Chapter 162 Husband and Brother
During the three days he stayed in the hospital, all of Luo Qinglin's needs were taken care of by Jiang Yanyu.
Jiang Yanyu feeds him personally when he eats and drinks.
Go to the bathroom, Jiang Yanyu carried her there personally.
When it’s time to sleep and rest, Jiang Yanyu personally “comforts” him.
Because of this, the notes in the log book became more and more, but the number of lines gradually decreased, from 8 lines in the first 24 hours to 3 lines on the third day.
On the morning of the third day, when Luo Qinglin opened his eyes, he found that his legs had regained sensation, his neck could move, and he could speak fluently again.
So when Jiang Yanyu carried him to the bathroom as usual, Luo Qinglin put his hands on his hips and refused arrogantly: "No need! I'm fully recovered!"
After he finished speaking, Luo Qinglin jumped off the bed and prepared to go to the bathroom himself.
However, as soon as he landed on the ground, his legs became uncontrollable and he could not exert any strength or maintain his balance. He was trembling and almost fell to the ground.
Fortunately, Jiang Yanyu was quick-witted and grabbed him and locked him in his arms.
"Is this what you call a complete recovery? I don't see it." Jiang Yanyu picked up Luo Qinglin and walked into the bathroom.
A few days ago, after carrying him to sit on the toilet, Jiang Yanyu turned around and waited.
At first Luo Qinglin was nervous and felt embarrassed, his cheeks turned red. Later, after doing it many times, I just got used to it and sat on the toilet like a big boss.
Although he could stand now, Luo Qinglin was not used to it yet. He still sat on the toilet, yawning lazily.
"By the way," Jiang Yanyu said, turning his back, "Qin Xiaoxi asked for leave from the program team today and will come to the hospital to see you later."
"Huh?" Luo Qinglin wiped away his tears from yawning and asked with wide eyes, "She knows everything? Did you tell her?"
"No, I just briefly described the situation and didn't make it sound so serious. The public statement only said that you were not feeling well and were recuperating in the hospital." Jiang Yanyu replied.
"That's good......"
Luo Qinglin felt relieved, for he was afraid that Qin Xiaoxi would be angry and worried if she knew that he almost had a cardiac arrest, and would be so anxious that he would not be able to concentrate on the competition.
Knock knock knock.
There was a knock on the ward door, and it sounded like Qin Xiaoxi's knock.
Luo Qinglin hurried to the mirror to check his image.
Her hair was neatly combed by Jiang Yanyu, and her hospital gown was wrinkle-free, but her face was pale, and there was a sense of fragility between her eyebrows, as if she had just recovered from a serious illness, and she did not look very well.
"Hurry, hurry, give me your lipstick and foundation!" Luo Qinglin said anxiously.
Jiang Yanyu coughed lightly upon hearing this, then raised her voice to deny, "I don't have any foundation or lipstick."
"Obviously! The day I came out of the intensive care unit, you had foundation on, and I even felt the powder on your face!" Luo Qinglin exposed her mercilessly.
As soon as his illness improved and he could speak fluently, Luo Qinglin started talking non-stop, determined to make up for the frustration he had suffered in the past three days.
"You..." Jiang Yanyu was speechless for a rare moment, and then answered after a moment of silence, "I didn't bring lipstick and foundation. I specially asked a makeup artist to come to the hospital to put on my makeup that day, because I was afraid that you would cry again when you saw me when you came out."
No wonder Jiang Yanyu's face turned bad again the next day...
"Oh, if there's nothing, then there's nothing," Luo Qinglin's heart softened, and he put away his arrogant attitude after recovering from his illness, "Let's get out quickly and don't let her wait too long."
"etc."
Before opening the door, Jiang Yanyu suddenly leaned down, put his lips on Luo Qinglin's lips, and sucked with a little force.
"Okay," he sucked for a few seconds, then his lips left. Jiang Yanyu tucked his hair behind his ears, "It looks much better this way."
Luo Qinglin looked at the mirror and saw that his lips had indeed turned red, no longer as pale and bloodless as they had been at the beginning.
Knock knock knock.
The door was still knocking. Luo Qinglin quickly opened the door, smiled, and tried his best to meet Qin Xiaoxi with a cheerful look.
Outside the door, Qin Xiaoxi looked anxious, her toes constantly raised and then pointed down, with Bai Shengyun standing next to her.
Luo Qinglin had a bad feeling and thought, would that idiot Bai Shengyun tell Qin Xiaoxi everything?
