Chapter 11 Down Pillow
The high temperature was transmitted to Jiang Jinyue's palm through the thin clothes. It was obvious that Lu Qingmian had been having a fever for a long time, but he never said anything. He was not discovered by Jiang Jinyue until he fainted.
Jiang Jinyue retracted his hand before he could experience the stress reaction of touching PTSD. He had never taken care of a patient before, and he was a little panicked when he saw Lu Qingmian lying on the ground.
He remembered that Wang Xiaoya had prepared a lot of common medicines for him before he left, which he had put into the cabinet after arriving at the rental house. He took out the medicines and also found a thermometer.
Shaking the thermometer, Jiang Jinyue imitated how Wang Xiaoya took care of him and inserted the thermometer into Lu Qingmian's armpit.
Lu Qingmian was very dizzy and didn't react at all.
Jiang Jinyue was afraid that the measurement was inaccurate, so he used his mobile phone to time it.
When the time came, he took it out and saw that Lu Qingmian's fever had reached 39 degrees!
Jiang Jinyue immediately wanted to call 120. He was so anxious that he even forgot that he had wings and couldn't see anyone.
He just took out his cell phone, but someone suddenly grabbed the corner of his clothes.
Lu Qingmian opened his eyes at some point, and seemed to have exhausted all his strength to grab the corner of Jiang Jinyue's clothes. His always cold black eyes now looked a little fragile. His thin lips parted slightly, and he said in a low voice: "Don't go to the hospital."
Jiang Jinyue didn't hear clearly at first, so he simply knelt on the ground, bent down close to Lu Qingmian's mouth, listened carefully, and then he heard Lu Qingmian's voice.
Lu Qingmian's voice was so weak that it made people feel distressed: "Jiang Jinyue, I won't go to the hospital."
Jiang Jinyue disagreed. He lowered his head to look into Lu Qingmian's misty eyes, and finally compromised, "Okay, let's not go to the hospital yet. If the temperature still rises after taking the medicine, I'll call 911 immediately."
Lu Qingmian didn't know whether he heard clearly or not, but the hand that was grabbing the corner of Jiang Jinyue's clothes loosened, his eyes slowly closed, and he fainted again.
Seeing this, Jiang Jinyue became even more anxious.
He looked at Lu Qingmian lying on the ground helplessly and slowly stretched out his hand.
He couldn't let Lu Qingmian, who had a fever, lie here forever. Jiang Jinyue took a deep breath and muttered to himself, "It's okay. I've come across this so many times before. I just distinguished between illusion and reality... I'm sure it will work this time..."
He mustered up his courage, bent down suddenly and hugged Lu Qingmian's upper body.
Lu Qingmian had a fever, and his burning body temperature was instantly transmitted to Jiang Jinyue.
The body temperature and touch of another person against his body made Jiang Jinyue's hair stand on end, and he subconsciously wanted to push Lu Qingmian away.
But he didn't push her. Instead, he wrapped his arms tightly around Lu Qingmian's back and half-carried and half-hugged her to the bedroom.
With each step, Jiang Jinyue's body began to tremble, and noisy and chaotic sounds appeared in his ears.
After two steps, the world in front of Jiang Jinyue began to be invaded by darkness from the edge. The noisy sounds became clearer and clearer, turning into an unbridled grin.
After three steps, Jiang Jinyue's fingertips, which were tightly wrapped around Lu Qingmian's back, began to feel severe pain. Although there was no wound, he felt as if a steel needle had pierced his fingertips.
Jiang Jinyue gritted his teeth and widened his eyes. Even though his vision was blurred, he still dragged Lu Qingmian step by step towards the bedroom until he dragged Lu Qingmian onto the bed.
"Huh——" Jiang Jinyue collapsed on the floor beside the bed.
He clutched the bed sheet tightly, his forehead resting on his arm, his whole body drenched in sweat, and he looked even more miserable than Lu Qingmian who had a fever.
Jiang Jinyue gasped for breath, quietly waiting for the stress reaction from touching PTSD to disappear.
As soon as the reaction disappeared, he immediately used hot water to make some antipyretic granules for Lu Qingmian, then sat down on the bed with a small spoon, scooped up a spoonful, blew it cool, and then handed it to Lu Qingmian's lips.
Lu Qingmian kept his lips tightly closed and refused to cooperate at all.
Jiang Jinyue was not impatient, but just kept persuading Lu Qingmian again and again, not caring whether the unconscious Lu Qingmian could hear him.
