Iced Shaken Raspberry Blackcurrant Flavor
Jiang Yanmu fell asleep at her desk late at night while editing. The alarm clock on the wall would ring every hour, just like now. The sound of the alarm clock woke Jiang Yanmu from her deep sleep, and she rubbed her numb arm.
Hearing the noise outside the door, I went over and looked through the peephole. "So someone's going to move in next door."
Jiang Yanmu made herself a lychee-flavored wine. "Hmm, not bad." After taking a sip, she put the wine aside, sat in the rocking chair, and stared blankly outside for a while. She closed her eyes, mentally reviewing the next part of the story, and just as she reached a crucial point, the doorbell rang. "Oh no, I forgot what happened next!" Jiang Yanmu got up to open the door, coldly saying, "What is it?"
The moment the door opened, the boy recognized the girl in front of him and exclaimed excitedly, "I never expected to run into you here!"
"Who are you?" Jiang Yanmu asked warily, not recognizing the other person.
Gripping the handle tightly, she mentally rehearsed her actions, preparing to spray the other person with pepper spray if they approached. She even rehearsed the thought several times in her mind. But the other person didn't approach; instead, they spoke again, "Jiang Yanmu, it's me, Ji Chen."
Jiang Yanmu quickly ran through the name "Ji Chen" in her mind.
"Um!"
"I remember now, you wanted to see me about something."
"The light was broken. I just moved in and I don't have all my things yet. I was thinking of asking my neighbor if they had any tools to fix the light, but I never expected that the person living next door would be you!"
"Oh, wait a moment, I'll get it for you. Please have a seat. There are new ones at the bottom of the shoe cabinet, you can just change them."
"Ah, okay!" Ji Chen sat blankly on the sofa, still rubbing his pants when he got nervous, just like before.
Jiang Yanmu brought over the tools and handed them to Ji Chen, saying, "Here you go."
"Thanks"
After a while, Jiang Yanmu realized she hadn't fed Xiao Chu yet. She went over to pour food into Xiao Chu's bowl and called out, but there was no response. While looking for the cat, she called out, "Xiao Chu, Xiao Chu, come out and eat, Xiao Chu!" Finally, she found her bedroom. There, she saw Xiao Chu sitting on the sofa, facing away from her, licking its paws with a haughty air.
"Xiao Chu, dinner's ready," Jiang Yanmu whispered to Xiao Chu from the doorway.
Xiao Chu stopped licking its fur, glanced at Jiang Yanmu by the door, and then continued licking its fur. "I was wrong, Xiao Chu, I shouldn't have forgotten to feed you." It apologized by putting its paws together. Hearing Jiang Yanmu's sincere apology, Xiao Chu meowed in response. "(I forgive you because you apologized. Come here, hug me.)" Xiao Chu made a hugging gesture, waiting for Jiang Yanmu to hug it and feed it.
Carrying Xiao Chu to the living room and putting her down, I said, "Princess, please have dinner!"
"Meow," Xiao Chu ate her food with a haughty air. Jiang Yanmu changed into a white off-shoulder dress, planning to go to the supermarket to restock. She patted Xiao Chu's head and instructed, "Good baby, I'm going out for a bit, I'll bring you something delicious when I come back, be good at home, okay?" Hearing that she would bring back something delicious, Xiao Chu happily rubbed against Jiang Yanmu's palm.
Just as I was leaving, I ran into Ji Chen, who had come to return the tools. "Are you going out?"
"Um"
"Oh, right, here you go, thank you."
"It's nothing," Jiang Yanmu said after Ji Chen returned to the house. Only then did she go inside to put away her tools and leave.
While browsing the meat section, I ran into Ye Ziyi, nicknamed "Jiang Tongxue," who was also buying meat there.
Jiang Yanmu paused, thinking she had misheard, and didn't look up. Since she hadn't encountered him before, she didn't believe it was him. She continued choosing, "Which one should I buy?"
