Dear Chen Jiu

After I took over the task, I held the dictionary and started to look it up. In fact, these words are indeed a bit obscure to laymen, and the translation is also scattered.

With Chen Jiu's level, I don't need my help to translate at all.

I suddenly felt like a dismissed outsider.

But after thinking about it, he didn't drive me away, but asked me to sit here and help him translate these materials, which made me very touched.

So I patiently translated, as if I were learning architectural vocabulary.

After all, I am always interested in things related to Chen Jiu.

But I overlooked one point, I am really not interested in learning this matter.

After about a few paragraphs, my eyelids couldn't hold it anymore.

It is strange to say that my sleep quality has been very bad in the past few years, and insomnia and nightmares have almost become the norm, but after meeting Chen Jiu a few times, my sleep quality has miraculously soared.

I yawned, my chin resting on the thick dictionary, "Chen Jiu, it's 2 o'clock in the morning."

"Ah."

He answered without looking up.

This person has always been serious in his work. I used to accompany him to draw sketches and oil paintings, but now I accompany him to draw design drawings.

Anyway, staying up late to catch up with work seems to be the norm for him.

In a trance, time seems to have really returned to the past.

I glanced at his computer again, and there was a floor plan of the building on it.

I got up helplessly, took out two bottles of black coffee from the carry-on suitcase beside me, and pushed one of them to his eyes.

I can advise him not to stay up all night and go to bed early.

But no one can do these tasks for him, and when Chen Jiu is concentrating on his work, it is the limit to be able to give outsiders a look.

Chen Jiu glanced at the coffee on the table, suddenly put down the pen in his hand, and leaned back on the chair behind him with some relaxation.

I unscrewed the bottle cap, drank the coffee in my hand in one gulp, and looked at him with some puzzlement.

"This coffee is refreshing."

Afraid that he might not be used to it, I added, "The taste is very close to freshly ground coffee."

"Oh," he lifted his chin, "but I'm going to sleep."

"Finished?" I asked in surprise.

"Going to see the scene tomorrow."

The implication is that today will not stay overnight.

"Oh, then you should take a shower first."

I didn't realize it until the sound of water in the bathroom sounded.

Before coming here, I always felt a little inexplicably uncomfortable. The cohabitation seems to be a long time ago.

People are always greedy. If you want to say that before, I hoped that Chen Jiu would not get married, but now I started to think, does this person like me at all?

Or do you really only regard me as a student, it seems that this kind of understanding makes sense.

After all, Chen Jiu treated Lao Xiao very well.

I drank the coffee and was in a very good state of mind at the moment, lying on the table and starting to think wildly.

Finally, when the sound of water in the bathroom stopped, I seemed to have made up my mind, and walked quickly to the door.

When Chen Jiu opened the door, I rushed forward regardless.

He took a step back unexpectedly, but quickly reacted, and naturally leaned against the sink to bear the sudden kiss.

It wasn't until I invaded his mouth that the strength was uncontrollable, and he pressed the back of my head to respond.

Our lips and teeth were intertwined, and the kiss was inseparable, and it was a bit like a lover reunited after a long absence.

I hooked his tongue and sucked desperately, clasped his waist with both hands, and the strength in my hands became heavier and heavier, there was a faint smell of blood between my lips and teeth...

It wasn't until Chen Jiu pulled off my collar and ended the rough kiss that I reluctantly lay down on his neck and breathed slowly.

I don't know if the drops of water on his neck were left after the shower or the tears I rubbed on them, I closed my eyes and licked it lightly, my nose was filled with a pleasant and unfamiliar woody fragrance, feeling relieved and angry.

This person was right in front of my eyes, but the long-term separation caused some things to change invisibly.

I'm afraid that I don't know him well enough, and I'm also afraid that other people have broken into his life these years, and I'm no longer special even as a suitor.

But I'm still somewhat different from others, right?Does he kiss other people?

I threw away all distracting thoughts, just greedily enjoying a moment of warmth.

