Chapter 38 Happy New Year
Because the work schedule ended early, Qi Xing's accompanying subordinates returned to Huaicheng in the afternoon, and he was left alone in Jingshi. He did make an appointment with someone, but it was not Chen Chang, but a cousin of his who worked here. He agreed to take him here to play for a few days during the New Year's Day holiday.
After returning to the hotel to pick up his luggage and check out, Qi Xing took a taxi directly to his cousin's house. He didn't believe that Ye Xingzhou could find him with such great connections.
My cousin had to go to work in the afternoon, so he sent me the fingerprint lock password on WeChat and asked him to enter the door first. I would pick him up after work to go out for dinner.
Qi Xing played mobile games for two hours out of boredom. In the evening, his cousin called and said that his girlfriend's family had an emergency and he had to accompany his girlfriend back to her hometown to deal with it. Now they were on the way to the airport, so he told him to do as he pleased and go back to Huaicheng early if he couldn't find anyone to play with.
Qi Xing: "...Okay then."
After hanging up the phone, he collapsed on the sofa, sighing that he was unlucky, but there was nothing he could do. If he wanted to go back to Huaicheng, he would have to wait until tomorrow morning. He could only stay here for the night.
When Mr. Chen called, Qi Xing was eating the spicy hot pot he ordered from takeout while watching TV. The old man asked him where he was. Qi Xing sipped the spicy hot pot that almost made him cry and said, "Beijing City. Didn't I tell you a few days ago that I would come here to help my dad deal with some business matters, and by the way, I would play here with my cousin for a few days. But my cousin's wife had something urgent to do at home, so they went back to my cousin's hometown, leaving me here alone."
Mr. Chen: "Are you in the hotel now, or at your cousin's house?"
Qi Xing: "My cousin's home, why are you asking this, old man?"
Chen Lao said with a smile, "I don't mean to ask, but Mr. Ye just called me and said that he ran into you on a business trip to Beijing and that you two had a conflict again. You got angry and ran away. He couldn't contact you and was worried that something might have happened to you, so he asked me to contact you."
"Cough——" Qi Xing was choked by a mouthful of chili pepper and started coughing violently.
It took him a long time to calm down after guzzling down half a bottle of Coke. On the other end of the phone, Mr. Chen laughed at him, "How old are you? You still choke when you eat? Why do you react so strongly when you hear Ye Xingzhou's name? What did he do to you? You two are quite interesting, aren't you? From his tone, it seems that he really cares about you. What is your relationship with him?"
"I have nothing to do with him," Qi Xing said with disdain, "He is a psychopath, I don't want to have anything to do with him, all right, old man, just don't worry about it, I'm fine anyway, I just don't want to pay attention to him, if he bothers you again, just block him, don't pay attention to him."
Old Chen still smiled: "Okay, forget it, since your cousin is not here, you should come back earlier."
Qi Xing hummed and groaned a few times and ended the call.
Ye Xingzhou had just finished his work schedule when he received a call from Mr. Chen and was on his way back to his residence.
"Qi Xing is fine. He has made an appointment with his cousin these days. Don't worry about him. Let him have fun by himself."
Ye Xingzhou frowned, and then he heard Chen Lao casually ask him: "Xingzhou, what is your relationship with Teacher Lin?"
Ye Xingzhou said calmly: "Ordinary friends."
Mr. Chen: "And Qi Xing?"
Ye Xingzhou: "We are just friends for now."
There was no need to state his meaning explicitly; it was impossible for someone like Mr. Chen not to understand it.
"I didn't expect you to come up with such an idea." It was hard to tell whether Mr. Chen agreed or disagreed in his tone. He just reminded him, "Although Qi Xing likes to play, he has a bottom line and a sense of propriety. He won't play recklessly."
Ye Xingzhou said calmly: "Me too."
Mr. Chen: "That's good. I won't interfere in your affairs, and I won't tell his parents for the time being. But since he doesn't want to see you now, just let him be. Don't push him too hard."
Ye Xingzhou was silent for a moment, then replied, "Okay."
After hanging up the phone, Ye Xingzhou closed his eyes. When he opened them again, his eyes were still calm. He instructed the secretary in the front seat: "Qi Ronghua mentioned at the dinner table before that he has a nephew who is an associate professor in the Chinese Department of Peking University. You can check their official website to see if there is a resume that matches. Ask anyone here who knows him to see if you can find out his home address."
After finishing his meal, Qi Xing continued to play games and watch TV. Within half an hour, he suddenly began to feel uncomfortable in his stomach and it soon developed into vomiting and diarrhea. He didn't know if it was because of the grilled fish he had at noon or the spicy hot pot he had in the evening, but he felt very uncomfortable.
