Arriving at the hospital, Wen Tong parked the car and handed Xiao Wanqing an umbrella, and the two of them each held an umbrella, one on the left and one on the right, and walked towards the inpatient department together. When passing by a convenience store, Wen Tong went in and bought some fruit and two bottles of iced mineral water in his hand. Xiao Wanqing probably knew what she meant, and stretched out her hand to share. Wen Tong was worried that the water was too cold and the fruit was too heavy, so she held the umbrella while holding the fruit in one hand, and held the water under her arm with the other hand, so she didn't hand it over to her.
It was the peak period of the lunch break, and there were frequent vehicles coming and going to the hospital. When they crossed the road from the parking lot to the inpatient department, it was windy and rainy. Xiao Wanqing held her umbrella sideways, blocking most of her sight, and walked silently. .
Wen Tong heard the horn of a car on the right, and quickly straightened the umbrella and turned his head to look, and stopped lightly to let the car pass first. She thought that Xiao Wanqing, who was walking on her right, would also stop, but she never expected that Xiao Wanqing continued to walk forward without realizing it.
Wen Tong was stunned for a second, breaking out in a cold sweat. She hastily stretched out her hand and grabbed Xiao Wanqing's arm, ignoring the mineral water and fruit falling to the ground, and said loudly, "Why don't you look at the road?"
Xiao Wanqing was caught suddenly, and gave Wen Tong a surprised look. A black car drove past them, and Xiao Wanqing realized what Wen Tong was saying belatedly.
She said embarrassedly: "I was so concerned about opening the umbrella that I forgot."
"Then it honked its horn, didn't you hear it?" Wen Tong said timidly while picking things up.
Xiao Wanqing was startled. In fact, she vaguely heard the horn, but she thought the source of the sound was from the left, and intuitively glanced to the left to confirm that there was no vehicle. How could it be coming from the right
"Maybe I'm distracted." Xiao Wanqing reluctantly explained.
Wen Tong frowned and sighed, thinking that she was out of energy and didn't say anything after all. Regardless of the rain falling on her body, she straightened her umbrella, and followed the road closely along the way.
Arriving at the inpatient department, on the floor where Zhou Qin's ward is located, Xiao Wanqing stood at the stairs, looked at the faintly visible house number in front, closed her eyes, and said to Wen Tong in a hoarse voice, "I'll wait for you here. If, if Sister Zhou Qin wants me to go and see her, you can come out and call me."
Since entering the hospital, Xiao Wanqing's complexion has become increasingly ugly, except for the unusual redness and swelling on her cheeks, the blood has faded away. Wen Tong could even see that the hand she was resting on the back of the seat was shaking slightly. She asked her worriedly: "Is it really okay for you to wait here alone? Otherwise, you go with me and wait at the door."
Xiao Wanqing shook her head weakly, and said cautiously: "No need, I'll wait here for anything. I'll go there with you. In case the door is open, sister Zhou Qin sees me and won't affect her. All right."
Wen Tong opened his mouth, but stopped talking. But in the end, I also worried that Zhou Qin would not be able to accept the stimulation of seeing his friend and daughter on the bed with his own eyes. It would be bad if something happened to Xiao Wanqing's sudden agitation.
She breathed a sigh of relief, took out the handkerchief from her bag, handed it to Xiao Wanqing along with ice water, and said in compromise: "Then sit here and wait, and apply this to your face first. Don't worry about image issues." She knew Xiao Wanqing too well, even though she was already weak at the moment, she always insisted on her character, and she was not at all willing to show embarrassment in public.
Xiao Wanqing sat down on the chair, took the things, forced a smile when she heard the words, and obediently agreed to her: "Okay."
She watched Wen Tong's distant figure softly, until she turned into the ward and disappeared. She lowered her head and was stunned for a long time, as if mocking herself, she murmured in a low voice: "I don't have any image." In the eyes of everyone, she was already a perverted old woman who abducted her friend's daughter.
Zhou Qin's ward was a three-person room, but the other two beds were empty at the moment, and needles could be heard in the entire ward. As soon as the sound of Wen Tong's footsteps stopped at the door, before he raised his hand to knock on the door, Zhou Qin followed the sound and turned his head sideways, his eyes fell directly on Wen Tong.
"Can I come in?" Wen Tong froze for a moment, withdrew his hand, and asked softly.
Zhou Qin nodded slightly.
As Wen Tong walked in, he asked concerned: "How is it? Do you feel better? What did the doctor say? Why did it happen suddenly? When I heard Brother Lin Zhan say it, I was shocked."
