Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

Look, you guys look about the same age.Besides, you brought him here. If you want to be hospitalized, you have to take him to the hospital. We don’t provide hospitalization services here. "

Before Xu Rui had time to distinguish, the nurse dragged him to Lin Pai's side.The two sat in silence for more than ten minutes. Lin Pai's bottle finally bottomed out. The nurse skillfully removed the needle and asked Xu Rui to hold it for him.

Before leaving, the nurse looked at his watch and said to Xu Rui, "We still have [-] minutes before getting off work. You should take him home first, and he should wake up at night."

Xu Rui pressed Lin Pai's hand in a daze, and could only watch the nurse leave.

He patted Lin Pai's face, but the other party didn't respond at all, so he took out his mobile phone from the right trouser pocket with his left hand, and sent a sentence in the group: He is not awake yet, the hospital won't let him stay, I want to call the police ?

Zhou Ning immediately said in the group: You can't call the police, Brother Rui, if he really came to touch porcelain, wouldn't you deliver it to your door?

Fu Yanye: Although, but this time I stand with Zhou Ning;

Zhou Ning: Thank you perfunctory brother!

Fu Yanye: Don't call Xu Rui's ridiculous nickname!

Zhou Ning: Good perfunctory brother!

Xu Rui: Damn, you guys still have to be shameless, shut up for me;

Xu Rui put away the phone, he let go of Lin Pai's hand and waited for a few seconds, it seemed that he would not bleed any more, so according to the experience just now, he carried Lin Pai on his back again, and picked up the plastic bag containing the medicine bag, go outside.

Before Xu Rui left, he looked up at the alarm clock hanging on the wall of the hall. It had been 6 minutes since the nurse said he was off work. He weighed Lin Pai, turned and left the hospital.

Not long after walking out, the sound of locking the two large iron doors of the hospital sounded.

He thought to himself, these 6 minutes were probably all the goodwill of Heshan Town.

Xu Rui carried Lin Pai home, except for the inconvenience, he had no other concerns.His mother, He Hui, was almost never at home at night, either going out to dinner with messy friends, or going to so-and-so's house in the town to gamble.Throughout the year, the two of them exchanged the most money.

Xu Rui threw Lin Pai on the old sofa, the sofa was not long enough, and the armrest on the other side just touched Lin Pai's knee bend.

He picked up the remote control and pressed it a few times, and "Crayon Shin-chan" began to play on the old-fashioned TV. He made himself a bowl of instant noodles again, sat at the dining table and ate it, and saw something funny. Will follow with a smirk.

Halfway through eating instant noodles, someone knocked on the door outside.Immediately afterwards, Xu Rui heard someone calling He Hui's name.

He ignored it at first, but the people outside were persistent, so Xu Rui yelled at the door, "She's not here."

"It's Ruirui, do you know where your mother is?"

The woman's voice was sharp and high-pitched, and Xu Rui wanted to shout at her from across the air. Concerned that there was a sick patient lying next to her, he put down his chopsticks impatiently, got up and opened the door, and said to the middle-aged woman outside irritably, "I don't know, you should call her if you have anything to do."

Before the woman could reply, Xu Rui had already slammed the door with a "bang".

Before he could sit down at the dining table, the phone at home rang again. Usually, Fu Yanye and the others always used their mobile phones, and he could use his toes to figure out that it was He Hui who could call the landline at home.

"Hello, what are you doing?" Xu Rui answered the phone placed on the dining table.

"Oh, thank God, you are at home tonight..." He Hui's background sound was very noisy, men and women's voices, laughter, and yelling were intertwined, and even the smell of cigarettes in the narrow room seemed to pass through the telephone wires , stimulating Xu Rui's eardrum.

Xu Rui simply interrupted He Hui's nonsense, and urged, "Say something quickly."

"Is this the way you talk to your mother!" He Huiba said this sentence in a high voice, and then seemed to lower the volume suddenly, and said nicely, "I'm at Uncle Liu's house in Zhenkou, you can give me some Money here, bad luck tonight, I have to win back what I lost..."

"No time." Xu Rui hung up the phone without thinking.

The phone rang one after another, Xu Rui wanted to unplug the phone line directly, thinking that if He Hui came back to pick it up by himself, then he would have to ask the person on the sofa again, so he answered the phone again under balance, but he was helpless asked, "Where's the money?"

"It's in the pillow case of the pillow on the bed in my room. Take it all." He Hui said boldly, then remembered something, and told Xu Rui threateningly, "Don't try to steal it. I remember exactly how many cents there are.”

"Understood." Xu Rui hung up the phone impatiently.

With long legs, he ran upstairs to He Hui's room, took the pillow on the bed and shook it, and immediately found the position of a stack of banknotes, and there was even a jingle of several steel coins colliding together.

