i loved you so much

Chapter 27 The price of love (1)
In a few days, it will be New Year's Eve, and the hospital naturally does not have the atmosphere of celebrating the New Year, and it is deserted from morning till night.Li Menghui sat on the sofa with her head down, casually flipping through the magazine in her hand page by page. When she turned to the page of interviews, she stopped and read the content carefully.

At this time, the door of the ward was pushed open, and Li Xiaoan walked in.

Li Menghui smiled at him, raised her chin and pointed to the coffee table: "I know you're coming, so I asked the nurse to buy two cups of black coffee."

Li Xiaoan frowned: "You can't drink coffee."

"One for you, one for me to smell."

Li Xiaoan took a sip of coffee and sat down on the independent sofa next to her.

Li Menghui raised the magazine in her hand and said with a smile: "This magazine seems to be very interested in your private life."

Li Xiaoan glanced at it, but said nothing.

Li Menghui seemed to be used to his reticence, so she closed the magazine and put it aside.The two sat facing each other, and she picked up the coffee and put it under her nose for a deep sniff.

"Lixuan is right, I don't like drinking black coffee." She seemed to be talking to herself.

Li Xiaoan raised his eyes in surprise.

Li Menghui smiled slightly: "Strange? I used to drink black coffee with you, but you never asked me if I liked it."

Her tone was like a veiled accusation, Li Xiaoan looked at her: "You can tell me if you don't like it, you don't have to drink it, I haven't thought about it that much."

"You still refuse to admit it. The biggest problem between us is that you don't love me enough." Li Menghui looked directly at him frankly.

Li Xiaoan looked back at her: "Menghui, it's meaningless to say these things now."

"Yeah, love or not is a thing of the past anyway. Speaking of which, I can stay in this high-end ward so leisurely and comfortably, I should thank you."

"No, even if you are just Lixuan's friend, I will help you with this."

Li Menghui smiled bitterly: "So that's the case, can you do me another favor?"

"You said."

"I will have that operation in the next year. The doctor said that the success rate is less than half. I only have my mother as a relative in this world. She is not in good health. If I can't wake up again, I would like to ask you Help me take care of her."

She said such ominous words very calmly, Li Xiaoan was moved by it, he stared at her for a long time, then nodded slightly: "Okay."

After getting his response, Li Menghui seemed to feel relaxed. She picked up the remote control on the table and pressed it. The TV screen lit up. She changed a few channels, and finally stopped at the news station, and focused look.

Li Xiaoan looked at her profile with deep eyes.He knows that she has had a bad life these years. Zheng Sanmu loves her, but he doesn't cherish her. He reminded her at the beginning, but she insisted on going with him. This path is her own choice, good or bad. Take it, it has nothing to do with him.

The phone in his pocket rang, he took it out, and when he saw the caller ID, he went to the balcony to answer it: "What did you find?"

"An Zhengran is from Linzhou. I went to Linzhou a few days ago to visit his old neighbors and classmates. I found out some old things. It turned out that he had a lover before he got married, who was his high school classmate... "

Li Xiaoan was expressionless at first, until he heard the other party say a name, he was caught off guard, unconsciously showing an expression of disbelief, turned around abruptly, and cast his eyes on the people in the room through the glass door.

Li Menghui seemed to have sensed something, turned around and glanced at him, saw his lips move slightly, said something, then cut the thread, and walked in quickly: "I have something to do, let's go first, take care of me rest."

By the time she realized it, he had strode out of the room.

An hour later, the ferry terminal.

Li Xiaoan's Audi intersected with a black Toyota, the windows of the Toyota were lowered, and the man in sunglasses on the driver's seat handed over a cowhide envelope: "Time is too short, and it's the end of the new year. I can only call out these In addition, I went to his hometown and found something, you can understand it by looking at the things in the file bag."

Li Xiaoan took it over and said, "Thank you."

The man in sunglasses grinned, pressed the central control, raised the window, and the car merged into the traffic flow and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Li Xiaoan opened the envelope and took out a group photo of graduation. The white background of the photo turned yellow, obviously hidden for many years. His fingers ran across the people in the photo one by one. When he touched the two familiar faces , his hand shook slightly.

In an instant, his chest seemed to be filled with lead, so heavy that he couldn't breathe. The sun was sinking on the horizon. He watched it sink slowly, and the light was swallowed up bit by bit until it disappeared completely. The inner self-confidence is also swallowed up, leaving only a hole in the heart, which is gradually occupied by various negative emotions.

After an unknown amount of time, he took out his cell phone in a daze, called up An Xiaoduo's number and dialed it.

After it rang for a while, An Xiaoduo answered and said "Hello" in a panting voice with a noisy background.

