She saw the cuff of a dark blue shirt, the distinctive dark blue cufflinks, and the hand of a man with distinctly jointed fingers. She slled the familiar fresh scent of green grass.
Her eyes reddened, and she dared not look up.
She heard the gradually heavy breathing from above her head.
She took a step back, broke free from the hand, then quickly walked past with her head down, heading straight for the subway station.
She did not like to argue, did not like to fight, and even more did not like being soone she herself thought shaful.
The man in the dark blue shirt watched her back for a long ti, his eyes filled with red veins.
At the train station, Hao Ren was already waiting. Tu Hengsha ca trotting over with her equipnt, and he took it from her and led her to check in together.
After they got on the train, Hao Ren put everything away and looked at her carefully, "Were you okay last night?"
"I’m fine! What’s the matter?" She went ho and fell asleep as soon as she hit the pillow last night, and felt great! It must be because the two cans of beer made her dizzy.
"Why didn’t you say you couldn’t drink? You had two cans of beer last night!" Hao Ren said, then added, "It’s my fault too. I didn’t properly check the contraindications for asthma beforehand."
"What’s that got to do with you!" Tu Hengsha laughed, "I’m fine! I’ve never tried what it’s like to drink before. I wanted to try it yesterday, beer, I thought there shouldn’t be a problem."
"Better not drink it!" Hao Ren took a bag from his backpack and handed it to her, "Here, better safe than sorry."
Tu Hengsha looked inside and found it was asthma dication.
She was quite surprised, "How did you know I take this dication?" She glanced again. Each box of dicine was labeled with how many tis a day to take it and how many pills each ti. "Did you mark all these?" Actually, the usage instructions were already on the dicine box.
He paused slightly, only to say, "Little Sha, I was really scared to death last night. If anything happened to you, I could only apologize with my life."
"Don’t talk nonsense! All this about dying, it’s so unlucky!" Tu Hengsha smiled, tied the bag back up, "But you’re too careful, I brought my own dicine! Besides, can’t you hope for sothing good for !"
"Better to be cautious! You’ve only been better for a short ti!" He exhaled, it hadn’t been long since what happened in Jin County!
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After a week on a business trip, there were only two days left until the Mid-Autumn Festival on the return trip.
Holiday tickets were hard to purchase, and Hao Ren only got tickets for the afternoon. By the ti they returned to Yanbei, it was already dusk.
"Little Sha, I’ll carry this equipnt for you first, and I’ll return it to the newspaper office for you tomorrow. Don’t tire yourself out tonight..." As they exited the station, Hao Ren said this to her.
However, before he finished speaking, he saw two people standing at the exit: Su Ronggui and an elderly person.
"Little Sha..." He nodded to signal her to look.
She had not expected it at all. Just one glance felt like a hamr hit her chest hard.
With just one look, she could see it clearly.
Grandma had visibly lost weight, and he, supporting Grandma and standing aside, seed to have also lost weight. The cast was removed, and he stood there tall and slender in a dark outfit, like an inky pine tree in the midst of noise, calm and deep.
She turned her eyes away, pretending not to see.
However, how could she avoid it?
Grandma was even more anxious than him, waving vigorously upon seeing her, pulling him toward her quickly, finally facing her directly.
"Girl! Girl! You’re back!" Grandma joyfully held her hand.
"Grandma." She forced a smile. She couldn’t harden her heart against the elderly lady, but she didn’t understand why he had brought Grandma here when he had already promised Su Rongxing that no one else would be by his side.
"That’s great! Grandma missed you! Co, go ho with Grandma and eat! Grandma made lots of your favorite food!" Grandma Xu said, then gave Su Ronggui a sideways glance, "Aren’t you going to take the girl’s things? Why are you just standing there?"
"Grandma!" She hurriedly said, "I’ve already promised Mom to go ho for dinner. Later..." She didn’t want there to be a "later," but looking at Grandma Xu’s full-of-expectation smile, she couldn’t bear it and said, "I’ll visit you later, okay."
As for what "later" actually ant, that was an unknown, just to comfort the elderly lady.
Grandma didn’t show any disappointnt at all, still full of loving kindness, "Yes, yes, yes! It’s Grandma’s fault! Just thinking that I haven’t seen the girl for so long, I hurried to bring her ho to see, forgot that the girl naturally needs to go ho first! It’s Grandma’s fault! Going ho to see Mom is most important! Then Grandma and Gugu will take you ho!"
She was reluctant, "Grandma, no need, I can go..."
"It’s necessary! It’s late at night, hard to get a cab! The subway is crowded! Just let Grandma take you! Grandma wants to chat with you too! Nobody has accompanied Grandma to talk these days, it’s stifling , you know Gugu is a bore! No fun at all!" Grandma reached out to take her backpack off, glared at him beside her, "No fun, and clumsy! No sharp sight!"
"Grandma, no need, I’ll carry it myself, it’s not heavy..." She quickly put the backpack on again.
"Alright, alright, then let’s go!" Grandma linked her arm with hers, as if afraid she would run away.
"I..." She looked back at Hao Ren.
Grandma also turned back with a smile, "Oh, is this a colleague together? Let’s all go together, we’ll take everyone."
"There’s no need, ma’am, why would a young guy need to be sent off? I called a cab myself." Hao Ren said hurriedly.
anwhile, Su Ronggui had already taken Tu Hengsha’s photography equipnt off Hao Ren and carried it on his own shoulder.
Hao Ren stood there empty-handed, dumbfounded.
"Want to ride together?" Su Ronggui asked him after adjusting the equipnt.
Hao Ren shook his head, "Forget it." Did you sincerely want to ride or not?
"Then I won’t insist. Take care."
"..." Hao Ren wanted to say, "Sure, why don’t you give a ride?"
Grandma’s attitude was much kinder, "Young man, get ho early then. We’ll head off first."
"Oh, alright, goodbye Grandma." Hao Ren thought to himself, alright, alright, let’s do it for the elderly lady’s sake, not causing more trouble for you.
Tu Hengsha had no idea how Grandma ended up pulling her on the car in a daze. He was driving, while she and Grandma sat in the back.
The car had the unique leather sll of a new car. Was this the new car he bought? It was no longer the one he drove at the Su family.
"Grandma, how did you know I was coming back on this train?" She dismissed thoughts related to him and chatted with Grandma.
Grandma smiled and didn’t answer.
"Grandma missed you. There are only a few trains returning from that direction every day, so Grandma started waiting here from noon, making sure to greet every train that arrived." He said from the driver’s seat.
She was speechless, lowering her head unable to speak.
"That’s not true," Grandma glared at him, "Stop talking nonsense, wasn’t it you who insisted on dragging here to et her at noon?"
"Grandma..." he called out softly, his tone helpless and innocent.
Tu Hengsha believed him; he definitely wasn’t the kind to do such foolish things. Even if, for argunt’s sake, he did, he wouldn’t state it so openly. So, it was more likely Grandma who wanted to et her. However, Grandma treating her this way exceeded her feelings for Grandma, and she didn’t know why, she felt unable to return the favor.
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