I answered the phone tremblingly, and my sister's loud voice roared out as if I had turned on my mobile phone on hands-free: "Wu Chao, what about you!" ”

I was so frightened that I was in a cold sweat, and hurriedly comforted my sister: "I'm here!" Here it is! ”

"What's coming! I didn't tell you my address! I was so embarrassed that I didn't know how to answer, "At the gate of the North Building Hospital!" Ten more minutes for you! Sister Mouth pressed the phone with a beep.

Beilou Hospital was originally a public hospital, established early, the building was old, demolished three years ago and rebuilt by a private person, now known as Xiaoyao Mountain Sanatorium, located in the Beilou District of N City Xiaoyao Mountain Scenic Area next to the artificial lake. After the reconstruction, Xiaoyaoshan Hospital has become a well-known convalescent hospital in N City, providing rehabilitation training, hospice care and convalescent care and other services, with very high fees, and most of them are elderly cadres and entrepreneurs and other high-status and high-income people. Locals like Sister Zui are generally used to calling it the North Building Hospital.

Qin Chuyi knew that he had made a big mistake, and he didn't dare to talk to me along the way. I kept pinching my phone to check the time, and I didn't pay attention to him, only Lu Yao seemed to be very happy, and he was curious all the way to look at the scenery outside by lying on the window, taking the opportunity to chat with us to ease the tense atmosphere.

"Eh, I didn't expect a big city like N City to have such a landscape!" He looked at the mountains and green water in the distance, and his mouth grew in surprise. The scenery is in stark contrast to the city centre.

Indeed, Xiaoyao Mountain is not only a tourist attraction that attracts a lot of money for N City, but also an excellent feng shui treasure. Every holiday, there are tourists from all over the country rush to Xiaoyao Mountain, or to visit the scenery, or to pray to the gods and Buddhas, so there are many Taoist temples and nunnery and other gods and Buddhas' residences on the mountain. N City has a specific subway line for the Xiaoyao Mountain Scenic Area, and almost the entire line is erected on land, so that the scenery along the way can be fully seen. I visited here once during the spring outing organized by my sophomore class.

There are few people who go to the scenic spot during work hours, it generally only takes about fifteen minutes to take the subway from the city center to here, today is Saturday, there are more people, the train starts and stops, and it takes almost twice as long as usual. During this period, there were intermittent phone calls from Sister Zui, so that I had no time to take care of the beautiful scenery around me. In the end, I reached Sister Mouth, who was on fire in her eyes, in thirty-six minutes and seven seconds.

Sister Zui is the new field supervisor of the editorial department, about 30 years old, who has been working for a long time and does not pay attention to her appearance and looks a little old and single. Because she likes to spread all kinds of gossip from her colleagues in the office, everyone calls her Sister Mouth. Because of this, she is one of our most relatable supervisors.

"Sister Zui, don't say anything, I know it's wrong, I'm going to beat you and scold you." I put my head in front of my mouth. All at once she put her cold hand in my neck, and I screamed with the cold. This is the "punishment" that Sister Winterzui likes to do to employees who do not complete their tasks well.

"You are our Wu Chao's boss," Qin Chuyi, who was behind him, walked out from behind me and stretched out his hand to Sister Zui, "Hello Hello, I am Wu Chao's brother, and I just came back from abroad with my friends." I thought that today was Saturday and Wu Chao was free, but it happened that she was at work and delayed your process. Lu Yao also came out and helped to say some words of apology.

Seeing the two of them, Sister Zui immediately pulled out the hand that was placed in my neck, and immediately shook hands with Qin Chuyi and Lu Yao. "Oh, where! Wu Chao is the most promising employee of our company, and he usually works seriously! A little problem, understandable and understandable. Sister Zui reluctantly withdrew her hand, and her cheeks were a little crimson. Xiao Wu, just tell me something, and it's okay to ask for leave. Why make such an embarrassment! ”

I spread my hands helplessly, saying that it was all my fault.

Qin Chu raised his eyebrows at me, meaning that now I am on par with him. After saying goodbye to them, I walked into the gate of Xiaoyaoshan Hospital with a smile on my face, and she immediately began to ask me about the details of these two returnee "brothers".

