Chapter 365: Some Promises Can't Be Fulfilled After All
Zhong Yinger reluctantly glanced at the middle-aged woman who was injured in a car accident on the hospital bed next door, but fortunately, the injury was not serious and she was about to be discharged from the hospital.
"Are you going to the bathroom?" The woman noticed that Zhong Ying'er was sitting on the hospital bed and hesitating, and tried to step on the ground with the foot of the injured ankle and sat back. "Press that button on your bedside and have the nurse come and help."
Zhong Ying'er smiled and declined her kindness, explaining, "No, no······ I'm going to be discharged tonight. The doctor said that it didn't hurt the muscles and bones, but it was a little swollen, and now the swelling has subsided, and there is no big problem······"
Zhong Ying'er tried it, and there was still a little bit of pain when she walked on the ground, and there was no problem at all if she saved a little effort on tiptoe, and she thought that there was no need to stay for a few more days, the cost of hospitalization every day would be hundreds, and it would be a waste of money to stay for one more day.
She just quit her job at the hotel, and at the end of this month, she will have to go to the place she has set before to teach in less than a week. For her, save a little if she can.
"Oh, congratulations on being discharged from the hospital!" The woman smiled and asked, "Have you already called your boyfriend to come and pick you up?" ”
Boyfriend? Zhong Yinger looked puzzled, why did a boyfriend suddenly appear? Zhong Ying'er thought about it carefully, and suddenly it dawned on her.
It's Xia Bo, and he's been here for the past two days. She couldn't help but laugh, "You mean the man who carried me over the night before?" ”
"Didn't I bring you food at noon today? Or did he make it himself······" The woman's evil smile had already concluded that Xia Bo was her boyfriend.
"You're mistaken, we're just ordinary friends." Zhong Yinger tried her best to explain and clarify.
She and Xia Bo have only known each other for a few days, and they can't talk about good feelings, let alone likes or dislikes, but they feel that he is quite enthusiastic in the past two days, and they are more grateful, that's all.
"Okay!" The woman was still smiling, "Lovers start with friends." ”
In the face of her kindness and misunderstanding, Zhong Yinger didn't know how to explain it, and she thought that there was no need to explain anything. In a hospital that is not so lucky, and even a little sad and sad, it is not a happy thing to have a few more smiles.
The woman continued: "It will be more troublesome to be discharged from the hospital, and it will not be convenient for you, or you wait a while, my husband will come over later, let him help you handle it, so as not to ······ you"
As he was talking, Xia Bo walked in with a basket of fruits in one hand and a book in the other.
The woman on the next bed looked at Zhong Ying'er and smiled, and didn't continue.
"Why are you here?"
Zhong Ying'er looked surprised, she didn't ask Xia Bo to come over, but just tentatively asked Qin Yue if she was busy, and didn't say that she would be discharged from the hospital tonight. Qin Yue, who didn't know it, was still working overtime in the company at the moment because of a bunch of work at hand, and said that she would go over to accompany her after work.
"Why can't I come?" After all, Xia Bo is also a mature man who has passed middle age, and a rhetorical question made Zhong Yinger speechless.
He smiled and nodded hello to the woman on the next bed, and then naturally walked over to Zhong Ying'er and taught her a book.
"I asked Qin Yue, and she said that you like to read travel books. As for me, I haven't read any books, and I don't have a good habit of reading, so I went to the bookstore for a long time to choose, and I don't know if you like it or not······"
Zhong Ying'er looked at the book with the beautiful scenery of Xitang on the cover, and didn't specifically hear what Xia Bo said. When she was helpless and needed help, Xia Bo's appearance made her feel a glimmer of hope and warmth.
"Thank you!" She suppressed those feelings of sadness and gratitude.
"No thanks, if you like it." Xia Bo smiled and took out two apples from the fruit basket, "You lie down and rest, I'll wash an apple for each of you." ”
He smiled as he passed the young woman in the next bed and asked, "I see you're recovering well, you should be discharged from the hospital, right?" ”
Zhong Yinger didn't expect Xia Bo to be a very talkative person who could find topics.
