The night in the mountains is not like the neon world outside, it is more peaceful, Li Shi and I walked a long way, and I kept thinking about how to speak again and talk to her about the hostel.

"You've been absent-minded all the way, I'm afraid you're bothered by more than one thing, right?"

I didn't answer Li Shi directly, and said to her in a very serious tone: "After this schedule, what are you going to do next?" ”

Li Shi shifted her gaze to look ahead, and said to me after a while: "We don't seem to be familiar enough to ask me to report my schedule to you." ”

"I didn't mean that."

Li Shi's words were very light, but there was an implied instinctive rejection, and said: "I know what you want to say to me, but at this stage, it is important to help Mengmeng find the right bone marrow, and I can also tell you clearly that I will not change the position of the hostel." ”

"No matter how many worries you have, at least give me a chance, maybe your change can affect Lao Gou, maybe there will be gains?"

"I don't want to come together with you for the sake of interests, so it is inevitable that there will be conflicts in the future, the company has so many offline businesses, any one can satisfy you, do you have to compete with me?"

I pondered for a long time and asked, "What if the hostel is connected to your family?" ”

"I know Mengmeng's wishes and expectations, so I will find the right bone marrow for her without hesitation to make up for my debts."

I didn't say anything to refute Li Shi, but muttered in a voice that I could hear: "The hostel is just a game arranged for us by fate, why are we all so serious?" ”

Li Shi ignored my muttering, turned around and walked back, and the faint light in front of us was the direction we were heading.

……

The next morning, we followed Miss Xiao Su to the nearby primary school, close to the summer vacation, the children in the city were busy going to the summer class to tutor, and the children in the countryside were learning knowledge from the teachers in the school, and this was the second time I had taught since I was in college, but the experience was far less than that of Miss Xiaosu.

If I hadn't known Miss Xiao Su before, I really found it hard to believe that she was a professional in a high position, and judging from what she did, it seemed as if she had always been rooted in this land.

I give physical education classes to the boys, and Li Shi gives English and art classes to the children, and she is very popular with the children, just like Miss Xiaosu.

When school was out in the morning, it was supposed to be time to eat, Li Shi ran over to me and asked me why I didn't see Xiaobao, I asked all the children, and finally someone "snitched" and told me that Xiaobao ran home after the first class.

After arranging for the child to take a nap, Li Shi and I walked to Xiaobao's house, but the scene inside the house made our hearts ache.

Xiaobao knelt in front of her grandmother's window, crying and begging her to go to the hospital.

When we got closer, Grandma Xiaobao's face became extremely painful, and she hummed softly on the bed, the wrinkles covered by the years, each one full of vicissitudes and pain.

Li Shi squatted in front of the bed and asked, "Grandma, what's wrong with you, isn't your waist hurting more and more?" ”

Grandma waved her hand, signaling not to tighten, she wanted to turn over and turn her back to us, but when she moved slightly, she screamed in pain, obviously, the condition was aggravated again.

We wanted to drive her to the hospital, but she immediately refused, she kept repeating that she was fine, saying that if she went to the hospital, she would suffer if she didn't say that she would spend money, and the family would have to rely on her to take care of her.

Xiaobao stood up, ran to his hut and took out an iron box, holding it up and said, "Grandma, I have money, you can rest assured to go for treatment, Dad will keep me to take care of it." ”

Looking at the iron box full of five cents and one yuan of change, my heart ached inexplicably.

Grandma, who endured the pain and didn't shed tears, suddenly lost control of her emotions, tears of distress flowed from her cloudy eyes, and she couldn't reach out to touch Xiaobao's head, she sighed: "How can grandma use the money you picked up bottles to treat her illness, you have to stay in school and go to college." ”

Li Shi and I couldn't bear such a scene anymore, and immediately decided to call an ambulance, but grandma still had a tough attitude and said that she would not go to the hospital.

We entrusted a neighbor to take care of Xiaobao and his father, and followed the ambulance to take my grandmother to the city hospital.

After Miss Xiao Su learned the news, she instructed us to settle the old man properly, and said that she would immediately contact the orthopedic experts in Lanzhou and rush over overnight to consult her grandmother.

……

We spent the afternoon waiting until late at night, when experts from Lanzhou came over and worked out the best treatment plan for my grandmother, with the least pain and the best effect.

In the middle of the night, Li Shi and I stayed outside the ward together, for fear that my grandmother would call us at any time, for me, staying in the hospital was already commonplace, but Li Shi was a little nervous.

While comforting her, I encouraged myself that the peak season of the best scenic spot was coming, and there were many things that worried me.

Somehow, thinking about it, I unconsciously thought of Jiang Laiyue, thought of the compromise she made by being succumbed to reality, and then repeated what she once said, if I have to say that life is a game, I feel that I and her understanding of the game is still a deviation.

I haven't known Jiang Laiyue for a long time, but she has a stronger impact on my thinking than anyone else, so I guessed how she viewed the game of life, but in the end I didn't figure it out.

Just when I was drowsy, I suddenly received a long-lost phone call, it was from Lao Gou.

Looking at Li Shi, who was sleeping soundly on the chair next to me, I got up gently, quickly connected the phone at the end of the corridor, and said in a dissatisfied tone: "Lao Gou, you don't sleep in the middle of the night, and you torture me in a different way?" ”

Lao Gou on the other end of the phone finally smiled and said to me: "You kid is never big or small, I live in a hostel now, I am full of emotion, and I can't sleep with excitement." ”

"What are you doing in a hostel, you're going to sell it, to miss the feeling of staying in the past?"

Lao Gou seemed to be affected by my emotions, sighed lightly, and said to me for a long time: "You don't have a temper anymore, some things are indeed unexpected by me, and my judgment will be wrong, but things have happened, and there is no need to worry about those details." ”

I nodded, but I was angry in my heart because of what Lao Gou did, but I still restrained myself and asked: "How does it feel to live, and what kind of sincerity can the hostel show to be able to impress you not to sell it?" ”

Lao Gou seemed to have already thought about it, and he said to me: "If you really play literature and art, instead of negotiating cooperation based on commercial interests, then there will definitely be no pressure, but have you thought about how many resources this store needs to exhaust in order to be presentable?" ”

In the face of Lao Gou's doubts, I didn't explain it directly, but said: "If you still miss the old feelings, you should run the hostel well, not destroy it." ”

Lao Gou sighed, as if he was just about to speak, when a muffled sound suddenly came from the other end of the phone, and then he heard Lao Gou screaming like a pig: "Ouch, it's broken......"

My heart tightened, and I thought to myself, oh no, this round old Gou must have fallen out of bed......