scorching cold

After a few days of shameless life, Tao Zhuo is like living in Xanadu. He doesn’t have to think about anything every day. Li Suihan prepares three meals a day, and Li Suihan waits on him for whatever he wants to do. It’s more comfortable than being at home. .

The news about the new crown seems to have become a string of simple numbers. Every day, the official account is beating and ups and downs, but things around me are calm. No one has been diagnosed, and I have never heard of anyone being taken away for isolation. Zhuo Qingqing is still at home. good.

Until January 1, the number of confirmed cases of the new crown reported nationwide exceeded that of SARS.

At that time, Tao Zhuo had just come out of the bathroom, with a big towel hanging on his head, when he heard the news, he stood in front of the TV and watched it.

"It's really too much?" His heart that had been paralyzed for a few days tightened up again, "What should I do?"

Li Suihan ignored him, he was on the phone on the balcony, Tao Zhuo stood and watched for a while, took the phone and wanted to ask about Tao Qiwei's situation.

Just after opening WeChat, An Yi shared a video in the group of the four of them, and sent three broken emoticons in succession.

Tao Zhuo clicked in, and there was a girl in white chasing the funeral car, crying for her mother.

The first hot comment has only one sentence: That's my mother

"Damn..." Tao Zhuo opened his mouth, squirmed on the sofa and sat down in the most comfortable position, and clicked down one by one along the entry.

He saw wild boars galloping across the bridge;

Seeing an old man walking alone with an accordion on the street;

I saw a whole family of five who died of infection at the Hubei Film Studio;

I saw people lined up several blocks late at night to buy masks, patients who were usually crowded in the hospital during the Spring Festival travel rush, and the endless queue of Hankou funeral parlors to collect ashes;

Seeing the death of his mother, the anti-epidemic doctor who could only bow and cry in the direction of home;

A child with cerebral palsy who saw his father taken away for isolation and died alone at home;

I saw my wife choked up and shouted to the wife who set off to aid the epidemic: I will definitely come back safely, my husband who does housework for a year;

I saw the note left by my mother to her child before she passed away: Living alone must be budget-friendly, buy things in small packages, and don’t exceed the expiration date;

Seeing the front-line medical staff who went to Xiaotangshan Hospital to support SARS, "If there is a war, they must be recalled" petition;

I saw sanitation old men and young men who left behind without leaving their money and masks, and the truck drivers who said, "Everyone is responsible for the national crisis" and spontaneously went to the front line to deliver supplies;

Seeing that the doctors at the designated hospitals were blocked at the door and refused to give supplies, they dared to stop CCTV reporters and gave priority to supplying 95 sets of N[-] masks to the Wuhan Red Cross Society of Putian Hospital;

Seeing Liu Zhiming, the director of Wuchang Hospital, died in the line of duty, his widow, Cai Liping, the head nurse of Wuhan Third Hospital, chased after him and cried loudly;

Seeing "engraved" in the empty and vast snow, "Farewell to Li Wenliang". [1]

...too much, too much.

"Damn..." Tao Zhuo didn't know when his toes started to hook. He swiped his phone with red eyes and muttered softly, "What are these..."

Gasping for breath and rubbing his face vigorously, he cleared his throat again, called home, and seriously emphasized the seriousness of the virus to his parents, and he must not take chances.

"Leave us alone." Mom's emotions were not too high, "Now even babies can be infected, you have to protect yourself, ah, tell mom if you need anything."

Tao Zhuo heard his father interject next to him, "Ask him if he wants to eat dumplings, and give him some."

"Hey, I won't eat it." Tao Zhuo's nose suddenly turned sour, and he said, "We're wrapping it up, you two don't miss me!"

"Okay, okay." Mom smiled, "You son of a bitch, I didn't even wash my own socks since I was a child, and I can make dumplings when I go out."

Tao Zhuo grinned guiltily, and then asked his mother, "How is my brother? I've been ignoring him when I send him WeChat messages these two days...Is Miss Tao okay?"

"Isn't it just worrying about Weiwei." My mother couldn't help sighing when she mentioned this, "I haven't been off work since the beginning of the year. If you say you are too busy, you can go to any department you can, so you just use people to block it." The point is that the hospital is short of things! Yesterday, your brother didn’t know where to find half a box of masks and sent it to her. He was dressed like an alien, and he didn’t even see your brother, so he asked him to put the box away. Just drive him away..."

"What kind of alien...that's protective clothing, you have to wear it like that." Tao Zhuo comforted his mother, "She was afraid that it would be unsafe for my brother to get close."

"Does your mother know?" My mother probably didn't dare to talk to Tao Zhen these days, she couldn't stop at the beginning, and then said: "She is not bad here, those My father and I couldn’t see those who went to Wuhan. They were all mothers, holding their children and weeping there. There were also some little girls, some younger than you, who were so miserable that they didn’t have time to eat. Eating, and getting infected... Your brother called Weiwei's parents yesterday, and the old couple said nicely that it's all right, so how could they not feel distressed."

In the video that Tao Zhuo had just watched, there was a nurse crying helplessly. As soon as his mother spoke, he had a sense of the picture, and his heart was blocked and uncomfortable.

"My brother must be so distressed." Tao Zhuowong said in a low voice.

