Facing Feixia's sister's rhetorical question, I hurriedly shook my head with a smile, and then explained seriously: "Where, where am I doing anything beautiful?" I thought, if there is no important situation, how can your sister suddenly return to China? I know she's on a three-year contract. ”

"Hmph, it's been three years, do you think my sister came back early because she was worried about you?" I knew she was fighting for Feixia.

"I'm afraid I do care about me, and you don't know her as well as I do." I deliberately teased her, and my face was full of smugness.

"Don't stink!" Sister Feixia raised her eyebrows, half reproached and half helplessly said, "She is not suitable in the United States, the weather is cold, the work is hard and tired, and her body is weak when she goes, and she has a continuous cold and cough, and the American company recommends that she return to China for treatment, not because of you!" ”

I see.

A feeling of self-blame and guilt gripped my heart.

If she doesn't get divorced, will she be weak as to not knowing how to eat?

If she didn't want to save this marriage, would she flee the battlefield to work in the United States?

Looking at the trees, fields, rivers, and blue sky flying behind, I was silent for a moment.

Stayed overnight in Shanghai and the next morning we went to Hongqiao airport. Standing at the passenger exit of the airport, we searched for Feixia.

"It's here, it's here!" Sister Feixia shouted excitedly.

I looked into the distance, and saw Feixia on her back, on her shoulder, and in her hand, rushing towards the exit.

Faintly, some coughing sounds seemed to reach my ears, and as Feixia saw more and more clearly, the sound became louder and louder. It wasn't until Feixia was about to come to me that I realized with grief that the voice came from Feixia's mouth.

The heavy coughing sound, each one striking my heart, made me feel the pain from my bone marrow deeply.

Take her baggage and luggage, and look at her face, black and thin, her eyes are almost wide.

Every time she coughed, she was panting, and I could hear the coarse sound of airflow running down her throat as it passed through her throat, almost choked. She was coughing constantly, she was having trouble breathing, she was in unusually painful pain.

I hurriedly hailed a taxi and went to the Shanghai bus station.

When we returned to Luhuadang, it was already 12 o'clock in the evening. After a little washing, Sister Feixia rested first.

I didn't talk much to Feixia, in fact, she coughed all the time, and there was hardly much calm, so how could I talk to her more. Lying on the bed, her heavy, muddy, labored cough was heard in her ears. None of us were asleep.

A cough made me make a decision over and over again: take her to the provincial hospital tomorrow!

When I was about to fall asleep, I seemed to see Xu Konglan, and grabbed her with both hands, as if grabbing her body, and Xu Konglan also grabbed me passionately, her hot cheeks close to my chest. When I realized that it was not Xu Konglan but my wife who was holding me tightly in my arms, I couldn't stop.

I closed my eyes in pain, trying my best to imagine that it was Xu Konglan who was hugging, releasing a strong and inflated passion.

The next day, we went to the tuberculosis hospital in the provincial capital. Blood tests and radiographs on the first day. The next day, the doctor looked at the film, and there was a large black spot on the film.

The old doctor asked Feixia, "Have you ever coughed before?" ”

Feixia shook her head, dazed.

The old doctor said, "Think about it, have you ever coughed for a long time?" ”

Feixia stared at the doctor with both eyes, and suddenly said, "Oh, by the way, I had a cough when I was twenty years old, and it seems like a month. ”

"That's right." The doctor pointed to the film and explained, "Combined with some other conditions, you have a recurrence of tuberculosis. But why didn't you come and see it sooner, to drag it out to such a point? ”

Seeing Feixia's nervous expression, I hurriedly asked, "Doctor, is there no problem?" ”

"Worried about nervousness now?" The old doctor shot a sword-like gaze at me from behind the thick lenses, "How do you care about your wife as a husband?" Did you know that your wife is now suffering from tuberculosis and tracheitis? ”

As if I couldn't bear to see the self-blame and pain written on my face, the old doctor comforted me and said, "Don't worry too much, it's not a big problem. It's just that the illness comes like a mountain, and the illness goes like a thread, and the key to complete recovery is conditioning, and the time is longer. ”

With a large package of medicines prescribed by the doctor, we took the shuttle bus to Binjiang City in the afternoon.

In the car, I didn't say much, my mind was full of Feixia's dark and thin face, and my ears were filled with Feixia's cough.

Sympathy, pity, apology, sadness, all kinds of emotions surrounded me, entangled me, and I could even hear the slightest hint of their cracking sound.

Before arriving in Binjiang City, the night has fallen.

In a trance, I felt that the night had become a deep trap, and the distance was always wrong.

Lo and behold, the clouds that climbed high in the sky, as if there was no ladder to come down, fell one after another into darkness...... I, who was only a spectator of the stars, did not radiate even the slightest ray. However, the meteor was heading north, but it was heading towards me. In that case, I'll embrace the shooting star and embrace it as much as I can.

