It was noon that day when Jiang Tian saw Sheng Mingyang again, in a chaotic hospital.
None of them wanted to put things in front of Jiang Ou, but they forgot one thing - there is never an airtight wall in the world, and the school is precisely the place where rumors are most likely to breed.
After Jiang Ou's grade-level parent meeting, Sheng Mingyang's phone call went unanswered. There was only a WeChat message saying "I'm in a hurry, I'll be back late". Because of Ji Huanyu's relationship, she and Sheng Mingyang were already in a period of unbroken conflict, and because of her health, the business side no longer intervened. So when she saw WeChat, she didn't ask any more questions, but followed the army to Mingli Building, wanting to say hello to Jiang Tianshengwang before leaving.
As a result, the rumors about her son were heard in the hallway.
Gao Tianyang knew Jiang Ou and was the first to find out that she was in a very wrong state. Sheng Wang Jiangtian's cell phone and schoolbag were all in the classroom, he could only dial back a number, and the phone was notified to old man Ding.
So things got out of hand.
When Jiang Tian rushed back to the Affiliated Middle School, he was greeted by such a mess.
At that moment, he felt that someone was playing a ridiculous joke with him. He was already working hard, but it always seemed to be a few seconds slower. He didn't catch the first step, he was doomed to miss everything, and then he watched helplessly as the carriages collided with one another, smashing upside down and beyond recognition.
And he could only stand and watch.
He is not good at talking, not good at venting, and is a mute with only appearances.
Sheng Mingyang rushed to the hospital very quickly. When he got out of the elevator, he saw Jiang Tian sitting on an unoccupied bench in the corridor, with his legs hunched and his head almost down to his elbows. The outline of the eyebrows still has the sharpness of a young man, but he is full of fatigue.
He originally wanted to say something, but he came with a strong anger, and when he saw Jiang Tian like this, he suddenly opened his mouth and forgot to say anything.
At that moment, he suddenly realized that the big boy in front of him was actually about the same age as Sheng Wang...
He never seemed to really realize it.
But the thought just flashed by and was suppressed again. Jiang Tian glanced at him when he heard footsteps, and then subconsciously glanced behind him. The elevator was empty and closed again with a clang.
Sheng Mingyang frowned, and after a while, he said, "Sheng Wang didn't come, I asked someone to take care of it."
This kind of feeling of explaining his son's whereabouts to others was very strange. He felt agitated for a while, and the anger that had just been suppressed came up again. But he couldn't talk to Jiang Tian like Sheng Wang, he would subconsciously restrain and speak an official tongue.
Only then did he realize that he didn't really regard Jiang Tian as a family member at all.
Jiang Tian stood up from his chair. He was actually taller than Sheng Mingyang. Although he had the thin cut that is unique to a teenager, it still made people feel oppressed. He said, "My question, don't scold him."
Sheng Mingyang thought it was absurd, he was obviously his son, but others were acting in his place, as if he was a big villain who wanted to harm Sheng Wang: "When have you ever seen me scolding him?"
He asked a question, really didn't want to say more, and hurried in.
Sheng Mingyang had never seen Jiang Ou look so hysterical. For a moment, he even thought she would go crazy or do something irreversible on a whim. In short, she was completely different from the people he knew back then. It's not enough to say how deep the relationship between them is. It's just that there is just such a person who just evokes some nostalgia for his deceased wife, which is just right. It was as if Jiang Ou's most intense feelings were not with him, but given to Ji Huanyu.
During the winter vacation, his nerves were always tense, and his feelings were not strong. He only had a little responsibility, a little sympathy for Jiang Ou now, and a blame that he didn't want to admit but couldn't ignore—
Without Jiang Ou, there would be no Jiang Tian, and things would not have gotten into such an embarrassing situation.
But in the same way, for Jiang Ou, there would be no such thing as today without Shengwang. Therefore, in addition to the blame, Sheng Mingyang felt a little guilty.
