Chapter 19: The Raging Old Lady

"Oh, it's okay. He won't pretend anymore when the police come."

Xia Chi is very confident about this.

Dean Chu: “…”

Okay, if you say so, then so be it.

Who told you to wear a Taoist robe?

Sun Xiangfeng: Please give me peanuts, please give me peanuts...

I have never wanted the police to come so badly.

“Ouch, ouch…”

The old lady here slowly woke up, her eyes gradually becoming clear again. She touched the back of her neck and lower back, her face wrinkled.

"Oh, my elbow, oh, my bolero, oh, my disc..."

Xia Chi, who was about to go forward to help, suddenly hesitated.

[I hope this old lady won't blackmail me.]

[Will you help me?]

Jiang Nan had already walked past him and helped the old lady up.

"Ouch, ouch..." The old woman pounded her waist, like an old locust tree bent by the wind and snow, "Why do I hurt all over... as if I've been carrying manure all day..."

Xia Chi's face darkened.

【Don’t curse like that! 】

[How can I, a handsome and elegant man, be compared with such a filthy thing...]

[You repay kindness with enmity...]

Jiang Nan wanted to laugh: "Auntie, you just fell down, maybe it was hard. Let me help you find a place to rest."

Xia Chi tacitly held the other side and together they helped the trembling old lady to the wall.

"Huh?" The old lady suddenly saw the clear shoe prints on the flowered shirt, and touched her head again, and found a bunch of gray hair in her hand.

She immediately became furious: "Who the hell pulled my hair? And kicked me? I'll fuck your grandmother's grave..."

"Hey hey hey..." Xia Chi quickly interrupted: "Auntie, where are you going? Did you take the wrong road? Let me take you back."

The old lady was confused by the question. She looked around blankly and saw a row of cold and desolate rooms. "Where...is this? Hey, I want to see Dr. Zhao from the surgery department."

"The surgery department is on the first floor." Xia Chi helped her walk towards the elevator. "You must be lost. Why did you end up in the basement? I'll take you upstairs."

"Okay... okay..." The old man nodded. As he walked, he suddenly stared at Jiang Nan's face, patted his wrist again and again, and praised: "This young man is so handsome. How old are you? What's your name? Are you married? I have a niece..."

Xia Chi quickly interrupted again: "Auntie, please be careful when walking down the stairs. Go slowly."

This sentence diverted the old lady's attention. She lowered her head to look at the road and could no longer remember what she had just said.

"No stairs either?"

She should be suffering from some symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. No wonder she was easily possessed by Kang Yingdi's evil spirit. We must take her away from this place where evil spirits gather immediately.

The elevator dinged and stopped on the first floor.

The moment the metal door slid open, it hit the rushing police. The old man was completely unaware as he exited the elevator and staggered towards the end of the corridor.

There were a few patients waiting for their appointments sitting on the bench at the door of the clinic. The old lady had long forgotten about Xia Chi and Jiang Nan. She found an empty seat and sat down. She rummaged in her pocket for a long time and took out a wrinkled registration form, holding it in her hand.

The door of the clinic was open and voices came from inside.

"Where do you feel uncomfortable?"

"What? Say it again?"

"After playing basketball last night, my armpit suddenly hurts. It feels like a drill is stabbing into me..."

The patient's voice was unclear, but the doctor spoke every word clearly, making the patient's privacy known to the public like a joke.

Jiang Nan was close to the door and was forced to listen carefully.

"Lift up your sweater so I can see it!"

"Wow! Young man, don't you take a shower after playing ball? This smell."

"Put your arm down." After a rustling sound, the doctor's tone suddenly became relaxed. "It's nothing serious! My armpit hair is tangled..."

The waiting area was filled with suppressed laughter.

"Prescription?"

"I'm here to prescribe medicine for you. The hospital doesn't sell hair conditioner. You can buy some at the convenience store next door and then wash it at home."

The young man and the young lady came out, and the other two adults walked in holding a half-grown baby. The loud-voiced doctor started shouting again.

"Where do you feel uncomfortable, little one?"

"I fell down the slide. Ouch! Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry. Tell auntie where it hurts? Oh, it hurts everywhere, right?"

