I wasn’t too entangled, because there are so many people with similar voices in this world. When I first met Qi Yue, didn’t I think of him as the person in my dream?
But a long time later, whenever I think of the scene that morning, I always wonder if I would have suffered a lot less pain if I had heard who the owner of the voice was and turned around and left.
But there are no ifs in life, just as Grandpa Xiucai once said to his fourth uncle and grandma, many things are destined, and no one can change them. Maybe the more you change, the more detours you will take.
"Auntie, I am Hu Ling from Yanjiang Flower Shop. Brother Qi Yue asked me to bring you a bouquet of flowers for him." I answered Qi Yue's mother and carefully placed the bouquet of lilies on the bedside table.
The name tag on the bedside reads "Bai Xiaohe", which is only one character different from "White Lily". No wonder she likes white lilies so much.
"Hu Ling? Are you Hu Ling?"
Bai Xiaohe's voice suddenly became excited, and he even raised his body slightly, as if a drowning man suddenly caught a piece of driftwood.
I turned to look at her, and was stunned for a moment as if I had been struck by lightning.
When I was fourteen years old, a fair-skinned and slightly chubby woman came to Liuqiao Village, found my fourth uncle's grandma's home, and had a quarrel with my fourth uncle's grandma. Before leaving, she insisted on giving away a green bracelet.
Put it on my wrist.
That night, my fourth uncle and grandma took me away from Liuqiao Village overnight and went to Yunshan County to join my parents. It was precisely because of this that my fourth uncle and grandma left me early in order to help Zong Bao solve the civet's life-threatening incident.
And today, I saw that woman again. At this moment, she was lying on the hospital bed dying, and she became the mother of my friend Qi Yue.
The pain had eroded her elegance and nobility, and her face had many wrinkles, which seemed incompatible with her fair skin. Her eyes were particularly bright, looking at me with burning anticipation and joy.
I looked at her with some defensiveness and a hint of hatred in my heart.
"Auntie, you have a good rest. I have something to do in the store, so I'll leave first!" I turned my head and walked out of the ward without looking at her again.
"Hu Ling, please help me. Only you can help me get better. No matter what conditions you put forward, I will satisfy you!" Bai Xiaohe shouted at my back from behind me.
I stopped, looked back at her, raised the corners of my lips and said slowly: "Auntie, I'm not a doctor, I'm just a flower seller. The doctor will make you better!"
"No, Hu Ling——" My words did not make her give up, but made her even more excited and her voice became much louder.
I ignored her, turned around, opened the door to the ward, and strode out, leaving her nervous voice inside the door.
The meeting that morning made me feel a little uncomfortable, and I missed my fourth uncle and grandma crazily.
I don’t know what grudges my fourth uncle’s grandma has with this woman named Bai Xiaohe, let alone what kind of help she asked my fourth uncle’s grandma to help her that year. I only know that it must have something to do with me, and even more clearly, if she hadn’t gone to Liu
I went to find my fourth uncle and grandma in Qiao Village, but my fourth uncle and grandma would not take me to join my parents, let alone leave me early.
After a dull day, after work, I stopped wandering along Yanjiang Street as usual and returned to the rental house early.
I don't know why I want to go back so early. I only know that I need silence and a private space where no one will disturb me. Otherwise, my heart will be filled with deeper and deeper hatred.
I deleted all contact information with Qi Yue. Since he is Bai Xiaohe's son, there is no need for me to be friends with him anymore.
At nine o'clock the next morning, not long after I opened the store door, Qi Yue came. As if he didn't know anything, he still smiled at me politely and bought nine white lilies, without even asking me why I wanted them.
He deleted his WeChat and didn't mention his mother to me, not even a word, as if he didn't know that he had begged me and was ruthlessly rejected by me.
Half a month later, he still comes every day, and sometimes chats with me as usual, but he still never mentions his mother.
Qi Yue's behavior made me feel that I was a little too worried. Maybe Bai Xiaohe hadn't mentioned me to him. The matter of deleting his WeChat account made me feel a little uneasy. It seemed that I was a person with a dark psychology.
I think of others as darkly as I do.
I quietly added Qi Yue’s WeChat account.
Maybe he hasn’t discovered that I deleted him before, I thought to myself, after all, we rarely communicate on WeChat.
Time passed very quickly, and it seemed to be stretched out by the worries in my heart. I thought that one day, Bai Xiaohe would bring someone to me like he did to his fourth uncle and grandma, or Qi Yue would give me a commission as a friend.
I can do something to help his mother, but no matter what it is, I think I might leave Chen Jie's flower shop and avoid their mother and son.
Since my fourth uncle and grandma rejected Bai Xiaohe back then, there must be a reason for her rejection. I didn't want to go against her will, even though Qi Yue was indeed a very good person.
However, none of this happened.
Everything that happened in the ward seemed to be just a dream I had had.
Bai Xiaohe never brought anyone to see me, and Qi Yue never mentioned it in front of me.
In the blink of an eye, June is here, and the crayfish season has arrived. Jiangzhou City's braised prawns are famous throughout the country. Every time this season comes, the rich aroma of braised prawns seems to be wafting over the entire Jiangzhou City.
When I was about to get off work that afternoon, I saw a matte brown Porsche parked outside the flower shop for a long time. The windows were closed tightly and I couldn't see what was going on inside. I looked at it for a few times and didn't pay much attention.
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At six o'clock, I closed the store door on time, turned around and was about to leave, when the Porsche window suddenly lowered, revealing Qi Yue's handsome and sunny face.
"Hu Ling!" he shouted at me with a smile.
"So it's you!" I smiled at him and said, "Are you here to do something?"
"I'm here specially to wait for you to get off work!" Qi Yue smiled and opened the car door, holding a huge bouquet of red roses in his hand. The bouquet of roses was the one he asked me to wrap up when he bought lilies in the morning. There were 99 roses in total.
At that time, I smiled and asked him which girl he wanted to give it to, but he smiled and didn't answer me.
"Don't you really want to know who I want to give the roses I bought?" Qi Yue smiled and handed the flowers to me, "The flowers are for the beauty. I hope you can accept them and accompany me to eat crayfish!"
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I was stunned, and it took me a long time to react, and said with a smile: "Stop making fun of me, do you want me to help you send it somewhere?"
"This is really for you!" Qi Yue smiled heartily, "I want to eat shrimp, but there is no one to accompany me. Can you accompany me?"
He smiled with a sunny face, which was a little dazzling. This chapter has been completed!