Chapter 16: Dinah
It has been half a month since I received Dinah's letter, and the three of us have come to the UK with Lei Hong and Dong Bing, who came in a hurry, and because of the language barrier, I found a Chinese student studying in the UK to act as an interpreter for this trip to the UK.
Stepping on the white floor tiles, I came to the entrance of a more famous hospital in Europe - Wellington Hospital in the United Kingdom.
I checked the shipping address on the envelope, and it was here. But the three of us couldn't help but wonder why Dinah asked us to meet here.
After Dong Bing became a father, his personality has changed greatly, and when he first met, he left the child without saying a word, and he groped for the stubble on his chin and said, "Could it be that your son is sick?" It's serious, that's why Dinah asked you to take a look? ”
Lei Hong also nodded: "I also think it may be the case, but let's not think about it so much, go in and find Dina to know the situation, I don't think she will be able to make a bad deal in this kind of place." ”
I didn't speak, let the escort's interpreter take us into the hospital, and after asking the front desk with the patient number provided by Dinah, I went up to the fourth floor and walked in the corridor of the ward.
Dong Bing looked at my nervous appearance and said with a smile: "Even when I saw those dragons or monsters, I didn't see you nervous like this, but I am from here, I think when my wife entered the delivery room to give birth, I was also anxious to rush in outside, that feeling is as uncomfortable as living a year, rest assured that it's okay!" ”
His comforting words relieved me a little, but the tension was still there.
"It's here! This is it! The interpreter stood in front of the door and pointed to the number of the room on the door.
I raised my hand and hesitated to knock on the door and go in, or push it open and go in. The interpreter didn't seem to understand my situation, and smiled and knocked on the door twice, but there was no woman's voice inside, but in a few seconds he saw a tall Englishman open the door.
Could it be Dina's husband in England?
I couldn't help muttering in my heart, of course there was no jealousy or anything like that, after all, everyone had no emotional foundation, it was just a dewy mandarin duck show, so the three of us were just slightly stunned, and then smiled politely.
The Englishman who opened the door glanced at us with a blank face, leaned to the side, moved the doorway out of the way, and stood aside.
As soon as we entered, we found that there were several stout, high-nosed, blue-eyed English men gathered around the bed, and when we entered, we all got out of the way, and a withered woman lay on a bed covered with white sheets.
It's been four years, and the short hair that originally reached the ears is gone, and the long black hair with a little withered yellow is scattered over the shoulders, and the delicate face looks holy in the sunlight under the window.
It's just that I'm much thinner than four years ago, and I've lost a lot of weight.
I stood in front of her window, looked at her quietly, and said softly: "You have lost weight, the old man often says that women are too angry to give birth to children, do you have the money to hire such a bodyguard, but you don't have the money to hire a confinement sister-in-law?" ”
The woman sitting on the hospital bed put down the book and noticed me, only to realize that there seemed to be something wrong with her eyes, without the charming eyes that she had at the beginning, wandering and drifting, as if she couldn't see us.
She must have been a little tired with her eyes, closed her eyes slightly, raised a smile at the corner of her mouth, and said, "Is this concerned about me?" ”
As she spoke, she waved her hand, and the tall British men gathered around the bed left the room and went outside.
"I didn't think you were quite powerful." Dong Bing casually picked up the fruit on the bedside table and said, "Why don't you follow Old Man Liu's unlucky toss in the country, now look at you like this, it's really miserable, or you can go back with us." Bamboo is also a nostalgic person......"
Before he could finish his sentence, a delicate silver pistol was already pointed at him.
"Get out!" Dinah said coldly as she was yesterday.
Dong Bing bit the apple, immediately raised his hands, nodded again and again, pulled up Lei Hong and exited the ward. I chuckled and said, "My temper hasn't changed much since I'm sick like this." ”
Dina put down her gun and leaned on her pillow weakly, sweating profusely and panting, before she said after a while: "Don't be strong, maybe what you see now is not a living person talking to you, but a corpse, or even two." ”
Two? I instantly understood what she meant.
