Edward narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at me, “indeed thin, I heard that your daughter recently had an accident, what do you need help, you must tell us!”
“Yeah, Clara you can’t carry it alone.” Jannings nodded along.
I pulled a smile and said, “Well!”
Edward took a sip of juice and looked at me, “I heard that your daughter needs a bone marrow transplant and a kidney for that disease, and it’s not easy to come across the right ones for these things, have you found them?”
“Clang!” Just as he finished speaking, the bowl of condiments in front of Barbara fell to the floor and broke, and she hurriedly got up to apologize and clean it up, with Jannings helping her.
“It’s okay, it’s okay, it doesn’t matter!” Barbara spoke while wiping the soup off her body.
I looked at her miserable white face, the more I felt, she seemed to know something about Edward, and for a while I couldn’t help but be a little puzzled.
Dealing with it, we all sat down and Jannings looked at me and said, “Kidney transplants for children are not easy to find, especially when they have to be matched again.” With that, she looked at Edward and spoke, “Can you think of anything on your end?”
Edward looked at me and spoke deeply instead, “The way is always for people to think.”
“Is there really a way?” Jannings a little excited, looking at Edward, waiting for his answer, Edward raised his eyebrows, looked at me and said, “This will be dinner, eat well first, wait until we finish eating and then we will take time to talk.”
Jannings thought about it and said, “Also, this will be first to eat!”
I looked at Barbara, reached out and took her hand, and froze for a moment. Although the weather in City P is cool, the room is heated so that it is not so cold that your hands are cold.
She was afraid of Edward, and I knew it.
Barbara looked up at me with a little fear in her gaze. I nodded slightly towards her and patted her hand, telling her not to be too afraid.
Karina gave me a bowl of food, and when she saw that I hadn’t eaten, she said, “Don’t you keep staring, you haven’t eaten a single bite, is it because you don’t like it?”
I look at the bowl of slowly piled up food, helplessly said, “No, I’m not eating it right away!”
She smiled happily and spoke, “I’ve never even had hot pot before, and then I met Alan and I realized that it tastes so wonderful, it’s just delicious on earth.”
Alan was said by her cheeks flushed, gave her sandwiched dishes and laughed, “eat more, later you want to eat directly tell me, I will do it for you!”
“Hey, why are you two always spreading dog food, I’m dying of sweetness.” Jannings wrinkled smile, although the mouth spit, but the body is again very honest to Edward folder food.
The good thing is that this meal did not eat anything bad, clean up, Karina and Alan are ready to go back, Jannings pulled me to look at Edward said, “Edward later you send Clara back, I do not feel comfortable with her taxi.”
“She can come with us!” Karina looked at Jannings and spoke, “And we’re on our way some too.”
Without waiting for Jannings to speak, Edward spoke up, “We’re also on the way, it’s not far, and it will be convenient to be together.”
Jannings giggles, “Gee, you two are so sweet I can’t even look at you, so you should stop spreading dog food to Clara and let her go with Edward.”
Karina had more to say, but after Alan whispered something in her ear, she didn’t say much more.
After dinner, my phone rang, it was Dennis, I picked up the phone and Dennis’ voice came from the other end, “Just finished a meeting, had dinner?”
Listening to his voice, I couldn’t help but relax a lot in my heart, walked to the balcony and spoke, “Well, I just finished eating, I was going to ask you to come over together, Jannings came to City P today, and it just so happened that Karina was also there, so we all got together and cooked hot pot, have you not eaten yet?”
It’s only now that the meeting is over, so you must have run out of food.
There was a faint light laugh from him on the phone, “Well, it seems like I missed a lot of good food, there, I’ll come pick you up later, I want to eat the noodles you cooked.”
I smiled slightly, “It’s not very good, what do you miss, Jannings rented a house on this side of downtown, Edward is also there, can you come over?”
He was silent for a moment and spoke, “Yes!”
Now that we have come to this point, we are not considered friends, so we met and met on a narrow road, we really do not know how to face.
Talked to him for a while, I sent him the address, hung up the phone to see Brady sent a message, “so do not contact me, you can really this woman, she is like an idiot, I and she said it is useless, a waste of my time.”
It was before I asked him if he had spoken to Jannings about Macao, and I put my phone in my bag after returning the word um.
Seeing Barbara find a quiet corner to sit in, seemingly intentionally avoiding it, while Edward and Jannings washed dishes in the kitchen, I walked over to her and sat down, offered her a glass of water, and pursed my lips slightly, “Come to City P to talk about work stuff?”
She raised her eyes to look at me, resulting in a glass of water in her hand, and nodded slightly, “The company has to run after all, I always have to pull business in order for the company to survive.”
I looked at her, and after a moment of silence, said, “Actually, you’re not really suited to running a company, so why not do what you like?”
“The company is Dad’s, even if I don’t like it, I want to hold on and wait her out, as long as I can hold on!”
There was a stubbornness in her words, and I couldn’t say much, nodding slightly and shrugging my shoulders, “Go for it!”
She looked at me sideways and after a moment of silence said, “What is wrong with your daughter?”
“Leukemia!”
With her head slightly bowed, she spoke, “Not just a bone marrow transplant but a kidney transplant?”
I nod my head.
I don’t know what she was thinking, her hand tightly holding the glass of water for half a day before she spoke, “I’ve also transplanted, it’s the heart.”
I froze for a moment, did not expect her to talk to me about this, froze and looked at her, she smiled, her face was a little scraped white, “It was five years ago, Dad should have been the same as you, he was looking around for a heart, I think he must have had a hard time.”
I pursed my lips, did not answer her words, always felt, her thing, maybe not as simple as I thought.
After a moment’s pause, she continued, “You’re right, I’m really not suitable for opening a company, I like to paint, and my childhood dream was to open painting exhibitions all over the world, but I can’t seem to achieve it.”
At first I thought Barbara was depressed, but I found out at this point, no, she is much more serious than depression, on the surface, she is no different from a normal girl, but many details tell me that she actually rejects contact with outsiders, she does not even want to touch people in her bones.
This performance is more like that of an autistic person who presents herself as much as possible as a normal person, but every cell of her body seems to resist contact with others.