Xia Yuanfang slept with her eyes closed, like a mannequin.
Xia Chujian's eyes dimmed slightly. She casually put the two fresh-keeping storage bags back into her pocket, and then focused intently on giving her aunt a bath.
After washing, she changed her aunt into a clean hospital gown, wrapped her wet hair in a dry towel, and then easily picked up her aunt and carried her back to her hospital bed.
Returning to the small bathroom, she cleaned up the bathtub and came out carrying the gun case on her back.
She sat down by Xia Yuanfang's bed, opened the electric insulated lunch box, and said as if offering a treasure, "Aunt, this was originally prepared for Doctor Shen. But Nurse Liu said that you can eat now, so try my cooking."
Xia Chujian scooped up a spoonful of porridge, blew on it, and carefully brought it to Xia Yuanfang's mouth, saying, "Aunt, open your mouth."
But Xia Yuanfang lay there calmly, without any movement.
She couldn't understand how Nurse Liu had fed her that spoonful of porridge.
Xia Chujian tried several times, but Xia Yuanfang didn't respond at all.
Xia Chujian took a deep breath and ate the spoonful of porridge herself.
Since Shen Junyi wasn't here, she couldn't verify anything about the Blood Kirin and the Kong Sang.
Xia Chujian sat blankly by the bed, her back to the surveillance camera.
After a long while, she fumbled in her pocket, pried open the seal of a storage bag with her fingers, and took something out.
She thought it was a leaf and petals of the Kong Sang, but when she took it out, she realized it was a Blood Kirin.
She realized for the first time that the feel of the Blood Kirin leaves was so similar to that of the Kong Sang leaves.
It was a small plant, only half the size of her palm, tender and swollen, as if a lot of juice would flow out if you pinched it.
Her emotions were unstable, and she couldn't control the strength of her fingers. She used a little too much force and actually squeezed water out of the Blood Kirin.
The red juice flowed out, staining her fingers red.
Xia Chujian put her stained fingers in her mouth and licked them nervously.
The juice of the Blood Kirin was a little sweet.
It tasted good.
And the red color was so beautiful, so vibrant...
At this time, Xia Chujian felt like a stone was blocking her heart, and her mind couldn't think normally at all. She just wanted to do something crazy and happy to vent her emotions.
She looked at her aunt's bloodless face and her almost white, transparent lips. On a whim, she put the Blood Kirin she had pinched in her hand on her aunt's lips and smeared it up and down like lipstick.
The small Blood Kirin was quickly squeezed out of all its juice, which was all smeared on Xia Yuanfang's lips.
At this time, Xia Yuanfang was lying there, her pale face with her lips red and dazzling, looking even more frightening.
However, Xia Chujian was not afraid at all.
Her eyes were still staring straight ahead, and she giggled nervously, "Aunt, you are so beautiful! Aunt, you are the most beautiful!"
As she spoke, she lay on Xia Yuanfang's chest, curled up like a baby, and murmured, "Aunt, Chujian misses you so much... Aunt, don't leave Chujian..."
Just as Xia Chujian lay down, the blood-like red color on Xia Yuanfang's lips suddenly faded.
It seemed that the blood color was absorbed by her lips, or it had evaporated, or it had faded in the air.
In short, her lip color returned to an almost transparent white.
After a while, Xia Chujian raised her eyes, her gaze, both crazy and stubborn, turned to Xia Yuanfang, and found that the Blood Kirin juice she had just smeared on her lips had completely disappeared, and her lip color was pale and transparent again.
This wouldn't do!
Aunt should be the most beautiful!
Xia Chujian quickly sat up, reached into her pocket, took out another Blood Kirin from the storage bag, squeezed out the juice, and carefully smeared it on Xia Yuanfang's lips.
When she did this, her eyes were staring straight ahead, which was simply terrifying.
If there was a mirror in front of her, she would have been frightened by herself.
But Xia Chujian couldn't think normally at this time, and was just acting on instinct.
After smearing the juice of yet another Blood Kirin, turning it into a withered weed, Xia Chujian even stuffed the withered Blood Kirin into her mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it.
Then she lay back down on Xia Yuanfang's chest.
Raising her head again, when she noticed the color on Xia Yuanfang's lips had faded again, she repeated the process, using another Blood Kirin.
This time, she simply sat there, not lying down, watching as the red Blood Kirin juice on Xia Yuanfang's lips quickly disappeared, and she repeated the process.
Within ten minutes, she had used up all nine Blood Kirins.
Then she noticed that the color on Xia Yuanfang's lips finally didn't fade away like before.
Although it wasn't particularly rosy, a hint of color had appeared, like the normal color of ordinary people's lips.
Seeing this, Xia Chujian's eyes glazed over, and she smiled like a lunatic.
Breathing out, she lay back down on Xia Yuanfang's chest.
She didn't want to get up, she just wanted to stay like this forever, with her aunt.
Until an hour later...
Thump, thump! Thump, thump! She felt under the blanket, at her aunt's heart, the heartbeat that had been so faint it was almost inaudible, becoming gradually more distinct.
Xia Chujian had been lying on Xia Yuanfang's chest, so she noticed it immediately.
Then, the heartbeat became stronger, like a normal person's! Xia Chujian suddenly raised her head again and sat up, kneeling beside Xia Yuanfang, staring at her expectantly.
