But when my words left my mouth, I immediately regretted it, because from Yu Jin's reaction, he seemed to not know which aspect of child I was referring to.
For a moment I thought I was being too reckless, that I couldn't be calm or even self-exposed when it came to children.
Under Yu Jin's scrutinized gaze, I immediately calmed myself down and said to him: "Just now … I was too excited, don't mind me. "
After I finished speaking, I stood up from the sofa and rushed out of his office. When I got downstairs, I used the phone to call Chen Feng, and after the call was connected, Chen Feng's voice came from the other side of the phone. He seemed to be sleeping.
After being quiet for two to three seconds, Chen Feng suddenly raised his voice and asked: "Little Wei?!"
This is the first time I called him since we got divorced, but I didn't have the time to talk about the old days, so I asked directly: "Chen Feng? Where's your mother? "
Chen Feng could hear the anxiousness in my tone, he didn't understand what was going on, so he replied me: "My mom is home, why are you looking for my mom?"
I said, "The child is gone."
Chen Feng asked loudly: "What did you say?!"
I didn't have time to repeat his words, but instead quickly explained my main purpose. I said, "A while ago, your mother gave me a phone call and asked about the divorce between the two of us. At that time, she excitedly told me to return the Xiao Jie to her, and I was very busy recently, so I didn't care about it at all.
Chen Feng immediately denied on the phone: "How is that possible?! How could my mother do such a thing? "
He might have felt the malevolent excitement in his words, but he quickly calmed down and said, "Okay, I'll call my mother now. Wait for me."
Just as I was shakily blocking the road, Yu Jin's car suddenly stopped behind me. Yumann Ting got out of the car and said: "Miss Yu, where are you going? Let's send the goods over to you. "
When I turned my head, Yu Jin was sitting in the carriage and looking at me. There was always a voice in my mind telling me not to let him deal with the child with me, not to let him.
I wanted to reject him, but just as the words were in my throat, I suddenly felt that there was nothing to be done, I didn't know what to do, Yumann Ting urged me again, and I opened the car door to get in.
After we arrived at the car, Yu Jin lowered his eyes and glanced at the hand that I was tightly holding, and said: "Earlier, I called the old man and asked about the situation. I heard that the Xiao Jie was only at noon, and according to the school teacher, it was a person who claimed to be a grandmother that brought the child away. If my guess is not wrong, the one who took Xiao Jie away should be Chen Feng's mother. "
Yu Jin's words hit the nail on the head and I immediately guessed what I was thinking. That's right, other than Yu Jin's mom, who else would want to take Xiao Jie away?
I didn't speak, I just sat there with my entire body tensed up. Yu Jin held onto my hand tightly, and said gently: "If Chen Feng's mother took the child away, this matter wouldn't be a big problem, don't be too worried."
He comforted me, but how could I not be at ease? There was no mother who did not worry about her children. Moreover, it was in a state where he had no idea where he was.
I repeatedly checked to see if Chen Feng had called me. Almost, after looking at it three or four times, Chen Feng's call reminder appeared on the screen, I strongly pressed the button to answer it, and Chen Feng's voice sounded again from the other end of the phone. He anxiously said, "Little Wei, I just called my mother.
Before I could say anything, Chen Feng immediately apologized to me from the other side of the phone, "Little Wei, this is indeed my mother's fault. I didn't manage it well, so don't worry, I'll go and fetch the child for you right now. "
Just as he was about to hang up, I interrupted him and said, "No, I'll pick it up myself."
When we hung up and I seemed relieved, he looked at me and whispered, "How's it going, huh?"
I said, "Chen Feng's mother brought Xiao Jie to the countryside. I don't think he'll be able to come back today, so I'm going to the countryside to look for his now."
After Yu Jin heard this, he raised his hand to look at the watch on his wrist. He then ordered the driver: "Immediately head to the train station."
I asked in surprise, "How do you know Chen Feng's home is in Yao County?"
