"Ms. Ji, if you hurt someone for no reason next time, there may be no way for you to enter the ward and accompany Ms. Lin."
A stout middle-aged man in a gray security uniform said as he took out the lunch box from the iron cabinet and put it into the microwave.
"Are you threatening me?" Ji Wanyun raised her eyebrows and gritted her teeth.
"It's not a threat." The middle-aged man turned the knob of the microwave oven. Accompanied by a buzzing sound, warm yellow light shone on his face through the glass panel, "but a message."
"We have no business threatening you. That's what criminals do. We all act according to the rules. I hope you can understand."
"Okay, follow the rules, follow the rules..."
"Buzz-buzz-" The vibration coming from the sweater pocket interrupted her words.
She took out her phone and saw that it was her mother Ji Jin. She clicked on the red phone icon and put the phone on the table.
Taking a deep breath, he nodded helplessly and said, "Okay, I was impulsive today, and I won't do this again in the future."
With her character, how could she give in so easily, but she knew very well that Xiaoxue couldn't be left alone in her current state.
"Okay, since you know you're wrong, let's just sign the guarantee book." The middle-aged man took out a piece of paper, wiped off the oil on his hands, and then pointed two fingers at the wooden table painted with black and red paint.
Guarantee, another guarantee.
These days, she has signed countless notification letters, conversation letters, and commitment letters.
But she had no choice.
As soon as she picked up the pen, the phone on the table vibrated again.
She knew that if she hung up again, she would be afraid of another fatal chain link, so she had no choice but to pick up.
"I heard from Xiao Li that you didn't go to the meeting arranged for you two today?"
"Well, I didn't go."
"Where have you been fooling around again?"
"So, you think if I don't go on a blind date, I'll just go fool around, right?" Ji Wanyun's voice was surprisingly calm, and there was no hint of anger.
"You go to see that short-lived vegetative person every day. What else is it other than fooling around? What benefits can she bring to you? Who are you? Are you going to drag such a burden with you for the rest of your life?"
Listening to Ji Jin's barrage of questions, Ji Wanyun suddenly felt very tired.
"Well, just say yes and hang up."
"Can you hang up and try?" Ji Jin's voice on the other end of the phone seemed a little hysterical.
Ji Wanyun didn't hesitate, hung up directly, and muted her phone.
She picked up the pen and signed the guarantee.
"Signed."
"Well, go ahead. It won't be the same next time. Is there any problem that we can solve properly, right?"
The security guard took out the steaming food, washed the spoon, and mixed the rice and vegetables evenly without looking at Ji Wanyun the whole time.
Ji Wanyun returned to the ward and then turned on her phone.
There are more than a dozen missed calls, 99+ unread WeChat messages, and a text message from the bank.
She ignored other messages and only clicked on the text message sent by the bank.
[Your credit card ending in **** has been frozen. If you have any questions about this, you can call customer service...]
Ji Wanyun couldn't help but laugh. She had never had any new tricks since she was a child except for breaking the card.
It's a pity that I am no longer the cowardly person I used to be who could only do as I was told when my card was cut off.
From the first time her card was cut off, she understood that without financial independence, there was no way to discuss spiritual independence.
She has been secretly preparing her own career since college, and now she no longer has to rely on the resources of her native family.
She didn't take the matter of disconnecting the card to her heart at all, but she had been looking after it all night, and she was inevitably a little tired at the moment.
She held Lin Xixue's hand and prepared to lean on the bed and squint for a while.
In a daze, she seemed to hear Lin Xixue's voice ringing in her ears.
"Leave me alone...live your life..."
She sat up suddenly and looked at the head of the bed, but Lin Xixue was still sleeping deeply without any reaction.
Is this...a hallucination? Am I sleepy?
She took Lin Xixue's hand and put it against her forehead. Her nose was sore and tears poured down her nose involuntarily.
She sniffed and sobbed: "How could I not care about you...How could I not care about you?"
...
Lin Xixue hugged her knees and sank into the endless darkness.
She didn't know how long she had been diving in the darkness when she suddenly saw a spotlight in the distance.
Under the spotlight is a hospital bed.
The girl on the hospital bed had dilated pupils, her hospital gown was covered with electrodes, and a ventilator hose was inserted into her nasal cavity.
There is a girl dozing next to the hospital bed.
However, this dozing girl seems very sad. Maybe I should comfort her?
She swam through the thick darkness and swam behind the girl.
She stretched out her hand to touch this girl who felt extremely kind and familiar to her, but as soon as she stretched out her hand, the blazing spotlight made her feel a burning pain from the depths of her soul.
She didn't know what to say, she didn't know how to comfort her, she couldn't think of anything.
"How about you leave me alone and live a good life in the future."
She didn't know why she said this, and she wasn't even sure if she really knew this girl.
But, she did say it.
However, as soon as she finished speaking, the spotlight suddenly went out.
Ah, destroyed.
Did I say the wrong thing?
There seemed to be a lot of sights around her, but when she tried to look at the seemingly invisible sights, she felt that what she just saw was just her illusion.
In the darkness, there are no eyes, no sight, there is nothing here.
She continued to fall, faster and faster, and then hit the tiles hard.
Hearing her fall, someone suddenly opened the door and broke in, quickly helping her up.
"Xiaoxue, where did you fall? Does it hurt?"
Lin Xixue looked at the speaker blankly.
Ah, isn't this the girl lying next to the hospital bed under the spotlight just now? How did it appear here?
She looked at the room, which was paved with small white tiles up and down, and felt confused.
"Where is this...and who are you?"
"Xiaoxue... didn't you just say you wanted to go to the toilet, and you didn't remember?"
"I...what is the toilet?"
The girl was startled when she heard this, then she covered her nose with her elbow and sniffed a few times.
The girl suppressed the sadness in her heart, took her hand and came to an oval porcelain, and whispered softly: "Xiaoxue, look, this is called a toilet. Look, when you press here, water will come out."
"This is the handle. You have to hold it here when you are on the toilet, otherwise you will fall easily and it will hurt if you fall. Do you know that?"
Lin Xixue looked at the girl in front of her in confusion, not knowing how to react for a moment. She felt that her reason, emotions, and memories seemed to be extremely distant and out of reach.
"And...this, this is called a faucet."
"Look, here, is there water coming out?"
"Twist it to the left for cold water, twist it to the right for hot water..."
Ji Wanyun kept explaining what these things were. She knew that she had to keep talking. She was afraid that if she stopped for a moment, her tears would burst out in an instant.
"This is hand sanitizer. Look, press here. Will the fragrant hand sanitizer come out?"
"Like this, wet your hands first, then...then..."
She couldn't talk anymore, she just hugged Lin Xixue tightly into her arms, crying like rain...
