Rooted

It was because he was interrupted halfway through the work, which made him not in a good mood and faintly anxious.

Before seeing the caller ID, Gan Hezhi thought it was Ji Tian or Wei Xue, but to his surprise, it was Chen Jin who called him.

Chen Jin is like this. He usually sends messages to Ganhezhi by voice. If Ganhezhi responds late, Chen Jin will call him directly and confirm the matter verbally.

Gan Hezhi thought it was like this again, took two deep breaths before answering, "Brother? What..."

Three hours later, Gan Hezhi and Fu Wensheng returned to Chaoyu City.After getting out of the high-speed rail station, the two took a taxi and went straight to the hospital, where they found a ward they had never been to before.

Gan Hezhi found the ward according to the number Chen Jin said on the phone.

There is a strong smell of disinfectant in the corridor, and the business card of the new patient has not been added outside the door of the ward.In the ward, the grumpy old man was listlessly lying on the hospital bed with his eyes closed.

When Gan Hezhi saw it, his eyes turned red all of a sudden.

When he found the doctor, he still had a very strong sense of unreality. This feeling appeared when he heard Chen Jin on the phone saying that his master had advanced lung cancer, which cast a layer of mist on his world.

I can't see anything clearly, and I can't hear anything clearly.

The brain is blunt.

The doctor was talking about the results of bone scintigraphy and cervical and chest ECT/CT. Gan Hezhi seemed to hear it, but he didn't seem to hear it. He only saw the doctor's mouth moving all the time.

In the end, the doctor said that the old man already had stage IV lung cancer, and bone metastases had occurred.

"Considering that the patient is old and may not be able to withstand chemotherapy, we recommend genetic testing, followed by targeted therapy, and local radiotherapy for bone metastases."

"Surgery? It's not very useful, because the cancer cells in the patient's body have already spread, and the operation can't clean it. Also, bone metastasis is more tormenting. He may have severe pain and pathological fractures. Your family members also need to have one." Mentally prepare."

"We can't give a specific time, we can only do our duty, and the family members should stay with the patient as much as possible. If you have to say it, his current situation is not very good, about a year... about."

one year.Gan Hezhi heard this clearly.

Coming out of the doctor's office, Gan Hezhi felt dizzy all over. The doctor in front of him was still wearing a white coat, a hat and a mask. He couldn't see his face clearly, and it was just blurry in front of his eyes.

Gan Hezhi sat down on the chair against the wall outside the ward.The central air conditioner blew the benches icy cold, and they shivered from the cold.

Fu Wensheng sat quietly beside him, did not speak to him, and gave him time to digest.

23:44;

A clock hung from the ceiling, its numerals scarlet, and its flickering colons glaring.

One of Qianhe looked up and saw it, and then wondered, why use this color?

At this time, the door of the ward opened, and Chen Jin came out.

After two seconds, Gan Hezhi turned his head and stood up from his seat.

The two faced each other without speaking.Then Chen Jin closed the door, opened his arms towards Qian Hezhi, and called out "Xiao Gan", with a broken voice, and the pain began to flow from the frozen state.

Chen Jin only hugged Gan Hezhi for a while, "The old man in the next bed was snoring in his sleep, I'm worried that master can't sleep well." He let go of his hand, "I said transfer master to a ward, to a private room, but he refused."

Chen Jin then chattered for a while. For a while, he accidentally bumped into the old man coughing up bloody sputum. For a while, the old man knew about it a long time ago, but he didn't know when he would arrive.

He talked incoherently for a while, wiped his face, and his mentality seemed to be more stable, so he started to urge him to leave, "It's early in the morning, you go home and go to sleep early. Master, he has already Go to bed, come see me tomorrow."

Gan Hezhi shook his body, "Then I will stay tomorrow night."

Chen Jin waved his hand, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."

The two went back to Zhou Mi Garden in silence. After Gan Hezhi took a shower, he opened the door of the master bedroom in his pajamas, stood at the door and looked at Fu Wensheng, "Can I sleep here tonight?"

"Okay, come in."

When Gan Hezhi entered the room, Fu Wensheng was reading a book.When Gan Hezhi climbed onto the bed, Fu Wensheng didn't read, put the book on the bedside, turned off the light and lay down.

Gan Hezhi arched from his seat, and leaned into Fu Wensheng's arms, resting his head on Fu Wensheng's pillow, "Sir."

"Ok?"

"Am I dreaming?" Gan Hezhi's voice was sad and confused.

Fu Wensheng didn't answer immediately.After a while, he reached out and patted Ganhezhi's back, and said softly, "Go to sleep."

"Good night, sir."

This night Gan Hezhi dreamed about the big banyan tree he saw yesterday.The aerial roots of the big banyan tree were inserted into the ground densely, much more than what he had seen in reality.

Then the roots start to shrink and break away from the soil.

Blood sprayed onto Gan Hezhi's face, and he saw the man tied to the root, an old man.