This hug was long and quiet, and when I finally suppressed my tears, he patted my back lightly, and I was finally willing to let go of him.

"Sorry, did I bite you just now?"

When I spoke again, my voice was a little muffled. I stepped back and looked at his lips very seriously. Fortunately, the bite was not hard or obvious.

Hearing this, the corners of Chen Jiu's lips curled up invisibly, and then he left the bathroom calmly.

I stood in front of the mirror vigilantly, only to see that my lower lip had been bitten and the corners of my mouth were still stained with blood.

Heh, a man's desire for revenge has not changed over the years.

I took a shower contentedly with the booty in the corner of my mouth, but the desire was strong, and I occupied the bathroom to relieve my desire.

After all, some things can be strong, but some things really require patience.

When I came out of the shower, Chen Jiu was sitting by the bed to answer the phone, and I obediently sat behind him to help him relax his cervical spine.

"Give you the sketch tomorrow night."

"Don't look for Mr. Nan for now."

"Ah."

I vaguely heard the words on the other end of the phone saying that the temperature should be lowered, and it will be eight o'clock.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Jiu patted the back of my hand.

"Your assistant?"

"Ah."

"What's his name?"

"Li Mo."

I just let go and sat back on the bed.

jealous?envy.

I can help Chen Jiu at work, and I am still Chen Jiu's so-and-so in terms of identity. It sounds like I want to apply for this position.

"Are you going to stay in Nanjiang for a long time? Will you be busy at work?"

"There are other designers."

That's right, I almost forgot, now he is not alone, there are so many employees in the firm and this assistant who cares about everything.

The charming thoughts in front of the sink suddenly dissipated completely. In fact, I am very contradictory. Of course I hope that when I am not around, Chen Jiu has someone to take care of him.

But when you suddenly feel the existence of such a person, you suddenly feel that you are redundant.

I suddenly started to think about self-worth and social value, and the bald political teacher in high school jumped out of my mind, holding a book and talking on the podium.

It wasn't until Chen Jiu lay down next to me that those little thoughts from before were mobilized again.

I cleared my throat and was about to say something when Chen Jiu interrupted me.

"sleep."

"Oh," I turned over to face him, "then can I go with you tomorrow?"

He looked at me sideways, "Why, do you want to change careers?"

I leaned against him and said softly, "It's not impossible, is your firm still recruiting?"

"No."

He turned his head and refused coldly.

I knew it.

"Then can I go tomorrow? I won't disturb your work."

Chen Jiu turned off the bedside lamp, and I couldn't see anything through the darkness.

After a while, I heard him say, "Yes."

"Is your assistant driving to pick you up tomorrow?"

"Ah."

"Will your assistant be curious when he sees me, and then ask you why I appear here?"

"will not."

I asked a few unnecessary questions casually, and Chen Jiu also answered me randomly.

Soon, I heard even breathing from his side.

But instead of shutting up, I lowered my voice and sighed.

"Look at you, if you agree to be with me, there won't be so many things. It's easy for him to explain when he asks you."

"Does the assistant know about your fiancee?"

Relying on him falling asleep, I lowered my voice and became more unscrupulous, "Or I'll drive you there, I drove here."

After thinking about it, I said, "I think I'm more caring and reliable than the assistant, and I don't need to bother outsiders for such trivial things as pick-up and drop-off.

I'm not an outsider, I'm—"

"You're a prospective boyfriend."

I thought about it and said, I will only dare to compete when someone falls asleep.

Finally, I said goodnight Chen Jiu to myself, and closed my eyes, waiting for the bottle of black coffee I drank before bed to start to lose its potent effect.

"Good night."

Only Chen Jiu's response came from the darkness.

……

It turned out that he wasn't asleep yet.

So a good night's sleep.

***

The assistant appeared downstairs in the hotel on time the next day, and I followed Chen Jiu and sat in the back seat peacefully.

The assistant saw me and greeted me calmly, and they had a brief chat about work on the way.

When I arrived at the scene, I was watching from a distance, but I couldn't intervene.

Chen Jiu is as serious as ever when working. Five years may not be long, but we have all grown up.

