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"I've heard of you before." Mo Yixia suddenly said, "You are more interesting than I thought."
"Really? I'll just take it as a compliment."
Gu Zheng didn't want to talk to her at first, but she raised her head when she heard it. "I have hardly ever been injured since I was a child. Even if my foot is injured, I can still walk on one foot."
A strange desire to win...
Mo Yixia thought thoughtfully: “That’s amazing, you should exercise regularly.”
This girl's body is not as soft as that of ordinary girls, but rather quite firm and her skin is elastic, which is obviously the result of exercise.
Guzheng didn't answer, but just curled the corners of her mouth and proudly puffed out her chest.
Mo Yixia glanced at it casually: "I heard that excessive exercise will consume some useful fat."
"Fat is useless..."
Gu Zheng muttered something, and suddenly noticed the other party's gaze, her face immediately turned red, and she asked in embarrassment, "What do you mean?"
She stared at the other person's breasts for two seconds in revenge, and then felt even more embarrassed and angry.
But even though she was furious, she did not choose to throw this hateful guy back on the bed.
"You really are very interesting."
Mo Yixia retracted her gaze, "Just like the apple on the table."
"You're like a gorilla!"
"I don't mean the appearance, but the specialness of this apple, 'fallen star'... I like this name very much."
Gu Zheng snorted coldly and ignored her.
"Let me do it."
In fact, Han Zhou had already seen Gu Zheng supporting Mo Yixia through the reflection in the window, so he had been watching the situation quietly, thinking that their relationship might become closer because of this incident. However, the opposite happened. Seeing that they were about to quarrel, he hurriedly turned around and pretended to run over to help.
"no need."
Mo Yixia gave him a meaningful look and said calmly, "I want to go to the bathroom."
Gu Zheng realized later that she had invisibly prevented Han Zhou from having close contact with the girl. She was delighted and quickly agreed, "Me too, I want to go to the bathroom too!"
Han Zhou shrugged and said nothing more.
There is an independent bathroom in the ward. Both of them are now receiving intravenous drips, and they need one hand to hold the bottle. It is not very convenient to go to the toilet, so the other person has to help hold the bottle. However, the girl naturally cannot let the boy follow her into the bathroom when she goes to the bathroom, so they need to help each other.
Of course, this is when Gu Zheng is present. If Gu Zheng is not present, it is hard to guarantee whether Mo Yixia will say something threatening like "Come with me to the toilet".
Han Zhou was a little surprised. Mo Yixia seemed to be in a good mood after drinking the porridge. Although Gu Zheng was wary of Mo Yixia, she didn't seem to regard him as a scumbag for the time being. Although the two of them would quarrel, since they could go to the toilet together, it should mean that there was no problem.
Well, at least today is fine...
Doesn’t friendship between people start from going to the toilet together?
He was in a good mood and tried to ask, "I just want to go to the bathroom. I'll be back soon. You guys... shouldn't be a problem, right?"
Although there was no problem for the time being, he was still worried that the two would start arguing again when he was away for a while.
"No problem, go ahead."
Mo Yixia glanced at Han Zhou. She knew that these words were mainly directed at her.
"That's fine."
Han Zhou was completely relieved. He walked out of the ward quickly and closed the door.
"Let's go."
Seeing the door closed, Gu Zheng helped Mo Yixia walk to the bathroom and asked, "What's wrong with your foot?"
After Han Zhou entered the ward, he never asked about this guy's injured foot, as if he had known about it for a long time, which made her a little concerned.
"It's sprained."
"I know. I'm asking how you got it sprained."
"Accidentally."
"When was it accidental?"
"When you're not careful."
"..."
Gu Zheng knew that this guy didn't want to answer, so she pouted and stopped talking.
At this moment, I heard the other party suddenly say: "Can you help me go to the window to have a look first?"
"can."
Gu Zheng is not the type to hold grudges, nor does she care about the other party's perfunctory response just now. She just happened to want to see what Han Zhou was looking at before.
The two came to the window, and as if they could see what she was thinking, Mo Yixia looked out the window, looked at the gloomy sky, and asked, "What do you think Han Zhou was looking at just now?"
Gu Zheng was stunned for a moment, looked downstairs for a while, and said hesitantly: "It should be that group of children, they look very interesting... When I was a child, I also liked to hide in the tree like that girl, and no one could find me."
Having said this, she curved her eyes and smiled, as if she was reminiscing about her childhood, but she soon remembered that the person next to her was her love rival, and her face became stern again.
"A child? It can indeed be the opposite of a symbol of withering..." Mo Yixia asked thoughtfully, "But why can't it be that woman?"
