Chapter 16

What should come will come, hiding at the ends of the earth is useless.

Jiang Xiaoyuan spun around the house like a donkey pulling a mill, but couldn't come up with a solution. What she fears the most is not actually facing a group of unfamiliar "relatives and friends", but what if her parents in this time and space are the same as her parents in the original time and space?

How should she face people who are exactly the same but completely different?

The "remote control" made a life-threatening sound, and Qilian sent a text message asking, "When will I pick you up

I'm so annoyed, is there anything so oppressive? This urging method is simply pimping.

Jiang Xiaoyuan shouted at her phone, "Hurry up, Mom won't go

Of course, the phone obediently refused to raise any objections. Jiang Xiaoyuan stood silently for a moment, sighed, and looked up like a lunatic, muttering to herself to the empty ceiling, "What do you think we should do

The ceiling had not yet developed the function of chatting, so she silently held her weathered and yellowed face and gazed kindly at her.

Jiang Xiaoyuan closed her eyes and silently exhaled a breath.

Well, besides facing it, what else can she do?

However, before bravely facing it, she still wanted to delay for a while. She replied to Qilian's text message: "I'll go to the hospital first to see Miss Zhang and tell me her address. I'll go there by myself tonight

There was finally no movement on the Qilian side.

Jiang Xiaoyuan breathed a sigh of relief and went out to the hospital. She was a little afraid of Qilian, but also a little dependent on him - he seemed to know too much and had a calm and tough demeanor in dealing with people.

It's a bit cold now, and there are already people wearing thin cotton coats on the street. Jiang Xiaoyuan is still wearing the same summer clothes she wore at the beginning. She pretends not to be afraid of the cold and runs quickly to the bus stop. As soon as she arrives, a rapid transit bus enters the station. Jiang Xiaoyuan glanced at the bus stop sign and found that the bus was also heading towards the hospital. She lifted her foot and was about to get on.

Next to her was a middle-aged couple. The man wanted to follow her and get on the bus, but was grabbed by the woman and said, "You didn't see that it says' Bus Rapid Transit, this one is twice as expensive. I can't get on this one. '

Jiang Xiaoyuan's footsteps reflexively paused for a moment, and she inexplicably missed boarding. The bus drove away in the blink of an eye, and the warm exhaust dissipated. The cold autumn wind began to recoil, and Jiang Xiaoyuan stood still. After an involuntary shiver, she reflected on her own actions.

Am I sick? "She thought," Why not go up

As she was thinking about it, a car slowly pulled into the station behind her. It was still an express, and Jiang Xiaoyuan tapped her toes on the ground a few times, but still couldn't get on.

She stood in place with her eyes, nose, and mouth fixed, becoming a motionless beauty, feeling horrified by her own transformation.

By the time Jiang Xiaoyuan stumbled to the hospital, she had become numb from the cold, but her body remained graceful and numb. She walked in half paralyzed like a coffin board.

Jiang Xiaoyuan calculated as she walked, "If Zhang Tian can return the money to me today, plus the half month salary advanced from Chen Nuoya, it would make a little over a thousand. I can use it to buy a thick piece of clothing

At this point, she felt a little toothache again - less than a thousand yuan, in her impression, at most enough to buy a pair of discounted and faded ripped jeans, where can she get decent thick clothes?

Jiang Xiaoyuan survived the days of living a miserable life in a black internet cafe. The first thing she did was throw away her "change of clothes" and vowed never to buy such things cheap again in the future. I feel like my entire skin has been contaminated by that tattered clothes.

Perhaps she could go to the mall like Feng Ruixue and buy some so-called popular brands, but they are not only ugly and plagiarize each other, but also collide with each other everywhere!

Is it so difficult for her to go to small vendors or subway shops to buy clothes?

What if we encounter unscrupulous merchants?

For a moment, what kind of black hearted cotton? Selling it as new clothes after peeling off dead people's bodies... Various scaremongering rumors spun around in Jiang Xiaoyuan's mind like a revolving lantern, and she began to feel itchy all over her body.

She possesses both the irreconcilable traits of being poor and having a lot of things to do, and the conflict is simply irreconcilable. She has been itching all the way but has not come up with a solution.

Jiang Xiaoyuan found Sister Zhang's hospital room in a state of hunger and cold. Sister Zhang was asleep, while Zhang Tian stood aside. The little girl's originally soft and watery face had sunken down. She had a workbook on her knee, leaning back on the back of a chair and feeling sleepy. The book slipped out of her hand and fell to the ground with a "thud". She woke up in a panic for a while before realizing that nothing had happened. She frowned, got angry with herself, and bent down to pick it up - then she saw Jiang Xiaoyuan.

Zhang Tian was not surprised to see her, but her face changed slightly. Then she reluctantly held back a polite expression and stood up, saying, "Xiaoyuan, are you here

She was still young, and borrowing ten or twenty yuan from each other among the children seemed like a big deal. Jiang Xiaoyuan borrowing her five hundred yuan was like a "huge sum" in Zhang Tian's eyes that could make her uneasy all the time. However, Zhang Xiuqin's illness came too suddenly, and her family, which was originally small and had savings, was already struggling in the blink of an eye.

