Chapter 31
31
After a meal and a nap, Lin Ju was like a character in a game, her health restored to full.
She stood in front of the wall day and night again. Sometimes when she was really tired, she would sit on the ground by the wall and close her eyes to rest for a while.
During this period, Hu Xiao came several times and, just like before, took her to eat and sleep.
By the time the mural was nearly finished, more than three months had passed. Wu Wangfeng came to see it and couldn't help but sigh that she was indeed Professor Li Tai's favorite student.
Lin Ju's expression was indifferent. He just blinked a little tiredly, leaning against the wall, looking at the mural that was still a little bit finished, holding an empty cigarette box in his hand.
"Brother, I want to go out for a walk today. If anyone of you is free, can you take me with you?" She didn't smoke frequently, but she had finished all the cigarettes she brought with her during this period.
Wu Wangfeng smiled and said, "Brother, I'll take you. I happen to have time this afternoon."
Lin Ju nodded, "See you this afternoon then."
After making an appointment with Wu Wangfeng, she went back to her room to sleep.
It was not until one o'clock in the afternoon that there was a knock on the door and Wu Wangfeng's voice was heard outside.
"Junior Sister Lin, are you okay? Can we set off now?"
After Wu Wangfeng finished speaking, there was a rustling sound from inside the door, and then the door opened.
Lin Ju had her hair tied up in a high ponytail, wore a white cotton and linen long-sleeved shirt and thin jeans, and carried a small bag.
She slept well and was obviously in better spirits than before. She smiled at Wu Wangfeng and said, "Brother, let's go."
Wu Wangfeng's eyes swept across the hearing aid on her ear and fell on her face. After a few seconds of silence, he said okay.
It was drizzling outside, and Wu Wangfeng asked Manager Li to borrow a car. He had an international driver's license, and he usually drove when everyone went out.
Lin Ju originally wanted to sit in the back seat, but after a little hesitation, he sat in the passenger seat.
Raindrops fell densely on the glass, then were slowly swept away by the wipers. Like a stream, the rain gathered and flowed to the side. Lin Ju lowered the window slightly, reached out, and the rain fell into her palm. She took a deep breath out the window, the muddy smell of grass and trees making her feel dazed.
She closed the car window, half of her face radiant with moisture, "Brother, why isn't this rain cold?"
Wu Wangfeng tried his best to keep his attention on the scene ahead, but he couldn't help but glance at her from the corner of his eye. He said in a dry voice, "You haven't left the house for three months. You can't even remember the days, right? It's already June, and summer has arrived here in France."
Lin Ju leaned back in the chair, closed his eyes, frowned slightly, and didn't know what he was thinking about.
The rain was intermittent. Lin Ju told Wu Wangfeng in the car that she had run out of cigarettes. After thinking about it, Wu Wangfeng drove to a store that specialized in buying cigarettes.
Lin Ju walked around the shop and finally picked out a women's cigarette. The clerk introduced it to her in French, but she didn't quite understand and could only nod vaguely.
After coming out of the cigarette shop, Wu Wangfeng turned his head and asked her if she wanted to go eat something.
She slept until the afternoon and didn't eat lunch, so she was really hungry now.
"Okay, but I have to treat you to this meal. Thank you, Senior Brother, for sending me out."
When she said that, Wu Wangfeng felt a little embarrassed and touched the back of his head. "It's nothing. It's my duty to take care of my junior sister."
Lin Ju was really unfamiliar with the area, so she walked along the roadside, found a restaurant that was still open, and went in.
This restaurant is very busy. Normally, reservations are required to get a seat, but there happened to be an empty table at the moment.
The waiter led them over and after they were seated, Lin Ju handed the menu to Wu Wangfeng, "Brother, please order."
Wu Wangfeng probably wasn't very particular about food, so he ordered a meal for two.
The consequence of ordering food blindly was that Lin Ju was not used to the dishes served.
There was a dish that even had chicken in it, which she wouldn't eat.
The meal was dull, and when it was almost over, Wu Wangfeng suddenly asked, "Junior sister, do you still remember Wang Yue?"
Lin Ju picked up the water cup, took a sip, and looked sideways, "I remember." Wu Wangfeng had brought it specially to the young artists' exhibition before.
