“…… Not for now. ”

Wu Jie thought silently for a while and replied. Then he added, "I'm not short of girlfriends right now." ”

"Are you still going to make a move?"

I said with a smile. No matter how you think about it, I think he's joking.

However, Wu Jie didn't answer me, just looked at me silently for a while, and then didn't say anything and returned to his seat.

I think it's getting more and more incredible.

Tang Ling's mother, Aunt Chen Lu, is a person who feels very strict.

She has a serious vibe and at the same time a feeling of exhaustion. Aunt Chen Lu has a good appearance, which makes people can't help but think that she must have been a beauty before. But she seems to be completely devoid of makeup, and although she is only in her forties, she looks older than she really is.

"Ahh

That day was the second time I saw her. Although she is very kind, the way she speaks is subtle and thorny. Aunt Chen Lu never called me by my name, she always used "you" to address me. Maybe she thinks that this guy who suddenly and frequently comes to her daughter's hospital room is an inexplicable person, so she doesn't feel very happy.

"Then I'll go back first. Don't mess around too much and sleep well. ”

Aunt Chen Lu said to Tang Ling in a tone like reproach, and then walked out of the ward.

"I feel like Xiaotian is particularly gloomy today."

Tang Ling looked at my face and said with some concern.

"Is it okay? Is there anything uncomfortable? ”

"No...... It's not a big deal. ”

"What's wrong?"

"The cord of the headphones is broken."

I took the headphones out of my pocket and showed them to Tang Ling. On the way to the hospital, I was listening to music while walking, and the earphone cable was hung by the branches of the roadside tree. Now there is a sound in only one ear.

"Is it expensive?"

"It's not expensive."

It's just that when Sister Xiaoyan was in high school, she used the salary from her first part-time job to buy me a birthday gift, so I still blame myself a little.

Tang Ling took my headphones in her hand and looked at them carefully for a while. After that, he looked at me with a look on his face as if he had thought of some bad idea.

"Now, Xiaotian."

"What's wrong?"

She's not going to say anything particularly troublesome again. I'm mentally ready.

"Slightly, do something bad."

The "bad thing" Tang Ling said was that she wanted to go to the commissary on the first floor of the hospital. It seems that she was forbidden to leave the bed in principle. Still, according to her, being found out is not a fatal punishment.

I walked ahead to check what was going on in the hallway. When the nurses and doctors found out, they were gameover. We cautiously walked down the hallway to the stairs. Because if you take the elevator, it's easy to bump into the doctors and nurses.

Tang Ling grabbed the handrail and walked down the stairs with somewhat unsteady steps.

"Are you okay?"

"Don't underestimate me. I'm not an old woman. ”

Descending to the first floor, we finally arrived at the commissary without incident. I was at the entrance of the commissary, looking for anyone looking for us.

"Found it, Xiaotian, here!"

After a while, I heard Tang Ling's small shout.

I looked back, and I didn't know what she was happy about, waving like a child. If you look closely, she still has a bag of something in her hand.

"What is this?"

Tang Ling walked over and brought it to me.

"Take a closer look, this headset is the same as Xiaotian's headset."

Indeed, it is the exact same headset of the same maker. What is this, I thought. I didn't expect her to sneak out of the ward just for this.

"Please give me this."

Before I could stop her, Tang Ling had already handed the headphones to the big sister at the cash register.

"Even if you say that, you don't have any cash."

I calmly spat out.

"Dangdang—I'm the one with the magic card."

As she spoke, she pulled out a card she hadn't seen much before.

"It's a prepaid card in the hospital. As long as you have it, you can do a lot of things, such as buying snacks and the like. ”

"Then again, you don't have to buy it."

Obviously, I said so, but Tang Ling didn't answer anything and bought the headphones.

"You have to cherish it this time."

"It's not...... It's not like I didn't cherish it before. ”

It would have been nice to say "thank you", but I said something else.

At this time, Tang Ling suddenly had an expressionless face and stared straight at me, which made me feel a little uneasy.

"What, say whatever you want."

In the next moment, Tang Ling's body shook. Before I could even think about what the reason was, her body lunged at me. I reflexively reached out my hands and hugged her.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?"

"Xiaotian, sorry, it's a bit of a hassle."

After speaking, for some reason, Tang Ling seemed to laugh as if she was laughing at herself.

"My body can't use my strength at all."

"Now, you're kidding, right?"

"Really."

In front of the cashier counter of the commissary, we couldn't move as if we were hugging each other. Just kidding, I thought so again.

"Well, can you please help me call someone over?"

I asked my big sister at the cash register.

There were some riots. Frightened, doctors and nurses rushed over. They brought a stretcher bed, the kind of thing with wheels underneath, like a bed, and then carried Tang Ling up and sent it somewhere.

"Failed."

When she was sent away, Tang Ling looked at the ceiling and muttered.

Of course, I wasn't immune.

After walking for less than an hour, Aunt Chen Lu, who had just returned home, turned back again.

At the empty bedside of Tang Ling, Aunt Chen Lu and I sat face-to-face on chairs.