Li Xiaoan was speechless for a moment, he didn't know how to speak, he just wanted to hear her voice.

"Li Xiaoan?" She called him tentatively.

"Well, it's me."

An Xiaoduo's voice was full of confusion: "You...why did you call me?"

Li Xiaoan was silent for a moment, then said, "It's nothing, I made a mistake."

"... Oh." An Xiaoduo seemed disappointed, "Then... just hang up."

"Xiaoduo." He called her.

"what?"

"You said before that the person who kidnapped Yuanyuan was not your father, so do you know who it is?"

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be stunned by his words. After a while, An Xiaoduo's voice came over mixed with the sound of the car: "I don't know...why did you suddenly ask this? Do you know anything? You... ..." She stopped abruptly in the midst of the increasingly clear sound of the car.

Li Xiaoan asked repeatedly: "Xiaoduo? An Xiaoduo?"

What responded to him was a sharp brake sound, and then the phone was suddenly disconnected, and he called again, and the other party had already turned off the phone.

In an instant, Li Xiaoan's heart surged with fear, and countless bad associations bit him together.He took a deep breath, suppressed the strong uneasiness in his heart, and called Wu Lixuan, his fingers trembling when pressing the keys: "Book me a ticket to Lizhou at the fastest speed, yes, book it now, I will be there in an hour Airport."

Wu Lixuan knew from his voice that something must be wrong with An Xiaoduo, and he didn't dare to waste time at this juncture, so he answered "yes" and immediately closed the line to book tickets.

At a quarter past eight, Aunt Sun was cleaning in the kitchen when she heard Wang Qian who was watching TV outside excitedly yelling, "Husband, hubby! Are you here to pick me up?"

She thought to herself: It's broken, this girl is sick again.She threw the rag in her hand on the stove and ran out in a hurry. Wang Qian was dancing around a man. The man was tall, about 1.8 meters tall, and looked like a movie star. He was long and light-colored. Wearing the windbreaker open, there is a black suit underneath, and the two long legs are very conspicuous.

She hurriedly stepped forward to pull the girl away, and looked back at the person who came: "Who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for An Xiaoduo." It was Li Xiaoan who came.

"Oh, you are Xiaoduo's friend?" Aunt Sun looked at the other party again, and couldn't help thinking: No wonder, these two people standing together really echoed the old saying "a match made in heaven".So she smiled: "She is my tenant and lives on the second floor above, but she went out this morning and hasn't come back yet."

Li Xiaoan frowned: "Do you know where she went?"

"Her father is in the hospital. These days she leaves early and returns late to take care of the hospital. Otherwise, where do you go to look for it? She should be here at this point."

"Which hospital?"

"The Third Hospital is not far away. If you take a taxi, you can get there at the starting price."

Before she finished speaking, the man turned around and strode away suddenly, his movements were so loud that a gust of cold wind was blown up.

In the quiet room, only the sound of Dr. Zheng operating the instrument, An Xiaoduo didn't dare to breathe, looked at the doctor's face, and then looked up at the monitor connected to the instrument, which showed the condition of her uterus.

Seeing Dr. Zheng's serious expression, she was very nervous.

"Doctor Zheng, is the child okay?"

"Relax, your heart is beating too fast."

She tried to adjust her breathing, but her heart was beating like a drum, and she couldn't slow down at all.After a while, Dr. Zheng put the instrument back in place, took out a few pieces of paper and put them on her bare belly: "Okay, wipe it off."

After wiping, An Xiaoduo put down her highly rolled clothes, and sat up: "Doctor Zheng, is there any effect? ​​The car braked just in time, so I wiped it lightly, and I turned sideways quickly. It shouldn't have touched the stomach."

"Even if you didn't hit it, being frightened will affect the fetus." Seeing that An Xiaoduo's face turned pale, she calmed down and said, "Fortunately, there is no serious problem this time, and there will be no next time. Your baby It's not stable at all, something will happen every few days, and you won't lie down if you want to lie down, and you still run around all day, don't you plan to have this child?"

Hearing that the child was fine, An Xiaoduo felt relieved: "Of course I want it, this time it was an accident."

Dr. Zheng looked at the medical record and said, "You are malnourished and anemic. What's the matter? Didn't your family make you some delicious food to nourish your body? The most important thing for pregnant women is to have a balanced diet and ensure Nutrient supply, and the first three months is the stage of fetal brain development, if you don’t supplement it now, it will be useless to supplement it in the future.”

An Xiaoduo defended in a low voice: "I can't eat, I vomit everything..."

Dr. Zheng was not sympathetic at all: "It's normal. If you vomit after eating, you vomit and eat. That's what happens in pregnancy. By the way, why do you come by yourself every time? Where's your husband?"

