Chapter 18: Tomorrow and the Unexpected Come Together
With the blessing of the boss, I always feel that I can do everything in heaven and earth, but there is one thing I can't do, and that is that I can't help but learn.
Brother Xiao Ran successfully won the first place in the whole grade in the first small exam, but I was not so optimistic after being crazy for a while. There are 800 people in the entire grade, and I am ranked more than 500, when Brother Xiao Ran listened to the teacher's ranking, his face was very serious, and he did not have the joy of being the first in the whole grade on his face, but glared at me with a kind of finished eyes, staring at me straight, so I had to put my hands together under my chin and look at him quietly and carefully: "I'm sorry, I'll work hard next time." ”
He didn't seem willing to let me escape so easily, and forced him to look at me and asked, "How many?" ”
I snapped a sigh before I realized that he was asking me about my next target, and I was still cautiously trying, "A hundred?" ”
No.
"Fifty?"
No.
I scratched my hair in distress, "You can't be in the top ten, right?" ”
Brother Xiao Ran smiled with satisfaction and stretched out five fingers, "Top five." ”
Me: "......"
Then I thought, why am I so afraid of him? Is my family really poor and can't open the pot, so I have to rely on him to provide for me to go to school? I didn't know it at the time, but this was really the case!
My mother had a very strange disease, the kind that could not be cured and could not die, and my father invested all the family's savings in the small county hospital where he worked, and he remembered why he didn't send his mother to the big hospital for treatment, but at that time he had no money, not even the travel expenses!
My dad was the pillar of our family, he really stood up to it, he didn't say a word to me, and then when he saw that my mother was no longer good, he called Brother Xiao Ran and asked him to escort me home.
Brother Xiao Ran is also righteous enough, along the way, I grabbed him and asked about my mother's situation, but he gritted his teeth and didn't say a word, even if I grabbed his hair, scratched his face, bit his arm, and beat his back.
I sat in his black car sulking depressed, completely unaware that I still had a mobile phone to call my father, and stared at the road ahead with my arms folded around my chest.
Because of the movement of my father's engineering team, my parents were in another city, and Xiao Ran's car's car sent us to the airport, Xiao Ran took me, and the driver went to buy a ticket to take us on the plane together.
It was my first time on a plane, I forgot my previous worries about the plane crash, and I also forgot that I fantasized that taking a plane was to open the curtain and enjoy the clouds, I was only left anxious, or anxious, because on the plane, Brother Xiao Ran around me was constantly tortured by me, without saying a word.
Fortunately, the two cities are not far apart, our plane landed an hour later, Xiao Ran's brother's company sent a special person to pick up the plane, we got in the car and went straight to the hospital, but it was still a step late!
I saw my father squatting in the corridor with his head in his arms, and the steps under his feet seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and I could only move over one small step at a time, as if time could stand still in this way, and I could never know whether the news was sad or joyful...
Dad barely looked up when he heard footsteps, and I saw him crying.
His complexion was yellow, and the dark circles under his eyes were deeper, and his lips were surrounded by black scum, which looked like he hadn't washed his face for many days, and there were some unwiped eye droppings at the corners of his eyes.
Dad stood up tremblingly on his knees and walked towards me, without hesitation he took me into his arms, I hit his chest, only felt that his cheeks were violently hit, probably some nose and face were swollen, but I didn't have time to think about it, I heard him say: "Daughter, in the future", he choked up, paused for a long time before starting again, "Daughter, we will be the only ones left in our family in the future......"
I looked at him in disbelief, I think my eyes must be extremely sad, although I haven't spent much time with my mother since I was a child, but in the days together, except for the time when she played mahjong, I don't have those other memories! I am also a child who loves my father and mother, and I grew up in a honey pot since I was a child! How can ... How can you tell me that we will only be the only ones left in our house when I hurry back?
I grabbed my dad by the sleeve and asked, "Where's Mom?" He didn't respond, and I raised my voice again: "Where's Mom?" What about Mom? What about my mother...... "In the end, I was desperate and believed in the fact that we were the only ones left in our family in the future.
I leaned on my father's arms and collapsed on the ground, my knees were numb from the cold ground, and I still couldn't get up, not because I didn't want to get up, but because I didn't have the strength to get up.
Brother Xiao Ran stood behind us, looked at the two of us calmly, and waited for a long time for our emotions to stabilize before coming to help us up.
We sat on the same cold chair in the hospital corridor, and my father said in a hoarse voice: "The hospital won't let me take your mother home, your mother can only be put here, I don't know what she thought before, and in the end... She also asked me to sign a body donation form, which is good, we can't get anything, even her hair is what I left after she shaved it before. ”
If it's a normal time, I will definitely say, hey~ You're so perverted, you still have other people's hair, what's the matter, you still want to have a ghost?
