Because of that cold message.
That night, Jiang Yuqiao promised to have a dinner with Shen Xiaoyang and the others for the first time. The four of them had two cases of beer, and they kebabs into their stomachs either cold or hot.
It was late at night when I came back.
Jiang Yuqiao has always been a self-disciplined and restrained person. Even though he smelled of alcohol, he still returned to the bedroom after taking a shower.
Zheng Liang is not here at the moment.
The whole house was so quiet that only the sound of the clock moving.
Maybe because he was too tired, Jiang Yuqiao lay on the bed, and soon became sleepy, and then he had a nightmare that he had had many times since he was a child.
This was the first time he had this dream in Tong An.
In the dream, he returned to that night of thunder and lightning, his parents were not there, only him and eight-year-old Jiang Lai were left at home. Because he didn't like to be with this autistic younger brother who was overprotected by his family, the 13-year-old chose to do his homework alone in the bedroom.
The teacher left a lot of homework, Jiang Yuqiao plugged in his headphones and wrote very seriously.
He didn't realize that the house seemed to be too quiet until a thunder sounded by the window, and his hands trembled as the light shook him.
There was no sound of Jiang Lai playing with toys outside the door, nor the noise of cartoons on TV.
There was only a deep silence.
Jiang Yuqiao was a little puzzled and opened the door.
I saw that the living room, which had just turned on the lights, was pitch black, and the whole house was shrouded in a depressing atmosphere.
The younger brother was nowhere to be seen.
It was at this time, in the darkness, that he saw that slightly hunched back, not tall man, the man turned his head, and met his terrified eyes in the midst of thunder and lightning.
Jiang Yuqiao will never forget that scene.
The man held a murder weapon glowing with cold light in his hand, and a bright red liquid slipped from it and fell to the ground with a tick.
However, at this moment of despair and fear, the picture suddenly changed.
The home in front of him was removed like a curtain, and in a blink of an eye, he came to the compound, the empty and cold bedroom, the same dark room, and the lightning and thunder outside the window.
Little Jiang Yuqiao huddled in the quilt, gritted his teeth, and shivered.
Suddenly, the door was pushed open with a creak, and a milky voice came in through the heavy quilt, "Brother, brother?"
Cold sweat dripped from the boy's forehead.
His face was almost pale.
He didn't have the strength to answer, and he didn't have the strength to lift the quilt.
After a while, the source of the milky voice in the milk sneaked in without authorization, and then, soft little hands wrapped around his waist from the back.
Because her hands were too short, she couldn't hold everyone in her arms at all.
Just try to appease Jiang Yuqiao: "Brother is fine, Coco is here."
At that moment, this tender comforting voice seemed to be really magical, Jiang Yuqiao's heart rate gradually stabilized, and at this time, the little girl behind him had fallen into a deep sleep.
He slowly turned over, lifted the quilt, and saw Zhong Keke's immature and round face under the cool and thin moonlight.
So soft and beautiful.
Pure and inviolable.
Jiang Yuqiao raised his hand and wanted to touch her face, but for some unknown reason, the sleeping little girl suddenly began to bleed, and a large area of blood dizzy on her white nightdress and dizzy on the whole bed.
Breathing becomes rapid at this moment.
The next second, Jiang Yuqiao suddenly woke up.
As if being pulled back from the abyss, the moment he opened his eyes, what he saw was not the cool night, but the brightly lit bedroom.
Zheng Liang was standing at the door, his mouth half open, staring at him in surprise, "Yuqiao, are you all right?"
Jiang Yuqiao then sat up slowly.
The back was wet with cold sweat.
"I'm fine." When he spoke, his voice was almost hoarse, but his face was still calm and indifferent, as if it was not him who had just woken up from a restless sleep.
Get up and get out of bed.
He took a sip of water and looked wearily at Zheng Liang at the door, "It's so late, what's the matter?"
Zheng Liang held the cardboard box and suddenly didn't know what to say. He rubbed the tip of his nose before he said embarrassedly, "It's nothing, I just want to send you a courier."
While talking, he put the package on Jiang Yuqiao's table, "You arrived before you left, it looks like a doll."
