The man in the ward was being helped up by the doctor for a routine physical examination, and the wound on his body was still very painful, but after the operation, it was obviously much better than before.

The gauze was taken off his waist layer by layer, the man's skin trembled slightly with the doctor's movements, and he silently leaned on the body of someone beside him, his head lowered, and he couldn't see clearly whether he was awake or unconscious.

"The healing of the wound is okay, no infection has occurred, and there will be obvious scars in the future, you should be careful not to scratch with your hands during this time." After a sentence of care from the doctor who changed his dressing, he motioned to the person next to him to carefully put down the man's body, let him lie back on the hospital bed, and cover him with a white futon.

Then the doctor and nurse silently withdrew from the ward, and when they all left, there was an untold woman sitting in the corner of the ward. No, she seemed to have been sitting there all the time, staring intently at the person in the hospital bed.

After a long time, a gentle question finally came from the quiet place: "Are you feeling okay?" ”

The man on the hospital bed heard the sound and moved slightly, but probably because of the wound, he immediately stopped moving.

"It's okay, thank you for your concern. Who are you? ”

"Before I tell you who I am, can you hear me tell me a story? I'm also a similarly lonely person, just hoping someone can talk. The woman's voice was still gentle, and she continued, "You should just lie here and be bored, and listen to me by the way." ”

"Okay, then you can say it, but I may fall asleep in the process, and if I do, you can wake me up loudly. Because I think your voice is good. ”

"It's okay, just close your eyes and listen quietly, if you fall asleep, I'll leave quietly, and I'll come back to you when you wake up. I don't know how long ago this was, but you should think it was a long, long time ago, a little girl was born in a very, very poor place, she didn't have enough to eat, she didn't have enough clothes, she was constantly bullied by barbarians, and she was always bruised and purple. Later, the little girl's mother gave birth to a younger brother, but the barbarians continued to bully them. ”

The little girl's mother finally got tired of it and took her and her brother away from the place where there were barbarians and went to live in another place. But there they had no relatives, and they had to beg like beggars. Later, a 'bearskin man' took the mother and son, thinking that the 'bearskin man' would be able to let them live an ordinary life, but unexpectedly, not long after, the 'bearskin man' tore off his disguise, and he left his favorite mother and younger brother, and threw the little girl far, far away to beg. ”

"The little girl couldn't find her way home, and her mother fell ill with a disease that was difficult to cure, and the 'Bearskin Man' left the little girl's mother behind, leaving only her brother. The younger brother didn't know his sister was alive until the 'Bearskin Man' died, and she desperately searched for her sister, who was now living with her mother, who had been able to find her so easily. In the process, they heard that they had a half-brother who had also been abandoned by the barbarians and was now missing. ”

So they have one more goal in life, and they decide to use all their strength to find those relatives who have been lost, because they believe that the relatives who have been lost must also spare no effort to find them. Many years, many years have passed, and the older sister and younger brother have finally been reunited in a special way, do you think they will still love each other? ”

“…… I do not know. The man in the hospital bed waited a long time before he replied, "I really don't know!" Because I didn't feel that kind of love. ”

"It's not that you haven't felt it, but you haven't felt it with your heart, in fact, that kind of love has always been by your side, how many hours do you remember when you were a child?"

"When you were a child? ……”

"Is there anyone who smiles at you all the time?"

"Yes, the dean's mother is always smiling, and he will ask me if I am still hungry? Have you done your homework? He will also deliberately say angrily that you can't fight with children! And so on,"

"What else?"

"I don't know! I don't remember exactly...... I just remember that after I started working, because I couldn't afford to rent a place to live, my co-workers often took turns letting me live in their rental house, but I always ran away in embarrassment, because my co-workers' girlfriends were often in it, and I was most afraid that people would make fun of me for being a bachelor. At this point, the man in the hospital bed seemed to smile, and he gradually immersed himself in the memories, those occasional, good memories.

"You...... Is it my sister? You must be my sister, thank you for being able to come to see me at the end, maybe tomorrow I will be brought to court and sentenced to death, sister, do you know? I didn't want to kill people at first, but before I knew it, I had killed other people's lives in order to keep me alive. ”

"I know, I've heard about it, but all the while, I believe that my two younger brothers are equally kind, and you just want to be loved and taken seriously."

“…… I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I shouldn't have provoked that person, let alone betrayed my brother to that person, I'm sorry! The man on the hospital bed couldn't stop crying when he said this, he covered his face with a white futon, and desperately said sorry! It seems that if you don't talk about it, there is no way to say it again in this life.

"Well, let's survive for him, okay?"

"What?! Sister, what are you talking about?! The man on the hospital bed didn't seem to understand the meaning of the woman's words.

The woman continued, "Don't ask why, although the Thorn Bird has sung his last song, his shadow is still there. Do you know? When a person dies, it becomes a bubble in the air and gradually disappears. But if the shadow is all the while, people will not become bubbles and will not disappear. You've loved that man before, right? Then please use your lifetime to let the shadow of the thorn bird no longer disappear, and let the person you love have the courage to live again. ”

The cry echoed in the ward, as if the words had been dispersed with the air, and after a long, long time, there was only one man left in the ward, his tears had long since been wiped away, and a pair of dark pupils looked at the ceiling quietly, as if thinking about something, and as if he was not thinking about anything.