CH 163

Chapter 163 – 1992-2020

On this day, unlike normally, Lian Qiao didn’t come to pick up Xu RenDong up after class.

Xu RenDong went back to the house to see that the others hadn’t come back yet, but the door was unlocked. He went straight to Lian Qiao and his room on the second floor, opened the door and went in. He saw Lian Qiao lying on the bed.

“Hu…” RenDong heaved a sigh of relief, threw his schoolbag on the chair and walked towards Lian Qiao. As he did so, he asked: “What did you do in the afternoon, why didn’t you wait for me after school?” 

But when he walked to the bed, he found that Lian Qiao was not quite right. There were two abnormal flushes on his face, his lips fluttered slightly and his breathing was short of breath. RenDong stretched out his hand to touch it and found that his forehead was extremely hot, so he hurriedly found a thermometer and stuffed it into Lian Qiao mouth. Then he went to get  antipyretics.

When he got towels and medicine, the thermometer reached the requisite time. He took it out and looked: forty degrees!

“Lian Qiao? Lian Qiao?” He tried to push Lian Qiao but Lian Qiao didn’t respond at all.

RenDong panicked at the moment. With Lian Qiao’s physique, it’s impossible for him to get sick for no reason and his fever is so high, he must have encountered something. He bit his lip and forced himself to calm down. First he squeezed a cool towel to cover Lian Qiao’s forehead and then took out the antipyretic medicine.

“Lian Qiao, take the medicine, come on, and open your mouth.” Xu RenDong was only thirteen or fourteen years old at the time and it was very strenuous to help Lian Qiao, an 1.85 meter adult.

But Lian Qiao had fainted from the fever, his whole body was limp and he didn’t respond at all. Xu RenDong simply let Lian Qiao lean in his arms, then stretched out his hand to open Lian Qiao’s mouth.

“Lian Qiao, wake up, you’ll be fine after taking the medicine…” He tried to feed him the medicine but it didn’t work at all. Although the pill was stuffed inside, Lian Qiao couldn’t swallow it at all.

Even if water was poured into Lian Qiao’s mouth, the water just overflowed from the corner of his mouth. He couldn’t swallow it at all!

What to do?!

The person in his arms lay like a volcanic rock. Xu RenDong gritted his teeth and picked him up from the bed.

“Lian Qiao, wake up, I’ll take you to the hospital—uh!”

As soon as Xu RenDong carried him to the edge of the bed, Lian Qiao fell forward heavily. RenDong was afraid that he would fall, so he hurriedly stood in front of him. Unexpectedly, the size gap between the two was too big and Lian Qiao directly crushed him.

“Wu…” Xu RenDong was pressed under him, unable to move.

This body is too small to exert strength at all. Xu RenDong struggled desperately but Lian Qiao, who was unconscious, was as heavy as a mountain, pressing firmly on his chest, making it difficult for him to even breathe.

“Lian… Qiao…” The thin arm tried to push him away but, no matter how hard he pushed, Lian Qiao didn’t move.

Xu RenDong’s heart was beating wildly, his eyes turned black. He has never hated himself for being so thin and small. Could it be that he is going to die here?

At this time, footsteps suddenly sounded in the corridor. Xu RenDong looked towards the door asking for help and met Little Apple’s surprised eyes.

“Why is the door of your room open…huh?” Little Apple’s expression changed when she saw the scene in the room clearly.

“Fuck!” She rushed over, overturned Lian Qiao and quickly helped Xu RenDong up, “Are you okay?!” 

Xu RenDong’s face was purple, but he didn’t care about breathing. He turned to pull Lian Qiao and said to Little Apple: “Help me get him to the bed!”

Little Apple did so.

Lian Qiao was the type who looks thin in clothes and fleshy without. He usually looks tall and thin, but you really have to try to lift him to know how this person is a dead weight. One big and one small managed to move Lian Qiao back to the bed and by then they were already panting and sweating profusely.

Little Apple asked: “What’s going on?”

RenDong: “I don’t know, he has a high fever. I want to take him to the hospital.”

“Hospital?” Little Apple asked in surprise, “Is there a hospital here?”

