cast a peach

Chapter 71

Mingqing left, and the ward became quiet again.

Tan Mingli lay with her eyes closed for a while, thinking over and over again in her mind about the call last night.

Xiaoshui...

At that time, she was suddenly disturbed by the words "people around her", and her emotions overwhelmed her reason for a while. Many problems were discovered.

Is Xiao Shui really in love?

I'm afraid not necessarily.

She believed in Xiao Shui.

Xiaoshui Chichen is determined, her mind is pure and serious, and what she believes in will not be shaken and changed so easily.

What's more, the people around you are not necessarily lovers.

Or maybe...the babysitter?Or an assistant or something?

Tan Mingli sighed softly.

She was still too restless at the time.Obviously, as long as he calmly thinks for a few more steps, he can see through the loopholes in that woman's words, and smash her deliberate lies with grace as usual, so that he will not be so flustered and hurt that he cannot restrain himself.

It seemed that no matter what happened, Xiao Shui was particularly flustered when it involved Xiao Shui.

She has lived for nearly 30 years and has never had such an experience.The mistakes she has made so far in her life, her disordered mind, and lost attitude are all because of Xiao Shui.

She suddenly longed to see Xiao Shui.

She wants to see how she has changed compared to last year, whether she is in better health, whether she is sick, whether she is unhappy, whether she is eating and sleeping obediently, whether she is studying hard...

and also--

Do you continue to like her?

Tan Mingli lowered her eyelashes and sighed secretly.

She is still a layman after all.Obviously she was the first to break up, she decided everything on her own, pushed Xiao Shui away so decisively, broke Xiao Shui's heart, cut off the contact between the two, but greedily still wanted Xiao Shui's love. Shui continued to like her after leaving, miss her, wait for her, don't like others.

What is this?This is so selfish.She didn't know she could be this bad.

It wasn't until after the phone call last night that she suddenly realized that she was not as magnanimous as she imagined, and she couldn't accept Xiaoshui dating other people at all.

The demeanor and tolerance she thought were good suddenly became useless when she thought of that possibility.Jealousy and possessiveness gnawed at her heart like teeth.

Xiaoshui should be hers, Xiaoshui is her girl.It was a given - she was meant to be hers.

Tan Mingli thought silently.

Should not belong to someone else.

She slowly counted the time in her heart.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, February 2th...and Xiao Shui's birthday is on March 12st.

In eighteen days, Xiao Shui will be an adult.

Tan Mingli stared at the infusion solution hanging beside the hospital bed for a while, and the glucose injection was quietly falling into the drip pot drop by drop.

Her body was cold, and her whole arm was cold when she hung the water.

An adult is an adult.

She sat up slowly, looked down at the back of her hand, pulled out the needle without changing expression, and put it aside.

"Hello, please come here, I want to go through the discharge procedures."

She rang the pager on the bedside and said softly to the nurse over there.

The pinhole on the back of the hand was not pressed with a cotton swab in time to stop the bleeding, and now it is oozing out little by little.

The bright red blood snaked along the woman's white fingers and dripped onto the floor of the ward.

Tan Mingli didn't seem to realize it, but just took out a piece of paper and pressed it on his hand.

She turned around and looked out the window into the sunlight.

The second uncle has already acted, and she can't just lie in the hospital like this and do nothing.

She wants to completely overthrow the second uncle before Xiaoshui's birthday, wipe out all the pickled moths in the Tan family, and completely establish her absolute power and status.

Then she was going to see Xiao Shui.

Her girl is grown up to be with her.

"Which movie do you want to see?"

Lian Keqin looked at the screen of his mobile phone and read without emotion, like reporting the name of a dish: ""Tang Detective Three", "The Crowd", "Assassination of Novelists", "Order of the God of Samurai", "Nezha Rebirth", " Hello Li Huanying"..."

"Um……"

Zhao Guangshui couldn't choose for a while, and said to himself, "I don't like Chen Sicheng, and I don't want to watch his movies, but I heard that there is Nagasawa Masami in Tang Tansan..."

After hearing her thoughts, Lian Keqin was a little speechless, put his hands in his pockets, and said:

"Watching movies with you is mainly about looking at beauties? Do you just watch whichever beauties are beautiful?"

Zhao Guangshui smiled shyly and shook his head: "Hey, although it does account for a large part of the reason, it's not all of it."

Lian Keqin was speechless.

