"Coco? What happened to you? ”

"It's okay, I'm just a little surprised, Jiajia, you still have a brother?"

Rococo's strange appearance in an instant was not captured by Chu Jiajia, hearing Rococo ask like this, Chu Jiajia showed a somewhat nostalgic and sad expression, nodded, and then shook his head again.

"It's not my own brother, but it's ...... It's almost like my own brother to me. ”

Rococo tilted his head, feeling a little curious about this "brother" who would make Chu Jiajia show such an expression, and at the same time had an inexplicable uncomfortable feeling...... It's as if something you like is suddenly shared by someone else.

"'Brother' was also a patient who was hospitalized here, and I met him about seven years ago......"

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Eight years ago, after an unexpected car accident, fate cruelly took Chu Jiajia's parents away, which also worsened her already sick and weak physical fitness, and she had to undergo long-term hospitalization under the care of her kind uncle's family, and could no longer spend her innocent and happy childhood like an ordinary child.

Chu Jiajia that year - the little girl Jiang Chujia was only 10 years old.

Suddenly, I lost my parents, and because I couldn't see any hope of a cure, I had to use the hospital as my home, and I didn't know when I would go to that world with my parents...... Such a thing is probably difficult for even an adult to accept, let alone a ten-year-old child.

Chu Jiajia, who grew into a girl after eight years, always has a well-behaved and warm smile in front of people, although she is a little shy in the face of strangers, but in fact, she has an unexpectedly cheerful and lively side among her friends and partners, even if she encounters failures and difficulties, Chu Jiajia is always the first to cheer up, and she can always use her gentle and strong smile to encourage and comfort her friends...... People who know Chu Jiajia's side today may never imagine that when she was just hospitalized eight years ago, the young Chu Jiajia never showed a smile in the whole year's incident.

is not only smiling, in fact, even crying, Chu Jiajia has never cried once. Don't cry, don't laugh, don't like or sorrow, after suffering such a cruel blow from fate at a young age, Xiao Chu Jiajia seems to have lost all her feelings overnight, and has become a child who is no different from a doll except for being able to react to the words of doctors and nurses - in fact, at that time, among the nurses, it was indeed very pitiful and sympathetic to call this poor child who looked cute and delicate but lost his feelings.

At that time, even the doctors and nurses who were responsible for taking care of her without any malice felt that maybe this poor child who couldn't withstand the blow would be like this in his future life, and Chu Jiajia herself felt the same...... It was at this time that she met the man.

On a warm and sunny day in the late spring and early summer of the second year of hospitalization, under the doctor's instructions, the nurse aunt who was in charge of taking care of Chu Jiajia at that time pushed Chu Jiajia in a wheelchair to the garden in front of the inpatient building, and found a sunny position for Chu Jiajia, who had been nesting in the ward all day, to bask in the sun a little.

The extra details, Chu Jiajia remembers not so clearly, she only remembers that she was in a daze and was shaken by a sudden flash, and then she noticed that the nurse aunt who didn't know when she should be by her side was gone, and instead was a young man wearing the same style of hospital gown as her, but completely different from her, and he was holding a professional-looking camera in his hand.

"Ah, I'm sorry, little sister, because the sunlight is a bit strong, I turned on the flash and suppressed the light."

This is the first thing the "photographer brother" and Chu Jiajia said when they first met.

At the beginning, Chu Jiajia didn't say a word as usual, and her little face without joy or sorrow had no expression. This is the kind of expression that made many nurses who tried to get close to her retreat halfway before, after all, communication is a matter of two people, and without any verbal and facial feedback like Chu Jiajia, it is more difficult to deal with than being angry and losing her temper and refusing to communicate - because you don't even know if she is listening to you, and many times it feels like she is talking to herself.

But this time, the young man with the camera didn't "know how to look at the eyes" like those nurses, he didn't seem to care if Chu Jiajia was listening to him or not, and talked a lot at the little girl like a puppet.

Maybe it's been a long time since anyone chattered to Chu Jiajia like this, Chu Jiajia really didn't understand even if he listened to the other party's brain at first, and finally the young Chu Jiajia finally understood the general meaning of the other party: he was a rookie magazine photographer before he was hospitalized, and he originally saw that the weather was good today and wanted to come out to practice his hands for a long time, but he didn't expect to be able to inadvertently take a picture of your little sister, such a beautiful model, the photo just now is quite good, The only pity is that the little sister is so beautiful, if you smile again, it would be better, do you want to take another picture of a better look and more lively to take back to your parents to see?

Chu Jiajia couldn't figure out how thick this person's nerves had to be so that she couldn't see her silent resistance, however, when she saw the camera that the man showed her, she was sitting alone in a wheelchair under the bright sun, looking at the sky with confused and empty eyes, and hearing the man's words that he wanted to take another lively photo to show his parents, inexplicably, as if a certain wall had been smashed inadvertently, Rococo felt a dead silence deep in his heart, Suddenly, there was a rush of sourness that made her heart palpitate.