"It's okay, I can't die. Come as soon as you come, bring something, it will cost you." Zhou Qin tried to sit up halfway, and replied in a rough and weak voice.
"Don't, sister, don't get up, just lie down and rest." Wen Tong hurriedly stepped forward to put the fruit on the table beside him, reached out his hand to stop her movement, and helped her lie down again. She pulled out the chair under the bed and sat on it, helped Zhou Qin tuck the corner of the quilt, and babbled: "Is there too much going on at school? You always persuade me that the body is the capital of revolution, let me Don't try too hard. Look, don't just focus on educating me, but also keep it in your heart. "
Zhou Qin smiled lightly, and sighed: "I have to accept my old age. I used to stay up all night without any problems, but now I can't hold on after going to bed a few days late. You should learn from it."
Wen Tong remembers Xiao Wanqing who was still sitting outside waiting nervously. Seeing that although Zhou Qin was sick and haggard, but still in good spirits, he hesitated for a moment, and tentatively said: "Sister, I... came here with Xiao Wan, she Knowing that something happened to you, I was very anxious, but I was afraid that you didn't want to see her, so I didn't dare to come in, look..."
As soon as the words fell, she saw Zhou Qin's smile disappear in an instant, and the gaze staring at her gradually became menacing.
For the sake of Xiao Wanqing and Wen Tong not daring to back down, she gritted her teeth, met Zhou Qin's gaze, and looked back at her quietly.
"Do you know what happened between us?" Zhou Qin asked solemnly.
Wen Tong bit the bullet and nodded.
"Did you already know?" Zhou Qin suddenly recalled Wen Tong's attitude when they had dinner together, his eyes suddenly became sharper, and his tone became colder, like ice with the torrential winter rain outside. cold.
Wen Tong subtly squeezed his hands on his knees, was silent for a moment, and responded: "Yes, sister, I knew it before you, but..."
Before she finished speaking, Zhou Qin interrupted her sharply: "Enough, Wen Tong."
She looked at Wen Tong, the disappointment and hurt in her eyes were obvious: "You know, but you didn't stop her, let alone tell me, now, are you even going to help her as a lobbyist? Wen Tong, you treat her as a friend. Do you consider me a friend?"
Wen Tong looked at the haggard Zhou Qin, feeling guilty in his heart. She admitted that she was biased. However, thinking of Xiao Wanqing's loneliness and the grievance Xiao Wanqing suffered, she still explained with difficulty: "Sister, I understand your feelings. I know, no matter how you handle this matter, Xiao Wan really didn't do a good job. Good. However, Xiaowan's love for Lin Xian must be more serious than anyone else. Give her a chance to communicate with her calmly, and she will definitely give you an explanation, okay?"
"Wen Tong, do you really understand my mood? Do you understand my mood as a mother?" Zhou Qin seemed to be extremely tired, and his words gradually dropped, full of powerlessness and sadness.
"Wen Tong, you have a good relationship with her, so you are considerate of her. But treat her heart, Wen Tong, apart from your friendship with her, you put yourself in the situation objectively. If you have a daughter who just graduated from high school and regards it as a treasure, I am afraid that she will not be able to take care of her." Take good care of yourself, fear that she will learn bad things, and fear that she will go astray, so you give her to a man of the same generation that you trust to take care of, but the other party ignores your trust, your daughter's immaturity, and ethics, and takes care of your niece. When you get to bed, can you still feel calm? What's more, Xiao Wanqing and her are both women, which leads Lin Xian to a rough and wrong path."
Weeping blood every word, Wen Tong was speechless. She really understands Zhou Qin's mood, but she also really understands Xiao Wanqing. Xiao Wanqing is not innocent, but she is not unforgivable.
She struggled and said: "Sister, but from the beginning to the end, this relationship was not led by Xiao Wan. It's not fair for you to attribute all the faults to her." She even wanted to say, Lin Xian may be born gay, but she swallowed it because she was afraid of irritating Zhou Qin.
Zhou Qin shook his head and said tiredly: "Wen Tong, Lin Xian is ignorant in her teens, is she ignorant in her thirties? I will teach my daughter if she made a mistake, and Xiao Wanqing made a mistake. Can't I be held accountable? I can't understand her, so you don't need to say more." Lin Xian and Wen Tong both understood Xiao Wanqing, but who ever understood her
"There is no real empathy in this world. You are not the person involved, so consideration and understanding can be said lightly. If you still want to be friends, don't meddle in this matter anymore." Zhou Qin's tone was cold, his eyes were stern.
