Junior Sister
On the sixth day of July, Jiang Zhizhi packed her luggage at six in the morning.
"Zhizhi, do you really not need me to take you there?" Cheng Yuping came out of the kitchen, put the freshly prepared breakfast on the dining table, and asked worriedly.
"No, I'm going to my teacher's house first. There's a direct bus from the entrance of the community, so I can handle it myself. You have the fourth test today. If you pass, you can get your driver's license. Mom, when I come back, you will definitely have your license too. Then you can drive me out to play, okay?"
"Okay, but we have to buy a car first."
"Didn't Aunt Fang say that after you pass your driving test, she and Uncle Li will go with you to buy a car?"
Cheng Yuping said in surprise: "Don't you take a look when you buy a car?"
"I don't know when I can come back. Besides, I don't know much about cars. Just let Aunt Fang and Uncle Li give you some advice."
Jiang Zhizhi has been prone to motion sickness since childhood and doesn't like cars very much, but having a car is indeed much more convenient, and Cheng Yuping will also have more freedom after having a car.
After breakfast, Jiang Zhizhi took her suitcase and boarded the bus to Zong Qinghai's house.
Cheng Yuping cleared the dishes, cleaned up briefly, and prepared to go out.
Just as she was about to open the door, there was a knock on her door.
"Zhizhi's mom, Zhizhi's mom, are you there?" An anxious voice sounded outside the door.
Cheng Yuping recognized the voice of Aunt Zhou, Lu Xiye's nanny upstairs, and quickly opened the door. "Sister Zhou? What's wrong?"
"Xiaoye seems to be sick. He hasn't eaten a single bite of the food I cooked for him these past few days. I thought he ate out, but the shoes in the shoe cabinet at the entrance haven't been touched. I knocked on his door, but he ignored me today. He was never like this before. Every time I came over, he would at least come out to see me. Mom Zhizhi, I feel like something is wrong. Why don't you come with me to open his room door and take a look..."
"How many days have you not seen him?"
"It's been four or five days." Aunt Zhou said worriedly.
Cheng Yuping also felt something was wrong these days. In the past, even if Lu Xiye didn't come to eat, he would come over to say hello when passing by, but she hasn't seen him in the past few days.
"I'll go with you and take a look!" Cheng Yuping didn't care that she had an exam today, and hurried up to the fourth floor with Aunt Zhou.
When they arrived at Lu Xiye's room, they listened for a while, but still there was no sound.
"Xiao Ye? Xiao Ye, are you awake? I'm your Aunt Cheng." Cheng Yuping knocked on the door tentatively.
But for a long time, there was no response from inside.
Cheng Yuping's heart skipped a beat. "Let's just break the door down!"
The two of them took chairs from the restaurant and worked together to break open Lu Xiye's door.
Inside the room, the curtains were drawn tightly and it was pitch black.
Aunt Zhou hurriedly turned on the lights in the room, and the blazing light immediately illuminated the entire room, including Lu Xiye who was lying motionless on the bed in his pajamas.
With such a loud noise, it’s impossible not to wake up!
Could it be that he fainted?
Cheng Yuping hurriedly hugged Lu Xiye and shook him twice, "Xiaoye! Xiaoye!"
Lu Xiye still didn't move, his head tilted to one side, his arms hanging limply, like a broken rag doll.
"Sister Zhou, call 120!"
Cheng Yuping was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat.
*
Jiang Zhizhi sat in the window seat of the bus, leisurely looking at the street scenery outside the window.
Looking back, there seem to be very few times when I just sat on the bus without thinking about anything.
Although she still didn't know what the elder was going to take her to do, she could just treat it as a vacation to rest.
She hasn't had a rest for a long time.
“Woooo ...
The sound of a siren came from the opposite side. Jiang Zhizhi looked over and saw that it was an ambulance.
Although an ambulance is a symbol of saving lives, Jiang Zhizhi is reluctant to see it because its presence means someone is sick or dead.
She had also taken an ambulance once, with Cheng Yuping...
Even though so many years have passed in her memory, she still can't forget that day.
After getting off the bus, Jiang Zhizhi walked for about five minutes and arrived at Zong Qinghai's doorstep.
The door was wide open and there were two cars parked outside, both black, a Bentley and a Hongqi.
Although Jiang Zhizhi didn't know the price of these two cars, she could tell from the texture inside and out that they were definitely not cheap.
"Zhizhi."
As soon as she reached the gate, Zong Lao's personal nanny Lin Hongxia came to greet her.
"Hello, Aunt Lin." Jiang Zhizhi greeted politely.
"Come in quickly, Master Zong is waiting for you." Lin Hongxia pulled Jiang Zhizhi inside.
"Auntie Lin, I'm not late, am I? Our appointment should be at 7:30."
"No, it's only a little after seven."
"Where's the teacher?"
"He is talking to a student in the reception room. By the way, while they are talking, you can get to know that boy." Lin Hongxia said with a smile.
Jiang Zhizhi was slightly startled. "Little boy? Besides me, did the elder take care of other children?"
"Yes, it was brought by Zong Lao's student. He said that since you are of the same age, you will have someone to talk to on the way, so you won't be bored, and you can also study and communicate together. I heard that the little boy is also very good at studying... Look, that's him..."
Jiang Zhizhi looked in the direction of Lin Hongxia's finger and was stunned.
Xu Qingbo?
"Jiang Zhizhi!" Xu Qingbo was wearing a loose white long-sleeved shirt and a white baseball cap he bought that day. He smiled and waved at her.
