Chapter 52
Su Orange did not believe Sun Xia’s words, although she and Zhou Yuchen dating not long, but after all, like him for many years, he is still quite understand him.
He is loose, but not scum, and girls dating will not step on two boats, he has his own bottom line, will not be this paragraph is not finished and then start the next paragraph.
She wasn’t sure where Sun Xia’s photo came from, maybe it was a P one.
Su Orange only looked at it and then deleted it, she did not even have the intention to ask Zhou Yuchen, this point of trust she still has.
Only occasionally, she would still be sad, why did he not tell her anything?
What is he hiding from her? Was it something to do with those scars?
Su Orange called Zhang Yang and asked about Zhou Yuchen’s whereabouts, but Zhang Yang stammered and said he didn’t know.
The moment he heard it, he didn’t want to tell her.
Su Orange rarely begged, but this time she did, she asked Zhang Yang, “Can’t you tell me? I really want to see him.”
There was someone talking to Zhang Yang, he first spoke to the other person before returning to Su Orange, “I really don’t know, I didn’t lie to you.”
“What about Zhao Chuan? Don’t know either?” Su Orange’s eyes were seeping with water mist, her voice was a little shaky.
Zhang Yang handed the cell phone to Zhao Chuan, Zhao Chuan cursed, “Fuck, you’re sick.” After receiving the cell phone, he immediately changed his tone and said with a smile, “I don’t know where Brother Sam went, there’s no way to help you.”
“Besides you guys, does he have other people he contacts regularly?”
“There are none left in Jingbei University.” Zhao Chuan persuaded, “Brother Sam is so old, nothing will happen, you be good, when he comes back he will go find you.”
“When will he come back?”
“This we don’t know, it shouldn’t be too long.”
Su orange hung up the phone in disappointment, her mood was always sickly after that day, her meals didn’t even taste good.
Occasionally the old lady called her, listening to her voice breathless, always advised, “Study is important, but the body is also important, don’t get tired and sick.”
Su Orange forced a smile and said, “Grandma, don’t worry, I’ll be fine.”
“Will you be back on May 1st?” The old lady asked again.
“The schoolwork is a bit heavy, so I won’t go back on May 1st.” Su Orange planned to use the May 1st vacation to go to Zhou Yuchen, his home was in the north of the capital, it was impossible for him to go anywhere else.
“That’s fine.” Before hanging up the phone the old lady said in a serious tone, “Orange, with grandma in no one can hurt you, your mom and dad can’t, that woman can’t even more, everything of grandma is yours.”
Su Orange was touched in her heart, “Grandma, thank you.”
“Don’t worry about money.” The old lady said, “Grandma has money.”
“Good.” Su Orange obediently returned.
May Day vacation came quickly, Lin Mai and Yu Lele they all went out to play, Su Orange did not go, she went to the apartment, wanted to see if Zhou Yuchen was there.
After knocking for a long time, the door didn’t open, he wasn’t there.
Su Orange took out her cell phone and dialed the phone, before it was not answered, today it was off, called several times with the same result.
She sent a message to Zhou Yuchen.
Orange:[I’m worried about you, message me back if it’s convenient].
Orange: [I’m sure you’re not avoiding me on purpose, let’s talk it out face to face if there’s anything, okay?]
Orange: [Zhou Yuchen there is something I have not been able to tell you, in fact…I like you for a long time, from the beginning of the first meeting in the second year of high school.]
Orange:[You said it, you want me not to leave, what about you?]
Orange: [Zhou Yuchen, are you testing me?]
Orange: [If you’re testing me, then I’ll tell you, you win.]
Orange: […… I miss you.]
The message sank like a stone, Zhou Yuchen didn’t reply.
Su orange disappointed back to school, the back of the sick three days, almost fainted, after the disease, the person also off shape, thin out of shape.
Yu Lele them to see Su orange so distressed to cry, advised her: “We do not look for him, let’s split with him, find a better.”
Su Orange forced a smile, smiling tears flowed down, with a crying voice said: “I like him too long, have forgotten to dislike his appearance.”
Yu Lele’s eyes reddened as she listened, wrapping Su Orange in her arms, accompanying her as she cried.
The others also followed with red eyes when they saw this, Lin Mai helped Su Orange scold Zhou Yuchen, “What right does he have, not contacting him when he says he won’t, disappearing when he says he’ll disappear, doesn’t he know to make a phone call to check in.”
Gao Chang still has a trace of sense, she analyzed, “Zhou Yuchen wouldn’t have met something, right?”
“If something really happened, would the school side be so calm?” Zhang Huan said, “I think he’s sincerely trying to hide from Orange ……”
Lin Mai glared at Zhang Huan, who pursed her lips and lowered her voice, “It’s also possible that there’s really something going on that’s inconvenient to contact.”
Su Orange knew they were comforting her, sniffling, “I’m fine, don’t worry.”