The moment I asked this question, I felt that my words were incomparably idiotic. How could Yu Jin not know that?
The carriage quickly reached the train station. Yu Jin did not let Yumann Ting and the rest follow, but instead pulled me towards the crowded train station. At this time, I was still a little panicked, so I could only allow him to lead me.
Yu Jin rarely used it as a train, but he had a good sense of direction towards the road, so after bringing me in, he brought me into a private room. Because it was a temporary ticket, and there weren't many cars heading to Yao County, when Yu Jin saw the mess inside, he frowned.
Just as I was about to extend my hand to clean it up, Yu Jin said, "Don't touch it." When I looked at him subconsciously, he glanced at me, took off his jacket and put it on the narrow bed.
I was just about to say that I was not a germaphobic person, and was not just for fun, but the moment I thought about Yu Jin's frowning appearance, I knew that this dirty and messy environment had made him angry and irritable. I did not add fuel to the fire, and just laid down on top of the bed and did not bother about him anymore.
When I woke up again, my entire body was curled up on the bed and there was no trace of Yu Jin in the box. I raised my head to look around and found that the people in the same room as us were also looking at me with a face full of curiosity.
I don't know why, but I panicked for some reason. When I was on the train alone, I saw an unfamiliar person and an unfamiliar look in his eyes. I quickly rushed out of the box and searched around the train.
He was leaning against the car, talking on the phone with a half-burnt cigarette in his other hand. His jacket was lying on the bed, so he was wearing only a wrinkled white shirt with a loose tie. He was talking to someone on the phone, but his face was expressionless.
His entire body was enveloped by the sunlight shining in from outside the window, and even his hair was plated with a layer of light. He appeared to be an unspeakably lazy and unruly person, a little less unruly and refined compared to his usual well-dressed appearance.
I stood there looking at him for a long moment, and I didn't know why I let go. Just as I was about to walk over to him, a woman suddenly walked over from the carriage behind him to strike up a conversation. Yu Jin seemed to be borrowing a cigarette from Yu Jin, who was on the phone with his eyes lowered, raised his head to look at the woman with heavy makeup, and then slowly passed the entire package of cigarettes to the woman in front of him.
The woman looked at him dubiously, and after drawing out another cigarette, she lit it up with his lighter. After she was done, she returned everything to Yu Jin.
Unfortunately, Yu Jin did not pick up the phone, he only extinguished the cigarette in his hand, hung up the phone, and walked back to his seat.
The woman had no idea what he meant. She stood there for a moment, holding the cigarette in her hand.
After Yu Jin saw me who was standing not too far away, he walked in front of me. His first action was to grab onto my ice-cold fingertip, and he warmly asked: "You woke up?"
I was still reluctant to part with the woman when I asked, "Who is that woman?"
Yu Jin followed my gaze and looked back. He laughed, then asked: "Lend me your cigarettes."
He didn't say anything more and carried me into his embrace, protecting me back to the private room. Since it was peak hours of walking, and Yu Jin was in his embrace, it was easy for me to return to the private room. He got someone to bring me breakfast on the train, and then sat by the side and watched me eat.
Halfway through my meal, I suddenly thought of a question. "Brother, do you want it?"
He took a glance at it and did not say no, nor did he say no.
I thought for a moment and handed him a piece of chicken with my chopsticks. He looked at me with disdain, since he had a high requirement for food. However, after seeing my face filled with anticipation, he still went along with the piece of chicken.
After a while, I gave him another piece of meat and looked at him expectantly again. He saw that I was teasing him, so he suddenly sneered at me and said three words: "Not good enough."
Hearing his words, the hand holding the chopsticks shrank back. In the end, I didn't dare to challenge him anymore, so I put the piece of meat that he didn't eat into my mouth. The meat here was hard, light and fishy.
I took two big bites at him.
Yu Jin seemed to find my expression extremely interesting, so he lazily leaned on the ground and laughed.
The laughter was so seductive that even the two little girls who were lying on top of us peeked down.