Sure enough, when she saw him, Qin Xiaoxi rushed in and asked loudly, "What happened? He said Shen Yin poisoned you and you were almost killed?!"
"I..." Luo Qinglin answered hesitantly, "No, Shen Yin didn't poison me..."
"What's going on?" Qin Xiaoxi looked anxious and asked hurriedly as she walked into the door.
Luo Qinglin was stunned and didn't know what to say so that the matter would sound less embarrassing and make Qin Xiaoxi worry less.
Jiang Yanyu saw his worry, so he carried Luo Qinglin to the bed and took him out with Bai Shengyun.
"You guys chat slowly and pay attention to the time. Qin Xiaoxi has to go back early to record the show."
Jiang Yanyu left a word and closed the door of the ward amid Bai Shengyun's cursing complaints.
The ward became quiet.
Luo Qinglin avoided Qin Xiaoxi's gaze. Qin Xiaoxi said nothing, stared at him for a few seconds, then pulled the stool in the corner and sat down next to the bed.
"What's going on?" Qin Xiaoxi said in a cold voice, "Tell the truth, don't hide anything!"
Luo Qinglin hesitated for a moment and stammered, "He, he seems to like me..."
As soon as he said the first sentence, he was interrupted by Qin Xiaoxi.
"Do you still need to describe whether he likes you or not as 'seems'? Tell him the truth and don't hide anything!"
Qin Xiaoxi had a serious expression, her phoenix eyes staring coldly, with a strong sense of oppression, not allowing Luo Qinglin to make any rebuttal.
After taking a long breath, Luo Qinglin prepared himself mentally and gave a general idea in a few words.
"He liked me, so he put anesthetic gas in the hotel, tied me to a boat, and prepared to smuggle me to Nagasaki. While I was unconscious, he gave me a few injections of that drug, hoping that I would beg him to have sex with me. He took cocaine and was unconscious, so he injected it into my vein, and that's when the accident happened."
After listening to him, Qin Xiaoxi didn't say anything, but just sat there in a daze, as if digesting what he said.
"That's it?" Qin Xiaoxi suddenly asked, frowning, "Brother Jiang went to the boat to rescue you?"
Luo Qinglin deliberately avoided the issue these days, not wanting to think about Jiang Yanyu holding the axe, and not daring to ask where Shen Yin was or whether he was dead or alive.
Sometimes Luo Qinglin felt uneasy and dreamed that Jiang Yanyu was taken away by the police officer. After waking up, he only dared to hug him tightly and did not dare to mention the matter.
"Well," Luo Qinglin suppressed his uneasiness, "He arrived before I had an attack and sent me to the hospital just in time, so nothing happened to me."
"You still call this nothing happened?" Qin Xiaoxi was unhappy when she heard this, and angrily rebuked, "You're already in the intensive care unit, and you still call this nothing happened. What about Shen Yin? Where is he now? Has he been taken to the police station?"
"Also, Bai Shengyun said that the intercom explosion was caused by Shen Yin and Xiao Ruxuan working together. Is it true or not?"
Luo Qinglin was most afraid of someone mentioning Shen Yin's name. He would panic when he heard it, and his mind would automatically imagine the scene of the police breaking into the house and taking Jiang Yanyu away.
"I don't know," Luo Qinglin scratched his head, pretending to be confused, "I've been sleeping these days and haven't had time to ask. I'll ask the fox later."
After quickly answering questions about Shen Yin, Luo Qinglin quickly changed the subject, "I only heard that the intercom was provided by Shen Yin and brought in by Xiao Ruxuan. It's hard to say whether Xiao Ruxuan knew about it."
Perhaps because of the recording of the show, living with other models day and night and the intrigues, Qin Xiaoxi became much more perceptive than before and immediately noticed Luo Qinglin's uneasiness and concealment.
After a moment of silence, Qin Xiaoxi sighed and asked in a soft voice, "Is Shen Yin missing? Qinglin, are you worried and scared now?"
"I......"
Qin Xiaoxi hit the nail on the head and Luo Qinglin's breathing became unstable. He opened his eyes unconsciously and spoke incoherently.
His complexion was not good to begin with, and now with the added nervousness, Luo Qinglin's entire face turned pale and bloodless, as if he was walking in the snow in only a single piece of clothing in the middle of winter. Even the corners of his mouth were trembling slightly.
"Qinglin," Qin Xiaoxi held his hand and said soothingly, "If you suspect that Brother Jiang has done something out of line, then ask him directly and seek the answer. Don't just keep it in your heart and bear it alone."
