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In the next few days, the old man still came to the store every afternoon, ordered a pot of tea and food, and sat for an hour or two.As soon as the old man came, Xu Ran hid in the kitchen.

Tianyuan came forward to persuade the old man several times, but to no avail, the old man was very stubborn.

"Ran Ran, why don't you take a vacation these few days!" Tian Yuan couldn't persuade the old man, but Xu Ran.

"It's okay, there's no need for a holiday." Xu Ran, who was helping cut French fries in the kitchen, refused.

Master Zhang was puzzled, and secretly scolded Xu Ran in private: "You are a deadhead, avoid it for a few days and show your attitude, otherwise the old man will come every day!"

Xu Ran was silent.

Xu Ran got off work that day, and as soon as he left the gate of Xingmo's yard, he saw the old man sitting on the edge of the flower bed by the roadside, and saw him get up immediately.Xu Ran walked to the side without seeing it, and the old man quickly followed up and called him: "Xu Ran—"

Xu Ran quickened his pace, and the old man trotted two steps to block him: "Child!"

Xu Ran looked at the old man's wrinkled face, and his originally clear eyes were clouded with despair.He was cornered.

The old man grabbed his hand: "can you go with me to the hospital to see her?"

Xu Ran didn't break away from him.The old man waited for a long time before he gave a slight nod.

At the entrance of the hospital, Xu Ran stopped.The old man walked a few steps and found that the people behind him were silent. Looking back at him, he didn't rush and waited quietly for Xu Ran.

Xu Ran looked at the temperatureless lights in the hospital, and remembered the three months he spent in the hospital. Looking back now, it seems that several lifetimes have passed.From the moment he was sent to the hospital, the former Xu Ran died, but the current one is already another person.

"I wasn't at my mother's funeral." Xu Ran looked at the old man.

The old man opened his mouth to say something but didn't say anything.

"My mother said that you forced her, and you didn't want our mother and child to live."

Xu Ran's memory is not good, but the scene of that evening is still vivid in his memory.It rained a little and the road up the mountain was very slippery.My mother rented a silver BYD. When the car detoured into a road with no roads, she began to tell him why her father divorced her, the threats of another woman, and the debts she was forced to owe.

"They don't want us to live at all!" Mom cried.The car was spinning uncontrollably.

For some reason that day, he insisted on choosing to sit in the back seat. He could only hold the seat belt tightly in his hand, and he had no thoughts in his mind.The so-called love and the so-called hate have been replaced by fear.He really wanted to say to his mother: "Mom, I don't want to die. You don't want to die either." But he didn't dare, he could only look at the growing darkness in front of him, praying in his heart that the car would break down suddenly, or his mother would suddenly change her mind .

When the car flew out of the cliff, many things played back in his mind. When he was a child, his father took him to the amusement park, and his mother asked him if he looked good in a new dress. Xiao Huan looked at him with a frown and said that you were annoying. Lost games, unfinished comic books... There are still many regrets in his life.He closed his eyes, and there was only one sentence in his mind: "It's all over!"

"Sometimes I would dream that my dad didn't meet your daughter, and they were not together. My dad and my mom weren't divorced, they were together well. And I, although I didn't have much to do, went to college well. , working a job that doesn’t require you to use your brain, and you can have hot meals when you go home on weekends.” Sometimes Xu Ran really can’t tell which one is the dream.

"That would be great, don't you think so?" Xu Ran stared at the old man and asked.

The old man turned his face away, not daring to look at him.He also often dreams that he prevents his daughter from being with that man.But the reality is always the opposite. At the beginning, not only did he not stop him, but he also made some unnecessary promises to tempt the man to abandon his wife.How selfish he was at that time, thinking that as long as his daughter could get what she wanted, she would be happy and he would be happy too.His daughter was killed by his selfishness.

"Let's go!" Xu Ran suddenly took a step forward, stepping into the hospital first.

It was already ten o'clock in the evening when Xiao Huan's plane landed at Lukou Airport.He got into the car that had been arranged to pick him up long ago, and drove home without stopping.Along the way, he first sent Xu Ran a WeChat message, but he didn't reply.He made three phone calls in a row, all of which were unanswered.He told the driver to accelerate all the way.

Sure enough, Xiao Huan rushed home, the house was pitch black, and Xu Ran was not there.He checked every room. Fortunately, all his things were there, and he didn't seem to have moved them.He called the two fathers and asked when Xu Ran left today.

Tianyuan said that he left during normal off-duty hours.

"He hasn't come home yet!" Xiao Huan said.

Tian Yuan took a breath of air: "Will you be kidnapped by that old man?"

Xiao Huan didn't make a sound, Tian Yuan immediately shouted: "Old Xiao, Lao Xiao, call the police!"

"Wait a minute, maybe I'll be back in a while." Xiao Huan interrupted him.

Tian Yuan told him: "He must call me when he comes back."

