(a)

You open your eyes and look in the direction of the dark ceiling in the dim light of the nightlight at the foot of the bed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

You hear Director Wang tossing and turning on the tightrope bed next to him.

You moved.

Wang Gui Gu turned over and sat up: "Are you awake?" ”

You say, "Wake up." ”

Director Wang stood up: "Don't move, I'll turn on the lights." ”

You take a few deep breaths, suppressing the pain in your stomach.

You look up at your watch.

You say, "It's the middle of the night, why haven't you come home yet?" ”

Wang said, "It's okay. Your sister-in-law took the child back to her parents' house, and I was alone at home. ”

You sit up a little harder, and with a sharp heart-rending pain, you fall down again.

You lie back on the pillow and take deep breaths one at a time.

Wang said, "It's true. She really took the child back to her parents' house. You are in such pain, you can't even step up the stairs, how can I rest assured that I will leave you alone in the room like this? I sleep at home and here. You're all like this, don't worry about me. ”

Wang said: "Is it still painful? ”

You grit your teeth and shake your head slightly.

You want to sit up again. Wang said, "Don't get up, you lie down for a while, can you drink water?" I'll pour you some warm water. ”

(b)

You lean back on the pillow, drink slowly from your cup, and your face recovers slightly.

You say, "What time is it?" ”

Director Wang looked at his watch and said, "Half past one in the middle of the night." ”

You say, "You haven't had dinner yet, have you?" ”

Director Wang said, "I've eaten it, and I put some noodles on your stove." ”

You say, "Groggy, I didn't even know you were cooking." ”

Wang said, "Can you eat something now?" I'll also help you order some noodles, cook them a little bit, and drink some noodle soup. ”

You say, "Forget it." After eating in the second half of the night, you will have to be uncomfortable and tossed, and you will not be able to rest well when you are tired. ”

Director Wang said: "When I come back from the meeting, I will go to the teaching office to transfer the class for you, and I will not be able to take so many classes in the future." If you can't eat like this, and you go to work every day, how can people stand it? You need to recuperate. ”

You say, "I've told you all my biggest secrets." Now, I'll be honest with you. I'm running out of time, and I want to spend more time with her. If I take a complete vacation, she will be able to come and visit me, but the opportunity for us to see each other will be very rare. ”

Director Wang is looking at you.

You say, "She's still so young, I hope to help her as much as I can and accept reality." ”

As you speak, there are tears in your eyes. You turn your head and look at the wall on the inside of the bed.

Director Wang sighed deeply in his heart. He pats you on the shoulder. "I understand," he said. I know. ”

He said, "I will help you, and I will help her." ”

You put the cup down and you say, "Thank you." ”

(c)

You look at Director Wang's dark eyes and say, "You haven't been asleep all this time." ”

Wang said, "Yes. Can't sleep. It's really uncomfortable to see others suffering in front of you, but you can't do anything about it. ”

Director Wang said, "By the way, do you have cigarettes here?" ”

You say, "I don't usually smoke it." Last time I participated in Xiao Wei's wedding, I sent a pack, opened it for hospitality once or twice, and there may be a few left. ”

Director Wang stood up, walked to the chest of drawers, opened the top cabinet, and looked inside.

You watch Director Wang walk back with a half-empty cigarette case.

You say, "You haven't smoked for a long time, haven't you quit?" ”

Wang guided: "It's almost all quits." ”

You: "Then don't break the vows." If you want to quit again, it will be difficult. ”

Wang guided: "Alas, if you keep quitting, you won't quit, anyway, it's a 20-year-old smoking gun." ”

You say, "My sister-in-law will blame me when she comes back." ”

Wang instructed: "Just smoke it tonight to refresh yourself." We don't say, she won't know. ”

Wang Gui shook out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, looked left and right, leaned over to the stove and lit it.

He took a deep breath and exhaled a circle of blue smoke. He said, "It's okay if it smells of smoke, right? If you feel bad, I'll go out to the hallway and come back in. “

You shake your head. You say, "I'm fine, you smoke." “

You leaned on the pillow and watched Wang Gui smoke, and the red light on the cigarette butt went out.

