Chapter 13: A Sudden Parting
Today is the last game before the EVE Festival, and after this game, the Spring Festival will be in about ten days. In the afternoon game, EVE really won again, and in the lounge after the game, Ren Tian was packing her things, and her mobile phone rang, it was her father calling.
"Hey, Dad." Ren Tian happily picked it up, she was busy with the game for a while, and she hadn't contacted her father for a long time.
"Are you Dr. Ren's daughter? Your dad has an accident, you hurry to the Pudong District Emergency Center. "It was a strange man's voice on the other end of the phone.
Ren Tian didn't hold the phone and fell to the ground, still shouting "Hey, hey? She quickly squatted down to pick it up, trembling.
Ji Heng saw that something was wrong, and ran over to support her: "What's wrong with you?" ”
"My dad has an accident, in the emergency center, you send me over." Ren Tian felt as if her whole body was getting cold, and she had a very bad premonition.
"Okay, I'll take you right away." Ji Heng helped Ren Tian, took out the car keys from his bag, and pulled her away.
In the emergency center, a group of people were waiting at the door of the rescue room, and several of them knew Ren Tian, saw her coming, and hurriedly greeted her.
"How's my dad doing?" Ren Tian asked eagerly.
"Xiao Tian, Dr. Ren suddenly fainted in the laboratory in the afternoon, and the doctor diagnosed him with an acute myocardial infarction and was grabbing the ball." It was her father's assistant who spoke to Ren Tian, and judging from his expression, he was afraid that the situation was not optimistic.
Ren Tian is much calmer now, she didn't cry or ask, she just felt very scared, she was at a loss, she didn't know what to do, her eyes widened and looked at the light on the rescue room.
Ji Heng saw that her face was very bad, and touched her hand again, it was as cold as ice, and quickly helped her to the chair next to her and sat down, and took off her coat to put it on her, Ren Tian was stunned for a long time before saying, "My dad should be fine, right?" ”
Her tone was a completely unconfident inquiry, and Ji Heng was also panicked for a while, so he could only comfort her like a child: "Well, it'll be fine." ”
After about an hour, the lights on the emergency room went out, and the doctor walked out, Ren Tian nervously grabbed the armrest of the chair, but couldn't stand up. Ren Tian's father's assistant was the first to rush forward, Ren Tian saw that the doctor shook his head at him and said something, the assistant squatted on the ground and cried in the next instant, and several other people on the side also hung their heads and shed tears. For a moment, she felt that a rope in her head seemed to break, and she felt that her body was getting colder and colder, and then after a burst of white light in front of her, everything was dark.
I don't know how long this darkness lasted, when Ren Tian woke up, her memory was blank for a while, she couldn't tell where she was, and she didn't know what time it was, until Ji Heng's face appeared on the top of her face, and that face was full of anxiety and compassion. In the next second, Ren Tian remembered what had just happened, what happened to her father, she still couldn't be sure. So, she sat up and asked, "Where is my father?" ”
Ji Heng looked at her pale face raised up, his heart was so painful that he couldn't speak, he really couldn't bear to tell him the result.
Ren Tian looked at Ji Heng's expression and asked word by word: "Is he dead?" ”
Ji Heng nodded silently, to his surprise, Ren Tian didn't cry, she quickly got out of bed: "I'm going to see him." ”
It was only when Ren Tian stood in the morgue and watched her father's snow-white face lying on the silver bed that she began to gradually accept this fact. Tears poured out of her eyes like springs, and she pressed her face against her father's, the cold feeling felt strange and heart-wrenching for her. The pain in her chest was real and irrepressible, and the time spent with the father and daughter for many years came to her mind one by one, and she fainted again.
It has been a few days since she dealt with Ren Tian's father's affairs, and Ji Heng has been with her this week, helping her deal with various things in the funeral later, Ren Tian has lost weight very significantly, and the person seems to have become a piece of paper, pale and fragile. The people in the team also came to see her, and the strange thing was that Manager Fang saw Ji Heng staying with her inch by inch, without asking anything, and did not show any surprised expression.
Ren Tian's father's salary card and relics were sorted out by his assistant and brought to Ren Tian, and Ren Tian saw that there was a photo album in his father's relics, which was almost full of photos of her mother. This album Ren Tian saw when he was a child, and then it disappeared after they divorced, Ren Tian originally thought that his father threw it away, it seems that he took the album to the office and kept it with him. Seeing the good times of his parents when they were young, the happy smile of his father under the camera made Ren Tian feel a kind of sad sadness.
