twelve

After a period of time, Chen Yuxin was finally discharged from the hospital and returned to work in Hougou Ancient Village. As soon as Chen Yuxin went to work, she thought about how to persuade Xiao Zihua to make up her mind to go to the south, but I don't know if Xiao Zihua was busy with work or deliberately avoided her, and she didn't find a chance to contact Xiao Zihua alone for two days.

On the third day, Chen Yuxin still didn't find a chance to talk to Xiao Zihua alone. After lunch, Chen Yuxin sat alone in the tour guide reception room next to the ticket gate and thought about it. Suddenly, there was a gentle knock at the door, Chen Yuxin looked up, and saw a middle-aged man standing at the door. Chen Yuxin hurriedly stood up and asked, "Is there anything wrong with you?" The middle-aged man hesitated a little before saying, "Excuse me, is Huang Sumei working here with you?" Chen Yuxin heard this, and hurriedly said: "Yes, she is the director of our tour guide department!" The middle-aged man asked again: "Is she there now?" Chen Yuxin replied: "She is not here, this is the tour guide reception room, and she works in our office area above." The middle-aged man asked again, "Then, how do you go to the office area?"

Chen Yuxin walked out of the tour guide reception room, pointed to the road in front of the door and said to the middle-aged man: "You go up this road, turn right at the first alley, and then go all the way in." The middle-aged man nodded and smiled and said, "Thank you, thank you!" said and walked along the village road. But the middle-aged man only walked a few steps and came back, walked up to Chen Yuxin, and asked with a little embarrassment: "Girl, can you take me to find your director?" I haven't been to you, I'm afraid I'm going wrong." Chen Yuxin thought to himself: "Haven't you been here before, haven't you also found it?" If you make a mistake, it will be clear if you ask again?" However, Chen Yuxin looked at the embarrassed look of the middle-aged man, and looked at the ticket gate that there were no tourists for the time being, so he agreed: "Okay!"

So, Chen Yuxin led the middle-aged man to the office area and walked into the office of the tour guide department, only to see Huang Sumei, the director of the tour guide department, writing materials at the desk. Chen Yuxin said: "Director, someone is looking for you!" Huang Sumei raised her head when she heard the voice, but at the moment she raised her head, Huang Sumei's face suddenly changed from calm to serious, and she also stood up from the seat at the same time.

Chen Yuxin saw Huang Sumei staring at herself sternly, and her heart couldn't help jumping up, thinking: "What did I do wrong again?" The director looked at me so seriously?" After a moment of stalemate, Chen Yuxin heard the middle-aged man's voice behind her trembling and shouted: "Su, Su, Mei......" Hearing the middle-aged man call her, Huang Sumei suddenly turned around, covered her face with her hands and cried "wow".

Seeing Huang Sumei crying, the middle-aged man also cried out with a "wow", he walked around Chen Yuxin to Huang Sumei, and said incoherently as he walked: "Sumei, it's all my fault, I'm sorry for you...... I really can't help it!" The middle-aged man walked up behind Huang Sumei and raised his hands to support Huang Sumei's shoulders. But as soon as the middle-aged man's hand touched Huang Sumei's shoulder, Huang Sumei turned around and pushed him away frantically, shouting at the same time: "Don't touch me, don't touch me, I don't want to see you, you go away for me!" The middle-aged man knelt down in front of Huang Sumei, crying and saying, "It's me who is sorry for you, it's me who is sorry for you, it's all my fault!" Huang Sumei cried and shouted: "You go away! I don't want to see you, I don't want to see you!" However, Huang Sumei didn't pounce on the middle-aged man again.

The middle-aged man knelt there and continued to cry: "It's all my fault, I'm sorry for you, I've hurt you all my life, I'm guilty, I don't ask for your forgiveness, I don't have the face to see you, but, but ......" The middle-aged man said, suddenly covering his chest with his hands and twitching, and then collapsed to the ground. Seeing this, Huang Sumei stopped crying, turned over and crawled to the middle-aged man's side, picked up the middle-aged man's head and asked distressedly: "What's wrong with you? Don't scare me, don't scare me!" The middle-aged man said in a weak voice: "I can't do it anymore, I'm going to die!" I just want to see you before I die!" When Huang Sumei heard this, she shouted hoarsely: "You don't talk nonsense! Don't scare me, don't scare me!" But the middle-aged man's head tilted and fainted, Huang Sumei raised her head in a panic and shouted loudly: "Come on!" Save people!"

