It was already past seven o'clock in the evening when we left Todaiji Temple. I didn't want to rush back today, so Luo Xiangdong and I took a taxi to Nara City for a meal. Then return to the hotel.
Luo Xiangdong's card couldn't be swiped, so I used my own card to open the room. After returning to the room, Luo Xiangdong said to me: "Looking at the look in the front desk's eyes, I really thought I was your pretty boy."
I couldn't help but smile a little. Then he said: "With your beauty, you are the stuff of fire everywhere."
Luo Xiangdong glanced at me, suppressing the unhappiness in his heart.
I smiled and handed my card to Luo Xiangdong, and he asked aloud: "What for?"
I said, "Here you go, I'll buy things, pay the bill, and open a room later. It's up to you to do the cleaning."
Luo Xiangdong didn't answer. The awkwardness in the black pupils flashed away. It is estimated that he has never experienced the feeling of being stuck by a woman in his life. I was funny and distressed at the same time, so I had to say: "I know a word about you. Brother Zheng, Brother Zeyu, and the others can give you money, but this is us It's your own business. Your marriage card was stopped just after you proposed to me. It's not you who is looked down upon by others. It's me. I don't want you to talk to others, not even your friends since childhood. . You have me, and it’s a joke to say that I support you. I just want us to take care of everything. I am yours, not to mention the money..."
Before I finished speaking, Luo Xiangdong suddenly raised his hand and pulled me into his arms. I hugged his waist and pressed against his shoulders, feeling the warmth and fragrance of his body.
Luo Xiangdong remained silent for a long time, and in the end he only said one sentence to me: "I will definitely let you enter the gate of my Luo family with dignity."
I raised my lips and smiled: "It doesn't matter whether I can enter your house or not, it's enough for me to have you."
I got up at around eight o'clock this morning and had been walking all day. As soon as our tired bodies touched the bed, Luo Xiangdong and I fell asleep quickly.
I was sleeping deeply, so I didn’t hear the phone ring for a long time. Luo Xiangdong still called me in a daze: "Zijin, your phone is ringing..."
I squinted my eyes slightly and didn't know what time it was. I just reached out and touched the phone beside the bed, and vaguely saw the word 'Second Brother'.
I was still thinking about my second brother, so I hesitated and had to answer the call first before saying, "Hello?"
Because I didn't wake up, my voice was low and hoarse.
A slightly familiar male voice came from the phone, and he said: "Miss Liang, I am Guan Xin's second brother."
When the other party announced his home address, I suddenly understood and hurriedly said: "Ah, second brother, are you calling me so late? Is there something going on at the hospital?"
Ji Guanxin and his second brother said in a heavy voice: "Guanxin was sent to the operating room for rescue. The doctor said it was a complication caused by postoperative infection."
I was stunned immediately, not feeling sleepy at all. After a few seconds of silence, I kept saying, "We'll be there right away."
"Okay, be careful on the road."
After hanging up the phone, I subconsciously pushed Luo Xiangdong next to me. Luo Xiangdong snorted, and I said in horror: "Xiangdong, get up quickly, Guan Xin's second brother called and said that Guan Xin was sent to the operating room for rescue."
When Luo Xiangdong heard this, he quickly turned over and sat up. He turned on the bedside lamp and I frowned, my eyes hurting from the light.
Luo Xiangdong took his cell phone and took a look. It was now four twenty in the morning.
I rolled out of bed and ran to the bathroom, washing my face and brushing my teeth quickly. Luo Xiangdong came up from behind and said, "Don't worry, Ji Guan's life is promising. He survived the surgery and will be fine."
I hope so too, but the fear in my heart is like a black hole that has leaked to the bottom. I can't see whether it is an abyss or something else below.
Waiting without results is the scariest thing.
My head was a little empty, so I lost control of my behavior for a while, and knocked off the tooth cup and facial cleanser on the sink. When Luo Xiangdong saw this, he reached out and threw my shoulder, looked at me and said, "Don't panic. If we don't have confidence anymore, how can Ji Guanxin survive?"
Luo Xiangdong is using the method of provoking generals to prod me, and I really benefit from it. Taking a deep breath, I tried to calm my mind, and then said, "Let's go back quickly."
After packing up, we left the hotel door before dawn. When we arrived at the station, we discovered that the Shinkansen didn’t leave until six o’clock, so we had to take the JR to Kyoto first, and then transfer from Kyoto back to Tokyo.
During this period, I called the second brother Ji Guanxin to inquire about the situation. He told me in a low voice: "We are still rescuing him."
Those four words made the blood in my body run cold.
I thought about the bracelet in my bag, and my throat felt sore and sore as if someone had stuck it.
Ji Guanxin, you must get through this. You promised me that I would come out alive and well; you said that after you recover, you would find a better person to start over; you said that there was no reason to watch me and Luo Xiangdong be happy while you were alone.
What you said... must be done.
