Marrying an old-fashioned scientific researcher

Human beings are not machines with good programs, so it is impossible to freely retract and release the feelings we give.

Jiang Jianzhi didn't know why Qi Bai asked this question, but Professor Jiang thought about it seriously.

[Old-fashioned]: Emotions are the most complicated thing that human beings have, they will not arise and disappear for no reason.

If one day I suddenly can't feel it, maybe it's because I secretly hid it.

Compared with illusory philosophical questions, Professor Jiang is better at answering objective theories. In fact, before meeting Qi Bai, the rational Professor Jiang always believed that everything in the world could be answered with scientific knowledge.

Qi Bai looked at the message from Jiang Jianzhi and typed slowly:

Why do you think people have feelings?

Jiang Jianzhi couldn't answer this question, but judging from the few days during the Chinese New Year, Qi Bai had no feelings for Qi Ruishan and Bo Yingying.

The person who can make Qi Bai rush back to Xia City and sigh again...

[Old Old Man]: Is it your mother's business?

Qi Bai was really taken aback this time, he had never mentioned Bai Sang to Jiang Jianzhi before, and he never thought that the other party would have expected this.

[Qi Baishi divides the white]: Mr. Jiang, do you really know how to do divination or fortune-telling?

[Qi Baishi divides white]: If it's all guesswork, if you lose your job in the future, you can change your career to fortune-telling.

At this time, Qi Bai felt that Jiang Jianzhi's IQ was terribly high. He was clearly not around, but he could accurately guess the truth from his few words.

There was nothing about Bai Sang that he couldn't tell Jiang Jianzhi, and Qi Bai really needed to talk to someone, so he simply told him about it.

[Qi Baishi is white]: I didn't sleep well last night, and she also stayed up all night because of the pain. I knew she didn't have much time, but I couldn't find a word to say to her. Isn't it ridiculous?

There was more than ten years of blank time between Qi Bai and Bai Sang, mother and child were connected, they used to be the closest people.

But now that Bai Sang was lying on the hospital bed, he couldn't even ask "Is it very painful?"

This was the first time Qi Bai told Jiang Jianzhi about his mother.

It was also the first time that Professor Jiang felt Qi Bai's powerlessness from a few paragraphs of fluffy words.

Probably because he was bored alone for too long, Qi Bai just wanted to find someone to listen to, and the quiet and quiet Jiang Jianzhi was his best choice at the moment.

Qi Bai didn't think about the response that people who usually jump out word by word can give him. The matter has developed to the present, he just feels absurd and sad.

Bai Sang has been living in Xiacheng for these years. It is such a big city that you can drive from the east to the west of the city in a few hours by taxi, but they haven't met in a daze for more than ten years.

Chen Shaojiao knew about the cancer diagnosis last month before him.

Qi Bai didn't understand, the person who did the wrong thing was Qi Ruishan, and the person who should go to hell was also Qi Ruishan, why couldn't she take herself away then?

Is he a burden to her?

Or did she think he would have a better life with Qi Ruishan?

Or was Qi Ruishan's blood flowing on his body, and she hated the cheating Qi Ruishan, and even hated him as a son?

……

Lying on the bed with his mobile phone in his arms, Qi Bai couldn't remember when he fell asleep.

Turning on the phone, the chat history between him and Jiang Jianzhi stays in the message sent by the other party a few hours ago:

[Old Old Man]: It's not your fault, don't think too much, just sleep peacefully.

Probably because I felt that such a sentence was a bit dry, so I followed the old-fashioned with an emoji:

[Old old fashioned]: [Touch your head.jpg]

After taking a nap, the burst of emotions passed, and seeing the messages he sent to Jiang Jianzhi when he was half asleep and half awake, Qi Bai couldn't help but let out a 'tsk'.

No matter how you look at it, how stupid and hypocritical.

Feeling that he missed lunch, Qi Bai called the front desk and ordered seafood noodles, and then returned Jiang Jianzhi's news.

[Qi Baishi divides white]: You misunderstood, I never felt that I was wrong.

The only one who was wrong was Qi Ruishan from the beginning to the end.

Thinking that the other party bought a new villa, Qi Bai felt even more upset.

The time to return to Nanfeng City is uncertain, but the studio cannot be without a teacher all the time. Qi Bai asked a college classmate to help, and then notified in the student group that if he is willing to take other teachers' classes, he will continue to take classes, and he will give half a month more class time If you don't want to, you can postpone it later. If you really can't wait, you can get a refund of the tuition fee.

The three paintings of the same series have already been ordered, and the payment can be made after the contract is completed. Jiang Jianzhi has the key to his house, so he can ask the other party to help him pick it up at home and hand it over to the client.