Chen Yuxin shivered when she heard Huang Sumei call her like this, and she suddenly realized that from the moment she entered the door, Huang Sumei only saw this middle-aged man in her eyes, and she didn't see her at all. Chen Yuxin hurriedly turned around and prepared to call someone outside. But as soon as she turned around, she saw that the door of the tour guide department was full of people, and the staff of the entire office area gathered at some point. Chen Yuxin hurriedly said: "Everyone come and help Director Huang!" When everyone heard Chen Yuxin say this, they all moved with a "boom", some rushed in to help Huang Sumei save people, and some ran to shout to the driver of the scenic spot to drive.

Everyone lifted the middle-aged man to the car, and Huang Sumei also got into the car in despair. Someone asked: "Director Huang, do you want to go to someone to take care of you?" A sentence reminded Huang Sumei, she glanced at everyone, and said, "Xiao Zihua go with me!" Xiao Zihua walked out of the crowd and got into the van.

Chen Yuxin looked stunned again, and thought: "Hasn't Director Huang always hated Xiao Zihua? Why is it that Xiao Zihua is called when it is critical?" Just when Chen Yuxin was puzzled, the van had already driven out of the office area and drove away quickly. Chen Yuxin hurriedly chased out of the office area and came to the cliff outside the office area, from where you can see the ticket gate. Not long after, I saw the van carrying Huang Sumei, Xiao Zihua and the middle-aged man rushing out of the ticket gate and speeding along the country road. Looking at the van in the distance, Chen Yuxin finally understood that Xiao Zihua was a kind and caring person, and he was the most trustworthy person, so Qin Lei was willing to treat him as a person to rely on in her heart, and Huang Sumei would choose to ask him for help at a critical moment.

For a whole afternoon, people in the Hougou Scenic Area were talking about the relationship between Huang Sumei and the middle-aged man. But everyone can't talk about the reason, because when exploring Huang Sumei's life experience, everyone found that they didn't know anything about Huang Sumei's family situation. Because Huang Sumei is not from Yuci, but from the neighboring county of Yuci, she has no home in Yuci, and usually lives in the office area of Hougou Ancient Village. Except for Huang Sumei when she went home for a walk on vacation, she had never seen her family come to the scenic spot to see her. But there are two things that everyone can be sure of, this middle-aged man must be Huang Sumei's lover when she was young, and Huang Sumei's unmarried marriage must have something to do with this middle-aged man. Everyone is looking forward to helping Huang Sumei send the middle-aged man to the hospital, Xiao Lizi, the driver, and Xiao Zihua, the security guard, to come back as soon as possible, so that they can bring back some new news to everyone.

It wasn't until it was almost time to get off work that Xiao Lizi came back in the van. As soon as he arrived at the ticket gate, all the people at the ticket gate surrounded him and asked Xiao Lizi about the situation. Xiao Lizi said: "That man was the boyfriend that Director Huang found when he was young, and later because the man's family did not agree, the two separated. But the man has never forgotten Director Huang, and now that he is terminally ill, he wants to see Director Huang again before he dies, so he came to us. The people present couldn't help but sigh when they heard it. Chen Yuxin saw that there was no Xiao Zihua in the car, so he asked, "What about Xiao Zihua? Why didn't he come back with you?" Xiao Li Zi said: "That man is dying, I heard the doctor say that I am afraid I won't survive tonight." Xiao Zihua was afraid that the man had three longs and two shorts tonight, and Director Huang couldn't withstand the blow, so he stayed in the hospital to accompany her. After speaking, Xiao Lizi drove back to the office area.

Chen Yuxin's heart couldn't let go, she recalled the miserable scene of crying when Huang Sumei saw the middle-aged man in the office of the tour guide department in the morning, and secretly thought that if the middle-aged man was really gone tonight, how could her emotions still be controlled? So after getting off work, Chen Yuxin took a car back to the city.

