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Chapter 23 Past and Present

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    "Mom." I sat next to my mother, held her hand and put it next to my face to feel her body temperature.  She opened her eyes slightly, her face flushed with fever.

    She stared at me, then looked at Wei Ling beside her, and slowly stretched her hand towards her.  Wei Ling cleverly held her mother's other hand.  Mother slowly put Wei Ling's hand on the back of mine, and wrapped our hands together.  My heart skipped a beat, and Wei Ling's hands trembled slightly.  A warm smile slowly rose in the mother's eyes.  Is she sober?  I was pleasantly surprised.  Mother immediately closed her eyes again and let go of our hands.

    "Mom!" I yelled in horror, the clarity in my mother's eyes made people feel extremely frightened.

    Wei Ling touched the pulse on her mother's neck with her backhand, exhaled, smiled and shook her head and said, "Don't worry, she just fell asleep. The medicine I just took has some side effects, and she is more sleepy."

    I felt relieved, and the scene of the two holding hands just now appeared before my eyes again. I secretly looked at Wei Ling, as if I saw the scene just now from her eyes.  Wei Ling said coyly: "It's all right now. You go back and take a shower before you come back. I'm here for you, don't worry."

    "How can I do that? You are tired from working all night, and you are the one who should rest."

    Seeing my concerned expression, Wei Ling smiled happily and said: "It's okay. I'm used to working night shifts. Our nurses often work night shifts. It's common for night shifts to turn morning shifts. Don't worry."

    I couldn't hold her back, so I returned home in a huff, and brought along the medical expenses to make up for it, and prepared things for my mother, so I couldn't bother Wei Ling.  When I was alone at home, I realized how important a woman is to a family.  Because I have to take care of my mother at night, I called the bar to ask for a week off, and Chen Xing readily agreed.  I went back and forth between school and the hospital.  Wei Ling often came to take care of us at work. The patients in the next bed envied me for having a good girlfriend. It was a blessing to take such good care of my mother.  Every time Wei Ling was around, I was embarrassed and didn't know how to explain it.  If it doesn't matter, why does Wei Ling take care of her mother so indifferently?  I can only acquiesce, Wei Ling is in good spirits every day, but I am very tired.  Under our careful care, my mother recovered quickly.  She didn't want to lie on the hospital bed all day and play around like a child. I was so tormented that I couldn't help it. After seeking the doctor's advice, I had to take her home with Wei Ling.  The two became a couple.  I went back to Dream Bar to find the boss to sell the vacation, and Chen Xing was sitting in her office.

    "Is Sister Chen not here?" I asked strangely.

    "Oh, she's back to Hong Kong for vacation." Chen Xing said lightly, "I'll be the agent here for the time being."

    "Oh." Although I had doubts, Chen Xing didn't mention a word.  It's been a week since I kissed the boss that night and I haven't heard from her.  After getting along for so many years, Sister Chen rarely takes vacations.

    I changed into my overalls and went to the bar to find Dewey.  It was just after nine o'clock, and the bar's peak passenger flow had not yet arrived, so we started chatting.

    "Dewey." "Ah!" I slapped him from behind, and he jumped up in fright, turned around angrily and shouted: "You want to scare people to death! You won't do anything good when you come back."

    "Hehe, don't be angry, be careful not to get angry." I patted his chest flatteringly.

    He said ungratefully: "Don't do this with me. Don't be so disgusting, okay? Others will think I like men?"

    "Really?" I deliberately retracted my hand in surprise, pretending to be scared.

    "You are so tall. How is your mother?"

    "It's okay, it's okay." My teasing expression turned serious, because my mother's illness made me unable to relax.

    Dewey patted me on the shoulder reassuringly.  I hooked his back and hugged him firmly, he is my rare bosom friend.

    "I have something to ask you." I asked about Sister Chen, but I didn't want people to see that there was entanglement between me and Sister Chen.

    "What's the matter? Just tell me." Dewey asked while arranging things.

    "Oh, nothing?" I said casually, "I went to the boss's office just now, but I didn't see Sister Chen. I heard that she went to Hong Kong?"

    "Well. On the day you asked for leave, she suddenly left. I don't know what happened. I saw her return to Hong Kong for the first time when I came here."

    "Is it home in Hong Kong?" I asked suspiciously.

    "That's right. Didn't I tell you last time that she married a Hong Kong businessman? Her family is normal in Hong Kong. But it's strange. She doesn't have any relatives in Hong Kong. Why would she go back to Hong Kong?" Dewey said, wiping his glass and shaking his head.  , "Could the rumors be true?" I looked helplessly at Dewey, whose eyes were wide open.

    "Did you forget? I told you last time that she was rumored to be having an affair with her stepson. She might go back to find him." Dewey analyzed triumphantly as if he had found a major news clue.

      "Go! You are the most boring person, talking bad things about others behind your back." I really dislike Dewey's speculation.  Although Sister Chen has a complicated family background, I don't want her to be as miserable as others say.