In Nanfeng City, I always feel that there are things to do every day, but after thinking about it, there are not many things to explain.

***

When he went to the hospital, Qi Bai wore a peaked cap, and his long hair was completely covered under the cap.

Chen Shaojiao accompanied Bai Sang for a walk in the garden downstairs to get some air.

It is not accurate to say that it is a walk, Bai Sang's body does not allow her to engage in this gentle exercise, she just sits on the iron bench in the garden, looking at this space.

Qi Bai stood not far behind the chair and looked at Bai Sang quietly. She was wearing a coat over her shoulders, but her protruding shoulder blades could still be seen.

Chen Shaojiao and Bai Sang were talking in a low voice, they turned around and saw Qi Bai standing not far away, and called him:

"Xiaobai, you are here."

Bai Sang turned her head when she heard the sound, Qi Bai raised her hand and pressed down the brim of her hat and walked over.

Chen Shaojiao got up and left space for the mother and son:

"Then Aunt Bai, Xiaobai, you talk, I'll go back first, and come to see you when I'm free."

After Chen Shaojiao left, Bai Sang looked up at Qi Bai who was standing: "Aren't you going to sit?"

Qi Bai didn't like standing for punishment, so he sat down next to Bai Sang without saying a word.

A white-haired old man pushed his wife in a wheelchair past the two of them. Bai Sang watched them go away, and suddenly said:

"Have you got a girlfriend?"

Qi Bai glanced sideways at her, and said coldly: "I don't like women."

The surprise flashed in Bai Sang's eyes: "Do you like boys?"

If another person asked, Qi Bai would definitely say 'yes' without hesitation, but he glanced at the weak Bai Sang and didn't answer.

"Boys are fine too." Bai Sang nodded to herself, and asked again:

"Do you have a boyfriend?"

Qi Bai: "..."

Maybe it was because Qi Bai's expression was too complicated, Bai Sang laughed and said that he was not so feudal and conservative.

Qi Bai stared at her: "Is it open-minded or doesn't care at all?"

The smile on Bai Sang's face faded by two points, and asked him what is the difference between the two.

Qi Bai sneered, thinking that there was a big difference.

Hearing this snort, Bai Sang looked at him with novelty in his eyes.

When he was a child, Qi Bai was well-behaved and easy to pinch, as cute as a piece of snow white cake, Bai Sang had never seen such a slightly mocking expression on his face.

Ignoring Bai Sang's gaze, Qi Bai spoke forcefully:

"No boyfriend either."

Bai Sang nodded to show his understanding, and asked him why he covered his hair, as if looking for something to say.

Qi Bai leaned back, saying that he found it troublesome in the hospital.

The two are like strangers who have only met twice, asking and answering each sentence in a strange and polite manner.

As the night fell and the breeze blew, Qi Bai Yuguang saw Bai Sang gather the coat on her body.

Qi Bai got up: "Go back."

Bai Sang sat without moving: "You go back first, I will go up by myself later."

Seeing her standing still, Qi Bai didn't move.

There was a stalemate in silence for two seconds, and seeing Qi Baida's posture that she would not move if she didn't leave, Bai Sang sighed in her heart, and stood up slowly while supporting the armrest:

"Let's go."

The two walked side by side for two steps, Qi Bai frowned impatiently, took two quick steps and squatted down in front of Bai Sang.

Bai Sang froze, looked left and right, and pulled Qi Bai up:

"what are you doing?"

Bai Sang could easily lift Qi Bai before, but now she can't pull Qi Bai with all her strength.

Qi Bai didn't look back, his tone was unquestionable: "Isn't it painful, come up."

Bai Sang looked down at the not so generous back in front of her, and finally leaned against it.

Bai Sang's figure was already petite, and she lost her scale crazily after being ill. When she lay down on her stomach, Qi Bai could clearly feel her ribs stuck in her back.

He still overestimated Bai Sang's weight, and when he got up he tried too hard and swayed a bit.

Qi Bai weighed the weight on his back, at this time Bai Sang definitely didn't weigh eighty catties.

As if knowing what Qi Bai was thinking, Bai Sang smiled lightly, half joking and half serious:

"I should have carried two bricks on me just now."

Qi Bai wanted to ask Bai Sang if he could still lift two bricks with his current appearance, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Just like Bai Sang used to carry Qi Bai to the kindergarten, Qi Bai carried Bai Sang on his back and walked towards the ward step by step.

The two returned to '1310', and happened to see the little nurse tidying up Baisang's bed, and a new patient was standing beside her.

