Chapter 87

Even though Qingli hated to leave for Russia the next day, this matter still dragged on for more than a month.

One is because her own injury is relatively serious, although not fatal, but in order not to affect the function of the hand, the surgery follow-up still need to observe and review, in addition to Yue Zhi’s car accident, Liang Jin arm is also broken, Xiji’s tympanic membrane is also cracked, all need time to recover.

She waited, mood heavy and relaxed, she thought Yue Zhi will not regret, because since the Xin Gota accident to now, she can feel Yue Zhi face her that kind of anxiety, every time to speak even have to consider the wording, is a kind of eager to repair the relationship between the two but do not know how to do the powerlessness.

It was a kind of powerlessness that desperately wanted to repair the relationship between them but did not know how to do so. It was completely different from the Yue Zhi of the past.

She had a thrill of revenge, it hurt but it hurt.

“Ah Li, the kitchen sent fruit up, have some.” Yue Zhi brought a plate of fruits up.

Qing Li was sitting on the sofa looking at her cell phone, Yue Zhi peeled a red hairy dan and fed it to her, she didn’t even look at it before she ate it in her mouth, and then naturally spit out the core of the fruit in the palm that reached out to her in a short while.

“What are you looking at, so serious.” Yue Qi asked. Yue Zhi asked.

“An online course in Russian.” Aonashi said.

“Aren’t you already proficient in Russian?” Ever since she realized that her father was Russian three years ago, Qing Li had started to seize every spare moment to learn Russian.

“Well, I’d like to consolidate it.” Aonashi finally looked up at him, “I want to talk to my father.”

Even though she didn’t have any memory of him, she could tell from the photos alone that Valenkyo loved her very much, and she wanted to listen to Valenkyo’s explanation of why he hadn’t come back to them for so many years.

Yue Zhi nodded, unconsciously pulled her injured right hand, palm and back of the hand are stitched scars horizontally and vertically, there is a thick layer of hyperplasia, so that her hand is not able to fully stretch not to mention, even the perception of temperature and objects are also affected.

The doctor had explained that she should rub it whenever she had nothing to do, so as to stretch out all the damaged ligaments and fascia inside, so he had gotten into the habit of rubbing her palm whenever he had anything to do over the past month or so.

“We will leave the day after tomorrow, today and tomorrow you can explain to your subordinates to pack up if you see anything to bring.” Yue Zhi said.

Qing Li’s eyes widened, her back straightened at once, and her cell phone was thrown onto the sofa, the Russian teacher on it was still talking about the content of the course, introducing the historical monuments of Russia, “We’re leaving the day after tomorrow? So soon, sure?”

Yue Zhi looked at her eyes, remembering the time when he said he would take her to Singapore after she passed the examination, she was also like this, her expression looked bashful, but her eyes were bright and full of happiness and anticipation.

As soon as he took the person into his arms, he kissed her heavily until both of them were panting before letting go, and finally looked at the light of the day that was brightening outside, reluctantly rubbing his hand over her tight jaw, “Well, it’s confirmed, going by private jet, it’s already been planned.”

“I thought we were going to take a flight there, why are you suddenly flying your own plane?”

“I brought you there naturally have to bring you back properly, in case that cousin uncle of yours is up to something, your own airplane is going to be more convenient in the end.” The thing that disturbed Yue Zhi the most was this.

He didn’t care how much inheritance Qing Li could inherit, if Qing Li gave up his rights, it was good to be able to be completely free, but he was afraid that there was no way to just leave even if he gave up his inheritance rights.

“Can I meet Lance when I go to Russia?” Qing Li looked up and asked.

The smile on Yue Zhi’s face stiffened, barely maintaining a calm tone, “Meet him for what?”

“He helped me a lot in this matter of finding my father, and because of you, he was beaten up by his father several times, it’s only logical that I should go to say thank you and apologize.” She directly said.

Yue Zhi listened to her words, suddenly there was a feeling of a husband doing something wrong and his wife stepping forward to make amends and apologize, inexplicably his mood improved, also, he and Qing Li are only one, Qing Li seeing Lance is also for him, of course he should meet.

“Yes, I will accompany you.”

Qing Li glanced at him and didn’t continue the topic, but talked about the things she was going to bring to Russia, most of them were specialties from Southeast Asia.

