Chapter 9

On Friday afternoon, Shen Zhao booked a high-speed train from Jiangcheng to Tingcheng. Lasted two hours.

Sier has not texted or called her for a whole week since she returned from Russia. She called back and said that she was busy with work.

She could hear the exhaustion in Sier's voice.

A long-distance relationship is fortunately difficult and requires two people to maintain it. Shen Zhao understood this from the very beginning.

So there was no class on Friday afternoon, so she directly booked a high-speed rail ticket to Tingcheng, intending to surprise her.

It was four o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived in Tingcheng. The weather was not very good. It was overcast and it seemed like it was going to rain.

Shen Zhao has been to Tingcheng twice in total. Rui Sier has a single-person rental house. Because his work place is far from home, he rents a house in the city.

At this time, Sier should not have gotten off work. Shen Zhao had a key on her body, which Sier had specially assigned to her before.

Shen Zhao didn't call Sier and planned to give her a surprise, so after arriving, she went to the nearby supermarket to buy some ingredients, cooked several dishes, and bought a small cake to make up for the regret of her last birthday.

The room is not big, but the layout is very warm, and the orange-yellow home makes her feel like home.

Shen Zhao also bought two atmosphere candles. After they were all arranged, she took a photo and posted it on the Moments. Set the Sier to be invisible.

Accompanying text: Surprise [love] picture

In Song's office on the top floor, Song Ling caught a glimpse of the picture in the Moments on his mobile phone. He clicked his fingers, his eyebrows were heavy, and he stared at the picture on the screen and the cake on the picture.

Until eight o'clock, Shen Zhao didn't wait for Rui Sier to get off work.

Seeing that it was getting late, Shen Zhao saw that the dishes on the table were getting cold, and the candles were almost half burned...

Does she work so late?

Shen Zhao picked up the phone and called Rui Sier.

The call alert sounded over and over again, but no one was connected.

Shen Zhao hung up the phone and dialed again.

Still no one picked up.

For the first time, Sier didn't answer her call.

Shen Zhao looked down at the phone screen and was stunned for a while.

Maybe it's the people in love who are prone to worry about gain and loss, or the insecurities that their long-distance relationship brings to her, intuition tells her.

There is a problem between her and Sier.

She doesn't know when it started.

Obviously when they were in Jiangcheng, they were still very good, and they had a strong affection for each other and talked a lot about their future plans.

But it's only been less than a month, where is the problem.

This is the third time she has come to this unfamiliar city.

Only because of Sire.

Shen Zhao kept calling and sending messages to Rui Sier, and finally at nine o'clock, Rui Sier called back.

Shen Zhao quickly connected and said anxiously, "Hey, Sier—"

The voice on the other end was tired and said in a low voice, "Zhao Zhao, what's the matter?"

Shen Zhao has been worried about her all the time. She didn't answer her words, but hurriedly asked her, "Sir, are you alright?"

Raisel came out of the ward, his voice gradually lowered, "It's okay, my mother just had an accident. I'm in the hospital now, and the phone was muted and I didn't hear your call."

"Hospital?" Shen Zhao stood up and walked out while putting on his shoes, asking worriedly, "How is she now?"

Raisel: "It's all right, just a little frightened."

Shen Zhao was relieved.

Sier is a single-parent family, and she has been dependent on her mother since childhood, which she and Sier knew when they first met.

For Sier, her mother is her only and everything.

Shen Zhao bit her lip and told her, "Sier, I'm in Tingcheng now..."

Raisel was stunned, "Why did you come to Tingcheng? Where are you now? I'll pick you up."

Shen Zhao picked up the bag and was about to go out, "I'm in your rental house, don't come back yet, tell me which hospital you're in, and I'll go see Auntie."

Raisel looked back at the ward. The person lying on the bed looked calm and fell asleep.

She said softly: "In the first courtyard of Tingcheng, it's raining outside, be careful on your way."

Shen Zhao: "Okay, I'll go over now."

Hanging up the phone, Shen Zhao took the umbrella and went out the door, called a taxi at the gate of the community, and went to the first courtyard of Tingcheng.

There were many people on the road at this point. The rain was a little heavy, and the rain slapped on the windows and pooled into a rapid stream.

Twenty minutes later, the taxi stopped in front of the hospital.

Shen Zhao got out of the car with an umbrella, and bought a bunch of carnations at the flower shop at the door.

After Raisel posted the address and floor, Shen Zhao walked towards the inpatient department and went to the neurology department on the eleventh floor.

It was already more than nine o'clock in the evening, and there was no sound in the hospital corridor. As soon as she got out of the elevator, she saw Sier standing in the corridor.

She whispered softly, "Sil—"

Raisel turned around and greeted him: "Come on."

Shen Zhao walked a little in a hurry and was short of breath, she asked, "Is Auntie asleep?"

Raisel: "I just slept for a while, now I'm awake."

Raisel took Shen Zhao to the ward and saw a woman sitting by the bed, about fifty years old.

Shen Zhao held the bouquet and greeted with a smile: "Auntie, I'm Shen Zhao, Sier's... friend."

When the word "friend" was mentioned, Shen Zhao paused slightly.

Mother Rui raised her eyes and saw that Shen Zhao's face was stunned for a moment, with a slightly unnatural expression on her face, and then out of politeness, she bent the corner of her mouth and said, "Hello, thank you for coming to see me."

Shen Zhao put the bouquet on the bedside and sat beside the bed for a while. Asked about the accident, he said that he was walking on the road, and a flower pot suddenly fell from the top of his head and smashed in front of him.

