cold flame

"Would you?" Gao Wenxuan's voice was very calm, and he emphasized lightly: "We are a family."

That's right, it was precisely because of this kind of entanglement that he had no way to block by himself, which tightly surrounded them in a circle, that gradually prompted him to develop a laissez-faire attitude towards this person's actions, Lin Mo He knew that no matter what he did, the traditional family constraints would still bring them together.

In a way, this is also the reason why he got deeper and deeper in the black swamp.

"Family?" Lin Mo let out a mocking laugh, facing him, his clear eyes were extremely complicated, seeming resentment and unwillingness, but also cold resistance.

Gao Wenxuan's face regained a gentle expression, he changed the subject on purpose, thinking of Peng Jing's recent illness and her purpose of appearing in front of Lin Mo, he couldn't help reminding again: "Anyway, the next time you see that patient leave her Stay away, she is dangerous."

Lin Mo stared at him and asked, "Is she the patient who called you earlier?"

"Correct."

"Since she is very dangerous, calling and harassing you, it may not be a coincidence to meet her on National Day. She is probably following you. With such a person, you can't just because she knows a private matter of yours that is not a secret. , and so far remains indifferent.”

Lin Mo said with doubts in his heart, "Maybe she knows more about you, or you have a reason to continue to be her attending doctor. Since she came to me, I want to know, what is it? Why?"

Faced with Lin Mo's speculation and questioning, Gao Wenxuan unexpectedly chose a moment of silence, in exchange for the other party to turn and leave without saying anything.

Back in the private room, Lin Mo had already sat down with Xu Yan and sang together. There was no expression on his face, but he didn't even look in the direction of the door when Gao Wenxuan came in.

Xu Yan found that something was wrong with these two people after they came back one after the other. Although they seldom communicated when they sat together before, it can be said that there is no communication now, and they don't even clink glasses when drinking.However, he noticed that Gao Wenxuan's gaze would occasionally move towards Lin Mo.

"I think Li Lin Mo and Brother Gao are a bit strange. Did they have a fight when they went out just now?" Xu Yan took advantage of Lin Mo's solo, and secretly pulled the corner of Lin Zi's clothes and whispered in his ear.

Lin Zi smiled indifferently: "Really? I didn't find out."

"What should I do now, should I mediate? But I won't persuade you to fight."

Lin Zi originally wanted to say something about us, but he changed his mind and said, "Why don't we end the party early and give them time to solve it by themselves." After speaking, he lightly bit Xu Yan's earwheel, and he also It takes time to settle some things with Xu Yan.

Xu Yan was itchy from being bitten, shrank to the side, and agreed: "Okay, let's do this."

Lin Zi picked up the wine glass, and said in a rare solemn tone: "Thank you for celebrating my birthday with me today, but it's getting late now, I think Lin Mo is almost drunk, and you all have to go to work tomorrow, so let's play first Come here, I will invite you out for dinner another day."

After speaking, except for Gao Wenxuan who replaced the wine with tea, everyone else picked up their wine glasses, and the four of them reached out to clink glasses and drank the last glass of wine tonight.Lin Mo and Gao Wenxuan bid farewell to Lin Zixuan and left.

As soon as they left, Lin Zi immediately pulled Xu Yan who was still standing stupidly ready to go directly, and pushed him down on the sofa.

Xu Yan was a little at a loss when facing Lin Zi who suddenly leaned forward, and asked with wide eyes, "Aren't we leaving?"

"No hurry." Lin Zi took a glance and saw half of the cake still on the table, with only a cute pattern of his own image left on it, so he said to Xu Yan, "There is one pattern missing on the birthday cake."

Xu Yan was puzzled, "What's missing?"

"You, fool."

Then fell a domineering and lingering deep kiss...

The car window was half open, and the cool night breeze blew in at an even speed, which relieved Lin Mo, who was a little drunk, from the heat of alcohol that was churning in his body.He was the one who drank the most tonight.

Even though Gao Wenxuan dissuaded him halfway, he ignored it, either singing or raising his glass to drink.He didn't deliberately want to show the other party such an angry behavior, it was purely like what the other party said, he had nothing to do with his passive position in the relationship between the two of them.

Even if he knew that Gao Wenxuan was deliberately using tricks to get him out of the bar, he couldn't do anything substantive, but that didn't mean he didn't mind, especially when the other party was clearly the instigator and pretended not to know everything to help The behavior of dealing with it now seems a bit ironic.

