Li Zeliang reacted very quickly, pulling her hand back and holding it tightly.
"Are you crazy? This is a highway." He pursed his lips tightly, a little angry.
"You're not letting—" Xie Yi's words were interrupted by a sudden change.
The truck in front suddenly changed lanes, and Ji Yingsong screamed in his heart that something was wrong and slammed on the brakes. The car body spun on the road, and the front of the car scraped the tail of the truck and slid rapidly towards the partition guardrail on the side of the road. Ji Yingsong turned the steering wheel quickly, and the front of the car scraped the guardrail and was forced to stop across the lane.
At this moment, the car behind was unable to dodge and was about to hit Xieyi.
Li Zeliang subconsciously held Xie Yi in his arms and protected him tightly.
With a bang, the car behind hit it from the side. The Bentley was jolted by the impact, slid backwards for a distance, and then stopped.
Ji Yingsong kicked open the car door in a hurry, got out and called out, "Mr. Li!"
The side of the car was already dented a little, he tried to pull the door hard, but it was stuck, so he went around to the other side to open it. Li Zeliang in the car hurriedly lifted up Xieyi's head, she seemed to have fainted from the impact, and her whole body was scattered in Li Zeliang's arms as if the bones were pulled out.
“Xie Yi…” He called her several times.
Ji Yingsong opened the door, and the heavy rain poured in, soaking the two of them in an instant. The rain fell on her forehead, flowed down her hair, and covered her eyes.
Li Zeliang couldn't help but wipe the rain off her face with his hand, but he didn't expect that this wipe would bring out a lot of blood. The blood and the rain mixed together and immediately flowed onto her chin.
"Xie Yi..." He was a little confused and tried to wipe it again, but the blood kept coming out. In a moment, Xie Yi's cheeks and neck were covered with blood, which was shocking.
"Mr. Li!" Ji Yingsong said anxiously, "Don't move, you are bleeding!" As he said that, he wanted to find something to bandage him and stop the bleeding.
Li Zeliang was stunned when he heard this, and looked down at the person in his arms, half believing and half doubting. Although Xie Yi suddenly fainted at this moment, her face was really normal. At first glance, she looked like she was asleep. There was no injury on her head. Her lips were slightly open, revealing her two front teeth. Her nostrils moved, and her breathing was relatively stable.
After finding no external injuries or bleeding on her body, he finally felt relieved. Then he felt a slight pain in his hand. He stretched it out to take a look and found that it was his hand that was bleeding.
Li Zeliang felt relieved and calmed down. He moved her to the driver's seat, found something dry to cover her, and closed the door.
Ji Yingsong made a few phone calls, and then stood in the rain with Li Zeliang, waiting for someone to come and deal with the situation.
The owner and passengers of the car behind also got out with umbrellas, and Ji Yingsong dealt with them. Li Zeliang looked back and forth at the scene, fortunately it was not serious. He looked through the glass at the freehand painting inside, his eyes deep.
Xieyi smelled a faint smell of disinfectant, which triggered her allergic rhinitis and made her want to sneeze. She actually dreamed of her father, who bent down and said to her, "Xiaoyi, come here and let me take a look. Does your forehead still hurt?"
Her nose felt sore and tears started to flow.
How old was I then? Three or four? Probably four.
When she was a child, she always had short hair, looked like a boy, and had a very naughty personality. She was simply a child king, often holding a big plastic knife and shouting for killing.
When playing house, she wanted to be the emperor while others were playing the princess, so she squeezed the emperor to play the queen. When everyone wanted her to play the boy, she said, "I want to be a tree."
Every Children's Day, my father would send me gifts.
What did her father give her that year? She frowned and thought about it.
It's a spaceship.
The spaceship was powered by a battery. When the switch was turned on, it would flash its lights and make a sound, just like an ambulance today. What made Xiao Xieyi most curious was that the spaceship could turn by itself. If you press a button and let it go around the house alone, if it encounters an obstacle and fails to pass it twice in a row, it will turn around and drive to another place. She asked her father with her eyes wide open in surprise.
Dad said, "This is the magic that Dad cast on it."
When she was at that age, she was not at all low-key in doing things. If she had any new stuff, she would show it off like a treasure.
