28 Be obedient and close your eyes
"It was only a vehicle collision, no casualties. The white van [license plate number 沪xxxx] bears full responsibility..."
After taking photos and defining the responsibility for the accident, the handsome traffic policeman directed Xu Zhiqian and the owner of the black BYD that was hit to move the car to the side of the road.
The two sisters got out of the car and saw that the right headlight of the van was completely shattered, the surrounding area was twisted and deformed, and the car became a one-eyed dragon. Only the driver's seat of the BYD was dented and some paint was worn off.
Ni Yue rubbed his neck, which was almost broken, and muttered softly, "BYD is really strong..."
He glanced at Zhang Chenling beside him out of the corner of his eye and found that she had a stern face and an expression so cold that it could freeze someone to death.
Shut up immediately.
Looking at Xu Zhiqian again, he was holding the phone with a frown on his face, explaining the situation to Xiao Ma Ge, whom he had never met and had only communicated with in the Shangshan Ruoshui group.
It has been more than two weeks since Xiao Ma Ge underwent intestinal tumor resection surgery and is now recuperating at home. After hanging up the phone, he quickly contacted the insurance company and a repair shop he was familiar with.
The car insurance claims adjuster then arrived at the scene, assessed the damage to the vehicle, and paid compensation.
Finally, the three people sent the van to the repair shop and called a Lalamove to deliver all the things in the car to the entrance of Scream Youth Hostel.
Xu Zhiqian looked at the two-piece bathtub and tool kit on the cart with a painful expression, but he pretended to be relaxed. "It's okay, put them in my room first. I know the owner here very well, he won't have any objections. I'll rent a van tomorrow morning, load the things in it and pick you up."
Zhang Chenling said expressionlessly, "Since I've caused Brother Xiao Ma so much trouble this time, I can't borrow his car anymore. I'll rent one tomorrow as an emergency. I'll see where I can find a cheap used car later..."
"I'm sorry, it's all my fault..." Ni Yue muttered softly.
However, no one responded.
The hostel owner happened to be at the front desk tonight. Seeing them through the glass door, he hurried out to check. "What... does this mean?"
It seems that he and Xu Zhiqian are not as familiar as the latter said.
"My car broke down and I need to send it for repair. Can you temporarily put the things in the car in my room? I'm really sorry!" Xu Zhiqian nodded and begged.
The hostel owner looked troubled. "Are you sure your room can hold such a large piece of shit?"
Xu Zhiqian looked embarrassed, "I'll...just try to force it in!"
"Your room definitely won't fit. I can temporarily store it in my warehouse," the boss suggested, but his expression grew increasingly grim. Then he added, "But only for a day or two at most. And, you know, I've made an exception for you more than once. Basically, this place is for young people. We don't accept anyone over 35."
There was another half sentence left unsaid - we are even less willing to accept unemployed middle-aged people who appear to have no proper jobs.
Xu Zhiqian understood his subtext and his face turned red and white.
Ni Yue and Zhang Chenling walked home in silence.
As soon as one foot stepped onto the stairs, Ni Yue suddenly heard his stomach rumbling.
"Cousin, let's go have a midnight snack," she said cautiously, looking up at Zhang Chenling's straight back in front of her. "I'll treat you."
"I'm not hungry." The three words that came out of Zhang Chenling's mouth, along with the sound of footsteps on the wooden stairs, struck Ni Yue's heart dully.
Her eyes became hot and she almost cried.
He was indeed responsible for the car crash just now, but if it weren't for his cousin causing trouble, Xu Zhiqian would not have made a wrong decision in the chaos, and between going straight and turning right, he would not have chosen to crash into the BYD in the next lane.
There were three adults in the car, and in the end all the responsibility was put on her alone. Isn't it a bit unfair?
Thinking of this, she felt really aggrieved and simply kept silent.
Follow Zhang Chenling into the house and close the door.
A loud bang woke up Wu Xia, who was dozing off on the sofa with a cane in her arms.
