Since I went to the countryside, I have gone to bed very early every night, and because Ji Guanxin was so startled just now, I fell asleep very quickly.
When I was drowsy, I heard my mother calling me: "Zijin, get up, your father will be here soon."
I snorted, feeling as if I just fell asleep and didn't want to get up.
I heard the sound of my mother getting off the kang, and she went to call Ji Guanxin. Ji Guanxin was even more in bed than me, so naturally he didn't get up.
My mother told my aunt: "I don’t know how long these two children were busy last night."
I suddenly thought of the image of Ji Guanxin taking me down from the bed and kissing me. I opened my eyes with excitement and no longer felt sleepy.
Turning over and sitting up on the kang, I turned a blind eye and picked up my phone to see that it was already half past seven.
My mother put on her clothes and went to the outer room to wash up. My aunt was not in the inner room either, so Ji Guanxin and I were the only ones left in the room.
I sat in the middle of the kang and called out: "Ji Guanxin, get up."
Ji Guanxin was half-covered with a quilt, only his hair and eyes were exposed, and he remained silent.
After I sobered up for a while, I stood up from the kang and called him condescendingly: "Ji Guanxin, get up soon. My dad will come to pick us up soon."
Without saying a word, Ji Guanxin reached out and pulled the quilt over his head: "Auntie, don't forget what you said last night. You can buy me whatever I want when I return to Liangcheng."
My mother was also very open-minded and immediately replied to him: "Okay, Auntie will keep her word. As long as you don't ask for a house or land as soon as you ask, Auntie will buy it for you."
"I'm just waiting for your words."
I took the opportunity to pull my wrist out of Ji Guanxin's hands. He stood up and got out of bed. I glanced out of the corner of my eye and suddenly saw a drop of something falling from Ji Guanxin's face.
He looked down at the red bricks on the ground and saw a large drop of blood there.
I looked up at Ji Guanxin's face again, and his nose was bleeding again.
"Oh Mom" I instinctively called out to my mother when I was anxious. My mother turned around and saw me lifting Ji Guanxin's chin. Her expression changed. She hurriedly found some soft paper and frowned and said, "What's wrong with this child?" Nosebleeds from day to day."
Ji Guanxin's nosebleed came suddenly, as if it flowed down all at once, which caught people off guard. I watched the gurgling blood drip down his nose, and soon slid over his lips and dripped onto his clothes.
The white T-shirt, the red blood, was so dazzling.
I was originally afraid of blood, but I couldn't care about anything else right now. I hurriedly helped him plug his nose with soft paper, and didn't even notice that my hands were covered in blood.
My mother went out to the outhouse to get water for Ji Guanxin. I asked him to sit down and tilt his head slightly.
Ji Guanxin said in a low voice: "It's okay."
If it was a normal nosebleed, I wouldn't be too concerned about it, but Ji Guanxin's nosebleed was so scary, it kept coming and couldn't stop.
My mother came in with a basin of cold water, and I washed a towel and gave Ji Guanxin a cold compress on his nose. Seeing his nosebleed soaking a large ball of soft paper, I frowned anxiously.
In the end, Ji Guanxin lowered his head and washed it with cold water for more than a dozen times. My mother quickly took out a basin of blood and poured it out, then brought in a new basin.
I was busy for five or six minutes before I stopped.
Ji Guanxin's broken hair hanging in front of his forehead was all wet with cold water. I knelt on one knee beside the folding bed and used a cold towel to ice his nose with one hand, and blocked his nostrils with soft paper with the other hand.
My mother asked worriedly from the side: "Guan Xin, how are you feeling?"
Ji Guanxin smiled and replied: "It's okay, Auntie."
My mother said: "Why did I suddenly have a nosebleed again?"
Ji Guanxin said: "Maybe it was too close to the kang cave last night and it was too hot."
My mother replied, half jokingly and half seriously: "You said that your child can't sleep on the kang or under the kang. Isn't this little body ruined? How can you take care of Zijin in the future?"
I don't know if it's my imagination, but I think Ji Guanxin's face is so pale that it's almost transparent. He looked at my mother with dark eyes, and because his nose was blocked by paper, he replied in a muffled voice: "Don't worry, Auntie, as long as I'm here, I won't let anyone bully her."
My mother was very pleased and kept saying yes.
By the time Ji Guanxin's nosebleed completely stopped, another ten minutes had passed. My mother packed everything and helped Ji Guanxin and I pack our luggage.
Ji Guanxin and I brushed our teeth and washed our faces. Because I was worried about him, I said to him in private: "Ji Guanxin, you should go back to Night City."
