Mrs. Xiao stared blankly at the pale ceiling, and walked past all the medical staff in front of her eyes. Outside the window was the scorching sun, but inside the room was the desolation and sadness of people drinking tea.
Xiao Yao stood leaning against the wall outside the ward, the incandescent light above his head was a bit dazzling, he closed his eyes subconsciously, like a widowed old man who is about to grow old in his twilight years, he put his hands on his knees, and finally walked slowly along the road. The wall slides and sits down.
"Dong dong dong." A pair of feet stood two meters away from him.
Xiao Yao raised his head instinctively when he heard the voice, the child's figure was a little swaying, he stood up slowly with one hand supporting the wall.
"Actually, you don't have to force yourself." Xiao Jing said, she looked through the glass window to see the condition of the old man inside, the right side of her body was completely paralyzed after a stroke, and Mrs. Xiao Jiatai, who was once glorious, now actually said It's so bleak.
Xiao Yao lowered his head with self-blame, "I said that I would take good care of you mother and daughter, but I made a slip of the tongue. I don't want to be guilty again. If mother is wrong, she is wrong. I will not favor anyone."
"Father, a family shouldn't be like ours."
"Yes, it shouldn't be like us, so I'm working hard to fix it, hoping to make it up in time."
Xiao Jing sat on the chair next to her. She looked at the tall figure on the floor in front of her, and said, "My aunt came to see me just now."
Xiao Yao's expression froze, and he said anxiously, "What did she tell you?"
"Father, have you ever loved?" Xiao Jing looked at him with seriousness never before.
Xiao Yao is sitting beside her, have you ever loved? It seems that he has loved, but it seems that he has not loved. Does his love seem to be love? As if mixed with more responsibility.
"I heard from elder brother that you actually like second elder brother's mother very much, right?" Xiao Jing asked again.
"She is very good and has only been with me for three years. I like her very much because she is like my first love."
"Your first love?"
Xiao Yao nodded solemnly, "Maybe because of her family background, she separated from me in the end. Maybe she also saw through the essence of our Xiao family, and she was right to withdraw early. This is very good."
"Father, have you ever really loved someone?"
Xiao Yao was silent, his love was too narrow and even extreme, it seemed that in the next few decades, he would have no feelings other than responsibility.
"Father, will you like my mother?"
"Xiaojing, I'm past the age where I can talk about love vigorously. In a family, there are parents, children, and laughter, isn't it right?"
"Do you think there will be laughter in the seemingly incongruous relationship between husband and wife?" Xiao Jing stood up, "This is the first time I want to ask you this. If you really don't like my mother, you can divorce her."
"No." Xiao Yao resolutely denied her words, and said with an emphasis, "Xiaojing, do you think it's the best choice for her to separate me from your mother? I'm trying to make it up to you, I I know that my compensation may be insignificant, but I will try my best to be a husband and a father."
"Father, have you seen your mother's eyes? Her eyes were all on you once, and she only worshiped you as if she was bewildered. You are the sun in her heart, even if you are so lost in Cangshan For many years, you are still her belief, but now, there is no light in her eyes, like a dark vortex, and she can't find where her belief is."
"child-"
"Just let me beg you, let her go." Xiao Jing stood up straight and saluted respectfully, "I will take her back to grandma's house. Take good care of your mother."
Xiao Yao watched Xiao Jing leave, and subconsciously chased after two steps, but felt that the child's figure had already drifted away, and there was an invisible barrier around him, and he couldn't catch up.
The door of the ward behind him was opened carefully, and the chief doctor walked out in embarrassment.
Xiao Yao closed his eyes, "How is the situation?"
"Sir, if we send the old lady away now, the situation will probably get worse. Are you sure you want to send her away?" the director asked.
"You supervise well, and leave when mother's condition is better. I'll go first and take good care of her." Xiao Yao staggered towards the elevator, he looked at the old man on the elevator wall, his hands couldn't stop He clenched his fist tremblingly.
The Xiao family was empty, really empty.
As the night falls and the lights come on, the faint fragrance of flowers pours in from the open windows.
Xiao Jing leaned against the bed, put her hands on her chin, and looked at the woman who was waking up on the bed.
Qin Ran seemed to have adapted to the light in one eye. She noticed her daughter's eyes and turned her eyes sideways. Her voice was dry, "Why haven't you gone back yet?"
"The captain said to pick me up later." Xiao Jing raised the bed a little, "Are you still dizzy?"
Qin Ran shook her head, "I'm a little thirsty."
Xiao Jing hurriedly poured a glass of warm water and handed it to her mouth, "Drink it slowly."
Qin Ran bit her straw and took small sips of warm boiled water. She said, "I'm fine. You should go back soon. The hospital smells bad."
"Well, I know." Xiao Jing put down the water glass, sat on the chair, straightened her back.
Seeing that she hesitated to speak, Qin Ran said, "Is there anything else you want to tell me?"
"Mom, I have already notified my grandpa and them, they will come from M city tomorrow."
