REMIX

On Lunar New Year's Eve, she and I braved the bleak winter rain to go to the city's special maternal and child health hospital for a comprehensive and systematic physical examination.

I chose a hospital for a long time, consulted and inquired for several days, and finally chose an old-fashioned hospital known for its authority, with strong medical resources, and more reliable medical check-ups.Five days before New Year's Eve, we closed the coffee shop and informed customers that it would reopen after the fourth day of the Lunar New Year; the work was suspended and there was plenty of time, and everything was carried out cautiously and confidentially. It matters.

——But I can't accept the reality no matter what.

On such a day, the number of people in the hospital is still unabated. The incandescent tubes in the hall are yellow with time, and the turbid smell of the crowd and the smell of disinfectant are mixed together, which makes me feel tight in my chest.If you walk carelessly, you will encounter old and young women and children. Most of them are husbands and wives who come for a check-up. Occasionally, one will look at me harmlessly when I borrow it.The presence of men in my age group is particularly abrupt, and the style of painting is strange.

I asked Xia Jie to sit and wait in the rest area, and I went to the registration window to line up for her. There were several couples in front of me. A tall and strong man supported his wife with disabilities, or a mother-to-be, and carefully protected her with his hands. Protruding abdomen to avoid bumps.

I couldn't help but look back at Xia Jie.

The people coming and going in and out of the hospital gate blocked my sight several times. I watched the thin woman sitting there. There was no one on the seats on either side of her. She looked lonely and held a piece of pregnancy test paper in her hand—— This is the result of her self-assessment the day before yesterday, and it was in the palm of her hand when she came from home.

It wasn't until she came out of the consulting room that she threw it away, and threw it in the trash can covered with a black plastic bag in the hospital corridor.

"Well, I'm pregnant."

She looked down at me, her dark hair hanging down her cheeks.

Since some physical examination items required men to avoid suspicion, I was replaced by me and waited for her in the corridor. When she took the test sheet to do various examinations, I was hesitating how to tell Zhou Jingyang the news.

Should it be said that there is no coincidence without a book?

She yanked me off the bench and made me stagger after her.

"How to do?"

"What else can I do?" She opened the umbrella, walked into the cold and dense rain outside, took out the half pack of cigarettes in the pocket of her jacket, stared at it for a moment, and threw it into the trash can again.

"Be born."

Xia Jie is 34 years old this year. She is a veritable old woman. According to the doctor, pregnancy at this age is already risking harm to her body.

What's more, there is a life in her belly, no one can deprive a woman of the right to be a mother, just like before the child is born, no one has the right to decide whether he will stay or not.

I think it's worth talking about.

"pregnant."

On the morning of New Year's Eve, I went to Gong Junye's site to look for him. In that luxurious pawn shop, I called him and Zhou Jingyang to sit on the same sofa, and passed Xia Jie's laboratory test along the coffee table. one.

"yours."

The room was silent for a moment, and even Zhou Jingyang's breathing could hardly be heard. When he sat, his expression was dignified, his shoulders were straight, his neck was neck and waist was waist. Laughing on all fours, he became dazed: "Hahahahahahaha, yes, Lao Zhou! You hit it with one shot!"

I kicked him hard under the table.Although I feel a little distressed about the pair of handmade leather shoes with a four-digit price.This prodigal old man.

In just a second, as if he had pulled off that face just now and threw it away, he sat upright and took a sip of tea, and said loudly, "Jingyang."

Zhou Jingyang seemed to be brought back to life by his shouting, his face turned completely pale, and his lips moved in agreement, "...Yes, young master."

"Remember what the rules are in our line of business."

He was wearing a black turtleneck today, like the evil villain in European and American action movies, with his right hand on his knee resting his chin, and his left hand caught off guard and pulled out a knife from behind.He is very good with knives, at the level of a superb practitioner, although I seldom have the opportunity to see him, he doesn't like to perform these in front of me very much; Throwing it upwards, the blade turned around, and the handle of the knife pointed at Zhou Jingyang.

"Pay back money if you owe money, pay for life by murder, and exchange for the same value." He said, "You choose."

From just now, I was worried that with Zhou Jingyang's single-minded personality, I would be overwhelmed, and I really planned to "one life for one life", but he took the knife and placed it firmly on the eye-catching knife. on the test sheet.

"...whether you are an adult or a child," he said, "leave it to me."

Xia Jie is not in the mood to see Zhou Jingyang for the time being.

Together with the unformed little life in her belly, the "three people" celebrated the Spring Festival.It's an incredible experience to think about.She has another person's heartbeat in her body, she will be like the aunt in the hospital, her belly grows bigger day by day, her walk slows down, and she needs someone to protect her all the time—I have to protect her well.

Fortunately I grew up.

At the beginning of pregnancy, there was no change in body shape, but the symptoms the doctor talked about were fulfilled one by one: she began to get tired easily, absent-minded, and would suddenly rush to the bathroom to vomit in the middle of a meal, even if she loved it very much. The food to eat; I stayed at home during the Chinese New Year, and it took me a lot of hard work to drag her out of the house, and I was often distracted.

It's time to open the shop on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. The night before, I hid in my bedroom on the second floor and called Gong Junye. Thinking about the future, I was very worried. "Then, should they get married?"

"It's better like this." He said, "So what? We don't have to leave."

I wondered for a long time whether I hadn't turned this corner.

"Honestly," he sighed, "If Si Jun knows that Zhou Jingyang has become my father-in-law, he can point to this and laugh until next year. If I don't call, let's say it first, don't even think about it."

I get it, but it's even more frustrating.

After hanging up the phone, I went downstairs to get two books to read before going to bed. I saw that Xia Jie was also answering the phone in the living room. The call was from a landline. She stood by the wall without speaking or moving, and she held the receiver in her hand. , I hung up before I got to her.

I asked her, who is it?She said she didn't know, she made a mistake.

It took you so long to pick up the wrong call.

She looked at me and smiled like a silly little girl.