Chapter Twenty-Three: Hometown
When I woke up, I opened my eyes dimly, and the warm sunlight shone on my bed. Thinking of what happened last night, if you don't know, you think it was a dream. After a trip to the underworld, I came back unscathed, and I didn't believe anyone I told him.
I subconsciously rubbed my eyes, looked down at the side of the bed, and found that the fat man was gone, and looked up at the clock again, it was already more than 12 o'clock at noon.
I took out a pack of cigarettes from the bedside, took one, lit it and took a puff when the door to my ward opened, and a nurse who looked to be in her early 20s, quite pretty, rushed in and shouted, "Oh, the hospital can't smoke!"
I saw her running over, and took the opportunity to take another puff, and she immediately ran closer, snatched my cigarette, snuffed it out in the trash can, and stretched out another hand, and spoke in a voice that made people feel weak, and said, "Cigarettes, confiscate!"
I grinned at her and said with a grin, "Sister nurse, I promise not to smoke, don't confiscate it!"
After hearing this, she seemed to be angry, and pouted and said, "No, I must confiscate your cigarettes today!"
As soon as the words fell, a huge figure walked in, needless to say, it must be a fat man, with his tonnage, there are not many in the whole hospital. I saw him holding a bag in one hand, biting a cigarette in his mouth, and approaching after a while.
When I saw him like that, I couldn't hold back my laughter and said, "Fatty, you are more arrogant than me!"
Before the fat man could react, the nurse spoke again, pouting more sharply, and said, "Why are you all like this, you can't smoke in the hospital!" said and stretched out both hands to us: "You two hand over the cigarettes, confiscate them, and return them to you when you are discharged from the hospital!"
The fat man reached out and took the cigarette out of his mouth, looked at the nurse, then at me, and said, "This... What's the situation?"
I took out the whole pack of cigarettes from the bedside, handed it to the nurse, and said with a smile: "What's the situation, hand over the cigarettes, the nurse sister is angry!"
The fat man was stunned for a few seconds, extinguished the cigarette, and honestly took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, handed it out, and said with a smile: "Okay, since the nurse sister won't let you smoke, then we won't smoke!"
And the nurse took our cigarettes, put away her pout, and smiled: "That's right, come to me and get it back when you are discharged." With that, he went out on his own. Watching the nurse go out, the fat man followed her and closed the door, then walked back and put the bag in his hand on the bedside table, and said, "Your spicy hot, eat it!"
I lay up straight on the bed and said, "Take it out!"
"Take what?"
"You kid still pretend to be stupid for me, smoke, don't think I don't know you still have. ”
"Haha, how do you know?"
"If it weren't for it, you'd have handed over the cigarettes so easily!"
The fat man laughed a few times, took out another pack of cigarettes from his pocket, opened the envelope and handed me one, and said, "You really know the fat man and me." ”
After smoking and eating, it was almost 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and I suddenly remembered the impermanence of black and white, so I said to the fat man, "By the way, fat man, you go and help me do something." ”
"What's the matter?"
"You go out and find a shroud shop, and ask the master to help me tie two paper figures. ”
"What do you mean, you're not dead yet, why do you want a paper man?"
I told the fat man about what I had experienced last night, and the fat man looked at me in surprise with his mouth wide open, stunned for a few seconds, and then touched my forehead, and said, "Do you have a fever or a dream?"
"You don't care so much, go and burn it for black and white impermanence, remember to ask for a Japanese and an American. I smiled and said to the fat man.
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After two months, I was finally able to be discharged from the hospital and back to my own house, and the fat man went back to school.
I had been idle there for a few days, and at last there was a knock on my door, and when I opened it, I saw the fat man coming in with a large bag, and he threw it into the corner of the wall, and sat down on the chair.
I handed him a cigarette and asked, "Didn't you go back to school, why did you come back again?"
I saw the fat man take the cigarette with an unhappy face and said, "It's not you who caused it, I didn't go back to school for more than four months and was expelled!"
"Hahaha, it's just right to be fired, leave me to help me!"
"You're still schadenfreude, how did you ask me to explain to my family. ”
"When it comes home, I'm going to go home these two days, how about I go back and have fun?"
After hearing this, the fat man's face suddenly changed, and he asked, "Are there any special snacks?"
"Yes, that's a lot!"
The next day, the fat man and I packed up our things early and boarded the long-distance bus and took a few hours back to my hometown.
As soon as I got out of the car, the fat man yelled to eat some snacks first and then go home, and took the fat man to eat four or five stores, I saw that he couldn't stop at all, so he quickly flickered and went home first, and then came to eat next time!
When I got home, I was shouting before I even entered the door, "Dad, Mom, I'm back!"
When I stepped into the house, I watched my dad making tea and watching TV, and my mom wiped her hands and came out of the kitchen, smiling and saying, "I'm back!"
And Dad got up from his chair and said with a smile, "Let your friends in!"
Looking at the silver-white hair on my parents' head and the wrinkles on the corners of my eyes, I realized that my parents are really old, and I can't do anything about it, maybe I can do it, that is, go home often!
"Hello uncle and aunt!" the fat man remembered to say hello.
"Hello, come in and sit!"
After a few rounds of polite conversations, it was already dinner time, and my mother made a large table of dishes and called us to the table.
At the dinner table, the fat man and I were eating, and my mother asked, "Is there anything wrong with going home this time?"
"It's okay, just bring your friends back to have fun!"
"It's okay to go home and see. ”
I nodded. As he spoke, the fat man had already eaten a bowl, and my mother said that she was going to serve him rice, and I said, "Mom, don't pay attention to him, this kid's stomach is a bottomless pit, let him come by himself." ”
Saying that, my dad said on the side: "How is it, I haven't been home for so long, let's have a drink?"
As soon as I wanted to speak, the fat man rushed to say, "Okay, I'll drink with my uncle." ”
"Okay, drink!" my dad laughed.
.........
After a few bowls of wine, our grandfather was already drunk eighty percent, and my father still wanted to drink but was stopped by my mother, and the fat man also opened his mouth to persuade when he saw this: "Uncle, let's drink here today, let's drink it another day!"
I also chimed in: "Yes, Dad, let's drink this today!"
In the evening, the fat man and I lined up to take a bath, and went back to the room to lie on the same bed for two days, and after a while, the fat man's earth-shattering snoring sounded.
I fell asleep in a daze.