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Zhong Xian stared at the bowl of soup in front of him.

The soup is packed in a round eco-friendly lunch box.

A layer of pale yellow oil floats on top of the lunch box, and a few straw mushrooms float in it. There was something in the bottom half of the soup that was completely unrecognizable. He picked up the spoon and stirred it, turning out a few pieces of black-skinned chicken.

"It's a black chicken." Dake watched him from the sidelines.

The bell string continued to stir with the spoon, but refused to put it in his mouth.

Four years ago, when he first arrived at SZ, he used to drink a lot of soup. The restaurants on the street that specialize in selling Cantonese soup were drunk by him. Later, at some point, he stopped drinking soup. After the initial novelty wore off, he lost interest in all the dishes in Cantonese restaurants.

Deng Yi's pot of soup yesterday was a completely different approach. It's the easiest way to do it. Crystal clear, probably just boiled in plain water with a pinch of salt. There are no other spices.

"I bought it at the restaurant below." Dake stared at Zhong Xian and continued. "This one is very complementary. Drink a little. ”

Zhong Xian placed the soup bowl on the bedside table. "You go to work. If I don't give you a call, I don't have to come out of here. ”

Dake was still staring at him intently. "Then who takes care of you."

"Take care of what? It's not like I can't take care of myself. Eating is just ordering takeout, can't I order it myself?"

Dake said sensitively: "It was my negligence. You don't like to eat takeout. But I won't do it. After thinking about it, he said, "I'll let Ah Mi do it for you." ”

Zhong Xian said, "I want to rest for two days, and you don't come to disturb me again." Something to call. ”

Dake blinked: "You are like this, you will understate the things that others are anxious about; What others don't care about, you put your mind to. ”

"What do you want to say?"

"You're the general manager. The whole company is looking at you, you don't mind so much. There are three fires for the new official to take office, so he has to burn it. You fell suddenly, I didn't dare to tell the public, because I was afraid that others would think that you couldn't stand this position. But I know that you don't really care. ”

"Are you afraid that my position will not be secured? It seems that you want to put down roots in this company. ”

"Mr. Hong is not bad. Follow him as an executive and take care of our business at the same time. You don't think it's a good arrangement. ”

Zhong Xian stared at Dake: "The tightrope walker wants to be stable, which one of your brains is wrong?"

Dake suddenly woke up and nodded, sighing: "It's because I think things are too simple." Yesterday, I told Mi about getting married. ”

"Married?" Zhong Xian was surprised.

"Yes. Anyway, for me, she's different from other women. I chased her for three years before I got it, and it was still my first love. The other women saw that we had a car, a house, and money, and we could do it in a few hours. I can no longer find the way she makes me feel. So I thought, this is true love. Tie the knot. Hurry up and give birth to a child for me, so that you don't have to dream a lot at night. ”

Zhong Xian laughed a few times: "You want to get married?" Did she agree?"

She said...... As long as I promise to live in peace and stability, don't make so many things happen again. It doesn't matter if you're poor. Dake said and sighed.

"She's a good girl." Zhong Xian said. "If you're not an idiot, you shouldn't let her down again." After thinking about it, he said, "In the future, you will follow Mr. Hong." I'll transfer you to the product department, after all, it's your profession. In the future, even if I'm gone, you can continue to do it safely. ”

Dake looked at Zhong Xian and was stunned for a while, then shook his head: "If you want me to take a dead salary, pay off the mortgage for the rest of my life, live a tight life, and go to a nursing home when I am old, I may not be able to afford it." ”

"But you have stability, you have Mi."

"I think the real security is having enough money. You don't have to give money to be a grandchild. We're not far from that, aren't we?" Dake was so excited that he grabbed Zhong Xian's hand.

In the past three years, Dake has changed a lot, and the people who were rough at the beginning have now become worried.

Zhong Xian shook off Dake's hand: "With enough money, can you be stable?"

52

Shortly after Dake left, the man in the adjacent bed walked into the hospital room. As soon as he entered the door, he smiled at the bell string.

The nurses collected blood from patients at 6 a.m., and the man next to the bed, who had come to the ward at that time, was surprised to see the big department resting in his bed. Zhong Xian knew the reason why he was surprised was because it was not Deng Yi.

The man in the adjacent bed didn't seem to like Dake very much, so he didn't say hello to him, and after doing the morning checkup, he went out.

"I heard you were discharged from the hospital today." Zhong Xian took the initiative to say hello.

The man in the next bed stared at Zhong Xian's face. "You look depressed. Uncomfortable?"

Zhong Xian smiled. "I'm about to be discharged from the hospital, why didn't I see your family coming?"

"The family is not in SZ." The man next to the bed said. "I'm here alone."

The bell string indicates that this is normal. "Everybody's the same."

