Ghostly Eyes [Tomb Raiders]

When Ah Jiu was seriously injured three months ago, he lived in a private hospital in Beijing called "Taihe".The location is remote and the price is expensive, but the environment is good and the medical resources are high.

Opening her eyes for the first time after waking up, the first thing Ah Jiu saw was the newly painted ceiling of the hospital, and then, a plate of dim fruit color placed in front of the bed.

On the bedside table on his left, there is a plastic fruit plate, on which nine pieces of apples are neatly stacked, and each piece is cut into a lifelike rabbit, with fruit peel ears and a toothpick tail, delicate and cute.

The only fly in the ointment is that the pulp is brown in large groups due to oxidation. These "apple bunnies" are not fresh, and they are placed on the bedside of Ah Jiu who is seriously ill and comatose. I don't know how long they have been there.

As soon as he woke up, the doctors and nurses who monitored the various indicators of the machine came quickly, Ah Jiu uttered his hoarse voice, and said the first sentence after he lost his memory——

Who is taking care of me?

The nurses looked at each other, but they did not expect that the patient who had been in a coma for a long time would ask such a question first after waking up. In the end, an attending doctor surnamed Xiao stood up and said: No one, from the time you were sent to the hospital until now, still No family has ever looked for you.

yes.

Ah Jiu closed her eyes again, ignoring the worried screams of the nurses, and let herself fall into a coma again.

Then, everyone learned one after another that the poor patient lost all the memories before the serious injury.

He had no name, no identity, and no one to visit. According to a certain established practice in the hospital, the nurses began to call him bed 702.Since then, he has been in bed 702 of Taihe Hospital.

The conscience of this hospital was so touching that they insisted on doing a full set of examinations for him even though they knew that he would not be able to pay any consultation fee.The results of the examination are both regrettable and exciting: bed 702, initially diagnosed as retrograde amnesia, brain damage caused by external impact, causing the patient to lose part of his memory.

Fortunately, he also lost only part of his memory.The most important thing is that there are no obstacles in life. From language to writing, from social science culture to basic etiquette, and even to the use of some complex electrical appliances, all these knowledge related to survival are preserved intact.

All that was gone was the memory, of relationships, of himself.

For a long time, bed 702 was the favorite of Taihe Hospital.Ah Jiu is good-looking, and loves to laugh, and he is very good at pleasing the little nurses.After getting acquainted with the people in the hospital, Ah Jiu gained the right to move freely, and occasionally made some innocuous requests, all of which were satisfied one by one by the nympho nurses.

One day, he said he wanted to eat an apple.

The little nurse who heard this responded with a full mouth, and went to the import supermarket in the mall, bought two big and sweet round apples, washed them and sent them to Ah Jiu.Ah Jiu stared at it for a long time, smiled and thanked him and took it.

For several days in a row, Ah Jiu said that he wanted to eat apples. The nurses in the hospital bought him almost all kinds of apples, but for some reason, no one's apples really satisfied Ah Jiu.The head nurse specially cut the apples into small pieces for rabbits, and delivered them to him crispy and frozen. Ah Jiu thanked them and accepted them, looked at them for a long time, but finally did not eat them.

Not long after that, Ah Jiu left Taihe Hospital and started his own wandering.

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At night, Ah Jiu lay in a cheap youth hotel, turned on the TV, and adjusted the black earrings one by one, intermittent and clear voices soon came from the earrings.

Without a wallet, it took Li Qiu four hours to walk back to his residence. When he got home, it was completely dark outside. He opened the door wearily and threw himself on the sofa.

Security locks, swing doors, and noisy air conditioning.

Ah Jiu tapped her fingers, and while listening, silently judged all the information about Li Qiu: This Li Qiu's accommodation environment may not be as bright as his clothes, but considering the ridiculously high housing prices in Beijing, it is probably a room. Second-hand single apartment.

Li Qiu lay on the sofa for four to ten minutes. Ah Jiu once wondered if he was too tired to fall asleep. After all, the four-hour long journey under the sun made it difficult for many adults to bear, and this Li Qiu Doesn't look good at sports either.Ah Jiu couldn't help being disgusted, and didn't realize that he was the culprit of all this, so he continued to eavesdrop without guilt.

Soon, there was the sound of clothes rubbing on the opposite side - Li Qiu took off his sweat-soaked shirt and poured himself a glass of water.

He poured three cups one after another and took 10 minutes to swallow them in small sips.

wine?Or drinks.

Ah Jiu narrowed his eyes, and then there was the sound of the door closing on the opposite side, leaving only the sound of running water - Li Qiu went to take a bath.

From the beginning to the end, there is no sound of TV and music. This kind of life is really monotonous and boring.

Ah Jiu took out Li Qiu's wallet. In addition to cash, cards and ID cards, there was also a thick cloth business card.

Bishui Tea House Li Qiu Sales Manager Tel: 180XXXXX81

It turned out to be in the tea business, and what I drank just now was tea, a boring job.Ah Jiu rubbed the business card, suddenly frowned, smiled knowingly, and used her fingernails to dig into the gap of the business card - sure enough, there were two business cards tightly stitched and pasted together.

Parting the second business card, Ah Jiu's fingers trembled inadvertently——

Taihe Private Hospital Xiao Li's attending physician made an appointment by phone: Dr. XXXXXXXX's phone number was underlined with a water pen and hidden in the depths of the wallet, reminding the owner not to forget.

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It is definitely not an easy task to run a tea house in Beijing. There are many time-honored tea houses with long histories, each with their own strengths.

But the tea house run by Li Qiu is an exception.

