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    Chapter 20

    “You have to take this medicine every day from now on, remember?”

    After dinner that morning, Jiang Nongyu found Ji Gui and handed him a white pill, saying very seriously.

    Ji Gui was confused and asked, “What is this?”

    Are you prescribing new medicine?He was already taking medicine, but he didn’t expect another one to come soon.There was no expression on his face, he just watched the pills slowly melting away from the residual warmth in his hands.

    Jiang Nongyu said: “It’s the steward’s order, and it’s also the teacher’s wish. You don’t need to know what medicine it is.”

    “Eat quickly.” She rarely urged Ji Gui so urgently, and even stared at him taking the medicine.

    Ji Gui didn’t ask any more questions. Since it was sir’s intention, what else could he ask?

    After taking the medicine, Jiang Nongyu asked him to open his mouth again. After checking carefully, inside and out, she nodded with confidence.

    Before leaving, he did not forget to say: “I will give you medicine every day from now on, so be sure to remember to take it.”

    Ji Gui’s reaction was indifferent. He didn’t even want to know what kind of medicine it was. Soon he was sitting by the window in a daze.The sun is shining brightly in early spring, and even the breeze blowing from time to time has a warm atmosphere.

    But he was as silent as late winter.

    Shang walked out of the bathroom with Xueqiu in his arms. As soon as Xueqiu came out, he couldn’t wait to jump off Shang and ran to the bed.

    “This guy just likes to go to bed.” Shang walked to Ji Gui and complained.

    Looking down, Ji Gui was obviously immersed in his own world. He didn’t know which world he was wandering in without focusing his eyes.He didn’t care and said to himself: “Jiang Nongyu gave me birth control pills.”

    These words made Ji Gui’s eyelashes tremble slightly, as if waking up from a deep dream, he asked: “Is this what you mean, sir?”

    “Otherwise, Yuan Hui will not let you give birth to his child.” Shang’s tone was joking, with a smile on his lips.

    Ji Gui lowered his head and said nothing.

    “Aren’t you going to go out for a walk? The weather is nice today.” Shang persuaded him when he saw this.

    Ji Gui has been like this since yesterday’s incident.His favorite thing to do is to stare out the window without blinking and let his consciousness leave his body.

    It seems that only in this way can we travel to unknown distant places.

    Ji Gui didn’t answer.

    Shang said again: “Can you just accompany me? I feel like we rarely walk together.”

    “Not familiar.” Ji Gui replied with two words.

    Shang almost laughed out of anger: “Really unfamiliar?”

    “You’re so annoying.” Ji Gui frowned and walked directly to the bed to cover himself, making him completely invisible.I believe it won’t be long before I can fall asleep in the gentleness of my bed.

    “Meow—!” Snowball, who was lying on the bed to rest, suddenly stood up and stared at the bulging quilt, trying to scare away the “intruder” with his burning eyes.

    Apparently, the “invaders” didn’t buy it at all.

    It grunted dissatisfiedly, then jumped up and scratched Ji Gui through a quilt.

    Shang picked it up and threw it aside: “Let’s play with it.”

    “Meow!” Snowball immediately exploded.

    The fog on Shang’s face disappeared, and the face was completely exposed to the air and illuminated by the sunlight falling outside the window, shining brightly from a distance.

    He glanced at her.

    Snowball frizzed, howled, and finally walked to the corner and lay down.

    “Ji Gui.”

    No one responded.

    “Agui.”

    Still no one responded.

    “…I really beg you.” Finally, Shang held his forehead and said, “Don’t be like this, okay?”

    “Don’t you want me to die?” Ji Gui’s voice soon came from the quilt.

    The tone was neither salty nor bland, and there seemed to be no emotion or anger, but it was obvious that Ji Gui had fallen into depression again.

    “If that’s the case, just kill me.” Ji Gui added.

    Shang sat down, and the fog returned to his face.No one knows his true appearance, and no one knows the secret behind that face.

    Of course, this is not a good time to discuss secrets.

    Shang said: “That’s the past tense, okay? People’s ideas will always change. No matter when you die, the ending will be the same. It’s better to live in the present. You said that birth is the beginning of death. No matter how hard you struggle, you will eventually lead to death.”

