Chapter 29 Simple Care
I looked at Hua Jingjing's serious and earnest eyes, afraid that she would slap me again if I wasn't paying attention, so I quickly broke free from her palm and took two steps back. After taking precautions, I said, "You can't blame me for this. When I found you, you were already unconscious on the ground, and it was just light... that, I saw it even if I didn't want to see it. I did this all because I wanted to save you. I really didn't mean to be a hooligan at all!"
Hua Jingjing's face flushed red, she bit her lower lip tightly with her teeth, her eyes moved, and she looked very embarrassed. Her eyes met mine, and for the first time she immediately avoided my gaze. Then she lay back on the bed, covering her entire body from head to toe with the quilt, and shouted from inside the quilt: "You are a hooligan! You stinking hooligan! Get out! I don't want to see you! Get out!"
I had learned a lesson from her temper. Anyway, she didn't seem to be in any serious condition. I was happy to obey her and left the ward quickly. I first ate 25 large Northeast dumplings at a Northeast dumpling restaurant outside the hospital. After filling my stomach, I smoked a cigarette happily. My tired spirit was lifted. I remembered that Hua Jingjing in the hospital had not eaten for more than ten hours like me, and her stomach was empty. I was afraid that she was hungrier than me, so I asked the boss to pack 15 dumplings in a fast food box. After paying, I took the fast food box and returned to the hospital.
I guessed that Hua Jingjing had almost lost her temper , so I pushed open the door of the ward and walked in, just in time to see her sitting on the bed and making a phone call.
" ...I know, I know. I'm not a child anymore. You keep worrying about me, but I'm still living well in the United States...Okay! Okay!...Hey, I'm here to work, not to have fun. Can you please stop using my cousin's example to lecture me?...Yes! Yes! I promise! That's it...I'll call, okay, okay, bye!"
Hua Jingjing closed her phone, watched me walk in, and then her eyes were fixed on the fast food box in my hand. I knew she was hungry, so I smiled and opened the lid of the box, revealing the steaming Northeastern dry dumplings, and said, "Are you hungry? Take it, and don't say I don't take care of you!"
Hua Jingjing swallowed her saliva with a "gulp", then snorted stubbornly, turned her head away and said, "I won't eat anything bought by a stinky hooligan!"
I said with a smile, "You don't want to eat it? Then I'll take it out and pour it out."
"Whatever! Anything a stinky hooligan buys is bound to be stinky anyway!"
I deliberately took a strong sniff at the dumplings and exclaimed, "What a nice smell! These dumplings are so fragrant and delicious, really amazing. It's a pity that some people think they are stinky, so they have to throw them away." As I said that, I turned around and was about to leave with the lunch box in my hand.
I just made a move to leave, and Hua Jingjing called me angrily, "You! Wait a minute!" I suppressed my smile and turned around to ask, "What's the matter?"
Then, Hua Jingjing's stomach grumbled. She looked annoyed and helpless, saying, "Forget it, it's stinky, so what? I'm hungry."
I wanted to tease her and said seriously, "No, that won't work. If it's something smelly, it will upset your stomach. Your stomach has just gotten better. Don't eat it and get diarrhea again. I think you'd better throw it away." As I said that, I made a gesture to leave.
Hua Jingjing had no choice but to shout: "It smells good, the things you bought smell good, is this good enough? Oh, please stop torturing me, give it to me quickly, I'm really starving!"
I turned around and handed it to her. Hua Jingjing held the fast food box in her hand, and without even opening the disposable chopsticks, she grabbed one and put it in her mouth, breathing heavily and eating. Before she had swallowed the first one, she had already put the second one in her mouth...
After eating ten dumplings in a blink of an eye, Hua Jingjing finally slowed down her gulping speed and regained her ladylike demeanor. While chewing and swallowing slowly with chopsticks, she said to me: "I just made a few phone calls and told the company that you and I will go to several nearby cities to inspect the construction of Fuhua Supermarket. It will take about two to three days, so you don't have to go to work these days, just take care of me in the hospital. I have about 7,000 yuan in my bag, you can use it first. If it's not enough, I have a card from the Development Bank, and there are more than 400,000 yuan in the card, you can take it as you see fit."
I said, "Wait a minute, why? You have your own family and you don't let them take care of you, but you ask me, a grown man, to take care of you?"
