Tomboy - Chapter 73

    Li Mingzhu treated him as air, did not give him a single glance, and walked straight into the house.

    Li Chen said, “Pearl!”

    Li Mingzhu took the key to open the door and did not intend to respond to Li Chen.

    It was not the first time that Li Chen went to her downstairs to look for her. In addition to the meeting that night, he also came several times one after another, and quietly inquired about the situation at Li Mingzhu’s home, She brought some precious things.

    But Li Chen could see the things he sent in the garbage dump downstairs the next day – he was a hundred meters away from him.

    Li Mingzhu seemed particularly ruthless towards him.

    At first, Li Chen thought that he was not a good brother. He ignored her for more than ten years, which hurt Li Mingzhu’s heart.

    He had no rights when he was young, and he was a wiser underage when he was young, and his parents kept everything from him about Li Mingzhu. Li Chen secretly looked for Li Mingzhu back then—he looked for it in City B, like looking for a needle in a haystack.

    In the past few years, Li Wenlin’s body has been declining day by day, and the open and secret battles between several old members of the board of directors have become more and more fierce.

    In such a dark day, Li Chen turned around and bumped into Li Mingzhu.

    It’s a pity that all the brother and sister recognizing scenes he imagined did not happen.

    On the night when Li Chen confirmed that Li Mingzhu was Li Wenlin’s illegitimate daughter, he also thought about bringing Li Mingzhu to the board of directors in the future, so that he could teach her things little by little, and make blood ties as a link The cooperation with him is much stronger than that of the old thing that eats people and doesn’t spit out bones when he faces the board alone.

     Ideas are always good.

    Li Mingzhu doesn’t look like she can enter the board of directors.

    Not to mention joining the board of directors, it is a big problem to recognize his brother who fell from the sky.

    Li Chen scoured some futile ideas from friends all over the world not long ago.

    A group of directors, executive directors and other business buddies who are not too big to watch the fun give him advice: girl, if you buy her, she will be happy immediately.

     

    Li Chen said ‘my little sister’s personality is not too soft’ ten thousand times, and everyone laughed and said: If there is any woman who is not soft, it is a means of playing hard to escape and acting like a spoiled child! My little niece is like that!

    Li Chen replied with a blank face: Does your little niece threaten you to set off firecrackers on your father’s coffin, and kill you if you don’t go out of her house, take the fists you picked up on the ground Did a big rock hit you?

    Everyone:…

    Therefore, Li Chen has not made any substantial progress so far.

    He is now – as long as he appears downstairs in Li Mingzhu’s house, Li Mingzhu treats him as air.

    Li Chen thought: There is progress, he used to throw me stones, at least he just ignores me now.

    He grew up as an only child, and was very interested in his younger brother and sister, a demonic creature that others disliked and feared.

    Li Chen’s mother was an arrogant woman, rigid and stubborn, and made things difficult for Li Wenlin in every possible way. The husband and wife lived on thin ice.

      His drab childhood adds a touch of color.

    —However, my sister is more withdrawn.

    Li Chen’s brows twitched, he didn’t know if this was a sibling relationship or a blood blind date…

    Before Li Mingzhu closed the door, Li Chen quickly held the door.

    “Pearl, let’s talk.”

    Li Mingzhu looked at him darkly, took out her mobile phone, quickly pressed the alarm number, and shook the mobile phone display in front of him.

     “Go, if you don’t go, I’ll call the police.”

    Li Chen was helpless, “Pearl, I just came to see you.” He quickly found the crux of the problem, “Last time, I was too impulsive. Let’s not talk about Dad’s affairs for the time being.”

    Li Mingzhu slammed the door shut.

    Li Chen touched his nose and said in his heart: …this temper!

    Li Chen came a few times later, and each time he came and returned in disappointment. Li Mingzhu did not give him any face, which made Li Chen feel that his life safety was seriously affected every time he came. threat.

    The second half of the second semester of high school passed very quickly. Lu Yao came back during the mid-term exam, and left after reading for two days.

    Before he returned, the forum, which had been silent for half a year, finally came alive, and Lu Yao’s photo appeared on the entire homepage for a while.

