Chapter 213 Communication - The Sickly Young Girl Eating Watermelons in the Courtyard

Because of the farce the night before, many people in the hospital started a vigorous rat extermination operation the next day, and Lin Qing and Cen Xi were no exception.

However, the others are generally women and elderly people who stay at home and do not work. Of course, there are also people who do it themselves like Lin Qing and his wife.

The next afternoon, Cen Xi and Lin Qing both returned early.

"Let's start from the bedroom!" Cen Xi said after thinking for a while.

"Okay!" Lin Qing said indifferently.

After all, she herself is quite afraid of mice, so the main force of this operation is Cen Xi, and he can make the decision.

Cen Xi started from the innermost part of the bedroom, moved the bed away, and carefully checked the walls. It might be because they had just moved in and had cleaned the place very carefully. Even if there was a rat hole, it had been blocked, so there seemed to be nothing wrong now.

Cen Xi's inspection can be considered as cleaning. It just so happens that corners like this are not easy to clean, so after Cen Xi checked and found no problems, Lin Qing came over with a broom.

"Qingqing, there is no problem here, please give me the broom!"

"No need. Go check the closet and dressing table. I'll sweep here. You can move the bed back later." Lin Qing didn't listen to him.

She thought that if the couple worked together, things might be faster and it wouldn't delay their dinner and rest.

Cen Xi looked at her steadily, and seeing that she really wanted to help, and besides, cleaning was not a very tiring job, so he simply ignored it.

"Okay! Come on!"

Cen Xi made room for her and ran to the other side to move the closet away. Fortunately, there was still nothing.

Cen Xi thought about Lin Qing's words and didn't say anything else. He just gave her the seat to clean up, then ran back to the bed and moved the bed back, and then moved the dressing table again.

Two people moved the large items for inspection, one of them moved the large items, and the other cleaned up after the inspection. The two of them cooperated very well.

The bedroom was checked in less than half an hour. There was no sign of rats in the bedroom, at least no rat holes were found.

Lin Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief after the examination. This was really good news. At least she wouldn't feel like she was sharing a room with a mouse.

In fact, rats were quite common in the past, but after the elimination of the four pests, the number of rats has been greatly reduced. Moreover, many people are not very afraid of rats now, and even hope to catch them. Some people who do not mind even cook rats as a snack. Of course, Lin Qing is not one of these people.

On the contrary, Lin Qing was actually quite afraid of mice, and mice looked dirty. Her body was very weak before, so weak that she could not withstand the germs brought by mice.

She had fallen ill once before because of a mouse. After going to the hospital for a check-up, it was discovered that her body's resistance was too weak and she couldn't stand the environment at home, so she fell ill. The main cause of the illness was the germs brought in by small animals like mice at home.

After that, they would do a thorough cleaning of their house almost every month, especially in their rooms, where rat holes were absolutely not allowed.

"Okay, okay, it's really rare to see you breathe a sigh of relief!" Cen Xi suddenly felt inexplicably funny, it seemed that he had never seen a daughter-in-law like this before!

"Oh, everyone has something they are afraid of. So what if I'm afraid of mice?" Lin Qing pouted and acted coquettishly unconsciously.

"Yes, yes, yes. You are right, everyone is afraid of something." Cen Xi's eyes were full of smiles.

"Then what are you afraid of?" Lin Qing saw through the smile in his eyes and asked back.

Cen Xi was stunned for a moment, and then he accidentally saw the smile in her eyes, "Did you do this on purpose?"

"Yeah." Lin Qing did it on purpose, but he also really wanted to know something that she didn't know yet.

"Do you really want to know?"

"Yeah. I thought. You see, I've told you what I'm afraid of, shouldn't you also tell me what you're afraid of?" Lin Qing looked at him with bright eyes.

"Can't I tell you?" Lin Qing asked with confusion in his eyes.

Cen Xi shook his head and smiled, "There's nothing I can't say."

"Then tell me!" Lin Qing said coquettishly, shaking his arm.

Cen Xi felt somewhat satisfied watching her acting coquettishly towards him, and lowered his head to whisper a few words in her ear.

Lin Qing covered her mouth and exclaimed, "Are you serious? Are you really not lying to me?" Her face was full of doubt.

"If you don't believe it, forget it." Cen Xi muttered softly.

Lin Qing grabbed his arm and said, "No, I don't disbelieve it!" He said blankly, "I just can't believe it."

"What's so unbelievable about this?" Cen Xi disagreed. Just as he said, everyone has something they are afraid of, and he is no exception.

"What do you think? Who would believe you if you told others this?" Lin Qing whispered, "Are you afraid of ghosts?" After saying this, Lin Qing covered his mouth again.

Now we can't talk about feudal superstition. Lin Qing spoke softly and didn't dare to shout loudly, for fear of being heard by others. If the other party made a fuss, it would be bad for them.

Cen Xi nodded. Okay, it looked like no one would dare to believe that he was afraid of ghosts, but who could make it so?

"Then why are you afraid of this?" Lin Qing stopped talking about ghosts and pointed with his finger.

When Cen Xi heard him ask this question, he thought back to his childhood.

"Well... when I was little, my parents were busy. When I was younger, someone came to take care of me. When I was older, I basically followed my brother around. But he was a little older than me, and he didn't really like it when there were kids following him. So in order to let me be alone, he told me," Cen Xi said this without any emotion, "Told me that even if I stayed in the room by myself, I wasn't alone. There were other people in the room, but I just couldn't see them."

Cen Xi suddenly rolled his eyes as he spoke, "Of course I was young, not stupid. I didn't believe him when he said it, but I couldn't help thinking about it when I slept alone at night, and then I always felt like someone was watching me in the dark."

Lin Qing suddenly felt distressed. She hugged him with pity and complained with tears in her eyes, "Why is your brother like this?"

Cen Xi hugged her back, "Okay, it's okay, it's all over now. Actually, I'm not that scared now! It's just that I was young at the time and the impression is more profound."

To be honest, now thinking back on what happened in the past, he didn't blame his brother that much. Instead, he even blamed himself a little for not being strong enough.

If he were strong enough, he wouldn't be scared.

"Are you really not afraid now?"

"Of course, if I was really scared, how could I have lived alone for so many years?"

"Then weren't you lying to me when you said that just now?" Lin Qing sniffed and wiped away his tears.

"Huh? When did I lie to you?" Cen Xi was a little confused.