Chapter 12: Sensitive Bodies
The traveler went out against the cold air that had raged all night, and the wind was still sharpening its blades little by little.
Autumn is finally about giving up its love for warmth, but accepting the cold winter.
Yan Ci was so frozen by this sudden cooling that he rubbed his hands in the car.
"This is to let us get used to the weather in Ningling as soon as possible."
Shen Pingxiao pulled her hand over, crumpled it into a fist and clenched it in the palm of her hand, looking out the window sadly at the thick clouds pressing overhead, and the radio station on the taxi was announcing the weather.
"The temperature in our city has plummeted today, and it will be accompanied by continuous heavy precipitation in the next 24 hours, so please pay attention to the protection ......"
The kind-hearted driver worked hard to get the passengers as early as possible so that they wouldn't miss the flight.
Arriving at the airport, Shen Pingxiao really saw the power of money.
Yan Ci bypassed the check-in queue, upgraded with his frequent travel VIP card, and was led by the receptionist into the VIP channel covered with a silent carpet.
After eating the buffet in the departure room, the receptionist will also send them back with the completed procedures and tell them to board the plane in 10 minutes.
The wind blew lightly, and Yan Ci watched a plane trying to land on the apron in the distance, and when it was about to successfully land on the ground, it was swayed by the strange wind, and had to be pulled up and re-flyed.
The receptionist came to explain and apologize, and ten minutes passed, and the rows of flight information on the electronic screen changed from preparing to board to red delays.
Yan Ci pondered again and again and proposed to Shen Pingxiao.
"Let's change cars and go."
Shen Pingxiao felt her uneasiness and held her hand to soothe.
"Wait."
Ten minutes, ten more minutes......
When the wind and rain whistled and fell from the thick clouds, the water vapor that filled the air instantly blocked the view.
The white fog shrouded in an instant, the diversion line seemed to evaporate out of thin air in an instant, and even the ferry bus stopped in place with its yellow warning lights flashing.
Patches of red were all flight delays, and airport announcements were powerless to soothe the restless crowd.
But Yan Ci couldn't care about these at all, she saw Shen Pingxiao straightening his body, his eyes closed in silence, and the corners of his forehead gradually glowed, which was the sweat he forced out.
His body is more sensitive than the radar detection of the weather station, and he can feel the pressure of changing the sky on the road, and he has endured it until now.
Yan Ci went to get a cup of hot water first, "Warm it up first, drink it slowly." ”
Shen Pingxiao nodded slowly.
Yan Ci began to rummage through his bags, but he couldn't find it before asking.
"What about medicine? Didn't you bring it? ”
Shen Pingxiao's lips and teeth couldn't see the opening and closing, he only sipped a few times, and his words were so gentle that he didn't like words.
"It's useless."
Yan Ci looked at the gray and white outside the glass curtain wall, and the wind that was flying showed its true face under the outline of the rain.
"You wait for me."
Three minutes later, she hurried back, and the receptionist who followed her even pushed a wheelchair.
"I asked for a break room, can you go?"
Shen Pingxiao didn't show any discomfort at all, nodded and stood up by himself.
Seeing this, Yan Ci simply threw his bag in the wheelchair pushed by the receptionist behind him, and freed his hand to borrow a force from him.
There is a simple bed for shift workers in the lounge, and the receptionist also brought hot water towels, as well as painkillers that Yan Ci specially asked.
Yan Ci held the medicine bottle and read the instructions, Shen Pingxiao grabbed her hand, and stared at her tiredly and slackly.
"Don't be busy."
In the small room, there was no sound except for the buzzing of the ventilation fan and the occasional apology announcement about the flight delay on the radio.
Yan Ci lowered his hand, and the small pills in the medicine bottle were tumbling, making a noise.
"What the hell is going on with your illness?"
Shen Pingxiao didn't put much effort into organizing the language, and seemed to have expected that sooner or later he would have to answer this question, and said briefly and calmly.
"I don't really understand, the doctor said that if you soak in pus for too long, it will be swollen and inflamed, and rotten things will not grow so easily, more or less, there will always be a little unsatisfactory."
Yan Ci lowered his head in contemplation, and his breathing slowed down again and again.
This word is too far away from her, she doesn't have these in her life, and she can't even imagine what it will be like at the first time.
But imagination alone is enough to give her the illusion of gradual suffocation.
Shen Pingxiao tried his best to think of countermeasures, and squeezed out a smile at her.
"But the doctor said that I am already recovering well, and I can run and jump."
Yan Ci didn't know where she was that the second half of this extra sentence was completely comforting her.
She set the bottle aside, and with this movement she turned her head sideways to wipe her nose, pumping twice in small increments.
Shen Pingxiao's fingers reached from behind and flicked up from her jawline.
The hands that have always been warm are so cold at the moment that they are so cold that they are excited, and when I look back, I see him sitting bent, and there is no confusion and pity in his eyes.
"You may not have seen it, in the special combat team, the skin must be rough and the flesh must be thick, being able to fight and resist beating is equally important, and eating with swollen cheeks is still eating big, this pain is really nothing."
