Chapter Ninety-Seven: Despair at the Bottom of the Well
"Hey, He Chong, wake up, wake up, don't fall asleep!"
Chiba grabbed He Chong's shoulder and shook it vigorously, seeing that he didn't react, he patted his face as white as paper again. However, she herself was on the verge of collapse.
He Chong's eyes were closed, and the lack of water for a long time caused him to fall asleep and become unconscious. Chiba helped him untie the neckline, pinched the middle for a while, and then took off his coat and fanned hard, and then he slowly opened his eyes.
"Water, Water ......"
"If we keep persistent, someone will come to our rescue. Get up, talk to me, and don't sleep. β
Chiba struggled to lift him up, and he leaned on her shoulder, recovering a little earlier.
"I knew I was going to die together, so I should have been gentle with you." He licked his lips and found that his tongue had also dried up to a thick shell. Life may be coming to an end, but he lost his previous fear and joked seemingly lightheartedly.
"I don't want to die, and so do you, hold on." Chiba encouraged, "Didn't you say that it wasn't worth it for you to die with so much money, think about those banknotes, you must survive and spend them." β
"Hey, it's just to let the money hurt, if you don't have money, who will tie me up. I now know that money is just a pile of waste paper. He Chong said dejectedly, his eyes were so tired that he was ready to close them again, but he struggled to hold on, "I also want to live, how good it is to be alive, the girl in Lucheng is so beautiful, and the haggis soup in Lian'an Hall is so delicious...... And wine, wine knows me best, and now it would be nice to have a bottle...... Hey, it's over, it's all over. β
"Listen to me, you'll be fine, trust me. You see, I'm all right, and you'll be able to get through it. β
"Heh, if I hadn't tortured you with my usual changes and polished you into a man, you wouldn't have wilted a long time ago."
Although it is still harmful, it has lost the taste of the past.
"Do I still want to thank you, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't be trapped in this hellish place. So you are not allowed to die, give me a good life, and I will settle accounts with you when I get out." β
With that, the two laughed at the same time.
In a trance, He Zheng suddenly felt that the girl in front of him was like a close friend who had been friends for many years. It stands to reason that Chiba is the person he hates the most in Huanyu, and he is also the person he wants to rectify the most, but at the moment, he inexplicably thinks she is a little cute. This loveliness has nothing to do with skin, nothing to do with words, but it has the same luster as hope, brighter and brighter and more encouraging at the bottom of the oppressive well.
"Do you think I'm a stingy person who has no stomach. Actually, I wasn't angry anymore from before, and I just like to see you embarrassed when I tease you every day. You're my after-work pastime, you know. β
"You mean to play tricks, and you won't change your way to squeeze me away, right?"
"Can you squeeze away?" He Chong asked rhetorically, "You don't admit defeat than me, you are harder than me, if I am the beam, you are a load-bearing wall, and you will not fall if the ceiling collapses." β
"You're still reasonable......
"I'm so hungry, aren't you hungry, my stomach is flat."
Chiba touched her abdomen and shook her head.
"I don't feel it anymore, my stomach feels like I'm asleep."
"What time is it, how many days have we been here?" He Chong lay down again.
"What about the devil......" After talking for so long, and supporting him all the time, Chiba was really bored, and lay down.
After a while, He Chong said weakly: "I've been holding it back." β
"What?"
"Pee."
"Why are you holding it back, you're going to get nephritis, I'll turn around, you pee."
"It's so small and unventilated, and it's embarrassing to smell it. I'd rather die of thirst and starvation, or at least look clean, than have to hold my nose with my hands when someone collects my body. β
"Cut, you're more vain than a woman."
"I'm just more vain than you woman...... Those goblins in the office paint their eyebrows all day long, and you don't even wear lipstick. He Chong hesitated as he spoke, then turned his head and asked, "Actually, if you look closely, you're not too ugly, but you're a little raunchy." β
Chiba has always been indifferent to other people's comments about her appearance, so she is also disdainful when she hears such words.
"I don't know how to wear makeup, and I don't like it."
"At least put on some lipstick, so that the man who likes you can't help but want to kiss you......"
"You!"
She turned her head and glared at He Chong, who stuck out his tongue.
There was silence for a while, both of them were weaker than before, but neither of them intended to close their eyes and hold on with their will.
"Say, are we going to die of thirst or starvation first?" He Chong asked again.
"I'm dying of thirst, I'm going to smoke."
"Why don't I give you some?
"What?"
"Pee."
"Disgusting! How don't you drink it yourself. β
"I also feel disgusting, and even though the movie always teaches people to drink their own urine when they run out of water, I still can't drink it."
"Don't talk about it...... Chiba begged, her legs clamped and she kept twisting her hips, "Actually, I can't hold it anymore." β
"Then you go this way, I'll go there?" He Chong pointed to the two black holes on the left and right at the bottom of the well.
As soon as he finished speaking, he and Chiba propped up their upper bodies at the same time, one crawling and the other kneeling, and drilled into the two holes respectively.
After the incident, the swollen lower abdomen of the two was released, and He Chong kept sniffing his nose: "It doesn't seem to have any taste." β
"Have you drunk?" Chiba asked mischievously.
"Get out of ......" he lay down again, and his mental head weakened again, "I said, if you can get out, you will be promoted to the manager of the second department." β
"At this time, you can still think about work, it seems that I usually misjudge you. It's because I think I can't get out so I tease me with this, how can I be a department manager, thank God for being able to keep the position of secretary under your nose. β
"That'...... Being a director? β
"I know, you still want to force me to resign, this trick is too ruthless, I really can't recruit it."
