Cai Wei

【28】

I stood still, my mind racing with who it could be.At this time, I felt the manuscript under my shoulder move, and I immediately thought of a person.

Chang Weiguo!

I'm afraid he mistook the manuscript I brought as a letter...

Why is this person so ignorant!

It's just that I don't know what I should do now. It is absolutely impossible for me to let him steal the hard work of Lin Ximing and me for more than half a year, but if we confront each other arbitrarily...

Chang Weiguo didn't give me time to think about it at all, he took the manuscript away, turned around and ran wildly.

I turned around and wanted to chase, but unexpectedly took a deep breath of air-conditioning, and suddenly my internal organs hurt as if being whipped by a thorny whip, but I still ran quickly to chase.

It can be seen that Chang Weiguo has grown old all these years, and even my sick body can barely catch up with him.

The ground under my feet was too muddy, and I felt a little slippery when running, so I needed to work hard to stabilize myself.The wind is so strong that it blows on the face like a knife.I caught up with Chang Weiguo who fled in embarrassment, and reached out to grab the manuscript back.Chang Weiguo resisted sideways, raised his fist and hit me on the shoulder.I didn't mind the pain, the manuscript was too important a thing for me to care about that.

During the scramble, I watched Chang Weiguo's soles slip. He stretched out his hands as if trying to stabilize himself, but in vain. The slippery mud slid him all the way into the pool.

"Big brother!"

I didn't expect this to happen, and I panicked for a while, but suddenly remembered that Chang Weiguo is a water-savvy, so I calmed down a little.But in the next moment, he raised his heart again.

manuscript!

Chang Weiguo was still holding that volume of paper, but the man was already sinking into the depths of the water.

How could the paper be resistant to water!Regardless of the muddy water on the ground, I knelt by the pond, trying to reach out, trying to reach the manuscript paper that was so important to me...

His knees were soaked in muddy water, and he leaned forward desperately, trying his best to stabilize his balance.

All I could see was the manuscript floating on the water, and I was so anxious that it seemed that the blood in my whole body was stagnant in my veins.But at the moment when he was about to touch it, he saw a string of water splashes flying up.

The next moment, it was icy cold.

Unprepared, cold water poured into my nose and mouth.Like being buried alive, the needle-like knife-like winter pool water is like maggots born in rotten and smelly fat, soaking through the coat, penetrating into the skin, and attaching to the bones.

So... so cold.

My wrist was still being grabbed, and I struggled to get rid of that hand. With the last bit of consciousness, I grabbed the manuscript that was about to be soaked in water, and threw it towards the shore.

I opened my eyes wide, but I couldn’t see clearly, the muddy pool water was surging, I was too cold, and it was difficult to breathe, I could only read the manuscript in a blur, and it fell on the haystack. It's a relief.

I felt my neck being grabbed, and a hand covered my nose and mouth and pressed me down.

I rushed to take a breath, but the pain in my lungs was like an explosion, stimulated by the coldness like falling into an ice cave, and then I was pushed to the bottom of the pool.

The hasty exchange of breath can't last long. I struggled, but my strength became weaker and weaker.Consciousness gradually blurred, and many images that I thought I had long forgotten emerged like a fountain.

This feels like the time when I fell into the water when I was a child... It was so cold that my whole body was stiff, and the chill seemed to be pumping from the heart to the limbs, which could not be stopped.I remembered that the back figure that I saw in a trance was not Lin Ximing as I thought...it was Chang Weiguo.

It wasn't that Lin Ximing and I accidentally fell into the water while playing around.

It was Chang Weiguo, my elder brother, who pushed me into the winter pool.

Things always happened repeatedly and similarly, I opened my eyes in a daze, spit out a mouthful of very small air bubbles, and the water color was imprinted on a face... I seemed to see Chang Weiguo's proud face, He also seemed to see Lin Ximing's panicked eyes... But, maybe, he didn't see them at all.

The cold stabbing pain in my heart was gradually replaced by the dull pain of suffocation. I felt that I was very light, and the water seemed to be a kind of air that lingered around me. Rush, but can't grasp anything, can't grasp, slips away from the palm of the hand.

The last scene before completely losing consciousness was Lin Ximing tilting his head against my palm, talking with his lips parted and closed. I tried my best to hear clearly, but I could only hear a few words clearly.

"...Smoke and dust, stay away. If it's... cold and windy, use... a scarf to protect... your nose..."

I remembered that he had pleaded with me.

"Promise me... don't get sick again..."

sorry...

【29】

I feel the sun.

The orange-yellow light that shines straight through the eyelids and clearly shows its own existence is hard to ignore.

The body suddenly gained weight, as if a balloon suspended in mid-air was forcefully pulled towards the ground, and before it could float up again, it was let go.

become real.

Along with the sunshine comes pain, especially the lung pain, as if being pierced by thousands of fine needles, headache, throat pain, and uncontrollable coughing.

