Isn't Chapter 75 too much of a coincidence? ...
"Song Zhixu!" Tang Ran cried out in alarm.
His fingers tightened suddenly, his palm grinding against the edge of the phone, leaving a dark red welt, but he didn't even notice.
The answer she received was a heavy thud as she landed on her feet!
The sound was like a heavy punch landing on Tang Ran.
A sharp pain shot through her stomach, and an overwhelming urge to vomit surged up, causing Tang Ran to involuntarily arch her back.
As she bent over, she braced herself against the car door, suppressing her physical reaction, and gritted her teeth to straighten up again.
Suppressing the dryness in her throat, Tang Ran spoke urgently.
"Song Zhixu! Song Zhixu, how are you?"
"Ranran, I'm fine."
The sounds from both ends of the phone call overlapped.
Tang Ran paused for a second, then asked her impatiently, "Are you really okay? Don't lie to me, I just heard someone shout that the railing broke."
And then there was the loud thud she heard as the car landed.
"I'm really okay." Song Zhixu coughed again and explained softly, "I jumped down before the railing broke, so don't worry."
When she heard that there was nothing wrong with her voice, Tang Ran finally felt relieved, and the breath that had been supporting her was instantly released.
As if all the strength in her legs had been drained away in an instant, Tang Ran slid down the car door and squatted on the ground.
Waaaaah~
The deafening roar of the fire truck drowned out Song Zhixu's voice.
Just as Tang Ran was calling Song Zhixu to wake him up, someone in the village noticed the fire at Song's house and called the fire department.
The rest of the family members gradually woke up, and the neighbors from next door also rushed over to help put out the fire.
The house was a mess. Song Zhixu spoke a few more words to Tang Ran, comforted her, and then hung up the phone.
*
It was past five in the morning, and the night had not yet completely faded; only a faint white light could be seen on the dim horizon.
The hospital lobby was empty and unusually quiet.
Ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta-ta.
Hurried footsteps echoed at the hospital entrance.
Before the nurses on duty could even see clearly, a white figure swept past the triage desk like a gust of wind and rushed straight into the brightly lit emergency room.
The emergency room of the small hospital was not large, but there were quite a few people scattered around.
The newcomer's gaze swept quickly across the crowd, and he found the person he was looking for in just one glance.
As if sensing something, the person who had been resting with their eyes closed suddenly opened them and looked towards the doorway.
Their eyes met.
Song Zhixu paused for a second, then her slightly furrowed brows relaxed.
There was someone standing outside the emergency room who should have been 300 kilometers away.
Despite being someone who clearly loves beauty, she looked disheveled and travel-worn, completely unconcerned about her appearance.
Her face was bare, her hair was disheveled from running, and she was wearing loose loungewear that she would never normally wear out.
Tang Ran was panting heavily, and her round eyes instantly filled with tears the moment she saw Song Zhixu. She ran towards her impatiently.
Song Zhixu stood up, supporting herself on the handrail. A soft look instantly appeared in her pale eyes. She took a few steps forward and opened her arms to greet the person running towards her.
Tang Ran ran very fast and almost bumped into Song Zhixu's arms, but Song Zhixu caught her steadily.
Tang Ran buried her face in Song Zhixu's chest and hugged her waist tightly. The light fragrance of white tea relaxed Tang Ran's tense nerves.
Song Zhixu hugged Tang Ran back, his heart softening as if it had melted into a lake of warm spring water.
Jiangcheng is almost a four-hour drive from here. Tang Ran's appearance at the hospital at this time must mean she rushed over overnight after hanging up on her.
"How are you coping...?"
Before Song Zhixu could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the trembling and sobbing of the person in his arms.
Feeling that familiar embrace, Tang Ran could no longer maintain her composure, and tears streamed down her face.
Hot tears soaked my clothes and seeped into my skin.
Song Zhixu's heart was filled with tears.
She lowered her head and pressed her cheek against Tang Ran's, gently patting her shoulder with her hand, her eyes filled with self-reproach and regret, "I made you worry."
Hearing her voice, even hoarser than yesterday, Tang Ran immediately looked up at her, her eyes red, suppressing a sob, and asked anxiously, "How are you? Is anything bothering you?"
In the fire of her previous life, Song Zhixu suffered permanent damage to her respiratory tract and lungs due to inhaling toxic smoke, which weakened her immune system and eventually severely impacted her daily life.
“I feel fine. The doctor checked me out. My blood oxygen is normal, and my respiratory tract is fine.” Song Zhixu raised her hand and gently wiped away the tears from the corner of her eyes with her fingertips. “Your call came just in time.”
When Tang Ran woke her up, smoke had just started to drift into the room, and she was caught off guard and choked a couple of times.
