Dip in fire

第21章 “5脏6腑，7经8脉？”

Zhong Ning was unlucky all day long, and ran into Zhong Pei when he went home, so naturally he couldn't escape a lesson.

In the evening, Zhong Pei was entertaining customers at the wine bureau. Although he didn't drink too much, his lips and teeth were already full of alcohol, and his tone of voice was a bit draggy.

Zhong Pei: "The little kid doesn't go to school well, and he knows to fight all day long. The bruise on his face hasn't disappeared yet, and there's another bruise on the bridge of his nose."

Zhong Pei twisted Zhong Ning's ear and said, "I really need to have a good talk with your homeroom teacher, and educate you bastards!"

"Mom, don't, don't go looking for Lao Si, Lao Si can be fierce." Zhong Ning struggled to save his ear from Zhong Pei's grasp, "We are... between buddies, you You know, you are young, your blood is hot."

"Hot fart!" Zhong Pei slapped Zhong Ning on the back, causing Zhong Ning to cry out in pain.

Zhong Pei paused, his eyes flickered, and he rubbed his son twice: "Do you still know it hurts?"

"I promise there will be no next time, really." Zhong Ning promised his mother seriously.

Zhong Pei looked at Zhong Ning, touched Zhong Ning's face with his palm, and sighed.Maybe it was because of the alcohol, she started talking nonsense: "In my life, I'm really not very popular with men."

Zhong Ning could tell that Zhong Pei had drunk too much and spoke indiscriminately. While scolding him, he was still thinking of his short-lived grandfather and resenting him for not having a clean and decent father.It's just that Zhong Ning is young now and doesn't understand women or mothers.I don't understand how soft and fragile she is hidden behind her strength.

Zhong Ning hurriedly helped Zhong Pei into the room, and said with a smile, "Where is it, how nice I am, I am handsome and smart, and when I earn money in the future, I will be able to take care of you."

Zhong Ning kicked Daduozi out of the way, and said casually: "In the future, I will earn a lot of money, so much money that I can't spend it all, and buy furs for Daduozi to make a nest in winter."

"Get out, your morals are corrupt." Zhong Pei lay down on the bed and waved his hands, "I don't know who you look like with this mouth, glib No. 1."

Zhong Ning laughed, and covered Zhong Pei with a sheet.

Zhong Pei stared at him for two seconds, punched the sheet with his fist, and repeated the original words: "If you keep fighting outside, I'll break your leg!"

"Oh..." Zhong Ning was taken aback, "Mom, I promise, it will never happen again."

"Okay, stop talking." Yan Huiwan came in holding a bowl of honey water, "If you drink too much, talk less, if you want to scold the child, you will scold the child tomorrow when you are sober, so you won't be able to scold incoherently, and he won't be able to hear a word go in."

Zhong Ning was very grateful to his grandma for coming to the rescue, so he quickly turned his face and smiled at her, then folded his hands together and bowed, only kneeling on the ground to express his gratitude.

"Let's go." Yan Huiwan looked down on Zhong Ning's stupid appearance, and pushed him away, "Go out, I will take care of your mother, she hasn't taken off her make-up yet."

"Oh." Zhong Ning said immediately, Liang Gao jumped out of the room, and squeezed his head into the crack of the door before closing the door, "Then I'll go and see Zhang Weilan."

"Go." Yan Huiwan hurriedly told him to get out.

"What happened to Wei Lan?" Zhong Pei asked.

Yan Huiwan: "I have a high fever. You came back from the hospital half an hour before you went home. Today Xiao Ning and Wei Lan are fighting with their classmates."

"Wei Lan... none of the children these days is reassuring, I really have to go to their class teacher..."

"Let's let it out, one is more stubborn than the other, I can't help it at all...you drink some honey water first..."

At the Zhang family's side, old man Zhang saw Zhang Weilan's face was pale, and the old tears rolled down in an instant, making his eyes muddy and red, and his eyelids became more aging and loose.

He stirred a pot of gruel for Zhang Weilan, put out a bowl to let it cool, and let Zhang Weilan rest his stomach.

Zhang Weilan had no appetite, and after taking the bottle, his tongue tasted bitter. Seeing the old man's appearance, he couldn't stop drinking, so he forced himself to drink more than half of the bowl, and then coaxed the old man back to the house to rest.

Xiao Huan stayed in the room where Lu Qingqing and Zhang Zhiqiang used to live, and Zhang Weilan hadn't seen her since returning home.

