I still don't want to go to school today

Fu Luojia didn't know how long this state would last, so he focused his attention on his lungs, reminding himself to breathe.

It was bright and dark outside the window.

The breathing rhythm was obviously not well adjusted. At a certain moment, his eyes suddenly went dark and he staggered.

Someone supported him, and he directed himself to look up, only to find that the man in the hat suddenly turned into Xu Zhijian again.

"Are you uncomfortable?" Xu Zhibian said. "Then let's get off at the next stop."

He shook his head and said nothing.Xu Zhijian stretched out his palm again, he was stunned for a moment, then held it hesitantly.

That hand was sweating a little, but it was still cold, and there was a little blood stain on the tiger's mouth.

The hitchhiker called at the entrance of the subway station arrived quickly.The driver was very talkative, and asked them if they were students of S University as soon as they came up.

"No." Xu Zhibian answered.

"That's it. But it's very close to S University. I thought you were old. Then you came from other places, and your accent sounds like that of City Y?"

"Not far from there."

Xu Zhiyan didn't say much, but he didn't dampen the driver's enthusiasm at all.When passing by an antique plaque, he also excitedly explained the origin.

"This is the plaque on the north gate of S University! It's more than 30 years old, and the words written by the person in Nanhai, the gate at the bottom is even older, and it almost failed to be preserved during the Cultural Revolution—"

"—I personally sent my son there when he was in school, and it has been ten years since then. You went to the First Affiliated Hospital of S University, right? That's where he did his internship. I've been there a few times , it’s not very easy to park at the gate.”

"Then you can find a convenient place nearby and put us down."

"I'll try my best to pull you into place. It's so hot outside, making you walk makes you suffer."

"Thank you then." Xu Zhibian smiled, "Your son is a doctor, right? Does he work in City C?"

"...If he is still there, he should be." The mixed shadows of the trees beside the road quickly passed over the driver's shoulders, "Everything is fine, but the pressure is too much... hey.

"He told me he couldn't take it."

"..."

Fu Luojia wiped the blood stain with his fingers in silence.

"It's here. Fortunately, the intersection is not blocked, and the car can pass."

"Please give me a five-star praise!" I heard this sentence after walking a long way.

……

"I'll tell you something, and I didn't tell you before." Xu Zhibian said to Fu Luojia while waiting for the elevator, "I contacted my uncle before. But I didn't say anything else, just told him that we will Come here."

Apart from being tired, Fu Luojia had no special feelings.Whatever, he thought, but didn't say it.

"He and your aunt came here last night. They arrived the day before yesterday, but your mother was in ICU at the time. They will come again at six o'clock."

He originally thought that the ward was a place with a complicated structure - before seeing the patient, the visitor should go through many barriers and have enough time to buffer at all levels.

However, it took only a few tens of seconds to walk to the door of the ward after getting out of the elevator.The area of ​​the ward is small, and it is not as spotless as imagined. On the contrary, it is dusty.The patient was not lying neatly on the bed with his hands clasped in front of his chest, and the one in the hospital gown he saw when he entered the door even had his legs crossed.

He saw grandma.She sits in front of the TV and peels a peach, the skin hangs down and keeps growing.

Then she handed the peeled fruit to the person who was waiting beside her - that person was not his mother, but a strange child.

Xu Zhibian whispered in his ear, "I won't go in."

He took another step forward and saw his mother lying on her back on the bed by the window.At first glance he thought she was being hung - she had too many tubes.

When he made the phone call yesterday, he had heard his fucking voice, it was a little hoarse, not particularly full of breath, and he couldn't hear any emotion.

The voice changed.It wasn't meant to be.

It is strange.He called "Mom" mechanically, neither wanting to run away nor feeling scared.The sound of breathing over there suddenly increased, and there was a crackling sound in the earpiece.

It was like a fire was on.Then the dark flames covered his entire head, quietly burning his five senses.

He moved a little and could see the ashes flying out of his eye sockets.

"mom."

He didn't bark very loudly.Grandma probably didn't hear anything, she was still coaxing the child - he was clamoring to eat the peach skin.

But the fuck heard it.She moved a bit, the plastic tubes on her body collided with each other and made a sound, and then she also shouted: "Mom!"

The child poked the grandmother.Grandma turned her head and her eyes widened when she saw him. "Why are you here too? Qingqing, didn't you say you won't tell him?"

Fu Luojia stiffly walked to the bed and held on to the bed rail. "I'll... take a look."

"Hey, what's going on here - when did you arrive? Why didn't you say it first... Qingqing, what did you tell him yesterday?" Grandma turned back to look at his mother.

The fucking pipes rang again.There are many weird folds on her clothes. At first, he thought it was because of the many hidden instruments attached to her body, but then he found out that it wasn't—at least some of them weren't.

Some parts of her body caved in.

He trembled uncontrollably.

His mother felt him sit up after shaking. "What are you afraid of? It's not a big problem, and it will be fine soon...you ask your grandma to tell you."

"It's okay, don't be afraid. The operation is over, your mother has recovered very quickly these days, and now she is in the hospital to recuperate..." Grandma immediately connected. "I didn't let you come here before, because I was afraid that you would be nervous and make trouble for adults."

"You came here with... your dad?" She continued after seeing that his mother's expression hadn't changed, "Did you take your homework for summer vacation? It's still a month away. There should be one person in the hospital, or you will Go live with your aunt at her classmate's house."

"There's a stool over there..." His mother raised her hand and pointed.

Grandma picked up the stool and handed it to him: "Come on, sit by your mother's side. It's fine if you're here, she told the doctor about you earlier."

"Come here." His mother looked at him. "What's wrong, I've lost so much weight..."

He didn't move at first.Grandma pushed him on the back, "Go."

He moved over slowly.

His mother said goodbye to the infusion tube in front of him, as if she wanted to reach out and pull him.Subconsciously, he also raised his hand.

The dead branch-like wrist in the cuff of the hospital gown trembled when it met his gaze; almost at the same time, he realized that there was such a mess on his hand——so both hands Take it back at the same time.

"You..." His mother's eyes were a little red, "You have already passed the exam at the end of the semester, how did you do?"

Still he said nothing.

The patient in the next bed who was watching TV with his legs crossed suddenly rang the bell.It didn't take long for the nurse to come over with the medicine tray, and opened up to cheer up the atmosphere in the ward: "Hey, is it so lively today? This handsome guy is—"

"My grandson." Grandma answered her.

"Sister Xia's son? It's good to see mom. I remember Sister Xia said that he is a senior in high school this year?"

"Correct."

The patient next door joined in. "Senior year, have you decided which school to take the exam? The province or another province?"

"Isn't the medical department of our S University pretty good?" The nurse said while giving the medicine, "It's in the province, and it's close to home..."

"Being a doctor is great! The salary is high, the family is close, and it is more convenient to take care of the troubles. The daughter can marry far away, but the son must be tied up! Raising him so old is just trying to have someone to take care of him."

The nurse just laughed and didn't continue.

"Just tell me, nurse, which doctor in your unit earns more than 8000 to [-] yuan? It costs [-] yuan a day for me to live here alone. I don't believe that your hospital is getting less. And the current medicine is also the same. Hey, that's expensive, I obviously have a penny of the new rural cooperative medical system and won't let me report—"

"I told you that you need to get the stamp from the Social Security Bureau first... Forget it, I won't tell you, I'll find your son by myself. By the way, handsome boy," the nurse turned around, "Is that your classmate waiting for you outside? He It seems to be a bit hypoglycemic, just standing up and suddenly fell down. I asked him to go to the clinic to register, and he left without saying anything. Would you like to call him and ask him?"