Chapter 4: Crying in the early hours of the morning

Most of the people in the ward left. I can't open my eyes, I can't speak, I don't feel anything, but I can hear. My wife sat on the edge of my bed and told me everything that had happened in the past 9 days. The hospital was getting quieter, and I thought to myself that it should be midnight, and sleepiness had hit.

A heart-rending cry came to my ears, I slowly opened my eyes, I looked at the whole room, there were three beds in the room, I was lying on the bed in the middle, there was a TV on the opposite side of the bed, on the TV, there was an electronic watch, there was an air conditioner on the left side of the electronic watch by the window, there was an old-fashioned tube lamp on the roof of the shed, I had a lot of tubes inserted in my body, there was no one in the room, the cry came from outside the door, the time displayed on the electronic watch was more than 2 o'clock in the morning. I tried to move my mouth and called out to my wife. I'm here, you woke up and my wife promised to run back into the house.

I still can't move, I can't even turn my head, I can only turn my eyes back and forth, who is crying outside, I ask? My wife stuck her head in front of me. The hair is a little messy, the face is a little haggard, and the bags under the eyes are large. I know that she hasn't been able to get a good night's sleep these days because of me. I apologized for squeezing out a smile, how could I bear the stiffness of the whole face as if it had become a piece of lifeless dead meat, tears flowed down the corners of my eyes to my ears, I can only say those two words, thank you!

He wiped away my tears and said to me with a kind smile, "We have been together for so many years, do you still need to talk to me about this?" These days you are in the hospital rescue, I seem to have grown up suddenly, before because of you, whether it is at home or outside, I never seem to know the hardships of life, until this time you are hospitalized, no matter how big or small I am in charge, I know how difficult it is for you to usually be outside, my wife held my hand tightly and said firmly: Everything will pass, I have always believed that you are not so easy to die, can not leave me and my daughter.

Outside the cry rang out again.

My wife dragged a stool casually, sat on the edge of my bed, held my hand tightly with both hands, and then said slowly: We are opposite the ward is the intensive care unit, crying outside is a 40-year-old sister, a car accident, her husband and daughter died, she survived alone, multiple fractures in the body, this family of three lives in the south, may be doing a little business, every year is also the New Year to go back to the northeast hometown, the temperature between the north and the south, the gap is particularly large, the car in the south does not need to change snow tires in winter, because there is not that much snow and ice in the south. It's about to end the year, and this family of three is driving back to the northeast from the south to the northeast, and they are about to get home, so they are thinking about driving a little more tonight and arriving home early tomorrow morning. Yesterday afternoon it had just come back to temperature, and in the evening the temperature plummeted again, and there was a layer of ice on the road, and they didn't change their snow tires. On the highway through Chuncheng, a section of the slope, the speed was too fast, the car also skidd, put the climbing plow from the top of the slope, rolled several times, hit the guardrail, was found by the passing vehicle to call the police, this family of three was sent to the hospital, the father and daughter were directly declared dead, the eldest sister was in a coma at the time, did not know anything, just woke up with multiple fractures in the body, heard that the husband and daughter have passed away, so they cried loudly. Alas, life, life is so fragile, how can people who are alive not know how to cherish it? In the past few days, I have been at the door of the intensive care unit, and I can see life and death every day, and my wife said with some emotion and sadness.

My brother pushed the door and walked in, his head was still so non-mainstream, wearing a red down jacket, he saw that I opened his eyes, showed a cynical smile at me and said: Brother, are you awake? You are a cow, and when others get sick, they have a cold and fever, a headache and brain fever, and you get a disease, which causes a sensation all over the world and scares people to death. It's only 2 o'clock and you can sleep for a while, right? Sister-in-law, you can sleep a little longer. I haven't slept well in the past few days, and this time he woke up, you should rest assured and get a good night's sleep. My wife let go of my hand, tucked the quilt on my body, and turned to my brother and said, "Why is there no crying?" Is the big sister outside crying? Her family rushed to the hospital after getting the news, persuaded her to leave, crying so pitifully, I stayed in the hospital for the past few days, and when I saw those posters hanging on the wall in the corridor, I felt that my head hurt, my brother replied.

My wife and brother each returned to the bed on either side of me, and soon the sound of their well-proportioned breathing could be heard. And I couldn't sleep. God once gave me what a perfect body and physique, and I didn't cherish it myself, I ruined it raw, I stayed up late drinking and smoking. I remembered the miserable cry outside, I once stepped on the accelerator on the highway, let the car run to 190 miles, life and death were really instantaneous. At this time, I lay there and couldn't move, only breathing and thinking, I felt like the stray cat lying in the middle of the road, a leg broken by a car, if there was no external force to intervene, waiting for it only to die.