Ye Ziyi thought he had mistaken her for someone else. He finished buying the food and left. Just as he finished choosing a steak and put it in his car, he looked up and saw Ye Ziyi, leaving only his back to her. "I think I really saw him… Oh well, what's done is done. Right, I need to buy snacks for Xiao Chu." Jiang Yanmu returned carrying a bunch of things, and Xiao Chu immediately ran over to greet it. It tugged at Jiang Yanmu's leg, eager to see its snacks. "Meow~ (Let me see, let me see—)"
Jiang Yanmu squatted down, put down the snacks, and whispered, clenching her paws, "You can only eat a little bit, otherwise you won't be able to eat dinner." Xiao Chu slapped Jiang Yanmu's palm with its paw in protest, "Meow↗"
"Protest denied," he said, ruffling Xiao Chu's hair. "I'm going to put the vegetables away now, Xiao Chu."
The refrigerator was filled. Xiao Chu, sprawled on the sofa, nestled against Jiang Yanmu, and the two slept until eight or nine o'clock in the evening. Half-sitting up, Xiao Chu tried to slide off Jiang Yanmu's lap, "Meow~" Xiao Chu tumbled back into Jiang Yanmu's arms.
I carried Xiao Chu to the steamed bun mat and put canned food and freeze-dried food in its bowls. I fried myself a steak and a glass of iced shaken raspberry blackcurrant that I had just ordered.
With the TV on, Jiang Yanmu was assembling a set of building blocks she had recently bought on the coffee table. She spent a long time putting together a small piece before Xiao Chu sat on it and pushed it away. Jiang Yanmu looked helpless and could only start assembling it again. "Xiao Chu, doesn't your bottom hurt?" she asked, nudging Xiao Chu's bottom. When it didn't budge, she simply lifted it up and moved the blocks away.
"Xiao Chu, you're so lazy! You won't even move an inch." Hearing this, Xiao Chu got angry and sat down hard on her bottom again, "Meow↗"
Jiang Yanmu was quick to tease the cat and quick to admit her mistake. "I was wrong, I was just teasing you. Our little Chu just wanted Mommy to pet him, what's wrong with that~ right~" Little Chu licked his fur contentedly and made a humming sound.
He cupped Xiao Chu's face in his hands, his voice slightly trembling as he said, "So cute, Xiao Chu~"
Xiao Chu winked at Jiang Yanmu and ran away.
It jumped onto the cabinet, placed its paws on the freeze-dried food, and looked at Jiang Yanmu.
"Then have some!"
"Meow (I'll grant your request since you praised me)."
I was writing when my stomach suddenly started hurting. I thought it would be the same as usual, and it would go away after a while. But this time it was different; the pain was much worse. It felt like I had been cut in my stomach with a knife, and then someone was pressing on the wound.
Clutching her stomach, she moved back and forth, constantly muttering about the pain, even wishing she could stab herself to distract herself from the agony. "It hurts so much, it hurts so much, it's killing me!" She tried to reach for her phone to make a call, but she didn't have the strength.
Weakly, she called to Xiao Chu, "Xiao Chu, Xiao Chu." Xiao Chu ran over at the sound of her voice, "Meow (What's wrong?)"
Jiang Yanmu reluctantly stretched out her hand, pointing to the phone a grid away, and said in a softer voice, "Xiao Chu, could you push the phone over here for me? I..." She winced in pain and then paused to recover.
Xiao Chu pushed the phone away with its paw, and Jiang Yanmu struggled to unlock it with her fingerprint. Her hands were trembling from the pain, and it took her a long time to finally unlock it and say "Hello."
"Hello"
“Jingyuan…”
"Don't worry, ma'am, what's your condition right now?" While the nurse was answering Jiang Yanmu's call, Ye Ziyi returned from surgery and went to the nurses' station to inquire about the patients' conditions that day, signing the forms as he listened.
"My stomach hurts..."
"Then what?"
"..." Before she could finish speaking, Jiang Yanmu fainted. Xiao Chu kept calling out on the phone.
"Hello, can you hear me? Hello?" Ye Ziyi, who was standing nearby, heard that something was wrong and immediately asked, "What's going on?"
“A woman called and said she had a stomachache, and then she didn’t say anything, while a cat was meowing nearby.”
"Is this all? No address mentioned?"
Yes! Jingyuan.
Ye Ziyi, suspecting that the person involved might be Jiang Yanmu, asked again, "What's their phone number?"
"Oh, I remember the last number was 2143."
After hearing the number and confirming it was Jiang Yanmu, he said to the nurse, "In Jingyuan, Unit 6, number 120, quick!" Although the nurses looked blank, they believed Ye Ziyi's words, picked up their medical kits, and followed him into the ambulance.
