Chapter Fifty-Eight: A Chance Encounter in the Hospital
When I got off the bus near the community, the driver still looked unsatisfied, and the expression on his face clearly told me that he thought I was sitting for a short time, and he didn't let him talk about it.
I was too lazy to pay attention to him, and after getting out of the car, I walked straight towards the community, and when I got to the gate, I saw that the doorman was still sitting motionless in the dark sentry box like a sculpture, and I wondered if he was also looking at me.
There was no new information on the phone, Chen Haobei didn't look for me, and Li Xiaomeng didn't look for me, which made me feel a little surprised.
Li Xiaomeng didn't have anything over there, maybe he was drinking with a pig-shaped person at this time, Chen Haobei was really a little uneasy, and after thinking about it, I sent him a voice: Brother Hao, how are you doing today?
Until I entered the elevator of my unit building, I didn't wait for Chen Haobei's reply.
When I got home and washed up, I lay down and picked up my phone again, only to see Chen Haobei's text reply: I'm fine, I'm cultivating myself, don't disturb.
Depend on... This is not like what Chen Haobei can say, forget it, sleepy, let's talk about it tomorrow.
When I woke up the next morning, I thought that I would have to go to the hospital to see Chen Zhonghai and his brother-in-law in the morning, so I got up early to wash. After breakfast, I called Brother Chao, set a time and place for the meeting, worked for a while, and went out.
After meeting at the appointed place, the two of us took the car and went straight to the hospital, more than half an hour earlier than the scheduled appointment of 10 o'clock, and just walked to the entrance of the hospital after getting out of the car, I saw an acquaintance who surprised me a little, the girlfriend of Yao Mengnan on the fifth floor.
The girl was carrying a thermos bucket in one hand and a mobile phone in the other, looking at the mobile phone for a while, looking at the direction of the hospital for a while, and she couldn't tell what the expression was on her face, with anxiety, irritability, and sadness.
Thinking of the incident at her family before, it seems that Yao Mengnan and her mother are also hospitalized here, and after hesitating, I decided to say hello to her, after all, I was also at the scene when the accident happened.
After calling Brother Chao, I walked towards the girl with him, this girl was too focused, she didn't notice me when I walked to a distance of less than two meters from her, seeing her like this, I greeted her: "Hey, Mengmeng, come to see someone?" ”
As soon as I finished speaking, Meng Meng instantly subconsciously took a step back in the opposite direction from me, this is probably an instinctive rejection of men, right?
After taking a step back, she turned her head, saw that it was me, and the guard on her face relaxed a little and said: "It's you, you are also here..."
I was a little speechless, but fortunately Brother Chao seemed to understand something, and he interjected: "Well, a thousand accompanied me to see a friend of mine." ”
I nodded, and Meng Meng smiled at me without saying anything, and turned her head to still look in the direction of the hospital.
I thought for a while and said, "Mengmeng, why don't you go in?" It's you who is against her..."
Mengmeng's eyes darkened and said, "She doesn't answer my phone, and I don't know which ward her mother lives in, and... You know, even though the person in that video isn't me at all... But if she doesn't agree, it's inconvenient for me to rush in and find her..."
The mouth is so hard... It seems that although she experienced both derailments and almost killed Yao Mengnan's mother, Mengmeng still wants to go down with Yao Mengnan.
Maybe... Like this girl said before, she's just trying to survive, right?
Having said that, Yao Mengnan's mother's life is really hard enough, on the fifth floor, she is still alive... Out of kindness I asked, "Is there anything I can do to help you?" I'm just about to go in, which ward does her mom live in? Shall I help you find out her mouth first? ”
Meng Meng obviously hesitated, but soon she said, "That... Thank you, I only heard a friend of hers say that her mother was hospitalized on the ninth floor, and the specific room is not clear, if you are convenient... Help me get this soup to her. ”
After saying that, Meng Meng handed the thermos bucket in her hand to me, I just wanted to reach out to pick it up, she suddenly put her hand back again, and then quickly took out three tissues from her small bag, wrapped the handle of the thermos bucket tightly before handing it to me again and said, "That..."
I was a little embarrassed, but I still expressed my understanding and said, "I understand, you don't want anything that a man has touched." ”
Meng Meng smiled a little apologetically, took the thermos bucket and I said hello to Brother Chao, and walked towards the hospital together.