Her uncle, who came to help her, told her that if the creditor came, she would pretend to be pitiful and helpless, preferably crying pitifully, so that others wouldn't be able to force her.

Isn't it only natural for Zhang Tian to kill and pay off debts and money? How can we use someone else's sympathy to play such tricks?

Uncle said, "Okay, then you go pay back the money. Where's the money

No money.

Therefore, when Jiang Xiaoyuan came in, Zhang Tian almost dared not look at her directly.

I just came to take a look. "Jiang Xiaoyuan felt a bit embarrassed when she walked into the ward. Visiting patients should bring gifts, and she had been thinking about the dark cotton all the way, forgetting about it completely.

Zhang Tian: "Come in and sit down

Jiang Xiaoyuan glanced over and lowered her voice, "How's it going

Zhang Tian shook her head wilfully and said, "I have undergone surgery, but my recovery is not very good. I still need to stay in the hospital for observation for a period of time

Oh... "Jiang Xiaoyuan didn't know how to bring up the topic of repaying the money. After a pause, she awkwardly turned around and said," Fortunately, everyone now has medical insurance. Otherwise

My mom didn't, "Zhang Tian interrupted her, facing Jiang Xiaoyuan's shocked gaze." My mom always thought she was in good health and wouldn't get sick. She thought it was expensive to pay for medical insurance every month, so

Jiang Xiaoyuan's desire for money cooled halfway, and she stared incredulously, "So, do you have to bear all the expenses for this hospitalization? Do you have that much money at home

Upon hearing these words, tears streamed down Zhang Tian's face like beads of broken threads. She had originally thought she couldn't pretend, but at this point, she felt a sense of sadness. She acted her true colors without even pretending. Zhang Tian silently huddled in her small chair, shaking her head and reaching out to wipe, wiping more and more, until she could hardly breathe in the end.

Xiaoyuan, "Zhang Tian choked up and said," I'll figure out a way. I'll pay you back as soon as I have money

Jiang Xiaoyuan blurted out, "Oh, forget it, there's no need. It's important to see a doctor. You can take it for now, I'm not in a hurry

Zhang Tian looked at her incredulously and realized that there were still such poor and generous fools in the world, so she cried even more fiercely.

When Jiang Xiaoyuan arrived, she worried about the quality of the clothing in the miscellaneous foreign trade shops all the way. When she left, she realized with a heavy heart that it was purely her overthinking, and only the supermarket with the "99 yuan down jacket big sale" was her destination.

As soon as she walked out of the inpatient department, she saw Qilian, whose ghost was lingering. Qilian, whose identity was a mystery, leaned against a big tree and waved at her, briefly saying a few words.

Let's go, I'm on my way

Did they return the money to you

Jiang Xiaoyuan didn't even have the strength to be surprised. Anyway, Qilian seemed to know everything, so it's not surprising that she knew about Jiang Xiaoyuan lending money to Zhang Tian.

Jiang Xiaoyuan was blown by a small cold wind and couldn't speak. She felt that as night fell, the wind seemed even colder than before. She could no longer maintain her pretended composure, trembling like a quail and shaking her head.

Qilian was a little surprised and asked, "Don't you have any intention of asking

Jiang Xiaoyuan felt inexplicable grief and said, "I... I told her I didn't need it anymore

Although she started to go without makeup, bought old magazines, and couldn't learn how to take the rapid transit, she was still a wealthy second-generation who didn't know the cost of living. No matter how poor or embarrassed she was, money was always just a prop in her eyes. Suddenly losing it would indeed cause a lot of inconvenience in her life, but it was not important enough to override other things such as human life and morality.

Qilian looked at her inexplicably, as if she had gained some new understanding of her, and said, "I didn't expect you to be quite righteous

Jiang Xiaoyuan: "It's not that... I won't mention this anymore. Didn't I say we were going to a party? How can I get there

Qilian stood still and lifted her sharp eyes behind her glasses, saying, "Why don't you ask who's here today

Jiang Xiaoyuan: "..."

She felt that every word spoken from Qilian's mouth was like a pun, poking her fragile little nerves one by one. Jiang Xiaoyuan knew rationally that she should try a few rounds of Tai Chi and pretend to be confused, but her rationality had not yet taken control of her body. Impulsiveness had already stimulated him to blurt out, "What are you going to say? You already knew that I am not

Qilian glanced at her, and for no apparent reason, Jiang Xiaoyuan couldn't speak.

Qilian placed a finger on her lips and made a gesture of not saying anything to her: "Don't think that way, and don't say that - come with me

Jiang Xiaoyuan's heart skipped a beat as she followed Qilian to quickly leave the hospital.

Get in the car, "Qilian said," let me show you something first