Chapter 349 Obsessive-compulsive disorder
"Ms. Xu, I know you have tried your best. This is not the result I want to see. My father has never broken a promise to anyone in his life. I didn't expect that the first time he would break a promise would be to you." When Old Mrs. Wu mentioned this, her face was full of guilt.
The old lady slept for two hours in the hotel, but she still looked tired.
Old Man Wu was lying on the hospital bed, half dead, and Xu Youyou couldn't pull him up to do things for her.
There are still seven days left before the mission ends. Xu Youyou is still staying in the ward. Although she knows that there is little hope, she still can't help but imagine, what if? Old Mrs. Wu is restless and can't help but pull the quilt on the bed. These quilts were brought from her home.
Xu Youyou looked at the white quilt embroidered with a few small flowers on the bed. After being tidied by Old Mrs. Wu, the quilt was now neatly covering the old man, and the small flowers just fell on the old man's shoulders.
"Old lady, do you have obsessive-compulsive disorder?" Xu Youyou asked casually.
The old lady said a little embarrassedly: "I have had this old problem all my life. To be more specific, my father was like this too, my brother was like this when he was alive, and even Xiaoguang is like this. It is simply an old tradition of our Wu family."
I couldn't help laughing when I heard that. As I was laughing, I suddenly realized something.
She turned her head and pretended to look at the scenery outside the window, but she was actually talking to the system.
"You said that only the Wu family can find my box. Can you help me find it, old lady?"
The system responded quickly: [That depends on whether she has learned real skills. ]
Xu Youyou looked doubtful. She had tried to hint at the old lady many times, but the result was very disappointing. Although the old lady vaguely knew that the old man was not an ordinary person, she had never been involved in his affairs.
According to the old man, "It's a new era now. You girls can study, work, and walk the world with dignity. There's no need to learn these family-inherited skills."
Just when Xu Youyou was filled with despair, the system suddenly said:
【Character determines destiny.】
Xu Youyou just felt confused and wanted to ask a few more questions, but the system didn't give any reply.
When she turned around, she saw the old lady peeling an apple. After peeling the apple, she cut it into eight very regular small pieces, arranged it in the shape of a flower on the plate, inserted a toothpick, and called Xu Youyou: "Miss Xu, come and have an apple."
Xu Youyou had just taken the plate of apples when she suddenly heard a voice.
"The apples in the south are crooked, and I don't know how to rearrange them."
Xu Youyou's hand holding the plate of apples paused and she almost dropped the whole plate of apples on the ground. She looked down and saw that the apple in the south of the plate was indeed placed a little crooked.
At this moment, she didn't care whether the apple was placed straight or not.
She had heard this voice before.
This is the old man's voice.
Could she hear the old man's thoughts?
Xu Youyou suddenly remembered where she last heard her inner voice. It was an antique, the lacquer tray.
It had been so long that she even forgot she had this golden finger.
How did the system describe this golden finger reward at that time?
Yes! “Sometimes there’s a sound!”
Xu Youyou was extremely grateful for the system's reward. Being able to hear the old man's voice at this time might help the old man get better.
Xu Youyou was not in a hurry to eat the apple. Instead, she went to the bedside of the still unconscious old man and said, "Old man, please wake up soon. Everyone is looking forward to your recovery."
"This little girl is quite anxious, but unfortunately, I can't wake up even if I want to. Although I still have the physical characteristics, my soul has left my body, so I probably can't go back."
Xu Youyou felt even sadder after listening to these words. Medically speaking, the old man was still alive, but from a supernatural perspective, he was almost dead.
However, the phenomenon of soul leaving the body is enough to explain why the old man could see that the apple was crooked even though he was lying there with his eyes closed.
"Quilt, quilt! This is not how you cover yourself with a quilt!"
The old man shouted anxiously.
Only Xu Youyou could hear his voice in the room. Old Mrs. Wu had a worried look on her face, and no one knew what she was thinking.
Xu Youyou couldn't help but ask, "Is the quilt too thin and the old man feels cold?"
"Who's feeling cold? The flowers on this floral quilt must be placed underneath. Now you're using the space I usually use to cover my feet to cover my shoulders. This is really making a mistake!" said the old man.
Xu Youyou suddenly stood up and turned the quilt 180 degrees. The small flower patterns that originally covered her shoulders now fell at the old man's feet.
Old Mrs. Wu looked at her in surprise.
Xu Youyou explained awkwardly: "Flowers and plants all grow on the ground. I think it's more down-to-earth to build it like this now. I'm sure the old man will like it more."
Although Mrs. Wu had a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, she did not change it because she saw that the quilt was neatly covered without a trace of mess.
The voice from the old man's spirit was full of surprise: "What's going on? This little girl seems to be able to hear my voice? Can she see my spirit?"
As the old man said this, his soul suddenly rushed towards Xu Youyou from in front of her.
Despite such a horrifying scene, Xu Youyou didn't react at all.
"She can't see."
Just when the old man thought it was a coincidence, Xu Youyou suddenly said, "I can hear it."
Old Mrs. Wu:?
"Miss Xu, what did you hear?" asked Old Mrs. Wu.
Xu Youyou didn't want to appear too strange, so she said casually, "I heard birds singing outside."
Old Mrs. Wu said nothing more.
After Xu Youyou said a few perfunctory words, she found a reason to send Old Lady Wu out of the ward.
There was no one else in the room, so she came to the bedside and said, "Old man, I can hear some strange noises. I think you have been guarding the safe for your whole life, and you have taken all ninety-nine steps, but you failed in your hands at the last step. You must feel bad."
"Oh, this little girl can really hear!" The old man's shouting voice reached Xu Youyou's ears.
The fact is indeed the same as Xu Youyou said. The old man has kept his promises all his life. To a certain extent, it is not only because of his noble character, but also because his obsessive-compulsive disorder has long been terminal.
To him, making a promise but failing to follow through on it was no different from killing him.
In his current situation, seeing that he was about to die, what he was most concerned about was not the future of his descendants, but the last safe deposit box in his hand.
He only needs this last one to complete the mission assigned to him by the family!
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