Halfway through, the two of us bought two fruit baskets, which were prepared for Chen Zhonghai's brother-in-law, so it was a heart.
After arriving on the ninth floor, we searched all the way, and finally saw Yao Mengnan's figure outside a ward, she was sitting in front of a hospital bed with her back to the door, and there was a person lying on the bed, naturally her mother.
I asked Brother Chao to wait outside with two fruit baskets, and I carried the thermos bucket to the ward alone to find Yao Mengnan.
Yao Mengnan was sitting and dozing off, not noticing anyone coming in at all.
I took the opportunity to observe her mother, this aunt also had her eyes closed, she still had a respirator tube in her nose, her body was covered with a thin quilt, and the two arms that were exposed, one was in a cast, the other was not in a cast, and only one of the two legs was hung in the air with a plaster cast, and the other leg did not change.
This surprised me quite a bit, I thought that this aunt had at least four legs broken, if you look at it this way, this physical fitness... It's enough to do it again.
Serious matter, I gently patted Yao Mengnan on the shoulder, she opened her eyes with a stir, seeing that she was obviously sleep deprived, except for the dark circles under her eyes that were quite piercing, even if she opened her eyes, she looked around without any radiance, as if people were confused and didn't know where they were.
Seeing her like this, I took the initiative to say, "Hey, Yao Mengnan, where am I?" ”
Yao Mengnan looked up at me, rubbed his face vigorously and looked at me carefully before asking, "What are you doing here?" What about Mei Di'er who was with you last time? Is she here too? ”
I pouted and didn't answer her words, thinking that I just see that you are a woman, if you are a man who dares to worry about Mei Di'er so much, I have to report to Chen Haobei about everything.
With Yao Mengnan's words, the trace of good feelings for her because of sympathy disappeared in an instant, and I even felt that she even felt that no matter whether she admitted it or not, it was not strange that she could do something sorry for Meng Meng.
I handed her the bucket and said, "Well, someone asked me to bring you something to eat." Yao Mengnan said meaningfully: "I've touched things that men have touched..."
At this point, she looked at my hand and suddenly stopped, looked up at me, and asked, "Yes... She asked you to send it? I said expressionlessly: "Yes, you are quite concerned about you, although I am not an outsider to intervene in the matter between you, but... Forget it, I still don't interject, then, the best love soup, drink it while it's hot, and see if you can still feel the taste of love. ”
Yao Mengnan continued to look at me stupidly, and said after a while: "Then you put the soup on the table, and I'll drink it later." ”
I bypassed her and put the thermos bucket on the bedside table and said, "Mengmeng is at the door of the hospital, it seems that she has been here for a while, just waiting for you to speak, I brought the words, and you can do the rest yourself." I came here to see a friend of mine, but I happened to meet your partner, so I'll go first, you're busy. ”
"Love? She has done that kind of thing, what kind of love is she talking about? There was only indescribable contempt in Yao Mengnan's words, as if she really had no feelings for Mengmeng.
I didn't talk to Yao Mengnan much and walked towards the outside of the ward, when I got to the door, I looked back, Yao Mengnan was cocking his orchid fingers, using his thumb and forefinger to pinch the paper towel on the handle of the thermos bucket, pinched it off and threw it into the trash can on the side without hesitation, and then took out a pack of paper towels from his pocket, took out one and wiped his hands for himself, and then reached out to touch the thermos bucket again.
I couldn't help but roll my eyes, are we men dirty enough in the eyes of these people? In this case, both of their bodies have also been touched by men, will they still want each other?
When I came out of the ward, Brother Chao and I chatted about Yao Mengnan's family while walking, and I told Brother Chao about Yao Mengnan's mother falling from the stairs before, but Brother Chao didn't have any impression of her family, after all, I hadn't seen her a few times before.
While chatting, he took the elevator to Chen Zhonghai and his brother-in-law's ward, his brother-in-law was no longer on the side of the serious illness, and Chen Zhonghai told me the ward number last night, on the 23rd floor.
When Brother Chao and I arrived on the 23rd floor, we felt that the atmosphere on this floor was different as soon as we got out of the elevator.