On a narrow road in a residential area, there is his small Bishui tea house.The store's facade is small, and the decoration is antique. It neither releases melodious music that disturbs the residents, nor emits psoriasis all over the street with small advertisements. In short, it is exquisite and low-key.

The tea house run by one person, curled up in a quiet alley, peaceful and quiet.

It was still a big day today, Li Qiu was wearing a light blue shirt, sitting in front of the glass window of the store, holding a fruit knife, peeling apples one by one.His hands and feet are very white, delicate and translucent under the sunshine, and the sharp knife in his hand is the most clever tool, spitting out sections of complete fruit peels.

Ah Jiu stood in the shadow and watched for 10 minutes, and had to admit that he really liked such a quiet and beautiful picture.

A moment later, the wind chime at the front of the store rang, and Bishui Tea House welcomed the first customer of the day, Li Qiu's fingers shook, and the long apple peel broke off.

The visitor was a hale and hearty old man, with long sleeves and trousers, and a pair of sunshade sunglasses.

Li Qiu came over with a smile on his face, and invited the old man to the wicker chair under the air conditioner: "Old man, what do you need? Tea or tea set, drink it yourself or give it away, I can recommend it for you."

The old man coughed moderately, and said hoarsely, "Taste the taste first, let me see what good products are available now."

"Okay, wait a moment." Li Qiu placed the list of tea items in front of the old man, turned to boil the water, but after a while, he came to the old man with two plates.

"There are melon seeds and fruits here. You can eat whatever you want. The tea will be brewed right away and will be brought to you soon."

The old man didn't respond, and he didn't even care when Li Qiu left. All his attention was placed on one of the plates in front of him - a snow-white apple, cut into the shape of a cute bunny, standing vertically Peel ears, toothpick tails, a total of nine pieces, neatly arranged in the middle of the plate.

The plate of brown apples in front of the hospital bed instantly overlapped with the scene in front of him. The exact same handwriting and perfect shape calmly shocked his heart.

The old man stretched out his hand, paused, picked up a small apple rabbit and stuffed it into his mouth.

——Sweet and crispy, the apples he couldn't eat in Taihe Hospital three months ago finally got his wish today.

While Li Qiu was making tea, someone pushed in the door again, and the wind chime at the front of the store was knocked and rang.

"Li Qiu! Are you here? Come out, Li Qiu!"

The visitor wore a peaked cap on a hot day, shouted Li Qiu's name as soon as he entered the door, put one hand in his trouser pocket, and walked back and forth anxiously.

Li Qiu came out from the backstage, and as soon as he saw the other party, he immediately smiled relaxedly: "Zhou Zhiyuan, why didn't you tell me in advance when you came? Sit down quickly, I'm making good tea here, I'll bring you a cup of tea." pot."

Zhou Zhiyuan and Li Qiu are business friends, and they have a very close relationship, so they don't play this kind of nonsense, and said in a rough voice: "Hey, I'm not free, I'm here for something important."

Zhou Zhiyuan pointedly glanced at the old man sitting on the rattan chair, pulled Li Qiu away, and then lowered his voice: "I have an urgent question, the ancient Buddha jade I gave you last time, you Do you still have it?"

When he said this, Li Qiu remembered the matter of repaying the debt in the western restaurant yesterday, and smiled guiltyly: "Keep it, of course I keep it, do you need to take it back now?"

The sound came from the bug to the old man's ears, and the old man curled his lips. You know, the jade is now in the hands of Xiao Cai, the waiter of Ah Jiu Western Restaurant.

Zhou Zhiyuan kept waving his hands, with a rare seriousness on his face: "Just keep it, I won't take it, but you have to be careful, when you go back, hide that piece of Buddha jade quickly, and don't hang it up casually. If it is on the body, it will be terrible if someone finds out."

"why?"

Zhou Zhiyuan gritted his teeth, and said word by word: "It's very dangerous——I got reliable news that a group of people have been eyeing that piece of jade recently. They're not only looking for the jade, but also for the owner of the jade. So you don't know anything now." Don't ask, find a place you think is the safest place to hide the Buddhist jade, and I will explain it to you after the limelight passes. Now I have to leave Beijing immediately, remember, you must hide it well!"

"But Zhiyuan..."

"I have shut down my phone, I will come to you after a while!"

After finishing speaking, Zhou Zhiyuan put on his hat again, and left in the same hurry as when he came.

Li Qiu stood there in a daze for a while, shook his head for some unknown reason, and quickly returned to the old man's side, offering him some steaming tea. "I kept you waiting for a long time, old man, this is the newly arrived Biluochun this month, the taste is very good, please try it."

In the blue porcelain cup, the curly tea sticks are rolling slowly with the water flow, green in color and fragrant in the nose, it is indeed a good tea.

The old man brought the tea in front of him, smelled it, and put it down again.

Li Qiu had doubts on his face, and the old man said: "You don't need to drink it, it seems that the tea color here is pretty good, I plan to buy a gift box of tea, and send it to the hospital to visit patients."

"That's there." Li Qiu enthusiastically turned the menu to the last page, and pointed it out to the old man, "These, these, and these are the more popular gift teas in our store. Well, I'm taking the liberty to ask." In a word, how old is the patient you are visiting, because there are some gift teas that have a good effect on treating hypertension and diabetes."

The old man shook his head, "He's a young man in his 20s. He has been hospitalized for several months. You can give him anything you want, and you don't have to pay too much attention."

"This... I see, I'll bring you a few samples right now."

Just when Li Qiu turned around, the old man suddenly stopped him: "Young man, wait a minute, I have a question to ask you."