Chapter 82
"How are you?" the middle-aged man looked at the pregnant young ega in front of him with concern and asked politely, "Do you need help?"
A few minutes ago, he had just bought a bouquet of flowers from a flower shop and happened to see the despairing young pregnant husband on the sidewalk across the road, so he walked over quickly to see if the other party needed help.
When he walked over, he noticed that the ega in front of him was a little strange. He was wearing a clean and tidy striped hospital gown and was wrapped in thick gauze on his head, but he did not show too much sloppy and haggardness. His face was just too pale and made him look a little weak. He looked like a patient who was being taken care of. At this moment, he was walking barefoot on this somewhat remote street alone, which made him feel a little confused.
He was quickly recalling the gangs roaming around Su City that were often mentioned in recent TV news. The ega in front of him suddenly pressed his head, his dry and white lips tightly pursed, and his expression looked very painful.
The kind beta man immediately threw away his thoughts and quickly held him as his body began to shake, asking worriedly: "Do you feel uncomfortable? Do you want me to take you back to the hospital?"
It was already the end of October, and the temperature was gradually changing to winter. The coldness on the ground was transmitted from the soles of naked feet, making Shen Tingwei's calves a little sore and numb. During this period, he only relied on liquid food and nutritional supplements to survive, which made his body lose weight again and again, making the hospital gown, which had been specially enlarged by several sizes because of his pregnancy, look even looser.
Shen Ting was not supported by the kind-hearted Mr. Beta in front of him and then shook his head gently, and whispered in a hoarse voice: "Thank you...no need."
Where to go?
He raised his eyes from his hospital gown, looking at the street scene that seemed familiar but inexplicably strange to him.
Since he woke up on the street corner just now, his consciousness that had not yet faded from his chaos seemed to be pulled back a few months ago. He stood in a daze at the entrance of an alley that was relatively unfamiliar to him, and was fascinated by the street scene in front of him.
But Shen Ting never thought of returning to this coveted world again, under such circumstances.
He endured the headache of the wound on his head, which was becoming more and more severe due to random thoughts, and the "ido" in his ear that seemed unclear from a distance and was far away.
With the outline that he could draw with his eyes closed, it was like an incomplete dream. At the moment he was about to see the ending, he woke up from the dream, and the fantasy dream that he woven when he opened his eyes disappeared with the things that gradually became clear in front of him.
Shen Ting subconsciously raised his hand and gently stroked his bulging belly, feeling the cold feeling of reality brought to him at the base of his fingers, forcing him to wake up from his self-deception fantasy and let him recognize the reality.
Memories are real, the baby in the belly is real, and Lian Jue is also real.
But he is back.
When he thought he was about to have an absurd but beautiful ending, he returned to this world that already belonged to him with the idea of starting to forget the past.
Shen Ting didn't smell the faint scent of jasmine flowers at this time.
The beta man noticed his gaze, and a little embarrassed but uncontrollable smile appeared on his face. He generously brought the bouquet of jasmine in his hand to him. Perhaps he thought he had the same thoughts about this bouquet of jasmine as a public. The man smiled and said, "Is it a bit strange to pack jasmine into a bouquet? Like wild vegetables, I felt it the same when I first saw it."
Chen Ting didn't say softly, and praised the beautiful bouquet in his hand.
The man was obviously pleased by his praise and said happily: "It is difficult to find a shop selling jasmine bouquets in Su. I ran for a long time before I found it at the flower shop here, so I come here to buy a bouquet every week."
Chen Ting's memories of not being reminiscent of this bouquet of jasmine made his head hurt, but because chatting with him could temporarily divert his attention and stop thinking about it, he whispered and stiffly put out a topic: "Do your wife like jasmine?"
A little shy expression appeared on the middle-aged man's face, but a very pleasant smile was on the corner of his mouth: "I'm not a wife yet, I'm still pursuing her." Seeing that Chen Ting did not show his interest in his topic, he did not reserve because he and I were just strangers who met by chance. Perhaps he also shared and showed off his attitude to describe to him how gentle the girl he liked was, and said, "She likes jasmine very much. Only when she sees jasmine can she be happier. I want her to be happy."
When Chen Ting didn't hear the beta who looked not too old to his father in front of him, he showed an unconscious gentle smile in the dullness that was full of heart, and he said to the cute beta man sincerely: "I wish you success, she will definitely like it."