"Can you not be distressed, where is the hospital now?" My mother blew her nose, "I still feel sorry for your brother, worrying about Weiwei and worrying about his shop, getting angry and not talking for a day, this is never seen Okay..."

When Li Suihan hung up the phone and came back, he saw Tao Zhuo crouching on the sofa with a sad face, his eyelids still wet.

"What's wrong?" He asked immediately.

"No, I watched a few videos." Tao Zhuo buried his face in Li Suihan's stomach, and Li Suihan patted his head.

"Can you make dumplings?" Tao Zhuo asked after burying himself for a while, holding his waist and raised his face.

The two tossed and tossed with the recipes they found on their mobile phones for more than an hour, and finally chopped the stuffing and mixed the noodles.

"Can this work?" Tao Zhuo doubtfully poked the dough with his finger, and it was all stringy, "So sticky?"

"Need to leaven." Li Suihan carefully added some flour according to the proportion of the recipe, wrapped the basin with plastic wrap, and let it rise.

Tao Zhuo was excited at the beginning, but he was exhausted after finishing. He didn't want to make dumplings any more, so he leaned on the sofa without moving, and sighed: "My mother is really not easy."

After he finished speaking, he paused, remembering that Tao Zhen was the head chef at home all these years, and corrected: "It's even more difficult for my brother."

Li Suihan poured him a glass of juice to drink, and Tao Zhuo patted the sofa to let him sit down, leaning on Li Suihan's legs, admiring his face with eyes.

"You said, after the isolation, I will suddenly take you home, can my mother accept it?" Tao Zhuo began to imagine.

"Do you still want 'Xinran'?" Li Suihan smiled.

Tao Zhuo let out an "ah", first he laughed along with it, and then the more he thought about it, the more amusing he became.

It's a bit too much, it's good for ordinary families to accept it, but he still wants to accept it, which is indeed a bit difficult for a strong mother.

"Then it's okay to accept it in general, and I will slowly ink it with her." Tao Zhuo retreated to the next best thing.

"I think, compared to whether your family can accept you to find a man, what needs to be accepted more is that the man is me." Li Suihan shook his head with a smile, "Find a tutor for my son, and find a lure into the house."

Tao Zhuo looked at him, and couldn't help laughing wildly again.

Tao Zhuo was silly for a while, Li Suihan touched his face, then touched the corners of his eyes and browbones, and said, "Are you really going to say it now? It will be the same in the future."

"Sooner or later, it will be the same in the future, so we should pick it out earlier," Tao Zhuo grabbed Li Suihan's hand and kissed him, "I don't want you to stand against the family by yourself, and I don't want my sister-in-law to stare at her in a panic all day long. I'm making a fuss."

Li Suihan pulled the corner of his mouth upwards, and asked again: "Aren't you afraid?"

"It's a bit hypocritical to say that I'm not panicking at all, but I'm really not scared at all." Tao Zhuo bent one leg and put his feet on his feet, "Didn't I tell you that my parents knew it well, they just pretended to be scared." I don't understand, my brother will definitely be on my side. Besides, Zhuo Qingqing has been completely scared by her this time, it doesn't matter if she finds a man or a woman... I have planned everything, so you can rest assured."

Li Suihan kissed him.

"I'm a little worried about little sister Tao and my brother." Tao Zhuo put his arms around Li Suihan's neck, recalled those videos and news, and sighed sadly, "Now I hope my sister-in-law can be well. "

Tao Zhuo was worried that he didn't know whether he should say "a word becomes a prophecy".

The "prophecy" is not infected with the new crown, but an application.

It was the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. Tao Zhuo was supposed to be on holiday until the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. He contacted his boss to inquire about the situation. The boss said that we should change it to start next month for the time being, and look back to see what the Ministry of Education said.

Tao Zhuo sent a tearful emoji to his boss, but he was a little happy in his heart. The annual leave was suddenly extended by a month, which is really beautiful.

Li Suihan's studio also had to be postponed. He called and sent emails at home every day, contacting investors and various partners. During the special period, everyone was very considerate and coordinated with each other.

When Tao Zhen called, Tao Zhuo was drawing the calendar to count the days with Li Suihan, saying that we will be quarantined on the 20th, and we will be able to go home just after Lichun, which is a good omen.

As soon as he finished speaking, he poked his finger and connected Tao Zhen's call.

"Zhao'er, call your sister-in-law," Tao Zhen said directly, his voice startled Tao Zhuo, "Both her parents and I can't persuade her anymore."

"What's wrong with her?" Tao Zhuo's heart skipped a beat, and Li Suihan also turned to look at him from the computer.

The sound of a lighter sounded from Tao Zhen's side, and Tao Zhuo could instantly imagine his tired expression, his throat tightened, and he didn't dare to urge him.

Exhaling the smoke, Tao Zhencai said in a hoarse voice: "She is going to Wuhan. The application she submitted last week must have been approved, so she told me today."

Tao Zhuo was stunned for a long time, he and Li Suihan looked at each other, and it took a long time before he uttered a blank sentence: "...ah."

作者有话要说：[1]：此处取材的所有事件源于微博，发生在不同时间段，为配合剧情将时间线糅合。其中红十字会事件发生于1月29日；李文亮医生牺牲于2月7日；刘智明医生殉职于2月18日。