Chapter 220
The moment she leaned against the sofa, Lin Shixu could no longer hold back and stood up from the sofa with a "swoosh". He was just about to walk to the other side, wanting to stay away from her.
As a result, a small puddle of water appeared on the ground at some point, right at his feet. It was probably because he stood up too quickly, or maybe he didn't notice the spot at all.
His feet slipped and his body accidentally fell on Nan Yan's calf which had just been stretched out.
It was pressing exactly on her calf. At that moment, Lin Shixu really had the urge to die. A warm and soft touch instantly came from the place where his palm was covered, and an unfamiliar body temperature was pressed against his palm.
Nan Yan felt a chill on her neck and feet and almost kicked over, but luckily she held back and asked him hypocritically, "Are you okay?"
Lin Shixu pursed his lips, and goose bumps appeared all over his arms. He reacted quickly and tried to move away the covering hand.
Just at this moment, Nan Yan reached out her hand pretending to be ignorant. She leaned forward and bent down as if she wanted to help the person up.
This action made Lin Shixu's scalp tingle. He was obviously not used to being close to people, so the moment Nan Yan reached out her hand, Lin Shixu, who had originally fallen on the sofa, almost subconsciously stood up and tried to avoid the other party's outstretched hand.
At this moment, Lin Shixu stood up suddenly and bumped into Nan Yan's face at an extremely fast speed.
The collision of heads fully proved that the action of force is mutual. Nan Yan's head was almost knocked silly, and a sour and astringent pain quickly spread from the bridge of the nose.
Lin Shixu probably didn't expect such a situation to happen. His head also hurt a little, but he could still bear it. But before he said anything, he looked up and saw that the woman opposite him was in tears. Her eyes were tearful and red. She looked like she had been bullied and her hair was messy.
Nan Yan covered her nose, and a warm liquid slowly flowed down from her nasal cavity. As soon as she took her hand away, a drop of bright red blood dripped down the tip of her nose.
"you……"
Lin Shixu was also frozen at this point, watching her nose bleed, then the second drop, followed by the second and third drops, and the nose bleed kept flowing more and more.
Nan Yan also felt that this was unlucky. Damn it, even though she had deliberately splashed the beach water around his feet, she had never thought that it would bring disaster upon herself in the end.
She had originally thought that he would slip and she would take the opportunity to help him up, and then the two of them would have intimate contact. Isn't this a perfect ambiguous plot? Who could have expected such a situation? This bastard was actually the first man to make her nose bleed.
Seeing the nosebleed getting more and more, Lin Shixu was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted immediately. He stretched out his hand towards Nan Yan, but just as he stretched out his hand, he quickly withdrew it as if he was burned.
He couldn't help feeling resentful and entangled in his heart, but seeing the woman crying with tears in her eyes and looking aggrieved, Lin Shixu couldn't care less. He saw the woman crying with her head tilted back, and he endured it again and again. Finally, he overcame the rejection in his heart and reached out to press the back of her neck.
"Don't lean back like that. The blood from your nose will flow down your nasal cavity into your throat, which will make you even more uncomfortable."
His fingers trembled slightly, and suppressing a certain rejection, he reached out to pinch her nose bridge, pressing gently. Just as he was about to help her stop the bleeding, Nan Yan slapped him on the back of his hand.
"Can you be gentler? You're pinching me."
"I was kind enough to help you up, but you bumped my head and it was bleeding. Tell me, did you do that on purpose to get back at me for biting you when I mistook you for someone else?"
It would have been fine if she didn't mention that. As soon as she mentioned it, Lin Shixu obviously remembered it. His expression visibly stiffened for a moment, and there was a faint pain spreading down the side of his leg.
“…No, I haven’t thought about it that way.”
Although Lin Shixu had offended her, he was not a petty person. At most, he just couldn't stand her contact with him.
Nan Yan cried very aggrievedly but still looked very fierce, so fierce that she even knew how to glare at people. She slapped him, and Lin Shixu's body stiffened again, and his whole fingers were stained with her blood.
She was just being unreasonable and venting her anger, "You said you didn't have it, but if you didn't have it, how could I have a nosebleed?"