Upon arrival at the emergency room, the on-duty doctor performed basic examinations and initially determined that there was nothing wrong.
She has had an X-ray taken, but the report hasn't come out yet, so she needs to stay in the emergency room for observation and waiting.
After looking her over carefully again, Tang Ran's eyes welled up with tears again. "It's good that you're alright."
Although Song Zhixu kept telling her on the phone that everything was fine, Tang Ran was uneasy the whole way there.
In her previous life, after Song Zhixu was pulled out of the ICU, she went straight there.
Tang Ran was afraid that Song Zhixu was deliberately hiding his illness in order to comfort her.
Song Zhixu cupped Tang Ran's cheeks, lowered his head to kiss away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and gently coaxed her, "Don't cry."
She couldn't bear to see Tang Ran cry, especially because of her.
Feeling the soft touch at the corner of her eye, Tang Ran's eyelashes trembled, and the shyness rising in her heart completely overwhelmed her body's instinct to continue crying.
Although the two had done more intimate things than this, Tang Ran still felt very embarrassed to be so affectionate in public.
Both of them were outstanding in appearance and figure. From the moment Tang Ran ran in, many people looked in their direction.
Right next to them, a baby being held in its mother's arms while receiving an IV drip stared at them with its round eyes.
Tang Ran blushed slightly and pushed Song Zhixu away, saying, "You should sit down and rest."
She pulled Song Zhixu back, and as soon as she looked up, she saw Jiang Mei smiling at them.
Tang Ran's face turned even redder.
"Aunt Jiang."
Jiang Mei walked over, affectionately took Tang Ran's hand, her face showing lingering relief and gratitude towards Tang Ran, "Thanks to Ranran today."
She was awakened by shouts of "Fire!" and when she saw the flames coming from her daughter's room, Jiang Mei was nearly scared to death.
When Jiang Mei saw her daughter, Tang Ran was still on the phone. Knowing it was Tang Ran calling, she woke her daughter up in time.
As for why Tang Ran made the call at that time, that's a private matter between a fiancée and her fiancé, and it's also proof that the two children get along very well.
Tang Ran squeezed her hand back and looked her over, "Were Aunt Jiang and Uncle Song affected?"
For the past few hours, her attention has been entirely focused on Song Zhixu, and she is unaware of the situation of the other members of the Song family.
"You must be exhausted from rushing here in the middle of the night. Sit down and rest." Jiang Mei pulled her to sit down.
"Your Uncle Song and I are both fine. It's mainly the place where Zhixu lives that suffered the most severe burns."
Jiang Mei still feels a little scared when she thinks about fires.
"The tree in our yard has been planted for hundreds of years and has never been burned before. I don't know if it was set on fire by a child throwing firecrackers."
The dragon dance performance at night is preceded by firecrackers. Often, some of these firecrackers, which can fire one or two thousand shots at a time, will miss being lit. The mischievous children in the village will pick them up and light them themselves.
Jiang Mei heard the sound of firecrackers before she went to sleep.
firecracker?
Tang Ran was completely stunned when she heard those two words.
The fire in my previous life was caused by children setting off firecrackers during the Lunar New Year, which accidentally set off a tree in the yard.
Will it be the same this time?
It was the same children setting off firecrackers, and the same trees in the yard were set ablaze.
Is it a coincidence?
Isn't this too much of a coincidence?
*
What are you thinking about?
Song Zhixu's voice pulled Tang Ran back to reality.
Tang Ran composed herself before realizing that the car had already stopped in front of her house.
After the X-ray report came back and no abnormalities were found in Song Zhixu's lungs, they went straight back to Jiangcheng.
"Nothing, I was just spacing out for a bit." Tang Ran and Song Zhixu smiled and glanced out the window. "Are we home yet?"
As she spoke, she opened the car door and got out of the car with Song Zhixu.
The coincidence of the fire was something she couldn't understand, and it even involved things from her past life. Tang Ran didn't know how to bring it up with Song Zhixu.
"Ranran, Zhixu."
Seeing the two people walking towards her in the courtyard, Tang Wanru hurriedly came out.
"Aunt Tang," Song Zhixu greeted her politely.
Tang Wanru pulled Song Zhixu over and looked her over carefully. Seeing that she was unharmed, she patted her chest and said, "It's good that you're alright, it's good that you're alright."
She woke up in the morning and found that Tang Ran was not at home. She called her daughter to ask where she was and learned that a fire had broken out at the Song family's house the night before.
Tang Wanru and Jiang Mei had just seen the scene in the Song family's backyard via video call; the room where Song Zhixu slept was completely burned black.
"This time, we owe it all to Ranran." Song Zhixu looked at Tang Ran with tender eyes.
Speaking of Tang Ran, Tang Wanru slapped her daughter's arm reproachfully, "You really are something, why did you run over there by yourself? Couldn't you have asked the family driver to take you there?"
