Chapter 1 01 System
In the hospital late at night, the reflected light seemed to be cold. All she could hear from the parking lot to the operating room was the tapping sound of high heels hitting the ground. Looking at the three big words "operation", Ji Qingzhi hadn't even caught her breath when someone next to her grabbed her wrist and said, "Qingzhi, you're finally here."
Ji Qingzhi's eyes were still fixed on the three characters "In Surgery" until she felt the force on her wrist and came back to her senses. She turned her head to look at the person who was talking to her and regained her remaining rationality: "Aunt Li, thanks to you and Uncle Li tonight, I'm here. I'll have someone take you back to rest first."
"We have been neighbors for many years. Why should we be so polite? Your father has been in for a while. Let us wait with you for him to come out." Aunt Li glanced at Ji Qingzhi while speaking. She was still wearing a long dress and her makeup was a little messy due to the long journey, but it did not affect her beauty at all. Aunt Li sighed in her heart, not knowing what she was thinking.
At this time, Ji Qingzhi's mind was still a mess. Most of her attention was on the operating room in front of her. She nodded randomly when she heard the words. Half an hour ago, she was still filming her last scene on the crew. Only after the scene was over did she see the call from Aunt Li on her mobile phone. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a little scared. If she saw the call later, she shook her head and shook these assumptions out of her mind.
She couldn't help but think back to when she last met Old Ji. Ji Qingzhi couldn't remember. Ever since she chose to act, her relationship with Old Ji had plummeted. No, should it be said that since what happened when she was ten years old, she had unilaterally started a cold war with Old Ji? Later, she chose to act, and whenever they met they would quarrel about this. Thinking of this, Ji Qingzhi felt a pang in his heart.
Even in the hospital late at night, there was no shortage of people. Ji Qingzhi could feel that she was being secretly photographed, but she no longer had the energy to care. She had so much so-called "black material" that she didn't care. She was just thinking, Old Ji was only 47, how could he suddenly faint?
Uncle Li and Aunt Li beside her were not as sharp as her, but they also looked towards the direction of the operating room with worry. They caught a glimpse of Ji Qingzhi out of the corner of their eyes, and they both couldn't help but sigh. This girl was really pitiful. Her parents divorced when she was ten years old, and now Old Ji had encountered such a thing again. Alas.
Ji Qingzhi's mind was a mess. She seemed to be thinking, but also seemed to be thinking of nothing. Until she heard a sound from the operating room in front of her, she suddenly stood up and walked towards the door.
"Doctor, how is my father's condition?" As soon as Ji Qingzhi said this, he was surprised to find that his voice was trembling.
"The operation was successful. He will wake up after the anesthesia time is over." The doctor's words immediately made Ji Qingzhi breathe a sigh of relief.
She followed the bed back to the ward. It was at this time that she finally remembered Uncle Li and his wife. She thanked them and called a car for them. Finally, she said, "Uncle Li, today is all thanks to you and Aunt Li. When my dad is discharged from the hospital, we will come and thank you properly."
Hearing that she was fine, the two of them felt relieved and said goodbye to her and left the hospital.
Ji Qingzhi asked for a single room and contacted the nurse. At this moment, Old Ji on the bed had not woken up yet. The ward was very quiet. She sat on the sofa, her mind clearer than ever. She and Old Ji really needed to have a good talk. She thought that after he woke up, she would tell him why she was so determined to be an actor.
She knew that when she said that she went into acting in order not to waste her face, Old Ji didn't believe her, and he didn't ask any further questions, which she thought was a tacit approval. What happened tonight made her realize that it was time to put the rift between father and daughter over the years on the table and make it clear. Thinking of this, Ji Qingzhi felt relieved.
Ji Qingzhi had been waiting for Old Ji to wake up, and then the father and daughter could resolve the rift. However, the opposite happened and when it was time for Old Ji to wake up, he still hadn't woken up. Next, there were various examinations, and the hospital had arranged everything very well. Ji Qingzhi only needed to follow the staff to the examination room.
The long check list and various tests made Ji Qingzhi desperate and expectant. Rather than having all the indicators be normal, she would rather find the cause in a certain examination room. At least, people could understand the symptoms. On this day, she walked like a zombie in various examination rooms of the hospital. Except for the results that had not yet come out, all other results were normal. She tried to tell herself that Old Ji must be fine, he was just asleep, and when he woke up, they could talk it out as father and daughter.
Two days later, all the test results showed that they were normal, which meant that the cause of Ji Yuanfu's coma had not yet been found. Ji Qingzhi looked at the doctor in front of him in a daze: "What should we do now?"
"We recommend that you transfer to a more authoritative hospital." The doctor's tone was somewhat helpless. This was the first time he had encountered such a case.