Ren Tian was shocked by the large amount of money in the salary card, she didn't expect her father's income to be so high, and the assistant explained to her that these included the patent fees of several drugs, and the money would continue to be paid to this card for many years to come. The next day, the pharmaceutical company also sent a large pension, and with these two sums of money, Ren Tian became a rich little woman who could be called rich even in a metropolis like Shanghai.
Ren Tian's mother only came once on the day of her father's burial, and she asked Ren Tian to go to her house with her for the New Year, Ren Tian only shook his head lightly when he heard it.
"How are you doing alone? Don't let mom worry about it. Ren's mother pulled her and continued to persuade.
Ren Tian didn't speak, and shook his hanging head again.
"Auntie, just let her do what she wants, I will accompany her, you don't have to worry." Ji Heng said after Ren Tian.
Ren Tian's mother looked at him deeply, nodded silently, and turned to leave.
Back at Ren Tian's house, Ren Tian sat on the sofa again to look at the things left by her father, Ji Heng bought a lot of things that Ren Tian usually likes to eat and put them on the coffee table next to her, Ren Tian almost didn't move, she ate very little during this time, and everyone was going to lose weight.
Tomorrow is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and there is already a strong atmosphere of the New Year outside, Ji Heng sat beside Ren Tian, hugged her from behind and said, "Do you want to go to my house for the New Year?" ”
Ren Tian held his hand: "It's not suitable for me to go to your house for the New Year like this, let's talk about it later." ”
These days, only Ji Heng talks to her, and she can still answer like a normal person, Ji Heng nodded, and asked again: "You are always sad in this house." Why don't we go to my house, or why don't we go abroad for a few days? He spoke cautiously, and his tone was so gentle, this kind of thoughtfulness made Ren Tian's heart warm.
"Okay, then we'll go to you." Although this world is lonely and terrible, as long as Ji Heng is by her side, she feels that it doesn't seem to be so bad.
These days, the two of them are always together all the time, even if they sleep, Ren Tian doesn't want Ji Heng to leave his side, she falls asleep next to him every day, and wakes up in his arms, although they haven't done anything, but in Ren Tian's heart, Ji Heng is already his lover who is connected by flesh and blood. Early this morning, as soon as it was dawn, she heard Ji Heng's mobile phone buzzing and vibrating.
"Brother, how long will you come back today, my parents asked me to ask you, and you won't come to pick me up when I came back yesterday." The call was from Ji Heng's sister Ji Lingzi, Ji Heng answered the phone angrily, and the voice over there was so loud that Ren Tian heard it all.
"I won't be coming back today, I told my dad the other day." Ji Heng was about to hang up the phone after speaking.
"You're not going to spend the New Year with your girlfriend, are you? Tell you, you'd better come back today, or you have a daughter-in-law and forget your mother, and you see if your mother will like your girlfriend in the future. You don't need me to remind you how stingy she is. Ji Lingzi said with a giggle.
Ji Heng knew that what his sister said was right, so he hung up the phone.
"You go back to accompany your family for the New Year, I'll wait for you at home." Ren Tian raised his head from his chest, his sleepy eyes open.
"I won't leave you alone, don't think about it, and sleep again." Ji Heng touched Ren Tian's forehead with his nose and hugged Ren Tian a little tighter.
In the morning, Ji Heng specially called someone to bring fresh steak and seafood.
"You bought so much, are we finished eating?" Ren Tian looked at a pile of boxes and asked,
"You eat more, I'm going to cook today, this is the first time I've cooked in my life, and I'll leave it to you for the first time." Ji Heng smiled and nodded Ren Tian's nose.
Hearing such a description, Ren Tian was speechless and gently beat his chest.
Ji Heng was wearing an apron and watching the video of cooking steaks in the kitchen, when the doorbell rang at home.
"You ordered takeout?" Ji Heng asked as he went to open the door. Ren Tian was still saying no, the door had been opened, and Ji Heng's parents, parents and sister were standing outside neatly.
"Dad, Mom, why are you here?" Ji Heng said in surprise,
"We're here to greet you." Ji Heng's mother glanced at Ji Heng who was wearing an apron, said angrily, and walked directly past Ji Heng into the room.
Ren Tian froze in the middle of the living room, she was wearing a big sweater from Ji Heng, a pair of ripped jeans underneath, her hair was unkempt, her face was not seriously washed, and her face turned red instantly when she saw the three people who entered the room.