    “Death is the end, yes. But living itself is to see the scenery along the way – even if these scenery are sometimes not beautiful, even ugly and painful. But they are all unique experiences for you, and I don’t want you to die knowing nothing.”

    “So don’t worry, okay? I still want to talk to you more. You can at least stay with me, a lonely old man. I can’t find anyone to talk to after you leave.” Shang sounded aggrieved and looked really sad. He was even wiping non-existent crocodile tears with his sleeves.

    Ji Gui remained silent at first when he heard these words, but after a minute he finally asked: “Is it really true that no one can see it except me?”

    Shang took this opportunity to lift off Ji Gui’s quilt. Ji Gui turned over without any reaction and turned his back to Shang.

    Shang could only sigh and say: “Yes, I’m bored. How can I live without you.”

    Ji Gui suddenly felt a chill and goosebumps appeared on his back. He really didn’t expect Shang to say such things.

    Shang ignored Ji Gui’s feelings and pursued his victory: “Ah Gui, you see how pitiful I am, just stay with me. You are dead.”

    Ji Gui sneered: “You said before that you wanted us to become one, as long as I die.”

    Shang didn’t expect the boomerang to come so quickly. He hurriedly approached Ji Gui with a smile: “Ahem, if you die early or late, you will die. Why not stay and see? No, no, don’t say this word again. You are desensitized by talking and you don’t take it seriously.”

    Ji Gui pulled the quilt over and covered him again, but this time his head was exposed, and Shang could only see the back of his head.

    “So annoying.” Ji Gui spat out two words, his tone sounded like he had chewed these two words in his mouth a thousand times.

    Seeing that Ji Gui was willing to talk, Shang continued: “I’m serious about going for a walk. It will be lifeless all day long, which is not good for your health.”

    “I don’t want to go.”

    Shang ignored it and insisted on nagging in Ji Gui’s ears, talking about something that was not relevant.And he wouldn’t have a dry mouth. Anyway, after an hour, Ji Gui was finally told that he was tired.

    Ji Gui opened his bed and sat up. He stared at Shang coldly and said word by word, “I’ll go to the head office.”

    Shang held his heart in his hands and almost cried with joy (an exaggerated performance). He said, “Your hard work really pays off.”

    Ji Gui didn’t comment. He got out of bed, changed clothes and shoes, then opened the door and left.Shang hurriedly followed up and said, “You have become aloof.”

    Xu Shi came outside, the sun was shining, and the fragrance in the garden was refreshing. Ji Gui unconsciously started talking more.

    “Then you have become funny. I always thought you were the cold and mysterious person.” He said.

    “That’s different.” Shang stretched out his hand to caress the flowers and plants casually and replied, “The first impression when we first met is the most unreliable.”

    “Oh, by the way, do you want to learn how to make garlands? I can, do you want to learn?” Shang and Ji Gui stopped in front of a camellia bush.

    They are blooming without reservation. The large and small flowers overlap in the dark green bushes, like blooming flames, and like sleeping soundly in the sun, blooming quietly and swaying.

    Ji Gui glanced at him and saw Shang gently playing with the flowers, his hair not obscured by the mist reflecting the stars.

    “Okay.” Ji Gui answered unconsciously.

    Ji Gui knelt down, imitating Shang’s gesture, and carefully touched the camellias.

    The petals are thick and soft, with the slight coolness of morning dew. They feel soft and cold to the touch, which is a bit strange.

    “First pick a few branches with soft stems and about the same length.” Shang Zai said.

    His illusory fingers brushed the flower branches, but he picked off a flower forcefully. Fortunately, there was no one near them, otherwise there would have been supernatural incidents.

    Ji Gui chose as he was told, but his fingertips were accidentally pricked by a thin thorn. He frowned slightly but said nothing.

    “Then, like this, bend the first branch into a circle and fix it with its flexibility.” Shang said while demonstrating.

    Ji Gui imitated, and the movements in his hands paused for a while and sped up for a while.

    After a long time, a garland with evenly distributed flowers, although slightly rough, was finally born in Ji Gui’s hands.

    “Bah bang bang,” Shang applauded enthusiastically, “Well, great, great, great, do you want to do another one?”