    Previous posts discussing what Lu Yao was doing came one after another, and they followed hundreds of floors in full swing.

    On the two days when Lu Yao came back, Li Mingzhu happened to be out for a match.

    The results of the last provincial competition came out, and Li Mingzhu lived up to the expectations, and the school immediately arranged the follow-up international competition.

    Province No. 1 Middle School produced such a single seedling, and they had to arrange a separate company of teachers for Li Mingzhu to teach.

    Lu Yao missed time with her.

    The young master complained and lost his temper on the phone. He asked where Li Mingzhu was.

    Li Mingzhu had already landed at the airport in City B at this time. Lu Yao and her were separated by 108,000 miles. The international competition and the provincial competition were completely different. They are all outstanding teenagers from various countries, and the pressure of competition can be imagined.

    Li Mingzhu naturally wouldn’t agree to Lu Yao’s request casually, it’s useless to let Lu Yao play tricks.

    As a result, the two did not see each other very much throughout the second half of the second half of high school.

    Lu Yao finished the phone call outside the training room and dropped his phone, “Damn it! I’m not practicing anymore!”

    Fang Tian heard the sound.

    “What’s the matter, my dear Didi, if you have any troubles, just tell Greg, Greg will settle everything for you!”

    —The members of the dog-legged training room are shameless.

    Fang Tian didn’t pay attention to Lu Yao for a day or two. Once when Lu Yao hadn’t come to the training camp, the team’s profiteer manager would talk about Lu Yao when he was okay, the team The team also gave Fang Tian a special emoji: I will get you sooner or later.jpg

    Now Lu Yao doesn’t know what method he used, he really tricked people into the training camp!

    After Lu Yao came, Fang Tian naturally cared for him, no matter the details, for fear of letting Lu Yao run away.

    If there is any trouble in Lu Yao, this thing can float over eight hundred miles away.

    “Aiya, don’t be angry, don’t be angry, life is a show because of fate…” Fang Tian skillfully recited the three-character classic when he faced sponsors.

    Lu Yao pushed him away, “Don’t bother me.”

    Fang Tian: “Why, are you frustrated in love? Seeing your appearance, did you call Li Ming?”

    Lu Yao turned around awkwardly, went to the tea and took a cup of herbal tea.

    “I’m going back to school to see her.”

    The radar on Fang Tian’s head rose in an instant.

    “Go back? Where to go? Back to school? I’ve arranged everything for you. You only need to pretend to study for two days this semester!”

    “I’m going back now.” Lu Yao stubbornly said.

    His young master became angry, and there was nothing he could do to call Fang Tian, ​​a ‘MLM leader’ who used one mouth as ten mouths.

    “Aren’t you, Yaoyao, I have arranged the press conference before the summer game, you’re running away at this time, it’s too disrespectful to brother!” Fang Tian looked desperate.

    Lu Yao sat back in the chair, sulking.

    Fang Tian rolled his eyes and immediately assumed the appearance of a close brother, sitting beside him and comforting.

    “Other people can’t run in school, what are you anxious about, will a big living person still evaporate?”

    “Yaoyao, see if you have to learn to grow up, let me tell you, this relationship can’t be too sticky, stick together every day, you will get tired, you know what is tired Well, they just hate each other.”

    “You look like you, what’s your name… er, Xiao Biesheng’s newlyweds?”

    Lu Yao frowned, “See you later…” He widened his eyes, “How do you know my relationship with him?!”

    Fang Tian: …Aren’t you talking nonsense? You look like a widow all day long, can you do this to your ordinary friend!

    Fang Tian: “I guess.”

    He said, “Now I know.”

    Lu Yao didn’t show any guilty conscience when he was discovered. He said of course, “When will the press conference be finished, I will go back to H city to lie down.”

     Before Fang Tian spoke, his words were truncated.

    Mai Xiaomi from the technical department held a loudspeaker and shouted in the office 100 meters away, “Lu Yao! Your account is ready! Come and get a name!”

    Fang Tian replied with a black line on his face, “Would you **** take two more steps and say it will kill you!”

    Mai Xiaomi: “Can’t you hear me?”

    “…heard.”