Noticing that the patient information posted at the foot of the bed had been changed, and it was no longer Bai Sang's name, Qi Bai was taken aback for a moment, then frowned and said to the nurse:

"This is our bed."

The voice is lowered, and it sounds a little cold.

The beds in Xiacheng No. [-] Hospital are in short supply. They haven't been discharged from the hospital and haven't been notified in advance, so why did they pack up?

The nurse turned her head when she heard the voice, and when she saw Qi Bai and Bai Sang, she let out a 'ah', and then said:

"I was looking for you just now, and I couldn't get through the phone. Ms. Bai's bed has been changed to the sixteenth floor. I will call someone later and ask her to take you upstairs."

Qi Bai frowned: "Why did you suddenly switch to the sixteenth floor?"

The little nurse was taken aback by his question, she looked at Qi Bai and then at Bai Sang, Zhang Er couldn't figure it out:

"The sixteenth floor is full of single wards. The environment is better than here, and it is more suitable for recuperation."

The matter of letting Bai Sang move from the [-]th floor to the [-]th floor was notified by the superiors, and they all thought it was Bai Sang's son who came back to find a relationship.

After all, the conditions on the [-]th floor are much better than here, and the family members who accompany the bed have a special bed for sleeping.

Single ward, no idle people coming in and out to disturb.

Even if ordinary people are lucky enough to be assigned to a single ward, they may not necessarily be able to afford it.

Therefore, although the conditions on the [-]th floor are good, most people still choose the general ward with multiple people.

The patients in the ward on the [-]th floor were only discharged in the evening. I heard that a patient with a broken calf asked the director of a certain department to keep an eye on him for two or three days, planning to move in as soon as he was discharged from the hospital.

As a result, after a phone call from above, Bai Sang, a terminal cancer patient, was replaced.

Bai Sang lived on the thirteenth floor for more than a month, and suddenly had to change wards, and everyone focused on Qi Bai who just came back.

Qi Bai: "...?"

See what he does?

The eldest sister on the middle bed said to Bai Sang with envy:

"It's better for your son to be filial and capable."

Bai Sang looked at Qi Bai disapprovingly: "Alright, what are you spending this extra money for?"

Qi Bai was at a loss: "It's not me."

He thought the conditions in 1310 were not good—the patients in the two beds next door had a lot of visits during the day and snored loudly at night.

He thought about changing Baisang to a ward with a better environment, but when he asked the doctor yesterday, the doctor said there was no better ward.

Could it be again?

***

The environment on the [-]th floor is indeed very good. The room is larger than the [-]th floor, and there are two beds, one is next to various medical equipment and is near the window, and the other is near the door, which is an accompanying bed for family members to rest.

The nurse took Bai Sang and Qi Bai to the single ward, instructed them a few words, and then left in a hurry.

Bai Sang looked around and asked Qi Bai:

"How much is a night in this ward?"

When she was hospitalized, Bai Sang recharged the hospital card. When the money was not enough, the doctors and nurses would remind her to recharge. After the ward was upgraded, the money in her card would definitely not be enough, so she had to pay the bill.

Qi Bai shook his head: "I don't know."

Bai Sang was surprised: "You didn't make this room?"

Qi Bai continued to shake his head.

The hospital would not upgrade Bai Sang's ward for no reason, and Qi Bai went to the nurse's station to ask again later, and the other party said that they had received a notice to upgrade the ward, but they didn't know the specifics.

Bai Sang thought for a while, then asked if any of his friends could help.

In the past ten years or so, Bai Sang has been in-and-out, and has basically had no social interaction.

After being reminded by Bai Sang, a candidate suddenly appeared in Qi Bai's mind, and his expression moved slightly.

"I'll go out and make a phone call." Qi Bai took the phone and walked out.

Qi Bai came to the corridor and dialed Jiang Jianzhi's phone number—he had only told Jiang Jianzhi about Bai Sang's hospitalization.

After two beeps, it was connected, and Jiang Jianzhi's voice came from the other end of the phone:

"Hey?"

Qi Bai didn't go around in circles with him, and asked directly: "Did you arrange the matter in my mother's ward?"

Jiang Jianzhi didn't deny it, and gave a very soft 'hmm': "It's more comfortable to live in a single ward. You and your aunt didn't sleep well last night."

Qi Bai was silent for two seconds, raised his hand to knock down the white wall of the hospital, and thanked him.

Jiang Jianzhi: "If you don't mind me breaking the rules without permission, that's fine."

After hearing Qi Bai talk about the environment of the original ward, and knowing that he slept in a corner with his hands tied up last night, Professor Jiang asked about upgrading the ward after the chat.

Qi Bai laughed after hearing this: "In your heart, am I such an unreasonable person?"

