quarter quotient

As the lunch came to an end, the clouds in the sky suddenly changed from slow to urgent, and a strong wind blew up on Xiping Mountain.

The white tablecloth was turned around by the wind, the leaves on the old pagoda tree rustled down, and the branches were pulled by the wind, involuntarily opening their teeth and claws.

After helping the old people into the house, Ji Shang took the remaining students to help the staff move all the things in the yard into the house.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the blue sky and white sun had long since disappeared outside the house, and thick clouds covered the sky, and depressing thunder came from the sky.

The old man in the house muttered like this: "Thunder blares the sky, although the rain is not strong. Thunder blares the sky, and it rains heavily."

A few students discussed in low voices when the coming rainstorm would stop, and Ni Xiao complained why the weather forecast he read before going out was inaccurate.

"When will the weather forecast be accurate?"

Ji Shang pressed his eyebrows and looked out the window, while comforting Ni Xiao casually, he opened the door and ran out against the wind.

"Boss, what are you doing?" Ni Xiao yelled, her mouth full of wind.

Ji Shang didn't stop, turned around and replied, "There seems to be someone outside the yard."

Xiang Chao took two umbrellas by the door and hurriedly followed them out.

Raindrops gradually began to appear on the concrete floor, and the iron door was a little rusty. It took Ji Shang a little effort to open the old-fashioned door lock.

The mountain wind was blowing outside the house, Ding Hengyuan was standing outside the door, his clothes fluttered wildly in the wind, his hair was blown messy and covered his forehead, his appearance seemed to suddenly return to his youthful youth.

"Xiaoyuan?"

Ji Shang felt like he hadn't woken up from a big dream, his voice was slow and hesitant.

"Xiao Jiu!" Ding Hengyuan exclaimed in surprise, "Why are you here?"

Ji Shang didn't answer, his eyes were attracted by the person in the wheelchair in front of Ding Hengyuan.

Not only was the man's hair completely white, but even his eyebrows were covered with gray traces. He was wearing a mask, and his forehead was engraved with wrinkles from the vicissitudes of life. After the exposed eyes met Ji Shang's four eyes, they widened slightly and suddenly When I woke up, I thought I had recognized the person in front of me.

"Uncle Ding."

After Ji Shang hesitantly called out, the surroundings suddenly darkened.

Xiang Chao opened the umbrella to cover Ji Shang, and handed another umbrella to Ding Hengyuan who was at a loss: "Are you here to shelter from the rain? Don't stand outside the door, come in first."

Ji Shang took the armrest of the wheelchair and pushed Ding Shaodong into the courtyard.Xiang Chao followed him, holding an umbrella to cover Ding Shaodong and Ji Shang who were in wheelchairs, but he was completely exposed outside the umbrella.

Seeing that some of the people who came were sitting in wheelchairs, several young people in the house ran out and carried the wheelchairs in with all their might.

Ding Hengyuan entered the room last, and at the same time, Director Zhou of the Nursing Home hurried over along the corridor.

"It's Doctor Ding, right?"

Ding Hengyuan shook hands with Dean Zhou politely: "I'm sorry Dean Zhou, we are late, and we are a little late to go out in the morning."

"It's okay, it's okay. I thought you guys decided not to come because it was going to rain." Dean Zhou smiled and looked at Ding Shaodong in the wheelchair, "This is Mr. Ding, right?"

Ding Shaodong nodded, but remained silent.

Dean Zhou said: "It will be raining heavily and I can't show you the outdoor environment. You can visit the indoor facilities first. There is also a single room next to the cliff, with a good view and good air. Let me show you first? "

"Thank you, Dean Zhou." Ding Shaodong nodded, his voice was hoarse, as if he couldn't vomit out of his chest, and he covered his mouth and coughed a few times after speaking.

Dean Zhou knew in advance that Ding Shaodong had chronic lung disease. He thought that the mixed and closed environment in the hall was not suitable for Ding Shaodong's body, so he pushed Ding Shaodong's wheelchair along the corridor towards the single dormitory area. go.

Ding Hengyuan walked a few steps after him, turned back to Ji Shang, and quickly explained: "My father's lungs are not very good, and he doesn't want to stay in the rehabilitation hospital. My friend said that the air here is good, so he wanted to take a look at the environment first. Unexpectedly It's such a coincidence to meet you here today, Xiao Jiu."

