Ding Xiaohui came back late today, carrying some vegetables in his hand, Ruojun opened the door to greet him, took the vegetables, handed him a warm and fragrant towel as usual, and handed him slippers.

Ding Xiaohui smiled contentedly, he liked her suppleness and virtuousness, which many men liked.

"Why is it so late today, it's going to be dark, and it's not easy to walk on the mountain road in the evening." She asked, following the towel she handed over.

"I went to the hospital and looked at Ruikang." He changed into slippers, sat down at the table, picked up the tea he had already made, and took a sip.

She was stunned, her heart tightened, she pretended not to care and walked to the side to hang up the towel, and said calmly, "How is he?" ”

He looked up at her, smiled and said, "He is recovering well, although he can't recognize people or speak, but the blood in his skull should be scattered, he can eat and drink, and he has gained a lot of weight." ”

"Can't recognize people? Can't speak? Why? She couldn't help but ask nervously, but as soon as she saw Ding Xiaohui's restrained smile, she immediately pretended to smile naturally and said, "I'm just curious." ”

"The doctor said he needed time to recuperate. By the way, Uncle Zhou and Jiawei came to Chongqing. ”

"What?!" Ruojun looked at him with wide eyes and surprise.

"Yes, such a big thing, Jiaqi can't hide it if she wants to, they've been here for about a week."

She sighed, nodded, glanced out the window at the night, and shook her head again.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"It's nothing, I just feel that the Zhou family is so far away from me, I seem to have a long, long dream, that Zhou family compound, everyone in the Zhou family...... It's so far away from me now. She sighed.

Ding Xiaohui walked up to her, hugged her gently, and kissed her hair.

"Thank you, Xiaohui. You're so nice. She fell into his arms: "If I don't cherish you, I will be damned." ”

He laughed, "Are you with me for fear of damnation?" ”

She looked up at him, grabbed his neck, raised her eyelashes and shook her head: "I can't do without you for a long time." You're right, the past always has to be passed. She gently took off his glasses and looked at him carefully, beautiful eyebrows and eyes, making him so handsome: "You look better without glasses." ”

He smiled even deeper: "When did you find out?" Or at the waterfall? ”

As soon as he mentioned the waterfall, Ruojun's face turned red, and he bit his lower lip shyly and slapped him gently.

He hugged her tightly in his arms: "You saw me all that day." ”

"Oh, don't talk about it." She covered her face.

"Hehe, okay, I won't say it, I wasn't shy at that time, but I was shy when I got married." He teased her, pinched her nose slightly, and laughed.

The two bodies kept touching, and his breathing began to rapid, and his hand pressed her, making her feel his muscular male body, and began to kiss her lips passionately. Ruojun responds to him and forces herself to squeeze Ruikang out of her mind, she must devote herself to her husband, Ruikang has woken up and is gradually recovering, as long as he lives well, she can live.

//

Under Song Yuanyang's arrangement, after Zhou Ruikang was discharged from the hospital, the whole family moved into a beautiful old house with a garden in the suburbs, the house is not very big, but the layout is exquisite, the garden is lush with flowers and plants, green trees, the sheep intestine path is winding, a piece of bamboo is planted under the backyard corridor, and a few plum blossoms are sporadically planted next to the study.

"This house, but there is some history, when a civil official in the south of the Yangtze River was demoted to Sichuan, I didn't expect to be dismissed before he arrived, so he settled here and built this small courtyard, although it is not very big, but you see, this corridor window, this corridor, this scenery, move to change the scenery, is it quite the taste of the Jiangnan Soviet-style garden?" Song Yuanyang introduced all the way.

At this time, Master Zhou still has any mind to pick whether the residence is luxurious or simple, he has lived in the dilapidated small courtyard of the Mei family for five or six years, and he is no longer the old man of the Zhou family who was dressed in fine clothes and food, and now all his thoughts are on his only son Zhou Ruikang. But Song Yuanyang was enthusiastic, and everyone echoed and praised.

Ruikang's eyes were dull and looked at the plum blossom petals that were falling and falling, without saying a word, Jiaqi beside him carefully supported him, his appearance was gradually recovering, but his spirit had already been judged to be like two people, Master Zhou was on crutches beside him and anxiously pointed to the plum blossom tree and said: "Ruikang, do you remember something?" Yes, plum blossoms, you like plum blossoms the most, do you remember the plum blossoms in the plum garden? By the way, you also invited your classmates to hold a plum appreciation conference at home, do you remember? ”

Ruikang turned to Master Zhou with blank eyes, frowned, his eyes were blank, his lips were closed, and he walked straight forward, like a soulless shell wandering in the garden, wandering in the world, yes, his heart is gone, his soul is gone, his mind is gone, he lives in a muddy world.

More than half a year ago, he learned about Ruikang's situation from Jiawei, so he couldn't sit still anymore, and decided to leave for Chongqing immediately, he got an illness on the way, and was robbed by bandits, and suffered a lot to come here.

He thought that their father-son relationship could wake him up, but the miracle did not happen, Ruikang has been dumbfounded since he opened his eyes again, he will eat him, he will not give him food, he will not shout hungry, except for the headache will shout loudly, the rest of the time he is dull-eyed, expressionless.

