"Sister Xi, you seem to be very familiar with her?"
Jiang Qiao said with a smile, glancing at the dazzling array of fruits, cakes and other snacks on the table, wondering if he was going to wholesale?
Cheng Ruoxi opened the steaming rice, took out a big mouthful of tomato beef brisket and put it into his mouth, blinking with satisfaction.
"Well... not really. This sister and I have just met." Cheng Ruoxi tilted her head and said.
"Then why is she so nice to you? These fruit snacks are top-grade at first glance, and they are not cheap." Jiang Qiao rubbed his chin.
"My sister said that this was the hard-earned payment for cooperating with the investigation. She also said that she wanted to make friends with me... Don't tell me, we can quite talk," Cheng Ruoxi said.
Jiang Qiao picked up an apple and gnawed it. It tasted really top-notch:
"When you make friends...I'm afraid that you will be sold by others and you will pay for them."
Cheng Ruoxi squinted her eyes and smiled: "Hey, aren't you still staring at this... How about it, doesn't it taste good? You can take them home and eat them later."
"I don't want it, this is all for you."
"How can I eat so much? It will be wasted if I leave it here."
Jiang Qiao couldn't resist her, so he nodded in agreement.
There was no one else in this ward except a young woman playing with her mobile phone. There was a long distance between her and Cheng Ruoxi.
Cheng Ruoxi was a little bored, so she turned on the TV in the room and started watching.
Jiang Qiao was writing test papers on the side.
"Jiang Qiao, you missed a decimal point in the third question, look." Cheng Ruoxi stretched out her slender fingers in front of Jiang Qiao's eyes and tapped on his test paper.
"Decimal point..." Jiang Qiao analyzed the question again and found the mistake: "It's true."
"Look." Cheng Ruoxi was a little proud.
"Sister Xi is still awesome." Jiang Qiao praised.
"That's right," Cheng Ruoxi narrowed her eyes. The flattery made her feel extremely comfortable, but she soon lost it again, "but it's still not as good as this time."
Jiang Qiao comforted him and said, "What's going on? The doctor said you recovered quickly and you might be able to be discharged from the hospital in another month."
"But there's less than a month left to make it exactly the same." Cheng Ruoxi said dejectedly.
Jiang Qiao was speechless for a moment.
She continued: "Jiang Qiao, am I very stupid? I can fall even while walking, and even fell to the hospital. Will I be laughed to death..."
"Who dares to laugh at you? Let him come to me and see if I don't teach him a lesson." Jiang Qiao said with a "ferocious" look like "I'm going to beat him ten times."
Cheng Ruoxi chuckled: "What are you doing, you are so childish."
As soon as this happened, her mood immediately improved a lot.
Sometimes, language may be the best firewood on winter nights, it can cure the coldness of the spirit.
Cheng Ruoxi continued to watch cartoons happily, while Jiang Qiao was multitasking. While writing the test paper, he was thinking in his mind whether he could use that digestive magic to help Cheng Ruoxi recover better.
At this time, his ears moved.
After being nourished by the elements, his five senses were enhanced to a certain extent.
He heard a rush of footsteps, getting closer and closer.
These are two different footsteps, one coming from sharp high heels and the other from steady leather shoes, but their destination is the same.
The sound of "thumping" footsteps echoed throughout the corridor, and even Cheng Ruoxi stopped and waited for something, as if he had some kind of premonition.
The footsteps stopped suddenly.
"Is this it?"
"The nurse said yes."
Jiang Qiao heard a small exchange.
Immediately afterwards, high heels and leather shoes walked into the ward. They were a middle-aged couple. The man wore glasses and a black coat, and the woman wore a brown coat and a scarf. They both looked tired.
"Xiaoxi..." The woman locked eyes with Cheng Ruoxi on the hospital bed at the first glance. Her eyes were red, her slightly white lips moved slightly, and she threw herself on the hospital bed, hugging Cheng Ruoxi tightly in her arms.
"Mom, let go first..." Cheng Ruoxi said.
"My dear daughter, how could my mother let you go..."
"It hurts, it hurts—" Cheng Ruoxi frowned and shouted.
Upon hearing this, the middle-aged woman immediately let go of her hand and stood helpless: "Xiaoxi, did mom hurt you?"
"You're hitting my tailbone." Cheng Ruoxi complained while adjusting her posture.
"Xiaoxi, if you feel uncomfortable, tell mom. Mom will find the best doctor for you..." the middle-aged woman said with a distressed look on her face.
"No, I'm fine...Besides, is it useful to tell you?" Cheng Ruoxi turned her face to the side, obviously with some resentment.
Jiang Qiao watched this scene, silently stepped aside, exchanged glances with the man who was also standing, and walked out of the ward.
...
It was nearly ten o'clock and the rain gradually stopped.
Jiang Qiao got off the subway and walked on the way home.
He exhaled cold air while thinking about what just happened.
He was familiar with that couple, they were Cheng Ruoxi's parents, but after living for nearly twenty years, they had met only a handful of times.
From childhood to adulthood, they spent most of their time living in the whispers of Grandma Cheng Ruoxi.
It is said that they are very busy. Both of them are experts in the archaeological team. They are either at the archaeological site or on the plane to the archaeological site.
I’ll be in Sanxingdui in the morning, maybe Mawangdui in the evening, and sometimes I’ll fly abroad.
As a result, they didn't even see Cheng Ruoxi's grandma for the last time.
Disappointments continued to accumulate, and Cheng Ruoxi no longer had expectations.
Who would have expected that they would come back tonight.
Jiang Qiao vaguely remembered that the last time they came back seemed to be more than a year ago.
As the dark clouds gradually thinned, the tail of the bright moon appeared in the sky.
Following the traces of moonlight, Jiang Qiao walked to the edge of an open space.
There were a lot of weeds in the open space, and there were several thick cement pipes placed against the wall. In front of the cement pipes was a simple swing made of big tires.
When they were young, Jiang Qiao, Cheng Ruoxi, and some other children often came over to play, playing all afternoon.
Until the smoke collecting in the alley makes people cough, until the night calls to the earth, and the mother calls for the children returning home, those children will wipe the mud on their hands and run home like flying, and then be scolded by their respective mothers.
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Only Jiang Qiao and Cheng Ruoxi knew how to go home by themselves because grandma's legs and feet were inconvenient.
Later, when the children living in the alley grew up, they either moved away or stopped playing children's tricks, so the open space gradually became deserted.
Only Jiang Qiao knew that every time she couldn't find Cheng Ruoxi, she would definitely sit on the swing here and swing around until night.
Jiang Qiao didn't know when he had already sat on the swing, and the remaining rainwater made his butt feel cold. Only then did he understand Cheng Ruoxi's state of mind a few years ago.
The moon is so beautiful, but it is also so lonely.
