After returning to Night City for a week, Luo Xiangdong and I were busy moving. I was busy at work, and soon it was the weekend. Luo Xiangdong and I made an appointment to fly to Japan to see Ji Guanxin.
Ji Guanxin has come out of IUC and is staying in the previous ward. He still doesn't wear a hospital gown. Wearing a white crew neck sweater. His lower body was covered with a quilt. I couldn't see what he was wearing underneath, but I could probably guess it. He definitely wouldn't wear hospital gown pants.
Before Luo Xiangdong and I came, we called Ji Guanxin's second brother. We didn't tell Ji Guanxin, so when Luo Xiangdong and I pushed open the ward door and walked in, we happened to see Ji Guanxin having a temper with the little nurse.
I just saw him frowning and saying in Japanese with an unhappy look on his face: "I won't eat it."
The little nurse was about to say something. Hear the door. Together with Ji Guanxin, they turned to look at the door.
I walked in front, and when I saw Ji Guanxin's slightly surprised eyes, I said, "What don't you want to eat?"
Ji Guanxin looked at me. Then I glanced at Luo Xiangdong behind me. Instead of answering, he asked: "Why are you here?"
I said, "I came here to see you during the weekend. What are you doing just after you got out of the ICU? What don't you eat?"
When I walked to the bedside, I saw a plate of silver pills placed in the palm of the little nurse's hand. The little nurse looked at me with an aggrieved look.
I asked in Japanese: "He refuses to take medicine?"
The little nurse nodded: "Professor Ando said that the medicine must be taken before twelve o'clock, because there will be other medicines later, so no time is wasted."
I looked at the clock on the wall and saw less than three minutes left.
Bringing over a plate of medicine, I asked aloud: "How many pills should you take?"
The little nurse said: "Eight."
Without saying a word, I took out eight pills, picked up the light blue water glass next to the hospital bed, and handed them to Ji Guanxin: "Take the pills."
Ji Guanxin sat on the bedside. Hearing this, he raised his big and long eyes, looked at me and said, "I will eat if you tell me to?"
I stared into his eyes without saying anything, and suddenly clasped my palm toward my mouth. Except for Luo Xiangdong who was standing behind me, Ji Guanxin and the little nurse were all shocked.
Especially Ji Guanxin, his eyes suddenly widened and he frowned: "Are you crazy?"
I opened my palm, and all eight pills were still there. I just pressed it with my thumb. Fortunately, the medicine particles were very small, otherwise I would have to swallow it.
Looking at Ji Guanxin with an expressionless face, I said, "Don't start having seizures when your body is just a little bit healthy. Just take the medicine. If you don't take it, I'll take it."
Maybe one thing is good for another, Ji Guanxin looked unhappy, but he still reached out and took the medicine. Frowning, he threw it into his mouth, and then drank a lot of water.
He was like a child, crying out in pain after taking medicine.
I said to him: "Stop pretending."
The little nurse standing next to me took out a candy from her pocket, handed it to Ji Guanxin, and then said to me: "This medicine is really bitter and not delicious."
The little nurse said this, so I could only look at Ji Guanxin ambiguously.
Ji Guanxin chewed a piece of candy and made a crunching sound. After the bitter taste in his mouth dissipated a little, he looked at Luo Xiangdong and me and said, "We have already asked for marriage. If you two are not busy preparing for the wedding, why not Come to me if you have time?"
I was just about to change the subject. Luo Xiangdong, who spoke for the first time since entering the house, preceded me and said: "Getting married is a big deal. If you don't rush it early, you have to be busy. You have never been married, so of course you don't know. ”
Ji Guanxin sneered and replied nonchalantly: "You made it sound like you were married."
Luo Xiangdong turned around and walked to the sofa not far away and sat down, as if he were at home. He relaxed and leaned on the back of the sofa, then looked at Ji Guanxin and said, "Are you completely healed?"
Ji Guanxin said: "Have you ever seen people who are not sick need to be hospitalized?"
Luo Xiangdong said: "Maybe you are mentally ill."
Ji Guanxin sneered: "You are mentally ill and I haven't seen you hospitalized yet."
When they met, they started pinching each other. I wasn't afraid that they would fight, but I was afraid that Luo Xiangdong would make Ji Guanxin's heart disease angry. Thinking of heart disease, I couldn't help but look at Ji Guanxin and said softly: "Guanxin, if your operation is successful, will you no longer be troubled by heart disease in the future?"
Ji Guanxin's fair face looked a little careless, his lips parted, and he replied aloud: "See the little nurse who just forced me to take medicine? She came in five or six times a day, and I didn't even bother to count the medicines I took. The doctor said , just eat this way for two years, and I will be just like a normal person.”
Hearing this, I breathed a sigh of relief and was about to smile and say that's great. In the end, Luo Xiangdong spoke faster than me, and said with a half-smile: "Take pills by the handful, and if you take them for two years, good people have finished eating them, right?"
Ji Guanxin looked at Luo Xiangdong and unexpectedly did not argue with him. Instead, he said with a smile on his face: "Yes, so I plan to be hospitalized for two years. In these two years, you will come to see me every weekend, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Xiangdong raised his eyes and glanced at him.
Ji Guanxin didn't give up yet and moved his eyes to me beside the hospital bed. He smiled and patted the seat next to him and said to me: "Zijin, sit down."
