It's that auntie who sells rice noodles; I still remember her.
"Hey, aren't you Shi'an's friend? Come visit her!"
Jian Changnian was taken aback, and was pulled to sit down next to a table and chairs.
The aunt turned around and busied herself.
"Did you and Shi'an have a fight? Why did you run out crying?"
Jian Changnian then realized that she was also crying, so she casually wiped her face with her sleeve.
"It's alright, Auntie..."
Before he finished speaking, a steaming bowl of rice noodles was placed in front of him.
“It’s normal for friends to argue and bicker. Don’t take it to heart. Over the years, apart from Yu Chu, I haven’t seen her bring anyone else back to play. Besides, I see you come here often. I think you are a very important friend to Shi An.”
"Eat up, then head home early. Look how wet your clothes are. The weather's bad today, I need to pack up and go home too."
Jian Changnian seemed to understand why Xie Shian liked eating this rice noodle shop. It was steaming hot, fragrant, with chili oil coating the chili, sprinkled with scallions and cilantro, and topped with ham sausage.
She took two bites, and tears streamed down her face as she swallowed the food in large gulps, sobbing as she went.
The aunt was worried that the girl would choke, so she poured her another glass of water.
"Eat slowly, this bowl is free."
Jian Changnian sniffed and looked up at her.
"No, Auntie, please make me another bowl, without chili. I... I'll take it up to Shi'an."
"Okay, that day, I saw her come out to buy alcohol alone quite late. She ate a bowl of rice noodles at my place and left. I felt that something must have happened to her, but she didn't say anything, and I didn't feel comfortable asking."
"Shi'an is quite a strong-willed child."
The auntie kept talking to people while her hands kept moving.
Before she packed up and left, Jian Changnian insisted on paying for the two bowls of rice noodles. The aunt smiled, got on her tricycle, and rode away.
"No, no, you guys work really hard playing ball, these two bowls of rice noodles are my treat."
Jian Changnian chased after her for a few steps but couldn't catch up. Watching her figure gradually disappear into the distance as she rode her tricycle through the wind and rain, she smiled helplessly. The warmth brought by the food slowly filled her originally barren heart with strength again.
She took a deep breath, turned around, and walked towards Xie Shi'an's house again, determined to pull her out of the house this time no matter what.
Jian Changnian typed for a long time.
The house of Xie Shi'an was quiet and without a sound.
The torrential rain was still falling.
She placed the lunchbox at the door and was about to turn and leave when, in that instant, she somehow sensed danger.
Jian Changnian slammed the door. Apart from the sound of rain, the entire corridor was eerily quiet. She remembered what the rice noodle auntie had said.
"Shi'an is quite a strong-willed child."
And the scene where she jumped into the pond downstairs.
An alarm bell rang in my mind.
"Shi'an!" Jian Changnian called out, but there was still no response. She took a few steps back and kicked the door a few times, but the old iron door did not budge, only shaking off a layer of dust.
She gritted her teeth, ran downstairs in a flash, found the shovel the cleaner used to sweep the community at the entrance of the building, picked it up, her eyes red, and pounded on the door lock with all her might, again and again, not even noticing that her hands were bleeding.
Finally, the doorknob was about to fall off.
Jian Changnian kicked the door open and rushed in. His eyes were still not used to the dim environment in the room, which was filled with the smell of alcohol mixed with the smell of instant noodles.
She turned on the light, rushed into the bedroom, and pulled back the covers. The room was empty. She ran to the balcony, but no one was there either. The lock on her grandfather's workroom was still on, but Xie Shi'an wasn't inside.
She turned her gaze to the bathroom at the end of the corridor.
The door was open, but no one could be seen through the frosted glass.
The only sound in the bathroom was the sound of water.
Jian Changnian swallowed hard, walked over step by step, lifted the curtain, and his pupils shrank instantly. He rushed to her side and called her name with a sob in his voice.
"Shi'an! Shi'an, what's wrong with you?! Wake up!"
The shower was still running. Xie Shi'an's head was tilted on the edge of the bathtub, her eyes were closed, her face was pale, and her clothes were all wet. She fell over with the slightest touch. There was a ring of bright red blood on the edge of the bathtub, and the pale red blood spread from under her and flowed into the sewer.
"Shi'an! Shi'an! Don't scare me..."
Jian Changnian held the person in her arms, tears streaming down her face, and pressed her face against the person's forehead, which was burning hot.
When she couldn't wake the person no matter what she did, she hurriedly ran out of the bathroom to find her phone, wanting to call 120.
