Chapter 68
Chen Yuqing's phone number was originally in Xia Ruirui's hands, but in order to avoid revealing the flaw, she lied that the phone was given to him by Gu Zijin.
She took out her cell phone and turned it on. As soon as she turned it on, she saw 99+ missed calls, missed text messages and WeChat message alerts.
But without the lock screen password, she couldn't see the contents.
Before she could ask him, he spoke: "The lock screen password is 0218."
Chen Yuqing's tone was very dull, but Xia Ruirui was a little stunned when she heard it. She entered the wrong number twice before successfully unlocking it.
0218 is her birthday.
She was still in a daze, but she heard him ask, "Is it unlocked?"
"Yeah." Xia Ruirui responded with a nasal tone, then asked knowingly, "Who are you calling?"
Then they heard him say the number that was very familiar to both of them: "137****3699"
The owner of this number was right next to him, so how could the call go through?
She pretended to be calm and dialed the number, turning on the speakerphone, but there was a busy tone on the other end.
Xia Ruirui had set the Do Not Disturb function early in the morning, so the call would not be connected.
Shen Yuqing lowered his eyebrows, his eyelashes blocking his empty eyes, but outsiders could still feel the inextricable longing and sadness in him.
He couldn't see, so he didn't know that the owner of the number was right in front of him, looking at him with a distressed expression.
Xia Ruirui tilted her head back to prevent the tears from falling. She tried hard to suppress her nasal dripping, not wanting him to hear any flaws.
However, Shen Yuqing was not paying attention to these things at the moment, and did not even notice anything wrong with such an obvious nasal tone.
He listened to the busy tone for a full two minutes until the phone was automatically hung up, and then he seemed to have some reaction.
His voice sounded hoarse. “No need to call… Just send her a text message saying Happy New Year.”
"……good."
After Xia Ruirui finished editing the text message, Shen Yuqing lay back on the bed, turned his back to her and ordered her to leave: "I'm going to sleep, you go."
She knew that he wanted to be alone, so she didn't say anything else. She took her things and left, not forgetting to close the doors and windows for him when she left.
"I'll come back tomorrow morning."
“…”
*
After leaving the hospital, Xia Ruirui took a taxi directly to Shen Yuqing's home.
She hung her coat on the porch by the door and headed straight to the bathroom.
She turned on the hot water. The bathtub was so big that it took some time to fill it up.
The bathroom was boiling with steam. Xia Ruirui looked at herself in the mirror and muttered to herself in a trance, "You bad woman."
After just a moment of daze, the water in the bathtub overflowed.
She stretched out her legs in the bathtub, submerged her head in the bottom, and sat up again after a while.
Shen Yuqing didn't have a bath ball at home, so she just put in hot water.
She squeezed two pumps of his shower gel into the water and just stirred it with her hands twice, and the whole bathtub was filled with bubbles.
The air was filled with the smell of his shower gel.
In fact, Xia Ruirui doesn’t like this taste very much. It’s a bit too refreshing and the taste is too strong.
She still prefers her own body wash.
When she was young, her mother was particularly obsessed with perfume making. Xia Ruirui's eleventh birthday gift was a shower gel specially made for her by her mother.
She liked the smell so much that she hadn't changed her shower gel in more than ten years.
Even during the three years when she was angry with Xia's mother, she still received shower gel sent by Xia's mother to her university dormitory.
Xia Ruirui leaned in the bathtub and closed her eyes, but what she thought of was Shen Yuqing's lifeless eyes.
She didn't soak for long and came out while the water was still warm.
She didn't dry herself with a towel, but to save trouble, she wrapped herself in a bathrobe and lay down on Shen Yuqing's bed.
The bed sheets didn’t seem to have been changed, and the scent of Shen Yuqing still lingered on them.
Xia Ruirui's hair hadn't dried yet. She had originally just wanted to lie down for a while and smell his scent, but she actually fell asleep...
*
The next day, when Xia Ruirui arrived at the door of the ward, she saw that he had woken up and was still sitting in the same position as yesterday.
She pushed the door open quietly, walked up to him, only a fist away from him, and waved her hand in front of his eyes.
The sunlight passed through her fingers and shone on Shen Yuqing's eyelids.
He frowned. Seeing that he didn't say anything, Xia Ruirui thought he didn't notice anything and played with light and shadow for a long time.
A minute later, Shen Yuqing spoke with a chill in his tone: "I don't like people playing this kind of joke on me."
She then put down her hand and sat down awkwardly.
She wanted to sit next to him, but he refused again: "I don't like others sitting on my bed either."
“…”
Xia Ruirui was also a little speechless. Even though he was in the first year of high school, who had the most weird temper, she didn't know he had so many rules!
But she still sat obediently on the sofa not far from him.
Until she sat down, Shen Yuqing turned in her direction and said, "If you don't want to be fired, we need to make three rules."
“…”
You're not a primary school student, why are you talking about the 38th parallel?
Xia Ruirui felt that this was a bit childish and was about to protest when she heard him say, "Of course, if you don't want to comply, you can leave now."
The words in his mouth took a sharp turn, and what came out of his mouth became: "You say."
"First, you are not allowed to have physical contact with me."
"...Okay." Xia Ruirui suppressed the veins on her forehead. "What about the second one?"
"Second, if there's a call from that number yesterday, tell me immediately."
"Okay." She suppressed the bitterness churning in her heart, "What about the third one?"
"To be determined."
After making three rules, the two began to learn to walk.
The blind stick that Xia Ruirui bought also arrived. She handed it to him, told him how to use it, and took him to familiarize himself with the road conditions in the hospital.
