【Extra】Guangnan weather forecast is rainy 1
"Master Li, is this painting truly beyond repair? You decide the price."
At that time, Zhou Xu had just gotten married and brought Zhou Jibai, Ruoyu and Zhou Chaolu to Guangnan.
One is for the younger generations to travel together to enhance their relationship, and the other is to go to Guangnan, find the Buque Sect, and repair the token of love between grandma and grandpa.
His expression was slightly solemn as he stood in front of the sandalwood table and looked at Li Huaisheng opposite him.
Li Huaisheng sighed lightly, unfolded the "Spring Mountain with Birds on the Branches" painting that had been damaged by water, looked at it again and again, and then shook his head helplessly.
"If I were ten years younger, I might have taken on this job. But now, those new disciples of the Buque Sect can't take it. My old eyes are blurry, and I'm afraid that if I don't do a step well, the whole painting will be ruined."
It is such a pity that this painting "Birds on Intertwined Branches in Spring Mountains" was destroyed.
"Is there anyone else who can take on this job?"
Li Huaisheng instantly thought of his little granddaughter Zhizhi. "I would train my granddaughter as my heir, but her skills are not very good right now. It will take a few years before she can restore this painting."
"Besides, the little girl is rebellious now and hard to control. I don't know where she goes to play all day long and I can't see her anywhere."
Zhou Xu's eyes hidden behind the lenses dimmed, and he sighed neither lightly nor heavily. It seemed that he had returned empty-handed again this time.
The young man who was lazily leaning on the sofa vaguely heard his elder brother's sigh, then he slowly raised his eyelids and stood up.
"If you can't fix it, go back."
At that time, Zhou Jibai was a young man with a strong sense of youth. The scattered afternoon sunlight shone through the window onto his body, and his amber eyes were illuminated with a warm luster.
The unrestrained and noble young master walked towards Zhou Xu with a casual pace.
Zhou Xu frowned, his eyes falling on the painting "Birds on Intertwined Branches in Spring Mountains" spread out on the table.
"If your granddaughter inherits your mantle in a few years, please be sure to contact us." After saying that, Zhou Xu respectfully handed a business card to Li Huaisheng.
"OK."
Just as Zhou Jibai and Zhou Xu were about to turn around and leave, they saw a girl with dazzling blonde hair and a bright red dress running in from the door like a little tit.
"Grandpa~~" The girl's voice was sweet and cute, with an obvious coquettish tone.
She didn't care about the two guests in the house, brushed past them, and trotted straight to Li Huaisheng.
Zhou Jibai turned his head and looked at the girl's slender back. His gaze stayed on her for a moment, but only for a moment.
Li Huaisheng's eyes widened when he saw Shi Huai's golden hair. He frowned and said, but his tone still sounded a bit doting: "What's wrong with your hair? It's like a foreigner's."
"This is platinum! You don't understand!" Shi Huai pouted, but now was not the time to introduce her new hair color to her grandfather.
She raised her bright and round almond-shaped eyes and looked eagerly at her grandfather: "Grandpa, the best grandpa in the world~"
Li Huaisheng snorted: "Tell me, how much do you want this time?"
Shi Huai immediately smiled, and looked at Li Huaisheng with stars in his eyes: "Grandpa is still the best to me! Hehehe! I don't ask for much this time, just 500 yuan!"
Li Huaisheng tutted his words: "Buy those little dolls again?"
"No, I have a friend who is going abroad, and I want to give him a farewell gift."
Li Huaisheng said in a long voice: "Male or female?"
Shi Huai hesitated for a moment, then smiled and said, "Girl~"
Li Huaisheng finally felt relieved and asked again, "Where's your grandma?"
"My grandma withheld my pocket money and only gave me twenty yuan a day to buy noodles." When Shi Huai said this, his little face became sad.
"I'm asking what your grandmother is doing."
After Shi Huai went to school in Changjing Guangnan, he shuttled back and forth between his grandparents' homes, and only came to stay with Li Huaisheng during holidays.
"Grandma is embroidering at home."
"Okay, got it."
After the words fell, Li Huaisheng glanced at Shi Huai's eyes looking at him eagerly, took out his mobile phone and transferred a thousand yuan to Shi Huai: "Transfer you an extra five hundred yuan and dye your hair back for me."
"Got it!" Shi Huai straightened his back and saluted Li Huaisheng.
After getting the money, Shi Huai turned around and ran away.
Seeing Shi Huai turned and ran, Li Huaisheng warned: "Don't tell your grandma."
"I know!"
"I need to see you with black hair when I go home."
"I can't hear you!"
"Hey! You little bastard!"
Looking at Shi Huai's back as he ran further and further away, Li Huaisheng said earnestly, "Zhizhi, be good and listen!"
Shi Huai didn't respond and was in a hurry to go out and play with his friends.
Shi Huai went out and found that the two brothers she had just seen in the house had not left yet. She knew that they were her grandfather's guests, so she greeted them politely.
"Hello!"
Zhou Xu hummed softly, "Hello."