    “Then what am I doing here?” Mai Xiaomi turned up the loudspeaker two tones, “Lu Yao, hurry up, but I’m calling the alarm!”

    Mai Xiaomi’s loudspeaker also has the function of pulling the air defense alarm. This person can’t be called twice, and he immediately raises the alarm shamelessly. ‘ screeching sound.

    Fang Tian pushed Lu Yao, “Hurry over, don’t let her pull up that alarm! If possible, confiscated her loudspeaker!”

    Lu Yao went to the entrance of the technical department and saw Mai Xiaomi wearing work clothes, with messy hair, thick glasses at the bottom of the wine bottle hanging on his face, holding coffee, kicking his long legs, and controlling the pulley seat ‘Whoosh’ slid to the front of the computer desktop.

    Lu Yao:…

    “You’re too lazy to do it.”

    Mai Xiaomi, “My dream is that human beings can one day acquire the skills of hibernation.”

    She turned on the computer, “Come and see, how is the configuration of this swordsman.”

    Lu Yao glanced at it, his eyes lit up.

    “Nice.”

    He pushed Mai Xiaomi away, took a stool and sat down.

    “The equipment is OK, have you added skill points?”

    “Wait for you to add it by yourself. If you have a name, choose a name first.” Mai Xiaomi finished two or three sips of coffee.

    Lu Yao pondered for a while in front of the computer… surrendered.

    “I can’t think of a name.”

    “Call me whatever you want, but I said in advance that this is the account you use for the competition. Don’t use any random names, the league will not pass.” Mai Xiaomi rarely said this at one time In a long sentence, “Take your name and choose something meaningful. I think everyone else does it this way.”

    Lu Yao listened, touched his chin and thought for a while.

     Mai Xiaomi said, “Isn’t that Fang Tian telling you to debut and sell rotten season team, you can just make him some CP name!”

    Lu Yao:…

    “Let me see, the season team’s game account is the sea for the water, the sea, the sea…” Mai Xiaomi opened the phone, and while he was talking, he searched on Baidu. The first thing that popped up in the search was Li Shangyin’s ancient poem, Mai Xiaomi recites, “The moon in the sea has tears, the blue field is warm and the jade is smoke…”

    She slapped her thigh, “Why don’t you just call it stir-fried lentils!”

    Lu Yao:…

    “What the **** are you thinking?”

     Stir-fried lentils have something to do with this poem? ? ?

    Lu Yao muttered, put his hands on the keyboard, and typed in the words ‘Ming Yue Huan Zhu’.

    Mai Xiaomi came over and said, “Yo, the name is quite literary and suitable for our Cang Shui team.”

    She winked, “What’s the point, you really plan to believe Fang Tian’s nonsense and fire CP with the season team?”

    Lu Yao: “Go away!”

    After he finished choosing the name, he walked out the door, remembering the name that her mother called Li Mingzhu confusedly the first time he went back to Li Mingzhu’s house.

    Lu Yao said in her heart: If Li Ming is really a woman, this name would be very pleasant.

    He thought again: What secret did Li Ming want to tell me last time? Will she forget?

    Lu Yao just hung up Li Mingzhu’s phone, now thinking of her, she can’t help but want to call back.

    Lu Yao thought: What secret is she going to tell me?

    Fang Tian shouted at the end of the corridor, “Yaoyao, what are you dragging! You have a baby there!”

    Mai Xiaomi responded rudely with a loudspeaker: “What are you urging, are you rushing to reincarnate in Lu Yao’s stomach! What a hurry!”

    Lu Yao covered his ears, “Come on, keep your horn away from me, my ears are broken.”

    Mai Xiaomi kicked the floor with her feet and fell back with her strength, and her multifunctional roller skating office chair took her back to the computer desk.

    After watching the full operation of Lu Yao:…

    Back in the training room, Fang Tian hooked his shoulder and asked, “Come on, tell me what your name is.”

    Lu Yao said, “The moon returns to the pearl.”

    “What a good name!” Fang Tian shouted, “The bright moon is a pearl, the sea is water, not bad, not bad, far away, I didn’t expect you to say no, your body is so good!”