Ding Hengyuan was talking to Ji Shang while paying attention to the direction his father left.

Seeing that he was nervous, Ji Shang said, "Go and accompany Uncle Ding first, the rain is so heavy, I won't leave for a while."

Ji Shang's words were quickly confirmed, the light raindrops gradually became larger, and the glass was covered with a vast expanse of whiteness, and he could only vaguely see the old locust tree in the courtyard struggling in the wind and rain, which seemed to be about to buckle down.

There was endless lightning and thunder, and the rain fell like a torrent. It didn't seem to stop until six o'clock in the evening, but the dark clouds had not dissipated. Compared with the brightly lit interior, the outside of the house seemed even darker.

When the seven outsiders, including Ji Shang, three students, and Ding Hengyuan, were about to leave, a loud roar suddenly came from the distant mountains.

Everyone went in without knowing it, but within a few minutes, the hospital staff received the call and rushed to tell everyone that due to the heavy rain and mudslides in the mountains, the road that must be passed down the mountain was blocked, and the signal tower on the mountainside was also damaged by the strong wind. The torrential rain damaged it, and it will hang upside down in midair.

There are too many uncertain factors. For the sake of safety, the rushing rescue team asked the people on the mountain not to venture down the mountain, but to stay overnight, and leave after the road surface is cleared and the hidden dangers disappear.

The seven people sighed, but seeing the drizzle of rain outside the house and the darkening sky, no one dared to take the risk of going down the mountain.

Besides Xiang Chao, there is also a male student and a female student staying here.After the two of them finished calling their families, they nestled on the sofa and played games with peace of mind.Xiang Chao's mobile phone was soaked by rain when he went out to help Ji Shang hold an umbrella, and he couldn't turn it on for a while, so he borrowed Ji Shang's phone to call his family.

It was Xiang Chao's father who answered the phone.Xiang Chaoshun asked his sister-in-law and niece, only to find out that they haven't arrived home yet.However, sister-in-law usually doesn't report to the elders in the family where she goes, let alone Xiang Chao's father, at most she will tell her husband and Xiang Chao's brother.

So when Xiang Chao and his father mentioned that his sister-in-law had already left the nursing home, neither of them was surprised or worried.

When Xiang Chao returned the mobile phone to Ji Shang, Ji Shang's mobile phone also started to warn of low battery.The people who came didn't expect to stay for such a long time without bringing a charger. The dean helped to find a counterfeit data cable after searching around.

Just as Ji Shang charged his phone, the lights in the hall flickered. Ji Shang held his breath and looked up at the lamp panel on the roof. After three or two seconds, the light lived up to expectations and went out.At the same time, the entire nursing home was plunged into darkness in an instant.

"Wow, boss, you burned the human circuit." The little mud made fun of his boss, and everyone laughed.

No wonder Ji Shang's cell phone.The crumbling signal tower did not completely cut off the communication signal, but the circuit broke down first.The nursing home's generators only turn on the lights in the kitchen and bedrooms briefly.After the meal, Dean Zhou allocated an empty room for everyone to rest.

There are four rooms that can live directly, three double rooms and one single room.

The single room by the cliff was naturally reserved for Ding Shaodong.Ni Xiao shares a room with a female student, Xiang Chao shares a room with a classmate, and Ji Shang and Ding Hengyuan have to share a room.

Ji Shang quickly went to bed after a simple wash, drank the warm water that Ding Hengyuan helped him get on the bedside before going to bed, and after lying down with his clothes on, he wanted to brush his phone to hide his embarrassment, but unexpectedly, the phone turned off automatically when it ran out of power.Ji Shang occupied the bed by the window, and when Ding Hengyuan was still in the toilet, he turned sideways to face out of the window, and left a figure of Ding Hengyuan refusing to talk in advance for Ding Hengyuan who was about to come out.

Outside the window, the night rain gradually subsided, and there were occasional white lightning flashes in the sky at the end of the mountain.The rain hasn't stopped, it's just temporarily moved elsewhere.

Ji Shang closed his eyes and calmly pretended to be asleep, thinking about where the rain would go.The direction of the lightning is in the east, I am afraid that the rain tonight will not be too light for Xianxiao, and the crape myrtle flower in front of Xianxiao's gate may also suffer.