An Xiaoduo's smile froze: "He...he is very busy with work and is away from home."

"Then who will take care of you? Tell that person to come, and I will explain some precautions."

An Xiaoduo grabbed her backpack and said, "Here...he has to go to work during the day and can't come. Just tell me, Dr. Zheng, and I'll go back and promise to convey it verbatim."

Dr. Zheng raised his eyes, but his eyes were still full of distrust.

An Xiaoduo walked out of Dr. Zheng's room, and a young man in work uniform came over immediately and looked at her anxiously: "How is it? Are you... are you okay?"

An Xiaoduo shook her head: "It's okay, let's go."

The man breathed a sigh of relief, his complexion improved immediately, he turned around and walked a few steps before looking back at her: "Are you all right?"

An Xiaoduo was amused by him, she was almost hit by the pickup truck driven by this man on the main road just now, she fainted from fright.He sent her to the hospital and waited until she finished all the tests, which showed that he was an honest and honest person, and she didn't intend to pursue anything.Although the other party violated the rules first, she herself was responsible for talking on the phone and not looking at the road on the road, so she said, "The doctor said it's okay."

"Then... I'm really leaving."

An Xiaoduo nodded, suddenly remembered something, and called him again: "Where's my cell phone?"

The man reacted with an "ah", and took out the thing that broke into three pieces from his pocket: "The tire is pressed, but the card inside should not be broken..."

An Xiaoduo took it with a headache.

The man looked at her expression carefully, and said, "I'll pay you a mobile phone, but your mobile phone looks very high-end, and I can't afford to pay for the exact same one."

An Xiaoduo thought for a while: "I'm in a hurry to use my phone, if it's convenient for you, just give me your phone."

"Okay, okay, my mobile phone is a little old, but it still works well, and it still has dual SIM cards." The man hurriedly took out the mobile phone from his pocket, opened the back cover in a hurry, took out his own card, and handed it to She then ran away quickly as if she was afraid that An Xiaoduo would repent.

An Xiaoduo stood at the door of the elevator, inserted the phone card into the card slot, closed the back cover, and turned on the phone.She had never used this type of mobile phone before, and was not familiar with the operation. She finally pressed the power button, but until the elevator door opened, the mobile phone startup page was still in progress.

Just as she was about to enter the elevator, someone suddenly grabbed her arm from behind. She was taken aback and almost dropped her phone again, when a deep voice came from her ear: "Don't move."

She looked back at the person in shock: "You..."

"Why is your phone turned off?" Li Xiao'an's breath sprayed on her face, with undiminished anxiety.The strength in his hands was great, and he held her tightly, as if afraid that she would disappear from sight.

An Xiaoduo recalled the phone call in the afternoon. She was fascinated by his sudden phone call and a few thoughtless words, so she was almost hit by a truck that was passing by.

"There was a small accident, and the phone was broken." She explained in a low voice, and the people passing by all cast surprised glances, and her face turned slightly red, "Let go of me first, they are all watching."

Realizing that he had lost his composure, he let her go, and put on a mask of alienation and indifference on his face, as if the act of rushing to hug her just now had nothing to do with him.

Under his gaze, An Xiaoduo felt a little guilty, and unnaturally lowered her head and glanced at her abdomen.Fortunately, it is mid-winter, and she doesn't look fat or thin in a thick sweater and coat.

Li Xiaoan held her hand and pulled her out: "Come with me."

The two walked one after the other, not knowing where to go.Li Zhou is no better than Wucheng, there are many snack bars in small cities, but Li Xiaoan is absolutely unwilling to give in to eat in those kind of dirty-looking shops, but if he really wants to choose a place that meets his requirements, An Xiaoan For a moment, Duo really couldn't think of where to go.

"Let's go eat first, shall we? Go to my house." An Xiaoduo suggested cautiously.

Li Xiaoan didn't object, the two took a taxi there, Aunt Sun's shop was still open, An Xiaoduo took Li Xiaoan's hand and walked past the door, glanced furtively into the shop, and found Aunt Sun and Wang Qian They were all staring at the TV intently, even when they heard the sound, they didn't even turn their heads.

Going upstairs, An Xiaoduo inserted the key into the lock and said, "Wang Qian never forgets you. She always asks me when you will come."

"What's wrong with her?"

An Xiaoduo was silent for a while: "I don't know the details, I only heard that her relationship was quite bumpy. When she fell in love with her husband, both families objected. It took a lot of things to get together, but it didn't take long for her husband to get married. She died in a traffic accident, she was in the car at the time, and she became like this because of too much stimulation."