Look at the sparkling eyes of Feixia in the dark, how much like shooting stars, I thought, will I also shine for her in pain?

In order to let Feixia better recuperate, I had to send her to her parents' house, after all, I teach the third year of junior high school, and the time and energy are not enough to take care of her. The days went on in the classroom, in the dormitory building, and in the worry about his wife.

It's really a blessing and a curse, and the old father is going to be hospitalized for surgery.

My brother Mingyu took my father to the city hospital for an examination and called me to tell me that my father had an enlarged prostate and needed to be operated on quickly, and asked me if I had anything to do with a better ward.

Who to look for? I suddenly remembered that Xu Konglan had talked to me about Wang Ziyuan, didn't he work in Binjiang City? Looking for him might solve the problem. So I called him.

"Hey, who is it?" The voice is familiar, but it has an indescribable taste.

"Why, when you become a parent official, you can't even hear the voice of your old classmates?" I deliberately teased.

"Are you ———?" was a question on the other side of the airwaves.

"You have to go deep into the people's feelings. You are, you are, I'm Chu Mingxi! "I feigned anger and deliberately teased him.

"Oh, oh, old classmate, a talented man in college, and now an education celebrity in Binjiang City!" When Wang Ziyuan heard that it was me, he immediately became excited, "I thought you would never call in this life, you have such a prejudice against ** officials?" ”

"Where, Lord Wang," I also showed no mercy to the outspoken words of my old classmates, "how dare the grass people disturb the driver!" ”

Wang Ziyuan sighed on the other end of the phone, and said half-helplessly and half-sincerely: "Mingxi, forget it." I know that you have nothing to do but ascend to the Three Treasures Palace. You won't look for me except for important things. Say, what's the matter? ”

"I'm really sorry, my old father had to have surgery in Binjiang People's Hospital in the past few days, but the hospital said that there were no beds. Can you find a better ward? Preferably with air conditioning. "I thought of my old father, and my tone was full of desolation.

"No problem, Mingxi. Even if there is a mountain of swords, fire, and bullets in front of me, I have to do this for my old friend. You can rest assured. "He's always been so zealous, he hasn't changed at all.

I was very moved, but my voice was surprisingly calm: "Thank you, Ziyuan. ”

The day my father underwent surgery was June 13, and the weather was fine.

I rode out early, and when I rushed from school to Binjiang People's Hospital, my father had already been wheeled into the operating room.

The eldest sister Minglan and Miss Minghua had arrived one step ahead of me, and I blamed myself and complained to myself: "If I ride the bicycle faster, I may be able to send my father to the operating room." Suddenly, as if she remembered something, she asked the eldest sister: "Sister, is Mingyu here?" ”

"He's not there yet." The young lady replied lightly, and her attitude towards Mingyu was not discernible from her voice.

But I was unhappy, and my tone was full of dissatisfaction and anger: "My brother who is dozens of miles away has arrived, but my brother who is a few miles away has not come, how can I care so much about my father's son!" ”

The eldest sister looked at me kindly and smiled: "Just you, Mingxi?" We're here to take care of Dad, not to be angry! ”

I also smiled embarrassedly: "Sister, it's not that I want to count Brother Mingyu, I should have acted as an elder brother when I was supposed to be an elder brother, but he also took over his father's class, so filial piety!" ”

"And said that it is not counted, and lo and behold, the number of falls will be loaded in ships. Mingyu, let's not say a word, we only have one father. "The eldest sister will always be the eldest sister, in my mind, her position is supreme, and I don't know why, I always feel that every word she says is so listening to and reasonable.

I finally fell silent and said no more.

When Brother Mingyu rushed to the door of the operating room, his father happened to be pushed out by the doctor.

The operation was only under local anesthesia, and my father smiled with relief when he saw that our children were all outside the door.

The father was wheeled into an air-conditioned ward.

There were four beds in the ward, one of which was occupied by a middle-aged woman, and the other two were empty.

I muttered in my heart, and said that the hospital bed was tight, isn't it two more? If it weren't for Wang Ziyuan, it would be the turn of the old father to have a hospital bed, and he wouldn't know the Year of the Monkey. In the land, a feeling came to my heart: mountains can be sold for money, water can be sold for money, to buy mountains to have the right, to buy water also to have the right, if everything has the right to sell for money, then people, wouldn't it become a bonsai only for viewing?

The four brothers and sisters were all together, gathered around the hospital bed to ask long and short questions, cold and warmth.

I coughed and said lightly, "Let's let Dad rest for a while, he's tired enough." I stated in advance that the high school entrance examination will start tomorrow, and I will accompany the students for three consecutive days, and I will not have time to accompany my father. In three days, I'll be there around the clock. ”

After taking care of my father, I turned my head to my brother and sister and said, "You guys should work hard first, I'll go back to school." ”