22. Forced to stay
Before leaving, the doctor asked him, "Is that woman the same one you mentioned to me earlier?" β
Gu Qingyan didn't speak, obviously acquiescing.
Seeing this, the man laughed prolongedly. Reached out and patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said, "I won't change my mobile phone number, when my life is in danger, you can call me." Don't forget, I'm a surgeon by profession. β
Crow's beak. Gu Qingyan snorted coldly, but in the end, he still said goodbye first: "There will be a period later." β
The doctor smiled, "There will be a date later." β
When the others left, Gu Qingyan sat alone in the living room for a while. Suddenly the doctor said that the bell must be tied to the bell, who could that person be? I guess it's a pretense made up by the doctor because of his poor medical skills. After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly remembered the sound of footsteps behind him, and the corners of the man's mouth twitched, "It's okay so soon?" β
"Qingyan, what are you talking about, it's me." The snow-skinned woman with red lips playfully poked her head out of his back and complained affectionately, "You haven't come to me for days, people miss you." β
Gu Qingyan was stunned for a moment, and pulled her from behind to the front, "Why are you here?" β
Ignoring the obvious unhappiness in the man's words, Xia Bai still smiled sweetly, sat on his lap, and held his hand to play.
"Didn't I say it, I missed you, so I came to see you."
The woman's weight is very light, not to mention that she is just snuggling in his arms in vain, he did not react, only said: "In the future, I will call you if I need to." β
The implication is that she should not come over when she is fine.
Xia Bai understood what he meant, but she still said softly: "I know you don't like others to disturb your private space, I promise to be an invisible person obediently, and it will not affect you at all." As she spoke, she put two fingers to her ear and made an oath.
Gu Qingyan glanced at her lightly, his expression softened, and asked her, "Did you like anything you like when you went shopping recently?" "He has always been very generous to Xia Bai.
"I don't really like anything." A trace of loss flashed between Xia Bai's eyebrows, and it was fleeting, and he regained his spirits and said, "Why don't you go shopping with me, I have choice disorder syndrome, you can just help see which one is more suitable for me." β
"If you like it, you can buy it all." The man didn't care.
"Am I not saving you money?" The woman's face was a little stiff, and she covered it with a smile very well, and she coquettishly lied to him.
Before Gu Qingyan could say something, there was movement at the door, and he took the opportunity to look over.
When he saw April wearing loose cotton pajamas and walking slowly by Chen's mother, he paused and said, "How do you feel, is the scratch on your leg better?" He cared very little about people, and when he said that, he felt a little uncomfortable. But seeing the woman's clean face with no residual makeup, his mood was strangely soothed.
"It doesn't hurt as much as it used to, just walk a little slower." April replied in a low voice, looking at her toes with a deliberate evasion. She felt a little embarrassed, and as soon as she came out, she saw Xia Bai sitting on the man's lap, the two of them were in an ambiguous posture but looked extremely harmonious, and it seemed that it was not the right time to come by herself.
Xia Bai saw that the woman who was supposed to be at the banquet appeared here, and the woman's intuition told her that something should have happened at the wedding, although her heart was turbulent, she still forced herself to speak: "April, why are you here, what's wrong with your legs?" She clenched her hand so hard that her nails were embedded in the flesh, and it hurt as much as the pain in her heart.
"I was scratched by an iron nail, but I have already taken care of it." Gu Qingyan briefly explained April's injury.
Xia Bai opened her mouth, she actually had a lot of questions in her heart, such as why she appeared here, what about her fiancΓ©, and most importantly, why Gu Qingyan could tolerate her being here. A lot of thoughts flashed through her mind in an instant, and she froze, slowly got up and walked in front of April, looking at the gauze on her lap with a worried expression.
For so many years, she has been able to disguise herself well and not let her true feelings be exposed.
"April, do you want to lie in bed and rest, I see you're tired now." The woman's face was as pale as paper, and although there was no expression on her face, there was an air of dead silence around her. Xia Bai looked at her, and when she met the black penetrating eyes, she was startled, and in the blink of an eye, the woman looked quiet and smiled at her.
"I'm much better now, and I still have some things at home that I need to take care of, so I want to go back first."
"Do you want me to send you?" Xia Bai blurted out.
Before April could speak again, the voice of the man behind him, Sen Han, came slowly, "What are you doing now?" β
April was silent.
