The traffic on the road was rolling, and the dust and soot raised blurred the black and white city.

Li Chu put the key into the keyhole, the corridor echoed the crisp sound of the door lock opening, she reached out and pushed the door open, the huge living room was empty, turned on the switch of the light on the wall, and the glass pressed on the dining table reflected the bright incandescent light on the ceiling.

Li Chu took off his schoolbag and put it on the sofa. The table was empty, the kitchen was as clean as when she left, the spices were placed next to the stove, and only a small corner of the snow-white salt was missing, Li Chu sighed and went into the kitchen to pour himself a glass of water. Before she could carry her schoolbag into the study with a water glass, the landline bell in the living room rang suddenly, which was particularly harsh and abrupt in this silent room.

Li Chu hurriedly put the schoolbag on the ground, put the water cup on the table and ran to the coffee table in the living room, the bell kept ringing, as if a sharp knife was stimulating the eardrums, and she had a bad premonition in her heart.

Li Chu picked up the earpiece, and as soon as he put it to his ear, he was so frightened by the anxious and high-pitched female voice inside that he shrank his head back.

"Li Chu? Hurry up and come to the Municipal People's Hospital, your sister has a sudden seizure, and I can't be busy here. Without waiting for Li Chu to speak, the end of the earpiece exploded vigorously, crackling, and from her tone, I vaguely heard the anxiety and excitement that could not be repeated.

"Mom, but ......" Li Chu hadn't had time to do his homework, and his slippers didn't heat up when he got home.

Li Mu rudely interrupted her refusal and shouted angrily, "But what is it, your sister is more important than anything else!" Hurry up for me! ”

Li Chu was about to speak again, but there was already a string of busy tones on the phone, and before she could explain, Li Mu hung up the phone in a hurry, not ready to give her any reason to refuse.

The water in the glass was still warm, and she took a sip before picking up her bag again. The moment she closed the door, she saw the simple and simple furnishings in the living room and a family photo hanging high in the living room, Li's father, Li's mother and Li Yuan, Li's father and Li Yuan's mother smiled kindly and lovingly, Li Yuan's smile was like a flower, the family of three was happy, and Li Chu ...... A small shabby photo of her, placed alone next to the family photo, is obviously added later, and looks out of place.

There weren't many people on the buses to the city center, and the buses from the city center sped past them after a brief meeting, and unlike the full bus of passengers returning home, there were only a few passengers in their direction. The sky was already a little dark, and Li Chu sat by the window and looked out of the window in distraction.

Li Yuan is more important than anything else, isn't her little daughter important?

She rushed home from school non-stop, and because of a phone call, she was about to start home again, and cars kept passing by her, either students traveling home in groups or parents and children who were talking and laughing to rush home for dinner. She sniffed, feeling her nasal cavity suddenly start to sore, and her hand was holding the schoolbag in her arms, and the cold air in the car gradually spread upwards through her fingertips. Li Chu took out the English book from his schoolbag, retracted his outward gaze and moved it to the textbook.

It looks like today's homework is going to be rushed in the hospital ward.

The smell of disinfectant water filled the entire snow-white ward, she did not find Li Mu and Li Yuan in the general ward, and asked the nurse at the nurse station to know that Li Yuan had just come out of the emergency room and was still observing in the intensive care unit. Li Chu withdrew her hand attached to the table and found the intensive care unit, she looked in at the door, and saw Li Mu quickly stand up through the window, someone put on a clean isolation gown for her, and she put on shoe covers and walked into the intensive care room.

Li Yuan's body was full of tubes, his face was wearing an oxygen mask, his eyes were tightly closed, his black eyelashes covered his eyelids, his skin was so pale that he faintly showed blue, and his finger joints were slender and fragile as if they could be crushed if he held them gently.

"Why are you so slow? Didn't you get to answer the phone and rush over right away? Li Mu's exposed eyes outside the mask glared at Li Chu fiercely, she deliberately lowered her voice, and as soon as she spoke, she was undisguised blame. Mother Li stretched out her hand and pushed Li Chu, pulled her to the hospital bed, and then said, "You are guarding your sister here, and I have to go to get the report." ”

Although Li's mother walked out of the custody room in a hurry, she still tried to be as gentle as possible and not make any noise when closing the door.

Li Chu sat on a small stool next to the hospital bed, took off the schoolbag on his back, and took out his homework from the schoolbag.

Alas, no one hurts and you have to know that you hurt yourself, and if you don't finish your homework, you will definitely end it tomorrow.

Li Chu wrote a few homework and looked up at Li Yuan's situation, her lips were bruised and covered in the mask and opened slightly.

It was inconvenient to lie on the soft futon and write homework, so Li Chu simply squatted on the ground and put his homework on the stool and wrote one stroke at a time. In front of the stool was Li Yuan's hand, which was loosely resting on the bed, her nails round but bruised, and her sleeves looked particularly empty due to her thin size.

Today's homework is even more cumbersome than last night, probably because there are a lot of physics homework, Li Chu looked at the thick pages of physics homework and finally decided to do it at the end, after all, it is likely that he will not be able to finish the other subjects first...... I just let the physics homework be the only one that I didn't finish.

The footsteps coming and going outside the door gradually quieted down from the original noise, Li Chu stood up and moved her stiff and numb legs and neck, stretched her waist, and noticed that Li Yuan's fingers moved at the moment she lowered her eyes, and the eyeballs she hid under her eyelids seemed to have turned a few times. Li Chu immediately reached out and rang the bell at the head of the bed.

