Dad, please come and help Mom. In the next half hour, Ye Zi felt nothing but regret and annoyance. Now calm down and think about it, she really shouldn’t have made that call. She and Chu Ran have nothing, not even ordinary friends.
If not, it seems unreasonable to rashly ask him to brave such a storm to accompany her.
She hung up the phone and felt a little uncomfortable.
That hand tried to touch the phone several times, but finally put it down.
Half an hour later, in this quiet night, the doorbell suddenly rang.
Ye Ye, who was curled up in a ball while lying on the bed, seemed to have had his nerves stimulated, and he suddenly sat up from the bed.
The doorbell, which had been quiet, suddenly rang again.
Ye Zi immediately got off the bed, without even wearing any shoes, and rushed to the door like an arrow, asking through the thick door: "Who?"
The voice outside the door paused for a moment before a familiar and gritted voice came: "You asked me to come! Now you ask who I am? Huh?!"
Only then did the tense sound of the leaves relax.
She quickly reached out and opened the door, and Chu Ran's handsome face appeared outside the door.
It's him!
At this moment, the feeling in Ye Zi's heart cannot be described with any adjectives. She stood blankly in the room and looked at the people outside. Chu Ran's whole body was wet, with water dripping from head to toe. Her whole figure seemed to be crawling from the water.
It comes out the same.
"What are you doing standing there stupidly? Let me in!"
"Oh." Ye Zi finally came back to his senses and immediately made way for Chu Ran to walk in.
Chu Ran walked inside and asked, "Where is the bathroom?"
Ye Zi quickly reached out and pointed in the direction. Chu Ran nodded and walked into the bathroom. Ye Zi looked at his back with complicated eyes.
Ten minutes later, Chu Ran came out of the bathroom. His clothes were all wet. He had no change of clothes. He came out of the bathroom wearing a leaf bathrobe. He looked like... In short, it was very funny.
Ye Zi put a large robe on him, the sleeves reached to his elbows, and the length of the robe reached to his knees. He looked like a clown.
Ye Zi suppressed a smile and handed the hot cocoa to his hand.
Chu Ran reached out to take it, and looked down at his clothes in disgust. He felt very uncomfortable being tied up, "You don't have any men's clothes here?"
Ye Zi thought carefully for a while and said, "It seems to be there. Just wait, I'll look for it."
Chu Ran took a breath: "Which wild man left the clothes here? How can you, a single woman, have men's clothes?!"
Not to mention how ugly his face was.
"Yes, how can I, a single woman, have men's clothes?" Ye Zi asked with a smile.
After Chu Ran paused for a moment, she realized that she had been tricked. But when she said she didn't have men's clothes here, how could her mood improve in an instant?
"Ahem..." He cleared his throat and looked at the tea cup in his hand with disgust, "What is this?"
"Drink some hot cocoa, it's very comfortable."
Chu Ran frowned and tried to take a sip. It was too sweet. He put down the cup in his hand after just one sip. Seeing that he was not drinking, Ye Zi did not force him and followed him with a cup of hot cocoa.
Chu Ran looked around as he walked, and finally came to her bedroom and sat down on a chair. Ye Zi stood by the door, looking at the people in the room, and finally asked a sentence that he had been holding in his heart for a long time: "
Chu Ran, you...why did you come?"
Chu Ran was sitting on a chair flipping through a romance novel. When he heard her ask, he looked up at her, "Didn't you ask me to come?"
yes……
But……
"Didn't you laugh at me on the phone for being so cowardly that Lei was so scared that you couldn't come? I... thought you really wouldn't come."
This was the first time she asked him.
"You are begging me so pitifully, why don't I come?" Chu Ran had an expression on his face that said, "Then I will show you some mercy." Ye Zi wanted to slap him to death, and gritted his teeth and muttered: "Me too.
I didn’t ask you to come, I just said that casually, if you really don’t want to come, I didn’t ask you to come either…”
Chu Ran heard everything clearly with her sharp ears. He narrowed his romantic peach blossom eyes and stood up after looking at her for a moment, "Well, since you don't plan to let me come, then... I'll leave."
After saying that, he stood up from the chair, put down the book in his hand, and was about to go out.