"You're not like me." The man next to the bed said, "You care about your friend." ”

Zhong Xian was silent for a moment, looked at the black chicken soup on the cabinet, and asked the man next to him. "Do you want to eat it? It's still hot. I really don't have an appetite. ”

"You can't eat in the morning." The man next to the bed picked up the bowl of soup and looked at it, as if he understood what Zhong Xian was thinking, and said, "It's good for the restaurant to make such a soup." Your friend is also attentive. You can eat it. ”

"No appetite."

The man laughed: "Psychological effect." This soup is good. Of course, it also depends on what you think, and it also depends on who you compare it to. That's how I see it, it's the same bowl of soup, why is there a difference in the effect. Because some people think from their own point of view; Some people think from your point of view. So your feeling will be very different. ”

Zhong Xian didn't fully understand the man's words, or he didn't quite agree with them.

"Big brother, you're quite philosophical. Which of my two friends do you think I feel comfortable with?"

"Of course you know. Is there anything wrong with Deng Yi today? I thought I'd see him in the morning. ”

"You know his name?"

"We're acquainted." The man next to him shook his phone, "He left me my number when he asked me to help take care of you." The doctor was supposed to treat you as if you were alcoholics, and he asked for a brain test. He's more attentive than the doctor - you really have something wrong with your brain, so you can stay with me in the brain ward and become a patient. I also have a brain problem. Previous injuries. ”

"He asked for it?" Zhong Xian looked at the man blankly.

"That's a lot of money. You have such a caring friend. Ordinary friends can't do that. ”

Zhong Xian was silent for a moment, and said peacefully: "He will take care of people." ”

"Not necessarily." The man next to the bed said, "He is a young master who has never taken care of anyone else since he was a child." He used to be taken care of by others. ”

"You know that well?"

"You've been asleep all day. He talked to me for a day. He asked me for advice on how to take care of a patient, but he didn't really need me to teach him. He rolls you over and rubs it every once in a while, all because of his intentions. You are small, this kind of relationship is very rare. ”

Zhong Xian was stunned.

"That friend just now obviously cares about you too. This shows that you have a charismatic personality. The compliment of the man next to the bed, Zhong Xian did not listen. His mind was full of wondering why Deng Yi did that.

"However, I think your friend today is different from Deng Yi......" the man next to the bed continued. After my brain injury, I always saw people in two extremes, good and bad. ”

Zhong Xian came back to his senses and said, "I only think that people are good and bad at the age of watching anime. There is no difference between good and bad people, it depends on whether they are forced to do their part. ”

Men disagree: "There is a difference in nature. ”

"Who can cut through whose heart and see the essence? People who treat you badly are not necessarily bad in nature, they just don't care about you. The person who is good to you may not be good to you alone, he may just be used to it. ”

The man tilted his head to look at the bellstrings, stunned by this idea. "It's not fair to Deng Yi if you say that."

Deng Yi may be the exception. Is it stupid to do so much when others don't know?"

"Don't you know now?" The man laughed.

"If the other party will never know. What's the point of these efforts? ”

Zhong Xian thought that his mobile phone had been turned to silent, and it must have been Deng Yi's doing. Deng Yi found him on the side of the road (or knew he was there) and took him to the hospital to take care of him. In fact, Deng Yi doesn't have to do this, he can contact Dake to get rid of the trouble. But he didn't.

Zhong Xin turned on his phone. Seeing the money transferred to Deng Yi yesterday, the other side has not received it.

Zhong Xian sent a message from WeChat to remind him to collect the money. Deng Yi still didn't move.

"Will he come today?" The man next to the bed asked, staring at Zhong Xian.

Zhong Xian shook his head. "He's not coming." I thought about it for a while. Look at each other. "Dude, please do me a favor."

53

At half past ten in the morning, when Zhong Xian finished hanging the first hanging bottle, a young man in his early twenties wearing a white sportswear carried a bag into the ward, called Zhong Xian's name, and took out three exquisite lunch boxes from the bag and put them on the cabinet next to his bed.

"I didn't order takeout." Zhong Xian said. He casually recognized the thermos pot.

The lad left without saying anything.

In the afternoon, another meal was delivered. Changed the lunch box.

Zhong Xin is comfortable to eat. But his heart was not very happy, like grass.

In the evening, Deng Yi finally appeared. Before he could enter the room, he was stopped by the nurse and taken to the office to tell him about the condition of the bell. The man in the adjacent bed was going through the discharge procedures at the time, and when he saw Deng Yi, he seemed elated. and rushed back to the ward before Deng Yi to inform Zhong Xian.

"He's coming." The man winked at the bellstrings, "You lost the bet." ”

"Not necessarily." Zhong Xian pretended to close his eyes and recuperate. "If he's willing to stay, you'll win."

"You're going to lose." The man said and sat back on his bed. "You don't know your friends well enough."

Zhong Xian closed his eyes and stopped talking.

The door to the hospital room was opened.