Ji Guanxin said, turned his head to look at me, glanced at me and said: "Kick me away"
I said, "You are really not used to the climate in the Northeast. It's dry and cold here, and the temperature difference between the inside and outside of the house is fifty or sixty degrees. You simply can't stand it."
He has only been here for half a month, and I have seen him have nosebleeds several times. If this continues, he will really suffer.
Ji Guanxin came close to me, lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "Hey, let me tell you the truth, my nosebleed is not due to fever."
I looked up at him, waiting for his next words.
Ji Guanxin blinked his big single eyelids and said with a smile: "I'm holding it in. Especially last night, I dreamed about you all night. How can I not get a nosebleed in the morning?"
I was really worried about him, but unexpectedly he took the opportunity to start a quarrel again. I frowned and pushed him, and he laughed.
Ji Guanxin and I finished cleaning up and went back to the back room to chat with my aunt. My aunt cried and said she was reluctant to let us go, and she didn’t know when we would see each other again.
Ji Guanxin said: "Auntie, when are you free, I will take you to Night City and you will stay in my house while I find someone to take care of you."
My aunt smiled happily, but then she waved her hand and said she wouldn't go.
She told Ji Guanxin to be good to me and hoped that when we get married in the future, she would still be alive so that she could attend our wedding.
What I couldn’t stand the most was seeing the old man with tears in his eyes, and I felt very distressed, so I shed tears even as we chatted.
Ji Guanxin reached out to wipe me, and even teased me: "Why are you crying? Don't be afraid, I will marry you."
"Fuck you" I rolled my eyes and glared at him.
As expected, my dad arrived within half an hour. We got up and left shortly after entering the room.
When my aunt sent us out, people all over the street outside were watching. My dad and Ji Guanxin loaded the suitcases into the trunk, and my mother and I hugged my aunt.
When I first came to live here, I counted the days on my fingers every day, always hoping to leave early. But today I really have to leave, but I am very reluctant to leave.
If possible, I would also like to take my aunt to live in the city.
But my mother also said something to me in private. She said: "We have the will but not the strength."
My aunt has never had children in her life, and she and my aunt came together later. She has helped raise other people's children for so many years. When the children grow up, they don't come back to see her often. They just give her a few hundred dollars every month. Yuan as alimony.
Seeing you off thousands of miles away, we must say goodbye in the end. When we got into the car, my aunt bowed her waist and waved to us, telling us to pay attention to safety on the road.
My dad said: "Auntie, go back quickly, it's cold."
My aunt nodded, then looked at Ji Guanxin and said vaguely: "Be kind to us."
Ji Guanxin promised aloud: "I promised you, and I will definitely do it. When I am free next year, I will bring Zijin back to see you."
Even my mother dared not promise her to come back to see her, because they would often remember the promises made to the elderly very clearly. But Ji Guanxin said, if I have time next year, I will bring Zijin back to see you.
This sentence suddenly hit my heart. I was so sore that tears welled up in my eyes.
In the end, my dad started the car, and we waved to my aunt and watched her figure getting smaller and smaller in the rearview mirror.
My mother was sitting in the passenger seat, chatting with my father, saying how difficult it was for my aunt, and my father kept trying to persuade her.
I was sitting in the back seat with Ji Guanxin, and Ji Guanxin whispered to me: "When we get home, ask your aunt to call my aunt. I only have three thousand seven in my wallet, and I stuffed it all under the quilt for her."
Hearing this, I immediately said: "When did you stuff it?"
My voice was loud, and my mother turned around and asked us: "What's stuffed in?"
I said, "Ji Guanxin gave my aunt some money."
My mother hurriedly said: "Look at you kid, I have already given money to your aunt, what else do you want to give me?"
Ji Guanxin smiled lightly: "This is my first time meeting my aunt. I want to prepare some gifts for the elderly. I can't buy anything here, so I have to leave some money."
My mother was very embarrassed, but I knew she was still happy in her heart. After all, Ji Guanxin is so kind to my country aunt whom I haven't seen for eight hundred years, so he can't be any worse to me.
On the way back to Liangcheng, I was a little sleepy because I didn't sleep well last night. Ji Guanxin held my hand. I tried to break free but couldn't. He patted his shoulder again and motioned for me to sleep on his shoulder.
Just kidding, my parents are still sitting in front, how can I be embarrassed
But when the car drove into the city and I was woken up by Ji Guanxin, I found that I was resting on his shoulder, drooling.