Ji Heng hurriedly walked over, pulled her to his side, and said, "This is my parents and sister." Then he put his arm on Ren Tian's shoulder and said, "Mom, this is Xiaotian, my girlfriend." ”
Ji Heng's sister saw Ren Tian's appearance, and held back a smile on the side, Ren Tian adjusted his emotions and said, "Uncle and aunt, and sister, hello, I'll clean up, you sit down first." ”
Ji Heng's father smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay, you go." ”
Ji Heng gently patted Ren Tian on the back, smiled at her and signaled her to relax, and then welcomed her parents to the sofa and sat down.
Ji Heng's mother looked at her son wearing an apron, frowned and said, "The family has let you be a young master for twenty years, and now that you are in charge of the house, you can carry it very clearly, and you have started to be a cook." ”
Ji Heng's father smiled: "I think it's good for my son to be like this, unlike those who are usually not grounded." ”
Ji Heng took off his apron in a daze: "Some time ago, Xiaotian's family had an accident, and I took her back to live for a while. ”
Ji Heng's father lowered his voice and said, "She's better, she really needs someone to accompany her when something like this happens." You're doing a great job. ”
Ji Heng's mother also heard his father talk about Ren Tian's family, she is not a mean person, but she feels that her son is too partial, and she doesn't come back to see herself during the New Year: "You take her to us for the New Year, you see that the two of you are here, you have nothing to eat or drink, and the little girl is also very thin." ”
Ji Heng: "I don't want to take her to the house, when the time comes, we will all be a family, and she will be alone, I don't know how sad I feel." ”
Ji Heng's mother heard her son say such things, and smiled at Ji Heng's father: "I didn't expect our son to be an amorous person, and he thought about everything for others." Then he said to Ji Heng: "Then if you get married in the future, won't you never go home for the New Year for the rest of your life?" ”
Ji Heng was shocked by his mother's rough reasoning ability, and his father scolded him beside him: "Didn't people just have an accident? It's not like this forever, how can you talk like this? ”
At this time, the door of the inner bedroom opened, Ren Tian walked out, she changed her clothes, combed her hair, and simply put on some makeup on her face. looked at Ji Heng's parents: "Uncle and aunt, I'm sorry." In fact, she really didn't expect to face such a problem as meeting her in-laws so early, and she just entered the room and practiced in front of the mirror for a long time.
Ji Heng's father asked her to sit down quickly, Ji Heng's mother looked her up and down with an unfathomable smile, Ji Lingzi happily came over and pulled her, and let her sit on the sofa on one side with her.
Ren Tian knew that Ji Lingzi was about the same age as himself, and he liked her very much, the two were talking on the sofa on the side, in fact, Ji Lingzi was basically talking, her personality was innocent and lively, and she couldn't hold it when she opened the chatterbox, and she made Ji Heng's jokes, making his face green when he listened to it next to him.
Ji Heng's mother observed for a long time, and felt in her heart that her son's girlfriend looked like a very simple girl, and she was very beautiful, and she had a good temper when she got along with people, but her son seemed to be too spoiled by her, and she could barely score 80 points on the whole.
Thinking of this, Ji Heng's mother's tone couldn't help but soften a little, and she said to Ji Heng and Ren Tian: "You two are here for the New Year, don't eat casually, I asked the chef at home to cook for you, and I will ask someone to bring it to you later." ”
Ren Tian didn't expect Ji Heng's mother to be so reasonable, and she didn't know what to say for a while. Ji Heng's heart blossomed, it seemed that his mother was not completely unreasonable, he hurriedly stepped forward and hugged his mother's shoulder: "Mom, you can go to Hang Lung Department Store to buy a bag in two days, choose whatever you want, I will give you as a New Year's gift." ”
Ji Lingzi shouted on the side: "And me." ”
Ji Heng laughed: "You can choose too, okay." ”
When Ji Heng's family was sent away, Ren Tian leaned on Ji Heng gently: "Your family is very good." ”
Ji Heng kissed her on the cheek: "You are so well-behaved, they all like you." ”
At 12 o'clock, there was a sea of electronic fireworks outside the window, Ren Tian looked at the other side of the river, where he and his parents used to be home, but now it was just an empty house, thinking of his father, Ren Tian's heart was in pain again, Ji Heng saw her appearance, and quickly stepped forward to hug her shoulder, let her sit on his lap, and said with a smile: "I learned a magic trick, do you want to see it?" ”
Ren Tian held back his tears, turned his face to stare at him, "Yes, show me." Her eyes were still wrapped with tears that had not been shed just now, and Ji Heng felt a heartache, he gently brushed her eyes with his palm, and when she closed her eyes, the two tears slipped down her cheeks, and Ji Heng wiped them off with his sleeve: "With me, you don't have to endure it... When Ren Tian heard this, a string of tears welled up in his eyes, Ji Heng pressed his face against her face and kissed her lips gently, at this time Ren Tian suddenly felt a chill in his neck, and when she opened her eyes, she didn't know when she was wearing a necklace around her neck.
