Shen Yi

It didn't take a moment to be drowned by the noisy voices around, and the person called was bound to not hear it.

Return to the old place, meet the old man again ([-])

Jian Ying noticed something strange in the house as soon as she entered the door.

Although everything is neatly placed in a reasonable position, the empty melon and fruit trays and empty glass vases are very unpopular; the kitchen separated by the bar is cleaned spotlessly, and the spatulas and drying boxes hanging on the wall The water pockets of the sofas all show that they have not been used for a long time; the seats beside the dining table are all placed in the innermost position, and the bed curtains in front of the glass wall behind the sofa are drawn tightly so that no light can penetrate.

He felt like he had entered a well-decorated high-end villa for sale, everything was exquisite, except for the deserted atmosphere that came over his face.

This is not at all what a house with a warm family of three should look like.

Jian Ying stood at the door in a daze, her gaze circled around the room, and finally landed on the quietly standing shoe cabinet at the entrance.As if to confirm the absurd conjecture deep in his heart, except for the bottom layer which is still wrapped in a transparent plastic bag and is always ready for new slippers for visitors, only the top two layers of this shoe cabinet made of high-grade wood are now being used. Gone are the colorful but low-key elegant high heels and sneakers with loose laces, only a few pairs of dark crocodile leather shoes that have been dusty, and slippers whose heels were flattened by him.

He took out his slippers and put them on.

Not paying attention to the familiar yet unfamiliar furnishings in the living room, Jian Ying went upstairs with her luggage.

It's hard to say whether his room was as clean and tidy as expected. The clean floor and desk all confirmed that someone cleaned it regularly for him here, but the dull air indicated that the windows hadn't been opened for ventilation for a while.

But he has no time to care about these at the moment.

After putting down his luggage, he was about to turn around and go out, but his eyes suddenly fell on the closed door opposite him.

Jian Ying walked over and opened the door with some hesitation. What he saw was a single bed with only a plank, an empty desk and bookcase; the floor was covered with a thick layer of white dust; The door opened suddenly and flew in all directions, causing him to cover his mouth and nose to prevent the other party from intruding.

The room was filled with the unpleasant smell of not opening the windows all the year round, even worse than his room.

Jian Ying finally began to feel unspeakable panic in his heart. It was a feeling of powerlessness caused by things that completely exceeded his expectations. Compared with when the instructor forced him to run ten laps when he first arrived at the military academy, his vision was distorted under the scorching sun. Especially when it seems like there will never be an end.

He almost rushed to the door of the master bedroom, but he could only be more desperate to find that the middle-aged version of the wedding photo that was so obvious before had been taken down at some point, and there was only a sudden whiter piece on the white wall. rectangle.

In the closet that is not fully closed by the wall next to the door, there is no need to check whether there are only men's oversized suits and shirts left like the shoe cabinet in the entrance.

Jian Ying raised her feet awkwardly and walked to the innermost part of the room step by step, then sat down cross-legged next to the bed board and the bedside table.Following the habit of the stern-eyed man in his memory, he opened the bottom drawer of the bedside table with slightly trembling hands.

Without deliberately looking for Jian Ying, he easily found the red book. The four gold-plated characters on the cover severely burned the eyes of this man who was born in the army.

divorce certificate.

His father is divorced again.

When did this happen?

Why didn't anyone tell him?

The man who thought this way suddenly realized that he didn't seem to have any position to blame his father after not contacting the family once for several months.It was because he didn't give others a chance to tell him the news.

Maybe his dad was sadder than him.

And when Jian Ying opened the red hard cover and saw the printed time under the photos of men and women stamped with stencils, the man realized that he might have done something that he could never forgive himself.

My father divorced within a month of leaving home for military school.

This means that almost as soon as he walked out of the house, his father encountered almost the same thing as him at that time, and he was like a coward, relying on the military academy's regulations on confiscating communication tools, he found a reason to put I hid it properly, as if avoiding all the troubles of the world.

He thought there were still four people in this family, so he made up his mind and never came back once in five years.

Every New Year's Eve, he and a few comrades in the cafeteria and dormitory drank beer and got drunk, thinking that it would be okay without him in this family, but it turned out that his father was alone.

He thought that what he did was to allow his father to have a complete family, but it turned out that what he kept saying was just an excuse for him not to see Jiang Chenyi again.

Jian Ying, you are a selfish coward!

Putting the almost hot divorce certificate back in the drawer, Jian Ying turned on the phone without delay.

