Chapter 30: A belated apology
The sky is blue-gray to the eyes of summer.
She didn't feel cold standing on the balcony, her exposed skin was gently kissed by the sun, and the air that broke into her mouth and nose was a little cold.
"It's definitely a sunny day, the same blue as the day Dad left home." Summer thought to herself.
She didn't tell anyone that she had a problem with her eyes that summer, and after returning home, she timidly opened the door of her room every day, watching Xia Guojun struggle to deal with waves of relatives and friends who came to ask for compensation, watching them bargain, and arguing over nutrition expenses, lost work expenses, and hospital reimbursement bills.
Summer doesn't understand, how did the usually kind uncles and aunts become fierce beasts?
After Xia Xuan's death, Li Lijuan turned white almost overnight, she just sat in the room and didn't say a word, everything was solved by Xia Guojun, and after selling two properties, the family moved to an old house in the suburbs.
This is a small two-story building with a single courtyard, although it is an old building, but the quality is excellent, and there is no problem in living for decades.
In the summer, when my grandmother was still alive, she planted flowers and vegetables in the yard, but now there are no people and the yard is deserted.
Xia Guojun cleaned up three rooms, and simply cleaned up the weeds in the lower yard, and the family didn't live for ten days, so he couldn't wait to pack up his personal belongings.
On the day Xia Guojun left home, Xia chased out and dragged his suitcase and begged Xia Guojun not to leave her and her mother, but it was useless.
Xia Guojun calmly pulled away the luggage pole that Xia was dragging and said, "Your mother and I have divorced, and you will live with your mother in the future." ”
Tears came out of her eyes, and Xia sat on the ground and hugged Xia Guojun's thigh and cried: "Dad, the eldest brother is dead, the second brother is missing, if even you are gone, there will be only me and my mother left in the house, how should I live?" ”
Xia Guojun's eyes suddenly showed a trace of distress, he knew what it was like to live with Li Lijuan, she was as high as a queen, and she had to take care of everything like a grandmother.
Every day when he leaves home to work, Xia Guojun feels that he can breathe normally, and standing at the door of his house after work is the beginning of a nightmare.
Now I have to let my little daughter bear all this alone......
"There's no way around it." This trace of distress was fleeting in his eyes.
Xia Guojun put all his luggage into the trunk and prepared to drive away, Xu is summer's crying was too miserable, arousing the few remaining fatherly love in his heart.
Xia Guojun walked over and pulled up his little daughter who was sitting on the ground crying, put his hands on her shoulders and said: "Study hard, study hard, like your eldest brother, and be admitted to one of the top universities in the country, after which you can leave here and live the life you want, and I will come back to see you when I have time." ”
When I grew up, Summer realized that my father's last words were just politeness.
"Senior sister, I'm not Superman, if you really jump, I can't save you, but fortunately, this is a hospital, I can quickly rescue you, and the chance of survival is still very good."
Summer turned around and saw Narusawa holding flowers in his hand, standing at the door of the ward, telling cold jokes that were not funny with the most serious expression.
The two looked at each other, and Summer wanted to speak first several times to break the unbearable silence.
"Can I come in?" After a long silence, Cheng Ze asked.
"Why do you think I want to kill myself?" Thankfully, he spoke first, and Summer beckoned him in, then lay down in the hospital bed.
"It's good if not." Cheng Ze went to the bathroom to fill the glass vase with water, and then inserted the flowers in, "Can you put it here?" ”
"Take it back to your dormitory, I'll be discharged today."
"Are you alright?"
"It's an exam, I have to study."
"Learning is more important than the body?"
"Important."
"Are you alright?"
Xia lowered his head and sighed softly, Cheng Ze's stubbornness came up again, as if he had to be friends with her before, and even said that he wanted to confess.
Thinking of the final result, Summer couldn't help but smile bitterly, it was really a clean and neat break, and there was no mud and water.
"You haven't even eaten any fruit? Shall I peel an apple for you? Cheng Ze found that the outer packaging of the fruit basket had not been opened, "Do you want to eat red or green?" ”
“……”
The two invariably thought of the previous "drink incident".
"I'm sorry, I seem to have misunderstood you, your eyes ......" After listening to Yanyan talk about the summer family, Cheng Ze had already made a hundred drafts of apologies in his heart.
"That's not the only thing you misunderstood about me." Summer thought to herself, "I'm not the little girl you had a crush on when you were a kid." ”
Summer thinks like this, but can't say it, saying it means being angry, and being angry just means that he cares, for Cheng Ze's alienation and indifference, only by not entanglement and not caring can he maintain his dignity in front of him.
"Your eyes...... Isn't it sometimes good and sometimes bad? I mean......"
"Yes."
"That is, there is a possibility of a cure." Cheng Ze said happily.
"Just stay by your side so I can see the colors." Summer says it truthfully.