When he walked out of the ward to wash the apples, the woman looked at Zhong Ying'er and smiled wickedly.
"I saw yesterday that you wrote the word Xitang in this notebook." The woman pointed to the square book on her bedside table, "When he brought you food in the afternoon, he should have seen you write a diary, so he gave you this book, it shouldn't have been chosen casually." ”
Could it be ······ Zhong Ying'er asked herself in her heart with extreme unconfidence, he wouldn't be interesting to me, right?
This thought didn't stop for a few seconds, and she denied it herself, "No, no!" ”
When Xia Bo came in, Zhong Ying'er said pleadingly: "You help me go and get discharged, the doctor said, I can be discharged at any time now, pay attention to myself after I go back, and I will be completely fine in two or three days······"
Xia Bo glanced at the woman in the bed next to her suspiciously, "Did the doctor really say that?" ”
The woman nodded, "Well, I said it during the evening rounds." ”
Zhong Ying'er held up the prepared discharge certificate and several related lists in front of Xia Bo, "I'm sorry for you!" ”
"Okay, then I'll go!" Xia Bo had a happy smile on his face, of course it was a good thing to be discharged from the hospital.
Xia Bo walked out when the woman's husband walked in.
"Take advantage of it and cherish it!" With that, she turned back to talk to her husband about her home.
Is it that she is older and has experienced more things than Zhong Ying'er, or, as a bystander, she will conclude that Xia Bo is interesting to Zhong Ying'er?
Zhong Yinger didn't think much about it, because she didn't have any thoughts of falling in love at the moment. Because she escaped from that dark memory, she endured the pain and became friends with Han Yi in the real sense, and experienced Du Shaofeng's fake affection, she may not believe in love so much.
This little accident was admitted to the hospital, and Han Yi didn't come to visit her, but she didn't get angry or hold a grudge at all, because she didn't want Han Yi to see her down, scarred and in need of help. That's why she didn't let Han Yi know, but Han Yi already knew and didn't come as she wished.
Looking at the book printed with the beautiful scenery of Xitang, she should think of Han Yi, right? It used to be the place where they agreed to go together when they were in love. However, they have all been there, and they are all alone. The feeling of sharing and enjoying two people should be different from going to visit alone, right?
She picked up the notebook in which she wrote her mood with notes, and looked at the words about Xitang written from memory:
Xitang, we have never fulfilled our promise - go there and meet you!
Born in the south, I like water towns and Jiangnan, which is a normal thing.
I like the apricot blossoms and fireworks in the south of the Yangtze River, I like the warm stone bridges in the south of the Yangtze River, I like the bluestone roads that have been polished by the years, and I like the simple, natural, and not like the bustling city in the south of the Yangtze River, and it makes people feel that tranquil and casual, like the tranquility of the small bridge and flowing water, like the canopy boats that run through the water.
I have always wanted to build a dream with my beloved in Jiangnan, but I always can't get away from the trivial things of life, and I always describe the Jiangnan in my dream several times in my heart.
Xitang, located in Jiashan County, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, is a small town with a thousand-year history, with the heritage of Wuyue culture and the cordiality of Wu Nong's soft language. Like a charming woman, smiling and quietly staying there, waiting for someone destined to cross thousands of rivers and mountains to find a dream here.
White walls and green tiles, small boats, river channels, curved stone arch bridges, you smile here, I look over there. I never believed in love at first sight until I met ······ But it's all in the past.
I saw the beautiful pictures for a moment. Love, this word, is deeply seared in the heart. Xitang, like an erotic encounter in life, began to take root in the soil of love.
Xitang, the river is vertical and horizontal, the green waves are rippling, and the quiet time starts a good time in the water waves with the sound of oars. In the morning, the small bridge flows, and the mist is like a veil; In the evening, the sunset is obliquely shining, and the fishing boats are flattened, with the hope of returning home. Under the long sky, there are no high-rise buildings in the city, only old houses dressed in black and white, waiting there year after year, telling almost the same story. Calmly look down on the clutch of life, and calmly accept the different feelings brought by the people in the past.
