Chapter 1: Li Chen

The night is like a curtain, the stars are decorated, the breeze is blowing, the crickets are singing frogs, a quiet and beautiful rural autumn night!

Li Chen was wearing big pants and a small vest, leaning on a recliner, looking at the vast starry sky, under the starlight, but his face was gloomy.

"The coming day is a thousand songs, floating on my road in the distance, and the coming day is a thousand evening stars, shining brighter than the moon tonight......"

The phone rang suddenly, Li Chen reached out and picked up the mobile phone on the small stool next to him, looked at the screen, frowned, and picked it up.

On the phone, my mother's concerned voice came: "Chen, you didn't sleep, did you?" The weather in my hometown is cold, but don't catch a cold, remember to close the window when you sleep at night......"

Listening to his mother's long-winded and concerned words, Li Chen's heart was warm, and he replied in a relaxed tone as much as possible: "Mom, don't worry, I know!" It's so late, so go to bed early. Well, well, good night! ”

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Put down the phone, reached out and picked up the half bottle of beer on the ground, "Gu Dong Dong" poured a few more sips, the cold wine went down the throat and into the lower abdomen, maybe he was in a hurry, choked, coughed cough.

Wiping his mouth, Li Chen put down the wine bottle, looked at the starry sky, and couldn't help but sigh again!

This year, it's really not going well!

The pillar of the family, the loving father died of cancer suddenly at the beginning of the year, he delayed an excellent promotion opportunity in the company because he was busy with his father's afterlife, his girlfriend broke up with him in anger, and his new boyfriend was actually a competitor in his company's promotion.

These series of blows, which seemed like the plot of the movie, made it difficult for Li Chen to bear for a while, but what he didn't expect was that the blows were not over yet, and the heavy ones were still to come.

He had a very strange illness with muscle weakness due to the uncertainty of time. To put it bluntly, I don't know when I suddenly became weak, as if I was paralyzed, and my whole body hurt as if I was going to die!

At first, he didn't pay much attention to it, and he didn't go to the hospital, and he finished getting some medicine by himself.

But the disease became more and more serious, from the beginning of the attack every few days, and slowly became almost every day, after the attack he completely lost his mobility. Although it was possible to recover after a while, the density and duration of the illness became longer and longer.

Now he panicked and went to many hospitals, but some doctors said that it was muscle weakness, and some said that it was not. As a result, even the company knew about him in the end.

At the beginning, it was not bad, the company took the initiative to help him contact a few good hospitals, and even a foreign-funded one, and also consulted a lot of famous foreign doctors for him, and all kinds of advanced instruments were also used all over again, and I couldn't wait to check all the things from the head to the toes, and I took more medicine, but it still didn't have any effect.

This made him more and more frustrated.

And his company also used this as a reason to terminate the contract with him.

And he had to go home in this golden autumn that was supposed to belong to the harvest, and he recuperated from his illness.

Of course, in order not to worry his mother, he still hides it from his mother and younger siblings. I only said that I was too busy in the previous period, so I was given a big vacation by the company, and I came back to stay for a while.

In order not to be discovered by his mother, he took a car back to his hometown in the mountains on the grounds of distraction, and on the day he returned home. Fortunately, his illness did not appear that day, so he did not show up.

My hometown is located in a mountainous area, and the village is originally not large, with dozens of families. Later, many young people couldn't bear the poverty and went out to work, and most of the people left behind were the elderly, middle-aged women, infants and young children who could not leave their homeland, and made a living by planting some land, packing some mountain farms, and selling some walnuts, chestnuts, hawthorns and other mountain goods.

Li Chen's family did not move, but since the death of his father, because his younger brother will take the college entrance examination next year, under the joint venture of Li Chen and his sister, he rented a small house of more than 40 square meters in the county seat, in order to fully ensure his younger brother's sprint. And my mother also asked relatives to find a temporary errand nearby, while doing odd jobs to supplement the family, while taking care of her younger brother's diet and daily life. My sister works in a Korean company for 12 hours a day, so she also lives with her mother and brother.

