They waited for four hours.
Time seems to melt into each breath, making all the waiting become trance and blank.
The moment Ji Linqiu sat down with Peng Xingwang in his arms, Jiang Wang seemed to temporarily block all consciousness.
The only thing he could see were nurses coming in and out, and now and then someone hurried out to ask for a signature.
Those people and Chang Hua were talking about many things, how is the newborn, how is the mother, how is the rescue progress, and whether there will be sequelae.
Jiang Wang is her nominal distant brother, sitting in the corner and no one cares.
Peng Xingwang held Ji Linqiu's hand tightly, watched the adults who came in and out hesitated many times, and finally plucked up the courage to rush in front of them.
"I am her son, I can give her a blood transfusion!"
The head nurse looked at him in surprise, reached out and patted his head and said, "No way, kid, blood transfusions are not allowed for immediate family members."
"We... will do our best."
Ji Linqiu went nearby to pour a few cups of hot water, first handed them to the two elderly people, then Chang Hua and Peng Xingwang, who were tired from going back and forth, and saved the last cup for himself and Jiang Wang.
"Take a sip." He said calmly, "You can't help if you're in a hurry. We'll wait for the doctor's news."
Jiang Wang didn't get out of his thoughts for a long time, and took a long while to take a sip to make his chapped lips feel better.
He knew there was nothing he could do.
He just suddenly discovered that he was not as blank as he had imagined.
Fear, panic, pain, real life.
Jiang Wang's world has not had the word "need" for a long time.
He would not ask any elder for help, and once had no desire for food, play, and wealth, existing like a flat silhouette.
But now, he was sitting in front of the emergency room door, as if a mouthful of muddy water had finally been choked out from his lungs, making him struggle to break free from all the frozen indifference, trying to grasp almost everything.
Longing for the warm embrace of my mother, longing for the long-term peace of all the relatives and friends I know, longing to welcome every day without any regrets and pains.
He wants to live alive, he wants to hold on to all the people he loves.
He found that he was in love with many people.
The man put down his glass and patted his knee for a while.
It was as if he had finally woken up from a big dream, and turned around and was trapped in the mud again, feeling helpless and anxious.
"Is Du Wenjuan's family here?" Another nurse opened the door and shouted, "Du Wenjuan's family!"
"Here, here!! Here!!"
"Congratulations, I gave birth to a daughter. Because of hemolytic disease of the newborn, she will be sent directly to the incubator. The family members will fill out the form!"
A trace of blood finally appeared on Chang Hua's pale face, and he said tremblingly, "My love, how is she now?"
"It's being sutured. Fortunately, the blood bank dispatched it in time. I almost didn't save the bleeding just now." The brim of the nurse's hat was already soaked, and she wiped the sweat with the back of her hand. Registration, are the baby supplies ready?"
The child's grandparents stood up hurriedly, frantically checking what they had brought.
Peng Xingwang was still there, but was patted on the shoulder by Ji Linqiu.
Before the child could muster up the courage to walk over, Chang Hua came over to hug him ecstatically with a stack of payment notices, and kissed him fiercely on the forehead: "Xing Xing! You have a sister, you have a sister now!"
Peng Xingwang nodded in a daze, and suddenly reached out to check if he had brought his small wallet, wanting to buy something for her with the lucky money.
Ji Linqiu pulled the child back quickly with sharp eyesight, first led him to congratulate Chang Hua, and then took the other adult who was still dazed away together, and went to a nearby mother and baby store to help prepare things.
"Your mother is still recuperating. She just had a major operation and can't visit her. Let's go and get everything ready."
He is quite clear-headed and able to command and do things, and neither the big one nor the little one is slowed down.
"It's my sister." Jiang Wang walked all the way to the door of the hospital before finally looking at Ji Linqiu: "I have a sister too?"
Ji Linqiu couldn't laugh or cry: "Wake up quickly."
There are quite a lot of maternity and baby stores nearby. The toys alone can fill five or six walls, and the pacifiers, diapers, and clothes cradles are extremely expensive.
The three of them made a quick decision, and went back to change shifts with the Chang family after buying the necessary ones.
After waiting for two or three days, the doctor finally let people visit the mother, and did not allow them to stay for too long.
Peng Xingwang saw her mother after many days, saw her haggard and pale, carefully said nothing, only dared to gently touch the back of her hand with his fingertips.
"Mom, the injection hurts." The little boy lowered his head and whispered, "Your lips are dry, may I feed you some water?"
Du Wenjuan looked at him with a smile and nodded slowly.
Jiang Wang didn't go in to see her, but just watched her at the door for a while, waiting for Xing to come out.
He finally found that the star gaze had changed a lot.
When we first met, I cried as soon as I touched him. I was cowardly and scared, and I thought about everything ten thousand times more seriously. I didn't cry enough during the day and sometimes secretly wiped my tears in the middle of the night.
But now the child is standing in front of the bloodless mother who was almost rescued, calm and peaceful.
Peng Xingwang didn't relax from the tense state until he closed the door of the ward lightly, and let out a long breath.
"It's okay, okay," he seemed to be reporting the situation to Jiang Wang, and seemed to be comforting himself: "Mom is in good spirits, and she should recover soon."
Ji Linqiu knelt down and hugged him, and the nurse next to him took the initiative to lead the way: "The nursery is in the building on the right, just follow the corridor."
