Lin Zhaoxi arrived at Ci'en Hospital a little later than agreed.
When the taxi drove into the small road in front of the hospital, she kept staring at the gate.
In the distance is a vast expanse of cold lake water, and straight holly trees are planted beside the road. The boy's clear figure has changed from a small straight line to a three-dimensional and complete one.
Lin Zhaoxi got out of the taxi, and the moment she saw Pei Zhi, she forgot the uneasiness caused by the tight time along the way.
Pei Zhi was wearing a navy blue thick sweater, with a white school uniform over it. It's very simple, like not afraid of the cold at all.
Lin Zhaoxi walked up to Pei Zhi slowly, took off the scarf around his neck and wrapped it around him, then hugged him vigorously: "I forgot to buy KFC on the way, I found out that there is one in the Lohas town here, half an hour You can go back and forth within."
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The small town serving tourists in the lakeside scenic area in winter is obviously not very popular, but KFC and McDonald's are always eaten by nearby residents.
Lin Zhaoxi and Pei Zhi walked on the antique path, most of the shops on both sides were closed, but there were many middle-aged and elderly people walking along the street with their grandchildren.
The weather is gloomy today, but probably because there are more children, there is always a warm and breezy feeling.
They walked side by side all the way, Lin Zhaoxi didn't feel the slightest haste or sluggishness in Pei Zhi's footsteps. He didn't look sad, which made it difficult for Lin Zhaoxi to ask him the specific situation in the ward directly.
"What happened yesterday?"
Instead, Pei Zhi spoke first.
Lin Zhaoxi thought about it, and said: "We were working on the traffic forecasting software at the time, and I happened to be in Yongchuan, so I wanted some data from Yongchuan, and I was running this yesterday."
She couldn't tell Pei Zhi the seriousness of the matter, so her voice was very soft, with a little deliberate understatement. She didn't know what Pei Zhi would think about canceling the agreement for such a thing.
Pei Zhi fell silent.
"How is Auntie doing now?" Lin Zhaoxi asked.
"The doctor said it's only a few days."
Pei Zhi was still calm, Lin Zhaoxi's heart tightened, and he held his hand.
"You have a fever?"
"What?" Lin Zhaoxi was at a loss, at this moment, the boy turned around, and the next moment, Lin Zhaoxi felt a cold palm covering her forehead.
She looked up and could clearly see the expression on the boy's face. Pei Zhi frowned slightly, his gaze narrowed slightly. They were very close, and he kept staring at her, making Lin Zhaoxi's ears blush.
After a while, Pei Zhi withdrew his hand, and Lin Zhaoxi took half a step back.
"High fever." Pei Zhi said.
Probably before, it was all dependent on one breath, but now that Pei Zhi said it, Lin Zhaoxi realized why all the data looked like paste to her.
She was restless and wondered why she was sick on such a time-critical day. But she still joked to Pei Zhi, wanting to reassure the boy: "I must have seen you excited."
"Are you going to hang water today?"
"I..." Lin Zhaoxi paused, "I'll go later."
"Actually, you don't need to come here specially if you have a fever." Pei Zhi said.
"It's too polite of you to say that." With a heavy heart, Lin Zhaoxi lowered her eyes and said softly, "I wanted to ask you if I could accompany you to the ward to visit my aunt."
Pei Zhi didn't speak.
This is the first time Lin Zhaoxi has talked about this matter so bluntly. Anyway, he has a fever, so it's okay to talk nonsense: "I know you are having a hard time, so I really want to accompany you. I don't know how you are in the ward, But let me think about it, if Lao Lin..."
Lin Zhaoxi paused at this point.
Pei Zhi looked at her gently: "I'm 'Bah, Bah, Bah'."
"Bah, bah, bah!" Lin Zhaoxi simply let go and asked, "I'm very worried about you, Auntie is at the bedside every day, will she force you...to never study math again?"
Pei Zhi looked at her, and finally said, "Yes."
"Then will you promise her?"
"meeting."
Lin Zhaoxi held Pei Zhi's hand tightly.
"Don't be nervous, I know what promises must be fulfilled and what not."
Pei Zhi said in a very sober tone, it didn't look like a big deal.
However, when Lin Zhaoxi was 22 years old, she personally heard the 22-year-old Pei Zhi talk about the past six years ago. He was also very calm and composed, with the same tone as now, but the final relief was different from what he was experiencing.
At this point in the chat, Lin Zhaoxi couldn't grab him by the collar and say: You obviously can't pass this threshold now.
But what if Pei Zhi told himself how painful he was
No matter how much she comforted her, nothing could be changed, and Pei Zhi knew this very well.
