The selfish gene

When I woke up again, I was on a hospital bed.An IV was hung on the back of the hand, and a heartbeat monitor was placed on the bedside. Just a little rolling of the throat, there was a severe tearing feeling deep in the throat.

The body feels light and tired, which is very similar to the feeling that I can't fall asleep and wake up every time I take too much medicine.

I wanted to find out what was wrong with my throat, but when I moved, the instrument beside me made a piercing hum, and a figure with a fragrant wind rushed over and held my hand.

"Don't move, the blood is coming back. Do you feel cold? I'll slow it down for you." Xu Xi shook my hand and slowed down the speed of the infusion.

"What's wrong with me?" I said with pain, my voice was hoarse and unpleasant, as if my entire vocal cords had experienced a tragic traffic accident.

Xu Xi sat sideways on the side of the bed, his eyes were slightly red and swollen, and tears glistened in his eyes.

"You still ask me what's wrong?" She touched my cheek, and a crystal tear fell down, just on my hand, "What hurdles are there in life, why are you ruining yourself like this? If I If you arrive an hour late with Xiao Tang, you might never wake up again. Xiao Nian, if you still treat me as your aunt, stop scaring me like this."

I am full of doubts.spoil what?What can't wake up again?Who did I scare?

I remember drinking alcohol and taking sleeping pills, but according to Xu Xi, I thought I was at home...suicide by taking medicine?

Joke, how could I commit suicide?

When I think about how many people will point fingers at this matter after my death, there will be a lot of gossip and gossip about my life as a wealthy family, even a cat or a dog is qualified to comment on my personality.Even if I am a ghost, I will find a way to return my life, how can I take the initiative to die?

I am not afraid of death, but I will never allow others to see my jokes.

"I didn't..." I frowned and tried to explain to her, but because of the discomfort in my throat and the fatigue that hadn't completely dissipated in my body, I didn't sound confident.

"Looking at your appearance yesterday, I knew something was going to happen. Fortunately, your code lock code is the same as the previous apartment, otherwise Xiao Tang and I would not be able to enter the house."

Xu Xi really didn't believe me, she decided that I was overthinking and dying, otherwise it would be really hard to explain why an adult with a normal mind would mix spirits and sleeping pills.

To stop dreaming.

I briefly thought about the reasonableness of this answer, and then I lay down obediently, and honestly accepted Xu Xi's painstaking explanation, without any further excuses for myself.

"This is the second time I've saved you..." Xu Xi tucked the blanket for me, and said in a nasal voice, "Sang Nian, I know you have a lot of complaints against us. But in my heart, you will always It was the child I brought to the Xu family in my arms 20 years ago. He was the most well-behaved and bravest child I have ever seen, and he grew stronger than anyone else."

"No matter who you are or who your parents are, I hope you will be healthy and happy in the future."

Xu Xi always avoids talking about my childhood experience, this is the first time I heard her mention it in adulthood, and she actually used such a positive evaluation.

Her filter for me is too thick...

I kept looking at her, wanting to smile at her so that she wouldn't have to worry about me, but the corners of my lips trembled so much that I couldn't stay in the same position for a long time.

"...I'm hospitalized, what about my cat?" As soon as he opened his mouth, he talked about a completely unrelated topic.

Xu Xi also seemed to understand that I was changing the subject, and didn't force me to continue: "The two kittens were brought home by Monica, and the tortoise Xiao Tang said he would take care of it, and he has experience."

"He has fart experience." I whispered.

He took good care of him, last time Xiao Wangba didn't get sick and almost died.

"You can't even take care of yourself, so don't think about the tortoise." Xu Xi said helplessly, "The doctor said that you are very weak and you need to take a good rest."

I let out a drowsy "um", because the sleeping pills in my body hadn't been completely metabolized, I talked for a while and then closed my eyes again.

The gastric lavage damaged the gastric mucosa, so I could only eat liquid food and received nutritional injections for a few days. After three days, the doctor confirmed that I was fine and allowed me to be discharged from the hospital.

I didn't go back to the rental house.My alcohol dependence and drug dependence are getting worse, and if I don't quit, it will be a huge problem for me in the future.Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. I asked Xu Xi to find a special withdrawal rehabilitation hospital for me. Once I was discharged from the hospital, I was seamlessly admitted to the hospital and started professional withdrawal treatment.

I live in a single ward, which is equipped with surveillance cameras and does not have any sharp objects. The only window can only be opened to the size of a slit, and I cannot even stretch out a hand. There is an invisible protective net outside the window.

Three meals a day are given regularly and quantitatively. Nurses will deliver medicines to the wards. After lunch, everyone will be organized to do various activities, such as aerobics, singing, and Tai Chi. The healthier you can be, the healthier you can be.Except that relatives and friends can visit freely, this place is like a comfortable prison.

Under the control of drugs, my emotions quickly stabilized, and I was no longer full of anger or complaining about others.