Xia Bai was stunned, and his heart slowly sank. She reached out and put her arm around April, guided her to sit on the sofa, turned around, and replied in April's place: "April has her own life, and we shouldn't interfere too much in her affairs." No matter what happens, I'm confident that April will be able to handle it. β
When she said this, she was indeed selfish, but from the perspective of her April friend, what she said was also very reasonable.
"If she can handle it well, she won't let her fiancΓ© go with another woman at the wedding." Gu Qingyan said with a sneer.
Although he realized what was happening, Xia Bai didn't expect such a thing, and couldn't help but turn his face sideways and ask, "April, is what he said true?" β
April avoided the gaze of the two, lowered his head and pinched his fingers, and said in a flat voice, "It's true." β
"Why are you so stupid." Xia Bai scolded her with a face: "How can you let him go out with other women?" You must know that you are holding a wedding banquet, the groom is gone, what should you do alone? β
"The wedding is canceled."
April raised her eyes to look at Xia Bai and said softly.
Xia Bai was stunned, and didn't know what to say for a while. After being silent for a long time, she asked a little dryly: "Can you really let go of a few years of relationship?" β
The woman's eyes darkened, and she said calmly: "Whoever is left can't live, I can live well alone." Then he smiled, and smiled lightly.
"Okay, these days, you just stay here, and it's not too late to leave when you're healed." The man who had been silent all this time spoke, "I asked someone to go to your house and bring all your documents." β
As soon as the second half of the sentence came out, April couldn't leave if he wanted to. She didn't understand what he really thought, was it to keep her by his side so that he could get revenge on her? Yes, how did she forget, he hated her so much, even if she was back on track, it didn't mean that the mistakes she made could be remedied.
Since Gu Qingyan planned to let April live here, he specially asked Chen's mother to clean up a guest room as April's room, and then asked someone to buy her some clothes and daily necessities. He was very efficient, and by the time it was time for dinner, things were almost done.
He left Xia Bai to have dinner together. At the dinner table, Xia Bai praised Chen's mother's craftsmanship, praised Chen's mother so much that she couldn't stop smiling, and said that she should eat more. Because the dishes on the table are all blood-nourishing pork liver or bone broth or the like, she actually feels a little tired, but she still eats with a smile and relish, and occasionally considerately sandwiches the dishes for April.
April whispered a thank you and silently ate the dishes in her bowl. There was occasionally the crisp sound of chopsticks colliding with the chopsticks on the table, and Gu Qingyan gracefully put the dish in his mouth, chewing slowly, and his eyes never fell on anyone. The three of them finished eating in silence, and the man went to the study to deal with some company matters, so that April and Xia Bai could get together and say something considerate.
Xia Bai was a little restless today, and he didn't have anything to say about staying with April, and there was a little embarrassment between the two for a while.
April opened his mouth first, "I'm sorry, I'm not causing you trouble." β
"Huh?" Xia Bai came back to his senses and smiled on his face, "It's nothing." Saying that, she kindly took April's hand and continued: "You can rest assured to stay here, and when you are healed, I will accompany you to find Qi Yu to settle accounts." He dared to bully you like this, and I can't let him go lightly. β
"Forget it, I'll just live my own life in the future."
"How can you forget it? How did you pour out your heart and lungs to him, you even sold ...... for him" Afraid of mentioning April's sadness, she lowered her voice and finally did not continue.
April smiled and didn't care.
"I'll help you change your dressing, so your injuries will heal faster." Xia Bai suddenly remembered something and said.
April wanted to refuse, but seeing the other party's excited appearance, she silently swallowed the words into her mouth, "Okay." β
Xia Bai quickly brought a medical medicine box over, rummaged through it, and took out gauze, scissors, and medicinal wine. Carefully cut the gauze on April's legs, while comforting: "This medical medicine box was put here when I was very early on, and this bottle of medicinal wine was specially prepared by an old Chinese medicine doctor, and it has a miraculous effect on external injuries. As she spoke, she dipped a cotton swab in medicinal wine and gently applied it.
"It hurts a little, you bear with it first." She focused on the movements of her hands, and there was some distress in her words.
"Hmm." April nodded, and when the potion was applied to the wound, she didn't even frown. But Xia Bai seemed to be afraid that she would hurt, so when she applied it, she blew on her wound, as if she didn't hurt anymore. Such a somewhat childish behavior reminded April that many years ago, Xia Bai also rubbed her medicine like this.
Therefore, despite a lot of things that have happened, Xia Bai's kindness to her will always be remembered in her heart.