In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. This sentence comes from the Gospel of John, and was said by a famous foreigner.
It is dark outside the window. If there were no small oil lamp on the windowsill, I might not feel how dark it is outside the window.
On the dim and dirty wall of the room, a huge human figure was reflected. As the light flickered, the shadow also swayed slightly and twisted and deformed. It was completely impossible to tell that he was sitting quietly beside the bed.
In the light, the bronze face and narrow eyes withdrew their gaze from the window, slowly stretched out their hand, picked up a brand new military uniform jacket folded on the bedside, and carefully tried to put it on.
My military uniform was cut into pieces during the operation, but now I can get out of bed. This one was brought to me by Nurse Liu today. Since I woke up, I didn't let the little girl stay in this ward to accompany me, and forced her to live with Zhou Wanping. My things should also be with Zhou Wanping.
The wound was healing, so I didn't dare swing my arms or exert myself, and tried to walk slowly. It was a long time after dinner, the moon had risen, the sky was dark, and there was no one in the yard. Soon, I stood in front of a door.
I knocked on the door, and a familiar voice with a magnetic tone came from the room: "Who is it? Wait a moment..."
After a noise that seemed like someone was hastily packing up, the door opened: "It's you."
"It's too stuffy in the room, let's go out for a walk."
After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Wanping stepped forward and said, "Come in."
Hu Yi walked in. The light on the desk made the room seem warm. Dr. Zhou's residence was the same as the last time he came. There was basically no change. However, there seemed to be a new smell in the room, which made Hu Yi sniff deliberately. He walked behind the desk and sat on the chair: "The girl is not here?"
"Let Xiao Liu and the others take him there." Zhou Wanping closed the door and turned around to find Hu Yi sitting behind the desk. She nodded at him and said, "Get up, get up. This is my place. Go sit over there."
Hu Yi was speechless. He stood up and walked to the bedside. "So there are times when you are afraid to see people?"
Zhou Wanping sat behind the desk: "Who said I don't dare to see people?"
He straightened his back and slowly sat down on the bed: "Then why are you blushing?"
"This is because..." Zhou Wanping suddenly stopped talking halfway through her words.
Hu Yi smiled and said, "Because I drank."
"How did you know?" A childlike surprise instantly appeared on the mature and beautiful face.
"My nose is not injured. Besides... I am your accomplice."
After watching Hu Yi quietly for a while, Zhou Wanping suddenly glared at him fiercely, stood up again and went to the door, bolted it, and returned, bent down, tore open the sundries under the desk that were deliberately used to cover the table, took out the alcohol bottle that had just been temporarily hidden and placed it on the table, found a still wet medical beaker from the pile of books, opened the drawer, took out a wrinkled oil paper bag, opened it on the table, and found a handful of peanuts inside.
"Sister, I'm still here. Can you wait until I'm gone before you continue, so as not to ruin your reputation?"
She seemed not to have heard, and carefully poured the wine into the small beaker, put her hands under her pretty nose and sniffed it intoxicatedly, then slightly opened her sexy lips and took a small sip.
"Can you drink?" she asked suddenly.
“Yes, but I never thought it tasted good.”
"Why do you have that expression? Do you think women shouldn't drink, it's ugly?"
"This is the first time I've seen a doctor drink."
"Now I'm not a doctor, it's just me."
"There was a time when I was very sad, so I tried this secretly occasionally, and then... I fell in love with it. There was a time when I thought this thing was a medicine that could make people forget yesterday, but now I think it's childish. In fact, I am lucky, at least luckier than you. For example, now, I can drink happily, and you, the unlucky guy, can only watch."
The mature and beautiful woman was smiling, but Hu Yi did not find it funny at all, because there was a deep loneliness in that smile, covering up her lonely and sad story. I don't want to talk about women drinking or doctors drinking anymore, it's unfair to her.
"My things...are they all there?"
"Haha, you call that a thing? In my eyes, it's all junk. Over there, in the corner, those two bags are yours. Oh, yes, and..." Zhou Wanping opened another drawer beside the table, took out a black leather box and a pocket watch, and threw them on the bed next to Hu Yi: "You took this out of your pocket. The pocket watch is nice."
Click—
The watch case jumped up briskly, under the dim light of the oil lamp, the dial was a little dark, it was a quarter to nine.
"It's getting late. I'm going back now. You should drink less." Hu Yi put his pocket watch and compass into his pocket and stood up.
"I know what's going on. Don't worry about it." Zhou Wanping put down the small medical beaker and prepared to open the door.
Suddenly, footsteps were heard outside and stopped in front of the door.
Ding dang dang—"Sister Zhou." The voice of nurse Xiao Liu was heard outside the door.
Hu Yi stopped and looked at Zhou Wanping expressionlessly.
Thinking that she had a few days off, and that the little girl was not around tonight, she decided to secretly drink some wine to satisfy her cravings, but first Hu Yi came to visit, and now Xiao Liu showed up and knocked on the door. Zhou Wanping looked at the locked door, then at the bottles and cups on the desk. The room was full of alcohol, and with Hu Yi behind her, opening the door would mean two bad things.