This is the first time I realised that Yu Jin is really liked by women.
Yu Jin brought me off the train. Although I knew that Chen Feng's mother lived in Yao County, I have never been there, so I relied on Yu Jin for everything.
This is probably a subconscious habit of mine. Whenever there is any trouble, the first thing I think of is always him helping me solve it.
Yu Jin took me to a hotel in the town to rest for two hours. After the two of them took a shower, he followed the exact address sent by Secretary Yu and brought me to Chen Feng's mother's house.
When we found Chen Feng's mother's house, the old people in the village told us that they did not come back. I thought they were slower than us, so I waited in the village until nightfall.
Yu Jin was just about to call back. He arrived in front of me and said, "I reckon Chen Feng's mother didn't get off the car at Yao County Station, but instead got off at the last stop, preventing us from finding them."
When I heard this, my first reaction was to take out my phone to call Chen Feng, but when I called him, no one was able to pick up his phone, so I got a little anxious, I was even a little flustered, I didn't know what to do.
Seeing me like this, Yu Jin immediately took over my hands, and then brought me away and said, "There are only two places near Yao County, a brother and woman definitely won't go too far away with their children. Let's stay in the town now, I will send people to settle this matter, what are you panicking for?"
I said, "It's not your child. Of course you don't panic."
At that time, I didn't know why I would go crazy and say those words. After he heard what I said, he looked at me with a serious expression. After a long while, he smiled and said, "Why don't we have one?"
Why don't we have one, he said easily, but I didn't dare say anything more.
Yu Jin brought me from the countryside to the town again. Obviously, we shouldn't have called Chen Feng's mother at the beginning, she knew that we were looking for her, it would be weird if she didn't run, but if he didn't confirm, how would he know that Chen Feng's mother took the child away?
This was truly a difficult problem to solve perfectly.
After returning to the original hotel, Yu Jin had been sitting on the sofa talking on the phone the entire time. I lied on the bed looking at him for a while, and my mind was completely filled with nightmares, for a moment it was that car accident, my mother screamed, for a moment it was Xiao Jie who walked in front of me, covered in blood, and for a moment it was Yu Jin who was holding the Xiao Jie who was bleeding all over his face, standing in front of me. He was smiling at me, his smile was very strange.
I wanted to snatch Xiao Jie away from his hands, but who would have known that after being startled, he would wake up? After being awake, I laid on the bed, constantly gasping for breath, and looked at the lamp above my head swaying back and forth in front of me. I suddenly remembered, where was Yu Jin?
I walked barefoot out of bed and looked around the room and found that he was still making phone calls from the balcony. I had just arrived behind him when he hung up the phone, and when I looked back, I saw his calm face, and I had an inexplicable feeling that I was standing there without moving. When Yu Jin arrived in front of me, he held my hand, and the first thing he said was, "You might have to calm down about what happens next."
I withdrew my hand from his palm. With a forced smile, I asked, "What did you want me to calm down for?" I probingly asked: "Could it be that something happened to Xiao Jie?"
In fact, I didn't even think about that direction. After all, Xiao Jie was brought by Granny. How could he be alright? Although it was Grandma's first time bringing Xiao Jie to the countryside, the biggest thing he had done was to let two people get lost. Since Yu Jin was strong enough to find them, there was no problem at all.
Just when my mind was filled with all sorts of random thoughts, Yu Jin finally spoke. He said: "The Xiao Jie found it, but in the hospital, last night when they were driving back to Yao County, the car turned over at the bottom of the mountain. Chen Feng's mother died on the spot."
I couldn't quite make out what he was saying. It was as if he was talking to me in the language of heaven. I took a step back and almost fell to the ground.
Fortunately, Yu Jin's arm was around my waist in time, so I didn't dare ask him about Xiao Jie's situation. I didn't dare to, so I just struggled out of his embrace and stumbled back into my room, where I found mine on the messy bed. With trembling hands, I called Chen Feng, but no one picked up the call.
