Chapter 63 Indirect kissing is also...
Tao Siyun and Xu Ji's first date was temporarily canceled after Qin Shu received a call from Chen Qin in the morning.
Tao Qi participated in a team-building activity organized by the company and broke his leg while skiing at a resort in another city. His condition was extremely critical and the local medical conditions were limited. After simple treatment, he was sent back to Beijing for surgery overnight.
"An'an, go to the supermarket with Mom later. We'll buy some bones to make soup at home and send it to the hospital at noon. Your aunt stayed in the hospital all night and didn't get any rest. Let her go home and sleep, and we'll stay in the hospital to take care of her. Is that okay with you?"
"Yeah, okay."
Tao Siyun first sent a WeChat message to Xu Ji to explain the situation, and then went to the supermarket with Qin Shu to buy ingredients.
When they arrived at the hospital, Tao Qi was still unconscious.
"Hey, your second uncle hurried upstairs to check on him this morning. He checked with the orthopedic doctor and he said it's nothing serious, just that he needs to be well for a few months. Now he's better and can't go anywhere. He's finally at peace."
Tao Siyun looked inside through the glass window on the door. Tao Qi's arms and legs were all broken to varying degrees. He was wrapped up like a mummy. He looked really miserable...
She couldn't imagine how painful it must be.
"Aunt, my mother and I are here, you should go home and rest first."
"No." Chen Qin sighed tiredly. Her voice was a little hoarse after a night of hard work. "I can't sleep even if I go home. I'll pack his toiletries and bring him some clean clothes and come right over. I have to stay here with him tonight."
"I'll drive you home." Qin Shu handed the thermos in his hand to Tao Siyun: "An An, stay here. Wake up your brother and let him eat first, otherwise the soup will get cold soon. I'm going home with your aunt to get something."
"Oh, okay."
As soon as Tao Siyun entered the room, Tao Qi woke up groaning.
"Hey, don't move! Lie down quickly."
Tao Siyun walked over and raised the bed a little.
The environment of the single ward is pretty good. In addition to the sofa and coffee table, there is also a bed for family members to stay with their children.
"Are you hungry? Have some bone soup." Tao Siyun opened the thermos on the bedside table and poured out the steaming soup. He blew on the bowl and fed Tao Qi spoonful by spoonful. "I've been cooking it all morning. Is it delicious?"
After taking a few sips, Tao Qi bit the spoon with a painful look on his face.
"What's wrong?"
Tao Qi only had two eyes and a mouth that could move normally. He was extremely weak and said with a weak breath, "No, no salt..."
"Oh, Auntie said you should eat a lighter diet now, so she didn't add any salt." Tao Siyun took a tissue and wiped his mouth clean. "Drink another bowl. It will replenish what you eat. You will be able to be discharged soon."
"No." Tao Qi closed his eyes, looking as if he was dead. Like a child throwing a tantrum, he began to make all kinds of excessive demands on Tao Siyun: "I want a hamburger, fried chicken, and a large cup of iced Coke..."
"No." Tao Siyun threatened him softly while pouring soup into the bowl: "If you don't finish the soup today, I will make you carrot soup tomorrow."
Carrots were Tao Qi's most hated food, bar none. Eating them was practically poison to him...
"Come, have a bite of yam, ah——"
"Ah——" Tao Qi opened his mouth in despair.
After drinking two bowls of tasteless bone soup, seeing that he looked like he was about to vomit at any moment, Tao Siyun was so scared that he quickly peeled a banana and said, "Hurry up, eat a banana to relieve the greasiness."
Tao Qi ate the banana numbly until he completely suppressed the nausea that kept rising in his stomach.
After dinner, Tao Siyun packed up the thermos and sat on the hospital bed to chat with Tao Qi to relieve his boredom.
She only saw the message Xu Ji sent at that time. Tao Siyun replied that he was still in the hospital. When she looked up, she saw her little cousin staring at her intently.
"What's wrong?"
Tao Qi opened his mouth and closed it again, closing his eyes, looking as if he wanted to say something but couldn't, and was extremely depressed.
It was the first time that Tao Siyun saw such an indescribable expression on Tao Qi's face. It was completely different from his previous shameless style.
She vaguely guessed something, "Um, do you want to go to the bathroom? Do you want me to go out and call a nurse for you now?"
"Wait a moment……"
"?"
Tao Qi hesitated for a long time under Tao Siyun's questioning eyes, and finally couldn't hold it in any longer, so he said hypocritically: "Find a man!"
"...Oh." Tao Siyun curled his lips and gently closed the door: "Got it."
Tao Siyun asked a nurse to go in for help. While waiting in the corridor, she received a call from Tao Qian, who told her that he had booked a flight for tomorrow afternoon.
After hanging up the phone, Qin Shu and Shen Qin also rushed over after getting their things from home.
"Sister-in-law, you guys go back first, I can do it alone."
"It's okay, I'll stay with you. You should have a good rest in the first half of the night. Tao Qian will be back tomorrow, so you can ask him to come and help take care of you tomorrow night." After Qin Shu said this, he let Tao Siyun go home first.
Seeing this, Tao Siyun was unwilling to leave: "It's still early, I'll stay a little longer."
Chen Qin took a mask from her bag and put it on her: "There's been a flu outbreak recently, and there are a lot of people coughing in the hospital. Be careful not to get infected. Be good, go home first."
Tao Siyun subconsciously looked at Qin Shu.
"Mom won't take you there. It'll be hard to find a parking space later. Your dad has an appointment tonight, so let's just have something to eat outside for dinner."
"Okay, got it."