“Well, you say, I’ll write it all down, and prepare every item properly for you.” Yue Zhi said.

Qing Li looked at his serious expression, unconsciously pulled his hand and shook it like before, “Some fruits need to be fresh to be good.”

“I’ll have someone go to pick it now in the early hours of the day after tomorrow, and directly pack it raw and send it on the airplane for refrigeration, when we get to Moscow, we’ll go see your dad first thing, and you’ll cut it for him with your own hands, okay.” Yue Zhi suggested after thinking about it.

What he said was exactly what Qingli had in mind, she didn’t know what she could do for her father, what would it take to start a natural conversation when they met, she thought that she was good with a knife, so why don’t she just cut up some fruits for her father, it would also ease the awkwardness.

“Well, as you wish.”

Saying these almost parental things, the atmosphere between the two was unprecedentedly good, as if nothing had ever happened, Yue Zhi looked at her clear face, pinched the back of her neck, and pressed their foreheads together, “This is quite good, Ah Li, when the future is over we’ll just live this kind of life, okay, go picking fruits, walk around the south and north of the sky, and sit down together to chatting, this is very good.”

Qing Li looked at his dark and deep eyes and nodded, “Good.”

May 25th, the weather was rare and sunny, they left the airport in Singapore early in the morning and traveled to Moscow, the entire flight would take thirteen hours, Qingli had never felt thirteen hours was so long.

She seemed a little nervous and had trouble settling down in one place, and except for a short break in the bedroom halfway through the flight, she kept walking back and forth in the cabin, constantly changing places or cutting fruit plates there with the fruit prepared on the plane.

Xiji ate a bellyful of mango and felt that he could even breathe out powdered sugar, he took off the pressure reducing headphones that he purposely wore in order to protect his ears, “Don’t cut it, can’t you see the chef over there looking at you with a mournful look, you’re trying to steal the rice bowl from someone else.”

Qing Li looked at the red heart guava in her hand and snapped, putting down the knife.

Yue Zhi touched her head, “Cut it like you want to, it won’t go to waste, you can eat it all.”

Qingli leaned against his chest to relax her tense nerves, but in the end did not continue.

When their private jet arrived in Moscow, it was after 5pm Moscow time, and the sky was still wide open.

Going out from the VIP channel, Qingli saw a familiar figure at a glance and her mood cheered up, “Lance!”

Lance turned around, his expression immediately brightened, “Cherry!” and then ran over with big strides, “Finally, long time no see.”

Qing Li nodded with a light smile and looked apologetic, “I’m sorry, I don’t have time to chat with you right now, I’ll go look for you tomorrow, I’m in a hurry to see my dad right now.”

“I know, Yue Zhi called for me to come, I’ll be responsible for arranging a car and sending you there.” Lance didn’t even want to look at Yue Zhi, while leading Qing Li forward, he reached out, “Give me the bag.”

“No need.” Qing Li took down the duffel bag and naturally handed it out, over there Yue Zhi immediately raised his hand to catch it and hung it on his shoulder.

He was dressed in a standard three-piece suit, board and square, but carrying a sporty duffel bag with a completely mismatched style didn’t seem to be out of place, especially since the calm and relaxed smile on his face made Lance very irritated!

However, this displeasure continued until he got into the car and disappeared, because Qing Li pulled him to sit in the back row in order to hear more about Valentin from him, Yue Zhi’s face almost instantly grimaced, but he couldn’t let Qing Li and Lance go, so he could only sit in the passenger side with a stifled expression.

“Do you know where my father is?” Qing Li asked.

“I found out about that sanitarium earlier, and before I could get there to see what was going on, your father was switched because of someone, and now this place was swapped between someone and that grandfather of yours.” Lance glared at the back of Yue Zhi’s head as he said this, he also wanted to use this topic to remind Aonashi of what Yue Zhi had done, to give him a little bit of eye candy.

However, Qing Li seemed to have completely let go of the matter of Yue Zhi deceiving her and concealing her father’s whereabouts, her expression did not change in any way, she even went up and patted Yue Zhi’s shoulder after being silent for a while, “Mister, did you and Mr. Old Yegel come to any agreement, how did he agree for me to come here, and even give you his address?”

Old Yeager was her grandfather, but she knew that the other party didn’t want to see her and wouldn’t even recognize her, so she called them all that.

