Chapter Seventy-Eight: Death Without Makeup
It seems that the situation is very urgent, the doctors are in a hurry, and the soil guards are trotting all the way to deliver medicine and needles. As soon as Lilac saw the doctor come out, her heart rose to her throat, and she was always afraid that there would be some bad news. After more than three hours of rescue, the nurses obviously slowed down and moved things out. Lilac sensed that something was wrong, and she couldn't figure out what was going on. She stopped a nurse and asked what was going on, and the nurse just shook her head and sighed. She panicked in her heart and wanted to rush into the emergency room to see what was going on, but was stopped by the family members of the army who helped send her to the hospital without makeup. At this time, the two doors of the emergency room opened at the same time, and the dean was in front of the doctor, and the nurses followed.
Lilac had a bad feeling, ran over and took the hand of the hospital chief and asked anxiously with a cry, "How is it?" How's my sister? ”
The dean shook Lilac's hand, "We did our best. He patted her on the shoulder twice and said, "Mourn! ”
Lilac had seen from the slit inside the operating table, and there was a person covered under the white sheets. Her heart trembled, and she rushed in like crazy and hugged Su Yan and cried. Those who came to the hospital were all family members of the army, some sighed in the face of the deceased, and some lamented their lives and wiped their tears for their early death.
The nurse pushed the stretcher, and the deceased had to be sent to the mortuary, not to occupy the operating room. The nurse crawled on Lilac's ear and said that there was surgery ahead, and the neighbor pulled her away from the body without makeup. The two women supported her, who was already crying, still sobbing as the nurse carried her makeup onto the stretcher. Walk through the long hallway until you reach a small door at the end of the hallway. At the left corner of the hospital building is the mortuary, where people who have died according to local folk customs cannot walk through the same door as the living. This is a death passage, usually the door is locked, and every time it is opened, there is a deceased.
The ground behind the building is not hardened, and it is uneven and overgrown. Because there are mortuaries built here, no one usually comes here, and it is particularly deserted. The hospital morgue is in the upper left corner, a lonely dilapidated house with three cement beds. The nurse put her makeup on the bed and pushed the stretcher cart away.
Lilac lifted the sheet covering her makeup and looked at her pale face. She couldn't accept this reality, she was still a living life yesterday, and she died in only one night. She regretted not insisting on accompanying her last night, if she insisted more, at least she would not be alone in labor without makeup at night, she could help deliver the baby, and no matter how bad it was, she could help go to the hospital, so that the amniotic water would not break and roll down from the stairs, causing heavy bleeding and two lives.
Think about Hu Yu and Su Yan are so affectionate, they have fought all their lives at the age of fifty, and it is easy to look forward to peace, how much they look forward to having a child of their own. Since knowing that she was pregnant without makeup, Hu Yu seems to be a few years younger, and her walking pace is much easier. Every day, I count my fingers, hoping that the child can be born earlier. Especially recently when his child is about to be born, he talks about children the most.
Especially in the past few days before departure, he was reluctant to see his child born for the first time, to know whether it was a son or a daughter, and even to think of the name of his son or daughter. However, it is a soldier's duty to carry out orders, and it is also the honor of every soldier, let alone an old soldier. Now that only one night has passed, Su Yan is separated from them by yin and yang, and everything about Hu Yu has become empty. She couldn't forget the gaze he looked at her before he set out, the look that was her father's expectation, and her husband's worry about his wife. Li Boru got into the car and got out of the car, telling her to take care of her makeup.
Hu Yu and Li Boru, a pair of old partners, commanded the troops to successfully complete the training subjects and were praised by the superiors. The troops repaired on the spot and will soon be returning home. The communications section received a call from Su Jie's death, and after the communications section chief consolidated the unfortunate news, because the news was too sudden, he was worried that the chief would not be able to accept it, so he found the political commissar Li Boru and told him the news.
Li Boru couldn't believe it was true, and called home several times to verify. People who came over during the war years saw a lot of life and death, but Hu Yu's situation was different. In the last two years of the Liberation War, we have seen the dawn of victory, and the liberation of the whole country is just around the corner. In addition to those who were married before joining the army, high-ranking generals set off a craze for finding a match and starting a family.
Everyone has been fighting for life and death for so many years for the sake of New China, and the long-awaited peace is coming, and they all want to start a family as soon as possible and enjoy a new life. But Hu Yu has never met anyone who makes him fall in love. Although everyone helped introduce him, he forgot about them when he was busy, and in fact, he didn't meet anyone who made him happy. It was only in North Korea that he was injured and returned to China for treatment, and when he returned to North Korea, he met Dr. Xiaoyu.
Hu Yu has been a soldier for so many years, and he has basically been in the mountains, even if he builds a city, he will quickly move away. When he saw Xiaoyu for the first time, he was moved by her beautiful face and the kind of temperament he was born with, and he decided that she was the person he was looking for in this life. But he has lovers, and he is still his warrior. Li Furu was not optimistic about him and Xiaoyu from the beginning, because Xiaoyu had a lover and came to North Korea with a lover. Hu Yu, don't look at the fierce war, and the personality in life is very two-way. A special reaction is in love, when he meets Xiaoyu on the train back from injury, he falls in love with Xiaoyu and thinks she is the wife he has been looking for in his life. It was supposed to launch a courtship offensive, and he was just thinking differently from others, enthusiastically asking her to find her lover. He didn't express his love until Xiaoyu returned to China, and he didn't know if Xiaoyu would choose him if he couldn't find a lover, until he later returned to China and lost contact.
