(xv)
Liu Zhixi hurried to the hospital, a place she had hoped to never set foot in again, still inviting her to come with a motherly embrace. The white walls, the white sheets, everything was suffocating and quiet, and outside the operating room, Su Qian and Wenli looked haggard and anxiously waiting for the doctor's final verdict.
When Wenli saw Liu Zhixi, he pounced hysterically and roared: "Say! What the hell do you want to do! Are you going to ruin me, ruin this home, and you will be satisfied?! Su Qian took Wenli's hand on the side, although his eyes were frighteningly red, he still comforted Wenli not to be too excited.
Lin Sujin silently stepped forward, pulled Liu Zhixi aside, and whispered, "Su Huai knows everything." Liu Zhixi was shocked, and her heart turned over the river and the sea, stirring up monstrous waves. What? She blurted out, "How would he know?" ”
Lin Sujin took out his mobile phone and clicked on an interface, which played the whole process of Liu Zhixi and Wen Li's meeting in the café, "Someone took a video of you chatting with Aunt Wen and sent it to Uncle Su and Su Huai. ”
"Who is it? Why? Liu Zhixi once again felt that she had fallen to the bottom, the ugliness of human nature made her shudder, she didn't understand that person's purpose, was it to break up a good family? She realized that she and Su Huai were too simple and naïve, and they easily became the target and bait of others, and the viciousness of human nature was like an abyss, you could never see the bottom of it, and once you stepped in, it would be doomed.
"Su Huai knew that he and you were sisters, and he was very upset, so he rode a motorcycle out to drag racing, but unfortunately suffered a car accident and is now being rescued." Lin Sujin looked at Liu Zhixi, hot tears fell on the cold ground, without the slightest echo, like a fragile life, small and slight, except for those few close relatives, no one will remember those who left. Lin Sujin sobbed quietly, worried, panicked, and guilty. Liu Zhixi was so sad when she saw her for the first time, like a child who made a mistake and blamed herself, and lost her most beloved Christmas gift, Liu Zhixi couldn't help but step forward and hugged her, but she pretended to avoid it unintentionally.
The door of the operating room was slowly pushed open, and the four of them hurriedly stepped forward, and the doctor, who was dressed neatly in a white coat, said with a solemn expression: "The patient has lost too much blood and now needs a blood transfusion." Su Qian and Wenli rushed forward eagerly, "We are his parents, we can give him a blood transfusion." "Okay, you do a blood type test, and when the results come out, you can give him a blood transfusion." The doctor led Su Qian and Wenli to the blood drawing room on the second floor.
"I'm sorry, your blood type doesn't match his." The doctor took the report card, walked up to the four of them, and said in a voice that was so steady that there were no emotional fluctuations. "What? Blood types don't match? Wenli and Su Qian were shocked. Liu Zhixi's heart was also stormy and thunderous, and she immediately calmed down again, "Doctor, what about his blood source?" ”
The doctor took out a stack of slips and asked Su Qian and Wenli to sign, then turned his head and said to Liu Zhixi: "We are looking for a suitable blood source in the blood bank, and we will send it as soon as possible." ”
"Will that affect the rescue?" "Don't worry, we'll do our best." Later, the doctor's thick glasses finally flashed a glimmer of light, and Liu Zhixi suddenly felt that the angel in white was really beautiful. And in her heart, there was a hint of joy, she didn't know what was wrong with her, when she learned the news, the joy was greater than the shock.
Su Huai slowly opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was Liu Zhixi and Lin Sujin who were guarding in front of the hospital bed. Last night, the two of them stayed up all night, and after Su Qian and Wenli paid the medical bills, they didn't know where to go. Liu Zhixi rested on the table for a while, and when she heard the sound, she opened her eyes and found that Su Huai was awake. Su Huai looked at her with a look she hadn't seen before, and there was despair, sadness, dependence, and intimacy in that look.
"Zhixi." Su Huai shouted in a low voice, but his voice revealed a kind of emptiness and powerlessness. "What about Mom and Dad? Did they go to buy breakfast? Su Huai asked weakly. The door of the ward was pushed open, and Lin Sujin walked into the ward with a few boxes of Black Forest cakes. "Are you awake?" Lin Sujin's voice was excited.
"Hmm." Su Huai nodded, but his eyes were searching for Su Qian and Wenli's figures, "They, Uncle Su and Aunt Wen, want to solve some urgent matters of the company, and they will rush over as soon as they deal with them." Su Huai's expression looked disappointed, but he didn't ask any more questions, and looked out the window thoughtfully. It is the season of early spring, and the spring flowers planted in the hospital have bloomed pale yellow flowers, which hang on the branches in clusters, smart and lively. Peach blossoms and cherry blossoms bloom in a lush sea of flowers, churning in the wind. The purple and red flowers, competing for beauty, are like a beautiful landscape.
