Chapter 248
Wang Jiazhi stayed in bed all day. Later, it was dark and the rain was still falling.
She didn't turn on the light, but looked at the light from the street lamp. It shone through the shadows of flowers and trees outside the window, casting mottled shadows on the wall, and the shadows changed from time to time.
Then the street light went out, and the moonlight left shadows of trees, flowers and plants on the wall, and the shadows were different again.
I heard someone outside say, "The power is out."
She didn't know how long she lay there. She took the flashlight beside her and flipped the switch. The beam of light flickered on the wall.
Suddenly, the aunt on the second floor knocked on the door and asked, "What's wrong?"
She was startled. I told her I was playing with the flashlight because I was bored.
The next day, my aunt came to deliver something and saw her peeling lotus seeds. There was a large pile of them on the table, and two large pieces of peeled lotus seeds were already there.
Fresh lotus seeds are difficult to peel. You have to remove the hard outer shell and then peel off the pinkish membrane on the surface. The membrane is very firmly attached, so you have to scrape it vigorously with your fingernails to dig out the lotus seed core. Peeling for too long will damage your fingernails.
The aunt saw that her nails were already injured.
"Why are you peeling so many lotus seeds? One person can't finish them all."
"Nothing." She smiled.
She was addicted to peeling lotus seeds. There was a grocery store near the bridge that also sold some seasonal vegetables, and their lotus seeds were better than others. Every few days, after she finished peeling the lotus seeds in her hand, she would go buy new ones.
The guy was in his twenties, with a fair and handsome face, and was good at talking.
He called her "Sister", but it wasn't necessarily clear who was older, but since she was pregnant, of course he called her that.
One day she went out for a walk. Everything was fine when she left the house, but it started to drizzle just after she crossed the bridge.
She didn't have an umbrella and with her big belly, she couldn't run. Fortunately, the rain wasn't too heavy, so the walk back wasn't too long.
As I was walking quickly, the guy suddenly came over with an umbrella.
"Sister, let me take you back."
"How can I be so embarrassed? It's just a little rain. It's not necessary."
"You're all wet. Let me take you there."
She was pregnant and couldn't refuse.
After walking a few steps, I met a woman on the second floor. She held an umbrella and asked, "Why are you here? Let me take you home."
She smiled and gestured to the waiter, and took her away with her umbrella.
The older sister on the road said, "This kid doesn't look like a good person. We should avoid people with ulterior motives gossiping about him."
Only then did Wang Jiazhi realize that she was too careless and had not even noticed this.
She was so obsessed with peeling lotus seeds, and she kept going to his shop to buy them. If you didn't know her, you'd think she'd gone to buy lotus seeds every few days just to see that guy. Really.
But now lotus seeds are sold everywhere. She went to that store because the lotus seeds there were better, and the clerk's lips looked a bit like his, and he was also very polite. She actually liked to buy things there. So forget it from now on.
Old Yi is really sick this time.
Last time, I pretended to be sick for a few days to avoid suspicion. But after just a few days of officially going to work at the government office, I actually fell ill.
The fever had lasted three days, and my chest ached terribly with every breath I took. My old chest pains also became more severe.
After several days of suffering, fortunately the fever finally subsided.
***This time I came to Shanghai to visit him at the Ministry.
He had been living in the yamen during this period. He was wearing a white coat and sitting on the bed in his small dark room. There was a table in front of him, and piles of official documents were placed on the table and bed.
Secretary Zhang led *** in, hurriedly moved a pile of official documents beside the bed to another place, and brought a chair to the bed for *** to sit down.
*** saw that he had lost weight, his face was pale and haggard, and he didn't even apply any hair oil. His hair just hung down naturally, as if it was made of paper and could be blown away by a gust of wind.
*** took his hand and said earnestly, "I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you do two things all year round: work and women. How can your body not be damaged?"
Old Yi smiled at him.
"Listen to what Big Brother says. Focus on your health. At this age, you don't even have a child. You can't keep messing around like you did when you were younger."
He opened the wire mesh file box beside him, took the cat out, and pulled out a document from the bottom.
He gestured to pour water, and Secretary Zhang hurriedly took the thermos and refilled the teacup on his bedside table.
Not long after sending *** away, the doctor came for a follow-up consultation. After examining him, he said, "He's getting much better. If all goes well, he'll be much better in three to five days."
He smiled and said "thank you".
The guard gathered up the documents around him and laughed, "What a jerk this guy is! His young wife gave birth to a daughter a few months ago, and he's so happy about it, he keeps telling everyone he meets. His three wives and concubines have given him plenty of children, and yet he still cares about this cheap girl."
The doctor smiled and said, "This is different. A loving mother holds her child in her arms, and of course the one she loves best is treated differently."
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