It’s only been a few days since she lost five or six pounds, how could she be fine.
They looked at each other unspokenly, swallowed back the words they were going to say, this kind of breakup thing, can only walk out on their own, no one else can help.
Su orange sickly for a long time, the mood change is in the end of May one day, that day is still sleeping Su orange was woken up by a phone call.
She picked it up in a daze, and a man’s urgent voice came from inside, as if calling out, Su Orange heard it was a neighbor.
She asked, “What’s wrong?”
The neighbor spoke incoherently for a long time.
Su Orange rubbed and sat up from the bed, “Wait, you speak slowly, what’s wrong?”
The neighbor told Su Orange that her grandmother had suddenly fallen ill and was hospitalized, and was now in the intensive care unit, the doctor had issued a critical notice, the situation was very dangerous.
Su Orange doesn’t remember how she stumbled out of her bed or how she took the bus back to Nanping, when she reacted, she was already in the hospital.
The doctor was explaining her condition to her, saying that the brain stem hemorrhage was very serious, and that there was little hope of saving her life, so that she should be psychologically prepared.
Next to her, Su Liangshu is still arguing with Zhou Guiqin. Su Liangshu complains that Zhou Guiqin always comes to her door, causing the old lady to have a brain hemorrhage.
Zhou Guiqin complained that Su Liangshu did not keep his word and promised to give half of the property to each of them, but why he did not give it to her until now.
They argued in the corridor regardless and cursed very badly.
Su Orange asked the doctor as if he had lost his soul, “Is my grandmother really hopeless?”
The doctor said, “It depends on the patient’s own condition, but the chances are not good.”
Su Orange pulled on the doctor’s hand and begged, “Please, you must save my grandmother.”
The doctor was used to this kind of scene and said officially, “We will do our best.”
The old lady stayed in the intensive care unit day after day, Su Orange kept guard outside, and she lost even more weight.
The money for the doctor’s visit was paid by Su Liangshu, he complained every time he came, saying that living like this was just suffering, it would be better to go earlier.
Su Orange pretended not to hear, he said his, she insisted on healing.
I don’t know if the old lady heard Su Liangshu’s complaints, one day a week later suddenly became ill, respiratory failure, cardiopulmonary failure, kidney failure, etc., and resuscitated for an hour or could not be resuscitated.
The old lady went away.
On that day, it rained very, very hard in Nanping.
Su orange seems to forget how to cry, red eyes to deal with the old lady’s afterlife, personally to the old lady scrub, change clothes.
She kept saying something.
“Grandma, don’t think about me, I will live well.”
“Grandma do you want to hear me sing, I’ll sing for you, okay?”
She sang over and over again, her voice was muffled, the neighbors couldn’t stand to watch and advised her to be in mourning, as if she was stupid, she asked the neighbors, “What am I in mourning for.”
“I’m fine.”
The neighbor shook her head and lowered her head to wipe her tears.
During the two days of the funeral, the rain in Nanping didn’t stop, it kept rustling, as if it was bidding farewell to the old lady.
Su Orange two days did not enter the water drops, face pale, people look at any time to pass out, she was kneeling in front of the hearth, motionless, who persuade is useless.
She wants to stay with her grandmother.
She wants to stay with her grandmother.
Su Liangshu came, and the woman, the woman should not like such an occasion, the frown has been wrinkled, every now and then complained two sentences.
“The smell is too unpleasant.”
“I don’t want to stay here.”
“The old lady doesn’t recognize me anyway, didn’t she say so, only your daughter.”
Said the woman to leave, and was pulled back by Su Liangshu, Su Liangshu did not know what to say, the woman reluctantly knelt down.
In the afternoon, Zhou Guiqin also came, see Su Liangshu and the woman, in front of the old lady spirit a good cry, look like in the old lady miss, the real situation only know.
Su orange ignored them, all her thoughts are on the old lady, tomorrow is the funeral, she wants to accompany the old lady again.
The cell phone in her pocket rang, someone sent her a WeChat.
She took it out, scratched her phone, and it was another message from Sun Xia, still a photo, still Zhou Yuchen, this time it wasn’t in the hotel room, it was outside.
Like a bar.
Zhou Yuchen is drinking, and on the table opposite him is a lady’s bag, very similar to the one Sun Xia often carries.
Sun Xia: [You still don’t believe me?]
Sun Xia: [We are really together.]
This kind of provocative words, put aside the usual Su Orange not only do not believe but also will not be angry, but this period of time she is too sad, the old lady is gone, she has no relatives, even the man she likes is flirting with other women.
Why?
Why one two are so to her.
What did she do wrong?
Her heart felt like it was being stirred up, she deleted the photos and sent a weibo message to Zhou Yuchen.
Orange: [Are you really not going to care about me?]
Orange:[Zhou Yuchen I’m really sad, can’t you give me a call, just one.]
Orange: [Zhou Yuchen, it’s like…I really don’t dare to trust you anymore.]