After returning to China, Hu Yu also tried to find Xiaoyu, only to learn that Xiaoyu had transferred to a local job. If it is a middle or senior cadre, there are also files to check after changing jobs. But Xiaoyu is just an ordinary doctor, and he can only be classified as a cadre according to his rank, and he is the same as an ordinary soldier, and there is no way to find out what unit he goes to, what unit he goes to, and what unit he goes to!
When Li Furu introduced Su Yan to Hu Yu, Su Yan is a simple and pungent character, which is completely different from the delicate and calculating of Xiaoyu's southerners. Hu Yujue's age is getting older and older, and other people's children are running all over the ground. Although she is not as beautiful as Xiao Yumei, she is simple and capable, just like her mother who is thousands of miles away.
After Su Yan and Hu Yu got married, with her simple personality and kind virtues, she quickly won the praise of the family cadres and family members. Hu Yu also felt the warmth of home, no longer had to go home to the cold pot and cold stove, every day after work, there would be hot meals. The house was spotlessly cleaned, the furniture was polished, and Hu Yu seemed to really understand why he hurried home after work. Others fall in love first and then get married, but Hu Yu fell in love with no makeup when he got married. Especially watching Su Yan's belly grow bigger day by day, a new life is about to be born, and he feels that he is integrated with Su Yan and the soon-to-be-born child!
Li Furu thought about it again and again, and now that his death without makeup has become a fact, it is more acceptable to tell him directly than to go around the bend. Because they are all soldiers, soldiers have to face death from the day they join the army. He knew that Hu Yu was a man of steel and could withstand such a blow. But he just forgot that the soldier faced the enemy's black pressure muzzle, and facing it with his body was not not afraid of death, but for the sake of the country and the nation. But under the peace ring mirror, the soldiers seem to know how to cherish peace better. I want to give my loved ones a stable life.
Hu Yu and Li Boru rushed to the hospital by car, and Ding Xiang waited for them at the entrance of the hospital like a schoolboy who had made a mistake. Li Boru did not complain about Lilac, he believed that his wife did her best.
Hu Yu was neither annoyed nor angry, as if his face suddenly lost expression. Lilac led them around the outpatient building, which was desolate, with a construction waste pile of uneven heights, and a path leading to the lonely morgue through the dry weeds. Hu Yuxin was as uncomfortable as a cat scratching, thinking of the appearance of going into labor without makeup when she left, how could she not believe that she was already separated by yin and yang, lying on the cold cement bed.
Seeing the old man in the mortem open the door, there was an eerie cold air rushing towards him. Three cement beds, no makeup in the middle bed. Lilac was about to lift the sheets in front of her, when Hu Yu suddenly stretched out her hand to stop her: "Don't move!" I'm asleep without makeup, don't wake her up! ”
Lilac stopped, not knowing how to answer, but "Oh! ”
Tears rolled in Hu Yu's eyes, and Lilac saw Hu Yu shaking for a moment, and hurriedly came over to support him. Hu Yu pushed her hand away, Li Furu had been with him for decades, and it was the first time he saw him chattering. It may be that he can't accept the reality at once, and he still feels that he is still alive without makeup. After he returned from the winter training full of joy, he was able to add people to his family. What he envies the most is that his wife laughs at home, and the children make trouble, even if they cry, the family is also a lively family. Before he got married, he always spent a little more time in the office after work every day, and he didn't want to feel like he was in an ice cellar that summer. Other cadres are in a hurry to go home after work, which is only understood since they married Su Yan.
Hu Yu bent down and gently lifted the sheets, revealing a pale face. He touched his cheeks with both hands, and touched them gently, gently: "I'm back!" I am back! ”
Li Boru came over and pulled him away, and covered the bed sheet with no makeup. Suddenly, Hu Yu turned around again and said, "Don't cover her face, I'm afraid of the dark without makeup." ”
Li Boru comforted him and said: "Don't cover her face, the lights are on all night." ”
The funeral without makeup was presided over by Li Furu and Ding Xiang, with the help of personnel from the military organs, which was both decent and grand. Hu Yu is like a puppet, as if his soul has gone with no makeup, as if he has only a shell, there is no joy, anger or sorrow on his face, and he has not even said a word in the past few days of the funeral. Li Boru understands Hu Yu's character, and is worried about what will happen to his old comrades-in-arms, especially Ding Xiang has always been apologetic, as if he is responsible for the death of Su Yan.
Hu Yu has since become a stuffy gourd, never talking except for work, and does not go home after work to live in the office at night. I often talk to myself in a daze, and I am reminded when I eat. Li Boru quietly asked the doctor, and the doctor also examined him for some reason to rule out physical problems. The doctor finally concluded that he loved his wife too much and looked forward to the birth of his child too much. The sudden death of his wife took away the expectations that he loved him the most, and made him nervous to the brink of collapse. Only by stimulating him suddenly again can it be possible to get better slowly.