"Lu Qingmian, be obedient and take your medicine properly. You won't feel uncomfortable after taking the fever-reducing medicine. Don't close your mouth so tightly..."
"Lu Qingmian, open your mouth, ah——"
"Lu Qingmian, these fever-reducing granules are sweet. I've tasted them and they're not bitter. Would you like to try a sip?"
It was not known whether Lu Qingmian was persuaded by Jiang Jinyue or he thought Jiang Jinyue was too talkative, but when Jiang Jinyue once again put the small spoon to his lips, he slightly opened his lips.
The brown medicine juice slowly slid in along the lips. After feeding one spoonful of medicine, Jiang Jinyue quickly scooped another spoonful, blew it carefully again before handing it over. After finishing the small cup of fever-reducing granules, Jiang Jinyue breathed a sigh of relief.
He pulled the quilt over Lu Qingmian, raised it to his chin, and carefully tucked the corners of the quilt for him. Before getting up, he suddenly noticed that Lu Qingmian's eyeballs were moving under his eyelids, as if he was dreaming, and it didn't seem to be a good dream.
Wang Xiaoya once taught him that if he had a nightmare, he could rub his eyebrows so that he would not have a nightmare again next time.
Jiang Jinyue thought about it, stretched out his finger, and moved his fingertips tremblingly closer to Lu Qingmian, but when they were about to touch Lu Qingmian's eyebrows, he retracted his fingertips.
He stood up and ran quickly to the living room, picked up the pen on the ground, and ran back. This time, he imitated Lu Qingmian's previous behavior with peace of mind, and placed the round pen cap on Lu Qingmian's brow, rubbing it slowly in circles. While rubbing, Jiang Jinyue thought, this pen is really a good thing!
Half an hour after taking the fever-reducing granules, Jiang Jinyue took Lu Qingmian's temperature again. The situation was not optimistic. Not only did Lu Qingmian's temperature not go down, but it rose a little bit.
Jiang Jinyue hesitated, took out his cell phone and pressed 120 several times.
He planned to wait for another half an hour. If Lu Qingmian's temperature still did not drop after half an hour, he would call 120. Before 120 arrived, he would open the door, hide and pretend that it was Lu Qingmian who made the call himself.
Half an hour later, Jiang Jinyue lifted the quilt and inserted the thermometer into Lu Qingmian's armpit again. When he stood up, his hand accidentally touched the quilt slightly lower and felt an unusual coldness.
Jiang Jinyue was stunned for a moment, then immediately lifted the quilt and found that the coolness came from Lu Qingmian's pockets, or more accurately, from the feathers stuffed in his pockets.
A little soft fluff emerged from the pocket of the huddled feathers, sparkling with star-like light.
Jiang Jinyue pulled out a feather and touched it, and found that the feather was icy cool and very comfortable to the touch, which was different from the temperature when it grew on his wings. Jiang Jinyue's eyes lit up, and he raised his hand and placed a feather on Lu Qingmian's forehead.
His original intention was to use these feathers to assist in physical cooling, but he didn't expect that after the feathers were placed on Lu Qingmian's forehead, those specks of white light began to slowly merge into Lu Qingmian's body.
The light was very soft. Jiang Jinyue had accidentally used that light to heal the wound on Lu Qingmian's arm, so he was not too worried. Instead, he had a little guess in his mind.
Another half an hour passed, and Jiang Jinyue took Lu Qingmian's temperature again. This time the temperature finally dropped a little, but the rate of decrease was very slow.
Jiang Jinyue thought about it and simply took out all the feathers in Lu Qingmian's pocket, piled them up in a small pile beside the bed, and then placed them on Lu Qingmian's forehead one by one, like building blocks, piling them up high.
More light merged into Lu Qingmian's body. Just as Jiang Jinyue breathed a sigh of relief, he saw Lu Qingmian turned over and lay on his side. All the feathers on his forehead fell to the side. He wanted to put those feathers on Lu Qingmian's forehead again, but he had to force him to turn over and watch him all night to prevent him from turning over.
This is unlikely no matter how you think about it.
Jiang Jinyue wanted to call 120 again, but Lu Qingmian seemed to be very resistant to hospitals, which was somewhat similar to him.
He looked at the feathers that fell on the pillow, then looked at the pillow Lu Qingmian was resting on, and had an idea.
Jiang Jinyue stood up, gently pulled out the pillow that Lu Qingmian was resting on, opened the zipper, took out the pillow core and threw it aside, then stuffed all the feathers into it, patted it, and found that the pillow was very flat. The feathers were not enough to fill the pillow. At this time, the pillow was neither fluffy nor soft, it didn't even look like a pillow.
