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"Stinky boy, you dare to lie to me, you see how I can punish you!" Fang's mother twisted her son's ears and taught her viciously.

"Mom, I was wrong, I was so wrong! Be gentle, your ears are going to fall off!" Fang Xi kept begging for mercy, and in private desperately begged Father Fang for help.

Father Fang spread his hands coolly, and tried to persuade him hypocritically: "We are only one son, just don't beat him to death."

Fang Xi screamed: "Are you my real father?!"

"I'm not your real father?" Fang's father raised his eyebrows, "Just beat him to death, let's have another dear one."

"No, no, no dad! You are my dad!"

After a small beating, Fang Xi finally kept her ears, and sat on the chair with her mouth pursed.

"I don't know how to tell us about such a big matter. If I had known that I would have been hospitalized, I would have asked your dad to accompany you last night." Mother Fang complained, while quickly filling the lunch box with vegetables.

After the son came back in the morning, he told them what had happened. The couple were very angry, not because the son secretly took money to pay the hospital bills, but because he didn’t say anything. There is something that cannot be said and resolved together.If he had said it last night, his father would definitely go with him, and it would be more reassuring to have multiple adults help.

But scolded and scolded, and made trouble, the couple still let their son go, and got busy together.

Fang's father prepared a pack of clean towels and toiletries for him, and then transferred some money into the card. His parents were both in the hospital. How could a half-old child know what he needed, so they would help if they could.

Mother Fang cooks meals, patients can eat hospital meals, but children can't, they need to eat something nutritious to be able to take care of the two adults.

With difficulty, he declined Father Fang's request to go with him. Fang Xi went out with his bag and lunch box on his back, and stopped in to take a look as he passed the fruit shop.

"Boss, are there any apples that are a little bit bad?" He pointed at the apples piled up like a hill.

The boss patted his chest: "The apples I sell are definitely good. If you buy them back, if they are broken, come to me for replacement!"

Fang Xi scratched his face: "I don't mean that, I mean, I'll buy a bag of good ones to go back, can you give me a slightly bad one, overripe or bruised will do."

The boss picked out a bag of apples for him in a daze, then turned around and picked up a bad one from the discarded box. It wasn't that bad, but there was a black spot the size of a coin on the side.

He handed over the apple: "Is this okay?"

Fang Xi smiled shyly: "Is there a worse one?"

"……Have."

Fang Xi happily got on the bus, glanced at the half-broken apple in the bag, and grinned.This is an important prop, no one can do without it.

When we arrived at the hospital, Mother Ji had already woken up and was resting after eating the hospital meals.She was hit a bit hard yesterday, and now she can't walk around casually, and she still feels dizzy and nauseous when she sits up.

Ji Lingyang was sitting by the hospital bed, chatting with Ji's mother nonchalantly, judging by the look on his face, they probably didn't have a very happy chat.

Hearing Fang Xi calling him outside the door, Ji Lingyang greeted his mother, and immediately ran out of the ward: "Fang Xi, you're here."

After what happened yesterday, when Ji Lingyang saw Fang Xi, it was as if he saw the backbone. His eyes were shining brightly, making Fang Xi's deer bump around.He stuffed the bag containing the lunch box into Ji Lingyang's hand: "Eat it, my mother made it."

Ji Lingyang was not too polite, and he was ready to eat while sitting on the bench.

Fang Xi stopped him: "Go to your father's ward to eat."

"I'm not going." Ji Lingyang turned his face away, and raised his legs while holding the lunch box, with the virtue of "don't talk to me".

"Go if you tell me, your dad is still in a coma. If you don't want to look at him, turn your back and eat." Fang Xi dragged him up desperately, and persuaded him earnestly, "I stayed with you all night last night. It's your turn. And..." He leaned into Ji Lingyang's ear and whispered, "Don't you want Aunt Chen to divorce him? I can persuade you."

"Really?"

"It's still cooking! Hurry up!"

When Ji Lingyang slowly disappeared around the corner, Fang Xi rolled his eyes.This kid pretended not to care, but actually went to Father Ji's ward to watch it twice last night. He thought he fell asleep and didn't see it.

Fang Xi patted his clothes, raised his smiling face and pushed open the door of the ward: "Aunt Chen, good morning."

