Qiao Ming held his phone, anxious but panicked in his heart. She stood up in a panic, packed up her things, got up, and ran out.

"Meow~" Gou Rixin hurriedly shouted.

As soon as Wen Xin turned around, Qiao Ming was no longer visible, "What about people?"

Sitting in the taxi, Qiao Ming didn't dare to make a phone call to ask. Grandma was hospitalized, but no one informed her, her nose was sore, and her vision was a little blurry.

Could it be that she is really a lone star, her relatives are leaving one by one. But it's all an accident, right? In this world, accidents happen every minute.

Downstairs in the inpatient department of the city hospital, Qiao Ming sat on a bench in the small square, looking dazed and at a loss. waited until the visiting time of the hospital, and then Qiao Ming dialed his grandfather.

Qiao Ming's grandfather, Qiao Jianguo, is a retired worker who has worked in a state-owned factory all his life, working diligently and conscientiously, and his family also has two sisters and a younger brother. Qiao Ming's grandmother is a paranoid little old lady who is in charge of the family alone, and after the failure of her son Jackie Chan, she looks at her grandson, but unfortunately there is only Qiao Ming alone. And so far, Qiao Ming doesn't know her name. It seems that the title of grandma is enough to make her awe-inspired.

"Hey?" an old voice rang on the other end of the line.

"Grandpa, I... Is Grandma hospitalized?" Qiao Ming asked dryly.

"Hmm. ”

"City Hospital?"

"Hmm. ”

"I... I happened to be here for a little bit of a thing, which ward is she in, grandma?"

"Don't worry, your grandmother is fine, the doctor doesn't let so many people go to the ward, just have a few of your cousins and aunts to take care of. Grandpa Qiao Ming's tone was a little stiff.

"I... I'm just downstairs in the inpatient department, can I just take a look?" Qiao Ming asked cautiously.

"Okay, I'll pick you up. The old man sighed slightly.

"No, no, I'll just go up, there's no control now. ”

"No need, I'll pick you up. ”

There was a busy sound on the other end of the conversation, and Qiao Ming put away his phone in frustration. It's okay, if you're really your nemesis, it's good to stay away from grandma and everyone.

Qiao Jianguo hung up the phone and took the elevator from the fifth floor to the door of the inpatient building. He narrowed his eyes and saw a corner of the small square, where his thin granddaughter was sitting on a bench, as if he had seen the shadow of Qiaoqi Mountain in front of him.

"Grandpa!" Qiao Ming beckoned and hurriedly ran over, "How is my grandma?"

"It's an old problem, and I started coughing in the spring, and I can just infuse it for a few days. ”

"Did you get a full body check?"

"Checked, it's all good. Qiao Jianguo said.

The two of them found a place to sit down in the hall on the first floor, and Qiao Ming took out some fruits and pastries from his bag, "You can keep this and eat it, the pastries are sugar-free." ”

"Well, I have a heart. ”

Qiao Ming lowered her head, speechless for a while, she kept picking her hands, and her heart became extremely worried for some reason, "You still have the key to the house, I usually live in school, and I don't go back, you can live there these days, it happens to be quite close to here." ”

"I live at your cousin's house..."

"Grandpa," Qiao Ming suddenly grabbed Qiao Jianguo's arm, "I have everything at home, I have bought it all and prepared it, I know that Uncle Tang's family is not big, you don't have to squeeze it." That house belongs to my father, and to your son. ”

It turned out that her anxiety was the fear of rejection and the fear of being abandoned. Qiao Qishan is gone, as if she has lost touch with all her relatives.

Qiao Ming looked at Qiao Jianguo, his eyes were almost pleading, "I'm worried about grandma, and I'm worried about you." ”

"Silly boy," Qiao Jianguo touched Qiao Ming's head and smiled, "What's there to worry about, it's like this when you're old." ”

Qiao Ming shook his head, aggrieved tears rolling in his eyes, "I... I'm sorry. ”

"Silly girl, what's so sorry. ”

Qiao Jianguo carried something into the elevator, Qiao Ming stood at the elevator entrance, looking at the number on it stopped at 2, and after a while stopped at 3, followed by 5. She stared at the orange number until tears blurred her vision again, and then she turned away.

