Twenty minutes later, the car drove into the parking lot of Yinma County Hospital.

As soon as the car stopped, Zhang Xiaoxin, who was uncertain, was in a hurry to get out of the car, the door had already opened a crack, and Zhou An, who turned off the car casually, called her, "Sister!"

"What?"

Zhang Xiaoxin turned her head and looked at him puzzled.

Zhou An smiled a little and said softly: "If your grandmother is short of medical expenses here, you can tell me." ”

Zhang Xiaoxin smiled reluctantly and nodded, "Okay, I know!"

As she spoke, she pushed open the door and stepped out with one foot.

"Sister!"

Zhou An stopped her again, Zhang Xiaoxin turned around and frowned, "Anzi, do you have anything else?"

Zhou An raised his head slightly and motioned to the door of the hospital's emergency department, "Do you need me to accompany you in?"

Zhang Xiaoxin shook her head, "No, you go back first! Wait a minute, there must be a lot of relatives at home, it's inconvenient for you to appear now, I'll just go in alone, you go back and remember to drive slowly!"

Zhou An smiled and nodded, "Okay, then you have something to call me." ”

Zhang Xiaoxin: "Okay, then I'll go first?"

Zhou An nodded.

"Bang"

After Zhang Xiaoxin got out of the car, he slammed on the car door and hurried to the gate of the emergency department, Zhou An sat in the car and watched, watching her figure disappear into the door of the emergency department, he did not rush to drive away, but lowered the window of the driver's seat, lit a cigarette, and smoked slowly.

He wondered where he was going.

Liang Yu went back to Zhoujia Village under his instructions, and said that he would drive to pick up Liang Yu and go back to the city tomorrow.

He planned to sleep at Zhang Xiaoxin's place tonight, but now it must be in the soup, because of Zhang Xiaoxin's grandmother's sudden illness, he didn't eat the dinner that Zhang Xiaoxin had prepared, and now his stomach is still empty.

Thinking of this, he had already decided to go to the old shop in the food street first, and fill his stomach by the way.

The cigarette between his fingers has been smoked for most of the time, Zhou An plans to drive to the old shop in the food street after smoking this cigarette, just turned this thought in his mind, a red taxi drove into the parking space next to him and stopped, the engine did not turn off, the rear door close to him opened, a familiar figure got out of the car with a baby in his arms, and the door on the other side opened, a middle-aged woman hurriedly got out of the car with a bag, and said loudly as soon as she got out of the car: "Hurry up! Jiaojiao, can you hurry up?" The child has a fever and can't blow the wind outside, you hurry up and take the child in and talk about it!!"

"Oh, I know! I know......"

Lin Jiaojiao responded continuously, and trotted quickly to the door of the emergency department with the child in her arms, and the woman followed quickly with an anxious look on her face.

Zhou An: "......"

The taxi next to him finally turned off, the door opened, and the driver got out of the car, lowered his head and lit a cigarette, while hurrying to the toilet not far away.

Zhou An's left hand holding half a cigarette was on the car window, the cigarette butt was stretched out of the window, and Lin Jiaojiao and the woman could no longer be seen in the rear mirror of the car.

His left hand on the car window remained motionless for a long time, his face was blank, his brow was slightly furrowed, and the whole figure was suddenly petrified by someone.

A lyric sung by Faye Wong in "Flowing Years" flashed in his mind: In his lifetime, he will not be spared when he meets on a narrow road......

When he suddenly saw Lin Jiaojiao just now, he was not mentally prepared.

One second, he was still relaxing and smoking, thinking about going to the old restaurant in the food street to eat something to fill his stomach, and the next second, she was like a fart in the carriage that suddenly exploded, suddenly appearing in front of him, making him unable to dodge.

What caught him off guard the most was the child she was holding in her arms, a baby tightly wrapped in the quilt, and at a glance, he could see that Lin Jiaojiao was the baby's mother.

There wasn't much evidence, he just thought it was her child.

Maybe it's because she holds her baby too much like a mother?

Maybe the anxiety on her face was completely visceral?

Or is she dressed too homely, completely like a newlywed mother?

The cigarette butt suddenly burned his fingers, Zhou An's left hand resting on the car window suddenly shook, and the reflex threw the cigarette butt, and the scalded fingers were burning and hurting, but he only glanced at it lightly, and there was no other reaction.

At this time, his face was a little pale, like Zhang Xiaoxin's face when she heard that her grandmother was suddenly sick.

"It's been more than a year......"

He suddenly whispered to himself.

He was talking about the time when he and Lin Jiaojiao broke up, they have been separated for more than a year, and in terms of time, she has plenty of time to get married and have children.

At this time, he felt very uncomfortable, a little sour, and a little empty, as if his heart was empty.

He sat in the car for a while, until the taxi next to him started again, exited the parking space and turned around, and then he smiled slightly bitterly and came back to his senses.

He suddenly started the car, exited the parking space, turned around and left.

——Life is a journey, there will always be some passers-by in the middle, these passers-by will get off halfway, the past is the past, and the memory is just that you can't get along with yourself, you should forget......

When the car drove out of the hospital gate, Zhou An said this to himself in his heart.

Out of the hospital, he did not go to the old shop in the food street as he had planned, but drove straight to the direction of Zhoujia Village, he didn't want to see too many people and talk too much now, he just wanted to be quiet.

Don't ask him who Jingjing is, he doesn't want to answer.

……

Late at night.

Zhou An sat on the balcony on the second floor of his house, looking up at the stars in the sky like a fool.

He hadn't looked up at the stars like this for a long, long time, the last time he did this, it was when he was very young, when his family was poor, and the rich people in the village had already used electric lights, but his house had no electricity, and there were no mosquito coils at that time, and in summer, the house was very hot and there were many mosquitoes.

His father, Zhou Taihu, removed the door of the house, added a bench, built a bed on the outdoor drying field, set up a mosquito net, and the family slept in the mosquito net outside at night.

Zhou An spent several summer nights like this when he was a child, he didn't feel bitter at that time, but before the middle of the night, he couldn't stay in the mosquito net, so he liked to play outside, and sometimes he was very bored, so he looked up stupidly at the stars in the night sky, just looked at it stupidly, and often looked at it for an hour or two.

But then, as he grew older, he never had that experience again.

And tonight, maybe I slept at Zhang Xiaoxin's place for too long this afternoon, right?

Maybe it's something else, anyway, the night is already very deep, it's already one or two o'clock in the morning, and he still doesn't feel sleepy, just sitting on the balcony stupidly, leaning lazily in the chaise longue, looking up at the vast starry sky, and lighting a cigarette from time to time.

That night, he didn't go back to his room to sleep, and in the middle of the night, he fell asleep on the recliner on the balcony.