Xu Xiaoai gasped for breath in pain, and curled up on the bed, turning into a thin shrimp.
Zhou Lin called 120 for emergency services, but the operator said that Guiyun Town was too remote, and it took about half an hour for an ambulance to arrive...
He ran downstairs again to ask the lady proprietress who was watching the night. When the lady proprietress heard that some residents were sick, she immediately replied that there was a clinic on the corner of the street.
Zhou Lin ran upstairs again, took off her coat, helped Xu Xiaoai put it on, then picked her up, hurried downstairs, and ran out in the direction the hotel proprietress said.
As soon as he ran out of the street corner, he saw the fat proprietress waiting for him at the door of a clinic, and beside the proprietress was a sleepy old doctor in a yellowed white coat.
Zhou Lin didn't care much anymore, and rushed into the clinic with Xu Xiaoai in his arms, greeted by the old doctor.
The old doctor fiddled with the stethoscope and thermometer for a while, and concluded that what Xu Xiaoai had was acute gastritis.
— Houshengzi, I can only prescribe some medicine for the girl... Did you call an ambulance? The girl's acute gastritis can actually be cured by sending it to the hospital for a few injections... But if it is delayed for a long time, the acute gastritis becomes chronic, and it will be difficult to cure it in the future...
The old doctor explained Zhou Lin in an obscure dialect.
Zhou Lin nodded, took out his mobile phone and urged the ambulance again.
After feeding Xu Xiaoai the medicine prescribed by the old doctor, Xu Xiaoai was drowsy, clutching her stomach and still not quite awake, calling Mommy and Mengmeng...
The ambulance finally stopped at the door of the clinic with flashing lights.
The old doctor and the fat proprietress helped Zhou Lin to send Xu Xiaoai to the ambulance...
When they arrived at the hospital, Zhou Lin accompanied Xu Xiaoai to the emergency room, and then watched over her to get an injection.
At this time, it was already daylight, Xu Xiaoai probably didn't feel the pain anymore after undergoing treatment, so she lay down on the hospital bed and fell asleep soundly.
Zhou Lin quietly accompanied her by her side.
For some reason, his thoughts suddenly returned to the past.
At that time... he witnessed the tragic death of his mother.
So far, he still feels that it is not true—in the last second, the mother was still angrily arguing with the woman, and in the next second, the father blocked the two women who were arguing with both hands... The mother was blocked by the father's arm , the center of gravity immediately became unstable, and the high heels under his feet sprained, and he fell to the ground immediately! Immediately afterwards, a big car drove over... The driver slammed the steering wheel in an emergency, the front wheels narrowly avoided his mother, but the rear wheels...
A person, from birth to death, only experienced a few seconds.
At that time, the young Zhou Lin stood beside his dead mother, waiting...
—Mom just fell down and should be able to stand up soon.
But…
He has been waiting, but his mother... never came back.
In fact, when the mother was alive, she might not have cared much for Zhou Lin.
But in his young heart, his mother is still the closest and only person he can rely on.
His mother's departure meant that the young and helpless him was abandoned by the whole world.
Xu Xiaoai who was lying on the hospital bed suddenly muttered, "Water, water..."
Zhou Lin's thoughts finally returned to reality.
He got up, unscrewed a bottle of mineral water, and carefully fed her to drink.
Xu Xiaoai never opened her eyes.
She fell asleep after drinking the water, turned over after a while, half of the quilt was swept away by her, and her back was empty.
Zhou Lin shook his head and showed a slight smile.
He carefully straightened her wrist where the needle was poking, and covered her with the quilt again.
Anyway, she's fine.
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On the first day of the new year, Xu Xiaoai and Zhou Lin spent the whole day in the emergency department of the hospital.
On the second day of the new year, in the afternoon, Xu Xiaoai felt that her health was almost OK, so she proposed to visit the cemetery.
Zhou Lin took a taxi back to the town to get the car, picked up Xu Xiaoai, and went to the cemetery where her parents' ashes were stored.
Xu Xiaoai bought a bouquet of flowers at the gate of the cemetery, and asked the florist for two plastic bags.
Walking directly to her parents' grave with ease, Xu Xiaoai squatted down holding the bouquet, put the bouquet aside first, and then began to clean up the weeds beside the tombstone.
"Dad, Mom... I came to see you again. I haven't been here for more than half a year. Do you miss me? Mom, you don't even know how unlucky I am. On the first day of the new year, I just ate some spicy sticks and Pineapple beer, I ate a few handfuls of melon seeds... Then I was hospitalized! Mom, is there such a saying in our country... If you go to the hospital on the first day of the Lunar New Year, you will be unlucky for a whole year? Mom, you and my dad have to stay together Look at me more from the sky, don't make me too unlucky..."
