White ceiling.

"Drip, drip, drip......"

There was a dripping sound in my ears.

This is a modern concurrent to see the equipment inside the ward, which is obviously a single room. From the variety of equipment, it can be seen that the patients inside belong to the category of more serious diseases.

A set of monitoring machines is being placed next to it, and the patches responsible for monitoring body data are connected to cables of different colors, which are attached to Hongchen's body.

The monitor is displaying all kinds of data, and there are wavy lines on it.

Refreshed with the sound of fluctuations.

From time to time, there is a steady, muffled dripping sound.

The sound was not harsh or slow, indicating that his body was relatively safe.

"Is it Mr. Hongchen in the same bed?" The gentle voice of the nurse came to my ears.

Hongchen straightened his somewhat dazed head and nodded. It seems that he is still a little sleepy-eyed.

In a somewhat weak and deep voice, he replied, "Yes." ”

"I'm your nurse in charge, my name is ......"

The nurse's voice was next to him, but his thoughts had drifted elsewhere.

He didn't notice until the nurse left.

It was slightly darker around the bed.

Suddenly, the door of the ward opened, and Hongchen turned his head to look over, but the blue curtain around the bed was closed, and he couldn't see the outside.

Then the curtain was opened, and the light shone in.

This is a single room in the ward.

A middle-aged woman was busy alone in the hospital room, and the curtains and windows were opened.

Then he took the lunch box, sat on the edge of the bed, and looked at the machine carefully.

Then I looked at the situation next to me.

Picked up a long strip from the end of the bed.

Take a closer look at the items above.

The price is clearly marked at the end of each item.

It ranges from a few cents to thousands.

That's the cost for these days.

It adds up to nearly 10,000.

"It's good to be able to report it." The woman muttered twice, her expression did not change much, and she casually put the data sheet in her pocket.

Now he has been able to calculate on his own that those in this can be repaid, and the real amount to pay after calculating it is not so exaggerated.

Open the lunch box.

"Son, how did you sleep last night?"

Hongchen turned his head and looked at his mother.

Her mother was still opening the lunch box as she spoke.

"It's okay, Mom. It's like a dream. ”

"Dreaming? Why don't you take oxygen tonight? ”

"Forget it, it's just a dream, Mom, how can it be so serious."

"What are you afraid of, oxygen is not expensive."

"It's not expensive or not, I still have the strength to breathe on my own.

It's also weird to take in too much oxygen and feel like you're getting tired from breathing. ”

"Alright, alright, let's get something to eat."

The middle-aged woman said, the lunch box had been opened, and there was nothing too good in it.

I can't eat it if I want to eat it, there is only a bowl of porridge, but this bowl of porridge exudes a faint fish fragrance.

You can see some fish and shrimp in the porridge.

There is also a bowl of fresh and sweet fish soup underneath.

The taste of carp.

"I'll do it myself."

"Okay, you come by yourself, be careful of the burn."

As she spoke, she handed the spoon and bowl over.

Hongchen was able to see that there were bruised eyelets on the back of his hands, and his whole hands had become a little dry.

There are indwelling needles on the backs of both hands, and even one on the arms.

Avoid having to reinsert blood vessels with each infusion.

Looking at her son's somewhat dry and wrinkled hands, the old woman silently turned her head away, stood up and walked back a few steps.

"Is it delicious?"

"It's delicious, it's much more comfortable to eat something."

After eating, the woman was cleaning up when the door was opened.

A doctor in a white lab coat walked behind a young intern who came in and smiled at Hongchen.

Then he asked some notes in the notebook and walked out, shouting at the woman at the door.

"Come to the family, I want your help here."

Mother nodded, put the lunch box on the bedside table, wiped her hands, and walked out.

Hongchen lay on the bed a little weakly.

This is a separate room, and the corridor outside is not very noisy.

But he could hear the voice outside the door, it was not loud, but it was very clear.

Is the sound insulation in the hospital so bad?