Xu RenDong couldn’t explain. Just as he was about to go downstairs to call 120, he heard the person on the bed make a soft noise.

This sound was like a call, Xu RenDong immediately turned around and rushed back to the bed.

“Lian Qiao? Are you awake? Can you hear me?” He worriedly touched Lian Qiao’s face but saw that Lian Qiao’s eyes were still closed. Under the eyelids, the eyeballs trembled, as if he was stuck in a nightmare and couldn’t wake up.

“Ren… Dong…” Although Lian Qiao was unconscious, he squeezed out these two words from the back of his throat.

Xu RenDong felt a pain in his heart, grabbed his hand and said: “I’m here. I’m here. What’s wrong with you? Tell me, and I’ll take you to the hospital right away.” Lian Qiao’s lips moved, and his breath was as thin as silk: “For me…for me…”

RenDong put his ear to his lips and heard a few intermittent words.

“Live…for me…”

Live… for me?!

The familiar sentence made Xu RenDong feel like he had fallen into an ice cave within an instant.

Before he could think about it, a few more footsteps sounded in the corridor.

“What’s the matter?” 

“What’s the matter?”

The monk and the long-haired auntie came back. Seeing Lian Qiao’s half-dead appearance, they were taken aback.

Little Apple explained: “He has a fever and is talking nonsense. Do you know what he did in the afternoon? Why did he suddenly develop a fever?” Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.

The long-haired auntie reached out and touched Lian Qiao’s forehead, and said in surprise: “The fever is so severe! Have you given him antipyretic medicine?” 

“I can’t feed it.” Xu RenDong turned to look at the crowd, “He has to go to the hospital! Hurry up and help, I’ll call 120!”

“Hospital?” Everyone was surprised again. This is no wonder because, after all, there was no hospital in this block.

Xu RenDong gritted his teeth and decided to call himself. Just as he was about to get up, his arms suddenly sank. It was Lian Qiao who held him firmly.

“Don’t go…don’t leave me…”

Lian Qiao was unconscious from the fever, his face was flushed and his voice was choked. Xu RenDong’s heart was soft and aching, so he had to sit back again, hold his hand and coax him: “I won’t go, don’t be afraid, I won’t go. I’ll stay here with you. Lian Qiao, open your eyes and look at me. “

Lian Qiao was still unconscious, just holding his arm and crying.

Xu RenDong’s heart was broken by his crying and he didn’t know what to do. The long-haired aunt behind suddenly said: “He still has to take medicine.”

RenDong frowned and said, “But he…”

The long-haired auntie: “Give it to him that way. Like a fever suppository.”

RenDong was stunned. Not everyone understood.

The long-haired auntie seemed to be a different person at this time. She resolutely pushed back the crowd and closed the door with her backhand. Then she opened another antipyretic and said to Xu RenDong, “Take off his pants.”

Xu RenDong finally understood and hurriedly stopped her: “Okay, I got it. I’ll get it! Auntie, you can go out too!”

Auntie Long-Hair didn’t insist, she quickly withdrew after teaching him how to stuff the medicine.

Xu RenDong carefully stuffed him with medicine. Lian Qiao probably felt uncomfortable, kicking his legs desperately, as if trying to kick something out. At the same time, he covered himself with his hands.

“Don’t move, I’ll put on your pants.” Xu RenDong coaxed him softly, while pressing his legs, he put on the pants with difficulty.

After doing all this with great difficulty, RenDong was so tired that he was out of breath.

Children’s physical fitness was really poor and the difference in size really can’t be achieved by relying on great strength. With his small body, let alone holding down Lian Qiao’s legs, he was almost kicked out by him several times.

Fortunately, after putting on the pants, Lian Qiao behaved better.

It seems that even if he loses consciousness, he knows to cover his pants to keep his innocence. RenDong couldn’t help laughing.

He reopened the door to let everyone in. Everyone discussed and said that they were looking for clues separately in the afternoon. They didn’t know when Lian Qiao came back, let alone what he had experienced.

RenDong still hoped to go to the hospital but, as soon as he got up, Lian Qiao began to cry, holding his arm and saying ‘don’t leave me’. Even if others wanted to help him, they couldn’t.

