Where did you get this substitute from?

At the gate of the hospital, it was another rest day, and there were many people coming and going.

But the hustle and bustle around him seemed to be from another world.

Su Shen stood on the spot in a daze, turning a deaf ear to the words with different signs.

I don't know why, seeing him like this, I felt like someone stuffed a wet sponge into his heart, which made him panic.

After the unexplainable rampage of emotions, he frowned and looked at Su Shen's drooping head: "What kind of dead man are you pretending to be?"

"Okay, you're stubborn, I'll see how long you can be stubborn."

After saying these words with a sneer, he left Su Shen behind and turned to leave.

……

The school's dormitory building was renovated, and he told his grandma why he didn't continue to live in school.

Grandma was worried that they would be awkward when Sur came home.

The last quarrel in the hospital has been lingering in Su Shen's mind, and sometimes when he is in school, he always thinks of Su Er's extremely resentful eyes.

Yesterday he went to work at a fried chicken shop very late. He rested on the table during class break. A classmate suddenly pushed his arm. He rubbed his eyes and raised his head.

"The teacher is looking for you."

In this monthly exam, his grades have dropped horribly. The homeroom teacher has a bad temper and caught him and trained him for a long time.

After returning from the office, he couldn't even fall asleep.

He stared at the desk in a daze, thinking of the head teacher asking him if he was in a relationship at the end.

There is a female student with good grades in the class next door. She fell in love with her early and became pregnant. She came to apply for a suspension this morning.

The homeroom teacher pushed others and himself, counted his fingers, and looked disillusioned, "At your age, the most important thing you should care about is your academic performance, and let the rest go."

When I got home at night, my grandma was still taking care of Su Er in the hospital. The room was empty, and the door was dark when I opened it.

He groped in the kitchen and found a package of instant noodles that had been unpacked, boiled water, and was about to make it.

The phone in the room rang.

He hurried over to connect: "Hello?"

The other party didn't speak at first, only slight breathing.

"Hello?" Su Shen looked at the microphone suspiciously.

Just as he was about to hang up, a man's unfamiliar voice came from the opposite side, clear and steady: "Is it Sur?"

Su Shen: "Sister is not here, who are you? What's the matter?"

"It doesn't matter who I am." He seemed a little impatient, "Tell her, get the money ready, I will ask for it tomorrow, otherwise the tape will be exposed, don't blame me for reminding her."

Su Shen's breathing stopped for a moment, he didn't understand what these words meant for a while.

However, the other party hung up very quickly and did not give him a chance to ask.

He subconsciously glanced in the direction of Sur's room.

Since his sister became an adult, his grandma didn't let him enter and leave her room at will. He pushed open the bedroom door with some hesitation, his eyes wandered around the room, and finally fell on the small cabinet where Su Er usually kept his diary.

The cabinet was unlocked, he opened it, and saw a video tape under the diary in the drawer.

His intuition told him that this should be the tape that the person just mentioned.

He sat quietly in Sur's room for a long time, and finally decided to open it to see what was inside.

There is a long snowflake scene in front of the video, most people would think it was a waste tape, and then halfway through the snowflake show, a girl in a red dress suddenly appeared on the screen lying unconscious on the bed.

The red dress and the white bed sheet form a sharp contrast. The person in the video gradually approaches and takes a close-up of the face of the girl in the picture.

That's Sur.

Su Shen clenched her hands tightly.

He pressed the pause button to calm down his flustered mood. At this time, it was completely dark outside the window, and there was no moonlight at all. In front of him was only the strange lights projected by the TV.

After an unknown amount of time, he got up suddenly, rushed to the phone, and called back the number just now. After a while of busy tone, the person connected.

"No money? She recently had an operation, let's say it cost hundreds of thousands. You tell me that she has no money?"

"...I don't care, you can figure it out, anyway, the master tape is in my hands, at worst, sell it for two dollars."

Because of being overly nervous, Su Shen couldn't speak clearly, and he didn't even realize what he was talking about, until he hung up the phone, his hands were shaking violently.

He looked up at the wall clock in the living room, which was pointing at twelve o'clock.

His life is like the night at this moment, as if there is only endless darkness.

……

Aunt Qiao said that someone had been waiting for her all afternoon.

Ji Shutong didn't spend as much time at school as he did at the company. Recently, he was fighting wits and courage with the old and cunning directors in the company, and he was not very happy.

He glanced at the living room and saw a familiar figure in the distance, and his heart moved slightly.

"A rare visitor." He sat across from Su Shen and poured himself a glass of water to moisten his throat. "You took some time out of your busy schedule to come here. I don't know what advice you can give me?"

Su Shen suffered from insomnia all night, his face was pale and haggard, he wrung his hands, and first reflected that the contradictory behavior at the hospital door was different from his ignorance of compliments.

Ji Shutong looked at him coldly, knowing that he still had something to say.

Su Shen raised her head, "I...I want to borrow money."

Ji Shutong laughed angrily, he shook the water in the glass, and mocked the person in front of him: "Su Shen, I'm very curious."