The ward was filled with a strong smell of potion, accompanied by the woman's shrill voice of collapse and low, uninterrupted whimpering, as well as occasional bursts of crying and intermittent whining, like several contradictory and forcibly mixed bad tones, which were so suppressed. People can't stay.
Sheng Mingyang didn't know how long Jiang Tian had been in the hospital, but in just a few minutes, he couldn't take it anymore. During this period, he went downstairs several times. When old man Ding rushed to the school, he fell in a trance with Jiang Ou because he was in a trance.
It is said that older people can't wrestle, and old man Ding is the same, he can't be angry or anxious. During the winter vacation, Ji Huanyu's bad things had made him sleepless all night and became dull. This time, he hit again, and the whole person froze. He leaned against the head of the bed with white hair, hunched shoulders and looked out the window for a long time, as if he was getting old all of a sudden.
Sheng Mingyang and Jiang Tian were so busy in the hospital that they didn't catch their breath until the night. They sat down in the family area, silence and suffocation slowly spread, filling the corner.
After a long, long time, Sheng Mingyang glanced in the direction of the ward and asked, "Do you regret it? It got to this point."
Jiang Tian lowered his eyes, staring at a void somewhere, like he was in a trance, but also like pure silence.
"You are older and more mature." Sheng Mingyang said with exhaustion in his tone, "What do you think, let me hear it."
After a long while, Jiang Tian said, "I don't owe anyone anything."
He has grown to such a large size, and he has never stayed with anyone for a long time, and has never regarded anyone as a pillar. He is used to digging out, but rarely takes other people's. If you take a little, you will double it back.
He doesn't owe anyone.
He does what he thinks he should do, and takes on what he should. He didn't need to be afraid of anyone, and he didn't need to look at anyone, he only looked at Sheng Wang.
Sheng Mingyang probably knew about his situation, but he couldn't find a word to answer for a while. After being stunned for a moment, he said, "But Wang Zai is different."
Jiang Tian let out an "um", and at that moment he almost lost his youthful air. "I know," he said.
Sheng Wang is soft-hearted and sensitive. He often says that he has a bad temper, but he always considers the feelings of others. He was as lonely as he was when he was a child, but his reaction was completely opposite. One simply sealed himself in ice, while the other stretched out countless tentacles and probed for movements in all directions.
But that's why they meet.
It was because of his soft heart that he stood alone under the street lamps in the white horse alley in the middle of the night, and Sheng Wang opened the window and called him.
He knew this very well, so he searched for Shengwang all over the world in the morning, but didn't ask any more in the afternoon. It's not that I don't want to see him anymore, it's that I don't want Sheng Wang to come to see him, and I don't want Sheng Wang to see the mess on the floor in front of him.
He knew that Sheng Wang would be uncomfortable. He also knew that when he saw Sheng Wang's uncomfortable moment, he would be a little shaken.
It was the second day that Sheng Wang arrived at the hospital.
He had no schoolbag or mobile phone, so Sheng Mingyang found someone to watch him all night. He was in deep irritability and anxiety during the day, and he just wanted to say a few words to Jiang Tian, even if he explained his whereabouts, so that people don't have to worry. At night, I recalled the scene in the cemetery again and again, thinking of his mother smiling at him in the pale photo, while he pursed his lips and looked away, until his eyes were red and he couldn't say what he wanted to say.
It is said that close relatives know exactly where to stab the most pain, Sheng Mingyang too knows how to make him sad. He was taken to the cemetery the first day and to his hospital bed the next day. When Jiang Tian was not there when he went, Sheng Mingyang made a special time difference.
Older people feel less, and the nurse said that old man Ding sat hunched on the bed before dawn, and was in a daze all day long. He fell somersaults, half-hurt and half-fright caused a blood clot, and became dull. When others said anything, he just squinted and smiled. Makes people wonder if he doesn't care or if he doesn't understand.
When Sheng Wang entered the ward, he turned his head slowly, stared at Sheng Wang for a while, and suddenly waved with a smile.