Qin Ran's hands tightened, "You tell them what to do. Your grandfather has been in poor health these years, so they don't need to rush here."
"Father has agreed to divorce you."
"..." Qin Ran felt anxious and sat up directly from the bed.
Xiao Jing pressed her body, her eyes were flushed, "Mom, do you still want to stay in Xiao's house?"
Qin Ran lay back on the bed, staring at the ceiling with empty eyes, do you still want to stay at Xiao's house? That was a place she could never reach, that was a place she had dreamed of, but what about now? She felt that it was like a purgatory on earth, constantly delaying her hope and light.
She shook her head, and shook her head very cautiously, "You're right, don't want to, don't want to, don't look forward to it, don't ask for it, it's just my poor child, you are going to get married soon, mother doesn't want you to suffer Criticism."
"The mouth grows on other people. Even if they don't say it in front of us, they will talk about the right and wrong of our Xiao family behind our backs. We don't need to make our lives more tiring and harder because of one or two gossips from others. , isn't it?"
"My child is right." Qin Ran stroked her cheek, "No matter what, you are right."
Xiao Jing heard footsteps behind her and stood up from her chair.
Shen Chengfeng came in a hurry, with a slight chill on his body, he pushed open the door, looked at the two eyes that were looking at him in unison, and smiled slightly on his serious and serious face.
"Captain." Xiao Jing stepped forward with a smile on her face, looked at the things in his hand, "What did you buy?"
"Xu Ji's roast duck." Shen Chengfeng put the bag on the table, "I bought some porridge for my mother."
Xiao Jing opened the bag of roast duck, and bursts of delicious smells greeted her face. She was overjoyed, "How do you know that I want to eat these things?"
"As long as it is edible, I think you will like it."
Xiao Jing frowned, "Are you saying that I am hungry like a pig?"
"Well, I really want to raise you into a pig, white and fat, and warm to hug." Shen Chengfeng opened the porridge bowl and brought it to Qin Ran himself.
Qin Ran was flattered and hurriedly said, "I'll just do it myself."
"This is what I should do as a son-in-law." Shen Chengfeng scooped up a spoonful of porridge and handed it to Qin Ran's mouth.
The tip of Qin Ran's nose was acidic, she controlled her emotions, and opened her mouth to take a sip, "It's delicious."
"I also think it's delicious." Xiao Jing gnawed on the duck leg and grinned, showing her big white teeth.
Qin Ran couldn't help laughing, "I'm letting you see a joke, this kid has been greedy since he was a child."
"It's very good, easy to raise." Shen Chengfeng took another spoonful.
"When I went to the military camp in the first year, I was worried that she would not get used to the clear soup and cabbage in the military camp. Later I realized that the 525th regiment was not as difficult as I imagined."
"Mom, it's actually quite hard. I'm wasting my days. You have to know that life is boring without TV or mobile phone." Xiao Jing interjected.
"Her child speaks in such a low tone, don't believe her jokes, this child is also working hard." Qin Ran gave her a look, as if telling her personally, don't talk nonsense in front of the officer, and set a good example. A good image of diligence and hard work will let the officer know that you are malleable and motivated.
Shen Chengfeng replied, "Well, she is indeed working very hard, eating and drinking very hard."
Qin Ran smiled wryly and said, "She actually worked hard for a while."
"Yes, I know this. She worked hard to create the first place in the 525 regiment's first 100-meter race, and it took one and a half minutes."
"..." I am most afraid of the sudden silence of the air.
Shen Chengfeng looked at the little soldier behind him who didn't have a guilty expression on his face, and said again: "I can imagine what a miraculous existence the 525th regiment is."
"Hahaha." Xiao Jing smiled guiltyly, walked slowly in front of Shen Chengfeng, and deliberately lowered her voice, "Captain, I am also your daughter-in-law after all, so give your wife a little face. We can meet better."
Shen Chengfeng coughed softly, "Later she came to Tie Ying, although she was not satisfactory at first, but she really worked hard, trained hard, dangled hard in front of her eyes, worked hard—" crawled under my blanket.
Seeing him swallow the second half of the sentence, Xiao Jing hurriedly said: "Work hard to carry the gun and go into battle to be invincible."
Shen Chengfeng pursed his lips and smiled, "Well, whatever my wife says is whatever."
Xiao Jing spat, and kissed the captain on the forehead in front of her mother.
Qin Ran shook her head dumbfoundingly, "Okay, I'm full too, you can take her back quickly."
Shen Chengfeng put the porridge bowl aside, tidied up briefly, and left the ward with Xiao Jing.
Qin Ran was about to take another nap when she suddenly found the door open.
The sound of footsteps was intermittent, and it seemed that walking was very difficult.
Xiao Yao stood in the room, unable to speak for a moment.
Qin Ran opened her eyes and looked at each other.
"I came to see you when the children left." Xiao Yao was holding a bowl of porridge in his hand. When he saw the half-drinked porridge bowl on the table, he frowned, "You have eaten?"
Qin Ran nodded, "You don't have to come here so late."
