Cappuccino Rhapsody

Jiang Rong was watering the flowers when Ling Jiangyuan arrived.The room she lived in in the nursing home was a relatively large single room, with a living room and a kitchen, and almost everything.There is a small yard outside the living room, which is full of flowers, which Jiang Rong planted by herself.

Sometimes Jiang Rong's mood is normal, so she will water and loosen the soil.

It looks quite old and quiet.But that wasn't the case more than a year ago.

For nearly a year before Ling Jiangyuan came back, Jiang Rong lived in the worst room in the nursing home, sharing a single room of no more than [-] square meters with three other people, with nothing but a bed and a bathroom.Not to mention that it was only a year, even if it was more than a year, that man never came to see Jiang Rong.

Ling Jiangyuan sometimes wonders what Jiang Rong did her best when she was young.

But he thought maybe he'd never have an answer.

Ling Jiangyuan entered the room and called her: "Mom, I brought a friend to see you."

Jiang Rong was stunned for a moment, then turned around to look at Ling Jiangyuan in surprise, rushed up to hug Ling Jiangyuan, and said, "Jiang Yuan, Mom misses you so much."

Ling Jiangyuan patted her on the back lightly as if comforting.

Jiang Rong was about to cry, and she really cried, crying, "Why did you come to see your mother now, why haven't you contacted her for so many years? You didn't reply to my mother's letters and calls. "

Jiang Rong had forgotten that he had visited her once a week for more than a year.Ling Jiangyuan sighed silently, comforting Jiang Rong's emotions, and let her sit down on the sofa.

Ling Jiangyuan poured Qi Xu a glass of water and said, "Mom, this is my friend."

Jiang Rong turned her head to look at Qi Xu, she didn't feel familiar with Qi Xu at all, she just smiled generously: "Hello, thank you for taking care of our little Yuan."

"Hello, Auntie." Qi Xu nodded slightly, "We are free today, and we came here to accompany you for lunch."

"Really?" Jiang Rong looked at Ling Jiangyuan in surprise.

Ling Jiangyuan nodded slightly, and she got up and started to cook a good meal: "Xiaoyuan likes to eat my meatballs the most, so I'll prepare them right away."

"Mom," Ling Jiangyuan grabbed Jiang Rong, "You sit and rest for a while, I'll do it. Let Qi Xu chat with you."

Ling Jiangyuan turned his head to see Qi Xu's expression, and the other party was winking at him.Ling Jiangyuan shook his head slightly at him, and carried the ingredients that the two had bought in advance into the kitchen.

Qi Xu sat awkwardly in the living room, but Jiang Rong took the initiative to ask, "How did you meet Xiao Yuan? Was he a friend when he was a Ph.D. student?"

Qi Xu shook his head: "No, I used to form a band with him."

The expression on Jiang Rong's face changed slightly: "Band?"

"En." Qi Xu nodded slightly.

"What's your name?" Jiang Rong seemed to have thought of something, her face was slightly gloomy, her eyes seemed to change suddenly when she looked at Qi Xu, there was a kind of tranquility before the storm.

Even at this moment, Qi Xu still didn't realize what this meant, but answered honestly: "Qi Xu."

"Qi Xu...Qi Xu..." Jiang Rong seemed to be thinking about something carefully. Suddenly, her eyeballs trembled, she stood up suddenly, and called Ling Jiangyuan's name loudly, "Ling Jiangyuan!" A different person.

Ling Jiangyuan wiped the water off his hands on a towel, stood up and asked, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Rong looked at him sullenly, and asked, "What's his relationship with you?"

Qi Xu also froze for a moment, then raised his head and met Ling Jiangyuan's eyes. To be honest, he was also looking forward to what kind of answer Ling Jiangyuan would give—even he had already given Ling Jiangyuan the death penalty in his heart, he might say "only friends".

This is Ling Jiangyuan's usual urine.

Ling Jiangyuan was silent for a long time, and when Qi Xu was about to open his mouth to make a rescue, Ling Jiangyuan suddenly pursed his lips, let out a foul breath, and said, "He is my boyfriend."

"Mom, calm down—"

Ling Jiangyuan didn't have time to finish his words.

Jiang Rong suddenly squatted down, covered her ears with her hands and screamed crazily. The voice was so sharp that it easily pierced people's eardrums. Qi Xu took a step back and looked at Ling Jiangyuan: "What's wrong?"

Ling Jiangyuan rushed forward and tried to hug Jiang Rong: "Mom, calm down...he and I..."

"you shut up!"

With a sound of "pa--", he slapped Ling Jiangyuan's right face directly, and a clear palm print appeared.Ling Jiangyuan froze there immediately, but Qi Xu seemed to be woken up suddenly by the sound, and rushed forward to protect Ling Jiangyuan.

Jiang Rong punched and kicked and scolded: "Ling Jiangyuan, you are shameless, you white-eyed wolf, how much I gave up for you! I will be a mistress in the eyes of others, and I will go to his side. Why don't you live up to it? One point, what kind of music are you going to do, what kind of music school are you studying, have you ever thought about me?! You only have yourself in your heart, you are too selfish!!"