    The corner of Ji Gui’s mouth twitched and he put the wreath into his hand: “I feel like you are treating me like a child.”

    Shang smiled, put a wreath on Ji Gui and said, “You are just a child, what’s wrong with me coaxing you?”

    “Annoying.” Ji Gui tilted his head, stretched out his hand to rub the wreath on his head, then pulled it off and said, “This doesn’t look good. And can you please don’t look at me like that? Do you think I’m the same as those children?”

    “Sorry.” Shang didn’t know what to say, so he could only apologize.Maybe he doesn’t understand Ji Gui’s thoughts at the moment, even though he may be one of the people who knows Ji Gui best in the world.

    Ji Gui was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and said, “What are you talking about? Forget it, go back.”

    After saying that, he walked in a hurry, as if he was about to rush back to the room in the next second.

    On the way back, Shang asked him if he didn’t like the garland.

    Ji Gui shook his head and didn’t know what to say. He just hated Shang calling him a child.

    It is true that he is young, entering the susceptible period only a month ago, and his age just got out of the single digits not long ago.

    But he doesn’t feel that he has anything to do with the child.

    “Isn’t it good to be a child?” Shang suddenly asked.

    At this time, Shang raised his head and looked into the distance, but unfortunately no one could see his eyes that were obscured by the fog.

    At this moment, what kind of emotions are there in those eyes?

    Ji Gui didn’t know, so he could only answer: “Is there any difference?”

    At this time, they walked to the grassland under Ji Gui’s window, and Ji Gui suddenly remembered someone.

    The person who called himself “Gui”, Ji Gui remembered that he had thrown books to him here.

    But at this moment Ji Gui couldn’t even remember his appearance.

    Ji Gui couldn’t help but stop and look up at his window, as if he could see his past self through the barriers of time and space.

    The dead memories are also revived little by little.

    “I suddenly thought of someone,” he said.

    “Oh.” Shang’s tone was calm for some reason.

    Or maybe he knew who Ji Gui was thinking of, but he never said anything more.

    Time passed little by little until…

    There was a “bang”, and a strong wind blew by beside him. Ji Gui saw a black object falling from the corner of his eye, stirring up a cloud of dust.

    There was a strong wind in his ears, and Ji Gui was sure that if he was a little further away, the thing would hit him directly.

    Ji Gui’s heart was beating so hard that he subconsciously turned around and saw an unforgettable scene.

    On the stone floor not far away, Yao was slumped there in an extremely unnatural posture, like a shabby doll that had been carelessly discarded.

    Her blond hair was messy and spread out, covering part of her face. Dark liquid was slowly flowing under her body, soaking the cold ground silently.

    Ji Gui froze in place, his hands and feet cold.He stared blankly at the once vivid color, but now it was quickly dimming.

    The scenes of getting along with Yao kept playing in his mind.

    Under the fog, Shang’s calm expression had already shown that he knew everything.At this moment, he just said to Ji Gui calmly: “It’s okay, don’t look at it.”

    When Ji Gui woke up from a dream, he took a few steps back like a kite with a broken string, and asked in disbelief: “Is everything okay?”

    The next second, he suddenly raised the volume: “A man fell to death and you were next to him. You said it’s okay? Am I sick?”

    He felt dizzy and felt like vomiting.

    The most essential and pure emotions existing in human nature filled Ji Gui’s heart little by little. No normal person would turn a blind eye to this, not even a child.

    Even if this person doesn’t have a good relationship with him.

    Could it be that he thought wrong?

    A normal person should smile and check whether the person has died. It is best if the person has died. The rest can close the door and celebrate. If conditions permit, they can even blast off firecrackers.Then he poured himself a glass of juice and smiled: “You really deserve it.”

    Before he died, he stepped forward and stabbed him. Before leaving, he kicked him viciously and said, “Who told you to offend me?”

    Just thinking about it made him feel cold.

    Shang grabbed his shoulders and pulled him out of his complicated thoughts: “I said, can you please stop misinterpreting my meaning? Am I that evil?”

    Ji Gui looked at him, with no emotion on his face, and his eyes only showed the fear after the powerful impact.