Ye Zi lied all of a sudden: "Ah?"
"Didn't you mean that you just said it casually? It seems that I am being overly sentimental. I'm sorry."
"No...it's not..." She didn't know how to explain it anymore, so she could only follow him step by step.
"No? Not what?"
"No...it's not that you're being sentimental."
"I clearly heard you say you didn't beg me to come."
Chu Ran came to the bathroom and pointed at his soaked clothes: "I'll leave these here for now. When the weather gets better, I'll come over and get them."
After saying that, he turned to leave. Ye Zi became anxious and pulled him back with a 'Hey' sound. Chu Ran turned back with a puzzled look on his face, "Do you have anything else?"
"Well..." Ye Zi held his wrist tightly and kept on, "...it's raining heavily outside. Look at what you're wearing. It's not safe to go out like this."
"It's okay, I'll find a hotel to stay for one night."
“It’s not good to have too many hotels.”
“Isn’t five-star good?”
Well, you are a rich man! Ye Zi sighed, slowly let go of his hand, stood up straight, and looked at him steadily: "Can you... stay?"
Chu Ran smiled half-heartedly: "Don't you want me to leave?"
"No..." Ye Zi bit his lip, "I hope you stay, I don't want you to leave. To say that is just surprising that you came so quickly. In addition to being surprised... I also feel touched..."
He only laughed at her on the phone and gave her the feeling that he would not come. However, half an hour later, he rang her doorbell despite the weather. At that moment, the hard protective wall in Ye Zi's heart seemed to collapse.
So she instantly didn't know what to do, she could only use that method to protect herself from his kindness.
Chu Ran stood in front of her, holding her shoulders with her hands, and asked: "You want me to stay?"
"Um."
"Then beg me."
"I beg you."
"So good." He reached out and rubbed her messy hair. Chu Ran smiled and nodded, "Then I won't leave. I'll stay here to heal you."
leaf:"……"
"Why are you staring at me and not wanting me to stay?"
"……no!"
As soon as he squeezed these two words out of his mouth, a white light suddenly flashed across the room. Ye Zi turned his head and looked over in horror, and saw lightning flashing in the sky outside the window. The next second, the sound of 'rumbling' thunder resounded throughout the entire room.
Sky.
"ah--"
Ye Zi screamed, and jumped up suddenly into Chu Ran's arms. She hung on him like a koala, her body trembling, and her eyes were dark.
There's a power outage!
The sudden warm and fragrant nephrite made Chu Ran stunned for a moment. When he regained consciousness, Ye Zi was almost crying in his arms. He cleared his throat and said: "Ahem... Well, don't be afraid, it's okay.
Get off me and I'll go find a flashlight."
Otherwise, it will be difficult to move forward.
Ye Zi whined and shook his head: "No."
"..." Chu Ran persuaded her kindly, "Be good."
"don't want!"
"..."
Chu Ran had no choice but to hold her half-armed with one hand, and stretched out his other hand to grope forward. During this process, he kicked a chair, which made him gasp in pain. He gritted his teeth and asked, "Where do you keep your flashlight?!"
"
"In...my bedroom..."
He had no choice but to grit his teeth and touch her over again, but it was difficult to hold her. Chu Ran finally got angry: "Just stand here!"
Then he threw her away and went straight to her bedroom. Within two minutes, he came out of her bedroom again, holding a flashlight in his hand, and a beam of light lit up the room.
Ye Zi stood motionless. Chu Ran thought to himself that this girl was quite obedient. She had never been so obedient. He was proud that he could tame her. He shined the flashlight on her face and took a closer look. This girl was standing there.
Tears were streaming down his face.
"Crying...why are you crying?" Chu Ran was dumbfounded.
Ye Zi raised his head and wiped away the tears on his cheeks with the back of his hand, and said word by word: "Never leave me alone in the darkness! Forever!"
She stood in the darkness, tears glistening on her face. At this moment, Chu Ran could clearly see the fragility and fear inside her.
He stretched out his arms, clasped her waist, and brought her into his arms.
"No more."
he said.
