This man was really ruthless, showing no mercy at all, she muttered. Then she twisted her neck and found that the back of her head, where he had pushed her down and hit her head against the wall, was also painful, and there were probably two lumps on the front and back.
She recalled the look on Li Zeliang's face when he threw things at her, just like a bullied young wife. If he heard this thought, she didn't know what he would get angry and throw at her, although the worst that could happen was that he would just hit her on the forehead or somewhere else.
Xieyi's phone rang, so she went back to the living room to answer it, and it turned out to be Xiaolin.
"Xie Yi, why didn't you come to work?"
Xieyi thought about it and said, "I didn't sleep all night and overslept."
"Are you going out to drink?" Xiao Lin asked.
"No, I would go crazy if I drank." Xieyi said with a smile.
"Fortunately, I didn't get drunk last time. It was just that Mr. Li..." Xiao Lin stopped talking halfway when he realized that he had said something wrong.
"I drank, what happened to him?" Xieyi asked puzzledly.
"Nothing." Xiaolin covered up.
"Impossible, there must be something." Xieyi asked again.
In fact, Xiaolin had always wanted to tell Xieyi, but she held back because of Li Zeliang's temper. But she had just returned from Li's house and saw Li Zeliang sitting on the bed handling official business after taking off his prosthesis, and she finally couldn't help it. So, Xiaolin told her everything about Li Zeliang carrying Xieyi upstairs that day.
Xieyi listened to the phone, his fingers gradually tightened.
Only Xiao Lin and Ji Yingsong knew about the contract signed between Li Zeliang and Xie Yi. Xiao Lin said, "Xie Yi, don't be angry. I think it might be your actions towards Dong Zheng that angered Mr. Li, and that's why he was a little impulsive. In fact, I've been with him for so long, can't I see that? Mr. Li really treats you differently."
Xieyi hung up the phone, turned on the TV alone, and changed the channels many times. Then, he thought of his half-amputated leg, and an inexplicable emotion surged in his heart.
She picked up her phone again and thought for a long time before writing a text message: "Mr. Li, how are your injuries?" After typing it, she felt awkward and hypocritical, as if she was asking the other party about the casualties after the war as a victor. She shook her head and deleted it.
After thinking for a while, she wrote again: "What about our contract?" She looked at it carefully and felt that this sentence was even worse. At first glance, it might make people misunderstand that she was eager to sell herself out. But when she looked at it carefully, it seemed like she was going to collect a debt and was afraid that he would default on it.
She shook her head and deleted it again.
She pondered the third sentence for a long time: "I didn't go to work today and forgot to ask for leave. Will you deduct my salary?" This time, she was completely defeated by herself and realized that she was a petty-minded person in her bones.
Deleted, deleted.
Finally, she mustered up her courage and wrote carefully, "Are you feeling better? Does your leg still hurt?"
When Xieyi typed the three words "Does it hurt?" on the keyboard, a warm current suddenly flowed from her heart to her limbs. Yesterday, he gently held her hand and asked her "Does it hurt?" The expression on his face when he spoke was something he had never seen before, as if he was a little gentle and a little annoyed.
She made up her mind and chose this one. Just as she was about to press the send button, she was dumbfounded - there was no Li Zeliang's phone number in her phone.
Phone, phone, phone, she searched for clues in her mind. Finally, she remembered that there seemed to be a contact list of Li's senior executives. She opened her commuter bag and quickly found Li Zeliang's mobile phone number. Then, she read the text message back and forth several times, making sure there were no typos and the punctuation was correct, and then she sent it with trepidation.
One second, two seconds...
One minute, two minutes, three minutes...
More than ten minutes passed and there was still no response from the phone.
After a long time, just when Xieyi was about to give up and turn off the TV to go to sleep, her cell phone suddenly rang. She hurriedly turned it on and looked.
"Um".
He replied with only one word coldly.
Xie Yi wanted to cry but had no tears. She at least asked two questions, and if it was a short answer, there should be two punctuation marks. This person only said "hmm", did he mean that his injury was healed, or that his leg still hurt
Unfortunately, Xieyi didn't know the circumstances under which Li Zeliang received this message. The number she found in the address book was not Li Zeliang's personal number, but was used exclusively for official business. Therefore, this number was not in Li Zeliang's hands sometimes, but in the hands of his secretary Xiaolin. She happened to be walking back from the hospital after reporting her work to Li Zeliang, who didn't go to the company. She had just called Xieyi when she suddenly received this message ten minutes later.