After two days, Qiao Ming came to the city hospital again, sat in the waiting area on the first floor, and finally became calm. The sun was shining outside and the spring was just right, and the hall was full of people, although there was no trace of joy on their faces, but at least it was not gloomy. The phone rang suddenly, and Qiao Ming hurriedly picked up the phone.

"Xiao Ming, where are you?"

"The hall. ”

A middle-aged woman walked over with a smile, "Why don't you go up?"

Qiao Ming curled the corners of his mouth and asked, "How is my grandmother?"

"It's okay, the doctor said it might take a while in the hospital. Your uncle and your grandfather and I are also discussing how to take care of it. You also know that your two younger brothers are still in school. The middle-aged woman sighed and said, "You say, if your father is still here, why should the old lady suffer this crime." ”

"Thank you for your hard work, Auntie," Qiao Ming bit his lip and clenched his fists unconsciously, "There are some fruits and pastries here, you can help me bring them to my grandma." ”

When the woman saw the bag of pastries, she wondered, "You bought all these?"

"Hmm. ”

The woman had a look of sudden realization on her face, "No wonder, don't break the bank, the old lady doesn't move, it's all locked in the cabinet, and we won't even let us touch it." ”

Qiao Ming's expression stiffened when he heard this, and his heart hurt like a pinprick.

"Don't take it to heart," the woman hurriedly comforted Qiao Ming's face when she saw that Qiao Ming's face suddenly turned pale, "Your grandmother has that temper, she didn't throw things away, which means that she still remembers your goodness, and when she is discharged from the hospital in a few days, it will be fine." ”

Qiao Ming nodded, and for a moment he was at a loss and handed the thing in his hand to the woman, "That... Then if you don't dislike these things, you can take them... Just when I gave it to my two younger brothers. ”

"Well, then you're welcome," said the woman, "since you don't go up, let's talk as we go." How do you go back?"

"Take a taxi. ”

"Okay, along the way. ”

When Qiao Ming heard this, he asked in surprise, "You... Don't you have to accompany my grandmother?"

"I forgot to tell you, I was transferred to the ward last night, and the hospital didn't let me accompany me, saying that the nurse was on duty 24 hours a day. ”

Qiao Ming chuckled in his heart when he heard this, "What floor is my grandmother's ward?"

The second floor is the intensive care ward of the inpatient department, and the hospital prohibits escorts, but at the specified time, family members are allowed to look in the visiting area outside the ward. Outside the wards, many family members of patients are sitting, standing, or lying down, and some are making vigils for their loved ones on the floor because of the limited number of seats left for family members in the waiting area. The air was filled with the smell of suffocating disinfectant water.

Qiao Ming looked through the glass and saw that in the huge room, the faces of the nurses and doctors were hidden under heavy masks, and they were surrounded by hospital beds, and the atmosphere was tense and depressing. It's as if every minute here is a countdown.

There were seven or eight beds with patients, and each patient was surrounded by instruments, and it was impossible to tell who was who.

"Your grandmother is in the second," said the woman, "and your uncle kept watch all night last night, but the doctor said that he would be transferred to the general ward tomorrow, so don't worry." It's just that the old lady is old, so she can observe for one more night. ”

"Why, no one told me?" Qiao Ming was silent for a long time, and suddenly choked up. Is she really not a part of the family?

"We're afraid you're worried, too. The woman explained vaguely.

"Am I that scary?" Qiao Ming lowered his head and muttered to himself, his voice so soft that only he could hear.

"Don't be sad, wait until tomorrow when you are transferred to the general ward, and your aunt will inform you in the morning, okay? The woman patted Qiao Ming on the shoulder.

