After getting off the bus, I paid Alex the balance of the tour guide's commission, and he happily carried the bag to the door of the hotel for me. I looked at his figure locked in the night and walked away, and went back to my room alone.

The night in Alaska is desolate, and if I had been shot by an Indian shotgun, no one would have known that I was dead here.

The next day I left for New York, and the landlord regretted that I didn't go to the RV party.

At the end of the short journey, I came out of the airport tired and skillfully drove to Flushing.

The night in New York is arrogant, and the lights and neon lights in the high-rise buildings are intertwined in the city, often constructing one false dream after another, except for the house number and room on Flushing Street that is always open to me.

Brooks cooked porridge for me, and I ate a small bowl for supper, telling him Chris's story as I ate.

"I have good news for you, too." Brooks' eyes widened, and his joy was already revealed in his eyes, "My daughter took the initiative to contact me some time ago, saying that she had finished her master's degree in economics and management in London and was coming to work in New York!" ”

"The tenant upstairs is moving out this month, Alicia will be living there, and when you're well, you can go to work together, I'm sure you'll have a common topic!" Brooks fantasized.

"That's great."

On the surface, I said this, but in my heart I was not very happy, and I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. I stepped barefoot on the floor, walked to the door, rested my left hand on the door, leaned against the wall, and saw that Brooks had fallen asleep with a blanket. I said to myself in a soft voice, "Mr. Brooks, I have learned what love is. Love is a never-ending wandering. ”

"Why not stay two more days? It's still early, and you still have four days off to go. ”

Brooks stood in the doorway in his pajamas, trying to hold me back.

"I can't bother you anymore. I will pay you the cost of the nursing home in the future. ”

“Hua。”

Brooks stood behind me and called me.

"When Alison comes, please call Smith and we'll have a meal together."

"Good. She will like you, and I'm sure you will like her too, because daughters are like dads. ”

I laugh.

When I got back to the nursing home, I knocked on the door of the ward, and it was a boy with a long and thin body and bangs blocking his eyes a little.

"Excuse me, are you a friend of Mr. Hu?"

"Mr. Hu? Which Mr. Hu? "He was aloof and looked ill.

"It's the one that comes to see you often."

He rolled his eyes and immediately pushed me out, slamming the door behind and shouting, "I don't know him!" Get out of here! Get out of here! ”

I didn't expect him to have so much strength that he pushed me to the ground in one hand.

The nurse who passed by gave me a hand and told me, "Don't mess with the people in room 1047." ”

"Is he very sick?"

The nurse refused to answer me, helped me back to my room, and quickly left.

For the next few days, I had to stand in his doorway for a while every day. I live in 1024 and he lives in 1047, and we are so close that a manic patient like him would normally be screaming, and I didn't feel the slightest sense of uneasiness before. The only explanation is that I was not very sick at the beginning, all my senses were contracting, and I did not feel any disturbances in the outside world at all.

I went to ask Smith why the patient of 1047 was always screaming in the middle of the night and had never seen anyone care about him.

Smith replied, "He's in the same situation as you, he's coming here from abroad, he's in a foreign country, and he's frustrated and has to be sent here." ”

"Miss Nurse said that there was a man surnamed Hu who had come to see him several times."

"You mean Mr. Hu?"

"You know him?"

"He's my patient, and I know best who he's seen during physiotherapy."

"Have you been in contact with his family?"

"Absolutely." Smith looked down and smiled a cryptically, "Hua, you care about him. ”

You care about him a lot.

Didn't work'? 'Rather'. ”。

I knew I couldn't hide it, so I confessed: "When I was in prison, Mr. Hu once helped me, he was a staff member who helped the Chinese to communicate with the police, and he was a translator. ”

"Are you still feeling well?"

"It's okay, there aren't so many chest tightnesses."

"Okay." Smith leaned on his glasses, "He's lonely. Mr. Hu will come to see him tomorrow. ”

"Can I go see him? I knocked on his door that day, and when I mentioned Mr. Hu, he pushed me out in a very irritable manner. ”

"You're a girl, so it's best not to see you yet."

"Then if I'm a boy, can I see him?"

"No, you can't see a boy."

"Why?"

"Because he'll be his enemy."

"Because it's too withdrawn? Is he autistic? ”

"Uh, that's a long story. Mr. Hu and I have made an appointment to come over at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, and you can remember the time. ”

Smith was reluctant to say more.

I woke up the next day at eight o'clock and stood at the door of 1047 at eight fifty a.m. waiting for him.

Mr. Hu was surprised to see me, and I pointed to the door, "You come to him." ”

Again, I didn't ask any questions.

Mr. Hu's face changed suddenly, and his tone was lower: "Did Smith tell you?" ”

I nodded, "I'm just a little curious......"

"But this curiosity is not good, it's... It's not like it's ......."

"Smith was very tight-mouthed, he didn't reveal much, just said that you would come at nine o'clock."

My self-esteem was bruised.

"I've been in jail, but I've also read!"

After I finished speaking, I went back to my room in silence.

I slapped myself, knowing that the other party was so bad that I was bored.

I lay in bed and thought that it was either his classmate, or his brother, or that he had robbed his rival's girlfriend as his fiancée. But... If it's a rival in love, it shouldn't come to visit, right?

I threw away the last guess and went to the first two.

I went to the first floor of the sanatorium and sat on a rusty brown bench waiting for Mr. Hu to come down.

He came down from the elevator and saw me, selectively ignoring him, but I stopped him.

"I apologize to you." I say.

He took me to the little pavilion, where we stood face to face, and the atmosphere was better than a confrontation between rivals.

"He... Are you okay? ”

Mr. Hu shook his head, "It's the same old way." You don't care about these things. ”

"Smith said I'm recovering well and maybe I'll be discharged early next month. I want to help you a little bit before I go, just like you helped me in prison. ”

"Didn't you always hold a grudge against me for not delivering that message for you?"

He looked up at the window of that room.

"If he's a good friend of yours, you must not give up on him. He's lonely, and the people who live here are lonely. ”

"If I gave up on him, would I still be here?"

"You get married next month, does he agree to come?"

Mr. Hu sighed and shook his head, "He won't come." ”

"That's a bit of a pity."

"It's a good thing he's not coming, I'm really afraid he'll make a big fuss at my wedding reception."

"I really don't understand you, so why did you invite this emotionally unstable person to come before?"

"He's different, he's ......"

Mr. Hu deliberately did not say any more.

"Do you know Rolls-Royce?"

"Isn't Rolls-Royce the name of a luxury car?"

"That's my story with him."

"I don't understand, you make it clear."

"Yihua, my fiancée doesn't know much about this matter, and I don't want you to be too profound, I know in what capacity I should deal with it."

I shut up and stopped talking.