I glanced at Ji Guanxin with my left eye and Luo Xiangdong with my right eye. I dared not sit next to Ji Guanxin.
I raised the corners of my lips, chuckled, and then said, "What fruit do you two eat? I'll get it for you."
"cherries."
"come over."
The former was said by Ji Guanxin, and the latter was naturally said by Luo Xiangdong.
Luo Xiangdong felt that I was closer to Ji Guanxin than to him, and he looked at me with sparks in his eyes.
I walked to the coffee table in front of the sofa and brought the fruit plate with cherries to Ji Guanxin.
Ji Guanxin looked at me and said, "Zijin, come back next week. Luo Xiangdong is busy, so there is no need to ask him to come."
I said, "Are you two bored?"
We have been fighting openly and secretly all day long, and now that the dust has settled, Ji Guanxin also knows the relationship between me and Luo Xiangdong, but he still wants to talk about it.
Luo Xiangdong won't really take it to heart, and naturally neither will I. But every time Ji Guanxin says this, I still feel a dull pain deep in my heart.
In a world of three people, one person must exit in exchange for the perfection of the other two people.
Luo Xiangdong said: "Don't take me with you, I'm not as boring as him."
I pulled up a chair and sat between Ji Guanxin and Luo Xiangdong, not far from the hospital bed or the sofa.
There were only three of us in the ward. A friend came to visit Ji Guanxin on the way. When he saw Luo Xiangdong and I, he left not long after.
It was hard for me to imagine a time when the three of us would be in the same room without making noises. Even now, at this moment, I feel in a daze.
I talked to Ji Guanxin about working in Night City, and Ji Guanxin also talked to me about some things he did in the hospital. During this period, Luo Xiangdong was flipping through magazines, but he listened to everything we said, and he would bicker with Ji Guanxin from time to time.
When I came to Japan this time, I was unexpectedly airsick. I felt nauseous on the plane. Fortunately, I still had a few candies in my bag, so I took them out and pressed them.
Ji Guanxin was sitting in the hospital bed eating cherries. I saw that he was enjoying the meal, so I went to get some strawberries from the coffee table.
Maybe it was because I didn’t eat much food on the plane and my stomach was a bit empty, and I suddenly ate a lot of strawberries, so I started to have bouts of stomach acid.
I got up and went into the bathroom and turned on the faucet. I bent there and wanted to vomit but couldn't.
In the past, when I wasn't with Luo Xiangdong, I didn't care at all when my aunt came and left, and whether I felt nauseous or vomiting, because I wouldn't associate it with pregnancy at all.
But it's different now. This is the same as being a thief with a guilty conscience. Standing in the bathroom, I started to recall what date I came to my aunt last month. At that time, I went to bed with Luo Xiangdong, wearing a condom or not.
The more I thought about it, the more panicked I felt. When I came out of the bathroom, Luo Xiangdong glanced at me and asked aloud, "Are you not feeling well yet?"
Ji Guanxin also looked at me and said, "What's wrong with you?"
I said casually: "It's okay, I'm a little airsick."
Ji Guanxin said: "You only got motion sickness before. When did you get a new problem?"
Luo Xiangdong said: "It's not because of you that she is now a vegetarian all day long, and the family has to invite a Buddha."
I tried hard to change the topic, but Ji Guanxin looked at me sideways and said seriously: "Why are you a vegetarian?"
I looked back at him and replied with a faint smile: "Lose weight."
There was no smile on Ji Guanxin's face, and he even frowned slightly. After a few seconds, he said aloud: "I don't believe that stuff. Besides, I'm fine. You can eat whatever you need."
I subconsciously said: "Bah, bah, don't talk nonsense. I still plan to come to Todaiji Temple in Japan every year to fulfill my wish."
Ji Guanxin glared at me and said, "You can't believe in Buddhism at home, but you still believe in Buddhism from abroad."
I quickly retorted: "Aren't you doing surgeries abroad or in China?"
Ji Guanxin looked at me without blinking, with real anger in his eyes.
Seeing this, I quickly said: "Okay, okay, I was wrong, please don't be angry."
Ji Guanxin has just had surgery. If I make him angry, the Ji family will probably chop me into meat buns and feed them to the dogs.
Luo Xiangdong said: "She didn't eat when we took the plane in the morning. She got airsick and didn't eat well during the flight. She probably had a stomachache. Let's go out for a meal first. You can take care of yourself here. If she's bored, call her Xiao The nurse comes in to stay with you."
After that, he put down one of his crossed legs, threw the magazine on the coffee table, stood up and walked next to me.
Ji Guanxin also said: "Hurry up and go to eat. I'm still sitting here talking for a long time without eating."
I said, "Then let's go first. If you want anything, we'll bring it back to you."
Ji Guanxin said: "What can I ask for now? Hurry up and eat your food."
I put on my coat and prepared to go out with Luo Xiangdong. Ji Guanxin's voice came from behind: "Eat what you have to eat. My life is not the result of your vegetarian diet."
I looked back at him with a smile: "I know."
That afternoon, when Luo Xiangdong and I were having dinner, neither of us mentioned being vegetarian. Luo Xiangdong looked at me without touching a bite of the meaty food. After finishing the meal, he went back to the ward to see Ji Guanxin. Ji Guanxin asked me what I had eaten.
I said I ate meat, but Luo Xiangdong didn't discredit me.