So, she believed it and took it out to show off to her friends. Unexpectedly, Dongdong snorted and said disdainfully: "How can this be magic? Your father is talking nonsense. There is clearly a little man driving the car inside."
"You're kidding! How can there be such a small person?"
"Yes, that's right." Dongdong said.
"No, no, no, it's just magic! Magic!"
"Unless you don't know Thumbelina, how do you know there are no more little people?"
Xie Yi was stunned for a moment. Few people told her stories, and she had never heard the story of Thumbelina. But she had never shown weakness, so she cried out guiltily, "Why don't I know about the thumb? She is obviously just a finger."
The two of them started arguing, and at first they were just bickering back and forth, but the boy was much more eloquent than her. In the end, Xieyi couldn't win the argument, so she kicked the boy. Dongdong covered his buttocks, tears in his eyes, and said with a grievance: "You can't win the argument, so you just kick people."
"What's wrong with kicking you? I'll pry it open now and let them know who the liar is." Xieyi ran back to the house angrily and got pliers, a screwdriver and a knife.
"Little girl, why are you so angry?" Mother Shen asked when she saw it.
"Someone is looking for trouble, I'm going to deal with him today." Then, without even turning her head, she returned to the open space like a whirlwind and said to Dong Dong viciously, "If there were no villain, I would have let you play the queen in the future."
The result is obvious. There is neither Thumbelina nor Dad's magic. There are only a bunch of screws and scrap metal that cannot be restored.
Xieyi stared at the wreckage for a long time, then cried out in a sobbing voice: "You all lied to me—" and then burst into tears. Then, she hugged the pile of rotten iron like a treasure, crying as she walked. Because she couldn't free her hands to wipe her tears, the tears and snot on her face mixed together and it was hard to tell what was what.
When she was going up the stairs to go home, she slipped and fell down the stairs. Her head was about to hit the side of the stairs, but she held on to the wreckage of the spacecraft tightly as if her life depended on it, and she was unwilling to let go. As a result, her forehead hit the edge of the stone hard, leaving a long cut, and she stayed in the hospital for several days.
At that time, she was also lying in the hospital like this. Her father came to see her and bent down and said to her, "Xiaoyi, come here and let daddy take a look. Does your forehead still hurt?"
The scar from that injury never went away. My mother used to tell people, "If our little girl didn't have this scar on her face, she might still be a perfect beauty."
She smiled and turned over in the hospital bed.
Later, when she was just five and a half years old, because there was no one at home to take care of her and they were worried about locking her in the house, Xieyi was sent to school to attend the first grade.
On the first day of school, the weather was still very hot. Her mother dressed her in a new pair of blue bib shorts. The shorts matched her hair and made her look very handsome. There were many children in the class. No one was afraid of strangers. They chattered and soon became a group. Xieyi was very friendly and immediately became a leader in the class, which made many boys angry.
During the break the next day, a boy came up to her and asked, "Your name is Su Xieyi?"
Xie Yi looked at his runny nostrils and turned his head away with disdain.
"Why do you look like a girl? My brother says people like you are sissies." Before he could finish his words, the boy was thrown to the ground by the angry Xie Yi. She had grown up so much that even if others said she looked like a boy, she could barely accept it. However, who knew that the most annoying thing in the world was that you were obviously a girl, but people still thought you were pretending to be a girl.
So, her parents were called in the second day of her school. Her mother apologized to the teacher with a smile. In Xieyi's impression, her mother has always been so gentle and elegant. Is it because the adults are too good-tempered that she has always been so willful
The freehand in the dream suddenly felt lost. Now, she is already an orphan, without a father or a mother...
It was the next morning when Xieyi finally woke up, and the nurse was removing the IV tube and needle from her.
"What did you lose to me?" Xie Yi asked with his head tilted.
The nurse smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's okay. I gave you antipyretic medicine. You just have a cold and a little fever."
"Is our car okay? What about the two people with me?"
"I'm not sure about that. I wasn't on duty when you came into the hospital yesterday. The breakfast on the table is yours. You'd better eat more. You'll be discharged soon."
Xieyi looked over to the table and saw a bowl of hot porridge.