Jiang Wang looked round at the position she was pointing at, and quickly agreed.
There were several rows of incubators on the other side of the enclosed glass, but the baby's incubator happened to be so close to the corridor that they could even see her face.
Because of hemolytic disease of the newborn, the child was placed in an incubator to receive phototherapy, and slept under blue light with his eyes covered. He was thin and thin, and his hair did not grow much.
Once the eyes are covered, the facial features cannot be recognized much. But Peng Xingwang lay on the glass wall and kept looking at her, as if there was another person who needed to be carefully protected.
Jiang Wang accompanied quietly by the side, breathing very shallow unconsciously.
He doesn't like kids, and that includes a toddler version of himself.
He doesn't like children crying, naive, weak and helpless.
But after rescuing Peng Xingwang, Jiang Wangcai seemed to have finally let go of some shackles and barriers to get to know the bright and bright world in the eyes of that eight-year-old child.
He stood by the glass wall, his gaze fell on the little baby in the faint blue light.
The blood veins also sprout branches and leaves like rose buds, intertwined with thorny bonds.
Just like entwining him and his parents, him and himself twenty years ago.
"For a long time... I have never cared about the word 'relative'." When Jiang Wang spoke again, his voice was a bit astringent: "I don't care, so I always feel free."
"Now, there are actually two children who want to watch me grow old day by day." He looked at Ji Linqiu, and laughed for a while: "Maybe in the future, I will present a bouquet of flowers in front of my tombstone."
Seems to be good too.
really good.
Ji Linqiu also leaned over to look at it for a long time, and after he finished speaking, he said calmly: "Then please bury my monument closer to you."
"Long distance calls are just too expensive."
Jiang Wang laughed in relief.
Before leaving Cizhou, they found Du Wenjuan a nanny who could help her for a long time, and they also arranged for a confinement wife to help take care of the baby.
One stays for at least three years, and the other stays for at least three months.
The little girl's name is Chang Si'an, and her nickname is Yinyin.
Jiang Wang never said anything to Du Wenjuan, only told her to pay attention to her health when she said goodbye.
Du Wenjuan has recovered a lot after recuperating for a week. She hugged her daughter and looked at him with a smile: "You hug her before leaving."
Jiang Wang took half a step back: "I... don't know how to hold children."
However, the woman always smiled at him.
Jiang Wang bit the bullet and approached her, imitating their movements and holding the child in his arms.
At this moment, Yin Yin stretched out her hand to touch him, her soft palm brushed across her cheek.
Someone is hit in a split second.
— My sister is the best sister in the world! !
Everyone immediately laughed.
Before the Lantern Festival arrived, all the schools started one after another. Ji Linqiu only stayed in Cizhou for two days before going back to deal with the endless errands.
Jiang Wang and Peng Xingwang stayed for an extra week, and they had a lot of things to do when they came back.
The first thing is to officially move to Yuhan.
The small villa stays here and slowly appreciates in value, but the company's employees and relationship network have to be transferred to the provincial capital.
Jiang Wang said to Fang Quanyou, "I'm going to Yuhan, you can figure it out", and then went to work on talent recruitment, and ignored him for several days.
When we met again, Fang Quanyou was overjoyed: "Brother, I also moved to the provincial capital, and I will help you run the office building and new house!"
Jiang Wang was also happy, and gave him a cigarette casually.
What's more important is to move Ji Linqiu to sit in the tutoring class.
Jiang Wang got enlightened with a few jokes during the Chinese New Year, and made up his mind to transform the advantages of the tutoring class and the bookstore into each other, which was the time when there was a shortage of excellent teachers.
Now it happens to be the next semester, so you can leave things behind after you finish paying.
Ji Linqiu did not hesitate, and submitted his resignation according to the regulations of Hongshan Primary School.
The news directly shocked the elementary school and the parents of several classes.
"Teacher Ji quit?! Isn't it??"
"My son is still waiting for his class, why!"
"Is it because the school pays too badly? Alas, this teacher is patient and good at teaching. I really can't bear it."
"That's an iron job, go crazy, how can he make money if he doesn't become a teacher!"
According to the rules, the application for resignation must first go through the principal, and then be sent to the Personnel Section of the Education Bureau for approval.
Ji Linqiu looked at a gentle and peaceful person, and when he proposed resignation, he was so calm and resolute that it made the principal murmur.
This Xiaoji is very popular and outstanding in school, and the school has always wanted to promote and reuse her, so why is she leaving so suddenly.
"Did some teacher bully you?"
"You can say that the treatment is not good. Xiao Ji, you are young and promising..."
After several words, the application was approved and stamped layer by layer, and finally finalized.
After teaching this last term, he was free again.
The other teachers in the grade only dared to mutter a few words behind their backs, and when they couldn't ask anything, they left with a smile and didn't talk much.
Only Mrs. Xu stopped him.
"Linqiu, you want to resign, don't you?"
Xu Rong is getting older, her voice has a sharp metallic feel, and even a teacher in her 30s or 40s dares to keep her voice down when she raises her eyebrows.
Ji Linqiu was about to go home from get off work when she stopped her in the corridor and turned around.
"Yeah." He showed a gentle smile, ready to repeat the rhetoric he had used many times.
"You should have left a long time ago." Xu Rong showed a serious look, and took a few steps towards him: "Go farther and go to a place that suits you better."
"Linqiu, it's time for you to fly higher."