"Ni Ying is already asleep, why did you come back just now?"
She yawned and sat up straight. Suddenly, she noticed that Ni Yue was dodging, as if avoiding her gaze. She rubbed her eyes and took a closer look. "Yue'er, why are your eyes so puffy?"
Ni Yue didn't even raise his eyes, "I have a stye!"
I cried for Sister Paoqiu all day, and I was so angry just now. It would be strange if my eyes were not swollen!
But she didn't want to explain so much to Wu Xia, so she lied.
"Needle eye?" Wu Xia didn't believe it and ordered as usual: "Come here and let me see!"
Ni Yue didn't want to pay attention to her, so he walked straight past the sofa and went to the kitchen to get some soda water.
"Ouch..." Wu Xia suddenly covered her stomach with both hands and called her, "Yue'er, come and help me, my stomach hurts and I need to go to the bathroom. I'm late and I've pooped my pants!"
"I really can't do anything about you!" Ni Yue walked over helplessly, reaching out to help her with a disdainful look on his face, but unexpectedly Wu Xia pulled him right under her nose.
The mother and daughter looked at each other, and Wu Xia shouted loudly: "Your eyes are obviously swollen from crying, what's going on?"
Ni Yue shook off her hand and stood up, wiping the spit off his face and said unhappily, "It's none of your business!"
"I'm your mother, what do I care about you?"
"You're doing it again!" Ni Yue spat at her impatiently, "You don't care when you should, and you meddle when you shouldn't!"
"You, you, you're here again!" Wu Xia stuttered angrily. "I don't know what kind of humiliation you suffered outside, but you came home and took it out on me, bullying me for having a lame leg and a clogged mouth!"
She was angry and pretended to wipe away her tears.
Ni Yue, however, squinted at her performance and snorted coldly: "I really feel sorry for you!"
"Ni Yue, if you have anything to say, just say it nicely. Don't argue with mom."
Zhang Chenling couldn't stand the meaningless quarrel between the mother and daughter and couldn't help but speak up to dissuade them.
"You never contact your mother, and you still have the nerve to talk about me?" Ni Yue immediately retorted sarcastically.
She regretted it as soon as she said it and wanted to apologize, but suddenly she became stubborn and swallowed the words back.
"you……"
Zhang Chenling was choked by this unexpected accusation. After a long pause, she sternly asked back, "You caused such a big disaster today, and you still think you're right? Besides, this is my home. Do I even have the right to maintain order?"
Ni Yue felt as if someone had stabbed him in the chest.
The beast that had been trapped within her for a whole day finally broke free, and she roared in fury, "I'm in trouble because you were messing around! I clearly apologized just now, but you all turned a deaf ear and ignored me! Besides, I'm living under someone else's roof now, don't I even have the right to speak?"
Zhang Chenling's usual kind expression changed. She glared at me and asked aggressively, "Who didn't give you the right to speak? You've lived here for so long, you know exactly how I treat you! You came crying from Beijing to find me, saying you were heartbroken and unemployed. If I hadn't taken you in, you wouldn't even know where you are now!"
"But I helped you too!" Ni Yue's body swayed, tears lingering in his voice. "If it weren't for you, would I have done this kind of job of bathing people? Not only would I not make much money, but I would also have to lose my feelings and tears! I don't even understand what I'm doing. Besides, do you really think I'm desperate and can't find a job? Wrong! I just received an offer from an educational institution not long ago, but to help you, to help Shangshan Ruoshui, I turned it down. I didn't tell you about this because I was afraid you would feel guilty! It's not that I can't find a job, it's not like that!"
"According to what you said, I should kneel down to thank you for your kindness and loyalty?" Zhang Chenling asked back in a sharp tone that Ni Yue had never heard before.
This is the first time I've been so angry that I've lost my mind.
"You never contact your mother" - Ni Yue's meaningless accusation was like the flapping of a butterfly's wings. It seemed harmless, but it triggered a devastating 10-magnitude tsunami.
It also easily hurt Zhang Chenling's heart deeply.