Gu Zheng moved her gaze and looked at the woman downstairs who had just collected the clothes with a helpless and loving smile on her face. She suddenly felt sad: "Do you mean that Han Zhou misses his mother?"
She knew that Han Zhou's mother died shortly after he was born, and he had never experienced maternal love since childhood. He had just moved out of his old home yesterday. Perhaps such a scene could easily touch him.
"You are so sentimental."
Mo Yixia glanced at her, her tone without any disparagement, she just narrated calmly, "If according to your logic, looking at that woman is thinking about her mother, then looking at those children doesn't mean they are thinking about having many children in the future?"
"What do you mean by giving birth... Then why do you think Han Zhou is looking at that woman?" Gu Zheng's face turned slightly red. The three words 'giving birth' were still a bit embarrassing for her.
After all, if Han Zhou wanted to have many children, wouldn't that mean that he...
Mo Yixia didn't notice her expression. She looked at the woman downstairs for a long time and said seriously, "Do you think Han Zhou might have fallen in love with her?"
"?"
Gu Zheng looked dazed: "Are you kidding? That woman must be at least forty years old, right?"
Mo Yixia said calmly: “As long as you like it, age is not a problem.”
"But there's no way Han Zhou would fall in love with her."
"Who knows."
"Don't make fun of Han Zhou casually." Gu Zheng said dissatisfiedly, "Liking someone is not a game."
"Yeah, it's not like playing house."
Mo Yixia nodded in agreement, then retracted her gaze, “Let’s go to the bathroom.”
"You are such a weird person." Gu Zheng curled her lips.
"You're weird too."
Mo Yixia glanced at the profile of the girl beside her, then looked at the arm that was supporting her, and no emotion could be heard in her voice.
"But sometimes being a little weird isn't a bad thing. There are too many normal people in this world, and if there are too many of anything, it means 'ordinary', otherwise it means 'unordinary', so compared to weird, I hope you can use another word to describe me..."
"Like special."
Suddenly a drop of water appeared on the window.
Then, dense knocking sounds were heard, and a damp smell filled the air. Along with the woman and the child, the scenery outside the window began to become blurred.
It's raining.
……
When Han Zhou came back from the toilet, Gu Zheng and Mo Yixia had already returned to their respective beds. It seemed that there was no conflict between the two of them, and they were both quietly watching the raindrops falling outside the window.
After all, they were both sick and looked a little tired.
"I checked the weather forecast. This rain won't last long. It should stop before you finish the infusion."
Han Zhou looked out the window and sat down on the chair between the two beds as he spoke.
"I've never seen an accurate weather forecast for Lincheng."
As if recalling some unhappy past events, Gu Zheng said with resentment, "The forecast clearly said that it would be sunny for several days in a row, but it started raining heavily just a few minutes after I left the house."
She covered her mouth and yawned, suddenly feeling a little sleepy.
"I wish the rain would last longer."
Mo Yixia spoke lazily, her tone also carrying a hint of sleepiness.
Rainy days are suitable for sleeping, and since both of them are sick and taking medicine, it is normal to feel sleepy. Han Zhou hopes that the two of them can sleep a little longer to avoid any trouble.
So I carefully tried to test him: "I think you all seem a little tired, why don't you take a nap first?"
"No, I want to go home and sleep." Gu Zheng was alert and tried to stay awake. "If you sleep too much during the day, you won't be able to sleep at night."
She actually wanted to keep an eye on Mo Yixia to prevent her from doing anything while she was asleep.
Mo Yixia didn't plan to stare at her. This opponent might have a very important position in Han Zhou's heart, but she was probably not a proactive person, otherwise she would not even have the chance to meet the other party here.
She looked at Han Zhou and said, "I told you that it's hard for me to fall asleep in an unfamiliar environment, unless you are willing to tell me a story."
Seeing Han Zhou's expression become unnatural, she added helplessly, "Any story is fine."
"Any story is fine?" Han Zhou confirmed carefully.
"Anything is fine, but at least it has to be a complete story."
"I want to listen to it too." Guzheng echoed.
Seeing that both of them were interested, Han Zhou thought carefully for a while, and suddenly remembered that Mo Yixia had said before that autumn was the season when all things withered. He looked at the old tree swaying in the rain outside the window, and couldn't help but think of a story that was both appropriate and philosophical.
"I thought about it."
He smiled, organized his words a little, and said, "This story happened in the ward, and it happened to be in autumn."
Guzheng and Mo Yixia listened silently.
Han Zhou told a story that was very famous in his previous life.
The content is roughly about a dying patient living in the ward. He lies on the hospital bed and every day he can see the leaves of a tree outside the window falling one by one in the autumn wind.