"Family, do you want to consider taking it back? It's too expensive to stay here every day, and now I'm almost able to go home.

At such times, patients want to stay at home, which is also a good thing for the patient's mentality. ”

"I know all the doctors, but my son ......"

"Alas, let him go home for a while, how uncomfortable it is in this hospital, are you right?"

"Okay, that's it...... Let's go back. ”

"No problem, you wait a while to go through the discharge procedures, don't worry about those during this time, just take the medicine."

Take him to rest and play, and take him out to play if you want to, but don't go too far.

There is nothing to be strict about eating in this regard, and it is also a good thing to eat some good supplements to supplement nutrition.

Of course, you shouldn't be too greasy, too spicy, too pungent. ”

The doctor in front of him was already trying his best to express his meaning in a tactful.

The mother only nodded, and the sadness on her face was not too obvious.

This is an established fact, and it has long been sad enough.

With a sigh, he pushed the door open and walked in with a calm face.

"Mom, are you going back?"

"Huh? Well, it's time to go home. ”

A smile appeared on Hongchen's face: "Do you want to leave today?" ”

Seeing this smile, the mother couldn't hold it back anymore, and forced herself to say in a somewhat trembling voice, "Hmm...... Yes, Mom, Mom goes to the hospital, you rest for a while. ”

As he spoke, he quickly pushed open the door and ran out.

I could hear the sound of sobbing all the way by.

"When did I have such ears?" In the face of the impending death, Hongchen was a little relieved.

He didn't feel as if he was not so tired, as if the pain in his body had lessened, and he didn't know what was going on.

A few moments later, a nurse walked in and began to clean the monitor from his body.

By the way, he removed those indwelling syringes from his hands.

After the nurse left, Hongchen, who seemed to have been relieved of her burden, left the bed and came out of the window, looking at the high-rise buildings outside, and the traffic was busy.

"Let's go see the sea in a few days." He said to himself.

Then I felt weakness in my body.

"It's been the last few days, let's go back to the light, and I still insist on it."

I don't know who I'm talking to, so I patted my body and started to clean up by myself.

After a while, the door was pushed open.

"Why are you cleaning up by yourself, go up and rest, Mom."

"Ouch, it's okay, it's going to rust if you don't move again."

"Okay, then you go and clean up the charger in the cabinet or something, these moms are coming."

Hongchen nodded, but didn't force it.

He quickly changed out of his hospital gown, put on his normal clothes that he had not seen for a long time, came to the parking lot, and sat in the co-pilot.

"Is there anything you'd like to travel? It's all out anyway, so let's find a place to play. ”

"I want to go to the beach, Mom."

"By the sea?"

"Yes, last night I dreamed as if I was on a ship on the sea, that ancient sailboat."

"Oh, then let's book tickets tonight, but unfortunately your dad is busy, and Xiaohong is going to school again."

"It's okay, I'll see where there is this kind of ancient ship project on the seaside."

Talking and laughing, he returned home.

Looking at his room, Hongchen stood in place, suddenly stunned.

"What's wrong?"

"I want to teleport in."

"Huh?" The mother looked puzzled.

"What are you talking about again, you stupid boy, Mom is going to cook, look at which beach you want to go to play."

Hongchen nodded, then sat down on the sofa and picked up his phone.

"It's been a long time."

Looking at the phone and a little confused, what are you doing?

Fighting landlords?

Why do you want to fight the landlord?

He shook his head and got up and walked to his room.

I saw the fish screen on my desk, gaming chairs, speakers, and hosts.

Next to the three houses.

Picked up the red and blue machine and pressed the button above, looking at the small house that appeared on the screen.

"I really miss it."

Missing something you played just a few days ago?

Putting the machine back in, Hongchen lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling.

It feels weird.

Alas, people who are going to die, how strange can it be?

……

Eat and sleep, buy a plane ticket, and take a plane with my mother to the coastal city early in the morning of the second day, and book a hotel after a transfer.