When he climbed out of the toilet for the sixth time, he was almost exhausted. He flipped through his cell phone address book with trembling hands, but he didn't know anyone in Beijing. Finally, he gritted his teeth, removed that bastard Ye Xingzhou from the blacklist, and made a call.
"Hey, Ye Xingzhou, where are you? Come and collect my body, I'm almost dying..."
Hearing Qi Xing's weak voice on the phone, Ye Xingzhou interrupted him in a deep voice: "Where are you, what happened?"
"My cousin's house," Qi Xing quickly gave the address, "something bad happened to him."
Ye Xingzhou paused for a moment and said, "I'll be there right away."
Qi Xing doubted that this bastard was trying to hold back his laughter, but he didn't even have the energy to curse at him, so he just let it go: "Come quickly, I'm really going to die."
Ye Xingzhou: "Just wait."
Qi Xing thought he would have to wait a long time, but Ye Xingzhou arrived in less than ten minutes. He was still dazed when he heard the doorbell. He struggled to reach the door and opened it, and it turned out to be Ye Xingzhou.
"How did you get here so quickly..."
Seeing how weak he looked, Ye Xingzhou frowned and held him up: "Let's go to the hospital."
Qi Xing shook his head: "No, I can't walk."
Ye Xingzhou simply carried him on his back.
Qi Xing really didn't have the strength to struggle. He lay on Ye Xingzhou's shoulder and drooped his head. He was so limp that he couldn't stop talking: "I'm so tall, can you carry me? You live quite far from here, right? How come you came here so quickly? I can't take it anymore. I want to vomit again. I want to vomit on you."
Ye Xingzhou carried him on his back and walked quickly to the elevator, saying in a deep voice: "Hold it."
It was a wonder he could hold it in. His stomach was churning like fire. If he hadn't just vomited everything, he would have vomited on this bastard.
After going to the hospital, it turned out that I had acute gastroenteritis caused by eating something bad, and I needed to be given an IV drip.
After hanging up the IV bottle in the emergency infusion room, Qi Xing tucked his head into the hood of his heavy down jacket, leaned back in the recliner and closed his eyes, refusing to communicate with Ye Xingzhou who had come back from getting the medicine and sat down next to him.
Although it was true that Ye Xingzhou sent him to the hospital, he would not have looked for this person if he had no choice. When a person is unlucky, even drinking cold water will get stuck in his teeth.
"I ate and drank to my heart's content with the people from Shengfa last night. We had grilled fish at a small restaurant for lunch today. What did you have tonight? Malatang?" Ye Xingzhou's voice was a little cold. When he went to knock on the door, he had already seen the takeaway bag thrown at the door. Qi Xing had troubled himself into the hospital so late at night. It was nothing but his own fault.
Qi Xing didn't want to pay attention to him. Ye Xingzhou never had a nice word to say, so he could say whatever he wanted.
"Don't eat like this if you have a bad stomach."
Qi Xing was impatient to listen to his nonsense, so he pulled down the elastic cord on his hat and hid his entire face.
Just keep yelling at the air.
Ye Xingzhou finally shut up, but he didn't leave. He sat next to him and looked at his phone quietly.
Qi Xing humphed silently, not wanting to pay attention to him. He closed his eyes, leaned to the other side, and soon fell asleep in a daze.
He slept for more than an hour. When he woke up, the needle in his hand had been removed and all other patients in the infusion room had left.
Qi Xing sat up while rubbing his aching neck. He was stunned for two seconds and thought that Ye Xingzhou had probably left. He just breathed a sigh of relief, and then the next second this person appeared at the door of the infusion room again. When he saw him, he asked, "Can we leave now?"
Qi Xing muttered, "Why are you haunting me?" and rubbed his stomach. He still felt uncomfortable, but better than before.
"I just went outside to make a phone call." Ye Xingzhou explained.
Qi Xing still ignored him, so Ye Xingzhou continued, "Tell your dad that you have acute gastroenteritis. I will take care of you for the next two days. We will go back to Huaicheng when you feel better."
Qi Xing was speechless. Is this guy an elementary school student? He tells tales all day long, first about his godfather, then about his dad. He doesn't have any other tricks besides this, right?
"Come to my place." Ye Xingzhou said.
Qi Xing refused without any hesitation: "No."
He nearly sprained his ankle when he climbed over the wall this morning. Only a fool would fall into the trap again.
"I won't touch you like this now, come to my place." Ye Xingzhou insisted.
Qi Xing sneered: "I'm such a weak patient, and you still want to touch me. Aren't you really a beast? Well, although you are one. And I'm vomiting and diarrhea now. If you still have the interest to move, then you are awesome."
Ye Xingzhou looked at him in silence for two seconds and said nothing: "Let's go."
After getting in the car, Qi Xing again asked to go back to his cousin's house. At the right time, his cell phone rang. It was Qi Ronghua calling.