She turned around and gestured to Hu Yi to keep quiet, then spoke unnaturally: "I was just about to go to bed, what's the matter?"
"I just went to check on the ward, Hu Yi wasn't in the ward, I was looking for him, I wanted to ask if you had seen him."
"Uh... ah... yes, I have seen him. He said he was... going to visit the head of the group."
"Ah?" Xiao Liu outside the door didn't seem to understand.
Hu Yi was so upset. How could she say that? Visiting in the dark
"Don't worry about this matter. Let him go wherever he wants. Don't look for him. Go back and have a rest now. I will personally teach this night wanderer a lesson tomorrow. Do as I say." Zhou Wanping realized that she couldn't make up an excuse, so she simply raised her tone of command to force him.
Xiao Liu's footsteps gradually faded away, heading towards her dormitory and then disappeared.
Huh—Zhou Wanping patted the bulge on her shirt, let out a deep breath, then turned around and blew out the oil lamp on the table, and the room instantly became dark.
“You are…” Hu Yi was puzzled.
"You go out in broad daylight, aren't you afraid that others will see you clearly? Are you stupid?" Zhou Wanping whispered to Hu Yi, then listened carefully to the noise outside and said, "Let's go now. Be careful."
Hu Yi walked towards the door in the dark, but stopped before he could unbolt it.
There were footsteps outside the door again, all the way to the door, ding ding ding - "Aunt Zhou, I'm back."
It's raining cats and dogs when the roof is leaking.
"Silly girl, didn't you say... you wouldn't be coming back tonight?" He answered delayingly while grabbing Hu Yi's arm and walking inside in the dark. He shook the wound and could hear Hu Yi's heavy breathing.
"It's too crowded there, it's better to sleep back here." Xiao Hongying answered from outside the door. Zhou Wanping in the room lowered her voice and urged Hu Yi: "Hurry up and open the window and go out."
"I can't do that."
Then he remembered that the small window inside was not very low, and Hu Yi's injury might not allow him to see it, so he said helplessly: "Then it's under the bed."
"Can't you explain it clearly to the girl?" Hu Yi hesitated.
"Can you explain it clearly? Hurry up."
"Auntie Zhou, what did you say?" Xiao Hongying outside the door seemed to hear a little sound.
"It's okay, it's okay, wait a minute."
A series of clattering sounds were heard near the desk, the oil lamp was lit, there was another series of clattering sounds, and then the bolt was unbolted, and a pair of small cloth shoes could be seen stepping in from under the bed.
"Hey, this smell is..."
The door slammed shut. "Keep your voice down... the alcohol has been spilled."
"Oh, but you're panting..."
"No buts, go to bed quickly."
"Oh, I smelled it wrong. Hehe..."
Then the lights went out, leaving only the darkness under the bed and the faint moonlight on the ground not far away.
Time passes slowly.
I hoped the little girl would fall asleep quickly, but the bed board above my head kept creaking, and the little girl tossed and turned on it.
"Aren't you going to sleep yet?"
"I can't sleep."
"Auntie Zhou."
"Um."
"I don't understand."
"What don't you understand?"
"Last night you said that his thing was swollen and it was getting better. Why is that? ... Doesn't it hurt?"
“Ahem… Ahem…”
"Auntie Zhou?"
"Stop talking and go to sleep"
"You asked me so many questions last night, and I answered them all in detail. Now that I ask you questions, you bully me because I'm young. Didn't you say that we must tell the truth when we whisper?" Xiao Hongying, who was trying to clear up the confusion, seemed to become more energetic the more she spoke.
"Tell me more about it, please?"
"My dear, please help me. I have a headache today. I don't want to talk about anything today. Can we talk about it another day?"
"Okay then... But yesterday you said he..."
"You are not allowed to say that. I also have a headache if you say that again or I will pinch you. Go to bed quickly." Zhou Wanping ruthlessly interrupted Xiao Hongying's boudoir spoilers, her tone not only sounding angry, but also panicked.
Lying in the darkness under the bed, I could clearly hear Zhou Wanping's unnatural breathing above me; and Hu Yi under the bed was the same, his lungs were about to explode, but he dared not breathe. This feeling was too bad, it was much more uncomfortable than pulling out a gun tower and touching a bunker, it was a living hell.
I have to admit that Dr. Zhou is such a big shot. I don't know what to say to her. Hu Yi feels that he is in a terrible state. He has lost all his dignity and is extremely ashamed. The more upset he is, the slower time seems to pass and the more tormented he becomes.
After a long time, Xiao Hongying's snoring finally came from the bed, which sounded more liberating to Hu Yi than the sound of the charge. Despite the injury on his back, he did not dare to hesitate, and used all his strength to move out of the space that made him ashamed.
He walked to the door with light footsteps, unbolted it and turned around. A tall and slender figure had already gotten out of bed and was following not far behind him. In the reflection of the moonlight, two slender white bare feet were stepping on the ground. Hu Yi almost fainted on the spot.
"What are you looking at? I have to lock the door again. Get out of here!"
As Zhou Wanping yelled in anger, Hu Yi disappeared into the night in panic, wishing he could grow wings...