False evidence

Chapter 418 Rekindling the Bond (3)

"Where's Monkey King?" I asked.

"He went to buy food," Xie Xiaohuan realized. "What's wrong with him?"

"My stomach hurts!" Gu Haitao was sweating profusely.

"He may have drunk too much alcohol and suffered a stomach hemorrhage." As I spoke, Erpang and I helped Gu Haitao onto the examination bed.

Xie Xiaohuan walked over quickly and pressed on his stomach through his clothes.

"Lift up your clothes."

Erpang helped Gu Haitao lift his clothes, and I took out my phone to call Monkey.

Before the number could be found, Gu Haitao suddenly let out a strange cry.

"Eek! Ha...uh..."

I turned around and saw that Guan Xiaohuan had placed the stethoscope on Gu Haitao's stomach. Gu Haitao looked at me strangely, curled up and tried to dodge, while making strange noises.

"Don't move!" Xie Xiaohuan couldn't help but laugh.

Everyone has sensitive areas, whether it's from being cold or itchy. Gu Haitao's stomach seems to be his 'Achilles' heel'.

"You're still not in much pain!" I said, both amused and exasperated. I had no choice but to put away my phone and, together with Erpang, hold Gu Haitao down.

After listening for a while, Xie Xiaohuan said, "It's just a stomach spasm, there's no bleeding."

He walked behind the counter, took out a strip of medicine, and picked out two large white pills. "Take two of these first, chew them up and swallow them."

Gu Haitao suddenly rolled over and buried his face in the bed.

Erpang asked in bewilderment, "What kind of show is this?"

Seeing Gu Haitao curled up with his butt sticking out, I found it even more absurd.

This guy is acting like a child.

"Ah, this is Da Xi, it's not bitter!"

"Okay, I know," Gu Haitao muttered. "I just can't eat this stuff... Hmm, let's just get an IV drip!"

Xie Xiaohuan finally couldn't hold back her laughter and slapped his butt hard.

"Snapped!"

This really surprised me.

From the first time I met Xie Xiaohuan, I knew she wasn't an extroverted person; I even suspected she had mild autism.

If it were truly a child sticking their head out, their action would be understandable.

Gu Haitao was a grown man, and this was the first time he had met her. Her actions were rather unexpected.

Gu Haitao, who had been grumbling, seemed to be stunned by the sudden movement. His body stiffened visibly for a moment, then he turned to look at Xie Xiaohuan.

Xie Xiaohuan seemed to realize that her behavior was inappropriate at this moment, and her face turned red, but she still put the pill into his mouth.

He said, "Chew slowly!" and turned around to clean up the broken pieces of the water glass on the floor.

"What are you looking at, kid?" Erpang said in a gruff voice.

I also noticed that Gu Haitao had a pill in his mouth, but his eyes were fixed on Xie Xiaohuan's back.

I stepped to the side, blocking his view.

He looked up at me and gave me a bitter smile.

After chewing and swallowing the pills, he said, "I am still a man, and I have needs too. Qiaomei has been gone for so many years, and I sometimes do... ha, but I am not a philanderer without limits."

He rolled over, looking a little embarrassed: "I'm fifty years old, and you can imagine what it feels like to be spanked by a little girl, right?"

"Fifty?" Xie Xiaohuan turned around. "Did you misspoke, or did I mishear?"

Gu Haitao smiled and said, "I misspoke. I'm twenty-two this year, a senior in college."

Jie Xiaohuan said "Oh," and added, "I really envy you college students. I'm not smart enough to pass the entrance exam, so I can only go to a nursing school." Listening to the two of them talk, I had a very strange feeling.

Normally, when Xie Xiaohuan talks to people, she only speaks when asked a question. Why is she acting so unusually today, initiating conversation?

The monkey returned with a takeout lunchbox and performed another check-up on Gu Haitao.

This time I believe that Gu Haitao... or rather Luo Yinsheng, really doesn't 'like' doctors.

Unlike children who are afraid of injections, he completely rejects all medical treatments psychologically. Even when getting an IV drip, he turns his face to the side and covers his eyes with one hand.

Before my relationship with Gu Haitao became so strained, I accompanied him to the school clinic, and he didn't have this problem now.

After Xie Xiaohuan put an IV drip on Gu Haitao, she didn't come back to the front.

While I was chatting with the monkey, Gu Haitao, who had recovered, fell into a deep sleep due to the effects of the alcohol.

Seeing that it was getting late, I discussed with Monkey that Gu Haitao wouldn't wake up for a while, and we might have to let him spend the night at the clinic.

Monkey, always mindful of the compassion of a healer, and knowing that Gu Haitao was my former classmate, immediately agreed.

When I got home, I asked Pidan, and he said that Grandpa hadn't come back yet.

I joked with Pidan, "Could that old man have really gone out for some alone time with Aunt San? If they don't come home tonight, do you think they'll go to..."

Pidan, being the granddaughter-in-law, wasn't as clueless as me. Before I could finish speaking, she gave me a light slap, then swung her arm and gave me a hard whack on the butt. "Don't keep your mouth shut all the time!"

I also drank alcohol, and it was on a special occasion.

The slap on my butt reminded me of the scene at the clinic, Gu Haitao's bizarre experience, and then of Luo Yinsheng's separation from his deceased wife.

Seeing that Pidan was also suffering from a serious illness, I felt even more empathy for him.

Pidan and I are still newlyweds, and I can't wait to stay home all day and be with her all the time.

But life doesn't change the way you want it to be. Various irreversible factors leave no room for willful and reckless behavior.

At that moment, I had a strange feeling that I was a philosopher.

As a result, the 'philosopher' acted like a scoundrel, carrying his roommate Erpang on his back, covering the 'scholar's wife's mouth with one hand, and dragging her upstairs with the other...

"Qiaomei!"

A shout startled me awake from my deep sleep.

When I looked up and saw what was in front of me, I was immediately stunned.

I wasn't in my own bedroom, but in a very old room.

I'm not in bed either...

There was no bed in this room at all, because it wasn't a bedroom at all, but a very small hallway.

I was originally lying on the dining table.

The old-fashioned folding round table is really old; the frame is deformed and the tabletop is tilted.

There were four dishes on the table, but they were hardly touched.

Confused, I straightened up and heard a soft thud under my feet.

Looking down, I saw a broken wine bottle at my feet.

"Tiger, you're back."

A woman who looked to be about twenty-four or twenty-five years old walked out of the narrow kitchen.

Seeing that her shoulders and back were slightly hunched, her steps were a little unsteady, and her hands holding the soup bowl were obviously trembling, I didn't care about anything else. I hurriedly got up, took the soup from her, put it on the table, and then almost half-carried and half-lifted the woman into the chair.

At the same time, she couldn't help but say, "If you're not feeling well, you shouldn't cook, I..."

However, I stopped mid-sentence.

Because I saw that in the originally empty room, besides the woman I had pulled into the chair, there were two more people around the round table!
(End of this chapter)