I can't spend as much time with him as I used to, and he's not alone anymore.

On the way, Sister Bai called and said that she remembered that there was a delicious restaurant in Nanjiang, and she recommended it to me.

By the way, there was a bond prospectus and asked me to take the time to correct it and send it to her.

I hung up the phone and searched for the address of the restaurant, which was far away.

But Chen Jiu is very busy, and I, an intern, are also very busy.

At noon, the three of us found a restaurant nearby.

I had to go to the scene again in the afternoon, so I excused myself and stopped following.

I took a taxi to find the store that Sister Bai mentioned. There were many cars parked at the door. When I entered the door, I had to make an appointment to get a seat. I ordered a delivery and asked her to deliver it to Chen Jiu’s hotel at eight or nine in the evening. .

When Chen Jiu returned to the hotel, most of my work was still unfinished, but I knew we were going to separate again.

The meal became boring in an instant, I kept moving my chair, getting closer to Chen Jiuyue.

"Sit on your lap?" Chen Jiu frowned slightly seeing that I was having a rough meal.

"Can you?" I put down my chopsticks and asked seriously.

"Go back to Jiangzhou early after eating."

Chen Jiu's tone was rather helpless.

"How can time be so fast, one day just passed by."

The night outside the window pulled up.

"Ah."

"Why don't you resign? I'll support you."

I can't hold back.

"... "

"Really, after all, I am a rich second generation. My family is very rich. I will go home and inherit the family property to support you."

"... "

Chapters 72-73

72. Yu Xiu (1)

When I dragged my suitcase and was about to leave, Jiu Chen lazily leaned against the desk and looked at me.

When I thought of the room card stuffed in the suitcase, I felt guilty for a moment.

I wanted to pester him to take me downstairs, but in the end I just dropped my suitcase and hugged him, "Don't look at me, be careful that I will stay here."

Then I quickly let go of my arms and pushed the suitcase towards the door.

"See you back in Jiangzhou!" I said loudly with my back turned to him.

"Ah."

He just responded lightly.

Damn, if I stay for another second, it seems that I can't get out of here.

***

On the way back to Jiangzhou, I received a call from my mother.

I connected the earphones to adjust my tone, "Dear mother, what are your orders?"

"Your uncle is currently being rescued at Nanning Hospital."

Through the phone, I can also hear that she is in a very bad state.

"Don't worry, I'll drive here now."

Obviously when I went to see him last time, he seemed to be in good physical condition, why did he suddenly become like this now.

It was early morning when we returned to Jiangzhou.

My mother and Lao Wang stood outside the observation room. She has always been a beauty-loving woman, but this time her makeup couldn't cover up her haggard face.

Through the glass window, the uncle on the hospital bed was pale, with several obvious bruises on his skin, and he had lost a lot of weight visible to the naked eye. In just a few months, he seemed to be a different person, and his former momentum was completely gone.

I took the list from my mother, 'acute myeloid leukemia'.

I was in a trance for a moment, and after I realized it, I wanted to organize words to comfort her, although it was futile.

"Mom, it's not impossible. Medicine is very advanced now."

My mother put her hands on her forehead, her expression exhausted to the extreme, "Actually, your uncle has been in poor health.

Some time ago, I applied for medical parole. The illness seemed sudden, but in fact, it had been foreshadowed. It's my fault..."

"Chemotherapy, bone marrow transplantation, there are many methods, how can it be blamed on you.

If he hadn't gone the wrong way, he wouldn't have—. "

But it's too late to say, "I can do a match."

As soon as the words fell, my mother immediately raised her head and said firmly, "No."

I tried to sit down and reason with her. My uncle had few relatives, and my grandparents passed away early.

I just wanted to say that I am still young, in good health, and recovering quickly, but she interrupted me, "The doctor said that sibling matching is the priority. Don't take it on yourself. If I don't deserve it, what else can I have?" What's the matter?"

Seeing that my mother's tone finally softened, I put my arms around her shoulders, "Mom, let me try, don't you often say that you want me to be filial to my uncle?"

