Chapter 12: Days of Despair (1)

When Wu Yueming opened his eyes again, he was uncomfortably shaken by the white around him, and the smell of disinfectant water rushed straight to his nose, and then, he felt the feeling of being pricked by needles in his left hand. What is this place? Oh, is it in the hospital?

Wu Yueming tilted his head sideways and saw a beam of light shining through the window on the wall, he couldn't tell whether it was morning or afternoon at the moment, just as he was trying to think about this problem, the door opened, and a nurse came in, followed by Tang Xiaogang and Xu Tingjuan.

"Yue Ming, you're finally awake." Tang Xiaogang said with a smile on his face.

"Is it morning or afternoon?" Wu Yueming asked, his throat was still a little sore, and his voice was a little hoarse.

"Morning," Tang Xiaogang replied.

"It should be said that this is the morning of the next day," Xu Tingjuan said with a smile.

"What? The next morning," Wu Yueming's eyes were full of doubt.

Later, Wu Yueming learned that Tang Xiaogang and Xu Tingjuan came back to see him at noon that day, and Tang Xiaogang also brought him rice, which was his favorite fried meat with cauliflower. But neither of them could wake him up, and when they touched his forehead, they found that it was terrifyingly hot. Later, the two of them took him to the hospital. After examination, it turned out that he had a fever of 41 degrees, which was acute pneumonia. If you send it a little later, you will probably have to go to the emergency room or ICU ward. As for why do you stay in a coma for so long a day? According to the doctor, it was his own reluctance to wake up, or rather, refusal to wake up.

Wu Yueming stayed in the hospital for three days before being discharged, and he left the hospital at about 3 p.m. on Friday and returned to Gangmingju accompanied by Tang Xiaogang. His homeroom teacher told him to go to class on Monday, saying that he was seriously ill and should have two days off.

From the time Lei Ruochen was hit by a car on Tuesday to the present, Wu Yueming finally had a clear consciousness. However, when he stood in front of the window, habitually looking at the azure moire curtains in Lei Ruochen's study on the third floor, and then looking at the unfinished painting on the drawing board, he fell into a swamp of collapse again.

"Has anything happened in the past three days?" Wu Yueming leaned down on the bed and asked.

"It's nothing," Tang Xiaogang said, "the car that hit Lei Ruochen has been found." ”

"What about Lei Ruochen? Did she really leave me forever? Wu Yueming's voice had a crying tone.

"She went to another world, not forever without you." Tang Xiaogang found that his statement was very unconvincing, and then continued, "Yue Ming, you have to be stronger." ”

Wu Yueming waved his hand, indicating that he didn't want to continue.

Silent.

Wu Yueming was paralyzed on the bed motionless, Tang Xiaogang sat on the edge of his bed and didn't know where to look, in the end, his eyes stayed on the unfinished painting, he stood up and walked towards the easel, he wanted to put away the painting, lest Wu Yueming touch the scene.

"Xiaogang, don't accept it, this painting is not finished yet, I will paint it now." Wu Yueming picked up the paintbrush and sat on the stool to start painting, and after a few minutes, his eyes kept rolling tears. In the end, tears made his eyes unable to see the paintbrush in his hand.

"Don't do this." Tang Xiaogang had been standing beside him, at a loss.

"Xiaogang, I'm a little hungry, help me buy a meal and bring it up, is it okay?"

"Okay, so what do you eat? Stir-fried meat with cauliflower? ”

"Fish-flavored shredded pork" Wu Yueming said, this is Lei Ruochen's favorite dish.

That night, as soon as Wu Yueming closed his eyes, the picture of Lei Ruochen kept flashing in his mind, including the picture of him seeing Lei Ruochen for the first time in the fifth grade of primary school, the picture of him finding Lei Ruochen again at the staircase in his first year of high school, the picture of seeing Lei Ruochen for the first time in Xinhua Bookstore, and many more, of course, including the picture of Lei Ruochen being hit by a car and falling down and regretting the bloody face on the bridge.

He couldn't sleep at all, so he had to open his eyes and look at the ceiling, but the ceiling didn't move. He picked up his phone and put on his headphones, trying to find a song to listen to. He thought about what songs Lei Ruochen usually likes to listen to? In fact, Lei Ruochen rarely listens to songs, and he rarely listens to songs himself. He hasn't downloaded a song to his mobile phone, and all the songs were downloaded by Tang Xiaogang before. In the end, he decided to listen to Jacky Cheung's "Heart Like a Knife", a single loop.

Wu Yueming didn't know when he fell asleep, and when he woke up, he found that Tang Xiaogang's bed was empty, and when he looked at his phone, it was half past nine. On the desk is a bag of bread and a bottle of pure milk. This is the breakfast that Tang Xiaogang left for him.

"Is it better to eat bread first, or to drink milk first?" Wu Yueming once asked Lei Ruochen.

"Of course, I drank the milk first, and then I took a sip of bread and a sip of milk, and when the bread was eaten, the milk was just drunk." Lei Ruochen replied like this.

Wu Yueming's previous practice was to eat the bread first, and then drink all the milk, which was more convenient. Now he decided to try the way Lei Ruochen said to eat, first drink a sip of milk, then a sip of bread, a sip of milk, and finally he found that he couldn't do bread and milk at the same time with only the last mouthful. Half of the bread was left, and the milk had been drunk.