Chapter 69

Chapter 69 - 69 068 Dont touch its itchy (first update)

Chapter 69: 068: Don’t touch, it’s itchy (first update) Chapter 69: 068: Don’t touch, it’s itchy (first update) Gu Kaiyun knew her last name was Wen, and now he also knew which Wen she was, the Wen from Wind Town of Flower City.

“Please sit.”

Miss Wen sat down.

Xie Shang stood by.

Gu Kaiyun pulled a chair from behind, “Put your foot up here.”

Miss Wen complied.

Gu Kaiyun leaned forward slightly, did a quick check, then put on medical gloves, held the injured ankle, and gently moved the joint left and right.

“Does this hurt?”

Miss Wen answered, “A little.”

He gently pressed around the swollen area, rotated the major joint, and looked up at the patient, meaning to inquire.

“It doesn’t hurt.”

The examination was finished.

Gu Kaiyun took off his gloves and looked towards Xie Shang, “The bones are fine, the ligaments are slightly strained.”

“Should we go to the hospital for an X-ray?”

Xie Shang had practiced boxing for a while, so he should have some judgment about such injuries. If it were himself, he probably wouldn’t consult a traditional medicine clinic.

His caution surprised Gu Kaiyun, who usually knew him best.

“No need,” Gu Kaiyun added, “but you can go if you’re not at ease.”

Xie Shang was considering.

The person beside him tugged his clothes, shaking their head at him.

So, Miss Wen was the decision-maker. Gu Kaiyun understood, stood up, went to the medicine cabinet, grabbed the acupuncture tools, then went to the specialized sink, washed his hands thoroughly, put on new gloves, disinfected the affected area, and inserted the needles.

“How long?” Xie Shang asked.

“Needles stay for fifteen minutes.”

Fifteen minutes later.

Gu Kaiyun came over to remove the needles from Miss Wen, wrapped her with an elastic bandage, prescribed some topical medicines to relax the muscles and improve blood circulation, and instructed the “family member” beside her.

“Try to walk as little as possible these next few days.”

Xie Shang took the medicine, “I’ll give you a call later.”

Gu Kaiyun responded, “Hmm.”

Xie Shang helped Miss Wen up, avoided the corners of the chairs, and they left the Chinese medicine clinic.

Gu Kaiyun didn’t ask about any personal matters beyond the medical consultation.

On the way back to Lotus Pond Street, he drove very slowly.

The place to pull over was still some distance from Granny Zhu’s house. Xie Shang got out of the car first, walked around to the passenger side to open the door, and Miss Wen had already unbuckled her seat belt.

She was ready to get out.

“You should walk less on your foot.” Xie Shang, heeding the doctor’s advice, bent down and asked Miss Wen in a gentle voice, “Do you want me to carry you or give you a piggyback?”

He didn’t offer a third option.

“Piggyback.”

He squatted down.

Miss Wen tiptoed on the ground, carefully leaned on his back, and placed her hands on his shoulders.

There were not many people on the street at this time.

Miss Wen liked the quiet. When it was silent, the feeling of restraint diminished, and she could indulge herself.

“Xie Shang, am I heavy?”

“Not heavy.”

Miss Wen was very light, Xie Shang hardly felt any weight.

At first, she was very behaved, keeping her hands and feet still like a well-behaved log, then she accidentally touched Xie Shang’s hair.

Her expensive hearing aid in her left ear was sensitive; when hair brushed by, she would feel it, and the slight discomfort of an electric current would pass through.

Instinctively, she reached out to touch Xie Shang’s hair, then, surprised, she discovered, “Xie Shang, your hair is so soft.”

“...”

Miss Wen’s hands were cool, touching his ear.

“Stop touching.”

Miss Wen had a rebellious streak, “Why?”

She touched it again.

She was actually also curious about Xie Shang’s eyelashes, wondering if they were just as soft.

Xie Shang stopped in his tracks and turned his head to look at her, “Don’t touch, it’s ticklish.”