But it's good that the crape myrtle flower has withered, if he didn't want to see the flower that night, he wouldn't have been hit by a car.Thinking about the car crash, Ji Shang thought that if Yin Hao hadn't yelled at him so suddenly at that time, causing him to lose his mind and make a wrong judgment, maybe he wouldn't have been injured.

In this way, Yin Hao is the culprit.

In this way, Ji Shang's thoughts twisted and turned, and unexpectedly landed on his young apprentice without anyone noticing.

He stood on the balcony, ignoring his outstretched hand, and walked past him.He got out of the car and looked around, then looked to the side of the road and said to check and monitor the progress of maintenance.He staggered towards himself.He was lying on the ground in a drunken state, giggling.

He stood on the podium of the 5000-meter long-distance race champion, sweating profusely.A voice next to him said to Ji Shang: "That kid is the one who broke your three-year shooting record."

Afterwards, he thought about something again, but there was no pattern at all, he just circled around that person, Ji Shang fell asleep in such a muddled way, pretending to be real.

"Xiao Jiu, Xiao Jiu."

Before Shen Shen fell asleep, Ji Shang heard someone calling his name a few times from a distance, very gentle and familiar, but with a confirming tone.

He slightly opened his heavy eyelids, but tightly closed his eyes in a dazzling light of lightning, unable to open them again, and fell asleep completely.

In the middle of the night, Ji Shang woke up suddenly, he did not know when he had changed his sleeping position, facing Ding Hengyuan's bed.But Ding Hengyuan turned towards the wall, leaving him with an unreal back view.

Ji Shang closed his eyes again, the lightning and thunder that had been fading away completely stopped, only the rustling of the rain outside the house, like continuous waves and tides gently beating on the beach.

After closing his eyes, he suddenly opened them again.It's just that the time distance between closing and opening his eyes is really a little blurry for him, as if it has passed for a long time, and it seems to be in an instant.

It's just that the strange feeling left by the back on the bed opposite to him when he closed his eyes became heavier and deeper, so that he suddenly woke up from his dream.

Ji Shang sat up, the strange feeling in his heart could not dissipate for a long time.He walked lightly to Ding Hengyuan's bedside and called his name.

"Xiao Yuan."

Ding Hengyuan seemed to be in a deep sleep without any reaction.

Ji Shang hesitantly reached out his hand to Ding Hengyuan's shoulder, he wanted Ding Hengyuan to turn around.He didn't know why this weird idea suddenly came up, he wanted to take a look, or to confirm whether the person lying on this bed was Ding Hengyuan or someone else.

Before Ji Shang's hand touched Ding Hengyuan's shoulder, the person on the bed suddenly turned around and opened his eyes to look at him.A faint light penetrated from outside the house, Ji Shang's hand was hanging in the air, Ding Hengyuan's face was very close to Ji Shang's fingertips.

Looking at Ding Hengyuan's face, the doubts in Ji Shang's heart slowly disappeared, and then he began to feel that his behavior just now was a bit ridiculous, so he recovered his senses and slowly withdrew his hand.

Ding Hengyuan sat up from the bed suddenly, and tightly clenched Ji Shang's hand towards Huihui.He looked at Ji Shang, from the astonishment when he opened his eyes, to a little bit of surprise gradually.

"Xiao Jiu, what's the matter?"

Ding Hengyuan remembered that summer night when he was young, amidst the muffled thunder, Ji Shang would rather be sweating from the heat than sleep beside him.He still remembered that Ji Shang suddenly opened his mouth and bit him when he moved his fingers along the track where his sweat beads were sliding down.

Ji Shang's bite was very light, the tip of his tongue touched the temperature of his fingertips, but it burned Ding Hengyuan's whole body like hot magma.

"Are you still afraid of thunder?" Ding Hengyuan asked.

Ji Shang was stunned for a moment, then shook his arm to signal Ding Hengyuan to let go.He turned around and walked towards the bed by the window, laughing silently where Ding Hengyuan couldn't see.

How ridiculous these 12 years are.When he finally walked out counting the days, this person who had been escaping for 12 years suddenly jumped out, trying to use those past events that he broke free from oblivion only after cutting his heart out with a knife, in an attempt to wake up something and pull something back.

"I'm no longer afraid of thunder." Ji Shang said.

Time is gentle and heals all wounds.Time is cruel and can take all treasures away.