Jiaqi helped Master Zhou, her heart was heavy, the problem she had to face was not only Ruikang's current state of dementia, she had been struggling whether to find Mei Ruojun again, she was almost collapsed, no one could help her, no one could rely on, no one could discuss. Her instincts told her that Mei Ruojun could do it, but her self-esteem and self-protection did not allow her to find another woman to save her husband.

What makes her entangled is more than this, every time she sees Master Zhou playing with Dingbang, she has a sense of guilt, she doesn't know whether to confess Dingbang's life experience to Master Zhou, after all, Master Zhou is Dingbang's grandfather, he has the right to know, but how can she say it?

The Zhou family has suffered too much, Ruikang is the last hope of Master Zhou, if he is told that Dingbang is not Ruikang's biological child, and he can't have children, the incense of the Zhou family will be cut off from now on, and it will be a fatal blow to Master Zhou. And when Master Zhou and Dingbang were playing, the puzzled look on his face often made Jiaqi restless.

At night, back in the room, Zhou Ruikang began to rummage through the cabinets again, his expression was very anxious, his mouth made a humming sound, I don't know what he was looking for, since he was discharged from the hospital, he had to rummage through it like this every night, the drawers and cabinets in the room were opened, and the things were thrown in a mess, and he couldn't find him sitting on the bed and yelling, losing his temper like a child, throwing things, and the servants couldn't stop it at all.

Only when Jiaqi walked into the room, Ruikang would suddenly be quiet, but there was a fear and helplessness in his eyes, his look made her sad, he seemed to be afraid of her, why should he be afraid of her? She felt more and more like his teacher more than his wife.

"Ruikang, tell me, what are you looking for?" She crouched down beside him and asked softly.

Ruikang instinctively shrank back on the bed, frowning and shaking his head.

"Tell me, can I help you find it?" Again, she proposed.

But he turned over, slept on the bed, faced the wall, no longer spoke, the pain in his eyes, made her very sad, all night she tried to warm him with her warm embrace, but he was tense and motionless, for a moment or two, Jiaqi even doubted whether he was dead, climbed his shoulder, looked at it, but saw that he was obviously blinking.

She cried sadly and pressed her face to his back: "Ruikang, Ruikang, why are you torturing yourself like this?" Get all right, please, look at your father, so old, who has traveled over the mountains to see you, and my brother, your best friend, who has traveled all the way to see you, and me, I love you so much, can't we all be as important as her? ”

She choked up and wept silently, and for a long time she continued: "She is married, married, and has children, and she has forgotten you, abandoned you, and betrayed you. Why are you so obsessed? ”

But he remained motionless, like a stone, and her heart sank and sank, as if sinking into a bottomless cavern.

//

Day after day, winter turned to spring, Ruikang's body had recovered well, but he was still delirious, rummaging through things every night, no one knew what he was looking for, no one could make him speak.

It was Song Yuanyang who knocked on the door of the cabin on Jinyun Mountain again, Ding Xiaohui was not at home, Mei Ruojun opened the door with Xiao Nian'an, who was getting more and more cute.

She looked at Song Yuanyang in surprise, not knowing what the intention of his visit was: "Mr. Song! How did you get here? ”

Mei Ruojun let him in, Song Yuanyang stopped slightly, looked at Nian An in her hand, just stunned, gently teased his little face with his fingers, shook his head, turned back to Ruojun and smiled: "What a little Ruikang!" ”

Mei Ruojun's heart tightened, and she hurriedly pressed Nian'an's face gently on her shoulder.

"Mr. Song, what did you say?"

Song Yuanyang pushed down his glasses, sighed and said, "You know what I'm talking about, as long as you have seen Zhou Ruikang, you don't have to work hard to guess who this kid is." ”

"No, you're wrong, it's my child with my husband." Ruojun insisted.

"Oh? Really? Well, whoever you say is who's who's. Song Yuanyang had no intention of delving into this issue, and directly explained his intentions: "I came today to let you go and see Zhou Ruikang." ”

Mei Ruojun raised her eyelashes, stared at him in surprise, and her heart began to jump suddenly: "What's wrong with him?" ”

Song Yuanyang shook his head: "He has not recovered, and now Zhou Ruikang is just a living dead man with open eyes and can eat." ”

"But didn't you say that after a long time, he would recover? It's been three months, isn't it...... Don't......? She was in a hurry not knowing what words to use.

"He didn't speak, he didn't recognize people, and at night he rummaged through the house looking for something, and no one knew what he was looking for. He was awake, but he was no different from a wasted man. So I thought, since you can revive him from his slumber, maybe you can also get him to speak and come to his senses. Song Yuanyang looked forward to Mei Ruojun nodding and agreeing, he thought she would readily agree, he felt the invisible connection between her and Zhou Ruikang.

