obsessed with love

Chapter 224 Waiting for Her Downstairs
Qiao Anming sat in the car for a while, feeling more and more depressed.

He is a person who does not give up easily. He has been with Du Ruo for several months. He has been hurt and lingering. He has experienced all the emotional pain in the world. He never believed that she would change her heart so easily, so he turned on the phone again. Dial Du Ruo's number, but the phone is still off.

He was still not reconciled, he had to seek an explanation for everything, so he got out of the car and walked into the alley again.

The alley is narrow and deep, and the cold wind blows on the body from the end of the alley.

He drank some wine at night. Before coming to Tongcheng to entertain clients, he vaguely remembered drinking several glasses of liquor.

Now being blown by the wind for a while, my head hurts more and more, and my mind becomes clearer and clearer.

He had personally heard the sweet conversation between Du Ruo and Mo Youting just now, even if he knocked on the door now, what could he say to her?
Are you boring yourself?
He knew he didn't have the courage.

Then stand downstairs and wait. After Mo Youting returns, he will go upstairs to find Du Ruo.

But Qiao Anming stood in the wind for more than half an hour, the skin on his face gradually became numb from the cold, Mo Youting still did not come downstairs.

Xiao Zhang called to remind him: "Mr. Qiao, where are you? You bought the cigarettes."

"..." Qiao Anming looked up at the lights upstairs, the old residential buildings, and the rusty iron security windows.

Under the moonlight, the spotty lights seem to have heard a "pop-" sound, and one light went out.

Qiao Anming's breathing stopped in time.

Xiao Zhang didn't dare to rush on the other end of the phone, and asked in a breathless voice: "Mr. Qiao, are you going back to Chongzhou tonight? Looking at it today, it seems to be raining again..."

November is low, late autumn, and the rain in changing seasons always comes very fast.

"Mo Youting, hurry up and close the window, it's raining..." Du Ruo was cooking noodles for him in the kitchen, when he saw the curtain being blown by the wind and making noise.

Mo Youting got the order, and went to close the window in a desperate manner.

The windows of the living room and bedroom were stuck tightly, they were old and rusty, and Mo Youting took a lot of effort to close them.

Afterwards, there was lightning and thunder, Du Ruo grabbed the spoon tightly, his heart beating violently.

There were already many raindrops on the window panes. It must have been heavy rain, and it was coming fiercely.

If I remember correctly, it should be the last autumn rain before the winter solstice that year.

The rain was violent, and it poured down, everything was wiped out, feelings, trust, obsession... disappeared overnight.

Qiao Anming was wearing a thin woolen suit, his whole body was soaked, he looked up to look for the light, his eyes were blurred, but he still clearly saw the light turn on again, then dim again.

He knew Du Ruo's habit of leaving a small night light when he slept, but now that the light was dimmed, Mo Youting didn't come downstairs...

I looked at my watch, it was 11:[-] in the evening.

It turned out that she wasn't acting, it was he who had been deceiving himself.

She and Mo Youting are real, there is no place for him, Qiao Anming, by her side!
Xiao Zhang looked for him with an umbrella, and was terrified when he saw Qiao Anming in the rain.

"Mr. Joe..."

The person in the rain didn't move, his tall body was half bent, his clothes were all wet, but his eyes were still staring at the corridor.

Xiao Zhang hurriedly went to hold the umbrella for him. Unfortunately, Xiao Zhang was not tall enough, so he barely moved the umbrella over his head on tiptoe. Because he was close, he could clearly see his expression.

The white light of the street lamp enveloped him, and the rain hit his angular face.

What a pale face, as if it had suffered a huge blow.

"Let's go back to the car."

Qiao Anming finally said a word, his voice became hoarse, Xiao Zhang followed his gaze and glanced at the corridor, it was pitch black.

Du Ruo got up very early the next day, it was only after six o'clock, she dressed and went to the living room to kick Mo Youting's feet.

Mr. Mo curled up on the sofa with the quilt rolled up.

"Get up, don't you have to go to work today?"

"It's still early, let me sleep for a while."

"Then when do you plan to get out? I'm going out for a walk." Du Ruo went to take off his quilt, and Mo Youting snatched the quilt back soon.

"Why are you walking so early?"

"Exercise early, I want to have a natural delivery, so I will go out for a few laps sooner or later."

Du Ruo walked towards the door while talking, and took a thick coat and silk scarf from the hanger.

Du Ruo couldn't fall asleep, so he could only get up reluctantly.

