Shanghai Embroidery Lady

Chapter 80 Sleepless Night
Ye Zijin stood in front of the door, helpless, the door was locked, and even she could only stay here tonight, who had ulterior motives, could it be the hotel waiter who went out just now?But that person has no reason to do so, unless he is instructed by someone else.

Fortunately, Meng Haoxiang was already asleep, so she wouldn't have the embarrassment of being alone in the same room.The night outside the window became thicker, the laughter downstairs and the melodious music gradually diminished, and the room was so quiet that only Meng Haoxiang's dignified snorting could be heard.Ye Zijin leaned on the sofa, suddenly feeling sleepy, so she took off her shoes and lay down on the sofa to rest.Although it has been a long time in summer, it is inevitable that it will be a little cold in the middle of the night. Ye Zijin only wore a sleeveless cheongsam, and felt cold for a while, so she had to fold her arms and curl up slightly.Perhaps it was because he was so exhausted from running between foreign firms and shops these days, Ye Zijin lay on the sofa and soon fell asleep.

In the dream, she saw her childhood Zizheng and Zirong again...

It was the old alley where I lived when I first came to Shanghai. The houses on both sides were dilapidated and dilapidated. The alley was full of clothes to be hung up and down. The choking smell of coal smoke wafted from the windows, and there were some dark marks on the walls. .She saw Zizheng and Zirong playing in the alley. The two boys looked exactly the same, but the younger brother Zirong was a little taller than the elder brother Zizheng.

Suddenly, two middle-aged men walked in from the alley, and saw them sneaking close to the two boys.Before Zizheng Zirong could react, the two had already carried a child in their arms and ran out.Ye Zijin saw his younger brothers crying and struggling, but they were helplessly held tightly, and their little mouths were also covered.

"Sister... sister... save me..." Intermittent shouts came out.

Ye Zijin chased after her desperately, and the two men ran even faster when they saw her following.Zizheng Zirong looked at her with tears all over his face, and Ye Zijin called for help while running.

The two men saw people chasing them around them, so they separated at a fork in the road and fled.When Ye Zijin chased to the fork in the road, Zizheng was on one side and Zirong on the other. The two younger brothers were crying and calling for her sister, and her heart was about to break.She was so anxious that she burst into tears, not knowing which way to chase, but saw the two running farther and farther away, Ye Zijin closed her eyes, and chased to the right... The cries behind her became more and more indistinct, and she only felt Being torn in two, I tried my best to chase the man in front of me, tears were streaming down my face, and I was almost shouting at the top of my lungs...

Suddenly, the surroundings were dark, and the alley just disappeared in an instant, and the surroundings were eerily quiet.Ye Zijin felt that the soles of her feet were on the ground, and her body kept falling. She didn't know where she was going to fall, as if there was a bottomless abyss below. She couldn't stop her body from falling, and there was a bitter wind whistling past her ears. A bone-piercing chill nearly suffocated her.

This terrible fall finally stopped, there was a little light not far away, when Ye Zijin stood up, his hand touched a cold thing under his feet.She took a closer look and found that it was a poker.She walked towards the light step by step, and found that it was actually a brazier with a red-hot soldering iron inside.With the light of the fire, she could clearly see all kinds of instruments of torture around her, rusty iron chains and shackles, leather whips, daggers, silver needles, all kinds of fine tools and shining medicine bottles and syringes...

"Sister." A voice came from behind coldly.

Ye Zijin turned around abruptly, and found a person walking step by step from the darkness, his steps were steady and powerful, and his figure was handsome and tall.

She saw the face of the person who came, it was Zizheng.

"Zizheng... why are you here?" Ye Zijin hadn't finished speaking, only to hear another similar voice, "Sister! Go!"

Ye Zijin turned her head sharply, and found that there was a person tied to the wooden frame just now, half naked, beaten to pieces, with bruises and bloodstains on his face, staring at her angrily.

"Zizheng? Is that you?" Ye Zijin turned pale with shock.

She couldn't figure out what was going on for a while, why there were two Zizhengs here, could it be...

"Sister, don't you recognize me?" The man behind him was wearing a military uniform and a black cloak with the collar turned up, looking very heroic, looking at Ye Zijin with a slight smile.

Ye Zijin subconsciously took a few steps back. Although the person in front of her was exactly the same as Zizheng, her tone of voice and smile made her feel very strange.

"You are...Xiao Rong...Xiao Rong!" After Ye Zijin called out the name, she couldn't help covering her mouth, and tears welled up in her eyes.

The corner of the man's lips curled into a sneer, and he said, "Sister, it's me."

Ye Zijin stretched out her hand tremblingly, wanting to touch Zirong's face, but Zizheng behind him shouted loudly: "Sister, he's not Xiaorong! Go away! He will kill you..."

Ye Zijin looked at Zizheng who was covered in bruises, and then at this man who looked exactly like Zizheng, her heart was tightly clenched, she didn't know who to trust.

The man said slowly: "Sister, why didn't you save me, but chose to save him? After all, you still prefer him."

"I..." Ye Zijin heard the man say this, and she was quite sure that he was Zirong, "Zirong...it's not like this, listen to my sister's explanation, I really couldn't do it at the time, I couldn't help it..." Ye Zi Jin took Zirong's hand, her voice choked up.

The man slowly pushed away Ye Zijin's hand, and suddenly pointed a cold gun at Ye Zijin's eyebrows.

"I want you to choose one now, do you want him to die, or me?" The man moved his aim from Ye Zijin to Zizheng behind her.

"No! You can't die! You can't..." Ye Zijin panicked and shouted loudly.

