Li Mingqing recovered and returned to work, and Li Mingqing did not go home after work that night, but walked into a hot pot restaurant.

After Li Mingqing entered, he found Zhang Li's position and sat down opposite him. He said, "What's the situation with you, if you don't go back to sleep at night, what will you ask me to eat?"

When Zhang Li saw that Li Mingqing had arrived, he called the waiter to serve the food, and then said to Li Mingqing: "I work the day shift and you work the night shift, we haven't eaten together for a long time, there is no problem with paying your salary today and inviting you to have a good meal, right?"

Li Mingqing felt that Zhang Li's mood was not quite right today, but he didn't say anything, and accompanied Zhang Li to eat after the food came up.

Li Mingqing, who can't drink, shouted a few bottles of beer today, but Li Mingqing didn't stop it or drink it with him.

During this period, Zhang Li shouted another bottle of liquor, and after two glasses, he was completely dizzy, and began to talk nonsense.

Li Mingqing saw that it was almost time to call the waiter to pay, and then carried Zhang Li out of the store.

It took a lot of effort for Li Mingqing to get Zhang Li back to the rental house, and Li Mingqing mixed boiling water with some vinegar for Zhang Li to drink.

After a while, Zhang Li sat up from the sofa, lowered his head and cried.

Zhang Li cried and said: "In the afternoon, my mother called me to ask if I was doing outside, saying that she and my father missed me a lot if I hadn't been back for two years, and told me that the day after tomorrow was my father's birthday, and asked me to call my father to say hello." Zhang Li wiped the tears on his face and continued: "My mother also said that if you can't make money outside, go home, and find a relationship at home to help me arrange a job, I smiled and told my mother that everything is fine outside, and I will strive to come back once this year, although my mother's voice was very small before hanging up the phone, I still heard my father's voice and my mother's whimper." ”

Zhang Li paused for a while, covered his eyes with his hands and continued: "I think my dad misses my mom, but I really don't want to go back, I don't have the face to go back, I can't do anything, my dad and my mom must be disappointed in me, and my dad and my mom definitely can't raise their heads in front of their relatives, I'm really too much of a failure!"

Zhang Li put down his hands and looked at Li Mingqing with red eyes and said: "Li Mingqing, I really regret it, I hate myself for being so reluctant to go to school at the beginning, at that time I told myself that reading is not the only way out, naively thought that I could mix well if I didn't go to school, and after coming out of the society for a long time, I knew that a good way out was not able to go without reading a good book, and when I dropped out of school, I changed my personality signature very much, and the road I chose, I had to finish it on my knees, and now I think about it is really ridiculous, do you know what dreams I often have recently?" I often dream that I am still in high school and preparing for the college entrance examination, but when I wake up and look at the ceiling, I only feel more regretful, I thought I started before my classmates, but now I see that maybe I will still be in the same place when they graduate from college. ”

After Zhang Li finished speaking, he lay on the sofa again, covered his eyes with his arms and sobbed softly, Li Mingqing didn't disturb him, and waited until Zhang Li fell asleep to help him cover him with a blanket, and after doing this, Li Mingqing shook his head and went back to the bedroom by himself.

After Zhang Li woke up the next morning, he forgot everything about what happened after he was drunk last night, returned to his previous state, and asked Li Mingqing with a smile if he needed to help him bring breakfast.

In the next few days, Li Mingqing saw that Zhang Li was acting quite normal, so he didn't mention the events of that night, and life seemed to be back to the original state.

A few days later, in the morning, Li Mingqing was catching up on sleep because he had finished the night shift, and Zhou Jing was making lunch in the rental house, when Zhang Li suddenly opened the door and came back, and went to Li Mingqing's room to wake up Li Mingqing.

Zhang Li told Li Mingqing with a panicked face: "Li Mingqing, my father has entered the hospital! I want to go back to my hometown." ”

The sleepy-eyed Li Mingqing woke up when he heard Zhang Li's words and asked, "What's the situation?"

Zhang Li returned to the hall and said to Li Mingqing while packing up his things: "My mother told me that my father fell off the scaffolding and is still in the hospital, I have asked for leave from the hotel, I must go back immediately, we will contact us by phone if there is something." ”

Zhang Li nodded to Li Mingqing after speaking, and then left in a hurry.

A week later, Zhang Li called Li Mingqing to tell him that his father's situation was not optimistic and that he had asked the hotel for leave again, so he would not return to Shanghai for the time being. Zhang Li didn't have any extra words and quickly hung up the phone.

