Chapter 188: Back to Reality 7

"..."

Under Zheng Dongli's sharp gaze, Yu Xiao was speechless for a while.

Although she admired Zheng Dongli very much, it did not mean that she would tell Zheng Dongli everything. After all, there would be no benefit if she told everything about herself, and there might be some unexpected trouble. So except Sister Lan and Xiaozhen, she did not intend to mention the existence of the hospital to anyone.

Zheng Dongli was looking at Yu Xiao, and he was expecting Yu Xiao to tell the truth.

Yu Xiao turned her gaze and looked at the night view outside the car window. She leaned back, raised her hand to cover her heart and said, "Oh... I feel a little dizzy."

"Why are you covering your heart when you are dizzy?" Zheng Dongli asked.

Yu Xiao followed suit, and immediately moved the hand on his chest to his head, "I feel dizzy... Not only dizzy, but also very painful."

Zheng Dongli smiled, and asked, "Don't you trust me?"

Yu Xiao closed his eyes and began to hum.

"If you don't want to say it, I can't force you to say it." Zheng Dongli sighed, turned his head, and looked out the window like Yu Xiao, "I am 45 years old this year. Since I recovered from my illness at the age of 22, I have spent half of my life looking for the answer to this matter. I have traveled to many places and met many people. Just now, when Luo Jin told me that you knew them, at that moment I thought I finally didn't have to look for it anymore..."

Hearing this, Yu Xiao's mouth twitched, thinking, do you think I will soften your heart if you play the sympathy card?

After a while, seeing Yu Xiao had no reaction, Zheng Dongli said angrily and helplessly: "You didn't react, do you have a heart of stone?"

Yu Xiao still looked out the window, thinking that my heart is indeed harder than stone.

"Look at me." Zheng Dongli said.

As he said that, he pulled Yu Xiao's arm, "Didn't you hear the elders talking to you? You are so rude...huh?"

Yu Xiao: "?"

Zheng Dongli began to touch Yu Xiao's hand, and Yu Xiao immediately retracted her hand, turned around and looked at Zheng Dongli in surprise and suspicion, "What are you doing?"

Zheng Dongli stretched out his hand, "Give me your hand."

Yu Xiao put his hands behind his back, "You are so old and still act like a hooligan?"

"How old am I? I'm very young!" Zheng Dongli pulled Yu Xiao's hand, "You are talking nonsense to me, give me your hand."

Yu Xiao: "I don't want it."

"Tsk." Zheng Dongli stopped pulling her hand, and instead stretched out his hand to touch Yu Xiao's neck.

Yu Xiao immediately covered her neck with both hands, and Zheng Dongli took the opportunity to grab one of Yu Xiao's hands. The driver in front couldn't stand it anymore, "Comrade, please show some respect to me. Do you believe I will call the police?"

How could Zheng Dongli take the driver's threat seriously? Yu Xiao said, "Brother Zheng, if we fight, the driver will be in danger. Don't implicate innocent people."

The driver said in front, "Don't be afraid, little girl, I will call the police!"

Zheng Dongli grabbed Yu Xiao's wrist tightly. He looked at Yu Xiao in surprise and uncertainty, "You..."

Yu Xiao stared at him, and Zheng Dongli blurted out, "Are you dead?"

"You still dare to curse?" The driver was furious. He had never seen such an arrogant person before, "People like you must be punished by law..."

"What's going on?" Zheng Dongli had never encountered such a situation before. He looked at Yu Xiao in disbelief. "You are still breathing, your hands and feet are not stiff..."

Yu Xiao, in turn, grabbed Zheng Dongli's hand tightly. "Do you believe I will hit you?" Suddenly, the driver braked suddenly, and Zheng Dongli fell headfirst on Yu Xiao's elbow. He groaned and let go.

"Little girl, don't be afraid!" The driver said in a voice full of justice: "We are at the police station!"

Zhao Lan and his car arrived early for lunch, but they waited and waited but Yu Xiao and Zheng Dongli did not show up. Yu Qinglang was very anxious, "Is there a traffic jam?"

"No." Zhao Lan shook his head and said, "Our cars were all going together, it doesn't make sense that they are the only ones stuck in traffic."