The man in front of her glanced at her indifferently, and said word by word: "Either he dies, or I die."

"no, do not want!"

"Bang" a gunshot, Ye Zijin screamed and cried, and his eyes suddenly went dark...

"Wake up...wake up, don't be afraid, I'm here..."

Ye Zijin fell into a drowsy sleep, and vaguely felt that someone was pushing her.

She slowly opened her eyes, and a familiar face came into sight.The light from the desk lamp with an emerald shade made her close her eyes again, and someone sat next to her, blocking the glare for her.

"Did you have a nightmare?" Meng Haoxiang frowned.

Ye Zijin sat up in a trance, she hadn't come out of the dream just now, this sleep made her terrified, was it really Xiao Rong in the dream just now?She couldn't help but miss this abducted brother again.

"I... I'm fine." Ye Zijin took a deep breath and exhaled long, and found that the hair at the temples was a little wet, sticking to her face sticky, and her forehead was covered with dense beads of sweat.

Meng Haoxiang got up and went to the bathroom, twisted a cold towel and handed it to her, "Wipe it off, the makeup on your face is gone."

After Meng Haoxiang woke up in the middle of the night, he got up and saw someone lying on the sofa, he walked over vigilantly, and when he found that it was Ye Zijin, he couldn't help feeling warm in his heart, that she was still by his side.

He originally wanted to ask Ye Zijin to get up and go to bed to rest, but it was obvious that she was fast asleep, and he couldn't bear to wake her up.At this time, he was completely sleepless, so he moved a chair and stood in front of Ye Zijin.

She sleeps quietly, breathing evenly, with one hand behind her ear and the other hanging around her waist.The moonlight outside the window fell softly through the gauze curtain, her eyelashes were thick and long, trembling slightly from time to time, her earlobes were as white as lotuses, and the pearl earrings glowed with luster.The cheongsam wrapped her body tightly, making her slender waist even more prominent.The embroidered butterflies and flowers on the blue brocade seem to have spirituality under the moonlight. At first glance, it seems that there are a few colorful butterflies parked on her body, sometimes lingering among the flowers, and sometimes perching on the branches.

Because she was lying on a recline, the smooth material slid down, so that a section of smooth and white legs were inadvertently exposed, from the bottom of the thigh to the jade feet.When Meng Haoxiang saw it, he couldn't help but quickly looked away, turned his face to the side, and brought the quilt from the bed to gently cover Ye Zijin's body.

He stood by her side like this, watching her quietly, and felt a kind of peace of mind that he had never felt before.He was used to living alone since he was a child, and he seldom had any fear in the bloody days of licking blood, but after so many years of wandering, at this moment, he suddenly felt a little tired.It is also a blessing to be with the person he loves in an ordinary life, but God did not give him such a blessing, and he did not dare to expect anything extravagantly, allowing him to meet her is the best gift God gave him...

After Ye Zijin wiped his face, he remembered that the door was locked, and worried that Meng Haoxiang might misunderstand, so he hurriedly said, "It's not that I stayed here on purpose, but someone locked the door from the outside, and I can't get out, so..."

Meng Haoxiang seemed to have been poured cold water on his head, and his mind gradually cleared up. She really didn't stay here because of him...

"Then you can spend the night here tonight, and you should be able to go out tomorrow morning. I will find out about this and tell you." Meng Haoxiang turned off the lamp and said, "You sleep on the bed , I sleep on the sofa."

Ye Zijin knew that it would be bad for the lonely man and widow to be in the same room, but now she has no way to go out, so she can only bite the bullet and listen to Meng Haoxiang's arrangements for sleeping.It's a good thing the lights have been turned off, otherwise it would be embarrassing for Meng Haoxiang to notice that she was blushing hot.

Ye Zijin groped and walked slowly towards the bed, accidentally caught something under her feet, she lost her balance and leaned forward, but she couldn't see what was around her, and she couldn't grab it in her panic. With a sound of "Ouch", Ye Zijin cried out in pain, but was suddenly pulled by a strong force and hit the man's chest.

There was a "bang bang", and there was only a crisp sound, and something was rolling on the ground.Ye Zijin touched a piece of softness on the tip of her nose, and suddenly smelled a strong smell of medicine. When she recovered, she found that her head was leaning against Meng Haoxiang's chest.

Through the moonlight, she could see clearly the spittoon on the ground that she had knocked over, as well as Meng Haoxiang's slightly pale face, although a bit haggard, it was clearly defined, and there was a kind of restrained heroism between the sword eyebrows.

Meng Haoxiang was also looking at her, with a pair of beautiful eyes, his face under the moonlight was even more pink and jade-like, with shyness and anxiety in his eyes.

Looking at each other, Ye Zijin's face became even hotter, and he quickly stretched out his hand to push him, Meng Haoxiang couldn't help snorting.

Ye Zijin hurriedly withdrew her hand, only then remembered that the gunshot wound on Meng Haoxiang's body hadn't healed yet, and asked anxiously, "Are you alright?"

Meng Haoxiang clutched his wound, his voice was a little weak, "I'm fine, you go to sleep." After speaking, he walked to the sofa, lifted the quilt with one hand and threw it on the bed.

Ye Zijin saw Meng Haoxiang lying down on the sofa before going to bed, but she couldn't fall asleep no matter what.Watching the round moon outside the window disappearing and reappearing in the clouds, flickering.

Also unable to fall asleep, there is another person...

In the early morning, there was a "bang bang bang" knock on the door, breaking the tranquility in the room.

(End of this chapter)