Home/ The Selfish Gene/ Chapter 8 (Part 2)
“Mr. Sang…” Ji Chenfeng frowned when he saw the blood on the ground, and walked towards me.
Unexpectedly, seeing that he was going to leave, the dirt dog not only jumped up and barked loudly, but even hugged his legs with its front paws to prevent him from leaving.
Ji Chenfeng had no choice but to bend down to pick it up.
Damn beast.
I stared at the black dog lying in Ji Chenfeng’s arms, sticking out its tongue, and looked very comfortable. In my mind, I had already tied it up with a hemp rope and thrown it down the crater a hundred times.
“Here, I brought the gloves…” The nurse who was going to get the gloves came down the stairs in a hurry. Seeing this scene, she was a little stunned, “Ah, is it over?”
“Little cotton is a stray dog adopted by our hospital. He has a bad temper, but he really likes Dr. Ji… Speaking of which, it seems that all the animals like Dr. Ji.” The nurse put down the medicine box and said, “Doctor Ji, Can you take care of it alone? Do you need me to stay and help?”
Ji Chenfeng dragged a chair and sat in front of me, took out cotton swabs, gauze, iodophor, etc. from the medicine box, and said without raising his head, “No need, you can go.”
The little nurse pursed her lips, and said “Oh” in disappointment, opened the door and left the office.
“Although Little Cotton has been vaccinated, to be on the safe side, you’d better go to the hospital for a rabies vaccination,” Ji Chenfeng said.
“How do I get there?” Although the bite was on the left calf, which does not hinder driving, but walking is a big problem. If Tang Bian is called over, soon Sang Zhengbai will know about me being bitten by a dog. And I can never let him know about Ji Chenfeng’s existence.
“Forget it, my luck shouldn’t be that bad…”
“I’ll accompany you.” Ji Chenfeng interrupted me, “There is a dog injury clinic nearby. You were bitten by a dog in our hospital. We will definitely take responsibility for it.”
He put on medical gloves, raised his chin towards me, and motioned for me to lift up my trouser legs.
I stepped on the edge of the chair between his spread legs and pulled the fabric on the knee up a little bit, revealing the black, blood soaked socks.
The socks were well fixed by the leather garter belt, without any displacement due to the violent movement just now. Undoing the duckbill clips on one side of the sock, I tried to pull the sock off to reveal the bite wound, but failed because it hurt too much.
Falling back into the chair in frustration, I could only ask Ji Chenfeng to take over: “Come on…”
Ji Chenfeng glanced at my wound, and took out a pair of scissors from the medicine box: “Is it okay?”
It’s already like this, what else can I do?
I nodded and told him to hurry up.
The icy metal blade cut open the sock all the way to the ankle. Ji Chenfeng stopped, loosened my shoelaces, and gently took off the shoes for me.
Possibly because the wound was touched, the blood that had been coagulated began to flow out again. The bright red color sets off the paleness of the surrounding skin.
My breathing became slightly suffocated, I looked away and fixed my eyes on the empty wall.
“It may hurt a little.” As soon as the words fell, something cold and soft pressed against the wound. The intense pain made my body tense instantly, and my calf muscles trembled.
I wanted to retract my legs, but Ji Chenfeng firmly held my ankles and fixed them in place.
My neck began to sweat uncontrollably, I sat up and grabbed Ji Chenfeng’s hand that was disinfecting me, panting heavily: “Easy…”
Ji Chenfeng paused when he heard the words, and didn’t say anything, but his actions after that were indeed lighter.
My hand that was holding him did not let go, I hissed, because of the pain, my already unstable emotions plummeted to the bottom, and my tone became bad.
“I said to do it lightly…”
“It hurts…do you really know how to do it?”
“Enough, let me go!”
Ji Chenfeng threw the cotton ball on the hemostat into the yellow trash can beside him, then took the cochlear implant from his ear, and stuffed it into his pocket very smoothly.
“Save your energy.” An hour ago, the man who vowed that he likes any voice said to me.
Although he said that he would accompany me to get an injection, he still failed in the end. There was an emergency case in the hospital, a big golden retriever was vomiting blood, Ji Chenfeng couldn’t leave, so he had to ask the male nurse in the hospital to accompany me.
The male nurse drove, took me to get the injection, and then sent me home directly. Seeing that I was not good at walking, he wanted to send me into the house, but I refused.
Leaning on a single crutch, as soon as I opened the door, I saw a medicine paper bag placed on the table.
I don’t know if it was an adverse reaction of the vaccine, but I had a headache, and my body felt heavy, and every bone in my body was sore and swollen. I tore open the paper bag, unpacked the strong sleeping pills inside, threw a pill into my mouth, and swallowed dryly.
I entered the bedroom with difficulty on crutches and fell on the bed losing consciousness after a while.
I once thought she was my mother.
She always gives me food and toys, and whenever Sang Zhengbai was around, she was very kind to me.
How can a four or five-year-old child tell the difference between a mother and a monster?