"Okay, okay, wait for me for a while, I'll go with you, and have breakfast outside by the way..."

Most of the residents in the old-fashioned residential area are older people, so it is very lively after six o'clock. The old people start to come downstairs, exercise early, buy vegetables, take a walk...

It rained all night, the air still smelled of earth, and the water stains on the ground were still wet, but the clouds in the morning light were already glowing golden.

"It should be sunny today, but the temperature is a little low. It will be cooler after the autumn rain. It seems that it is really winter." Du Ruo came out and blew the cold wind, and couldn't help shivering. circled around.

Mo Youting took the opportunity to be courteous, and immediately caught up with her and hugged her shoulders from the side.

"Well, it should be warmer like this!" With a playful smile on his face, Du Ruo wanted to fan his restless arms, but unfortunately his skin was as thick as a city wall, Du Ruo had no choice but to let him hug him.

"Where do you go for breakfast? What do you want to eat? Western or Chinese?" He asked all the way, stepping on the morning light and dew.

Du Ruo seemed to be affected by his mood, and replied with a smile: "Anything, what do you want to eat? Xiao Ran doesn't have anything else here, but there are quite a lot of small restaurants. She rented this place because she liked the surrounding restaurants!"

"She can still eat, she's already fat like that."

"Nonsense, don't speak ill of Xiao Ran behind his back!"

"Okay, don't talk, don't talk." Mo Youting stopped talking, and muttered: "But she is indeed a little fat, but you are so thin, be careful of the baby's malnutrition!"

"Why, I've been paying attention to my diet recently..."

"Then what do you want for breakfast? I remember that there is a porridge shop near here. The seafood porridge there is very famous. The chef of the Penglai Mansion opened a joint venture with a friend. I remember that you like seafood, why don't you try it?... "

Laughing and laughing, the lazy winter sun peeked out from the clouds and shone on the windows of a black car at the entrance of the alley.

Qiao Anming sat in the car all night.

He didn't know what he was waiting for, he was always unwilling, and always wanted to wait for a result.

He had misunderstood Du Ruo before, and made her almost give herself up to Pan Wei that time, so he promised her that he would trust her. This time, he had to keep his word, so he sat in the car all night wrapped in wet clothes.

After one night, the rain stopped and the sky cleared.

But Mo Youting walked out of the alley with Du Ruo in his arms, chatted and laughed as if no one else was there, nestled in his arms with his stomach upright, wrapped in a light-colored silk scarf, with a smile on his face, a good complexion, and steady steps , slowly pacing past his car.

This is the result of his waiting all night.

A strong stick, hit down, the heart also died.

"Drive!" The person in the back seat finally spoke, but unfortunately, because he didn't sleep all night, his throat was so hoarse that he couldn't make out the original voice.

Xiao Zhang also saw Du Ruo passing by outside the window, and instantly understood.

"Mr. Qiao, would you like to get out of the car and talk to Miss Du?"

"No, let's drive."

"Mr. Qiao, I think..."

"Drive! Don't you understand?" He scolded in a high-pitched voice, and suddenly coughed violently.

Seeing his decadent appearance, Xiao Zhang couldn't bear it, so he turned around and leaned over: "Mr. Qiao, you have caught a cold, do you want to buy medicine for you?"

"drive!"

He had to leave here immediately, not wanting to stay for a second.

Now that his woman is being held in the arms of other men, Qiao Anming can only feel the disgust and disgust in his chest, and his stomach starts to hurt.

The car finally drove out, passing Du Ruo and Mo Youting without stopping.

Because the heater was turned on in the car all night and the temperature outside the car was low, a layer of white mist was covered on the window glass. Qiao Anming sat in the back seat and passed Du Ruo without turning around.

His belly was already big, and he was wearing a black overcoat. His figure was printed on the glass, blurred by the fog.

It was so hard, Qiao Anming didn't know whether it was a stomachache or a heartache, the trousers on his knees were pulled into pieces by him, and cold sweat came out of his forehead... Finally, he couldn't help it when he left the city.

"Xiao Zhang, pull over and stop the car, and buy me a box of painkillers."

The first thing Qiao Anming did when he returned to Chongzhou was to call the lawyer.

They made an appointment to meet in his office, and the two talked for a whole morning. They didn't answer the phone, and the outsiders didn't see each other. All the subordinates were turned away, as if they were talking about something important.

Before the end of get off work, the secretary knocked on the door and went in. At that time, the lawyer had already left, and only Qiao Anming was left in the empty office.