He seemed to be racking his brains to comfort Yan Ci, not knowing that his ability to draw blacker and darker was simply engraved in his bones.
"You lie down."
Yan Ci wanted him to lie down, but he couldn't push him.
Shen Pingxiao insisted on the last trace of stubbornness.
"Yan Ci, although I have become what I am now, I don't think that I am a patient who needs to take medicine on time from now on."
"These imprints on me are testimonies, glory, not troubles."
Awakened by a word, Yan Ci broke free from the whirlpool of sorrow and heard Shen Pingxiao's inner words that he had never confided in.
"At the beginning, the captain told me to get healthy and come back, and I knew I was given up. At that time, I reacted the same way as you, and I didn't even know what I was supposed to do and what I could do. ”
"With the help of Lao Tan and them, I got a new life, and during that time, my life was muddy, until one rainy night, I was so worn by the familiar pain that I couldn't sleep, and suddenly I found the past that I had lost, which became a panacea that could make me sleep peacefully in the night when I tossed and turned."
"Can you understand that feeling?"
Pain is medicine, and it is the heart that heals.
"I'd rather believe that what the captain said to me was literal, and that one day, I would be able to stand in the queue again, and I would still be needed."
Shen Pingxiao, like Yan Ci, is not determined to be on this stable pure land, and nothing can stop that fiery heart, beating warmly in the face of wind and rain.
"Yes, definitely."
The wind howls and rolls up broken leaves, playing mercilessly; The raindrops smashed on the glass in an orderly manner, shattering bones. Even so, they still have to do their best to perform this magnificent storm.
The flight was postponed again and again, and finally waited until the rain had passed, and the flight arrived in Ningling at half past two in the morning.
Yan Ci had just stomped his feet from his seat and stood up, and before he could grab the bag in his hand, he was grabbed by Shen Pingxiao by the collar.
"Reach out."
Yan Ci raised his arm, and Shen Pingxiao had to put on a thick jacket for her like a nanny.
"It looks like you haven't been here for a long time, and you want to go out when you wear so much?"
Yan Ci was not convinced.
"No, I'm just moving, sitting for too long."
Seeing that Shen Pingxiao was still going to wear a hat and a scarf for her, she resisted and shrank back.
"I don't need to."
When you get off the plane, you can see the scene of thick green and yellow in late autumn in the south, there are only traces of wind, snow and frost, and even at night, you can see the silver-white earth connecting to the sky.
You only need to take a breath to feel the internal organs being washed and assimilated by this temperature.
It was the middle of the night, and it was freezing cold, so they had to find a place to stay before making plans.
In the warm room, Yan Ci lay on his back, looking at the darkness, lowering the volume, lengthening the tone, and tentatively speaking.
"Shen Pingxiao, are you asleep?"
He lay upright, his eyes closed.
"Not yet."
Yan Ci was silent for a while, and then began to behave again.
"Did you say that the meatloaf shop we used to eat at when we were kids is still there?"
"I'll find out if I'll see it tomorrow."
There was no longer a sound next to him, and Shen Pingxiao's eyes opened a slit to observe the shadow in the darkness, and suddenly he opened his mind.
"Are you hungry?"
Yan Ci turned around aggrievedly, and the black stroke outline floated up and down twice.
"Hmm."
I set off early this morning, and unfortunately I was stranded at the airport for a long time in stormy weather, and I really didn't have a good meal.
Shen Pingxiao's execution was super strong, and he didn't hesitate, got up and turned on the light, and quickly got dressed.
"Wait for me here."
Twenty years later, the moment he came back, there was first an outdoor cold current pouring in, and then, Yan Ci accurately distinguished the aroma of roasted cold noodles from the taste of frost and snow.
Shen Pingxiao greeted her with something.
"There's only one 24-hour convenience store in the neighborhood that's still open, that's all there is to do, and I'll eat something else when it's dawn."
He watched Yan Ci chew and swallow like a wolf, and couldn't help but sigh.
"It's really delicious."
Yan Ci stuffed it into his mouth and spoke loudly.
"Don't ignore any of the signals your body is giving you, it makes sense."
"Yes, yes...... In addition to eating, what else does your body tell you need? ”
Shen Pingxiao is like a stubborn child, so stubborn that he wants to put the label "can eat" on Yan Ci, which is not difficult for her.
She gave up the food that was almost in her mouth, changed her target, hooked Shen Pingxiao's neck with both hands, and kissed her, intoxicated and teasing.
When she felt that it was almost time, she was about to withdraw, and the whole person was scooped into Shen Pingxiao's arms, and his hot skin was tightly clinging to him.
"Don't ignore my body, any signal sent out, it's retribution."
What a retribution, Yan Ci really felt it, his tight muscles were about to move, and the hormonal breath that spewed out from the inside out was pressing step by step, almost enveloping her breathlessly.
"You're full, it's my turn."
The lamb to be slaughtered, fed and drunk, went to the execution table, and it was in vain to call again.