I can feel the changing light of the Buddha's sunlight on my eyes, and I can feel that someone is taking care of me almost every step of the way.Without thinking about it, I knew it must be Lin Ximing, and no one in this world would treat me like this except him.

I felt him feed the moderately warm rice soup little by little, and wiped the soup stains from the corners of my mouth.I felt his soft lips gently touch the corner of mine as if he was treating some fragile treasure.

That feeling is like lovers kissing in the deep sea, no matter how hard they try to get closer, there is always a layer of air between their lips and teeth.

I just felt unable to face his tenderness, those eyes full of sadness and love.My consciousness has no way to break through the flexible barrier, but I can't suppress the guilt in my heart. I can only feel a ray of moisture running down the corners of my eyes and soaking coolly into my temples.

But if I do it again, I... will still go get that manuscript.

Although I comforted Lin Ximing every time, I told him "I'm fine".But I know my body best. Under his careful care, it is no problem to last for a year or so, three years?four years?I don't want to imagine that possibility.

It takes at least half a year of work to compile a book... I can't bet on whether I can live that long.

Those manuscripts entrust the hope of those poor children to study, they are my holy ideal of teaching and educating people, and they are also the firewood that Lin Ximing and I can make for the cultural spark.

Even if this spark needs to burn myself to support it, I will not regret it.

But after all, I paid Lin Ximing by mistake...the Ximing who loves me so much.

"Weihua...?"

I was hugged gently.

"Don't cry, I'm here, you're fine."

I couldn't help it, I desperately wanted to see him.

I felt the sunlight, it was no longer the orange-yellow that came through the eyelids, but the bright yellow that shone directly on the pupils, a little dazzling, I squinted my eyes, and saw those eyes that were as deep as the ocean.

"Hee...cough cough cough! Cough..."

He smiled in surprise, and hurriedly turned sideways to get water, "Don't talk, drink some water."

I took the water glass, it was the temperature of ironing.

He has been by the bed, looking at me intently, as if afraid that if I blink, I will leave him again.

"I'm so scared," Lin Ximing smiled, "Weihua, I'm so scared."

I was speechless, and reached out to touch his fingers, interlocking them.

He looked into my eyes and smiled slightly, "I'm really scared... I just, I just left for a while, just, I lost you."

He seemed to be sighing and smiling contentedly, and clasped my fingers tightly.

"When I hugged you in the water...you closed your eyes." He frowned, but still looked at me with a steady smile, "It was so cold that I felt cold all over." He lowered his head and looked at his palm, "It's so cold...it's really cold."

I felt the warm water dripping on the back of my hand. He lowered his head, unable to see his expression clearly.

"I'm too scared," his voice trembled, "Weihua, you know, I'm too scared. I can't stand you leaving me. I won't have the strength to take care of myself. I'll die."

I tried my best to sit up straight, hugged the trembling man, whispered into his ear, "You can't die."

He doesn't speak.

"I'm destined not to see the day when the thousands of miles of mountains, rivers and rivers are so clear." I leaned on Lin Ximing's shoulder as if I lost my strength, feeling his uncontrollable trembling, "Ximing, my favorite Ximing, You should at least tell me in front of my grave whether the sunshine in Beiping is as warm as before... right."

It was the first time I saw Lin Ximing crying like this, and lost his voice, like the world collapsed, tears dripping hot on my palm, scalding me.

It was also the first time that I fell asleep holding Lin Ximing who was so tired from crying and fell asleep. In the middle of the night, I woke up again after the temperature dropped a little.

When I woke up again, I saw Lin Ximing moved the wooden table to the bed and was writing at his desk.He sensed that I was awake and smiled at me.

"Are you hungry?"

Like that cry never existed.

I nodded, falling into the water in the cold winter made my throat disease worse, and now I can feel the tingling pain in my lungs every time I breathe in and out, so I have to take small breaths to feel better.

Lin Ximing fetched a small bowl of porridge and fed it to me spoon by spoon.

"There is no major problem with the manuscript. Some parts of the pen and ink were blurred by the water. I have already copied a copy." He said softly while feeding, "Chang Weiguo is dead, drowned in that pool. He My shoes were stuck to the mud at the bottom of the water, and I couldn't float up."

I nodded, I didn't have any appetite, and I tried my best to drink a few spoonfuls of porridge.

"After I rescued you, I put on my dry clothes for you, and forced out the water you choked on, so that the doctor who came later managed to save you in the hands of black and white Wuchang, but..." He Lowering his eyes, the word seemed to use up all his strength, "But... it's only for a while."

His hand holding the spoon trembled a little, "The doctor said you had pneumonia."

I had known this before and smiled, "That's right, there are still a few more days to live."

"Ximing, stay with me during the days before my death, and don't go anywhere."

"it is good……"

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