"Honestly, I don't really want you to come."

Aunt Chen Lu said bluntly. There was anger in her voice.

"I'm sorry."

I don't explain, I just keep apologizing.

"It's not just sad things, but happy things that can also be a burden on people, you know? That child, she's not ordinary. ”

Aunt Chen Lu said something like this. For a while, I quietly made her angry. There were dozens of words in my mind that I wanted to refute, but I couldn't get them out.

After another period of time, Tang Ling returned to the ward.

She was in a wheelchair and was pushed back by the nurse.

"Don't let her force her too much."

The nurse with the name tag on her chest that said "Mo Hong" said to me. She looked aggressive. I could only bow my head.

After that, Tang Ling climbed into bed with the help of Nurse Mo Hong and Aunt Chen Lu. She leaned against the wall, straightened up, and glanced at us one by one.

"Don't look at me with such a horrible expression. Everyone is exaggerating. After all, hasn't this happened a few times before? It's not because I went to the commissary. ”

"It's just because you're not in good shape, so it's possible that something bad will happen when you go out casually."

Nurse Mo Hong said to Tang Ling as if accusatory.

"You too, the matter is already so serious, don't say anything irresponsible and encourage Tang Ling. If you can, I hope you don't come back because of this......"

Just when Aunt Chen Lu wanted to continue to say something to me, a line of tears flowed from Tang Ling's eyes.

"I'm sorry."

Aunt Chen Lu shrank for a moment.

"Xiaotian didn't do anything wrong, I insisted on dragging him there, so don't be angry and say that kind of thing, if you want to be angry, be angry with me......"

Tang Ling cried with red eyes.

"Miss, calm down."

After Nurse Mo Hong finished speaking to Tang Ling, she looked at Aunt Chen Lu again. So Aunt Chen Lu also gave up with an expression and put down the shelf.

"I have something to do after that. Anyway, I'll go back first today. ”

After speaking, Aunt Chen Lu didn't look at me and walked straight out of the ward.

"You too, go back early. Well...... Everything should be done in moderation. ”

Nurse Mo Hong finally said this, and hurriedly walked out.

I was going to go back honestly, but while standing up, I looked back at Tang Ling. She was still crying.

Tang Ling said while crying while looking at me.

"Hey, it's just that I'm pretending to cry."

I almost slipped on my feet. If this is acting, it is really enough to enter the house.

"Well, it's not going to be that easy to stop."

Although Tang Ling's tears still fell, her tone returned to the same as usual.

"I'm sorry, though. Sorry to bother you. ”

"Anyway, don't cry yet."

I took out my handkerchief and handed it to her.

"Thank you...... Xiaotian, sometimes it's very gentle. ”

"'Sometimes' is redundant."

Then, I waited a little longer for her to stop crying.

"I've always felt a little uncomfortable, and I thought to myself, at least do something for Xiaotian."

She said in a tone that seemed to be ashamed of her failure. I was a little surprised that she actually thought so.

"I'll cherish those headphones."

After I finished speaking, she looked at me with a look of surprise.

"Don't put on such a strange face."

"That's what I did."

After saying that, she smiled a little shyly.

Guang'an in Sichuan, with no scenic spots or few celebrities, is a city with no characteristics.

There is concrete everywhere and there are chain stores everywhere. Generally speaking, it is impossible for us high school students to come to this city to play. The city is so far away that it hasn't changed much.

Since it took me two hours to get here by train, there was a reason.

In this city, lived Tang Ling's father.

When it comes to why her father lived so far away, as I guessed at the beginning, Tang Ling's parents were divorced.

Tang Ling's mother, Aunt Chen Lu, divorced her father who used to run the company, and Tang Ling was eventually raised by Aunt Chen Lu. However, she had never heard Aunt Chen Lu say the reason for the divorce. Even if she asked, she was just a fuss.

"Why are they getting divorced? I wanted to ask my father what the reason was. ”

This is Tang Ling's "what she wants to do before she dies" this time.

Anyway, wouldn't it be too heavy to leave this kind of thing to me as an outsider?

"Please. I'm serious, and I want to know why before I die. However, I don't have my father's phone number or email address. I don't know what to do anymore. ”

Tang Ling asked me seriously in an unusually serious tone.

"Do you mean ......?"

It occurred to me a little.

"Tang Ling has tested me for this commission so far?"

When I broke the crystal ball, she said she wanted me to do "what I wanted to do before I died" for her. That crystal ball was something she had received from her father, something she valued very much.

That crystal ball may be the scenery in Tang Ling's heart.

Only in that world of crystal balls, time seems to have stopped, only snowflakes keep falling.

The appearance of the house standing there may have reminded Tang Ling of the happy times in the past.

What she wants is communication with her father, not just a crystal ball? It's just because she can't meet her father herself that she wants me to take her place, doesn't she?

So far, it may have been like a mock exam for this commission. If you suddenly entrust someone else to do such a heavy task, it will also make people retreat. I think about things like this in my head.

“…… How can it be. It's just to make Xiaotian happy and happy doing something messy. ”