The large electric curtains were all opened, and he stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows with a depressed back.

"Mr. Qiao, it's getting late, do you want to order dinner for you?"

"No, get off work, I'll be back soon!" He turned around from the window, only then did the secretary realize that he was holding half a cigarette in his hand, and the cold air smelled of tobacco.

Turning around again, the bright neon lights and buildings are still in front of me.

He was standing on the roof of Shengan's 40-storey building.

The foundation created in half his life, he was almost ready to give up because of a boring relationship.

How ridiculous, he threw Jiangshan out so recklessly, but she didn't want it.

Since she doesn't want it, don't blame him for being cruel!

Qiao Anming fell ill after returning home that day. He was very sick and haggard. He had a cold at first, and then he had a fever. The cough has not been good. The doctor told him to rest, but he didn't listen.

"At the end of the year, the company has a lot of things to do. Let's talk about it after a while. It's okay. A little cold is fine..."

He used work as an excuse to avoid Gu Lan and Ren Peiyin, and he moved directly to the guest bedroom on the grounds that he was afraid of infecting Gu Lan with a cold.

Jiang Lei returns to the Chongzhou headquarters every week for regular meetings and reports on his work.

Qiao Anming's sick and worried face could be seen by any of his subordinates, and Jiang Lei was no exception.

"Mr. Qiao, my sister said that you have not been in good health recently, and your complexion is really bad. Why don't you go back and rest for a few days."

"No, I don't have the heart to rest at home during the peak season of health care products at the end of the year." Qiao Anming answered while reading the documents, covering his mouth with his fists and coughing lightly from time to time.

It's December, and the weather is a bit cold, but Qiao Anming's office is very heated, but he is still wrapped in a heavy coat, and there are several open medicine boxes next to the folder.

He looked sick and haggard, Jiang Lei couldn't bear to look at it.

Qiao Anming didn't speak, just read the documents quietly, and the office was quiet.

After a long time, he raised his head and signed a few words under the document submitted by Jiang Lei.

"The plan is not good, the analysis of the target market is not clear, go back and ask the planning department to do it again, and besides..." Qiao Anming coughed a few more times, drank a little warm water before continuing: "Besides, I will not participate in the Tongcheng annual meeting. There are too many things to do, and the itinerary If you can’t arrange it, you can arrange it.”

"Over there at the base, Mr. Xiao called me today..." Jiang Lei still had something to add, but seeing that Qiao Anming's cough was getting worse, he shut his mouth.

He took the document and flipped through it a few times. There was Qiao Anming's comments on the document, so he flipped to the last one.

The last one was Du Ruo's resignation application, which he actually signed.

"Mr. Qiao, do you agree with Du Ruo's resignation?"

"It's all signed, you can hand it over to the personnel department, the rules can't be broken."

"But before you...?" Jiang Lei didn't understand this man more and more.

Qiao Anming raised his head slowly, and a smile suddenly appeared on his solemn face just now: "Before? I didn't think carefully about some things before, but she is now pregnant, and she is a little sensitive about the termination of the contract. You'd better ask the HR department to consult. On the legal side..."

The words were not clear, and Jiang Lei didn't understand.

Qiao Anming also saw his confusion, and explained clearly by himself: "Don't you understand? I mean let the HR department follow the rules, but the country has protection measures for pregnant women. If there is a dispute, then wait until the child is born." I will terminate the contract with her later, if it is not involved, then do it as soon as possible."

A few days before the due date, Du Ruo received a call from the personnel department, informing her that the leader had agreed to her resignation.

She was excited for a moment, as if she was free.

In the afternoon, I went to the company to go through the resignation procedures.

The kind personnel commissioner also advised her.

"Why are you in such a hurry to leave? At least you can leave after receiving the maternity benefits. Mr. Jiang explained, whether to leave now or for a few months, it's up to you."

"No, I'd better go through the formalities now." Du Ruo filled out the form seriously, packed things, and handed over the assets...

She couldn't wait, Qiao Anming was finally willing to "let go", so she completed the procedures with urgency and pain.

When Du Ruo came out of the company, he seemed to be exhausted, his legs and feet were weak, and his back was full of sweat.

She knows what it means to quit.

Mo Youting said before: "If one day you leave Sheng'an, you won't even have the chance to see him again."

Finally struggling to this point, as she wished, she completely left Sheng'an and Qiao Anming's life!

