Chapter 105 Like a Hedgehog
Yang Shuhua suddenly realized. He really couldn't see what the relationship was between Xia Wu and Ji Yunzhou. He thought Xia Wu sympathized with Ji Yunzhou.
After all, in his opinion, Ji Yunzhou was just a good-looking disabled person, and maybe he had a little money?
But Xia Wu is not bad either!
No matter what, it's always right to listen to Zhao Jing. Ma Fangzhou and Xia Zhi went to the B&B every day to check on the progress. Yang Shuhua saw Xia Zhi coming and hurried over.
In fact, Xia Zhi knew everything that happened on the Internet. After all, he also went online and followed Xia Wu's account.
After listening to Yang Shuhua, Xia Zhi nodded, "Okay, I understand."
"Well, why don't you talk to Ji Yunzhou?"
"Tell him why?"
"Isn't this asking Ji Yunzhou to comfort Xiao Wu? You are Xiao Wu's cousin, you should know about them..."
Xia Zhi had a blank expression on his face. “I don’t know. Don’t say such unfounded words.”
Yang Shuhua smiled awkwardly, and Xia Zhi turned and left, leaving him feeling a little embarrassed.
He said that such a relationship would not be favored and would definitely be difficult!
Xia Zhi took out his cell phone and sent a message to Xia Wu as soon as the incident happened, but he has not received a reply until now.
Tell Ji Yunzhou? He didn't believe that person didn't know these things.
Sure enough, when he finished his work and returned to the White Building, he asked Anna where Ji Yunzhou had been. He learned that Ji Yunzhou had gone out early in the morning and had not returned yet.
He and Ma Fangzhou were nominally staying in the White Building as Ji Yunzhou's guests, but in reality they rarely had the chance to meet each other.
Ji Yunzhou only stayed on the second floor and seldom went out. His meals were delivered to his room.
Xia Zhi seemed to be thinking about something, so he took out his cell phone and contacted a friend, asking him to help him find out if there were other people behind Xia Wu's incident.
Not long after breakfast in the morning, Xia Wu turned off her cell phone, sat in the yard and read a book while playing with Bugs Bunny. She had bought a book on agricultural planting, but she hadn't had time to read it for a long time. Now that she had some free time, she decided to take a look.
There was a sound of a car outside. Liu Guizhen, who was sitting in the aisle, stood up to check. After a while, a voice was heard outside: "Yunzhou, why are you here?"
"Auntie, is Xiao Wu at home?"
"Yes, yes, I'll go call you."
"Mom, I heard it. Let Ji Yunzhou come in."
Ji Yunzhou wheeled his wheelchair in and smiled faintly. He said to Xia Wu, "I heard that too. Are you busy?"
"No way," Xia Wu raised the book and shook it, "I was just reading because I was bored. How did you find the time to come to me?"
"I want to tell you something. I might leave here after a while."
Ji Yunzhou's sudden farewell made Xia Wu a little at a loss.
"Where are you going?"
For some reason, Xia Wu's nose felt a little sore. She didn't want to cry because of the slander, and she didn't want to shed tears because of the difficult situation, but when she heard that Ji Yunzhou was leaving, the accumulated helplessness and grievances suddenly came to her.
Not looking at the phone is just to escape. Xia Wu is actually quite tired. Although she likes her current life, everything falls on her shoulders alone, so she is inevitably tired.
Xia Wu's eyes were red. Afraid that her parents would notice, she stood up and walked behind Ji Yunzhou: "Let me push you out for a walk."
Ji Yunzhou did not refuse. They walked for a while. There were not many people on the road and neither of them spoke.
Xia Wu looked at the top of Ji Yunzhou's head, a little confused. "Where are you going? How long will you be gone? Will you come back?"
Ji Yunzhou tilted his face slightly, his straight nose like a jade carving, "Xiao Wu," he called Xia Wu softly, "Are you crying?"
Xia Wu's voice was mumbling, as if she was holding back tears.
It would have been fine if she hadn't been asked, but once she was asked, Xia Wu really couldn't help it, and her tears fell like beads from a broken string.
She was still stubborn: "No."
Ji Yunzhou sighed faintly and explained, "I'm going abroad. My family has arranged a medical team for me and asked me to have surgery a long time ago. I've been putting it off and I don't know how long I'll have to go. The surgery plus recovery will take at least half a year."
Hearing that he was going to have surgery, Xia Wu couldn't help crying and asked, "Can surgery cure it?"