After Chen Yuxin got out of the car, he went straight to the hospital, and according to the ward number told by Xiao Lizi, he found Xiao Zihua and the floor where they were. As soon as she entered the corridor, she saw Xiao Zihua standing at the door of a ward, looking inside. She walked quickly towards Xiao Zihua.

When Xiao Zihua saw Chen Yuxin, he hurriedly greeted him and asked, "Why are you here?" Chen Yuxin was embarrassed to say that he was here to help Xiao Zihua, so he had to stammer: "I don't worry about our director, come and have a look!" Xiao Zihua let out an "oh" sound, led Chen Yuxin to the door of the ward, and then said, "They are here." Chen Yuxin looked in through the glass window on the door, and saw the middle-aged man with a quilt behind his back, half-lying and half-sitting on the hospital bed, while Huang Sumei was sitting on the edge of the bed, holding a small bowl in her left hand and a small spoon in her right hand, feeding the middle-aged man. Huang Sumei and the middle-aged man were both smiling and talking softly, and the scene was very warm.

Chen Yuxin stared at it for a while, then turned around and asked Xiao Zihua, "What happened to this man?" Xiao Zihua shook his head and said, "The situation is very bad!" Chen Yuxin said: "Isn't this very good? Director Huang can still feed him!" Xiao Zihua smiled bitterly: "That's just a bowl of boiled water, that is, for show, in fact, he can't eat anything now, but he is barely supporting!" Chen Yuxin turned around in shock, climbed on the window of the door and looked in again. Sure enough, Huang Sumei fed the water in the middle-aged man's mouth, the middle-aged man couldn't swallow it at all, it all flowed out of the corners of his mouth, and Huang Sumei picked up the towel placed at the bedside from time to time to wipe it for him.

Chen Yuxin saw the truth, turned back in disappointment and asked, "What is going on with them, have you figured it out?" Xiao Zihua looked into the ward, sighed, and said, "It's also a very sad story to tell. This man was Director Huang's lover when he was young, when Director Huang was still in their hometown, this man came from the provincial capital to work in their county, and the two met and quickly fell in love. But this man's parents are big cadres in the provincial capital, and he only came down to work in the county to exercise, and he will eventually go back to the provincial capital. His parents were very angry when they heard that he had found a girlfriend in the county, and they forcibly took him away from the provincial capital to the county. But when this man was taken away by his parents, Director Huang was already pregnant. As soon as he left, there was no news, Director Huang had to have an abortion, but there was an accident during the miscarriage, and as a result, Director Huang could no longer give birth, and Director Huang never looked for a partner again......"

Speaking of this, Xiao Zihua was silent, Chen Yuxin didn't ask any more questions, and both of them stood quietly, looking at the pair of hard-working mandarin ducks in the ward through the glass window on the door. After a long time, Xiao Zihua continued: "For so many years, this man has felt sorry for Director Huang in his heart, and always wants to find an opportunity to apologize to Director Huang and make some compensation for Director Huang. But due to the pressure of his family, he has not been able to do so, recently he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, he knew that his time in this world was running out, so he desperately ran to find Director Huang, but his last wish......"

Chen Yuxin was stunned when she heard this, she couldn't imagine that she would have to face such a predicament in her life. After a while, Chen Yuxin suddenly asked, "What about his family, do they know that he is here?" Xiao Zihua looked at Chen Yuxin and paused before saying, "He begged us not to inform his family, he was only willing to be with Director Huang at the last moment." He has already written a suicide note, proving that all this is out of his personal will, just ask us to hand over his suicide note and his body to his family after his death!" Chen Yuxin couldn't help but let out a soft "ah" when he heard it.

Chen Yuxin turned his head to face Xiao Zihua and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard the cracking sound of a porcelain bowl falling on the floor in the ward, and then Huang Sumei's terrible scream: "Yongnian ----" Xiao Zihua and Chen Yuxin heard this, and hurriedly pushed the door and rushed in. I saw the middle-aged man's head tilted to the side, already dead of exhaustion, and Huang Sumei crawled on top of him and cried heartbreakingly. Xiao Zihua said to Chen Yuxin: "Don't move here, I'll call the doctor!" After speaking, he turned around and ran out.