Ji Heng looked at her and laughed: "My magic trick, isn't it?" ”
Ren Tian looked at the pendant of this chain, and in the center was a heart-shaped pink diamond, full of fire and sparkling, and it was held in the heart by a pikachu made of platinum inlaid with diamonds, which looked gorgeous and lovely. Looking at this, she couldn't help but smile slightly, this was the first time in so many days that Ji Heng had seen her smile from the bottom of her heart.
"You see, I have it too." Ji Heng pointed to his chest, where he brought a pendant that was very similar to this style, but the chain was thicker and longer, it was a duck holding his head, and two pink diamonds were embedded in his eyes.
"Poof... Where did you get this necklace for sale? Ren Tian exclaimed.
"I bought the diamonds in the jewelry store on Huaihai Road and asked them to customize them for us, do you like it? Isn't it creative? Ji Heng proudly picked up the duck and let him lean against Pikachu.
"yes, I like it." Ren Tian looked at Ji Heng's eyes shining under the reflection of the electronic fireworks outside the window, the feelings inside were so sincere and hot, her tears welled up again, but this time it was not because of sadness, but because of sincere touch.
Holiday Notes:
One
Ji Heng likes basketball, and usually bought a lot of shoes and threw them in the storage room before they had time to clean them up, so the two took advantage of the New Year's holiday to buy a large shelf for shoes, and when they were in the third year of junior high school, they would tidy up there.
Most of those shoes had never been opened, and Ren Tian said speechlessly as he pulled them out of the box, "Are you a centipede?" ”
Ji Heng laughed when he heard this description: "Don't you girls also like to buy high heels?" Buy a pair of all colors. ”
Ren Tian thought for a while: "I don't like to buy it, I just have two pairs of high heels." ”
Ji Heng: ". . . Oh, you see these shoes were signed by the little emperor. ”
Ren Tian: "Which girl are you talking about who likes to buy shoes?" ”
Ji Heng: "My mother... ”
Ren Tian: "。。。。。 ”
There is a pair of shoe boxes that are wrapped in gift wrapping paper, and they have not yet been opened, but the wrapping paper is exquisite. Ren Tiansan tore open the wrapping paper and found that this was a pair of limited-edition fashion collaborations, even she knew that the price was too expensive, and there was a card in the box, which read: Fly with you, Tong.
Ren Tian pondered for a moment, and still handed the card to Ji Heng: "Someone gave it to you." ”
Ji Heng frowned and glanced at it: "This box was brought over by my mother for my birthday, and I keep throwing it here, I don't know who gave it to me." ”
Ren Tian threw the shoes aside: "You clean up yourself!" ”
Ji Heng hurriedly hugged her: "That's not good, how can you give up halfway." ”
Ren Tian pointed to the card on the ground: "Then what about this?" ”
Ji Heng touched his head: "Xiao K seems to like this kind of model very much, give it to him, it just so happens that he has been playing very well recently, and I am planning to reward him." ”
Ren Tian frowned: "Then who doesn't think that you accepted her gift, this is someone else's mind." ”
Ji Heng said indifferently: "When she celebrates her birthday, I will ask my mother to help me buy her a similar price, which can be regarded as returning it to her." ”
Ren Tian thought about it and couldn't help it, so he had to sigh and sit down and continue to pack his shoes.
After a while, a pair of shoes came out, but there was no card on this pair, but a line of words was embroidered with thread on the inside of the upper: "HENG husband, love you forever." ”
Ren Tian looked at the shoes: "Are you married?" ”
Ji Heng: "?? What did you say? ”
Ren Tian threw the shoes to him: "Your wife gave them to you." ”
Ji Heng looked at it inexplicably for a long time, remembering that this was one of the gifts sent to the base by the fan base, but he didn't expect that there were these words in it. is really more wronged than Dou E, he picked up his shoes and said with a face full of grievances: "The fan wrote it, I don't know." ”
Ren Tian also knew that the fans were shouting from her husband and wife, but she was still unhappy, her face collapsed, and she stuffed the box into Ji Heng's arms: "I'm a little tired, so I'm going to rest." ”
Ji Heng fell to the ground holding the box, feeling that it was a big mistake to let Ren Tian remove these shoes, and he was completely digging a hole for himself.