"Let me call Brother Zheng." Lu Xun said, "Ask what's going on."

Two minutes later, Lu Xun put down his phone and said puzzledly, "The call is not connected."

Zhao Lan didn't say anything, took out his phone and called Yu Xiao, but the call was also not connected.

Yu Xiao and Zheng Dongli were first lectured by the driver at the police station, and then lectured by the police uncle for a long time. After finally being released, both of them looked unlucky.

Yu Xiao let out a long sigh, "Sister Lan and the others must be worried to death, right?"

"Don't change the subject." Zheng Dongli pointed at Yu Xiao with bruises on his face, "What's wrong with you? You have no heartbeat, but you can breathe, your body is not stiff, and you even have body temperature. You can't be considered alive without a heartbeat, but your situation does not fit the conditions of a zombie or a living corpse. What's wrong with you?"

Yu Xiao looked at him with a frown, "Brother, can you not be so serious?"

"I like to be serious." Zheng Dongli threatened, "If you don't explain this clearly, I will keep pestering you until you are willing to tell me."

"Why are you pestering me?" Yu Xiao tried to convince him, "I'm twenty years old and you're forty-five. Half of your body is buried in the ground. How long can you pester me?"

"I'll keep pestering you until I die." Zheng Dongli was very determined.

Yu Xiao felt unbelievable, "Don't you have anything to do?"

"Why don't you have anything to do?" Zheng Dongli said, "Have you forgotten that I am Mr. Yin Yang? It's my job to figure out what's going on with you."

Yu Xiao was speechless, and she compromised, "Okay, I'll tell you."

Zheng Dongli immediately said, "You tell me."

"Actually, I..." Yu Xiao said hesitantly, "Do you know Cthulhu?"

Zheng Dongli: "What?"

"Actually, I am not myself. What you see of me is just the human skin I use to disguise myself. The real me is actually the Old One..."

Zheng Dongli looked to the left, then to the right. Yu Xiao asked curiously, "What are you looking for?"

Zheng Dongli took off his shoes and chased Yu Xiao barefoot, "I told you to talk nonsense! I'll beat you to death, you bad boy! Do you think I'm stupid..."

Zhao Lan and others waited in the hotel for several hours. When the hotel staff almost thought they were here to cause trouble, they finally waited for Yu Xiao and Zheng Dongli.

Yu Xiao's condition was fine, except for a dirty mark on his body that looked like a footprint, there was nothing wrong with him. Zheng Dongli was different, he only wore one shoe and had a very obvious bruise on his face.

After waiting for them for a long time, everyone was ready to complain, but when they saw their condition, they forgot to complain. Lu Xun asked, "Did you two have a fight?"

Tang Xingyin asked, "Were you taken to another place to be robbed by a black-hearted driver?"

Zheng Dongli forced a smile, "No, we...the car had a problem on the way..."

"Don't talk nonsense." Yu Xiao stepped forward and said, "To be honest, we had a fight on the road, and then the driver took us directly to the police station." "..."

The surroundings were dead silent, and everyone looked at them stupidly.

Zheng Dongli thought that he was too embarrassed to see anyone. He had lost all his face today. Yu Xiaosi was not affected at all. She walked in front of the crowd and extended her hand to a person who had not visited the Forbidden City with them before, "You must be Brother Teng Jingzhi, I have heard

a lot about you." Teng Jingzhi, who came to the hotel to meet the crowd, didn't understand what was going on. He just smiled dryly and shook Yu Xiao's hand, "You're welcome..."

Yu Xiao and Zheng Dongli had a fight. It was incredible to talk about it.

Lu Xun asked cautiously: "Why are they fighting again? Brother Zheng, where are your shoes?"

Yu Xiao: "He hit me with his shoes, and then accidentally threw the shoes out. They flew directly onto the top of the truck and were taken away."

"Haha..."

Zhou Xiaozhen couldn't help laughing out loud.

Although she stopped laughing in time, the laughter was too abrupt, and everyone present was in a subtle mood for a while.

Yu Qinglang was a little angry, "Old Zheng, what's wrong with you? Why do you want to beat the child?"

Zheng Dongli promised Yu Xiao not to reveal this matter to anyone, what else can he say? He had to try his best to cover up: "Nothing, it's all in the past..."