I heard Deng Yi talking to the man next to the bed. "Is the situation stable?"

The man next to the bed squeaked, "It's much better." Ate what you gave me - uh, I'...... He was in a bad condition in the morning, otherwise I wouldn't have called you. I can't eat anything...... Uh, he's miserable. I can only think of looking for you. ”

"Where's his friend?" Deng Yi paused for a while and said.

"You mean his colleague. Let's go to work. I didn't tell you on the phone, no one has come to take care of him in the past two days. I looked really worried. "The man next to the bed is not very good at lying. The preface of the speech did not match the afterword, and Zhong Xian was anxious for him. It is difficult to deceive Deng Yi, who was born in the police, in this way.

Deng Yi didn't ask anything more. After that, there was no movement.

"I'm going to see if my list is ready." The man in the next bed made an excuse to slip out. Then came the sound of the door closing.

The room was quiet.

Zhong Xian was lying facing the wall, and he couldn't hear Deng Yi's movement for a long time, so he had to slowly turn his head and squint. Deng Yi was not at the bedside, standing far away by the window of the ward and looking out of the window in a daze. He wore a black tracksuit today, probably to play ball, or was planning to go.

From this point of view, the bell strings still do not see the familiar ingredients. But it doesn't feel strange.

Zhong Xian sat up slowly. As Dake said, he put too much thought into the places where he shouldn't be.

Probably sensing that Zhong Xian was awake, Deng Yi turned around, his face looked very serious. After hesitating for a few seconds, he took out a few sheets from his pocket, walked towards the hospital bed, and threw them in front of Zhong Xian. "When I took you to the hospital, I rummaged through your wallet and found your health insurance card. Hospitalization is covered by your health insurance. I paid a deposit of 3,000 in advance, and I just paid another 2,000. It is estimated that when you are discharged from the hospital, you only need to pay me back 5,000 after removing the medical insurance. Why did you transfer 20,000 to me? Is there a lot of money to burn?"

"Yes...... Thank you fee. Zhong Xian stared at Deng Yi and said sincerely. You don't take care of me......"

Deng Yi was not impressed, "Taking care of you turns out that you can still make money." ”

"Don't think it's humiliating you. It's because I don't have high emotional intelligence. Zhong Xian hurriedly laughed at himself, "What way do you want me to thank you?" I can't help but thank you. You say it directly. ”

"What should be given to me, no more, no less. There's not much else to say. ”

"And these things to eat." Zhong Xian said, "Oh, I didn't mean to settle it with you. It's true that my way is wrong, don't be angry. You can't make your mother work hard for no reason. ”

"It wasn't my mom who did it. She's not a babysitter...... Of course, I didn't do it. I don't at all. You eat it, you eat it. I really want to thank you, and I want to think of an individual way. ”

Seeing Deng Yi's always serious face, Zhong Xian began to feel anxious.

"I apologize. Don't be angry about the money, okay?"

"I'm not angry." Deng Yi walked to the window again. "Is it worth it to be angry at you?"

"You're just in time, help me look at my back. It hurts. Zhong Xian's face was pained.

"Call the nurse if you're uncomfortable." Deng Yi was indifferent, "People who never cry out for pain have suddenly changed their personalities?"

"Do me a favor." Zhong Xian said.

Deng Yi hesitated for two seconds and walked to the bedside. Flip the bell over and let him lie face down, lift his hospital gown behind his back, and examine his wounds. "Nothing is a problem. Does it really hurt?" As he spoke, he carefully removed the gauze.

"It's a terrible itch. Rub the ...... next to you."

Deng Yi hesitated for a longer time this time, for five seconds, but still sat down on the edge of the bed. Zhong Xian rolled over and sat up to face him. "It's been a day of lying down. Sit down. ”

"Whatever you want, but you're going to turn your back on me." Deng Yi said.

Zhong Xian didn't turn around, still facing Deng Yi, and slowly grabbed the latter's arm and wrapped it around his body, "That's it, okay?" This becomes a gesture of hugging.

Deng Yi was stunned, and after a long while, he put his hand behind Zhong Xian with a confused expression. Zhong Xian naturally rested his head on the shoulder of the person in front of him.

“…… I can't see. Deng Yi muttered.

"By feeling."

"What should I do if I touch your wound?"

"It's just a pain."

Deng Yi's hand reached under Zhong Xian's hospital gown and touched his skin. Zhong Xian heard the heartbeat in the other man's chest getting faster.

This heartbeat gave him great confidence, and he put his nose close to the bottom of Deng Yi's neck and sniffed. "You used perfume......"

Deng Yi jerked the bell string away. "You're sick in your head. Don't you want to thank me?" He got up from the side of the bed and took two steps away with his back to the bellstrings. "Take those songs you wrote...... Pass it to me. Right now. It took him a while before he turned around, "Okay?" Don't deny it. ”