Zhang Weilan guessed that old man Zhang didn't let her come out, and she certainly didn't want to come out, so as not to cause trouble for each other.

But when Zhang Weilan turned off the lights and closed his eyes, his door was suddenly squeezed open.

When the surroundings are very quiet, the slight "creak" sound of the door opening will be amplified, and it will penetrate into Zhang Weilan's ears nakedly, causing the eardrums to become numb.

Zhang Weilan turned her head to look, and taking advantage of the dim light in the living room, she saw a small figure at the door, squatting down and looking into the room.

Zhang Weilan: "..."

Zhang Weilan straightened her upper body, stretched her arms, reached the switch with her fingers, and turned on the headlights above her head.

Xiao Huan trembled violently, but ran away without running away.Her big dark eyes met Zhang Weilan's.

"..." Zhang Weilan sat up from the bed, leaning her back on the wooden headboard, feeling pain in her skin and flesh from the carvings on the headboard.

He was silent for a while before he said, "What are you doing standing at the door?"

Xiao Huan pursed her mouth, lowered her head, and her little neck was almost crushed.She still stood there without saying a word, but she didn't dare to look at Zhang Weilan again.

Zhang Weilan suddenly felt awkward, and he pursed his dry lips: "You come in."

When Xiao Huan heard this, she raised her head and blinked, then closed the door and walked to Zhang Weilan's bedside.

Xiao Huan said softly and childishly: "Grandpa said, brother is sick."

Zhang Weilan: "..."

Xiao Huan stared at Zhang Weilan's back of the hand, which was pasted for the infusion, and said, "Brother got an injection."

"Hmm." Zhang Weilan sized Xiaohuan up, "What are you doing here?"

Xiao Huan didn't say a word, holding a toffee in her small hand.Seeing the little girl shivering in front of her eyes, Zhang Weilan finally put the toffee next to her pillow.

Zhang Weilan stared at Tang and asked, "Are you afraid of me?"

Xiao Huan nodded quickly, thought for a while and then shook her head.After a moment of hesitation, he nodded again.

Zhang Weilan had already guessed that this timid and nervous little bastard from the north and the south was very fine without parents.She probably also knew that she didn't want her, so she took the initiative to come over to please her.

After experiencing so much suffering, even children will be extraordinarily thoughtful.It's like the grass roots are growing wildly and vigorously, but when they are crushed by big rocks, they learn to twist their way through the crevices.

Zhang Weilan lowered her eyes, and happened to be able to see the top of Xiao Huan's drooping head. There was a swirl on the top of her head, and the hair around her was thick and black.

The little girl is thin and small, really short.According to the current situation, it will definitely not grow tall in the future, and it will be a setback.

"Go back to the house and sleep." Zhang Weilan said.

Xiao Huan raised her head and smiled quickly at Zhang Weilan.Only then did Zhang Weilan realize that Xiao Huan had lost a front tooth and hadn't replaced it yet, and there was a hole in the door curtain.

When Xiao Huan left, Zhang Weilan slid to the bed and lay down, but forgot to turn off the light.

Not wanting to get up again, he reached for the switch.He must have been suffering from this illness for a long time, once it erupted fiercely, and today he was beaten again, now his whole body is numb and hurts, and if he moves casually, he feels like a rotten persimmon rolling on needles.

Zhang Weilan closed her eyes. Because of the light, after closing her eyes, it was not dark, but a dull warm color, and it was hard to tell whether it was orange or red.Very dark, very dark, like the last faint light of the setting sun, falling into the dust.

Zhang Weilan couldn't sleep, even though he closed his eyes and remained motionless, he still couldn't sleep.It may be because he slept in the hospital before, or it may be because of the dim light that made him feel uneasy now.

Zhang Weilan lay down like a log, trying to cultivate the drowsiness in the disease, and there was a sound in his ear.

He frowned and refused to open his eyes, but the noise became louder and louder. Zhang Weilan could tell that the sound came from the window.

With a "crash", the screen window was pulled open.

Zhang Weilan could only open his eyes and look over, and saw a lump bulging behind the curtain, the lump moved, and the curtain was pulled open, revealing Zhong Ning's face.

Zhang Weilan: "..."

Zhong Ning squatted on the window sill: "I knew you were awake." The next second he jumped down from the window sill, his footsteps were light, and there was not much movement when he landed.

Zhang Weilan: "..."

Zhang Weilan said in disbelief, "You opened my window?"

