Can't Save the World by Pretending to be Dead

When Lian Xi led Uncle Li back home, his roommate was sitting on the sofa in the living room playing games.

"Hide the dream in the leaves, or the dream will be broken~"

The sweet voice of the girl with antlers came from the sound hole of the mobile phone. Hearing the sound of the door opening, Jichen looked up.When his eyes touched the middle-aged man who followed Lian Xi into the house, he paused slightly.

Oh?

Mr. Xi glanced lightly, did not comment, and continued to play the game with his head down.

Lian Xi introduced: "Uncle Li, this is my roommate, and I share the house." Then he said to Jichen, "This is Uncle Li, an old neighbor I met on the road, I invite him to come back for dinner. dinner."

Heiwuchang didn't lift his head: "Oh."

Uncle Li rubbed his head with a dry smile: "Xiao Lian, your roommate... has quite a personality."

He has always been so defiant and has a very low EQ, you understand... He complained in his heart, Lian Xi carried two big snakeskin bags into the kitchen, Uncle Li squatted down, untied the snakeskin bags, and started to take things out.

"This corn was just planted this summer. It's all waxy corn. You can cook it in a steamer. It's delicious."

"I bought this rapeseed oil at the market this morning. Hehe, this year my family has saved more than 30 catties at the pumping place. If you still want to eat it in the future, Xiao Lian, tell Uncle Li, and Uncle Li will give it to you. send it here."

"Oh yes, and this..."

……

A large bag of glutinous corn tied with thick hemp rope, and rapeseed oil in a large white plastic pot...

Uncle Li took out one by one, and soon filled the floor.Lian Xi listened silently, he would take whatever Uncle Li took.I want to say a lot, but I don't know what to say.Finally, Uncle Li finished taking most of the snakeskin bag, clapped his hands on his trousers, and stood up: "That's all, it's all for you."

Lian Xi put the rapeseed oil into the kitchen cabinet and stood up: "There's too much, why don't you take some away."

Uncle Li smiled and said, "I still have a lot of them, all for my eldest and second son. You see, there are so many more."

Seeing the honest and simple smiling face of the middle-aged man, Lian Xi was silent for a moment, then laughed: "Yeah. Then I'll make you a stir-fry and a bowl of noodles?"

"Okay."

Two dishes were fried and three bowls of noodles were ordered.

Lian Xi called Ji Chen and Uncle Li, and the three of them sat at the dining table and ate together.

Halfway through the meal, Lian Xi hesitated for a while, and said to Ji Chen: "It's getting late, it's almost nine o'clock, I want Uncle Li to stay for the night."

Uncle Li stopped holding the chopsticks, he shook his head hastily: "It's okay, I'll leave later."

Lian Xi: "The last bus here is at nine o'clock, so even if you go down now, you probably won't be able to catch up. Otherwise, it's okay, I'll call you a taxi."

Uncle Li's eyes widened: "How can I do it, my second child's house is far away from your place, and taxis are too expensive."

Lian Xi: "Then you can stay with me for one night first."

Uncle Li: "This..."

Seeing that Uncle Li had been persuaded, Lian Xi looked at his roommate again.I saw my roommate was swiping her phone while eating noodles, as if she didn't feel that the topic just now had something to do with her.Lian Xi coughed, "Jianchen."

"Huh?" Ji Chen looked up at him.

Lian Xi: "Well, I want Uncle Li to sleep in your room."

The movement of eating noodles stopped abruptly, and Jichen raised an eyebrow.

Oh open?

Lian Xi took a deep breath and explained: "Su Jiao's house has not been lived in for a long time, and it has not been ventilated and cleaned. I have to live broadcast at night." Although I am late, "It will definitely be inconvenient to broadcast live, and it will disturb Uncle Li." Sleep. So... can he sleep in your room?"

Jichen: "You want to broadcast live?"

"Correct."

"Playing games live?"

"...Yes." It feels weird.

"Take me one."

"..."

Lian Xi smiled and said, "Okay."

Ji Chen raised the corners of his lips, nodded in satisfaction, turned his head to the bewildered Uncle Li and said, "You sleep in my room."

Uncle Li said in a daze, "Um, good."

***

After eating, Uncle Li took the initiative to clean up the dishes.Seeing that Uncle Li was about to wash the dishes with the rag, Lian Xi hurriedly stopped him: "Uncle Li, I have a dishwasher. Leave it there, and I'll clean it up tomorrow."

"Oh, the dishwasher?"

"Correct."

"Oh good." The middle-aged man from the countryside put the rag back in a sly voice.

Jichen's room was the smallest among the three, but for him, it was enough.Because Lian Xi never saw him sleep.After helping Uncle Li move the luggage to the room, he tidied up a little.Lian Xi smiled and said, "Good night, go to bed early."

Uncle Li nodded to him: "Okay, Xiao Lian, you go to bed early, too."

The door clicked shut.

It was already ten o'clock in the evening when Lian Xi walked back to his room.As soon as he entered the door, Hei Wuchang pulled up a chair early and sat at his computer desk.The corner of Lian Xi's mouth twitched slightly, and Jichen looked up at him: "Take me to play games?"

Lian Xi smiled slightly: "Okay."

The live broadcast lasted until 12 o'clock in the morning, and the two turned off the game, still feeling a little unfulfilled.

"What is the anti-addiction system?"

Lian Xi: "..." I'm just guarding against someone like you who is good at playing and likes to play!