Mother Ji knew Fang Xi was coming just now, and when she saw him enter the door, she immediately struggled to sit up.

"Auntie, slow down." Fang Xi hurriedly put down her things, and put up a pillow for her to cushion her back.

Mother Ji looked at Fang Xi in front of her, and showed a kind smile: "Fang Xi, I really troubled you yesterday."

"It's okay, Ji Lingyang and I are classmates, so we should help."

Ji's mother didn't think this was what she should do. Fang Xi's help far exceeded what an ordinary classmate should do.She still clearly remembers the firm and tough expression on Fang Xi's face when he told the plan last night. He was not at all like a child who had just turned 18. He was only a few months older than Ji Lingyang, but he had such meticulous thoughts and almost Selfless heart.

"Fang Xi." Mother Ji looked at Fang Xi deeply, and sincerely thanked her, "Thank you last night, without you, we really don't know what to do."

Fang Xi chuckled, and secretly made a "shh" gesture: "This is the secret of the three of us, and we agreed not to tell anyone."

"En!" Mama Ji nodded solemnly.

"By the way, Auntie, do you eat apples? I bought some when I came here, but I don't know how to pick fruits, so I just picked a few. I don't know if it's good or not." Fang Xi silently apologized to the store owner in his heart, I'm sorry , I'm going to falsely accuse you of selling rotten apples.

"No, I just had breakfast, you can eat."

Fang Xi pretended to pick and choose in the bag for a long time, deliberately took out the half-broken apple, and turned the bad side in the direction of Ji's mother.

As expected, Mother Ji found out immediately, and she reminded: "This one is broken, please change it."

Fang Xi pretended to be annoyed: "Oh, there are really bad ones. Forget it, eat it if it's broken, and I'll go wash it."

After washing, Fang Xi asked the bed next door to borrow a fruit knife, dug out the overcooked parts from the trash can, and then peeled off the outer skin bit by bit, chatting while cutting, "Auntie, do you know ?Ripe apples will produce ethylene, a plant growth hormone that can increase the activity of many enzymes, increase cellulose and pectin, and promote immature fruits to become ripe.So everyone will put a ripe apple and a green banana together , it can turn bananas yellow in a few days."

Mother Ji listened with gusto, and couldn't help but praise: "You know a lot, no wonder Xiao Yang said that your grades are particularly good."

Fang Xi shyly rubbed his face with the back of his hand, and continued: "But overripe apples will produce a lot of ethylene. If you put a rotten apple with other good apples, all the apples will ripen faster until they all rot. So, When a rotten apple is found, it is best to isolate it from other fruits immediately, otherwise it will soon spread like a disease."

Fang Xi deftly bypassed the dug hole and peeled out a complete strip of apple peel.

The "pata" peel fell into the garbage bag.

Fang Xi held the thin and short handle to show the result to Mother Ji. There was no peel on the white and smooth apple.He proudly gnawed a piece, "Kacha Kacha" bit it into pieces and swallowed it, and said pointedly: "Auntie, apples are like this, so why not people?"

Mother Ji's expression changed, and she looked at Fang Xi.It was a slightly immature face, with a smile that was clearly harmless to humans and animals, but it seemed to carry endless deep meaning.She lowered her head and looked at her hands on the quilt. There was a shallow scar on the back of her left hand, which was scratched when Father Ji pushed her down a few years ago.She stroked the raised scar lightly, lost in thought.

Fang Xi gnawed at the apple in small bites, and sincerely hoped that Ji's mother would figure it out quickly. He sacrificed himself to eat the most hated apple. If it was useless, it would be a waste.

Fortunately, when he threw away the apple core and was about to pour a glass of water to rinse his mouth, Ji's mother suddenly laughed lightly, with a hint of self-mockery and relief in her laughter: "Yes, why are people not?" What, she looked at Fang Xi with a relaxed expression, and said slightly teasingly, "You child is really much smarter than Xiao Yang said."

Fang Xi knew his plan had been exposed as soon as he heard it, and he stuck out his tongue playfully.Anyway, I am just a "child", isn't it normal to persuade adults to be exposed?

The two of you look at me, I look at you, and smile at each other.

It just so happened that Ji Lingyang opened the door and came in. Seeing the unusually harmonious atmosphere between his mother and Fang Xi, he scratched his head in a daze, leaned over and asked, "Why are you talking so happily?"