So tonight his attitude was cold, he couldn't be ignorant, and he couldn't angrily ask the whole story after the situation had passed.It wasn't until Gao Wenxuan specially emphasized the specialness of that patient that he suddenly felt that "there are more things he doesn't know".

Lin Mo vaguely understood that the other party didn't want him to know. For Gao Wenxuan's silence outside the private room, the disappointment and anger he had been deceived before surged into his chest, mixed with puzzlement and anxiety, which made him no longer want to continue to think and study deeply.

The most powerless thing was that he didn't have the stance and courage to press further.

The car stopped on the side of the road at the gate of the community, Gao Wenxuan finally asked, "Are you sober?"

This person... can always care as if nothing has happened.

"I'm not drunk yet, so I don't need to drive into the community." After speaking, Lin Mo unfastened his seat belt and prepared to get out of the car.

"I want to wait for you to wake up before I tell you."

Lin Mo turned his head and waited for him to continue.

Half of Gao Wenxuan's face was hidden in the night, which seemed to be a metaphor for what he said next, full of gloom. "The patient's name is Peng Jing. She came to the hospital for treatment due to depression caused by her father's long-term domestic violence. During this period, she broke up with her soon-to-be-married boyfriend and gradually developed a psychological complication.

She knew about the incident at the bar very early on, and she did follow me afterwards. These are all unreasonable actions caused by her psychological barrier. Of course, I never thought of giving up on her. Kind of selfish, she made me feel like a human being. "

Lin Mo didn't even think about it, he just asked, "Who?"

"Xiao Ran."

Lin Mo opened his eyes wide in disbelief, as if he thought he heard it wrong, and confirmed again: "My sister?"

"En." Gao Wenxuan responded in a low voice, looked at him and continued: "I know you don't want to believe it, because I, like you, couldn't accept it at first..."

"You mean she also has the same psychological symptoms as Peng Jing? It's impossible!" Lin Mo firmly denied.In his heart, his elder sister Lin Ran was deeply loved and praised since she was a child, and her family is harmonious and love is happy. How could she suffer from the same mental illness as Peng Jing, who suffered a completely different experience?

"At first it was the pressure of her graduation thesis. During that time, she was very anxious every day, because their tutors were notoriously tricky and strict. In order to wait for the summons to go to the school's research room at any time, she also quit her internship. She spent time revising her thesis and researching materials together, but her graduation was postponed for some reason, which hit her hard. At that time, I asked for leave to take her abroad to relax, but something happened when I came back."

Gao Wenxuan recalled this unknown incident, and his tone was full of dullness that he didn't want to mention, "I was able to successfully obtain a master's degree, not through a simple graduation process. This matter was accidentally discovered by your sister."

Lin Mo, who was immersed in his sister's difficult period, raised his head when he heard this. He knew what Gao Wenxuan meant, and at the same time, he understood the reason for his sister's mental breakdown in an instant.It's not all the oppression and worry in the early stage, but the husband who has always shown both ability and virtue and is crowned with trust, like the last straw that crushes the exhausted, crushing her spiritual haven of comfort.

"Suddenly seeing someone clearly is a terrible thing, especially in special times and special events. Just like Peng Jing, who was betrayed by her boyfriend who has been in love for many years, it is not so much that she cannot accept this cruel fact, it is better It is said that it is difficult to believe that the person she loves has changed before and after, and this lack of trust makes her inevitably question everything around her, and eventually suffers from manic depression."

"Xiao Ran also suffers from the same illness as hers. She doesn't want you to worry about her. She repeatedly begged me not to tell her family and let me treat her at home. Who knew that when her condition gradually improved, such an accident happened... "

Gao Wenxuan and Lin Mo fell silent together, unwilling to recall the car accident that day.

Lin Mo stared at a blurry point outside the car window in front of him, and asked, "You said you had regrets before, and this is also it?"

"Yes, my regret is that I didn't let my wife recover, so when Peng Jing appeared, and the symptoms and similar triggers were similar to Xiao Ran, I came up with the idea of ​​wanting her to recover completely. The idea is also very selfish, will you blame me? Momo."

Lin Mo was silent and unable to answer.

He got a completely different truth from what he had imagined, and for a moment he didn't know how to express his feelings from the perspective of a bystander.I just feel that the body's long-suppressed hotness after drinking alcohol has risen with the surge of emotions. This is deeply mourning for the situation before the death of a relative, and it is also born of not being able to accompany me. Sigh.