Jiang Yuqiao held the teacup's hand for a while.
Seeing this, Zheng Liang didn't want to bother him any more, so he just said a few words and left.
In a blink of an eye, the bedroom was quiet again.
Jiang Yuqiao stood there, his mind was emptied for a few seconds, he walked over and took apart the courier.
It is one of the most popular lamb dolls recently.
There are a total of twelve of this set, each of which is difficult to buy. He used almost all his connections and waited for a few months to get this set together.
Jiang Yuqiao held the lamb doll in Hanfu, and his cold eyes gradually became a little warmer.
After a few seconds of silence, he swallowed the whole night's suffocation and sighed in a low voice.
never mind.
So be it.
As long as the little girl is safe and happy.
He can.
After staying in the hospital for a few days, Zhong Keke went home after confirming that it was all right.
To celebrate her discharge from the hospital, Zhong Aishan bought two rows of blown balloons instead of firecrackers and set them downstairs. Although it was a bit old-fashioned, it did make Zhong Keke feel very happy.
In the following days, Zhong Keke did not go back to school, but rested at home with peace of mind. Xu Lin specially hired a tutor to help her review.
When the college entrance examination was only a week away, the school had a day off, and Zhou Mingyue brought gifts to see her without a word.
At the beginning, Zhou Mingyue was a little worried.
I was afraid that the two of them would be embarrassed, but unexpectedly, Zhong Keke quickly became acquainted with her.
It was in the morning and the temperature was quite high.
Zhong Keke took out ice lemon juice and watermelon from the refrigerator to entertain Zhou Mingyue, while Zhou Mingyue rambled about the situation in the school like a small announcer—
"Knowing that you are injured, the students in your class miss you very much."
"Especially Wu Liang, if it wasn't for the inconvenience, he would have followed."
"Oh, yes, and Zhuo Yifan, that guy is so annoying, he comes to me every day to ask me about your situation, I heard that because of this, she was isolated in the class, everyone thinks she did it on purpose ."
"If you let everyone know that you have amnesia, it will probably be more targeted at her."
Zhong Keke guessed that Zhuo Yifan should be the one who pushed her downstairs, and couldn't help but wonder, "Did this Zhuo Yifan have a grudge against me before?"
"It's more than hatred," Zhou Mingyue was full of indignation. "She sees you as a thorn in the flesh. If it wasn't for her sincere apology, I really doubt that you were pushed downstairs on purpose by her."
Zhong Coco scratched his nose.
I can't recall anything related to this person.
In fact, the amnesia still had a blow to her. It felt like she had gone to a new environment overnight, and no matter who was in her eyes, she was unfamiliar.
She couldn't express this feeling, because she was afraid that the people around her would be sad.
But that doesn't mean she doesn't want to know.
After thinking about it, Zhong Keke asked, "Then why does she target me like this, there must be a reason?"
"The reason is because you and her like—"
Zhou Mingyue was outspoken, but before she finished speaking, she remembered that Xu Lin had specially instructed her not to mention Jiang Yuqiao in front of Zhong Keke.
Like being slapped, Zhou Mingyue shut her mouth in fear.
Zhong Keke: "Huh?"
"… "
Zhou Mingyue smiled awkwardly and lied randomly, "Because you and she like the same idol."
Zhong Keke was a little amused, "Just this?"
Zhou Mingyue lied and didn't make a draft, "That's it, otherwise there's something else."
"… "
Fine.
Just like what she said was true.
Zhong Keke was too lazy to investigate, so he took out his new phone, "I don't have your WeChat yet."
Zhou Mingyue was stunned for a second.
Zhong Keke handed over the phone, "I lost my phone, but I can't remember the old account passwords, so I can only apply for a new one."
"It's quite annoying to say, I have to do everything again."
"… "
Zhou Mingyue took the mobile phone suspiciously, and it always felt weird. Can you lose your mobile phone even if you fell from the upstairs? This is too fantastical.
Just then, the doorbell rang.
Zhong Coco got up and went to open the door.
It was a courier boy with a familiar face. He handed the package to Zhong Keke, "It's the courier who sent it to you again."
Zhong Keke's smile disappeared.