The road was still bustling and noisy, and Du Ruo was standing at the bus stop waiting for the bus.

Mo Youting called: "Du Ruo, aren't you home? I bought you some desserts, where have you been?"

"I'm at the door of the company, I'm here to resign..."

"Qiao Anming agrees with you to leave? Why is your voice wrong, are you crying?"

Are you crying?
Du Ruo touched his cheek with his hand, and sure enough, he felt wet and cool liquid.

She hasn't cried for a long time.

"Du Ruo, talk! Did something happen? Stand there and wait for me, I'll pick you up."

"No, I still have some things to deal with in the afternoon. I'll take a taxi back and treat you to dinner at night. Also, I didn't cry, so you don't need to worry..."

After she finished speaking, she hung up the phone, turned around and took another look at Sheng'an Building.

In the middle of the year, Qiao Anming repainted the exterior wall of the building. It used to be an old dark gray paint, but now it has been completely replaced with a tall curtain wall.

The luster of the metal, the noon sun refracts on it, and the light shines on people.

She took out her mobile phone and called Zheng Xiaoran.

"Xiao Ran, I resigned."

"...Is it really going like this? What should we do in the future?"

"I don't know, how are you doing in Yi County? How's the weather over there? Is the air good?"

……

Farewell means a new beginning, she swung a knife to cut off all ties with Shengan, she just wanted to return to the original point cleanly.

During this period of time, Zhou Lang called Du Ruo several times. He is really a competent obstetrician, and he always urged Du Ruo to go for a check-up.

She was perfunctory again and again, and today just had time, so she went to the previous private hospital for a prenatal checkup.

The nurse who took the blood pressure glanced at the obstetric examination booklet she brought, flipped forward, it was blank, then flipped forward, it was still blank.

"Has it been a long time since you came for a checkup?"

Du Ruo felt a little ashamed, she was an incompetent mother.

"I've been too busy recently, so I haven't come here."

"Busy? Can busyness be an excuse? Is it important to be busy or the child? According to the number of months you have, you must come for a check-up once a week. When is the due date?" The nurse's tone was not very good, and she was impatient, asking a lot of questions in succession.

Du Ruo was wronged, and replied embarrassingly: "The expected date of delivery is mid-December."

"The specific time!"

"November 12!"

The nurse looked up in surprise from the front of the booklet: "The due date is a week away. When was your last check-up? Did you miss a lot of items? Have you done Tang Screening? What about urine routine? Oh my god...how can you be like this?" Irresponsible mother!"

The little nurse scolded, making Du Ruo feel guilty.

After finally coping with it, I started to do a full set of examinations according to the nurse's procedure: weight measurement, blood pressure measurement, abdominal circumference, uterine fundus height, fetal heart rate monitoring, urine routine test...

After a quick check, fortunately all the indicators were normal.

"The fetus is developing well, and the pelvis is well measured. How are you going to give birth?" The obstetrician smiled a little more than the little nurse, and Du Ruo replied firmly: "I want to have a normal delivery."

"There is nothing wrong with a natural delivery, but you are underweight and malnourished leading to anemia."

"Anemia?" Du Ruo asked worriedly, "Will it affect the fetus?"

"It doesn't have a big impact on the child. It's just that pregnancy anemia must avoid prolonged labor, otherwise the mother will be in danger, and postpartum blood must be paid in advance. Otherwise, I'll prescribe some folic acid and compound tablets for you. You take it on time. I hope it will be a little bit better." effect……"

The final result can be imagined.

Du Ruo returned with a large bag of pills, which were expensive.

She is in this line of work, and she knows some tricks, but it's just a doctor who tricks people into buying medicine to earn kickbacks!
How black is the pharmaceutical industry, drug dealers are the worst!
A drug dealer with a black heart and a black lung, who only cheated the working people out of their money, Du Ruo was carrying that big bag of medicines, cursing as he walked, suddenly thinking of Qiao Anming...

Qiao Anming had a meeting in the afternoon, but he kept sneezing and coughing, and his whole body felt hot and cold.

The meeting was expected to last for four hours, and he couldn't hold it until five o'clock. His forehead was sweating, and his face was completely pale.

Knowing that he was not in good health recently, Peng Yuchu saw that his face was getting uglier, so he ended the meeting on his own initiative.

The company has an infirmary, and Qiao Anming was "held up" by Peng Yuchu to take his temperature. It was 39 degrees 9, with shadows in his lungs, suspected of pneumonia.

(End of this chapter)