Cherish the time

Inside the ward of Naruse General Hospital.

The young man with golden bangs leaned on the hospital bed and looked out the window quietly.

His hands were clean and dry, with flat, clean nails that rested lightly on his belly.

"Xiaoguang," Shindo Mitsuko walked in with a plate of washed fruit, "Look who's here."

Shindo turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw a green-haired young man in a white shirt standing at the door, his brows furrowed together to add some deep wrinkles to his forehead.

"Good afternoon, Xiaoliang." Shinto tilted his head at him, showing a smile he was very familiar with.

Light came in from the window and passed through his golden hair, giving the illusion that he was about to melt into the light.

"...Good afternoon." Ta Yaliang was startled, lowered his eyes and replied softly, standing there as if he didn't know what to do.

"Why are you standing here stupidly, go and sit by the bed," Shinto Mitsuko put the fruit on the bed, then walked back to Taya and gave him a gentle push, "You two are chatting, I'll go to the doctor and ask about tomorrow's treatment arrangements." Then he closed the door for the two and left the space for them.

The room fell silent for a while.

The smile on Shinto Hikaru's face gradually faded, and he turned his head to look out the window again.

"...Look, this tree is so big." He looked at it quietly for a while, then pointed to the big leafy tree outside the house, "It should have lived for hundreds of years."

"..." Ta Yaliang remained silent and did not speak.

"It's really an enviable thing to be able to live for so long." He smiled slightly, turned his head and looked in the direction where Taya was, "What do you think?"

He said such words in his mouth, but there was no envy on his face.

It's just bland, very much like when chatting with him on weekdays.

Ta Yaliang's chest was suffocated, and a dull pain was coming from his chest to his fingertips, causing his eyes to turn red all of a sudden.

Shinto blinked in surprise, took a tissue from the bedside table and handed it to him, "What's wrong? Why do you feel like you're about to cry all of a sudden, am I here fine?"

He was really a little heartless in asking this question, Taya hit his leg, took the tissue and sat on the edge of the bed.

"Do you want to eat apples?" Jin Teng handed over a plate of apples peeled into the shape of rabbits, and he acted like a master.

Taya poked a piece with a toothpick and put it in his mouth, the sweet and sour taste filled his mouth at once.

"Not bad, right?" Shindo put the apples back, and pointed to the plate of mangoes and lychees that Mitsuko had just sent, "Eat some of these, too. There are too many fruit baskets sent by you, me and The two of mothers can't eat so much—I remember that you also like mangoes."

"It's sticky, forget it." Ta Yaliang bit the apple and shook his head.

"Oh..." Shinto thought for a while, and took the mango and the knife from the bedside table, and saw that he planned to cut it and then give it to him.

Ta Ya was taken aback by his action, and quickly took the knife and mango into his hands, and his voice became louder, "—how can you touch the knife!"

Shinto was taken aback by his sudden loud voice, and then explained with some helplessness, "It's just a fruit knife, I can still hold it."

"What if you don't hold it steady?" Taya didn't listen to his explanation at all, took a clean rag on her lap, and began to peel the mango with her head down.

——If you don't hold it steady... then you can't hold it steady.

It's just a fruit knife left and right, even if it falls on the quilt, it's no big deal.

But Shindo wisely didn't say this.

He just leaned on the bed quietly, watching this handsome young man who still had a trace of childishness carefully peeling the mango, his long eyelashes fluttering slightly, which made him want to play a prank .

Just when he was about to realize this desire, Taya perfectly cut the mango into two squared slices, then put a piece in his hand, and got up to wash his hands and take the fruit After wiping the knife, he picked up another piece and ate it.

Shinto smiled, took a bite of the mango and asked him, "How's Kazuya's reaction these days?"

"You're in good spirits, and you won yesterday's Dashouhe," he said while eating mangoes, his voice was muffled, but he seemed a little cute, "He wanted to come here today, but I was also afraid that I couldn't help but cry, so let me come over to see if you still look human."

"He's too ignorant," Shinto complained pretendingly, "It's only been a few days since I saw him, and I can't shed my skin that fast."

Taya paused for a moment, didn't continue what he said, and instead asked about his current condition.

The two of them sat and chatted like this for a while, until a nurse came to help Jinteng change his dressing and told him not to sit for a long time, and this meaningless conversation came to an end.

After the nurse left, Taya and Shinto looked at each other for a while, and then asked him to lie down.

As a result, before he could utter the first syllable, Shinto preempted him.

"—Let's play chess."

His expression is very natural, the same as when he said this sentence before.

——As if this game of chess is just the same as those thousands of times before, without any change.

"There are chessboards and chess pieces in the cabinet, I can only trouble you to take them."

Taya was infected by his performance, and the tossing and turning emotions in his heart also calmed down a lot, and he also forgot about letting Shinto rest, obediently took out the chessboard and chess pieces from the cabinet, and put them on the hospital bed on a simple table stand.

After all the preparations were declared over, Shinto moved forward, as if he wanted to sit up a little.

Taya subconsciously took a pillow and put it behind him, and supported him to lean against the pillow.

"Thank you." Shinto thanked him with a natural smile, without the embarrassment and annoyance that ordinary people who suddenly encountered such drastic changes would have.

Feeling his thin body covered by clothes, Taya Ryo's heart sank, but his face didn't reveal anything.

"Let's guess the pieces." He said briskly, grabbed a few pieces from the chess box, and placed them in the air on the board.

Ta Yaliang also picked out two sunspots from another chess box.

Shinto placed the pieces in his hand on the board, which happened to be two.

Shinto pulled the box containing the white pieces to his hand, put the two white pieces back into the box, and then pushed the box containing the black pieces to Taya.

"let's start."

let's start.

Shinto said this sentence many times.

But it has never been like this time today. It is obviously the beginning, but it gives people a feeling that it is about to end.