52 How about you? Have you finished work?
"Hello, this is the 110 emergency number!"
"Comrade police officer, I need to call the police! I have a man in the bathtub trying to commit suicide!"
"??? Please tell me your detailed address!"
"The address is... oops, I suddenly can't remember it. Wait a minute!"
Ni Yue's mind was frozen for a moment, and he couldn't even tell where he was. He hurriedly held the phone to check the customer database, his fingers shaking all the time.
After a few seconds, he replied: "The address is..."
Halfway through speaking, he suddenly paused.
"Hello? Hello? Hello?" The police operator was extremely anxious. He never imagined that the person who called the police was so shocked by the scene in front of him that he was dumbfounded and speechless.
The door slowly opened, and a blue and white figure appeared in front of Ni Yue - it was Miss Zhuang!
She was soaking wet, her wig gone, leaving only a bald head, as she herself said, like a white boiled egg! One of her false eyelashes was stuck to her forehead, and the other was missing - she looked like a monster that had just crawled out of the water, a stark contrast to the elegant and refined her just now.
Ni Yue swallowed hard, thinking that the person standing in front of him could be - a ghost?
"I'm sorry," Miss Zhuang spoke first, "I, I just..."
Before she could finish her stammering words, two lines of tears flowed from her bare eye sockets, quickly merging with the water droplets on her face to form a river, and "crackling" fell along her thin chin.
There was a puddle of water on the floor, faintly reflecting Miss Zhuang's image. Ni Yue breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this - it could form an image, so it wasn't a ghost!
Her anxiety suddenly turned into tears of joy. She whimpered and was about to speak when she faintly heard "Hello, hello, hello" on her phone. She quickly picked it up and said, "Sorry, I won't call the police anymore."
After hanging up the phone, tears flowed uncontrollably, and he took a step forward, hugged Miss Zhuang in his arms, and cried and scolded her, "You almost scared me to death just now. I really thought you were drowned!"
"I'm sorry, I just had a brain storm and suddenly wanted to stay in the water forever. I was wrong!" Miss Zhuang was already crying breathlessly in Ni Yue's arms. "...In the past, I lost my parents, lost my money, lost my house, divorced my ex-husband, and even got breast cancer, but I never had suicidal thoughts. But just now, for a moment, I really wanted to sleep in the water and never wake up. I thought this was the best ending for me."
"You wish!" Ni Yue cried and threatened her, "Do you know how ugly a drowned person looks? Their heads are twice as big as a pig's, and they look even more like a pig's head! It's a good thing you changed your ways, otherwise, if you went to the underworld, the ghosts would be scared to death by you!"
Miss Zhuang shuddered at the words, and after a while she raised her face and asked seriously, "So drowned ghosts are much uglier than sick ghosts, right?"
She was obviously of the same age as Zhang Chenling and was Ni Yue's older sister, but at this moment she looked like a pitiful child.
Ni Yue didn't expect that Miss Zhuang had heard his nonsense. He felt a little regretful and had to continue talking nonsense: "Anyway, ghosts who died of natural causes are much more beautiful than those who died of unnatural causes, and they have less resentment. That's how they are played in horror movies!" "..." Miss Zhuang was silent.
Ni Yue wiped her tears with his fingertips, then took off the false eyelashes stuck on her forehead and pinched them on his fingertips to show her, "Look at you, even your eyelashes are all over the place, how shameful!"
This made Miss Zhuang cry and laugh.
"Oh right," Ni Yue suddenly felt a surge of apology as he recalled what had just happened. He sniffed and solemnly apologized to Miss Zhuang, "I was just outside the door in a hurry and said something a bit harsh. Please don't take it to heart!"
"What?" Miss Zhuang asked, blinking her innocent eyes.
"That's what I said when I was banging on the door outside!"
“…I didn’t hear anything!”
“???”
"Haven't you ever swam before? How can you hear others talking clearly when you're underwater? And there's a door between us! I couldn't even hear you banging on the door, I thought it was thunder in the underworld!"
"No," Ni Yue said with a puzzled look on his face, "So it wasn't because of what I said that you realized your mistake and climbed out of the bathtub?"
"I really didn't hear anything just now," Miss Zhuang's expression became serious, not as if she was joking. "I sank sideways into the water. It seemed like an eternity. I thought I was dead, but suddenly bubbles popped in my mouth, and I realized I'd been holding my breath. It was probably a habit from years of work. Then, I forced myself not to hold my breath, but as soon as I opened my mouth, a lot of water poured in. I instinctively wanted to survive, so I floated to the surface!"
