inexhaustible

Chapter 4 I Can Accept Your Unspoken Rules

"Need not."

I refused without thinking, and stretched out my hand to Shang Muxiao, motioning him to return the phone.

"Have you figured it out? It's hard to get a taxi at this point around here." He looked into the rain, and his eyes fell on a black Hummer parked not far away.

The huge, pitch-black monster stood in the open space like a monster, full of presence.

"It's hard to drive a 'big car'."

I continued to reach out to him, unmoved.

He snorted, threw the phone back to me, and then retreated to the wall.

The rain was still falling, and I didn't know when it would end. Water droplets fell intermittently from the eaves, and the car still couldn't hit it.

It seemed as if all the cars in Qingwan had bypassed this place, and it seemed that I had been pulled into a blacklist for refusal to board without knowing it.

Shang Muxiao put his hands in his pockets, leaned against the wall, and looked into the rain curtain for a long time.

I don't know why he didn't go, but he just didn't.Not only did he not leave, but he was as quiet as air.

I'm not sure if he's in a daze, or enjoying the rain, or something worse - just look at me.

As time passed, I no longer had any hope of getting a taxi, and I stopped looking at my phone.

"As I said, it's hard to get a taxi around here."

I just sighed a little tiredly, and the Shang Muxiao seemed to be paying attention to my reaction all the time, and said some gloating words.

What I suffer today will be blamed on Shen Luoyu in the future.

"Driving the car." I stuffed the phone into my coat pocket.

Shang Muxiao turned his head to look over: "Huh?"

The drawn-out tone was not one of surprise at all.I'm sure he heard it and understood it, and just wanted to hear it again nasty.

And it doesn't make any difference to me whether to say the second time or not.

Cheating is the difference from zero to ∞, so is showing weakness.

"Bring the car over here, go quickly." I looked at him and lifted my chin towards where the Hummer was.

Shang Muxiao straightened up, with a triumphant smile on his face, he took two steps forward, then stepped back, and stretched out his hand towards me.

"Give me the umbrella, I hate the rain."

It's okay if he doesn't explain, but once I explain, I can't help but think about it.

Passing over the umbrella hanging on the armrest of the wheelchair, I asked hesitantly, "You don't really want to give it to me just because of my umbrella, do you?"

He held the umbrella body and smiled at me: "So what?" Then he twitched suddenly, opened the black umbrella and walked into the rain whistling.

The black Hummer stopped in front of me, and Shang Muxiao got out of the car and opened the rear door, with a look of greeting the driver.

Although I still have a little feeling in my lower limbs, Shang Muxiao's car is too high, and I can't get on it by myself.

I suspect that he has figured this out, and is here to see me laughing.

Frozen in place, I didn't move for a long time, the dark car was like the mouth of a giant shark, opening its mouth menacingly towards me.Every sense tells me that this is not a good idea.

"Do you need help?" Finally, Shang Muxiao seemed to have seen enough of the show, and decided not to disguise himself as a humanoid mushroom attached to the car door, and extended a helping hand to me.

He glanced at Yousen's "Jukou", and then at Shang Muxiao.It's not a good idea, everyone knows it, but I still can't help myself.

"Excuse me, help me." I held out my hand, once again showing weakness, and found that I have become more and more used to it.

Even with the help of Shang Muxiao, the process was still not smooth.

Twelve years ago, a serious car accident damaged my spine and paralyzed my lower limbs. Since that day, my two legs have been completely useless.I had long since accepted the reality and realized that I was doomed to spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair.

For the first two years, the doctor put me in active rehabilitation, thinking that although I would no longer be able to walk as well as a normal person, I might be able to stand for a while and occasionally walk around the house with a cane.

I didn't think it was any better, but my parents insisted, and I had to start a painful recovery.Then, all attempts ended in failure.For the first time in my life, I realized that not all hard work pays off.Compared with the frustration caused by failure, the hard-to-disguise disappointment on my parents' faces made me feel more tormented.

Reconstruction is terminated, and I will no longer make any efforts.It took only two months for my parents to go from being annoyed at the beginning to giving up on me completely.

In hindsight, they may have figured it out in the past two months.Rather than wasting time on me, a useless person, it is better to have another child and re-train it, which is more reliable.So in the second year, Beiyan was born.

"I can't walk with you like this."

If I had known today, I should have paid more attention to rebuilding back then.

Half of my body weight was on Shang Muxiao's neck, he was brought down by me, he was holding the handle of the wheelchair in a distorted posture, and his tone had begun to become impatient.

"Then you can think of a better posture." I hooked his neck with both hands, trying not to fall down, but the second my voice fell, my whole body lightened, and before I could react, I was caught by Shang Muxiao He hugged him horizontally.

I stared at him in shock, unable to say a word.

"This posture is very good." He smiled slightly and sent me steadily into the back seat.

After falling to the ground, the frightened heart slowly returned to its normal rhythm.

"How do you take this?" Shang Muxiao asked while fumbling with the structure of the wheelchair.

I regained my senses and instructed him how to fold the wheelchair correctly.He quickly found the knack, put away the wheelchair and stuffed it in the trunk.