After the incident came to light, this was the only elder who could laugh. Sheng Wang had a sour nose for no apparent reason, and he couldn't tell if it was sadness or something else. He hesitantly walked over, and old man Ding grabbed him with his thin, big hand.
The old man stuffed the two largest for him, raised his chin and said, "Eat, it's sweet."
Sheng Wang lowered his head and was about to say something with the orange between his elbows when he saw the old man pointing upstairs again and said, "Get one for Xiaowang too, sweet!"
He was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he turned his head and clenched his teeth, and the circles of his eyes were a little red. He knew that the old man sometimes made a slip of the tongue when he was confused. It was just a momentary thing, and it didn't mean that he was really stupid and couldn't tell the difference between people. But the old man was in high spirits before, and this has never happened before. This is the first time...
This is more sad than a slap on the spot, Sheng Wang almost fled.
Sheng Mingyang dragged him upstairs again, pointed to Jiang Ou in the door and said, "I know you are stubborn, it seems that you are very weak if you don't insist, but look again, this is what you want to see ?"
Sheng Wang couldn't remember how he felt the moment he saw Jiang Ou, but he only remembered that he walked in almost at a loss, wanting to say something to the other party, but was speechless. He didn't know whether he should care or apologize, until Jiang Ou slowly raised his eyes to look at him, and then his emotions suddenly lost control.
Both the nurse and Sheng Mingyang were soothing her, and she struggled to grab Sheng Wang and said, "Auntie, please, how are you?"
Sheng Wang's face was bloodless.
Jiang Ou finally calmed down under the efforts of all kinds of people. She glanced at Sheng Wang, curled up into the bed with her back to him, closed her red and swollen eyes and said nothing. Sheng Wang stood stiffly for a while and went out of the ward.
This is what Jiang Tian saw when he came over from the corner of the stairs.
He saw several nurses hurried out of the ward, obviously after a big commotion. He saw Sheng Wang leaning against the pale walls of the hospital, bowing his head and standing outside the door of the ward, his drooping fingers pinching his joints unconsciously, embarrassed and silent.
At that moment, Jiang Tian suddenly realized that he had not seen Sheng Wang smile without any burden for a long, long time.
He suddenly realized that all the things he was carrying were thorny, and all of them were densely packed towards Shengwang. Every time the other party took a step closer to him, every time he got close to him, he would be pierced by those thorns and pulled out, dripping with blood. .
The sun that always revolves around him has ceased to shine because of him.
He wanted to kiss the other's drooping eyes, the corners of his lips that were no longer smiling. It's too lonely to stand there alone, he wanted to go over and have a good look, but he turned his head and saw the thorns all over his body... If you don't smooth it out, you can't approach it one day.
Jiang Tian finally just walked over and whispered, "Wangzi."
Sheng Wang raised his head, his eyes reddened.
Sheng Mingyang was busy doing transfer procedures for Sheng Wang when he suddenly received a call from Jiang Tian. He said: "He's transferred too many times, and he hasn't been there for a long time. The exam is coming soon. Don't transfer him again."
Sheng Mingyang said, "One has to go."
Jiang Tian said, "Me."
He took out the luggage for a long time, and finally put it back in the box. It was as if it had been a good dream and woke up again accidentally.
Jiang Tian transferred school in mid-February and took away the cat signed by Sheng Wang. Jiang Ou and Old Man Ding also left here. He took his thorns and walked clean.
After that, a seat was vacated in class A, and everyone forgot to remind the teacher to take it, just like Xu Dazui mentioned it twice out of thin air, but he never tore Jiang Tian's photo from the wall of honor.
The small college entrance examination in early March will be held as usual, and the time will not stop because of the gathering and separation in a corner. The one-month collective cramming of Class A has achieved remarkable results, with all members of 4A, and without any suspense, completed the goal set by He Jin, and no one was left behind.
Sheng Wang has become taciturn for a long time. Occasionally, Gao Tianyang and the others will see the shadow of another person in him, and they will always feel sad for a moment.