Because she noticed that, besides her heartbeat starting to recover, Xia Yuanfang's eyelids were also moving slightly.
No, it was the movement of her eyeballs under her eyelids!
It was as if she was about to open her eyes! Xia Chujian became even more nervous.
She put her hands together in front of her, murmuring, "Praise the Holy Church! May Buddha bless my aunt... Praise the Holy Church! May Buddha protect my aunt..."
Whether it was her prayers or her sincerity that worked.
Xia Yuanfang, who hadn't moved in three years, suddenly exhaled a long breath.
Xia Chujian was startled, and reflexively fell backward, almost falling off Xia Yuanfang's hospital bed.
And Xia Yuanfang, at this moment, opened her eyes.
At first, her vision wasn't clear, and everything looked blurry.
She blinked her eyes hard a couple of times, and when her vision cleared, she subconsciously looked at a corner of the ceiling.
There, was the surveillance camera for the entire ward.
Then, she looked closer and realized that the girl in front of her with wide eyes and long hair was her niece, Xia Chujian, whom she depended on for life.
Xia Yuanfang couldn't help but smile, slowly raised her hand, and touched Xia Chujian's hair, her voice unusually low and hoarse because she hadn't spoken in three years: "...Your hair has grown, my little Chujian, you've become a big girl. - What happened to me?"
Xia Chujian didn't feel joy, but more fear.
Was this the legendary final radiance?! She actually deeply believed in Shen Junyi. Although she had been extremely resistant to the point of losing her mind before, she knew deep down that it was because she believed Shen Junyi's words that she was so sad that she almost went crazy.
Xia Yuanfang's appearance at this moment seemed like she had come back to life, but also like a final radiance.
Xia Chujian's reason finally returned, but she was even more terrified.
Her jaw trembled, desperately holding back tears, she said tremblingly, "Aunt... Aunt... Do you feel... better?"
Xia Yuanfang was slightly stunned.
She stared at Xia Chujian, and after a while, she patted her back and said laboriously, "Little Chujian, what's wrong with you? What happened? Where is this?"
"Aunt, don't you remember?"
"Remember what?" Xia Yuanfang frowned slightly, "I only remember working overtime at work, coming home too late, I wanted to boil water to take a bath, and then..."
"Then you opened your eyes, and you were here. - This isn't our home, is it?"
Xia Chujian widened her eyes in surprise: "Of course this isn't our home!"
"Aunt, you came home too late, you were going to boil water for a bath, and then you fainted."
"...But that was three years ago!"
"Aunt, you've been unconscious for three years."
Xia Yuanfang's brow furrowed, looking at Xia Chujian in disbelief: "...Three years?! I've actually been unconscious for three years? How could this be?!"
"Aunt, actually you weren't unconscious for three years. Doctor Shen said you were sick, with a serious genetic disease."
Xia Yuanfang: "..."
She rubbed her forehead and sighed, "My body isn't in good shape, but it shouldn't be so bad as all that, right?"
Xia Chujian stared blankly at her, then scrambled over on all fours, getting close to Xia Yuanfang to continue examining her carefully.
She noticed that Xia Yuanfang's complexion really wasn't as pale as it had seemed earlier.
Especially her lips, which now had a natural rosy color.
Moreover, they were even rosier and more natural than before, completely different from the transparently white lips she had seen earlier.
More importantly, she realized that her aunt's heartbeat was indeed much more stable.
Just then, the instruments in the ward suddenly started beeping.
Like an alarm, the sound became more urgent with each beep.
Xia Chujian was startled.
Xia Yuanfang instinctively raised her hand to cover Xia Chujian's ears.
Xia Chujian didn't resist at all.
She nestled against Xia Yuanfang, letting her cover her ears.
For the first time in three years, she felt the warmth and care of family.
She no longer had that sense of precariousness.
In her heart, the meaning of home wasn't an empty house, but a place where family was.
Running sounds came from the hallway outside, and someone was banging on the ward door.
Xia Chujian snapped back to reality, broke free from Xia Yuanfang's embrace, and said, "Aunt, I locked the ward door. The people outside probably want to come in, I have to open the door."
She thought that since she had locked the door, no one could open it unless she opened it herself.
But she was wrong.
Because she had just gotten out of bed when she discovered that after knocking on the door a few times, the person outside had started using a key to turn the lock.
Xia Chujian didn't expect that even with the door locked from the inside, a key could still open it!
She was almost stunned in place.
And the person outside, after opening the ward door with the key, was also taken aback to see a tall girl standing there, and asked, "Who are you? What are you doing here? Why did you lock the door?"
This person might not be familiar with Xia Chujian, but Xia Chujian had seen him before and knew his surname was Cen. He was a doctor, Doctor Shen's assistant, not yet at the level of a full doctor.
Xia Chujian came back to her senses and immediately said, "I locked the door, Doctor Cen, how did you get in?"
The second update is here. Seeing all of you treasure seekers calling for a miracle, the miracle has arrived!
PS: Regarding the renovation, there are actually no pollution problems from formaldehyde or other decoration materials, so it will be quick. Especially with the integrated decoration sector under the large industrial model, once it's done, it can be moved directly into the house. Next time Chujian buys a house, I can write about it in more detail, if everyone is interested. (^▽^)
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