Jiang Jianzhi helped a lot this time, Qi Bai said: "Go back and treat you to dinner."

Jiang Jianzhi: "Then when will you come back?"

"I don't know." Qi Bai lightly twirled the white ash rubbed against the wall with his fingertips: "I haven't figured it out yet."

As her condition worsens, Bai Sang's condition will only get worse. If there is no one around her...

Qi Bai frowned and said nothing.

This topic is a bit heavy, Qi Bai smiled and changed the topic:

"I didn't expect you, Mr. Jiang, to have connections in Xia City. It's amazing."

Hearing Qi Bai's pretended relaxed tone, Jiang Jianzhi sighed in his heart, and called him by name:

"Qi Bai."

Qi Bai lazily leaned against the wall, looking up at the incandescent lamp above his head: "Huh? What's wrong?"

Jiang Jianzhi slowed down his tone: "If you feel uncomfortable, don't force yourself to laugh."

Qi Bai: "..."

Maintaining the posture of looking at the lamp, Qi Bai blinked slowly.

For a while, neither of them spoke, and there was only the sound of their shallow breathing on the phone.

After an unknown amount of time, Qi Bai took a breath and said in a low voice:

"In the first two years, I ran away from home to find her..."

To Bai Sang, Qi Bai said that it is impossible not to have any resentment in his heart, but he does not hate Bai Sang.

After growing up, he saw many unfortunate families, and gradually he could understand Baisang's choice at the beginning——

It is not easy to be a single mother, let alone a woman who has been a housewife for more than ten years and has left the workplace for many years.

At that time, he was studying and learning to draw, and he kept accounts, which was actually a lot of money every month.

Qi Bai doesn't want Bai Sang to leave.

Even if Bai Sang doesn't recognize him and avoids him, he still hopes that the other party can live safely and healthily in a certain city that he doesn't know.

Instead of lying in the hospital terminally ill like now, as if he would leave completely at any time.

Even if one of them is destined to die of cancer, why isn't that person Qi Ruishan?

Why not Qi Ruishan?

Professor Jiang himself is emotionally indifferent, so he can't enlighten Qi Bai, so he can only keep silent.

Fortunately, Qi Bai didn't think about asking him to enlighten him, so he changed the topic back:

"When I have time to return to Nanfeng City, I will tell you in advance."

Jiang Jianzhi asked, "Did you stay in the hotel all this time?"

Qi Bai said: "There are beds in the ward now, maybe I will live in the hospital at that time."

It is also troublesome to run around the hospital and hotel every day.

If the environment of the hospital is always there... Jiang Jianzhi frowned and asked Qi Bai if he had considered transferring Bai Sang to the hospital in Nanfeng City.

Nanfeng City is more prosperous than Xia City, with more advanced medical conditions and equipment.

Qi Bai didn't think about the transfer, but we'll see when the time comes.

……

When Qi Bai came back from the phone call, Bai Sang fell asleep again, with a drip on his arm and infusion.

The curtain between the two beds was not drawn, Qi Bai sat on the bed and watched Bai Sang.

The doctor said that Bai Sang's desire to survive was not high, and Qi Bai sometimes thought that instead of being tortured by illness every day, it would be better to fulfill Bai Sang's wish and let her leave as soon as possible.

It's just that he is not reconciled.

Bai Sang endured the pain and gently covered him with the quilt. After more than ten years of separation, he still remembered that he hated eating egg yolks, and said that it was good that he liked boys...

Something seemed to have changed between them, and they quietly and quickly returned to the original appearance in the process of getting along.

***

The third day when Bai Sang moved to the sixteenth floor was the weekend, the hospital cafeteria only had those few dishes every day, and the big pot rice tasted average, so Qi Bai bought lunch outside.

When he came back with the thermos, he met an unexpected person in the corridor on the sixteenth floor.

Looking at the person holding a bouquet of flowers standing in front of the nurse's desk, Qi Bai can accurately identify the person without turning his head, just by looking at his body and temperament.

"Mr. Jiang?"

The man who was asking the nurse which ward Bai Sang was in stopped his voice and turned around, who is it not Jiang Jianzhi?

Qi Bai raised his eyebrows slightly, and walked up quickly:

"How did you come?"

Jiang Jianzhi helped his glasses on the bridge of his nose, looked carefully at the person in front of him whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and then said:

"I'll come and see my aunt."

Qi Bai led Jiang Jianzhi to the ward, asking as he walked:

"Why didn't you say it in advance?"

Jiang Jianzhi: "There's a traffic jam on the road, so I'm not sure when I'll be there."