Qiao Ming shook his head and wiped away his tears, "I want to stay here for a while, you go first, I'll go back later." ”

"That's okay," the woman didn't want to stay for a long time, and when she reached the door, she suddenly returned, and stopped talking: "Xiao Ming, don't worry, your father is gone, and you and our family are all relatives of Lao Qiao's family." And your grandmother is hard, she'll be fine. ”

Qiao Ming bit his lip and nodded silently. The woman tapped her on the shoulder and turned away.

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a paradoxical place, where the most advanced technology and equipment in hospitals are concentrated, but also the patients closest to death in the world.

There was once a senior sister who came back from work to take the postgraduate entrance examination once said that after watching too much here, she was desperate and numb.

This is the ghost gate, and the people in the ward live in pain like years, while the relatives outside the ward take money to buy their lives. Here, the price of a life is in the tens of thousands. The good result is that the money is gone, and the person is out of danger, or he goes there just a few days after entering, and the patient is not in much pain, and the family does not spend much money; the bad result is that the person is empty, and the family is left to grieve; but the worst is that he is in debt, and although his life is saved, he is burdened by the family's life.

There are too many people in this world who can't be saved, such as cancer, such as AIDS, all drugs are ineffective, treatment methods are ineffective, and only watching the patient die slowly.

Qiao Ming found a place where he could see the glass window and sat down, staring blankly at one place in a daze. The nurse on duty shouted, "It's time for family visits, the door of the floor will be locked, please leave as soon as possible." ”

Qiao Ming, who was sitting still, raised his eyelids, but did not move.

I don't know how long later, the door to the intensive care unit suddenly opened, and a doctor hurriedly walked out, followed by two nurses.

Qiao Ming's eyes narrowed suddenly.

"Doctor, doctor," a man who had lost his legs clung to the doctor's feet, hissed and cracked, "I think I can save it again, why don't you go back and see again, take another look! My wife said she was going to see me, I can really hold on a little longer, don't let them push me away, don't go!"

The man hugged the doctor's feet, but the doctor was indifferent, and hurried away with a solemn look. The man cried and dragged to the door, but let go the moment the doctor went out.

"Come back, don't go!" The terrible scream resounded throughout the hall, and Qiao Ming, who was sitting in the corner, was frightened, and his head was covered with cold sweat.

"Don't go... I beg you... My wife promised to come and see me," the man's whining cries and pleadings came faintly from the doorway, "and I promised it, but why didn't I come once?" ”

He whimpered for a moment, propped up his arms and slowly crawled across the center of the hall, half-bent to look around, and then cowered in the corner of the wall with a disappointed expression, his eyes glazed silently weeping.

The door closed by the ghost door seems to be quietly opened. Qiao Ming watched as a person in the intensive care ward sat up suddenly, and the doctors and nurses inside were suddenly busy. The relatives who were guarding outside sat up one after another, gathered in front of the window glass to check the movement inside, and a young woman couldn't help crying, and the people next to her couldn't help but comfort her.

"It is better to go, and the life of the province will suffer. ”

Qiao Ming saw the man in the hospital gown, walked to the glass and looked at his family with an angry face. He raised his fist and slammed it on the window pane, and the anger on his face turned to horror and then to rage when he saw that the person opposite him was ignoring him. His face was so hideous that he hammered and slammed against the glass, until his head was bleeding.

After a long time, facing his family members who looked sad and crying outside the glass window, he slowly stopped moving, and the expression on his face finally gradually became depressed and obscure, and finally turned into despair.

The doctor and nurse were still around the bedside and struggling to save him, and the man suddenly walked behind the doctor and nurse with a gloomy face, stretched out his hands and grabbed the doctor's neck violently.

Qiao Ming exclaimed in surprise in an instant, and hurriedly covered his mouth. It wasn't until the doctor didn't respond that she breathed a sigh of relief. Not every ghost is like the group in the ghost den in Gutan Park, and they have the ability to hurt people. Qiao Ming patted his chest and comforted himself.