Jiang Zhizhi was puzzled. "Xu Qingbo, why are you here? Why are you here?"
"I don't think I've told you that my uncle is also a student of Elder Zong." Xu Qingbo smiled leisurely and extended his hand to Jiang Zhizhi. "In fact, the place where Elder Zong wants to take you is also near where my uncle currently works. After my uncle found out, he asked me to come along. He said that since we're classmates, you won't be bored this way. Jiang Zhizhi, please take care of each other along the way."
Jiang Zhizhi didn't shake his hand and snorted softly, "So you knew it a long time ago, but deliberately hid it from me, just to wait until now to see my surprised expression?"
"Are you angry?" It was rare for Xu Qingbo to see Jiang Zhizhi look like this. She usually looked indifferent.
"No, I just got played around by someone and I'm a little unhappy."
Thinking about the day when Xu Qingbo took her shopping, Xu Qingbo must have known about it at that time, but he deliberately didn't tell her and looked mysterious.
"Don't be angry. When we get there, I'll treat you to some local special snacks." Xu Qingbo looked quite happy.
Yes, after all, children of this age will definitely be very happy to go out and play.
Even Xu Qingbo, who is usually very stable, is the same.
"So, you know where we're going..."
"Zhizhi."
Before Jiang Zhizhi could finish her words, she suddenly heard someone calling her.
When I turned around, I saw Xu Honghan walking towards me from the corridor in the distance.
He was wearing a Chinese-style black bamboo-leaf shirt, looking very elegant. From his appearance and temperament, it was obvious that he and Xu Qingbo were from the same family.
Looking at him, Jiang Zhizhi could imagine what Xu Qingbo would look like when he grew up.
Xu Honghan was getting closer and closer to her. Jiang Zhizhi moved her lips, but she didn't know how to call him.
Should I call him senior brother, or should I follow Xu Qingbo and call him uncle?
"I haven't formally introduced myself to you yet. My name is Xu Honghan, and I'm your senior brother. You can call me Senior Brother Xu from now on. Don't be like Qingbo, who calls me uncle every time we meet and makes me sound old." Xu Honghan said jokingly.
Xu Qingbo was speechless, "But you are indeed my uncle."
"Zhizhi, if you call me senior brother, you are one generation older than Qingbo." Xu Honghan winked at her cunningly.
Jiang Zhizhi immediately understood and called out obediently, "Hello, Senior Brother."
Xu Qingbo: ...
Seeing Xu Qingbo's frustrated look, Jiang Zhizhi suddenly felt happy.
Humph, who made him hide it from me on purpose before?
"By the way, did you bring the hat and sunscreen I asked Qingbo to buy for you? The northwest is dry, so girls should take good protection." Xu Honghan asked gently.
Jiang Zhizhi nodded and said, "Yes, I brought it."
As she spoke, she took out the hat from her backpack.
"Qingbo bought you a baseball cap too, right? It's okay for a boy, but for a girl... a baseball cap won't block out much sun. Never mind, I'll buy you another one when we get there." Xu Honghan took the baseball cap from Jiang Zhizhi, adjusted it, and put it on Jiang Zhizhi again, looking her over. "Hmm... it's pretty cute, and it suits you very well."
"Thank you... Senior Brother..." Jiang Zhizhi felt a little embarrassed when he looked at her.
*
Hospital.
With the doctor's first aid, Lu Xiye slowly woke up on the hospital bed. He subconsciously wanted to sit up, but he didn't have the strength.
"Xiaoye, don't move. The doctor said you are too weak and need to rest well." Cheng Yuping held his hand and said with concern.
Lu Xiye looked a little confused, "Why am I in the hospital?"
"Don't you remember? You fainted at home. The doctor said you hadn't eaten for several days and you almost couldn't be saved. Xiaoye, what happened? Why don't you eat?" Cheng Yuping asked gently and concernedly.
"It's nothing. I just didn't have any strength and didn't want to get up. I fell asleep in a daze. I don't know what happened." Lu Xiye lowered his head, like a puppy who had made a mistake, avoiding Cheng Yuping's sight, and said in a low voice.
Cheng Yuping sighed helplessly, gently rubbed Lu Xiye's hair, and was about to say something when hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside.
The next moment, the door of the ward was opened and Lu Hengshan strode in with a gloomy expression.
Looking at Lu Xiye lying on the hospital bed, he was silent for a while and ordered coldly: "Zhizhi's mother, you go out first."
Cheng Yuping frowned and reminded him, "Xiaoye is still very weak, so talk to him properly."
After saying that, she looked at Lu Xiye worriedly and left the ward.
Lu Hengshan took another step forward and sat down beside the bed. Looking at his son in front of him, he felt powerless. "Why? Why are you doing this? Are you taking revenge on me?"
"I didn't." Lu Xiye didn't want to look at him, and his tone was very cold.
"Why are you always so willful? What do you want me to do to satisfy you? Punishing me the way you punish yourself? You are so childish."
"I said, I didn't." Lu Xiye raised his voice irritably, but his tone was still a little weak.
"Then why don't you eat?"
"I just don't want to eat."
"Are you going to commit suicide by fasting?" Lu Hengshan shouted.
"I'm just too tired to move."
"You don't want to move for several days? You don't know how to eat when you're hungry. Are you dead?"
“…”
Lu Xiye turned his head and looked at the man in front of him. Every time he spoke to this man, he felt suffocated.
"Or, why don't you just kill me and be done with it." He sneered sarcastically.
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