Gentlemen's Friends

Chapter 18 Part 3: Lu ([-])
Don't expect any justice, as long as you don't suffer more, it will be a blessing.

Zhuang Wei didn't mean to leave in relief, but frowned: "You say forget it?"

"..."

"Do you think it's okay to act unilaterally as if it never happened?"

Qu Tongqiu felt a little dangerous again under the sudden increase of pressure, and hurriedly said, "I don't want to talk about it today... I'll talk about it later... I'm not feeling well..."

Zhuang Wei reached out and "snapped" the main switch of the light source, and the room was brightly lit.Unable to adapt to the light for a while, Qu Tongqiu could barely open his eyes, feeling terrified with nowhere to escape.

"you are sick?"

"..."

"Why is your complexion so bad? Are you too delicate to be sick so soon?"

Qu Tongqiu was forced to step back and return to the bed. Zhuang Wei turned off the light in his bedroom, ordered him to sleep, and then searched him for the key, which made him break out in a cold sweat.

Although he was absolutely reluctant to hand over the key to this person, Qu Tongqiu couldn't help but struggled and shouted after being searched by him, "The key is in the bedside drawer!"

Zhuang Wei went out with the key.

When Qu Tongqiu heard the sound of the door closing, he felt more and more insecure, and lay down nervously, wrapping the quilt tightly around his body.The sweating became heavier and heavier, and I gradually felt dizzy.

It seemed like a long nightmare. When I woke up and saw the luminous wall clock on the wall, I realized that not much time had passed.

Then there was a slight sound of opening the door, and Zhuang Wei came again.

Qu Tongqiu was nervous, and heard small footsteps and the sound of plastic bags rubbing in his ears. He didn't know what Zhuang Wei had brought, but soon he smelled the aroma of food, and the lights were turned on.

"Your belly is flat, eat something."

Although the attitude is bad, it is a rare kindness after all.It was not his habit to put on airs, and he was really hungry. Without Zhuang Wei telling him a second time, he obediently got up and wolfed down a bowl of perch porridge and some pickled cucumbers.

"Okay, don't eat too much at once."

Zhuang Wei forced him to drink the juice again, and then handed him a half bowl of plain water.

Qu Tongqiu was a little puzzled, so he took a sip as usual, and just as he swallowed, Zhuang Wei scolded angrily: "Idiot! Who told you to drink it? They told you to rinse your mouth!"

Qu Tongqiu spit water back into the bowl in fright, was stared at by Zhuang Wei twice, wiped his mouth dry, and hurriedly lay back under the quilt, a little apprehensive, and rolled up the quilt a little tighter.

"Don't sleep. You haven't taken your medicine yet."

"……what?"

"Aren't you injured? Lie down, I'll apply some medicine for you."

Qu Tongqiu felt a chill on his back, and immediately said: "No need, I've already done it myself."

"You don't know how to flatter."

Zhuang Wei lifted his quilt from below, covered his head, and then ignored his struggle, and started to do it.

Qu Tongqiu gasped in fright, "Zhuang Wei, you, don't..."

"Don't think too much. I'm not interested in you. Don't move around like I'm going to do something to you."

Hearing this, Qu Tongqiu felt that he seemed to have lost his position and qualifications to struggle. Although he was very ashamed, he could only lie on his stomach motionless, took a breath, closed his eyes and bit his teeth, waiting for the cool ointment.

Qu Tongqiu lay on his stomach for a while, feeling hot under the quilt and hot on his body, gasping for breath with difficulty, he could feel sweat continuously condensing from every pore.I also heard Zhuang Wei scolding him: "Why are you sweating like a horse, so wet?"

Qu Tongqiu moved in embarrassment, and Zhuang Wei said, "Okay. Really." Then he got up and walked away.Qu Tongqiu was already flustered by boredom, so he hurriedly lifted the quilt and took a deep breath of fresh air.

"What are you doing, lie down and don't move."

Zhuang Wei walked back to the bed, took a wrung hot towel, pushed him back, rolled up his shirt with one hand, and wiped him with the other.

Qu Tongqiu was frightened and tried to crawl forward, but Zhuang Wei pressed him with his elbow from behind.