Qi Bai laughed and teased after hearing this: "Oh yes, I forgot, you are a doll card pointing machine."

After speaking, Qi Bai looked at the carnation in Jiang Jianzhi's hand:

"You also bought flowers."

Professor Jiang actually doesn't know much about the world, and he searched the Internet before he set off to buy carnations for visiting patients.

Jiang Jianzhi asked Qi Baibaisang if he had any history of pollen allergy, the latter shook his head, Professor Jiang was relieved.

Just as Bai Sang took out the indwelling needle, she looked up and saw Jiang Jianzhi coming in behind Qi Bai, and looked at Qi Bai in a daze:

"Who is this……?"

Jiang Jianzhi put the flowers in his hand aside, and said to Bai Sang:

"Hello, Auntie, I'm Jiang Jianzhi."

After finishing the nine words, Professor Jiang didn't continue.

Bai Sang nodded blankly, and asked, "Are you Qi Bai's friend?"

Jiang Jianzhi let out an 'hmm'.

Bai Sang: "..."

Ah Yan, this friend, seems to talk very little.

Qi Bai took out the lunch and put it on the table. When he looked up, he saw Jiang Jianzhi standing tall and straight, with distant eyes and brows, and there was still no emotion on his face.

Qi Bai poked Jiang Jianzhi with the other end of his chopsticks and asked:

"Have you had lunch yet?"

Nanfeng City is a few hundred kilometers away from Xia City, and Jiang Jianzhi drove here, so he didn't have time for lunch.

Not knowing that Jiang Jianzhi was coming, Qi Bai only bought meals for two:

"You don't eat takeaway, go out and eat?"

Before Jiang Jianzhi could speak, Bai Sang beside him said, "Go out and eat."

After hearing this, the two turned their heads to look at her at the same time, seeing Jiang Jianzhi's gaze, Bai Sang smiled:

"You have to worry about the ward."

Bai Sang asked Qi Bai to treat Jiang Jianzhi to a meal as a thank you.

Qi Bai didn't accept the card she handed over: "It's not that I don't have money."

Before going out for dinner with Jiang Jianzhi, Qi Bai was called away by the doctor and said he had something to tell him.

Before leaving, Qi Bai said to Jiang Jianzhi: "Mr. Jiang, wait for me for a while."

Jiang Jianzhi nodded slightly: "Okay."

After Qi Bai left, Bai Sang had no appetite and was not in a hurry to eat, so she turned her gaze back to Jiang Jianzhi:

"Mr. Jiang, please sit down."

Professor Jiang was not used to the smell of disinfectant in the hospital. He looked around, spread out the quilt on the escort bed, straightened the pillows, and then sat down on the edge of the bed.

Bai Sang watched Jiang Jianzhi's every move carefully, and asked aloud:

"Mr. Jiang and Yanyan met at Nantah University?"

Words?

Professor Jiang's heart moved: "Yanyan is his nickname?"

Bai Sang smiled, "Now that I've grown up, I don't like being called that by others."

After staring at Jiang Jianzhi for a while, Bai Sang suddenly said:

"I remember you."

Jiang Jianyi was taken aback: "Have you seen me before?"

"No." Bai Sang explained with a smile: "I saw you on the official website of NTU."

Jiang Jianzhi was silent for two seconds, looking at her: "Xiaobai said that you have not heard from you for more than ten years."

But Bai Sang also paid attention to the official website of Nantah University, for whom it goes without saying.

Bai Sang heard Jiang Jianzhi's implication, and just said: "I usually just look at it to pass the time."

Bai Sang raised her eyebrows and stirred the vegetable porridge: "Qi Bai has been here for a long time, you can let him go back with you this time."

Jiang Jianzhi shook his head: "He won't go with me."

If Qi Bai can let it go, he doesn't have to wait until now.

Bai Sang frowned slightly: "He has his own business, so he can't spend it in the hospital all the time."

Bai Sang said similar words to Qi Bai several times in the past few days, but the latter turned a deaf ear to it.

She didn't want to be Qi Bai's burden.

Her hair is about to fall out, and she has been wearing a hat for the past two days.

Bai Sang tried his best to disassociate himself from Qi Bai, Jiang Jianzhi, who had always been calm and composed, felt a little annoyed when he saw this.

Professor Jiang frowned and said slowly: "...Auntie, you may have had some reasons for your previous choices, but for Qi Bai, you still owe him an apology."

"He chose to cross that hurdle and stay in the hospital to take care of you, but you treat him so strangely and keep pushing him away. Do you think he won't be sad?"

"Auntie, you..." Jiang Jianzhi closed his eyes and opened them again:

"...Have you ever thought about Qi Bai's feelings?"