Manhattanhenge

Leaving the reception, Ning Yixiao got in the car and took the drunk Jing Ming along for a ride.The temperature in the car was very high. Not long after entering, he felt a little dizzy, so he opened the window.

"Oh, yes, didn't you say that your family member is still in a period of depression?" Jing Ming was drunk and fluent in speech, mixed in Chinese and English, "Then can you leave him at home alone? Let Coffey and Mark go back."

Ning Yixiao didn't want them to go back, he felt that the current two-person world was just right, and if there were two more people, Su Hui would have more ways to retreat, and would shrink back again.

"I don't need it for the time being, and there are too many people taking care of him, he will feel uncomfortable." Ning Yixiao didn't realize that he had accepted Jingming's new title of subordination to Su Hui, but he also had some doubts about his own judgment. , "But he doesn't want to take medicine recently, so I try not to go out."

"Ah?" Jing Ming sat up all of a sudden, "It won't work if you don't take medicine. If you don't take medicine for a cold or fever, it will get worse. His illness won't get worse..." He stopped in the middle of speaking, "Aren't you just outside now? Don't be afraid that something will happen to him at home."

Ning Yixiao didn't speak.

Although he believed that Su Hui's current state would not do anything he didn't expect, but there was a lesson learned six years ago, and now that Jing Ming said this, he couldn't help feeling a little worried.

He couldn't help saying to the driver, "Drive faster."

Jing Ming stopped him, "No, I'm still in the car! Safety first!"

Instead, he looked at Ning Yixiao, paused for a long time, and then suddenly slapped his thigh, "By the way, don't you have pet surveillance in your house? I installed it for the ice cream before. I remember I was caught drinking by you before." Is that surveillance still on?"

"Closed." Ning Yixiao said, "The ice cream has been closed since it was brought back to San Francisco."

"You can open it remotely."

Jing Ming felt that this idea was perfect, and he was very proud of it. He thought that he was going to become the love strategist of a workaholic like Ning Yixiao, "With monitoring, you won't worry about him being alone at home when you are working outside. If something really happens Yes, you can rush back as soon as possible."

Ning Yixiao thought for a while in silence, and felt that what he said made sense, so he turned on the monitoring system in the smart home with the mobile phone software, and the screen was quickly synchronized to his laptop.

For 5 minutes, Su Hui didn't move at all, lying on the mattress without moving.

Jing Ming glanced at it, and couldn't help but sighed, "Oh, it's really not easy for you."

Ning Yixiao didn't answer him, quietly looking out of the car window, and happened to catch a glimpse of the lit clinic sign not far away, thought of something, and dialed the phone number of doctor Grace.

On the phone, he roughly described Su Hui's condition, specifically mentioning his recent resistance to treatment.

Grace asked: "Did this resistance appear in the past few days, or did it last for a long time?"

Ning Yixiao replied, "In the past few days, I have been taking medicine on time before."

Grace paused for a moment on the other end of the phone, and gave an inaccurate answer, "This situation is considered to be caused by the patient's own experience, for example, something he didn't want to face happened at a certain point in the past, causing If there is psychological trauma, then at a fixed time, he may recall these traumas, and then create obstacles."

After finishing speaking, Grace thought for a while, but still couldn't help asking, "Shaw, is he the ex you mentioned?"

Ning Yixiao didn't like the word predecessor, but she still admitted, "Yes."

"Although I don't understand the way you get along now, but from what you say, it seems that you are not willing to force him to follow the doctor's prescription. What I want to tell you is that doing so may hurt him, but it is also helping him. You know, it's a terrible thing for a bipolar patient to stop their medication, and the consequences are unimaginable."

"I know." Ning Yixiao replied in a low voice.

Jing Ming listened quietly, feeling that it was not an easy task for this couple to go on well.

He suddenly discovered that he was very lucky to be a playboy, and he didn't have to be like Ning Yixiao, an infatuated kind, who was exhausted because of emotional matters.But thinking about it from another angle, he is also very unfortunate. He may never meet such love in his life, and he cannot find anyone who can give unconditionally like this.

The traffic was heavy, Jing Ming fell asleep in the car, Ning Yixiao was still doing two things at once, while processing work, he stared at the monitor on a split screen.

After 10 minutes, the picture finally changed.

Ning Yixiao's hand on the keyboard paused, watching Su Hui in the surveillance camera being arched by the ice cream, he looked dazed, sat up and woke up for a while, then stood up with the help of the low cabinet, and staggered towards the door, as if It's to pour food for the ice cream.

Passing through the living room, he came to the bowl under the floor-to-ceiling windows, poured grain as high as a hill, touched the ice cream's head, got up and wanted to return to the room.

But in the next second, he seemed to trip over the edge of the carpet, lost his balance, his calf shin hit the corner of the coffee table hard, and his knee landed heavily on the ground.

Ning Yixiao's heart tightened, seeing Su Hui lying on the carpet behind the sofa like this, most of his body was covered, and he couldn't get up for a long time.

