his mermaid

***

The middle-aged man locked the toilet door, sat by the bathtub, and opened the bottle in his hand.

The sound of tick-tock in the bottle stopped, and it was empty, and it was all in the palm of my hand.With a sense of ritual, the man calmly swallowed the handful of white pills.

"Don't try to force me again..."

"It's over, it's over."

I don't know how long it took, my limbs were so painful that I became paralyzed, I lost consciousness, and the scene in front of me gradually became blurred.

"Hey Dad, are you in the bathroom?"

Chu Quan was knocking on the toilet door.

"Dad, you should also answer when you go to the toilet."

***

Sitting on the desk, Yaochen was inexplicably sleepy.

Half of the undrinked coffee was left in the mug.

She stayed in the hospital last night, sleeping on Yueguo's bed.But he didn't do anything, not even take off his shirt. "Remember not to touch his legs..." The nurse reminded him several times before she was relieved that they slept together. The 1.5-meter bed just accommodates two people.

It turned out that Yueguo would whine intermittently when he was sleeping because of the pain in his legs. After holding him, his breathing became steady.

Thinking of Yueguo's uneasy state when he was sleeping, he was always a little distracted during the day.

"Brother Yaochen, do you want to buy a house?"

At some point, there was a person standing in front of the table, and Yaochen almost fell asleep leaning on the chair.

He looked up and found that it was Yuhan.

On the computer screen in front of him, there was an official website for selling houses in a certain villa area. Yu Han saw it when he came in, and then asked him if he wanted to buy a house.

"Maybe I have to buy it." Yaochen said uncertainly, "What's the matter?"

"It's nothing, because my mother came and saw you falling asleep, and waited for you for 10 minutes, so I came to call you." Yuhan swallowed.

Shulan was sitting in a luxurious leather wheelchair, and her walking was fully automatic.Even the sound of the rollers sliding across the floor sounds very comfortable. Once you hear this sound, you know it is your mother.

"Are you awake, Yaochen?"

"Mother?"

Yaochen immediately stood up.

"Want to buy a house?"

"Well, I'm thinking about it." Yaochen and Yuhan stood beside her mother, and followed her wheelchair into the office.

"What type of house should I buy?"

"Buy a bigger apartment, or a smaller villa."

After seeing my mother, I immediately expressed my thoughts.

Yaochen was not worried at all about being questioned by his mother.

"Oh, who are you going to live with?" Shu Lan tapped on the handrail with her fingers, thinking that Yaochen was in a relationship recently.

"No, it's just that the apartment I'm renting is a little smaller now, which is inconvenient sometimes."

"That's right. You're already in your thirties. You should need a bigger house and a spacious study room. I asked you to think about it when you returned to China. Do you like it?"

"Not yet." Yaochen pushed her to sit in front of the computer desk, "But I've thought about it, buying a house that can be moved in directly after the decoration."

"Can you check in directly? Why, in such a hurry?"

"Maybe Brother Yaochen is too busy with work, the renovation will be delayed for at least two or three months."

Yuhan explained for Yaochen.

"Hmm...Yaochen, what do you think of Guan Haiji?" Shu Lan turned her head.

"Guanhaiji, is this a real estate on the coast of the New East District?" Yuhan knew the name and was quite famous. There were advertisements for them posted in the company. It was a high-end seaside villa area.

"Yeah, I bought a villa there in April, and I haven't seen it since it was renovated, but the villa that Yuhan chose in Ancheng District is also good, and I think it's the house that Yuhan chose. Well, Guan Haiji's house is now vacant."

"Mom, why didn't you tell me about this, I didn't know you had..."

Never heard her mother mention it, Yuhan was a little hesitant to speak, waiting for her mother to continue.

"What's the matter? I wanted to buy a house because I wanted to celebrate your graduation."

Shu Lan slightly turned her head to look at Yaochen, "Yaochen, if you like it, I'll give you the villa overlooking the sea."