"Really?" Cheng Ze's voice trembled, his heart felt as if he had been hit by something hard, and the whole person froze for a moment before continuing to unpack the fruit basket.
"Don't get it, I don't want to eat it."
"Where's the milk tea? I bought two cups and drank them together? His tone was like a pleading, begging for the summer not to issue an eviction order to give him a chance to redeem himself.
"Well, let's have a drink."
The heat wafting from the milk tea soaked Cheng Ze's eyes, and he deliberately hung his head, for fear that Summer would find his red eyes.
"Why do you want to stay with me to see the colors?"
"I don't know, the doctor said that maybe you affected my mood, but we obviously haven't seen each other before, and the first time we met, I actually followed the moving 'color block' all the way to you."
Cheng Ze suddenly remembered the day he first met Summer, he mistakenly thought that Summer just wanted a WeChat, but he didn't want to, at that moment, it was he who made this magnificent and colorful world reappear in her eyes.
"I'm sorry."
Cheng Ze's voice has a unique gentleness and magnetism, like a pleasant string sound, and at this time, there is sadness and guilt in the voice, which makes people feel distressed unconsciously when they listen to it.
These days, the self-esteem that the summer struggled to maintain is on the verge of collapse.
Angry?
Of course he was angry, but now that he was her savior, what were those misunderstandings and indifference compared to this?
But if you forgive him, can you go back to the past?
There's no going back.
Cheng Ze's estrangement made her even more convinced that any kind of feeling in this world will change, and if you accidentally step into it, you will be hurt in the end, and some of Cheng Ze's behaviors, in her opinion, are like Xia Guojun who will never return.
At this time, a little nurse dressed in white walked in softly and said to Summer with a smile, "Has your boyfriend come to see you?" ”
Summer denied: "He's my classmate. ”
Cheng Ze's face is extremely ugly, aren't they even friends with each other?
The little nurse said, "Oh, did you get oxygen today?" ”
Summer said, "I smoked it in the morning and I want to be discharged." ”
The little nurse said, "Then tell the doctor." ”
Cheng Ze suddenly got up and said, "I...... Addicted to smoking. ”
The little nurse smiled and said, "There is a smoking room at the end of the corridor, does the handsome guy have a girlfriend?" If not, add a WeChat. ”
Cheng Ze hesitated, forced a smile on his gloomy face, and then took out his mobile phone.
The smoking room is next to the bathroom, and the smell of smoke mixed with disinfectant is disgusting.
When she was adding WeChat with the little nurse, Summer was staring out the window blankly, and she didn't seem to care about everything about him for a long time.
Want to laugh.
I want to laugh.
The remorse and pain that pressed on his heart couldn't wait to tear the corners of Cheng Ze's mouth open, making him laugh until his head was dizzy, and he couldn't breathe anymore, so he didn't need to bother to keep what he had lost.
"How long are you going to run away?" Narusawa asked himself if he didn't move forward, then there would only be one ending between him and Summer.
When Cheng Ze returned to the ward, Summer had already been cleaned up.
"Did the doctor say I could be discharged?"
"Hmm."
"Summer ......"
"Senpai."
Summer corrected, and that serious look hit Cheng Ze's heart like an electric current, making him unable to move for a while.
"Can Senior Sister forgive me?"
"Forgive what? My eyes? You think I lied to you, so ......" Summer clenched her arms and tried her best to hide her anger, "Actually, this is not something that needs to be taken to heart at all, and Cheng Xiaolan beat me with a bag, and it's not your fault, and...... And ......"
"Senior sister is angry with me, understandable."
"What am I angry about? Besides, why should I be angry? ”
"I approached you first, and then forsook you like a deserter......"
"What is not abandoned, we are just alumni of a department."
"Senior sister obviously knows that we are not 'alumni' between us, hasn't the senior sister also thought about continuing to develop with me? Otherwise, why did Senior Shi come to explain to me after he confessed? ”
Summer was annoyed and angry, hating himself that day, and hating Cheng Ze in front of him even more, he could have made the past a thing of the past, but because of a fire, he was involved with him again.
"I thought that meeting you would bring some beauty to my already unfortunate life, but I became even more unlucky, and your approach made me even more chilling than Cheng Xiaolan." Summer said lost.
"Thank goodness." Cheng Ze clutched his chest, relieved, not afraid that you would lose your temper, but afraid that you wouldn't care, "Can you give me a chance to mend the relationship between us?" ”
"We don't have much to do with each other anymore." Summer said indifferently.
"I saved you." Cheng Ze reminded.
Summer didn't forget, it was Cheng Ze who saved her from the dormitory building regardless of his own life.
"Thank you."
"Little things."
"I will repay this favor, and if you need my help in the future, just say it."
"Don't worry, definitely."
Summer was stunned for a moment, looked up at Cheng Ze, Cheng Ze smiled slightly, he didn't listen to polite words, he would definitely let Summer repay him, whether it was watching a movie, inviting a meal, or making a promise......