boyutpedia Chapter 13 Beg me, and I'll take you to get treatment.
Chapter 13 Beg me, and I'll take you to get treatment.
Zhou Gangxun frowned and stared at Ruan Zhijuan's chest, which was rising and falling, indicating she was still breathing.
What kind of mischief are they up to now?
His gaze fell on Ruan Zhijuan's incongruous dress—wide, dark purplish-red, embroidered with auspicious patterns in gold thread: bats, peaches, peonies…
"It's so itchy..."
Ruan Zhijuan frowned, scratching her body. She turned her head and saw Zhou Gangxun standing not far away. Then she complained, "Zhou Gangxun, there are mosquitoes... You're so poor, there are mosquitoes in your rented house..."
Zhou Gangxun walked to the sofa, glanced at Ruan Zhijuan who was scratching her head, and asked, "What did you do today?"
"No... I didn't do anything, just ate peaches... and then went to sleep, what's wrong?" Ruan Zhijuan looked up at Zhou Gangxun, her sweet voice several octaves higher than usual, a little unsteady, as if she had been drinking.
Zhou Gangxun frowned, startled by the sudden increase in volume. He tilted his head, his gaze remaining fixed on the other side. "You're wearing two layers of clothing, aren't you hot?"
"Two pieces..." Ruan Zhijuan then noticed that he was wearing the clothes that the old lady had insisted on giving him. How did they end up on him again? Hadn't he folded them up and put them in the closet?
Was I dreaming again? Like that dream where I was fighting with that paper doll for clothes.
I got cold again, so I put on more clothes.
What a terrible dream! So scary! Ruan Zhijuan sniffed, her eyes and nose reddening, making her legs go weak. Luckily, she didn't wet her pants.
"Also, your face is swollen." Zhou Gangxun said, pressing his knee hard against Ruan Zhijuan's thigh, grabbing his hand, and taking off the strange shirt from his upper body, throwing it into the trash can.
Along with her white sleeveless vest, which was also lifted up, Ruan Zhijuan's round belly full of peaches and her fair skin were revealed.
Besides the red mark on his skin from yesterday's bite, there were also red spots.
"What happened to your body?" To prevent Ruan Zhijuan from launching another verbal attack, Zhou Gangxun pretended to pinch his mouth with his hand. "Don't shout."
"Aren't these...mosquito bites?" Ruan Zhijuan pouted and mumbled in response. A few beats later, she looked at herself covered in red welts after her clothes were lifted and exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, so many bites! Did the mosquitoes make their home on me?"
It must be his blood that's sweet, or rather, peach-flavored.
Zhou Gangxun took out a tissue, placed it between his fingers as if his dislike for Ruan Zhijuan had become second nature, and pressed his fingertip against a red spot on Ruan Zhijuan's skin, asking, "Does it itch?"
"It itches, of course it itches from mosquito bites, Zhou Gangxun, you're so stupid." Ruan Zhijuan proudly raised her chin, having found the stupid thing Zhou Gangxun had done. See, the system was right, Zhou Gangxun is indeed very stupid.
Ah, he's stupid. Zhou Gangxun thought to himself, a barely perceptible smile curving his lips.
He stared at Ruan Zhijuan with his dark eyes without saying a word, then moved his hand to the bite wound on Ruan Zhijuan's chest, pinching and pulling it with his fingertips. "Yes, there's a huge mosquito bite here."
"That...that's not a mosquito bite, Zhou...Zhou Gangxun, are you getting presbyopia...?" Ruan Zhijuan was pulled and arched her chest along with Zhou Gangxun's hand. "You...you can see it clearly if you get closer..."
So he's not even thirty yet and he already has presbyopia... He thought he'd be fifty or sixty.
Zhou Gangxun completely ignored Ruan Zhijuan's words, and just reached out and pulled, watching his wife on the sofa anxiously following him like a dog leash, whimpering, "Bad...bad...Zhou Gangxun..."
"People get old...this is normal when they get old...you...you shouldn't feel inferior..." If you feel inferior, don't bring it up with him, bring it up with your own, he's gotten a whole size bigger.
So stupid.
Zhou Gangxun loosened his grip, stared at his fingers, and rubbed his fingertips together. "How many peaches did you eat today?"
However, Ruan Zhijuan's body, propelled forward by the force that should have continued, suddenly fell against Zhou Gangxun's waist. "..."
"Hmm..." He tilted his head back slowly, not quite understanding. "Aren't you going to pull it anymore?"
Zhou Gangxun's brow twitched slightly, he swallowed hard, and glared at him. "Are you addicted?"
Then, as if dealing with a lump of raw pork, he ruthlessly pushed Ruan Zhijuan away from the part of him he couldn't handle, saying, "You're allergic to peaches, you idiot."
Upon hearing this, Ruan Zhijuan remained motionless in Zhou Gangxun's palm.
It's not because of the second half of the sentence, it's because of the first half.
He remembered that someone in the village used to be allergic to eggs, and later died after eating them.
His name is Wang Laowu.
He said he had never eaten an egg in his life. That day, when the people who came to collect eggs from the village were counting them, they missed an egg. He thought that since he had already paid, the people who missed it would definitely not take it back, so he ate it as if it were a treasure. As a result, he had just taken a bite, and before he could even swallow the second bite, he couldn't breathe.
He kept clutching his throat, groaning loudly and struggling to breathe.
The people next door thought he had choked and teased him, "It's just an egg, why are you treating it like a treasure and eating it so fast, like it's your last meal?"
I quickly got him some water to drink, and he felt a little better, so he went back inside.
When people found him the next day, his face had turned purple. He had died the night before, and he was still clutching half an egg in his hand. Perhaps he was afraid that someone would steal his egg, so he ate a few more bites out of concern.
