Chapter Fifty-Five

  Outside the gate, the bright moon shines on the tree shadows reflected on the stone table, and a variety of fruits and snacks are arranged on the table.

  Gong Xi's father sat alone in the rattan rocking chair, some distance from the table. Security guard Little Liu moved a small stool to sit beside him. By the stone table sat Gong Xi and Dr. Xue.

  Xu Yu Yao peeled a grape with her slender fingers and handed it to Gong Xi, "Gong Ge Ge, have some grapes." The juice of the grape was sliding down her pale arm.

  Jiuyue felt dizzy for a moment, this scene was so familiar. He sat in front of the desk, with a bright moon hanging outside the window. Xingyun held a basin of grapes and fed them to him one by one, and he sucked on his fingers, using the tip of his tongue to draw circles on his fingertips.

  "Palace Brother Gao"

  Jiūn suddenly came back to her senses, and the girl was still holding grapes in front of her own eyes.

  Jiared's face turned red, and he waved his hand repeatedly: "No, no, I don't eat grapes."

  Jiayu awkwardly didn't know what to say.

  The old man in the rocking chair, feigning sleep with his eyes narrowed, glanced sideways at the two people, and gently swayed the palm-leaf fan in his hand, as if the day of success was still far away.

  Autumn seems to be a very short season, and the north feels it especially deeply. In the blink of an eye, the sky has turned cold, and no one remembers which day it started, but this year's snow has begun to fall. However, as soon as winter arrives, the snow falls endlessly.

  Dr. Xu looks very professional, often massaging Old Man Gong's legs in the living room. The old man has arthritis and cold legs. He told Palace of Joy: "You have to thank Dr. Xu, if she didn't massage my legs every day, you don't know how much I suffered during winter."

  Ji Gong moved his eyes away from the rice bowl and politely thanked Xu Yuexiao.

  Xu Yu Yao's face turned red like an apple, and she smiled shyly, revealing two small tiger teeth, saying softly: "It should be."

  "What should be, isn't what should be, is that you've done a good job. Gong Xi, let's do this, you thank Dr. Xu for me instead. Little girls like to watch movies and listen to music and all that. You take her to see a movie or something too."

  Gong Xi stopped eating his porridge and put down his chopsticks, frowning and saying: "Dad, I don't have time."

  Xu Yu Yao's face, which was still rosy and smiling just a moment ago, had congealed into an eerie expression.

  The old master felt a bit embarrassed and slammed his hand on the table, shouting: "If you don't have time, make time to go!"

  The first time Gong Xi went to the movies with Xu Yue Yao, Xu Yue Yao jumped into his arms. The scenes in the movie were quite frightening, but Xu Yue Yao's actions scared Gong Xi even more.

  Soft and soft body, light fragrance, fluffy hair, and those small hands like a gentle breeze tightly grasping the waist of Gong Xi.

  Kiyokazu's body suddenly reacted.

  After that, Gong Xi didn't dare to ask her to watch movies again. However, he would occasionally be invited by her to accompany her shopping and buying things. The girl's requests, Gong Xi had always been too embarrassed to refuse, and Xu Yu Yao also increasingly felt that Gong Xi was a man worth liking. Gentle, steady, most importantly, he was of good character. That time in the cinema, she was also testing Gong Xi, if he had taken advantage of her, then she would have definitely not continued to be with him.

  In the depths of winter, the days are short, and it's completely dark before 5 o'clock.

  Xu Yu Yao helped with household chores and finished making dinner at home, chatting with Gong Xi's father while waiting for Gong Xi.

  That day Shenyang had a heavy snowfall, and many cars were stuck on the road. Gong Xi couldn't bear his father's repeated phone calls urging him to return home, so he decided to park his car by the roadside and walk back.

  That day's snow fell very heavily, people walking in opposite directions couldn't see each other. The sky and earth were filled with swirling snowflakes.

  The snow on the road was knee-deep, and with one step, it would sink into a deep footprint. Gong Xi walked for an hour before returning home, looking like a snowman.

  After dinner, Gong Xi fell ill and had a high fever.

  People shiver with cold and then feel hot under the quilt, sweating all over when covered, and feeling chilly to the point of chattering teeth when they lift it.

  Gong Xi's dad gave Xu Yu Ruo a meaningful glance, "The opportunity has arrived, you must grasp it firmly."

  She carefully took care of Gong Xi, sitting in front of the bed and using a cold towel to cool him down, from time to time checking his temperature with her hand on his forehead.

  After a while, she came back with water and fed medicine to Gong Xi. She placed the tablets in the palm of her soft hand and told Gong Xi: "Gong Xi ge, open your mouth and take the medicine."

  Jiade's nose was blowing hot air, his eyes were blurry and he couldn't see the person sitting in front of him clearly. When someone told him to open his mouth, he opened it.

  Soft fragrance brings a cool feeling touching the lips.

  Jiayu's heart seemed to have something lightly floating around, but the soreness all over her body made that feeling flash by.

  After a night's sleep, when he woke up the next morning, he felt much lighter and his headache was gone. He turned over and got out of bed. Suddenly, Xu Yuexiao was lying on her own bed, fully dressed, although she was only barely perched on the edge of the bed, but the feeling of being bombed still made Gong Xi's scalp tingle.

  Gong Xi was still in a daze, but Xue Yue Yao had already woken up. She elegantly tidied her hair and clothes, then smiled at Gong Xi: "I was too tired last night, I fell asleep without realizing it."

  "Achoo!"