Just then, Yu Jin walked in, I rushed into his embrace, pulled his sleeves, and asked hoarsely: "Where is Xiao Jie? What happened to Xiao Jie? Tell me quickly, tell me quickly! "
Yu Jin saw that I was panicking so much that I lost my balance. He held tightly onto my trembling voice and said: "Calm down."
I cried and said, "I don't want to be calm! I want to know about the situation in Xiao Jie! Yu Jin, tell me! "
My entire body was trembling, and I couldn't stop trembling. Yu Jin knew what the current me meant, and he knew that he couldn't console me, but he didn't tell me about Xiao Jie's situation. He only whispered, "Let's go to the hospital first."
He took me and turned around to leave, but when we reached downstairs, Yumann Ting was driving the car very quickly, I don't know when Yumann Ting arrived. Yu Jin opened the car door and stuffed me inside, and I also sat down, he instructed Yumann Ting: "Go to the hospital."
Yumann Ting did not dare to say much, and immediately drove her car towards the Central Hospital, and when she arrived there, she found that Chen Feng and Qiao Yuxin were there.
Chen Feng sat on the floor of the corridor, his hands covering his head so she couldn't see his face, while Qiao Yuxin, who had a big stomach, stood there and looked at him silently. It was so quiet that only the sound of footsteps could be heard.
So it turns out that this matter had already happened yesterday, but Yu Jin had only told me about it this morning.
I don't know how to ask, even my legs go limp. Yu Jin, who was standing behind Chen Feng, wanted to walk towards us, but just as she took a few steps, the door opened. A doctor walked out and spoke to the empty corridor: "Who is the child's family member?"
The moment the doctor's voice fell, I struggled out of Yu Jin's embrace and immediately rushed over to the doctor. When I arrived in front of the doctor, I grabbed onto the doctor's hand as if it was my lifeline, crying as I said, "I am, Doctor, I am."
The doctor was startled by my sudden charge, but he gave me a hard look anyway. He said, "Are you the mother of the child?"
I almost blurted out, "Yes, I am."
The doctor put on his mask again and said to me, "The child is in urgent need of a blood transfusion. You're in the operating room with the father."
The doctor didn't have time to talk to me, so he turned around and walked away. I grabbed him from behind and asked, "I'm the mother of the child, can I be the only one?"
The doctor didn't think I was stalling for time at this time. He frowned and whispered, "The child's father isn't here?"
I said, "Yes."
When the doctor heard me, he threw my hand away and said, "Come in together and don't waste any more time. This is not a joke. Such a young child has already lost too much blood. As a mother, why are you still dawdling over this question?
After the doctor finished speaking, he immediately rushed into the operation room, the cold wind from the corridor blew at the corner of his robes, and similarly, it blew on my face. I staggered a few steps back, and even Yumann Ting who was watching anxiously by the side suddenly turned to Chen Feng who was still squatting at the side and said: "Quickly, the child wants to be given a blood transfusion, quickly come in with Miss Yu!"
Chen Feng lifted his face from the center of his palm to look at Yumann Ting. He only shifted his gaze towards me, as if he was waiting for me to make a choice. The child is currently in a life and death situation, and can't even bear to part with this little bit of blood? "
Yumann Ting's harsh words to Chen Feng made Qiao Yuxin laugh and interject. She said: "Secretary Yu, it's not that we, Chen Feng, are unwilling, but there are times when we are unable to do anything."
After Yumann Ting heard these profound words, she frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"
Qiao Yuxin shifted her gaze to me and she laughed, but did not reply.
After an unknown amount of time, Yu Jin, who had been standing still and not saying a word, suddenly took off his jacket, undid the cuff links on his wrist, and rolled them up one by one. He walked up and grabbed me, and under the gaze of the crowd, he led me towards the surgery.
At that moment, I didn't struggle anymore. I merely followed behind him with shaky steps. I didn't expect that everything would turn out so unexpectedly. It was so hard to accept that there wasn't even the slightest bit of preparation left for me.