After leaving the hospital, Tao Siyun took the subway home. On the way, he sent a WeChat message to Xu Ji, saying that he could have dinner with him.
***
At eight o'clock in the evening, the two came to Henghui Building and took the elevator upstairs. There was a revolving Western restaurant on the top floor.
After getting out of the elevator, Tao Siyun tugged at Xu Ji's sleeve: "Are we really going to eat here?"
"What's wrong? Didn't you take the initiative to ask me out?" Xu Ji held her hand and said, "Let's go."
"Wait a minute..." When Tao Siyun reached the door, he saw a familiar figure inside. After hesitating for a few seconds, he finally said why he didn't want to go in: "The manager of this restaurant knows my brother, and he knows me too."
"Are you afraid he'll tell your brother?" Xu Ji chuckled. "Is it really that serious? Your brother will find out sooner or later."
"But I haven't figured out how to tell him yet."
If you choose to be honest about some things from the beginning, it shouldn't become increasingly difficult to talk about them, right?
Tao Siyun suddenly felt a little regretful. It would have been better if she had let Tao Qian know earlier that they were high school classmates. Otherwise, he would definitely think that she and Xu Ji had ulterior motives in concealing the truth from the beginning.
But thinking about it again, there were also difficulties at that time...
After returning from Suiwu, she was already embarrassed enough facing Xu Ji. She wished she would never have any chance to be alone with him again, but it was unavoidable. Tao Qian invited her to have dinner with him and asked her to borrow clothes. He treated Xu Ji, who was both his junior and tenant, as his own and was not at all shy.
If she told Tao Qian first, maybe this would be seen as a signal of "taking the initiative" in Xu Ji's eyes. After all, it wouldn't be the first time she knew how self-indulgent this man's imagination was...
"Then don't tell him. The restaurant owner is my uncle's buddy. I'll call him later and tell him to pretend he didn't see you."
Tao Siyun: "..."
"Let's go, make up for the date."
The top floor has a wide view, and the huge glass wall is like a 3D picture frame, framing the city and sky below.
The snow in Jingfu has been falling since last night and there is still no sign of stopping.
"I'll be back to Huxi tomorrow afternoon."
"Hmm?" Tao Siyun withdrew his gaze, and after realizing what he had just said, he slowly said "Oh", and twirled the cream-covered pasta around with his fork.
"Won't you stay a few more days?"
Xu Ji raised his eyebrows, cut a piece of his own grilled salmon and put it on her plate, then asked excitedly, "Why, you can't bear to part with it?"
Tao Siyun forked the piece of fish and said, "You are the one who can't bear to part with it..."
When she looked up, Xu Ji was looking at her with interest, and he deliberately dragged out his tone: "Well, I can't bear to leave."
Tao Siyun raised the fork in his hand and blocked his mouth without hesitation.
Not only did she herself fail to react to this self-defeating action, even Xu Ji was stunned for two seconds.
Tao Siyun felt awkward if he withdrew his hand, but also awkward if he didn't, so he just froze there.
Xu Ji was surprised, but she was very cooperative. She ate the salmon Tao Siyun fed her, then glanced at the half-eaten plate of creamy carbonara in front of her. The corners of her lips curled up slightly, and she asked politely, "Do you want me to feed you?"
“…”
"I think I was the one who was taken advantage of just now."
Tao Siyun didn't say anything. Under Xu Ji's gaze, he put down the cutlery in his hand with some restraint. Then, in front of him, he openly replaced the fork with an unused clean one and continued to eat the pasta.
Tsk, other people do bad things secretly, but she is different. She does all the bad things that others despise right under their noses.
Xu Ji said maliciously: "Indirect kissing is still kissing."
“…………”
After dinner, Xu Ji asked her if she wanted dessert.
Tao Siyun ordered a cheese soufflé.
"How about I take you there..."
"Um?"
Tao Siyun found a very convincing reason for his little thought: "My brother is coming back tomorrow. Your flight is at 3:30, and he will arrive at 3:50. I also happen to be going to the airport to pick him up."
Xu Ji raised the corners of his lips, knowing the truth but not saying anything: "Oh, I'm just giving it a try. Do you think I'm riding with you?"
“…So be it.”
Tao Siyun has hardly ever touched a car since he got his driver's license. He can barely drive three to five kilometers in the city, and that's when there's someone sitting in the passenger seat.
She told Tao Qian in advance that she would pick him up, drove the car out of the community, and then asked Xu Ji to drive to the airport.
Half an hour after sending him off, Tao Siyun ordered a cup of coffee at the Starbucks at the airport and waited for Tao Qian.
Tao Qian rubbed her head and said, "You came here specifically to pick up your brother? How dare you drive alone?"
Tao Siyun murmured a guilty "hmm." The next second, she caught Tao Qian's unexpected gaze and, fearing he would actually ask her to drive home, she immediately changed her words and said, "I found a designated driver."
Tao Qian was originally quite touched, but upon hearing this, his emotion instantly went from zero to negative. "What's your train of thought, girl? You hired a designated driver to pick me up at the airport in my car, and then asked me to drive back? How is that any different from asking me to just take a taxi home?"
Tao Siyun couldn't find a more suitable reason for the moment, so he said, "Didn't I come to pick you up?"
"You can also take a taxi."
Tao Siyun changed the subject in time: "We're going to the hospital now. Mom and I will take Auntie home later. You stay there tonight to keep her company. We'll take your place tomorrow morning."
"You're quite good at making arrangements."
"Mom said that since you are both men, it will be easier to take care of you."
Besides, Tao Qi has a strong sense of gender awareness and even wants to hire a male nurse.
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