Lin Sujin acted like a trick, moved a few potted plants from outside the ward, which were begonias and calendula, and said with a smile: "Su Huai, this ward is too lifeless, you see how gorgeous the flowers are, don't think too much, take care of your illness!" "Sunlight jumps over the window edge and spills into the house, casting shadows and spots. Liu Zhixi looked at them intently, as if she had returned to the scene when she first saw them, Su Huai was tall and handsome and rode a bicycle, and Lin Sujin sat in the back seat smiling like a flower. It's only two years, but it seems that hundreds of winters and summers have passed, and Liu Zhixi at that time sighed at the sun, and at this time, she was admiring the shadows.
Until Su Huai was discharged from the hospital, Su Qian and Wenli did not show up, but ordered the driver and nanny at home to come to the hospital to pick them up. Back at home, Su Huai had a feeling of being extremely unfamiliar, and he was very careful in everything he did, as if he was an outsider as a guest. Maybe it was because the hospitalized nutrition didn't keep up, or for other reasons, Su Huai became very thin, even though he was still tall and big, but he gave people a sense of sickness and weakness. Su Qian and Wenli were out all day long and rarely went home, and Su Huai also felt something strange from the attitudes and words of the people around him. He gradually became silent and silent, preferring to sit quietly in the bedroom alone, looking at the beautiful garden outside the villa, plugging in headphones and listening to Jay Chou's old songs.
Seeing this, Liu Zhixi couldn't bear to leave him again, and after communicating with Wenli, Wenli didn't force her to leave, and Su Qian also acquiesced, so Liu Zhixi continued to live in Su's house. Lin Sujin is still a frequent visitor to the house, the three of them often stay together, she also brought a popular Xiaobawang learning machine more than ten years ago, moved an old TV from the miscellaneous house, and the three of them played Super Mario together. Mario was wearing a uniform, running around a somewhat blurry screen, crossing one obstacle after another, Liu Zhixi suddenly felt that the years were so quiet, the happiness in life was simple and beautiful, love and dreams were close at hand and within reach.
The early spring in the south is still a little cold, and the floor heating is still on in the villa, and as soon as you enter the door, you are isolated from the cold world outside. Su Huai is often silent, Lin Sujin often looks at the TV set on in a daze, she can stay motionless for a morning, but her mind is not on the TV at all, the TV program is over, the advertisement is stinky and long, and she has no response. On the contrary, Liu Zhixi is a little like a bud blown by the spring breeze, which sprouts the hope of life and arouses the yearning for happiness. She is often in the kitchen, learning to make soup with the nanny and aunt, and the enticing fragrance wafts all over the house, arousing the cravings in people's stomachs. She also often prunes and shears in the garden to exercise her gardening skills, although her skills need to be improved, but it is also a kind of self-entertainment.
"Zhixi." One night before going to bed, Su Huai suddenly stopped her, his young face was a little worried, but his eyes were extremely crystalline. "Zhixi, do you like me?" Beads of sweat oozed from the tip of his nose. Liu Zhixi didn't know how to answer for a while, but she acquiesced in her heart. "I like it." She spoke unhurriedly.
Su Huai's eyes flashed with joy, but the light was like a fire with insufficient firewood, the fireworks dimmed again in an instant, and he asked faintly: "I'm not your brother, do you like me too?" Liu Zhixi sighed in her heart, "Yes, I know that you are not my brother, and I like you too." But this kind of liking is not ignorant love, just pure friendship. Su Huai stood silently in place for a while, with mixed feelings in his heart, looking at Liu Zhixi and turning around and walking into the bedroom, closing the door of the room and closing the door of his world. He knew that the lock of her heart, which he could no longer open, could not enter, became her only one.
Liu Zhixi bathed in the golden warm sun, closed her eyes comfortably, and the soft breeze was like a pair of scissors, cutting the spring wedding dress and her mood. Su Huai sat in front of the window and looked at her intently, as if admiring a beautiful sculpture or a work of art. In the blink of an eye, they have entered the third year of high school, and they are a little overwhelmed by their busy schoolwork, but they still haven't forgotten to take a break and relax. Lin Sujin took a long leave to go to Beijing to study acting classes, Su Qian had already accepted Liu Zhixi's existence, and he and Wenli were very busy, not only to deal with the company's complicated business, but also to find their own son through various channels.