"Does it hurt here? No."

"Does it hurt here? No, it doesn't hurt."

"What about here? It doesn't hurt either. Then why do you say it hurts everywhere?"

"Oh, it only hurts if you touch it yourself, right? Then touch it and show it to Auntie..."

"Does your leg hurt? It does."

"Does your stomach hurt? It does."

"What about here?"

Then the sound of a child crying was heard from inside.

"It hurts, doesn't it?"

"Don't cry, auntie, look at your hands. Oh, this, this, this..."

"The finger may be broken. Parents, take the child to take an X-ray first."

Jiang Nan felt as if he had just listened to a stand-up comedy show. His tense nerves gradually relaxed, as if someone had removed a huge rock from his chest.

The bad luck of the whole day, including injuries and encounters with ghosts, disappeared in the face of these absurd words.

He secretly pursed his lips.

[It's been a long time since I've seen the young master smile so happily.]

Xia Chi's inner voice suddenly floated from behind him, as light as a feather.

Jiang Nan turned around suddenly and met his surprisingly bright eyes, as if he had seen a puppy with a meat bone.

If it had a tail, it would probably turn into a windshield wiper.

Their eyes met, and then they jumped away as if they had been electrocuted.

Jiang Nan turned his head towards the ceiling, while Xia Chi suddenly became very interested in the LED display screen at the door of the clinic.

The air became thick.

There was the sound of tapping footsteps, and another strong man walked into the clinic. The doctor continued to broadcast in a loud voice.

"What? Practicing?" The doctor's voice suddenly rose. "Are you asking if my training has turned purple all over my body and I've gone insane?"

"I don't practice martial arts, so how would I know? What martial arts do you practice, brother?"

"Golden Bell Cover and Iron Cloth Shirt, what's the point of practicing that?"

"Defend the Earth? You... didn't you call the wrong number, brother?"

"I didn't call the wrong number... Then... I see you're pretty cool, right?"

"Huh? Only your hands and face aren't purple, but everything else is purple, right?"

"Come on, lift up your clothes and let me see."

"Ah, it's okay, the autumn clothes are fading."

"Next time, buy something more expensive, and don't buy the purple one, it's scary."

"I won't prescribe any medicine for you. Next..."

"Pfft..." Jiang Nan laughed: "This doctor is really..."

He looked at Xia Chi, but Xia Chi unexpectedly did not respond, staring at the LED display screen at the door of the clinic.

I don’t know what I saw, but I felt like I had lost my soul.

[Zhao...Zi...Hui...]

Xia Chi thought to himself.

He pronounced it in a very awkward way. It was clearly only three words, but they seemed to be extremely difficult to pass between his lips and teeth, as if he was not reciting a name, but measuring an abyss with his flesh and blood.

[Zhao...Zi...Hui...Zhao...Zi...Hui...Zhao...Zi...Hui...]

Over and over again, he stubbornly repeated this spell-like name.

Like a baby learning to speak, each syllable is filled with awkward fear and confusion.

Jiang Nan felt something was wrong. He seemed to hear Xia Chi's heartbeat.

The Xia Chi in front of him was terribly unfamiliar. He stood there straight, the unnatural laziness in his body disappeared, and the absurd noises in his head stopped. He looked like a paper man soaked by the rain, so thin that he would be blown away by the draft in the next second.

"What's wrong?"

Jiang Nan walked to the display screen, where the doctor's information was scrolling:

Zhao Zihui - Associate Chief Physician

Current visit: No. 025

"You...know her?"

Jiang Nan looked at Xia Chi worriedly.

Xia Chi seemed not to understand what he was saying. His eyes were terribly dull and his pupils seemed to be covered with a layer of dust. He was clearly looking at Jiang Nan, but it seemed as if he was looking through him, at some distant and terrifying place.

A chill ran up my spine.

"Xia Chi, what's wrong?"

Xia Chi lowered his head silently, counting with his fingers, his face growing paler and paler.

[Year Pillar Ding Si indicates the loss of one's parents at a young age. One will not fall into adversity but will become a good doctor by studying under a lamp in the snow.]