Two
Du Yijie got Ren Tian's WeChat from a friend in TX Company and sent her an application message:
"Mr. Wang gave me your WeChat." Then he posted another, "I'm a singer. Before he could type the three words Du Yijie, he had already sent them out quickly.
"I'm a singer?" Ren Tian received this application, and wondered, could it be that well-known entertainment program, but why add yourself? She thought about it for a moment and clicked through.
"HI, Xiaotian beauty, do you remember me?" Du Yijie made an exaggerated laughing expression.
"Who are you?" Ren Tian sent a string of question marks.
"I'm Du Yijie, we met at the sorority. You didn't recognize my avatar when you saw it? "This time, the expression was a big crying face.
"Hehe, hello, I'm sorry, your avatar is a little different from yourself." Ren Tian's straightforward answer made Du Yijie speechless for three seconds.
"Happy Chinese New Year and good luck. Xiaotian girl, do you remember that we are going to cooperate to release a new song? ”
"I remember I said I didn't have time." Ren Tian thought about it again, and indeed he said NO at that time.
"It's okay, I've already written the lyrics, you can take a look first." Du Yijie said and sent a document over.
Ren Tian took a look at the document, and the lyrics were very catchy, but how to say it, it was very popular, easy to remember, but it didn't have any connotation.
"How?" Du Yijie couldn't wait to ask.
"That... Can you tell the truth? ”
"I'm going to show you the truth."
"I think it's a bit dirty...
“。。。。 Where is the soil? Do you have any taste? Du Yijie held a mouthful of old blood in his chest.
"Kill these together, rush together, let them hit the street, it's all so dirty, my own feeling ha, anyway, I don't want to play this game after listening to this song." Ren Tian commented seriously.
Du Yijie stopped talking, and Ren Tian felt that he might be a little angry.
"Am I dirt?" Du Yijie was on the other end of the phone, asking his assistant.
"How is it possible, Brother Jie, you are a fashion idol now, and your ability to bring goods was on the list again yesterday." The little assistant had a heartfelt adoration on his face.
"By the way, an admirer just wrote a lyric and showed it to me, you can tell me how it is," Du Yijie gave him the lyrics he had just shown to Ren Tian.
"This lyric, hehe, is a little greasy. But it's good that the average person can write this kind of thing. The assistant said with a smile.
“。。。。 I'm going to be quiet. Don't even bother me today. Du Yijie closed the computer and silently entered the bedroom.
Three
Wu Bai's Spring Festival was still spent at home, and as he predicted, his parents quickly forgot about those things, after all, they only had one precious child. And because of Wu Bai's excessive rebellion, his parents decided not to introduce him to a girlfriend, and everything went naturally, after all, his son came back from the "old woman" abroad, which was already a lost and unexpected joy for his parents.
"Hey, it's a pity Xiaotian, that little girl is very good, you said she has a boyfriend, is it true?" Wu Bai's mother said with regret.
"Hmm." Wu Bai was playing with his mobile phone on the side, and his fingers paused when he heard this.
"I heard her mother say that Xiaotian's biological father was a high-tech person who passed away some time ago. Oh, the little girl is so pitiful. Wu's mother continued.
"What?" Wu Bai stopped, his eyes looking at his mother.
"Ren God, the girl who went to Hangzhou with us last time, she was old and beautiful, her father died of a heart attack, and now she is like an orphan." Wu's mother heard that her son's voice seemed to be a little strange, and looked at him strangely.
Wu Bai left the living room and returned to his room. He first flipped through Ren Tian's Weibo and circle of friends for a while, there was nothing in it, and after probing, he considered whether to send a message to Ren Tian, and after thinking about it for a long time, he still put down his phone.
He turned on the speakers, and the memo of Hisaishi rang flowed from it
He stood in front of the window and listened for a while, then turned back to the computer and opened one of the folders, which was full of photos, hundreds of them.
Wu Bai looked at these photos, they were all taken when he and Nuo Nuo were in the United States, he looked at these photos, but he couldn't help but think of another face in his heart, the pale, stubborn, surprised, smiling, proud face of Ren Tian.