Su Huai is still the top student in the science class, the darling in the eyes of the teacher, and the best among his peers. It's just a series of changes, which planted the seeds of silence in his heart, and he held back his strength in everything, as if there was a lot of unhappiness in his heart, but this unhappiness was never revealed in his expression and words. He studied harder, as if he wanted to be recognized, and this recognition was something he had at his fingertips before, and perhaps he understood that some things could not survive a lie even if they were not debunked.
In the first monthly exam of the third year of high school, Su Huai sat firmly at the top of the science list, and Liu Zhixi's grades did not decline, but they did not improve. Walking on the streets at dusk, the sunset stretched their shadows very long, and Liu Zhixi's childlike heart was full of joy, playing her favorite game of stepping on shadows when she was a child. Su Huai smiled indifferently and let her jump around mischievously, childlike hearty and happy. He couldn't help but think that the first time he saw Liu Zhixi, she was wearing a white dress, her hair was tied up in a fresh bun, the smile on her face was the sunshine in June, the beautiful flowers beside the boulevard, falling all over her white clothes, she was as pure as a gurgling stream, quietly blooming Lan Zhi.
At that time, she cast a beautiful light in his heart, but before he dispelled the fog in his heart, he arrived at the newly divided class, and saw her peach-like face, and his heart was slightly rippling. And in the future relationship, he found her loveliness and beauty, and his heart gently stirred in the warm sunlight, rippling waves of throbbing whirlpools. Gradually, he found himself always searching for her, walking on campus, always wanting to meet her unexpectedly, sitting in the classroom, always paying attention to her movements, every night before going to bed, to listen to her favorite humming songs, to be able to sleep peacefully, and in the sleeping dream, because of her appearance made him particularly nostalgic, sometimes the alarm clock has sounded and people are awake, but they are still greedy and unwilling to get up.
"Su Huai, do you want to eat Häagen-Dazs?" Liu Zhixi's soft voice, like an invisible hand, soothed his broken heart and quietly tugged at his heartstrings. "Uh, no, don't eat it." He buried his head, his long eyelashes covered his eyelids, his eyes were still so cool, and his side face was still so delicate and good-looking. "Oh." Liu Zhixi's voice was a little disappointed, her disappointment was not because she didn't eat Häagen-Dazs, but because she wanted him to be happy and worry-free forever, she didn't want him to be the slightly down-and-out boy in front of her, she always remembered the day she first met him, as if the beautiful sounds of the nightingale in the silent night sky shook her whole world. And now, she is always trying to find the misplaced memory map, and she is trying her best to piece together a complete pattern, so that Su Huai's misplaced life can be re-corrected. This kind young man deserves all the good things in the world, and the door of his fate should always lead to a broad road to happiness, not collapse at this time.
"Mom!" As soon as Liu Zhixi and Su Huai entered the Country Garden Community, they saw Wenli and Su Qian from a distance, Wenli was wearing a burgundy tweed coat with excellent texture, dressed in jewelry, like a noblewoman's outfit. Su Qian turned his back to the two of them, and Liu Zhixi was a little surprised to find that Su Qian may have been too tired, coupled with the recent search for children, so that he has become obviously old, his hair is gray and he has not gone to the styling shop to dye it black, and his tall body is already a little rickety.
Su Huai's nose was a little sour, although he smiled at the wind, he felt that the wind was so cold, and his heart was even more bitter. These days, Wenli and Su Qian are often not at home, although they are no longer close relatives, but the friendship and concern are still there, but although he misses them, he doesn't want to face them so much, he suddenly understands the feeling of Changting travel and food more deeply. Even if Wenli and Su Qian never showed any alienation from him, they still gave him high pocket money every month, and still tried their best to take care of him and ask him for warmth, but he knew that some things were destined to be different from before, just like a broken porcelain bowl, even if it was repaired by a skilled craftsman, the cracks on the bowl were still clearly visible, and perhaps more sad was that although this porcelain bowl would not be discarded, it would only be placed in the cupboard and would not be used again, because there was already a newly fired porcelain bowl to replace it. But Su Huai was still too pessimistic, he didn't expect that the restored old bowl was also very valuable, because it represented a piece of past and history.