"En." Xiao Huan responded softly, and hung up first.He turned off the light, sat in the dark room, closed his eyes and ears were filled with the words Tian Yuan said to him yesterday.

"Xu Ran has a half-sister who suffers from severe liver disease and needs a liver transplant."

"The younger sister's grandfather found Xu Ran and begged him every day for a matching test."

"His younger sister's mother died, burned to death by Xu Ran's father. His father also died, jumping to death."

"If that younger sister doesn't get a liver transplant, she won't survive next year."

"The old man is also very pitiful, there is only such a small one left in the family."

"But Xu Ran is also very pitiful. His mother died so badly, and he almost died. Now he is here to save others. No one is a saint!"

……

Second Dad Tianyuan said that no one is a saint.He choked up when he said this.When Xiao Huan was young, he often heard adults talk about his birth. He was just born, and his eldest father, Xiao Yimo, who had been in a vegetable state for almost a year due to a car accident, woke up.When the second dad was in despair, he once wanted to commit suicide with his elder dad who was in a vegetable state.Regarding what happened to Xu Ran, the two fathers felt much more deeply than ordinary people.

Both fathers secretly sent him WeChat messages: "Be nice to that kid!"

He doesn't know what is good for Xu Ran, and he doesn't know how to do it. He can only do what he thinks he should do by instinct.

When the lights in the room came on, Xiao Huan was stimulated by the sudden light and closed his eyes.The people at the door did not move in.

After getting used to it, Xiao Huan opened his eyes and looked at Xu Ran not far away. He was wearing a half-worn army green coat, his trousers were a bit short, and he didn't wear socks. His ankles and feet outside were frozen red. The face is also frozen red.

Xu Ran looked at Xiao Huan who came back suddenly, the grievance, sadness and fear in his heart instantly turned into tears and gathered in his eyes.

Xiao Huan got up and walked to him, hugging him.Sure enough, his body was cold, his clothes had the moisture of midnight, and his face had the chill of an autumn night.

"You wear too little!" Xiao Huan put his hands on his chest.

Xu Ran's tears finally couldn't hold back, Xiao Huan took off his eyes and kissed his tears, very astringent.

"Xiao Huan—" Xu Ran called him.

"Yes." Xiao Huan answered him.

"I'm afraid." Xu Ran put his head on his shoulder.

"I know."

Xu Ran looked up at him with teary eyes: "What do you know?"

"I know everything." Xiao Huan bowed his head and kissed his forehead.

Xu Ran thought, Tianyuan and the others must have told him.Is it because of him that he came back suddenly?

"I just saw that girl."

"Yeah." Xiao Huan stroked his hair.

"So young, only seven years old. Good-looking, with round eyes." Xu Ran described the girl's appearance: "She looks like my father."

Xiao Huan pinched his ears: "You look like your mother."

"Well, we also look like my father. The nurses saw us and said that we look alike." Xu Ran felt that blood relationship was really strange: "She called me brother in a low voice."

Xiao Huan's hand rested on Xu Ran's right cheek, and he poked his dimple that was obvious even if he didn't smile: "Does she have dimples too?"

"Yes, like me, also on the right side."

"So, do you want to help her?" Xiao Huan asked softly.

Xu Ran bowed his head: "I don't know."

"It's okay!" Xiao Huan hugged him, smelling his scent.

The next morning, the naked Xu Ran lay in the arms of Xiao Huan, who was also naked, with their legs and feet intertwined.Xu Ran said to Xiao Huan: "I had a dream!"

"Hmm." Xiao Huan stroked his back with his hand, Xu Ran's skin was smooth and comfortable to touch.

"I dreamed about my mother, and she told me she was happy now, and she told me I was sorry. I said it was okay." This was the first time Xu Ran dreamed about his mother, and his half-sister brought back many memories for him.

"Have you ever hated her?" Xiao Huan's hand fell on his waist.

"I hated it. I didn't want to die, and she never asked me." Xu Ran thought, why he hasn't dreamed of her for so many years is because he hasn't let go.He loves her and hates her.There was obviously a better way to go, why didn't she discuss it with him, and chose the most difficult one.

"She is very selfish." Xiao Huan said what was in his heart.

Xu Ran didn't speak, and after a long time, he whispered, "You're right." After he was discharged from the hospital, he thought the same thing when he stood in front of his mother's cemetery.

"I also dreamed about that girl, she was healthy and healthy in the dream, calling my brother, kept calling, and I kept answering her." Xu Ran had more than one dream last night, It was a lot of dreams, messy and mixed together.

Xiao Huan put his hand on the side of his neck, rubbing it gently.

"Xiao Huan—"

"Ah."

"Let me go for a matching test!" Xu Ran pressed his face tightly against Xiao Huan's chest, listening to his heartbeat, powerfully thumping.

Xiao Huan didn't say yes, nor did he say bad.Just kneading the hand on the side of his neck, suddenly exerted a lot of force.