Since he had memory, no one had touched his hair like that; it made him feel uncomfortable, very uncomfortable.

“Oh.”

Wen Changling retracted her hand and became behaved again.

Strangely enough, despite having been in a traffic accident and injuring her leg, her mood was surprisingly good. Maybe it was because the old lady who deliberately fell beside her car’s wheel was more seriously hurt and might not be able to walk again.

Suddenly, she had an urge to drink, to ride a horse, to ignite powder and create an explosion that would sting the ear, to perish together with it all.

She suppressed all these dangerous thoughts.

Tomorrow would definitely be a sunny day filled with stars.

After the madness in her head, her body began to feel lazy. She propped her chin with her hand, leaning on Xie Shang’s shoulder and called out to him, “Xie Xingxing.”

Xie Shang didn’t respond.

She poked the area near his shoulder and neck, “Why aren’t you responding?” she said, not to provoke someone whose thoughts were going wild.

“Don’t call me that.”

Xie Shang didn’t like being called by his childhood nickname.

Today’s Wen Changling was a series of endless whys, “Why?”

She was too close to his ear, and her breath when she spoke irritated Xie Shang a bit.

Normally, aside from elders, no one called him Xingxing. He wouldn’t allow it, except for Gu Yihuan, that smart-mouthed guy who occasionally asked for a beating by calling him Xingxing over and over.

“It’s cheesy,” he said.

So she stopped calling him that and began to sing, taking up a sudden interest, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky.” After singing a bit, she tilted her head and asked by his ear, “Does it sound good?”

Xie Shang honestly said, “You’re off-key.”

Wen Changling was not gifted in singing.

This was the same as Gu Yihuan.

She hugged Xie Shang’s neck with a bit of force, “Does it sound good?”

Xie Shang couldn’t help but laugh, “It sounds good, is that enough for you, Miss Wen?”

Miss Wen was satisfied. She let go, tilted her head back, not afraid of falling, and collapsed backwards.

“Xie Xingxing, look.” She pointed to the sky in the southwest direction and exclaimed with a tone of discovering a new continent, “There is one of your brothers, so bright.”

“...”

Xie Shang ended up laughing because of it.

A short distance on the road took a long time to cover because of Wen Changling’s whimsical behavior.

Xie Shang wondered, “Wen Changling, have you been drinking fake alcohol?”

Wen Changling firmly denied, “No.”

She was just in a good mood, that’s all. Every time she did something bad, she’d feel great and couldn’t resist the urge to do something even worse.

A grey car was parked five meters away; it was Guan Qingyu’s car.

She didn’t even know why she was waiting here; she really despised herself for it.

Xie Shang had just laughed, laughed several times. Truth be told, she hadn’t seen him laugh much in all the years she’d known him. It should have ended long ago, at the end of “Mor’s Winter.”

Guan Qingyu started the car and went home.

Xie Shang took Wen Changling to his place to put medicine on her wound. She hummed the tune of ‘Little Star’ cooperatively.

He rolled up the leg of Wen Changling’s pants, washed his hands clean, poured the medicinal liquid into his hand and waited until the palm was heated before gently applying it. He had just asked Gu Kaiyun, and he was told that warm compresses were best, to keep it on for a while. Therefore, he did not remove his palm.

Wen Changling didn’t feel any pain at all, her ankle was warm.

There were so many stars in the sky.

Xie Shang was squatting.

His star had fallen at her feet.

Her eyes felt itchy. She supported herself on the rattan table with one hand while rubbing her eye with the other. Xie Shang looked up and noticed a fine crack along the edge of her glasses.

Xie Shang wiped his hands and took off her glasses.

“Did your eyes get hit too?”

Wen Changling blinked twice, feeling no discomfort, “It doesn’t hurt.”

It must have been when the electric bike fell, hitting the side mirror of the car.

Xie Shang leaned in to look at the corner of her eye, where there was a small scratch. He went to the room to get ointment, washed his hands again, took a bit of the ointment on his finger, and gently blended it before applying.