The train screeched forward.
In order to save money, Jihuan bought a hard seat. It takes 19 hours to travel from his hometown to the city where his sister lives. Thanks to Jihuan's youth and good health, the passengers around him who choose hard seats are either those who can't buy other tickets. Or short-distance passengers, most of them are rural people who go to the city to work.
After all, it was the first time to go out. After Huan got into the car and found his seat, he sat there motionless, holding his luggage tightly. After a while, he took out a set of exercises and started to do it.
When others were eating, he was doing exercises, and when others were snoring, he changed a set of exercises and continued to do them. Like a tireless robot, he seemed to focus all his attention on the exercise book in his hand. When he took out the next exercise from his duffel bag and found that the book was full, he Only then did I realize that I finished all my winter vacation homework in just one day today.
When the snoring sounded in the carriage, Ji Huan finally stood up.
Walking to the aisle connecting the carriage to the carriage, he looked out quietly: it was pitch black outside the window.
Ji Huan stared out the window like this, until the sky was twilight, the first ray of sunlight rose from below the horizon, and then the whole sun rose again in the sky.
Before getting off the train, he took a steamed bun from his luggage and ate it with pickles he made and hot water from the car. When the train stopped again, he was about to get off.
Crowded in the crowd, Ji Huan followed the crowd and passed the ticket gate naturally. He didn't look like a country boy who arrived in a big city for the first time. Looking at the various signs hanging above the station, he went straight to the taxi waiting area. After getting in the car, he directly reported the address of the hospital. Apart from that, he didn't say a word of nonsense to the driver, but just watched the surroundings vigilantly. road sign.
"Next, you should take Jianshe South Road. Why did you turn to Zhongshan Road?" Just when the driver decided to sign the direction sign to the right, Ji Huan's icy voice sounded from the back seat.
The driver shivered a bit, trying to confuse it with a smirk: "Ha... how can it be? This section of Jianshe South Road is stuck in traffic. I'll take a detour from the side and turn in at the next intersection."
As he spoke, he looked back through the rear mirror, and then met Ji Huan's thick bangs eyes at a glance. He didn't dare to look again after only one glance. The driver immediately retracted his gaze. . Then, he heard the man behind continue to speak:
"If you go that way, you will take a long detour. Since you have already turned on Zhongshan Road, then go straight and turn right at Sibei Street behind."
So the driver was completely convinced: "Hehe, are you a local? The road conditions are quite familiar!"
native? Of course not, he just recited the entire route map from the train station to the hospital where his sister is.
As a teenager who grew up in the countryside, this is the first time Jihuan has left his hometown, and it is also the first time he has come to a big city. Before departure, Jihuan did a lot of research. The people who watched the movie watched the movie, and the movie was open. He was the only one who was seriously using the Baidu search function to check the route map. When visiting his sister, he saved his own fare, and originally wanted to buy a plane ticket, However, the air ticket was too expensive. Considering the subsequent expenses, he bought the fastest train ticket after all, and then sacrificed comfort and bought a hard seat ticket. He also checked the way to go to the hospital after getting off the train. From It cost about 39 yuan to get from the train station to the hospital. He spent one night drawing the map over there on the workbook, and then memorized it all.
The driver finally took Ji Huan to take a shortcut. In the end, he only spent 30 yuan. After collecting the money, Ji Huan finally stood at the door of the hospital.
Carrying a small luggage, Ji Huan went straight to the lobby on the first floor of the hospital, and then he was stunned.
Here, the crowd is bustling, and the air is filled with the smell of disinfectant; here, no one has a smile on their faces, and even the use of pink walls cannot hide the anxious atmosphere; Either old or weak...
After standing in the lobby on the first floor and being lost for a long time, a nurse finally saw that Ji Huan was still a child, and after asking him, finally brought him to the inpatient department.
When Jihuan arrived, it was just after two o'clock in the afternoon. When the sun was at its brightest, the corridor of the inpatient department was illuminated. When Jihuan followed behind the head nurse and turned into a ward, all the warmth disappeared. .
Jihuan finally saw his sister.
The fierce, chatty and invincible sister who defeated all the boys on the mountain was lying on a white hospital bed, full of tubes and respirators. And the vital signs, Jihuan almost thought she had stopped breathing.
Jihuan was stunned.
"... She should have wanted to drive back to visit you. She brought a lot of gifts in the car, and her fiancé was also in the car... Died on the spot..." The head nurse's voice came into Ji Huan's ears intermittently, and Ji Huan felt as if she is dreaming.
"… The tire on the right rear wheel of the car blew out halfway, and the car lost control, rushed over the guardrail, and fell from a height of about 30 meters… "
"The patient has a comminuted skull fracture, all internal organs are damaged, and there are multiple comminuted fractures on her body..."
"She had already lost consciousness at the time of the incident, probably... it's been a few days. You... are you alone in your house? Tell the others to prepare... for the funeral."
The head nurse finally stretched out her palm and patted Ji Huan's shoulder lightly.
Ji Huan had filled out her personal information before she came here, so she naturally knew that the tall and tall young man in front of her was actually a child under the age of eighteen. It was cruel to have a child come over to face his sister's funeral alone.
With a sigh, she still left the intensive care unit and left the space for the sister and brother.
There were obviously two people in the ward, but it was as quiet as it was empty. Jihuan sat from the sunny noon to the evening when the sun set. The head nurse came over several times, and two strange men also came.
They were said to be colleagues from their sister's fiancé. They brought flowers and saw Jihuan sitting beside the hospital bed. First, they comforted a few words, and then began to inquire about Jihuan's situation.
Jihuan ignored them.
He has been like this since he was a child, and when he doesn't want to talk, he can stay silent for a day.
The two people had no way to take him, and finally left the flower and left.
In the end, the head nurse pulled Ji Huan out and took him to the staff restaurant downstairs for a meal. She finally agreed to Ji Huan's request to stay in bed in the hospital tonight.
"But not in the ward, only next door."
Ji Huan nodded.
There was an empty ward next door. Jihuan felt that it was reserved for him by the head nurse. This big boy who was not good at expressing didn't know what to say, so he could only bow to her in the end.
The head nurse also prepared a new quilt for him. Although it was obviously used in the ward, it could be seen that it was washed clean.
Jihuan finally lay stiffly on the bed.
The sound insulation of the ward is very good, but he always felt that he could hear the beeping sound of the instruments on his sister's side.
Accompanied by the beeping sound, Jihuan, who thought he couldn't sleep, fell asleep in a daze.
He had his childhood dream, and then saw his childhood sister.
The perspective in the dream was very strange. He felt that he was flying in the sky, and then his sister ran quickly on the ground, calling his nickname as she ran:
"Xiaohua, Xiaohua, come down quickly and come to my sister's side!"
Strange, how could he be flying
and…
Ah... my sister is getting further and further away, it seems that she is getting taller and taller.
Jihuan thought, and then he saw his sister pick up a stone from the ground and throw it at him—
Then, he woke up.
Half-dreaming and half-awake, she opened her eyes slightly, Ji Huan stared in a daze, and then...
He heard his sister's voice again:
"Xiaohua, Xiaohua, come here, come to my sister's side."