C1429 Talk Alone
Qin was silent for a moment before he continued, "Zhang Mei came today as well. She's in that car!"
"Zhang Mei? She's here too? " I said, surprised.
"Yes, she came with us this time. When we came to Hsinghai today, we had originally planned to have her stay in the camp, but she insisted on coming with us, so she came. But even though she came, the commander in chief did not allow her to follow us to the ward, even though she strongly requested to go." Qin said.
Originally, when I received Lee Shun's text message that told Qiu Tong and Xiao Xue to leave the ward, I thought that he was worried about their safety. However, after Qin said this, I suddenly thought that Lee Shun should be considering if Zhang Mei disobediently followed her into the ward to see Qiu Tong and Xiao Xue.
Lee Shun's consideration was indeed thoughtful.
Just then, the van's doors opened and a woman in a down jacket got out.
It was Zhang Mei.
Zhang Mei walked up to our car and opened the door.
I looked at Zhang Mei.
Zhang Mei was still as beautiful as before, but her face was also a bit pale like Lee Shun. The sockets of her eyes were also slightly sunken, making her look bigger.
"Hello," I said.
"Yi Ke, I want to talk to you alone!" Zhang Mei turned around and took a few steps after she finished speaking.
I looked at Qin, then got out of the car and closed the door. I walked up to Zhang Mei. "What did you say?"
Zhang Mei didn't say anything. She walked a few more steps and stopped in the shadows.
I followed.
The snow continued to fall and the wind continued to blow.
"Speak!" "No," I said.
Zhang Mei turned around and looked at me. "When I first entered the courtyard, I saw you and two other people walking out. Those two people, if I remember correctly, seemed to know each other."
My heart sank as I looked at Zhang Mei.
Zhang Mei's memory is so good. She only met Qiu Tong and Xiao Xue once at the side of the square. I met them on the way to the rehab center, and she actually remembered it.
Yes, she was not mistaken, she knew him.
"You seem to know him?" "Is that so?" I looked at Zhang Mei strangely, my mind racing.
"Yes. Remember the mother and daughter I saw playing in the car when you stopped by the square to take me to rehab?" I was impressed by the mother and daughter, especially the girl, who had appeared more than once in my dreams. I just saw those two people. They were wearing cotton clothing, and even though I was in the car and it was snowing heavily, I couldn't be mistaken. They should be the mother and daughter that I met. " Zhang Mei said, "Yi Ke, tell me, who are the mother and daughter pair? How could they know you? Why are they here tonight?
Zhang Mei's eyes were fixed on me, and I couldn't help but scream in my heart.
At this moment, I firmly held one thought in my heart: No matter what, I can't let Zhang Mei find out the true identities of Qiu Tong and Xiao Xue. Otherwise, everything would be turned upside down.
Although he couldn't let Zhang Mei and her daughter recognize him as cruel, he couldn't do anything about it. At the very least, he couldn't do anything right now.
Taking a deep breath, I calmly looked at Zhang Mei. "Zhang Mei, before I answer your question, please answer mine first."
"Go ahead!" Zhang Mei said.
"Did you do it again?" "No," I said.
Zhang Mei's expression immediately turned awkward. She bit her lips and nodded. "Yes."
"In the end, you did not control yourself. In the end, you reneged on your promise to me, and in the end, you still let yourself fall completely." In the end, you did not control yourself, and in the end, you reneged on your promise to me.
My heart was completely determined not to let Zhang Mei know what Qiu Tong and Xiaoxue were thinking. A drug addict's mother wasn't worthy to be Xiaoxue's mother, absolutely not.
Zhang Mei looked ashamed. She lowered her head and said, "I'm sorry, Yi Ke, I failed to live up to your expectations and your kindness. I know I'm very, very corrupt and shameless. With him, he's been smoking, and I can't help myself. I cannot resist the fatal temptation of the supreme joy of heaven. "
I said, "If I'm not wrong, you smoked again today!"
Zhang Mei lowered her head and said, "Yes."
I said, "Both of them!"
"Yes."
I took a deep breath. "Well, I'll answer your question now. First, the mother and daughter you saw just now were my colleague and her child. I just happened to meet them here.
"Secondly, although you think that you haven't seen the wrong person, let me tell you this: you have indeed seen the wrong person. They are not the mother and daughter that you saw in the plaza that day. So, you haven't even seen them."
"Ah —" Zhang Mei looked up at me. "How, how is this possible? I clearly saw it!"
"You should say that you clearly have an illusion in front of your eyes, an illusion brought about by skating!" I said coldly.
"Illusion? Could it be an illusion? " Zhang Mei muttered.
"You know the symptoms of skating better than me, you know it better than me!" I continued coldly.
"Could it be … Is that really the case? Did I see wrongly? Could it be that I am hallucinating again?" Zhang Mei continued to mutter.
"Is there even a need to say that? I'm afraid this isn't the first time you've had hallucinations, right? " I pressed on and said, "You are only hallucinating now. At least, you can still see it. If you continue to slide down, I'm afraid you won't even see the illusion anymore. I'm afraid you won't be able to see anything in the end!"