At first, she only dared to take him around the inpatient department on the third floor. He learned very quickly, and in just one week, he had learned how to walk independently on flat ground.
Two weeks later, one afternoon, she took him to the small garden.
She discovered that although Shen Yuqing's eyes could not see, they could feel the changes in light and shadow, which was also a positive discovery.
Although there were no vehicles in the small garden, patients occasionally passed by and stared at them curiously.
Xia Ruirui was a little worried about him at first, and followed him a few steps away.
Seeing that he walked slowly but steadily, she felt relieved.
But perhaps because he was anxious, Shen Yuqing swung his cane a little too quickly, so that he ignored the small step under his feet and tripped into the flower bed.
The dust from the flower bed splashed onto him, making him look a little disheveled.
Xia Ruirui looked at him, resisted the urge to help him up, and encouraged him from the side: "Good baby, get up by yourself if you fall."
Shen Yuqing's expression was hard to describe. He looked in her direction and said word by word: "Three rules, rule three, don't call me good baby."
“…”
Xia Ruirui endured for a few seconds but couldn't help but retort: "Why?"
Shen Yuqing stood up slowly, brushed off the dust on his body, lowered his head and looked at her with his lifeless eyes: "No reason."
“…”
*
After a month of getting used to each other, although the relationship between the two did not become particularly good, it became much more harmonious.
Although Shen Yuqing still had some distance and boundaries with her, he began to get used to her presence.
And Xia Ruirui also realized how special he was to her in the past.
Although it was a bit aggrieved that she lived without "privileges and preferential treatment", she was still able to adapt to seeing Shen Yuqing every day.
Day by day, both of them gradually accepted the cruel fact that he was blind.
I don’t know if it’s because of her company, Shen Yuqing has gradually become calmer.
One morning a month later, Xia Ruirui handed him a Braille alphabet.
He touched the back of the paper, feeling the raised letters. He had a rough idea in his mind, but he still confirmed it with her: "What is this?"
"Braille." Xia Ruirui was worried that he wouldn't want to learn, so she deliberately complimented him, "I believe that with your intelligence, you can master it in less than a month."
Shen Yuqing sneered when he heard this, but he finally learned it and really mastered it within a month.
During this period, a small episode happened - Gu Zijin and Shen Qingli got married.
They came several times during the month that Shen Yuqing was hospitalized.
But after the first month of the year, because they were too busy with work, the frequency of their visits to the hospital decreased a lot.
Until a week ago, Gu Zijin came to the hospital to deliver wedding invitations.
Shen Qingli pulled her out, and only two men were left in the ward.
Shen Yuqing originally wanted to ask him why he hired a nurse for him, but when he heard the news that the two were going to get married, his originally lifeless eyes became somewhat smiling.
"Congratulations."
"Yeah." Gu Zijin chuckled, looked at him and asked, "Will you come to my wedding? Even if you're not my best man."
If it weren't for this accident, he and Xia Ruirui would definitely be the best man and bridesmaid at their wedding.
There is no need to even ask this question, it is their consensus.
But even if Gu Zijin didn't mind letting the blind Shen Yuqing be his best man, how could he agree with Shen Yuqing's pride?
But even if you are not attending as a best man, you can sit in the guest seat, even if it is just in a corner.
As if thinking of something, the smile on Shen Yuqing's lips faded a little: "She will go too, right?"
Gu Zijin raised an eyebrow and said softly, "Well, I don't have a best man, so I don't have a best man or a bridesmaid. Xia Ruirui will be present as Shen Qingli's family member."
Shen Yuqing was silent for a while: "I won't go."
Although Gu Zijin felt a little regretful, she didn't force him. After hearing this, she simply said, "Alright, after our wedding is over, I'll play the wedding video back for you. You can just watch it and feel like you've been there."
"good."
Gu Zijin was about to leave after he finished speaking, but when he was about to close the door, Shen Yuqing stopped him: "Wait."
"What's wrong?"
"Happy wedding."
Gu Zijin sighed in his heart, said nothing, and closed the door gently.
Outside the ward, Shen Qingli kept talking to Xia Ruirui, and the two of them chattered endlessly.
As soon as Gu Zijin walked over, he saw two people holding something and laughing so hard that they were bent over.
When they saw him coming, their expressions suddenly became serious again and they started pushing and shoving each other.
"You two, what's going on?"
Xia Ruirui and Shen Qingli looked at each other and said in unison: "Nothing."
“…”
Xia Ruirui looked at Gu Zijin, who was obviously disappointed, and asked, "Is he going?"
Gu Zijin said nothing and shook his head.
Shen Qingli felt a little disappointed after hearing this, but she didn't blame Shen Yuqing. She just cursed the damn Zhang Ye in her heart.
These days, whenever she thought of her two friends becoming like this, she would curse that damn beast in her heart.
Shen Qingli looked at Xia Ruirui and said pitifully, "You will come, right?"
Xia Ruirui swallowed the melancholy in her heart and looked at her: "See you at the wedding, our beautiful bride."
…
After seeing off her two friends, Xia Ruirui pretended to go out for a walk and then pushed open the door of the ward as if nothing had happened. "Have you finished talking to your friends?"
"Um."
Shen Yuqing had her back to her, without any doubt, still thinking about what Gu Zijin had just said, that she would attend the wedding.
Xia Ruirui looked at his back and lied without blinking, "My period is coming to Beiyi next Saturday, so I'm taking a day off."
Shen Yuqing was still absent-minded and responded casually: “Okay.”
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