"What is the fight about?" Tang Xingyin frowned, "Brother Zheng, you are a very good person, I have never seen you get angry with anyone, so what happened just now?"

"..."

Zheng Dongli was helpless. He couldn't tell the real reason. Did he have to make up a reason for beating people on the spot? This is too difficult for him, right?

As a last resort, he could only look at Yu Xiao for help.

Yu Xiao thought to himself, I told you to hit me with shoes, you deserve it! However, the atmosphere couldn't continue to be deadlocked like this, Yu Xiao stood up and said: "This matter is also my fault, not Brother Zheng's fault."

Zheng Dongli's expression relaxed, thinking that Yu Xiao was still a good girl, although a little naughty, but a good person.

Zhao Lan patted the dust off Yu Xiao's body and asked: "What's the reason?"

"I have an elder who is very old, more than 80 years old, almost 90 years old, and his health is getting worse day by day. He wants to choose a Feng Shui treasure land for himself while he can still walk." Yu Xiao said: "Brother Zheng happens to do this, so I want to ask Brother Zheng for a favor."

What he said was all normal, but because of this, everyone didn't understand what this had to do with the fight between the two of them.

Then they heard Yu Xiao continue, "I don't intend to let Brother Zheng work for free, but Brother Zheng asked for one hundred thousand yuan. Our family is just an ordinary working class, how can we afford so much money?"

Zheng Dongli: "..."

"But this can't be blamed on Brother Zheng. After all, Brother Zheng has always charged this much." Yu Xiao shook his head self-reproachfully and said, "It's my fault. I have a bad temper and couldn't help but fight with Brother Zheng."

Zheng Dongli: "..."

"Brother Zheng." Tang Xingyin's expression was complicated, "It's just to check the feng shui of the cemetery. What's more, Xiaoxiao is still a friend..."

He paused here, probably because he felt that no matter how expensive Zheng Dongli charged, it was his business and he couldn't say anything. So he said, "How about this, I'll help Xiaoxiao pay the 100,000 yuan."

Zheng Dongli felt bitter in his heart, his lips trembling, he felt that he couldn't wash himself clean even if he jumped into the Yellow River.

"I..." Zheng Dongli: "I was wrong, I decided not to take her money..."

"Well." Teng Jingzhi came over and put his arm around Zheng Dongli's shoulders, "Why are you saying this? Let's order food and eat quickly, everyone is hungry. After eating, we still have to go sing, we can't delay any longer..."

With Teng Jingzhi's soothing words, the atmosphere became better again.

Yu Xiao sat down next to the sisters, Zhao Lan leaned over to Yu Xiao's ear and said, "Did Brother Zheng notice your situation?"

Yu Xiao nodded.

Zhou Xiaozhen also whispered: "Brother Zheng is really sharp, how did he find out?"

"Let's talk about it when we get back." Yu Xiao said.

"I really didn't expect it." Yu Qinglang said in a tone of "I just know your true colors today": "Old Zheng actually loves money so much, so stingy, it's a pity that I had a crush on him before. Now I think about it and I'm really scared, fortunately he is not interested in me."

Tang Xingyin handed the menu to Yu Xiao and the others and said: "Order, whatever you like."

Yu Xiao smiled rather reservedly, and Tang Xingyin immediately added: "Don't worry, I'll treat you, you can eat whatever you want."

"..."

That night they played together until the early morning of the next day, many people were drunk, and Yu Xiao and a few people who were not drunk sent them all back to their respective residences.

Afterwards, Yu Xiao returned to the hotel, took a shower, and slept on the bed for a while.

When the morning sun shone in from the window, Yu Xiao opened her eyes. She raised her hand to cover her chest. Just now she felt an itch in her chest.

It was as if something was moving inside.

"Nightmare?" Yu Xiao asked softly, "Are you awake?"

Nightmare naturally couldn't give her an answer, but she also knew that the time was almost up and it was time for her to leave.

"I really want to live another five hundred years..."

The call was from Zheng Dongli, "Are you up? I'm at your hotel, come out, you promised to tell me the truth."

Yu Xiao sighed in her heart, why do people have such a strong curiosity? Isn't it good not to understand everything?