Jiang Jinyue stared at the flat pillow, then turned his head to look at his wings.
The wings are covered with a thick layer of white feathers, which not only look very beautiful, but also feel super good to touch. Jiang Jinyue has secretly touched them several times.
Jiang Jinyue gritted his teeth and his expression suddenly became vicious. He stared at Lu Qingmian and muttered softly, "Lu Qingmian! Let's see how you're going to thank me tomorrow!"
The next moment, he stretched out his trembling hand, grabbed a feather, and plucked it hard, "hiss--"
Jiang Jinyue's eyes immediately filled with tears. He comforted himself: It's okay, it doesn't hurt too much, just a little bit more painful than pulling out my hair.
His wings will disappear sooner or later anyway...it doesn't matter if there are missing feathers.
Jiang Jinyue hypnotized himself and stretched out his vicious hand to his wings again, and another feather was plucked out.
"Woo woo."
From time to time, soft whimpers could be heard in the bedroom. The scene looked very strange. A cold-faced man was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, unconscious with a high fever. A beautiful boy with wings, whose gender was indistinguishable, was plucking the feathers on his wings one by one.
Soon, a pile of feathers was piled up beside the bed.
Jiang Jinyue stuffed them all into the pillow. Looking at the pillow that was finally full and soft, his tearful eyes became even redder with pain, and tears hung in his eye sockets, ready to fall at any time.
Patting the pillow, Jiang Jinyue stood up and slowly stuffed the pillow under Lu Qingmian's head.
The pillow felt cool and comfortable. Lu Qingmian seemed to sense something and actually raised his head cooperatively.
After Lu Qingmian put on the down pillow, Jiang Jinyue took Lu Qingmian's temperature again half an hour later. This time the temperature dropped significantly, and it should return to normal soon.
Jiang Jinyue sat on the ground holding the pillow and lying on the edge of the bed, her clear eyes falling on Lu Qingmian's face.
At this moment, the phone in my pocket vibrated.
It was a call from Wang Xiaoya.
Jiang Jinyue answered the phone: "Mom."
Wang Xiaoya's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Yueyue, are you adapting to the new city?"
Jiang Jinyue: "I'm adapting. Everything is fine with me. Don't worry about me, Mom."
Wang Xiaoya paused and asked: "Did Yueyue make any new friends?"
Jiang Jinyue was stunned for a moment, looking at Lu Qingmian lying on his bed, covered with his quilt, and pillowed with his feathers. After a while, he said, "Yes, I met him. He is... a very good person."
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After hanging up the phone, Jiang Jinyue lay down on the edge of the bed again. He was very tired after tossing and turning for so long that he fell asleep unknowingly.
The bedroom light stayed on all night.
Early in the morning, Lu Qingmian slowly opened his eyes and touched his forehead. The temperature was normal. Not only that, he didn't even feel weak as he should have after being sick.
He turned his head and saw Jiang Jinyue lying on the edge of the bed, holding a bare pillow.
Jiang Jinyue slept very uncomfortably, with her thin eyebrows tightly furrowed. Her delicate little face, without bangs, glasses or mask, looked aggrieved.
A thought flashed across Lu Qingmian's dark eyes, and his blurred consciousness gradually returned after fainting last night.
He glanced and saw Jiang Jinyue's wings folded obediently to the side. The feathers on the lower part of the beautiful wings were bald, revealing delicate skin. The skin looked a little red, as if it had suffered inhuman torture.
Lu Qingmian was stunned for a moment, then sat up suddenly, grabbed the pillow behind him, unzipped it, and reached out to pull out a handful of white feathers.
The feathers are slightly cool to the touch and emit a moist and soft white light.
At this time, Jiang Jinyue, who was not sleeping well, seemed to hear the noise and slowly opened his eyes.
As his eyelids moved, a pair of golden eyes were revealed. Those eyes sparkled with tiny golden lights in the sunlight, which were even more dazzling than the sunlight. Against the backdrop of the golden eyes, Jiang Jinyue's already breathtakingly beautiful face took on a holy beauty that made people dare not touch.
Lu Qingmian's pupils shrank slightly as he stared closely at Jiang Jinyue's eyes.
Jiang Jinyue was completely unaware of the changes in himself. When he saw Lu Qingmian looking at him, he smiled with his eyes curved and his plump, bright red lips curved into a beautiful arc.
"Lu Qingmian, you're awake!"
Lu Qingmian suddenly clenched the feather in his hand, and his heart beat heavily in his chest.
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