Gu Qingchi was much taller than Madam Gu. In order to talk to Madam Gu more conveniently, he bent down, with his hair falling softly on the back of his neck. Madam Gu stared at Gu Qingchi, as if she could see his face through the mask. She used some force on her hands, and Gu Qingchi remained silent, avoiding her sight, looking down, looking a little uneasy.
After a while, Gu Qingchi tried to withdraw his hand but failed, so he spoke out to remind her.
"lady."
Mrs. Gu still did not let go. She held Gu Qingchi's sleeve tightly, as if she had grasped a lost treasure. She tried hard to hide her excitement and smiled.
"Don't be afraid, I mean no harm."
She couldn't take her eyes off Gu Qingchi and began to ask questions one after another.
"Do you live around here? Who's your family? Can you give me a phone number?"
As soon as I said it I felt something was wrong, like a psychopath, and added nervously.
"No, no, no, I just lost my mind, don't answer me."
But he quickly added another sentence.
"But can you give me a phone number? You young people use those letters, so you can give me one."
Gu Qingchi lowered his head and was silent for a while. He was bent over, his hair covering his face, and he was wearing a mask, so only his beautiful jawline could be seen.
He suddenly moved, took out his cell phone, lowered his head, and pushed the shopping cart with one hand. His knuckles had turned white from holding the handle too tightly.
He typed on the keyboard with one hand, then pointed the phone towards Mrs. Gu. On it was a memo page with her phone number and WeChat ID.
Mrs. Gu also hurriedly called out to Xiao Wang behind her, almost stamping her feet in anxiety.
"Hurry up, bring me my phone."
Xiao Wang quickly handed the phone to her. The page was still on the call page, and Mrs. Gu hung up the phone.
I filled the number on my phone according to the number on the memo, and checked it several times.
With the help of Gu Qingchi, she installed WeChat and registered a WeChat account on the spot. She felt relieved only when she saw that Gu Qingchi had passed her friend verification.
Gu Qingchi's coldness did not make her retreat at all. She pulled Gu Qingchi aside and talked to him affectionately.
Seeing that he put several buckets of instant noodles in the shopping cart, he said again.
"You should eat less instant noodles, only occasionally. You should eat more vegetables on a regular basis. You can't fool your body like this."
Gu Qingchi lowered his head and responded, then went to get it out silently.
Mrs. Gu helped him get it and said enthusiastically.
"Leave it here for now. I'll return these instant noodles later, and you don't have to go."
Then he seemed to realize something and went to look at Qingchi nervously.
"Am I being nosy? Am I being too nagging? I'm usually not that annoying."
Gu Qingchi didn't look at her, but just stared at the shopping cart. He shook his head when he heard that.
Mrs. Gu was still a little uneasy. She didn't say anything when she saw the bottles of wine in the shopping cart. She waited until Gu Qingchi took out the last bucket of instant noodles in the shopping cart. She tried to find a topic to talk about and pointed to a bag of eggplants in the shopping cart to make up for it.
"Do you like eggplant? My mother Wang cooks delicious eggplant."
"You haven't eaten yet tonight, have you? My home is nearby. Do you want to try Wang Ma's cooking? I'll ask my family to make you something you like. It's okay if you don't want to go. I'm not a bad person. Let's go sit somewhere else for a while. I know a restaurant that makes really delicious food."
Gu Qingchi refused, and Mrs. Gu felt regretful for a long time.
She didn't want the things she had just picked out anymore and accompanied Gu Qingchi to pay the bill. When she walked out of the supermarket, she looked at the big bag of things Gu Qingchi was carrying with concern.
"It's very heavy, right? I'll ask Xiao Wang to take you back. How can you carry so many things?"
He stood at the door and watched for a long time, until he could no longer see even Gu Qingchi's back, but he still stood there watching.
When Gu Xie looked over, he saw Mrs. Gu standing at the door, staring blankly into the distance. He took off his coat, softened his voice, and spoke carefully.
"Mom, why are you standing here? It's too cold. Let's go home."
Madam Gu didn't move, she just murmured.
"Yes, it's so cold and he's wearing so little."
By the time Gu Xie drove Mrs. Gu home, it was already 11 o'clock in the evening. Mrs. Gu was obviously absent-minded and ignored Gu Xie when he spoke.
When I was returning home, the car had just stopped when a man walked quickly towards me at the door. He was tall and looked somewhat similar to Gu Xie, wearing a well-fitting suit, but he was older and had an intimidating air without even getting angry.
Gu Xie, who was driving in front, got out first. Gu Xie looked nothing like his mother, but was almost like his father. Not only were they similar in appearance, but also in their aura and personality in their gestures. However, compared to Gu Xie, the man was obviously more imposing.
Gu nodded obliquely at the man, and the man nodded in response imperceptibly. There was no need for verbal communication, as the father and son had their own tacit understanding. He opened the car door for Mrs. Gu, put his hand on the door, and his eyes softened when he fell into the car. He didn't blink for a moment, just looking at Mrs. Gu in the car.
