The long summer seems to be endless. It was already mid-September when Xu Ran could sit up, but the weather was still so sultry.
Ticada was hanging on the tree doing its final struggle, all the noise was blocked out by a window, and the ward at the end of the corridor was so quiet that it seemed isolated from the world. When Bai Jinming arrived, he kept clamoring for cold cakes, Xu Ran gave him the portion that Liu Ming brought from his visit, but he couldn't eat it himself, and at least he got rid of the slander.
Bai Jinming stared at the small refrigerator by the bed, speechless, "Your treatment is much better than Dr. Hu's."
Xu Ran smiled silently.
"Can you talk?" Bai Jinming pointed to his throat, "I heard that you haven't recovered yet."
Xu Ran worked hard to get lucky, and said, "It's okay."
The voice is so soft that it seems to slip away with the wind, and you have to prick your ears to hear clearly.
Bai Jinming didn't force him, "Don't open your mouth if you don't feel well, your body is important."
Xu Ran shook his head, "After all...it's for practice."
In two months, he only recovered to the point where he could move his upper body. His complexion was fine, but he was too weak. Sometimes he would feel tired after sitting up for more than ten minutes.
Bai Jinming glanced under him. It seems that the length of the legs under the sheet has not changed, which is a blessing in misfortune.
It's just that I don't know when it will come down. It can be seen that Xu Ran is very tired now, and Bai Jinming didn't dare to stimulate him too much.
Avoid even mentioning that damned name in words.
Xu Ran asked him, "Why did you come here?"
It's impossible to fly here specifically to visit a sick person.
Bai Jinming laughed dryly, "I have a job, coincidentally."
Xu Ran looked at him, "Where's He Cheng?"
Bai Jinming was shocked.
He couldn't help looking at Xu Ran's expression. A pair of dark eyes were cold and clear, revealing an ordinary indifference.
It seems that what I just mentioned is just a familiar passerby.
Bai Jinming nervously considered his words, "Do you remember him?"
Xu Ran was a little strange, "I always remember him."
This is different from what He Cheng said before!
"I heard He... Well, he said, you forgot about him."
Xu Ran thought for a while, "At that time, I couldn't even move or speak. Maybe he felt wrong."
wrong.
Bai Jinming frowned, staring at his face closely, trying to see something under that pale complexion. But no matter how he looked at him, Xu Ran still had that indifferent expression.
"Look at me." Bai Jinming said suddenly.
Xu Ran raised her eyes and looked at him calmly.
"... You really haven't forgotten him, have you?"
Xu Ran smiled and said, "Really. But you all seem to think I forgot."
Anyone who sees these dull eyes will feel that he has lost something, even now, Bai Jinming feels that he is lying.
But who can question a person who has just walked through hell.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Xu Ran asked, "You haven't said, where is he now?"
It was not until the second week after the operation that he was officially declared out of danger by the doctor, and He Cheng has disappeared since then. In the past, when he couldn't move, he could sit on the edge of the bed and stare at him. Later, when Xu Ran asked his parents where He Chengren had gone, his parents never said anything, always changing the topic.
A week later, Xu's father and Xu's mother returned to their hometown, and a middle-aged woman with a gentle face appeared in the ward.
She was Xu Ran's nurse before he was discharged from the hospital.
You don't need to bother to guess who invited her. Although the woman kept her mouth shut with great professional ethics, Xu Ran knew that it was He Cheng who invited her.
Sometimes she would bring over things that were obviously not what Xu's parents could buy for their son, such as night lights, refrigerators, and tablet computers, and they were placed in the ward directly because Xu Ran couldn't refuse. Xu Ran was dumbfounded by her, but the woman still smiled and said to him, "This is the employer's order."
However, why did this "employer" no longer appear by himself
Bai Jinming's eyes wandered, and he opened his mouth to lie, "He...he's busy."
Xu Ran lowered his head and smiled, not showing it off.
Xu Ran didn't bother to tidy up the things that couldn't be shirked, just let them sit there, and let the woman arrange the small ward into a cozy little bedroom. There is a thin vase by the bed, and a new bouquet will be replaced every two days.
Xu Ran felt sorry for those flowers that were thrown away before they withered, and discussed with the woman if they could be changed once a week.
Later, it was compromised and turned into four days.
Now that large handful of lilies exuded a faint fragrance, Xu Ran lay down slowly, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
Bai Jinming asked, "What are you thinking?"
Xu Ran said, "I was thinking, the day of the last hospitalization seems to be just around the corner."
... It didn't take long. Bai Jinming thought silently.
"Okay, you can rest." Bai Jinming got up, "I have a job in City C for the past two days, and I will come to see you another day."
Xu Ran turned to look at him, "Do me a favor."
"Say."
"Tell him for me not to send any more things." Xu Ran said, "I don't need them."
"..."
Bai Jinming, who had nothing to answer, almost ran out of the hospital as if fleeing.
After confirming that Xu Ran couldn't hear it, Bai Jinming immediately dialed He Cheng and asked in a deep voice, "Where have you been hiding recently?"
"... Busy." He Cheng's voice was full of exhaustion.
Bai Jinming was intimidated by his abnormal tone, stunned, and asked, "It's not you who caused the car accident, why are you so decadent?"
"..."
He Cheng didn't answer for a long time, a bad premonition suddenly rose in Bai Jinming's heart.
"Where are you?" he asked.
"City."
"C City? Are you still here?" Bai Jinming felt like cursing, "Then why did you disappear? Do you know that Xu Ran...!"
