Chapter 424: A Play Within a Play: Confined to Day and Night (18)
Lin Xiaonian's funeral was organized by Ji Shanhai, and there were two days of vigil, during which some neighbors also came to mourn.
The funeral car rushed to the crematorium without looking back, and a living person who was standing in front of people's eyes turned into a heavy box of dust.
Lin held Lin Xiaonian's urn day and night and shed tears, Ji Shanhai silently encircled her in his arms, still looking cold.
He has been hesitating in the world for so many years, and he has long been accustomed to seeing these partings of life and death.
After Lin Xiaonian passed away, Lin Tianye seemed to have aged ten years overnight, and she no longer cared about the white hair on her sideburns and the fine lines at the corners of her eyes, but reconciled with time and herself. More often, she just quietly looked at Ji Shanhai's tall back, as if one more glance would give one less glance.
The days passed day by day, and the flowing water slipped through his fingers, and when Lin Tianye reached the same age as Lin Xiaonian, Ji Shanhai was still the same.
Lin likes to go out by bus day and night, probably because people who are engaged in art always habitually look at the world with an observant eye in life, she actually doesn't have a special destination, just leaning on the window of the car and letting the car stagger to take herself to every street and alley in the city, quietly sitting in the corners and looking at all kinds of people.
Ji Shanhai took her arm and accompanied her to swipe the card and get on the bus.
"Auntie, sit down. ”
The young girl would enthusiastically give her a seat, and then blushing to Ji Shanhai who was following her with a small note, on which was written a string of numbers, I don't know if it was a WeChat account or a mobile phone number.
Lin Tianye just smiled, and he couldn't make any waves in his heart.
On the contrary, Ji Shanhai tore it off on the spot at a loss, and quietly looked at her expression in a little panic.
I saw Lin say teasing day and night: "You put it away, don't get it to the car." ”
"You're still laughing," Ji Shanhai used his body to block the crowded passengers behind her, and he said in a low voice, "The little girls have stuffed notes into my hands, why aren't you angry at all?"
She smiled so much that the folds at the corners of her eyes were stacked together: "You have been with me for sixty-five years." ”
"I'm not young or pretty anymore. ”
"If you could be hooked up so easily, you would have left a long time ago. ”
There was a prompt sound of announcing the name of the station in the carriage, and Lin Tianye squinted his eyes and looked out the window: "It's time to the station." ”
"Let's go home. ”
......
On Chinese New Year's Eve, the sound of firecrackers outside the window crackled, and the Spring Festival Gala program was playing on TV, and another year had passed.
Lin day and night changed from his little friend to his old wife.
Ji Shanhai pushed the egg custard on the table to Lin Tianye's hand, her teeth were also broken, and she could only eat some mashed minced meat and pureed fruits and vegetables.
His wife is getting older and older, but she is going back more and more, and sometimes she is like a wayward child.
Lin slowly sent the egg custard to his mouth day and night, squinted his eyes and said to Ji Shanhai: "Xiao Ji, I want to eat pea yellow." ”
Ji Shanhai firmly rejected her: "No, the doctor said during the physical examination last year, you can't eat too much sweet." ”
Lin Tianye is old, and eating too much sweet is easy to induce diabetes.
"Just eat a little bit," she said, not calling it "Xiao Ji", but changing her words, "Mr. Ji ......"
Ji Shanhai compromised on the spot: "Okay, then you wait for a while, I'll go out and buy it for you." ”
By the time he returned with pea yellow, there were not funny sketches playing on the TV, the comedians were noisy, and Lin was lying on the table silently day and night.
"Day and night, don't sleep here, it's time to catch a cold when you turn around," Ji Shanhai gently pushed her, "...... Day and night?"
He reached out to probe her breath, faint as if she was going to die in the next second.
"Xiao Ji...... You're back......" She struggled to lift her eyelids, feeling as if her body had been filled with lead, and she could only lie on the table weakly to support her weight, "I seem to be ...... Can't sit up......"
The pea-yellow bags were scattered on the ground, and Ji Shanhai immediately picked up Lin Tian and night and drove her to the hospital.
Lin lay on his back day and night, the tip of her nose lingered with the citrus fragrance of aftershave, and she was about to pant unevenly, but she still asked him intermittently: "...... Is it heavy, Xiao Ji?"
Ji Shanhai raised his hand and pressed the button for the elevator to go down, and held her steadily: "Heavy." ”
Lin Tianye coughed and laughed on the side of his neck: "Can't you say something nice to make me happy?"
The metal door slowly opened, and the elevator was empty.
Ji Shanhai walked in with him, and after a long time he continued: "The whole world is carrying me on my back, can it not be heavy?"
But Lin didn't answer day and night, I don't know if he fell asleep or passed out in a coma, and the faint wheezing sound was infinitely amplified in the closed elevator.
"Day and night, day and night?"
There was no movement.
......
Lin Xiaonian's acute cholangitis is hereditary, and most of this disease is related to family lifestyle habits and genetic factors, and there is obvious familial clustering.
When Lin Xiaonian had an accident, Ji Shanhai was still able to comfort Lin Tianye outside the emergency room with a normal face, but now that the person lying in there was Lin Tianye, he couldn't calm down no matter what.
The red light in the emergency room went out, and the doctor in the white coat took off his mask: "Fortunately, the family sent it in time and is out of danger." ”
"Let's go through the hospitalization procedures first, if the family does not have the energy to accompany the nurse, it is recommended to ask a nurse as soon as possible. She looked up and down the young man's clothes in front of her, and added.
"I don't need to hire a nurse, I will accompany the bed myself. ”
Ji Shanhai was obviously relieved when he heard this, but then he heard her continue: "Let me tell you in advance, the mortality rate of ACST is as high as more than 20 percent, and the risk of septic shock after surgery is higher in the elderly. ”
(ACST: Acute Severe Cholangitis)
He nodded silently.
"If it's okay, let's just sign the informed consent. The doctor bowed, and she took a pen from her breast pocket and asked casually, "Are you her immediate family?"
“...... I am. ”
"Mother and son?"
"I'm her spouse. ”
The doctor looked him up and down again suspiciously, and the one lying inside was already sixty-five, and the young man in a suit and leather shoes outside the emergency room looked to be less than thirty years old, no matter how much he had to spare.
They turned out to be husband and wife?
The doctor took out the cap of the pen and smiled dryly, not knowing what to say: "...... That's pretty surprising. ”