Chapter 17: The Sudden Mutation of the New Year (2)
Time seemed to freeze as slowly, the bell struck twelve o'clock, I heard the dense sound of firecrackers and people's laughter outside, my father still did not come back, my heart sank little by little, empty, weak, I didn't feel tired, I didn't feel sleepy.
I don't know how long it took, I seemed to hear a very soft sound of pushing the door, I jumped up and ran out, Qin You was pushed by me and almost fell to the ground, and when he stood up, I had already run to the staircase, "First time, slow down!" I ignored him and rushed down the stairs as fast as I could, and I fell down the stairs when my foot slipped, and fortunately there were only three or four steps left, and I got up and continued to run.
It's Daddy, it's really Daddy is back, and there is one more person, Uncle Hai is supporting him.
"First sight, why did you come out, quick, go upstairs!" Daddy said to me very urgently, Uncle Hehai helped the man into his room, and Qin You and I followed closely.
The man was very badly injured, his shirt was covered with blood, and the weight of his body was leaning on Uncle Hai, I heard the man's convulsions from time to time, and the expression on his face was not clear, but I thought he must be in pain, who was he, what was his relationship with his father, why was he so badly injured? These questions stuck with question marks in my head.
Uncle Hai half-hugged him, Daddy lifted his clothes, his brows furrowed, and the bloody flesh suddenly came into view, standing by the door, I couldn't help but turn my head, I couldn't bear to look at it again, who was so ruthless to hurt him like this.
I fetched a basin of warm water, and my father cleaned it up with cotton yarn, "Bear with me!" "Daddy can't bear it.
"It's okay, come on, Brother Qian, I can stand it!" The man's voice was a little hoarse, but still powerful. Daddy made a move, and the man immediately snorted, like a wounded wolf, low!
The water soon turned red, and the strong smell of blood spread throughout the room, and I saw that my hand carrying the basin was trembling, it was blood, hot blood flowing out of the human body, so much, so terrible! I felt like I was about to faint, and at this time, the other hand held the basin steadily, it was Qin You, who was standing beside me, looking at me firmly.
"First meeting, get out!" Daddy noticed my strangeness and turned around and whispered orders.
"No!" I shook my head firmly, "I'm not afraid at first sight." "I looked at him bravely, without blinking an eye, for fear that my father would kick me out.
Daddy paused for thirty seconds, then finally ignored me and lowered his head to clean the wound. I saw my father using a cotton pad dipped in wine to disinfect the wound, and then wrapped it in white gauze. The movements are swift and fluid.
The man seemed to faint in pain, and Daddy told Uncle Hymers to carry him to my room, I think it was because it was in the innermost part of the building, and there was a big tree outside the window.
"First meeting, first meeting, what's wrong with you?" Daddy touched my arm and squatted down and looked me up and down like lightning, his face full of anxiety and panic, "Is there anything uncomfortable?" ”
That's when I realized that my whole body was shaking: "I'm not scared, I'm just cold!" "I want to smile at my father, but I feel that the muscles on my face are stiff, I can't laugh, it's so cold, my hands are cold, my limbs are cold, I think my heart is also cold, there is no temperature at all, I tremble like a cricket in the cold wind, my father holds me in his arms, and checks up and down.
"It's okay, I'm just a little cold."
"What is this? How did your leg break? Daddy's voice immediately rose an octave.
"She just fell down the stairs." This is Qin You's voice.
Daddy immediately carried me to the bed, carefully took off my clothes, wiped my wounds with medicinal wine, I shrank in pain, got into Daddy's arms, hugged his waist with both hands, and never let go.
"It's okay, first sight, I'm not afraid." Daddy coaxed me softly, driving away my fear and uneasiness little by little, and his words seemed to have a real magic, and just like that, I slowly relaxed, and before I knew it, I sank into my dream.
When I woke up the next morning, everything was as usual in the house, there was no blood, no medicine box, and even the messy dinner table from last night was cleaned up, and if it weren't for the closed door, I suspected that I had a strange dream.
"Who is he, Daddy?" I asked softly as I stared at the door.
Daddy squatted down and looked me in the eye: "First time, you remember, no one has ever come to our house, you haven't seen anything." "Daddy said it very seriously.
"Well, I understand!" I nodded sensibly, my father doesn't want me to know, then I don't want to know, I can't let him worry about me, I want to be sensible!
The door of the room was kept closed, and one morning, a week later, it suddenly opened, and I walked in, still my little pink world, nothing more, nothing missing, except for a small faint patch of red on the wall inside the bed, a stain of blood, which I gently scraped off with my fingers.
The next time I saw that man was much later, when I was already growing up, and he came back from the United States, and he said I was a brave little girl. At that time, I learned that he was also my father's brother in life and death, and he took over the position after my father left, and he was seriously injured by his opponent that night, but fortunately, a cronie's younger brother escaped, and informed my father, and my father and Uncle Hai searched for a long time to find him dying in a ruin.
Later, his father let him go to the United States, away from the days of licking blood from the knife, that is, this rescue of his father, which established his loyalty to his father for decades to come, even if his father is gone, he is still the same to me, he said, Brother Qian once said that you are his life. I realized that my father's love for me was far beyond my comprehension.