I grabbed Zhang Mei's illusion after skating, and a wave of questioning made her dizzy.
Zhang Mei looked at me with a perplexed expression. Her mouth was half-open. After a long time, she said, "It seems that it's really like this. Looks like I really have appeared in a hallucination again. There was this once before, when I finished skating and saw a girl, I thought that she was the girl that I saw in Hsinghai that day. So, I was wrong again. "
"Yes, yes, that's it!" "No," I said firmly.
I felt a wave of pain in my heart, for Zhang Mei, for Xiaoxue.
I clearly know that Zhang Mei's addiction wouldn't stop. As long as she is together with Lee Shun, she won't be able to stop.
Zhang Mei can't quit drug addiction, so I definitely can't let Snowy recognize her. I definitely can't let Snowy know that her biological parents are a pair of drug addicts.
It was cruel, but it had to be.
Zhang Mei's expression was pained. It was as if she had been dreaming about her own daughter who had been abandoned in the same snowy weather. It was as if she was grieving and regretting that she had fallen once more, that she had fallen completely into depravity.
"Sorry, sorry." Zhang Mei's voice sounded like she was crying. Then she turned around and walked slowly to the car.
I don't know why Zhang Mei said I'm sorry, to whom she was apologizing. It seems like it's not just about me.
My heart spasmed as I watched Zhang Mei step into the car and heard the car door slam.
I didn't get back in the car. I went to the front steps and sat down.
The steps were cold, but I couldn't feel them.
I felt numb all over.
At this point, my feeling was that I didn't feel anything.
At this moment, my phone rang. Fourth Brother called.
"Where?" Fourth Brother asked me.
"He's in the hospital, Lee Shun's dad is in the hospital!" "No," I said.
"Yes." Is Lee Shun here? " "No," I said.
"Yes, how do you know?" "No," I said.
"I just drove past the hospital's entrance and saw Faang Aiguo and the others. I also saw some suspicious looking people nearby."
"Those are all Lee Shun's men. Lee Shun is in the ward right now!" "No," I said.
"Un, alright, I understand!" "Pay attention to your safety," Fourth Brother said.
"Alright!" "No," I said.
Then, Fourth Brother hung up.
I sat on the cold step, lit a cigarette, and smoked in silence.
I don't know how long Lee Shun will stay in the ward. If he doesn't leave, I won't be able to leave.
The night was long, anyway.
I looked at the time. It was a quarter past ten.
I looked at the van Zhang Mei was sitting in and thought about Zhang Mei who was in the van and wondered how she was feeling right now.
She must have been depressed to come and not be able to go to the ward.
However, she didn't dare to go up without Lee Shun's consent. Even if she couldn't be stopped by the security guards, Lee Shun probably wouldn't let her off easily.
She understood Lee Shun's personality very well. Although she followed him to the hospital, she didn't dare to take another step forward.
Thinking back to the fear Zhang Mei had brought me, I heaved a sigh of relief.
Unknowingly, it was already past 11 o'clock. I entered the hall and found a chair to sit on. I looked around. Other than a few family members of patients that came in and out, they were all Lee Shun's men.
I texted Qiu Tong: "Are you asleep?"
Very soon, he received a reply from Qiu Tong, "Not yet. Snowy just fell asleep and told her the story. "What about you? Are you still in the hospital?"
"Yes."
"It's been hard on you!" "No," she said.
"Are you speaking to me on the side of your family?" "No," I said.
"You're thinking too much again!" "No," she said.
"I didn't think much of it!" "No," I said.
She was silent for a moment. "It's strange," she said.
"Why is it strange?" "No," I said.
"Grandpa Xiao Xue has always been in good health. I've never heard that there's a problem with his blood pressure. How come he suddenly developed high blood pressure?" "No," he said.
I said, "It must have been some kind of excitement, or something."0
"What can he do? What could excite him? "He's fine even after such a big storm, so what could possibly excite him more than that?" "No," she said.
"Perhaps, you will know about it in the future!" "No," I said.
"What do you mean?" "No," she said.
"It's not interesting!" "No," I said.
"You know?" "No," she said.
"Did I know?" "No," I said.
"Then why do you say so?" "No," she said.
"Do I have to know to say that?" "No," I said.
She stopped talking.
"Also, let me tell you something!" A moment, I said.
She said, "Yeah."
I said, "This afternoon, Jin Jingxiu fainted in her office!"
"Ah — is it serious?" "No," she said.
"It's not serious. After he was sent to the hospital, he woke up. Jin Jingze said that he had been examined by the doctor and there's nothing wrong with it. It's just that he was too stressed and overworked, so he should rest in the hospital for a few days!" "No," I said.
"Ever since Aunt Jin went to Danton with us, I felt that her mental state wasn't very good, especially after that day at the shore of the river near the mountain village, I sat with her for a long time. It looks like her fainting this time is related to this trip of Danton. It must be tiring to travel a long distance! " "No," she said.
Qiu Tong was only half right, but the other half I didn't want to correct.
I said, "That day on the riverbank, when you sat there for so long, what did she say?"
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