The nurses gathered around the bed gradually dispersed, disassembling the instruments, leaving only one doctor standing in place. He crossed his hands on his waist and stared at the patient silently for a long time, his lonely back looking filled with great silence and helplessness.

The ghost behind him finally lowered his hand and stood beside him as well, looking at himself in the hospital bed. The two of them stood in the crowd, their originally upright figures, but now they looked lonely and sad.

This is the second person sent away since Qiao Ming came in, even if he is numb, he will feel unbearable. She silently watched the back of a person and a ghost, like a stone blocked in her heart.

The hospital bed in front of him was pushed away, and the ghost patted the doctor on the shoulder and hurried out. The doctor paused for a moment, and then hurried to see the condition of the other patients.

The family members in the waiting area finally burst into tears, which made the other family members feel even heavier. The nurse hurried over and asked them to say goodbye to the body, and after the family wept and left, the hall was horribly quiet for a while.

But no one wants to cry, and no one wants to admit defeat in advance. Here, every extra second gives one great hope.

The empty seats inside were quickly filled with new patients, and it seemed like there would never be a break. The high-level amputee ghost in the corner was in a trance, and finally began to cry again.

Qiao Ming was upset when she heard this, she looked at the table below, it was six o'clock, and it was estimated that it was already dark outside. She pulled out a packet of biscuits from her school bag, barely satisfying her hunger.

In the bathroom of the hospital, there was the same pungent smell of disinfectant water, which Xu had just been cleaned. Qiao Ming washed her hands, and suddenly heard a faint sobbing sound from the toilet room, she stiffened, and the sobbing crying sound became more and more obvious and harsh, making her scalp tingle.

A nurse hurriedly walked in with her head down, and when she saw Qiao Ming in the toilet, she seemed to be startled, but after hurriedly going to the toilet, she hurried away. I don't seem to hear the crying in the bathroom. Qiao Ming exhaled cautiously, wiped his hands, and walked out pretending to be calm.

"Sister!" a little boy suddenly appeared at the door, so frightened that Qiao Ming took a step back and stepped into the bathroom.

"Did you see my mother?"

"Nope. ”

As soon as the words came out, Qiao Mingden was stunned. The little boy in front of her, dressed in a wide hospital gown, was looking at her with a pale face. Qiao Ming's heart lifted suddenly, she lowered her face coldly, and walked away quickly past the little boy.

"Sister, is there anyone else in the bathroom?"

Qiao Ming pursed her mouth tightly and lowered her head and walked straight, the little boy suddenly blocked in front of her, and pleaded with a blue-gray face: "Sister, can you help me see if there is anyone in the bathroom, my mother has not come out for a long time." I can't go into the women's bathroom. ”

In a word, Qiao Ming suddenly stopped.

She hesitated for a long time, and finally turned back to the bathroom. The intermittent sobbing sound was still there, Qiao Ming gritted his teeth, walked to one of the toilet seats, and plucked up the courage to knock on the door, "Hello?"

There was no answer inside.

"Are you alright?"

"It's fine. A choked female voice came.

"That... Excuse me, can you lend me a piece of paper?"

"Okay. The woman stopped crying, and after a loud squirming, handed out two tissues from under the door frame.

Qiao Ming bent down and was about to get it, when a nurse suddenly walked in at the door, she saw Qiao Ming, and suddenly said, "That toilet is temporarily unusable, didn't you see the notice above?"

"What notice?"

The nurse pointed to a piece of paper on the door suspiciously, and glanced at Qiao Ming strangely, "Isn't it?"

Qiao Ming straightened up tremblingly, and saw that the four big words "forbidden to use" were posted on the door, and what he had just seen was obviously a warning strip of "come and rush to rush".

She broke out in a cold sweat with her two trembling heads, looking at the two pieces of paper handed out from below, and suddenly panicked and overwhelmed.