"What are you afraid of? What are you thinking? It's just helping you wipe your sweat. Do you think I will try to take advantage of you?"

"..."

"Why, don't you believe it?"

Qu Tongqiu said honestly: "But... last night..."

Zhuang Wei coughed: "I thought about that incident last night. We probably had a misunderstanding. Well, I believe you are not setting a trap for me, and you should also believe that I have no malicious intentions. Even if it is evened .”

"..." Qu Tongqiu didn't think it was particularly reasonable, but it wasn't completely unreasonable, so he held back for a while, then didn't say anything more.

But after being stripped naked and wiped, Qu Tongqiu was still uneasy after all, he tightened up and curled his arms to stop the hand moving on him.

"Oh, why don't you wipe it..."

Zhuang Wei scolded: "I am helping you out of morality, otherwise you think I want to do this kind of work? Do you think you are a flower?"

After a lot of tossing, the two rested out of breath, the room became quiet, and they heard approaching footsteps in their ears.

Both of them turned their heads to look, and there was a man standing at the door of the bedroom with a surprised look on his face, his cuff buttons were half unbuttoned, his fingers stopped there, looking at them on the bed, he nodded slightly: "Is there a guest?"

Seeing him, both of them were stunned.Qu Tongqiu was quite frightened, and immediately got up, grabbed his pants and got out of bed, his legs were trembling, and he put them on indiscriminately: "You, you're back?"

"Ah."

"I thought you were not in the country now..."

Ren Ningyuan smiled and said, "I went to City S first and stayed for a day. I had something to do at the last moment, so I came back."

Seeing that Qu Tongqiu was still busy buttoning his clothes, his face flushed and sweating profusely, Ren Ningyuan turned his head and asked Zhuang Wei: "What are you doing?"

Before Zhuang Wei could speak, Qu Tongqiu rushed to explain: "He is helping me wipe my body."

"That's right, just wipe him off," Zhuang Wei pouted, with a half-smile, "I'll take my leave first." After walking two steps, he turned back and said with a smile, "By the way, I'll pay you back this. "Then he took out the key from his pocket and put it on the table.

After Zhuang Wei left, Ren Ningyuan looked around the room for a while, smiling at the flustered man in front of him.

Qu Tongqiu suddenly felt that his throat was churned up, and he couldn't speak for a while.

He waited for Ren Ningyuan to ask him something so that he could explain.

But Ren Ning was far from it.

If he does not ask, he will not dare to answer, just as if he is standing, he will not dare to sit.

Ren Ningyuan suddenly put away his smile: "You know what, I still can't get used to living in a house with other people. The key can't be given to anyone."

"..."

"Two days, you pack up. Move out."

Qu Tongqiu's mind felt a little bored for a moment, but he responded in time.

He didn't understand very much. It seemed that just a second ago, Ren Ningyuan was still gently saying that they were friends, and he smiled and let him take care of them. After much difficulty, they finally became intimate and harmonious.

Then suddenly kicked him out the door.

Ren Ningyuan said it would take two days, but he knew that Ren Ningyuan didn't want to see him, so he sat there with a calm look, and packed his things all night.

The luggage was cumbersome and heavy, and it was much more than when he came. Qu Tongqiu was busy alone, packing, binding, dragging downstairs to call a taxi, and planned to move back in two trips.

His body hurts and he feels hot, but these are nothing compared to the panic in his heart now, he doesn't even feel that he is sick, he just feels anxious.

When moving the second time, the key was already on the table. Qu Tongqiu dragged the things to the door, but he was reluctant and dared not leave. He looked back at Ren Ningyuan, and after a long while, he said cautiously: "Ren Ningyuan, I'm leaving."

Ren Ningyuan was still polite, and smiled, and said, "Go slowly, I won't see you off."

Back at the company dormitory, it was already late at night, Qu Tongqiu relaxed and felt tired all of a sudden, wiped the bed, spread the quilt, and could not move after lying on it.

The room still smelled of dust, and his body was so painful that he couldn't sleep. He thought about what he had done in the past two days, what he had done, and what he had encountered. He felt a little wronged.

Lying down and looking at the moon outside, it is obviously the same moon, but it is different from what I saw at Ren Ningyuan's house.Qu Tongqiu looked out the window for a while, then pulled up the quilt to cover his head.

