Drunken Master

Chapter 21 Sick Number

Pei Yan lay in the intensive emergency room overnight. The treatment and injection of drugs were timely, and she soon regained consciousness. The next morning, she was pushed to the general ward.After all, he was still young, with a strong body, nothing serious.

He opened his eyelids, and Johnny Wu's big face flashed in, looking closely at his face: "You're alive baby? Are you alright?"

Pei Yan rolled her eyelids, revealing a wandering smile: "Why...have I ever died?"

Uncle Johnny nodded: "It was scary on the set, you, your whole body twitched and passed out, shaking like a sieve."

"Everyone saw it?" Pei Yan expressed annoyance, "Didn't you rush around me to take pictures and post them on the Internet? Shame..."

Johnny Wu said: "I stopped it, no one secretly took pictures of you, the helicopter took you away and sent you to the hospital!"

"Fuck..." Pei Yan's expression changed as soon as he said it, "If someone else makes a composite photo and puts it on the Internet, saying that I fainted during the beating scene, what do you say, "Zhuang Xiao's studio hero saves the beauty's arms, everyone will be unconscious The weak and sick body of personnel'... If Zhang Huan dares to let go of another one, I will kill him! I think you dare!"

Johnny Wu: "..."

Johnny Wu wished he could lie down on his hospital bed, looked up and down carefully, and snorted in satisfaction: "Seeing you talk like this, I feel relieved. I haven't burnt my brain, I haven't burnt into a fool, and my temper is still like this. , This is annoying."

Pei Yan pouted immediately: "How dare you hate me? I delayed your date plan with your big architect this weekend, so you're going to bother me?"

Johnny Wu turned around and handed him a sippy cup, gagged his mouth and fed water: "Pee casually, with a catheter inserted, the doctor asked you to detoxify as much as possible."

Pei Yan raised an arm to cover her face, and let out a hum from her throat.

Halfway through, the attending doctor came in, pulled Mr. Pei's quilt away, checked his heart and lungs, pressed his lower abdomen, and asked him if he felt any pain.Pei Yan said that the joints all over her body hurt a lot, as if it fell apart last night, and it was reinstalled this morning, and it needs to be adjusted...

"I'm hesitant to tell you the truth?" After the doctor left, Johnny Wu looked at him with sentimental eyes, his hair was about to brush his face, making Pei Yan's face itchy.Johnny Wu said: "When you first entered the hospital, there were blood spots on your forehead and neck, as well as on your clothes. The doctor stripped your clothes and examined them for a long time. There is no tear on your body."

"Whose blood?" Pei Yan suddenly moved the arm covering her face, revealing her eyes.

"What do you mean baby?" Johnny Wu asked back.

"..."

"Where's that dress?!" Pei Yan asked quickly.

"Uh, the first aid has been cut into pieces, you still need to look for that torn clothes?" Uncle Johnny spread his hands.

"Cut it into pieces? Why don't you keep the clothes for me!" Pei Yan glared at him.

"..." Johnny Wu stared back at him, "Next time I'll give you first aid, should I first decide whether to save the person or the clothes? Are you burning stupid again?"

Pei Yan didn't burn out at all, she stared blankly, her eyes were soft and fluttering, her chest was suddenly breathless, as if she was flying at a height of more than 30 meters, the shadows of thousands of mountains and flying birds passed by in front of her eyes, and the one who finally froze was the one silhouette...

"Look through the trash can, can you still find it, can you help me get my blood type checked." He muttered in a low voice.

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Director Wang Yuanling also called to express condolences, and learned that he needed to be observed and treated at a local hospital for at least a week, so she immediately said that she would buy a plane ticket to visit him.

Pei Yan said on the video call: "Don't come, why are you making such a fuss? I'm fine."

Wang Yuanling said: "You need to support me for at least a month, and all the work arrangements have to be made backwards, delaying several groups, can this be called okay?"

Pei Yan smiled and said, "Push it back, sorry for the trouble."

Wang Yuanling said: "Looking at your frail appearance, after a trip to Hollywood, you didn't get a layer of gold on you, and it made you tired and skinny. It's like peeling off layers of skin and flesh. It's really not worth it! I knew I won't let you go, my sister loves you so much."

Pei Yan was weak, and laughed aloud: "Someone still loves me."

Wang Yuanling said: "Your virtue, save my sister's worry!"

Pei Yan told the old aunt again: "Don't post my news randomly, don't mention the embarrassing things like being sick and being hospitalized, it's not a good thing... I don't want to mention it."

"Did you scold Zhang Huan on the phone yesterday? Are you still scolding so badly?" Wang Yuanling taught him, "Don't always be like that. You do your own thing, and he does his. You are the one who offends you, so don’t be in a hurry to get angry and show your teeth and claws! People in their 20s should also learn to restrain themselves!"