After telling him the address, he set up the navigation, and we had no further communication.Whether it was the conversation about "opportunity" that day, or everything in the support group just now.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, gradually forming a pouring trend.Apart from the regular mechanical sound of the wipers, there is nothing else in the car.

I turned on my phone and looked at the weather forecast. The probability of thunderstorms at night is close to 80%. It seems that the rain will still fall.

It took half an hour on the road, and when I entered the underground parking garage, Shang Muxiao sent me directly to the elevator entrance.

When I got out of the car, he was still the one who carried me down.This time I was fully prepared, and I remembered to say thank you to him.

But to my surprise, Shang Muxiao didn't drive away immediately after putting me down, but locked the car door and stared at me.

"What?" I asked him, frowning.

"I'm a little thirsty, can I go up and have a cup of tea?" His tone was like a dead child who walked into a convenience store and asked the boss for Mai Xuanfeng, which was confusing and taken for granted.

"I'm sorry, I can't." I refused bluntly, and then steered the wheelchair towards the elevator.After walking for a while, he looked back and found that Shang Muxiao had followed him.

I turned the wheelchair to face him, and reiterated: "I said, no."

"I heard it." With his hands in his denim jacket, Shang Muxiao looked a bit rascal.

I've even made up his subtext - I heard it, but so what?Can you break my legs so I can no longer follow you?

I can not.

I looked at him for a while, I had nothing to do with him, and simply ignored him.

Shang Muxiao just followed me, took the elevator all the way, went upstairs, and came to the same door as me.

When I opened the door with the fingerprint lock, he leaned against the door and watched me.

"Aren't you defensive at all?" He seemed incredulous, "What if I want to kill people and steal money?"

There was a pause in opening the door, and I looked at him strangely.

"Are you driving a car worth millions to steal my money?"

He may also realize that this matter is a bit unreasonable, so he changed his rhetoric and said, "Then...to win the color?"

Opening the door, I laughed when I heard what he said.

"A few days ago, you told me not to think about you."

When I entered the room, I turned on all the lights in the living room, and as soon as I turned around, Shang Muxiao came in by himself.

"Your house... there are so few things." He looked around, his words were already very polite, I think he should have meant to say "shabby".

I live alone in this house, with a total of more than 50 square meters, one bedroom and one living room. The space is limited, and a wheelchair is not suitable for stacking things at home. I always only buy necessities.

"Drink the water and leave immediately." I didn't talk, went to the kitchen to pour a glass of water, and went back to the living room to see that he was studying my telescope.

"Don't touch it randomly." I reminded him patiently, and put the water glass on the coffee table.

"I can't see anything." He looked at the eyepiece with one eye and saw nothing for a long time. He also felt that it was boring, so he decisively gave up this "toy" and sat down on the sofa.

"It's raining today, and the clouds are so thick, you can't see anything." I tried hard to justify the name of my telescope.

"What can you see when the weather is good?" Shang Muxiao asked with a water glass.

"Star."

"Star?"

"This is an astronomical telescope."

He nodded, not necessarily interested.

Suddenly, his coat pocket vibrated.He frowned and took out his cell phone to look at it, hesitated for a few seconds, and finally connected the call.

"sister."

I still remember how violent he was when he got a call from his sister last time.This time, it seemed to be a bereaved dog in the rain, listless.

"Well, I know, it's raining...I'm outside, in..." He glanced at me, without changing his expression, "at a friend's house, he will accompany me. No...not Yin Nuo and others, it is new friends."

I remember the name Yin Nuo. It should be one of his two classmates in my elective student list.

Five minutes later, Shang Muxiao hung up the phone.He stared at his phone for a while, then looked out the window.

The raindrops slanted on the glass windows, rendering the neon lights in the distance into colorful spots.

"I hate rain."

"I hate rain too."

Shang Muxiao raised his eyebrows and looked over suspiciously.

"When it rains, there are no stars." I pointed to the Celestron facing the sky, and explained, "Although I can't travel around the world, I can soar through the universe."

"Sounds very interesting." He said without sincerity, and the whole person nestled into the sofa, embracing his arms, "Let me stay a little longer, and I will go when the rain stops."

Obviously, drinking water is just an excuse.

I checked the time, it was 10:30pm.Driving the wheelchair, I decided to leave him alone and go to sleep.

"Don't forget to close the door when you leave."

When he reached the bedroom door, he barely touched the doorknob, and Shang Muxiao's voice came from behind him.

"Professor Bei, I've changed my mind."

I look back at him.

Shang Muxiao closed his eyes and leaned on the sofa cushion. Shen Luoyu bought this sofa for me. Although it is useless to me, she said that the guests would definitely like it. Once she sat down, it was like sitting in the clouds, and she didn't want to get up at all.

I don't know if Shang Muxiao is in such a state, but his voice does sound drowsy and delirious.

"I think, I can accept your unspoken rules." He said lazily, and slowly opened his eyes.Contrary to the voice, there was no sleepiness in his eyes, and he couldn't be more awake.

He actually regretted not taking my "chance".