Xu Xiaoai squatted on the ground to clean up, still nagging, while Zhou Lin stood behind her, annoyed and funny.
Xu Xiaoai squatted on the ground, unable to see Zhou Lin's expression, and said to herself, "Dad, Mom... I didn't mean you. When you left, Xiaoqing Xiaohui and I were both underage Children, right? Why are you two so heartless... leave us alone and refuse to entrust us with a dream? It hurt me, hurt me... I didn't know until now that you were actually killed by Xue Weilun of… "
"That's why I didn't tell Xiaoqing about it. If Xiaoqing knew... Xue Weilun did it to prevent you from taking her away, how would Xiaoqing face all this... She is so pitiful It's hard to start again, I don't want her to be hit again. So, you shouldn't blame her for not coming back to see you?"
Xu Xiaoai started to tidy up and muttered, her eye circles were also red.
"Don't ask me why Mengmeng didn't come! Mengmeng went to Xiaoqing's place, and Xiaoqing told me... she had done too many operations before, maybe...maybe Mengmeng is her only child. But don't worry too much, I think her boyfriend is pretty good... Mengmeng is so smart, who treats her well and who treats her badly, she seems to have supernatural powers, she knows everything! So she I'm very happy to see Xiaoqing and her boyfriend..."
"Dad, Mom, you can enjoy yourself in heaven. Don't worry about us siblings. We are all fine now. Xiaoqing has gone abroad, and she is much more cheerful and confident... Now she and her boyfriend are very happy. Mengmeng also went to kindergarten there during part-time work-study. Xiaohui is also very good, he has been admitted to graduate school... He also said that their supervisor has accepted a project this holiday, and he will soon be able to make money …”
She lowered her head and chattered, cleaned up all the weeds in front of her parents' tombstone, and packed the cleaned up garbage in plastic, and then piled up the bouquet of blooming flowers in front of her parents' tombstone.
Xu Xiaoai stood up and stared at her parents' tombstone for a long time without saying a word.
Zhou Lin stood beside her and accompanied her silently.
actually…
There are some things he wanted to say to her long ago.
Zhou Lin believed that Xu Xiaoai had always understood his intentions. But she has been deliberately avoiding it all the time. In many cases, as long as he talks about this aspect, she will always change the topic.
Xiaoai is a cold woman.
In other words, she is too calm and rational woman.
In the past thirty years, Zhou Lin has been devoting himself to expanding his abilities and accumulating wealth in his career, so much so that he has no time and energy to spend on women. Maybe he has been very lonely all these years... But now that he thinks about it, he is really lucky! Fortunately, in these years, he has built his career kingdom like an iron wall...
Therefore, he does not need the power of any person or group to help him achieve his goal.
In other words, he does not need to marry.
As for those people in the Zhou family's old house...
Now they are the ones who rely on him, so they should be the ones to see his face, right
Zhou Lin looked at Xu Xiaoai beside him.
She has been staring at her parents' tombstone, not speaking, but there is a look of sadness on her face... Thinking about it, she wants to tell her parents something that she doesn't want him to know, so she keeps telling her in her heart
Zhou Lin hesitated again and again.
After a while, he finally mustered up his courage, and said to Xu Xiaoai in a low voice, "Xiaoai, I, what I want to say next... Please don't interrupt, at least let me finish."
Xu Xiaoai stared at him blankly, not knowing what was going on in his mind.
But she has a bad feeling...
"Xiao Ai, our time together is very short, maybe... you will think that this is not enough for us to understand each other well," Zhou Lin said in a low voice, "...but I don't want to continue anymore."
He said, don't want to continue
Why don't you want to continue
—The fact that he raised her
That…
So, she is free
For some reason, Xu Xiaoai's heart was inexplicably pulled into a tight ball.
But she soon realized—it was a good thing for her to regain her freedom!
But, but why...
"Because, our current way of getting along, for me, I, I..." Zhou Lin said with difficulty, "... I think it's...too unfair to me."
He had never said such a thing to anyone, and some words could not help but express their meaning.
After a while, he added another sentence, "...I, I'm too bad."
Xu Xiaoai's eyes widened.
She felt that she understood, but she didn't seem to understand.
He said... not fair
So what is fairness? If he keeps her, is it fair to pay her
But in fact, in addition to basic necessities, food, housing and transportation... Well, plus the expenses of Mengmeng's kindergarten, um, that's all her expenses.
But at the beginning, he agreed, one million a year.
Xu Xiao has never seen this million! Of course, she didn't intend to ask for it in the first place, so now he still says it's a loss, what a loss!
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