Later, the police and the doctor from the police station arrived. After an examination, they discovered that he was allergic to eggs, but he was already dead.
That egg truly became his last meal.
Ruan Zhijuan had never eaten eggs before. All the eggs in the family were for her younger brother. Every time she saw her brother eating them with great relish, she thought that if she could let him taste what an egg tasted like, she would die happy.
He didn't get to eat eggs until he became the young master of the Ruan family, but they tasted terrible.
He still remembers the smell of chicken manure.
It's no wonder it was born from a chicken's butt.
But I forced myself to eat it, since I couldn't waste the egg.
His first reaction after tasting the eggs and discovering he wasn't allergic to them and was still alive was relief. He was glad he hadn't actually died from eating eggs; otherwise, dying for something so unpalatable would have been such a waste.
Although being pushed to death by the old blind man wasn't a good thing, he still lived as a young master for a while.
However, how could something as delicious as peaches cause an allergic reaction?
As Ruan Zhijuan thought about it, her lips pursed, and tears fell silently down her face, snot and tears indistinguishable as they smeared her cheeks.
He seemed... he couldn't breathe...
Ruan Zhijuan panicked, "Zhou Gangxun, am I...am I going to die?"
Death? Zhou Gangxun sneered. How could that be? A scourge lives on for a thousand years. Only when he dies will Ruan Zhijuan die.
He stopped, pinched Ruan Zhijuan's cheeks with his fingers, and looked at the tearful woman with his dark eyes. "Beg me, and I'll take you to get treatment."
"Please...please, Zhou Gangxun..." Ruan Zhijuan, her eyes red from crying, unconsciously tightened her legs. She looked up at Zhou Gangxun, her voice choked with sobs as she pleaded, "My...my husband, please save me..."
Zhou Gangxun chuckled as he watched Ruan Zhijuan gasp for breath, his mouth agape. He then grabbed Ruan Zhijuan by the waist, picked him up, and took the money and keys to the hospital.
On the way, she didn't forget to use Ruan Zhijuan's clothes to wipe his face, which was covered in snot and tears, to avoid getting it on herself. But halfway through wiping, she realized that it was his clothes. "..."
Enraged, Zhou Gangxun raised his hand and slapped Ruan Zhijuan's leg.
"Ugh..." Ruan Zhijuan silently endured it, not daring to say anything bad about Zhou Gangxun, not even daring to cry out, for fear of angering Zhou Gangxun and causing him to stop treating her.
He originally planned to change his clothes when he got home, but he didn't expect Zhou Gangxun's clothes to be so comfortable, much more comfortable than his pretty little clothes.
Ruan Zhijuan blinked her swollen eyelids; she seemed to be seeing even less, as if she couldn't open her eyes at all.
"Zhou...Zhou Gangxun, I'm definitely going to die, I...I can't open my eyes...I'm definitely about to breathe my last..."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Gangxun looked into Ruan Zhijuan's eyes. Two large bulges had appeared on her eyelids, completely obscuring her double eyelids, making her look like a puppy that had been stung by a bee after greedily eating honey. "...Did you eat the peach with your eyes?"
"I...I ate it with my mouth, but...but I think I rubbed my eyes while I was eating." Ruan Zhijuan looked up at the flattened face of Zhou Gangxun. "Zhou Gangxun, what...what should I do...will I never be able to see again? Is there...any hope?"
As Ruan Zhijuan spoke, she immediately began to think subconsciously about what work she could do to keep herself from being thrown away if she could not see at all.
Oh, this isn't the previous life anymore. He didn't have to work when he was with Zhou Gangxun.
What if he becomes blind and Zhou Gangxun finds taking care of him troublesome and doesn't want him to do it?
"Zhou Gangxun, a person should be consistent from beginning to end, good from start to finish, and faithful to one's original intention..." Ruan Zhijuan thought for a long time, but couldn't think of any other idioms containing "from beginning to end." However, he hadn't laid the groundwork yet, so he had to think of another word. After struggling for a long time, he finally said, "The Three Obediences and Four Virtues"...
"You must...you must uphold the duties of a husband and not abandon your other half..." Fearing that Zhou Gangxun would find it too obvious that she was implying that she was disabled and needed his care, Ruan Zhijuan deliberately did not say "I" but "your other half".
He continued, "Like you, I didn't abandon you even when you went bankrupt, right...?"
Zhou Gangxun sneered at Ruan Zhijuan's words, then looked down at him with a cold gaze, and said, "Heh, you'd better be."
Ruan Zhijuan's hearing was also impaired due to her allergies, so she didn't hear Zhou Gangxun's cold snort. She assumed he had taken it to heart and then uttered the key point of her entire statement: "So you have to learn from me. If I get sick, you can't abandon me, understand?"
Zhou Gangxun raised an eyebrow slightly. Was this an allergic reaction, a way of making his conscience bother him?
Or perhaps it's some heartless, vicious, and stupid uke who thinks he's going to be half-dead from an allergy and is afraid no one will take care of him, so he's here having crocodile tears with his gullible ex-husband who's about to be dumped.
"Otherwise you...you can beat...beat..." Ruan Zhijuan stopped speaking, his little face furrowed as he thought.
Thinking about what comes after "打" (dǎ), he realized he was missing a word. Oh no, he'd even forgotten that word. But he remembered it wasn't a good word. If Zhou Gangxun were to accidentally die, he wouldn't be able to take care of him anymore.
Zhou Gangxun looked coldly at Ruan Zhijuan, a smile playing on his lips, and continued in full, "Whoever abandons you will be struck by lightning, torn apart by five horses, and leave no trace of your remains, suffering a terrible death."
After he finished speaking, he saw that Ruan Zhijuan remained silent.
Was it frightened?
Ah, he knew it all along: his wife's swollen belly was full of rotten water.