Wei Guanyi stood at the door of the ward, frowning, "Mr. Xia, her condition is unstable and she just fell asleep. But you can go in and see her."
Xia Lei nodded and entered the ward.
The ward was quiet, Ning An was sleeping deeply on the bed, and did not wake up because of Xia Lei's arrival.
Xia Lei's eyes moved to the window, where there was an easel with an unfinished painting on it. He walked over.
The painting depicts a European town. In the center of the town stands a church with a very high circular dome and is magnificent. The buildings around it are mostly Romanesque and Gothic buildings, which are simple, elegant, solemn and heavy, exuding a strong religious atmosphere. There is not a single modern building in the entire town, nor are there any telephone poles, huge advertisements or anything like that. There are some characters in the painting, and the clothes they wear are not modern clothes, but medieval European clothes.
The unfinished part is a house next to the town. Behind the house is a hillside with a river meandering underneath. There is a tombstone standing on the river bank at the foot of the hillside, but there is no text on it.
"What place is she painting?" Xia Lei was confused. "If it is a place she has traveled to, it can't be without semi-modern elements, right? Even the best-preserved ancient town will have telegraph poles, right? ? But it’s not in the painting. Also, she is an archaeologist, not an artist. I have never heard that she likes painting before, and I have never seen her paint any decent paintings. After she went crazy, she showed You have amazing painting skills, what’s going on?”
This painting seemed to belong to the three paintings he had just seen.
"This time she painted the Mona Lisa, a white cloud, six faceless people, and a medieval European town. What exactly did she want to express?" Xia Lei couldn't bear it. Live to guess.
At this moment, Jingjing, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes.
"Tranquility, it's me." Xia Lei followed to the bedside and asked with concern: "Are you okay?"
Quiet but she didn't seem to hear Xia Lei's voice. She didn't even look at Xia Lei. After opening her eyes, she just stared blankly at the chandelier on the ceiling.
"Tranquility?~≌~≌~≌~≌, m.∷.c⊥om style_tt();" Xia Lei called Ning Jing's name again.
Jing Jing still didn't agree. She got up from her bed, put on her slippers, and walked slowly to the easel. She sat on the chair, picked up the brush, dipped it in paint and painted. During the whole process, she didn't say a word or even look at Xia Lei. Xia Lei was in this room, in front of her eyes, but to her he was like an invisible air.
How is this going
Xia Lei stood next to Jing Jing, staring straight at her, observing her every move. He soon discovered that Ning Jing's eyes were still dull and empty when he was painting, without half aura. It felt like her body was moving, but her soul was no longer in her body. But in such an out-of-body state, the brush in her hand was extremely agile, and she painted very quickly without any mistakes.
"You..." Xia Lei couldn't help but asked a question in his mind, "Are you Jing Jing?"
Ning Jing still didn't look back, and she continued to paint the unfinished landscape.
After a few minutes, Ning Jing finished the entire painting. The unfinished house was completed, and there was a black-haired man in front of the house.
Xia Lei's eyes moved to the black-haired man in the painting, and he was stunned. All the people in this painting are Europeans in ancient costumes, but the black-haired man in the last painting is an Asian with yellow skin, and he is wearing jeans and Nike sneakers, so he is a modern man!
After a few seconds, Xia Lei's eyes moved to the black-haired man's face. The faces of the characters in the painting are very small, and the lines on the faces are not very clear and cannot be seen clearly. At that moment, his left eye twitched slightly, awakening his ability to see slightly. The blurry face became clear in the blink of an eye, and then his jaw dropped to the ground.
The face of the black-haired man in the painting is not someone else's face, but his, Xia Lei's face!
"Who are you?" Xia Lei could no longer control his emotions. He grabbed Jing Jing's shoulders and said anxiously: "Tell me! Tell me what do you want to express?"
"Well..." A voice finally came out of Quiet's throat, as if he had just woken up. Her eyes finally moved to Xia Lei's face, but it still looked dull and empty.
"Tranquility? You..." Xia Lei's heart was not only anxious, but also full of worry.
But at this moment Jing Jing suddenly said: "Italy, Bobbio, you want to go there and wake me up..."
Xia Lei was stunned on the spot. He suddenly felt that his brain was not enough. She was obviously in a nursing home and was in a sober state at this time, but she asked him to go to Bobbio in Italy to wake her up!
After finishing his sentence, Jingjing suddenly fell to the ground with a cry. Her body seemed to have had all its strength drained away in an instant, and could no longer support her body.
Xia Lei hurriedly reached out and hugged her, "Tranquility, Tranquility, wake up, wake up."
Quiet but unresponsive.
Xia Lei reached out and touched her carotid artery. Fortunately, her pulse was normal and there was no danger. Then he carried Ning Jing to his bed and covered her with a quilt.
"Mr. Xia, do you need my help?" Wei Guanyi's voice came from outside the ward door.
Xia Lei said: "It's okay, just give me a little more time."
"Okay, call me if you need me, I'll be outside." Wei Guanyi's voice.
Money can make trouble. This Wei Guanyi took Xia Lei's money, so of course he had to serve Xia Lei. Otherwise, outsiders would not be allowed to visit in quiet situations, let alone be alone in a room with her.
Xia Lei took down the painting from the easel and put it into his briefcase. He returned to the hospital bed, sat on the bed, and held Ning Jing's hand. Ning Jing's hand was cold and had no temperature.