She went downstairs and saw Zheng Dongli with a refreshed face.

"Weren't you drunk last night?" Yu Xiao asked curiously, "You sobered up so quickly?"

"Hehe, I naturally have my own ways." Zheng Dongli asked: "Where are Xiao Zhao and Xiao Zhou?"

"They drank a little, and they probably need to sleep a little longer." Yu Xiao said: "Let's find a place to have breakfast, and we can talk slowly."

Then the two went to the hotel restaurant.

While eating sausage rice, Yu Xiao told Zheng Dongli about the hospital. This was what she promised Zheng Dongli last night. If she didn't agree, Zheng Dongli would probably chase her and beat her at the door of the police station.

After hearing this, Zheng Dongli couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

After a long time, he said in a complicated tone: "So that's it."

He didn't remember anything that Yu Xiao said, the ghosts and dangers in the hospital, his former friends, and the efforts he had made for himself and everyone. He didn't remember anything at all.

Listening to these, it was as if he was listening to someone else's story, but he couldn't help feeling sad.

He fell silent again, immersed in his own thoughts. Yu Xiao didn't disturb him and ate his breakfast attentively.

After a long time, Zheng Dongli raised his head and looked at Yu Xiao with a serious look, "You...really can only be like this forever?"

"Yeah." Yu Xiao nodded.

Zheng Dongli: "Is it really impossible to completely leave the hospital?"

"There is a way, just like Zhou Siheng." Yu Xiao said: "As long as there is a patient willing to take over from me, I can be discharged. However, there will always be someone who has to stay in the hospital, if not me, it will be someone else."

So Zheng Dongli could only sigh, "Thank you for your hard work."

He looked at Yu Xiao in front of him, only 20 years old, so young, and had to bear such a heavy burden before graduating from school. For a while, he felt mixed emotions in his heart. He even thought that if he had not chosen to be discharged from the hospital and chose to become the director, would Yu Xiao not have to endure all this?

However, what had happened could not be changed, and he could do nothing.

He could only helplessly listen to Yu Xiao talking about those stories that he had long forgotten.

"It's not bad." Yu Xiao was very open-minded, "Can't I go out of the hospital to play now?"

"But you will never be able to live a normal life." Zheng Dongli said in a low voice: "And one day, those of us who know you will die, and then..."

Zheng Dongli couldn't bear to say the rest. Yu Xiao swallowed the food in his mouth and asked: "Can you help my elder find a Feng Shui treasure land today?"

Mr. Yin Yang is Zheng Dongli's profession. Don't look at his average level of speaking when he is with friends. When he fools customers, he has a lot of tricks. Not long after they met, he made the old man of the Mei family smile, and soon he figured out the location of Mei Huaixin's grave.

After helping Grandpa Mei choose a Feng Shui treasure land, Yu Xiao and the other three declined the Mei family's kindness in inviting them to dinner, quietly turned a corner, and returned to the cemetery, where they found Mei Huaixin's grave.

The tombstone was quite old, and after more than ten years of wind and sun, there were already small cracks on it.

Looking at the photo on the tombstone, Zhou Xiaozhen said, "Is this Brother Chuang?"

"What a pity." Zhao Lan sighed.

"Although I don't remember, but when I heard Sister Xiao talk about Brother Chuang, I felt that he was a very interesting person." Zhou Xiaozhen scratched her head in confusion, accidentally scratching her wig crooked, and quickly straightened it.

Zheng Dongli stared at the tombstone for a while, then asked Yu Xiao: "When are you leaving?"

"It should be today." Yu Xiao had a feeling, "I don't know exactly when."

"When will we meet again?"

"To you, I should have never left." Yu Xiao looked up at the blue sky, "Every time I leave the hospital, I will return to the time when I last entered the hospital, so to you, I have never left."

Zhou Xiaozhen wiped her tears, "But it will take a long time for you to see us again, right?"

Yu Xiao didn't say anything, she felt her heart beat again.

The cold feeling spread from her heart and gradually spread to her whole body. Yu Xiao heard the voice of the nightmare, "We should go back."

"Goodbye." Yu Xiao smiled.

Goodbye.

We will see you again...