Compared to the wards below, this floor is noticeably cleaner, and at the same time it is exceptionally quiet, without any noise. There were also many nurses and doctors coming and going, but even some tool carts were pushed, they were all silent, and the scene immediately calmed people's hearts.
I called a nurse to ask, and the nurses here spoke much softer than those downstairs, and even took the initiative to take me and Brother Chao outside the ward after learning that we were coming to visit patients.
After the nurse left, I took out my mobile phone and looked at the time, it was already ten o'clock, discussed it with Brother Chao, and decided to call Chen Zhonghai first to ask him about his situation.
After the phone was connected, Chen Zhonghai said that he had arrived for a while and had been waiting for the two of us downstairs. I hurriedly told him where we were, made an appointment to wait for him where we were, and hung up.
After a while, Chen Zhonghai arrived, and there were three other people with him, whom I had never seen. One ear was wearing the same headphones hanging from the ear of Xiao Cai I had seen in Jihai that night, thinking that he was Chen Zhonghai's younger brother. The other two, one in a straight suit that looked like a university professor, and the other wore a police uniform, but he was dressed very casually, and he didn't even wear a police hat.
After meeting, Chen Zhonghai whispered a few words of greeting, and briefly introduced the people he brought, one of the three people was a 'colleague' of his unit, one was the policeman who helped his brother-in-law paint a portrait of the driver who caused the accident before, and the other was a 'friend' of the policeman.
Brother Chao and I looked at each other and smiled and didn't speak, sure enough, as Brother Chao and Wang Yang guessed last night, this Chen Zhonghai drunkard didn't mean to drink, otherwise he wouldn't have brought these two people over.
Fortunately, Chao Getan and I are frank and open, and we are not afraid of his words.
Chen Zhonghai led the team to knock on the door, and it was his sister who opened the door, and after seeing me and Brother Chao, his sister obviously didn't welcome the two of us, but he didn't say anything directly under Chen Zhonghai's instructions.
After that, Chen Zhonghai and his sister whispered something for a while, and after a while, his sister said: "Then you hurry up, Lao Shi needs to recuperate." With that, he left the ward on his own, ignoring any of us.
Chen Zhonghai beckoned everyone into the house, everyone entered the ward one after another, I looked around, this is a single ward, the space is very large, the display is very simple, except for some medical equipment is very simple tables, chairs and benches, all in white as the main color, there is a separate bathroom, the most conspicuous is the bed in the middle of the room, larger than the general bed, Chen Zhonghai and his brother-in-law are lying on it, people are awake, see us come in and smiled reluctantly to say hello.
Brother Chao and I put the fruit basket on the table, and I was a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say. It was Brother Chao who stepped forward first and introduced himself to Chen Zhonghai and his brother-in-law.
His brother-in-law pressed a button at hand, and the bed slowly rose halfway, forming a ramp like the back of a couch.
After Brother Chao introduced himself, he nodded and said, "I still remember you... My surname is Shi, the stone of the stone, if you don't mind, just call me Brother Shi. Brother Chao nodded and said, "Well, Brother Shi, how are you recovering?" Brother Shi said: "Fortunately, the car can't be driven for the time being, this little brother is..."
Speaking of this, he gestured to me with his eyes, and before I could speak, Chen Zhonghai said first: "This is Xiaochao's brother, who has also been busy running errands before, just like you, a very real young man." ”
I scratched my head, a little flattered, hehe.
Brother Shi nodded lightly "oh", and didn't speak again, Chen Zhonghai asked, "Brother-in-law, Xiaochao wants to talk to you, how are you?" Are you tired at this time? Brother Shi said: "If you have anything to say, just say it, it doesn't matter." ”
Chen Zhonghai turned his head to me with an "um" and said, "One thousand, let's go out and smoke a cigarette, smoking is not allowed in the ward." I said, "Thank you, Brother Chen, go ahead, I don't smoke." ”
Brother Chao said to me with a look of hatred: "If you don't smoke, you won't chew bubble gum?" Why so much nonsense about you? ”
After speaking, he motioned for me to go out, and suddenly I reacted, and said a little embarrassedly: "What, Brother Chen, I'm hungry for bubble gum, let's go out and blow bubbles?" ”
Chen Zhonghai smiled and left the room with me and his men, leaving only his brother-in-law and Brother Chao, as well as the two people he brought.