Did Zhang Huan go to sue the director?

I haven't reported him yet.

Pei Yan mouthed into the video and muttered: What kind of words are you talking about, what kind of self-cultivation do I want?

The director's old aunt finished the phone call and hung up.The nurse came in, routinely monitored body temperature and blood pressure, gave medicine, and then someone delivered breakfast to each ward at the door.

Johnny Wu happened to be away, the door of the ward opened, and Zhuang Xiao took the breakfast for Pei Yan from the dining car.

Pei Yan glanced at it, and immediately cleared her head, and propped herself up from the bed with both hands, and looked handsome, don't look like you are weak and dying.

Zhuang Xiao deliberately waited until the next day to come to visit, so as not to disturb the patient's rest.He took the dinner plate with one hand, put it on the hospital bed first, then opened the table, and finally put the dinner plate on the table.All left-handed.

"Come?" Pei Yan said, "Sorry to trouble you."

"So polite." Zhuang Xiao opened the lid of the dinner plate for him, spread out the knife and fork, and did not talk nonsense.

"..." Pei Yan stared at Zhuang Xiao's obviously badly injured right hand wrapped into a rice dumpling, and suddenly wanted to say, "I was conscious at the time."

Zhuang Xiao found a chair and sat down, looking at him: "I am conscious but my muscles don't work, right? The convulsions were scary at the time."

Pei Yan said: "I am still awake while hanging on the top, looking at you, trying to grab you, hugging my thighs to prevent myself from slipping down, even if I can't grab it, I can't speak.

"My neck is stiff, my whole body is cramping, I can't move. I saw you grabbing that wire. If I could talk, I would have yelled 'Don't grab the rope'!

"I'm really sorry, Mr. Zhuang. Will there be sequelae in the hand?"

"..."

In the many days before and after, facing many different people, Pei Yan seldom spoke to a person so politely and sincerely. In front of Zhuang Xiao, she couldn't help restraining her arrogance, being good, and apologizing more than once , Who even pulls the banner and pulls the tiger's skin to show.

"The bones are not broken, and if you can take care of them, you don't have to worry about them."

Zhuang Xiao said to him.

"If I knew it was going to be so painful in advance, damn it, I might really have to hesitate!"

When Zhuang Xiao laughed at himself, he showed half of his dimple again.

Such an expression when facing each other, for Pei Yan now, is seduction and torture, making him occasionally impulsively want to get closer, want to pull the other person's chin and kiss...

"Don't you know that if you scratch it, you'll hurt your hand? You can't touch the wire rope. It's so powerful, it's just like cutting your hand with a steel knife." Pei Yan said.

"I've never touched that thing before, who thought of catching it?" Zhuang Xiao looked helpless.

Pei Yan's heart became hot again, and then she spurned herself again, so don't be so hot and glowing, baby Nuan, don't be sentimental.

Zhuang Xiao complained: "Your weight is really heavy."

Pei Yan lay on the bed, clasped her hands together and put her lips together: "There is no repayment for saving my life."

Pei Yan ate the usual sick meal in the hospital.The two chatted casually about filming and the mess left by them in the crew.

Pei Yan said: "There are only one or two last shots left, and I have to go back and make up for it later."

Zhuang Xiaodao: "What else is there to make up for? The brothers in our team all went back to work early this morning, and all of them are substitutes."

"Ah?" Pei Yan was not reconciled when she heard it, "I'm only two shots short, and I won't be able to guarantee it at the end of the festival!"

"My camera stand-in is also replaced by Xiao Sa. The one in our team who is about the same size as you will roll down the camera for you." Zhuang Xiao said.

"No one notified me, no one asked for my opinion." Pei Yan was dissatisfied.

"That shot was about you rolling down the cliff, your face was covered in mud and you couldn't see your face clearly, and then I fell to my death, what else do you want to shoot?" Zhuang Xiao looked at him mockingly.

It would not be complete enough without a perfect ending to the rivalry between the two. This is Pei Yan's true thought, and he is a little annoyed.

Zhuang Xiao said to him meaningfully: "If you are in the martial arts circle, you should give others a chance to show your face. If you don't want you to eat all the food by yourself, how can others hang out? You should rest when you have to rest." , and watch other people act, don't work too hard."

You have to do everything yourself, you can steal other people's jobs, and you can earn all the money by yourself. If you work too hard, you will offend others. This is what Zhuang Xiao meant euphemistically.

Fill me with chicken soup again, damn it.

Pei Yan also replied with a meaningful sentence: "Success, I'm waiting for the cooperation in the next play."

He talked too much and still exposed the exhaustion after the high fever, very tired, muscle aches, and poor spirits.Zhuang Xiao handed him water twice, then looked around: "Do you need to relieve? Is there a urinal in this room?"

Pei Yan immediately said, "No need."

