Text: Chapter 8: Origins

"Xiaolin, you should use the medicine, I think I should wait for the next batch of vaccines."

"The next batch will be three months away." I looked at Xiaofan, and I felt very uncomfortable.

"This medicine is not suitable for me, I asked the big cat, this person can maintain a life span of up to one and a half years, I have no amnesia, the situation is better than others, there is no problem with delaying it for another year, then I still have 4 chances." Xiao Fan smiled and continued, "Let's make a conclusion tomorrow after the inspection." ”

"Then I will try my best to urge them to make the vaccine and strive to shorten the time limit." After saying this, Xia Chen and Xiaofan looked at me with strange eyes.

"Look, that's the only thing I can do." I pursed my lips and sighed deeply and coherently.

Before leaving, Xiao Fan half-jokingly told me that if he fell ill, let me take care of Uncle Qian.

"How so! I study hard and I will definitely find a solution. "A look of the momentum that knows everything.

After Xia Chen and I left, we were going to find our parents who were still in the park, and we went to the dormitory to rest together, but we didn't even see a figure when we turned around. The breeze caresses and brings a burst of refreshment, as well as the aroma of the moon season and a ...... Alcoholic taste.

I didn't find anyone, so I chatted again. Xia Chen asked me why the Lin family and the Qian family were so good, saying that he had heard that the relationship between our two neighbors was good, but he didn't expect it to come to this point. "Is there any origin? It won't be just because it's a neighbor or because you grew up with Xiaofan. ”

"It was when we were kids." Xia Chen's words brought back memories of my big brother who felt safe in that village and the neighbor's house.

"Uncle Qian helped your family in times of difficulty?"

I shook my head, "But they did help our family." ”

"That's a little help. When you were a child, he saved you? Xia Chen turned his head and smiled very brightly, looking very confident in his reasoning.

"We didn't have a good relationship with each other before." While reminiscing, he muttered to himself. Xia Chen listened as he walked, and the street lights around him were lit up, but he couldn't compete with the sunset and occupied his own place.

Brother Xiaofan was very timid when he was a child, thanks to Uncle Qian's careful teaching. And I'm very bold, and I'm free-range. The difference in family education style leads to prejudice among parents against their children and their parents. The way of education is different, and of course the neighbors don't get along very well. So the two families became enemies.

Uncle Qian's requirements for Xiaofan are almost harsh, and Xiaofan's crying can be heard in my yard every day after school. I pity him, but I don't like him because he basically has no friends. Except for being able to talk to the children brought by the aunt who sold watermelons, or begging for mercy from Uncle Qian, he was always silent the rest of the time. He didn't have the heart to make friends, it just meant that he would be scolded and beaten more. We don't want to make him a friend, in our eyes, he looks like a freak, a freak who can only read books that Uncle Qian has cultivated.

It was a dusk, with a more beautiful sunset than the hospital park, and a layer of red sunset lingered next to the sunset, which set off the gradually sinking sun more beautiful, more solemn, and more precious.

Even though it was getting dark, my friends and I were still running freely outside, loving the scenery from the bottom of our hearts. The crying and pity of Xiaofan heard from home were blown clean by the oncoming wind, leaving only the whirring wind and the shouts of friends.

We ran all the way through the ridges, then to the fields, and trampled on a few clusters of wheat seedlings that had been planted, and finally ran into a grove to the east of the village.

I stumbled on one foot and tumbled on the ground, feeling something tangled around me. When I stopped, I struggled to get up, only to realize that I had been entangled in several thick dead vines. There were thin thorns on the dead vines, which had already scratched my arms and legs, and there was still a faint pain. I looked at the group of friends, told them I couldn't get out, and told them to save me.

Several of them tore at the vine, but they also found the thorns on the vine, and looked at their scratched little hands, and they all gave up. One of them and my best playmate left me to find an adult. The others looked at me as I was trapped, like thinkers motionless and thinking of what to do. I shouted anxiously, but they were still playing the role of wise men very calmly.

At that time, I was a little scared, I struggled hard, and the pain in my body was increasing, but I was able to buy myself some space to survive. I think I can comb the lines and untie the dead vine like a tangled yarn, but it will definitely leave me with a lot of wounds and it will take me a long time. In the face of useless them, I decided to try on my own.

It was getting dark, and in the blink of an eye the sun was almost gone, and the sunset always disappeared so quickly, like happy times are always so short. But I don't think I'm going to be happy and horrible things to happen right now.