Zhou Qin's attitude towards this matter is obvious, Wen Tong took a deep breath, knowing that at this moment, Zhou Qin can't slow down, and if he doesn't get in, it's useless to say more. There was pain in her heart, and she felt sorry for the unknown storm that Xiao Wanqing would face next. But she tried her best, she is not the person involved, she has no position, and she has nothing to do.
She stood up and said in a low voice: "Okay, sister, I won't talk anymore. You all calm down, I believe that things are not as bad as you imagined. Take care of your body and rest, and I won't bother you for now .”
Zhou Qin responded lightly.
Wen Tong turned around and left. When she was approaching the door, she seemed to have remembered something and stopped. She turned her back to Zhou Qin, her voice was calm but undeniably firm, and she reminded: "Sister, no matter what, doing it will not help solve the matter."
She knew that what she said meant accountability to some extent. Having said that, she and Zhou Qin may not be able to return to the past no matter what. However, she couldn't help but say it.
Zhou Qin was taken aback when he heard this. She has calmed down a lot now, recalling the two slaps she slapped on Xiao Wanqing's face in the morning, she felt mixed feelings in her heart. She closed her eyes slightly, and her voice couldn't hear her emotions: "Take her to see a doctor. I am very heavy in the morning."
Wen Tong's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly remembered the matter of Xiao Wanqing's abnormal non-response to the sound of the horn just now, and became more worried. She turned her head to look at Zhou Qin. Zhou Qin had already turned sideways, with his back to her, unable to see his expression clearly. Wen Tong answered her softly: "Okay." Then, he turned and left.
As soon as she left the ward, she met Xiao Wanqing's gaze from afar who had been waiting for an unknown amount of time. Wen Tong looked at the anxiety and expectation in her eyes, her throat tightened.
She closed the door, shook her head helplessly at Xiao Wanqing, seeing the only light in her dark eyes, which instantly dimmed, and couldn't tell what it was like in her heart.
She blinked her astringent eyes, walked quickly in front of Xiao Wanqing, knelt down, put her hands on Xiao Wanqing's legs to comfort her, and said softly: "She hasn't calmed down yet, and she doesn't want to see you yet. Actually, even Now she is willing to see you, if you talk, if you can't communicate calmly and rationally, it is impossible to reach a consensus, it will only add to the quarrel. Let's go down first, go to the clinic to see your face, and have a checkup, okay?"
"Is she okay?" Xiao Wanqing lowered her eyelids lonely and asked in a hoarse voice of concern.
"It looks fine now, and we may have to wait for the follow-up inspection to know the specific situation. Let's go for the inspection first."
Xiao Wanqing stared non-stop at the ward with the door closed and no light coming through. After a long time, she looked away, nodded, and agreed: "Okay, let's go first."
She hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch, and she was exhausted from all the upheavals and blows she had suffered. She supported the wall, stood up with difficulty, and said with a trembling voice: "But, don't go to the outpatient clinic. Wen Tong, I'm a little... I can't hold it..."
This hospital has her most embarrassing and most embarrassing memories. She sent her parents away here, and it was also here that she was turned away by her critically ill grandmother and knelt at the door of the ward, but she was not even allowed to see the last handout.
Wen Tong supported her, listening to her rare fragility, his heart felt like a knife. She promised her: "Okay, not here. Let's change to another hospital for examination."
"Wen Tong, I don't want to go to the hospital anymore. I'm really fine." Xiao Wanqing wanted to be decent, she wasn't that fragile yet. She left Wen Tong's holding hand, stabilized her body, and walked downstairs step by step.
"No." Wen Tong retorted without doubt. "Xiao Wanqing, even if you don't care about yourself, you should also care about Lin Xian. Are you really not uncomfortable? You have to know that if you fall down because of this, or leave any sequelae, it will only intensify Lin Xian and Zhou Qin. The conflict between the elder sisters is really irresponsible to Lin Xian."
Xiao Wanqing's footsteps stopped. After a long while, she calmly and awkwardly compromised and agreed, "Okay, let's change to another hospital."
For a moment, Wen Tong didn't know whether to be relieved or frustrated. Only Lin Xian can handle her
On the way to change hospitals, just in case, Wen Tong called to make an appointment to register, but it turned out that the outpatient specialists did not have a number today. Wen Tong made several phone calls in a hurry, but he just left the relationship and got the additional consultation number, and put Xiao Wanqing in.
After the examination, the concussion that Wen Tong was most worried about was ruled out. Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, the results of the next department's examination made the tears she had been holding back roll down in an instant.
The doctor said that Xiao Wanqing's right ear was damaged by external force and her eardrum was perforated.