Li Mingqing lay on the bed at night, and also recalled about Zhang Li and the time he spent with him.

Li Mingqing's evaluation of Zhang Li was only two words, "Good person." ”

Zhang Li, who doesn't smoke, said, "I'm afraid I'll die early." ”

Zhang Li doesn't drink, he said: "It's hard to drink, and it's uncomfortable to drink." ”

Zhang Li will prostitute himself, he said: "To solve the physiological needs." ”

Zhang Li, who does not gamble, said: "I lost a week's living expenses by playing slot machines in junior high school on the spot, and I have never gambled since." However, in the past two years, Zhang Li has bought a few lottery tickets every day, and he told Li Mingqing: "The odds of winning the first prize may be much greater than the odds of me earning 5 million." ”

Li Mingqing didn't know when he began to adapt to Zhang Li's complaints, and also adapted to the feeling of having someone by his side, thinking of these Li Mingqing shook his head.

Zhang Li returned to his hometown and saw his father lying in a coma on the hospital bed and his mother wiping tears from the bedside, and also learned about the accident from his mother.

Although Zhang Li's father is a contractor, he usually works with the workers, but this time he helped others to do the exterior wall decoration, because he only built two layers of scaffolding, plus he was confident in himself, so he did not prepare safety measures, and as a result, he accidentally fell off the three-meter-high scaffolding.

Zhang Li's father was sent to the hospital and had two craniotomys, and he is still in a coma, Zhang Li's family is not rich, and now this kind of thing has happened, looking at his father on the hospital bed and unable to do anything about it, a sense of powerless guilt is pressed on his body, and the pressure in his heart is getting heavier.

After Zhang Li came back this time, he only had more than 300 yuan on him, and his living expenses in these days were all given by his mother.

This time, Zhang Li came back and felt that his mother, who had not seen him for two years, was much older, and his heart was very sad, and Zhang Li's mother's eyes had been red in the past few days, Zhang Li could only hold his mother's hand, praying in his heart that his father would wake up as soon as possible.

Zhang Li has been thinking a lot in the past few days, I don't know when my father will wake up, my mother's current state is not very good, I should face the problem of avoiding before, and I have a new understanding of the word "responsibility", and I have a plan to stay in my hometown.

Zhang Li sent a message to Li Mingqing about these plans, hoping that Li Mingqing could give him some advice, but he did not receive a reply from Li Mingqing.

Zhang Li's father has been living in the hospital, the hospital costs a lot every day, and the family has little savings left, Zhang Li's mother began to find someone to borrow money, and Zhang Li went to find a part-time part-time job during the day.

Zhang Li's father finally woke up after being in a coma for 20 days, and the moment Zhang Li's father woke up, Zhang Li and his mother hugged each other tightly and both cried.

After Zhang Li's parents woke up, the doctor did an examination as soon as possible, and no sequelae were found for the time being, but the body was temporarily too weak and needed to be recuperated and observed for a period of time.

After Zhang Li's father woke up, Zhang Li and his mother were very happy, the two of them had been with the bed, Zhang Li's father recovered quickly, and he was able to communicate with people normally after a few days.

Zhang Li wanted to tell Li Mingqing the good news, but found that he couldn't be contacted, although Zhang Li was a little puzzled, but he was still dissipated by the joy of his father's awakening.

After more than half a month, Zhang Li's father was discharged from the hospital, and the family spent a few days together after being discharged from the hospital, and on this day Zhang Li's mother called Zhang Li and told him: "Xiao Li, your father and I both want you to stay in your hometown, here we will help you find a better job in the city, you see what you like to do? I and your father will definitely find a way to help you arrange a suitable one this time." ”

Zhang Li listened to his mother's words and didn't know how to answer, his father's accident this time and his return this time, he did have the idea of staying in his hometown, but when these words came out of his mother's mouth, Zhang Li felt his failure again, looked at his mother's expectant gaze, Zhang Li opened his mouth and said, "I'll think about it again." ”

At night, Zhang Li was lying on the bed and wanted Li Mingqing to give some advice, but he still couldn't contact him, QQ didn't return the phone and turned off the phone, which made Zhang Li very helpless, and after thinking about it, he still had to go back to Shanghai, even if he wanted to go back to his hometown to work, he had to get all the things back in Shanghai, and he had to go through the resignation procedures in the hotel, and more importantly, he went to see what Li Mingqing's situation was.