Lin Shixu could only patiently explain, "I didn't mean to do that this time. I bumped into you accidentally. Please stop moving."
It would be strange if Nan Yan could be obedient. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and she had earned it with a nosebleed. She must take this opportunity to kill him.
Lin Shixu pursed his lips, his face becoming paler and paler. For a moment, he wanted to just turn around and rush into the bathroom to wash everything off.
But seeing the person in front of him bleeding, he couldn't just ignore it, especially since Nan Yan didn't listen to him at all and stumbled towards the bathroom with her head tilted back. As soon as she stood up, she bumped into the tea table and was about to fall again. Lin Shixu beside her subconsciously reached out a hand to support her.
At this moment, he could only overcome the rejection in his heart, reached out and pulled Nan Yan, who refused to be obedient, into his arms, and finally supported and carried her directly to the bathroom.
"Slow down... You can't do this. Stop moving around."
His cool fingers pressed on the bridge of Nan Yan's nose, pressing gently as if checking her condition.
"This is a ruptured blood vessel in the nose caused by an impact. I just checked and the bridge of the nose is fine. It may be the inner side that was impacted. It will be fine after applying cold compress. Don't lie on your back."
"I told you not to look up, just be quiet."
Lin Shixu acted quickly and quickly soaked a towel in water and applied it to her face. However, the person in his arms was not behaving well and kept moving around and refused to stop. The most annoying thing for a doctor is people who refuse to be obedient. He applied a little force with his fingers and the girl next to him let out a headache-inducing cry, grimacing and crying, and her tears all rubbed into his palm.
For a moment, Lin Shixu wanted to pack her up and throw her into the washing machine to wash her for three days and three nights. Her head was tilted back. In the end, Lin Shixu was in a state of disgust and depression. His face turned pale at first, and he tried his best to ignore her later.
He has a fairly good ability to control his emotions.
At least he didn't push people away at this juncture.
When the nosebleed finally stopped, Nan Yan heard the man next to her finally heaving a sigh of relief.
The key point is that this man was even more vicious than her. She was obviously the one bleeding. She saw a lot of blood on this man's sleeves. The moment she saw the blood, Lin Shixu's expression froze for a moment. Then she saw that the other party had wet his sleeves and washed them over and over again with clean water until he was completely clean. Then he stopped and rolled up his sleeves.
When he finished washing, he turned around and saw Nan Yan staring at him. She stretched out her hands to him, and the meaning in her eyes was very obvious -
"Wash it off, you are the one who caused this."
She has a muffled nasal sound when she speaks.
Lin Shixu's expression froze for a moment, and it was obvious that he was reluctant, but he saw the other person's slightly red eyes from crying, and the slightly red tip of his nose.
When I think about this matter, I feel that it is indeed my own fault.
So, with a kind of extreme disgust, I squeezed a little bit at a time from the hand sanitizer, and then held her hand like an old mother washing her child's hands.
His movements were quite standard. He put foam on her hands and rubbed them carefully until they were clean. He washed them over and over again until all the blood stains were washed away. By the end, Nan Yan was afraid that this man would make her hands bald.
When the man was about to wash for the third time, Nan Yan found the right opportunity and slapped his hand away.
"Okay, okay, if you wash it again, the skin will be rubbed off."
Lin Shixu pursed his lips and said nothing. Looking at her fingers, he had the urge to grab them back and wash them one last time, but he resisted the urge. After all, this person was not related to him, and he had no right to force her to do anything.
So he simply stopped looking at the other person, out of sight, out of mind.
When Ji Shenshen and Zhou Youyou came back after buying breakfast together, each of them had two bags in their hands. As soon as they entered the room, they vaguely felt that the atmosphere in the room was a little off.
When Ji Shenshen opened the door, he saw his girlfriend sitting on the sofa and glancing at him lightly. Her eyes were slightly red, her hair was wet, and she didn't look very happy.
Ji Shenshen thought that he had been out for too long and she was getting impatient and therefore unhappy. However, there were many people around and he was too embarrassed to just go up and hug her to comfort her.
He could only put the things in his hands on the dining table and then go to the kitchen to get some tableware. Zhou Youyou followed him, and the atmosphere between the two of them was much more relaxed than before.
