Falling tonight

When they woke up the next day, the weather was still sunny, and the two drove to the hospital.

Only seeing the appearance of the area from a distance, Zhao Rou almost didn't recognize that the desolate and dilapidated place was the hospital where she once lived.

A part of a building has been demolished, and part of the building is still standing. The wall on the exterior of the building has turned gray-black. The exposed cement and steel bars on the dug-out wall are interlaced, which has accumulated the heavy atmosphere of time. At the same time, it is dilapidated. It looks like a weird place from a horror movie.

"Here, what else is there to see?"

Zhao Rou wanted to just turn around and go back.

Parking the car on the side of the desolate road, Mu Zhou put his fingers on the steering wheel and looked at the building from a distance with good interest. "The place around here is indeed quite desolate. What was it like before?"

Zhao Rou glanced at him and pointed to the flower bed filled with fallen leaves and weeds at the entrance of the abandoned hospital, "It's what you see. This hospital is not big. This area was the main urban area here at the time, so the benefits should be pretty good. The main city has been moved, so the hospital should also be demolished.”

Zhao Rou still didn't understand, "What's so interesting about this? It's a pile of weeds, it looks scary."

Muzhou smiled, did not answer her words, and asked, "When did you come to this hospital for treatment?"

Gao Songqing's previous information on her investigation did not include her detailed experience in country M. This time he just wanted to walk through the path she had taken.

"I think about it, after I broke my leg, my dad sent me to the hospital in Asia for about a week. Later he said that the local medical conditions in Asia were limited, so he found an advanced foreign treatment team and sent me here. Here it is.”

Now that Zhao Rou thought about it, if she hadn't needed treatment in the first few days after her injury and it was inconvenient to move her body, Zhao Shijin might have wished to send her away the next day to give Zhao Fangyi a place.

Mu Zhou stretched out his big hand to cover her hand on his knee, "How long have you been treated here?"

Looking up at the dilapidated wall of the hospital not far away, Zhao Rou recalled, "I was hospitalized for almost a year. In fact, normally I can be discharged from the hospital 3-4 months after the operation, but the doctor at the time said that I was too young. In order not to leave any sequelae, Jian suggested that I undergo rehabilitation. At that time, my father said that I had no relatives or friends here, and no place to live. There was only one nurse to take care of me, so he simply let me stay in the hospital directly."

"I remember you said that Li Sijin accompanied you in your rehabilitation."

Mu Zhou suddenly said these words, which instantly disrupted Zhao Rou's thoughts that were lost in memories. She turned to look at him and saw that his face was indifferent, with no emotion at all. She thought that he was just asking casually, He nodded and admitted.

"Yes, he lived in the ward next to me at that time. I felt that he was quite pitiful. He was all alone and had to take care of his sick mother at a young age. He felt that I was quite pitiful. At least he had his mother by his side. I All of my parents have been there, but only one of the caregivers stared at me all day long. So he came to chat with me in his free time, and because of his childish nature, he had a playmate to pass the time with, and we got to know each other as we went back and forth. .”

"Well, now you see the swing inside, the cobblestone path, and the flower bed. I have to practice walking every day. When the nurse is lazy, Li Sijin helps me walk step by step slowly, so I have to practice walking in those places. It’s quite familiar.”

Zhao Rou was just stating the facts lightly and recalling some episodes from the past, but it was not very pleasant to Mu Zhou's ears.

Mu Zhou even imagined the young Li Sijin helping Zhao Rou to move slowly, the two of them shoulder to shoulder, their backs looking inexplicably dazzling.

"You had a good relationship at that time? Why did you lose contact later?" Zhao Rou didn't hear the weirdness in his tone. "It's just a normal relationship between friends. Of course we get along well. I will be discharged after treatment is almost done. Before I leave the hospital, My dad found a place for me to stay, and I gave the address to Li Sijin, thinking that we were friends after all. After his mother was discharged from the hospital, we could continue to contact each other and help each other in this strange place, but there was no A few days ago, my dad asked me to move again. After I settled in, I went to the hospital to see Li Sijin. They had already been discharged and the phone couldn't be reached, so we never contacted him again."

After saying so much in one breath, Zhao Rou felt a little thirsty. She took a sip of water and looked sideways at Mu Zhou. Seeing that the indifferent expression on his face had disappeared, his thick eyebrows were slightly frowned, and he had an unhappy look on his face. She couldn't help but laugh. , "You yourself want to ask me about Li Sijin and I, but you won't be happy if I tell you, so why bother yourself?"

Mu Zhou squeezed her arm and said, "I'm not unhappy. I'm just glad you lost contact later, otherwise I wouldn't have had the chance to meet you."

Zhao Rou: "..."

She heard Mu Zhou ask again, "How do you live here alone after you are discharged from the hospital?"

"The nurse aunt who took care of me has been following me. She returned to China after a few years when I went to college and no one needed to take care of me."

After sitting in the car for a while, Zhao Rou felt that the place was a little desolate, and there was not a single soul in sight. She looked around and asked, "Why don't you go back."

"Okay," Mu Zhou didn't intend to stop here, so he turned around and drove back to the hotel.

Zhao Rou fastened her seat belt, "Let me tell you, it's really boring to spend your honeymoon here. This is basically the trajectory of my life."

Mu Zhou turned the steering wheel and looked at the road ahead, "How could it be? There are shadows of you in these places. I have never appeared before, so I wanted to come over and have a look at these places. At least we can be together in the place where you once lived." I don’t feel so regretful about the traces of being in the same frame..."

Zhao Rou was surprised and couldn't believe that she could hear such sensational words from his mouth. At the same time, her heart felt sour and full. He was regretting their separation fifteen years ago, and so was she.

Worried that Zhao Rou was unwell, the two went directly back to the hotel to rest.

As soon as he sat down, Mu Zhou received a call from Gao Songqing.

"Mr. Mu, something happened with Xiao Xinyun."

"what's the situation?"

"The day after Xiao Xinyun was detained, Xiao Zhong and his wife rushed back to Yashi from abroad. They have smoothed their relationship in the past few days. This morning, Xiao Zhong and his wife went directly to the bureau to bail her out. Our people stopped me. I was worried about what happened to Xiao Zhong and his wife. Bian will also think of ways to get Xiao Xinyun to come out."

Mu Zhou glanced at Zhao Rou, who was half-lying on the other side of the sofa, and frowned in displeasure, "The old man is still here, why are you panicking? My wife and I are on our honeymoon and we don't have time to deal with these things. You can take care of it."

"Mr. Mu," Gao Songqing was a little panicked on the other end of the phone. His voice rose a few degrees and reached Zhao Rou's ears, "Mr. Mu, Xiao Zhong and his wife must have come prepared for this. The bureau also watched it before. It’s your face, I’m worried about your absence…” (End of Chapter)