Next to Wenli and Su Qian, there was a strange boy, the boy had clear eyebrows and simple clothes, he glanced back at Liu Zhixi, her heart was shocked, as if there was a heavy stone pulling her heart down, but when she was about to land, she was caught by a pair of hands, her heart trembled, but she quickly suppressed it with reason. She exclaimed, "It's too similar." ”
In the past, Xu Haoran said that she and Su Huai were very similar, perhaps because of their close thinking, they had the same interests and ambitions, they were at the same table at school, and they were inseparable when they returned home, and they were all influencing and infecting each other. But when she saw the boy in front of her today, they met for the first time in nearly 20 years, and she felt so cordial, as if in the vast sea of people, as long as a meeting of eyes can be remembered for a lifetime. "It's probably because blood is thicker than water." Liu Zhixi thought silently, his face similar to herself, his clear eyes, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth when he smiled made her feel closer than ever.
Liu Zhixi walked forward quickly, but stopped again, looked back with some concern, and subconsciously glanced at Su Huai's reaction. Su Huai nodded at her, smiled knowingly, and looked at the boy again. A group of five of them entered the villa in a group, and the boy did not look left and right curiously, nor did he show half ecstasy, his expression was always very indifferent, neither humble nor arrogant, not reserved. Wenli and Su Qian had tears in their eyes, holding his hand, so excited that they couldn't tell the whole story, seventeen years of flesh and blood were separated, and now they are finally reunited, this is the usual scene in the TV series, Wenli and Su Qian are incoherent, but Liu Zhixi didn't feel the joy in the soap opera, but for some reason, she had a faint worry in her heart.
Su Huai stood aside, looking at their family, and suddenly felt that everything was so strange, as if what was in front of him was not his relatives who got along day and night, and he was just watching other people's parents, but he did not have the qualifications to treat these as after-dinner conversations, nor did he deliberately stay out of the matter freely. He was a little embarrassed, since he knew that he was not the biological son of the Su family, he felt a heavy pressure, he walked on thin ice in everything, and even habitually flattered, because deep in his heart, he was afraid of being homeless, afraid of floating duckweed, and his life was like a mustard, although he had excellent grades, but he really didn't know where his tomorrow was.
At night, Su Huai and Liu Zhixi sat in the garden, looking at the photos sent by Lin Sujin from Beijing, Lin Sujin bloomed proudly, like a blooming white rose, and many hands wanted to pluck her and put her into the heart, but unfortunately her branches were full of sharp thorns. Liu Zhixi swiped her phone and said to Su Huai unintentionally: "Zhang Ailing's "Red Rose and White Rose" is really classic. Su Huai didn't answer for a long time, Liu Zhixi couldn't help but glance at him, he was playing with a leaf of the moon plant, and said slowly: "Whether it's white moonlight or rice grains, or cinnabar moles or mosquito blood, I'm not rare." Liu Zhixi smiled and slapped Su Huai, "Then what are you rare?" He smiled and said nothing, and suddenly asked, "We were in Tanzhe Temple that year, what wish did you make?" ”
Liu Zhixi thought for a moment, tilted her head, and shook helplessly, "I forgot." "Actually, how can you forget? She deceived Su Huai, but she would rather deceive than make up a wish, because in that case, she would feel even more sorry for him and even more unable to forgive herself. She knows Su Huai's feelings for herself, she also loves Su Huai, she loves her from beginning to end, and she loves it from now on, but this kind of love is changing, from the love of the first girl's love to the sympathy of siblings. If she has to define the love between men and women, what she thinks of is Leng Jiang, the boy who is far and near, the relationship that is like a thunderous summer night, giving her memories of lightning and thunder, and she shelters from the rain under the eaves, and she always has the urge to break into the rain curtain to experience it.
"Zhixi, Su Jin is back, call Zeng Xiao, let's go eat KFC together in the evening." At the end of school, Liu Zhixi received a text message from Su Huai, she packed her schoolbag and walked to the mall in the city center with Zeng Xiao. The mall was bustling and rubbing shoulders, looking at the rolling advertisements and huge posters, finding a secluded seat, pulling out their history textbooks, and waiting for Lin Sujin and Su Huai while reviewing. Lin Sujin has always been late, and strangely, Su Huai, the initiator of the event, is nowhere to be found. Liu Zhixi was about to send a message to Su Huai, Lin Sujin pushed the door in, she hadn't seen her for half a year, she became more and more cute, a pair of eyes were shining, and the moment she looked back and smiled, she was stunned. She wears a black coat, a stylishly designed premium cardigan, and shiny calfskin boots made of crepe leather on her feet. Her eyes were full of happiness and shyness, holding hands with a boy, and at first glance it was an intimate little couple, Leng Jiang.
"Zhixi, this is my boyfriend, Leng Jiang." Lin Sujin's face was flushed, like a red plum with proud snow, fragrant.