The girl's temperament is too good, almost as if she has no temper, gentle and tolerant, even if sometimes she can't hold back her nature and subconsciously said a few harsh words, she just smiles without minding, which makes her There is no way to take her.

The last two went to see "Hello, Li Huanying".

Because other movies were sold out of tickets, especially "Tang Detective Three", a ticket was even fired up by scalpers for hundreds of dollars.

Zhao Guangshui was still a little disappointed when he sat on the theater chair, "Hey, I really want to see Nagasawa Masami..."

Lian Keqin looked at her disappointed look, she was pitiful, if she had a pair of rabbit ears, her ears would be drooping by now.

She couldn't help but bend her eyes because of her association, and said in relief: "It's okay, isn't your winter vacation very long? Let's see again next time. This time I will book tickets for you in advance, and you will definitely be able to see it."

Zhao Guangshui was happy again, and nodded: "Yes! Okay!"

It's so coaxing.

Lian Keqin smiled and turned to look at the screen.

Taking care of Zhao Guangshui was the easiest job she had ever received.

Then Zhao Guangshui cried from the beginning to the end.

The rest of the moviegoers were okay, but they started crying silently when Jia Ling was running and crying, "But she still can't sew?", but Zhao Guangshui was teary from the beginning of the movie, and couldn't stop it at all. In the back, he was choked with crying and almost gasped for breath.

Even after that, Lian Keqin couldn't help crying, Lian Keqin heard the sound of her throat rolling when she tried her best to endure.

Ugh.

How could this child have so many tears?It seems that there is no end to the flow.

No wonder there is a word for water in the name.

Lian Keqin sighed helplessly, and handed her a pack of paper: "Wipe it."

She wants to take back what she said just now that taking care of her is easy.Zhao Guangshui cried so much that she was upset and couldn't watch the movie at all.

Zhao Guangshui took it, said "thank you" vaguely, and lowered his head to wipe his face.

It took a long time until she walked out of the cinema, but she still hadn't recovered. She cried so hard just now, she had to sniff her nose from time to time, and even her fingertips felt numb.

The whole person seemed in a trance, Lian Keqin couldn't stand it anymore, wrapped the scarf for her, held her hand, and said, "Return to the soul, Miss Zhao."

Zhao Guangshui nodded lightly, indicating that she heard it.

"I decided that I will like Zhang Xiaofei in the future."

It was not until he was approaching the subway station that Zhao Guangshui suddenly spoke the first words after leaving the cinema.

It's really easy for children to like it.

Lian Keqin shook his head in his heart, and said casually: "Okay, then you like it."

"It would be great if my mother was like Li Huanying."

She was silent for a while, then spoke again.

Lian Keqin was stunned when he heard this, and looked down at her.

The relationship between Director Zhao and his relatives has always been complicated and confusing.It's the same with her father, and it's still the same with her daughter, it's not good.

She had a vague idea of ​​why Director Zhao didn't like Zhao Guangshui, but this... was not something she could say.

Especially for Zhao Guangshui himself.

She tried her best to search in her mind, trying to find one or two warm and philosophical words to comfort the lost girl in front of her, but she couldn't think of them for a while.

"My mother hates me."

Before she could find a suitable word of comfort, Zhao Guangshui suddenly spoke again quietly.

She used a very calm statement tone.

"She seems to be..."

Zhao Guangshui stopped, touched his cheek thoughtfully, raised his face, and looked at Lian Keqin, "I really hate this face of mine."

"Every time she sees me, she always looks away as if she was stung by a bee, instead of looking directly at my face."

She asked softly, "Why is that? Is it because I'm ugly?"

"..."

Even Lian Keqin couldn't answer the question of a young girl who was as beautiful as a flower bud so confusedly and earnestly asked "Is it because I'm ugly".

She could only sigh, shook her head and said, "No. You are very beautiful, Miss Zhao. Very beautiful."

It's just that you look very similar to your father and are too smart and sensitive, so that's why you don't like your mother.

But it's not your fault.

Zhao Guangshui stopped talking.

She lowered her head, and after a long time, she said again:

"My mother doesn't like my face, so even for a long time, I don't like my face either. I can't believe it when people say I'm beautiful. I think they are lying to me."

"But... Sister Li said that I..."

Zhao Guangshui pursed his lips, obviously a little embarrassed, but he continued softly, "She said I was pretty. She never lied or lied to me. So, I think, maybe I really look good. So I don't hate my face anymore."

Lian Keqin didn't speak, but walked forward in silence, with one hand in his coat pocket and the other holding the girl.