When Xiao Lin first saw the message, he didn't know who the person was, but he felt that the number looked familiar. Later, he remembered that it was Xie Yi. So, Xiao Lin immediately called Li Zeliang.
Li Zeliang was silent for a while on the other end of the phone, then said, "Please bring your phone over."
Xiaolin said, "Okay."
However, she had already read it to him once, but he still wanted to see it with his own eyes. Was he afraid that she would coax him? Besides, she had been with Li Zeliang for a long time and had never seen her boss texting with anyone.
She always thought that texting with her lover was a kind of fun, but he just lacked that kind of fun. In Li Zeliang's eyes, the text messaging function of the mobile phone was always completely ignored. Xiaolin knew that her boss hated this the most, so she could feel that he cared about Shen Xieyi very much. It seemed that she had done a good thing by telling Xieyi that thing just now.
When Xiao Lin appeared in front of Li Zeliang's bed ten minutes later, Li Zeliang took the phone and smiled faintly, "I'm sorry for the trip." Then, he turned on the phone, glanced at it, put it aside and said, "It's okay, you can go back first."
Xiao Lin immediately understood what he meant and disappeared quickly. As he was disappearing, Xiao Lin was wondering if his boss had suddenly become interested in text messages.
After everyone left, Li Zeliang opened his phone again.
"Are you feeling better? Does your leg still hurt?"
After just two short sentences, he couldn't help but smile as he stared at them.
Suddenly, he wanted to see her.
However, when Li Zeliang wanted to get up from the bed, he saw the prosthesis that was forced to be removed, and his face turned cold and he became depressed. According to his usual personality, he was not a silent person, but at this moment he didn't know how to reply her.
"Hmm" probably means pain.
After a while, Xieyi calmly called Li Zeliang.
It seemed that the person on the other end was quite calm. The phone rang politely three times and was answered calmly. Li Zeliang spoke into the microphone but did not take the initiative to speak.
After a moment of silence, Xieyi said, "Mr. Li, I am Shen Xieyi."
"Hmm." He uttered the word slowly, and it was exactly the same as in the text message. The tone was exactly as imagined by Xie Yi, so indifferent that it seemed a little arrogant.
"I want to ask, are you feeling better now?" she said politely.
"Not bad." He probably noticed her abnormality and answered very politely.
"How about, when should I come to see you?"
"No need. If anything happens, I'll ask Ji Yingsong to pick you up."
Every time she said something, he interrupted her. It was not known whether he did it intentionally or unintentionally, but the conversation almost couldn't continue. Undoubtedly, Li Zeliang didn't want Xieyi to know that he was undergoing rehabilitation in the hospital.
He seemed to feel that he had said something a bit too much, and added: "I don't often use this number, you can contact another one later."
Listen and take notes at the same time.
"Okay." Xieyi said.
After hanging up the phone, Li Zeliang took the cane beside the bed and stood up, then walked to the window. Whenever he was in a bad mood, he liked to look at shiny things, but unfortunately the weather was very gloomy these days, there were no stars in the night sky, and the hospital was located in the suburbs, so there were no lights, so it was pitch black outside the window.
That night, he went to bed without turning off the lights.
It was a week later that Xie Yi saw Li Zeliang again. She arrived at the company early as usual, sitting in the green belt downstairs of Li's building, breathing the morning air, when she suddenly received a call from the hospital.
"Ms. Shen, I'm Doctor Hong."
"Ah, Dr. Hong, I will come back for a follow-up visit next week on time."
Doctor Hong smiled and said, "No, I have to go on a business trip next week, so your follow-up appointment time needs to be changed. I'll make an appointment with you when you are free, Xieyi."
"Oh, I'm free this afternoon."
"Well, I happen to have fewer patients this afternoon. What time?"
"Four o'clock, okay?"
"OK."
At this moment, she happened to see Li Zeliang getting off the car alone and walking towards the lobby. The way he walked was the same as usual, with no changes, and she felt a little relieved.
In the afternoon, Xieyi was in the hospital, lying down and said to Dr. Hong: "I often dream about things from the past recently."
"Before?" Dr. Hong asked.
"When I was very young, probably before I was ten years old."
"What did you dream about?" Dr. Hong stood up and poured her some water.
"I dreamed that my parents were still alive..." She chattered on for a long time.
Doctor Hong Qing just let her go on except for occasionally saying a few words.
Later, she suddenly asked, "Doctor Hong, are you married?"