"That's not okay, you should study your book carefully, and go home if the internship doesn't go well, don't bother.

You don't meddle in adult affairs, it's better to come to the hospital to accompany him more if you have a conscience. "

After finishing speaking, he seemed puzzled, "I told you to visit uncle more often when you are free, why didn't you listen?"

In the past... I couldn't tell my mother that I was in such a bad mood when I first returned to China, and I still had inexplicable resentment towards my uncle in my heart.

But today, when I saw my uncle lying on the hospital bed through a thick glass window, the first thing that came to my mind was his good.

"I'm already 26."

"How old you are is a child to me, and it's not your turn if I'm here."

"You are spoiling."

"You are in a bad position."

My mother sighed, "Xiao Zong, don't think about it, you have already registered with the bone marrow bank.

You are semi-identical at best, but there is a certain chance that siblings are fully compatible. Semi-identical donors have strong rejection, and the effect of transplantation is not as good as that of unrelated donors. "

After she finished speaking, she closed her eyes and rested on her back against the wall. I felt the despair in her heart.

The quiet corridors of the hospital made people feel more and more dull.

To say that in the past, I seldom felt the deep brotherhood.

Gu Yu was only 7 years old when he died, and children cannot personally feel the pain of life and death.

It may also be that this little medicine jar was surrounded by a group of nannies at home since childhood, which caused us to spend too little time together.

Even though I wanted to play with this twin brother at the beginning, I was repeatedly dissuaded by the aunt next to me, "My brother is not in good health, so I can't go out with you. Go find other children."

After hearing this kind of talk too much, coupled with jealousy, I no longer make fun of myself.

Once Gu Yu took advantage of the aunts not paying attention, pulled my sleeve and begged me to take him out to play.

As a result, when he was taken home at night, he still had a high fever.

My parents didn't blame me for this incident, but since then the aunts have seen me as if they were hiding from the plague.

My parents were busy with work at that time, and I didn't even bother to file a complaint because I was a child.

After I went to school, my contact with Gu Yu became less and less.

360 days a year, my unlucky brother spends [-] days seeing a doctor to recuperate.

When he proposes to play together again, I will refuse.

"You take good care of yourself at home, or the aunts will blame me again."

This seems to be what I said to him most often when I was a child.

We have been under the same roof for seven years, and we are not as close as the classmates who played and played together. His sudden death caused great pain to our parents. My mother often hid in Gu Yu's drug-smelling room in the middle of the night and secretly wiped her tears.

Once I couldn't bear it, so I pulled the slippers and opened the door. I stepped on my mother's waist and said, Mom, you still have me.

That night my mother hugged me and cried loudly.

Since then, she finally stopped being immersed in sadness, and turned all her eyes to me. That door became a restricted area in the family, and no one in the family mentioned Gu Yu's name anymore.

This is probably all my understanding of brotherhood when I was a child.

But now, I suddenly have a deeper understanding of family affection, and suddenly miss Gu Yu for no reason.

It seems that when people reach a certain age, they wish they had brothers and sisters.

Besides, I had a younger brother.

"Mom, ask Lao Wang to take you to my place to rest. I'll just stay here."

"No internship tomorrow?" My mother asked me with her eyes closed.

"I'm young, but you are different. If you don't take a good rest, you will have many wrinkles tomorrow."

Lao Wang came over in time.

It took a while for my mother to open her eyes and look at me, "Call me if you need anything.

If uncle wakes up, you go in and talk to him, his current situation..."

"I know, don't worry."

I took out the things I needed to use, and then handed the suitcase to Lao Wang.

"By the way, Mom, remember to help Ping An shovel shit and open a can when you get home."

By the time I finished changing the instructions in the hospital all night, it was almost dawn.

I squinted on the chair wrapped in a blanket for a while, and when I opened my eyes again, the sky was bright.

The aisles of the hospital were already bustling, so I hurriedly glanced at my uncle through the glass window.

He was already awake, and a nurse was busy beside him.