  "Excuse me." Xu Yu Yao's face turned slightly red as she covered her mouth and let out a small sneeze.

  "Nothing, did you catch a cold last night?" Gong Xi asked with concern.

  "Maybe... Ah-choo! Ah-choo!"

  Xu Yu Yao hadn't spoken two words before she started sneezing again continuously.

  Gong Xi hastily handed over the tissue from her bedside and apologized repeatedly, "I'm really sorry, because of taking care of me, you also caught a cold."

  Xu Yu Yao carefully twisted her nose with a tissue and smiled awkwardly: "No, nothing."

  Then he quickly and neatly cleaned up the trash, medicine boxes, water basins, towels and other things in the house.

  At breakfast, Xu Yu Yao's cold seemed to have worsened. Gong Xi smiled at her apologetically. Gong Xi's father seemed to have finally seized the opportunity and kept lecturing Gong Xi: "Look, Dr. Xu got exhausted from taking care of you, shouldn't you take better care of her?"

  "Don't go to the company today, stay at home and take care of Dr. Xu instead."

  Gong Xi really took care of Xu Yu Yao for two days, serving tea and water, watching TV together, and chatting by the bedside. On a winter day, the warm sunlight shone through the window, and in the cozy afternoon, Old Man Gong seemed to see the tiny flu virus transform into a love potion, dripping onto the two people, fermenting very quickly.

  The person who caught a cold was also lucky, his body really couldn't withstand the cold, dampness, sea breeze and severe malnutrition. Only he didn't have such good luck, with no tender and beautiful woman to take care of him without undressing.

  Lucky to have a fever every day and night, coughing, took cold medicine, antipyretics, anti-inflammatory drugs in the morning, can hold on to sit in front of the workbench, but suffered at night. The stove was burning fiercely, but only warmed up such a small area, luckily the bed was far away from the furnace, originally it was cold, and with the fever, it became even colder inside the bones. My body was shaking like a sieve in the quilt, my big brother who slept in the same room had a good sleep, as long as he fell asleep, no matter what, he couldn't be woken up.

  The quilt was burnt to a crisp, and as soon as I stretched my hand out from under the covers, it felt like needles piercing my skin. The pain was intense, but all I could do was grit my teeth and drink some water. The room was freezing, and the thermos had long since lost its warmth. The icy water slid down my throat, chilling me to the bone in an instant.

  Lucky could only prop up his trembling legs, wrap the quilt tightly and jump back onto the bed. As soon as the quilt was taken away, the bed surface felt icy cold like water. When he lay down again, he shivered once more.

  Good luck is like lying in an ice cellar, with teeth chattering up and down.

  He could only rely on his imagination, imagining that Guan Xi was by his side, hugging him, and suddenly producing a sweet dessert in front of him, which would alleviate the physical pain.

  Xu Yu Yao's cold got better quickly, and the close contact brought her relationship with Gong Xi closer, the feeling of unfamiliarity from before slowly disappearing.

  Two people occasionally go out for a walk together. At night, when watching TV, the two of them will naturally chat and complain about the increasingly absurd plot.

  Kyoko's father now has a bigger smile on his face every day, as if he had already seen Kyoko walking into the marriage hall with her beautiful new husband.

  Christmas is coming soon, the streets are filled with joy and festivity, just like every year. The streets are lined with roses and colorful lights, and small snowflakes are floating in the gray sky.

  Jiayu stood on the bustling street, watching as couples walked hand in hand with joyful smiles, brushing past each other. She looked up at the sky again, where snowflakes were dancing, but this year there wasn't a single Santa Claus driving that small sleigh full of gifts to come.

  Lucky gift list, can only be memories.

  Jingxi smiled and thought of that Christmas, that wonderful night, beautiful dawn.

  "Good luck, come back soon, I miss you!"

  Lucky is still struggling with the devil of illness, has been sick for a month now, good and bad, can't get better. Every day's coughing, when it gets severe, it feels like even the lungs are going to be spat out, every time her little face turns bright red to purple, looking scary.

  Luckily, Xiang Gong doesn't know that he's become like this now. If he knew, he would definitely be heartbroken to death. He might even drag himself back home.

  It wasn't until I accidentally glanced at the calendar that I realized today is Christmas Day.

  Just as I walked out of the office, I found that it had started snowing lightly in the sky.

  "Gong Xi, are you also looking at the sky? This year's Christmas is quite fitting, it's snowing again." Xing Yun smiled and looked up at the sky, after a while, she said softly: "It's just that you're not by my side."

  "Gong Xi, I miss you so much!"

  Lucky in that day's diary, wrote countless times of thinking of you, full page is Gong Xi, all are thinking of you.

  Gong Xi received three Christmas gifts. One was from Secretary Xiao Ma, who gave Gong Xi a box of chocolates and asked for a rose in return.

  Mei Mei from the front desk also called out to him before he left work, handed him a box and said with a red face, "You can look again when you get back."

  Then he turned around and ran away like a little rabbit.

  Back home, he received another gift from Xu Yu Yao, a sweater she had knitted with her own hands. She didn't say anything. But Gong Xi's dad said beside him, "Xu Xiao, she spent many days knitting this, one stitch at a time. You should know the thought and effort she put into it, understand, son?"

  Gong Xi could only pull out a corner of his robe and bow to Xu Yu Xiang, smiling apologetically: "Sorry, I didn't prepare any gifts."

  "It's nothing."

  "Fill up!"

  Xu Yu Yao and Gong Xi's dad said at the same time.