    “What I mean is don’t look, forget what you just saw. Just pretend it never happened and live a good life.” Shang said.

    The panic in Ji Gui’s eyes gradually faded, but he still didn’t speak. Shang could only lead him back to the room.

    On the way back, countless people ran in that direction, but most of them had strong curiosity on their faces.For them, this matter is just a matter of conversation after dinner.

    When facing new people, let them make a mysterious expression, whisper a strange story in their ears.

    Soon a noisy figure came from behind, looming, and Ji Gui returned to the room in a daze.

    He hurriedly packed up without saying anything and went to sleep.

    As expected, Ji Gui had a nightmare that night.

    It was the familiar darkness again, with countless hands surging in the darkness, making various movements and whispering.

    Sometimes he stroked Ji Gui’s body and said, “How long can you hold on?”

    After saying that, they all laughed softly in unison, crawling like dark cockroaches in the darkness.

    In the darkness, Ji Gui’s mind went blank and he just wanted to end it quickly.

    They would appear in every nightmare, talking nonsense about how they would die and how the world would end.

    Then he dragged Ji Gui crazily, muttering: “Come with us, we are one, don’t be afraid.”

    I can’t get rid of them until dawn, but the whispers in my dream seem to have come to reality.

    When he woke up, he only felt his ears ringing, and vague sounds from the corners around him penetrated into his ears.

    Seeing that Ji Gui was in a bad state, Shang on the side asked: “What’s wrong with you?”

    Ji Gui shook his head and blocked his ears without saying a word.

    He stayed in the room in a state of depression all day, stubbornly blocking his ears no matter what Shang said.

    He didn’t even react when Snowball was held in front of him.

    —————

    And just yesterday, Yuan Hui was sitting on the bed looking down at his phone, even Bai Yi beside him was staring at him intently.

    Bai Yi smoked a cigarette and stared at Yuan Hui without blinking, as if he wanted to pierce Yuan Hui’s body.A sigh from time to time.

    But Yuan Hui regarded him as nothing. Seeing Bai Yi’s mood becoming more and more anxious, and the eyes staring at Yuan Hui becoming more and more angry, Yuan Hui finally spoke: “Smoking less, it is not good for the children.”

    As soon as these words came out, Bai Yi, who was already irritable, was instantly ignited. He never expected Yuan Hui to have such an attitude.

    Time goes back to a while ago.

    When Bai Yi learned that Yao, who had had a close relationship with him and had physical contact with Yuan Hui, committed suicide by jumping off a building, he could not calm down for a long time.

    Then he found Yuan Hui and the first thing he said was: “Do you know someone died?”

    Yuan Hui was unusually calm at that time: “You mean Yao, what’s wrong?”

    “You actually asked me what’s wrong?” Bai Yi laughed angrily, and Yuan Hui’s indifferent look was really disgusting.

    “Don’t mind this matter and take good care of the baby.” Yuan Hui turned away, and every move showed that he didn’t want to talk to him too much.

    Bai Yi really wanted to slap Yuan Hui at that time, but reason overcame his anger. He silently put his clenched fists behind his back and took the initiative to change the subject: “What about Ji Gui? I heard that he seems to be a little sick.”

    He sneered and continued: “What? Is that what you like? Do you have to force people to death to stop?”

    “What problem could he have?” Yuan Hui’s tone was calm, and his slender eyes were cold and indifferent, even in the face of Bai Yi’s anger.

    “What are you pretending to be? I already know that he is taking divine drugs, and you want to say that you don’t know?” Bai Yi looked at him and continued.

    Yuan Hui had no reaction, and the corner of his mouth raised a slight arc: “So what do you want to say? If you don’t take good care of your fetus, why are you here? Is it too idle all day long? Just go out and play when you have free time, go wherever you fall in love, or go back to Bai’s house for a few days. In short, don’t worry about my business.”

    Everyone knows that Bai Yi married Yuan Hui and is a high-ranking person. What does Yuan Hui mean by asking him to go back to the Bai family?

    So Bai Yi was completely irritated. He stood up from the sofa suddenly and mentioned Yao again.

