Doctor Silver Frei clenched and lowered his left hand when Xiao Mei Zhi did not welcome him with a handshake. He then turn to face Misses Zhi with a smile that was childlike and charming, "You know that he will come and they will find you. Both of you."
Xiao Mei Zhi fixed her gazed at the door with her eyes slightly wide open. And Misses Zhi could see that her daughter does not want to listen to their conversation. Without any visible fear Misses Zhi advised Doctor Frei, "You should keep your distance away from my daughter after this. I only showed my self to you now because I do not have any other choice."
The smile from Doctor Freis' face faded away, "I will respond to that phrase later. But for now I have to check the size of the splinter." He bend his body down to gazed at the wound.
"Did you touch your wound?" She said nothing, "A silence means a yes."
"Yes, you are not wrong." Xiao Mei Zhi said. She should not lie about it. But she was almost to tired to tell the truth. At least she had not explained everything.
"Well, do you know what you were doing then?" She looked at Doctor Frei, "Do I have to explain everything?"
He smiled, "No, you do not have to." He said without even looking at her, "Your wound got infected. You did something carelessly."
For an absence of a decent excuse she said, "I was not wearing any footwear."
He released his gazed away from the injury and turned around to say some thing at Misses Zhi, "She needs surgery. The glass splinter is almost a size of a thumb. I will transfer her to an orthopaedic surgeon."
Doctor Frei stood up straight and direct himself towards his telephone.
While Doctor Frei was busy, Misses Zhi goes near to her daughter and rubbed their hands together to give a little warmth. Xiao Mei Zhi barely moved a muscle from her face as she pulled her hands away from her mothers touch.
She kept her head down just like before when they entered the hospital. Her hands are now tucked in between her knees. Well, Misses Zhi was in the situation to cheer her daughter up, but she was not actually confident about it. She did not know what to say to her.
Misses Zhi moved her hands away from Xiao Mei Zhi. Her daughter was not looking good and her hands were a bit cold.
"Do you need water? I will get some for you." She nodded at her mothers good choice. She reckoned that they could go home fast but she was wrong.
Until she got night sweats, her current clothes got soaked. She wrapped her arms around herself, as she can feel her skin chilled from the unforgiving cold and could not stop herself from shivering. The teeth in her mouth shattered together uncontrollably.
"Are you alright dear?" Xiao Mei Zhi heard the question from her mother but she was not able to respond as her eyesight went unclear.
"I--uh--ih--cold" She whispered and stuttered out her response. Misses Zhi did not hear the first part but she did hear 'Cold'.
"Silver, something is wrong with my daughter!"
Doctor Frei gestured Misses Zhi with a forefinger standing up which simply means 'Wait'.
He said , "I have a patient here and she needs you. Also do not tell anyone about this. Anyway, I will let you go - I do not want to hold you up any longer." Then he put the phone down.
"Her wound got infected which obviously means she got a fever now."
"I really doubt your skills."
"Look , Han. You see I am just a Podiatrist not a surgeon. Do you even know what Podiatrist do? We only devote ourselves into treatment of foot conditions, ankle and related structures of the lower legs." Misses Zhi was not just really aiming to doubt Doctor Frei skills, but she just said that to make him think she does not know what was coming to her.
"Fine. I will got take her to the surgeon now."
"Oh. Wait. We are not going to use the front door. Have you forgot I am not alone here." He said.
"Silver my original scent has already spread out. I do not even know how."
"You did not know?" Doctor Frei replied. "Listen, the surgeon is the last person that you are going to see today. You must have an idea right? You must decide to where you and your daughter needed to go. I will help you with the transportation. So we won't repay anything from each other anymore."
"Repay? What did I owe you? Why are you even doing this?" Misses Zhi asked suspiciously, "Why ?"
"What are friends for Han? Now that you got your original scent back, you know I am the only who can help your daughter. Even if you have been hiding all these years just like today you realize that you can not lie low forever." He paused. "You have to survive after this."
"I think I remember what you meant by repayment. Do you think I seriously forgot that you can tempered the scents? All these years since I gave birth to my daughter , you were protecting us. Correct?"
"No. It was not me. You got it wrong Han."
"Who else got that kind of talent if it was not you?" Doctor Frei looked at Xiao Mei Zhi.
Misses Zhi gasped and was not able to comprehend what she learned. How can she not notice? They have been together all along. Her daughter.
"Is it her? Are you certain about it?"
"Yes. That is why I want to be her friend but she obviously does not like it. But oh well, there are still a lot of days maybe she will find me by herself." Misses Zhi glared at Doctor Frei. She was not sure if she should stay in Tianjin with her daughter or go somewhere far away again.
"Alright. Our time is short, both of you will have to go now."
With no idea, a violet smoke appeared out of nowhere. Misses Zhi and Xiao Mei Zhi disappeared from Doctor Freis room.