But the people were extremely frightened, and Rui's mother collapsed on the spot.

Shen Zhao stayed in the ward for 20 minutes, during which time she was talking to Sier. Sier's mother didn't seem to like her, so she just replied a few words.

She was a little disappointed, she pursed her lips and stood up, and said, "I'll go to the bathroom."

Raisel also noticed it, and quickly followed her when she saw her going out.

Rui's mother suddenly called her: "Sier—"

Raisel stopped, Shen Zhao stood at the door, turned around and pulled the corner of her lips, showing her a smile, indicating that she was okay, then turned and lifted her feet to leave.

The moment he turned around, tears filled his eyes.

With tears in her eyes, Shen Zhao walked forward with her head down. Suddenly a nurse met her, and she quickly apologized, "I'm sorry..."

When the nurse saw her crying red eyes, she was stunned for a while, and then asked with concern, "Are...are you okay?"

Shen Zhao's throat was sore, he shook his head, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Where is the toilet?"

The nurse pointed, "Go to the end in front, turn right and you will see it."

Shen Zhao: "Thank you."

In the ward, Rui Sier stood at the door in a daze, looking at the back of the leaving, and felt as uncomfortable in his heart.

She turned around, frowned and asked, "Mom, why are you doing this to Zhaozhao?"

Rui's mother took out a photo from under the pillow, threw it on the quilt, and asked coldly, "explain to me, what is your relationship with her?"

Rui Sier's eyes fell on the photo. It was a photo of her and Zhaozhao in Jiangcheng. She held Zhaozhao's face and kissed her with a smile...

The sunset fell on them, and everything seemed warm and beautiful.

Raisel put his thoughts away and looked up at her, "Why do you have this picture?"

The photo was obviously taken by her and Zhaozhao, at that angle, it would only be a passerby or someone who knew them.

Rui Mu: "You don't need to worry about how I know, I just ask you, is it true?"

Raisel was silent, her mother was a traditional person.

This kind of thing, let alone happened to her, even if it is an irrelevant person, she can't accept it.

Seeing her silence, Mother Rui's pursed lips trembled with anger, her voice raised involuntarily, and she said bitterly, "Mom raised you and sent you to college, not for you to do these trivial things!"

Her only relative, and her favorite relative, at this moment, actually used "no three or four" to describe her love.

Raisel raised her head, her eyes were slightly sour, her voice trembled, and she shouted in a hoarse voice: "Mom, don't talk about her like that! Why does love have to define gender, and between women and women, they can be together—"

"Don't tell me this!" Rui Mu interrupted her in a cold voice, "I gave birth to you to raise you, and one person will pull you up. If you have to do these sick things, I will jump from the eleventh floor immediately. Go down!"

"Mom—" Tears filled Rui Sier's eyes, her heart was twisted like a knife, her voice choked, "Do you have to force me like this? Why can't you understand me, let me pursue what I like, I am yours Daughter, not an enemy, why can't you fulfill me and let me pursue a happy life?"

Mother Rui couldn't listen to her words, but she was her own daughter after all, and she still felt distressed when she saw those scarlet eyes, she advised her, "Sier, think about your mother, your father left early, it was mother Raise you little by little. From the age of four to the age of twenty-two, your mother worked hard to make money for you to study. Now that you are sick, you have finally found a good job. It is time for your mother to enjoy happiness. Don't let Mom down, when to do what kind of things, you are an adult, don't be self-willed, everything Mom said is for your own good, will Mom hurt you?!"

Raisel lowered her eyes, tears dripping from her eyes, drop by drop, on the floor tiles.

There is no solution to such a topic, and it will never be solved.

She knew that such a day would come, she imagined countless possibilities, and the last one that appeared was still the worst result.

Choose one of the two, whether to give birth to her mother who raised her, or to be Zhao Zhao.

She never dared to think about such a question.

Seeing her silence, Mother Rui's voice slowed down and persuaded her: "Sier, listen to your mother, break up with her, and don't come back, you know?"

Raisel didn't answer her, and turned to leave the ward.

When he reached the door, his footsteps suddenly stopped.

Raisel raised her head and stared blankly at Shen Zhao who was standing outside the door at some point.

She whispered, "Zhao Zhao..."

Shen Zhao's face was full of tears, she looked up at her with her eyes closed, her heart hurting like a knife.

She shouldn't have come, if she hadn't come, wouldn't she have heard such a thing.

Shen Zhao picked up the bag hanging at the door of the room, turned around and rushed out of the ward, running towards the elevator.

Raisel hurried to catch up, "Zhaozhao, Zhaozhao—"

"Sier!" Rui's mother screamed in the room, and at the same time, the whole person fell from the hospital bed to the ground.

Raisel stood at the door and watched Shen Zhao escape and entered the elevator.

Shen Zhao cried and went downstairs. The sky was dark outside, and the pouring rain seemed to fall. She forgot to take her umbrella. She rushed into the rain and stopped a taxi on the side of the road.

"Go to Tingcheng Railway Station." She said tremblingly out of tune.

Sier didn't follow him, didn't make a phone call, and didn't get a WeChat message.

Just like in the rental house tonight, she couldn't contact her, and she completely cut off contact with her.

At the train station, Shen Zhao booked the nearest bus back to Jiangcheng. When left the train station, it was already after midnight.

In just half a day, she seemed to have passed a long time, falling from heaven into the dust and hell.

The moment she left the train station, Shen Zhao couldn't take it any longer. She squatted at the empty intersection in the middle of the night, trembling uncontrollably, hugging her knees and sobbing silently.