During the ten or so seconds of waiting for the machine to turn on, he had several words brewing in his mind.

It's just that he didn't expect that when he dialed the phone on the short number, the deep and majestic voice he answered was not the deep and majestic voice he imagined.

"Hey?"

"...Uncle Liu? Where's my dad? Is he in a meeting?"

"Aying? Are you back?" Liu Jing's voice passed through the phone, but revealed a little tiredness amidst surprises.

"Well, I'm already home." Jian Ying felt a little uneasy for some reason.

The other party was silent for a while before speaking again: "Actually, your father is hospitalized, don't worry, I..."

Jian Ying suddenly felt that Liu Jing's rambling voice on the other end of the signal was not so real when it was far away and near.

Jian Ying was a little confused for a moment.

Even more at a loss than meeting Jiang Chenyi at the airport.

In my impression, his father has always been in good health, why did he suddenly get sick and be hospitalized?

He looked at the photo his father put on the bedside table when he was repeating high school at the school gate. The middle-aged man had slightly white temples, and dense wrinkles piled up at the corners of his eyes when he laughed.It turned out that his father was no longer young, no longer the superman who could ride on his neck and run fast when he was a child.But he is still ignorant. During the rebellious period, in order to hide the loneliness in his heart, he caused troubles for his father and kept threatening to become a "evil young man".He used to think his father was strict, but he didn't realize what it meant for him to go home before ten o'clock every night to supervise his homework review even though he was busy in the company every day.

He can never see what he has gained, so he always feels that he is losing.

Jian Ying regained her voice: "Which hospital is it? I'll rush there now."

"It has been transferred to a nursing home in the suburbs. It is not easy for you to take a taxi at this time. I will send someone to pick you up."

"Okay. Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Liu. Also, thank you for taking care of my dad all the time."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, but when he spoke again, the tone of voice was much lighter: "Oh, you boy, what are you talking about..."

It was nearly six o'clock when he arrived in the northern suburbs in the car arranged by Liu Jing, but after all, the days are long in summer, and it's not completely dark yet.The withered and yellow grass in the distance in the suburbs and the red and yellow clouds in the sky are perfectly connected, and the warm wind is warm, and Jian Ying feels that she has relaxed a lot in her heart.

Liu Jing was wearing a suit and was waiting for him at the door of the inpatient building, looking tired as expected.It is conceivable that his father is hospitalized. As the special assistant to the director, Liu Jing must be running on both sides of the company hospital these days.

As soon as Jian Ying got out of the car, he came up to meet her, and finally there was a bit of joy in his expression.

Jian Ying called out politely: "Uncle Liu."

Liu Jing looked him up and down in relief, and affirmed with a smile: "I've grown up, and I'm more energetic." The boy who always played truant and asked him to find him back home has finally faded after five years of tempering in the military academy. The green and immature, grown into a manly youth.

Seeing Liu Jing, Jian Ying obviously also thought of those absurd things she had done in the past, and felt a little embarrassed touching her short, crew cut hair that hadn't grown out yet.

"Uncle Liu, why did my dad suddenly go to the hospital? How is it now?"

"Your father is too tired from work. A few days ago, there was a project to discuss a joint venture. Your father and several directors stayed up almost all night. After the end, he was exhausted and passed out. After being sent to the hospital, it was found that a lump had grown next to the liver. Luckily, the tumor is benign, so I will have surgery after a few days when my body recovers better."

"What kind of joint venture requires the chairman to stay up all night in person? Uncle Liu, there won't be any problems with our company, right?"

"What nonsense! It's just related to the issue of listing, so the director wants to pay more attention-but since you are back now, it's time for you to get in touch with the company's affairs-your father should also have the same meaning, wait for you If dad tells you something, you have to think about it carefully. After all, your dad is getting old now, and the only thing he can count on is you, his son. "

"Uncle Liu, my father and Aunt Jiang..."

"Since you've been home, you should have found out. Your father wanted to wait for you to come back and tell you, but he didn't expect..."

Jian Ying gritted her teeth.

The two quickly walked outside the ward where Jian's father was.

"Go in and have a good chat with your dad." Liu Jing patted him on the shoulder, turned around and sat on the bench outside the ward, and silently took out a cigarette from the inner pocket of his suit.

Jian Ying glanced at Liu Jing's haggard face and the blue dark circles under her eyelids. After a moment of silence, she raised her hand and knocked twice symbolically on the white door in front of her, and opened it straight away.

"dad……"

Sitting on the bed wearing presbyopic glasses looking at a thick stack of documents