Episode 457 Medical Grade Stainless Steel
Gui Qing: [Expressing concern is useless. I can't handle your work for you. I'll stop talking and get busy.]
Jiang Yuxu: [Well, I'll wait for you.]
Gui Qing put her phone away and put it back in her bag, put on her mask, turned around and went downstairs.
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Having one arm in a cast still affects his work efficiency a little. Jiang Yuxu is not very used to typing with his left hand, and his speed has slowed down a lot.
Fortunately, my brain was working at a fast pace and there were no difficult cases at hand. By three o'clock in the afternoon, the work was almost done.
He hadn't slept well in the hospital in the past two days. After finishing his work, Jiang Yuxu's eyes were dry, so he went back to bed and closed his eyes to rest - he didn't dare to sleep peacefully, for fear of missing Gui Qing coming to see him.
Jiang Yuxu leaned on the headboard of the hospital bed and waited for more than two hours. He picked up his mobile phone to check the time every ten or twenty minutes. Until five forty, Gui Qing did not show up.
When we were chatting in the morning, she said she would come over after she finished her work in the afternoon...so she is not finished yet?
Jiang Yuxu wanted to send her a WeChat message to ask, but he was afraid of disturbing her work, so he had to resist the urge and continued waiting with his phone in hand.
However, by a little after six o'clock, there was still no movement from Gui Qing.
Jiang Yuxu couldn't wait any longer, so he simply sent a WeChat message to Xu Yang, asking him to go and see if Gui Qing was still at the law firm.
Xu Yang replied immediately: [Huh? Didn't Qing Gong go to the hospital to see you? She left around 4 o'clock.]
Jiang Yuxu looked at Xu Yang's reply and his eyes suddenly darkened.
She left after four o'clock? The law firm and the hospital were only a twenty-minute drive away, and she hadn't come yet...did she go somewhere else?
Jiang Yuxu was feeling a little depressed. She had promised to come see him, and even if she couldn't come due to something urgent, she should have told him - he didn't even sleep in order to wait for her.
When Jiang Yuxu was feeling aggrieved, he suddenly remembered what Gui Qing said a few days ago, "I just treat you the way you treat me." Then, certain memories flooded into his mind.
He seemed to have done this more than once.
So... did Gui Qing deliberately stand him up this time?
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuxu became even more depressed - there is no regret medicine in the world, and what has happened cannot be changed. It is a fact that he treated her badly in the past, and it is understandable that she retaliated against him like this.
It's just that the feeling of being in heaven and hell at the same time is really uncomfortable. Yesterday he was happy because she agreed to give him a chance, but today he was disappointed because she broke her promise. Before this, he had never experienced such an emotional roller coaster.
Jiang Yuxu had never had a second relationship, but he suddenly remembered the story of Song Yi and Fu Xijing.
In the past, when he saw Song Yi's emotions being controlled by Fu Xijing, he would feel that Song Yi was too soft-hearted and Fu Xijing was too much. He couldn't really empathize with Song Yi. Why should he give the decision-making power of his emotions to another person?
Now he understood that the basis of a relationship is to give a part of yourself to the other person, and you are destined to be affected by the other person's emotions. If there is no such emotional connection, there is no love.
Jiang Yuxu spent some time to adjust his mood, then opened Gui Qing's chat window, intending to send a message to ask her where she had been.
He was typing in the dialog box when he was interrupted by a knock on the door.
Jiang Yuxu raised his head and looked towards the door, but before he could say "Come in", the door was pushed open.
When Jiang Yuxu saw Gui Qing's figure, the phone in his hand fell to the ground with a "click".
He didn't have time to care, he just looked at her steadily: "Why are you here?"
Gui Qing closed the door, put the things in her hand on the table, and looked at him with a smile: "Do you want to listen to what you are saying? Didn't you ask me to come here?"
"...Oh." Jiang Yuxu suddenly came back to his senses. He realized that all those things just now were just his fantasies and he let it slip.
He got up from the bed and walked over to her, "Are you done yet?"
"No, I finished my work around four o'clock." Gui Qing pointed to the several thermos bags on the table. "I went to the tea restaurant to buy some food. I got here during the evening rush hour, and the traffic was stuck at the Third Ring Road for over half an hour."
Jiang Yuxu looked at the thermal bags and was flattered: "Bought them for me?"
Gui Qing: "No, I bought it for myself. I can't eat the food in the hospital."
Jiang Yuxu: "You can't eat that much by yourself."
He automatically assumed it was for him, and the gloom just now was swept away. "So you can also say one thing and mean another."
"What are you talking about? I bought it for myself." Gui Qing rolled her eyes. "You're responsible for cleaning up what I left."
Jiang Yuxu: "Okay."
He agreed readily, and this attitude made Gui Qing laugh. She teased him, "Jiang Lu is willing to eat my leftovers now? Did the sun rise in the west today?"
Jiang Yuxu coughed. He knew that she was mocking him again by talking about the past, so he didn't refute her so as not to cause more trouble.
After all, he had done so many things to offend her in the past that it was difficult to list them all.
Take the issue of eating leftovers for example. She had ordered takeout for breakfast many times before. She had big eyes but a small appetite, and she wanted to eat everything. She always ordered a lot, and left most of it.
Jiang Yuxu couldn't stand her behavior. Once, when he saw that she had too much left, he couldn't help but say it was a waste.
Then Gui Qing said: Then you can eat what I left, so it won’t be wasted.
He refused without hesitation, on the grounds that he was a mysophobe and was used to sharing food with others and would never eat other people's leftovers.
After listening to this, Gui Qing took the remaining things out and threw them away.
Jiang Yuxu didn't pay much attention to her emotions at the time, but now he realizes that she must have been very angry at that time.
For something that has already happened, apologizing verbally is of no use.
"Eat it while it's hot." Jiang Yuxu was silent for a while and planned to go over and take the things out of the thermal bag for her.
Gui Qing couldn't help laughing as she watched Jiang Yuxu pick up a few bags with his left hand and walk towards them.
This frail yet determined appearance is quite funny.
After all, Jiang Yuxu had a disabled arm and had difficulty moving. It was easy for him to carry the thermal bag over, but it was a bit difficult to take things out of it.
Gui Qing watched from the side for less than a minute before losing patience with his clumsy movements and brushing him away before coming over.
Within three minutes, all the takeaway boxes were placed on the table, the lids were opened, and the aroma wafted out, successfully arousing her appetite.
Gui Qing tore open the tableware packaging and prepared to eat.
"Wait." Jiang Yuxu suddenly interrupted her, "I'll go get you—"
"Here, I spent an extra fifty bucks to buy new cutlery." Gui Qing had already anticipated Jiang Yuxu's words, unwrapped the package, and shook the chopsticks in her hand. "Medical-grade stainless steel."
Jiang Yuxu: "..."
Gui Qing: "Why are you standing there? Did I buy the wrong thing?"
"No." Jiang Yuxu sat down, picked up another set of tableware and opened it. He looked at the stainless steel chopsticks inside with mixed feelings.
He pursed his lips, his throat was hard, "You still remember this."
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