Chapter 116: 040 Ah Zheng 7
When she faintly heard a familiar male voice shouting "Mr. Xie", she thought she was still dreaming. When she opened her eyes half asleep, she could still smell the fragrance of white orchids wafting from the bedside and the vase, so she thought Xie Zeyi had not left yet.
When Yan Sang was brought in by Mary, she rolled over, tucked the quilt into her arms, and drifted off to sleep. Encased in the plain bed, linen skirt, and gauze covering her head, the girl's skin was startlingly pale, accentuating the still-unhealed scar on her rosy lips with a strange, broken beauty. She slept comfortably, her lips pursed as if she were smiling.
He realized he'd never really looked at her, except in photos, in motion. He'd always assumed he could watch her for the rest of his life, so he took his time, taking it slow, no matter how little. Now, even a second seemed like a luxury.
Yan Sang stood at the head of her bed and looked at her for a while, then pinched two rough sketches from the book in his hand between his fingertips, placed them under the white orchid, and placed them on Xie Zeyi's letter.
He was already a bit nearsighted. Bending closer, he saw a sealed envelope with familiar handwriting on it. After carefully examining it, he discovered the words: "To Mr. Yan Sang."
He stared at the letter for a while, then turned and left with a smile.
When she woke up, Mrs. Ge had come in. Suixi was talking to Lily in fluent English. She caught a few words. It seemed that Mrs. Ge had hired a family doctor for her and was discussing with her doctor about discharging her from the hospital.
Seeing her sitting on the edge of the bed with her eyes open, Lily turned around and smiled at her. Suixi walked towards her and called her "girl". She was not fully awake yet and asked drowsily, "What time is it?" Then she asked with a smile, "Where is Mr. Xie?"
Suixi said nothing. Lily smiled and said, "Mary said he left in a car with the chief constable this morning."
She hummed, followed the scent of the white orchid that gave her the illusion, picked up the blooming white orchid on the bedside, and saw the book-page-sized sketch under the flower.
She tilted her head and touched her neck with her fingers;
She was laughing, a laugh that was both gentle and wild.
Lily also took a peek and exclaimed, "The painting isn't particularly good, but I knew it was you right away. The expression is so similar."
Chu Wang couldn't help but touch her neck and smile. Before she saw the photo, she didn't know she was like this.
She placed the flowers and the sketch on the bed sheet and opened the letter addressed to her.
Two simple lines of words, the handwriting was so neat that it didn't look like it was written by Xie Zeyi——
Third Miss,
May everything you encounter in the future be happy, and may the people you meet be the right ones.
Your most loyal forever
tse
After reading the letter, she couldn't help but smile, yet a sense of emptiness welled up inside. She folded the letter and placed it with the flowers, then touched the golden key hanging from her neck, the keychain pressed against her chest. If it weren't for it, she would still have thought those countless gentle, lingering kisses last night were just a dream. She couldn't help but touch her lower lip, feeling the warmth still lingering there. Her injuries hadn't fully healed yet, and she couldn't think as she usually did. Her mind wandered easily, and she hadn't noticed that Mrs. Ge had been watching her from the doorway for a long time.
Mrs. Ge was well aware of her current situation, so the two of them didn't exchange many pleasantries. Sui Xi came in to help her change her clothes, gathered all her hospital belongings, said goodbye to everyone at the hospital, and went downstairs. Before getting in the car, Chu Wang suddenly said he wanted to go back to Fu Kaisen Road.
Another young girl whom Chu Wang had never seen before said, "Miss, why are you going through so much trouble? If you want something, ask us to bring it to you..." Sui Xi hurriedly stopped her and ordered the driver to drive directly to Fuxing Road.
Mrs. Ge and Sui Xi followed her out of the car and upstairs. On the second floor, Mrs. Zheng happened to come out of the door. Seeing Chu Wang and Mrs. Ge, she pretended to ask, "Are there any relatives visiting Miss Lin? Mr. Xie gave me the key to the house and asked me to take care of the child for the next few days..."
Mrs. Ge glanced at her and said, "Okay, Mrs. Zheng, that kid probably knows everything. It's hard not to tell her."
She went straight up to the third floor, opened the door, and was shocked by the mess in the house. Mrs. Zheng followed up, chatting, exclaiming, "My little ancestor, I don't know how many times this has happened. If I leave him for a moment, he'll immediately turn the house upside down! Fortunately, Mr. Xie locked the door to Miss Lin's room when he left, otherwise the other rooms would have been destroyed..."
