The Hope You Gave Me: 12-Chasing and fleeing

After the female nurse whispered a few words, Tong Minghao put down his racket and followed her to Min Hui.

"Distant cousin," he held out his hand curiously, "Hello."

Although I have seen the photo, maybe because of the change in hairstyle, the young man in front of me is very different from the Tong Minghao in the photo. He is a little more masculine. a patient.

The only thing different from ordinary people is his eyes.

Min Hui had never seen such a reserved gaze, furtive, flickering, like a mouse. In order to avoid looking directly at people, he shook his head when he spoke, as if trying to find an angle to hide himself.

Then there is always a mysterious smile on his face. It has nothing to do with the content of the conversation and is not at the node. It suddenly appears and disappears like hives...

Min Hui's heart sank, and a bad intuition surged up: This younger brother - I'm afraid it's not easy to get along with.

Delusional patients are more suspicious of strangers and cannot meet rashly. They must be referred by trusted people to eliminate their concerns. So before the meeting, the doctor asked the nurse on duty to say hello to Tong Minghao, and then asked Tong Tianhai to call his son to introduce the "cousin", and finally went out to accompany him in person - just to prevent Tong Haoming from doubting Min Hui's identity .

"You can call me Sister Hui." Min Hui said with a smile.

"Who is this?" He pointed to Xin Qi.

"Sister Hui's fiance." Xin Qi shook hands cordially, "Brother Qi."

"Have we met?" Tong Minghao scratched his head, "My dad never mentioned that I have a cousin before."

"So it's a distant place. We saw each other when we were young, but we haven't had much contact since then. I live in Bencheng." Min Hui kept calm. After many days of practice, she has become very familiar with lying, she said, "Your father is not in good health recently, let us come and take you home."

Doctors and nurses add oil and vinegar to the side.

"Your cousin has been working very hard. In order to pick you up, the train and the car took a total of ten hours." The doctor said.

"Your brother-in-law went out early in the morning and bought you the freshest cantaloupe," the nurse said.

"Then let me pack my luggage." Tong Minghao looked left and right, and finally realized that everyone was urging him to leave the hospital, "Give me ten minutes?"

"Need help?"

"No."

"I'll call the driver." Xin Qi said, "We'll see you at the gate."

"I'll go through the discharge procedures." Min Hui took out her bank card and remembered the doctor's instructions.

***

Everything went well and the three got into a taxi. Xin Qi sat in the front row, Min Hui and Tong Minghao sat in the back.

As soon as the car started, Min Hui felt that Tong Minghao's mood was a little off.

He begins shaking his legs incessantly.

Not the kind of spontaneous shaking caused by fear, but deliberate shaking, as if trying to upset Min Hui who was sitting next to her.

He trembled for about ten minutes, Min Hui pretended not to know, and did not dare to tell Xin Qi who was sitting in front.

In order to be distracted, she took the initiative to chat about some topics that boys like, football, video games, music, current affairs and politics...

Min Hui hates chatting very much. She belongs to the kind of chatting to death in minutes. She decided to fight for Su Tian's younger brother. For the first time in her life, she had a great chat.

Tong Minghao didn't answer, she just chatted awkwardly.

The awkward chat didn't respond. She asked all kinds of questions, from the customs of Mingshui to the price of the market, from the two to Xiaoshenyang. In the end, she felt that she was asking and answering herself - Tong Minghao most often said "um", saying listening.

Soon, Xin Qi also realized that something was wrong and joined the awkward chat team.

Seeing that everyone was talking, the driver felt that he had to say something, so he started talking about local news, talking about history after the news, and talking about specialties after talking about history... It turns out that the driver who can talk most is the driver. When they started talking, everyone fell silent.

At this time, Tong Minghao's legs finally stopped shaking.

Min Hui breathed a sigh of relief, and within five minutes, he began to twist his neck and looked out the window constantly.

"What's the matter?" Min Hui asked, "Did something fall into the hospital?"

"There is a car behind us that has been following us." Tong Minghao lowered his voice, "It has been a long time."

Xin Qi glanced at the car mirror, and there was indeed a black car behind, not one, but a row. This is not surprising, since it is on the road.

The car maintains a normal distance from them.

Before meeting Tong Minghao, the doctor explained to them some ways to deal with delusional patients. The first point is: don't point out that the patient's thinking is wrong. They have no logic at all. For example, if he says he is the son of the President of the United States, you cannot say he is not.

The second point is: You can't pretend that delusion is true, it will only make him more convinced that he is right.

So what Xin Qi did is the third point, neither denying nor affirming, but just asking one or two questions to force him to start logical thinking.