On the other hand, Li's mother was going back and forth between the hospital buildings to go through various procedures, and when she rushed back to the intensive care room, she saw that her youngest daughter was doing her homework, and the eldest daughter had opened her eyes and looked at her little daughter quietly. Li Chu reacted sensitively, suddenly stepped back, dodging Li Mu's hand, she opened her eyes and asked suspiciously, "Mom, what are you doing?" ”

Li Mu's hand fell on the homework book she placed on the stool, and all the homework was swept to the ground with a sweep, and she sneered, "What are you asking me for?" I asked you to watch your sister, you are doing your homework here, and it won't be good if you write less for a while! ”

"Write, write, write, know how to write homework, and don't know how to look at your sister more!"

"Mom." Li Chu lowered the corners of her mouth, her tone was aggrieved, she leaned over to pick up her homework, and looked directly into Li Mu's angry eyes, "I just rang the bell." As soon as she finished speaking, the nurse and the doctor pushed open the door and hurried in, and the doctor walked to the bed and saw the mother and daughter in a stalemate, and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”

Li Mu laughed dryly, and quietly put the hand that fell in front of Li Chu in front of her and rubbed her hands, "It's nothing." ”

The doctor didn't ask much, so he went to the bedside to check Li Yuan's situation, explained a few words to the nurse next to him, and finally said to Li's mother: "If it's okay tonight, you can go back to the ward tomorrow." ”

Li Mu nodded, and thanked her with a smile on her face. Li Chu beside her didn't say a word, lowered her head, and was holding the homework book tightly on her side, the pen cover had rolled down to the bed, but she didn't pick it up, Li Mu also felt guilty, sighed, and then bent down to pick up Li Chu's pen cover, Li Mu knew that she had wronged Li Chu, but she was still a little annoyed that Li Chu didn't strictly follow her instructions, she commanded in a cold tone: "You sit on the side." ”

Li Chu carried a small bench to the position against the wall and rearranged the homework.

She didn't have to look to know that Li's mother must be taking care of Li Yuan gently, she smiled self-deprecatingly, she had known the result for a long time, Li's father and Li's mother only loved their eldest daughter, and this in-law and younger daughter was like an inconsequential garbage picked up. She put down her pen and wrote down the number, and found that she could not draw black handwriting anyway, only blank marks remained on the paper, and the tip of the pen had been broken by the fall just now.

Li Mu covered Li Yuan's hand, that hand was cold and bony, and she could hardly feel the weight in her hand, the cyan blood vessels were clearly visible under the skin, and the black, purple and gray nails were exposed from Li Mu's tiger's mouth, which made her heart ache. How unfortunate her eldest daughter was, not having a sound body and not being able to dance as well as the other children, they owed her.

She put Li Yuan's hand to her forehead, closed her eyes and did as she had done countless times before, praying that her daughter would live a few more years. Under her body temperature, Li Yuan's hand gradually became warmer, Li Yuan looked at the movement of the door with faint bright eyes, closed his eyelids again, and his breath returned to a long one.

Li Mu quietly put Li Yuan's hand back on the bed, carefully covered the back of her bare/bare hand with the quilt, and moved towards the door little by little.

On the chair outside the door was a thin figure huddled in a chair, her legs bent in the cramped chair, her worn bag resting under the chair, and a book buckled upside down on her stomach. The early autumn still has the heat of summer, and the hospital corridor at night is still permeated with chill under the effect of air conditioning, and the girl is only wearing a thin summer school uniform with short sleeves, and her arms are folded and shaken a few times incoherently.

Seeing her little daughter like this, Li's mother finally couldn't help but take off her coat and cover her. In the past, the youngest daughter always complained about herself, and even quarreled with herself in the hospital more than once, but today she is exceptionally obedient and quiet, and she obediently stayed in the hospital without complaining a word, which made her feel a little ashamed.

The next morning, Li Chu sat up from the chair, and a black coat slipped from her to the ground, she picked it up and looked at it, recalling that it was what Li Mu wore yesterday. Li Chu rubbed his cold arm, realizing that sleeping in the most obvious place outside the monitoring room yesterday still played a certain role.

Put back the homework book that I forgot to put away last night in my school bag. It was a physics homework, and it was inconvenient for her to do her homework in the hospital, but in the end, she still endured sleepiness and finished her homework, sleeping late, coupled with the embarrassment of the position, and now her sleep is not enough, and her mind is still dizzy. After getting on the bus, Li Chu yawned a few times, then leaned on the backrest of the front seat and squinted. Because she didn't have an alarm clock, she got up a few minutes late, and she didn't even have time to eat breakfast, and the first thing she did when she arrived at school was to run to the cafeteria to buy a bun, most of the time she ate breakfast at home, gruel and mustard was her breakfast, because the food in the school cafeteria was really not cheap, and a bun cost two pieces of black heart.

"Let's go, send homework." Chu Mo walked to Li Chu's table with a pile of homework, and caught a glimpse of her lowering her head and stuffing the last bite of buns into her mouth.

Li Chu raised her head when she heard the sound, the bun was still bulging in her cheeks and she didn't swallow it completely, she hastily stuffed the plastic bag into the desk, got up and picked up the two sets of homework on her desk, and responded vaguely, "Go." ”

Chu Mo pursed his lips, saw the dark circles under her eyes, and asked tentatively, "If it's inconvenient for you, I'll be alone." You can take a break before you start reading in the morning. ”

"Oh, I'm fine. Let's go together. Li Chu walked down from his seat lightly, followed behind Chu Mo, and teased him narrowly, "Chu Mo, do you care about your partner?" After saying that, Li Chu couldn't help but yawn loudly, and a layer of physiological tears filled his eyes.