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Seeing this, Li Jing, Wang Guirong's wife, poured a glass of hot water: "Mr. Xia, drink a glass of water."
She took the bouquet of flowers, and said with a smile on her face: "Actually, Gui Rong just had a minor operation, and you came here specially, so we don't mind."
Xia Zhiyan smiled gently: "President Li, you are welcome. I have cooperated with President Wang for many years, so I should have come here long ago. It's just that I have been a little busy with work abroad recently, so I have been delayed."
Li Jing turned around and put the flowers on the table. In the vase beside her was a bouquet of fresh flowers that she had just bought in the morning. From the looks of it, she didn't intend to replace it.
Seeing that Xia Zhiyan had no intention of leaving, she turned her back and put on a serious face, then turned around and put on a smiling face again: "Actually, our operation is quite low-key this time, after all, there are many people visiting the patient, and it is not easy for Guirong to rest. But it’s also a coincidence that Gui Rong had a friend who came to see him a few days ago in the next ward, saying that his partner was hospitalized, and he sent these fruits.”
For some reason, when Li Jing said the word "partner", she accentuated a little.
She said: "Mr. Xia should know Mr. Lu, Lu Ming. He treats his partner very well. I'm envious of him."
Sure enough, Xia Zhiyan frowned beautifully.
Seeing this, Wang Guirong, who was nearly fifty years old, couldn't help but smiled and interrupted his wife.
He had just talked with Xia Zhiyan on the phone this morning because of his work, and at this moment, Xia Zhiyan actually came over. In the meantime, he just mentioned that Lu Ming was also in this hospital.
He remembered that before, Xia Zhiyan asked for Lu Ming's business card.
Right now, Wang Guirong is well aware of Xia Zhiyan's actions, but it is difficult to expose them. The three of them chatted politely in the ward for a while, Xia Zhiyan said that he had something to leave, looking for the etiquette here, he stuffed Li Jing with a big red envelope.
Li Jing was unwilling to accept it, and Xia Zhiyan was a drunkard who didn't care about drinking, so he put it on the table in a few words: "Mr. Wang, get well soon. Mr. Li, I won't bother you any more."
As soon as he stepped out of the room, Li Jing's face darkened angrily.
She threw the red envelope to Wang Guirong, and said, "You can find a way to return this red envelope, but I don't want it."
"What are you doing?" Wang Guirong said, "The man has good intentions."
"What kindness, do you really think he came to see you? You just called him this morning and said that Lu Ming was in this hospital, and he rushed over as soon as he got off the plane. Don't forget, you To build a bridge, Lu Ming didn't even want to meet him, and he even broke up a cooperation with our company because of this."
This might be a major holiday, Li Jing suffered a loss once, but she doesn't want to go into troubled water again.
She naggingly peeled the oranges for Wang Guirong: "I saw Lu Ming's partner yesterday. Although his face was a little bruised, his eyes were exactly the same as Xia Zhiyan's... Who knows what happened between them?"
Wang Guirong heard a little about it: "I heard that Lu Ming's partner seems to be the son of Chi Lanyan, and it's not easy."
No matter how you compare, it is one level higher than Xia Zhiyan.
Li Jing whispered: "Anyway, let me tell you, we can't offend Lu Ming. I've heard that the old man of the Lu family has chosen him as his successor." If this relationship continues, it will only benefit their company. Harm.
With a piece of orange stuffed in Wang Guirong's mouth, he felt that what his wife said made sense. He thought to himself: "Before, when there was news of plagiarism in Xia Zhiyan's work, I wanted to replace him. But he spent a lot of money to suppress the news. , our company signed a two-year contract with him... "
Li Jing glanced at him quite speechlessly.
He took the orange in Li Jing's hand and coaxed: "Now they are all the ones who are going to end the cooperation. What are you angry with him?"
Naturally, it was just as Li Jing thought.
The purpose of Xia Zhiyan's visit to the hospital this time was to see Lu Ming.
But before meeting Lu Ming, the first thing he saw was Chi Qiu who was sitting alone in the ward, fumbling to get used to his mobile phone.
Fortunately, Chi Qiu has pretended to be blind for many years and is very familiar with some settings in the phone to help the visually impaired. Soon, he was able to use his mobile phone freely. Hearing footsteps, he raised his head and "looked" at the direction of the door blankly with his eyes: "Lu Ming?"
"..."
Xia Zhiyan was taken aback, this was the first time he saw Chi Qiu who was not in the photo. As others have said, Chi Qiu's eyes are very similar to his.
If you don't look carefully, their eyes are almost "exactly the same", it seems that a scorching summer day has been reproduced, and it has turned into a light spring day on Chi Qiu's face.
For some reason, Xia Zhiyan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
Chi Qiu's eyes were dull due to blindness, nothing could compare to his eyes. But even so, Chi Qiu inexplicably beat him by one step and stood beside Lu Ming first, which made Xia Zhiyan very uncomfortable.
He stood at the door, secretly clenched his hands. He thought, if he hadn't done something wrong at the beginning, how could it be Chi Qiu's turn to be next to Lu Ming
Unwilling emotions overflowed his body and were about to explode.