"Mom—" Ling Jiangyuan wanted to break away from Qi Xu's hand to hug Jiang Rong, but Qi Xu blocked him firmly behind him, and Jiang Rong's punches and kicks fell on Qi Xu's body.

"Qi Xu, don't stop me!" Ling Jiangyuan also shouted.

Qi Xu just kept a sullen face and didn't move, allowing Jiang Rong to beat and scold him.

Until Jiang Rong suddenly rushed to the side coffee table to get the fruit knife for peeling apples, everything happened so fast that no one had time to react. It was scratched on the forearm, and blood gushed out all of a sudden.

With a pale face, Ling Jiangyuan finally roared loudly: "What the hell are you trying to do! Are you crazy!"

Jiang Rong suddenly squatted down, looked at Ling Jiangyuan in embarrassment, and repeated over and over again: "Xiaoyuan, don't blame mom, mom just loves you too much, mom is sorry... Mom will take you to buy ice cream, okay? Your favorite ice cream, my mother has saved money for a long time..."

Ling Jiangyuan sat down weakly, covered his face with his hands, and let Qi Xu hold his head tightly.

Jiang Rong's voice was still repeating: "Don't you love that ice cream the most, it tastes like chocolate, mom still remembers..."

"Mom." Ling Jiangyuan said in a muffled voice, "That was already... when I was seven years old."

Qi Xu's wound was not too deep, and he was simply bandaged in the nursing home.

Jiang Rong's mood was high and low at times, and finally she was given a tranquilizer by Li's nurse in the nursing home before she stabilized and fell into a deep sleep.

There was a very strong smell of blood in the room, Ling Jiangyuan's eyes were red, he looked at the bandaged white hair on Qi Xu's arm in a daze, and he didn't wake up to thank him until the nurse said "It's all right".

The nurse sighed, and said, "Mr. Ling, your mother's condition is very unstable. Bringing friends over... don't use it to provoke her in the future."

Ling Jiangyuan lowered his eyes and said nothing.

"Does it have something to do with you?" Qi Xu raised his head and looked at the nurse fiercely.

The little nurse gave him a blank look, and muttered in a low voice: "I'm doing it for your own good too." She said that and went out the door.

Qi Xu touched the wound, took a "hissy" breath, turned his head to see that Ling Jiangyuan was still in a daze, then got up and hugged him, rubbed his head, and said, "I'm fine, don't worry."

Ling Jiangyuan turned her head and hugged his waist, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault, why are you apologizing." Qi Xu rubbed his head rudely, "If you really feel sorry, why not apologize in other ways."

"What?" Ling Jiangyuan looked at him in confusion.

Qi Xu stroked his lips with his fingertips, raising his eyebrows slightly.

Ling Jiangyuan's earlobe turned red all of a sudden: "...It seems that you really don't feel pain anymore."

"It really doesn't hurt much." Qi Xu said, "It's just a small wound."

Before leaving, Ling Jiangyuan asked Qi Xu to wait outside, and went in to take a look at Jiang Rong.Jiang Rong slept soundly, but she still frowned in her dream, not knowing what kind of dream she had.

Ling Jiangyuan gently touched his mother's forehead, sighed, and exited the room.

The two stood at the door for a while before Ling Jiangyuan reached out and tried to close the door.

"Why don't you go in and have a look?"

The voice that suddenly broke into his ears made Ling Jiangyuan stiffen all over, and Qi Xu noticed the sudden alertness in the other party, so he couldn't help feeling strange.

In Qi Xu's impression, Ling Jiangyuan rarely had such high emotional ups and downs.

He couldn't help turning his head to look, and saw a pale man sitting in a wheelchair a few meters away, coughing softly with one hand covering his lips, looking at Ling Jiangyuan motionlessly, his eyes were cloudy , like a snake hiding in a dark corner.

Qi Xu couldn't help frowning: "You are?"

"You are Qi Xu." The man smiled, "Hello, my name is Ling Ziyuan, and I am his younger brother."

"—Let's go." Ling Jiangyuan held Qi Xu's palm and dragged him to the other side involuntarily, without even saying a word to the man named Ling Ziyuan.

Although Qi Xu was surprised, he didn't ask too much.

But I still heard Ling Ziyuan's voice behind me: "Brother, I also live here now, and you didn't come to see me by the way, I'm so sad."

"Brother, no matter what, we are in the same boat now, so you don't want to see me?"

"—Brother, you have a new brother again. Is it funny?"

Ling Jiangyuan held Qi Xu's hand so hard that Qi Xu couldn't help but struggle.

He frowned, turned around and saw Ling Jiangyuan's extremely pale expression, raised his hand, put it on Ling Jiangyuan's shoulder, and gently squeezed his shoulder as if to comfort him.

Ling Jiangyuan said: "Let's go quickly."

Qi Xu nodded lightly: "Okay."

They quickly disappeared around the corner, freed at last from the sullen, incessant sound.And the cold feeling of being wrapped around the ankle by the snake all the time finally disappeared.

Ling Jiangyuan seemed to be very afraid of that man named Ling Ziyuan, Qi Xu thought to himself.