Tang Bian and Xu Xi would visit me from time to time, chat with me, and gossip about the outside world.

Probably because they were afraid of irritating me, they never talked about the Sang family.Whether Sang Zhengbai announced my identity to the public, what about the marriage contract with Gu Ying, whether Ji Chenfeng recognized his ancestors and returned to his clan... I don't know anything about these.

"Brother, the young master of the Zheng family has been looking for you recently. Everyone didn't know where you went, so they all came to ask me." Tang Bi'an sat on the double sofa next to the hospital bed, stuffing cherries into his mouth one by one. , stuffed his mouth full like a greedy squirrel.

The tip of the pen smoothly wrote words and sentences on the paper. I looked up from the small table and asked him, "What did you tell him?"

"I said you went to practice. There is no signal in the mountains, so it is inconvenient for outsiders to disturb you."

The end of my eyebrows twitched and I refused to comment. I lowered my head and continued to work.

"However, recently there have been rumors that the Zheng family's capital chain has broken, saying that they owe billions of dollars, and they are about to die. I don't know if it is true."

I froze for a moment, and the tip of the pen couldn't fall anymore.

The Zheng family is dying soon?Is it because of this that Zheng Jieyuan came to me?

Then he really found the wrong person.Today, I can make up one or two million yuan, but several billion yuan is really too embarrassing for me.

"Brother, what do you write every day?" Tang Bi'an suddenly came over with a cherry in his hand, "I thought it was strange that you asked me to buy hundreds of greeting cards before, but now who still sends greeting cards, it's too old-fashioned. "Today's Lixia, the lunch at noon is hard to swallow, but the soup is not bad..." Hahahaha what are you writing? It's so funny, I thought you were writing a love letter."

Turning the greeting card upside down, I gave him a hard look, and said coldly, "Eat yours."

Tang Bi'an sat back on the sofa, still smiling while stuffing cherries into his mouth.

Opening the greeting card and looking at the content on it, I am a little uncertain... Is it really so dirty?But didn’t Ji Chenfeng also write such boring things back then?

He can write why can't I write?

"Brother, is this for... Doctor Ji?" Tang Bi'an asked tentatively.

There was such a big quarrel that day, and I left the company with the attitude of a bereaved dog. It is estimated that all kinds of rumors have been spread all over the place.In addition, Tang Zhaoyue is Sang Zhengbai's confidant, so she probably won't keep this kind of thing from her.In this way, Tang Bi'an will know about Ji Chenfeng and I, so it's nothing unusual.

Folding the greeting card, I carefully stuffed it into a light green, simple and elegant envelope, without writing an address, opened the drawer of the bedside table, and threw it in directly through the gap.

"Doctor Ji, shouldn't he be called Master Sang now?"

"Ah, didn't Ms. Xu tell you?" Tang Bian said in surprise, "Doctor Ji left and did not stay at Sang's house. He said that sending the letter was only to fulfill the last wish of his adoptive mother. People give up the way they want to go."

I was startled, a little unbelievable: "Dad... Sang Zhengbai let him go like this?"

"Mr. Sang is very angry, but there is nothing to do with him. Don't recognize his ancestors, he can't be tied to the police station to change his name and surname forcibly. Besides, there is no father-son relationship at all. If he goes too far, the other party will simply What if it's broken in two?"

With billions of dollars in wealth, Ji Chenfeng just said that he didn't want it, so he didn't want it?Is he stupid?With a rich old man like Sang Zhengbai, let alone a pet hospital, even a zoo can open, which way can he go?

Remembering that day in the snow, he asked me if money was so important, and I told him that the worst thing in this world is poverty.I know that at this moment, I shouldn't be sentimental anymore, but I still can't help thinking... Is he trying to prove to me that he can really treat money like dung and live an ordinary life?

As summer approached, my rehabilitation treatment achieved good results. My flesh grew back, my complexion improved, and my sleep was much more normal.

Monica and Xu Xi came to pick me up and I was discharged from the hospital. When I was packing my luggage, I found hundreds of greeting cards in the drawer.

"Wow, what is this?"

Monica poked towards one of the envelopes curiously, but I quickly stopped her.

"I'll do this myself."

She backed away quickly, expressing that she had no intention of violating my privacy.

Arrange all the greeting cards into the cardboard box, which happens to be full.With luggage in one hand and cardboard boxes in the other, I got into Xu Xi's car and left the place where I had stayed for three months.

The air outside was slightly tinged with the dryness of early summer, and the roadside trees on both sides of the road were full of branches and leaves, and had completely returned to life.

Xu Xi wanted me to move to live with her, and both inside and outside of his words were worried about me.But I didn't agree, because firstly, I didn't want to be a light bulb, and secondly, it was inconvenient for me to do things by myself.

The car drove into the community and parked downstairs of the rented house, Xu Xi got out of the car and took me to the door.

