mutual benefit [gl]

Coming out of the ward, Ji Cixi took a deep breath while walking quickly to calm down her mood.

Ji Ciwen would never understand how panicked she was when she received the call from the hospital.

Although Ji Cixi is very cold towards Ji Ciwen, no matter what, Ji Cixi still regards Ji Ciwen as her sister in her heart.

Walking to the elevator, Ji Cixi thought for a while and turned back to the front desk.

She knocked on the desk at the front desk, and the nurse who was lowering her head to write something raised her head and asked her what's the matter.

"May I ask who is the person who went to Ward 511 today?"

The nurse's face changed when she heard the words, she lowered her eyelashes subconsciously nervously, and shook her head embarrassingly.

"Sorry, we don't know about this either."

Seeing the nurse's expression, Ji Cixi understood that the man who went to Ji Ciwen's ward today should be a powerful person.

She looked back in the direction of her sister's ward, and the emotion in her eyes became heavier.

What kind of guy is he?

After walking out of the hospital, Ji Cixi went directly to the small shop next to the hospital.Because it is still winter, there are still some quick-frozen dumplings and other foods in the freezer of the small shop.She scanned the freezer and finally walked to the boss.

"Do you have any ice cubes?"

The boss was taken aback, and he looked Ji Cixi up and down, and saw that she was wearing a caramel-colored overcoat, and a royal blue turtleneck sweater inside the overcoat—it was clearly still a winter outfit.

He was a little strange, so he asked tentatively, "Is it ice?"

Ji Cixi nodded, "It's the kind of ice cubes sold in summer, bring me one, oh no, take two bags."

Although the boss was a little surprised why he bought ice cubes in the cold weather, he went to the warehouse behind him and rummaged through it. After all, no one was against money.

After about five or six minutes, the boss came out of the storeroom carrying two packs of steaming ice cubes.Ji Cixi took the ice cubes, took a bottle of mineral water, threw down five yuan, and walked away quickly.

She grabbed two packs of ice cubes with her bare hands, and the cold sensation quickly turned into a knife-like pain that traveled up and down her body through her palms.

She walked to a bench at the station and sat down, tore a small slit in one of the packs of ice cubes, squeezed out a piece of ice and put it in her mouth.

She didn't let the ice cube stay in her mouth, but directly crushed the ice cube with her teeth and swallowed it into her stomach.

A pack of ice cubes was disposed of by her within a few minutes. Ji Cixi's face was flushed red by the extremely cold ice cubes, and her lips turned slightly purple, trembling slightly.

She exhaled heavily, and picked up another pack of ice cubes.

This is a habit she has developed since she was a child. Whether she is wronged or extremely angry, she relies on this method to cool down her emotions and suppress her desire to cry.

My sister was not at home when my parents passed away, so she organized the funeral of the two elders alone.During that time, she didn't know how many ice cubes she ate before she collapsed.

She grinned wryly as she chewed on the ice cubes in her mouth.

Maybe my unlucky infertility is also related to this habit.

After finishing the remaining pack of ice cubes, the bus just arrived at the stop, Ji Cixi threw the garbage into the trash can and got on the bus directly.

She grabbed the handrail of the bus and took out her mobile phone to call the training institution. Even though the leader said that she could grant her a day off, she still insisted on going back to work in the afternoon.

If you work less for half a day, you will lose half a day's commission.

The leader allowed her to go back to work after lunch, and Ji Cixi got off the car near the training institution. She found a restaurant and planned to order a bowl of beef noodles.

Together with the beef noodles, there is a milky stew pot served by the waiter.

Ji Cixi raised her head in doubt, she smiled and pointed to the stew pot and asked: "Did you make a mistake, I... only ordered beef noodles."

After setting up the dishes, the waiter replied with a smile: "That's right, because you are the [-]th order in our store today, so in addition to giving you free orders, our store will also give you a special drink for nourishing the stomach in winter, mutton and taro soup." A cup."

"Ah... Is that so?" Ji Cixi couldn't believe her good luck, but the waiter had already said so, so she had no choice but to believe it.She thanked the waiter with a smile, and after the waiter left, she reached out and lifted the lid of the stew pot, and a fresh scent came out of the hot air from the soup.

In the car not far from the restaurant, Chen Yuanzhen looked at Ji Cixi's smile from a distance, and couldn't help laughing.

You can smile so happily to other people, why do you have to put on a straight face when you see yourself?

She remembered the scene of Ji Cixi sitting alone on the bench at the station eating ice cubes, while she was in the car across the street at that time.

"Obviously knowing what disease I have, yet..."

While she was thinking, Zhou Ming trotted all the way from the restaurant back to the car, Chen Yuanzhen looked away from the window, and looked down at the documents on his lap.

"done?"

"You told me, for sure." Zhou Ming replied after sitting firmly in the driver's seat.

"Ah."

Zhou Ming rubbed his hands. He turned his head and looked at Chen Yuanzhen who was looking down at the document. After hesitating for a while, he still said:

"You seem to be paying attention to her?"

Chen Yuanzhen raised his eyelids, and said slowly, "Zhou Ming, are you so talkative?"

Zhou Ming was so frightened that he quickly turned around silently. He started the car and asked again: "Are you going home or going to the studio?"

Chen Yuanzhen closed the document in his hand, took another look at Ji Cixi in the restaurant, and then slowly said:

"Arrangements have been made near the school?"

"Don't worry, there are people from us near the school and in the Jixu community."

"Where is Ji Ciwen?"

"The things in the ward have already been arranged."

Chen Yuanzhen nodded, she turned her face and said with a smile: "Go home first, I also want to eat mutton and taro soup."

