"Sister Xi, you seem to be very familiar with her?"

Jiang Qiao smiled and glanced at the dazzling array of snacks such as fruits and cakes on the table, thinking that this is not going to do wholesale?

Cheng Ruoxi opened the steaming rice and scooped out a large mouthful of tomato brisket and put it into his mouth, blinking the stars in satisfaction.

"Well... it's not, either. I just met this sister." Cheng Ruoxi said with his head tilted.

"Then why does she treat you so well? These fruit snacks are super-grade, but they are not cheap." Jiang Qiao rubbed his chin.

"Sister said that this is a hard work fee after cooperating with the investigation. She also said that she wanted to make friends with me... Don't say it, we can chat quite well." Cheng Ruoxi said.

Jiang Qiao picked up an apple and nibbled it. The taste was really top-notch:

"Make friends... I'm afraid you'll be sold by others and counting money for others."

Cheng Ruoxi narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Hehe, aren't you still staring at me... How about it, does it taste very good? You can take them all home to eat later."

"I don't want it, it's all for you."

"I can eat so much, I'll waste it when I'm leaving it here."

Jiang Qiao couldn't persuade her, so he nodded and agreed.

In this ward, there was no one except a young woman playing with her cell phone. She was far apart from Cheng Ruoxi.

Cheng Ruoxi was a little bored, so he turned on the TV in the room and started watching.

Jiang Qiao was writing the test paper aside.

"Jiangqiao, you missed a decimal point in the third question, look." Cheng Ruoxi's slender fingers reached in front of Jiangqiao and clicked on his test paper.

"Decimal point..." Jiang Qiao analyzed the question again and found an error: "It's true."

"Look." Cheng Ruoxi was a little proud.

"Sister Xi is still very good." Jiang Qiao praised.

"That's it," Cheng Ruoxi's eyes narrowed into a slit. The flattery made her feel very comfortable, but she soon became disappointed again, "but she still can't catch up with this time."

Jiang Qiao comforted, "Where did it come from? The doctor said you recovered very quickly and you might be discharged from the hospital in another month."

"But the first model is less than a month left." Cheng Ruoxi said depressedly.

Jiangqiao was speechless for a while.

She continued, "Jiangqiao, am I very stupid? I can fall while walking, and I even fell into the hospital. Will I be laughed at to death..."

"Who dares to laugh at you? Let him come to me and see if I don't teach him a lesson." Jiang Qiao looked like "I want to beat ten".

Cheng Ruoxi smiled: "What are you doing, you are still so childish."

As soon as this happened, her mood suddenly improved a lot.

At some point, language is perhaps the best firewood in winter evenings, which heals the cold of the spirit.

Cheng Ruoxi continued to watch cartoons happily, while Jiang Qiao was dedicated to it, thinking in her mind whether she could use the digestive magic to help Cheng Ruoxi recover better.

At this time, his ears moved.

After being nourished by elements, his five senses were enhanced to a certain extent.

He heard a burst of rapid footsteps, getting closer and closer to this place.

These are two different footsteps, one comes from sharp high heels and the other is steady leather shoes, but their destinations are the same.

The sound of "thumping" footsteps echoed throughout the corridor, and even Cheng Ruoxi stopped and waited for something, as if he had a premonition.

The footsteps came to an abrupt end.

"Is that true?"

"The nurse said yes."

Jiang Qiao heard a low voice.

Immediately afterwards, high heels and leather shoes entered the ward. It was a middle-aged couple. The man wore glasses and a black coat, and the woman wore a brown coat and a scarf. The two looked tired.

"Xiaoxi..." The woman locked Cheng Ruoxi on the hospital bed at first sight. Her eyes were red and her slightly white lips moved slightly. She rushed to the hospital bed and hugged Cheng Ruoxi tightly in her arms.

"Mom, please let go first..." Cheng Ruoxi said.

"Good daughter, how could mom let you go..."

"It hurts and it hurts--" Cheng Ruoxi frowned and screamed.

The middle-aged woman immediately let go of her hands and stood at a loss: "Xiaoxi, did mom love you?"

"You're knocking my tailbone." Cheng Ruoxi complained while adjusting his posture.

"Xiaoxi, do you feel uncomfortable and tell your mother that she will find the best doctor for you..." The middle-aged woman said with a heartache.

"No, I'm fine... Besides, will I tell you useful?" Cheng Ruoxi turned his face aside, with a little resentment.

Jiang Qiao looked at this scene, quietly retreated aside, exchanged glances with the man who was also standing, and walked out of the ward.

......

It was almost ten o'clock, and the rain stopped.

Jiangqiao got off the subway and walked on the way home.

He was crying coldly while recalling what had just happened.

He was very familiar with the couple. They were Cheng Ruoxi's parents, but after living for nearly twenty years, they met only a handful of times.

From childhood to adulthood, they spent most of their time in Grandma Cheng Ruoxi’s chanting.

It is said that they are very busy, and both of them are experts in the archaeological team, either at the archaeological site or on a plane to the archaeological site.

I am in Sanxingdui in the morning, maybe I am in Mawangdui in the evening, and sometimes I will fly abroad.

So, they didn't even see Grandma Cheng Ruoxi's last side.

As disappointment continues to accumulate, Cheng Ruoxi no longer has expectations.

Who would have expected that they would come back tonight.

Jiang Qiao vaguely remembered that the last time they came back seemed to be more than a year ago.

As the dark clouds gradually faded, the tail of the bright moon was revealed in the sky.

Following the traces of the moonlight, Jiangqiao walked to the edge of an open space.

There are a lot of weeds on the open space, and there are several thick cement pipes placed against the wall. In front of the cement pipe is a simple swing made of large tires.

When I was a child, Jiang Qiao, Cheng Ruoxi, and some children often came over to play, and they played for the whole afternoon.

Until the smoke from the cooking stove in the alley choked and coughed, until the night called the earth and the mother called the children who returned home, the children would wipe the mud on their hands and run home like flying, and then be scolded by their respective mothers.

Only Jiang Qiao and Cheng Ruoxi knew how to go home by themselves because their grandmother had inconvenient legs and feet.

Later, the children living in the alley grew up, and they either moved away or were disdainful of playing children's tricks anymore, and the open space gradually became abandoned.

Only Jiang Qiao knew that every time she couldn't find Cheng Ruoxi, she would definitely sit on the swing here and sway until night.

Jiang Qiao had already sat on the swing at some point, and the remaining rain made his butt feel cold. Only then did he understand the mood of Cheng Ruoxi several years ago.

The moon is so beautiful, but it is really lonely.

He patted his wet butt and walked home.

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Chapter completed!