As the nurse put away her things and prepared to leave, she turned around and said, "Oh, the gentleman who brought you the porridge just now asked me to tell you that you have a friend in Ward 307."
Xieyi was indeed hungry, and he ate a full bowl of porridge in a very ungraceful manner. Then he washed up, changed into his original clothes, and left the ward.
"307... 307... 307..." Xieyi kept mumbling while searching, and finally saw this house number at the end of the corridor. The door was ajar, and it was unusually quiet inside.
She knocked on the door.
"Come in." A low, slow male voice came out, and she knew who it was as soon as she heard the voice.
Xieyi pushed open the door and saw Li Zeliang sitting on the bed, his legs covered with a quilt, but his back was straight. He had changed out of his usual shirt and suit, looking a little more childish than usual.
Seeing her standing there, he smiled slightly, "Yingsong said he brought you breakfast, have you eaten?"
His expression at this moment was completely different from the one he had angrily grabbed her and said "You're crazy" in the car yesterday. He held the newspaper in his hand and flipped a page casually. Xieyi noticed the bandage on his hand, maybe it was the injury he got yesterday.
"I... Mr. Li..." She didn't know where to start, "I was in the car yesterday..."
She forgot, or even said she didn't know what happened afterwards. She only remembered that she had a quarrel with him, and then suddenly the car lost control.
"Aren't you determined to get off the car even if you die?" Li Zeliang asked calmly.
"Huh?" Xie Yi was even more embarrassed. She had indeed intended to go against him at that time, but fortunately nothing serious happened.
"It's all my fault." She said the latter part with a bit of remorse, and her tone was very sincere. She caused him to go to the hospital, and she didn't know what kind of injuries he suffered. She didn't want this to happen...
Xieyi lowered her head, her eyes fell on the floor tiles in front of her toes, and she was concentrating on repenting. In the first 25 years of her life, she rarely admitted her mistakes so seriously. But Li Zeliang didn't seem to buy her account and didn't say anything for a long time.
One second, two seconds, three seconds, four seconds...
Xie Yi's neck was sore from hanging down that he couldn't help but look up, and happened to meet Li Zeliang's eyes.
He had put down the newspaper, crossed his arms over his chest, and looked at Xie Yi with a scrutinizing gaze, his eyes moving from head to toe, then from toe to head, and finally back to her face, staring into her eyes.
After a long time, he changed his sitting posture, leaned his back against the pillow, and murmured: "Shen Xieyi, don't you need to say something to me?" The interval between this and his last sentence was not long, but his voice was a little hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time, and he seemed a little lazy.
The surprise in Xie Yi's eyes flashed away, and he lowered his head again, "I'm sorry. Mr. Li, I'm sorry."
"That's it?" Li Zeliang asked in a low voice.
"Anything else?" Xie Yi didn't understand what he wanted to hear for a moment.
Li Zeliang stared at her with an indecipherable complex look in his eyes.
The morning sun was golden but not blinding. The curtains of the ward were open, and the sun shone in obliquely, moving slowly over time until it hovered near Li Zeliang.
Xie Yi observed that his eyes were dark brown.
At this moment, looking down in the sunlight, his profile was covered with a faint golden luster because of the bright light coming from that side, but it made the other side seem a little dark.
After a long time, Li Zeliang's eyes darkened slightly, but he smiled, a faint smile. It was the most common smile on his face, first slightly curling up the corners of his lips, and then the lips led to other facial features, making it seem that the whole smile came from his lips. But he also often used this kind of smile to deal with others. Such an expression on his face made Xieyi feel more uncomfortable than his cold and mocking face.
That look was definitely not genuine, because the smile didn't even reach his eyes, so the two of them suddenly felt a little distant.
He seemed very dissatisfied with her answer and looked away. "It's okay. I only have minor skin injuries. Manager Ji will help you with your discharge procedures. If you are not in a good mood these two days, you can call Secretary Lin and ask her to take leave for you. The company will consider it a work injury."
There was nothing wrong with his words, exactly the same as a few days ago, but Xieyi felt a little strange. For a moment, Xieyi felt that he was neither standing nor sitting, and standing here seemed like an unnecessary decoration.
Xieyi walked out, closed the door behind him, and stood at the door in silence for a long time before leaving.