Mother Ji glanced at her son's face, and pointed to her chin helplessly: "Xiao Yang, did you not wipe your mouth again?"

Ji Lingyang froze, and immediately touched his chins a few times indiscriminately, and opened his hands to look, but there was nothing.Noticing at a glance that Fang Xi was still covering his mouth and giggling, he raised his arm and wanted to wipe it with his sleeve.

Ji's mother quickly stopped him: "Xiao Yang, you..."

Before she could finish speaking, Fang Xi had already stepped forward to stop Ji Lingyang. He reached out his hand very naturally to shake off the rice grains stuck to his chin, flicked it into the trash can, and grabbed a piece of tissue to wipe Ji Lingyang's mouth.The moment he turned back, Fang Xi saw the surprise flashing across Ji's mother's face, he paused, diverted the paper halfway and stuffed the paper into Ji Lingyang's hand, mockingly said: "There is plenty of food, you don't have to keep it eat."

Ji Lingyang blushed and shouted: "Who, who stayed! Haven't you touched it before?"

"It probably happened ten years ago." Fang Xi raised one corner of his mouth.

Ji Lingyang became angry from embarrassment, and turned around to go out.

Fang Xi hurriedly grabbed him: "What are you running for?"

"I, I can't wash the lunch box!"

"Forget it, I'll go wash it." Fang Xi snatched the lunch box and pushed Ji Lingyang on the chair, "You guys chat, I'll come over later."

Fang Xi found a public sink, washed the lunch box with hand sanitizer, packed it up and returned to the inpatient department.Looking in through the glass, I found that the mother and son were chatting well, at least with a little smile on their faces, which was much better than before.He nodded reassuringly, turned and walked to Father Ji's ward.

There are four beds in this ward, and only one patient, Father Ji, lives there. Last night, Fang Xi made do with the bed next door.

In the morning, the nurse checked the room, but Ji's father still didn't move.Fang Xi checked his drip, put down his backpack after making sure that nothing happened, took out his vocabulary book and began to recite vocabulary.Time is so tight now, not to mention being a caregiver so leisurely, even if the sky falls, he has to find a tall person to squat next to him and review his homework.

Just as he was reciting vigorously, Father Ji on the bed suddenly moved, as if waking up suddenly, he stretched his hand upwards, then opened his eyes, and called out in a daze: "Liyu..."

Fang Xi rang the pager on the bedside quickly.

Soon the doctor rushed over, Fang Xi hid behind and watched them go through the examination. After confirming that Father Ji was fine, the doctor gave some precautions, and then left.

Only then did Fang Xi return to the bed, looking at Father Ji who was still a little confused, he greeted him friendly: "Uncle Ji, are you okay?"

Father Ji gave him a confused look, and asked, "Who are you?"

"Ah, I'm Ji Lingyang's classmate, and my name is Fang Xi."

"Fang Xi?" Father Ji thought for a while, as if he had never heard of this name.

Obviously, I was called to school because I had a fight with Ji Lingyang, so I don't remember how long it took.Fang Xi shook his head in his heart.

Father Ji really couldn't remember, he touched his head, felt the gauze wrapped on it, seemed to remember something, and asked, "Where is Ling Yang, where is he?"

"Ji Lingyang is accompanying his mother in the ward downstairs."

"What ward? What's wrong with Liyu?" Father Ji was a little confused, he only remembered that he drank too much alcohol and seemed to have an argument with his son, and things became unclear afterwards.

Fang Xi pretended to be surprised and said, "Uncle, don't you remember? Last night you quarreled with Ji Lingyang, he ran to me in a bad mood, and I went home with him. When I got home, I found that you had injured Aunt Chen I also stepped on an empty bottle and fell to the ground and hurt my head, Ji Lingyang was so frightened that I was the one who called the ambulance to take you to the hospital."

Father Ji covered his head and tried hard to recall, but his mind was in chaos, only a few vague fragments flashed by.As if he noticed something from these clips, he calmed down and looked at Fang Xi suspiciously: "Did Li Yu tell you so?"

Fang Xi lowered his face, raised the corner of his mouth mockingly, and shook his head slowly: "No, I told her so."