Chapter 118 This is my partner
Jiang Cha half-knelt in front of her, his eyes as red as a rabbit.
"Yes." He looked at her and spoke each word with emphasis. "Yes, as long as I don't live under the same roof with you, I will be fine. I will get better and better."
"Okay, as you wish."
Jiang Cha pulled his hand back. "Since you don't like me so much, I'll leave after the New Year. You don't have to deliberately humiliate yourself like this, and you don't have to torture all those who care about you."
"You make me feel like a sinner."
Jiang Cha left the room and glanced at Ji Zhixu who was standing outside the door.
"Please help him up. The thermometer is in the first drawer on the left side of his desk. Please take his temperature while you're at it. Thank you."
Jiang Cha actually wanted to say these words with a smile, but the corners of his mouth felt so heavy, as if they were being held down by a weight, and he couldn't lift them up.
The door was closed again and Jiang Cha sat in the living room.
Ji Zhixu carried Huo Jingchuan from the ground to the bed, covered him with a quilt, and placed the bowl of hot chicken noodle soup in front of him.
"Why are you doing this? You clearly like her, but you have to push her away. This is your way of doing things. It's because Jiang Cha has a good temper. If it were me, I would definitely give you two big slaps in the face."
"I... am not worthy of her."
Ji Zhixu slapped the chopsticks into his hand.
"Do you have the final say on whether you're worthy or not? Others may not understand you, but how could I not know? In all these years, you've only liked this one girl. If you push her out now, what if she falls in love with someone else? What if she just marries someone random? What will you do then?"
How could Huo Jingchuan listen to such words?
The chopsticks in his hand broke into two pieces with a snap.
"Look, you can't even bear to hear words like this. What will you do if that day really comes?"
Huo Jingchuan was also thinking about this question.
He had no appetite, but to reassure his family, he still finished the bowl of noodles.
Ji Zhixu came out with an empty bowl, and Jiang Cha breathed a sigh of relief.
"Has he finished eating?"
"I went to bed after eating."
Ginger Tea took him outside.
"Doctor Ji, tell me honestly, how serious is my brother's mental health problem?"
"It's hard to say. If, after a while, he can digest those bad memories and adjust his mentality, then this problem of his won't be a problem for him anymore."
Jiang Cha understood, "You mean, now, we'd better all follow his wishes, right?"
So, if he doesn't want to see her, she has to disappear?
He wants her to leave, so she has to leave?
"I understand. Thank you, Dr. Ji. During this period, I'll have to trouble you to come home more often to talk with my brother."
"You're welcome, aren't you?"
Jiang Cha took the empty bowl and went next door.
The four people next door rushed up at once.
"Has he finished eating?"
"Yeah, I'm done eating."
Ye Surong took the bowl and said, "That's great."
"Cha Cha, are you hungry too? I specially left a bowl of chicken noodle soup for you, come and have some."
Jiang Cha felt sour and depressed.
The heat from the hot chicken noodle soup made her eyes hurt.
Huo Jingye was helping Wu Xiaocao with her homework, and Huo Tingkun went next door to talk to Huo Jingchuan.
Ye Surong was still sitting in the living room knitting a sweater.
After finishing her meal, Jiang Cha went to the room where she used to live and rummaged through the drawers looking for something.
She dug out a box of calming incense.
Jiang Cha took the things, returned to Room 304, and began to study the secrets of Ye's Thirteen Needles.
She planned to practice on herself first.
Jiang Cha thought about it, went to the phone booth, and called Ye Guanlan.
After the call, Jiang Cha decided that she wanted to go to the research institute.
Tonight is New Year's Eve, and everyone woke up Huo Jingchuan to stay up together.
In those days, there was no Spring Festival Gala, and there was not a single TV set in the entire residential compound. Every household closed the door, prepared fruits and snacks, chatted, and played cards, which became entertainment on New Year's Eve.
When the hour and minute hands point to twelve o'clock, every household will set off a string of firecrackers at the door on time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
Compared with the laughter and joy in other families, the atmosphere in the Huo family was not solemn, but there was no laughter either.
Huo Tingkun and Huo Jingchuan are in the study.
Jiang Cha called Ye Guanlan for two full hours. She reorganized and copied the key points she had recorded.
Wu Xiaocao stayed by her side while she did her homework.
Wu Xiaocao had already finished the winter vacation homework assigned by the school teacher, and she is now self-studying the second-grade courses.
Huo Jingye and Ye Surong were chatting to each other. The Eight Immortals box on the coffee table was filled with fruits and snacks, but no one touched it.
"You were making a scene today, locking yourself in your room and throwing a tantrum, just to let Chacha go to college peacefully?"
Huo Jingchuan lowered his eyelids and said, "Yes."
"Jingchuan, you are so…"
"Dad, it's impossible for her and me."
He didn't deny that he liked her, so that's what he liked.
Huo Tingkun sighed.
"Before, I also thought that my love for Su Rong was just my own thing. She was so outstanding and shouldn't be delayed by a poor boy like me who had nothing. So, I chose to join the army and wanted to use my own hands to earn a future for us."