The tree roots passed through the old man's lungs, and his body was suspended in the air, swinging back and forth, left and right like a wind chime.

Gan Hezhi was taken aback, his heart stabbed in his throat, but he didn't move.

Senses enlarged but blurred, he blinked, and the bloody corpse on the tree became himself.

Qian Hezhi and Ji Tian asked for leave the next morning and did not go to work.Fu Wensheng drove him to the hospital, but didn't go up with him, "I'll come as soon as I hand over the work, call me if you need anything."

The car drove away, Gan Hezhi followed aimlessly for a while before turning back.

There are many people in the hospital.Doctors, nurses, volunteers, patients, family members.Healthy, with bandages on their heads, on crutches, in wheelchairs, lying on hospital beds and being pushed around.There are all kinds.

Gan Hezhi walked through the crowd, arrived at the inpatient department, and went up to the third floor.

Today, the old man's name card has come to the door: Huang Gejian.

Gan Hezhi stared at the name for a while, he was stunned, his fingers twitched, and the thermos bucket he was holding almost fell, he just came back to his senses, took a breath, pushed the door open and entered the room.

The old man's bed was shaken, and he was holding a big bowl to drink porridge. The big bowl blocked the old man's face, only showing the silver-white hair on the top of his head, very unruly, just like Gan Hezhi saw many years ago .

Chen Jin was washing his face and brushing his teeth in the bathroom that came with the ward. After one night, he seemed as if he hadn't slept. He was visibly sluggish, but he still smiled at Gan Hezhi, "Come on."

Gan Hezhi asked him, "Have you had breakfast? I brought some."

Chen Jin splashed cold water on his face, then took out a paper towel and wiped it casually twice, rubbed the shredded paper on his face, "Eat, then you just send a text message to your sister-in-law and tell her you brought breakfast, Tell her not to rush."

Gan Hezhi nodded, and picked off the shredded paper on Chen Jin's face.

The old man's breakfast was white porridge with side dishes from the hospital. When Gan Hezhi and Chen Jin were sharing the porridge with minced meat and vegetables, the old man held the newspaper in his hand and kept squinting at their thermos buckets and dishes.

Gan Hezhi asked him if he wanted to eat more, he showed a reluctant expression, but he took the bun quickly.

Gan Hezhi looked at him, but he didn't look back, "Okay, it's time to go to work, don't dawdle in front of my eyes."

"I'm taking a good leave of absence."

After the old man finished eating the steamed stuffed bun, he picked out another tea egg, rubbed it lightly, and the eggshell fell off, "You have only been a regular for a few days, and you're going to ask for leave? Don't rely on me if you get fired later."

Chen Jin seemed to have just remembered that Gan Hezhi had to go to work, and he also helped drive people away, "Anyway, your sister-in-law will come soon, and there are other brothers, you should pack up and go back to work, ah."

The old man didn't care, "It's not easy to find a job these days. It's hard for a blind cat to meet a dead mouse and find a unit willing to accept you. You should hurry up and stay honest. I don't need you here."

So Gan Hezhi left the hospital in a daze, and when he came back to his senses, he had already arrived at Chengdao downstairs.

He planned to go in without thinking, but he was stopped by the security guard as soon as he passed through the shiny revolving door.

The security guard asked him what he was here for, but Gan Hezhi didn't remember the name of the office and which floor it was on.

Fortunately, when he was almost kicked out, Fu Wensheng went downstairs and rescued Gan Hezhi, whose soul had ascended to heaven, from the terrifying security guards.

Gan Hezhi walked to the side of the car and realized that he was wearing a T-shirt and trousers when he saw the reflection on the car door. No wonder he just told the security guard that he was coming to work, and the security guard looked disbelieving.

The two left from Chengdao, turned around and went to the hospital again.Fu Wensheng was already looking for a parking space, Gan Hezhi reacted, tugged at Fu Wensheng's sleeve, and said, "Master's other apprentices will come today."

Fu Wen made it clear what he meant, "Then shall we go back?"

Gan Hezhi shook his head.

"Then come back later?"

Gan Hezhi nodded, "Well, come back later."

When they came later, the old man's angry voice could be heard in the corridor, "I said I want a nurse! I don't want you!"

As soon as they entered the ward, they saw the old man sitting on the hospital bed, poking his finger at the bridge of Chen Jin's nose, "Ever since you knew I didn't have much work to do, you've been looking at me with a bitter face, it's not good to look at!"

Chen Jin's eyes turned red again when he heard "not many jobs", but he still held back his strength to reason, "Can a nurse be as caring as his family? I have time to accompany you, so why do you insist on a nurse?"

"How old is An'an? You just leave Xiao Jiang alone to take care of the children! Xiao Jiang has to look after the children and take care of the family, and has to come to deliver meals to my old man and a razor for you! You can do it! I can't stand it!"

Just as Gan Hezhi was about to speak, the old man turned his finger from Chen Jin's side and pointed at Gan Hezhi's face, "And you! You don't even take a bath.