Dr. Hong smiled. "I'm married, and my daughter is in kindergarten. What? Are you having love problems?"
Xieyi also smiled, and when she came out of the clinic, she happened to run into Yang Wangjie.
In fact, Yang Wangjie saw her coming out of Hong Qing's clinic from a distance. Seeing that she looked thoughtful, he called out to her but no one heard her.
"Freehand." He walked over and patted her.
"Ah, what a coincidence." Xieyi came back to his senses.
"What are you doing?"
"see a doctor."
Hearing these two words, Yang Wangjie looked towards Hong Qing's clinic. He was also here to see Hong Qing, but not for medical treatment, but for personal matters. Coincidentally, Hong Qing happened to be his senior sister in college, and Yang Wangjie had a good relationship with the couple.
Seeing that Xieyi was worried, Yang Wangjie nodded and let her go.
Xieyi skipped work in the afternoon to go to the hospital. He still had some things to do, so he ate something to fill his stomach and then went back to the company to work overtime. He worked until about eight o'clock and left the office to go home.
She hesitated as she went downstairs and pressed the button for Li Zeliang's floor in the elevator.
Some people on his floor haven't left yet, and even Xiao Lin is busy running around. It's estimated that Li Zeliang hasn't come to the company for many days, and there are a lot of things piled up for him to do.
She dialed the number he gave her last time.
"I am Shen Xieyi."
"Something?" His voice sounded tired, as if he was a little exhausted.
Xie Yi didn't say anything, thinking angrily: This person is asking even though he knows the answer, what else could there be between the two of them? It's nothing more than that.
Li Zeliang felt that she had something to say, so he stopped what he was doing and stood by the window.
"Miss Shen?" Seeing that she was silent for a long time, he asked again.
"I..." She mustered up her courage and decided to take the historic first step. Unfortunately, before she could finish her words, her cheeks turned as red as a cooked shrimp. She had never found it so difficult to speak in her life.
"We..." She struggled again, but still didn't continue.
Even though he said this, Li Zeliang already understood. His eyes suddenly became cold, and his heart was filled with mixed feelings, bitter and bitter.
"Where are you?" he asked suddenly.
“The company.”
"How about this," Li Zeliang said after a moment's hesitation, "I'll call Ji Yingsong to pick you up. I still have a while to finish. You go back and wait for me."
Hearing this, Xieyi's heart skipped a beat. Go back and wait for him? Xieyi stared at the phone in a daze for a moment, then smiled mockingly. Isn't that what he meant
She got into Ji Yingsong's car, and the car drove to the suburbs, seemingly to the old house of the Li family. As soon as Xie Yi entered the house, Old Tan came over and said, "Miss Shen, the young master asked you to go to the guest room to rest first. We have already packed it up."
Obviously, Li Zeliang had called them before and gave them instructions.
Guest room? Fortunately it wasn't his bedroom.
They seemed to be aware of Xieyi's restraint. Seeing that she did not go to the guest room but stayed in the living room, they did not disturb her too much. They prepared some snacks and placed them next to her, then went about their own business.
There were not many people in the old house, and it seemed that no other Li family members lived here. She only heard that the two elders of the Li family went to Australia to spend their old age. In addition, Li Zeliang also had a cousin named Li Feixue, who was also studying abroad.
She was not used to being alone in such a bright place, and after a while she felt uncomfortable sitting there, so she walked to the garden outside the living room. She felt a little stuffy when she left the air-conditioned room, but after getting used to it, she felt that the breeze in the garden on a summer night was very cool and pleasant. Under the bright night sky, she could hear crickets chirping from time to time, and the fragrance of summer grass filled her nose.
There were lights on in the garden, and there was a flat pond with many koi fish in it. Xieyi squatted there and watched. The koi fish were not afraid of people, and swam around the pond in groups.
Suddenly, something jumped out from the flowers, which really scared her. When she looked closely, she found that it was a white cat.
The cat ran to the pond and stared at the carps with its eyes sparkling. Then, it raised one of its front paws and tried to take a chance on the fish. It was snow-white except for a circle of black hair on its four paws, and its right ear was also black. It was so cute that I couldn't help but reach out to touch its head.
"Don't touch it!" Someone suddenly spoke behind her, trying to stop her.
But it was too late. Before she could touch the kitten, the little thing scratched the back of her right hand with its claws as if it had been electrocuted, and then quickly jumped to the feet of the person who was speaking.
Xieyi turned around and looked up. It was Li Zeliang. When she stood up, she quietly put her right hand behind her back.