KFC is close at hand, the aroma of fried chicken lingers on the cold winter streets, and the colonel himself smiles on the signboard. The high fever made her whole body cold, and Lin Zhaoxi couldn't feel any warmth.
Pei Zhi led her to stand in front of the cashier to order, then turned around and said, "I ordered mashed potatoes and vegetable soup for you, don't eat too greasy."
Lin Zhaoxi wanted to relax the atmosphere, so she said, "I also want a Coke, without ice!"
"You don't drink Pepsi?"
"I'm so narrow!"
Pei Zhi had no choice but to follow his advice. When picking up the meal, Lin Zhaoxi realized that there was not much on the plate, so he only ordered a hamburger for himself.
"Why do you order so little!"
"I'm afraid you will steal it."
Lin Zhaoxi: "..."
They sat side by side in the window seats, the stools were slightly higher, and they had a full view of the street.
Lin Zhaoxi opened the Furong Fresh Vegetable Soup and drank a couple of sips, then put down the spoon, "But chicken has a high digestibility, which helps patients recover their strength."
Pei Zhi opened the hamburger wrapper, "Spicy Burger."
Lin Zhaoxi: "..."
He opened the mashed potatoes and took two bites, and then finished eating. Lin Zhaoxi bit the spoon and licked it twice: "But classmate Pei Zhi, you are a math student, why are you so concerned about medical matters?"
"I'm interested in you."
Lin Zhaoxi: "..."
Bowing her head and continuing to drink the soup, Lin Zhaoxi blushed.
Opposite is the children's play area of this happy town, the empty trolley is still driving, and the front of the car looks like a bad gray wolf. Two children were sitting on the merry-go-round, and the electronic sound for Alice seemed to pass through the glass, lingering in her ears.
"When I was young, I often had a fever. At that time, my father had not committed suicide." Pei Zhi said in a soft voice.
Lin Zhaoxi's hands that were scooping up the soup slightly stopped, but she didn't interrupt him.
"But he's already sick and can't take care of me. My mother takes over many things in the family company and is so busy every day." Pei Zhi took a bite of the hamburger and said in a very calm tone, "It will take about a month. She comes home at 2 o'clock every night, I have a fever, she takes me to the hospital to hang water, stays with me for 4 hours, sends me home, then goes to work at the company at 7 o'clock, calls me at noon, and reminds me of all kinds of attention matters. My experience probably came from that time.”
"Old Lin is happier. I have been in good health since I was a child!" Lin Zhaoxi rolled up her cuffs and made a gesture. Then she realized that in this world, Lao Lin had never been with her through her childhood, so she added, "And even if I have a cold and a fever occasionally, he doesn't know."
"If possible, he definitely wants to grow up with you." Pei Zhi said.
"kindness."
"My mother has always tried to be a good mother and never missed any of my parent-teacher meetings. Her biggest wish was that nothing would happen to me, so she let me grow up according to her wishes. Later, our differences became more and more serious, and I She often lied to her, trying to make life easier for us, but she would find out occasionally, and then there was a cold war." Pei Zhi ate his hamburger while narrating, "During the cold war, she didn't care about me and let me fend for myself But after a while, I couldn't bear it anymore, and came back again. I think about it carefully, but we have been tormenting each other all the time."
"Auntie loves you, she just tried in the wrong direction." Lin Zhaoxi said, "And it's not your fault at all."
"I know it's not my fault." Pei Zhi finished the last bite of the hamburger, "I just suddenly realized that after all these years, she has never been happy."
Lin Zhaoxi looked out the window, the sky was so cloudy, it seemed to dye the playground opposite it gray. The carousel stopped slowly, and the little girl in a strawberry skirt climbed down and threw herself into her mother's arms.
Lin Zhaoxi slowly put down the plastic spoon, and suddenly felt that sometimes mathematics is not the most difficult thing.
Even compared to Lao Lin's car accident or the data she couldn't process in a short time, what Pei Zhi encountered was the most unsolvable problem in life.
She leaned sideways on Pei Zhi's shoulder, and grabbed the boy's wrist with her right hand.
Probably because she was confused, she just wanted to drag Pei Zhi away from all this, so she said completely recklessly: "I have very important data that I can't sort out in time, can you help me, let's go to the Internet cafe all night, don't come back Are you in the hospital?"
The boy's arm muscles tightened slightly, and the arteries covered under the skin beat again and again. He didn't speak for a long time, and the sound and aroma of the entire store were completely evacuated.
Lin Zhaoxi suddenly realized something, she lowered her head, put her left hand on her, and rolled up Pei Zhi's cuff, but Pei Zhi held her down.
He withdrew his hand, rubbed her head, and said, "Go back and have a good rest, remember to take your medicine."