I got out of the car at the entrance of the hospital and looked at the time, it was just half past five.

It's still dark in the winter morning. Although it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, under the dim light, the food stalls near the hospital were still full - most people used all their strength and did not dare to relax for a moment, just to be able to live a normal life.

An old lady with white hair, trembling and carrying a food box, walked towards the hospital with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and one tripped over something carelessly. I hurriedly ran over to help her up, and the old lady couldn't thank her, and hurriedly saw that there was no problem with the food box, so she said a few words of thanks to me.

I said it's okay, just a gesture. The old lady seemed to have been suppressed for too long, and followed me all the way, chattering and confiding in me. Most of the happiness in the world comes from satisfaction, but misfortune has its own merits.

The old lady said that her daughter had a disease and that her body was rapidly failing, and that she was now in her thirties, but she was older than her, and she needed to take care of her food, drink, and Lazar. I asked her, "What about your daughter's husband?" The old lady sighed and said, my uncle is a good person, working day and night every day, providing for the children's education and her medical expenses, the family is working hard, my old bone, now the task is to take care of her and give her confidence. The old lady kept wiping away her tears as she spoke.

Back in Xiaowei's hospital room, she hadn't woken up yet, with a faint smile on her fair and tender face. I sat next to Xiaowei, looked at her watery skin, and couldn't help but kiss it gently. Although it is a bit immoral, I have to admit that Xiaowei's skin is much more tender than Di Wu. I don't know what kind of dream I have after Xiaowei's smile? Is it a beautiful picture of us starting over and embarking on a new life, or is she finally discovering my squalor and the dangers lurking around me, and is glad to have stayed away from me in advance?

It's the former, it must be the former, I silently told myself.

After tossing and turning all night, I felt more and more an irresistible tiredness hit me. As soon as I lay down on the bed next to me, I fell into a deep sleep. In my dreams, blood was flying, gloom was dancing, and countless faces were spinning around me, and in these faces, there were smugness, mockery, contempt, care, and gloom.

Suddenly, a face began to swell and swoop towards me with murderous energy, and a face full of concern quickly blocked in front of me, but it was easily broken through by the big face. The big face opened its bloody mouth and bit me viciously.

I rolled over and sat up, gasping for air. I brushed my forehead and found that it was all sweat droplets. Dreams are dreams. I muttered to myself, turned my head to look at Xiaowei's bed, and found that Xiaowei was still asleep and hadn't woken up.

I looked at the time, it was already half past twelve at noon, I realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly ran to Xiaowei's window and gently pushed her, shouting: "Xiaowei, Xiaowei!" ”

Xiaowei still didn't react. I started to panic, probed her snort, and realized that she was breathing normally. I hung up the phone with the doctor Di Wu had arranged last night, and after a while, a middle-aged woman in her forties came to the ward.

"What's going on? Why hasn't Xiaowei woken up yet? I've been sleeping for more than ten hours! I asked the doctor impatiently.

The doctor walked over unhurriedly, probed Xiaowei's snort, rolled her eyelids again, and comforted me: "Don't worry, she's fine, everything is normal." ”

"Normal? Have you ever seen a normal person sleep for more than ten hours without waking up? I yelled at the doctor.

"Xiaowei is specially explained by Mr. Di to take good care of her, we will never let her be wronged and hurt a little, you can rest assured." The female doctor said unhurriedly, "Last night she was bitten off a large piece of flesh by a wild beast on her shoulder, and the pain was very strong. In order to allow her to rest well, we injected her with an appropriate amount of painkiller and sedative medication. Rest assured, this drug is top of the international level, with excellent efficacy and no side effects. If nothing else, this afternoon, she will wake up. ”

After listening to the doctor's words, I breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm sorry, doctor, I was rude," I said to the doctor with an apologetic face.

"Don't get in the way, we have seen a lot of anxiety from the patient's family, and you have already calculated it." The female doctor didn't seem to mind, and as she was leaving, she said to me, "Then again, this little girl is really the strongest girl I have ever seen." You must know that the pain caused by being directly bitten by the beast is very intense, but she has not shouted a single pain since she came in yesterday, and even adding sedative medicine to her is not what she asked for. ”

"What? Not what she asked for herself? I seemed to sense that something was wrong, "Do you take the initiative to add sedatives if the patient doesn't need them?" ”

"Normally, no, but this is specially explained by Mr. Di. Even though she was asleep at the time, I joined in when I was changing her dressing. Mr. Di also said that he was afraid that the little girl would be resistant to sedative drugs, so he didn't tell her. The female doctor finished and left.