"Mom, I haven't been there yet."

"The decoration over there is Nordic minimalist style. You will definitely like it. You live in such a small apartment and rent it. How can you fall in love? If the other party comes to your house to stay overnight, you can't bring him back to our Shu family. "

"I seldom bring people home." Yaochen wanted to defend himself.

"I know, take your time. But you also have to be careful not to associate with some uneducated people." A name came to Shu Lan's mind, "Especially the one from the piano department you met in college."

"Yes. No."

Yaochen knew who his mother was talking about.But Yueguo is very good, and his mother also knows him, but they don't know that Yueguo is in a car accident now.

"Let's take a look there in the afternoon." Shu Lan suddenly extended her hand and patted the back of Yuhan's hand, "Yuhan also come together to see your brother's house."

"it is good."

Yaochen did not refuse.

***

"Guanhai" is truly located on the east coast of City S.The clusters of villas are like resorts in Saipan, connecting the beach and the reef.

Between the villas is a path of white and gray stone bricks, a commercial street for catering and afternoon tea.Strolling here is like walking in the small streets of a Greek island, but they are all shops for the upper class. There are few people in the shops, and many luxury cars are parked on both sides.

The driver was Shu Lan's driver. Since she was paralyzed, Shu Lan never drove by herself again, and she has an indelible shadow on driving.Access is always by car, and now is no exception, with an assistant in the car, and the rest are sons and daughters.

The car drove into a magnificent garden with two underground parking spaces.The simple Italian-style villa is in the middle of the garden, connected to the swimming pool, but no water is put into it, after all, no one lives there.

From the first floor to the second floor, there are two huge and wide floor-to-ceiling windows, which happen to be the location of the living room, and a small section of glass viewing elevator extends from the side, which is installed for wheelchairs to go up and down the stairs. In this way, it happened to solve Yaochen's worries about the future.

Yaochen walked back and forth in front of the French windows on both sides. The fabric and furniture in the living room were all arranged, but there was still a lot of space.

Here you can put a piano, the angle is right, there is direct sunlight, and you can enjoy the sea view.Open the windows to let in the sea breeze.

"Since the renovation was completed in May and June, people have been sent to clean it every week, so it is very clean."

The chairman is like this, every property of her has a special person to clean and keep the furniture clean, even if she doesn’t live here at all, the chairman is a famous rich woman in the inland list, because she has lost her body below the chest , so she values ​​the property she owns very much.

"The first floor is the living room, dining room, kitchen and bathroom. Behind it is the laundry room, multi-functional balcony and maid's room. The front is the garden, and the swimming pool is on the side. It directly faces the ocean and is only one step away. There are three bedrooms on the second floor. One of them has a toilet and bathroom, the other two are secondary bedrooms, a shared bathroom, and a rest area in the middle. The third floor is a library, study, fitness room, and leisure room. The wine cellar is connected to the underground parking space and warehouses."

The assistant was explaining the structure of the room to Yaochen, but it was clearer from his own point of view, gradually the assistant became useless.

Although there are not many rooms, each room is large in size, and there are entrances, corridors, and huge balconies on each floor. These places seem to only increase the sense of art in the room, and have no use for leisure. There are enough areas, and the roof is also a garden full of plants.

But it is also a pleasure to be able to rest between the first floor, the second floor, the third floor and the garden.All Yueguo had to do was to take a good rest, so Yaochen took a few photos and sent them to him.

Yueguo returned a surprised expression, so he should be using his mobile phone, and Yaochen made the call.

"call……"

"I'm looking at houses today."

"There is still such a place in S City, it looks like a villa by the sea."

"Yes, on the East Coast."

Although the shooting technique is very ordinary, the scenery of the villa itself is already very beautiful, and Yueguo can imagine it.

"It's a big swimming pool and a tall living room, which looks like an artist's residence."

"Is the piano an art?"