Qin Xiaoxi spoke cryptically, but Luo Qinglin was still afraid, as if he had paranoia, suspecting that others would hear their conversation and that there was a bug here, and would expose the matter to others.
Luo Qinglin nodded vigilantly without saying anything, as cautious as when meeting with an agent.
Seeing his frightened look, Qin Xiaoxi sighed again, thinking that Shen Yin was also a loser. If she liked him, she could just like him, but why did she have to kidnap Luo Qinglin and bully Bai Shengyun?
In order to reassure Luo Qinglin, Qin Xiaoxi stopped asking about this matter and changed the subject, talking about what happened in "Reverse Supermodel" in the past few days.
The atmosphere in the ward became slightly better.
The two chatted for an hour, talking about how Chu Shiyi secretly took the phone and broke up with his girlfriend, and also saying that Olivia wanted to take advantage of the situation. Anyone with a discerning eye could see what she was thinking.
Duan Tianwei and Lin Xin get together every day, and it's unclear whether they are straight or gay.
Shan Qiu's ex-husband saw her on the show and tried every means to get the staff's phone number and use his connections to contact her, but she scolded him harshly.
The uneasiness faded away in the gossip and trivialities of life, and Luo Qinglin's mood had just begun to brighten up when he was stopped by the shouts from outside.
"Qin Xiaoxi, the time is up and the program team is urging you to go back." Jiang Yanyu reminded while standing outside the door.
After these words were spoken, Luo Qinglin's expression, which had just started to brighten, turned pale again out of fright, and he felt very uneasy.
Qin Xiaoxi sighed slightly, patted the back of his hand, and finally comforted him: "Just ask him directly later, if something goes wrong, he will find a way to solve it himself, but you can't continue like this, you are in a bad mood, how can you recover, understand?"
"Okay." Luo Qinglin nodded in agreement.
Squeak...
The door of the ward was quickly pushed open, and steady footsteps were heard coming from far away. It was Jiang Yanyu's voice.
After swapping positions, Qin Xiaoxi said goodbye to the two of them and left amid Bai Shengyun's chattering. Jiang Yanyu sat on a chair beside the bed, with no expression unusual on his face.
Rustle, rustle.
Jiang Yanyu remained silent, took the apple and automatic peeler from the bedside, and scraped the apple skin off bit by bit.
Jiang Yanyu's precious hands had never used a knife to peel an apple.
These days, Jiang Yanyu is superstitious. In order to help Luo Qinglin recover soon, he gives him an apple a day, which symbolizes "peace". Jiang Yanyu even sends someone to buy an automatic peeler so that he can "peel" the apples for him to eat.
After fixing the apple on a fixed point, Jiang Yanyu pulled the handle and turned it. The apple began to rotate and the skin was cut off by the blade.
Compared to Jiang Yanyu's palm, the peeler was not big, but rather small, as if the handle would break if he exerted the slightest force.
This scene was inexplicably funny, and Luo Qinglin felt like laughing every time he watched it.
But now, Luo Qinglin was in no mood to laugh. He let out a long sigh and decided to ask directly without hiding the question anymore.
"Brother, I have something to ask you." Luo Qinglin said in a serious tone, and it was rare that he called "brother" in a non-coquettish way.
The hand turning the handle paused for a moment, then continued to turn.
The flesh separated from the skin with a rustling sound, like the sound of a knife inserted into sand, turning left and right, and the tip of the knife stirring around.
After peeling off all the peels, Jiang Yanyu slowly took out a piece of paper, wrapped the apple, and put it in Luo Qinglin's hand.
"What's the matter?" Jiang Yanyu lowered his gaze and stared at Luo Qinglin closely, "Eat the apple quickly, or it will oxidize and turn black, and you won't be able to eat it."
Feeling his scalp tingle from being stared at by those cunning and glowing fox eyes, Luo Qinglin put the apple into his mouth, took a light bite, chewed quietly, and moved carefully.
After taking a bite of the apple, Luo Qinglin clenched his fists, lowered his head and looked at the quilt on his legs, avoiding his sight and asked: "Where is Shen Yin? Is he...still alive?"
As expected, Luo Qinglin did not get an answer, only silence and the pair of fox eyes that gradually approached.
Jiang Yanyu stood up and moved closer, pinched Luo Qinglin's face with one hand, turned him around, and forced him to look at her.
"Luo Qinglin, what answer do you want to hear?" Jiang Yanyu grinned and spoke slowly, "Do you want to hear me tell the truth or a lie?"
Although Jiang Yanyu was smiling, there was no warmth in that smile. Instead, it was like the stale ice of a deep winter night, freezing people's bodies.