Looking at her sick and panting appearance, still holding on like a tigress with a little illness guarding her cubs, I have to say that at this moment my heart was moved beyond measure, after a long time, I exhaled and said, "What about the child? ”
Dinah tilted her head, looking a little dazed at the white shroud hanging to her right.
I walked over and lifted the corner of the white cloth, and saw a little boy sitting on a blanket playing with toys, and seemed to sense that someone was looking at him, and then looked at me.
Looking at each other's eyes, looking at the child's innocent and bright smile.
I felt like my blood was burning, a warm heat rose from the bottom of my heart, warm and indescribably comfortable, I don't know if this is the kind of feeling that people often say is connected by blood.
"Isn't it like you?" Dinah looked at me, and at the moment she couldn't tell what kind of look it was, and she looked a little weak.
I put down the white cloth, rubbed my hands together and nodded.
Suddenly, the two of them didn't have anything to talk about, just stared at each other for a long time.
"What disease do you have?" Finally I broke the ice.
Dina put the book pressed on her lap on the bedside table, closed her eyes and basked in the warm sunlight, and after a while said, "An unknown blood disease, accompanied by the failure of various organs in the body. ”
She opened her eyes and muttered, "So I'm dying." ”
I stiffened, and unconsciously walked up to her, held the thin and delicate palm, and what I wanted to say came to my mouth, how could I not say it.
She looked at the hand I was holding with some surprise, smiled and pulled her hand out, and said, "I don't need to be pitied by your weak chicken." ”
Soon, add: "The subordinates are defeated." ”
Ignoring my reaction, Dinah pulled out a document full of English from under her pillow and gave it to me.
Seeing the dense English on it, my head was big, and then I looked at the red seal in the corner below, and I instantly understood what it was, and quickly pushed the will back.
Dina slapped the will on the bed angrily and said, "You think it's for you?" That's our son's, don't think about it, I'll leave it to you as a guardian to keep it, and I'm not worried about handing it over to outsiders. ”
Our son? My heart warmed, but then my old face turned red, and I had to hold the will in my hand awkwardly.
Dinah sneered, and her voice was nice. But after laughing, the whole person suddenly lost his energy, lying motionless on the hospital bed like a corpse, and the testing instrument beside him screamed.
I was so frightened that I quickly got up and hurriedly wanted to call the doctor, but before I could take a step, I heard her voice come weakly: "Do you know the meaning of the name Dinah?" In Norwegian, it means Mother of God, and since I was a child, I have been exposed to different things from all children, so my thoughts are different. When I saw you possessed by that self-proclaimed God, a bold idea took root in my head, I was going to be the Mother of God, just like my name. ”
After a pause, her voice became weaker and weaker, but she still insisted: "My illness may be the punishment brought about by my actions, so I called you here, first, to take the child away, and second, I want to tell you something in person." ”
She continued: "I know a lot of things and I want to tell ...... You...... No... Can you speak...... I can't say anything... Luckily, I sent you another letter...... When you get home...... Maybe it will be ...... Received...... Look closely! Dinah tried to say something, but found that she couldn't say it anyway.
Anxiously propped up his body, his hideous and twisted face shouted hoarsely: "Don't trust the people around you!" ”
After speaking, she seemed to have exhausted all her strength and collapsed on the hospital bed, and the monitoring equipment strangely returned to normal, slowly fluctuating. Dinah seemed to have fallen asleep, and if it weren't for the fact that I saw that she was still breathing, I would have thought she had gone like this. I silently walked over to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes and tucked the sheets for her.
Hopefully she doesn't have so much pain in her dreams.
Have a good dream.
PS: I've been thinking about this chapter for a long time, and I think it's better not to add too much weirdness into it, just let this character exit with warmth.