Di Wu confessed? Haven't told Vicky yet? My eyebrows were completely twisted into a strand of twine. Things seem to be getting more and more complicated.

Di Wu, Di Qing, what the hell are you father and daughter doing?

Wait a minute! I suddenly sensed that something was wrong, but the thought flashed like a meteor in front of my eyes, and I tried to see it, but it was gone. But I have a gut feeling that this idea is very important and I have to recall it!

But immediately, I sighed again, and said in my heart, don't care so much for now, while Xiaowei is not awake, go buy something to eat, she has slept for so long, she will be very hungry when she wakes up.

While visiting the supermarket, I met the old lady again. As if she had met an acquaintance, the old lady turned on the chatter mode again, chattering endlessly. I listened without a word, and I wanted to get rid of the old lady and leave directly a few times, but think about it, the life of the old man is not easy, and it is rare to meet someone who can confide, so I just listen to it more.

The old lady said a lot, one of which was that her daughter would feel very severe chest tightness and pain because of organ failure, and she would cry out for pain every night and couldn't sleep well.

Wait a minute! I interrupted the old lady and said, "What did you just say?" Say it again! ”

"I said my daughter can't get a good night's sleep every day, what's wrong?" The old lady looked at me with some puzzlement.

"What's that earlier sentence?" "She cries out ...... pain every day"

That's it! My eyes started to light up, and I found it, this is it!

Thank you! Thank you! I sincerely thanked the old lady, leaving the confused old lady standing in place.

Pain! It's pain! The weirdness that has always haunted me is here!

I remembered the words of the female doctor when I was in Xiaowei's ward: "This little girl is really the strongest girl I have ever seen, you know, the pain caused by the direct bite of the flesh by the beast is very intense, but she has not cried out for pain since she came in yesterday." ”

Yes, Xiaowei didn't cry out for pain once. This is the pain of being torn off the flesh directly, how can a little girl's family be like a person who is not in serious trouble, and even talk to me at the bedside until we fall asleep. It's a bit counterintuitive.

No, that's more than that! My mind went back to the scene of last night's accident. I desperately recalled in my mind the scene where Di Wu tore Xiaowei apart.

It was so chaotic that I didn't have the energy to pay attention to Vicky's reaction. Thinking about it now, Xiaowei was torn off her flesh and blood at that time, and she didn't even let out too violent wails, just cried blindly. Even when Di Wu teased the two of us after she recovered, Xiaowei didn't show the slightest fear of Di Wu - a girl who had been bitten by a hundred-eyed ghost would actually blush in the taunt of "hundred-eyed ghost".

What's even more unusual is that after that chaos, on the way back, Di Wu and I didn't have the leisure to discuss too many things, and each had a small abacus. And Xiaowei, as the most frightened and victim of the chaos, actually has the spirit to ask the "Hundred Eyes Ghost" for my companionship. It stands to reason that she shouldn't be trapped in fear when she is just out of danger?

I stood at the door of the ward, wandering, thinking.

Xiaowei, are you really Xiaowei?

It can't be wrong, that kind of innocence, the smile and gentleness that I am extremely familiar with, the kind of affectionate eyes that I will never forget, and the familiar body fragrance, I can conclude that she is Xiaowei. But......

My memory raced through everything I knew about Vigilly.

I remember one time, I participated in an outward bound training organized by the college with Xiaowei. While climbing the obstacles, Xiaowei accidentally fell and broke a hole in her arm. At that time, Xiaowei was huddled in my arms, crying out in pain. I remembered a time when Xiaowei accidentally pinched her fingers when closing the door, and then kept jumping and screaming in pain; I remembered what Xiaowei had told me that she was not exaggerating, but sensitive to any feeling......

All of this is incompatible with Xiaowei's performance last night.

Xiaowei, what have you experienced in the past two years abroad? Are you still the same Vicky I know?

I pondered outside the room for a long time until there was a noise in the room.

I pushed the door in, and Xiaowei was already awake. Seeing me come in, her eyes immediately bent into a big crescent moon - just like before, and then puffed out her cheeks slightly aggrieved: "First...... Where have you been? ”

"I'm going to buy you something to eat." I took out the food, "Wait, I'll go pour you some hot water." ”

"Hmm!" Xiaowei nodded vigorously.

"That...... Xiaowei .......," I asked as casually as I could, "Is the wound still painful?" ”

"It hurts, but with the first, it doesn't hurt!" Xiaowei still has an innocent expression.

"Hmm!" I nodded slightly, my mind full of the text message from Di Wu yesterday: this girl is weird.