…
"Bang!"
With a loud bang, the tense atmosphere was broken.
Wu Xia stood up unconsciously and watched the two sisters quarreling in amazement. She accidentally loosened her grip and her crutch fell heavily to the floor.
Ni Yue rushed out of the alley, sobbing and striding forward aimlessly.
It started to drizzle, and the rain fell one by one, wrapping around her like a thin thread.
My vision is becoming increasingly blurry, and I can no longer tell whether it is rain or tears.
She was in agony and annoyed, unable to understand why they had suddenly started arguing. She and her cousin had clearly been trying to keep each other company, so how had it ended up hurting each other? Were they really going to part ways and become strangers from now on? ...
It wasn't until a brightly lit building appeared in her hazy vision that she realized she had walked downstairs to Joaquin Hospital.
I raised my hand to rub my eyes, then looked at the watch. It was half past nine.
At this time, Chen Yuang was either working the night shift or sleeping at home waiting for the night shift, so he definitely didn't have time to see her.
The two haven't seen each other since they were caught tug-of-war on the street by Wu Xia and Ni Ying.
They didn't communicate much on WeChat, but Chen Yuang would occasionally share some interesting articles with her, such as: "The Ordinary Man's Road to Counterattack: Learning to Write," "Mo Yan: You Can Try to Start Writing This Way," and "Yu Hua: I Live on 'To Live'"...
If Ni Yue saw something that interested him, he would click on it to take a look, and if he didn't, he would just ignore it.
The communication between the two people was intermittent, as if nothing had happened that night.
Nothing had happened in the first place.
Ni Yue turned and walked in the opposite direction of Huajin Hospital.
Suddenly, the WeChat ringtone rang.
It’s Chen Yuang.
After a moment's hesitation, I picked up the phone. Before I could say anything, his slightly anxious voice came from the other end, "Are you busy? Why didn't you reply to my WeChat?"
"Huh?" Ni Yue was walking and crying. She seemed to have heard a few WeChat message reminders, but she ignored them all.
After coughing, he said unhappily, "If you have something to say, just tell me. My eyes are swollen and I can't check WeChat."
"What's wrong?"
"It's a long story, but it's just swollen."
"Where are you?"
"I'm downstairs in your hospital!" Ni Yue regretted it as soon as he said it.
It was as if I had come to the hospital specifically to see him.
"I'm at the hospital right now. Go wait for me under the streetlight diagonally opposite the guardhouse at the main entrance!"
A few minutes later, Chen Yuang appeared, wearing a white nurse uniform, black-framed glasses, a Hong Kong-style slicked-back hair, and a chin with a playful butt.
Ni Yue couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if this guy wasn't wearing a white coat, he would be exactly like the second male lead described by Sister Paoqiu, so unruly and annoying.
The white coat adds points to his personality and enhances his charm, more than just a little! No wonder even the young master wants to cosplay as a nurse...
My cheeks started to feel hot unconsciously, as if the beauty of that night was continuing.
Chen Yuang walked under the streetlight with a smile on his face. When he saw her face clearly, he immediately stopped smiling and said in surprise, "Your eyes are so swollen!"
Ni Yue's mouth twitched speechlessly. The warm yellow light cast a gentle veil over her face, making her eyelids look even more swollen.
He hurriedly took out a long, flat plastic box from his white coat pocket.
Bring out a breath of cool air.
She was curious, "What is it? Ice cream?"
"You look like ice cream to me!" Chen Yuang tapped her head lightly with the plastic box in his hand, then opened it skillfully and took out a blue gel-like
——"Eye patch?" Ni Yue was stunned.
"That's right, a medical cold compress eye mask!" Chen Yuang pinched the eye mask and showed it to her. "This is a magical tool recommended to me by a female colleague in the department who had double eyelid surgery. It's more effective at reducing eye swelling than drinking ten times the iced American coffee! We usually stay up late on duty or spend a long time in front of the computer, and our eyes get red and swollen. We use this, and it works immediately!"