"To you, I'm just a cash machine, right?" He said angrily and unbuttoned his collar, "I said it nicely last time, but you fucking took the money and then you're the one who's going to pick it up."

Su Shen lowered his head in embarrassment.

It was he who broke the contract first, so he had nothing to say.

Looking at him with different signs and displeasure: "How much do you want?"

Su Shen: "...one hundred thousand."

"What do you want money for?"

"..."

"say!"

Ji Shutong was already full of anger in the company, and seeing him like this made him even more unhappy.

He laughed contemptuously: "If you don't explain clearly what you want to do, then I have no choice but to help you. Let's go."

Su Shen stood up a little exhausted, Ji Shutong thought he was going to leave, so he got up too, and was about to go back to his room to rest, but when he was about to reach the stairs, he subconsciously looked back at Su Shen.

The man didn't move forward after leaving the sofa, but stopped in the direction of the swimming pool, squatting quietly aside.

Su Shen has lost a lot of weight recently compared to when he first met, as if he was enduring some huge torment, his back is not straight.

But he was still angry.

In the evening, Ji Shutong lay on the bed and read two pages of the financial report, and Aunt Qiao brought over a bowl of noodles.

He paused while turning over the paper, and asked, "Is he gone?"

Aunt Qiao realized who she was talking about, "The little guest has been squatting by the swimming pool, it's getting late, I asked him to come in and he refused."

His heart that had finally calmed down began to become irritable again.

He glanced sideways at the steaming plain noodles on the table, "I'm not hungry, take this bowl of noodles to him."

Aunt Qiao: "I ordered two bowls, and gave him one bowl, and put it next to him to remind him to eat, but he didn't even move his chopsticks."

These days there are still people blocking people's doors to borrow money.

He walked to the French window and looked towards the swimming pool. Su Shen seemed to be asleep, with his arms crossing his legs, sitting curled up in a ball, with his head tilted on his arms.

In fact, looking at Su Shen's appearance, it was not difficult for him to guess that Su Shen was really in trouble. He didn't intend to embarrass this dishonest guy, but his secretive attitude made him very disgusted.

It was probably because, to Su Shen, he was not the kind of person who confided his heart.

He walked to the pool, raised his foot and raised Ti Sushen's arm: "Come in."

Su Shen opened his eyes in a daze, and was about to get up, but his legs were numb.

The traces are different: "Can you walk?"

Su Shen nodded.

The signs are different: "Nod your head, talk."

"...you can move around."

He followed Ji Shutong step by step, and arrived at the bedroom that Ji Shutong had arranged before.

It has not been touched since he left, and it is cleaned every day, so there is no sense of emptiness when you step into it suddenly.

Ji Shutong frowned, seeing how hard he was standing, raised his hand and pulled him over to sit down together, "Come here."

Su Shen obediently sat beside him.

He lifted Su Shen's sweaty forehead with his hand, and looked directly into Su Shen's eyes.

Originally, he had thought of cruel words to intimidate this guy, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't say much.

Su Shen's back felt cold when he saw him, and he backed away.

The traces are different: "You try to hide again."

Su Shen suddenly stopped breathing.

"You don't want to tell, and I don't bother to ask." Ji Shutong finally let go, "But this time, if you take the money and run away again, don't expect me to let you go easily."

Su Shen lowered his head, expressing his acquiescence.

……

Su Shen told her grandma that the school dormitory had been renovated and she would go back to live in school.

Grandma secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Sur was about to be discharged from the hospital recently, and the two never ran into each other.

She probably felt that what Su Er said in the hospital last time was really too much, so she personally made a bag of pine nut candy for Su Shen and secretly stuffed it into Su Shen's bag. Only to find that the pine nut sugar was hidden at the bottom of the bag.

Compared with Su Er, he rarely received grandma's care, and he was already used to things, but when he saw this bag of candy, he suddenly burst into tears.

However, people who have no sweets to comfort them all the year round suddenly ate a few candies, and their teeth began to fight. Su Shen couldn't help but cover his face in pain.

It didn't get any better until dinner.

Ji Shutong saw that he was sullen, and he was not very angry.

The two had a hasty meal facing each other, and Su Shen went back to the room, still sulking on the sofa.

Aunt Qiao reminded him inadvertently when cleaning the sofa: "Could it be that you eat too much sugar?"

The traces are different: "What?"

"My little boy has a toothache from eating polysaccharides. He also covers his face in pain, and it hurts even when he smiles."

is it?

When he went upstairs, Su Shen really covered his face, this frail man was writing the test paper while having a toothache.

He moved closer, Su Shen was stuck in a certain problem and couldn't extricate himself, frowning and thinking, he didn't notice the footsteps behind him.

Ji Shutong dragged a piece of draft paper over, and scribbled with a few strokes: "It's fine if you don't do this."

Su Shen: "Oh?"

There was a feeling of seeing the blue sky through the clouds and mists, Su Shen raised his head suddenly, and smiled brightly: "Yes."

Ji Shutong was so shaken by his smile that he almost lost his mind. It was the first time he saw Su Shen's smile from the heart, and it was quite pretty.