Hu Qianxi's condition became more and more serious. She had a heart attack the night before and was sent to the emergency room again. At five o'clock in the morning, she came back from the gate of hell.
Due to the sudden decrease in heart function and various complications, Hu Qianxi had more and more attacks, with shortness of breath and frequent chest tightness.
Not only that, her abdominal cavity was filled with a large amount of fluid, which caused edema all over her body, and she needed to extract waste fluid every day.
Sometimes the pain made Hu Qianxi speechless. She lay on the hospital bed, unable to move, and could only cry silently.
Seeing Hu Qianxi in such pain, Sheng Nanzhou often thought, if only he could replace her.
While Hu Qianxi was suffering, Sheng Nanzhou was also suffering with her. Sheng Nanzhou went around looking for venous dilating drugs for Hu Qianxi, and the other party often asked him to put down the important things at hand to find the medicine after a phone call.
Sheng Nanzhou accompanied Hu Qianxi for treatment, looking for doctors everywhere. After a month, Sheng Nanzhou lost a lot of weight, his skeleton became more and more sharp, and the profile of his face became sharper.
The New Year is approaching, the ice and snow are beginning to melt, spring is creeping up on the branches, and the sun is shining. In the ward, Sheng Nanzhou hugged Hu Qianxi to the chair, and pushed her to the window to bask in the sun and blow some air.
Sitting there with her hands on her knees, Hu Qianxi inadvertently saw a bloodless, sickly woman reflected in the glass window, with a bloated stomach due to excessive fluid accumulation.
She seems ten years older.
Hu Qianxi was startled, then covered her face, tears flowed from the crack, and said softly, "I'm so ugly now."
Sheng Nanzhou squatted in front of her, pulled her hand away, and teased her with a smile: "It's not ugly, I think it's pretty pretty."
"Besides, it's not like I haven't seen you peeing your pants when you were a child, it's even uglier." Sheng Nanzhou said lazily.
With a sound of "噗嗤", Hu Qianxi laughed through her tears. She quietly looked at Sheng Nanzhou who was so thin that only a sharp skeleton remained, and suddenly said, "Brother Nanzhou, I'm fine. I really can't delay you. Leave me alone." gone."
Sheng Nanzhou paused while wiping Hu Qianxi's tears, and raised his hand to remove the bangs on her forehead, revealing a scar on her smooth forehead, which had shrunk to the size of a fingernail due to the passage of time.
The man gently pressed the crescent moon-sized scar on her forehead with his thumb, and said, "That's because I delayed you first, brother won't care about you for the rest of your life."
Hu Qianxi's heart was suffocated. These words were like ripples on the surface of a calm lake, and her heart jumped uncontrollably.
Sheng Nanzhou gently touched her head, her dark eyes reflected her figure, and said in a low voice, seriously:
"I want to be responsible for the rest of my life, and I am willing."
This cryptic confession is better than a hundred words like "I like you". This sentence seems to have spanned a long cycle of time.
Playing house when she was a child, Hu Qianxi wore an exquisite princess dress, held a golden Shangfang sword, and handed it to Sheng Nanzhou. She raised her chin and said, "You will be the knight of this princess from now on."
At the age of eleven, Sheng Nanzhou had a stubborn personality and was playful for a while. He accidentally pushed Hu Qianxi to the ground, and her forehead just hit the vase on the ground.
The little princess cried heart-rendingly, and sobbed, "If I am disfigured, what should I do if no one wants me in the future?"
Sheng Nanzhou couldn't coax him well, and finally patted his chest and promised: "Princess, don't cry, I will marry you."
All the way to college, the two quarreled and bickered, and they always appeared in the best bad friend mode. Now, Sheng Nanzhou finally revealed the secret hidden in his heart.
"But I heard you say I'm just your younger sister in junior high school." This sentence that has been haunting Hu Qianxi's heart for many years seems to have become less important.
Sheng Nanzhou squatted in front of Hu Qianxi, looking at her, Hu Qianxi cried and laughed, and looked back at him, and finally gently raised his hand to caress his temples.
The sun slanted in through the window at 3:30 in the afternoon, and the shadows of the two people on the ground joined together, everything was just right.
As the end of the new year is approaching, the streets begin to be replaced with lanterns, and there are more and more pedestrians on the road. Xu Sui occasionally takes the bus home, and glances out inadvertently. There are more vendors selling red Spring Festival couplets on the road, and the car flashes by. The scene outside the window was blurred in the white mist that came out.
Xu's mother has been urging Xu Sui to buy a ticket to go home early. She doesn't want to go home so soon, because Zhou Jingze is also on vacation after all, and she wants to stay with him for a few more days.
After all, once he returns to the team, Xu Sui may not see him for two months.
On Friday, Xu Sui and Zhou Jingze went to the supermarket together and bought a lot of ingredients. The weather was cold, and the two planned to cook hot pot at home.