Over the years, he has accumulated terrible conceit in the ups and downs of Vanity Fair.
...
The moment he stepped into the ward, a hand stopped him.
Xia Zhiyan turned his head and saw Lu Ming's displeased face. It wasn't the first time Xia Zhiyan met Lu Ming like this, so he fell silent for the first time, and was dragged aside unreasonably by Lu Ming, and walked a long way.
Lu Ming didn't stop until he was far enough away from Chi Qiu's ward and the surrounding area was clean enough.
His voice was full of disgust: "Why are you here?"
Xia Zhiyan felt a pang in his heart. He never expected that after many years, when he saw Lu Ming again, he would still be knocked down by Lu Ming's sarcastic words just like when he was young.
"I came to visit Mr. Wang, and accidentally found out that you were in the next ward, so..." He paused, even he himself didn't believe it.
Obviously, Lu Ming didn't believe it either.
Xia Zhiyan looked at Lu Ming with shining eyes, attached and calmly: "I'm here to see you."
As a result, Lu Ming didn't have much patience with him, and he wasn't interested in his words: "I don't care what you're here for, stay away from Chi Qiu."
And Lu Ming didn't want to meet him, he had already made it clear.
Xia Zhiyan was dumbfounded, he lowered his eyes sadly, and saw Lu Ming holding a bag of oranges in his hand. He remembered that Lu Ming didn't like oranges, so he didn't need to think about who he bought this bag of oranges for.
Therefore, Xia Zhiyan couldn't believe that Lu Ming would go to the small fruit shop downstairs of the hospital to pick out these cheap oranges one by one for others. He stared at the crude plastic bag in Lu Ming's hand, and couldn't help thinking that he had admitted the wrong person.
He still remembered that no matter where Lu Ming went, he would always be the focus of the school, and even Xia Zhiyan who was by his side would attract much attention. This unique brilliance of his youth was incomparable to how many evening parties Xia Zhiyan had attended.
In the silence, Lu Ming was not interested in Xia Zhiyan's intentions. He just said, "Stay away from Chi Qiu, otherwise I won't be polite."
Then, Lu Ming walked sideways.
Xia Zhiyan turned around and said suddenly: "I confessed to you before, you said you don't like men."
Lu Ming didn't stop, and didn't care about Xia Zhiyan's words.
Now, Xia Zhiyan who finally saw Lu Ming became anxious. He chased after him a few steps, grabbed Lu Ming's hand, and showed weakness with a pitiful face: "It's not that you don't like me!"
With a sullen face, Lu Ming shook off his hand and said clearly, "I never liked you."
Xia Zhiyan shook his head: "No, it's because I did something wrong, so you can't forgive me, right?" He said surprisingly, "Would you rather find a substitute for me than forgive me?"
In the quiet corridor, the nurse pushed a small cart, glanced at the two of them inexplicably, and hurried past.
Lu Ming's hands were so strong that the plastic bag containing the oranges made a mark on his knuckles. He was ashamed that he had helped Xia Zhiyan. If it affected Chi Qiu and hurt Chi Qiu, Lu Ming would regret it.
"Xia Zhiyan, there is no substitute for anyone, I have never had that kind of affection for you."
Xia Zhiyan listened and gritted his molars. His self-esteem exploded in his body a hundred times, and he would have turned around and left long ago. But he was aware of Lu Ming's temperament, he was soft but not hard, so his tone became gentle and touching, which made Lu Ming uncomfortable just like before.
"But you have to admit that Chi Qiu's eyes are very similar to mine." Xia Zhiyan was moved, "Why did you find someone so similar to me? I also heard that you married him for the sake of property... of."
Lu Ming looked at Xia Zhiyan coldly.
However, Xia Zhiyan said confidently, "Okay, even if you are not, why didn't you accept the doctor I introduced?"
This sentence was like a flash of lightning, making Lu Ming understand Xia Zhiyan's naked intentions.
Before Lu Ming could speak, Xia Zhiyan asked him a series of questions: "That doctor is very accomplished in this area. If you love Chi Qiu, why don't you accept it? Don't you want his eyes to return to normal? Don't you love him? ?"
But Lu Ming didn't need to confess everything to Xia Zhiyan. In his eyes, Xia Zhiyan was just an insignificant outsider.
It's just that Xia Zhiyan seemed to have misunderstood something, and turned from gentle to aggressive: "Lu Ming, your emotional apathy is destined to prevent you from loving someone normally."
"..."
"So, the reason why you don't accept it is because you are afraid that he will really have a chance to recover, that he will find out that you don't love him at all, and that your lies will be exposed."
His words seemed to say: You see, I tried a little, and I tested your truth.
Xia Zhiyan was the same as before, with no improvement.
Xia Zhiyan also didn't understand at all that pretending to be smart is sometimes the same as seeking death.
Lu Ming's emotions are like a handful of dry grass that has fallen into a charcoal fire. After burning, even the ashes are scalding. His disgust for Xia Zhiyan, from being unable to express at the beginning, slowly turned into depression now.
He said coldly, "You did it on purpose to introduce the doctor."