"Transfer to another hospital?" Ji Qingzhi murmured. She had been busy these past two days and had searched a lot on the Internet. Rather than transferring the hospital, it might be better to invite a team of experts to come for a consultation. If that didn't work, she could also take Old Ji to a foreign country for treatment. At this moment, Ji Qingzhi clearly realized that nothing was more important than Old Ji's health. With this thought in mind, she thanked the doctor and started searching on her phone. Calls kept coming in, and she kept hanging up. But she pressed the call button on the last one, and her agent yelled from the other end, "Ji Qingzhi, where the hell have you been? The variety show I told you about before will start recording next week."
"I said I won't go." Ji Qingzhi said with disgust. Since her debut, she has had more black fans than fans, all thanks to the company and her agent. In their view, being black and popular is also a kind of popularity. In this variety show, her character is that of a disgusting "villain", thus highlighting the simplicity and kindness of the control group.
"Don't you want to renew your contract? President Yan said that if you cooperate with the company to participate in this variety show this time, your contract renewal will be signed according to Class B." The agent on the other end of the phone continued to make promises to her.
At this moment, Ji Qingzhi just felt tired. For so many years, she tried hard to gain a place in the circle, just to let that person see that she was living a good life. She wanted to make her regret it, but after Old Ji got into trouble, she realized how ridiculous her previous thoughts were. At this moment, she said to the other end of the phone very calmly: "No, let's leave it at that."
Ji Qingzhi hung up the phone after she finished speaking and checked the time on her phone. Oh, it turned out that her contract expired yesterday. The company had been using the contract renewal to control her, but she wanted to stay. After all, this was the place she had praised before. Now she didn't want to do it anymore, so naturally nothing could threaten her.
After hanging up the phone, she added the number to her blacklist. She began to try to contact a medical expert until she was knocked to the ground by a child in the corridor. Her head hit the chair next to her. She felt a buzz in her head. At this time, she heard a mechanical voice in her head: "Do you want to bind the system?"
"Choose to bind." Another stern voice sounded in her mind. Ji Qingzhi couldn't help but knocking her forehead. Was she hallucinating?
The parents of the "perpetrator" nearby helped her to the seat next to them with some concern. Ji Qingzhi waved at them: "I'm fine."
"The system starts loading the binding program." The mechanical voice sounded again. This time, Ji Qingzhi was sure that this was not an illusion. She rubbed her brows and said in her heart: "Refuse to bind."
"Do you still want to save your father?" The stern voice sounded again.
"Who are you? Do you have a solution?" At that moment, Ji Qingzhi seemed to have found a savior.
"Of course, Ji Yuanfu fell asleep because of the decline of Ji's Restaurant. As long as you develop Ji's Restaurant, he will naturally wake up."
"What does this have to do with the restaurant?" Ji Qingzhi just thought it was nonsense.
"How can it not be related? My Ji family restaurant has been around for many years, how can it be destroyed in his hands?" When he said this, the voice became a little exasperated.
"So you are?" Ji Qingzhi asked. The family restaurant was indeed handed down from their ancestors. She remembered that Old Ji once said that it had been in his family for 22 generations.
"I am your ancestor. All the Ji family members have the cooking gene. Put away your little thoughts." The voice said unhappily.
There was a flash of surprise in Ji Qingzhi's eyes. Before she was ten years old, her wish was to develop Ji's restaurant. She had a more sensitive tongue than ordinary people since she was a child. No matter what dish she ate, she could accurately tell what seasoning was added. Old Ji always praised her for her talent. Until that incident, she began to reject this matter from the bottom of her heart and no longer touched anything related to cooking.
"Then what should I do now?" If inheriting the Ji's restaurant could make Old Ji better, she would have nothing to consider. Moreover, this was also her previous wish.
"First, reorganize the restaurant and reopen it. The system will then issue you tasks."
"Isn't it you?" Ji Qingzhi asked tentatively, but she didn't get a response. She tried to summon, but only heard a cold mechanical voice: "The current score is zero, and it cannot be checked for the time being."
The inexplicable system did not stop Ji Qingzhi from interrupting her plan to invite the expert team. After sending the email, she went to the ward to take a look at Old Ji. He was lying quietly on the bed, as if he was asleep. Seeing this, Ji Qingzhi couldn't help but tear up.
There are nurses here to take care of her. She returned to the Ji family restaurant which she had not visited for a long time. It is also her home. The Ji family’s house is very big. The front is used as a restaurant. In the back, in addition to their residence, there is also a large vegetable garden.
However, after no one took care of it for a few days, the backyard seemed to have lost its vitality and became wilted.
With the development of the times, the number of customers in the suburbs where the Ji family restaurant is located is getting smaller and smaller. Old Ji is a stubborn person, so the restaurant will become more and more declining, Ji Qingzhi guessed.
Originally she thought that after returning here, the system would issue a task, but Ji Qingzhi walked through every corner of the yard and still did not receive any task. She could not help but frown. Was her guess wrong?
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