Sure enough, they came up with a way to cut them with a knife or burn them with fire, and because they couldn't find the knives, they sent a man home to get matches, and I could come out by burning them all, just like burning a rope. When one of them heard this, he was scared and ran away crying, saying that he would sue us. Naturally, this was ridiculed, and we called it a heroic thing, including me who was trapped and who rescued people, who would be heroes who got out of danger in danger.

The matches were brought, and the mere striking of the matches delayed for a long time. One of the little boys snatched the matchbox, laughed at the child who had spent a long time striking the match, and with a wave of his hand, a small flame appeared in a clean arc.

But the flame burned too fast, because frightened by the flame, and in an instant the match was thrown to the ground and burned with dead vines. They tried to extinguish the flames, but the fire did not subside, and the ensuing wind accelerated the spread of the flames. I felt the temperature, from warm to hot in the slightly cold wind.

I screamed as hard as I could, but the group of friends fled in fear, and just as I was about to get burned, someone poured a bucket of water on me.

"Guess who."

"Little fan." Xia Chen nodded, accompanied by a smile, "What a hero to save the beauty!" ”

"If you don't burn to death without him, you will be disabled." I looked up at the faint stars in the sky, and the lights on the ground were much dimmer. He lowered his head and continued to whisper his recollections, and his steps slowed down even more because he was tired of walking.

At that time, although Xiaofan poured a bucket of water, the fire was still burning. But the dead vines had been burned off several times, and I stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.

Brother Xiaofan shouted for me to tear up the dead vines by myself and come out quickly. That's when I realized I was in danger – the fire was still burning. Protected by the water splashed on my body, I struggled to tear open the last few vines that were wrapping around me.

Later, the adults arrived, but because the best friend and I were delayed on the way to report the news, I forgot for a while just because I wanted to eat the snacks his mother bought, so they were late. After I came, I only saw the dead vines burned to ashes, the dirty me, and Xiaofan with the bucket, and the group of children had already run away without a trace.

"Then your two families will be reconciled, and they will be like a family, right?"

"There are bumps and bumps in the middle, and there are unsatisfactory places, but along the way, it is like a relative."

"So Xiaofan has become your most trusted big brother?"

"Well, he is also the smartest, he reads a lot, he is the most diligent, and he has a good brain." I laughed, "He is the pride of our family, you must make a good medicine so that he can survive well." ”

Xia Chen raised his right hand, raised his index and middle fingers, and made a sworn gesture, "I promise, I will do my best." ”

At this time, three figures walked in the distance, it was my parents and Uncle Qian. After asking, I found out that they were out of the hospital, had dinner, and brought snacks to Brother Xiaofan. Then I remembered that Xia Chen and I didn't have dinner, so I bought two boxed lunches on the side of the road and got in the car to go to school.

Tomorrow I went to the hospital for a check-up, and my parents came for two days and talked about the things at home, the farm work at home and the little stupid black and yellow dog at home. Because he came in too much hurry, he only threw some food to him, and he didn't give TOEFL to others. Thinking that the little food would not last for a few days, the little stupid dog's life was in danger, and they were in a hurry to go home.

But the inspection still needs to be done, and it will be done after they are delayed. I was really tired from today's day of travel, lying on the bed and taking out my mobile phone to check the time, and seeing the combination lock that I didn't remember. Birthday? Dormitory number? Special dates or ages? Undoubtedly, this string of numbers seems mysterious and attractive to me. But since you know you don't know, you don't have to force it. Put down the phone, cover the quilt, and soon fall asleep.

The next morning was bright and dark, bright with the bright sunshine and dark with the news that seemed to be already true.

After gathering with Uncle Qian in Xiaofan's ward, we walked into a consultation room under the leadership of the big cat. The big cat handed us a form for each of us, filling in the information with personal information and the content of the test. Once you have verified that everything is correct, you will have to sign your name on a piece of paper.

"How long does it take for the results to come down?" I asked the big cat.

"Half a day." The big cat replied skillfully. I hid my expression, thought about things, and made my own little calculations.

"Mom, go home after the check-up, I'm waiting for the results." I proposed, a little apprehensive. I just don't want them to see the results.

"Let's go back together, won't it be half a day." Dad was surprised.

At this point, Xia Chen has fully understood my intentions. "No, Uncle Lin, Xiaolin still has to work here, she is taking leave to go home, and she can also help Uncle Qian take care of Xiaofan, right." Xia Chen's hint of hard work encouraged my father to let me stay here.

Dad also listened to Xia Chen's words, told me to take good care of myself and Xiaofan, and told Uncle Qian that he would take care of the family's affairs, telling him not to worry.

Then, after looking at the slip, I signed it decisively.