This intention made Chi Qiu sad for a long time. If the two hadn't talked about it that day, this intention would have been deposited in Chi Qiu's heart forever, turning into a wound that was difficult to heal, and it would also become a rope for him to deceive Chi Qiu.
Xia Zhiyan bit his lip, seeing Lu Ming standing there motionless. He thought he had guessed right, and said tactfully: "My original intention was to help you, to atone for my sin... Since you don't love him, why reject me?"
He tightened his heart again.
Just as Lu Ming couldn't let go of Chi Qiu's first love, Xia Zhiyan also couldn't let Lu Ming's first love go.
The only difference is that Xia Zhiyan never knew how wrong he was. A person like him who has no moral principles didn't feel that he was wrong back then, and he doesn't feel that he is wrong now.
"Lu Ming, I didn't dare to see you again. But when I saw..." His Adam's apple moved, his eyes were moist, "When I saw his appearance, I realized that you haven't forgotten me at all. "
That's why Xia Zhiyan returned home shamelessly.
He admitted that he was unconscious, that he always dreamed of Lu Ming who helped him and pulled him out of the mud.
He also told himself that if he had another chance, he would definitely seize it. He also doesn't understand Lu Ming's prejudice against him, obviously he only used a few design drafts that Lu You discarded, obviously he crawled out of the garbage dump to stand beside Lu Ming better, obviously he ran to Lu Ming with all his heart …
Why doesn't Lu Ming understand
The dead are gone, the living are more important, isn't it
He looked at Lu Ming eagerly, eager to get the answer he wanted.
But Lu Ming ruthlessly denied him: "You always wanted to see me just to talk nonsense? Xia Zhiyan, I don't have time to settle accounts with you now." Chi Qiu was still waiting for his oranges in the ward, he didn't want to share with him The time Chi Qiu spent together was wasted on Xia Zhiyan.
In an instant, Xia Zhiyan gritted his teeth.
He listened to Lu Ming's every word, held back his breath, and a feeling of incomprehension came to his heart: "Lu Ming, why do you want to choose a stone instead of the gem?"
He even grabbed Lu Ming's hand, tried his best to prove his sincerity, and said to himself: "You may have misunderstood me, I never thought of affecting your plan. I can wait for you, wait for you After getting the property, after you get divorced—”
Before he finished speaking, Lu Ming suddenly pulled out his hand.
The orange rolled to the ground, together with Xia Zhiyan's panic. Lu Ming grabbed his collar, pushed him back, and pushed him against the wall with one hand.
Xia Zhiyan's back was almost cracked, he pushed Lu Ming's hand with difficulty, and his eyes widened in fear.
Lu Ming in front of him was extremely angry, and his face was no longer a plain expression. The anger he suppressed had accumulated for many years, and before a fuse, it all came out.
Lu Ming asked him sharply: "Do you know why the gems in the window and the stones on the ground are always different?"
"..." Xia Zhiyan blushed.
Lu Ming told him: "Because the essence of a person cannot be changed, you are just a stone in the garbage dump. No matter how you pretend to be, you can't become the gem you want to be." His voice was completely cold, "If you have to Say 'substitute', you are Chi Qiu's 'substitute'."
Unfortunately, Xia Zhiyan never even served as a stand-in.
"Xia Zhiyan, let me warn you one last time, stay away from me and Chi Qiu. Otherwise, I will settle the old and new scores together."
Fifteen minutes later.
Chi Qiu, who was restless, finally waited for Lu Ming. When he heard the footsteps, he suddenly raised his head.
Lu Ming still said: "It's me."
Chi Qiu got out of bed quickly, got up to meet him. He didn't take a few steps before Lu Ming quickly stepped forward and held his hand.
"..." Chi Qiu pursed his lips and grabbed the corner of Lu Ming's clothes.
"Sorry, I've been away for too long."
Lu Ming helped him back to the hospital bed. Chi Qiu smelled the orange fragrance in Lu Ming's hand and asked worriedly, "Did something happen?"
"It's not a big deal, but the oranges were scattered all over the floor, so I went to buy them again." Knowing that Chi Qiu liked the oranges from the fruit shop downstairs, Lu Ming specially bought a big bag, and took them home to eat after he was discharged from the hospital today.
Chi Qiu asked incomprehensibly, "Isn't it good to pick it up?"
"It's too dirty." Lu Ming picked up an orange and peeled it for Chi Qiu.
Chi Qiu opened his mouth and ate a piece of orange that Lu Ming sent over. It was sweet, and he felt much better after eating it: "It's okay, I don't mind peeling and eating anyway."
"I don't mind, I don't want to eat dirty ones for you." Lu Ming put a peeled orange into Chi Qiu's hand.
So, Chi Qiu broke off half of it and said generously, "Have half for you."
Lu Ming's mood improved a lot after seeing Chi Qiu. He took Chi Qiu's orange, finally heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "This orange is really sweet."
"Well, just don't eat too much, or you will get angry." Chi Qiu held his chin and swallowed the last bite of the orange.
On his mobile phone was a message from Ji Yanchen: [I want to go back to China and beat Lin Yuming to death! ]