After taking the package, she returned to the living room in a trance, as if thinking of something, she asked Zhou Mingyue, "Do you know someone named Jiang Yuqiao?"
She didn't expect the name to come out of her mouth at all, Zhou Mingyue slowly raised her head and looked at her incredulously, "Who?"
"Jiang Yuqiao."
Zhong Keke squinted his eyes, and read the small words on the box, "Ginger's Jiang, met Yu, the bridge of the bridge."
"… "
"This man has been sending me couriers lately."
…
To prove she wasn't lying.
Zhong Keke took Zhou Mingyue to the second floor. She showed Zhou Mingyue the things she had recently received. Half of them were snacks, and the other half were comics and a set of Internet celebrity lamb dolls.
Zhou Mingyue looked at the scene in front of her and couldn't believe it.
Internet celebrity lamb, it's hard to buy a giant, how did Jiang Yuqiao do it?
Is this still that raw ice cube? !
When she asked with a forehead, Zhong Keke picked up the cat from the ground and pulled her back to her senses, "I called him, but he didn't answer."
Zhou Mingyue: "…"
It's weird to take it.
This man is notorious for not answering calls from strangers, because there are too many people chasing him. Of course, she won't tell Zhong Keke these words.
But Zhong Keke had already seen the tricky from her expression, the little girl asked with big eyes, "So you know who he is, right?"
"… "
Under Zhong Keke's "torture to extract a confession", Zhou Mingyue still recruited.
Out of worthlessness for her sister, she justly distorted the facts, "This Jiang Yuqiao is the boy Zhuo Yifan likes, and he is interested in you. That's why Zhuo Yifan treats you as a thorn in the eye."
Zhong Keke nodded with understanding, "Then what?"
"What then?"
"What kind of person is he, do I like him?"
Seeing that the topic was about to turn to the truth, Zhou Mingyue shrugged exaggeratedly, "Of course I don't like it!"
Zhong Coco frowned.
In order to convince her, Zhou Mingyue began to make up again, "You not only dislike him, but also hate him very much. In order to please you, he buys you gifts again and again."
"Also," Zhou Mingyue thought for a while, "you blocked him before to prevent him from harassing you."
Zhong Keke sighed: "I'm quite cruel."
Zhou Mingyue: "…"
She sighed heavily, "The point now is not whether you are ruthless, but this Jiang Yuqiao, you must stay away from him, don't call him, and don't accept his gifts, understand?"
Zhong Keke couldn't understand, "Just because I don't like him, then he's too pitiful?"
Zhou Mingyue looked at her speechlessly.
She felt her pain and raised her head again firmly, "Forget it, I'll tell you the truth."
Zhong Keke: "?"
Zhou Mingyue took out his trump card, "Actually, Jiang Yuqiao is not a good person."
"After he finished flirting with Zhuo Yifan, he went after you again. Not only that, he also had a group of Yingyingyanyan outside."
"In general, he is an unreliable and careless scumbag."
Hearing this, Zhong Keke was silent.
After a few seconds.
She stood up and walked to the cabinet, "Take all these away, I don't want them anymore."
With the invasion of a heavy rain, Tong An officially entered the summer.
Although it is not as hot as Rongcheng, the temperature is not low. Even at night, you can still feel the dryness in the air.
Another normal night shift.
In the early morning consultation room, the man's expression was solemn, and his technique was precise and meticulous. It didn't take long for the wound on Zheng Liang's shoulder to be treated cleanly.
Zheng Liang moved the gauze-covered end a little and grinned, "Okay, little Jiang, it won't take long before you can be on your own."
Facing his praise, Jiang Yuqiao was in no mood, silently packed up his tools, and said in a low voice, "If you are hungry, there is bread in the office."
Zheng Liang put on his coat and refused, "I'm injured, you let me eat this."
Jiang Yuqiao took off his gloves and didn't speak.
Zheng Liang came over and patted his shoulder, "Let's go, please have takeout."
There are no patients at the moment.
Jiang Yuqiao took him back to the office.
Due to his injuries, Zheng Liang was able to order very limited things. In the end, he only ordered some bland meals and fried noodles.
It didn't take long for the takeaway to arrive.
