In the afternoon, hospital ward.
After Tang Mu Zhi's fever subsided, she slowly woke up.
But her head was still dizzy and her whole body felt uncomfortable, as if it was on fire, making her look haggard.
"Zhizhi." After hearing the movement, Jing Xiao called softly.
Tang Muzhi blinked hard, looked at him with hazy eyes, and asked weakly: "Am I going to die?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? You have a cold and a fever. You'll be fine after a few days of rest." After saying that, Jing Xiao reached out and touched her forehead to confirm that her body temperature was much better than before, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Did you send me to the hospital?" she asked, trying to get up from the bed.
Now that her brain was gradually waking up, she remembered what happened last night and the topics they had talked about. Therefore, she was so embarrassed that she just wanted to escape from here.
"Don't move, you're still infusion, just lie down." Jing Xiao held her shoulders to stop her, his tone a little more serious.
When Tang Muzhi just wanted to get up, she felt that her legs were in severe pain, so at the moment, she could not resist, and whispered in a hoarse voice: "Actually, I feel that I am much better."
Jing Xiao glanced at her and retorted mercilessly, "Being better and being fine are two different concepts."
Choking on his words, she pursed her lips, not knowing how to respond, so she simply turned her head and shut her mouth.
Seeing this, Jing Xiao couldn't help but chuckle and continued: "You knocked your leg when you fell. You need to rest for a few days to recover."
His speaking speed was neither urgent nor slow, but enough to hear the worry and distress in it.
Tang Muzhi glanced at him, then quickly looked away and nodded to show that she understood. No wonder she felt severe pain in her leg just now. It turned out to be because of this.
After a long time, she asked in a muffled voice: "When can I go home?"
Jing Xiao stared at her profile and said nothing for a long time.
"I don't like staying here." Tang Muzhi added.
He sighed and said helplessly: "It will take two days at the earliest."
She responded in a low voice and then remained silent, obviously having nothing to say to him.
The ward instantly became quiet, and even their breathing became particularly obvious.
Jing Xiao looked at her evasive eyes and broke the silence, "Are you hungry? Let me buy you something to eat."
Tang Muzhi remained silent, which was regarded as acquiescence.
He nodded slightly and then walked out of the ward.
A few seconds later, the door to the ward was pushed open rudely, without even knocking on the door.
Immediately, Tang Hong, wearing a black coat and an angry look, walked in quickly.
If Mr. Lin hadn't found someone to bail him out, he might not be able to leave the police station right now.
Originally, he was angrily preparing to go back to his old house to settle the score with her, but when he arrived, he heard that she had come to the hospital, so he rushed over and waited for a long time. Finally, after Jing Xiao left, he had the chance to come in.
Tang Muzhi was startled, her heart beating wildly, and she struggled to sit up.
But suddenly, Tang Hong rushed to the bed, grabbed her shoulders, shook her angrily, and shouted: "You just want me to die so much, don't you?"
She already had a splitting headache, and because he was shaking her so hard, she suddenly felt her head swell and hurt unbearably, and she felt a little nauseous.
She didn't have the strength to break away, so she could only frown and glare at him, and growled in a hoarse voice: "You did something wrong, and it has nothing to do with me."
Hearing this, Tang Hong's expression became more ferocious, and the strength of his hands continued to increase. He gritted his teeth and said: "Is it you who reported me? Is it you?"
Tang Muzhi finally understood. It turned out that he was taken away by the police yesterday because someone reported him. It was really his own fault.
She smiled coldly and said sarcastically: "Anyway, you already know it's me, so why bother asking more?"
"You..." Tang Hong was choked and couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time.
He was so angry that he raised his arms, raised his hand, and threw it hard towards her face.
Tang Muzhi closed his eyes and waited for the slap to fall.
However, the slap did not fall on her face, but the sound of the door opening neatly and the sound of rapid footsteps came to her ears.
With a wailing sound, she slowly opened her eyes and saw that Tang Hong had fallen to the ground, his left hand covering his right wrist, with a look of pain on his face.
At this moment, Jing Xiao was really shining in her eyes.
When she was at her most vulnerable, having such a person standing beside her would have touched anyone's heart.
Jing Xiao had just finished telling Shi Qian to go shopping, and saw this scene when he came back.
He stood beside the hospital bed, looked at Tang Hong condescendingly, and said coldly, "How did you get in?"
He had obviously made arrangements, but why could Tang Hong still come out of the police station? Who protected him? Besides, there were people he arranged to guard the hospital entrance, so how did he get in?
"Who are you?" Tang Hong roared at him, and then climbed up from the ground tremblingly, "You don't need to meddle in the affairs between me and her father and daughter. I will teach my own daughter a lesson, and you have nothing to do with it. .”