RenDong really couldn’t bear to push him away. Auntie Long-Hair said: “Anyway, the medicine is stuffed in so let’s just observe first.”

So RenDong stayed by the bed all night.

In the evening, Auntie Long Hair, Little Apple, the Monk and the others came to accompany him in turn, brought him something to eat, and checked on Lian Qiao’s situation. Lian Qiao still didn’t wake up, his cheeks were flushed with fever,and he was talking nonsense in a daze.

However, he never said the bastard words “live for me” again, at most he was crying and acting like a baby.

Xu RenDong was sitting at the desk doing homework but his mind was all on Lian Qiao and turned around practically every five minutes to see if he was awake. There was no time to do homework, let alone review and preview. But the college entrance examination was coming so he must work hard.

The tormenting night passed. The homework was finally finished at five o’clock in the morning, but Lian Qiao hadn’t woken up yet.

At dawn, RenDong changed his body. Auntie Long-hair got sick leave from the school and stayed by Lian Qiao’s bedside.

But Lian Qiao still didn’t wake up.

Just when Xu RenDong was going crazy with anxiety, on the eve of the college entrance examination, at two o’clock in the morning, Lian Qiao finally made a movement.

“Water…”

RenDong almost jumped off the chair and rushed to the bed: “Lian Qiao! You finally woke up—the water is here, you sit up, and I will feed you!”

Lian Qiao’s eyes were still closed but he was already able to cooperate with movements and sat up slowly by himself.

RenDong touched his sweaty back, and finally heaved a sigh of relief.

Lian Qiao’s lips were dry and, as soon as he touched the rim of the glass, he instinctively hugged the water glass and drank it. Afraid that he would choke, RenDong pressed down the water glass slightly, and said softly: “Don’t worry, drink slowly and be careful of choking.”

Xu RenDong’s mouth was indeed ‘blessed’. As soon as he was reminded, Lian Qiao really choked and coughed non-stop.

RenDong hurriedly patted him on the back. Lian Qiao coughed for a while and regained his strength. Opening his eyes in a daze, his gaze finally fell on RenDong in front of him.

“Ren… Dong?” He called out in confusion, questioningly.

“It’s me.” Xu RenDong thought to himself, he has grown a few years and his appearance has changed a lot, no wonder he looks strange. He held his hand and asked softly, “How do you feel now?”

Lian Qiao stared at him and, for some reason, his eyes suddenly turned red.

RenDong thought that he was suffering physically and was feeling wronged, so tried to coax him, but then was dragged into his arms without realizing it. Before he could react, his lips felt hot.

RenDong opened his eyes wide and subconsciously wanted to push him away, but immediately thought: I’m already seventeen years old, it’s okay.

As soon as he acquiesced, Lian Qiao went further. It was a kiss so hot that both of them felt suffocated. Lian Qiao kissed him deeply like the rest of his life, breathing heavily, pressing the back of his head to deepen the kiss. RenDong only felt that the depths of his soul had been pushed by him and couldn’t help but feel his heart tremble and his whole body was soft in his arms.

After an unknown amount of time, this kiss, which was so fanatical that it could be called predatory, finally came to an end. RenDong leaned against his chest and couldn’t stop panting, but Lian Qiao didn’t let him go, kissing his forehead and the top of his hair continuously with gentle kisses that were almost trembling. It seemed that he would lose him in the next second.

Lian Qiao had just recovered from his fever, but there was still heat left in his body. RenDong was so hot that he had to push him away, blushing and angrily said: “Have you kissed enough? Are you not hungry after sleeping for three days? All you can think about is kissing me?” 

Lian Qiao laughed suddenly, bit his earlobe and said with a low smile: “Yes.”

RenDong: “…” Why does he feel that he has dug a hole for himself.

RenDong showed him his proud self-control on the spot, firmly pushed Lian Qiao away, got up and said, “I’ll make you hot porridge.”

Lian Qiao hooked his fingers reluctantly and said softly: ” I don’t want porridge. I want you.”

RenDong: “Don’t make trouble.” After finishing speaking, he left him cruelly and went downstairs to heat the porridge.

After RenDong left, the smile on Lian Qiao’s face slowly disappeared. He touched his face in a daze and his eyes darkened.