…
*
At the moment of the power outage, Xiao Wan and her children had just turned off the lights and lay down to sleep. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck, turning the night into day. The next second, the rumble of thunder sounded above her head, and she felt that the whole building was shaking.
Trembling.
It's terrible.
Xiaoxiao was the first to get into her arms, with a timid voice: "Mommy, I'm afraid..."
"Don't be afraid, mom is here." Xiao Wan reached out and hugged her, and brought Xiaoxiao on the other side into her arms. Although he didn't say he was afraid, his stiff body could still guess that this guy was also afraid.
.
The lamp on the bedside table was originally on, but lightning struck and thunder sounded, and the lamp suddenly went out. Xiao Wan knew that there was a power outage.
Anyway, they went to bed and had something to discuss tomorrow.
Xiao Wan thought like this and didn't get up to see what happened.
"Go to sleep..."
She reached out and patted the children's backs gently. Her gentle tone was accompanied by the sound of the storm outside, which made the two children feel that their mother's voice was unusually warm. The fear and panic in their hearts were like the rays of the sun pushing away the dark clouds, filling their hearts.
heart.
Gradually, tiredness came over me and I fell asleep.
A sudden sound of "bang" pulled Xiao Wan out of her sleep. Before she opened her eyes, she felt strong wind and coolness blowing against her face in the darkness.
He took out his mobile phone under the pillow, opened it and looked at it with the faint light. The mobile phone showed that it was a quarter past ten in the evening. It was half past nine when they turned off the lights and went to bed. It turned out that more than half an hour had passed.
She shined the light of her phone over it, and Xiao Wan was shocked when she saw it.
"Anna, Xiaoxiao!"
Xiao Wan sat up from the bed and woke up the two children. Xiaoxiao rubbed her blurred eyes and mumbled sleepily: "Mommy, what's wrong?"
"Get up quickly and go to the next room with your brother." Xiao Wan got off the bed, found the flashlight in the drawer, and put it on the table. The messy room suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.
The window glass has been smashed to pieces, and the glass shards are glowing coldly on the ground. The curtains are bulging from the strong wind, like a full belly. The wind and rain are pouring in violently from outside, and the ground in the room is quickly falling.
Most of it was wet.
"Be careful of the glass shards on the ground!" Xiao Wan hugged Xiaoxiao and walked outside, telling Xiaoxiao who was following her.
After leaving the room, Xiao Wan put the two children on the sofa in the living room. Xiao Wan immediately turned back and walked to the bedroom.
Xiaoxiao leaned in Xiaoxiao's arms and whispered: "Brother, I'm afraid."
"Don't be afraid. Mom is going to clean it up. When it's done, we'll go to sleep in the room next door. Don't be afraid."
Xiaoxiao raised his hand and patted her shoulder gently, comforting her like an adult.
Xiaoxiao leaned on his shoulder and nodded obediently.
Xiao Wan found a board in the room to block the broken glass. The wind was too strong and the rain was heavy. If they didn't block it, their house might be flooded the next day if it rained heavily overnight. However,
As soon as she got close to the window in such weather, the raindrops were blown in by the wind and hit her body, which was painful. Even the weak light couldn't shine on her, and the raindrops hit her face and she couldn't even open her eyes...
Frustration and various complex emotions emerged from Xiao Wan's heart at this moment.
She gritted her teeth, thought about the two children outside, and persisted.
She just needed to use something to hold the board in place until tomorrow morning, and then she could call someone to repair it.
Thinking that there were some nails in the drawer, Xiao Wan let go and turned around to find tools...
'Hula!' A strong wind came in and blew straight towards her. In addition, the rainwater was all over her feet, and her slippers became wet after taking only two steps. Xiao Wan fell to the ground, and her hands, knees and calves were all covered with water.
It was punctured by shards of glass on the ground, and blood immediately came out.
"hiss……"
She gasped, and the burning pain instantly hit her whole body. Tears welled up in her eyes, and Xiao Wan endured it.
"Mommy..."
The children's voices suddenly sounded above her head. Xiao Wan looked up suddenly and said immediately: "What are you doing in here?! It's wet and windy here, go and stay in the living room!"