Zhou Jibai looked up at Shi Huai, seeing her hair shining in the sunlight, raised an eyebrow, and replied calmly, "Hello."
Shi Huai didn't look closely and ran away after getting the response.
"Your sister-in-law and Zhaolu are still waiting, go back first."
This trip to Guangnan was another futile effort, and Zhou Xu's face looked a little cold.
"It's not in vain." Zhou Jibai said lazily, his eyes never moving away from the door. "Won't Master Li's granddaughter be able to take over in a few years?"
He didn't look away until he heard the roar of the motorcycle gradually fade away.
Zhou Xu was helpless and chuckled: "Then let's wait a few more years."
…
[Guangnan weather forecast predicts rain, please bring an umbrella with you.]
【The roads are slippery in rainy days, please pay attention to safety when traveling.】
When Zhou Jibai went out alone, he had a car accident.
Heavy rain fell on the sky of Guangnan like a waterfall from the mountain top.
There were no injuries on his body, but he was blinded in one eye.
The doctor said it was temporary blindness and would recover. He should stay in the hospital for observation.
Zhou Xu glanced at Zhou Jibai, whose eyes were covered with gauze, and felt an indescribable dullness and depression in his heart.
Zhou Jibai's expression didn't seem to fluctuate much, but his words were cold: "Don't tell grandma."
"Can--"
"No problem." He didn't seem bothered by being forced into darkness. "If you want to cause Granny more trouble, go ahead."
Zhou Xu frowned and said, "Go back to Changjing."
"No, I won't go back." Zhou Jibai touched the cold wall behind him, then leaned against it lazily.
"Do you want to stay in Guangnan alone?"
Zhou Jibai: "Yeah."
Zhou Xu was irritated by his brother's reckless behavior. "I was the one who took you out this time. It's my responsibility if I didn't protect you well."
"I push everything onto you. Why don't you just go to the toilet for me?"
Zhou Xu: ...
His parents are still abroad, Chaolu is still young, and he and Ruoyu have just gotten married. Most of the burden of the family now falls on Zhou Xu alone.
He couldn't stay in Guangnan for long and insisted on taking Zhou Jibai away.
But Zhou Jibai didn't want to face anyone with these blind eyes.
Zhou Jibai: "Find me two caregivers. Just the two of us will know about this."
"I didn't say I agreed to let you stay here alone."
"Then you can knock out your eyeballs and give them to me. You can stay blind and I will take you back to Changjing."
Zhou Xu: ...
Zhou Jibai is very arrogant and holds only one attitude.
He won't go back.
Not returning to Changjing.
He wouldn't let anyone know he was blind.
Although he looks cynical on the surface, the 19-year-old boy has his own selfishness and stubbornness.
Zhou Xu pinched his brows. His younger brother has been difficult to deal with since he was young.
Now he was determined to stay in Guangnan and not let anyone see his vulnerability and helplessness, so Zhou Xu had no choice but to grit his teeth and agree.
"knew."
"Yeah. Go out, I'm going to sleep."
Zhou Xu didn't leave in a hurry. He looked at Zhou Jibai who was leaning lazily against the wall as if nothing had happened, and sighed again.
"I'm not dead."
This time Zhou Jibai had come to Guangnan with him. In Zhou Xu's mind, as the eldest brother, he should have blamed himself for his mistakes. A sudden rain brought a car accident, taking away Zhou Jibai's sight.
Zhou Xu said in a low voice, unexpectedly: "I can't even feel sorry for my own brother?"
"Stop disgusting me."
Zhou Xu:.
"Let's go." Zhou Xu patted Zhou Jibai's shoulder.
Zhou Jibai raised his eyebrows but did not move.
Hearing Zhou Xu's footsteps, Zhou Jibai said quietly: "Pull the curtains for me, I'm sleepy."
Zhou Xu glanced at the darkening sky and his heart sank.
He turned around and went back to the floor-to-ceiling window to draw the curtains, then handed the remote control for the automatic curtains on the bedside table to Zhou Jibai.
Zhou Jibai shook his hand without making any sound.
Zhou Xu left, and the moment the door closed, Zhou Jibai turned around and threw the curtain remote control in his hand to the ground.
"unnecessary."
The sound of the remote falling to the ground abruptly ceased, and the entire room fell into a cold, deathly silence. Endless darkness enveloped him, leaving him with a chilling loneliness. Tiny cracks gradually ripped through his fragility and despair, then widened, threatening to swallow him whole.
Only with the faint smell of disinfectant lingering at the tip of his nose could he sense a bit of vitality in the world. The world was telling him that he was still alive.
He tried to calm himself down, but even his breathing was trembling.
Zhou Jibai thought, I'll be fine after a good sleep.
It was just like looking forward to Santa Claus when he was a child. The Christmas stocking hanging on the bedside was empty the day before, but when he opened his eyes the next day, the stocking would be stuffed full of his favorite gifts.
When I woke up the next day, there was still darkness in front of me.