It's perfectly normal for Tang Ran to rush to his fiancée's side immediately after her accident.
But in Tang Wanru's eyes, Tang Ran was someone who had just gotten her driver's license not long ago. She drove for nearly four hours alone in the middle of the night to look for someone. She was incredibly brave.
Tang Ran stuck out her tongue, then clung to Tang Wanru, pleading for forgiveness, "Oh dear, I didn't think that much at the time. I'm fine now, Mommy, please don't scold me."
She touched her belly and said, "Mommy, is lunch ready yet? I'm starving."
Tang Wanru glanced at her helplessly, then led the two inside, saying with concern, "Everything is ready. After you eat, you two can have a good rest."
The Song family.
After the fire was extinguished, the backyard was cordoned off, and the fire department conducted a second search to prevent any hidden sources of ignition from causing the house to catch fire again.
Do you know why?
Seeing Grandpa Song return from the backyard, Jiang Mei put down her phone and walked to his side.
Mr. Song frowned. "It's not certain yet; we'll have to wait for the investigation to find out."
The specific cause of the fire will be determined after the fire investigators conduct an on-site investigation and assessment.
The fire chief who responded to the call was experienced. Based on the traces at the scene, he initially judged that the fire most likely started at the back wall of the east wing.
Seeing the dark circles under his eyes, Jiang Mei patted Grandpa Song's arm and said with concern, "Leave the matter to Awei to keep an eye on, don't worry too much."
Normally, the Song family doesn't live in the village, and their courtyard is usually managed by Awei, a younger member of the clan.
After a serious illness, Mr. Song's health has not been very good, so he cannot overwork himself.
"Hmm," Old Master Song responded, sitting down on the sofa with a weary expression.
As people get older, they can't deny that they're getting old. He hasn't slept much since last night and can clearly feel his lack of energy.
Jiang Mei poured him a cup of tea and told him, "Take a good rest after you finish eating."
Grandpa Song took a sip of tea, then thought of his daughter, "Have Zhixu and the others arrived in Jiangcheng?"
"We've arrived." Jiang Mei nodded.
Song Zhixu and the others sent her a message after they arrived at the Tang family's house.
"Wanru just told me that Tang Ran drove here overnight by herself." Jiang Mei was worried about Tang Ran but also very relieved.
Although they had already brought Tang Ran and her daughter together, Jiang Mei was still a little worried, fearing that the two children wouldn't really get along.
But the scene she witnessed at the hospital that morning convinced her that Tang Ran and her daughter had genuine feelings for each other.
Outside the living room.
Song Wuqi came in from outside and overheard their conversation.
She stopped and stood outside the door.
"You didn't even know your daughter was there this morning at the hospital..."
Jiang Mei vividly recounted the scene she witnessed in the emergency room to Grandpa Song.
Compared to Jiang Mei's surprise, Grandpa Song was much calmer and not too surprised.
He had long suspected that his daughter had feelings for Tang Ran that were not ordinary.
“I think the two kids get along quite well. I’ll ask Zhixu later and see if we should set a wedding date soon,” Jiang Mei suggested with a beaming smile.
Times have changed, and especially after what happened last night, Jiang Mei's wish is no longer just for her daughter to have a romantic relationship.
She earnestly hopes that her daughter will get married soon and, ideally, give her a granddaughter.
Both her daughter and Tang Ran are good-looking, so her granddaughter must be very cute and beautiful too.
"You'll probably have to ask Ranran about this."
Grandpa Song felt that Tang Ran was the one who should make the decision between his daughter and Tang Ran.
"Young Miss".
The cook came out of the kitchen carrying the food and was startled by Song Wuqi standing at the door.
She kept her head down, so the aunt couldn't see Song Wuqi's expression, but she could feel the oppressive atmosphere emanating from her.
The aunt greeted him cautiously.
Song Wuqi looked up, his expression so natural that the aunt felt as if she had just misread something.
She didn't look at her aunt and stepped into the living room.
"Grandpa." Song Wuqi walked to the side of the old man Song with a normal expression.
"The firefighters have all left?" Grandpa Song asked her.
Song Wuqi nodded.
Grandpa Song looked at her with satisfaction and asked, "What time is your flight back to Beijing?"
Having gone through the last incident, Grandpa Song could tell that his granddaughter's temperament had become more composed.
He had also heard about the incident at the construction site in Beijing a while ago; it was handled by Song Wuqi, and construction has now resumed.
After the fire broke out yesterday, Song Wuqi was busy handling the aftermath.
Song Wuqi sat down to the side, looking very sensible.
"I've cancelled my plane ticket. There's nothing major going on at the company these days, so I'll stay a few more days and help you take care of things at home."
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