But he was wrong, Mei Ruojun was just stunned, tears poured down, and she buried her face on Xiao Nian'an's body, and after a long time, she raised her head and said with a heartache: "I'm sorry, I can't go to see him." Me and him are over. The doctor said he would recover slowly and I thought he would get better. ”

"What?" Song Yuanyang was a little surprised by his judgment error, and looked at Mei Ruojun incredulously: "You don't want to go and see him to help him?" How could you be such a cold woman? In any case, you once loved each other, do you want him to live like this muddy and wasted? ”

"No!" She sat on the stool painfully, Song Yuanyang didn't understand, he didn't understand, she didn't want to go, she was afraid, she was afraid that she would never want to leave once she went, she was afraid that as soon as she went, she would throw herself into his arms, and she would never want to be separated from him again, she was afraid that as soon as she went, a huge storm would start again, she had been tormented by the past storms and waves very tired and tired, she cherished the peaceful life now.

"You're really not going? Are you really unwilling to save him? ”

"I ...... Can't go......" She covered her mouth lightly, tears falling down the table like raindrops, and shaking her head gently.

“Unbelievable!” Song Yuanyang exclaimed in disbelief, "Do you know how much Zhou Ruikang loves you? Even I, who is not his friend, can see that he is so cold to Man Lin in Shanghai, and now he is so perfunctory to Cheng Jiaqi, and he can only respond to your call, which shows how important you are in his heart? And he needs your help now, how can you be so...... So...... cold and cruel。 ”

Song Yuanyang was anxious and kept speaking English, he grew up abroad, and his attitude towards love was already very Western, and he felt that love should be warm, unrestrained, exciting, and private, and he couldn't understand Ruojun's hesitation and the idea of taking the overall situation into account.

After a while, Song Yuanyang tried to think about it with the Chinese concept of love, and seemed to understand a little, nodded helplessly and said:

"I see, you're afraid that your reputation will be damaged, right? Okay, if you think your reputation is more important than Zhou Ruikang's life, I don't force you, then let Zhou Ruikang continue to be a waste, anyway, we have tried all the methods, you are his last chance, since you don't want to, I can't help it. Fine, this is the address where they are now, whether you go or not, you can do it yourself. ”

Song Yuanyang was angry and disappointed and left the address on the table, and left in a hurry.

Mei Ruojun picked up the address on the table with difficulty, and sighed deeply, Song Yuanyang thought about things too simply, he forgot Cheng Jiaqi, Ding Xiaohui, and Master Zhou, he didn't understand how many people would be hurt if he ran to see Ruikang.

The address was carefully packed in a box, put it in the cabinet, and locked, as if to lock the desire in her heart to be suffocated, her heart ached faintly, and she began to think wildly, and her eyes kept flashing Ruikang's sluggish and stupid look, could she really save him?

That night, after Ding Xiaohui returned home, there was no hot towel full of flowers, no slippers, Xiao Nian'an was crying in the cradle, and Mei Ruojun was in a trance, said a few clueless words like a funce, and ran to the side to cook.

"What's wrong with you? The child does not coax when he cries like this. Xiaohui put down the things in his hand, walked to the cradle and picked up Nian'an, and gently coaxed him.

"Ah, really? Is he crying? Oh...... I don't know why he cried...... I'll come......" Ruojun turned around in a panic, and knocked the pot to the ground with a "bang---".

Ding Xiaohui said: "It's okay, I'll coax the child, you just cook." ”

"Oh......" she picked up the pot and chopped the vegetables in a panic, "Oops----" she shouted, the blade slicing through her finger, blood pouring out of her finger.

Ding Xiaohui hurriedly put down the child, ran over to check, put her fingers in her mouth, sucked away the blood, and said distressedly: "How did you do it?" How could it be so careless. ”

As he spoke, he took out the medicine box, pulled her to the table, bandaged her, frowned, as if it hurt more than his own injury, she frowned, her eyes blurred, he glanced at her and comforted: "It's okay, it will be fine in two days, look at you, why are you still like a child, crying at a little injury?" As he spoke, he put her finger on his lips and kissed her gently.

Xiaohui ...... You have been so good to me, how can I repay you? She lowered her eyelashes and tears welled up in her eyes.

Xiaohui took her into his arms and said gently: "Why do you say such a thing again, you are my wife, and I should be good to you." ”

She couldn't hide anything from him, and hiding anything from him made her feel guilty, finally, she choked up and told Song Yuanyang's arrival in the afternoon and the situation about Ruikang, took out a piece of paper with the address written on it, handed it to Xiaohui, let out a long sigh, and stopped talking.

Ding Xiaohui was silent for a long time, walked up to her and said, "Tell me, do you want to see him?" ”

She shook her head and said, "I don't want to lie to you, yes, I want to see him, I don't know why he refuses to speak, refuses to recognize people, but if you are unhappy, I will not go, you are my husband, I listen to you." ”

He stared into her eyes for a long time, a smile hooked the corner of his mouth, took her into his arms, and said tenderly: "I'm so glad that you are honest with me, if you want to go, then tomorrow we will go together, I will go to give him a pulse." ”

She looked at him in amazement, looked at him with gratitude, looked at him excitedly, stood on tiptoe, kissed him, his love, his understanding, his magnanimity, won her heart.