In this way, Chen Yue's days began to be spent in the hospital. A few days ago, his mother came to visit and take care of him every morning, and later, he told his mother that there was no need to worry about him, and there was no need to give up his hard-won job for him. As a result, my mother changed from visiting every day to once every three days, sometimes every other week. One night, he sat up from his hospital bed, took two pills of rifampicin (an anti-tuberculosis pill) and looked out the window. He lifted the sheets, put on his shoes and stood up, and walked forward with small steps without making a sound. The other patients were sleeping upside down, and he had to be careful not to disturb them. Although the lights in the room were turned off, the headlights were still on in the hallway.

As he passed the desk and was about to go downstairs, a nurse stopped him, "Hey, wait, where are you going?" ”

"Go for a walk."

The sky was drizzling, Chen Yue stood under the eaves, looked up at the clear raindrops in the lights, and then looked at the distant sky, it was pitch black. Looking at it, he couldn't help but walk down the steps, in the rain, raised his face to the top, and closed his eyes. The rain fell on his cheeks and hair, and he felt a hint of cheerfulness, an inexplicable but intense feeling of pleasure. He just stood still, enjoying his pleasure. After a while, he slowly opened his eyes, letting the rain drip into his eyes. Closing his eyes, his body unconsciously swayed from side to side, he didn't know how long he had been standing here, and he really wanted to fall asleep like this.

"Oh! Who, what are you doing? The nurse behind him shouted at him, her tone sounding very angry.

Chen Yue thought that the question was not for him, so she didn't answer.

"Hey, hey, hey." The nurse impatiently stepped forward and said, "They all have tuberculosis, and they are still raining here?" Isn't it crazy, hurry back and hurry back, you can't catch a cold, especially in the treatment stage. What the? Going for a walk? It's raining, well, if you want to go out for a walk, you can borrow an umbrella from us, right? ”

He borrowed an umbrella and walked out of the lobby of the inpatient building and strolled along the hospital road. When I reached the end of the highway and turned to walk back, I looked up and saw the windows above the inpatient building, and the windows on several floors were still lit. I can't see it, I can't see it at all like a hospital. How many people are in the building in front of you, how many patients, how many people are looking forward to being discharged? For the first time in his life, he was so sick that he needed to be hospitalized, which made him unconsciously understand one thing, it turned out that there are diseases in this world that cannot be solved by taking medicine.

Every day I had to deal with hospital beds, needles, and potions, and my life became more and more boring, and the back of my right hand was full of puncture wounds, which increased every day. He imagined that if it was two months later, he really didn't dare to make sure that the blood vessels in his hands were not enough. Secondly, I had to endure hearing the whining and complaining of the patients in my neighbor's bed every day. Sometimes, their family members knelt on the edge of the bed, their hands stretched forward on the sheets, and they cried out in bursts of heart. It is the continuation of the disease, the negative effect of the treatment stage, and the blow to the mind of the body organs. Is there any other explanation for the cry in the hospital room, which is simply a cry of hatred for the disease? The potion for the treatment of tuberculosis is different from the usual potion in that the ingredients in the medicine are very harmful to the liver. After three weeks of treatment, a nurse came to remind him that he had to order liver protection tablets quickly. Medicines filled the table. Chen Yue couldn't stay in the hospital, and sometimes, when the medicine fell out all day, he asked the front desk nurse to take leave to go home at night.

It was the fourth Monday of Chen Yue's hospitalization, and at seven o'clock in the evening, he had just come back from dinner downstairs. As he walked the path leading to the building, his eyes caught eye on a man sticking out of his head on the second floor.

"Ahh Chen Yue. Jiang Yang shouted loudly, waving his hand vigorously, "Chen Yue," and then, Xiao Ai's face also appeared on the window, "It's really him." ”

Chen Yue hurriedly ran up, jumped directly over the three steps, walked through the hall, and ran up to the second floor. When he met the neighbor brother and sister, he didn't have time to catch his breath, and asked excitedly, "God! How did you guys get here? ”

The two greeted him outside the door of the ward, and they walked into the room as they spoke.