"uncle."

I opened the door and walked in.

He was leaning on the head of the bed, but when he saw me coming in, he was eager to sit up, "Your mother too, why did you stay here all night, go home quickly, I'm fine."

Uncle seemed to have regained his spirits, and his face was a little rosier.

I poured him a glass of water, peeled an apple, and sat aside, not knowing what to say.

I didn't leave until I was about to be late for work.

Before leaving, I said that I would come here often recently, and hoped that he would recuperate well.

When I was having breakfast downstairs in the hospital, I raised my eyes and vaguely saw a familiar figure.

I shook my head, and when I opened my eyes again, the familiar figure disappeared. It couldn't be because I stayed up all night and was confused.

But how could I see her here?

73. Yu Xiu (2)

After staying up all night, I was in a trance when I went to work during the day. After caring about my boyfriend-to-be every day, I thought of the woman I saw in the morning again.

It's no coincidence that Teacher Mo appeared at the hospital gate. If she still has contact with her uncle... Does Chen Jiu know about this?

I rubbed my temples, Mingming and Chen Jiu took a step forward...

"Gu Zong, did you stay up all night last night?" My colleague patted my shoulder and asked.

I looked at myself through the reflective glass in the tea room, "It's okay, just take a break at noon."

Because Chen Jiu will stay in Nanjiang for half a month, so I will honestly go to the hospital to accompany my uncle after work during this time.

But there was very little communication between us. Most of the time I sat by the hospital bed with my computer in my arms and was busy with work. I didn’t forget to send messages to harass Chen Jiu, and sometimes he would call directly.

I put down my work and left the ward to find a quiet corner to connect.

But often there is nothing to say when I pick it up, I just want to hear his voice.

"What's the matter?" Chen Jiu asked.

"fine."

The phone fell silent for a while, and I gave in, and blurted out the words "I miss you".

"You can record the call."

He said it seriously.

"You really have an idea."

In the empty stairwell of the hospital, this short phone call with Chen Jiu every day is the driving force for my boring life at three o'clock and one line.

After a few more brief chats, I stopped disturbing his work.

Back in the ward, the nurse was coming in with dinner.

I helped adjust the dining table.

"I'll just come."

Uncle took the lunch box, opened it layer by layer and neatly placed it on the table.

He hesitated to speak while holding the chopsticks.

I probably don't want to talk about Che Jilu anymore, it's just that he is very good here and has a nurse to take care of him, so I don't need to come over right after work.

But if I don't come, my mother will definitely be worried.

Until yesterday I said, you should feel sorry for my mother, okay?She is also older.

Uncle stopped trying to persuade me.

In fact, I felt it was inappropriate to say this at the time, but I couldn't take it back.

"Uncle Wang, I don't need to buy food at the hospital tomorrow night. I'll bring it home when I go home."

I peeled the fruit, trying to find a way for each other.

"You know how to cook now?" Uncle asked in surprise.

"Well," I handed him the cut fruit, "the craftsmanship is not bad, I'll make it for you tomorrow."

I didn't drive home until my uncle finally fell asleep.

Recently, Ping An has seen that I have too little time and has become a little dependent. When I got home, I started to hang around my feet. I hugged it and sat next to my mother.

She was sitting on the sofa and absently adjusting the TV, and the matching results would be out tomorrow.

"Mom, let it be, you have to adjust your mentality first."

I pretended to be easy to comfort.

"go to sleep."

After she finished speaking, she turned off the TV and went back to the room.

***

The result of the matching was unexpected, and my mother and uncle couldn't match at all.

After knowing the result, I sat in the office all afternoon.

The phone call with Chen Jiu at night was a rare distraction.

--Oh, what a pity for the 12-bed patient, I finally found a suitable bone marrow type, but...

I hurriedly covered my phone, but Chen Jiu still heard it.

"Are you in the hospital?"

"Ah."

"what happened?"

"My...uncle is hospitalized."

I don't know if Chen Jiuzhi knew about his uncle's imprisonment, but since he was discovered, I didn't think about hiding it.