One of the nurses asked curiously, "Could it be that Dr. Ye knows the person he just spoke to on the phone?"
"yes"
Ye Ziyi took out his phone to call Jiang Yanmu. On the other end of the line, Xiao Chu clung to the phone screen, meowing incessantly, "Meow, meow, meow."
"Don't be afraid, Xiao Chu," Ye Ziyi reassured her.
Hearing the sound of entering the password, Xiao Chu ran over and threw herself at Ye Ziyi's feet. He hugged Xiao Chu and placed her beside him, saying, "Don't be afraid."
Ye Ziyi entered and analyzed, "Stomach pain, sweating, trash can next to her, she must have vomited, it might be acute gastroenteritis."
He stepped forward and patted Jiang Yanmu on the shoulder. "Are you still awake, Jiang?"
"Hmm," Jiang Yanmu woke up and saw Ye Ziyi writing a medical report with his head down. She realized she had been to the hospital again. Whenever she met him, it was always at the hospital, and even her treatment was done by him.
Ye Ziyi glanced up at the weak Jiang Yanmu on the bed, and while writing in the medical record in his hand, said, "Acute gastroenteritis, thankfully I knew it was you."
"What?"
"If it weren't for Jingyuan you mentioned, I wouldn't have thought of it, nor would I have arrived in time."
"Oh? Oh, thank you for your help."
"What would you like to eat?" Ye Ziyi stopped writing, closed the medical record, and handed over warm water.
Jiang Yanmu took the warm water, but shook her head and said, "No need, thank you."
"All right"
After Jiang Yanmu was taken away, Xiao Chu realized that scratching the door with its paws was useless, so it listlessly crawled under the bed and huddled there. Until it heard the door open, Xiao Chu's eyes lit up. As it ran over, it slipped and slid all the way to Jiang Yanmu's arms, whimpering sadly, "Meow meow meow↘(Waaaaah, you're finally back, waaaaah)"
He gently stroked Xiao Chu's fur to comfort her. "It's alright, Xiao Chu. You haven't eaten yet, have you? I'll carry you over to eat."
"Meow (Are you really alright?)" Xiao Chu reached out her paw and touched Jiang Yanmu's face, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked at her.
Jiang Yanmu held Xiao Chu's hand that was resting on her face and said, "It's really okay~ Don't worry!" The conversation flowed unconsciously. Xiao Chu, completely relieved, jumped down from her arms and scurried away.
The doorbell and phone rang at the same time. Ye Ziyi sent a message: "You still want to eat, so I ordered takeout for you. If you don't want to eat now, you can reheat it when you feel like it."
【Thanks】
While picking up the takeout, I tore off a note from the bag that read, "I still hope you can eat something and get better soon. Also, if you feel unwell again, call me. My phone is always on." The note was written before sending the message.
"Hmm..." She stuck the sticky note on the refrigerator, took a sip of millet porridge, and said, "It's so bland, it doesn't taste good." Although she said it didn't taste good, Jiang Yanmu tried her best not to waste it and forced herself to finish it.
She pulled Xiao Chu onto her lap and stroked her. She did her homework while petting her teddy bear. She was constantly being invited to play, causing her to fall behind on her homework. "Come on! Jiang Xiaoyan, let's go play in the escape room!"
"Jiang Xiaoyan~ Come with me to see Jiang Yin~"
"Jiang Xiaoyan, Jiang Xiaoyan, Jiang Xiaoyan..."
I'm crazy all day and binge-watch late into the night with a nightlight. But when I get to an exciting part, I stop and watch, sometimes for an entire episode. By the time I remember, I'm already sleepy.
Occasionally, I get so frustrated I feel like I'm about to break down. "There's still so much left, I'm going crazy!" Others in the group are also finishing their exams, but that doesn't stop me from bothering them in the group chat. [I've finished one exam paper, how about you guys? *husky peeking*.gif]
[I've started writing something like a smug husky.jpg]
"You guys are hopeless, there are too many to go back to!"
[Husky sliding on its knees.gif; Husky raising its eyebrows.gif; Husky spinning in circles.gif]
[Maybe, she just doesn't want to reply. (Little cat's serious reply.jpg)] Jiang Yanmu
[A husky throwing a tantrum, rolling around, and crying.gif]
[Heartbroken, love shattered.gif]
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