"Qin Ran, I respect your choice. If you really want to leave, I won't force you." Xiao Yao opened the porridge bowl tremblingly.
"Master, I asked myself repeatedly a long time ago, why didn't I leave? What did I stay in Xiao's house for? My dignity is nothing, my honor and disgrace are nothing, I want to give my child a complete family , but now I understand that even if I insist on keeping her in this family, it is still a kind of harm."
"sorry."
"..." Qin Ran was taken aback, "Master, you don't have to say sorry to me."
"We can go through the formalities, but can we wait after the child's wedding?" Xiao Yao asked.
"I know, after the child's wedding."
Sitting on the sofa, Xiao Yao stirred the bowl of porridge that had already cooled down spoon by spoon, and then ate it silently by himself.
The room fell silent again.
After a while, Xiao Yao drank the entire bowl of cold porridge, stood up, and faced the woman on the bed.
Qin Ran was a little afraid of such eyes, as if they were mixed with many unspeakable regrets.
Xiao Yao asked, "Qin Ran, will I be the one to chase you this time?"
"..."
"You don't have to look back, don't follow me anymore, how about I follow you instead? Let me try the 'loved' that Xiaojing said, okay?"
"My lord, you—"
"I've thought about it for a long time, I know you're discouraged by me, how about this, I'll come after you in the future, you just run proudly, how about it?"
"Master, you don't have to force yourself so hard."
"Don't force it." Xiao Yao stepped forward and stood by the bed, "You have been waiting for me for more than twenty years, why don't you wait for me a little longer? Don't go too fast, I will catch up. "
Qin Ran lowered her head, her vision was a little blurry, she didn't know if it was the liquid in her eyes that blurred her vision, or it was just a hallucination, she would wake up just by blinking.
Xiao Yao squatted beside the bed, and took her hand cautiously, "Xiaojing is right, a marriage without feelings is a tomb, let's try to dig this tomb and see the light again, shall we? "
Qin Ran withdrew her hand, she shook her head, "Master, you just don't want to get a divorce, you don't want to be with me, so even if we dig up this grave temporarily, it will be covered by the wind and sand soon, Don't push yourself too hard."
Xiao Yao watched her resolutely lie back on the bed, looked at her back facing his back, squatting on the side of the bed for a long time without moving, the person in front of him was close at hand, but he couldn't reach it.
The wind outside the window blew through the curtains coolly, and the room was silent.
Xiao Jing stood in front of the window of the dormitory building, overlooking the figures of one or two comrades who would run past in the yard from time to time.
"Why aren't you sleeping?" Shen Chengfeng simply took a shower, leaned behind her, and wrapped his arms around her waist.
Xiao Jing rested her head on his shoulder, turned around, put most of her body weight on him, and said, "It's not very sleepy, probably because too many things happened today, so I can't fall asleep."
"Do you want me to tell you a sleep story?" Shen Chengfeng took her hand and walked to the bed, and took out a book of stories from under the pillow.
Xiao Jing suppressed his hand without laughing, "Captain, I am twenty-five years old, not a five-year-old child."
"Well, how about I tell you the story of the big bad wolf today?" Shen Chengfeng turned to ten pages.
Xiao Jing lay on his lap, looked at him seriously turning the pages of the book with burning eyes, and said with a smile: "Captain, do you really want to tell me this story?"
"Once upon a time there was a big bad wolf, it was very hungry, one day it saw a little white rabbit on the side of the road—"
Xiao Jing grabbed his neck, pressed his head down forcefully, took advantage of his unpreparedness and directly kissed his mouth, jokingly said: "I am that very, very hungry big bad wolf."
Shen Chengfeng dropped the complete book of stories in his hand, and pressed this big bad wolf who was trying to covet his beauty on the bed.
Xiao Jing hooked his clothes lightly with her fingers, "Captain, how can you live up to the beauty of this beautiful day?"
Shen Chengfeng curled his lips into a smile, "It's really not fit to let you down."
Xiao Jing closed her eyes, waiting for him to slap her own mouth with his mouth in a rude and savage manner, and then use his awesome hands to corrode her clothes.
Shen Chengfeng pulled the quilt over her body, "Sleep."
Xiao Jing stared at the little white rabbit lying beside her with resentment, bit her red lips lightly, and leaned over, "Captain, your big bad wolf is very hungry."
"What to eat?"
"You." Xiao Jing bit his lip.
Shen Chengfeng supported her waist, "There are two little wolves inside the big bad wolf's stomach."
Xiao Jing grabbed his collar with both hands, knocked her head on his heart, and said solemnly: "Captain, I just covet your beauty, what should I do?"
Shen Chengfeng hugged her body with both hands, and said softly in a deep voice, "I'll give you a hug."
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In the future, I will continue to make appointments at zero o'clock, I love you, Xiaoman doesn't need to save manuscripts now, so what Xiaoman prepares is to write more and more every day, and occasionally his character explodes, maybe even 20,000 to 30,000, hahaha, hurry up Come and praise me.