Chapter 27: Karma and Retribution
My sister took Wu Liu and me towards the third floor of the hospital, where there was a strong smell of medicine, which made me feel like I wanted to vomit.
"I'm sorry, but pets can't be brought in the hospital."
Before I entered the ward, I was stopped by a woman, and my sister glanced at the sunspot in my arms, and said embarrassedly: "Look at me, I forgot, you can't bring cats in here." ”
"That?" I touched the sunspot and didn't know what to do.
"I'll take it with me and wait for you at the entrance of the hospital." Wu Liu said and took the sunspot away from my arms, I could only nod and let Wu Liu take the sunspot away, and I followed my sister into the non-ward.
There were six bunks in the ward, and the first thing I saw was my father, who was sitting by the window, smoking a cigarette secretly.
"Dad, you can't smoke here." My sister lowered her voice and said to her father.
The father pushed his glasses after listening, smoked the cigarette butt in his hand unhurriedly, and then raised his head with a hint of anger in his eyes: "Who let you go for so long, and, Xiaoxi, you are no longer a child, don't let your sister pick it up after just a few steps." ”
After his father finished speaking, he got up and patted his clothes, and said that he had other things to do, so he left first, and let his sister watch here.
When he said these words, he didn't even look at me directly, nor did he ask any questions or concerns about the bloody strip on my face, and when he had finished his orders, he walked out of the ward, which made me feel an indescribable discomfort in my heart.
"Grandpa, the little rhino has come to see you." My sister turned and walked towards the first bed by the window, and called softly.
Only then did I realize that lying on this hospital bed, the unusually shriveled old man was actually my grandfather?
"Little rhino, come over and talk to grandpa." My sister stomped my arm as she spoke, and I stepped forward in a bit of a daze, staring straight at his face.
From his sunken cheeks, I did see a trace of grandpa's appearance, and I wanted to call him, but my lips trembled several times but I couldn't call him.
"Talk to grandpa." My sister reminded.
"Grandpa!" I choked up and cried out, tears rolling down my face.
Grandpa just looked at me with half-squinted eyes, without the slightest expression on his face, as if he didn't know me anymore.
"Sister, what's wrong with grandpa?" I didn't bother to wipe the tears from my face, and asked my sister anxiously.
My sister glanced at my grandfather, pulled me aside, and said that my grandfather, the doctor, said that when people are old, all organs in the body are failing.
Grandpa was afraid that he wouldn't be able to last long, and she thought that grandpa and I should be the closest to her, so she asked me to come and see grandpa.
"No, grandpa's body is obviously good, how can it be said that exhaustion is exhaustion." I don't believe it, but grandpa does look like he's dying now.
"Don't say you don't believe it, I don't believe it either, but this is a hospital, we have to believe the doctor." My sister said helplessly.
After thinking about it carefully, I turned around and walked towards the outside of the ward, but my sister didn't know what I was doing, so she hurriedly chased me out.
I went straight to the gate of the hospital and went to find Wu Liu, I thought Wu Liu would definitely be able to save my grandfather.
When I walked to the gate of the hospital, I found Wu Liu sitting on the steps, basking in the sun, with a leisurely face.
"Old Wu, I beg you to save my grandfather." I didn't beat around the bush and just said what I wanted.
Wu Liu still looked calm and relaxed, shook his head slowly, opened his slightly purple lips and said, "I can't save it." ”
"You haven't even gone in to see my grandfather, how do you know you can't save it?" I was a little angry, thinking that this Wu Liu just didn't want to save grandpa.
"Your grandma is not incompetent, she should have counted it before she died, but your grandfather is still on the way, this is fate." Wu Liu said very indifferently, and didn't seem to take human life in his eyes.
"Even if my grandfather did something wrong, you won't die without help." I hurriedly tugged at Wu Liu's arm.
Wu Liu raised his head, the expression on his face was not angry and arrogant, and I couldn't help but let go of my hand.
"Your grandfather's experience can be regarded as karma, did he like to eat snake meat before? That bamboo leaf green also smelled the smell of his companion on his body, so he absorbed the essence of your grandfather. Wu Liu paused after speaking, and didn't forget to take a sip of wine at this time.
"Is my grandfather going to die soon?" Once again, my tears were uncontrollable.
Unexpectedly, Wu Liu shook his head, he said that at that time, Zhu Yeqing specially left half his life for his grandfather in order to support his sister, and his grandfather was paralyzed or a vegetative person at most.
I know that paralysis is immovable, and there are paralyzed old people in the village, but I don't understand what it means to be in a vegetative state, but as long as my grandfather doesn't have to die, then my hanging heart will be put down.
"But, why did Zhu Yeqing want to break up her sister?" I looked at Wu Liu, I really don't understand this question, could it be that the big snake is still afraid that my sister will not succeed.
