Chapter 13: A New Crisis
Li Shi lay on her side on the ground, her head resting on her outstretched arms, her other hand holding a sketchbook, her pale lips closed, her brows tightly locked, and her face pained and haggard.
I squatted down and touched her forehead, I really had a fever, and I didn't think much about it, I planned to pick her up and put her on the bed, but this move was desperately resisted by her, and she said to me coldly: "Don't touch me!" ”
In desperation, I looked at her condescendingly, and she coughed again, but she didn't say anything to me, and I don't know if she was lazy to pay attention to me, or because of the pain of fever, she couldn't entangle with me.
After some hesitation, I couldn't help her, so I picked her up, turned around and put her on the bed not far away.
Li Shi said angrily unappreciatively: "You are really funny, I said that you don't care." ”
"If I really don't care about you, you will lie on the ground and fend for yourself!"
"It's better to fend for yourself than to be self-inflicted."
I didn't bother to be angry with a patient, and after covering her with the quilt roughly, I went to find some fever and cough medicine for her, and forcibly pinched her mouth and fed her, she must have never been treated so badly in her life, so that I fed the medicine for a while, still glaring at me with resentment.
"Are you hungry?"
"Don't get close to me."
I was speechless for a while, looked at her haggard face for a while, swallowed my temper again, turned to the kitchen to heat her meal, poured her a cup of hot water, cooled it to the right temperature, and then came to her room again.
Li Shi lay in a curled position, looking at the lamp on the table, and when she saw me come in, she turned her face away, looking too lazy to see me.
I put the plate on the table and reminded, "Eat it while it's hot, the ingredients and cold medicine are a total of thirty yuan, remember to give me back the money, I have no obligation to take care of you." ”
"Add last night's barbecue money as well."
I didn't intend to ask her for money, so I simply ignored it, but she struggled to sit up from the bed, coughed and took out two hundred yuan from her bedside purse, threw it on the quilt, and said, "Take it, and if you have more, it will be a tip!" ”
"If this way can make you eat this rib rice bowl with peace of mind, I will accept the money."
At this time, Li Shi, who had already picked up the teacup, put down the cup that had just reached her mouth again, holding the teacup and turning it gently, she gave people a feeling that she wanted to say something, but she didn't know how to open her mouth for a while.
Finally, I broke the silence, but only asked in the tone of the store manager to the customer, "This customer, do you have a fever?" ”
Li Shi finally looked up at me and asked, "Can you go out?" See clearly, this is my room! ”
"What you say is really shameless, you want to be the host after a few days, I send you medicine completely out of the store manager's care for the guests, you don't need to think about it."
Li Shi took a sip of hot tea, raised the bar with me as if she had made up her mind, and asked me, "You are embarrassed to say, what do you use to prove that you are the store manager?" ”
I was hurt by her question, but I didn't admit it, so I cheekily took out the guest room card from my pocket, shook it in front of her eyes, and then showed a pretended chic smile.
Li Shi looked at me, and stopped talking!
After a while, Li Shi stopped arguing, but picked up the pork ribs in a bearish attitude, and then ate one bite at a time in silence, and I found that I had never been with her like this, and her calmness made me a little uncomfortable, not embarrassing, but not natural.
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The afternoon sun was a bit hot, and I trapped myself in my room, lit a cigarette in the boredom, and after only a few moments, the room was gloomy, and then the cycle went from distracted to awake to distracted...... At this time, I seemed to have become a bird that did not dare to land, and I could only torture myself until I was exhausted......
After being stunned for a long time, I hurriedly looked at the cigarette that was about to be extinguished in my hand, and took another heavy breath before I rescued the fireworks that were about to be extinguished......
I sighed softly, of course I knew that Li Shi would not give up the control of the hostel so easily, and there would definitely be other bad actions against me in the future, thinking of this, I actually felt some sympathy for myself in my heart, after all, my current opponent is not a peer competitor, but my own boss...... But there is nothing I can do about it, and it can only be occasional emotions, and all I can do is persevere.
Thinking of the current situation, according to the doctor's judgment, my sister Mengmeng's condition can not be delayed for too long, and most leukemia patients will finally leave this world with full of pain and reluctance. She loves it so much that if it weren't for the fact that she was in treatment at the moment, I would have brought her over right away......
In fact, what can this youth hostel be special in her eyes?
I think it's just a very small number of "good memories" in her life, because of physical reasons, Mengmeng rarely goes far away, every time she goes far away, she must go to the hospital, but only here, is where she leaves the most joy...... She once took me by the hand and sat with me in the courtyard, looking at the sky with big eyes for a while, looking at me for a while, and then looking at me with a smile on her face, and I asked her, "Why do you like it here?" ”
She said: "This is the place where my brother worked hard to earn money to treat me, and it was my brother and the youth hostel that gave me my life. ”
That day, I, who had been suppressing my emotions, secretly hid and cried for a long time, but she pestered her mother to take her to buy a tree and plant it in the yard......
I heard that most jujube trees take 3-5 years to bloom and bear fruit after planting, and my mother is very regretful until now, why not buy a tree that can bear fruit the next year, so that Meng Meng can share some fruits.
Perhaps, many people in the company who have cut off contact with me now always think that I am greedy for the position of store manager and do not accept the company's plan, but they will never know how long I struggled when I decided to resist stubbornly, after all, human nature is selfish, but when I really make up my mind, I will not regret it.
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In the evening, Li Shi opened the door, washed the dishes and chopsticks, and put them on the stone table in the courtyard, with two hundred yuan pressed under the bowls, and then did not say hello to me, dragging the suitcase and walking out alone.
Looking at her back, I had the urge to keep her for the first time, and called her tentatively, but she didn't respond, and still walked straight out.
Tomorrow's on-site audition is imminent, but there is such a mistake at this juncture, what should I do tomorrow, the name is reported...... In the imminent moment, my heart was crossed, and I repeated the same trick again, and chased after her and reached out to stop her.
She looked at me without panic, but her tone was full of sarcasm and guard, and said, "Didn't you drive me away?" Now that I'm ready to go, you should be happy! ”
"I'm worried that if you are sick and go out to hang out, it will affect the cityscape of Xi'an Scenic Area."
Li Shi suddenly changed her face, raised her foot and kicked me, and scolded angrily: "You are sick, give me death." ”
While dodging, I reminded her, "You wear a skirt, don't raise your legs so high!" ”
She was obviously not afraid of my threat, and kicked me a few more times before stopping, still looking at me with a complicated expression.
I rubbed my legs and sighed softly, "I've kicked it, it's time to get rid of it, right?" A jealous and hateful woman like you should be a man of his word and not a deceitful person like me, right? ”
Facing me frowning in pain, Li Shi smiled without remorse, continued to drag the suitcase in front of me, just walked a few steps ahead, suddenly turned her head, and before she could speak, the long hair with a slightly curly shawl had been blown in the wind, she pinned the messy hair behind her ears, and said with an indifferent smile: "I can't lie to people like you, I won't give up." ”
This time, she walked very quietly, and did not even make a wave in my heart, but her smile last night, and her indifferent expression, which was diametrically opposed to today, were deeply etched in my mind, and I could not get rid of it......
Perhaps, she was so angry because she trusted me, but she felt cheated and instinctively rejected.
I smiled bitterly, and the whole world seemed to be torn apart, and the light was stretched longer and longer, with no end in sight, and the sound of the wind blowing in the distance passing through the wind chimes at the foot of the house became a kind of salvation, a kind of prayer......
I didn't have time to digest my emotions, Jing Qi called, so I fell into another kind of melancholy, tomorrow's couple activities, what should I do?