"Let's have dinner together in the evening!" Sister Mouth pushed her glasses at me, biting her lower lip maliciously.

"Okay, I'm in for a treat."

"Why do you want to have a treat, call your brother and his friends, I'll have a treat! That's it! ”

“……”

Today's interview is the daughter of an old man who has been in a coma for more than a year. This daughter's surname is Ye, she is a private entrepreneur in N City, and it seems that she wants to participate in the selection of outstanding private entrepreneurs recently, and she needs to have multiple interview manuscripts, so she found our company. Because of the entrepreneur's high reputation, no matter which magazine or newspaper her interview is published in, it must be a big help to her sales, so many newspapers and magazines are eager to try this rare opportunity. The goddaughter of the son of the seventh aunt and the eighth aunt of Sister Zui has a good relationship with this entrepreneur and recommended our company, so Sister Zui has this precious opportunity. If things go well, Sister Zui's position as field supervisor will definitely sit firmly. This precious opportunity was almost missed because of me, and if it weren't for Qin Chuyi's cleverness, I'm afraid I would have lost my job.

The interview mainly focused on how the female entrepreneur was filial and took care of her comatose father for more than a year. Sister Zui's preparation was very thorough, and she arrived two hours earlier than the agreed interview time, minus the time I wasted, which was still more than enough. In addition, the interview questions are all carefully designed by her, and all kinds of information are readily available, and even Ms. Ye's eating, drinking, and Lazar are clearly understood, so the progress is very smooth. At the point of work, I bow down to my sister. Two hours later, Ms. Yip offered to rest for a while, and we went to the ward to take some pictures of her and her father.

Xiaoyaoshan Hospital is worthy of being a high-end private hospital, and the cleanliness of the corridor is beyond the reach of ordinary hospitals. There are various paths in the corridor that are convenient for patients, and there are all kinds of garden tea rooms and gyms. We walked through the transparent building and chatted with Ms. Ye. She said that her biggest regret was not being able to spend time with her father while he was still awake, and now that she comes here every day, it doesn't help.

After a while, we arrived at Uncle Ye's room. The room is a superior suite, which at first glance looks similar to the hotel, but with a lot of monitoring instruments. Next to the old man's bedside was Ben Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Ms. Ye said that she would take time out every day to read a paragraph to her father, who was lying on the hospital bed and liked to read. There is also a bowl of lotus seed and lily porridge next to the bed, which was also cooked by Ms. Ye herself. No matter how busy she was, she would cook herself, hoping that when her father woke up, he would be able to drink his favorite porridge. When we arrived, there were three nurses giving Uncle Ye a full body massage, and it would take about half an hour to finish.

"That's right, Ms. Ye, let's go downstairs and take a single photo of you first, do you think that's okay?" Ms. Ye nodded in agreement, and Sister Zui asked me and another staff member, Xiao Li, to stay first, and they went to the garden to take pictures first. Xiao Li joined the company a year earlier than me, and he looked stunned, and he kept following Sister Zui. It is rumored that he has a crush on Sister Zui, and his colleagues privately call him "mother-lover complex".

Xiao Li is not a good talker, and I don't like to chat with people I don't know. We just looked out the window at the artificial lake, or watched the nurses doing all kinds of massages, and I was so sleepy that I yawned several times in a row. Xiao Li couldn't stand it anymore, and said to me, "Xiao Wu, I see a coffee machine on the other side of the corridor, I'll pour you a cup of coffee." ”

After Xiao Li left, I was idle and bored, looking through the content of the morning interview and some information about Ms. Ye. But I couldn't bear the deep sleepiness that came to me, and I closed my eyes groggily, wanting to take a nap for a while. I don't know how long it took to close my eyes, but when I opened my eyes again, the nurses were gone. I subconsciously woke up and suddenly realized that it was already dark, the room was dark, and the interior furnishings had become completely different. The original suite became a large hospital room, with five beds in front of and back, but there was no one except for an old man lying on the bed closest to the door, and an old woman with white hair sat next to the old man's bed. The light source of the entire room relied on the small table lamp next to the bed, and the originally clean and tidy room was now filled with an indescribable strange smell.