Jing Xiao ignored his words, but the contempt and disdain in his eyes became more and more obvious.
The moment the air stagnated, Tang Mu Zhi's breathing also stagnated.
The past that she had tried so hard to hide was exposed to the broad daylight. She clutched the quilt tightly with her hands, and her face was frighteningly pale.
Jing Xiao took in all her expressions, opened her thin lips and asked, "Are you injured?"
She stared at him blankly, then shook her head slightly.
Immediately, Jing Xiao looked at Tang Hong again and said indifferently, "As her husband, I will not let anyone hurt her, not even her father."
As soon as his words came out, the other two people were shocked and looked at him with all their eyes.
Tang Hong never expected that the person in front of him was his son-in-law, and that his daughter was actually married.
Tang Muzhi felt like her head was going to explode with pain, her chest was heaving violently, as if she was suffocating, and her whole body felt like she had fallen into an abyss.
She no longer remembers how Tang Hong left the ward, nor did she know what Jing Xiao said to him when he left.
In the silent ward, the air seemed to have become much thinner.
Jing Xiao looked at her with complicated eyes for a while, then suddenly said, "I bought you porridge, do you want some?"
Tang Muzhi lowered her eyes, her long and curled eyelashes covering all the emotions in her eyes, and said slowly: "He left when I was ten years old. After all these years, I don't know where he is or what he has done. , a few days ago, he went to Haicheng to find me, saying that he owed money and wanted to sell grandma's house to pay off the debt."
Her tone was calm, as if she was stating something that had nothing to do with her.
Those past events have always been pressing deep in her heart. Every time she dreamed about them at midnight, she would always be awakened, so that she never dared to sleep soundly at night.
Perhaps, this is what others often call the shadow of childhood.
However, when she said all that, she felt much more relaxed.
Although Jing Xiao already knew these things, the meanings of what came out of her mouth were different after all.
There was a dull pain in his heart, and he felt a little more sorry for her.
Perhaps Tang Muzhi would never know that Tang Hong not only wanted to sell the house, but also wanted to sell her.
Jing Xiao looked at her hands clutching the corners of the quilt and wanted to reach out and hold them, but his hands always stayed half a meter away from her.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" His voice was calm, and no emotion could be heard.
Tang Muzhi twitched the corners of her lips and smiled, her eyes slightly red, and asked, "Why should I tell you earlier?"
Her words made Jing Xiao tighten his eyebrows, and his expression gradually became complicated. After hesitating for a moment, he said: "Don't worry about the rest of the matter, leave it to me."
"No." She refused without thinking, and then added, "The reason why I tell you this is not to ask you to solve trouble for me. I don't want to owe you anything."
"I know." Jing Xiao's eyes were sharp and firm, and his handsome face was covered with a layer of disappointment. "Zhizhi, don't you think that I helped you solve this matter just to make you agree to follow me?" Be together?"
His expression made Tang Muzhi inexplicably panic. She quickly looked away, avoiding eye contact with him, and explained with alienation and politeness in her tone: "I didn't think so, and I also know that you won't do this. .”
Jing Xiao suddenly approached her, and his warm hands finally held her slightly cold hands. There was a hint of pleading in his soft tone, "Just listen to me this time."
Feeling the warmth from his palm, Tang Mu Zhi was stunned for a moment, but was too greedy to break away.
She pursed her lips tightly, with a hint of stubbornness in her eyes. She opened and closed her lips several times, but no words came out.
Tang Muzhi always thought that Jing Xiao would hate her and be angry with her after she told her complicated past, but she never expected that not only would he not be like that, but he would become more determined to stand with her. A little more.
Suddenly, the tip of her nose felt sour, and her heartbeat seemed to have missed a beat. She could even hear her own heartbeat clearly.
Seeing that she was a little dazed, Jing Xiao held her hand and gently rubbed her delicate skin. There was strong emotion in his eyes, "Zhizhi, can you please stop pretending to be so strong?"
She was always so strong in front of him, so much so that he didn't even have a chance to approach her.
Tang Mu Zhi's eyes became wet. When she raised her eyes, she ran into a pair of affectionate eyes. The pupils were as deep as whirlpools, as if they wanted to swallow her soul.
Suddenly, her head felt hot and she jerked her hand away.
"I...I'm a little uncomfortable."
After she finished speaking, she turned sideways and lay on the hospital bed, pretending to rest.
"Do you need me to call the doctor?" Although he knew she did it on purpose, Jing Xiao still asked.
She closed her eyes and said with a hint of urging, "No, you can go out first."