"Well, it belongs to the art category."

Yue Guo didn't understand the meaning hidden in the words, which made Yaochen stunned when he answered the words.

"What do you think of this house? You may want to live here in the future."

"Oh? You live in such a big place by yourself?"

"Live with a girlfriend."

"Oh……"

"Well, I told my mother that my girlfriend is learning piano, so I want to buy a piano, otherwise there will be too much space in the living room."

"Ah."

"Do you prefer an upright or a grand?"

"what are you talking about."

There was a wave of sadness welling up. At first, he was very stupid and didn't understand Yaochen's meaning. After he understood, he couldn't help but chuckle on the other end of the phone. At the same time, he was sad because of his stupidity, and wept inexplicably.

"Almost forgot, if you have a piano at home, then buy a triangular one."

"Don't buy it. I don't know when it will be available... I don't know if it will be convenient to step on the pedal in the future."

Yueguo wanted to say it was too expensive, but saying "too expensive" every time would make him look cheap, and he would become humble over time.And to Yaochen, the money spent on him is nothing at all.

His voice suddenly became softer, and his words were nasal, "Also, I haven't considered living in your house."

Did I ask you to think about it? Yaochen sighed and asked:

"Then where are you going to live?"

"Live in my own home."

"I don't want to live there, shall we live in a bigger house?"

Then I heard Yueguo's angry voice.

Probably really can't say, there is no way to reply.

But Yueguo couldn't help showing a joyful expression on his face, even a little proud, and didn't care if he appeared thick-skinned, and just because of Yaochen's words, his mood was capricious.

Yaochen then asked: "Have you changed your medicine today?"

"The doctor removed the gauze and said to breathe."

"Then take a picture and let me see how the recovery is going."

"No... I don't want to shoot. Aren't you coming tonight?"

"If you want to come, you have to discuss about leaving the hospital, and you will be treated at home in the future."

"If you treat it at home, you need to call a doctor, which is very troublesome."

"I don't want to keep transferring you, so I just go home. Why do you keep refusing, haven't we lived together before?"

"It's not the same now as before."

"What's the difference?"

Yue Guo made an unhappy voice again, and then hung up the phone.

He thought well before, but when he saw his missing leg, his mood immediately returned to a low ebb, and suddenly he couldn't accept the fact that he and Yaochen started dating.

Yaochen never hesitated to buy things for him, as if he was his partner for the rest of his life, that's why he gave so much.These days are like a dream, how could such a good thing happen?If a person lives in heaven all the time, he will forget what hell looks like. He believes that this sense of loss and fear is just a reminder to himself all the time.

***

Yuhan pushed Shulan's wheelchair for a walk for a while, then returned to the living room.

"Yaochen, mom is going back, put the keys away by yourself. You didn't drive here, so let's go back together."

There are three keys for the gate, two keys for each room, and three keys for the underground garage.The assistant put them all in a box and handed them to Yaochen, explaining all kinds of things about entering and exiting the car dealership, management fees, security area, and telephone number of the home economics center.In short, there is no complicated problem, as long as you pay someone to solve it.

After getting in the car, Yaochen said to take him to the Santa Maria neighborhood to do some shopping.In fact, he wanted to go directly to the hospital to visit Yue Guo, but there is no need to tell the truth yet.After Yaochen got off the car, both Yuhan and Shu Lan greeted him and said they were going back to Shu's house, and told Yaochen to be careful.After turning the corner of the street, Shu Lan asked the driver to stop.

"Yuhan, get out of the car first."

"what?"

"Follow your brother to see where he went. Quietly."

"Is good."

Shu Lan spoke carefully, but also with anticipation.She knew that Yaochen couldn't be shopping.She was in that nearby nursing home when the car crashed 20 years ago.

The nursing home was huge, and it was next to a Catholic church.It covered almost two blocks, and there were no shops nearby, so Yaochen must be looking for someone.