But now, I can't say anything, I just cry, I just think why am I so unlucky? Think about my childhood when I was flooded by workbooks, think about my turbulent transfer career, think about how I am now under the control of Xiao Range, and think about how I have lost my mother now......
I couldn't stop my tears from flowing, and I didn't have time to wipe them with my hands, I just felt that my mind was a mess, I couldn't think clearly, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't figure out why all this was.
My father took me to the morgue to see my mother's body, and I didn't expect to stop in front of the door of the morgue since I was a child, scared, worried and unwilling to face the reality.
I tugged at the sleeve of my father's shirt, which was stiff and cold because of the weather, and it was not enough to make me feel at ease, warm or give me the slightest encouragement.
I don't know what kind of mood I was in when I lifted the white cloth covering my mother, because the moment I lifted it, I fell straight down as soon as it was dark, maybe my father caught me in time but didn't catch it steadily, or maybe he didn't expect me to fall down and didn't catch me, anyway, when I woke up in my bed, a huge bag swollen behind my head, and it hurt when I reached out and touched it gently.
My memory came back to me when I woke up, I remembered my mother's death, and I wanted to ask my dad about it, but I couldn't sit up from my bed.
I grabbed the quilt and shouted out the door: "Dad, Dad~" I deliberately dragged out the voice in the back, and Dad came in when he heard my call and asked me, "What's wrong?" Seeing that I was lying on the bed with my eyes wide open, maybe my face was a little pale, he reached out and touched my forehead and asked, "Is there anything else that is uncomfortable?" ”
I shook my head and asked, "What's wrong with me?" ”
I saw the worry in my father's eyes, and then he muttered to my face, "Ouch, this kid won't break his brain and lose his memory, right?" ”
I rolled my eyes and reached out to pinch his arm hard, looking at him with deep resentment: "Dad! Can you not speak up what is on your mind? I can hear you! ”
I looked at Brother Xiao Ran standing behind him and couldn't help laughing, and I shouted, "What are you laughing at!" Don't you know that I just lost my mother? Inhumanity! ”
Brother Xiao Ran and Dad were shocked by my words at the same time, my room was once again covered with a gloomy atmosphere, Dad sighed and went out, Brother Xiao Ran took a stool and sat on the side of my bed and asked me, "How do you feel?" ”
I shook my head, "It's okay, it's just that I'm a motherless child, I... How can I be so miserable! "I started crying again.
I cried for a long time, and I was really sad in my heart! When I stopped, Brother Xiao Ran took out a few tissues from my bedside table and handed them to me, I sobbed and said, "Just... Just now... How was it just now... Don't hand it to me? ”
His hand was visibly stunned for a moment, then he pulled out a few more and threw them in my face, and when I wiped away my tears, I looked at him again, and he already had my pink phone in his hand.
He said lightly: "Zhuo Ou is coming back, he made several calls, and I answered one for you." ”
I was still so sad that I didn't realize that what he was saying was not to comfort me, but to say news about Zoor, about the Zoo whom I had almost forgotten the back of my head.
He also said, "He said he would go to City B tomorrow and want to see you." ”
I asked him, "What did he say?" What does it mean to meet me? What are you doing with me? Why should I go to see him! ”
Brother Xiao Ran may have been disturbed by my barrage of questions, and he no longer continued to say anything related to him, but only comforted me and said, "I helped you reject him, you have a good rest." After speaking, I was about to go out, but I grabbed his clothes and said: "Give you back the phone, I don't need the phone anymore, only my mother likes to call me at home, now, I don't need it, I want to study hard." ”
Brother Xiao Ran didn't pick up the mobile phone in my hand and walked out of the room, the phone suddenly rang, the ringtone was so cheerful and sounded very mocking, I was so angry that I smashed the phone to the ground, the phone was successfully torn apart, and my father was successfully introduced into the room.
Dad still held a spatula in his hand, looked at the mobile phone on the ground, looked at me who was angry on the bed, sighed deeply, and then walked forward and picked up the phone on my bedside table, sat on the edge of my bed and stroked my head and said: "Li Li, Dad has thought about it, there are only us left in the family, and Dad will not be separated from you in the future, Dad will go to City B to accompany you, it just so happens that Dad's company has set up a headquarters in City B, Dad goes to apply and accompanies you Ha, well, okay?" ”
I couldn't contain my desperate desire to find a safe haven, so I buried myself in my father's arms, and I didn't care that his spatula had nowhere to put it, so I could only raise my hands so as not to get on my clothes.
I finally hugged my dad enough, and then I was strong enough to hide the sadness in my eyes, looked at my dad with a smile, and replied, "Okay." ”