You sit up a little straighter with your hands on the bed. You say, "Give me one too." ”

Director Wang said: "You smoke now, is it okay?" Doesn't it exacerbate the discomfort? ”

You say, "Try it, and I'll have one with you." ”

You say, "I really don't want to take these pills all day long." After taking these medicines, I always feel in a trance, my mind is confused for a while, and I am about to fall asleep while talking. ”

Director Wang kicked out another cigarette and handed it to you. He said: "Take two puffs to refresh yourself, cheer up, don't finish pumping, if you feel uncomfortable, pinch it immediately." ”

You nodded. You reach out and take the cigarette.

(iv)

You hold the cigarette between your fingers and look at it.

You say, "How did I get back to my room?" ”

Wang said, "I carried you in." When you walked to the door of this building, it was so painful that you couldn't stand at all, so I called Master Zhang to come out to help, and the two of us supported you, so you could barely walk to the top of the stairs. I wanted to carry you upstairs, but you were so sweaty that you couldn't lift your feet even a centimeter, and you slipped straight into the ground, and your eyes were no longer bright. I had to carry you up. ”

You say, "I don't remember anything." ”

Director Wang said: "You looked so terrible at that time, I almost went to call 120 to call an ambulance." ”

You say, "Am I screaming?" ”

Wang said, "No. You just said to me in a trance, Lao Wang, I really can't do it, and then you knelt down on the ground, and you bumped on the edge of the steps, and both knees were bruised. ”

You put a cigarette in your mouth and you say, "Borrow a fire?" ”

You take a deep breath. You spit out a smoke ring into the air. You watch that smoke ring slowly spread through the air.

You say, "I'm going to show you something fun." ”

"Huh?" Director Wang raised his eyes and looked at you.

You say, "Look." ”

You gently spit out a second eye circle.

The second smoke ring passes through exactly the first smoke ring you just spit out, slowly blooming like a firework.

You then spit out the third. It passes precisely again from the second smoke ring. Then there was the fourth, the fifth, the sixth......

Director Wang looked at the layers of precision and complexity.

He was so surprised that he forgot to smoke.

He said, "Oh my God. ”

(5)

Director Wang said: "I didn't expect you to do this." When did you learn it? ”

You say, "When you are sixteen." At that time, I used to dream and lose sleep, and at night I hid in my bedroom, turned on the window and fan, and secretly learned to smoke. I was in a cowboy movie and I saw the male protagonist spitting smoke rings like this, and I thought it was really cool. I followed the TV video and practiced in private for a long time until I learned it. At night in my room, I spit out smoke rings one after the other, until I could spit out very complex patterns, and I could use smoke rings to paint surreal paintings in the air of the room. I was obsessed with practicing this until one day I was bumped by my father. My father watched the circles in the air flutter in front of the open door for a moment, and then he reacted, rushed in, snatched the cigarette from my mouth, and slapped me, knocking me to the floor. Then, my mom rushed in and got in front of me, and they started arguing. My father angrily searched all my drawers and found all the cigarettes that were hidden. He angrily threw all his cigarettes in my face. He called me a bastard. ”

Director Wang said: "I thought that you, as an only child, were very favored at home. ”

You say, "My father was a soldier, he had worked in the army all his life, and he had a fiery and stubborn temper, and he couldn't help it at that time." ”

You say, "But then, he calmed down and accepted his mother's advice." Our father and son had a serious and peaceful conversation about smoking. ”

You say, "I often make my father angry and disappointed. Really not a good son. You bow your head.

Director Wang looked at you, and he comforted, "You must have made him happy and proud." ”

You say, "I hope so." I don't have time to remedy the past. ”

Director Wang felt sad for a while. He took a deep breath of his cigarette and said, "Later, you stopped smoking?" ”

You say, "Hmm." After that, I never took the initiative to smoke, and when others handed it to me, I usually refused if I could. Unless sometimes it's really hard to be enthusiastic, it's just a polite follow-up, and it's not addicted again. ”

You say, "Because I think my father is right." He said that smoking is an escape from a problem, not a solution. It is a symbol of cowardice, not coolness. ”

You say, "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that to you. ”

Wang said: "Your father is indeed right. ”