At half past three in the night, Dong Qiangqiang was woken up by the cold.
There were three beds in the room. Lao Bai slept closest to the door, with Lei Lan Pavilion in the middle, while Dong Qiangqiang's bed was close to the balcony.
The room was very quiet. Apart from Lao Bai's snoring, Dong Qiangqiang could also hear the howling north wind outside the window and the intermittent rumble of the train coming from further away.
In order to save costs (and make more money), at Lao Bai's suggestion, Dong Qiangqiang and the others chose to stay in this ancient hotel. It is said that the history of the hotel can even be traced back to the Italian Renaissance. Most importantly, the rent is very cheap.
But everything has its pros and cons. Cheap room rates usually mean that the quality of the room is difficult to guarantee. And old houses, like the arms, legs and feet of older people, will always have various problems.
Although the heater in the room was still quite hot, Dong Qiangqiang tried his best to wrap up the quilt tightly, but due to his height, the hotel quilt covered his feet but could not cover his shoulders, which was really insufficient. He wanted to ask for more quilts or blankets, but the hotel was not rich yet.
The cold wind sneaked into the house unbridled along the gaps around the balcony door and window, and the wind that leaked in from the lower part of the window blew unbiasedly on his face. He huddled under the quilt, wondering whether to use a bath towel or bathrobe to block the cracks in the window, but he didn't have the courage to get out of the warm quilt, so he could only sigh in his heart and turned over depressedly.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned around, he saw Lei Lanting sitting on the bedside, staring straight at his face.
No matter how courageous Dong Qiangqiang was, he was frightened by Lei Lanting's move. He couldn't help but cursed in a low voice: "Are you sick? I almost scared you to death!"
Seeing Dong Qiangqiang suddenly turning around and talking, Lei Lanting didn't seem too surprised. He suddenly wiped the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand, stood up quietly without saying a word, and walked towards the bathroom barefoot without wearing slippers.
Dong Qiangqiang was confused by Lei Lanting's abnormal behavior. He didn't know why Lei Lanting was so crazy, and he didn't want to get rid of it. He was also worried that something was wrong with him, so he could only put on his coat angrily and entered the bathroom in two steps.
"Why don't you sleep?" Dong Qiangqiang, who had just entered the bathroom, deliberately lowered his voice because he was worried about the sound insulation of the bathroom. Unexpectedly, what he saw was Lei Lanting's red eyes, as if he had just cried.
"Old Dong, I..." Lei Lanting lowered his head and stood beside the sink helplessly, like a child who had done something wrong, "I...are afraid..."
Dong Qiangqiang had never seen Lei Lanting like this before. He couldn't figure out what else Lei Lanting might be afraid of if he wasn't afraid of dropping out of school, fighting with foreigners, and even less afraid of wild boars. At least he couldn't think of it when he woke up from the cold at midnight. But looking at Lei Lanting's coquettish look, Dong Qiangqiang suddenly felt an inexplicable chill on his back: Afraid of the dark? Afraid of the cold? Does this grandson want to confess his love to me after staying up most of the night? Isn't he a straight man who likes Lele?
"There's no money in Lao Zheng's bag, it's just some..." Dong Qiangqiang wanted to use the things Lao Zheng bought to change the topic, but the words still didn't come out, "It's a private bad taste that can't be put on the table. You Go to sleep quickly." After saying that, he was about to open the door and go out.
"It's not his business," Lei Lanting raised his head and looked at Dong Qiangqiang's back, "It's me... something happened."
Dong Qiangqiang's hand that was about to open the door stopped on the doorknob. He turned around and looked at Lei Lanting: "I'm really sleepy. Can you tell me something?"
Lei Lanting said nothing and handed the plastic bottle on the sink to Dong Qiangqiang.
"What is this?" Dong Qiangqiang recognized that it was the bottle he put on the sink last night, but he didn't look carefully last night. Only now did he see the word "PEPHIV" printed on the bottle, and he was suspicious. , put the bottle back on the sink, "What's going on? Are you sick?"
"I, I don't know either..." Lei Lanting's voice was barely audible, "Last night... I... I also followed them in."
Dong Qiangqiang was stunned for two seconds before he understood what Lei Lanting meant. Although he didn't understand Lei Lanting's actions and even had a bit of contempt for him, he didn't want to make any comments about him at this time, so he could only deal with it with a "hmm" as an answer.
Seeing that Dong Qiangqiang was noncommittal, Lei Lanting took out a cigarette and tried to light it, but his hands couldn't suppress the trembling. The lighter's flame went out again and again, and it took several times to finally light it.
"Let's talk about it tomorrow if we have anything to do." Dong Qiangqiang didn't want to discuss this topic in depth with Lei Lanting, not to mention that he was really sleepy now.
"I don't know... what I was thinking at the time." The smoke made Lei Lanting look much calmer. "I didn't take any protective measures, you know? Any. As soon as I walked out of it, I regretted it... I panicked. My mind went blank. I wanted to run out and ask you what to do, but then I saw you and Lao Bai..."
Dong Qiangqiang now understood completely: Lei Lanting was worried about contracting AIDS. He raised the medicine bottle again: "What is this?"
"AIDS blocking medicine." Lei Lanting looked horrified, "I read on the Internet that you should take it as soon as possible to protect yourself, but I'm still afraid after taking it, old Dong, if this medicine doesn't work... what do you mean? What should I do? I'm still so young, I don't want to be ruined like this..." Lei Lanting covered his face with his hands and squatted on the ground sobbing.
Seeing Lei Lanting's unsatisfactory look, Dong Qiangqiang wanted to scold him, "If I had known this, why would I do it in the first place?" But hindsight was of no help. He thought for a while and asked, "Then what are you going to do now?"
"After eating this stuff, my head hurts, breathing hurts, I want to sleep but don't dare to sleep, and I can see stars of various colors flying in front of my eyes. I don't even know that I have been tricked. It was brought by taking medicine. I... I want to go back to Germany right away and have a good check-up." Lei Lanting raised his face, wiped his nose and cried, "Only in this way can I feel completely at ease."
Dong Qiangqiang didn’t understand the pathology of AIDS: “Are you sure you can find out if you go back now?”
"I don't know either, but now I don't know what the right thing to do is." Lei Lanting sobbed and punched the tiles on the sink, "I had no idea I would do such a stupid thing. ah……"
"How do you go back?"
"Take the nearest train (go back)." Lei Lanting said firmly.
"If you go back now, what will happen to this group?" Dong Qiangqiang asked, "I can't drive two cars at the same time."
"I asked Lao Bai when I came back just now. He has a driver's license and can drive." Lei Lanting wiped away the tears flowing to his mouth, "I know that leaving now means giving up the job, and I feel sorry for you, but... ...I'm really scared. I'm the only child among my parents." The corners of his mouth twitched, "I absolutely can't let anything happen to me."
Dong Qiangqiang felt that Lei Lanting might break down at any time if he kept talking, so he had no choice but to follow him and say: "Then I will take you to the train station."
"I can just take a taxi myself, and I'll leave the rest to you!" Seeing Dong Qiangqiang agree, Lei Lanting hurriedly stood up from the ground, tremblingly bowed to Dong Qiangqiang, then picked up the medicine bottle and suddenly opened the bathroom door. , hurriedly put on his clothes, and ran out of the room in a panic.
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