I have never felt that the Shinkansen was so slow. It was so slow that on the way back from Kyoto to Tokyo, I felt that I was about to lose something several times.
Luo Xiangdong held my cold hand. Although he didn't say anything, he tried his best to give me hope and courage.
I have never experienced any big storms in the past 20 years or so. I used to feel that the sky would collapse if I encountered any setbacks in life. But these seem so insignificant in the face of life.
I attended Gu Yansheng's funeral. I don't like places like cemeteries. Even though it is filled with evergreen trees and all kinds of flowers that are not found in urban areas, in such a sad atmosphere, everything looks like It is gray in color.
Ji Guanxin may be the only person in the world who would joke about his own life and death in the cemetery. At that time, I thought he was dead, so I couldn't help crying. Later I found out that he was still alive. Although I was angry, deep down in my heart I was filled with joy.
I'm glad he's still alive, and I'm glad it was a cheap joke.
And now, if Ji Guanxin does not come out alive, I will never forgive him in my life, because he lied to me again.
Before he even got off the Shinkansen, second brother Ji Guanxin called again. I kept holding the phone in my palm, but when the phone rang, I looked at the caller ID on the screen, but I didn't dare to answer it.
The Japanese pay great attention to group influence. Their own people will not talk loudly on the phone in public, let alone let their mobile phones ring loudly without answering. Therefore, my behavior undoubtedly attracted the attention of many Japanese people around me.
Luo Xiangdong knew why I didn't answer, so he took the phone and connected it.
"Hello."
I could only hear Luo Xiangdong's voice, but I didn't know what was on the phone.
"okay, I get it."
He hung up the phone, and I unconsciously tensed every muscle in my body. I was afraid that the answer Luo Xiangdong would give me would be unacceptable to me.
I caught a glimpse of Luo Xiangdong looking at me from the corner of my eye. I stiffened my neck and didn't even dare to look back.
Opening his thin lips, he said aloud: "It's okay, Ji Guanxin has been sent back to the ICU."
I didn't move or react at all. I just stared at someone's shoes in the row opposite.
Luo Xiangdong reached out and took my hand. His palm was warm, but my fingers were cold. It seemed like five seconds later, I held his hand tightly and didn't say anything. I just hung my head deeply and bit my lip but couldn't help the tears falling down.
Luo Xiangdong pressed my head, and I buried my face in his shoulder and neck. If I hadn't been in a foreign country, if I hadn't been sitting in a car, I would have burst into tears.
After transferring and changing buses along the way, it was almost ten o'clock in the morning when we arrived at the hospital. Many people in Ji Guanxin's ward, including his father, appeared.
Second brother Ji Guanxin told us: "It took almost two hours to rescue him, but he was finally rescued."
I said with red eyes: "What did the doctor say? Will anything happen again?"
"It depends on tomorrow night. If the third child wakes up tomorrow night, then we have passed this level."
Ji Guanxin's mother has also been suffering terribly these days. Such a beautiful woman finally showed her age and fatigue.
She said to Luo Xiangdong and me: "I didn't know you went to Nara, so I asked you to come here early in the morning. It was a hard journey."
Luo Xiangdong said: "Zi Jin went to Dongda Temple to pray for Ji Guanxin."
After he reminded me, I quickly took out the bracelet from my bag and handed it to Ji Guanxin’s mother.
I said: "Auntie, this stone is said to have been baptized by Todaiji Temple. We went to Todaiji Temple again yesterday, hoping that it can bring good luck to Guanxin."
With tears in his eyes, Ji Guanxin nodded and said, "I would like to thank you on Guanxin's behalf."
Luo Xiangdong and I stayed in the hospital until two o'clock in the afternoon. During this period, we confirmed that we heard from Dr. Ando that Ji Guanxin was okay for the time being, and then we left the hospital to eat.
After finishing the meal, I said to Luo Xiangdong: "You should go back to the hotel and sleep for a while."
Luo Xiangdong said: "No, I will accompany you to the hospital."
I said, "Ji Guanxin won't wake up. I just went over to take a look. You got up early today, so go back and get some sleep."
Luo Xiangdong said: "I'll go with you, so that when Ji San'er wakes up, I can still tease him. We've been worrying about him a lot these days since he's been in coma."
Luo Xiangdong kept hinting to me that Ji Guanxin would get through it. After listening to his words, I felt inexplicably at ease, as if what Luo Xiangdong said must be true.
In the afternoon, Luo Xiangdong and I went to the hospital again. We thought there would be no one in front of the ICU because the doctor was not allowed to visit patients. But as soon as we went there, we saw Zhou Mengyi sitting on the bench opposite the ICU.
When she looked up and saw Luo Xiangdong and me, her red and swollen eyes did not have the anger and hatred of the past, but only the pity of loneliness and helplessness.
I walked over and sat down next to her and handed her a tissue.
Zhou Mengyi also took it for the first time. After a while, she whispered: "Do you think Guan Xin will be okay?"
Without even thinking about it, I replied firmly: "Definitely."