Yuhan trotted to catch up with Yaochen, and when he was about to turn a corner after walking a long distance, he trotted along the tree trunks by the side of the road to catch up.When Yuhan was so exhausted that he couldn't breathe, he saw Yaochen walking into the garden private hospital.No wonder there is no shop on the side of the road, no wonder the fence is full of white roses, it turns out that this is a hospital, and the houses inside are all European-style bungalows.She sighed and followed to the side of the bungalow where Yaochen entered, tried her best to keep her leather shoes as quiet as possible, tried her best to make her appearance not so sneaky, but there was no way, eavesdropping and peeking were really too suspicious figure.

From the gap in the glass window, only the restaurant on the first floor can be seen.Yuhan prayed for Yaochen to appear here, as if it was God's help, Yaochen came in with a man in a wheelchair, sat at the side of the restaurant, a nurse brought them a plate of food, and then left.It seems that that's the person Brother Yaochen came to see.

Yuhan didn't know why she came to peek, and what content would she peek at?Nervousness is inevitable.

Yaochen fed the man something, and then he said he wanted to come by himself, Yaochen handed out the spoon.

The man's voice was so small that it was barely audible.Brother Yaochen is also the type who speaks very calmly, so Yuhan couldn't hear anything clearly.

Then they kissed lightly.

I wanted to try my best to listen to the conversation, but I was taken aback by the actual scene in front of me.Yuhan covered her mouth in surprise, the soles of her feet still slipped a little.

Could it be Brother Yaochen's lover?He wants to buy a house just to live with that person?

Fortunately, her concentration was very steady, she didn't fall, and she even raised her feet.She wanted to see the whole picture of the man in the wheelchair, his legs.

She saw it as she wished, and her eyes trembled.

I have seen a lot of people with disabilities, mostly people who have recovered from their wounds and put on prosthetics.

Seeing the looming injury was really shocking, even scary.But when I saw his face, I thought it was very handsome, and he was a very gentle person.

Why does Brother Yaochen like that person?When were you together?Before the injury?

Impossible, only after the injury.

Brother Yaochen actually went to be with that person after he was injured and amputated, and his injury is still not healed, would he feel that kind of limb?

She knew Brother Yaochen's orientation, but she didn't expect to see it with her own eyes this time, and the shock at the scene was more terrifying than what she had imagined before.

Yuhan was nervous and touched the window with her hand.

"Who's there?" Yuhan asked without hearing whose voice it was, and Yuhan knew that she had been exposed.

The people in the room rushed to the window and pushed it away. Yuhan was so frightened that he fell back and fell on the grass.

"Huang Yuhan... are you following me?"

The moment he opened the window, Yaochen thought it was the person who played a prank in the hospital before, but there was a picture of Yuhan falling to the ground.

"No, no, no, brother Yaochen, I'm just curious, so follow up and take a look."

She was so frightened that she fainted.

Yaochen looked at her in disbelief: "Don't tell mom."

"me……"

Seeing Yuhan's flustered look, she knew that she probably didn't want to come by herself, but her mother asked her to come.

Yaochen sighed: "If you have to say, he is Gao Yuehui's elder brother."

"Gao Yuehui's brother...Okay, I got it..."

Yuhan had heard about Gao Yuehui and her brother being in a car accident together, and also heard that brother Yaochen settled down with their family.She didn't expect her brother's injury to be like this.If the person Brother Yaochen likes is Gao Yuehui's elder brother, does that explain why he cared so much for Gao Yuehui before?

But before she had time to analyze too much, she was woken up, and Yaochen asked sternly, "What else is there?"

"Brother Yaochen."

Yuhan knew that she wanted to confirm whether Gao Yuehui's brother was his partner, but she couldn't ask.

They both kissed, the fact is so obvious, is there any need to ask?

Yuhan got up and turned around and ran wildly: "Forget it, it's okay!"

☆、Chapter 11