Chapter 55: Jiang Qi caught a cold
After the bath, Jiang Qi stayed in the living room to watch TV while waiting for Ke Yan to come back. While he was watching, suddenly he felt a little bit cold, so he went to the kitchen to drink a cup of hot water.
I shouldn't be catching a cold, right. When you think about it, should be impossible ba. It's not easy to get sick and it’s not like when you said you’ll catch a cold, you would be so unlucky it would come true, ba.
Shaking his head in denial, Jiang Qi continue to watch TV. After a while he totally forgot all about it.
But who said it was not easy to catch a cold. Sometimes things happen for no reason and when it want to come it will come.
Where is this? Jiang Qi sat on the ground and looked at the large green meadow in front of him. Shouldn't he been sleeping just now? How come he would suddenly appeared right here.
Jiang Qi stood up and looked around. Ke Yan? Wasn't he was lying right next to him? Why was he not here?
Since he cannot find Ke Yan, Jiang Qi make a decision to walk ahead. Maybe by walking he can find him. So, Jiang Qi walk and walk but no matter how he moves in front of him still the same green colour meadow. He cannot see anything beyond this place he just woke up to.
Jiang Qi was a little panicked, but he immediately calmed down and keep on walking. Sadly, even if he continue to walk, he still couldn’t get out from the eternal loop and see the other end. Jiang Qi was so tired that he sat on the ground. Why am I so tired ah... and so... thirsty.
But the longer he sat, the harder for him to breathe. So he stood back and take a deep, deep breath. Suddenly he seems to see a person not far away and he quickly ran towards him. As he grew nearer he saw that person was actually his Ke Yan.
With delight, Jiang Qi rushed towards Ke Yan but suddenly his foot step on an empty air and he fell right into the water.
At the moment when he was falling , Jiang Qi’s heart was still thinking how fortunate he is since he knew how to swim. So he shouldn’t be afraid of being drowned. But soon he was once again panicked, because he found that he couldn’t swim at all and slowly sank into the water. As if something had pulled his body, dragging him down and stopping him from swimming.
Jiang Qi felt his breathing stagnated and there is no strength in his hands and feet to lead him out of the water.
Ke Yan was sleeping when he was awakened by the fierce movement of the person next to him. Ke Yan wakes up and looked at Jiang Qi trying to see what happened to him. Then he saw Jiang Qi moving frantically, waving his hands and kicking the quilt aside, as though he was swimming. But suddenly his movements stop and he went straight into Ke Yan’s arms. Desperately drilling into his warm embrace while his mouth was giving away an uncomfortable cries.
At this time, Ke Yan already realize something was wrong with Jiang Qi. He quickly pulled him out from his embrace and patted Jiang Qi’s face trying to wake him up, “ Jiang Qi, Jiang Qi… wake up.”
Jiang Qi wakes up in a daze and found that he was dreaming. Then he found that his nose was blocked and he was having difficulty in breathing. So he could only use his mouth to breathe.
" Bad dreams?" Ke Yan asking while he patted Jiang Qi's back trying to soothe his nerves.
" En. My nose is blocked. I dreamt that I fell into the water and I can't breathe."
“ How could it became like this.” Ke Yan asked with a frown. He is obviously worries about Jiang Qi’s situation.
“ Hmm… maybe because I have kicked away the quilt just now.”
“ Maybe you have caught a cold.”
“ I don’t think so.”
“ Then, let’s go back to sleep. If you feel uncomfortable, you have to tell me okay.”
“ En.” Jiang went back into Ke Yan’s arms.
In the morning, Jiang Qi woke up earlier than Ke Yan. When he was brushing his teeth, his nose suddenly feel itchy and he had to wrinkle his nose in discomfort.
"Ah choo...!!" Jiang Qi couldn't help but to sneeze.
Looks like he really caught a cold. Jiang Qi touched his nose and went to find the cold medicine.
After drinking the medicine, he don't know whether it is his imagination or the quick effect of the medicine, but Jiang Qi felt more comfortable after a while. Especially the nose, is not so itchy anymore.
Finished their breakfast, Jiang Qi went to the company, together with Ke Yan. Then, Jiang Qi suddenly speake. "Ke Yan, I think I should get a license.Otherwise it would be quite inconvenient when you’re not around."
“ En. It’s good if you have a license. At least when I’m out on a business trip, there’s no need for you to wait for public transportation.”
“ But I have a lot of work and it was often too hectic. So, you have to grant me holidays.”
“ Alright.” Ke Yan agreed.
“ And you’re not allowed to deduct my wages and my annual leave.”
“ Even my salary is yours, why are you afraid that I’ll deduct your meager salary?”
“ Ha ha, you’re right.” Jiang Qi agreed with a smile.
“Jiang Qi…”
“ Ah?”
“ Why do I feel your sound is not right?”
" Ah? You heard wrong." Jiang Qi subconsciously touched his nose.
" Have you catch a cold?"
"No, no. I did not, I'm feeling good."