"Very serious?" Chen Jiu's tone didn't sound like a question, but more like a confirmation.

"leukemia."

After I finished speaking, I suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. It sounds like he doesn't dislike things about my uncle.

But after a short chat, I heard the assistant asking him to talk about work, so I hung up the phone in a playful manner.

When I returned to the ward, my uncle had already fallen asleep.

The nurse told me in a low voice, Mr. Yu is actually very happy every time he sees you coming.

He also ate all the food brought in the evening.

"I'll prepare breakfast and bring it to you in the future."

I did what I said, and the next day I got up an hour earlier than usual and sent the cooked breakfast to the hospital. After telling the nurses to remember to separate the heating, I rushed to work.

When I walked out of the building of the inpatient department, I saw the familiar figure from a few days ago again. She had an outstanding temperament as always.

Only this time, instead of disappearing, she came straight to me, "Do you have time, I want to talk to you."

talk?A person who doesn't even have a son, what else can we talk about?It's not likely that she has changed her sex in the past few years, and suddenly changed her mind to be a good mother.

"Lanting Coffee Bar at 12 noon, I'm going to work now."

After all, the person in front of me is Chen Jiu's own mother, so I really can't say no.

"Well, thank you."

After speaking, she stepped on her high heels and entered the inpatient department.

It turns out that high coldness is also hereditary?

I arrived 10 minutes earlier than the agreed time, and Teacher Mo opened the door of the cafe on time at twelve o'clock.

So sometimes blood relationship is really amazing. For example, when it comes to stepping on the spot, the mother and son have the same habit.

After taking a seat and ordering, before I could think of an opening sentence, she said calmly, "Let's talk about Yu Xiu."

Yu Xiu is my uncle lying on the hospital bed.

I never imagined that she asked me to talk about my uncle.

"I heard that your mother failed the matching."

She went straight to the point.

"Yes."

"Have you thought about it—" She took a sip of the coffee in front of her in the middle of speaking.

I don't know what kind of medicine she sells in her gourd, but the next words seem to require her to do a certain amount of psychological construction before continuing.

"Do you want to make a match with Yu Xiu?"

It turned out to be talking to me about this.

Of course I thought about doing bone marrow matching, and even checked a lot of information on the Internet beforehand.

But in fact, the probability of successful matching is only among immediate relatives.

My mother failed to match, not to mention me as a nephew.

Xu Shi saw that I was silent for a while, and she was a little impatient. When she spoke again, her tone was a bit sullen, "You are relatives."

Dear, these two words coming out of her mouth are really ironic.

I originally wanted to have a good communication with her, but I suddenly gave up such an idea.

When she asked Chen Jiu to meet and said she would no longer contact her, when Chen Jiu lost her relatives and found her but was ignored, did she ever have the concept of relatives in her heart?

"Auntie, I just remembered your reminder, don't you still have a young son?"

Maybe my attitude was considered friendly before, but the sudden sentence caught her off guard, and her face suddenly became a little ugly.

"He's still a kid after all."

Calculating the age, the boy is probably eight or nine years old.

It turns out that the woman in front of me can also play the role of a good mother, but the more this is the case, the more unwilling and angry I feel.

"So why are you so cruel to another child?"

When I said another child, the woman was obviously taken aback, and after a while she asked, "Do you know Chen Yushu?"

"We've met."

Seeing that she had no impression, I added, "Five years ago, Chen Jiu's grandma passed away unexpectedly. He went to school to look for you, and I was there at the time."

She seemed to be trapped in a long and distant memory, and she looked up at me again after a long time.

But this time, there was no emotion in her eyes, let alone guilt.

My last illusion about this woman was also shattered, I didn't want to have any conversations with her anymore, and it was never her turn to come to me about my uncle's matter.

"Obviously they are all children."

I drank the coffee in front of me irritably, and was about to get up and leave, but what she said in the next second nailed me in place.

"Yes, so as Yu Xiu's son, you should stand in front of your younger brother."

She looked at me and said slowly.