Zheng Liang spread the lunch box flat on the table.
Jiang Yuqiao had been busy all day and had no appetite at all. In other words, he had no appetite for a while, but he didn't want Zheng Liang to sit there alone, so he pulled a stool and sat next to him.
Zheng Liang was working on a case for a while, and he was so busy that he had one meal but not the next, so he finally could rest for a while.
Afraid that he might choke, Jiang Yuqiao took a bottle of juice from under the table.
Zheng Liang thanked him, glanced at him, and said, "And cherry juice, how can you drink such a bitch."
Jiang Yuqiao leaned back in his chair and said casually, "Qu Xin will stay with you."
For a while now, she has been persistently coming to the hospital to see Jiang Yuqiao. No matter how cold Jiang Yuqiao is, she doesn't care. Thinking of her, Jiang Yuqiao has a headache.
Zheng Liang paused when he heard the name, "I forgot if you didn't mention it."
He turned around and looked at Jiang Yuqiao, "Do you remember when she just came to defect to you and told you that she suspected Qu Qingzhou was coming back to harass her."
Jiang Yuqiao raised his brows slightly, "Is there any news about him?"
"No," Zheng Liang waved his hand, "but I adjusted the surveillance cameras near Qu Xinsui's house a while ago, and I didn't see Qu Qingzhou's shadow, but I saw Qu Xinsui entangled with a man who even hit her. a slap."
"Later, I asked the neighbors over there. The neighbors said that the house belonged to her boyfriend, and no one harassed her, but the two of them often quarreled and prevented others from sleeping."
Jiang Yuqiao blinked slowly, seemingly indifferent, "What do you want to say."
Zheng Liang was a little full, and leaned back, "I just want to tell you, this girl is not as innocent as you look, and she has an ex-boyfriend who is lying, so don't get caught up in it."
Jiang Yuqiao choked for a moment and looked at him absurdly, "Get stuck?"
Zheng Liang: "Ah."
Jiang Yuqiao sneered silently: "When did I fall into it?"
"You haven't fucked up yet." Zheng Liang was about to stand up, "You said, how long have you been smiling since the last time? Do you really not know how scary your cold face is? ? I'm fucking fed up."
He was shot like a machine gun, and Jiang Yuqiao was speechless for a moment.
After thinking about it, he was really in a bad mood recently. In Shen Xiaoyang's words, his face was freezing cold, and his words were as few as squeezing toothpaste.
However, all this has nothing to do with Qu Xinsui.
The slender fingers tapped on the table, Jiang Yuqiao raised his beautiful eyebrows, "You guessed the wrong person."
Zheng Liang was taken aback.
Jiang Yuqiao looked away and flattened the corners of his lips unnaturally, "It's the other one."
"Fuck," Zheng Liang's eyes almost popped out, he looked at Jiang Yuqiao seriously, "Who is Qu Xinsui?"
Jiang Yuqiao's eyes flashed a very rare embarrassment, paused for two seconds, and said softly, "Sister over there at home."
Since he received the WeChat message, he has not contacted Zhong Keke for a long time. He just sent the doll set and bought some other things for her. On the one hand, that sentence really made him uncomfortable, on the other hand On the one hand, the college entrance examination was approaching, and he really shouldn't bother her anymore.
It's just that people are really weird.
In the past, Zhong Keke pestered him to send him messages, but he didn't reply.
As if hearing some great gossip, Zheng Liang couldn't help laughing, "Okay, Jiang Yuqiao, I like little sister."
"… "
"How old is this sister?"
"eighteen."
"A little small."
"… "
Jiang Yuqiao was inexplicably agitated, and his narrow eyes glanced at him coldly.
Zheng Liang smiled and said, "Don't, don't, I'm joking."
Jiang Yuqiao took a deep breath, but for some reason, he didn't leave.
In fact, he still has some things to deal with, so he shouldn't be talking nonsense here, but somehow, he wants Zheng Liang to ask something.
Seeing his thoughts, Zheng Liang leaned back in his chair and shook his head, "So it's because of this little sister that you've been so impetuous for so many days?"