"Come and visit you, you won't be unwelcome." Jiang Yang said with a smile.

"How so, how did you find this?"

"You're sloppy enough, how many days have you not been to school? And don't tell me why I didn't come. Xiao Ai and I have looked for you a few times, but you are not at home. Thankfully, your mom was at home today and learned that you... You're sick and you're in the hospital. ”

Chen Yue took off her shoes, got into the sheets, looked at the two people standing beside his bed, and said, "Oh! I don't want you to know, Jiang Yang, you understand what my illness means, right? Xiao Ai, you must know it too, right? Why are you coming? It's not a good place, look at the words on the door..."

"It doesn't matter if it's good or bad." Jiang Yang immediately interrupted him, showed a determined expression, and said, "Since I already know that you are here, I have to come and see you." "That's right!" Xiao Ai also said very firmly on the side.

Listening to the words of the two, Chen Yue lowered her head, not knowing what to say, and couldn't find words that were enough to repay their kindness.

"Are you feeling better?" Jiang Yang sat down on the stool next to the bed and asked. Xiao Ai walked to the table, picked up the medicine bottle and looked at the instructions on it.

"Don't worry, it's much better."

"Oh? The doctor said it was okay to be cured? ”

"No problem."

"No problem." Jiang Yang smiled briskly, "You have to get better early and be discharged from the hospital early, it's too boring on weekends." ”

"There's still a month."

"Well, it looks like we're going to have to stay at home again this time."

There was a moment of silence in thought.

"You can also go to Gu Ling." Chen Yue finally said.

Jiang Yang shook his head and replied, "She is not like us, she can come out if she wants to." ”

"Is it—" Chen Yue leaned back on the head of the bed regretfully, staring at the sheets under her hand in a daze.

Xiao Ai had already finished reading all the medicines on the table and approached the bedside. She hesitated for a moment, brought a stool from the adjacent bed, sat down next to her brother, and asked, "Do you have to drop water every day?" ”

"Hmm." Chen Yue nodded.

Replaced by Jiang Yang's explanation of the medicine bottle, the medicine that needs to be taken for this disease is indeed worthy of curiosity and attention.

"Have you been hospitalized and haven't gone home until today?" Xiao Ai asked.

"I've been back twice."

"Oh! So why not come to us? Xiao Ai asked again dissatisfiedly. Jiang Yang also turned his head from the medicine bottle, "I finally went back a few times and didn't come to play with us, you are really." ”

"I'm sorry, mainly because I don't want you to know about my illness, and if I go back in the future, I will definitely look for you."

Jiang Yang sat back on the stool, and the three of them talked together again, and then the brother and sister took their leave. Chen Yue got out of bed and stood by the window, watching the two of them cross the street from a distance, gradually turning a fork in the road until they left.

He was very surprised and surprised by the arrival of his two friends. When someone from the other beds comes to visit, they will definitely bring something to eat, fruit, bread, or something. They didn't come with anything with them. However, Chen Yue believes that this is better. He always felt that the brother and sister did not come to visit him for the sake of fulfilling their obligations between friends, but out of the instinct of friendship. How could he not cherish such a friendship.

Without his tablemates and Chen Yue to talk with him, the whole day's class became boring. When the teacher lectures, he buries his head in the book and closes his eyes to recuperate, or he holds his chin with one hand and is drowsy, and if he is still interested, he listens to the Chinese class. Regarding Chen Yue's long-term absence in the classroom, many students in the class came to ask him. The first person to inquire was Zhang Pingping, she was full of curiosity, and when she learned that Chen Yue was hospitalized because she was seriously ill, the brisk smile on her face suddenly disappeared, and she became worried again and again, asking this and that. What kind of answer should he give her? What should I give you an answer? He had to be on the lookout for words that made people tremble just by hearing those three words.