"What happened? She married Jiang Guodong. I always thought her marriage would be happy, but it turned out not to be."
The door of the study was closed tightly, and Huo Tingkun's voice was so soft that it could not be heard outside.
If this had not happened to Huo Jingchuan, he would never have brought up the past that Ye Surong was unwilling to face again and told Huo Jingchuan about it.
"Su Rong married Jiang Guodong because she was tricked by Jiang Guodong. He drugged her and forced her to have sex with him. She got Jiang Cheng, and then they got married."
"Just when I thought she had found her lifelong destiny and was living a happy and fulfilling life, she began to think about divorcing Jiang Guodong. She was raped by Jiang Guodong and became pregnant with Cha Cha."
Huo Jingchuan never knew this.
In fact, if Ye Guanlan had not told him this, Ye Surong would never have told him how this painful marriage made such an innocent and naive girl become so sentimental and unhappy.
Ye Surong and Jiang Guodong have always slept in separate rooms. Because of this, Ye Surong was not happy at all in the Ye family and in that marriage.
"Jingchuan, the thing I regret most in my life is that I thought I was doing it for her own good. I wanted to become successful and famous, and come back to marry her in glory. But I ended up wasting half her life's happiness. She, who shouldn't have suffered, was forced to endure twenty years of hardship in that marriage."
"Later, I realized that what I thought was for her good wasn't really for her good. The future of two people, whether it's a good decision or a bad decision, should be discussed together."
"You're also hurting her in the name of doing good for her by pushing her away like this."
Huo Jingchuan clutched the blanket on his knees tightly with both hands until his knuckles turned white.
"What if my leg never heals?"
"Jingchuan, you're a soldier. You've seen people with broken arms and legs, haven't you?"
Huo Jingchuan was shocked.
"At least, there's still a chance your leg can be healed."
Huo Jingchuan's breathing became a little rapid.
"Let me...think about it."
He really needs to think about this seriously.
However, what Huo Jingchuan did not expect was that Jiang Cha got on a special car to the research institute early the next morning.
She really disappeared from his life.
Huo Jingchuan was extremely uncomfortable.
He would always subconsciously look for traces of ginger tea at home.
The house here is obviously not big, but without Jiang Cha, it seems empty. He feels uncomfortable everywhere he looks.
The second day, the third day, the fourth day.
Huo Jingchuan used silence to cover up the rage that was gradually rising in his heart.
Ji Zhixu said he needed to control his emotions.
He needs to crave ginger tea less often.
Ginger tea was a ray of light that he encountered in desperate situations.
It takes a long process to quit.
However, the ginger tea lasted for three months.
When she came back, it was already the season when flowers were in full bloom in Spring City.
She came back carrying a suitcase, with Zhang Keda beside her.
Just when Huo Jingchuan thought he had successfully gotten over his longing for ginger tea.
As soon as she appeared, she shattered his three months of efforts.
Jiang Cha was wearing a beige thin sweater, white pants, small leather shoes, and a camel cashmere coat.
Her hair has grown a lot, from her chest to her waist.
He has become much thinner, and his face alone is smaller than before.
In the evening light, the gorgeous clouds became her backdrop, and her porcelain-white skin was stained with warm colors, faintly and touchably touching Huo Jingchuan's heart.
Huo Jingchuan greedily traced her outline with his eyes.
I stared at it, unable to take my eyes off it.
"Mom, Uncle Huo, Big Brother, Second Brother, I'm back."
"Auntie, uncle, eldest brother, second brother, I'm here too."
Zhang Keda put down Jiang Cha's luggage in a familiar manner, and then attentively took out the gifts prepared for everyone.
White wine for Huo Tingkun, pearl powder from Hong Kong City for Ye Surong, a jacket for Huo Jingye, a pearl hairpin for Wu Xiaocao, and a Changbai Mountain ginseng for Huo Jingchuan.
He combed his hair smoothly and made it shiny. He wore a jacket that had never been seen in Chuncheng before, a pair of overalls, and a pair of shiny black leather shoes. He looked like a new son-in-law who came to visit for the first time.
Huo Jingye rolled his eyes at him.
When Huo Tingkun saw this scene, he looked at Huo Jingchuan first.
Huo Jingchuan sat in a wheelchair, pursed his lips, and looked at Zhang Keda warily.
"What are you doing here?"
Ye Surong looked at Jiang Cha and said, "Why didn't you tell us in advance that you were back? I could have asked your second brother and your Uncle Huo to pick you up!"
"It's okay. Dada and I are back together. What else are you worried about?"
Zhang Keda was waiting for Huo Jingchuan to ask this question.
He raised his hand and smoothed his bangs, "I'm Cha Cha's boyfriend now. It's only natural for me to accompany my boyfriend home, right? Big Brother!"
"Say that again?"
Huo Jingchuan thought he was hallucinating.
Jiang Cha pulled Zhang Keda to his side and introduced him to Huo Jingchuan openly: "Brother, this is my partner, Zhang Keda."
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