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Zihua walked briskly into the ward with the attending doctors and nurses. The attending doctor came to the bed, first touched the middle-aged man's pulse, then opened the middle-aged man's eyelids and looked at it, and then said to Xiao Zihua: "It's dead, send it to the morgue!" After speaking, the attending doctor looked at Huang Sumei, who was crying bitterly on the middle-aged man, sighed, turned around and walked out. Chen Yuxin saw Huang Sumei crying very painfully and wanted to come forward to comfort her. Xiao Zihua grabbed her and said softly: "Let her cry! ”

After a while, several nurses walked in with a stretcher. Seeing Huang Sumei lying on the middle-aged man crying bitterly, the leading nurse stepped forward and said to Xiao Zihua: "Please go out first, we are going to move his body!" Xiao Zihua nodded, walked behind Huang Sumei, and said: "Director Huang, the person has left, let's let him rest in peace as soon as possible!" Huang Sumei didn't seem to hear what Xiao Zihua said, and still lay on the middle-aged man and cried bitterly. Xiao Zihua raised his hand to pull Huang Sumei, his hand reached halfway and stopped, and glanced back at Chen Yuxin.

Chen Yuxin stepped forward, put his hands on Huang Sumei's shoulders, and said in Xiao Zihua's tone: "Director, the person has left, let's let him rest in peace as soon as possible!"

Huang Sumei raised her head suddenly, looked at all the people in the room vigilantly, and asked, "What do you want to do?" Looking at Huang Sumei's red eyes, Chen Yuxin felt a burst of fear in her heart, she glanced at Xiao Zihua, and then said: "Director, the person has left, let's let him rest in peace as soon as possible!"

When Huang Sumei heard this, she screamed like crazy: "No, none of you are allowed to touch him!" Saying that, Huang Sumei pushed Chen Yuxin violently, Chen Yuxin was defenseless, and her body fell backwards quickly, and Xiao Zihua on the side helped her so that she didn't fall. Huang Sumei pounced on the middle-aged man and shouted frantically: "No one is allowed to touch him! If you want to pull him, pull me away with him!"

The leading nurse frowned and said to her companions, "Come, pull her away!" Huang Sumei saw someone walking towards her, and howled bitterly, while hugging the body of the middle-aged man tightly. Several strong male nurses were unable to pull Huang Sumei away from the body of the middle-aged man for a while. Chen Yuxin looked at the scene in front of him, tears couldn't help but flow down, and his mouth kept muttering: "Sister Huang, Sister Huang!"

In the end, several nurses finally dragged Huang Sumei up from the middle-aged man's body, one nurse held Huang Sumei, and the rest of the nurses hurried to grab the middle-aged man's body. Seeing the rough behavior of the male nurse holding Huang Sumei, Xiao Zihua rushed up and pushed him away, grabbed Huang Sumei's shoulders with both hands and shook him vigorously, and said, "Sister Huang, calm down, people have already left, and he doesn't want to see you like this!" Huang Sumei didn't hear what Xiao Zihua was saying at all, and when she saw that it was Xiao Zihua standing in front of her, Huang Sumei grabbed Xiao Zihua's arm and shook it vigorously, shouting: "Zihua, I beg you, I beg you!"

At this time, the nurses had already carried the body of the middle-aged man onto a stretcher and pushed it out of the ward. Seeing this, Huang Sumei screamed sharply and threw herself at the nurses again. Xiao Zihua hurriedly hugged Huang Sumei, Huang Sumei watched the body of the middle-aged man being pushed out of the ward, let out a terrible howl again, and fainted in Xiao Zihua's arms.

Xiao Zihua saw that Huang Sumei had fainted, and hurriedly said to Chen Yuxin: "Call the doctor!" Chen Yuxin shouted "Doctor!" while running out of the ward. Xiao Zihua picked up Huang Sumei and ran out. Hearing the call, the doctor who rushed to the scene guided Xiao Zihua to send Huang Sumei to the disposal room, and immediately launched the rescue......

By the time Huang Sumei was out of danger, it was already the second half of the night, Xiao Zihua and Chen Yuxin were standing in front of Huang Sumei's hospital bed, and when it was almost dawn, they couldn't stay up anymore and fell asleep in a daze.