Qu Tongqiu woke up in the middle of the night, only to feel tinnitus and chest tightness, his throat was dry, and he was extremely thirsty.Drowsily got out of bed and turned on the light, fumbled to find the electric kettle, and wanted to make a glass of water for myself, only to realize that it was raining heavily outside at some point.

The sound of the wind sounded like a roar, making the windows tremble, as if the glass was about to shatter. The rain was blowing up horizontally, pouring into the house through the gaps in the old-fashioned windows, and it had already flowed all over the floor.

There was little rainfall in his hometown, and he had never seen such a battle. Qu Tongqiu was a little dazed, and after he realized it, he hurriedly went to find some old clothes and towels, and stuffed them on the window sill as a cushion.Then I took a bucket and a mop, dragged and twisted, trying to save the disaster in the living room.

After working for a long time, it was in vain, the rain still dripped down the window sill.Qu Tongqiu was flustered with exhaustion, dizzy, his vision was dark, he had no food to eat, and his body was cold, so he couldn't think of a way out.He simply gave up, dried his hands and feet tremblingly, drank some water, wrapped himself in a blanket to keep warm, and curled up on the bed.

Hearing the endless sound of wind and rain in a daze, for some reason, he remembered Ren Ningyuan last night, and suddenly became discouraged.

It felt uncomfortable as if his chest was being pulled, and something seemed to be missing in his stomach, and he became empty and panicked.

Sighing a few times, he fell asleep in a daze. After an unknown period of time, he was awakened by the ringing of the mobile phone. He immediately thought that it was Ren Ningyuan. He hurriedly grabbed the mobile phone, but it was Zhuang Wei who called.

"What happened last night, did Ren Ningyuan scold you?"

Qu Tongqiu touched his hot forehead: "...it's okay."

"Here, it's my fault too. He must be unhappy when he sees that appearance. But it's actually inconvenient for you to live with him. He has a cleanliness habit."

"...I don't live in his house now."

Zhuang Wei said "Oh", and said after a while: "Would you like to come to my place, the apartment I rent is very big."

I don't know if it's superfluous, but Qu Tongqiu always felt that his tone was a little deceiving.

"No need. I have a company dormitory, which is fine."

While talking on the phone, Qu Tongqiu looked at the window sill that was still dripping water and the wet wall, and had to get up to get the mop again.

"Aren't you still thinking about it?"

"..."

To be honest, when people live in this world, it is inevitable that they will be taken advantage of and feel wronged.He has long lost the bloodiness to fight for every inch.

It was not easy for Zhuang Wei to retreat and admit that he was partially responsible, so he took a step back, which was his catchphrase, "Forget it".

But there was a shadow in his heart. Thinking of the time more than ten years ago, he felt very uncomfortable, and he was a little wary of Zhuang Wei.

"By the way, affected by the typhoon today, it rained a lot."

"Um……"

"Is your dormitory low-lying? The first floor will soon be flooded."

"I don't live on the first floor..."

"Hey, are you really not coming to my house to come and see?"

"no need……"

Hearing his dumbfoundedness, Zhuang Wei lost interest and hung up the phone after chatting a few words.

Qu Tong Qiushuo sat under the quilt for a while, he was so hungry that his whole body felt weak.Listening to the sound outside, the rain was still heavy, but the wind was not so strong, so I took an umbrella and went out.

I just went to the convenience store and bought two lunch boxes, and my body was already half wet, my pants were almost soaked in water, and the umbrella looked as if it hadn't.

Shivering in the cold wind, and dizzy with weak feet, I stood at the door and wolfed down half of it.Although I have no appetite, it is more uncomfortable to eat food in my stomach, but I always feel that I have some strength.

Standing at the door of the store waiting for the rain to subside, it suddenly occurred to him that Ren Ningyuan might not have anything to eat.When he left, there were no materials in the refrigerator, and Ren Ningyuan was such a spotless person, he wouldn't go out and get himself dirty in this kind of weather.It felt inappropriate to think of that person wading in the dirty water.

Qu Tongqiu thought and thought, and still dialed the number that he had read dozens of times.

The other party's voice was calm as usual: "What's the matter?"