When he finally found out, I didn't know if I was feeling heavy or relaxed. My mind was blank.
After she brought me to the operation room, I saw Xiao Jie lying on the operating table.
At that moment, as I watched his tiny body being stabbed with all sorts of instruments, my body staggered and I fell to the ground.
Within the small operation, the orderly nurse suddenly let out a small cry. Someone said, "Hurry and help the mother of the child up."
After he put a mask on my face, he calmly brought me to the blood transfusion place. I didn't dare to operate on the Xiao Jie at all, I only felt that at this moment, the pain and suffering on his small body was multiplying as it attacked me. I didn't even feel anything when the needle was inserted into my arm.
I lay in a chair, dazed. Finally, the nurses realized how unbearable this scene was for a mother. They immediately put a blindfold over my eyes, and I didn't know what happened next. I could only feel the instruments around me constantly beeping in my ears, and the blood in my hands and veins was continuously being pumped out.
I felt my body grow weaker and my consciousness grow blurry.
When I woke up again, I was once again awakened by a nightmare. I shouted, "Xiao Jie!" He immediately sat up from the bed, but when he looked out, all he could see was darkness, the only thing he could hear was the sound of the monitor. Just as he was about to get out of bed to find the nurse and ask about the Xiao Jie's situation, one of his feet landed on the cold ground. From the window, he could see sparks flickering.
My foot dropped back.
Very quickly, the lights in the room were switched on, and Yu Jin turned around from his position near the window to look at me.
I stepped back, and he stubbed out the cigarette with the tip of his finger, then dropped it to the ground and walked toward me, and I knew the moment had come.
I had imagined it a million times, dreamed it a thousand times, but I had never imagined that we would meet in such a situation, in the child's affairs.
But how could I explain that the child wasn't his? Everything he could give to his children. Was it completely because we were close relatives that the Xiao Jie could accept his blood?
Is that possible? It's obviously impossible, who would believe such a lie, but if he knows that the child is his, then what can he do, Xiao Jie is his son, will he let us go?
No, there was no need to think about this answer.
Unknowingly, Yu Jin had already sat in front of me. He, who usually liked cleanliness, had currently wrinkled his shirt into a ball and there were faint traces of blood on it. He just looked at me expressionlessly, sitting upright. He acted like he was negotiating.
He didn't wait for me to speak and waited for me to admit it myself. It was as if my throat was blocked at that moment, and it took a long time before I managed to squeeze out a word from my throat. "Xiao Jie …"
Yu Jin's voice did not contain much emotion as he said, "Xiao Jie is fine."
In fact, I had already expected that nothing would happen to Xiao Jie, so I simply confirmed it without saying anything. However, I heaved a sigh of relief, and after removing the blanket on my body, I said anxiously, "I'm going to the washroom."
Yu Jin did not stop me until I reached the bathroom door. He said to me from behind, "First, think of a way to explain yourself, don't blame me for not giving you time to prepare."
Hearing his words, my footsteps paused. I pushed open the door and entered the washroom. Then he closed the door.
When I was finally alone in the bathroom, I rushed to the sink and splashed cold water all over my face, trying to keep myself calm, but that was just enough. I filled the sink and sank my face into it, and suddenly everything seemed far away and blurred around my ears, and when I was almost drowning in the water, I lifted my face out of the water and fell to the cold floor, holding my face in my hands and breathing as hard as I could.
I don't know how long it was before I cried out loud. Yes, I cried out loud, loud enough for Yu Jin in the ward to hear me, but I didn't want to hide anything at the moment.
Yu Jin also didn't come to urge me, he had been waiting for me to finish crying and confess everything.
I cried until my throat was hoarse before I opened the door. My eyes were red and swollen as I walked out of the bathroom, and sure enough, Yu Jin was still sitting with his back facing me.
I walked up to him, step by step, and when I was behind him, I said, "I'm ready."