"You asked me to go to Bobbio, Italy, is this the place? I will go." Xia Lei said to himself, "But what happened when I woke you up? Tell me, were you hit by something? Are you under control? If so, please open your eyes."
Jing Jing suddenly opened her eyes.
Xia Lei was immediately startled by her, "You..."
"Hehe." Jing Jing suddenly smiled, "Dad, why are you here?"
Xia Lei, "?"
Jing Jing shook Xia Lei's arm and said, "Dad, I want you to tell me a bedtime story."
Xia Lei suddenly realized that Jing Jing did not wake up after listening to what he just said, but entered another state, a crazy state. Her eyes at this moment were fresh and bright, full of childlike innocence, just like the eyes of a girl. But her eyes just now were dull and empty, like a soulless walking corpse. The state before and after is completely different!
"Is it really the rumored ghost? Is she possessed by something?" Xia Lei had such a conjecture in his mind. But after the idea came up, he didn't believe it himself.
There are no ghosts in this world. Although Princess Yongmei is a very "ghost"-like existence, he knows that she is not a ghost at all, she is an existence in the form of energy. Her existence is inextricably linked to ancient alloys and ae.
"Dad, I want to hear a bedtime story, please tell it to me." Jing Jing continued to act coquettishly, her mouth slightly raised, looking unhappy.
Xia Lei has never heard a bedtime story in his life, nor has he ever told a bedtime story to anyone. Jing Jing's request made him embarrassed. He wanted to leave, but seeing Jing Jing's disappointed look, he couldn't bear to leave her alone.
"Dad, you are a bad guy, you don't love me." Ning Jing shook off Xia Lei's hand, got into bed and hid. The sound of her crying soon came from the bed.
Xia Lei sighed and said bravely: "Come out, and dad will tell you a bedtime story when you come out."
"Really?" Ning Jing got out of the bed immediately. There were tears in the corners of her eyes, but her face was full of smiles, she looked so happy.
Xia Lei's heart moved and he started to tell the story, "A long time ago there was a princess. Her name was Zhu Xuanyue. She was Princess Yongmei of the Ming Dynasty."
Jing Jing looked at Xia Lei eagerly, waiting for him to continue.
In fact, Xia Lei had been observing Jing Jing's reaction. He continued, "She is very beautiful and very brave. One day His Majesty the Emperor gave her a mission and asked her to lead the army to a place she had never been to. There was a Xiongnu tribe living in that place, and she built a city there, and that city was called White Horse Tomorrow City." At this point, he stopped and looked straight at Jingjing.
Jing Jing urged: "Dad, tell me quickly, what happened next?"
Such a reaction is not a "ghost possessed" reaction at all. He used the story of Princess Yongmei to test her reaction, but it obviously had no effect.
"Later, the princess went to Jerusalem, which is the holy land of Christianity. She got exquisite jewelry there, and a lot of delicious food. Well, there was also a piece of metal."
Her quiet eyes were full of expectation, and she seemed to be very interested in this story.
"Then the princess..." Xia Lei originally wanted to give this story an early ending, but he suddenly changed his mind and said: "Then the princess went to Italy, a town called Bobbio. She was there A house was built, and there was a river behind the house. There were many fish in the river. There was also a tomb beside the river, and in the tomb... "
Jing Jing's eyes suddenly changed. The childlike innocence in his eyes disappeared, replaced by the dull, hole-like eyes just now.
Xia Lei was filled with excitement, and he continued, "There is a woman buried in the tomb. She is so beautiful. She is a friend of Leonardo da Vinci. She is so beautiful, so pretty... Serenity?"
Jing Jing suddenly said: "They are coming, they are coming..."
"Who's coming soon? Tell me quickly!" Xia Lei was anxious.
"Wake me up, wake me up... We have to escape, we have to escape..." Jing Jing's voice was hoarse, low, and cold, as if he had changed into a different person.
She did this to Wei Guanyi. Xia Lei had listened to Wei Guanyi's recording, and the voice in the recording was the same as her current voice!
"Where are you? How do I wake you up?" Xia Lei continued to ask.
"Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa..."
"Is yours the painting painted by Leonardo da Vinci?"
"There's no time... uh!" Before she could finish her sentence, a cut-off sound suddenly came from Jing Jing's throat. After this sound, she suddenly fainted and fell softly to her chest.
"Tranquility? Tranquility? Hello?" Xia Lei shook Tranquility's shoulders, but she didn't react at all.
Everything that had just happened was quickly replayed in Xia Lei's mind, and every reaction of Jingjing was presented in his mind. He knew very well what stimulated Jingjing and caused her to enter another state like "ghost possessed". It was not the story of Princess Yongmei, but the content of the painting she painted.
"What makes her so scared?" Xia Lei thought secretly in his heart.
He left the ward after a few minutes.
"Mr. Xia, is Dr. Ning Jing okay?" Wei Guanyi asked.
Xia Lei said: "She fell asleep. You did a good job. I won't treat you badly."
Wei Guanyi smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Xia."
"The agreement between us will continue to be valid. Please take good care of Jingjing. If there are any special circumstances, remember to contact me." Xia Lei.
"No problem, Mr. Xia."
"I'm leaving, goodbye." Xia Lei left.
Bobbio, Italy, what kind of place is that
No matter where it was, he had to go and take a look!
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