He didn't think much about it, and called Su Hui directly, but he didn't seem to take his mobile phone out of the room, and the call was never connected.

The driver glanced in the rearview mirror and guessed that something might be wrong, because he rarely saw an impatient expression on Ning Yixiao's face, but the street was blocked, so he honked the horn a few times, Still failed to change the status quo.

It was close to 11:30 in the evening when Ning Yixiao returned to the apartment.

When he opened the door, he lowered his voice, and the ice cream that came to greet him was also very obedient and didn't yell.In the monitoring, Ning Yixiao saw that Su Hui had been asleep for a while.

After he fell, he lay on the ground for nearly 10 minutes, then limped back to the room with his legs supported, lay down, and never got up again.

Ning Yixiao took off his coat, went upstairs to get the medical kit, came to the door of Su Hui's room, knocked lightly on the door, but no one answered.

He walked in with light steps, and the temperature in the room was adjusted very high by him.Su Hui slept soundly, most of the quilt was on the floor, and only a small corner hung around his waist.

Su Hui was wearing silk beige pajamas, lying on her side, her bare feet protruding from the mattress, touching the floor, her snow-colored ankles glaringly white under the light.

Ning Yixiao rolled his eyes, called his name in a soft voice, trying to wake him up.

"Su Hui, Su Hui..."

After several attempts to no avail, Ning Yixiao looked at his sleeping face, thinking he would not be heard anyway, and whispered to him "kitten".

As he expected, Su Hui still didn't wake up.

The wish was fulfilled, Ning Yixiao stopped thinking about it, and pushed up Su Hui's loose pajama trousers. Sure enough, his calves and knees were already covered with large purple bruises, and his shins were even broken. A small piece of skin, but Su Hui didn't deal with it at all.

It just looks like it hurts.

Ning Yixiao gently tapped the wound with an iodophor cotton swab, sprayed the cotton pad with blood stasis spray, and applied it to his knee and calf.

After finishing all this carefully, Ning Yixiao just sat on the floor like this, quietly watching Su Hui's sleeping appearance, at most reached out his hand to brush away the broken hair scattered on his cheek, and gently stroked his head.

Ning Yixiao didn't take the cotton sheet until the application time was long enough, pulled down his trouser legs, and covered him with the quilt.During the whole process, Su Hui didn't wake up, and fell into a deep sleep, Ning Yixiao couldn't help feeling suspicious.

He got up and checked his surroundings. Sure enough, he found prescription sleeping pills in the storage box on the desk. The packaging was familiar, but it seemed that it was newly opened. There were only two missing pills in the first edition, which was the worst thing he had imagined. It turned out to be much better.

But Su Hui's condition is indeed not optimistic. He thought it was just drowsiness, but he didn't expect that it had reached the point where he needed medicine to help him sleep.

Suddenly, Ning Yixiao heard Su Hui talking in his sleep, but it was vague, so he went back to the mattress, half-knelt on the ground, and moved closer, "Su Hui, what's wrong?"

Su Hui frowned, thin sweat dripped from his forehead, his lips were slightly parted, but he couldn't speak clearly, some unclear words came out, similar to "My letter..."

Ning Yixiao frowned.

He wasn't sure if Su Hui was talking to him, or if he was referring to the letters when they parted.

Subconsciously, he was somewhat resistant to hearing this, avoiding what he had seen before, but he still guarded him until he got better and stopped frowning and talking in his sleep before leaving.

Su Hui didn't wake up until noon. The side effects of the medicine were serious. After waking up, he felt that drinking water was bitter, his thoughts were cloudy, and he felt a little nauseous.

The door was open, and he saw Ning Yixiao's figure, so he also got up and planned to go out, only then did he realize that his leg was in pain.

Lifting up his trouser legs, he found a large bruise on his legs, and he remembered the fall in the living room yesterday.

It felt very painful, but the extent of the bruise seemed to be okay, Su Hui didn't think much, and limped out of the room, looking at Ning Yixiao's back in the kitchen from a distance, feeling a little dazed.

"Are you awake?" Ning Yixiao came out with a soup pot, "I made chicken soup." As he spoke, he took off his anti-scald gloves and bent over to wash his hands in the sink.

Su Hui was obviously very drowsy, but immediately noticed that Ning Yixiao's hands were very red.

"What's wrong with your hand? Is it hot?"

He looked very confused, just woke up, his eyes were wet, looking at Ning Yixiao's hand from a safe distance, he looked like a small animal.

"No." Ning Yixiao smiled, "I woke up this morning and felt my hands were dirty, I washed them several times, it's nothing serious."

Su Hui frowned, walked to the table, but kept his eyes on his hands.

"You can't wash like this anymore." He spoke slowly and worriedly, "I finally got better before, why are you feeling uncomfortable again?"

Ning Yixiao sat across from him, pretended not to care about it, poured a bowl of soup, pushed it to Su Hui, and also used this action to reveal the small skin lesions on his hands, deliberately letting him see clearly .