“It’s just some business dealings, and I promised him that no matter how your cousin interferes, I will definitely bring you back.” Yue Zhi was also a little apprehensive when he spoke about this topic, fearing that Qingli would be in a bad mood.

But perhaps because of the anticipation and joy of seeing her father soon, Qingli didn’t care about these minor details at all.

Moscow is very large, their car traveled for almost two hours before they reached a very beautiful looking place on the outskirts of the countryside, in the cover of verdant coniferous forests, there were a few typical red-roofed Russian-style castle-like buildings in the mountain passes.

“This sanatorium is also very nice, it was converted from the old aliyah of the former czar, although it’s an old building of some age, it’s actually the private property of the Yeager family, and after it was rented out, it was converted into a sanatorium.” Lance said and the car came to a stop.

Aonashi took a deep breath before getting out of the car.

The heavy metal gates were open, and several people in white coats and nurse’s uniforms were already waiting there, the man at the head of the group visibly froze at the sight of Aonashi, and didn’t say a word for half a day.

“Mr. Ilkovic, Mr. Yue, please come this way.” After slowing down, the man spoke in English without being condescending, indifferently guiding them inside.

Qing Li’s hand that was gripping Yue Zhi was unconsciously tightened, her palm was full of cold sweat, she opened her mouth, but nothing came out.

Yue Zhi took everything in, rubbing the back of her hand with his thumb as a gesture of appeasement, then took the initiative to ask the man, “How is Mr. Yeager’s state?”

“Today is considered very good, we also told him in advance about having visitors, he didn’t listen much, but he didn’t show resistance either, and stayed silent.” The man said.

Qing Li then realized that she had never asked a question, “Why is he …… at the sanatorium?”

The man looked back at her, his eyes surprised, but quickly hid it, “Does this young lady not know the situation yet, Mr. Valentin suffers from very serious schizophrenia and has been conservatively treated for twenty years.”

What?

Qing Li’s footsteps lagged, almost being pulled forward by Yue Zhi, she had always thought that her father had to convalesce because he was sick, or for some other reason, but had never thought that it was a mental problem.

Obviously from the photos, he looked so handsome and suave, how could he have gotten this kind of disease?

“Here we are, this is Mr. Yeager’s hospital room.” The man stood down in front of a carved solid wood double door and knocked gently.

A few seconds later, a nurse pulled the door open from the inside and said in Russian, “Mr. Yeager just had dinner, please come in.” She said and saw Aonashi and froze just like the man before her.

Everyone was looking at Aonashi, waiting for her to take the first step, but she stood in the doorway for half a day without making a move, only breathing lightly and rapidly.

“Ah Li, don’t be afraid.” Yue Zhi pinched her palm.

Qing Li’s heartbeat was like a drum, after taking two deep breaths, she finally took a step forward and walked into the hospital room through the half door that the nurse let open.

The room is large, the decoration is retro and elegant, just like the parlor of the prince in the castle on TV, full of rococo style complicated and lazy decorations, there is no hospital bed, into the eye is a sofa coffee table set and a wall full of bookcases.

The last bit of the day’s warm orange skylight remained by the window, and there sat a man, looking down at a book, surrounded by light as if sealed into a piece of amber, stagnant for long years.

“You, hello.” Aonashi opened her mouth in a hard voice, speaking in Russian that she had practiced countless times in her mind.

The man slowly raised his head at the sound of movement, as if a crack had been chiseled into the amber, revealing a torrent of time.

He looked out the window for a moment, as if wondering where the voice was coming from, if it was his own fault.

“Hello.” Qing Li’s voice trembled as she said it again, her eyes red and watery, stubbornly open, unwilling to miss the man’s every movement.

The man visibly shook, as if startled by the unfamiliar voice, and only half a day later did he slowly turn his head.

He looked at the person in the doorway, his eyes blankly puzzled and somewhat frightened, finally landing on Qingli’s face for half a day, his chaotic gray eyes became unusually clear.

“Snapped”, he stood up, the heavy book on his lap smashed on the ground he did not care, just looked at Qing Li.

Aonashi’s chest rose and fell, tears were already sliding down her cheeks and into the corners of her mouth, but she did her best to maintain her composure, her eyes widened as she looked at the man’s face, “Hello.”

The man smiled a little, “ALi,” he said.

Without any strange tones, he called out Aonashi’s name.