Chapter 13: The Mother Who Says Goodbye
Bai Ling watched Xiao Wang drive Boss Yu's car and disappeared from her sight. At this time, Bai Ling turned around, and suddenly she felt that her limbs were weak, her whole body was weak, and her two legs could no longer support her body. Suddenly, she was in the grief of losing her husband, and she remembered that she hadn't eaten water all day.
She stumbled back to the door of the third floor, but she rested four times, and standing at the door, her heart almost jumped out of her chest. For the first time, she experienced what it meant to climb stairs. She held on to the door frame, calmed down a little, took a breath, then raised her hand and knocked lightly on the door, and no one inside answered. She knocked hard again, but no one answered. She thought: maybe her mother was behind her ear and didn't hear it, or she was busy making dinner in the kitchen. So she took out the key, trembled her hands, and with great difficulty, she inserted the key into the lock hole and opened the door herself.
The room was so quiet that I could hear my own panting. The milk bowl that my mother had drunk in the morning and the leftover egg skins that I had eaten were all placed on the table untouched.
Bai Ling couldn't help but think of her husband Fang Ming, with her husband here, how could there have been such a messy situation? With tears in her eyes, she called softly, "Mommy, Mommy......"
No one answered, and her voice echoed in the empty home. She leaned against the wall, to the kitchen, to the bathroom, and finally to the bedroom. The door of the cabinet was open, and the mother's clothes were gone. Apparently, the mother went back to her own home. Ling suddenly sat down on the bed. The morning scene unfolded in my mind again.
Bai Ling first brought the milk and eggs boiled for her mother to the table. Then I drank the leftovers and pickles. She had just taken a few bites of the meal when there was a soft knock on the door.
"Excuse me, is this Fang Ming's home?" A man's voice came from outside the door.
"Yes". Bai Ling agreed, and hurriedly went to open the door.
There was a young man standing in front of him, looking very tired. Bai Ling hurriedly said, "Please sit inside." ”
Although it was a stranger, since he came to find Fang Ming, he had to be warmly received. The man said, "Don't sit down." You're sister-in-law Ming, right? ”
"Yes, I am." Bai Ling hurriedly agreed.
The young man said, "Sister-in-law, we have been contacting you since last night, but the phone has never been able to get through. I can't find your specific address. After many contacts and searches, I didn't find it until this morning, so I hurried here......"
As soon as Bai Ling heard this, people were a little flustered, and immediately beat a small drum in her heart, and hurriedly asked, "What about Fang Ming?" How is Fang Ming? ”
"Brother Ming was sent to the Municipal People's Hospital last night. Brother Ming was suffering from cancer. Sister-in-law, go and have a look. ”
When the young man spoke, he grabbed Bai Ling's hand tightly, shook and shook it, with tears in his eyes, and his voice was a little out of tune. It seems that Fang Ming is his relative, and Bai Ling is the bodhisattva who saves his life, the Guanyin who is gracious. He had come to beg Bai Ling for mercy.
At this time, Bai Ling was dizzy all of a sudden: "Okay, okay, I'll go over right away!" ”
"Brother Ming lives in ward XX of District XX of the People's Hospital. I have other things to do, and I can't go with you. Sister-in-law, you have to be fast, you have to be fast! ”
That tone, that tone, can't allow you to be the slightest bit sluggish.
"Thank you, you're busy. I'll be off right away. ”
Bai Ling hurriedly took her wallet and was about to go out and rush to the People's Hospital. But her mother grabbed Bai Ling's hand and said, "Ling, you have to think about it, is this cancer contagious?" ”
Mother's words made Bai Ling's heart chill. My husband's life hangs by a thread. What other contagions do I have to consider?
"If it's going to be infectious, I've already been infected." Bai Ling opened her mouth and threw out this sentence, obviously angry, and she was very dissatisfied in her heart, her husband is like this, how can she care about whether it is contagious or not?
But when her mother heard this, she immediately let go of the hand that was holding Bai Ling. And looked at the two hands, immediately ran to the water faucet to rinse, and kept repeating: "Cancer, infection, cancer, infection......
"This is your Fang family's business, it has nothing to do with me, I want to leave."
Bai Ling only thought about her husband Fang Ming, who was hospitalized, and ignored her mother's words. Unexpectedly, my mother was talking this time, and she really left as soon as she raised her feet.
Bai Ling never regarded her mother as an outsider, and neither did Fang Ming. But my mother lived here every day and never regarded this place as her home. However, she is the master of everything in this family. She can take anything in this house and give it away to anyone she wants, and she is not allowed to ask anyone.
Once, when Fang Ming got off work at noon, he received a parcel on behalf of others. I forgot to bring it with me when I went to work in the afternoon, and he came back halfway through. As a result, the family parcel is gone, and the people are gone. The neighbor said, "Your old lady took a parcel and took a taxi away." Fang Ming had no choice but to pay another parcel to others.
This old lady often complains: Yesterday she said that she lost her top. Today I said that I couldn't find the underwear. After a while, he said that there was one missing shoe. It's all your family.
This not only made Fang Ming feel uncomfortable, but even Bai Ling felt unhappy. There are no children at home, and the young couple have to go to work every day, and the mother is the only one at home every day......
The old lady doesn't eat leftovers. When he picked up the whole bowl of rice, he was about to throw it away, but he was taken by Bai Ling and Fang Ming. Bai Ling, who went to the field to farm at the age of ten, has a deep personal experience of 'hard work'.
The old lady doesn't eat leftovers, but she has leftovers for every meal. She had never eaten the bowl clean. In the eyes of outsiders, this is deliberately finding fault and deliberately doing practice.
As Fang Ming's uncle, he never said anything. As a daughter, Bai Ling never said anything. It must have been her own mother. But this mother, she has never regarded herself as her mother, where did this heart go?
Now her husband Fang Ming was killed by the cancer demon, and he walked in a hurry, and he didn't have time to say hello to Bai Ling, didn't say goodbye, and didn't see him for the last time. This is the most fatal blow to Bai Ling.