Su Hui's tone became a little anxious, "Look, this place has improved a lot last time, and now I have a rash, what's going on... Did you listen to the doctor's advice and take medicine?"

Ning Yixiao was waiting for this sentence, so it was logical, and he confessed his guilt directly like an unrepentant criminal, "No."

Su Hui frowned, as if he couldn't understand, and asked softly, "Why?"

"No reason." Ning Yixiao's attitude was casual, "I'm too busy, so I forget about it." He urged Su Hui, "Let's eat first, don't worry about it."

Where could Su Hui eat? He stared at Ning Yixiao's face for a long time, knowing that he shouldn't meddle in his affairs, but he couldn't help but open his mouth.

"You can't do this, you have to take the medicine on time, otherwise it will become serious."

Ning Yixiao took a sip of water, put down the glass, and sat quietly for a while before speaking, and answered in a very coping manner, "Okay, got it."

"You can't just promise." Su Hui told him.

Ning Yixiao smiled, and asked Su Hui, "Then what should I do? Otherwise, you can supervise me?"

Su Hui's thoughts were very dull, and she couldn't think of what to do all of a sudden, "How to supervise..."

"Anyway, you have to take medicine, and I also have to take medicine." Ning Yixiao suggested naturally, "If not, let's take medicine together at the right time every day."

As he said that, he chased after the victory, "I used to eat irregularly when I was working, and my stomach often felt uncomfortable, but recently I am basically at home, eating with you, it is more regular, and it seems that I don't have stomach pain anymore, and it works. We How about being roommates, meal buddies and drug buddies in the future?"

He said so much, but Su Hui could only deal with it slowly in his head. Ning Yixiao didn't take his medicine properly, so he might not be much better. , but now... No amount of worrying is better than Ning Yixiao.

Su Hui nodded hopelessly, and agreed to Ning Yixiao's proposal, "Okay, then I'll tell you to eat, you can't play tricks."

Ning Yixiao smiled, "I'll do my best."

Su Hui was worried that he would not be able to do what he said, "I have to eat after lunch."

Ning Yixiao nodded, smiling like he was six years ago, "Okay."

Su Hui drank the chicken soup quietly, and took the first medicine with Ning Yixiao after many days.

There was no formal dessert after the meal, only fruit, Su Hui picked up a piece of apple with a fork, and just took a bite, he saw Ning Yixiao get up, thinking he was going to wash his hands again.

"What are you doing?" He subconsciously asked, looking a little strange, like a child who can't see his parents leave for a moment.

"I suddenly remembered that Jingming's assistant sent this in the morning." Ning Yixiao came back from the entrance, holding a small gift bag in his hand, he put it in front of Su Hui, and said to him in an encouraging tone, "Look."

Su Hui put down the fork and opened the gift bag. Inside was a donation certificate and a greeting card.The handwriting on the greeting card is very cute, and the Christmas hat and socks are drawn with oil pastels, and it says "Thank you, Mr. Su, and I wish you a Merry Christmas!"

"It's been a month since Christmas." Su Hui couldn't help saying, with a little smile in his tone, he raised his eyes to Ning Yixiao, and originally wanted to ask him if that child wrote it, but the moment he met his gaze, suddenly Thinking of Ning Yixiao's birthday, he paused.

"What's wrong?" Ning Yixiao's eyes softened.

Su Hui felt that speaking out would only embarrass each other, so she just shook her head.

But what he didn't expect was that Ning Yixiao seemed to understand his eyes, and directly pointed out, "Did you miss my birthday?"

Su Hui's eyes widened, he didn't expect Ning Yixiao to be so direct.

I thought he would avoid it, after all, they are no longer the relationship they used to be.

He would often vaguely feel the changes in Ning Yixiao, not just six years ago and six years later, but just reunited and now, Ning Yixiao is undergoing subtle changes, whether it is attitude or words.

Such a change caused Su Hui to have complicated emotions. He hoped that Ning Yixiao would be happier because of getting along with him, but if he really regarded him as a good friend, he would feel a little sad.

There is no one more troublesome than himself, Su Hui thought.

Ning Yixiao sat down, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, "Look at this reaction, I guessed right."

Su Hui lowered her eyes, picked up her fork, and stuffed the leftover bite of apple into her mouth, which was equivalent to acquiescing.

"Aren't we friends now?" Ning Yixiao asked casually with a relaxed expression, "Su Hui, even though it's been a month, all children know how to add blessings, how about you? Do you want to consider giving me a gift? "

Su Hui raised her eyes to look at him, with a little crystal apple juice still on her lips, she seemed to have a mixed temperament, depressed and pure.

He didn't seem very convinced, his voice was very soft, like fog that would disperse when the wind blows, "You..."

Ning Yixiao didn't wait for him to finish speaking, the almost provocative and seductive tone appeared again, and even his eyes fixed on Su Hui, as if he wanted more than that.

"Send it to me, I want it."

The author has something to say:

The donation was real. The children's greeting card was supposed to write happynewyear, but someone made an outrageous request on the phone—"Please write Merry Christmas."

Kid: This uncle is so strange ()