At the end of school, he was cleaning up his desk when someone approached him. "How?" It's Xiao Yu Lei. He sat on Chen Yue's empty chair.

"What about my sister?"

"Yes, what's been the latest news?"

"Dynamic?"

"Let's say her attitude towards me."

"No, it's still the same," Jiang Yang sighed, "I tried to persuade me again yesterday, but it was still useless." ”

Xiao Yu Lei's face was full of sadness, and he stretched out a hand, "Help me give this note to her." ”

"Okay."

"Tell her I'm willing to treat her to a meal."

"Really?" He didn't expect that.

"Can I still be fake?"

"Okay, I got it."

The two stood up and went downstairs home together.

"I really want to admire you, if it were me, I would have given up a long time ago." As he descended the steps, Jiang Yang said.

"It's important to insist on such things, and you should understand it, ah—can you tell me about your experience?" Xiao Yu Lei asked a question.

"My experience?" He understood what Xiao Yu Lei meant, and after smiling self-deprecatingly, he said: "How can I have any experience, that is, I like her, she likes me." ”

"Oh? Love at first sight, all of you? ”

He couldn't answer, nodded and passed the question perfunctorily.

Jiang Yang returned home, just 6 o'clock. He pushed open the door, but Xiao Ai was not in the room. "Mom, my sister hasn't come back yet?" He asked his mother, who was busy in the kitchen.

"No, how can she walk as fast as you ride a bike?"

His mother persuaded him, and he went back to his room. After 15 minutes, he didn't want to wait any longer, and basically expected where his sister was, so he walked out of the room and greeted his mother: "Mom, I'll pick up my sister." ”

He took his bike up the road and stopped in front of a hospital. Sure enough, he stepped up to the inpatient building, and in a ward, he saw his sister. My sister was lying on the table next to the hospital bed, her head bowed, holding a pen in her hand, as if she was doing her homework. Today, instead of going to meet them right away, he walked through the door, because the bed was leaning against the window inside, and it was difficult for them to see anyone walking by the door. He listened from behind the walls.

"Xiao Ai," Chen Yue sat at the head of the bed, looking out the window, "It's getting dark, you better go home quickly." ”

"It's okay, my parents aren't home." Xiao Ai replied.

"But it's not safe to travel when it's late."

Xiao Ai stopped writing with her fingers, raised her head, looked out the window, and then faced Chen Yue, showing a hint of a smile, "It's okay, it's not too late to finish writing this question." She said.

Next is Chen Yue's voice interpreting the question. Hearing this, Jiang Yang walked into the ward. He slowed his steps and slowly approached his sister's back. When he noticed that Chen Yue had noticed him, he quickly raised his index finger and put it between his lips, asking him not to make a sound. He put his mouth close to his sister's ear, "Hey! Xiao Ai. He shouted softly.

"Oh!" Xiao Ai was stunned, quickly put down the pen, turned his head, and saw that his brother was doing something, raised his fist and knocked it on his arm, "Brother, do you want to scare me to death?" ”

Jiang Yang laughed and sat down beside Chen Yue's bed.

"Why are you here?" Xiao Ai asked.

"Come and visit Chen Yue, what's the matter? Don't allow my brother to watch? ”

"Allowed, allowed," - Xiao Ai glanced back - "as long as you want, okay?" ”

"Joke joke, don't be angry, my dear sister." Jiang Yang stood up again, "I just have something to show you." ”

As he spoke, he threw the folded piece of paper on Xiao Ai's homework book.

"What? Oh, what is it? Xiao Ai couldn't write anymore, so he took the note out of his homework book and put it in the corner of the table. What is it? She stared at her brother and asked again.

"He gave it to you."

"Ouch, it's him again." Xiao Ai dismisses it and throws the note back into her brother's hand. Jiang Yang didn't catch it, and the note fell down his coat on the hospital floor, and he bent down to pick it up and put it back on the table. "At least check it out," he said.