    Lu Yao was expressionless, “I don’t…”

    He wanted to say that I don’t engage in foundation, but when he thought of Li Mingzhu, he was suddenly unsure, turned a corner and said, “…I will engage in foundation with Ji Xinran.”

    “I didn’t let you guys do it! Sell rot, add a little…”

    Lu Yao sneered: “Go away.”

    He picked up the phone and was about to call Li Mingzhu again.

    Fang Tian kept talking for a long time and found that Lu Yao didn’t listen at all.

    He said, “Oh, don’t ignore me! Who are you calling?”

    “Li Ming.”

    The other party didn’t answer the phone, Lu Yao hung up angrily, opened Alipay directly, and bought a high-speed rail ticket.

    The destination is: H city.

    Fang Tian immediately confiscated his phone.

    “Stop joking, Yaoyao, the press conference is imminent, what do you want to do!”

    Although Lu Yao is self-willed, he is not in a situation where there is no priority. He is just angry, but Li Mingzhu does not answer his call, nor does he come to S City to find him, the two are obviously only separated by one and a half Hours away, Li Mingzhu still refused to take a step forward.

    Of course, in the end, Lu Yao did not go back.

    At the end of July and the beginning of August, Lu Yao officially joined the team after more than half a year of training.

    His withdrawal procedure was handled by Fang Tian, ​​and in the afternoon of the same day, the press conference was held as scheduled.

    A news report hall in S city was blocked by the media.

    At the same time, Li Mingzhu, who was sitting in the classroom for exams in the hot summer, received a call from Aunt Wang who had been taking care of Su Tianyu.

    Auntie Wang is a typical stingy middle-aged woman. Usually, she never calls Li Mingzhu if there is no major event, but sends a hundred text messages every month.

    She called and Li Mingzhu just finished the exam and walked out of the classroom.

    Aunt Wang said eagerly on the other end of the phone, “Li Ming, your mother seems to be in something wrong. Do you want to go to the hospital?”

    Li Mingzhu took a step, stabilized Aunt Wang on the phone, packed her schoolbag and rushed home immediately.

    When she arrived at the house, Aunt Wang half-armed Su Tianyu, this middle-aged woman had no opinion and looked at Li Mingzhu at a loss.

    “I didn’t do it, I don’t know what happened to her, she was feeding her food, she rolled her eyes while she was eating, spit out all the food, and vomited I am all…”

    Su Tianyu’s situation looks really scary, paralyzed in Aunt Wang’s arms, twitching and twitching.

    Li Mingzhu calmly said, “Go to the hospital.”

    She decisively lifted Su Tianyu up from the bed. Since Su Tianyu has been in bed, she has eaten very little in the past few years, and she was thin to a handful of bones. Li Mingzhu held her lightly, like Holding an expensive rag doll.

    Aunt Wang went downstairs and pushed out her electric tricycle. Li Mingzhu put Su Tianyu on the car with a quilt and a thick cotton pad under her body. let go.

    “Aunt Wang, go to the subway station, I’ll go back to get the money, you take my mother to the subway station to wait for me.”

    Aunt Wang didn’t dare to delay, the electric tricycle drove so fast, Li Mingzhu’s palms were sweaty, and when she got upstairs, she turned out the money.

    There are two places where she puts money.

    One is for living expenses and the other is for Su Tianyu to buy a wheelchair.

    Li Mingzhu took it with her and went to the subway station.

    Cars like the alley in front of their house can’t get in. If you want to call a car, you have to go to the subway station to call a car.

    Li Mingzhu stopped a taxi and helped Su Tianyu into the car.

    The driver was shocked when he saw Su Tianyu like this, “What’s wrong with her?”

    Li Mingzhu said, “City Hospital.”

    Li Mingzhu was reluctant to answer, she grabbed Su Tianyu’s hands tightly, this scrawny, twitching woman fell into her arms, and even Li Mingzhu’s body trembled.

    She spoke in a trembling voice, and Li Mingzhu warned her dryly: “The money I saved is for you to buy a wheelchair, not for you to die.”

    Li Mingzhu thought to herself: You have endured for so many years, you cannot die before I agree.