Seeing her like this, Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she started to cry: "Mommy, what's wrong with you? Woohoo..."
"Mom is fine. Ana, don't be afraid. Mom just fell down and will get up in a while. Can you and your brother go out first?" Xiao Wan didn't want to go over and let the child see that she was covered in blood and injuries, so she sat where she was.
After a while, he tried to comfort her softly, and then called Xiaoxiao who was standing behind her, and said in a deep voice: "Be good and take your sister out quickly!"
Xiaoxiao was much calmer than Xiaoxiao. He squatted down next to Xiao Wan and wanted to help Xiao Wan up, but Xiao Wan held his hand: "Listen to mom and take your sister out. Mom will get it done right away.
, I’ll go find you when it’s done, and be obedient!”
Xiao Wan's voice was much deeper than usual. Xiaoxiao knew that his mother's words were definitely non-negotiable at this time, so he had no choice but to nod, "Mom, be careful!"
"Well, it'll be fine."
Xiaoxiao took the frightened Xiaoxiao out.
As soon as the two children went out, Xiao Wan endured the pain and stood up from the ground.
"Brother..." Xiaoxiao followed him, looking back at the bedroom every step of the way, "Is Mommy really okay?"
Xiaoxiao pulled her and sat down on the sofa: "I don't know, so we called dad and asked him to come over and help mom."
As he spoke, he took out the mobile phone hidden behind his back. It was Xiao Wan's mobile phone that was lying on the bed in the room. He had just taken it out secretly. He was afraid that his mother would not want to find his father, so she did not notify her mother and took it herself.
The phone comes out.
Xiaoxiao became happy all of a sudden: "Brother, fight quickly!"
Xiaoxiao lowered his head to unlock it, flipped through the address book, and found Fu Ziheng's phone number.
*
The thunder and rain were so loud that Fu Ziheng couldn't sleep at all. He tossed and turned on the bed, feeling uneasy and always thinking something would happen.
The phone suddenly rang, and the sound in this silent night made him startled.
The next second he reacted, he immediately stood up and reached for the mobile phone on the bedside table.
Xiao Wan.
Did she call him? Take the initiative? Normally she would not take the initiative to call him. Did something happen? Or...
Not daring to think too much, he immediately answered the phone: "Hello."
"Dad, the window at home is broken. Mom is working on it alone, but she seems to have fallen. Dad, can you come over and help mom?"
Xiaoxiao's voice came from the radio waves.
Fu Ziheng took a breath and without thinking much, he immediately got up from the bed, picked up his coat, put on his shoes and walked outside. As he walked, he asked about the situation over there: "Are you all okay?"
"It's okay. Mom and we are fine. Mom is repairing the window in the bedroom and asked us not to go in and just wait for her in the living room."
"Well, listen to mommy, daddy will be here soon, don't be afraid or worried, you know?" Fu Ziheng opened the door and went out. He couldn't even wait for the elevator and went straight to the stairs, "Also, take care of my sister."
Xiaoxiao nodded vigorously: "I understand."
Fu Ziheng put away his cell phone and rushed there wholeheartedly.
*
Twenty minutes later, the doorbell rang again. Xiaoxiao took his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight, and immediately ran to open the door. As soon as the door opened, Fu Ziheng came in from the outside, soaked all over. He took off his coat and looked at the two children with the faint light.
It was okay. He breathed a sigh of relief and asked again: "Which room is mom?"
Xiaoxiao stretched out his hand and pointed.
Fu Ziheng rubbed his head: "Take my sister and sit on the sofa. Dad will go over and help mom. Don't come in, you know?"
"Um."
Xiao Wan spent a lot of effort to pull out the glass shards on her palms and knees. The pain had numbed and she could no longer feel the pain. She found the repair tools and picked up the board to block the window.
The wooden board inside suddenly loosened and someone pulled it away.
"Stand aside, I'll do it." A familiar and deep voice suddenly sounded in his ears. There were not many gorgeous words, just a simple sentence, but Xiao Wan, who had been holding on for so long, felt a lump in his throat.
itch.
She raised her head and stared at the tall man beside her, took the tool in her hand, raised her arm, and easily completed the work that she had struggled for more than half an hour.