“ Okay, then be careful. Otherwise, you’ll suffer if you got sick.”
“ Okay. I know.” Jiang Qi did not expect Ke Yan would be too sensitive to his changes.
Today, Jiang Qi’s work was inefficient because he is not feeling well. Sometimes he would feel cold, while the other times his nose would be itchy and uncomfortable.
It seems the efficacy of the medicine he consume this morning already worn out. Now he started to feel extremely uncomfortable. Moreover, he felt like sneezing but since his nose had always feel itchy, he cannot squeeze the sneeze out and he was suffering from it.
"Ah choo!!" Jiang Qi finally sneezed. With the sneezing, his blocked nose seems to open for a bit and his breath runs a lot smoother.
With his nose finally a lot more comfortable, he sighed in relief and continue to do his work. Looks like this time the sickness had hit him hard.
However after a while, his nose was blocked once again. It seems like it is necessary for him to take medicine. Jiang Qi turned over his drawer and found no medicine inside. So, he went to the tea room and look around searching for medicine. Usually, there will be one or two packs of cold medicine in the cabinet. Unless someone already used up and did not replace it back, there should be some to be found. Jiang Qi was lucky enough to find a packet of medicine. After counting the lapse of time of taking medicine in the morning, he finally took the medicine to drink.
When the disease came as the mountain collapse, even with medicine he was lost to the sickness. He throw the tissue in his hand. During these hours, he cannot calculate how many packs of tissues had been discarded after he use it to wipe his nose. Even his nose started to get hurt.
He better go and see the doctor, ba. If not, later he would surely suffer from nose block the whole night.
After he decided, Jiang Qi quickly organize his work and clean up his desk. He plan to see the doctor on his own. Anyway it was close to the end of the working time. With his briefcase, he step out of his office and went down to the company lobby.
There’s a saying, the more you don’t want to see someone, the most likely you are bumping into him. At this time, Jiang Qi really don’t want to meet Ke Yan because he wants to keep his condition a secret. But just as he walks out of the elevator at the first floor, he met Ke Yan.
His whole body stiffened and he automatically greeted Ke Yan: “ Hey.”
As soon as the words out, he felt his action was rather foolish.
Ke Yan glanced at the briefcase in Jiang Qi's hand and looked at Jiang Qi's face. " Where are you planning to go?"
“ I, I….” Jiang Qi remembered his voice sounds wrong, so he unconsciously stuttered when he answered Ke Yan.
“ Come up with me.”
Ke Yan left these four words before he directly went in to the elevator. Several people who followed Ke Yan’s back watched Jiang Qi with gloating expression, waiting to see a good show.
Jiang Qi followed behind Ke Yan with a look of resignation.
Few employee in the reception area watch as Jiang Qi being criticize by their President and saw his grievances as he followed behind Ke Yan as they get into the elevator.
One after another cannot wait to discuss the meng " adorable/cute" feelings surrounding the two people. They even automatically ignored several other people followed behind those two.
If Jiang Qi knows what they were saying, he will definitely refute it. Where did they saw the expression of grievances in his face. He was obviously depressed, okay!
The elevator was silence with tension. Jiang Qi secretly peeked at Ke Yan’s face. Through his many years of experience, Ke Yan’s anger still in the lower point, but… also according to his many years of experience, after a while, Ke Yan’s anger would definitely turned to the highest point.
Ke Yan bring Jiang Qi directly to his office, while several other people who had been following right behind Ke Yan had been invited to the conference room, to drink tea.
Jiang Qi didn't recognize any of them. He estimated that these people should come from other company to talk about business.
“ Ke Yan...” Jiang Qi intentionally called out Ke Yan in a husky voice, trying to distract him from noticing his nasal sound and at the same time trying to sell meng to invoke Ke Yan’s sympathy.
Ke Yan heard Jiang Qi's voice and look at him strangely. " How did your voice become like this?"
Jiang Qi didn't think that even his husky voice would sound strange to people's ear and even sell him out.
"I, I, um..."
Ke Yan walked over and touched Jiang Qi's forehead with the back of his palm. Jiang Qi temperature feels hotter than usual.
“ Are you catching a cold?” Ke Yan’s sentence immediately broke Jiang Qi’s mode of trying to curry favors from him. “I did...did not.” Jiang Qi quick to deny Ke Yan’s suspicion, and it can be said as subconscious denial to his own condition.
It’s a pity that before Jiang Qi can convinced Ke Yan that he was not sick, he suddenly sneezed. If it just a loud sneezing, he can still have a leeway. But unfortunately, his big sneezed came with snots….
The office falls into silence. While Jiang Qi was stunned, he even forgotten to wipe his nose. At this moment, Jiang Qi could not wait to shoot himself on the foot.
All of the sudden, Ke Yan used his hand and rudely wiped Jiang Qi’s nose. Then he hand over a handkerchief to him. Jiang Qi took the hanky and wiped his nose, then obediently clean up Ke Yan’s hand as well.
Jiang Qi sneaked a peek at Ke Yan looks like this time he is really angry.