Cheng Jingmo came to the hospital after get off work in the afternoon. When he opened the ward door, he was greeted by the smell of food.
Yu Xiangnian was sitting beside the hospital bed feeding Xiaojie.
Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, Xiaojie turned his head and said, "Uncle, you are here."
Yu Xiangnian didn't even turn his face.
Yu Xiangnian didn't give him a straight look in the past two days, and he was helpless.
Cheng Jingmo walked in and saw Xiaojie eating boiled fish, with a thin layer of oil floating on the milky white fish soup.
There were two lunch boxes on a small table next to the hospital bed. One lunch box contained boiled fish, and the other contained green pepper beef and braised beans.
No wonder it smells so good. At first glance, this food doesn't come from a hospital cafeteria.
Although Yu Xiangnian ignored him, Cheng Jingmo still walked up to her and stretched out his hand, "I'll feed you. You eat first."
Yu Xiangnian put the bowl into his hand, got up and went to eat.
"Uncle, have you eaten?" Xiaojie asked.
Cheng Jingmo was silent for a moment, "Not yet."
He hurried over after work, intending to grab some food from the hospital cafeteria for the three of them to eat together.
Who knows that Yu Xiangnian has already bought it, or whether he has bought it.
Yu Xiangnian pretended not to hear and raised her lunch box to eat. She deliberately didn't buy Cheng Jingmo's share.
But the food in the state-owned canteen was very generous, and although she only bought it for herself and Xiaojie, they couldn't finish it.
She was eating out of her lunch box now. Even if she couldn't finish the meal, Cheng Jingmo couldn't finish it either.
Xiaojie looked at Yu Xiangnian and then at Cheng Jingmo, vaguely aware that the two might have quarreled.
From the moment he walked in until now, his aunt had not even glanced at his uncle.
The two of them were obviously fine before he was hospitalized, but this was the case when he woke up.
He was worried that the two of them would quarrel because of him.
After Xiaojie finished eating, Yu Xiangnian was also full.
She didn't eat much, only a third of a large lunch box.
She packed up and prepared to wash the dishes.
Cheng Jingmo walked over, his mouth slightly lowered, "Yu Xiangnian, I haven't eaten yet."
Yu Xiangnian really didn't plan to feed him.
Yu Xiang replied with two words without raising a thought, "Canteen."
"There are so many more, I can just eat these."
"This is what I had left."
"Don't waste it." Cheng Jingmo didn't dislike her.
Yu Xiangnian stopped what he was doing, crossed Cheng Jingmo and walked to Xiaojie, "I'm going back. I need to see the doctor if I need anything."
Although she and Cheng Jingmo didn't speak, they reached a tacit understanding that Yu Xiangnian would take care of Xiaojie during the day and Cheng Jingmo would take care of him at night.
"Auntie, please go slower on the road."
"Well, see you tomorrow."
When Yu Xiangnian walked out, Cheng Jingmo followed him.
In the corridor, Cheng Jingmo took Yu Xiangnian's wrist and said, "Yu Xiangnian, my tone of voice was not good that day. I apologize. Let's talk."
Yu Xiangnian then glanced at him and said, "This is the hospital. If you have any questions, we can talk about it after Xiaojie is discharged from the hospital."
Cheng Jingmo replied: "Okay." But he held on to his hand.
After a while, he said embarrassedly, "Yu Xiangnian, let's make peace."
The past two days with Yu Xiangnian made Cheng Jingmo seem to be living the same life again.
But he felt too much of Xiang Nian's tenderness and enthusiasm, and the past two days made him feel even more tortured.
Yu Xiangnian said calmly: "During this period, you and I should think carefully and calmly, think about what you want to say and ask, and how you plan to deal with the relationship between the two of us. talk."
After a pause, he said, "Also, you are responsible for Xiaojie's breakfast, and I will take care of lunch and dinner. You can take over after dinner."
Cheng Jingmo heard the implication of Yu Xiangnian's words. They both had their own food and no one cared about the other.
He had mixed feelings in his heart, including sourness, bitterness, and loss.
In this relationship, Yu Xiangnian always has the initiative.
She could be warm and gentle to him, making him mistakenly think that Yu Xiangnian cared about him very much.
But she can also withdraw at any time without any nostalgia, leaving him alone in this feeling.
Cheng Jingmo let go and said, "Okay, please go slower on the road."
Yu Xiangnian turned and left.
In fact, her mind has been very confused these past two days and she needs to think carefully.
Although she took the initiative in their relationship, she did not allow Cheng Jingmo to doubt her or question her!
At the same time, she understood Cheng Jingmo's doubts and questions about her.
It would be difficult for anyone to accept this situation for a while, let alone a professional like Cheng Jingmo, so there is nothing wrong with doubting her.
Even her brother Yu Xiangyang suspected and questioned her.
Maybe Cheng Jingmo was special to her, so she was so angry when Cheng Jingmo doubted her.
Furthermore, she couldn't guarantee that no one else would know about it in the future. If someone with ulterior motives used this matter to make a fuss, Cheng Jingmo would definitely be implicated.
She gave Cheng Jingmo time to think clearly whether he should continue this relationship, and he could choose to stop the loss in time.
Cheng Jingmo returned to the ward and ate most of the food left in Yu Xiangnian's lunch box, and also ate all the fish and fish soup that Xiaojie had not finished.
After washing up at night, I wiped Xiaojie's body, turned off the light and got ready to go to bed.
Xiaojie was lying on the hospital bed and asked, "Uncle, did you quarrel with my aunt because of me?"
Cheng Jingmo slept on the folding wire bed he brought from home. "It has nothing to do with you. It was me and her who had some conflicts."
"Didn't you tell me that men should take care of women and not argue with them?"
In the past, her aunt always quarreled with her uncle, but his uncle always tolerated it and gave in to his aunt, and taught him this way.
Cheng Jingmo said: "I didn't control my emotions well and made her angry."
He had been reflecting on this for the past two days. Even if he suspected Yu Xiangnian, he should not speak to her in a judgmental tone.
Xiaojie said: "Then if you apologize to her, she won't be angry."
It's the same thing every time he does something wrong.
Cheng Jingmo replied: "Okay, she said it would take a few days to forgive me."
Xiaojie felt relieved and spoke in a more relaxed tone, "Actually, my aunt's memory is very bad. She will forget it in a few days."
Cheng Jingmo: "Huh?"
Xiaojie said: "She just told me a few days ago that Yu Old Man moved the mountain and his descendants would be able to dig it open. Today she forgot about it. She said Yu Old Man's mountain would definitely not be dug."
Cheng Jingmo asked: "Why can't it be dug?"
Xiaojie replied: "My aunt said that he is busy digging mountains all day long, how can he have time to find a partner?"
Cheng Jingmo: "..." Yu Xiangnian should stop telling stories from now on!
Although it never snows in Nancheng, the roadside is still covered with a thick layer of white frost every morning.
Yu Xiangnian came to the hospital every morning with his hands covered tightly, and rushed home before dark at night.
Fast forward more than half a month, and Xiaojie recovered and was discharged from the hospital. It was already mid-December.
Except for meeting each other every morning and evening and exchanging one or two insignificant words, Yu Xiangnian and Cheng Jingmo did not have any unnecessary communication.
Those scenes of hugging each other and kissing each other inseparably seemed like a long-ago dream.