Seeing Lai Xian, Qi Xing suddenly felt overwhelmed and reluctantly pressed the answer button. Qi Ronghua first asked him how he was and why he suddenly had gastroenteritis. Qi Xing stammered and said that he had eaten the wrong things and was feeling better after an IV drip. He could not avoid being scolded by his father again.
Then his father changed the subject and asked, "How did you meet Ye Xingzhou over there? He said he took you to the hospital?"
"Ah, you already know everything," Qi Xing snorted, "My cousin's wife had an emergency at home, so my cousin went back to her hometown with her. I couldn't find anyone else, so I had to ask Ye Xingzhou for help, and he happened to be here."
Qi Ronghua: "Forget it, forget it. It's good to have someone to take care of you. If there's nothing else, your mother and I won't go over there. You can stay there for two more days and come back when you're well. Anyway, you've already troubled others, so just continue to trouble Ye Xingzhou for two more days. I'll thank him in person when I come back."
Qi Xing had nothing to say, because whatever he said would be of no use anyway.
After a few perfunctory words, he hung up the phone, leaned back in his chair and stared out the window in a daze.
"Come to my place and the door won't be locked anymore."
When the car stopped at the intersection waiting for the traffic light, someone next to me suddenly said.
Qi Xing was stunned for a moment, then turned around and saw Ye Xingzhou looking at him with a frown. His voice was a little stiff, but it did hint at submission.
Qi Xing stared at him for a few seconds and sneered, "Master Ye, what are you saying? Do I have to be grateful to you for not locking the door?"
"Don't climb over the wall next time. It's very dangerous." Ye Xingzhou reminded him.
Qi Xing: "Then don't lock it!"
Ye Xingzhou: "I said, I won't lock it again."
Okay, we've been led back in time.
"I'm talking to you," Qi Xing raised his voice, "I was just having a meal with my high school classmate, and you're so angry. Like a mad dog, are you really not secretly in love with me and are just jealous?"
He was ready for Ye Xingzhou to stop him with the same words as before, but Ye Xingzhou asked back: "What will you do if I answer yes?"
Qi Xing was choked up for a moment. Ye Xingzhou's inexplicable tone and the look in his eyes that suddenly stared at him gave him a bad feeling. What would happen if this person answered him?
Of course he had to run as far as he could, and he couldn't have sex with his sex buddy anymore, even though he had wanted to kick this guy out today.
After a subtle moment of silence, Ye Xingzhou retracted his gaze, stepped on the accelerator again, and said in a faint voice: "I find it dirty to make a random appointment."
Qi Xing was stunned for a moment, then realized what he meant. His stomach, which had just felt better, began to cramp again: "You think you're dirty? I don't think you're dirty yet? If you think you're dirty, why did you come to me? When did I make an appointment with someone else?!"
"A dinner date is also an appointment," Ye Xingzhou said coldly, "Isn't the grilled fish restaurant dirty? If it's not dirty, can you go to the hospital tonight?"
Qi Xing: “…”
I just raised my breath but then I forced myself to hold it back. Damn, this grilled fish restaurant is so dirty.
"Oh, Master Ye turns out to be quite humorous."
Ye Xingzhou reached out and rubbed his uncomfortable stomach twice, then pulled away before Qi Xing could slap him away: "The doctor said you should drink more warm water when you go back. You also have to take the two medicines I prescribed for you. You can only eat light liquid food for the next two days, and avoid spicy, raw, cold, and stimulating foods. This will be the case from now on."
Qi Xing's eyes went dark. It would be more satisfying to stab him with a knife.
"Look out the window." Ye Xingzhou suddenly said.
Qi Xing subconsciously turned his head and looked out the car window. The neon lights on the exterior walls of the surrounding skyscrapers quickly rotated and converged on the LED display screen outside the tallest building in front, and the countdown lights suddenly flashed.
"3, 2, 1..."
Crowds from far and near burst into huge cheers, mixed with blessings of "Happy New Year".
Qi Xing was stunned for a long time before he reacted. Tonight was New Year's Eve, and neon lights were shining everywhere. No wonder there were so many people on the streets late at night.
"Happy New Year."
Ye Xingzhou's voice was slow and low, and it hardly sounded like something he could say. Qi Xing looked at him in surprise and saw that he was staring straight ahead and concentrating on driving. For a moment, Qi Xing even thought that the words he just said were not directed at him.
But there were only two of them in the car.
He suddenly became speechless. He folded his arms, wrapped his down jacket tightly around himself, and lay back in his seat. He silently turned his face away and continued to look out the window, no longer mentioning asking Ye Xingzhou to take him somewhere else.
The car slowly drove around the revelers on the street until the bustle was completely behind them and the night returned to silence. Qi Xing finally mumbled out a sentence before closing his eyes again: "Happy New Year."
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