In the afternoon, Hua Nianping went to the Xishan Botanical Garden alone.

He walked back and forth in the orchid greenhouse for hours. Chunlan, Molan, flower buds have been unearthed for more than two months, and they can be pulled out and bloomed around the Spring Festival.

His orchid complex began in his sophomore year of college.

Once at the New Year's Day party of the grade, Lin Si'er, a female classmate, sang a euphemistic and beautiful song "Orchid Grass", and he was fascinated.

Later, I learned that the lyrics of "Orchid Grass" were from the famous work of Mr. Hu Shi, the former president of Peking University, who was more elegant and political ambition than Mr. Hu Shih, so he had a unique love for orchids and often came to Xishan Botanical Garden to watch the orchids. But later, because of emotional damage, his obsession with orchids plummeted, and he didn't want to think about it for many years.

After marrying Wu Ningfang, Hua Nianping wanted to re-cultivate his interest in orchids, although for some reason he no longer went to Xishan to enjoy orchids, he still tried to raise a few pots of orchids at home, but there was never a pot of "many fragrant flowers". is either rotten leaves or rotten roots, and Wu Ningfang always says that he is allergic to flowers and plants, so he has no choice but to slowly put down his love for orchids.

Hua Nianping can come back to the Xishan Botanical Garden to watch the orchids like today, and linger, it has been more than ten years for him.

When I returned home from Xishan, it was already past six o'clock in the evening.

Wu Ningfang has not returned.

In the past two years, Wu Ningfang and a few friends co-founded an art training school, because of the lack of cultural and professional knowledge, she is responsible for the body training of those students who come to Beijing to apply for dance majors, Hua Nianping is very worried that she will mislead people's children.

Fortunately, Wu Ningfang's school does not set an admission threshold, as long as you pay the full tuition fee, you can enter the class, regardless of age, fat, thin, tall or short, all of them will receive money. Many of the basic body training courses she teaches have turned into weight loss classes and fitness classes. Hua Nianping's search for benefits to the health of the whole people was left to her.

He thought he would make a call to Wu Ningfang's mobile phone, telling her that he was leaving on Thursday morning and asking her to come home early.

But thinking of the past few days back in the capital, Wu Ningfang did not seem particularly happy, but was a little inexplicably unfamiliar with him, and put down the hand that picked up the microphone without dialing, planning to wait for her to get home, and the two sat down and talked in detail, which may be better to communicate.

In the first year of going to the frontier, Hua Nianping insisted on returning to Beijing every two months to reunite with his wife at first, but later because the journey was too far and the drag of work, he changed to return to Beijing once every six months; The next year, he stayed in the frontier until the two-year period was completely over, and he returned to the capital a week ago as scheduled.

Wu Ningfang is much younger than Hua Nianping, and there are no children between the two so far.

When she first got married, Wu Ningfang was sent by Hua Nianping to study in the Chengjing junior college class of the Dance Academy, and she couldn't have children in those years.

When she graduated, it coincided with Hua Nianping's transfer from the School of Economics of Beijing University to the current company headquarters, because it was a new unit for the first time in the cross-border, everything began, and the work pressure was very high, plus Wu Ningfang had just had a job, so the two planned not to have children for the time being.

A few years ago, Wu Ningfang suddenly had a whim and wanted to have a child immediately, but Hua Nianping was sent to the frontier again, and the husband and wife got together less and left more, and it was difficult to become a climate.

In the past year or two, Wu Ningfang seems to have been busy earning money and has never mentioned having children.

Today, Wu Ningfang didn't enter the house until late at night, her face was crimson, her eyes were hazy, and she seemed to have drunk a lot of wine. Before she entered the house, Hua Nianping heard the sound of a car downstairs, and estimated that his wife was driven back again.

On the day he came back a week ago, Hua Nianping's flight arrived in Beijing at 10 p.m., and when he arrived home to call the door, he found that his wife was not at home.

He didn't have the keys on him, so he waited downstairs and later saw a white sedan taking his wife back. The driver was a tall and thin man in his forties, Wu Ningfang generously introduced, it was Luo Wentao, the principal of their art school, and the major shareholder of the school.

Wu Ningfang changed her slippers, and when she saw that Hua Nianping was still waiting for her in the living room, she blamed him for not having to wait, and should have slept first, because she herself had already been sleepy. As she spoke, she had already taken off her coat and changed into a nightgown to go to bed.

Hua Nianping sat on the edge of the bed and pushed her, meaning that she had something to talk about.

Wu Ningfang was already very sleepy, and it was almost forced to listen to Hua Nianping finish talking about going to Huai to go public.

In the end, she seemed to be expressionless, and seemed to be smiling, and replied to Hua Nianping: "It's a matter decided by the above, I can't control it, you can go if you think you should go." Whatever you want! ”

After saying that, he fell asleep.

Wu Ningfang is so indifferent, and it has been like this for the past few days since Hua Nianping returned to the capital.

Hua Nianping looked at his sleeping wife, thinking that she had been living alone in the capital alone for the past two years, and she was going to leave again the morning after tomorrow, and she couldn't say whether she should feel guilty or feel at ease for a while.

The next day, Wu Ningfang did not say hello to Hua Nianping, set off early in the morning as usual, and continued to eat at the training school at noon.

Hua Nianping had insomnia all night, just waiting for dawn.

He was thinking about the sentence Lin Si'er asked him yesterday, "How are you doing?" yesterday, and whether to meet Lin Si'er again at noon today before leaving the capital, and he didn't know how to tell her about his life over the years.

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Hua Nianping's hometown is in northwest Anhui, his father is a petty official in the county, and his mother is an ordinary township cadre. When he was just one year old, a bad luck befell him.

In the summer before the arrival of the new era of reform and opening up, his father went to the Northeast to "learn Daqing", and his mother went to Shanxi to "learn Dazhai", entrusting him to his grandmother's house in the countryside.

One night, when the grandmother was feeding Hua Nianping to eat, she felt that the child's face was red, and her whole body was hot like a carrot that had just come out of the steamer, so she was hurriedly sent to the clinic in the town.

After taking the medicine, the child still had a high fever all night, but the careless grandmother was no longer worried, thinking that since the doctor said that he had a cold, there should be no major problem.

The next day, Grandma picked up Hua Nianping from the bed, but saw that the child's left calf was as soft as noodles, and she couldn't stand up straight. Immediately panicked, and was rushed to the hospital in the county seat.

The doctor said that Hua Nianping had bone marrow inflammation.

Although the frightened grandmother didn't understand what "osteomyelitis" was, she looked at the doctor's tone and knew that Hua Nianping seemed to have fallen into the root of a disease that could not be cured for a lifetime.

In the late 70s, although the vaccination of children of appropriate age with "osteomyelitis" was basically 100% covered, the sequelae of polio were not completely eradicated. And the young Hua Nianping is one of the unfortunate ones.

A few days later, the mother came back from "learning Dazhai" and learned from the doctor that her son was diagnosed with the sequelae of polio, which is often said, and could no longer be treated, and immediately cried for Hua Nianping's future fate.

Since then, Hua Nianping has only relied on his right leg to walk, and his left leg has been disabled.

When his father returned from "learning Daqing", he looked at his son, who was originally handsome, lovely, lively and healthy, but now he has become limping when he walks, and sometimes he suddenly falls to the ground, and his two knees are bloodstained all day, and he can't help but cry secretly.