"Not necessarily," Ji Yunzhou himself was not sure. He had already undergone an operation. Experts diagnosed that the probability of success of another major operation was not high, and the results of the operation might not develop in a good direction. Maybe his condition would become worse.
If it is more serious, he may even lose sensation in his upper body and become completely disabled.
The probability of death is not high.
As long as he still has a breath left, the Ji family will definitely let him live, even if he can only move his head and even if he cannot speak.
Ji Yunzhou was afraid of that kind of life, so he always refused surgery.
Fear of getting worse.
"Then why did you suddenly agree to the surgery?" Xia Wu was also a little worried. For a surgery with a low probability of success, is it really necessary to gamble on such a pitifully small probability?
"I promised my grandfather," Ji Yunzhou said this lightly without explaining the reason.
"Half a year is fine. I'll wait for you to come back."
Xia Wu suddenly found acceptance again. If the operation was successful, would Ji Yunzhou be able to return to normal?
"Xiao Wu, I want to ask you, are you willing to go abroad with me and stay with me for half a year?"
Xia Wu was surprised by Ji Yunzhou's sudden invitation.
She quickly went over the question in her mind, "What about my mountain?"
In what capacity did she accompany Ji Yunzhou?
She had thought about what might happen between her and Ji Yunzhou, but definitely not at the cost of losing herself.
Here, she is Xia Wu, and she has her own career. But if she leaves here and follows Ji Yunzhou to a foreign country, will she still be herself?
Having had previous experiences in the Xia family, Xia Wu is very sensitive to losing things he owns.
She was sure that she liked Ji Yunzhou, but she also admitted that she was selfish and would not leave her territory for Ji Yunzhou.
Unless Ji Yunzhou is willing to stay here with her.
Ji Yunzhou smiled, first in a low voice, and then his smile became more and more unrestrained. Xia Wu let go of the wheelchair, and he turned around to face Xia Wu.
"If you go abroad with me, you won't have to worry about money, and your future life will be worry-free. I can guarantee that. You can't earn what I can give you in ten or twenty years of running a business here. Even so, don't you want to leave with me?"
Xia Wu looked at him with confusion, disbelief, and a look of scrutiny as if her love was gradually fading.
Is this the Ji Yunzhou she likes?
Ji Yunzhou would never say such a thing.
Xia Wu didn't speak for a while, she was organizing her words.
"I don't know if you have any misunderstandings about me, or if some of my behaviors make you think I love money so much that it even outweighs my free will."
Ji Yunzhou's appearance has not changed. He is still as gentle as jade, and his eyes are as calm as water, like a clear spring flowing in the mountains, clear and transparent.
Xia Wu felt a little heartbroken, so heartbroken that she wanted to cry.
How did Ji Yunzhou become like this?
"Isn't it?" Ji Yunzhou was still challenging Xia Wu's bottom line. He laughed at himself and pounded his numb knees. "Which normal girl would like a cripple like me? No, there are some who like me for my money. You know, I have some money."
For a moment, Xia Wu was very annoyed. She thought about her behavior in front of Ji Yunzhou. She shamelessly asked him to cooperate with her to open a B&B. So in Ji Yunzhou's eyes, she was a greedy and materialistic woman who was chasing after his money?
Xia Wu's chest rose and fell dramatically, his eyes filled with rage. "Ji Yunzhou, I don't know what's wrong with you today. If you said these words to humiliate me, then I just want to tell you that you can't do it."
"I misjudged you. I thought you were different, but you're no different from them. You belittled my love, and you belittled yourself. I was wrong."
Xia Wu couldn't believe it. How could Ji Yunzhou, the one and only in her eyes, become like this?
But hasn't she always had a bad eye for men?
When Fu Shilin changed his attitude towards her, wasn't she also unbelievable? It can only be said that men still know how to pretend.
Xia Wu was angry, but Ji Yunzhou remained calm and collected, "How am I different from others?"
Xia Wuyu is slow to speak, what's the difference? Maybe it's because he doesn't care about anything, doesn't care about status, doesn't look down on people just because he is rich, is polite and self-contained, no matter what happens, he has his own attitude and principles to deal with it.
No matter how the world changes, Ji Yunzhou remains the same.
Xia Wu wiped away her tears. She would never cry in front of someone who was good at disguising himself.
"Go away. I wish you a smooth operation. I'm taking back my love for you. You don't have to care about it anymore."
After Xia Wu finished speaking, he turned around and was about to leave.
