Two days after the annual meeting, the company went on a long holiday.
Compared with the statutory holidays, three more days of rest are given.
It is not necessary to arrive at work until the tenth day of the Lunar New Year.
Jiang Zhi simply packed his luggage and bought a flight ticket back to Nancheng in advance.
During the Spring Festival holiday, air tickets are more difficult to buy than usual, and prices also fluctuate.
Before departure, Jiang Zhi went to the hospital. Every weekend she would visit her mother in the ward, hold her hand and talk to her, even though she still had no reaction.
Sometimes Jiang Zhi looks at the steady lines of the ventilator and wonders if she shouldn't forcefully save her mother's life. She always feels that her mother will wake up one day, and it may take a long, long time, but she can wait.
If she was asked to give up, she really couldn't do it.
Always so selfishly holding on to a glimmer of hope.
Jiang Zhi went to see the doctor.
The doctor has been very tactful, "There is hope, but not much."
If you want to wake up from the vegetative state, it all depends on God.
Or does the patient have enough will to live? But since she chose to jump from the balcony decisively, she has long since lost her will to live.
Jiang Zhi could bear it, her face turned a little pale, "It's okay, I believe my mother will wake up."
Mom must be reluctant to leave her behind.
I haven’t seen Jiangbei Mountain’s retribution yet.
Why are you willing to just keep sleeping like this?
Jiang Zhi always fantasizes that when her mother wakes up and everything is over, she will take her mother back to the small town in Nancheng and live a good life.
The doctor felt sorry for her, but didn't say anything unnecessary.
She may not listen, "We will try our best to treat him and hope to see a miracle."
After seeing the doctor, Jiang Zhi went back to the ward to chat with his mother. He rambled on until he didn't know what he was talking about. "Yesterday was the wedding anniversary of Shen Luyan and I."
"Mom, do you remember Shen Luyan? I told you."
"He is my husband and the person I love."
"But we should get divorced soon."
"It doesn't matter if we are divorced, he has never liked me. I am really sad."
Jiang Zhi chatted with her mother so much, but she didn't seem so sad anymore: "Mom, I'm going to visit my grandparents. I want to spend time with them during the Chinese New Year this year. I'll be back after the Chinese New Year."
Ever since her mother's accident, Jiang Zhi disliked celebrating the New Year.
Among all the lights in the house, there is not one that belongs to her.
The fireworks in the prosperous age leave only loneliness.
It was like this every year, she was always alone.
If the Jiang family didn't welcome her, the Fu family would have been gone long ago.
My uncle is still serving his sentence and my mother is in hospital.
When will she get better? Jiang Zhi doesn't know, but she thinks there will be a day.
Jiang Zhi left the hospital and took a taxi directly to the airport. She encountered traffic jams on the way, especially the viaduct, which was blocked by water. Fortunately, the flight she took was not far away and took off early.
She was not in a hurry, and after passing the traffic jam, the traffic conditions became much better.
Jiang Zhi likes to reserve enough time to check in. Due to bad weather, the flight was delayed for nearly an hour.
Jiang Zhi waited patiently in the terminal, looking out the window at the rising and falling planes, feeling a sense of loneliness that could not be expressed in words. She looked away, turned on her phone, hesitated again and again, and chose to send Shen Luyan a message. Text message: [Mr. Shen, I’m back to Nancheng. If you have anything important, you can call me.]
After posting this, she stared at the dialog box in a daze for a while.
After a while, she gently pressed a few words on the keyboard of her mobile phone: [Also, I wish you a happy Spring Festival.]
She logged out of WeChat after sending it.
As if he knew he wouldn't get a response.
Or you may have to wait a long time to receive his reply.
Before Jiang Zhi went out today, he accidentally put on a wedding ring. It was a simple platinum ring with no diamonds or engravings. It looked ordinary.
Uninformed people will only regard it as decoration.
Jiang Zhi raised his hand and stared at the wedding ring on his thumb for a long time.
She had only seen Shen Luyan wearing a wedding ring once. It was the first time he took her back to the Shen family's old house for dinner.
His fingers are particularly beautiful, thin and white, with well-defined joints, soft and yet strong.
The veins are hidden under the thin skin, and the blood vessels appear and disappear.
She has long, thin, white fingers and wears a ring, giving her a sense of abstinence as a husband.
But since that day, Jiang Zhi never saw him wearing it. He put the ring away and threw it in the corner of the drawer, rotting and gathering dust. He probably would never take it out again in this life.
Because it's of no use anymore.
Just like her, her use to him is very limited.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Jiang Zhi got on the plane. After a flight of more than two hours, she fell asleep in a daze, and woke up with a drowsy back of her head and some pain.
It was already past midnight when the plane landed, and there were still people coming and going at the airport.
Most of them are tourists who are anxious to go home for the New Year.
Jiang Zhi turned on his phone and several unread messages popped up on WeChat.
The pinned contact replied with a few short words:
【Be careful on the road.】
【Happy Spring Festival.】
Jiang Zhi's fingers gently touched the screen, and the pads of his fingers reluctantly touched these words.
Checking the time, he didn't reply until two hours later.
He seems to be always busy.
Jiang Zhi actually hated the feeling of waiting for his reply. It seemed that she was in a humble position.
But the person who was tempted first is the loser.
Jiang Zhi rarely sends these messages to him, for fear of letting out the slightest hint that he likes him.
Jiang Zhi took a taxi from the airport back to the alley where she used to live. It was very late, but she didn't feel sleepy at all.
At one o'clock in the morning, she saw Shen Luyan updated a circle of friends.
A very simple picture.
He and Jiang Suining's high school graduation photo.
Of course, he and Jiang Suining are not the only two people in the photo.
Although it is a class photo, the two people standing in the middle are the most eye-catching.
The young man put his hands in his pockets, his eyebrows were stern, but his smile was still bright when facing the camera. The girl next to him gently leaned on his shoulder, and he grabbed her hand and made a scissor hand gesture to the camera.
Jiang Zhi looked at this photo and couldn't tell how he felt.
Shen Luyan almost never updated her WeChat Moments, and was never bored enough to post photos from the past. Soon she got the answer. He explained in a concise and concise manner in the comment area: [I lost when I played the game.]
Jiang Zhi knew that they had a good relationship with each other.
Tonight, we should have dinner together.
Jiang Zhi and Shen Luyan also played games, and the stakes were often money, but she had never beaten him.
He has never lost either.
There are some defeats that he is willing to do.
Jiang Zhi gave him a like, but after a few seconds he regretted it and silently canceled the like.
She thought Shen Luyan wouldn't see it. Just as she was about to turn off her phone and go to sleep, a message came from over there: [Are you here?]
Jiang Zhi endured the suffocation in his heart and replied: [Yeah.]
Shen Luyan said: [Go to bed early.]
Jiang Zhi might have insomnia again tonight, she said: [You too.]