I sat at the innermost bed in the room and turned my head to look out the window. What should have been a man-made lake is now a small low-rise building with black lights, and a few construction trucks are faintly parked next to the building, surrounded by some freshly demolished bricks. Xiaoyao Mountain, which usually takes half an hour to walk, appears behind the building at this time, and it feels like it can be reached by reaching out. I looked at my phone, the date was still February 14, 2015, but the time was 19:40 p.m. and there was no signal.

The old woman beside the bed was feeding the uncle on the hospital bed, and the two of them behaved intimately, not noticing my deposit. The old woman had her back to me, and I couldn't make out her face, but judging from the look on the old man's face on the hospital bed, they seemed to be talking about something happy, full of happiness. After feeding the porridge, the old woman touched the patient's forehead lovingly, got up and walked out of the ward.

After the old woman left, I slowly walked towards the hospital bed at the door. The person on the hospital bed was reading a book by the bedside lamp, and when he heard the footsteps, he noticed me and looked up and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

His appearance and outfit are exactly the same as Uncle Ye in a coma, and what he is holding in his hand is the book "The Great Gatsby".

"Uncle Ye?" I couldn't help but ask.

"You know me?" He put down the book in his hand and looked at me in amazement.

"You're awake? Here it is...... Xiaoyao Mountain Hospital? ”

"It's almost eight o'clock in the evening, how can I not wake up!" His voice was pleasant, and the wrinkles on his face bloomed when he laughed, "Girl, this is the North Building Hospital!" ”

North Building Hospital? That's right, this is the former North Building Hospital, I guess I'm going to cross over. It's impossible, the date is still that date, could it be that I accidentally entered some parallel point in time and space?

"Does Ye Jiahe know you're here?" I asked tentatively.

"You say Jiahe? Hey, she's busy taking care of her company all day, so she doesn't have time to come and see me. No, it's been almost five years! The old man sighed. Do you know Jiahe? ”

"I'm her friend, I'm coming to see you for her." I rammed nonsense, but I didn't expect the old man to be very surprised when he heard this.

"Oops! My Jiahe finally wants to come to see me! I'll tell Xiaoyu later, she must be even happier! My Jiahe, I finally thought of his father. The old man kept chanting Ms. Ye's name, looking so excited.

My mind was in a mess, and now I was standing here after the North Building Hospital had been demolished and rebuilt three years ago. Uncle Ye, who was still in a coma in bed just now, didn't look like he had just woken up, and Ye Jiahe, who came to visit him every day, was also said to have not seen him for nearly five years, and who was this Xiaoyu?

"Uncle Ye, how is your health?"

"It's the same as before, it's not as good as the day! If Xiao Yu hadn't taken care of me every day, I would have returned to the West a long time ago. ”

"Who is Xiao Yu?" I asked.

"My wife He Yu, she was still here just now, saying that today is Valentine's Day, you want to give me a gift, and you will be back later. What, didn't Jiahe tell you? ”

As soon as Uncle Ye said this, I suddenly got goosebumps from head to toe. According to the interview in the morning and other information, Ye Jiahe's mother He Yu died of illness four years ago, and Uncle Ye was depressed for a while, could it be that the old woman I saw just now was He Yu, who had been dead for more than four years?

I took a deep breath and felt the atmosphere in the hospital room be extremely strange. These untrue scenes really happened to me. I pinched my thigh, it hurt.

Just when I didn't know whether to leave or stay, I remembered the sound of small footsteps at the door of the ward. This is especially loud in the quiet ward building. I held my breath for a moment and looked carefully at the door of the ward. A silver-haired, plain but well-dressed old woman, holding a bouquet of red roses, gradually walked towards us from the dark corridor with a smile on her face.

When she saw me sitting on the edge of the bed, she stopped, and the smile on her face disappeared, replaced by a wary look. Suddenly there was a terrible silence in the building. I was startled by the instantaneous change of expression, and the deathly silence around me made me uneasy. What scared me even more was the sound of her voice.

"Who sent you?" The low and cold tone, accompanied by the sudden thunder outside the window, made me sit still.