Li Xiaoan entered the room without saying a word, An Xiaoduo turned on the light, and then changed into her own slippers.Li Xiaoan stood still in the entrance, An Xiaoduo said: "Come in directly, usually no guests come, only my dad's pair of slippers."

Li Xiaoan looked around the room of [-] to [-] square meters. The bathroom and kitchen were separated by plastic partitions. The balcony was small and full of sundries. A curtain divided the room into two. There is a broken sofa, a table and two chairs, and an old [-]-inch TV is placed on the painted TV cabinet.

He couldn't help frowning, everything here was old and exuded a decaying atmosphere, he couldn't imagine that An Xiaoduo would live in such a place.In his memory, she is a person who loves to pay attention to the taste of life, likes to collect perfume, likes to watch literary films, likes to play baking, and is not a person who is good at enduring hardships, she is picky, stinky, sensitive, and timid, and he is with him Afterwards, the habit got worse and worse.In the past few years after being separated, he hated her too late, and never thought about what kind of life she would lead. Now that he saw such a bad environment with his own eyes, his heart ached.

An Xiaoduo didn't know what he was thinking, seeing him standing still, she thought he thought the place was too messy, and she was busy running around during this time, and she hadn't cleaned the house for a long time.Embarrassed, she picked up the sundries on the sofa and put them on the folding chair, then took out a brand new towel from the drawer, wiped the sofa carefully, then asked him to sit down, and said: "Shall we eat preserved egg porridge?" ? There is a box of preserved eggs at home."

Li Xiaoan was noncommittal, sat down and continued to look at her room.

An Xiaoduo washed the rice, cooked it in the microwave, and then peeled two preserved eggs.There was no lean meat at home, so she dug out two sausages from the refrigerator and cut them into cubes.

"Do you need help?"

When Leng Buding heard his voice, her hand trembled, the blade deflected, and across her index finger, a thin red line oozes out from the skin.

Li Xiaoan's eyes sank, he grabbed her hand and looked at it carefully.

"It's okay, it's just over."

An Xiaoduo was about to withdraw her hand as she said that, but Li Xiaoan didn't let it go, she lowered her head and sucked her injured finger gently.An Xiaoduo's eyes became hot, and she was a little speechless.In the past... In the past, she cut fruit and scratched her hand, and he did the same.

She took a breath in a low voice: "Are you worried about me?"

Li Xiaoan's teeth gritted her wound lightly, An Xiaoduo glanced at him with tears in her eyes, her eyes full of grievance: "It hurts."

Li Xiaoan's eyebrows twitched, as if he had fallen into an old dream.His hand caressed An Xiaoduo's face, it was cold to the touch, like a piece of fat jade, he held her face, bowed his head and kissed her, trying to warm her up.

In the narrow and cramped kitchen, the two of them were tightly pressed together, An Xiaoduo's back was pressed against the wet and cold stove, and the kisses fell like raindrops on her eyes, cheeks, mouth, and neck On the ground, she was so dense that she could hardly breathe, and finally couldn't help moaning.

This voice seemed to ignite Li Xiaoan's nerves, his eyes turned from light to dark, he hugged her horizontally without thinking, and roughly pulled open the curtain to get in.

The two of them almost rolled onto the bed together. When his hot hand pressed lightly on her lower abdomen, An Xiaoduo was trembling and at the same time she woke up in a jerk. She pushed Li Xiaoan away, pulled the quilt to wrap herself up , said in a panic: "No, no."

"Why?" Li Xiaoan was caught off guard and confused in his eyes.

An Xiaoduo hugged a ball of quilt, with a struggling look on her face.

Li Xiaoan still wanted to say something, but was interrupted by a burst of impassioned cell phone ringing.The two looked at each other, and neither of them moved. After a while, Li Xiaoan stared at An Xiaoduo: "No answer?"

An Xiaoduo realized at this moment that she didn't know that the phone had such a ringtone, she was wrapped in a quilt and moved down to the ground, looking for the phone under his watch, finally got it, but the ringtone stopped.She glanced at the number, panic flashed in her eyes, and she pressed the callback button, which only rang once and the call went through.

She turned her back and said in a low voice, "Xiao Zhang, what's the matter?"

"Miss An, your father is missing!"

"What? Why didn't you disappear?" She was taken aback, and she couldn't care about the man behind her, and her voice suddenly raised.

"When I wiped his body just now, he was still awake and told me he wanted to eat oranges. When I bought oranges, I found that he was no longer in the ward. I searched around but couldn't find him. There was no one in the hallway or bathroom."

"My dad's health is so poor, where can he go? Have you looked around in the nearby ward? Have you asked the nurse?"

"I asked. It was meal time just now, and everyone didn't pay attention."

(End of this chapter)