Class A has an open atmosphere, and that incident only made the atmosphere awkward for a few days before returning to its original position. People who have a good relationship with Shengwang still have a good relationship. They join all kinds of lively places, tell him exaggerated jokes and gossip to make him happy, watch him climb to the first, nail the first, and slowly shake off the second. The name is a lot, and the wailing is like coaxing again.
The second semester of high school is a peak season. After the end of the junior college entrance examination, other classes began to enter the general review, and all the energy of class A was put on the competition. Shengwang got all the places for the semi-finals of mathematics, physics and chemistry, and the two months of July and August were filled with various special training classes, summer camps, and intensive training.
Gao Tianyang, as the tail of the crane with the heaviest butt in Class A, only entered the chemical semi-finals. He has a very good mentality and is happy and relaxed, and every time he sees Shengwang's class schedule, he tutts his head and shakes his head. Said, "It's miserable, it's miserable."
Sheng Wang said angrily, "I feel so miserable, remember to bring the tribute to visit the prison."
It was the first time he joked like this after Jiang Tian left. Gao Tianyang and the others were flattered, and immediately made a poisonous oath saying that they were not people.
Since that day, Sheng Wang has gradually regained his previous appearance. He will step on the chair and shake it, turn the pen to dismantle Gao Tianyang and Song Sirui's stage, and pour his head up after playing basketball, and then he will fan the wind while laughing while playing basketball. Chat with people.
It can sometimes give the illusion that everything is back on track and the dust has settled.
It's just that when he passes by the honor wall of the promenade occasionally, he will stop and watch his own photos on the wall change from one to two, three, and then more and more, almost occupying a small half of the country...
The other half of the wall has never changed.
In the summer vacation when the second year of high school ended, Sheng Mingyang mentioned that with the help of two seniors in Beijing, Jiang Tian applied for foreign schools, avoiding the embarrassment of inconsistent progress and examination system, and also arranged suitable nursing care for Jiang Ou and Ding old man. 's hospital.
Sheng Mingyang didn't mention himself, but Sheng Wang felt that he should also intervene.
Shengwang was training at that time. There was a convenience store next to gate 2 of that school, and the decoration was very similar to Joy. Sheng Wang always went there to buy things, even though it was very far from where he lived. After coming and going, I got acquainted with the boss.
When I received the message from Sheng Mingyang, Sheng Wang was buying water in the convenience store. The boss was licking cherries with Erlang's legs crossed. When checking out, he generously pushed the glass bowl forward and said, "Come on, eat some."
Sheng Wang looked at the phone screen for a long time and didn't regain his senses. Under the urging of the boss, he took one indiscriminately, but when he chewed it, it was strangely bitter.
He had just sweated, and his face was a little pale in front of the air conditioner. The boss wondered what was wrong and asked him what was wrong.
He turned off the screen, stuffed the phone back into his pocket, bowed his head to pay and said, "There's something wrong with what you bought, I've suffered a lot."
The boss looked over the bowl and said, "The cherry season is short and it is easy to spoil, you are out of luck."
Sheng Wang didn't look up, after a long while he said "um", then waved his hand and left without looking back.
Maybe bad cherries were at work, and after a few steps, his stomach throbbed. The range of discomfort is so vague that there is an illusion that the chest is cold.
He suddenly remembered the day in February when Jiang Tian came over and whispered to him, "Wangzi."
Before he could speak, he knew what the other party wanted to say.
He was hesitant and confused at that time, and he couldn't remember what he said nonsense. He only remembered that he held Jiang Tian and said, "I didn't let go this time."
Jiang Tian was silent for a long time and said, "My fault, I'll let go first."
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Stomach discomfort is terrible, and my heart is so cold that it hurts. Sheng Wang stood in place with the ice water for a while before walking forward slowly.
"This school also has a phoenix tree road similar to the attached middle school. The blazing sun shines through the wide branches and leaves, and it is dazzling. It is a midsummer in a blink of an eye, but he has never heard such noisy cicadas again."
【coconut】