Nan Yan was not blind, so she could notice this small change. She estimated that the two of them must have talked something out. After all, they were childhood sweethearts who had grown up together. Even if they were estranged for a while, once any misunderstandings were resolved, their relationship was incomparable to that of ordinary people.
Isn't this the case now? When she looked up, she saw Zhou Youyou standing in the kitchen talking to her boyfriend. Her boyfriend lowered his head and responded. The relationship between the two of them was obviously much more familiar. Then she heard her boyfriend calling her to come over for dinner.
"Yanyan, come and have dinner. Didn't you say you were hungry? I bought your favorite fish porridge and red rice sausage. Come over quickly."
As Ji Shenshen spoke, he greeted Lin Shixu who was sitting opposite him, with basic courtesy and politeness. He then placed the food on the table, which was quite rich in variety.
The two of them ordered take-away food from the newly opened Cantonese-style tea restaurant downstairs. There were quite a lot of customers coming and going, and they waited in line for quite a while before it was their turn.
話都說到這個份上了,原本沙發上坐着的兩人也走過來了,四個人一塊坐下,明明是兩對情侶的,位置卻是分開坐的,南嫣挨着林時序,對面是男朋友跟他的小青梅,這情形怎麽看都覺得有些怪異。
不過也沒辦法,誰讓周柚柚跟林時序正在鬧分手呢,兩人能安安份份坐下來一塊吃頓飯都已經是不容易的事情了,起碼還沒吵起來不是嗎?
等到四個人都坐下了,季蘊深就看到女朋友的鼻尖也有些泛紅,像是冬天在室外被凍出來的那樣,又刷了一層玫紅色的粉餅,紅彤彤的,鼻梁骨那兒紅得更明顯一點。
他就随口問了一聲:“鼻子怎麽了?”
南嫣還沒說話呢,倒是一旁的林時序動作停頓了一下,不過很快又恢複了正常。
南嫣餘光掃過身旁的男人一眼,眼神涼飕飕的,掰開筷子夾了一口紅米腸,沒跟他說真話,只能悶悶說了聲,“……可能是剛才洗臉的時候太用力,不小心蹭到的吧。”
季蘊深沒有懷疑,他知道女朋友皮膚比較敏感,稍微磕磕碰碰紅了就比較明顯,于是也沒太在意,稍後又說了句,“吃完飯要不要出去玩?帶你去跟朋友能聚聚好不好?”
“他們好像在南郊那邊弄了個俱樂部,有蠻多活動的,應該挺有意思的。”
說實話,這建議還是剛才在樓下排隊的時候周柚柚提出來的,說他們以前那幾個玩得很熟的幾個朋友已經很久沒聚過了,既然周末有時間的話,不如大家一起出來聚聚,反正也都在一個城市,見面也很方便的。
她這麽一提,季蘊深就來了幾分心思,他知道那群朋友比較會玩的,跟他們在一起也總比跟他一個人在一起要有意思,而且他也确實挺想帶南嫣見見自己那群老朋友。
周柚柚原本是想着跟他多相處一會兒,才這麽提議的,她知道季蘊深一定會答應的,但沒想到他還要帶着女朋友過去。這就讓她心情一時間有些低落,但她也知道這樣很沒有道理,畢竟人家是正常的男女朋友,而自己只是關系已經疏遠了的青梅而已。