    “Yuan Hui! Do you have any heart at all?!” Bai Yi raised his voice, “Is a human life so light in your eyes? Yao must have some feelings for you after all. Didn’t you even feel sorry for him when he died?!”

    There was no wave in Yuan Hui’s deep eyes, only a hint of impatience at being disturbed.”Regret?” He twitched the corner of his mouth, as if he heard something ridiculous, “His family chose this path for him, what should I regret?”

    Bai Yi was so angry that he was shaking all over: “And Ji Gui! How old is he? Look what he has become now? Psychotropic drugs! What on earth did he go through to need those things? Don’t tell me that this has nothing to do with you!”

    “Bai Yi, do you think I don’t know about your trouble with Ji Gui? Why didn’t you think about how old he was when you made trouble for him? You understand the double standard, right?” Yuan Hui stared at Bai Yi impatiently, a sneer overflowing from his nose.

    Bai Yi was nailed to the spot by his words, and the anger on his face instantly solidified, mixed with a hint of embarrassment.His eyes flickered for a moment, and then he fell into deep silence.

    Yuan Hui laughed when he saw his frustrated look and said, “No matter what, do you think that you are extremely righteous and that you are a compassionate biological mother?”

    Bai Yi’s eyes flashed with dissatisfaction when he heard this, and he retorted: “That’s different…”

    Before he finished speaking, Yuan Hui interrupted: “Bai Yi, don’t pick yourself off so cleanly. You and I are both the same kind of people. We laugh at fifty steps and laugh at a hundred steps, haha.”

    After saying that, Yuan Hui ignored Bai Yi and went to do his own thing, while Bai Yi still sat there with a terrifyingly quiet expression, not knowing what he was thinking.

    Afterwards, Bai Yi lit up a cigarette and stared at Yuan Hui, angry and unwilling to rush forward.

    After a long time, the opening scene appeared.

    “Smoking less is not good for children.”

    Bai Yi deliberately took a puff of smoke, pretended to caress his slightly bulging belly, and said with a smile: “Can you control what’s in my belly?”

    Yuan Hui was not angry and even smiled slightly, as if he were looking at an ignorant child.

    At this moment, Bai Yi felt the hairs on his hair stand on end, but he couldn’t keep his face and surrendered, so he looked at Yuan Hui more provocatively.

    “I never realized you were so stupid before.” He smiled and shook his head, looking quite helpless.

    Then he stood up unhurriedly and came to Bai Yi. Bai Yi didn’t know what he was going to do, but he wanted to retreat, but he didn’t know how to speak.

    Just as Bai Yi was struggling, a heavy slap fell instantly, and a crisp sound echoed in the room.After a while, an obvious slap mark appeared on his face.

    After reacting, Bai Yi covered his face in disbelief. He had only been beaten by his mother in his whole life.He never even dreamed that he would be beaten by his lifelong husband.

    “I…” He seemed to want to say something but was quickly stopped by tears.

    Bai Yi cried, and cried hard.

    Yuan Hui did not expect that a slap would have such an effective effect.

    “Don’t cry, don’t cry, it’s my fault.” Seeing this, Yuan Hui stepped forward and took Bai Yi’s hand, his attitude changed and his tone was gentle, “I shouldn’t hit you, I’m just too angry.”

    Bai Yi couldn’t hear this. He kept struggling and trying to get rid of Yuan Hui: “I only said after the beating that I shouldn’t be beaten. Are you sick?!”

    Yuan Hui directly held Bai Yi down and kissed him directly.

    ————

    “Leave me alone, I don’t want to talk.”

    Ji Gui on the other side was still huddled on the bed and covering his ears, extremely resistant to Shang’s concern.

    Shang stood aside and stopped approaching. The room was eerily silent for a moment.A gust of wind rolled up the curtains, and Shang turned to look out the window and sighed: “Then I’ll go out.”

    Ji Gui still had no reaction.

    Shang came outside alone. He walked through the wall, through the flowers, through the fence, and came outside.

    And there was a person outside the wall who stopped and looked up at the high wall. That person was Gui.

    “What are you looking at? You can’t save the world by being so leisurely.” Shang stepped forward and the fog dissipated from his face, showing him a nasty smile.

    Banxia novel, a lot of fun

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