Zhuang Xiao bowed his head and picked at the pile of odds and ends hanging at the end of the bed with ease: "Is the urine bag in...? Can you get a new one?"

Pei Yan was really embarrassed this time, the pain in his bones all over the hanging bottle couldn't stop him "teng" from the bed: "I don't need you, don't move! You...I'll call the nurse."

At this moment, he regretted that he didn't call the old godfather just now.In fact, Johnny Wu wandered back a long time ago, pushed open a crack in the door and found Zhuang Xiao in the room, this experienced gay guy shrank his head back with a "swish", and quickly hid... What the hell? .

"The nurses here are clumsy. A drop bottle can poke the back of your hand into a lotus pod. It's not as good as mine, really." Zhuang Xiao showed a faint smile, and he was so easy-going occasionally in life.

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The crew finished all the filming, and it was finished. It's a pity that the two Chinese-American leading actors were not on the set in the last day, and they didn't splash a big bottle of champagne on Big Daddy's face.

Group after group of crew members have visited Mr. Pei in the hospital and expressed their sincere condolences to him.Yankees pay great attention to this aspect of etiquette, and they will never come empty-handed. The room is full of well-packaged gifts, flowers, and potted plants.

Feicha, that ambitious old guy, put his arms around Mr. Pei in front of the hospital bed, and firmly squeezed him: "Boy, I still remember the project that your father promised you, and don't forget, I will invite you again in the future." Cooperate with me, for sure."

With the old guy's words, Pei Yan felt that the illness was worth it.

His team arranged the schedule for him, spent a few days of observation in the San Diego hospital, and then transported him back to China by plane, so that he would not be wasted in this unfamiliar corner.

Zhuang Xiao only stayed in Santiago for one more day, and would return to Los Angeles soon, and promised to come and have a look at Mr. Wound before leaving.The two of them are a bit addicted to chatting nonsense, so they can be considered friends anyway!

Zhuang Xiao carried a stack of Mr. Pei's favorite takeaway, stepped out of the elevator, and walked into the hospital corridor.

Coincidentally, the person coming up from the other elevator next to him was an acquaintance.Johnny Wu also just came to the hospital, and he brought two visits behind him.

Johnny Wu stared at Zhuang Xiaoti's takeaway at a glance, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind. He would never let Zhuang Xiao go, and he greeted loudly in a serious manner: "Oh, Mr. Zhuang, you still come to deliver the food yourself? Oh, old Pei Just say you will come today..."

Zhuang Xiao already noticed when his eyes glanced over the two people behind.After all, characters from a family are more similar in temperament, appearance and figure.

They were all really good-looking, eye-catching in the crowd, and well-dressed.

Johnny Wu enthusiastically introduced each other to each other.

Zhuang Xiao nodded politely to the other party, holding a pile of boxed lunches in his uninjured left hand, he had no hand to reach out to show courtesy.

Standing in front of him were Pei Yan's parents.

Of course, the most astonished person was Uncle Pei who was lying on the hospital bed waiting to eat three kinds of roast pork.

Pei Yan's reaction was even greater than Zhuang Xiao's reaction when he pulled the urine bag under his bed yesterday, and bounced off the bed with a "bang": "You two...why are you here?"

Ms. Xu Qishang walked straight to the hospital bed step by step, bent down, as if she hadn't seen him for a long time, stretched out her hand and slowly stroked his face: "Why are you here? Come and see you, oh..."

Pei Yan said: "I'm going back to China soon, and you still come here? Flying around the Pacific Ocean, how free are you two?"

"Hey, what are you talking about?" Xu Qishang said, "We are in a hurry. I heard that it is encephalitis. Do you know how serious it is? If it is not cured, there may be sequelae, and the brain will burn out... I am also concerned about you, and I will accompany you Go back, baby!"

This "baby" made all the people present break their merits.

Pei Yan himself had a fever in his ears, and his body heat was about to rise again, because Zhuang Xiao was in the room, standing not far away, enjoying this warm family scene where a loving father and mother visit a sick child.The side of Zhuang Xiao's face showed a deep expression, he must be laughing at him...

"Baby, what do you want to eat?" Ms. Xu remembered, and turned to look for the "delivery boy" who was carrying a box of lunch, picking which one was the best among the piles of plastic bags in Zhuang Xiao's hand, "Your friend just happened to I brought you something to eat, it should be your favorite custard buns and Cantonese roast meat, bring it for you to eat?"

Pei Yan was going crazy.

Xu Qishang is not like this usually, and he doesn't have a "baby" at home. He either calls him "son" or "monkey". He doesn't say a few polite words. Why is he crazy today?Was he frightened by his sudden illness, and suddenly changed the role of the Virgin Mary, loving him so much...

Zhuang Xiao smiled and brought the takeaway over, opened a box of quicksand custard buns for him, and stuffed the whole box directly into his hand, eat it, foodies.