Zhong Ning wanted to laugh, but his lips hurt, so he restrained himself.

Young Master Zhong habitually did his own thing, he leaned over to Zhang Weilan's bedside, and sat down unceremoniously: "Just... being scolded by my mother gave me a headache, I ordered by grandma to come and see you."

Zhang Weilan stared at Zhong Ning, and questioned again: "If there is a door, you can't go through the window?"

Zhong Ning pouted: "Your house is locked, and it's so late, I think Grandpa Zhang should be asleep."

Zhong Ning: "The light in your room is on."

Zhang Weilan: "..."

Zhang Weilan said a word: "Then you have to come?" But before he could say it, Zhong Ning asked him again: "Are you all right? What about your injuries? Your voice is still hoarse ..."

Zhong Ning was stunned by Zhang Weilan's bloody coughs, and now recalling that time, he still has palpitations.

Zhong Ning babbled like he was taking drugs: "The bald man is very ruthless, do you still have any pain?"

Zhong Ning: "Viscera, six internal organs, seven meridians and eight meridians?"

"...It's okay." Zhang Weilan looked deeply at Zhong Ning, turned his head for two seconds, and then stared at the pillow, the toffee that Xiao Huan put was in a trance.

Zhong Ning followed Zhang Weilan's line of sight, and also saw Toffee: "You said the bald guys will trouble us in the future?"

"I don't know." Zhang Weilan said in a hoarse voice, "I think at least I won't take the initiative to make trouble again. Didn't Zhou Baixue's family pay back all the money. If you meet them in the future, just hide."

"I think so too. Then I have to tell Jianjian and Xu Huai to be careful."

Zhong Ning's eyes moved, Zhang Weilan also turned his eyes, and the two suddenly met each other.

Zhang Weilan frowned slightly and sighed: "I'm fine."

"...Huh?" Zhong Ning was stunned for a moment, his eyes drifted to the tear mole in the corner of Zhang Weilan's eyes, "Oh."

"I said I'm fine." Zhang Weilan repeated.

Zhong Ning didn't say anything.

They were silent for a while, Zhang Weilan closed her eyes, and suddenly said lightly, "Are you relieved now?"

Zhong Ning's chest was raised inexplicably, like a thin silk thread that tied the tip of the heart and hung it up, but the thread broke before the lift was too high.That line is transparent, too thin, and the sound of breaking can't be heard clearly, only the slight drop of the heart falling back.

Zhong Ning: "...um."

Zhong Ning stared at Zhang Weilan's small tear mole, and was about to look at him in a daze, he quickly blinked his eyelids twice, then tilted his head to look at Zhang Weilan's bag.

Zhong Ning sharply saw the soy sauce stain on the schoolbag - it was the stain from the last fight between the two of them.

"Then I'll go back." Zhong Ning said.

Zhang Weilan opened his eyes: "Go through the door when you go out."

Zhong Ning stood up from the bed: "No, it's very convenient to turn through the window. My room is on the opposite side, just turn in."

Zhang Weilan was speechless.

Zhong Ning went to the window and turned back, rarely asked carefully: "Can you turn off the light?"

"Ah."

Zhong Ning pressed the switch with a "click", and the room was suddenly pitch black.Poor Zhong Ning's poor night vision, he knocked on the foot of the bed just as he kicked his knees.

"Oh..." Zhong Ning twisted his face in pain.

Zhang Weilan: "..."

Zhong Ning grinned, put his toes on the ground and walked around for a while, then climbed up the window sill vigorously, turned his face to Zhang Weilan and said, "Let's go."

He lifted the curtains, and the moonlight outside was like a silver-plated waterfall, rushing in in an instant, piercing Zhang Weilan's eyes, and at the same time Zhong Ning jumped up and jumped out from the window sill.

Then the curtains swung back, the waterfall closed, and the moonlight stopped abruptly.The screen window was closed with a friction sound.

The room fell into silence and darkness.

Zhang Weilan listened with his ears open, and heard Da Duozi chirping outside the window, presumably Da Duozi was waiting for Zhong Ning at his window.

Zhong Ning trained the dog in a low voice like a thief: "Be honest, don't lick me, start opening..."

The sound is getting farther and farther.

When the sound disappeared completely, Zhang Weilan reached out and touched the toffee next to the pillow. With his eyes closed, he carefully tore off the candy wrapper and stuffed the toffee into his mouth.

The warm sweet scent melted on his bitter tongue.