It was a kind of enjoyment to look at the neat small regular script. Xu Shiqi enjoyed it with her eyes and then the sound was enjoyed by others. She saw that the old lady finally fell asleep, and then she slowly died down. Her mouth was dry, and she coughed lightly.
Wen Jialuo seemed to wake up suddenly, looked up at her, then straightened the quilt for the old lady again and got up.
"Go out."
Xu Shiqi stood up from her desk, her face twisted. When she saw Wen Jialuo looking at her, she took a breath and said, "My legs...are numb from standing so long."
Wen Jialuo reached out to help her, and one hand naturally went into Xu Shiqi's hand. Xu Shiqi pretended to put down the book and pulled his hand out, tidied the books on the table, and then took turns to lift his feet and lightly shook them twice.
After turning off the desk lamp, the two of them retreated to the door. Wen Jialuo called the aunt at home over and asked her to prepare some tea. Then she watched Xu Shiqi walk down the stairs crookedly in her high heels, holding on to the stairs.
It was quiet downstairs, except for someone from the kitchen who was standing by the stairs waiting. When he saw them coming down, he whispered that lunch was ready.
When passing by the wooden bridge, even in the deep winter, there was still shallow water flowing under the bridge, maybe there was a spring somewhere. Xu Shiqi had seen the temperament of this house before, but this time he felt that the change of seasons did not leave too many traces in this classical courtyard that seemed to be full of bookish atmosphere.
When he entered the dining room, he was somewhat surprised to see Wen Baohua. Xu Shiqi stopped for a moment, not daring to look at Wen Jialuo beside him. He felt a little guilty, as if he had been caught doing something bad.
Fortunately, Wen Baohua just smiled and waved at her, letting her pass.
Wen Baohua was a little surprised when he received the call from his mother. Although he knew that she and his father had left their beloved laboratory and returned home, he had not seen them immediately. After receiving the call, he found out that his grandmother was not feeling well. He thought that he was too excited about the pregnancy, and he did not find anything when he returned to the old house to announce the good news.
But when she returned home, she found that it was not the case. Her mother just held her hand and asked about Seventeen.
Seventeen? Wen Baohua felt a little unbelievable when she heard that Seventeen was actually in the old house at the moment, and was even accompanying Jia Luo to coax her grandmother to sleep. When she heard her aunt say that she was accompanying Jia Luo to have breakfast and just happened to come over to play, Wen Baohua immediately flashed through her mind the bizarre image of Jia Luo mixing rice with liquid egg yolk. Just thinking about the current situation, Wen Baohua did not express her doubts about Jia Luo for a while.
It turned out that the elders had invited him home to ask about Seventeen. It seemed that everyone was quite interested in her. Wen Baohua felt strange, but was stopped from going upstairs so as not to disturb the old lady's rare sleep.
Well, Wen Baohua had always known that Seventeen's voice was like the best gift bestowed by God. When she was in school, Seventeen was always the leading reader in the class. Whenever there was a reading contest, she was an indispensable candidate. I heard that she also won many awards in this field after entering college. But Wen Baohua really didn't expect that Seventeen's voice could also help him sleep. Thinking that she was reading and hypnotizing upstairs, he really felt a little uncomfortable as if he had met a fairy from heaven.
I know you have a good relationship with her, and she is also a friend of Jia Luo, so I wonder if we can ask her to do us a favor and come to live at home for a while. We are all busy and not at home, and she looks good, maybe she can help. Otherwise, we will pay her to be a caregiver for a while, and she will only be responsible for reading things to the old lady before she goes to bed to induce hypnosis, and she can set the price.
Seventeen is not that kind of person. Wen Baohua thought for a moment and said, "Let me do this. If you have something to do, you can go first. It won't be good if there are too many people later. It will put pressure on people."
Luo Linyi suddenly said, do you want me to stay
Wen Baohua smiled, "Aunt, you have helped her family, and you are the one who puts the most pressure on them. I understand Seventeen, and there is no need to talk about these things. You all go, let Auntie prepare some lunch, and I will let Seventeen eat at home. I will say it casually and she will definitely agree."
Okay then, Luo Linyi nodded and smiled. Jialuo also took the initiative to eat when she came back this time, so I stopped staring at her.
Wen Baohua hesitated for a moment, then said what he wanted to say. Luo Linyi also felt something was wrong after hearing it. Her daughter suddenly lost all desire for food, which eventually hurt her health. But now, she suddenly seemed to wake up. She was just happy and forgot to think about the reason behind it.