Xie Shi'an's phone had already been smashed by her; the screen was shattered into pieces, and no matter how many times she pressed the buttons, she couldn't turn it on.
Jian Changnian choked back tears, threw down her phone, crawled to her side on all fours, helped her up from the ground, and carried her on her back.
She gritted her teeth, tears welling in her eyes, and carrying her on her back, she didn't know where she got the strength, but she rushed downstairs in one breath and ran to the side of the road to flag down a car.
It's already difficult to get a taxi on rainy days.
Finally, a taxi arrived.
Jian Changnian said, panting heavily.
"Driver, to Jiangcheng People's Hospital."
The driver rolled down the window, glanced at the person on her back, who seemed quite badly injured, and drove off without knowing whether they were dead or alive.
"Bad luck, don't pull, don't pull."
More cars arrived one after another.
"Master, please, save her!"
"Sir, please, take us to the hospital! My friend... she's really badly injured!"
"If this continues, someone will die!"
Whether it was a private car or a taxi, as soon as a car passed by, Jian Changnian would rush up and beg desperately. But without exception, when they saw them like this, they all avoided them like the plague. Only one car stopped, and the man got out of the driver's seat with an umbrella and shoved the women to the side of the road.
"Are you crazy?! Go die somewhere else, don't block my way!"
Jian Changnian stumbled after being shoved, and tried to rush over to beg him, but the man stepped on the gas and drove away. The car door grazed her, and she immediately fell to the ground. Her wrist loosened, and Xie Shi'an slid off her back and lay in the mud, his lips and all his body turning pale.
She lay there, thin and fragile as a sheet of paper.
Jian Changnian held her head and wept bitterly on the deserted street until car lights came on again in the distance.
As if she had seen a glimmer of hope again, without thinking, she rushed to the middle of the road, opened her arms, and knelt down with a thud.
The two people in the car were talking.
“I already told you it was just fetal movement. It’s late at night, and it’s raining so hard. You insisted on going to the hospital to suffer.”
"No, I've been traveling for work lately and haven't been able to take good care of you. I need to go to the hospital to get checked out before I can feel at ease."
In the blink of an eye, the headlights flashed and a figure rushed across the road. Without thinking, the woman turned the steering wheel to the left and slammed on the brakes. After finally coming to a stop, both people in the car were still shaken, especially the pregnant woman in the passenger seat.
She unbuckled her seatbelt and went to check on her.
Are you alright?!
The woman shook her head.
"No, it seems someone is injured. Let's go down and check."
Jian Changnian closed her eyes, trembling all over. She could only hear the sound of tires rubbing against the ground, but she did not experience the expected pain.
When she opened her eyes again, she saw someone getting off the bus. Without even getting up, she crawled over on her knees, pleading with tears streaming down her face.
"Please, please save my friend... she's badly injured..."
"Hey, get up!"
The woman driving the car saw that it was a child, so she quickly helped the child up and ran to the side of the road with her. When she saw the child, she became a little anxious and turned back to say something.
"Lin Yan, someone's injured! Get in the car quickly, I'll take you to the hospital!"
As she spoke, she scooped the person up in her arms.
Lin Yan turned around and opened the back door for them, then got in herself and pulled Jian Changnian up with her.
The car doors were locked, and the car sped towards the hospital.
Song Yuhang kept glancing at himself in the rearview mirror.
Jian Changnian cried terribly, tears falling like beads from a broken string.
"Thank you... thank you all... if it weren't for you... I really wouldn't know what to do today..."
"Don't be afraid, your friend will be fine, she's a doctor."
Song Yuhang, driving, offered words of comfort.
Jian Changnian then turned her gaze to the woman in front of her. The woman looked very young, with a beautiful and radiant face, but the years had added a touch of elegance to her, making it impossible to guess her age. But for some reason, just sitting here made her feel inexplicably at ease.
Xie Shi'an had been lying on her lap. When the woman pulled her hand away, she saw that it was covered in blood. She turned him over slightly and looked in the car's interior light. She saw a thumb-long gash on the back of his head, with the skin torn open.
She gasped in shock.
"Song Yuhang, she's injured her head, drive faster!"
The woman in the front seat didn't reply, but simply stepped on the gas, and the numbers on the dashboard skyrocketed.
Hearing her say that, Jian Changnian started to cry again, flustered and incoherent.
"Auntie...no...sister...she...you...you save her..."
Lin Yan quickly took off his coat, tore it into strips, glanced at her, and nodded.
"Don't be afraid, she'll be alright. Come on, help me support her. I'll stop the bleeding first, and then we'll take her to the hospital for further treatment."
Chapter 93 The weather is sunny
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