Jiang Yuqiao looked directly at the water vapor on the plastic bottle, and nodded slightly, "Forget it, I don't know."
Zheng Liang: "Do you like her?"
Facing his question, Jiang Yuqiao's expression instantly tense.
As if there was something stuck in his chest, he was immersed in depression.
It was so quiet for a few seconds, Jiang Yuqiao's voice was hoarse and deep, "I have always regarded her as a sister, but she did not regard me as a brother."
"and then."
"She confessed to me."
"How good this is." Zheng Liang was a little puzzled, "What are you struggling with, should you like her?"
"That's it."
Jiang Yuqiao closed his eyes, and oppressive waves surged in his clear eyes.
After a moment of silence, he said calmly, "I have watched her grow up since I was a child. I know when she starts to develop, when she has her first period, and all her little habits and almost all her little secrets. I pet her and protect her, in a way, I'm more like her parent."
"Because of that."
"I feel a strong sense of guilt at the thought that I might enter her body in the future."
Zheng Liang did not have any serious thoughts because of these words, but calmed down.
Jiang Yuqiao's eyes were slightly distracted, and his voice was astringent, "You probably won't understand this feeling. There are many things that bind you.
"But even so," the man's chest heaved slightly, his tone full of self-deprecation, "I couldn't help but get close to her."
Although he didn't speak much and was very vague, Zheng Liang probably understood it. After a moment of silence, he said in a serious tone, "I think you don't need to think too much."
Jiang Yuqiao raised his eyebrows slightly.
Zheng Liang smiled, "Some shackles are not given by others, they are given by myself. If you think they have it, you have it, and if you don't have it, you don't have it, but there is one thing—"
The man smiled solemnly, "Don't be a coward."
Jiang Yuqiao looked straight at the man who was more than ten years older than him. His attitude was casual, but his words were full of deep meaning, "The murderer, we will catch you, and you will live well. If you like someone, just try your best to like them. , don't be like me and regret it for the rest of your life."
Zheng Liang left shortly after.
Recently, the hospital has been relatively quiet. Jiang Yuqiao didn't stay for a while before returning to the duty room to rest.
With the sound of cicadas and the cool moonlight outside the window, this was the first time he felt that the night in Tong An was so peaceful, and this peace was not because of the environment he was in, but because of what Zheng Liang said.
And when he closed his eyes, Zhong Keke's beautiful white and tender face appeared in his mind.
The heart softened.
Another day, she will take the college entrance examination.
Inexplicably, Jiang Yuqiao began to be nervous for her.
He's not worried that she won't pass the exam.
I was just worried that she would cry because she failed the exam.
If you really cry-
Jiang Yuqiao sighed inaudibly, so he could only ask for a few days off to stay with her.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuqiao suddenly lost sleepiness, and got out of bed with his phone from the side.
He turned on the light, first took a sip of water, then sat down and clicked into the booking software. He began to hesitate, whether to go back before her college entrance examination, or wait for her to finish before appearing in front of her.
However, before he could make up his mind, a @ was popped up in the medical group.
Following that, Shen Xiaoyang's message popped up with a ding-dong: [Male God! ! ! Go see the group! ! Those girls are crazy! !]
This sudden gesture made Jiang Yuqiao's eyebrows jump, and with a bad premonition, he opened the group chat.
At this moment, the group is rapidly swiping the screen, and all of them are familiar little nurses. They copied a sentence neatly and uniformly, [The male god is not mine, so sad woo woo woo.]
Jiang Yuqiao was a little unclear.
I was just about to send a question mark to express my doubts, but in the next second, a person lost a photo and came in: [I fucking found a high-definition angle! ! ! !]
Jiang Yuqiao paused, and subconsciously clicked—
It is a somewhat blurry photo taken from the surveillance camera. In the photo, the little girl is kissing Jiang Yuqiao, who is sleeping in a chair, with her eyes closed. From this angle, you can see the little girl's face very clearly.
Not the female high school student who pestered him before.
But the facial features are exquisite, even from this angle, you can feel her naturally beautiful Zhong Keke.
It was really her.
She has come.
Instant reaction.
Jiang Yuqiao's heart fell suddenly as if he was on a very fast jumping machine.