And the three old rooms in the family were built by Li Chen's parents when he was a child, and they have never been covered, and they are very old. But it's sturdy, and it doesn't leak. Yiying furniture and daily necessities are also complete, although my mother lives in the county, but she has been asking her neighbors to help clean up, and the home is still neat and clean. It's just that the room is quiet, which makes Li Chen, who was already in a low mood, even more lonely.

The yard is not small, and there are some fruit trees, flowers, toon trees, etc. There was a faint fragrance of flowers, but it couldn't dilute the depression in his heart for half a minute.

Mom was a little worried at first, but she had no time to take care of her brother in high school. No, I kept calling him and asking long and short questions.

Li Chen, who felt his mother's concern, was even more depressed, and he didn't know how long he could hide it, what should he do in the future? How many sleepless nights have I prayed silently, and even worshiped the Bodhisattvas of the heavens and all the gods in my heart, praying for my own health, even if I sacrifice my wealth and luck.

But with the onset of illness again and again, his heart became heavier and heavier.

As the pride of his family, he will never allow himself to become a drag on his family, the feeling of lying in bed is worse than death, he feels terrible when he thinks about it, if that is the case, he would rather die!

Even in his heart, he had silently decided that if his younger brother was not well before the college entrance examination, he would choose to find a place where no one was there to commit suicide. Although it is very incompetent and pees, at least it will not drag down the family.

During this time, he was already prepared and even made several suicide plans, such as electrocution, drowning, etc. He also deposited all his savings on a card, although he didn't have any savings over the years, but the company gave him some termination money after all, and he secretly left this card in the corner of his brother's desk drawer at home, ready to tell his mother in his last will.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel sad.

The ambitions, passions, and longings of the past will be far away from him, and this kind of psychological torture makes him extremely uncomfortable.

He got up and got out of the chaise longue and walked slowly to the pear tree against the wall. This is planted by his grandfather himself, although the Yali pear on it is not big and does not bear much, but it is sweet and crisp and delicious, and it is the favorite of him and his friends when he was a child. It's not a few days before the pears ripen.

The tree is not tall, but Grandpa never let himself and his friends climb this tree, saying that the pear tree is temperamental, very arrogant, and does not want people to ride it.

At that time, I didn't believe it, I crawled secretly, I don't know if it was a miracle, the pears of that year were really not sweet, they were still very small, and there were many bad ones.

I was so panicked that I hurriedly and secretly "apologized" to it, hey, don't say it, the pears of the second year will be sweet and crispy again.

Later, I told my parents about these things, and they laughed and told themselves that in fact, my grandfather was worried about the brittle branches of the pear tree, and he was afraid that they would climb up and break the branches and fall.

As for whether the pears are sweet or not, it has to do with the weather and insect infestation that year.

But grandpa didn't tell him about these things until he died.

Thinking of these childhood anecdotes, thinking of his loving grandfather and father, and even thinking of his friends who were estranged due to busyness, Li Chen couldn't help but feel agitated and burst into tears.

Sitting slowly under the tree, this is his favorite way to rest during this time, and it took a long time to relax.

I looked at the watch on my wrist, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and I felt strange, because on weekdays, although there is no fixity, with the continuous accumulation of the number of episodes, he still has some rules to follow.

Generally around 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m., and 9:00 p.m. every day may be the onset time.

Li Chen, who was about to be a little excited, immediately fell to the bottom of his mood. Because he felt the tingling of the tip of his right finger.

This tingling sensation from his fingertips is the foreplay of his illness, because soon, this tingling will spread all over his body along his fingertips, and then he will fall into muscle weakness all over his body.

Now the onset time has gradually extended from the first few minutes to two or three hours, and even longer.

The taste of not being able to move for two or three hours, Li Chen had already had enough.

"Mom=yes!"

Li Chen was very angry in his heart, and the suppression for so long made him extremely indignant, and he slammed the ground beside him with his right fist.

Feeling that the soil was soft, he turned his fist into a grasp again, grabbed a handful of soil next to his body, and slammed it into the distance.

"Shhh

Pain suddenly came from the palm of his hand, Li Chen shrank his hand and looked at it, it turned out that the palm of his hand had been cut by something, and there was blood flowing.

Li Chen looked down and saw that in the darkness, there was something that emitted a faint earthy yellow light.

"Huh?"

Strangely, he ignored the pain of his hand and reached out to touch the thing.

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