Chapter Ninety-Six: How Are You?
Bai Ling held his breath.
Seriously calculated, more than four years have passed since the night when I said goodbye to Fourteen out of the city.
There were some subtle changes in Fourteen's face, and Bai Ling couldn't tell what was the difference. This feeling is like a class reunion after many years, even if the old friends are still wearing the same clothes and maintaining the same body shape, the traces of the passage of time from the body are still very vivid.
Bai Ling tried to lift her arm, and she wanted to pull Fourteen's sleeve to see if Fourteen would move.
Yet, like countless times in her dreams, she felt that her arms were extremely weak.
Bai Ling closed his eyes and with all his strength, finally reached out of the heavy quilt.
This change of breath suddenly woke Wei Shixi, and he blinked his somewhat dry eyes, and looked at Bai Ling on the bed againβthis time Bai Ling was looking at him with his eyes open.
Wei Shixi showed a tired smile and said in a low voice, "You're awake." β
He dragged his chair closer, and shoved back Bai Ling's hand that had managed to reach out of the quilt.
Bai Ling looked at Fourteen in a daze, his eyes slightly moist.
Please...... Don't wake up.
Let's do this dream a little longer.
"You ......" Bai Ling spoke, making a dry sound that even she didn't recognize, she was a little anxious, but she choked on her own spit, and with every cough, her abdomen and back were torn.
"Don't move, don't move." Wei Shishi frowned and said, "Do you want to ask Bai Yi, he has been guarding you for several days, and he has just been persuaded to go to sleep at this time." β
Bai Ling felt a bitterness in her mouth, and after a quick sour nose, she felt that her entire nasal cavity was blocked.
"You can't drink water yet."
Wei Shixi helped Bai Ling to lie down again, then got up and went to the nearby table to get a knife and cucumber, sat next to Bai Ling and gently pushed the slices, and then put the moist two slices of cucumber on Bai Ling's chapped lips.
"Now that you're awake, you're going to move for a while?" He whispered, "Can you move your feet?" β
Bai moved his ankle and signaled that it was okay.
Under Wei XIV's guidance, Bai Ling lay flat on the bed, tensed his instep vigorously, and then relaxed, and did this many times.
"Every time you wake up after that, you move like that." Wei Shishi said with a smile, "Bai Yi said that this can prevent deep vein thrombosis. β
Oh...... Deep vein thrombosis.
Bai Ling laughed, she didn't know when she had such a professional word in her vocabulary......
Did you learn from Bai Yi when you were in the West Firewood Room of the Tai Hospital?
"Let's sleep a little longer." Wei XIV sat back on the chair next to the bed, "Close your eyes." β
Bai Ling was reluctant to close her eyes at all, she shook her head, tears rolling down her eyes one by one.
"Is the wound hurting," Wei Fourteen asked, "...... Why are you crying and laughing at the same time. β
Bai Ling shook his head, then nodded again.
"Then sleep a little longer." Wei Shishi said softly, he obviously didn't understand Bai Ling's worries at all, he just reached out and re-brushed the hair that Bai Ling had just covered his face back on, "If you fall asleep, it won't hurt." β
Maybe it was because of Fang Cai's exercise, or maybe it was because of the warm room at the moment, Bai Ling felt a little sleepy again.
She looked at her old friend with reluctance.
"Fourteen ......" Bai Ling was almost speaking in an air current.
Wei Fourteen leaned over, "Well, you say." β
"You...... Well, all these years. β
"I'm fine." Wei XIV replied, looking at Bai Ling, "If you can get better quickly, it will be better." β
Bai Ling burst out laughing, and then showed a painful expression because of the pain in his abdomen and back.
Looking at Bai Ling, who was still a little unconscious at the moment, Wei Shishi felt a little funny and a little worried.
"Close your eyes and stop talking." Wei Shixi urged, "Raise your spirits, let's chat again." β
"Your ...... Hand. β
Bai Ling looked at Wei Shixi's left hand, she hadn't noticed it yet, but at this moment, she saw that the tiger's mouth and even the entire palm of his left hand were wrapped in bandages, looking like he was injured.
"My hands are fine." Wei Shishi said softly, "I was accidentally injured when I was fighting with Chen Shubai's secret guard, and Bai Yi has already helped me deal with it." β
ββ¦β¦ Chen Shubai. Bai Ling muttered, she was still a little unaccustomed to calling Lan Zhijun's real name.
Lan Zhijun's secret whistle...... That's really tough.
"Did you win?" Bai Ling asked again.
"Hmm." Wei Fourteen nodded, "Otherwise, how can I know your whereabouts." β
Speaking of which, he was a little afraid.
Wind and snow in the north...... Bai Ling almost really became a blizzard in the north, if he was a step too late.
Bai Ling didn't ask anything more, and she was very satisfied with the fact that "Wei XIV was able to defeat Lan Zhijun's secret whistle", even in a dream.
She lay quietly, but she never wanted to close her eyes, and kept looking at Fourteen in front of her, until her eyelids fought, and then she fell into the unconscious abyss again.
Wei 14 continued to cheer up and picked up the book from the ground that had just fallen from his hand because of dozing.
He and Bai Yi took turns to be on duty during this time, one was to wait for Bai Ling to wake up, and once she woke up, he would urge her to move her legs and feet like Fang Cai; The second is to keep an eye on it, once Bai Ling makes a snoring sound, it means that her breathing is not smooth enough, and she needs to readjust her posture or wake her up again to avoid suffocation.
The time of care always goes by very long.
Wei Shixi looked at the book in his hand, he didn't turn the page for a long time, he closed the book again, and looked at Bai Ling again.
The past was like a tide, and scenes surged up in his heart.
Wei Shixi lowered his eyes and sighed, and found that Bai Ling's hand had stretched out from the quilt again.
He leaned over and took Bai Ling's left hand and pressed his forehead lightly against it.
It's great that you're alive.
Get better soon.
β¦β¦
It was in the middle of the night that Bai Ling really realized that all of this was true.
It is true that she has not been awake all the time, and during the day, Bai Ling has woken up seven or eight times, but except for the first time, she is quite awake, and every time after that, her expression has been a little dream-like and drowsy.
It wasn't until dusk that Bai Yi woke up, and heard from Wei 14 that Bai Ling had woken up during the day today, and he didn't even care about dinner, so he went straight to Bai Ling's bed and waited.
However, after nightfall, as if deliberately trying to make him sad, Bai Ling lay there silently, and slept deeply.
Bai Yi stayed alone in the house, and the vigil was extremely tormenting.
He sat on the chair next to the bed, looking at Bai Ling's peaceful sleeping face with some kind of grief that he was willing to gamble and lose, and kept whispering, regardless of whether Bai Ling could hear it or not.