[The moon pillar is Jiyou, and the earth buries the gold hairpin. At the age of sixteen, the lover's heart is moved and a child is born. However, the You metal breaks the Mao, and the flesh and blood are separated.]

[Sitting on the Yin Wood sign on the Sun, he is dedicated to helping the world, and with thousands of good deeds, he can offset a single bad debt.]

Is this... Zhao Zihui's fate?

I don’t know why Xia Chi calculated this.

At the age of sixteen, he fell in love with his beloved and gave birth to a child, but then the child was separated?

Did you give the child away?

No wonder it takes thousands of merits to offset a single sin...

Zhao Zihui...

Jiang Nan couldn't help but glance towards the clinic. Sitting behind the computer was a woman in her late forties. She had no makeup on her plain face, a few wrinkles between her eyebrows, and her cheeks were slightly sunken, revealing a bit of numbness and fatigue.

I never thought that such a carefree doctor would have such a shameful past.

Doctor Zhao called out the number outside the door: "Next, number 26, Du Yinghua."

No one answered.

After shouting a few more times, Dr. Zhao frowned slightly, the pen cap in his hand closed with a "click", and the sound of leather heels hitting the floor came from far away.

Jiang Nan saw Xia Chi's shoulder blades suddenly tense up, and his fingers clenched into fists, his knuckles turning white.

[In Bingwu period, the Vermillion Bird weeps blood and encounters an abandoned child.]

!!!

The moment Dr. Zhao walked out of the clinic, Xia Chi trembled violently, as if burned by fire, and turned around in panic.

Leaving the doctor with an abrupt back.

Doctor Zhao was a little stunned, not knowing what was wrong with this guy. His eyes moved back and forth between Xia Chi and Jiang Nan several times, finally stopping at the old lady who was napping on the bench.

"Elaeocarpus...Elaeocarpus..."

Du Yinghua's snoring sounded like thunder, and Dr. Zhao had to go over and wake her up.

The wind brushed against the back of Xia Chi's hand as he walked, and his heart began to beat wildly.

[Bang, boom, boom, boom, boom…]

A dazzling white flash passed by the corner of his eyes. The man stopped in front of him, bent down and pushed the sleeping old man. His black braids slipped from his thin shoulders.

All the hazy fantasies suddenly became concrete, and a myriad of bitterness surged through his blood. Xia Chi's throat tightened, and all the blood in his body rushed to his heart, causing it to ache.

As if driven by some survival instinct, Xia Chi felt a suffocating sensation as if he were on the verge of death. He stumbled and turned, stumbling away from this bloody mess.

"Xia Chi——"

Jiang Nan hurriedly caught up with him, walked through the corridor and into the hall, and finally grabbed his sleeve at the door.

Xia Chi suddenly woke up and found that it was Jiang Nan who was holding him. He suddenly broke into an exaggerated smile: "Ah? Teacher Jiang, you haven't left yet?"

Jiang Nan: “…”

Jiang Nan almost thought he was seeing things. Xia Chi's smile was as innocent as a child's, his lips curled up, but his eyes were terrifyingly empty, as if all the light had been drained away, leaving only an inappropriate mask hanging on his face.

Xia Chi waved his hand at him and said, "Teacher Jiang, the assistant director should be waiting for you outside the gate. I have to rush back to my original crew to get some lunch. Bye!"

He ran away like a rabbit.

******

[Why didn’t anyone tell me that Cheng Xilai was a pervert!!!]

Xia Chi got the script when she was putting on makeup, and found out that the role she would be playing in Luo Jian's spy drama was a thug under the villain.

He is usually responsible for standing next to the villain and cheering him on as a lackey. He has a very important scene with Jiang Nan, which is when the undercover Chaoyang, played by Jiang Nan, is betrayed by a traitor and imprisoned in jail, and he beats him up in various ways.

[Me? Beat Jiang Nan?]

[Is this the intensity from the start? ]

[Oh my god, please come out! Is this even possible? That's my idol! ! !]

【……】

【Why am I still a little excited? 】

Feng Man was sitting in the dressing room eating breakfast when she spat out a mouthful of soy milk.

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