但她心裏又有些不甘,畢竟上輩子,她的蘊深哥哥也親口承認過自己心底一直喜歡她的不是嗎?她知道感情這種事情不是她想要就要,不想要就可以不要的東西,但只要有一絲絲的可能,她都想着再努力一把。
畢竟重活一世,她是真的不想再錯過自己身邊這個最在意她的人了。
于是周柚柚又将心頭的那點失落壓抑下去,面上也露出大方的笑,她轉過看着季蘊深的方向,“你還好意思說這種話呢,自從你上了大學,又交了女朋友之後,就很少跟我們聯系了,前段時間他們還說,每次想約你出來玩的時候,你都總說太忙了沒時間去。”
季蘊深則是擡頭看了南嫣一眼,臉上是很自然的笑,“那段時間确實是忙,忙得連女朋友都沒時間見面,哪會有時間陪你們玩。”
南嫣輕飄飄看他一眼,不說話。
倒是身旁的周柚柚“哇”一聲,忍不住笑起來,又罵他是個重色輕友的家夥,怪不得從小就愛和女孩子一塊玩,不願意跟那群男生們玩了。
她提起小時候的糗事,提到季蘊深小時候總愛帶着她翻牆爬樹去抓知了玩,還有某一年的暑假,一大幫小屁孩被父母帶着去鄉下,然後一塊去小池塘裏捉泥鳅、釣龍蝦的事情,最後一群小男孩還偷了不少人家果園裏的桃子,結果被兩條大黑狗吓得在樹上哭得稀裏嘩啦,最後死活不敢下來的場景……
類似的糗事還有很多,數不勝數。
她每說一件小時候的事情,季蘊深的記憶也就被慢慢帶回去,他也時不時地糾正吐槽她幾句,說不完全是他的錯,還有其他人瞎指揮,而且被吓哭的那人可不是他。
眼看着兩人之間的氣氛越來越融洽,倒襯得對面兩人的臉色愈發不好了。
她原本就鼻子痛,看着兩人聊得這麽開心,現在就更沒什麽胃口吃飯了。
她估計身旁的林時序也是一樣,眉頭輕蹙着,從剛才坐下來開始,那碗裏的白粥就喝了一兩口,顯然也是沒什麽心思。
南嫣便伸手掰開旁邊放着的一次性筷子,夾起一只對蝦,又套上手邊的一次性手套,細細地撥開蝦殼淺嘗了一口。
她吃也吃得心不在焉,畢竟鼻梁骨還隐隐痛着呢,又慢悠悠地吃幾口魚片粥,明眼人都能瞧得出來她胃口不好了。
季蘊深自然也看出來了,他也覺得奇怪,明明離開前還活蹦亂跳的,怎麽他出去一趟就變得蔫巴巴的了,跟霜打了的茄子似的沒精打采。
南嫣也沒在意他想的是什麽,反正她看不順眼自然是要作妖了,尤其是聽着他們倆聊的那話題,從頭到尾都襯托得她這個正牌女友跟個置身事外的外人似的,根本就插不進面前兩人說的那些話。
南嫣明顯不爽了,不爽了就要給兩人添點堵,于是她剝了另一個蝦球遞過去。
“要吃嗎?”
季蘊深愣了下,他還沒來得及說話,就聽到身旁的周柚柚下意識地說了句,“等等,蘊深哥他對蝦過敏的,吃了要起紅疹的,嚴重的話還要進醫院的,難道你不知道嗎?”
她的眼神中隐隐有些不自然。
南嫣臉上露出微怔的表情,心裏卻毫無波動,她當然知道季蘊深對蝦球過敏,不過她就是故意的,不這樣表示一下,怎麽能給兩人展示親密的機會呢?
雖然周柚柚說這話時的語氣熟稔自然,聽上去沒什麽多餘的情緒,也不像是炫耀兩人之間關系有多親密。
但南嫣就是能從那看過來眼神中看出一絲絲責怪的意思,大概是覺得兩人交往了這麽久了,而自己作為季蘊深的女朋友卻連這點事情都不知道。
南嫣舉着手指沒有動。
反應再遲鈍的男朋友大概也隐隐察覺到了有什麽地方不對勁了,他擡頭看了一眼對面的女朋友,她臉上的表情沒什麽變化,不過相處久了,季蘊深也能感覺得出來女朋友今天的心情明顯不太好。
他看了一眼女朋友遞過來的蝦球,眼神緩和了不少,像是在幫她解圍,“嗯,我對蝦是有一點過敏,之前一直沒跟你說過,不過這不是什麽大問題。”
聽到這話,身旁的周柚柚倒是怪模怪樣看他一眼,語氣中像是帶了些調侃,“什麽沒問題啊,你忘了你以前在我家吃了蝦後,脖子上起了一大片紅疹的事情了,又疼又癢,最後還是我陪你去醫院挂鹽水的。”
季蘊深輕微皺了下眉,大概是覺得周柚柚說的話有些不合适,不過他也沒說什麽。
他确實是對蝦過敏,也确實是沒告訴過嫣嫣,但出于某種男性的天然直覺,他能很明顯地感覺到女朋友此刻已經很不高興了。
偏在這時候,南嫣朝他故作乖巧地笑了一笑,很自然的接過話題來,“原來你一直對蝦過敏呀,那你怎麽不早說呢,你早說我就不會遞給你了,多浪費啊。”
季蘊深看着她笑了,心底剛要松一口氣,想說沒關系,這只是小事。
但他話還沒說出口,就看到女朋友将剝好的蝦仁轉頭放進了身旁林時序的碗中,然後滿懷期待地看着他低聲說道,“林時序,你嘗嘗這個吧,味道很不錯的,就當是給剛才的事情賠禮道歉了。”
她說完還淺笑着補充了一句,一副輕輕柔柔的模樣,“你應該對蝦不過敏的吧。”
這動靜很快引起了桌上其他人的注意,幾乎她一動作,對面那兩人的目光同時看過來了,一個面無表情,一個略顯怪異。
林時序:“……”
他确實是對蝦不過敏,但他有潔癖。所以,過敏人的命是命,他潔癖人的命就不是命了嗎?