Hua Jingjing said, "I've already told my family on the phone that I'm going on a business trip for three days. Do you want me to change my words and say that I'm in the hospital and need care? I'm telling you, you're the only one who knows about this. If you don't take care of me, who will? Besides, I just asked you to buy some food or something. It's not like I'm particularly tired. Do you have to ask me to do this?"
I was at a loss for words to refute what she said, and I felt that it was too shameful for a grown man to serve a woman all day. I thought quickly and said, "That's strange. Just now you kept calling me a hooligan and a filthy hooligan, and told me not to see you and to get out. How come you want me to take care of you all day in the blink of an eye? Wouldn't it be dangerous to be with a hooligan every day?"
Hua Jingjing blushed immediately after hearing this. She looked embarrassed and said to me with big eyes, "I am giving you a chance to atone for your sins. If you take good care of me in the next two days, I will forgive you for causing me to be seriously ill. If you still refuse to do this little thing and complain about it, then I'm sorry, you will have a hard time from now on. I will punish you every day, make things difficult for you, and ask you to work night shifts every day. Which one will you choose? Don't be ungrateful!"
I... I'm really in a big trouble! But when I think about it, I am responsible for her being sick and hospitalized, and it seems reasonable for me to take care of her. But according to Hua Jingjing's personality, I hurt her so badly this time and made her lose all her face. It would be strange if she didn't hate me to the bone. But now she suddenly said that she could let bygones be bygones, and the price was to take care of her for a few days. This, this, this, it's not that easy, right?
I remembered that she had said to me with gnashing teeth: "I hate you! I hate you to death! I will hate you forever!" What a deep and strong hatred! I was horrified when I heard it, and I was speechless. I thought that she and I would become enemies forever! But after just one night, Hua Jingjing seemed to have suddenly become a different person. She seemed to have forgotten all the hatred and even gave me a chance to atone for my sins. This! Could it be another conspiracy? This change is really suspicious!
I was confused and uncertain. I carefully observed Hua Jingjing's expression and saw that she was 70% angry, 20% expectant, and 10% shy. I really couldn't figure out what she was thinking.
I thought about it carefully again, and finally I said to myself: "How can I, a grown man, be afraid of a patient like you? If you really have some conspiracy, I will be extra careful on weekdays. It seems that I have to take care of you even if I don't want to. If she really wants to let bygones be bygones, that's fine too. After all, no one wants to have such a bad relationship with their boss, it's meaningless."
So I said, "You can ask me to take care of you, but there are differences between men and women, so many things are not convenient."
Hua Jingjing was delighted and said, "It's okay. There are nurses here. This is a high-end ward and there are special nurses to handle it. You don't have to worry."
I nodded and added, "Also, I want to go home to sleep at night, I don't want to stay with you all night!"
"Staying with me overnight?" Hua Jingjing didn't react at first. After thinking for a while, she said shyly, "You are so beautiful, and you want to stay with me overnight. Even if you want me to, I don't want to! My request is very simple. You just need to come over during the day to buy things for me and do some work. After dinner, you can go home. Isn't that easy?"
"Is it really that simple?"
“It’s that simple!”
I looked at her suspiciously and said, "What if I do it and you still want to punish me? I won't be at a disadvantage then!"
Hua Jingjing looked at me with complicated eyes and said softly: "If you do this, and I still have the intention to harm you, I, Hua Jingjing, will be struck by lightning and die a miserable death!"
I was really surprised to hear her swear such a curse. But I couldn't ask her anything else, so I just said, "That's it. Now, Boss Hua, do you have any instructions?"
"Yes!" Hua Jingjing put down her chopsticks, grabbed a handbag, took out a lot of money from the bag, and said, "Go to the supermarket later and buy me towels, washbasins, toothpaste, toothbrushes, etc., and I have to identify the brands. I will write a detailed list later and you can buy them for me. By the way, I am bored alone at night, so go buy me some books, and some magazines. Also, I have a habit of listening to a few songs or a piece of music before going to bed. Go buy me an MP3, and find a computer to download some music I like. I will write them on the list later. Um... Or, just buy a laptop computer, so that I won't be too bored..."
Oh my God! Please spare me! I was screaming in my heart before I heard her finish. This is not a simple job! It's even busier than going to work! This woman, I was fooled by her again. It seems that what women say can't be trusted!
