Chapter 19: Dreams
The next day, Chi Jing fell ill.
She was weak, sometimes like an ice cellar, sometimes like a fire cave, her limbs were sore, and her throat was thirsty and aching as if it had been roasted dry.
In a daze, she heard the anxious voice of the jade bottle: "What should I do, the girl's body is so hot, why hasn't the doctor come yet!" ”
The jade bottle twisted a wet handkerchief and put it on Chi Jing's forehead, while fidgeting and looking out of the door.
After a while, I heard her muttering in frustration: "I shouldn't have asked Yimo to ask for a doctor, how could Yimo ask for a doctor?" It's good that people don't drive him away! I'm so brainless..."
Did Emo go out for her? Isn't it a 10,000-year-old otaku? He must have been very unhappy in his heart, because the people outside made it difficult for him, spat on him and threw stones, and drove him away.
In fact, she didn't do anything, she saved him, just like buying a pet and coming back purely for viewing. She's not that good, it's not worth it for her.
"What to do, what to do..."
"Oh my God, it's getting hotter..."
The sound of the jade bottle became farther and farther away, more and more ethereal, and Chi Jing felt as if his consciousness had been withdrawn from his body and could float up at any time.
I don't know how long it took, Lan Yimo's worried voice also sounded: "Sister Jade Bottle, it's been three days, why hasn't the girl woken up yet." ”
Three days? How did she feel that it was less than a quarter of an hour...
"In the past two days, I have invited several doctors, but they are at a loss, and they can't let the girl's body temperature come down, and the decoction has been poured a lot..."
The jade bottle seems to be genuinely worried about her. After that, make more money and give her more. She doesn't expect Jade Bottle to cook for her for the rest of her life, and when Jade Bottle gets married in the future, she should have some private money.
Chi Jing walked slowly in a narrow passage, thinking about the future. If she has a future...
She felt like she must have burned to 42 degrees. Is she dead again? Otherwise, how could this out-of-body feeling be so real.
It was pitch black in front of me, and I couldn't see my fingers. She touched the wall of the secret passage, there were many uneven lines on the wall, this texture was very kind to the touch, not awkward, but very smooth, like someone often took it out to wipe...
Chinaware? Woodcarving? None of them are right. Chi Jing couldn't find an adjective, and an object suddenly jumped out of her mind in her memory.
Turtle shell...
After walking for a long, long time, I finally walked out of the secret passage, and the darkness faded.
Chi Jing found himself standing in front of a somewhat familiar and unfamiliar door, the door was hidden and not closed, and there was the sound of a TV inside.
TV... How could there be a television in ancient times?
After a moment's hesitation, she pushed the door open. Dad was sitting on the couch and watching TV seriously with reading glasses on.
She remembered the series, she just couldn't remember the name. The male protagonist of the starring role is an executioner, and the female protagonist is a midwife, and when she first saw the flowers on the other side of this TV promotional poster, she thought it was very appropriate. One welcomes life, the other dies, and the flowers and leaves are always wrong.
She was standing in a daze at the entrance, and her mother poked her head out of the kitchen, smiled at her, and said, "Jingjing, you're back." Why are you standing stupidly, wash your hands, and by the way, call Chengzong out to eat. ”
"Oh." She nodded blankly, did not walk towards Seungjong's room, and came to the kitchen like a ghost, looking at the soft side face of her mother stir-frying. It's exactly the same as I remember.
After years of life and death, the soul has never come to dream. For more than ten years, she has not dreamed of her parents once, and she has always felt that her parents must blame her, so even in their dreams, they refuse to see her.
Is she dead and reunited with her parents? Chi Jing sighed contentedly, that was really good.
"Come, open your mouth, taste." Mom took chopsticks and brought her a piece of meat.
She took the meat in her mouth and slowly felt its tenderness, the familiar taste spreading from the tip of her tongue to the bottom of her heart.
"Five-finger peach beef stew. Mom's specialty. She muttered, her eyes wet.
"Is it delicious?" Mom asked smugly.
"Delicious!" Chi Jing nodded, and the tears he held back fell.
Mother Chi said to herself as if she hadn't seen it: "It's delicious, go out and wait, the smell of oil smoke here is strong." ”
Ji Jing walked into Seungjong's room, and the quilts were neatly folded. Seungjong is not in the room, where did he go?
She walked back to the living room and found that her father was missing on the couch and her mother was missing from the kitchen. It was empty, only the sound of the TV was still ringing.
"Clean." His mother's voice came from the TV, and Ji Jing threw herself on the TV screen in horror.
Mom and dad were on TV, lying at the bottom of the cliff where the accident happened, covered in blood, struggling to get out of the window of that car, their bodies convulsing incessantly, their hands and feet twisting unnaturally.
Mom stretched out her hand in her direction, her eyes full of pain and expectation: "Jingjing, save us..."
"Oh my God..."Chi Jing covered her mouth and cried bitterly. She trembled her hands and touched her mother's hand on the TV, how can I save you, you tell me, what should I do...
The TV screen went black suddenly.
She jumped up and the power went out? Is there a power outage? What about mom and dad?
"Clean." This time the voice didn't come from the TV. She hurriedly turned around, her eyes red and tears still hanging from her face.
Mom and Dad, dressed in bright red clothes, stood in front of her, smiling kindly at her.
She stepped forward to hug them, but they took a step back and raised their hands to stop her.
"Jingjing, don't come here, go back." Dad said. "Take care of my brother."
"My brother is gone..."Chi Jing cried again when she heard this, she fell to the floor, her heart was like being bitten by thousands of mosquitoes and ants, she pounded it hard, only to feel bursts of unbearable sharp pain.
Dad shook his head, as if he didn't care about his brother at all. "Jingjing, your mother and I are fine, at least we have a companion to take care of each other, don't worry. Our death was an accident, stop feeling guilty, let it go. ”
He looked affectionately at his wife beside him, and she also gave him an unrepentant smile back.
Mother Chi held Father Chi's arm and looked at her, her eyes were red: "Child." I can let you taste the dishes made by my mother again, and my mother is also satisfied. ”
The two walked towards the door hand in hand, and Ji Jing stood up and tried to catch up, but his feet couldn't move as if they were frozen. She could only cry except for crying: "Mom and Dad, don't go, don't..."
Come back, come back...
"Jingjing, go back, you remember, life is death, death is life."
Finally, reluctantly looking at her again, Chi's father and Chi's mother opened the door, and the light outside the door was instantly shining, and they walked out and disappeared from Chi Jing's sight.
…
She fell to her knees with a thud and cried and kowtowed three times in the direction her parents had left.
After the third head fell and got up again, the scene before her changed in the blink of an eye, and she was standing in the humble firewood room, and a woman in a light pink dress appeared in front of her, with a hideous scar on her face, standing face to face with her.
"Xiu'er?" Chi Jing asked suspiciously.
"Yes, I'm Xiu'er. Chi Jing girl. Xiu'er looked at her with a shallow smile, and the pair of dimples had an indescribable shyness: "I've been waiting for you." ”