He didn't know what Mrs. Gu was thinking, so he didn't rush her. He just waited patiently. When Mrs. Gu came to her senses, she saw that Father Gu was a little surprised.
"The earliest flight is tomorrow morning. How did you get back so soon?"
Even though Mrs. Gu abandoned him abroad, the man did not get angry, but simply answered Mrs. Gu's questions.
"I moved my private jet from somewhere else."
Then he changed the subject.
"You haven't eaten yet, right? I made pig's trotter soup, and Aunt Wang left some food for you. It's all ready-made and has been heated up. You can eat it as soon as you enter the house."
Mrs. Gu put her hand on his forearm and followed him quietly into the villa, looking a little anxious.
"Yesterday I had a dream. I dreamed of a beautiful child, a boy, as soft as a rose, wearing a newsboy cap, a white shirt, and bib shorts, holding a bunch of flowers. When he saw me, he ran towards me through the garden and hugged me."
Father Gu listened quietly, put his arm around her shoulders, and thought for a long time with a serious face.
"I remember that Gu Xie had a pair of dungarees when he was a child. It should be Gu Xie."
Mrs. Gu stopped, turned around to look at Gu Xie, and laughed.
"Gu Xie wasn't that good-looking when he was a child."
She looked at Gu Xie's eyebrows very carefully, and shook her head twice unconsciously. The hair on her chest swayed slightly, and her eyes suddenly became red. Gu's father and Gu Xie were both standing there, looking at her. Her expression suddenly became cold, and the look in her eyes when she looked at Gu Xie could even be said to be icy.
When he turned around, his coat fluttered and he passed by the father and son.
"Where's Aunt Wang? I wonder if she's free tonight. I want to learn how to cook eggplant from her."
Father Gu took a few quick steps to catch up with her and pulled up Mrs. Gu's coat that was about to fall off her shoulders. He didn't mind her suddenly cold expression at all. Over the years, Father Gu and Gu Xie had become accustomed to Mrs. Gu's sudden emotional outbursts. Her occasional emotional outbursts were much better than the breakdowns in previous years. Even so, until now, the knives in the kitchen at home were locked up, there were no scissors in the medicine box, the bandages were processed with small slits for easy tearing, and the vases were put away.
Father Gu comforted.
"Don't worry, let's talk about it after dinner. Aunt Wang has been very idle these days. She will definitely be very happy to know that you want to learn how to cook eggplant from her."
Father Gu put his arm around Mrs. Gu's shoulders, looked over her and gave Gu Xie a look. Gu Xie nodded knowingly, took a few steps back, and went out directly to find Xiao Wang. He needed to find the "trigger" of Mrs. Gu's emotional outburst this time and provide it to the doctor for analysis. Mrs. Gu had not mentioned her second child who died for a long time.
Gu Xie had just finished telling the doctor about the situation when his father arrived.
He took the phone and continued to communicate with the doctor.
"Yes, she said she had a dream again. She dreamed of a little boy who gave her a rose."
"I personally think that Mrs. Gu is gradually recovering her memory. According to the information provided by Mr. Gu Xie, it is very likely related to the person Mrs. Gu met in the supermarket. This person needs to be paid attention to. We need to study what characteristics of the person we met caused this change."
There was the sound of shuffling documents on the phone, and then the doctor said.
“As for the rose boy, he obviously refers specifically to the lady’s second child. Because of the special nature of the rose, I think Mrs. Gu probably has strong feelings for him.
But my previous information showed that Mrs. Gu had been expecting and thought her second child was a girl, and she didn’t know that the child who died was a boy. The one in the dream was a boy, which was inconsistent with Mrs. Gu’s cognition. This was very puzzling to me. I think I need to discuss and analyze it further with the team to see whether to change the treatment plan. "
Father Gu and Gu Xie were both standing on the balcony, both listening to the phone with serious expressions. If they were in the company, the assistant would have warned all the members to behave themselves and not to disturb them. It was not until Mrs. Gu called out from the villa that they hung up the phone and walked to Mrs. Gu's side in the kitchen, one after the other, tacitly waiting for instructions.
Gu Qingchi returned home as usual without turning on the lights. The light coming through from outside was brighter than moonlight and he could see clearly inside the house. His full shopping bags were casually placed by the door and his coat was thrown on the sofa. The first thing he did when he got home was to draw all the curtains in the house. The room, which had been a little bright, suddenly became dark.
He sat on the sofa for a long time before he remembered to take out his cell phone and tick the boxes in front of the trips he was about to take.
Then the phone slipped from his hand and fell on the carpet. The screen lit up for a while and then went out automatically. Gu Qingchi's upper body fell heavily on the sofa.
His face was pressed against the sofa. He felt like he was not thinking about anything, but at the same time, he felt that everything, including his thoughts, was messy and annoying.
He curled up himself, and the sofa even seemed too spacious at this moment. His lips opened and closed silently, and under the dim moonlight, his whole body gave people a kind of chaotic and extremely fragile beauty.
After a while, an almost inaudible sigh was heard in the darkness.
"Mother."
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