The next day, the old lady funeral, Su Orange dressed in all black kneeling in front of the hearth to say goodbye, she forced a smile and said to the old lady, “Grandma, have a good trip.”
The rain is heavier than ever, Su Orange braves the rain and walks forward, her clothes are almost soaked, someone comes forward to give her an umbrella, she shakes her head and refuses.
In the cemetery, she staggered through the entirety of the funeral, everyone left, she hugged the tombstone and mumbled.
“Grandma, I regret it, I should have come back to see you.”
“Grandma, I really regret it.”
The sound of the rain covered her voice, her eyes were red and swollen still not crying.
Su Liangshu said that she was cold-blooded, the old lady loved her the most, sending the old lady away surprisingly did not shed a single tear.
Su orange did not refute, her tears are flowing in her heart.
After dealing with the old lady, she did not immediately return to school, but stayed at home for two more days, she sorted out the old lady’s relics, before going to the north of Beijing received a phone call from a relative.
That day, Su Orange completely broke the defense, chest there as if to explode, the tears that had been held for a long time finally cathartic.
The relative handed Su orange a bank card, said the old lady let him keep, in case one day she has something to do, want him to give the card to Su orange.
Inside there is half a million dollars, is the old lady saved for many years of money, as well as this house, the old lady also found a lawyer notarized, to Su orange.
Whether she lives in it, rents it out, or sells it, it’s all fine.
That card seems to have a thousand gold weight, Su orange can no longer hold back, kneeling on the ground howling and crying.
Later, Su Orange often thought, if she went back to Nanping to see her grandmother during the May Day holiday, everything would not have happened.
Unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world, her grandmother is still gone.
In the middle of June, Su Orange went back to school, about the news of her grandmother’s death, except for the people in the dormitory no one knew.
She also didn’t need anyone else’s sympathy.
Her cell phone still received photos from Sun Xia from time to time, initially she would delete them, but later she was too lazy to do so.
Late at night she had also asked herself why she didn’t pull Sun Xia black, there was no answer, maybe she subconsciously didn’t want to make herself feel better.
The old lady is gone, her world has collapsed, what right does she have to live in peace, Sun Xia is reminding her that she is not worthy.
She deserved the pain.
Other than that little pain, the days passed uneventfully, she had stopped thinking about Zhou Yuchen, didn’t want to think about why he didn’t answer his phone, why he didn’t return WeChat, why he suddenly lost contact, she used all her energy on her studies.
She has spent all her energy on her studies, even more than in high school, studying day and night, living a three o’clock and one line life, she has imprisoned herself in the prison of “study”.
She promised her grandmother that she would work hard, and this is how she worked hard.
Professor Hu could not bear to watch her, and sought an opportunity to enlighten her, “Although studying is important, your body is also important, so take good care of yourself.”
In a trance, Su Orange looked like she saw the old lady, who advised her the same way that day.
Ghostly, Su Orange did not stay up late in the library, she left early, stepping on the stone path slowly towards the dormitory.
When she was almost there, the figure standing in front of her made her stop her steps.
Under the moonlight, he was wearing a black T-shirt, black sweatpants, his hands in his pockets, standing quietly, the hustle and bustle seems to have nothing to do with him.
He didn’t even raise his eyes when a girl struck up a conversation.
The girl grunted and turned away, and he didn’t look away, he just stared at his feet, he was looking at his own shadow.
He was much thinner than he had been in the previous two months, and the wind blew to curl the hem of his t-shirt, inadvertently revealing his waist and stomach.
The grooves were deeper, the curves more sinuous, no flesh visible at all.
His face is also, the side curve is sharp, the angles are more and more three-dimensional.
I don’t know if it was telepathy, but suddenly, he raised his head and looked over toward the back side, and across more than two months, they looked at each other.
Dozens of days is not really long, but again, it really changed something.
The emotions under Su Orange’s eyes are very light, like there are no fluctuations, no longer filled with light when looking at him, worse than a stranger.
Zhou Yuchen is not, see Su orange that moment, the end of his eyes suddenly turned red, eyes seem to have a million kinds of emotions in the rush, copied in the pocket of the fingers are shaking.
The shaking was so strong that he couldn’t hold it tightly.
The knot in his throat rolled and he wanted to say something, but for a moment he didn’t know where to begin, whether it was with the sudden disappearance, or with the phone call.
Or from the fact that he’d been locked up…
He wasn’t sure if it would scare her.
He stumbled forward, his heart beating a little faster with each step, wanting so badly to hold her and kiss her.
A few steps away, he walked for a long time, after standing still in front of her, he tremblingly stretched out his hand, carefully touching her, just about to get next to her, Su Orange’s lips raised, looking askance at him and said:
“Zhou Yuchen, my grandmother is gone.”
Without waiting for Zhou Yuchen to open his mouth, he then said a second sentence, “Let’s break up.”