He Chong's eyes suddenly widened, as if he had a more perfect idea.
"By the way, be my personal secretary, you can do this."
"Please, Mr. He, I don't want anything now, I just want to drink water......"
Looking at the wellhead, Chiba was full of anticipation for the round mouth that led to the outside world. She couldn't say any more, and a fire began to burn in her mouth. He Chong's voice became farther and farther and more blurred, and she felt like a battery that was slowly draining, and at the last moment.
She is not afraid of death, but she is reluctant to Mo Lianzhi and Song Yingchen......
The two finally couldn't hold it anymore and closed their eyes.
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Click, clickβI don't know how long it took, Chiba felt something hit her forehead, and she didn't have the strength to dodge, but the small, cold crash became more and more violent, soaking her face.
In a daze, she thought it was blood, but the blood was supposed to be hot, and the liquid flowed through the corners of her mouth, and she licked it.
"It's raining, it's raining!" She shouted excitedly and woke He Chong up.
The two of them opened their mouths greedily and excitedly, tilted their heads, and swallowed the rain frantically. They had never felt the rain so sweet and clear, sliding down their throats like a layer of moist cream on top of a rough cake.
"We're saved!" He Chong said happily.
Soon, the thirst was extinguished, and the two of them were soaked. Water not only repairs the discomfort in the throat and tongue, but also improves the internal environment of the body, and the feeling of grogginess is reduced.
Chiba suddenly remembered something, got into the hole where he had peed just now, and quickly took out an abandoned hard hat from it. She turned her hard hat upside down to catch the rain, like holding a beautiful and valuable container.
"I'm so hungry." He Chong uncomfortably put his hand against his abdomen.
"Don't be greedy, young master, God just gave me rain, and I won't be able to make bread."
Put the hard hat full of rainwater aside and put it away safely, and it is strange to say that the rain has changed from big to small.
"How many meals haven't you eaten?" He Chong sat down against the wall of the well, and there was a gurgling sound in his stomach.
"The rain hasn't stopped, why don't you drink some more?" When I was in a welfare home, I drank water when I was hungry in the middle of the night, and I still used it. β
"Where?" He Chong said he didn't hear clearly.
She doesn't repeat it anymore. There would be a lot of trouble to explain her background, and she had no intention of revealing it in front of him.
Seeing her deep in thought, He Chong asked again, "What are you thinking?" β
"Miss my mom."
"Hey, I miss my mom too, although I don't have any impression, but I just want to."
"Not impressed?"
"My sister and I were not born to the same mother, and now this mother is not my own mother...... My own mother is my dad's woman outside. β
She was astonished.
"But now this mother is very good to me, I think my own mother is nothing more than that."
"Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read."
"You talk like an old lady...... "He Chong was still drinking rain between words, "I dreamed of my own mother when I fell asleep just now." β
"Where's she?"
"Dead."
Most afraid of hearing about her mother's tragedy, she suddenly felt a wave of compassion for He Chong.
"I'm going to die first, so eat my flesh." She thought about it for a while and said very seriously, "Live well and wait for someone to save you." β
"Thanks, I think I'm sure I'll die in front of you, women's endurance is better than men's, you'll definitely be fine."
The two helpless young people did not make pessimistic jokes, but the real pessimistic emotions in their hearts were unwilling to be revealed in front of each other. They are trapped here as companions to each other, but they can't do anything but rely on spirit to encourage each other. They all understand that the seemingly ignorant optimism is the last bit of force to continue life, and once this little bit of force is slackened, there is only a dead end.
As the showers passed, the accumulated rain on the planks dripped intermittently, echoing at the quiet bottom of the well.
"Yang Qianye, I'm sorry."
"Conscience found?"
"I shouldn't have done that to you before, I apologize to you."
"It's nothing, I'm not right, let you make a fool of yourself in public."
"It's not ugly." He Chong didn't seem to be very satisfied with her words, and corrected, "It's faceless." β
"Don't let anyone say you're ugly."
"Am I ugly?" He asked, not jokingly but seriously.
"It's okay."
"Okay? You're blind! He was very unhappy, so he wanted to get up and have a good theory, but his legs were numb and weak, "Go and inquire, how many women are lined up to chase after Young Master Ben." β
"People love your money."
"Then why don't they love other people's money and prefer mine, it's not because I'm handsome."
At this time, there must be a mirror, and He Chong can't wait to appreciate his resolute and handsome face, and his figure as steep as a mountain. Compared with Song Yingchen, he is indeed another type of handsome guy.
"Okay, okay, you're handsome, many female colleagues in the company are salivating over you, I admit it."
"Then let me ask you, am I handsome or Song Yingchen handsome?"
Song Yingchen - these three words suddenly appeared at the bottom of the well of despair, like an angel fluttering wings, making Chiba feel an urge to tears in an instant. She didn't answer, and fell into her own contemplation.
"What about you, who is handsome between me and that kid?"
She folded her arms and knees and moved her body to the side, facing the wall of the well.
He Chong was a little overwhelmed by her inexplicable reaction, and guessed that she might be really hungry and tired, so he stopped bothering.
"Song Yingchen, Song Yingchen......" The name flashed over and over again in her mind, this person.
There has never been a time when this person's figure and face can be reproduced in my mind as clearly as this moment. She liked him, loved him, and the deep feelings were like the rain that had just poured down...... But she couldn't catch it, she was the hard hat with the hole in it. She is full of evil and hatred around her, these are things that have nothing to do with Song Yingchen at all.
She wanted to tell him this intention before she died.
"Song Yingchen, I love you."
She shouted inwardly, and two lines of tears welled up.