"The truth," Luo Qinglin looked at him steadily and repeated to confirm, "I want to hear the truth."
Jiang Yanyu smiled and nodded, gently pinched Luo Qinglin's face, let go of his hand and sat back in his seat, folding his arms and subconsciously making a defensive gesture.
"Of course he's still alive," Jiang Yanyu crossed his legs, raised his chin slightly, and his eyes were cold. "He is working hard in Tokyo's red-light district, serving customers legally and in compliance with regulations."
Raising his head and looking at the clock on the wall again, Jiang Yanyu's smile widened, and there was an almost crazy satisfaction in his voice.
"At this time, he should have taken today's dose of medicine," Jiang Yanyu retracted his gaze, stared at Luo Qinglin, and said word by word, "In the vein."
"By the way, he had already arrived in Tokyo the day before yesterday. I tested the dosage of the medicine last night. It was just right, not too much or too little. His life would not be in danger."
Luo Qinglin couldn't help but tremble, not knowing what to say.
Jiang Yanyu paused for a moment, then added cautiously, as if he was correcting a wrong answer on a test paper, "Of course, I don't know if those guests are sick or not. If he gets that disease, there's nothing we can do."
Those guests...
Those ones......
Luo Qinglin couldn't imagine it and felt panicky.
No matter how naive and simple he was, he knew what "work" in the red-light district was. Because he had been to Tokyo for filming, he knew better how many customers the x-workers there would receive in a day.
Luo Qinglin opened his mouth slightly, his eyes were dazed, as if he was afraid or panicked, and his arms were shaking slightly.
His little bird was too obedient and got scared out of his wits by such a small thing.
Jiang Yanyu sighed, pulled Luo Qinglin's wrist, held him in his arms, and comforted him:
"Don't worry, BB. I never do anything illegal or criminal. No matter which country I'm in, I'll abide by the laws. I won't mess around or break the rules."
Hearing this, Luo Qinglin shivered even more violently. He nestled in Jiang Yanyu's arms, sniffing the mint scent, but it did not help relieve the coldness in his body.
After a long silence, Luo Qinglin tried to keep his voice steady and asked, "Can we let him come back?"
"Come back?" Jiang Yanyu suddenly tightened his arms, causing Luo Qinglin's back to ache. "Why? Don't you like me doing this?"
"Or..." Jiang Yanyu's eyes turned cold and he gritted his teeth, "Luo Qinglin, do you like him? Do you not want him to be punished?"
Luo Qinglin endured the pain and softened his voice and said, "Let him come back, brother. Send him to prison here or to prison in London. Let the law punish him. Don't do such a thing."
Jiang Yanyu didn't respond, so Luo Qinglin raised his head, his mouth curled down, his eyes sparkling, "I've been dreaming these days, all of you being arrested by the police. I also dreamed that you were put in prison, and I could only talk to you through the iron bars."
How can you visit a prisoner through iron bars these days, Jiang Yanyu thought, it was clearly through a glass window.
But Canary's eyes were a powerful drug that could easily make him soft-hearted. His attitude, which had just been unquestionable, suddenly changed and became drastically shaken.
"Please let him go and put him in jail," Luo Qinglin begged, "I don't want to feel uneasy every time I think of him in the future. I don't want you to be arrested by the police. Please, brother."
"Are you worried that I'll be arrested?" Jiang Yanyu asked with a raised eyebrow.
Luo Qinglin nodded quickly and said coquettishly, "I want to marry you and live a good life with you. I don't want to be a widower."
Widow?
Hearing this word for the first time made Jiang Yanyu laugh, "Why don't you say widower?"
The tense atmosphere was relieved, Luo Qinglin was relieved, and explained seriously: "I am your wife, of course I have to say widow."
"You are my wife..." Jiang Yanyu deliberately asked, "Then why do you only call me brother?"
Jiang Yanyu's hint was obvious, but it was too embarrassing to call him those two words now. Luo Qinglin was very hesitant and couldn't say it.
"If you call me 'husband' once, I will let Shen Yin go back. How about that?" Jiang Yanyu threw out the chips, deliberately tempting.
Luo Qinglin pursed his lips and buried his head back into the soft chest.
After a long time, there was a sudden rustling in Jiang Yanyu's arms, and a soft and charming voice said "Husband, brother".
Defeated by Luo Qinglin's persistence in calling him "brother", Jiang Yanyu laughed and stroked his soft hair, reluctantly agreeing, "Okay, husband and brother are fine too, I'll just put him back."
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