Chapter 849 It’s All Her (Part 3)
The servants of the old house were very familiar with Ruan Qi and knew that she was the future mistress of the Xi family. Therefore, Ruan Qi's arrival was not hindered at all, and she was as casual as returning to her own home.
Ruan Qi didn't want to attract everyone's attention, so she greeted the servants in the lobby on the first floor in a low-key manner, and then went to the third floor quietly.
Xi Jiu's bedroom is on the third floor.
Ruan Qi pushed open the door of his bedroom, recalled the sketchbook he saw in this room last time, and ran straight to the bookshelf against the wall.
She opened the middle drawer of the bookshelf. Inside were several books and a box of colored pencils for drawing. Ruan Qi opened them and found the sketchbook she had seen before underneath the books and colored pencils!
Xi Jiu once said that this sketchbook was used for entertainment in his spare time, and it was filled with his works.
Ruan Qi happened to open this notebook in this bedroom last time, but before she could see the pictures inside, she was interrupted by Duan Wei. She only glanced at the first page of the sketchbook, which showed a little girl, who seemed to be her childhood.
At the time, Ruan Qi was puzzled as to how Xi Jiu knew what she looked like as a child. Now that she thought about it, she was really too stupid to have overlooked such an obvious clue.
Ruan Qi took out the sketchbook from the drawer.
She looked at the yellowed cover of the notebook, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath.
Then he gently opened the cover with trembling fingers.
The first page that caught my eye was a line of words written with a sketch pen:
【Where are you? 】
Those three simple words, written stroke by stroke, appear particularly lonely on the huge piece of paper.
Ruan Qi's eyes suddenly turned red.
She gently brushed the three words with her cold fingertips, paused for a moment, and turned to the second page.
——A little girl sketched with a pencil comes to life on the paper.
Curved peach blossom eyes, a cute sunflower hairband, a white dress, and the unique teardrop mole at the corner of the eye.
No one is more familiar with this girl than Ruan Qi.
That was her when she was nine years old!
Ruan Qi's tears instantly blurred her vision.
The sketchbook's paper has yellowed over the years, and the pencil lines have faded a bit. But even so, the little girl in the painting remains vivid, her movements, eyes, and smile all revealing a spirit.
Only someone with countless strong emotions and thoughts can paint such a vivid picture.
Tears fell one by one on the sketchbook.
Ruan Qi flipped the drawing paper over.
It’s her, it’s all her, the whole book is full of her.
She was wearing a sunflower hairband, she was holding a lollipop and smilingly calling Brother Iceberg, she was sitting in the small courtyard of the fishing village and telling stories to Brother Iceberg... Page after page, painting after painting, Xi Jiu used countless thoughts to outline the lines, outlining all the days they lived in the small fishing village.
Ruan Qi couldn't hold it in any longer, so she squatted down, hugged the sketchbook and cried silently.
She was immersed in endless sadness and heartache and did not hear the hurried footsteps outside the bedroom.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, hurried and messy, and the rhythmless pace showed how anxious the person walking was.
The next second, the bedroom door was suddenly opened.
"Baby!"
When Xi Jiu saw Ruan Qi squatting in front of the bookshelf, his heart felt as if being strangled, and his face turned pale with pain.
He didn't bother to close the door, he just swung it aside and walked quickly to Ruan Qi.
Looking at the little girl squatting on the ground and curled up in a ball, Xi Jiu felt very distressed. He squatted down, raised his hands, and carefully held her in his arms.
"Baby, what's wrong?"
Ruan Qi couldn't stop crying.
She felt extremely sorry for Xi Jiu's ten years of lonely waiting. Seeing him in front of her now, she could no longer hold back and threw herself into his arms, hugging him tightly.
Because of this action, the sketchbook in Ruan Qi's arms fell to the ground with a "click".
Xi Jiu subconsciously looked over, and his face suddenly changed when he saw the notebook on the ground.
"Baby……"
"I saw the drawings in the sketchbook!" Ruan Qi interrupted him crying, "You are the Iceberg Brother, right? You once fell into a coma to protect me and lay in a vegetative state in the hospital bed for two years. Jiujiu, I know everything! I know everything!"
The little girl cried louder and louder, and her voice became hoarse.
Xi Jiu didn't have time to think about how she knew. His heart and eyes were filled with pity and worry for the little girl.
He hugged her tightly: "Baby, when did you know? Are you feeling unwell? Are you dizzy? Are you scared?"
Brother Bingshan's memories involved Ruan Qi being captured and taken to Xiaoyao Manor. Xi Jiu was worried that her spirit would be stimulated, so she kept asking questions nervously.
Ruan Qi felt the man's care for her and couldn't help crying even harder.
"Why do you only care about me and not yourself? Back then, you were drowned in the river. Jiujiu, did it hurt? Let me take a look at your head."
Ruan Qi cried and touched the back of Xi Jiu's head.
In order to protect Ruan Qi, Xi Jiu had pinned her down tightly. In order to snatch Ruan Qi away, the Xiaoyao Manor group inhumanely hit Xi Jiu on the back of the head with a stone seven or eight times.
They hit it so hard that it must have left a scar.
Ruan Qi touched the back of Xi Jiu's head, and then felt a long scar near the neck.
The scar extended from the top of his neck to near his right ear. Fortunately, Xi Jiu had thick hair, which completely concealed the scar.
Ruan Qi touched the scar, and tears welled up in her red and swollen eyes again.
Xi Jiu is not prone to scarring. This scar has been there for ten years, and it has actually recovered almost completely a long time ago.
But when Ruan Qi touched the shallow mark, what came to his mind was how painful Xi Jiu must have felt when he was hit on the head.
She asked in a trembling voice: "Jiujiu, it hurt a lot, didn't it?"
"It's okay." Xi Jiu pulled her hand away from the back of his head and gently kissed the fingertips. "I was so focused on saving you at the time that I didn't feel any pain. Later, they threw me into the river and I passed out. It was two years before I woke up again. I was unconscious for those two years, so I didn't suffer much."
What Xi Jiu said was true.
He did indeed fall into coma soon after being sunk into the river. When he was found and sent to the hospital, he had a double lung infection and a severe head injury, and was completely unconscious.
However, during those two years in a vegetative state, he wasn't completely unconscious. He could hear sounds from the outside world and could feel the doctor injecting him. Furthermore, his brain was still able to think while in a vegetative state, like a living dead person.
Those two years, when he could think but couldn't move, were incredibly difficult. He was worried about Ruan Qi and Old Man Xi. He desperately wanted to wake up, but his eyelids felt so heavy he couldn't open them.
Xi Jiu tried hard for two whole years before he opened his eyes again.
Ruan Xiaoqi cried for three chapters today.
Continue tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)
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