In my world, mothers and monsters coexist. She gives me food, she gives me hunger; she gives me warmth, she gives me pain…
In the labyrinth-like house, she raised me, and only she raised me.
Until I found the scar she left on me, and in a split second, both mom and the monster were gone. Except for the indelible sporadic memories, all that is left to me is infinite sadness.
Not a mother, she never was a mother…
I Woke up again because of the continuous ringing of the mobile phone.
I wiped my face, fumbled around the bed, and finally found the vibrating cell phone under the pillow.
Because the name was not displayed, I thought it was a spam call, and was about to yell when I connected, but I heard Ji Chenfeng’s voice from the other end of the phone.
“Is it Mr. Sang?”
It’s really strange. Anyone who has been to elementary school should know that sound cannot be static. The essence of sound is the sound wave generated by the vibration of objects. But why does Ji Chenfeng’s voice sound so quiet? It’s almost like…
“…a blizzard seen from a skyscraper.”
Ji Chenfeng was quiet, probably frightened by my wandering illogical words, his voice became more urgent: “Mr. Sang, are you okay?”
“I don’t feel very good, my body is very hot, I should have a fever.”
“Is there anyone else in the family who can take care of you?”
“No.” I turned over, feeling even more dizzy in an instant, and the whole ceiling was spinning, “Why, are you going to take care of me?”
“It’s half an hour before I get off work. Have you eaten yet? Do you want me to bring something for you?”
When I heard that he really wanted to take care of me, I was stunned, sat up from the bed, and confirmed: “You want to come to my house to take care of me?”
“If you need.”
How could I miss such a good opportunity?
After confirming the address and the dinner he could bring me, after hanging up the phone, I lowered my head and sniffed the shirt on my body, almost vomiting out from the smell of disinfectant mixed with sweat on it.
I dragged my swollen legs into the bathroom. After taking a shower, I didn’t feel refreshed as usual, but my body seemed to be heavier.
I thought it would be better to open the windows to breathe fresh air, but the extremely sharp autumn wind from the high-rise buildings gave me a splitting headache.
I closed the window with difficulty, and collapsed on the bed, having the illusion that I would never wake up again after falling asleep.
Is it a side effect of the vaccine or is that bastard Zhou Jiyu trying to murder me, why am I so dizzy?
[I can’t do it anymore, you can come up by yourself when the time comes, the password is…]
After finishing sending the voice message to Ji Chenfeng with my last strength, I curled up under the quilt and fell into a drowsy sleep.
The memories after that are all incoherent and fragmented.
I heard someone enter my bedroom, opened my eyes in a daze, and felt a hand on my forehead at the same time. It’s ice cold and very comfortable.
Sighing and closing my eyes, I was awakened by the pain in my leg.
In the hazy vision, a tall figure was sitting at the end of the bed, changing the wet gauze for me.
“Why did you take a shower without waterproofing your wound?”
His voice seemed to have multiple echoes in my ears, and each word had to be repeated countless times.
Although he didn’t mean to accuse, I still felt that he was accusing me. This reminded me of the monster deep in my memory, “Why are you always sick”, “Why don’t you eat well”, “Why let your father see that you are afraid”… The magnified fear made me cry, I kept begging for mercy.
“I’m sorry… I was wrong… I won’t do it anymore…” The vision that couldn’t focus became more and more blurred, and liquid kept slipping from the corners of the eyes.
Warm big palms caressed my cheeks wiping away the liquid, and finally there was a trace of fluctuation in the always calm tone.
“Sang Nian? It’s okay, it’s me…” He comforted me over and over again, “It’s me.”
The tears dried up, my body stopped shaking, and I finally saw who the figure in front of me was.
“Ji Chenfeng…” I opened my arms and hugged him tightly.
I have forgotten which ex-girlfriend once said that I am like a vampire, always greedily absorbing the warmth from the people around me, sucking everything. When the other party has no warmth left, it turns into a cold ghost like me, and then leaves me with resentment.
Obviously it was so warm and lively at the beginning…
“Both of us… are poor bastards, poor bastards that no one likes…”
Because we share the same illness and pity each other, we can keep each other warm.
“Not pitiful…”
There was a buzzing in my ears, and I couldn’t hear what the other party was saying.
“Actually, I…not…you…”
What the hell are you talking about? But is it because of the fever? Holding it in my arms this time, it felt so warm.
Early in the morning, the sunlight slipped in through the gaps in the curtains, and the upper floors should not be able to hear the chirping of the birds, but for some reason, the chirping noises of birds have been in my ears since the very beginning.
Finally, I didn’t dream much, and had the desire to continue sleeping. Where did the sound come from?
I opened my eyes in displeasure, and was about to look for the source of the sound, but the person next to me reached over my body one step ahead of me, looked for the mobile phone on the bedside table, and pressed the annoying ring off.
Following the white shirt in front all the way up, I looked at Ji Chenfeng, who was a little tired, but still had a refreshing face.
After a series of complex psychological thoughts such as “why is there a man in my bed”, I quickly remembered what happened last night.
It’s me.
It was me who hugged him and didn’t let go.
Damn it.
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