"Come to me if you need anything, don't see me outside." Xu Xi said.

I nodded, but I still made up my mind that I would not look for her if I could not look for her in the future.

She is different from me, she is Xu Wanyi's younger sister and Sang Zhengbai's sister-in-law.Not only in terms of kinship, but also in career, he is inextricably linked with the Sang family.It is not a good thing for her to be known by Sang Zhengbai after she has been with me a lot.

Because Tang Bi'an came to clean it regularly, the windows in the rented house were clear and clean, and there was no dust.All the wine was disposed of, whether it was red wine, foreign wine, or cooking wine for cooking.

Recharging a mobile phone that has not been turned on for three months, the screen lights up and a staggering number of text messages and missed calls flood in.

After a general check, I didn't find any important information, so I deleted all of them with one click.

After taking a shower and changing clothes, I went out again with a cardboard box full of greeting cards.

Winter goes to spring, spring goes to summer, and the vegetation keeps changing, but the city of flies remains the same.

The tangled wires in the sky, the dilapidated streets, and the dangerous and overly long stairs all make people look bad.

I wasn't sure where Ji Chenfeng would move to before, so I didn't send the greeting card, because I was afraid that he would not receive it.Now that it is known that he has no plans to return to the Sang family to inherit the family business, he will most likely live in Flying City, after all, this is where he grew up.

Climbing the stairs in front of Ji Chenfeng's house in winter makes me panting, not to mention summer, when I climb to the top, my neck and back are covered with fine layers of sweat.

Solemnly placed the cardboard box in front of the blue iron door without any signature on it, but as long as Ji Chenfeng can open it and take a look, he will definitely know who wrote it.

This is the reply I owe him...

After adjusting the position of the cardboard boxes, I turned around and left with trepidation. When I went down the stairs, I saw two people walking up side by side from the bottom of the long steps.

Even if it's just a vague figure, I can recognize one of them as Ji Chenfeng.

I'm not ready to face him again, or rather, I don't know how to explain to him why I'm here.In a panic, I returned the same way, crossed the blue iron gate, ran deeper into the corridor, and dodged to hide behind a foam box stacked higher than people.

A few minutes later, Ji Chenfeng came up with a strange man and stopped in front of his iron gate.The two held bags in their hands, as if they had just returned from shopping in the supermarket.

"Huh? Do you have a courier?"

The strange man was about [-] years old, and his appearance was quite rough. His accent seemed to be from the north. Although he was not as tall as Ji Chenfeng, he could be called a burly figure.

He picked up the cardboard box from the ground, turned it upside down and said, "It's quite heavy."

Ji Chenfeng took a look at the cardboard box without any information from him, and frowned suspiciously: "I haven't bought anything."

He has not changed significantly from three months ago. He is wearing a loose casual T-shirt, and his whole body is refreshed. He looks like a college student at home on vacation.

"Did an acquaintance send it to you and you forgot? Go into the house and demolish it, I'm so hot..."

"Is it so hot?" Ji Chenfeng smiled and handed the box back to the other party. Although he said so, he took out the key and quickly opened the door.

The man pushed him into the room: "You have icy muscles and bones, you are not afraid of cold or heat, how can you be the same as ordinary people like us..."

The iron door slammed shut, cutting off the conversation between the two of them talking and laughing.

After staying in place for a while, I slowly stepped out from behind the foam box and came to the iron gate. I wished I could see through the iron plate and see what was going on inside.

Who is this man?Why did Ji Chenfeng have such a person by his side in just three months?Still looking intimate?

He smiled at him, and they went shopping together and went home together...

Is that his new boyfriend?It's only been three months. Could it be that he has fallen in love with someone else?

Take a step back, turn around and rush down the stairs, regardless of whether you will fall and break your neck.

Back on the flat ground, I supported my knees and gasped for a moment, hurriedly took out the medicine box from my pocket, and poured an anti-anxiety medicine into my mouth.

Without water, it can only be swallowed dry. It is sugar-coated and not too bitter.

Walking to the main road where I can call a car, I took out my mobile phone and found A Yao's number, and called her.Before entering the rehabilitation hospital, I had settled all her compensation.I thought I would never use her again in this life...

Fortunately, she didn't delete her phone number.

"Hey, boss?" A Yao quickly picked it up and said, "Didn't you say that you don't need to follow Ji Chenfeng? Do you have any other instructions?"

Looking back at Ji Chenfeng's house, the blue iron gate is very eye-catching, even if it is far away, it can still be seen clearly.

"Look up someone for me, I want his information right away."

Dr. Ji:

Today's Lixia, the lunch at noon is hard to swallow, but the soup is not bad.When I took a nap, I felt a little noisy, and when I got up, I saw a magpie standing on the protective net.

It is said that good things will happen when you meet a magpie. I don't know what is good for me, but I just hope it won't disturb me to sleep again.

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