Zhou Jibai's body was shaking violently. He couldn't tell the difference between day and night. His whole world was wrapped in pitch-black silence.
what to do.
He is now.
Just a useless person.
He wants to go to the toilet.
He bumped into the corner of the table, the door frame, and didn't notice there was a chair in front of him. He tripped and fell heavily to the ground.
Pain spread to his kneecap. Zhou Jibai clenched his fists and felt around for support that could help him stand up from the ground.
His palm touched nothing and he fell heavily to the ground again.
Bitterness spread throughout his heart, and his expression became even more gloomy and embarrassed.
Later, a nurse came and helped him find the bathroom.
There was a nurse who wanted to stay with him at night, but Zhou Jibai refused.
On weekdays, he basically doesn't call for a nurse. He would rather fall down than do things within his ability.
Since he became blind, Zhou Jibai has become noticeably thinner. He is as sick as a withered man, letting his vitality drain away bit by bit.
In just one month, Zhou Jibai lost 20 kilograms.
Zhou Xu would visit him every weekend, and when he saw Zhou Jibai's thin, pale, sickly face, he frowned.
"Ji Bai, don't be so stubborn."
Zhou Jibai's voice was hoarse and weak. He forced a smile and said, "Don't worry about it."
It seems that he is really in a lot of pain. His words to others are weak and without any sharpness.
Even if you pretend to be heartless, your body can't lie.
He is so thin that it's heartbreaking.
It's like a tree that has lost all its soul and life, with branches that are dry and break at the slightest bend.
He locked himself in the ward all day, not going out, quietly waiting for the doctor to come and tell him when he could regain his sight.
Now Zhou Jibai could already skillfully find out the directions of every position in the ward. He hid himself in this square ward, trying to hide his miserable state.
Although it was the height of summer and the sun was scorching, he felt cold all over, as if he had fallen into an iceberg.
"Second Young Master, the weather is nice today, shall we go out for a walk?"
"No."
The nurse asks Zhou Jibai this question every day.
Zhou Jibai's answer remained consistent.
Since he became blind, he has become increasingly taciturn and apathetic, sometimes not even speaking more than ten words in a whole day.
The caregiver was young, a recent male college graduate. Zhou Xu had chosen a lively one specifically to cheer up Zhou Jibai.
"Today's rain came quickly and went away quickly." The nurse smiled and talked to Zhou Jibai again.
Zhou Jibai ignored him and didn't stop him from making noise.
"Hey! Second Young Master! Look at the sky! It's a double rainbow!"
As soon as the nurse finished speaking, he realized that he had said the wrong thing.
He quickly bowed and apologized: "Sorry, Second Young Master, I didn't mean it!"
Instead of the furious outburst the nurse had imagined, he said calmly, "Why don't you give me your eyeballs so I can see what these two rainbows look like?"
The nurse's face flushed with shame and she scratched the back of her head. "That... isn't good."
Zhou Jibai got off the bed and walked to the window.
The nurse wanted to go forward to support him, but Zhou Jibai waved his hand to refuse.
The window was half opened for ventilation. As soon as it went down, a cool and damp breeze sneaked through the gap in the window and brushed Zhou Jibai's handsome face.
The fishy smell of soil and rain lingered in his nose. It seemed like he hadn't been outside to breathe some fresh air for a long time.
"Take me down."
The nurse was surprised:!!!
This aloof Second Young Master! He's finally willing to go out!
The nurse originally wanted to push Zhou Jibai's wheelchair for a walk, but Zhou Jibai coldly refused and returned to his usual cold and indifferent attitude.
"Take me down and clear the way for me." Zhou Jibai repeated this sentence.
The nurse agreed and cleared the way for Zhou Jibai.
Zhou Jibai disguised himself as a normal person. Except for a layer of white gauze covering his eyes, no one could tell that he was blind.
Arriving at the secluded back garden, Zhou Jibai asked the nurse to go back first and come back to pick him up after hearing from him.
Nurse: “But.”
Zhou Jibai: "Do you have any objections?"
The nurse didn't dare to speak, and could only run away in shame like a little mouse. In fact, he was secretly observing from the dark, fearing that something might happen to his sponsor's brother.
Zhou Jibai sat on a bench under a big banyan tree. He was thin, his back was lonely, and his handsome face was pale, giving him a sense of morbid beauty.
The banyan tree must be several decades old, with lush branches and leaves intertwined together, insulating the tree from the scorching summer heat. A faint, humid wind blew over, and raindrops on the tender green branches were scraped onto Zhou Jibai's hospital gown.
Sparse golden light filtered through the branches and leaves, casting swaying shadows on the trees. The not-so-bright light made his figure look lonely and frail, which was heartbreaking.
Suddenly, a small hand patted his shoulder, and Zhou Jibai looked up alertly.
Only then was heard the sweet voice of the girl with a smile on her face.
"Little blind man, why are you sitting here alone?"
The branches swayed, and the cool breeze brushed past his ears noisily.
When he was nineteen, the hot and humid summer in Guangnan made him stop thinking.
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