    Su Tianyu was ill at a good time, just missed the evening rush hour, around 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the ring road was very smooth.

    The driver held the steering wheel nervously, turning his head to look at Su Tianyu from time to time, as if he had never seen a patient.

    When Li Mingzhu was in a turmoil, Lu Yao’s voice suddenly sounded outside the car, causing her to be shocked.

    She looked up, the car was waiting for the traffic light, and the LED screen above the opposite building was broadcasting the Cang Shui team’s newcomer conference live.

    There were two newcomers who debuted in the same period, breaking the youngest age in the history of the professional circle and becoming the two youngest players to debut.

    A girl with bright eyes, wearing a Cang Shui team uniform.

    One is Lu Yao, he is also wearing a team uniform, his beautiful face is not discounted in front of the camera, just putting it on the LED attracts a lot of young girls below .

    Li Mingzhu could even hear the crowd chatting and discussing the newcomers of Cang Shui.

    “This is a newcomer to this year’s team. He looks so handsome. Is it really good for e-sports players to look so handsome!”

    “Cangshui’s rumor of looking at new recruits is actually true???”

    “The two newcomers this year are so young, Cang Shui is actually recruiting female players… God! Is there any prohibition on puppy love in the team rules?”

    “I won’t fry any CPs in the future. I can’t stand it. Handsome players should share resources…”

    The voice of the discussion was high and low, pouring into Li Mingzhu’s ears.

    She listened, indifferent, until the green light came on and the car moved forward, leaving these voices behind.

    Li Mingzhu arrived at the city hospital and rushed Su Tianyu to the emergency room.

    She sat from day to night, and it was only near midnight that the hospital diagnosed her with a blunt name: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

    In other words, this disease is also called ‘gradual freezing disease’.

    Li Mingzhu doesn’t know much about the main cause of this disease, but she has vaguely heard it somewhere, and she has heard some bad news.

    Her brain emptied for a moment, and subconsciously asked the doctor, “Can it be cured?”

    “It can be cured, but the chance is very small.” The doctor replied routinely, “There is no good medical conditions in China for the time being. We suggest that if you have sufficient economic conditions, you can choose overseas treatment.”

    “I can’t go abroad.” She calmed down, “How much can you do in China?”

    The doctor has probably never seen such a child. It is surprising to hear that his mother is suffering from such a terminal illness and can still stabilize her emotions.

    He was a little surprised, “Do your best.”

    Li Mingzhu said, “Do you want to be hospitalized?”

    The doctor swiped a few strokes, and the order was filled with flying and flamboyant dance.

     “Go and pay, and a nurse will take you to the inpatient department in a while.”

     After Li Mingzhu paid the money, Su Tianyu was pushed out of the emergency room by the nurse and sent to the inpatient department.

    The room is 609 on the sixth floor, the innermost one. There are two other patients lying on the bed in the ward, an old man and a child.

    The old man has fallen asleep, with an oxygen mask on his mouth, and the ECG monitor on the head of the bed is beating.

    The child is more sensitive. He was sleeping. After hearing Li Mingzhu come in, he opened his eyes like a cat and looked at the new patient curiously.

    The nurse arranged everything for Su Tianyu, adjusted the speed of the drip, and left the ward.

    Li Mingzhu sat silently at the head of the bed for a while, and the little boy on the next bed opened her mouth timidly.

    “Brother, can you turn off the light, I want to sleep…”

    Li Mingzhu regained her senses, got up and turned off the light, and the room fell into darkness.

    Her heart melted into the darkness.

    Li Mingzhu thinks that her first half of her life has been miserable enough, how can she know that this is an appetizer, when she feels that her life is almost heading for a better future, the hospital will send her back to the quagmire with a blank sheet of paper .

    When the nurse was taking care of Su Tianyu, she quickly went to the Internet to check the information on ALS life.

    Li Mingzhu almost crushed her mobile phone before she restrained her broken emotions. When she was desperate and helpless, she even prayed to the gods.

    The darkness put so much pressure on her shoulders that she couldn’t see any shimmer.

    until her phone lights up.

    Li Mingzhu thought numbly: Well, this is a little light.

    Caller ID: Lu Yao.