"Hope." The man whispered, and said, "but she shouldn't accept me in a short time."
After seeing Chen Ting's unconfused expression, he shook his head gently, without any intention to continue the topic, and just said: "But it doesn't matter, I'll just wait."
After the man finished his topic, he asked him again with concern why he was barefoot and what he wanted to do alone.
Chen Ting didn't know how to answer his question, subconsciously avoided his gaze and hastily made up an excuse that he felt was crappy: "My shoes are not suitable, my husband will help me change the new one, I, I'll wait for him here..."
The man was obviously stunned by his reason, and then said in surprise: "...he asked you to wait here barefoot?"
Chen Tingwei was also stupid by his own excuses. He opened his mouth and was embarrassed to answer his words: "..."
"How can this be done? It's so cold..."
As the man spoke, he looked down at his feet. Chen Tingwei felt panicked. He took a small step back guiltily, trying to find a new excuse to make up for it. The man had already looked away and looked up at the street.
"Wait for me." The man suddenly stuffed the bouquet of jasmine into his hand and said, "I'll be back soon, wait a moment-"
A few minutes later, the man ran back, handed him a bottle of hot milk with warmth, took out the thing clamped under his armpits, and unpacked the packaging bag.
The man squatted down in front of him: "The slippers sold in convenience stores are not very good-looking, don't mind. The main reason is that you are pregnant now, the weather is so cold again, and barefoot makes you easily sick..."
Chen Ting was not unhappy to put on the cotton slippers that the man bought for him from the convenience store, and kept thanking him.
The man waved his hand to him indifferently, smiled and said it was okay, and told him not to be too burdened. He didn't know if it was to ease the atmosphere or something, and said, "Actually, when I first met you, I thought you looked very similar-"
But before he finished speaking, the cell phone in his pocket rang.
He nodded apologetically to Chen Tingwei. Chen Tingwei shook his head and said that he didn't care and signaled him to answer the phone first.
He watched the man take out the phone from his pocket, and the smile on his face became thicker and softer when he saw the lit screen. He answered the phone and said the address gently to the other party.
Chen Ting lowered his eyes before he stopped communicating with him, looking straight at the dark blue cotton slippers on his feet.
He couldn't help but think of Lian Jue, who always liked to wear this simple blue slipper.
Continuous trick.
Continuous trick.
It was not until the man in front of him that he finished the call and said goodbye to him that he finally interrupted his thoughts that made him feel a splitting headache.
"She is coming." The man said, looking at Chen Tingwei's unsightly face, hesitantly said, "Do you need me to contact your husband for help?... He seems to have been away for a long time."
Chen Ting said softly: "...it's not long."
The man didn't hear clearly: "What?"
"I mean he will be here soon. Go and do it quickly, don't worry about me." Chen Ting didn't raise his eyes and looked at the man, with a somewhat reluctant curve on the corner of his mouth. He looked at the Jasmine that he held in his hand, and said softly, "My husband also gave me Jasmine."
The man smiled and said, "That's a coincidence."
After the two said goodbye, Chen Ting walked aimlessly along the sidewalk.
Perhaps there was a clear destination in his mind, but his footsteps were deliberately contrary to his own ideas.
He really wanted to go home and see his parents, but... he was scared.
Chen Ting was not good at dealing with all the bizarre things that happened to him, but he was sometimes good at escaping.
He didn't dare to think about the fact that he was in another world now, because of his sudden disappearance and was at a loss, nor did he dare to think about how he should appear in front of his parents in such a down-and-out and embarrassed appearance.
He looked down at his hand, looked at the diamond ring that had been wearing on his hands since he woke up, and raised his hand, which was warmed by the milk bottle, to cover his lower abdomen through the thin clothes, and suddenly felt a sense of soreness between his nose.
Chen Tingwei blinked quickly, wiped away the tears from his eyes with the back of his hand, let out a gentle breath, and walked slowly with small steps.
He paused when he heard the kind-hearted Mr. Beta raise his voice and called someone's name.
Then the gentleman called again: "Pei Shu---here."
Chen Tingwei's spine stiffened for a moment.
His mind, which was thinking randomly, turned his head stiffly at this moment.
He saw the middle-aged woman across the street shyly accepting the flowers handed over by the man, and whispered something to him, then held the flowers and sniffed them gently. The face that seemed to be much older in just a few months slowly showed a little relaxed smile.
Chapter completed!