"Is that so? There's a car behind, but I didn't see that it was deliberately following." Xin Qi said, "How did you see that?"

"Because it's a black Mercedes. - That's my big brother's car."

Min Hui's heart skipped a beat: Oops, I'm sick.

Xin Qi then said: "Master Shen, let's drive slowly and let the Mercedes-Benz behind us go first."

The driver immediately slowed down, Mercedes noticed they were slowing, changed lanes, passed, and soon disappeared.

"Look, the tracker is gone." Min Hui handed Tong Minghao a listen to Sprite, "Drink some water?"

"You are wrong. It drove so fast, it wanted to rush to the front to find the ambush site." Tong Minghao started to scratch his neck in a hurry, "There must be a sniper in the car!"

Before Min Hui could react, Tong Minghao suddenly shouted, "Stop! Stop now!"

The driver parked the car on the side of the road. Before it stopped, Tong Minghao opened the door, jumped out of the car, and ran to the grass in front.

The first reaction of the three people in the car was that he wanted to find a convenient place. But soon realized it wasn't, because the grass was so high, he didn't have to run that far.

"Hey—hey! Minghao, wait!"

Min Hui and Xin Qi ran after him.

The sun in July is very dazzling, and when they got off the bus, the two put on sunglasses at the same time.

Min Hui said as she ran, "He walked in a hurry today, maybe he forgot to take his medicine."

"What should I do after I catch him? Continue walking or send it back?" Xin Qi asked.

"Does it have to be caught?"

"Do you think he'll be honest with us?"

"I don't think we can beat Ben!"

Min Hui told the truth. In terms of size, Tong Haoming is comparable to Xin Qi, but in terms of physique, he is much stronger than Xin Qi.

After running on the grass for more than ten minutes, Tong Minghao got into the woods.

After chasing for a while, the two also got into the woods, and Tong Minghao who was in front suddenly stopped.

"Ming Hao!" Min Hui shouted, "Don't run! I'm your cousin!"

"Don't come here!" Tong Minghao shouted, "I know you were sent by the elder brother!"

He continued to say that because the distance was too far, Min Hui could hear the first two sentences clearly and was about to walk forward when Xin Qi grabbed her: "Don't go over, don't scare him."

The two looked at each other and Xin Qi whispered, "Take off your sunglasses."

Min Hui realized that she and Xin Qi were wearing sunglasses, like two secret agents, and hurriedly stuffed the sunglasses into their pockets.

"What should I do?" She was a little anxious. "It's such a big open space, if you run away and lose it, it will be troublesome."

A Su Tian has been missing due to his own fault. After finding Su Tian's younger brother, he can no longer disappear.

"We weren't sent by my eldest brother!" Min Hui raised her hands in surrender and said loudly, "We're here to pick you up. If you don't believe me, you can call the hospital."

"Look! We don't have weapons in our hands." Xin Qi also raised his hands and walked towards him tentatively, "We have no ill intentions. If you are worried, don't go back with us. Tell us where you want to go, We'll walk with you and protect you along the way."

"Ming Hao, there is no one around here, so it's easy to get lost. The three of us will walk together, so we won't get lost." Min Hui moved quietly and took a few steps forward as she spoke, "Listen to me— —”

Before she started speaking, Tong Minghao turned his head and ran.

This time, Min Hui chased after him at full speed like a bullet.

Xin Qi had no choice but to keep up, with doubts in his heart: "Isn't it possible to chase like this? He will think that we are really sent by the big brother."

"I know it won't work, but I have no choice." Min Hui panted, "It's hard to find him, and it must not be lost. Otherwise, neither the hospital nor his father will be able to explain it!"

"I'll call the hospital and ask me what to do." Xin Qi took out his phone to dial while running, looked at the screen, and scolded, "FXXK, no signal."

"He's over there, I'm chasing him, you flank." Min Hui pointed to the red shadow in the distance, and said decisively, "Stop him—"

She wanted to say, and stopped him in the woods, but suddenly there was the sound of water running in front of her.

Min Hui was startled, and after running a few steps forward, she found that there was a river in front of her.

"Block him by the river." She dropped the words and chased after him. Xin Qi turned and ran in the other direction.

Min Hui ran at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, and soon caught up with Tong Minghao by the river, and the distance between the two was getting closer and closer. Tong Minghao suddenly turned around and ran towards a wooden bridge next to him.

Min Hui caught up without thinking, and just ran up the wooden bridge when she heard a "thump" sound, and Tong Minghao jumped into the water.

She jumped without thinking.