He stopped abruptly, and heard the sound of something crackling and dropping from the other end of the phone, and then He Cheng asked him loudly, "What's wrong with him?!"
"...What are you in a hurry for?" Bai Jinming stood under the sun, feeling absurd.
"Finish your words!" He Cheng said angrily.
"He..." Bai Jinming deliberately paused, listening to the almost still breathing on the other side, and said, "He said you don't need to send anything over, he doesn't want it."
"..."
He Cheng's silence made Bai Jinming flustered, he regretted his harsh words, lowered his voice, "Go to the hospital when you have time, he still asked about you today."
"... can I go?"
He Cheng suddenly asked a question that he didn't seem to be able to say.
For a moment, Bai Jinming almost suspected that the person on the other end of the phone wasn't He Cheng, but after being stunned, he found it funny, "Why do you always ask me about the matter between the two of you? The only feeling I have now is that the relationship between you two is too deep, but what happened? With so many things happening, why do all the bad things fall on Xu Ran's head?"
"..."
"Okay, there's nothing to say." Bai Jinming reached out to stop a taxi, and said to He Cheng, "Brother, let's take care of ourselves."
Listening to the busy tone on the phone, He Cheng didn't put down the phone for a long time.
The shopping guide at the counter of the mall asked politely with a smile, "Sir, is there anything else you need?"
He Cheng looked down at the thing in his hand, and after a while, handed it to her, "Wrap it up for me."
After more than a month, He Cheng stepped into the hospital again, with mixed feelings in his heart.
He has been staying in the hotel this month, observing Xu Ran's situation every day through the news from the nurse. He knew that Xu Ran was recovering day by day—just like every lucky person who survived a catastrophe, even if he suffered severe injuries, he would eventually be blessed by heaven.
But that couldn't erase the nightmare haunting his mind.
After living for so many years, He Cheng has never been so decadent as in these few months. He tried to get rid of the shadow that night brought him, but whenever night fell, a rainbow of blood swept over the sky. He couldn't fall asleep, and when he closed his eyes, he saw Xu Ran's bright smile that night.
The smile that had never occupied a single bit of his heart in the past ten years was clearly and cruelly imprinted in his mind now.
He is very confused, so he chooses to escape.
It took him a lot of effort to convince Xu Ran's parents that the nurse he had hired would take good care of Xu Ran. If Bai Jinming or other cronies knew about it, they would laugh their heads off. He Cheng didn't know what was wrong with him, just like the hot head when he was young, when he thought about it, he did it.
He calls this behavior "compensation."
With the expensive fruit basket falling heavily in his hand, He Cheng walked towards the end ward step by step, and finally stopped at the door. Xu Ran was resting, and his sleeping face could be seen through the glass window on the door.
The gentle warm sun in the south covered him with a layer of soft light, and the wind blew in through the half-open window, lifting the tulle-like curtains and fluttering at the foot of the bed. Xu Ran fell asleep peacefully like this, as if he would wake up the next moment, and it seemed as if he would never wake up again.
He Cheng felt a palpitation, fluttering with the fine wind, scattered all over the ground.
He couldn't bear to break this comfortable beauty.
Now Xu Ran is as fragile as a newborn lamb, He Cheng sat down on the bench in the corridor, silently waiting for him to wake up.
Wait until the sun goes down. There were some voices from the ward.
He stood up abruptly, came to the door, and saw that Xu Ran was sitting up desperately, with his hands weakly supporting the bed board, rubbing against the head of the bed, moving upward bit by bit.
He Cheng just stood there watching, until he sat upright and let out a tired breath, then he raised his hand and knocked on the door.
Xu Ran raised his head and met his eyes through a door.
Come in. He saw Xu Ran's mouth shape and said this.
He Cheng came to the bed and put the fruit basket on the ground. Seeing him standing there, Xu Ran couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth and said, "Sit down."
He Cheng just sat down.
"Long time no see." Xu Ran said.
This conversation seems to have happened just two months ago, but the identity has been changed. He Cheng nodded, trying hard to hide the wavering in his eyes.
Xu Ran said lightly, "Bai Jinming has been here. Do you have jobs here?"
"Yeah." He Cheng said, "But it's not an important matter."
"Really."
As always, their conversation did not exceed three sentences, but this was the first time that He Cheng felt so anxious.
Xu Ran was very calm, "You don't need to ask for a nurse anymore."
"She didn't do well?" He Cheng frowned.
Xu Ran shook his head, "No, I don't need it, the nurses in the hospital can take good care of me."
"They have to take care of so many patients, how can they have the energy..."
Before finishing speaking, He Cheng stopped. This is not something he would say, if it was before, Xu Ran would have turned around and left if he was so ungrateful.
If it was before, Xu Ran would not refuse any kindness from him. Xu Ran would always cherish the things he gave like treasures, even if he wanted to go back, he would never return them.
Did he change, or did Xu Ran change
He Cheng took out a box from his arms, a palm-sized black and gold velvet box, and handed it to Xu Ran.
Xu Ran took it and opened it, the tie clip was shining brightly in the sunlight.
"I went to the store to wash it." He Cheng's mouth was dry, and he said bravely, "It's clean."
Xu Ran picked up the tie clip, looked at it for a long time, then raised his head and said to He Cheng, "Can I ask you a question?"
"you say."
Xu Ran looked at him firmly, and said word by word, "Now, do you still want to take me back?"
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