The kitchen smelled of food. While she was in the hospital, her mother must have come over to cook as usual. Entering the kitchen, she reached for the refrigerator and the hand-cranked coffee maker, her gaze lingering on the crooked handwriting on it. After wandering around the house, she realized Xie Zeyi's unsightly handwriting was etched in many places she hadn't noticed before, and she found it a bit amusing.
Mrs. Ge was struggling to find a place to stand amidst the scattered napkins and papers on the floor. Finally, she found a clean spot and stood outside Xie Zeyi's open door, looking in. She said, "This kid's things are quite exquisite. I'll have someone pack them up and send them to his father at the Shanghai mansion."
She hesitated for a moment and said, "Why don't we just leave Mr. Xie's things alone? What if, what if he comes back and sees them? He'll probably be unhappy, right?"
"If he can come back safely this time, his father will definitely not let him go home?" Mrs. Ge glared at her and said, "Why would he come back here? He's not related to you at all."
She said nothing, stepping slowly over the scraps of paper. Just then, the child came running out of Xie Zeyi's room, carrying a wastepaper basket as if it were a treasure. He stepped on Mrs. Ge and fell on the carpet, and the paper balls in the basket rustled and fell at her feet. Mrs. Ge was so angry that she picked him up and spanked him on the butt, making the child scream. She squatted down to pick up the paper. Mrs. Zheng rushed over to help her pick up the paper balls, and as they picked up, she comforted him, saying, "Fortunately, they are just waste paper balls, not dirty."
As she picked them up, she suddenly realized they were all letter paper, the same one Xie Zeyi had left by her bedside. She unfolded the paper in her hand, and across it, stroke by stroke, like a primary school student learning to write on a grid, were a line of increasingly large Chinese characters: "Third Miss, I still remember your joy when you received your love letter, and I secretly guess that you love receiving letters, just as I love seeing you smile often." He probably felt this line was inappropriate, so he angrily crumpled it up and threw it away.
She looked at the next one, which read: "Miss San, I want to accompany you in every important moment of your life and protect your every smile, but it seems that I can only accompany you so far. I hope that the people you meet are..." The huge word "wish" was also crossed out and replaced with a few English words in very beautiful handwriting: "Actually, I don't want to."
She burst out laughing and continued to read the next piece of paper. On it was written a line of ugly words: "Miss San, please don't blame me. I'm really not very good at writing Chinese."
After flipping through several chapters of the same practice calligraphy, I found one with the following words in Latin: "alinzy, iespectem supremamihicumvenerilhari, ieteneammoriensdezicientemanu" (To Miss San, may I see you in my final moments, may I hold you in my dying hands with my frail hands).
After several English letters, there were several more, all containing the same two sentences I received in the hospital today, except that the handwriting was a little worse.
Miss San, may everything you encounter in the future be joyful, and may the people you meet be the right ones. Yours forever, the most loyal, tse.
Mrs. Ge and Mrs. Zheng both stopped and watched her squatting on the ground silently tearing apart the paper balls one by one, and they also saw the contents on them.
Mrs. Zheng stood there quietly without saying a word. Mrs. Ge complained calmly, as if trying to comfort her and herself: "This kid has a better heart than his father, but his temper is even more stubborn than his father's."
After enduring for a long time, she pushed the door open without saying a word, fumbling for a long time before finally taking out a cigarette and lighting it. As soon as she lit the cigarette, she suddenly shouted, "Stop!"
Upon hearing the noise, Mrs. Zheng hurried out of the door and happened to see Mr. Zheng crouching down and secretly carrying a box of Coke upstairs. When he saw Mrs. Ge smoking at the door of the third floor between the second and third floors, he was so scared that he picked up the Coke and turned around to run downstairs, but was still caught by Mrs. Ge.
Mr. Zheng was in a dilemma. He stood on the stairs holding the box of Coke and grinning at Mrs. Ge, lying clumsily, "I've been craving Coke lately."
Mrs. Ge didn't scold him, but smoked her cigarette in silence.
Chu Wang slowly emerged from the room. Seeing Mr. Zheng and the box in his arms, she immediately understood what was going on. The moment she thought of this, she seemed to hear a building collapsing. In an instant, sand and rocks flew through her heart, shaking the earth.
The first heartbeat in two lives came suddenly, yet so strong.
No matter how slow she was, she would understand what this meant.
She loves Xie Zeyi.
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