Ai closed the workbook. "Why do you want to see it?" She glared at him dissatisfied, "Do you have any other instructions besides letting me see the note?" You can't just look at it, right? ”

"That's smart!" Jiang Yang sat down and continued, "Today he came to me on purpose, saying that he wanted to think of Jiang Xiaoai and wanted to ask you to have a meal." ”

After listening to his brother's words, Xiao Ai got up and stood still, and put the finished homework into his schoolbag. Now, she said cautiously: "Don't mention him to me again, I hate him, and if you tell him like this, just say that I said it." ”

He had heard his sister's words a few months earlier, and even if the words were different, the meaning was much the same, and he felt that he was just doing more.

"Listen to me, dear sister, he- said he would always hold on..."

"Stop!" Xiao Ai stopped, "Didn't I say, don't mention him again!" ”

Jiang Yang pursed his lips and lowered his head and looked at Chen Yue. My sister was almost throwing a tantrum, and he couldn't go along. If he said something wrong, he would probably make a big fuss, in the hospital, in front of Chen Yue.

Picking up the schoolbag, Xiao Ai said goodbye to Chen Yue, said good night, and left. The elder brother hurriedly kept up with the pace, "Hey, Jiang Yang." Chen Yue shouted out to him behind him, and he stopped and walked back.

"Who wrote that note?"

"Xiao Yu Lei."

"Got it, go back quickly."

"Well, I hope you get out of the hospital soon." With that, he ran downstairs.

The next day, Jiang Yang conveyed his sister's straightforward refusal to Xiao Yu Lei in the most euphemistic way.

"Doesn't work?" Xiao Yu Lei asked.

"It won't work." He replied.

"Isn't there any other way?"

"I've exhausted all the methods I can use, but you know—" he paused, thought for a moment, and then continued, "She has someone she likes, and if she really likes someone, she should be determined and can't change her mind, especially girls." ”

"Isn't it a boy?"

"And, of course, some boys."

"It's quite stubborn, by the way, the person she likes still meets her?"

"Maybe—maybe." His answer was so ambiguous that even he could hear it. "I'm not a nanny who stays with my sister 24 hours a day, and I don't know who she wants to meet." He added.

"Yes." Xiao Yu Lei said. But although he said so, he had his own thoughts, he knew what Jiang Yang lied in front of him, and he didn't know what the person's name was, but it was clear that the two had met and known each other a few years ago. However, if you think about it, they are neighbors who have grown up, and it makes sense for him to protect him.

They were standing side by side in the hallway, looking at the scenery in front of the school building. "Alas-" Xiao Yu Lei sighed deeply, "Now the woman," he said, he shook his head and took a deep breath, "Alas-very hypocritically-this is not good, that is not good." To ask for this, and to want that, it's really hypocritical. ”

Summing up your failures? Do you want him to agree with such a view?

He did not approve, but did not oppose, but remained neutral and silent. He gently patted Xiao Yu Lei's shoulder.

"Do you think I still have a chance?" Xiao Yu Lei asked suddenly.

"It's hard for me to make a judgment and say yes or no. Opportunity doesn't come out for nothing, you know. ”

"Oh!" Xiao Yu Lei shouted, "Yes! I know best, of course, you have to fight for the opportunity yourself, but do you know Jiang Yang? For the sake of your sister, I did everything I could, and I tried my best to fight for it, clearing the superfluous obstacles, and focusing my time and energy on her alone, but do you see, does it work? No! With that, he quickly stopped, weighing what he had said, hoping that the listener did not understand the full meaning of the words.

"I understand, I understand." Jiang Yang continued to pat Xiao Yu Lei's shoulder aimlessly, "I will help you continue to persuade your sister, don't worry, I hope your persistence can finally impress her." As he spoke, he pushed the boat down the river and nodded his head, "Yes, I believe you can." ”

It didn't take long for him to vaguely see Xiao Yu Lei shaking his head again and again in the afterglow. There is no way to do it. Albeit out of sympathy, that's all he can do. He hoped that this person could withdraw from it and give himself and Xiao Ai a quiet life.