The sensor light in the corridor was on. Xu Sui took Zhou Jingze's arm and walked to the door with a smirk on his face. Xu Sui touched the key on his body and found that it was not there, so he reached for it in Zhou Jingze's coat pocket.
The key was inserted into the lock, and the door opened with a "click". Xu Sui opened the door and was about to speak, but a smile froze on his face when he saw the person in front of him clearly.
Zhou Jingze followed Xu Sui's eyes and saw a woman in her 40s standing in front of her. She was neatly dressed and had a gentle appearance. Her watery eyes were very similar to Xu Sui's.
He guessed the woman's identity from the bottom of his heart, suppressed the sloppy smile on his face, and greeted politely: "Auntie, hello, I'm Xu Sui's boyfriend—"
"Mom, why are you here?" Xu Sui took his hand out of the man's arm, and gently tugged at his sleeve to signal him not to speak.
Xu's mother's attitude was not good. She smiled at Zhou Jingze and didn't ask any other questions. Then she looked at her daughter and said, "I see that you haven't come back, so I just want to come and have a look."
Mother Xu took the supermarket bag from Xu Sui's hand, glanced at the wall clock on the wall, and said apologetically, "Thank you for bringing her back, it's so late..."
Zhou Jingze wanted to say something at first, but changed his words after meeting Xu Sui's eyes: "Sure, I'll put the things here, then I'll go first."
Xu's mother's expulsion was decent, but also blunt and forceful. As soon as Zhou Jingze took a step, the door closed in front of him.
In the room, only Xu Mu and Xu Sui were left. Xu Sui's throat was a little dry, and he called out tentatively: "Mom—"
"Yiyi, Mom doesn't agree with you being together, let's break up, and go back home with Mom early tomorrow for the New Year." Mother Xu turned around and said.
"Mom, I..." Xu Sui tried to think of something to say.
"I ordered your favorite fennel stuffed dumplings, and I'll go get them." Mother Xu smiled and hurriedly walked towards the kitchen.
Xu Sui sighed, this is Xu's mother's typical tactic, when she has made up her mind or doesn't want to talk anymore, she will avoid it like this. Xu Sui only thought that she was angry, and planned to talk to her the next day when her anger subsided.
Xu Sui sat on the sofa and took a sip of water. He caught a glimpse of the phone screen lighting up and clicked on it. It was a message from a man:
[Call me if you need anything.]
Xu Sui typed a reply in the dialog box: [It's okay.]
She suddenly remembered something and asked, "You haven't left yet, have you?"]
Zhou Jingze quickly sent a message, and Xu Sui felt warm in his heart, and he replied: [I happened to be smoking two cigarettes downstairs, in case your mother thought you were with me and said you were disobedient, and then hit you.]
[No way, my mother is very gentle and never hits anyone, so go back quickly, I'll tell you tomorrow.]
When the two were eating dumplings together, Xu Sui took a special look at her mother's expression. Xu's mother looked very relaxed, and even chatted with her about the family routine, saying that the children of the aunt's family were too naughty.
Xu Sui calmed down a little.
Unexpectedly, the next day, Xu Sui woke up from the bed in a daze, and saw Xu's mother take out her silver suitcase and fold her clothes into it.
"You're awake, pack up, we'll go back in the afternoon." Mother Xu said while folding the clothes.
Xu Sui got up from the bed and explained: "Mom, there are still four days before the Chinese New Year. I still have some work in hand and I have not finished it. I will definitely go back the day after tomorrow."
But Xu's mother acted as if she hadn't heard, she just kept packing there, Xu Sui called her helplessly, Xu's mother paused, and said: "You have been refusing to go home, are you staying with him? Divide up, I will not agree with you to be together."
Xu Sui walked over, reached for his clothes, and said, "Mom, I know what you are worried about. He is a pilot and has been flying safely for so many years, and his flying skills are very good, nothing will happen. I am not the same As a doctor, isn’t the occupation risk high, there are also sudden deaths…”
While she was persuading her, Mother Xu grabbed her clothes and threw them on the bed, her eyes turned red in an instant: "Have you forgotten how your father died?"
"Do you also want to be called a widow at a young age like me?"
One sentence cut the half-scabby wound into a scar again, Xu Sui was silent for a long time, and said softly: "That was just an accident."
"Mom, before you told me to study hard and not let others see jokes. I was very obedient and worked hard to learn. You told me to be sensible and considerate of adults, so I never dared to make you angry, and I would never say no. Until now I still I remember that time when the whole class organized an outing, I really wanted to go skiing, but you asked me to study at home, saying that I would win if I walked one day more than others," Xu Sui looked at her, paused, and struggled to get out of his throat. I squeezed out a sentence, "Later, I found out that's not the case. You asked me to give up playing drums and games, and I gave up. It wasn't until I met him in college that I picked up what I liked again."
"I really like him and have a lot of fun with him."
"This time I want to make up my own mind, and I will be happy. Don't you believe me? Ever since I was a child, I have never let you down," Xu Sui sniffed, drooping his dark eyelashes, "I just want to together with him."