else.
He remembered very well that in the original book, it was because of the auction that was going to be held on Summerwind Island that the protagonist who had just come out was attracted to it.
And Zhao Hongbo, he originally had a manor on Xiafeng Island, but he had been living elsewhere, and now he got the news that there was an auction, so he took this cruise ship to rush there.
"I don't know what he wants to photograph, is it a treasure in terms of life energy?"
There are too few descriptions of Zhao Hongbo in the original book, and he didn't even mention that he had a daughter, and now Zhou Chen can only guess that he wants to buy treasures in terms of vitality for the continuation of Zhao Ruirui's life.
It's just that Zhou Chen also knows that the treasures that can be bought with money can't be considered treasures at all, and the role they play is to prolong their lives by a few months at most.
"Life, it's fragile. ”
Zhou Chen was quite emotional.
At this time, six days had passed since he killed the two bodyguards, but he had not been held accountable, and even, on the third day, Zhao Hongbo apologized to him again and gave him a silver pistol with a rather high-grade shape.
Although the pistol was of little use to Zhou Chen, sometimes it could still save a lot of effort, so he accepted it. This kind of thing is forbidden, and ordinary contractors can't get it.
However, he also has to pay some price when he receives something, that is, he has to find time to accompany Zhao Ruirui in the past few days.
This was originally what Zhou Chen promised, but it was nothing. It's just that it's a little unexpected that the little girl said that she likes Xiao Xiong, but she seems to be more interested in Zhou Chen, and she keeps sticking to him, and "brother" keeps calling.
For this fragile little girl who may lose her life at any time, Zhou Chen certainly won't be bored, and it's up to her.
"If Zhao Hongbo really wants to take pictures of life-saving things, I may be able to help him if necessary. ”
Thinking of this, Zhou Chen subconsciously stretched out his hand again and stroked Zhao Ruirui's head.
"Brother!"
Feeling Zhou Chen's movements, the little girl turned around, smiled sweetly at him, and kissed him directly on the face.