Part of this money was won by He Hui from gambling occasionally, and most of it was paid by his father for child support. Except for the annual tuition fee, He Hui took all the rest of the money for herself.

Xu Rui hesitated for a moment, but instead of taking out the money, he took the pillow and went out to ride his bicycle.

Not long after Xu Rui rode out, Lin Pai on the sofa turned over and almost fell to the ground, leaving only one leg hanging on the sofa.

Lin Pai knocked his head, leaned on the sofa and sat back, the next episode of "Crayon Shin-chan" was already on the TV, half of the instant noodles were left on the dining table, and there was a circle of stripped noodles next to it. The orange peel, I didn't have time to throw it away, the greasy smell mixed with the greenness of the orange peel, seemed to be mixed with some kind of hormone in the air.

4. Chapter 4

It gets dark late in August, and the sky is still slightly bright at night, and the cicadas on both sides of the road are clamoring for the hot and humid summer.

Xu Rui relied on the road to see clearly, and rode the bicycle very fast, and the street scenes on the left and right receded as if he had pressed the accelerator button.

He thought about cutting his hair short before, but he didn't really cut it because he liked the feeling that even the strands of his hair flew up when he ran, but his coach couldn't allow a track and field athlete to have an artist's long hair, so he His hair isn't much longer than Bunny's.

Xu Rui saw He Hui looking around from a distance, she had already been waiting at the gate of Lao Liu's house early.

Xu Rui pressed the brake, stretched his legs and tapped on the ground to stop the bicycle not far from He Hui, pulled out a pillow from the back seat and threw it over.

He Hui leaned back to catch the pillow, unzipped the pillowcase hastily, touched the money inside, and complained to Xu Rui, "You are sick, I want you to take the money Bring the whole pillow!"

Xu Rui shrugged indifferently and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will steal the money? Just bring it to you intact."

"You can't steal money if you bring the pillow here?"

Not to be outdone, He Hui stuffed all the banknotes she had found into her pockets. She fumbled around for a while before realizing that all the money inside had been taken away, so she raised her head and asked Xu Rui to take the pillow back.

Xu Rui had already turned his bicycle in a different direction while she was touching the money, thinking that He Hui was very shrewd at this time, "You might as well leave a pillow and sleep here."

"If you say you are sick, you are really sick..." He Hui yelled at him, and threw the pillow to him again, "Hurry up and take it back to me."

As soon as Xu Rui stepped on his foot, the bicycle rushed forward without looking back. He Hui's pillow missed him, and fell to the ground in a gray shape. .

The sound gradually weakened, Xu Rui had disappeared on his bicycle, He Hui stomped his feet angrily, and finally the people in the room picked up the pillow for her.

It took Xu Rui only 10 minutes to go back and forth, just in time for Lin Pai to close the door from outside the house.

The incandescent lamps used at home are still from earlier years, and the warm light came out from the crack in the door, only illuminating half of Lin Pai's face.

Lin Pai watched Xu Rui park his bicycle aside and lock it, then stared blankly at Xu Rui walking towards him. He let go of the door handle and let the way out, and said to Xu Rui who entered the door, "I I left my mobile phone number on the table, and my mobile phone and money were left on the basketball court, so if you call me when the time comes, I will pay you back."

Xu Rui walked straight into the house as if Lin Pai didn't exist, and stopped at the door until Lin Pai spoke, and when Lin Pai finished speaking, he nodded and responded with a low "um", He entered the house and closed the door behind his back.

Lin Pai still had a low-grade fever, and even the reflex arc was much longer than usual. He stared at the door closed until the last ray of light was blocked behind the door, then turned and walked towards the basketball court.

When Xu Rui returned to the room, he saw the note on the table. A corner of the note was pressed under the half-eaten bucket of instant noodles.

He poked out the floating oil on the instant noodles with a fork, tasted it with the tip of his tongue, and it was only lukewarm.

Xu Rui struggled with the fork for a few seconds, and finally threw the fork back into the instant noodle bucket without interest.

He took out the note from under the bucket of instant noodles. It was written in a series of cell phone numbers and a name, "Lin——Pai——" written on it in neat handwriting, he glanced at the string of numbers again, and said He said, "The words are pretty nice."

Xu Rui was about to clean up the leftover instant noodles, when he suddenly thought of the bag of medicine he brought back from the hospital, he turned his head and looked at the broken coffee table in front of the old sofa, and the two boxes of medicine were still neatly placed there.

He folded the note twice and put it in his trousers pocket, grabbed the plastic bag and walked out of the house, opened the door and looked around for a while, but Lin Pai's figure had disappeared into the boundless night.

The small roads in Heshan Town were criss-crossed and complicated. Lin Pai walked around Xu Rui's house several times before walking to the main road he knew.

he is on the basketball court