Lin Zhan was on his way to help Zhou Qin with cooking when he received a call from Lin Xian's grandmother. As soon as the call was connected, the old man raised his voice in annoyance and asked him: "Lin Zhan, what the hell is going on with your family! Why can't you sit down and communicate, and you have to be so restless. How did Qinqin get in? Hospital, what did Xianxian do wrong? You want to put her under house arrest like this. Now she says that if you don’t agree to her conditions, she won’t eat. She has a bad stomach. How can she stand being so hungry? Let me help you Man, how can I stand her like this?"
Lin Zhan stopped in his tracks, his face suddenly changed. He frowned, gritted his teeth, and apologized: "I'm sorry, Mom, it's our fault that made you worry. Mom, you give Lin Xian the phone number, and I'll talk to her."
"Dad..." the girl's hoarse voice came from beside her ear.
Lin Zhan couldn't hold back his anger and reprimanded her: "Lin Xian, what are you doing, can't you calm down for a while? Your mother is already overwhelmed by you, are you willing to let the two old people be overwhelmed by you? Hunger strike, hunger strike! You use your body as a bargaining chip at every turn, how can I believe that you are not a child and can be responsible for yourself!"
"But, Dad, in front of you now, apart from my body and your love for me, what bargaining chip do I have to fight against you? Aren't you also using my love for you as a bargaining chip to persecute me? Which one of us is more mature than the other?" Lin Xian responded with tears.
Lin Zhan was stopped by Lin Xian's question, his open mouth suddenly became silent. He reflected on himself, and his anger seemed to be drowned out silently by the heavy rain all around in an instant.
"If possible, I also want to show you my mature side, and I want to show you that I am not acting on my own will. I have a plan for my future, and I can be responsible for my own choices and my own life. But , did you give me time, did you give me a chance?" Lin Xian complained.
She was not naive, she didn't even have a chance to fight, and she was about to be separated from Xiao Wanqing. Either she was forced to transfer to another school, or Xiao Wanqing left her on her own initiative. She knows Xiao Wanqing too well. Xiao Wanqing is different from others. Without the approval of her parents, she desperately cut off ties with her family. With Xiao Wanqing's character, it is impossible to let go of her knot and guilt and stay with her regardless. .
"Dad, don't transfer me to another school. Mom is angry now, and it doesn't make sense, but you can make a decision whether to do it or not. Dad, don't force me, just treat me as naive, and I don't want to do it either." More extreme things." She shouldn't treat her parents like this, threaten them, and implicate the elderly, but she really has no other choice.
"Lin Xian!" Lin Zhan shouted angrily. "I didn't know you were such a radical person before."
"Father, ask yourself, are you not extreme in what you are doing to me now?" Lin Xian choked up.
After finishing her harsh words, she began to show weakness, her breath trembling: "Father, I don't want to do this either, this is not my original intention."
"I know that everything you do now is because you love me and for my own good. But, Dad, if you love someone, isn't it true love to satisfy her in the way she wants and make her happy? I know you can’t accept it because you are afraid that I will get hurt in the future. However, even if you protect me, one day I will have to face the ups and downs of life alone. I also know that the path I choose will be How many storms there will be, I am mentally prepared."
"In life, try to do what you want to do, live the life you want to live, and make yourself happy. Didn't you tell me? I want to go my own way and experience my own life. Along the way, no matter what happens From the good to the bad, they are all precious experiences in my life. I am willing and have no regrets. If you really love me, don’t you accompany me through the wind and rain and let me have a safe haven? Why? , why are you all the same as those who hurt me, persecuting me, stabbing me, and torturing me with them." At the end of the sentence, she almost cried out of grievance.
"Why on earth should we give up the happiness we have at our fingertips for the sake of the unpredictable future? Will we really be able to live a better life if we give up the future we have now? Dad, if I can't even be responsible for myself, Then who can take responsibility for me?"
Standing in the heavy rain, Lin Zhan listened to the sound of rainwater hitting the umbrella, and listened to Lin Xian's heartbreaking weeping and questioning, speechless.
He couldn't answer what she asked him. He knows that there is no standard answer in life. However, as a father, he wanted to do his best to help her avoid risks, protect her so that she would suffer less, and wanted her to live a smooth and happy life. But, the child has grown up, she said she has her own life, and she doesn't need his protection anymore, what should he do
After a long time, he opened his lips with difficulty, and gave way: "Lin Xian, too many things happened today, and my father is also very upset now, please let me be quiet. You have finished your meal, and I will deal with the matter of transferring schools." I helped you down first."