It wasn't until ten o'clock in the evening that Ji Cixi stood unsteadily downstairs of her house.

She specially contacted the parents of the students today, and moved the two classes that will not be held until tomorrow to this evening.

Standing downstairs and looking up, she saw that her house was pitch black, and knew that Ji Xu must have fallen asleep.

The plastic bag in her hand contained a pack of instant noodles and a ham sausage, ready for dinner.

It's just that even at this time, she still didn't want to go upstairs.

So she ran to the small shop to buy a can of beer, and drank it while standing downstairs before going upstairs to go home.

After returning home, she changed her clothes and threw away her things. Ji Cixi went to wash her face before turning on the light in the living room.

But just when she passed Ji Xu's room, she stopped suddenly.

She remembered that she had never seen Ji Xu when he was asleep.

Thinking in this way, Ji Cixi walked lightly to the door of Ji Xu's room, she stretched out her hand and turned the doorknob, but Ji Xu didn't lock the door.

The door was gently pushed open by Ji Cixi, the room was pitch black and very quiet, and Ji Xu's shallow breathing could be heard after falling asleep.

She walked to Ji Xu's bed in the dark, turned the desk lamp on his desk to turn his back on Ji Xu, and the pale yellow light dimly reflected Ji Xu's face.

It was only then that Ji Cixi realized that Ji Xu's sleeping appearance looked very much like Ji Ciwen.

The way she looked at Ji Xu became more and more complicated.

I don't know how long he looked at it, Ji Cixi turned on the desk lamp, ready to leave.

"Auntie?"

The moment she turned around, Ji Xu's immature voice sounded in the room.

Ji Xu rubbed his eyes and was about to sit up from the bed, Ji Cixi turned around and pressed his shoulder.

"Go on to sleep, I'm leaving."

After she finished speaking, she was about to leave, but Ji Xu hurriedly called her to stop.

"Auntie, did you visit my mother again today?"

Ji Cixi's footsteps froze.

"How is she now? Is she better?"

Ji Cixi turned her back to Ji Xu, her face was soaked in the dark night, Ji Xu couldn't see her expression clearly.

After a moment of silence, Ji Xu heard that Ji Cixi seemed to be smiling.

"I..." Ji Cixi looked up at the darkness in the distance.

"I don't know how she is now."

After she finished speaking, she quickly walked out of the room without waiting for Ji Xu to ask her again, and closed the door by the way.

When the door was closed behind her, Ji Cixi leaned her back against the door. She closed her eyes and stood there for a minute before going to turn on the light again, packing up and preparing to cook the noodles.

Early the next morning, when Ji Xu woke up, Ji Cixi had already gone to work, and a steaming breakfast was set on the coffee table in the living room.

Nothing seems to have changed.

Ji Xu rubbed his eyes, wondering if he had a dream last night.

After eating, Ji Xu packed up the trash, took the packed trash, put on his schoolbag and went downstairs to school.

He trotted downstairs to throw the rubbish into the huge trash can in the community before going to school. Just as he was throwing the rubbish, he turned around inadvertently and seemed to see a black figure flashing past.

Ji Xu blinked again strangely, there was no one else in front of him except the grandparents in the community that he could usually see.

"Aren't you awake yet?" Ji Xu shook his head thinking.

In the alley corner where sundries are piled up in the community, Zhou Ming is leaning against the wall and smoking.

A man in a black suit hurried past him, Zhou Ming threw the cigarette butt on the ground casually, and secretly stretched out a leg.

The man turned his head several times to see if there was anyone behind him, but he ignored the way ahead and was tripped by Zhou Ming all of a sudden.

The ground was uneven, and there were still a few gravels. The man stood up reluctantly, wiped his face, saw the blood stains on the palm of his hand, and instantly became furious.

He turned around and scolded his mother, and raised his fist to attack Zhou Ming. Zhou Ming's body flashed lightly, he circled behind the man, and raised a long leg to kick the man's back directly.

The man fell to the ground again, but this time Zhou Ming didn't give him another chance to stand up. He stepped on the man's back, bent down and took out a few photos from the man's suit pants pocket.

That's Ji Xu's photo.

"Who is your master?" Zhou Ming asked.

"You fucking—"

Before the man could utter the cursing words, Zhou Ming pouted and grabbed the man's collar and forcibly pulled his head up, and then pressed it hard and quickly to the ground.

Seeing the sharp gravel on the ground rushing towards him, the man hurriedly closed his eyes in fright.

However, the expected tingling pain did not strike as promised. The man opened his eyes tremblingly, and found that his cheek was less than an inch away from the ground.

"You'd better confess while I still want to ask you, otherwise you will spend a lot of medical expenses, which is not worth it." Zhou Ming lowered his head and smiled in the man's ear.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Chen from the Chen family..."

"There are several Mr. Chen in the Chen family, the big one or the young one?"

"The little one is the deputy general manager..."

Zhou Ming knew it well, he secretly affirmed Chen Yuanzhen's foresight, and then he stuffed back the photos he confiscated from the man's pocket, took out an envelope from the inner pocket of his suit, and stuffed it into the man's pocket.

"This should be twice as much as your master gave you. I have no other requirements. In the future, you will also give me a copy of the photo you took of your master."

After Zhou Ming said that, he moved away from the foot on the man's back, and he leaned against the wall again, and took out a pack of cigarettes from his trousers pocket.

The man struggled to get up, and he turned his head to look at Zhou Ming with more timid eyes.

"You... who are you?"

Zhou Ming raised his head with a cigarette in his mouth and smiled, saying:

"A person who works for others, just like you."