The next second, her hand was grabbed by someone, and she was pulled backwards with such force that the world spun around. She fell into Ji Yunzhou's arms and subconsciously closed her eyes. The expected pain did not come. She was held tightly in someone's arms, and a gentle, helpless voice rang in her ears: "Do you really want to take it back?"
Xia Wu opened his eyes angrily, "Ji Yunzhou! What are you doing!"
She wanted to get up, fearing that she would crush Ji Yunzhou and cause him some harm.
"Don't move, Xiao Wu, I don't mean to make you angry." Ji Yunzhou's hands were really strong. He didn't want to let go. No matter how Xia Wu struggled, it was useless. "If you do this again, I'll call for help!"
"Are you still running away from being angry at those people online?"
Xia Wu: “???”
Why are you talking about this again for no apparent reason?
Ji Yunzhou tucked her messy hair back and said, "You're not doing this for the money, you simply love this land. It's not pleasant to do your own thing and be misunderstood by others. It's okay to be confused occasionally, but I still like the confident and capable you."
"Ji Yunzhou, are you crazy?"
Xia Wu could no longer bear it. "Did you say those words just now to irritate me, and then use these words to comfort me?"
"What words?"
"You told me to go abroad with you, said you would give me endless money, and you thought I liked you because of your money. Are you sincere or fake when you said these words?"
Ji Yunzhou just looked at her quietly for a few seconds. Then he covered Xia Wu's eyes and sighed helplessly.
He still couldn't bear it.
I originally wanted to come here today to encourage Xia Wu to cheer up and say goodbye to her seriously, but I ended up messing things up.
Everyone hopes that he will have the surgery, thinking that if the surgery is successful he will be able to recover. Only Ji Yunzhou knows that the probability of success of the surgery is less than 20%, and he has never been a lucky person.
If the operation fails, he will never come back to see Xia Wu again, so it is necessary to say goodbye properly.
He liked Xia Wu and knew that Xia Wu liked him.
Ji Yunzhou went for surgery, and Xia Wu said she was willing to wait for him, even for half a year. But what if it was in the future with no time limit?
Even if Xia Wu was willing, Ji Yunzhou was not willing.
No rose should wither in waiting.
He told a terrible lie and acted in the most clumsy way, which really made Xia Wu sad.
She is as carefree as ever. She can bravely choose to like him, and can also bravely choose to withdraw her love when she finds out that he is not the one she trusted.
She is worthy of being the person he likes.
However, when the time came, Ji Yunzhou was the scared coward.
He held Xia Wu's arm tightly, his rapid breathing and trembling hands revealing the fact that he was afraid.
He was afraid of the surgery, afraid of leaving, afraid that he would not be able to come back after the failure and would never see Xia Wu again.
He was even afraid that one day in the future Xia Wu would shift her gaze to someone else and completely forget about him.
He was afraid of death, so why did he have to meet Xia Wu when he was at his most incomplete and failed?
The moment Xia Wu sensed his fear, she understood everything and suddenly felt relieved.
No one's emotions are perfect.
Ji Yunzhou, who seems to be able to accept everything that happens, also has things he is afraid of. As sunny as she is, she is also troubled by past experiences. Both of them are imperfect, and they are both testing each other cautiously, pretending to be strong in front of each other.
But disguise is for outsiders. There is no need to disguise in front of people you truly trust.
"Ji Yunzhou, are you scared too?"
Xia Wu asked this question softly.
Yes, she was afraid, so she didn't dare to look at her phone.
Escape from everything that happens online.
Her mind kept flashing back to the time when her identity as a fake daughter was exposed. After one night, she was blamed by everyone.
She seemed to be forced to wear a mask, and everyone said that she had another face underneath the mask, greedy, vain, and selfish.
Is it her fault?
In countless midnight dreams, she saw her family and friends around her changing their attitudes. She touched her face in horror, wondering if she had put on the mask on her own accord.
Is she a bad woman who takes the initiative to rob other people's lives?
This is an unsolvable answer.
No matter how much she thinks she is innocent, someone else's casual remark, "You are enjoying a life that does not belong to you," can offset her grievances by saying that she has indeed taken advantage of them.
Even now, Xia Wu is still floating.
The place that raised her dug out her roots, and she floated back to the hometown where she had never lived like duckweed, becoming a new guest in her own home.
It was the mountains that first accepted her, and she gradually found a sense of belonging.
This is the greatest meaning of this land to her.
She is still avoiding news of the past because she is afraid.
Ji Yunzhou was not as strong as he appeared to be, he was also afraid.
Because of fear, we try.
The two of them are like injured hedgehogs, wanting to hug but afraid of being hurt.
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