Wu Wangfeng smiled bitterly and said, "She and I broke up a while ago. Others told me that she used to work for a big boss... It seems like she and you knew each other before. Did you know this?"
Lin Ju shook his head bluntly, "I don't know."
Wu Wangfeng's expression flickered a few times, then the light in his eyes dimmed, and he whispered something.
Lin Ju didn't hear clearly, nor did she want to hear clearly.
After they had almost finished eating, Lin Ju went to pay the bill first.
Wu Wangfeng felt a little embarrassed, "How can I let my junior sister pay for it?"
Lin Ju looked up and smiled, "It's my treat as agreed."
They walked and talked as they walked outside. It started to rain again outside. Lin Ju stared at the sky outside the glass in a daze.
The glass door was pushed open from the outside, and a tall, beautiful woman hurried in. She didn't pay attention for a moment, and the half glass door hit Lin Ju's ear directly.
Lin Ju's body took a few steps back and fell to the ground.
She frowned, let out a low cry of pain, and subconsciously touched the hearing aid on her ear. When she found it, she breathed a sigh of relief. When she looked up, she saw a woman looking at her with a frown.
The other party opened his mouth and a voice came from above, as if saying something.
Lin Ju's expression froze, and the hand covering the hearing aid froze.
Maybe Lin Ju's condition was a little strange, Wu Wangfeng suddenly became anxious and pointed at her.
Lin Ju narrowed his eyes and looked at them. He could only see their lips moving, but could not hear any sound.
She felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, but she tried her best not to appear panicked.
Lin Ju slowly got up with her hands on the ground and looked at the woman's lips. She was speaking English, but the speed was too fast for her to read.
They couldn't hear any sound, and people kept looking at them. Lin Ju was getting increasingly anxious, and she couldn't help but pull at Wu Wangfeng's clothes, trying to stop him.
She just wanted to leave this place.
At this moment, the glass door was pushed open again.
A tall and thin man walked in from outside, and the rain blew in, taking away the stuffiness in the air. A very faint mint scent was brought in by the wind and rain.
Lin Ju raised her eyes with difficulty, and what she saw was a person standing high above the Tianchi Lake.
He lowered his brows and their eyes met. It was Lin Ju who looked away first.
She always made sure that her embarrassment was exposed in his eyes.
She doesn't want this.
But her existence is a flaw.
Lin Ju lowered her eyelashes, her body trembling slightly. She couldn't speak or hear anything. She seemed to be out of her body, floating away from the crowd.
Suddenly, an extremely gentle embrace.
She was gently embraced, and then a large shadow covered her eyes. She looked up in surprise and met Zhao Xingcan's eyes.
Zhao Xingcan's lips moved slightly, and she figured out that the other party was saying, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
She didn't dare to blindly affirm it, but she was obsessed and let him hug her.
Her head was covered by Zhao Xingcan's coat, blocking out those curious gazes. She could neither see nor hear anything, completely isolated from the outside world.
Zhao Xingcan put his arm around her shoulders and walked forward, taking her with him.
As if to consider her, he walked slowly.
Lin Ju was in a trance. The rain on the back of her hand made her shiver, and then her hand was grasped by another hand.
Everything happened very quickly. After a few slow breaths and an ups and downs electrocardiogram that almost killed him, Lin Ju was gently taken into a car.
The clothes covering her head were removed. Lin Ju squinted her eyes slightly, her snow-white face was bloodless, and she looked like a piece of Jiangnan rice paper that was wet by the rain and almost melted.
She opened her eyes wide and looked at Zhao Xingcan.
Zhao Xingcan used sign language with her, but she didn't make any movements, tears just slowly welled up in her eyes.
She knew she lost, lost to herself.
When she saw Zhao Xingcan again, she suddenly felt that she could give up everything she had fought so hard to protect.
She did not expect to receive Zhao Xingcan's love, nor did she want any status. She just wanted to be by Zhao Xingcan's side.
She felt incredible, ashamed and humbled for having such thoughts.
Of course, Zhao Xingcan had no way of knowing what she was thinking, but he just couldn't bear to see her cry.