The canopy of Xitang attracts Chinese and foreign tourists with its unique and outstanding style. The long kilometer corridor is unforgettable once you see it. Walking up, it seems that you can reach a past life. You can dream as much as you like here, without worrying about being disturbed by anyone, without worrying about being awakened by worldly objects. Just quietly feel the wind flowing in the corridor, blowing the faint coolness in your heart. And the picture scroll about Jiangnan, the story of life, is slowly stretched...... If it is a rainy day, the poetic smoke and rain promenade is a beautiful scenery!
Life is walking, when you walk on the bridge in Xitang, walk in every ferry port, whether you are waiting for a boat or someone, it is like an encounter in life.
At the moment of meeting, it is doomed to part. Came and went in a hurry, all in order to rush to another trip. In the destined cause and effect, everyone is a passerby, and the ancient bridge in Xitang witnesses the meeting, acquaintance or parting of these destined and undestined people.
Standing on the bridge, Bian Zhilin's "Broken Chapter" came to mind: "You stand on the bridge and look at the scenery / The people watching the scenery are watching you from upstairs / The bright moon decorates your window / You decorate other people's dreams." At the place where the camera transitions, a woman in a white dress and a red dress happens to fall into the camera, which happens to become the scenery in my eyes. Don't know whose dream to decorate? These stone bridges are like rainbows, erected on top of the water town, so that reality and dreams are constantly changing, so that reality can find a peace and peace in the ancient rhyme.
The beauty of Xitang is in the shadow of the water. No matter where you are in Xitang, when you see the lake on the river and calm down, it is an ink painting. Bit by bit, not thick, not colorful. At this moment, the canopy boat carries visitors through the river, the scenery on both sides of the river goes down the river, the old house that sleeps with the water on the river, occasionally under the half-open window, leans out of a woman who views the scenery near the window, so that you can enjoy the scenery at the same time, and feel the meeting with Xitang from the dream.
There is also a shipi lane in Xitang, which is known as the "first lane in the south of the Yangtze River". Some say it's a place to collect souls. The narrow alley seems to be a piece of the past left in time. Looming, with no end. Everyone who comes to Xitang will not miss the encounter with it, which reveals a certain mysterious simplicity, which makes people full of sentimentality about the real past. As the years get older, the story of time is changing the past little by little, but there are many wordless tacit understandings that have also remained there, in the dreamlike Xitang.
When night falls, Xitang is another beautiful scenery. The red lights along the river are lit up, and the rows are reflected on the river, as soft as silk, but flowing with a strong warmth and warmth. The stage above the river also began Wu Nong's soft cappella again. Whether you are sitting on a boat enjoying the beautiful scenery, or dissolving in Xitang with the moonlight, at this moment, you will feel that Xitang is like a life's encounter, flashing with alluring light in the night when the lights are dim.
Walking in the shops in Xitang, there will also be a fresh breeze blowing in your face. Whether it is the original ethnic style clothing made of flowers, the original store of the little P child, or the store with nostalgic pictures but with a modern atmosphere, you can feel a feast of fashion and nature. The cafes and bars on the corner of the street also make you feel the combination of ancient town and modern again······
Looking at the beautiful pictures of Xitang, it is like having a life appointment with Xitang. suddenly remembered the song "I'm Waiting for You in Xitang":
"Stop saying you're too busy at work and don't have time
Stop worrying about being too messy and have no clue
Unload the melancholy in your heart
Erase traces of confusion
Don't wander away, don't hesitate
I'm waiting for you here."
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Some promises are ultimately unkept.
Hope you are healthy and happy!
She looked at the words written, and she should have been very longing in her heart, if they had been there when they were still lovers, what kind of mood would it be? Even if it is regretful, even if it is regretful, it has become a thing of the past, a past that cannot be changed, and as a friend, she still blesses him!