季蘊深:“……”
季蘊深還以為南嫣說的賠禮道歉是只一開始她認錯人的事情,但很明顯,林時序知道她說的是什麽意思,畢竟他剛剛一不小心撞到她了,還害得她流了不少鼻血。
但這個面子他是真的不想給啊。
一旁的周柚柚也在不動聲色的看着。
她心底甚至有些輕嘲,林時序這人平常跟她一起在餐廳吃飯都要先用熱水泡過餐具才行,他的潔癖不是一般的嚴重,尤其是飲食上的潔癖,平常連跟她牽手都不願意,更別提吃別人手指碰過的東西了,即便是跟她一起在外面吃飯,兩人也都是各顧各的。
林時序其實也能明白南嫣的意思,無非就是一口氣咽不下去,想找個人發洩罷了,說實話,他看剛才那場景也有些不順眼。
但沒必要,真的沒必要……
他盯着碗裏遞過來的蝦球,眉頭越蹙越緊,尤其是感受到對面兩個人的目光,他沉默了一瞬,還是沒能過得去心裏那道關卡。
He really couldn't accept such an apology. Although he did feel guilty, there was really no need to torture himself in this way. So Lin Shixu let out a sigh and quietly avoided her gaze. He was about to refuse.
"Thank you, I don't..."
But before he could finish his words, his feet, which were originally flat under the table, were suddenly stepped on hard by someone.
Something was stepping on the back of his foot under the table. It wasn't a big deal after the step because the foot was obviously not wearing shoes. Then it moved up his leg slowly. Lin Shixu could even feel the soft touch of the foot gently kicking his calf.
"cough--"
Lin Shixu suddenly started coughing uncontrollably.
His face turned slightly red from coughing, and a strange blush surged across his fair face.
Because of some unspeakable excitement and some incredible sense of shame, his whole body was tense, and his fingers on the table also tightened unconsciously, and that touch made his whole body stiffen.
He turned his head to look in the direction beside him. Lin Shixu knew who the troublemaker was without having to guess, because Nan Yan beside him suddenly looked at him again. She still had that gentle and considerate smile on her face, but her eyes were staring at him with a "threatening" look, and then she glanced at the shrimps in the bowl.
The meaning is very clear, you have to eat it whether you want to or not!
Lin Shixu almost wanted to pull out the troublemaker on the other side and beat him up, but he held back. Not only did he hold back, he also took a deep breath.
Then, suppressing a sense of disgust, he clenched his fingers, and finally, without saying anything, he raised his hand to pick up the shrimp that Nan Yan handed to him, and very calmly put it into his mouth.
After he finished eating, he turned around and glanced at Nan Yan beside him. His eyes were a little cold and his face was not very good. He commented in a slightly hoarse voice, "It's not as good as you said. It's cold and doesn't taste very good. Next time, peel it while it's hot."
"Also, I don't like eating what others don't want!"
Boy, this guy has quite a bad temper.