"Your sister?" Wu Liu opened his mouth, only said two words, and then stopped.
"Little rhino, what are you running, you are not familiar with this town, don't run around, what should I do if I get lost?" My sister ran over out of breath.
The topic between me and Wu Liu naturally came to an abrupt end, I don't want my sister to know about these gods and ghosts, she was born and raised in the town, but I am afraid and I don't believe in those things.
"It's not too early, grandpa has a nurse to take care of him, I'll take you home and finish eating first." My sister said to me and Wu Liu.
"This?" I was a little hesitant.
After all, I haven't been to that "home" for more than ten years, and now I want to go so suddenly, I feel very uneasy, and when I see my father today, he didn't let me go home.
"Let's go, I'm still stunned what to do." My sister took me by the hand, and when she saw me standing still, she turned to look at me.
"No, is this what Mom and Dad mean?" I asked, pursing my lips.
My sister was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "Yes, it's what my parents mean, in fact, my parents are cold on the outside and hot on the inside, they miss you very much, let's go." ”
Hearing my sister say this, my heart suddenly warmed, but immediately I thought of Wu Liu, Wu Liu sent me to town, I can't leave him alone.
"Is it okay for Elder Wu to go back with me?" I asked my sister.
My sister hesitated a little, nodded and agreed.
The three of us crossed the road and walked in the direction of home, in fact, I always thought that it might be that my parents were not in good condition, so I couldn't raise three children in one go.
However, when I saw the five-story compound of my father's house, I was stunned, this house was better than the village chief's house.
"Bang bang, grandma, I'm back." My sister asked me and Wu Liu to wait on the side, she tapped on the door and called grandma.
Grandma and I have never met, I know that grandma's family was still a big landlord before, very rich, and went to a foreign school before, it should be everyone's lady, it should be very self-contained.
"Squeak!" The door opened quickly, and I saw a woman in a reddish-brown cotton coat with a mink scarf around her neck.
She has a lot of wrinkles on her face, and there is powder stuck in the wrinkles, and her lips are painted red, which looks weird.
"Grandma, this is Xiao Xi, your little granddaughter." My sister hurriedly pulled me in front of this woman.
After she squinted and looked me up and down carefully, she made a "tsk" sound, sighed, shook her head and said, "Look, what kind of dress is this, and what's wrong with this face?" If the girl's face is not well maintained, how can she get married in the future. ”
"Little rhino, call grandma." My sister gently touched my arm.
I looked at my grandmother in front of me, her eyes were full of disgust, and the word grandma was stuck in my throat and I couldn't say anything.
"Forget it, what's it called, this country person, I don't expect her to be more disciplined, let her enter through the back door, remember to let her take a shower and change clothes first, it's too dirty." Grandma didn't shy away from saying these words in front of me.
I gritted my teeth, if it weren't for the fact that there was nowhere to go in this town, I would have turned around and left.
"This is Elder Wu, can he live here with me temporarily?" As soon as I looked at my sister's embarrassed expression, I knew that my sister didn't do anything at all when she talked in this house.
"Beggars? You're going to let a beggar live here? Don't think about it, who do you think you are, and you will turn the other way around? Grandma said, glaring at her sister: "Hurry up and arrange it." ”
After saying that, she closed the door directly.
My sister looked at me embarrassedly, and then looked at Wu Lao.
"Sister, we don't live anymore, I still have some money on me, and Wu Lao and I can go to the hotel." I'm not angry when I say this, but I can't leave Wu Liu behind.
"How's that going to work?" My sister was a little anxious.
Wu Liu smiled, sent the sunspot into my arms, raised his hand and gently stroked my head and said, "In this town, I have some acquaintances, you don't have to worry." ”
"But?" I hugged the sunspot and felt very sorry for Wu Liu.
He sent me here, but I didn't even fight for a place to live.
But Wu Liu waved his hand nonchalantly, saying that if I wanted to find him, then go to the funeral home in the town to find him, and before I could answer, he had already disappeared from my sight.
"I'm sorry, Xiaoxi, it's my sister who didn't arrange it, come, come with my sister." My sister led me around the back door, and here I went directly to the hallway of the living room, and my sister's room was in the first room of the hallway.
She asked me to leave Kuroko in her room, then took her clothes and took me to the bathroom, which also has a water heater, and when I turn on the switch, hot water gushes out.
My sister helped me close the bathroom door and told me, "Little rhino, the strip of cloth on your face is so dirty, change it too, or grandma?" "My sister is afraid that my grandmother will be angry.
I was also afraid that my sister would be difficult to do, so I obediently said yes, but when I ripped off the strip of cloth and looked in the mirror, I screamed in fright.