Zhuang Xiao teased him: "It's good to have a mother who loves me."

Pei Yan snorted: "Yes, there are people who are in pain. You come to see me one after another. You won't be lonely in the hospital."

Zhuang Xiao laughed at him in a low voice: "You're still a 'baby', so you haven't been weaned?"

Pei Yan rolled her eyelids: "Did your mother ever call you baby? Nobody hurts you?"

Zhuang Xiao: "..."

After Pei Yan finished speaking, he realized that he had said the wrong thing. He spoke too fast, and there was no one to check the door. He really wanted to cut his own tongue.

Zhuang Xiao didn't talk to him anymore, turned his face away, silently swayed to a corner of the house where there was no sense of presence, and gave the central place to the family to continue performing the show of loving mother and charming child.

Ms. Xu Qishang sat in front of her son's bed and asked about his health and asked about the well-known process of illness and injury in detail; Don't be so verbose in front of you.

Zhuang Xiao nodded to Pei Yan from a distance: "Go out for a cigarette, you guys talk, I'll go first."

The Pei family knew from a distance that they must have a superior family background and a decent status. Pei Yan looked like a person who was raised and spoiled by his parents since he was a child, and his whole body was full of superiority and pride...Zhuang Xiao intuitively I can feel that my own existence is incompatible with such a warm and emotional family reunion scene, destroying the beauty of the picture, so I stepped away from the camera with self-knowledge.

Pei Yan felt melancholy, and wanted to say, "If you want to smoke, just stand in front of me and smoke."

Mom and Dad came at the wrong time, so I can't say anything, it's too bad...

"When you return to your country, you must contact me!

"Let's have a meal together."

He could only add a few words to the back of Zhuang Xiao who left quickly...

Ms. Xu felt that there was nothing wrong with her speech. The 23-year-old son, isn't he just graduated from university, is he a child at all.Filming is so hard, injuries are commonplace, whose son is not a "baby" to be pampered?

Pei Yan's illness didn't spoil her good appetite, so she ate a box of quicksand yolk buns in two bites, chewing on the aftertaste that belonged to Mr. Zhuang in her mind, threw herself into the pillow, and covered her face with her arms: "Oh... Mom ..."

"What are you calling me for, you?" Xu Qishang looked at him.

"It's nothing, you are so considerate." Pei Yan didn't even have the energy to complain.

"Who is that man?" Xu Qishang leaned closer and asked him probingly.

"No one." Pei Yan said.

"Just say 'who' it is!" Xu Qishang put on an understanding, gentle and motherly face.

"It's not who!" Pei Yan turned away uncooperatively.

"..."

Ms. Xu's motherly aura immediately collapsed, her image and persona completely collapsed, and she snorted: "Don't tell mom the truth, little monkey, you wait..." She didn't ask any more questions, and pulled Mr. Pei to follow closely She also went out, leaving Pei Yan alone in the ward, so depressed that she wrapped her head in a quilt.

Zhuang Xiao got on the elevator, and his back just disappeared into the closed elevator door. Ms. Xu Qishang quickly pressed the button, but unfortunately she couldn't catch up with the same ladder, so she hurried to another elevator and went straight downstairs.

Pei Zhixun frowned and said in a low voice, "What are you doing here?"

Xu Qishang said: "Nothing, I'll just take a look at this."

Pei Zhixun: "Look at who? Do you know which one?"

Xu Qishang said: "I took a look at it just now, and I think it's not bad...it looks pretty good."

"No." Pei Zhixun shook his head and denied, "This is an actor, and he is also a big star. Do you think he is really the assistant who carries bags in his company...? Certainly not."

"Then come to see the sick and deliver meals? So attentive?" Xu Qishang said.

"It's not like I didn't send this and that to the set before..." Pei Zhixun was sullen, and didn't want to continue this topic.It's one thing to be able to "accept" calmly, but it's another thing for his wife to think about it all day long and try to make a big move with a pair when he doesn't have any cards in his hand.

After getting out of the elevator, what Ms. Xu could see from afar was the back of Zhuang Xiao who put a cigarette in his mouth and hurried away when he stepped out of the hospital gate.

The couple stood at the gate of the hospital for a long time, looking into the distance.

"Well, anyway, he didn't tell us which one it was. I'll just check this first...is it reliable?" Xu Qishang sighed softly, unable to bear the hearts of parents all over the world, and sighed and worried.

"Whether he is reliable or not is a matter for him to decide. Can he listen to us? He has listened to you?" Pei Zhixun shook his head.

"It's just that the hairstyle is more...unconventional...this hair is too long." Ms. Xu commented.

"Isn't our family shaved and bald? Isn't it handsome enough? One has braids and the other has a bald head. Oh, I think it's just right!" Old Mr. Pei made a concluding statement.

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