The water is crystal clear, not deep, only two people tall at most. The water flow is so slow that there is not even a single wave, and you can't feel it flowing if you don't look carefully.

It wasn't until she entered the water that Min Hui remembered that she couldn't swim.

Strangely, this time, she didn't panic, she made two strokes forward in a dog-style stroke, and the movement was wrong, and a mouthful of water went straight into her lungs. Now she was a little panicked, her hands and feet were thrown together, her balance was disturbed, her body slanted, and she immediately sank.

She suddenly thought, it's good to die now.

At first, she wanted to die, but Su Tian was implicated if she didn't die. Now that her life is worth her life, there is no need to feel guilty. Second, it's too tiring to act like this. Without a script, the plot line and characters can't hold up. It's better to die than to be difficult to explain.

After choking a few more sips of water, her mind stopped turning a bit. At this moment, one hand turned her body over in the water, exposing her head to the surface of the water. Min Hui wanted to breathe, but her nose was full of water, so the man simply lifted half of her body out of the water from behind.

Now I can see clearly, it's Xin Qi.

She told herself that this time she could never hold on to people again. Dead pulled down. So he didn't move his limbs, just obediently opened his mouth to breathe, and felt his body fall back into the water, and quickly stood up. Xin Qi grabbed her collar with one hand and paddled her to the shore with the other.

He carried her to the grass and patted her on the back hard, forcing her to spit out the choked water.

After vomiting a few times, she felt better and quickly asked, "Where's Tong Minghao? Is he in the water too? Go and save him!"

"He can swim." Xin Qi helped her up and sat up, "But what about you? Not only do you not remember swimming, but also the instinct to survive? What's the matter, you are stupid when you get into the water? Besides— —”

He didn't go on. Because Min Hui stared at him with wide eyes, all of a sudden, tears welled up.

"I'm sorry I was wrong, you're not stupid, I'm stupid..." Seeing her cry, Xin Qi stuttered.

Min Hui recalled the night on the Mushui River and couldn't help but sob in a low voice.

"Hey... It's alright, it's alright, I'm here." Xin Qi comforted softly, "You choke on a lot of water, I have to take you to the hospital. There is a paper mill in the upper reaches of this river, you guess. If you drink a whole pot of industrial waste water, it will be troublesome if your lungs are infected..."

"Leave me alone, Xin Qi, hurry up and find Tong Minghao, we can't leave him behind." She looked around and saw a red shadow in the distance crawling from the water to the opposite bank, running in a farther direction .

She wanted to stand up, but her legs became weak for a while. She looked down and found that she was barefoot, and her sandals had probably fallen into the river, so she took Xin Qi's hand and begged, "Go, go! !”

"In the wilderness, you're a girl again, I can't leave you here." Xin Qi shook his head, "If your brother runs away, let him run away, a big man can't starve to death, sober up. Will come back to us."

"No, not really, Xin Qi—"

He frowned and looked at her, making sure she was serious, and finally nodded: "Wait for me here."

***

After half an hour, Xin Qi finally brought Tong Minghao back.

To prevent another escape, he tied his hands with the belt.

Both had bruises on their faces and blood on their arms and palms.

Min Hui hurriedly walked over: "You guys fought? Are you all right?"

"It's okay. Fortunately, I caught him," Xin Qi hissed deeply. "This kid has a knife."

He pulls a large folding fruit knife from his pocket.

"Isn't it hurting you?" She touched the wound on his arm, there were a few scratches, not serious.

"No. It was just a fight." Xin Qi turned his wrist and smiled, "Since I left you, I have never fought again, I thought I forgot. No, the memories are all there. In the muscles!"

As I spoke, I hugged her hard, and kissed her face again: "How about you, is it better? Does your chest hurt? Do you have a cough?"

She looked at him and shook her head.

"Let's go, I'll carry you."

"It's fine, I can go."

"You have no shoes."

She took two steps barefoot, and he was forcibly dragged onto her back, carrying it up.

Min Hui has never been carried by a man like this, especially in front of another man, her face flushed instantly.

"So...she's really your fiancée?" Seeing them being so affectionate, Tong Minghao looked confused, "Or...you two have not completed your mission, so you have to continue acting?"

"Follow us honestly, don't think about running away." Xin Qi glared at him, "Your knife is on me."

The three walked back in the woods with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Min Hui was embarrassed to let Xin Qi carry her on his back, but Xin Qi refused to let her go to the ground.

"Xin Qi, let me down. You rescued me in the river just now, had another fight with Ming Hao, and now you're carrying me on your back - can your heart take it?"

"If you can't take it, you're already dead."

"...I can really go, not so squeamish."

"Then you will be squeamish."

“…”