Chapter 429: No Sound, No Speech (Part 2)
"Xiao Qi, wake up!"
"Baby, open your eyes and look at mommy!"
"My dear granddaughter, don't scare grandma!"
...It's so noisy.
Ruan Qi frowned and struggled to open his heavy eyelids.
My blurry vision gradually became clear, and everything before my eyes...
Why is it black and white?
Ruan Qi blinked hard. The room was black and white, the mattress was black and white, and... the people were black and white.
The little girl was petrified.
"Baby, what's wrong with you?" The young woman sitting by the bed had bloodshot eyes. She held her hand distressedly, "Are you feeling unwell? You scared me to death!"
Mother?
A question mark appeared above Ruan Qi's head.
Isn’t mom in Qingyun Village?
The little girl looked at the tearful young woman and opened her cracked lips to speak.
"ah……"
?????
Why can't she make a sound?!
Ruan Qi opened her eyes wide in fear. At this moment, the door opened and a man walked in.
Master!
Ruan Qi wanted to reach out and grab the man, but her limbs felt like they were filled with lead and she couldn't lift them.
At this time, the man walked to the bed and sat down, carefully examining her.
"Brother Beilou, why is Xiaoqi so dazed?" Grandpa Ruan asked worriedly.
The man didn't speak.
He stretched out his hand and waved it in front of the little girl, his expression becoming more serious.
"Xiao Qi is too young to handle the excessive stimulation, which has caused her five senses to shut down. She can't hear or speak now."
Everyone's expression suddenly changed.
"How could this happen?!" The young woman burst into tears.
She jumped onto the bed, picked up the little girl, and gently patted her face, "Baby, look at mommy! Talk to mommy!"
"My granddaughter!" Grandma Ruan, who was sitting next to her, cried until she almost fainted. "She is only nine years old!"
Ruan Qi looked at her mother and grandmother with tears streaming down their faces and wanted to reach out to wipe their tears.
But my hands seemed to be tied up by something and I couldn't move at all.
She wanted to shout anxiously, but her throat felt like it was blocked by a ball of cotton.
Speechless!
Can't move!
Even everything I see is in black and white!
The little girl looked at her family members who were filled with grief. Despair was like a dense spider web, enveloping her tightly like a nightmare.
Meanwhile, in the ward.
The girl on the bed had a red face and was sobbing sadly like a wounded kitten.
"Mom...Mom, save me...Mom..."
The helpless and desperate mutterings made the men in the ward tremble in their hearts.
Xi Jiu sat by the bed, tightly grasping the little girl's hand, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Is there no way to wake her up immediately?"
Xu Xiangyang shook his head with a serious face.
"Xiao Qi has activated her self-defense mechanism and can't hear any sound from the outside world. She can only rely on herself to escape from the nightmare."
Xi Jiu clenched his teeth, his heart felt like it was on fire, and the pain was so severe that even his blood was trembling.
He stared at Ruan Qi, who was crying with her eyes closed. Suddenly, he stood up from the chair, sat on the bed, and carefully held her in his arms.
Perhaps it was because she smelled a familiar scent, the little girl who was immersed in a nightmare immediately grabbed the man's clothes tightly.
She buried her head in his arms and cried softly like a little animal.
Xi Jiu's eyes were red.
He held her tightly, his big hands patting her back gently as if he were patting a baby.
"Don't be afraid, baby. Jiujiu is here. Don't be afraid."
The man's voice was hoarse and trembling. He repeated this sentence in the girl's ear over and over again, tirelessly.
Perhaps Xi Jiu's gentle coaxing worked, and after more than half an hour, Ruan Qi's crying became much quieter.
Xu Xiangyang took her temperature again.
"Thirty-eight degrees. It's a lot lower than before."
The men breathed a sigh of relief.
Ruan Munan helped the little girl change the fever patch, then turned to Nie Heng and said, "Come out with me."
…
Outside the ward, at the end of the corridor.
Ruan Munan reached out and opened the window. The biting cold wind blew in, blowing away the irritability in his heart.
He stood by the window for a while, then turned and asked Nie Heng: "What happened during the day? Why did Xiao Qi suddenly have an attack?"
Nie Heng rubbed his red and swollen eyes and recounted what happened in the treatment room.
Ruan Munan's brows were furrowed tighter and tighter, and finally, his face was so gloomy that water could almost be squeezed out of it.
"That's what happened." Nie Heng sniffed. "Senior Sister must have been triggered by what He Siwen said about ten years ago, so she had a seizure."
Ruan Munan doesn't think so.
Although Ruan Qi was worried, she wouldn't be so upset by the random mention of "ten years ago".
Nie Heng was only eight years old at the time, and everyone was afraid that he would let the cat out of the bag, so they only told him that Ruan Qi had been hurt outside.
But Ruan Munan knew much more than Nie Heng.
Xi Jiu's... ten years ago... going to Shanghai... Bai Yueguang... in a vegetative state...
A hint of doubt slowly emerged in Ruan Munan's heart, and his eyes flickered. He looked in the direction of the ward, and remained silent for a long time.
…
Late at night, the little girl in Xi Jiu's arms finally stopped sobbing.
Her little hand tightly grasped the man's hand, and she curled up like a kitten and fell into a deep sleep.
"The fever is still high." Xu Xiangyang lowered his voice, "Feed the medicine in a while."
Xi Jiu nodded solemnly.
Nie Heng, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but speak up: "Master Xi, you've been holding me for seven or eight hours. How about I take over for you for a while?"
"No need." Xi Jiu's voice was frighteningly hoarse.
He lowered his eyes, and his gentle and caring gaze fell on the little girl's face, "She will be scared."
Nie Heng looked at the man who looked like the wife-waiting stone and sighed helplessly.
He turned to look at Ruan Munan, only to see the latter staring at Xi Jiu thoughtfully.
"Brother Nan, what are you looking at?" Nie Heng asked.
Ruan Munan retracted his gaze and shook his head. "It's okay. By the way, don't tell your family about Xiaoqi."
"I know. Master has already told me this during the day." At this point, Nie Heng gritted his teeth viciously, "When Senior Sister gets better, I will definitely not let that woman named He Siwen go!"
"I'll deal with that woman." Gu Feiyang, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.
The man, who had always been cynical, no longer had a smile on his face.
He looked at the little girl on the hospital bed with a solemn look and said in a hoarse voice, "This matter was caused by me, so I will solve it myself. Besides, He Siwen's aunt is the third daughter-in-law of the Cheng family. It will be dangerous for you to take action."
"The Cheng family?" Ruan Munan's dark eyes flashed with a fierce light. "Are you talking about the Cheng family of the Poison Sect?"
Gu Feiyang didn't notice the man's gloomy face. He slowly stood up and grabbed the coat beside him.
Xi Jiu, who was sitting on the hospital bed, suddenly threw something out.
Gu Feiyang quickly caught it and looked down - the badge of the Xi family's Anbu!
He raised his eyes in shock, "Brother Jiu, what are you doing..."
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