Wow, after a year, Chu Jiajia cried out for the first time after the unforgettable accident.

So, the nurse aunt who returned to the ward to get a small blanket on Chu Jiajia and came back at this time, saw Chu Jiajia in a wheelchair crying heartbreakingly, and the young man holding the camera on the side looked panicked, wanting to comfort but not knowing what to do and looking embarrassed. The result can be imagined, seeing her patient crying so much, the nurse aunt even forgot that this was the first time that Chu Jiajia had such a strong emotional fluctuation since she was hospitalized, and rushed over very violently to scold the poor photographer young man, and then pushed Chu Jiajia back to the ward.

Later, whenever she thought of this incident at that time, Chu Jiajia would feel a little sorry, obviously the photographer's brother really didn't do anything bad at that time, but because of himself, he was scolded in public by the nurse and aunt in the garden, and almost became a well-known "bully of a lonely little girl" in the inpatient department. Uncle Bad Posture".

Fortunately, this young man was not angry with Chu Jiajia because of this incident, and even for Chu Jiajia's sudden crying, he really had a feeling that maybe he had really done something wrong. So the young photographer took advantage of the opportunity to meet the nurse who took care of Chu Jiajia in the corridor of the inpatient department, inquired about Chu Jiajia's single ward, and came over to apologize in person.

Although finally really cried a situation that unlocked the closed heart to some extent, the experience of the past year still made Chu Jiajia subconsciously resist communicating with others. However, maybe it was because she was apologic, and she felt sympathy for her after hearing about Chu Jiajia's story from the nurse, or maybe it was just because of her nature that was a little rough...... Even after apologizing, the young photographer would often come to the single ward to chat with Chu Jiajia, and even if he was treated indifferently by Chu Jiajia, he persevered.

In this way, one day, when the photographer accidentally took the nature photo album of an internationally famous photographer that he admired as a talking point, he found that Chu Jiajia was unexpectedly helpless against these magnificent and wonderful natural scenery, thinking that Chu Jiajia had to go to the hospital for treatment since she was a child, and she couldn't go out of the city, and now it is even more likely that she will have to spend a long time in the hospital in her life. The young photographer decided to bring some of his personal collection of nature photo albums to this poor and lovely little sister often in the future.

In this way, through the photographer's refusal to give up and the role of the natural photo album, Chu Jiajia, who was originally closed in her heart, was gradually opened and slowly walked out of the tragic shadow of the past, and the photographer who helped her do this slowly became the "photographer brother" that little Chu Jiajia trusted and relied on the most.

In this way, with a beautiful nature photo album as a companion, and her favorite "photographer brother" often comes to chat with her, telling her what the world outside the hospital is like, and what kind of things and humanity will be, Chu Jiajia's happiest two years after hospitalization have passed in a flash...... Chu Jiajia, who was only twelve or thirteen years old at that time, never thought that she would stay in the hospital because she was seriously ill, so why did the "photographer brother" who always had a big grin and even a little silly but a very warm smile accompany her in the hospital for two years.

Later, one day, when the "photographer brother" came to chat with Chu Jiajia again, he told her a news that she didn't know whether to be happy or sad - the "photographer brother" was cured and he was about to be discharged from the hospital.

For seriously ill patients who have been hospitalized for a long time, it is undoubtedly one of the most gratifying things to be discharged from the hospital after being cured...... But in fact, Chu Jiajia was not happy at all.

"Brother Photographer" is gone, and he will be alone again......

The young photographer naturally knew what his discharge from the hospital meant to Chu Jiajia, but it was strange that he didn't comfort Chu Jiajia and said, "Don't worry, I will still come to see you often after I am discharged from the hospital", but after another day, he came to Chu Jiajia's ward and brought Chu Jiajia paper and pen.

He told Chu Jiajia that as a professional photographer, his job after being discharged from the hospital is to travel around the world like the authors of those photo albums, and take photos of the most beautiful natural scenery around the world for preservation. Therefore, he wanted to know what kind of natural scenery Chu Jiajia was most curious about, and he planned to "tailor" a set of photo albums for her for Chu Jiajia's preferences.

At that time, Chu Jiajia probably figured it out, and after sincerely expressing her blessings to the photographer's brother who was cured and discharged from the hospital, she also wrote a lot of scenery she wanted to see very seriously, and got this list, the young photographer smiled at Chu Jiajia and patted her chest and promised that she would definitely see this nature photo album, but in order to shoot these scenes, maybe he will not be able to visit Chu Jiajia for a while.

The photographer didn't lie, more than half a year later, Chu Jiajia really received a photo album full of natural scenery she was looking forward to seeing, and in the past half a year, Chu Jiajia really hasn't seen the photographer's brother again......

…… That's right, I haven't met once, not only for more than half a year, but even after the photo album was sent, she never saw the photographer brother again.