He pinched Lin Ju's chin, pulled out a handkerchief from his pocket, and slowly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. His other hand carefully covered her red ear from being hit, and his fingertips gently touched the hearing aid.
He took it off slowly. Lin Ju's body trembled slightly. She opened her eyes. They were too close to each other, and half of her face almost fell into his palm.
She saw the shape of his lips. Did it hurt?
Lin Ju shook his head very slightly.
Zhao Xingcan sighed from his throat, but Lin Ju couldn't hear it, so she could only try hard to figure out his expression.
Zhao Xingcan raised his hand, his fingers moving delicately. After nearly a year, his sign language didn't seem to have deteriorated; it was even more fluent than before.
Lin Ju understood it easily and said, go to the hospital.
Lin Ju shook her head subconsciously, but after meeting Zhao Xingcan's eyes, she pursed her lips again.
Zhao Xingcan raised his hand, lifted a strand of her hair that had fallen down, and then gently stroked her earlobe with his fingertips.
She shivered uncontrollably. At this moment, her hair was half loose, and the collar of her white cotton and linen long-sleeved shirt was too loose, revealing her two slender collarbones. She hadn't been exposed to the sun for a long time, and her skin was whiter than she remembered. Her bright red lips were like a cherry dotted on the white snow.
Zhao Xingcan had never seen Lin Ju like this before, and he couldn't help but feel distressed and pity for her.
When the car arrived at the hospital, Zhao Xingcan arranged for Lin Ju to undergo a series of examinations. While waiting for the results, Lin Ju felt a little tired and fell asleep on Zhao Xingcan's shoulder without realizing it.
One of Zhao Xingcan's arms gradually became numb, but he did not move. He waited until it became really uncomfortable, then he clenched his fist slightly and then quietly loosened it. He leaned back in the chair, tilted his head slightly, and looked at Lin Ju's sleepy eyes.
There were not many people in the hospital. When his subordinates hurried over, they saw Zhao Xingcan sitting on a bench with a slender woman with waist-length hair leaning on his shoulder.
The secretary walked over and said calmly, "Mr. Zhao, are you going to the banquet tonight? Miss Qiao has been asking about it, and she specifically mentioned that there will be elders there."
Zhao Xingcan picked up a strand of hair beside him, twisted it around his fingertips and played with it. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Reply to her for me. I'll come later."
The secretary immediately agreed and was about to leave when Zhao Xingcan stopped him.
"You stay and take care of her for me. Don't let her leave the hospital before I come back."
When Lin Ju woke up, she was lying in bed. The curtains were drawn tightly, not letting in any light. There were no lights on in the room. Everything was gray and hazy, and she couldn't hear a single sound. She almost thought she was in some other dimension.
The light from the bedside made her startle, and she reached out to pick it up, but her phone kept vibrating.
When he opened the screen, there were many incoming calls, and Wu Wangfeng made more than a dozen of them.
She replied to Wu Wangfeng's message, explaining to him that she was fine and was still in the hospital, but would be discharged soon.
Wu Wangfeng had met Zhao Xingcan, and he privately guessed that Lin Ju had been having a quarrel with her boyfriend for a while. The relationship between men and women is unpredictable, and now that they have met and reconciled, there is nothing special about it.
As he thought about this, his heart unconsciously felt a little gloomy.
After replying to Wu Wangfeng, Lin Ju's finger paused on another message.
She touched the screen with her fingertips and opened the dialog box. A message with many words was prominently displayed below the message in which she scolded Zhao Xingcan. There was more than half a year between the two messages.
She stared at the line of words, carefully pondering every word and punctuation mark.
Lin Ju, the doctor said you were overworked and overly stressed. He gave you an injection while you were asleep to help you get more sleep. You woke up around 8 p.m., and I've arranged for someone to look after you. If you need anything, you can contact him. Your hearing aid is on the bedside cabinet. I bought it. Your previous one was a little damaged, and I've had it repaired.
【besides】
Wait for me to come back
I'll be back soon.
There were about a hundred words. Lin Ju lay on the bed, holding the phone, staring at it, reading it over and over again.
How fast is soon?
Lin Ju covered her phone and held it against her chest. After a few seconds, she opened the clock on her phone, looked at the seconds on it, and counted them one by one.
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