    She stared at the name without moving for a while.

    Cangshui’s press conference was held in the afternoon, Lu Yao’s life was slowly set sail, Li Mingzhu thought: I should not answer his phone.

    She stared at the two words on the phone screen, as if to stare out a hole in the screen.

    She hopes that the phone will stay on forever, and she also hopes that it will go out the next moment.

    Reason and emotion were pulling back and forth in Li Mingzhu’s heart. When Lu Yao persevered and made the fifth call, Li Mingzhu answered.

    She thought: **** your life.

    Lu Yao finally waited until Li Mingzhu answered the phone, and before he opened his mouth, he heard Li Mingzhu’s voice ringing in a low voice.

    The voice she seemed to be emitting from her chest, the restrained and forbidding feelings were all hidden in a few short tones.

    “Anything so late?”

    Lu Yao was shocked, and then muttered, “I can’t call you if I’m okay.”

    He said, “Have you seen the press conference, am I handsome today?”

    “I see.” Li Mingzhu said, “It’s okay.”

    “What is it? To be honest, have you been so handsome by me? Have you taken a screenshot?”

    “Stop being too sentimental.”

    The two casually talked about something irrelevant, Lu Yao was talking, and was greatly surprised: Usually she hangs up on me very quickly, why is she so good today?

    In the ward, the inappropriate voice of the little boy sounded again.

    “Brother, can you pour me a glass of water.” He opened his mouth cautiously, for fear that Li Mingzhu would refuse, “My mother is on night shift today and can’t come to the hospital to accompany me, just tonight… “

    The child’s voice was clear, and Lu Yao could hear it clearly.

    His brain buzzed for a while, his words changed the tone, and he said hoarsely, “Are you in the hospital? What are you doing in the hospital so late??”

    Lu Yao seemed to be instantly connected to the second line of Ren and Du, and found the reason why Li Mingzhu was so obedient tonight: she was not at home, she was in the hospital.

    Hospitals are never places for good news.

    Li Mingzhu responded quickly: “Is there nothing to do?”

    Lu Yao raised her voice and shouted in a panic, “Hey! Li Ming! Don’t you hang up on me?! You—”

    Li Mingzhu quickly turned off the phone and poured a glass of water for the child.

    She poured the water and didn’t know what to do, so she hung up Lu Yao’s phone, scratching her heart like ten thousand kittens, grabbed her and asked her to call back.

    If she hadn’t heard Lu Yao’s voice, she might have persevered, and she wouldn’t feel lonely so quickly.

    Li Mingzhu sat down beside the bed, thinking: I really shouldn’t answer the phone.

    She sighed, turned off the light, guarded Su Tianyu, no longer thought about it, and at the same time did not dare to close her eyes for a moment.

    At two o’clock in the morning, she lay on the head of the bed and squinted for a while, and the light sleep brought her a short period of worry-free.

    Unfortunately, this short time was soon interrupted.

    At three o’clock, Li Mingzhu’s ward door was violently pushed open.

    She heard a noise and woke up from her dream in a daze, and saw Lu Yao standing at the door, with the lights in the corridor behind her back, her hair was a little messy, and she was wearing a pajamas under her coat, obviously in a hurry set.

    Li Mingzhu thought: I am dreaming.

    Lu Yao walked in panting and asked, “Why did you hang up!”

    Li Mingzhu is still awake, her eyes are blank, “Aren’t you in S city.”

    Lu Yao was furious, worried that he might wake up others, and lowered his voice, “You hang up the phone halfway through, and you’re in the hospital again, what am I… how can I stay in City S?”

     

    Lu Yao’s words came to an abrupt end.

    The reason was that Li Mingzhu hugged him violently, unexpectedly, trembling uncontrollably in his arms.

    Lu Yao said in her heart: She is shaking like this, why is it so uncomfortable?

    Lu Yao patted her on the back, “Alright, alright, don’t be afraid, I’ll skip work to accompany you.”

    His words exploded in Li Mingzhu’s ears, and after telling her to wander alone for half her life, she finally caught a piece of driftwood.

    The city wall, which she had built for more than ten years, collapsed at this moment.