"Is it really that magical?" Ni Yue was skeptical.
"Don't believe me? Let me give you a try!" Chen Yuang came over without saying a word, "I got you a new one specially."
"I don't want it!" Ni Yue instinctively wanted to escape, but he grabbed her arm with one hand.
The coolness of his palm made her shiver, which then quickly turned into warmth.
"Don't move!" He said in a low voice, like an order, but also like a plea, "Be obedient and close your eyes."
Ni Yue knew that he couldn't escape, so he leaned against the fence behind him, closed his eyes silently, and let him carefully put the blue eye mask on his eyes with both hands, and then put it around his head to fix it with Velcro.
The cool touch instantly cooled down the burning eyelids, and the coolness penetrated into the skin, like giving the eyes an ice water spa.
"How is it, are you comfortable?" he asked with a smile.
"It's alright!" she snorted. Actually, it was incredibly enjoyable.
"Can you tell me why you were crying today?"
"Several things."
"Tell me about it?"
"Aren't you in a hurry?"
"It's not too busy today, so I've taken fifteen minutes off. You can keep it simple."
"Then I'll try my best..." Thinking of the first thing he was going to say, Ni Yue couldn't help but feel a lump in his throat. "Sister Running Ball, um, that's the sister Running Ball you and I both know. She was our client this morning, the wife of that b-king who whispered, and she's also an ALS patient."
After a long silence, Chen Yuang said, "This is indeed sad."
"Then," Ni Yue held back her tears and fast-forwarded to the second incident, "We had a traffic accident on the way back from the western suburbs that afternoon and crashed Xiao Ma's car."
"Huh?" He was startled and immediately looked her up and down, his fingers touching her arm again, intentionally or unintentionally, "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine physically, but I'm troubled... So just now, my cousin and I had a disagreement and had a big fight. We both said a lot of nasty things, and I was so sad that I ran away from home!" Ni Yue blurted out the third thing.
"Huh?" He was startled again, and sighed helplessly, "So much happened in one day, no wonder you cried like this. I understand and sympathize with you from the bottom of my heart."
"However," he changed the subject, "I rationally believe that the first two things are fait accompli and cannot be reversed, while the third thing still has room for maneuver. So you should stop wandering around outside and hurry home. Find a chance to have a calm chat with your cousin. Although I don't have much contact with her, I feel that she is a reasonable person."
"Then I'm unreasonable?" Ni Yue rolled his eyes under his eye mask. "I knew you would play the role of rational, neutral and objective. Deng Wei is still the same as always!"
"Uh," Chen Yuang said, frustrated, and tried to explain incoherently, "Don't argue. I know you're reasonable! Besides, what's so special about me? Ever since I met you, I haven't dared to speak so freely. Don't you feel it?"
"You're such a smooth talker!" Ni Yue sneered, pouted and said nothing more.
Chen Yuang also remained silent.
The two fell into a brief silence.
Waves of cool air spread outward from around the eyes, and when they encountered the summer night's heat, they instantly condensed into water droplets on the edge of the eye mask and flowed down Ni Yue's cheekbones.
She moved her lips slightly, imitating the trajectory of tears flowing into her mouth.
Suddenly, a big hand pinched the soft flesh on the back of my neck, and then I felt a slightly forceful grip on my waist.
She felt herself being embraced by Chen Yuang.
Almost at the same time, a warm and slightly rough breath blew on my face.
The breath was getting closer and closer, getting hotter and hotter. It was his breath, entangled with hers.
“…”
Her heart skipped a beat and she moved her lips, wanting to call his name, but she seemed to have been bewitched and became mute, unable to utter a word.
She had no choice but to put her hand on his chest, but her movements were weak and powerless, as if she was trying to accept him but was also reluctant, and her chin was even raised in anticipation.
The next second, his kiss fell on her lips, crushing her gently like drizzle.
Using the tip of his tongue to pry open her lips, he carefully sucked away all the ice dew between her teeth.
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