Lian Xi made up his mind, don't let Mr. Xi know that this game can still play a trumpet!The tuba is anti-addicted, but the trumpet can continue to play.Never let him know!

The two put on their coats and went out to catch ghosts.

When he reached the door of Uncle Li's room, Lian Xi tiptoed open the door a crack.I saw the hazy moonlight shining into the room through the window, Uncle Li lying on the bed seemed to have fallen asleep, quietly, without a sound.

After closing the door, the two pushed the door open.

After entering the elevator, the two lowered their heads to play with their phones.At first glance, they looked like two ordinary young people, but no one would have guessed that this would turn out to be the impermanence of Su Cheng.

"Is that your relative?"

Lian Xi was taken aback for a moment, then turned to look at his colleague.

A few seconds passed.

"No, it was my former neighbor."

Ji Chen put away his phone, looked up at him, and was about to say "You are not as nice to him as a normal neighbor", before he could say anything, he saw Lian Xi helplessly laughing under the cold and bright elevator lights, The voice was gentle and calm: "After all my family members passed away, no relatives would want me, so I entered the orphanage. Uncle Li's family has two sons. It is impossible for him to take care of me, but he visits me in the orphanage every month. "

Thinking of the old days, every day is as if in front of you.Lian Xi said: "Every year on my birthday, he would bring me a small cake. I was the first in the class in the final exam, and he would remember it and even buy me snacks as a reward. He doesn't want anything in return, he is just simple Good people, look at me poorly."

"So he is not my relative, but my family."

Looking at the young man with bright eyes in front of him, for some reason, Jichen watched quietly for a while.After a long time, he said, "But he may not live long."

The smile froze on his face, Lian Xi turned his head and looked at him: "What did you say?"

Ji Chen gently tapped Lian Xi's abdomen with his hand.His slender fingertips poked a small round hole out of his clothes, and Hei Wuchang looked calm: "Hei Wuchang, here, is different from normal humans."

Early the next morning.

When Uncle Li got up, it was just dawn.

Old people always like to go to bed early and get up early, his wife died early, and his two sons grew up to have their own families.He was alone in the country without a wife, and he got up before dawn every day.I got up late today.

When he went out, Uncle Li thought that Lian Xi and Ji Chen must not have woken up yet.

Young people are like that, staying up until midnight every night, and sleeping until noon the next day.Uncle Li thought in his heart and told Xiao Lian that he couldn't sleep so late in the future, and he would regret it when he got old.Just as he was thinking, when he opened the door, a burst of fragrant porridge came to his face.

Eh?

Uncle Li froze in place.At this time, I saw Lian Xi coming out of the kitchen with two bowls of porridge.Seeing that he was awake, Lian Xi greeted him: "Have some porridge, Uncle Li, I will take you to the hospital after drinking."

Uncle Li opened his mouth and did not move for a long time.

……

"Well, I have had my disease checked in the hospital in the town, and I know it."

At the restaurant table, the three of them were drinking porridge together, and Uncle Li was talking with a smile.

"Liver cancer, the doctor said it was in the early stage. I was working in the field last week, and I suddenly felt a stomachache and was sent to the hospital by my neighbor. The stomachache was actually from eating bad food, but it was found out by the way. I haven't told my son yet. , This time I came to the city, I just wanted to tell them, and then go to the big hospital to check."

Lian Xi clenched the spoon tightly: "Why didn't you tell me?"

Uncle Li looked up at him, subconsciously said: "You are not my son."

Lian Xi was stunned.

Uncle Li went on to say: "The doctor said that I was diagnosed with this disease early, so I'm fine. Maybe after I go to the big hospital in the city for an examination, the doctor will cut it for me directly, and I'll be fine."

Even Xi didn't know much about cancer, but he thought of someone.After sending a WeChat consultation to the other party, the other party returned a message soon.

[Wang Zihao: The onset of liver cancer is generally very fast, with an average of about two years from the early stage to the late stage, but if it is handled well, it is possible to live for more than ten years.What's the specific condition of your relative? Let's go to our hospital for an examination.Ask him to bring all the films he took at the township hospital with him.There is a chief expert in the oncology department this morning. Come at nine, and I will give you a number. 】

[Lian Xi: Thank you so much! 】

Without further ado, after breakfast, Lian Xi immediately took Uncle Li to the park hospital.

When we arrived at the hospital, Uncle Li was still a little unhappy: "Hey Xiaolian, why did you take me to the hospital? I came to look for my son. I just ask my son to take me there."

However, Lian Xi shook his head and said, "That expert will only see you this morning this month, so I'll call your son and ask them to come over."

Uncle Li's expression changed, and he said, "Then... OK, I'll call him."

Uncle Li's eldest son drives a long-distance truck, and he and his wife have gone out of town to run a truck these days, and are not in Sioux City.His second son is a salesman, and he gave birth to a grandson who lives in Suzhou High-tech Zone.

However, for some reason, Uncle Li called his second son several times, but no one answered.

At this moment, an intern in a white coat came over.With his hands in the pockets of his white coat, Wang Zihao handed the obtained expert number to Lian Xi.He swept his gaze, and suddenly saw Mr. Xi standing aside, bowing his head and playing with his mobile phone.

Suddenly, there was a pain in the forehead, as if something had hit him hard on the head.

Doctor Wang touched his forehead with a strange expression.

Strange, how come I feel a headache when I see this man.

Sensing Dr. Wang's gaze, Jichen slowly moved his eyes away from the phone screen and glanced at him.

Oh, that living soul.

The first "customer" of the white jade seal.