Did Jia Luo finally let it go? Everyone was guessing, or did she find someone she liked again
No matter who the other party is, Luo Linyi smiled, this should be a good thing.
Everyone nodded, but Wen Baohua still felt something was a little weird. Maybe it was because Jia Luo ate very hard that day, but her expression didn't show that she was enjoying the food. It was just like she needed something to fill her stomach.
But seeing how happy her aunt was, she couldn't say anything to discourage her, so she just kept on observing.
Later, the adults really left, and she stayed and waited.
Seeing Seventeen following Jialuo into the dining room, she waved.
"Why are you back?" Wen Jialuo walked over to her and pulled out a chair. It seemed that there were only three of them eating today, and the adults who were there just now had disappeared.
Wen Baohua ignored her and just pulled Xu Shiqi to sit next to her, her face full of surprise and admiration: "Seventeen, did grandma really fall asleep while listening to you reading?"
Xu Shiqi smiled, took a sip of water, and then said, "From your tone, it sounds like it's a big deal. I think Jia Luo is better at coaxing old people. It seems that the way he patted the quilt is very skilled."
Hearing her name being called, Wen Jialuo leaned back in her chair and looked at Wen Baohua from behind: "Don't be so modest, didn't I say that you can still hear the sound?"
Wen Baohua turned around and glared at her: "How can you talk like that? She is my best classmate, and you brought her to the old house without informing me. I haven't even settled the score with you yet."
"She is my friend too." Wen Jialuo said leisurely, and looked across the mountain again.
Xu Shiqi closed her mouth and smiled as she watched the two sisters talk. Someone brought her a warm towel to wipe her hands. The dishes came, but there were four dishes and one soup, a good home-cooked meal. Wen Baohua first served Xu Shiqi a bowl of soup. She knew this habit of her old classmates: "Seventeen, thank you."
"What's there to thank me for?" Xu Shiqi took the soup. "My grandmother passed away a long time ago. Seeing your old lady brought back some good memories. I did that naturally."
Wen Baohua looked at her: "Then, Seventeen, can you stay for a few days?"
This sentence made the people around her stunned for a moment. Xu Shiqi was drinking soup, and Wen Jialuo followed her example and poured soup to drink. They both put down their bowls and looked at the person in the middle.
Xu Shiqi quickly understood: "You mean, you want me to read to the old lady every day?"
Wen Baohua nodded: "Shiqi, since it's you, I won't be polite. I just found out that grandma hasn't been sleeping well recently," she glanced at Wen Jialuo, "and you didn't tell me." Then she continued to say to Xu Shiqi, "I know you have to help in the store during the day, you just need to come back to the old house at night. Someone will pick you up every day, and I won't go home during this period, I will stay in the old house to accompany you."
Xu Shiqi was silent for a short while. Wen Baohua originally thought that this was not a problem at all given their relationship. If Xu Shiqi's family needed help, she would not hesitate to ask. She thought that they had such a deep relationship, but when she saw the hesitation flashing in Xu Shiqi's eyes, she suddenly annoyed herself that she was too casual. She was thinking about speaking more tactfully, and Xu Shiqi smiled and nodded.
"Okay, it doesn't matter where we live. If I can really help, it's just a matter of talking." She didn't know the annoyance in Baohua's heart. The hesitation was just because of the person on the other side. Although Wen Jialuo didn't say anything and just listened, the gaze she was looking at made her unable to avoid it, and she waited with inquiry.
If she was sober enough, she should have refused. When the dark tide in her heart had just receded, it was really not suitable for the full moon gravity to appear again. But thinking about the fact that the girl was not here most of the week, and the old lady seemed to really need her help, plus if she didn't agree, she couldn't honestly face Baohua's question, so she had to nod.
Wen Baohua breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "Then it's settled, let's eat."
After she finished speaking, she seemed to finally remember that there was someone beside her, and turned around: "Jia Luo, eat slowly."
Wen Jialuo didn't stop eating, and in fact he didn't seem to be eating very quickly. He just took one bite after another, trying hard to eat all the food in front of him into his stomach.
"Hey, what are you doing..." Before Wen Baohua could finish her words, Xu Shiqi bumped into her arm, so she had to shut up and stop talking.
Wen Jialuo finally put down the bowl and stood up: "I'll go clean up the room."