    "I'm bored, and you still ask me, a boring person." Dewey rolled his eyes. He thought that people like me were like a thief who wanted to steal, and he wanted to teach others that stealing was a crime.  I don't want to talk to him anymore, that's all he knows.  I'm worried that Sister Chen avoids me because of me. If this is the case, it will be embarrassing to continue working here.

    A week later, Sister Chen finally appeared in the bar.  Her face was ugly, she didn't look like she just came back from vacation.  I was worried, worried that what I was thinking about would become a reality.  When I was free, I knocked on her door.

    "Sister Chen." I called out tremblingly.  "Well, what's the matter?" She looked down at the tall ledger on the table, and replied unintentionally.  I seldom met her so indifferent. Looking back on the once passionate passion, it was as if there were two heavens of ice and fire.

    "It's nothing. II just want to see you." I didn't know how to speak, and asked her directly if she went back to Hong Kong to avoid myself?  How embarrassing it must have been for her.  Her current attitude clearly shows that she doesn't want to get entangled with me.  She raised her head and looked at me.  Our eyes met, and it seemed that there were countless things to say in each other's eyes.

    She averted her eyes in fear, and sighed: "Xiao Yang, I know what you want to ask. Don't ask, okay? Knowing too much is not good for you. You are still young, and you will have a future if you work hard. Why bother with me?  People get mixed up." She laughed at herself, but I couldn't bear it.

    "Sister Chen, can you stop saying that? It's me I like you." I stepped forward and mustered up the courage to say this sentence. I thought about it for a long time.  I like Sister Chen, and I was so distracted that day.

    Sister Chen was startled, closed her eyes and said in pain: "Don't be stupid. That's impossible. I don't like a fool like you, and I won't have any future with you. You can't protect me either."  Sister Chen's words pierced my fragile heart like a sharp sword, and I knew what she said was the truth, the cruel truth.  I suddenly lowered my proud head.

    "You should know that I also started as a waiter, right?" She looked at the street lights outside the window, and said melodiously: "I was about the same age as you at that time, because my family couldn't afford to study, so I entered the society early. I can only work if I have no education.  Some simple and menial jobs. Waiter, serving plates. I thought very simple at the time, just relying on the efforts of my hands, I can always make a living. But I was stupid to work in a place like a bar. Here  There is no such thing as a clean world. When I was young, I was pretty, very refreshing. I don't like makeup."

    She took out a cigar from the drawer, lit it, took a puff, exhaled a puff of smoke, and continued: "A few customers have always liked me and always asked me to serve. They also said that I would quit,  Follow them to offer me everything. I know it's a canary bird, shady and dirty. I refuse them all. There is only one customer who makes me pay attention. He comes here often like a white-collar worker, but he never calls friends to fool around  .He always drinks alone. I slowly pay attention to him. He is also a handsome and good-looking young man who is easy to attract young girls. Gradually get in touch with him, and I will have a few words with him. Once  It was about to close, and there were very few people, so he asked me to have a drink with him. I thought I would agree to him after I got so familiar with him. Who would have thought that this glass of wine would change my life, he is a sanctimonious hypocrite, he cheated me of my chastity."

    My heart throbbed.  Her ecstatic eyes seemed about to drip bright red blood.

    "After that, he came to the bar to pester me. Once I accidentally hid in a VIP box and met my future husband for the first time. He was a Hong Kong businessman who came to the Mainland to discuss business. He was 68 years old at that time  He looked at me as a poor little girl, and didn't blame me, but left me in his private room. He came to our bar five times in a row, and the last time he asked me if I would go back to Hong Kong with him and be his wife,  He liked me very much and said that I was very similar to his young deskmate."

    "He said frankly that this might be his last return to the mainland and that he would retire when he was old. He gave me three days to think about it, and if I wanted to, I would go directly to his hotel to find him. After three days, I would never find him again.  "Amidst the smog, Sister Chen spoke slowly, as if the rest of the matter had nothing to do with her, and one can only be so calm when the pain is so numb.

    "I'm a woman. I don't have much ambition. I just want to have a warm home. I have a husband who loves me and a lovely child. The man I like for the first time shamelessly did this kind of ugly thing to me. I feel that I  I don¡¯t have the qualifications to realize my dreams at all. At that time, I was very innocent, and I regarded the relationship between men and women as extremely noble, not as open and casual as today¡¯s urban women. I think it¡¯s okay. In this kind of place, I  I will go to him and agree to go to Hong Kong with him, at least then my family and I will have a prosperous life, and I will never have any other dreams." She laughed idiotically, as if mocking herself  Once full of childish dreams.  Her eyes were a little cruel, cruelly uncovering her ugly scars for me to see.  I feel as cruel as an executioner.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com)Once full of childish dreams.  Her eyes were a little cruel, cruelly uncovering her ugly scars for me to see.  I feel as cruel as an executioner.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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