"So it was your instinct that saved you!" Ni Yue burst into tears of joy again. He grabbed her hand and shook it vigorously. "You are not destined to die! You are blessed with a long life! You are destined not to die!"
Miss Zhuang's eyes also reddened as she burst into tears again. "It wasn't until I surfaced that I realized how stupid I had just done. I almost got myself and everyone else killed! I should be the one to say sorry!"
…
The two women agreed to keep silent about what had just happened.
Miss Zhuang's sudden incident in the morning made Ni Yue nervous all day long, and his temples kept jumping up and down.
In the afternoon, when Ni Yue was helping his fourth client, a 90-year-old grandfather, with a bath, he saw his eyelids unconsciously close, and then his breathing gradually weakened, as if he had died. He was immediately frightened out of his wits. Without thinking, he directly poured all the water in his scoop on the old man's face, "Wake up! Don't die!"
The old man instantly perked up, his eyes widening, "What are you doing?"
Everyone's eyes were focused on Ni Yue. She was stunned. "I, I thought..."
Fortunately, the old man is in good health and has no cardiovascular disease, otherwise he would definitely have been scared sick by her.
Afterwards, Ni Yue made an exception and reduced the cost of this bathing service by 100 yuan.
Of course, it came from her own pocket.
In the evening, as the car drove onto Changle Road, Ni Yue was about to arrive home. Xu Zhiqian was extremely anxious. He ignored Shuang Jie who was also in the car and blurted out all the questions that had been pent up in his heart:
"Ni Yue, you've been in a trance the whole day. Did something big happen to your sister's family? She's in such a hurry to go back, so something must have happened to her parents, right? She shouldn't be an only child, right? Does she have any brothers or sisters?"
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Ni Yue suddenly hammered Xu Zhiqian's seat from behind.
He braked suddenly, and the three people and the car were all jolted violently.
Fortunately, I didn't step on the line, didn't scratch the road, and didn't cause a traffic accident.
"What are you doing?" Ni Yue and Sister Shuang screamed at the same time, "Are you trying to kill yourself?"
"Didn't you tell me to stop?" Xu Zhiqian was full of grievances. "If you told me to stop, I would have stepped on the brakes!"
"...I'm asking you to stop prying into my cousin's privacy!" Ni Yue rolled his eyes in anger. "If you're interested in my cousin's private affairs, just ask her directly. What's the point of asking me? I'm already tired and annoyed enough today. How can I have the time to answer your questions?"
Xu Zhiqian was so embarrassed by the rebuke that he was afraid that the smooth and experienced Sister Shuang would see through his inner thoughts, so he had to play it safe: "Don't I care about my boss? I finally got a job again. What if the company goes bankrupt due to my boss's personal reasons and I'm unemployed again? What will I do?"
"Pooh, pooh, pooh!" Ni Yue scolded him, "The highest virtue is like water, it's good! And it will only get better!"
"Yes, yes, yes! You are all right!" Xu Zhiqian hurriedly agreed, reaching for the key, ready to restart the car.
"Wait, don't go yet!"
Being stopped by Ni Yue's surprise, Xu Zhiqian was confused, "What?"
…
Ni Yue said nothing.
She opened the car window and looked at the "whispering" outside an intersection without blinking.
In the darkness of the night, a tall and slender figure walked towards Huajin Hospital. He still had the same Hong Kong-style hair style with a 3:7 split, wore black-framed glasses for show-offs, and had a cynical smile on his face...
This man, who she was so familiar with, looked so strange at this moment.
Because he was closely followed by a woman with a very different style from Ni Yue:
The big highlighted waves swayed on her chest, resonating with her chest that rose and fell like a happy bunny. The smaller-sized tight belly-exposing outfit made her curvy figure stand out even more.
Wherever she went, men all looked at her sideways and women all reflected on themselves.
In this situation, Ni Yue's face turned red unconsciously, and for a moment he didn't know whether it was jealousy or shame that was surging in his heart.
I clearly didn't want to, but somehow I clicked on Chen Yuang's WeChat and sent a message in a pretentious manner: "Finally got off work, I'm so tired that my bones are about to fall apart... How about you? Did you get off work?"
He looked down at his phone not far away and replied immediately: I'm on duty at the hospital, you have a good rest;)
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