It took her a while to answer the question and said: "Mr. Zhao said she will be back for the Lantern Festival."

Zhao Guangshui nodded and asked, "Are you with Runyue?"

"……no."

No one would take their little lover back to meet their parents during the Chinese New Year.

What's more, this lover is still of the same sex, what's more, this lover is only three years older than his daughter, and Zhao Dong is even worried about this lover's failure to go home in time for the New Year.

Zhao Guangshui would always say something that surprised her.

"yes."

Zhao Guangshui was not surprised when he heard the words, he just responded softly.

"Mom didn't come back for Chinese New Year this year because of Runyue, right?"

She asked again gently, as if asking a trivial daily matter, with a relaxed and calm tone.

Lian Keqin couldn't answer this question, but kept silent.

"Mom likes Runyue, doesn't she?"

Lian Keqin couldn't answer this question, but kept silent.

"Runyue also likes mom. They like each other. It's good, it's not easy. Mom should bring Runyue back so that grandpa can meet. It doesn't matter. Grandpa won't be angry, and I won't be angry either."

Lian Keqin couldn't answer this question, but kept silent.

"My mother is happy because of Runyue. She was unhappy when I first saw her when I was a child. She has always been unhappy, but I don't know why."

"I tried my best to make her happy. But she didn't like me and got angry when she saw me, so I gradually stopped looking for her. Now Runyue can make her happy. Although this person is not me, I am Also very happy. Runyue is a very good girl, I like her."

She muttered to herself, as if she was talking to Lian Keqin, but also seemed to be talking to herself.

"Sister Lian, what major do you study?"

Zhao Guangshui suddenly asked again.

Finally, there was a question she could answer. Lian Keqin was relieved, smiled, and said solemnly:

"Postpartum care for sows."

"……what?"

It's not humorous, Lian Keqin looked at the girl staring at her blankly, knowing that this silly child might really believe it, sighed, and patted her on the head:

"philosophy."

"Wow! Philosophy! Sister Lian, you..."

"Stop, don't ask me why I learned this, just treat it as my insanity back then, okay?"

……

Tan Mingli got up from work, rubbed the aching brows, took off his glasses, and rested on the table for a while.

Not enough, not enough.

too slow.

The second uncle is not of the easy-going generation, and Mingqing took his father too lightly before.After all, he has honed his whole life in the ups and downs of the mall, even if he is still struggling, he is still a strong enemy and opponent, and he cannot be treated carelessly.

The battle with the second uncle is not easy to win.Even if she is as smart as Tan Mingli, she can't do it.

She couldn't help feeling anxious.

Time is running out...

Can she really handle everything before Xiao Shui's birthday?She couldn't say she was completely sure.

Confused, Tan Mingli closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths to no avail. She simply put the computer aside, got up, walked to the bookcase and took out a book to read.

Now that she can't read any big tomes, it just so happened that what she got was a collection of poems, a thin booklet, so Tan Mingli took it out, went to the table and sat down, flipping through a page casually.

Neruda's "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair".

The page she turned over happened to be the famous one.

"I can write the saddest lines tonight.

Write, for example, 'The night is starry,

And the stars glow blue and tremble in the distance. '

The night wind whirled and sang in the sky.

I can write the saddest lines tonight.

I love her, and sometimes she loves me too.

Like tonight, I held her in my arms.

Kiss her over and over again under the endless sky.

……

How could one not fall in love with her still eyes?

I can write the saddest lines tonight.

To think that I don't own her, to feel that I have lost her.

To listen to the vast night, wider without her.

And the verse falls on the soul as dew on the pasture.

What does it matter if my love cannot have her?

The night is full of stars and she is not with me. "

Tan Mingli read this poem for a long time.

Neruda was famous, she loved to read poetry, she read it a long time ago, but never as deeply moved and touched as she is today.

Probably because she's never really loved anyone before.After falling in love with Xiao Shui, I realized the pain of lovesickness and the resentment of not being able to love.

But... this poem seems a bit too sad and self-pitying, and it doesn't fit her state of mind.She had never been the type to feel sorry for herself like this.

Tan Mingli lowered her eyes, took a pen, pondered for a moment, and added a few short sentences at the end of the poem.

"The stars are like the lamps given to mankind by the universe,

Guide those who are lost to find their own direction.

But the winds of fortune cannot make the true traveler hesitate,

The established journey will lead me back to her. "

The topic is:

"To Xiaoshui - My Little Star".