"Have you eaten? I just went out and bought a bento. Can I bring you a copy?"

There was a silence over there, and then said: "You don't have to do this. I have already planned to sell this house. There will be no place for you to live in."

Qu Tongqiu was stunned for a moment, then panicked suddenly, and hurriedly said, "It's not because of that..."

"That's good," Ren Ningyuan paused, "You are middle-aged. Everything depends on yourself. Don't count on me anymore."

For the first time in the past few days, Qu Tongqiu felt inferior.

"I, I didn't plot anything with you."

Ren Ningyuan let out a "hmm" and hung up the phone.

Qu Tongqiu stood there for a while longer, the rain was getting heavier, and he felt chilly all over his body.

When I came back to my senses, I looked down at the time and thought of my daughter who was out. I don't know if she has returned to school at this time or is still on the way.

Seeing the somewhat chaotic traffic on the road, the father couldn't help but worry. He made a call, but no one answered the phone.

Unable to get in touch, Qu Tongqiu was a little worried, and comforted himself that probably nothing would happen, but his heart was hanging, and he couldn't get down no matter what.

The TV screens in the convenience store broadcast real-time news from the local station, and the impact of the unexpected typhoon made the whole city lively. Reporters broadcast similar news in different areas: a tree fell somewhere, a road was flooded somewhere , a landslide occurred in a scenic spot, and a bus hit a guardrail on the highway and overturned. Several passengers were injured and have been sent to the hospital...

Qu Tongqiu was terrified by this report, so he hurriedly called Qu Ke again, but the phone was still turned off.Although I comforted myself that it would not be such a coincidence, my daughter might have arrived at school early, but when I heard that it was a bus coming from M City, I panicked and threw away the bento, and ran to the road with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Call a car from the side.

The price of a taxi in this kind of weather is a hundred times higher. Occasionally, when an empty car passes by, people waiting on the street will rush forward and fight for it.

Where did Qu Tongqiu win? He waited for an hour, but he couldn't stop a car.I was so anxious that I stopped and stopped on the road, limped from one intersection to another, and finished two or three stops, but I still had no luck and was helpless.

He was in a hurry, and finally saw a car pull over not far ahead. This time, he didn't dare to neglect, and rushed forward before the others. Panting, he forcefully opened the door and sat in.

"Go to XX Hospital."

The driver turned his head and glared at him: "I said, what is the similarity between this car and a taxi?"

Qu Tongqiu froze for a moment, looked around, and just woke up, when he saw the car that was willing to stop, he became dizzy and mistook the Bentley for a taxi.

"sorry Sorry……"

The driver was a little annoyed at being insulted: "How can you see the end, the eyes are far away."

Qu Tongqiu was embarrassed and apologetic. The seat was already wet, and it was useless to wipe it. He opened the car door, stretched his feet out and apologized repeatedly, but someone asked, "What are you going to the hospital for?"

The voice sounded steady and lacking in emotion, Qu Tongqiu turned his head as if he had been electrocuted, and Ren Ningyuan was sitting behind with no expression on his face.

Qu Tongqiu couldn't tell what it was like for a moment, his head was still throbbing, but when he saw Ren Ningyuan, he felt he was cured of all illnesses, only his heart was beating abnormally, and he couldn't speak.

Ren Ningyuan asked again calmly: "What are you doing in the hospital?"

"Ah, a long-distance bus overturned on the highway, and the injured were sent to the hospital. I couldn't get in touch with Xiao Ke. She also came back from M City in the afternoon. I'm afraid she was on that bus..."

The driver interjected, "The hospital is not on the way."

Qu Tongqiu couldn't care less about face, and begged, "Please take me to the XX road ahead, it's easier to call a car there..."

"We should turn at the next intersection."

The silent Ren Ningyuan finally spoke from behind: "Go around. Send him there. Hurry up."

The driver didn't make any more noise, and the car drove smoothly without slowing down.Qu Tongqiu was still nervous, feeling like he was sitting on pins and needles, looking out of the window from time to time, wondering how far he was from the hospital.

The phone rang at this moment, Qu Tongqiu looked at the number and became flustered: "Xiao Ke!"

"Dad."

(End of this chapter)