Wen Baohua originally wanted to suggest that Shiqi could just live in the same room with her, or that she could just leave the cleaning of the house to the servants, but she could only watch Wen Jialuo walk away quickly, and then said helplessly: "… Is it that urgent?"
Xu Shiqi also put down his chopsticks. Judging from Wen Jialuo's expression, the food she had eaten might be rebelling in her stomach again. Thinking that the girl might suffer from stomach pain somewhere, or vomit everything she had eaten, she felt a little uneasy, but she couldn't let the people around her see anything, so she had to grit her teeth and tell her what happened in the morning.
Hearing that Jialuo vomited after eating, Wen Baohua was really worried this time. She thought for a while and felt that no one could deal with that stubborn cousin. Now she could only move her aunt to worry about it.
After the call, the aunt said she would be back soon, and Wen Baohua took Xu Shiqi back to the front hall and went upstairs.
Sure enough, Wen Jialuo had already designated a room. Wen Baohua looked and found that it was not far from his grandmother's room, right next to Jialuo's room.
"It doesn't matter where I live, I don't need to clean up." Xu Shiqi said hurriedly when he saw someone actively cleaning the room.
"I think it would be nice if you and I could live in the same room." Wen Baohua took her arm and said with a smile.
"I dare not," Xu Diqi pretended to be panicked, "I don't sleep well, if I kick the baby, I will be a sinner."
Wen Baohua laughed and leaned on her shoulder, matching her worried look: "Is that so? Then you'll have to sleep alone."
"She won't sleep alone." Wen Jialuo suddenly said on the side.
Xu Shiqi was startled.
"She can record her own voice... and then hypnotize herself." Wen Jialuo added slowly.
Xu Shiqi was like a deflated ball, and then suddenly full of blood, almost unable to hold back and jump up. In the end, she could only glare at the girl who told a bad joke, turned around and left: "I'll go see if the old lady is awake."
Wen Baohua smiled with great effort, clinging to his cousin's thin shoulders: "Hey, please don't bully my classmates."
Wen Jialuo looked at the figure who tiptoed into grandma's room like a thief, raised the corner of his lips slightly, and said nothing.
The old lady hadn't woken up yet, she was sleeping soundly. The heavy curtains in the room were drawn, as if it was late at night. When Xu Shiqi left the room, he saw Wen Jialuo leaning against the outside.
"Where's Baohua?"
"It's lunch break," Wen Jialuo looked at her, "Do you want to take a break?"
Xu Shiqi yawned in response to the situation. Today, the girl called him early in the morning to wake him up. He really didn't get enough sleep. "Well, just lie down for a while. I have to go back home later."
"I'll take you there when the time comes," Wen Jialuo led her to her room, "You go to sleep, I'll go downstairs and surf the Internet for a while."
The structure of this room is the same as the one next door, with a large space and a small open balcony. The floor is all covered with mahogany floors. There is a round carpet at the foot of the bed with complicated patterns on it, and a few books are thrown on the carpet. In addition to the wardrobe, there is also a shelf on the wall, which is filled with various items, and none of them are repeated. The varieties are from ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign. It seems that the girl likes to collect souvenirs.
Wen Jialuo turned on the air conditioner for Xu Shiqi and went out. Xu Shiqi stood inside, and suddenly the thought "This is Wen Jialuo's room" filled his mind. In comparison, the apartment in the neighboring city was more like a temporary residence for the girl, without many unique traces of the girl. But in this room, you can actually see dolls that are obviously from childhood, as well as a few photos from school days.
There is a photo standing in the upper left corner of the antique display cabinet. The girl has flying long hair and is wearing a school skirt. She is standing in front of a low wall covered with roses, and her smile is as bright as the April sunshine.
There was only this one photo on the shelf, and it belonged to the past, like an irreplaceable item that needed to be collected. Xu Shiqi picked up the photo frame and gently stroked the face with her fingertips, feeling sad. It was as if she was scratched by the rose thorns in the picture. She suddenly retracted her fingertips and put the photo frame back without even looking at it.
Suddenly he felt really tired and wanted to rest for a while. Looking at the quilt that had been lifted up at one corner, Xu Shiqi vaguely thought that the girl didn't seem to say that he couldn't sleep in her bed, so he decisively took off his coat and got in.
The last thought Xu Shiqi had before falling asleep was how fulfilling it would be if he could make the girl fat again...