As the sun was about to set at night, he finally saw the beach and the vast sea.

"The sun has set? It's funny. ”

The little child passing by next to him gave a strange look at the big brother who looked a little weak.

Neurotic bar.

The mother next to him also glanced at him and patted him: "What are you talking about stupid boy?" ”

The sun goes down to surprise you.

"It's nothing, it's hard to come out."

In addition to tourists, you can also see a retro man-made ancient port far away from the beach.

There are three different ancient sailing ships parked in the harbor, which are almost 1:1 replicas, but they are closed.

"Look, that's the sailboat you were talking about yesterday."

Mother was referring to a modern sailboat, a small one-man sailboat, with a male figure gliding along the waves in the distance.

"That's what I said yesterday, Mom, look over there." Hongchen pointed to the gulet play area in the distance.

"Oh, you said the ancient kind."

Hongchen swam in the sea for a while, and when it was almost dark, he went to the hotel with his mother.

After dinner at the hotel, I returned to my room alone, looking at the night view of the seaside through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

"It's getting darker, that's what it feels like."

As he spoke, he touched his bald head, and when he returned to the room, he took off the hat he had been wearing.

Day 2.

Hongchen and his mother bought tickets and entered the three gulet boats.

A tour guide is telling.

"This kind of sailing ship is an ancient Chinese sailboat, compared with the sailing ships of other countries at that time, China's sailing ships have a characteristic, that is, the sails are made of side-by-side bamboo curtains that can be lowered."

Saying that, he also demonstrated it under the Chinese ancient sailing boat, not a canvas, but a bamboo curtain.

Hongchen also felt very novel, and kept checking it.

Is this thing bamboo?

Then they went on to another sailing ship.

This kind of is exactly the same as the kind of foreign sailboat seen in the movie.

"This is the kind of sailing ship used in ancient times abroad."

Hongchen walked around the boat and had a look.

"Mom, you see, he made a mistake in this knot, this kind of knot should not be, he should be tied like this, and then it can be easy to take and stronger at sea."

Listening to her son's story, his mother looked at him with strange eyes.

Then I was a little embarrassed, didn't I even know my son's hobbies?

"When did you like this kind of thing?"

But I wonder that my son doesn't seem to have bought a model or a book similar to a sailboat.

I haven't seen him show a hobby in this area.

"No, I only liked it recently." Hongchen said perfunctorily.

When he came to the bow of the ship and looked at the sea, he suddenly raised his hand, and then went to the deck of the ship and patted the mast.

I looked at the stern, then at the bowhouse.

The ship did not have a prime minister, but instead a mast that stretched straight out.

"It's a bird's head." I said something inexplicably.

They have been traveling around the country for the past month, and it seems that Hongchen's complexion is getting better and better.

But only he knew that it was a bit like a return to the light, since only his mother was with him, and his father also put down what he was doing and followed. Later, even my sister came back from school.

After a round of travel, he returned home, and Hongchen sat on the sofa.

The family was busy in the kitchen, only his sister sat on the sofa, turning her head to look at him from time to time.

"What are you doing watching me do when you're fine? Neurotic, huh? ”

"What kind of neurosis, you care about me, I can watch it if I want to, and I have the ability to poke my eyes blind." His sister said unceremoniously.

Looking at his sister, Hongchen suddenly sat on the sofa and pouted her buttocks.

"I'll fart to smell you."

"Neurotic, neurotic!" After scolding twice, his sister sat down on the couch again.

Finally, from time to time, I paid attention to him with my peripheral vision.

Hongchen stood up, his eyes seemed to regain clarity, and walked around the living room.

looked at the balcony, and from time to time played with the small flowers on both sides of the balcony.

After picking up the watering can and sprinkling the sprinkler, he went into the kitchen and watched his parents busy, laughing and chatting.

I opened the refrigerator and didn't take anything from it, I just opened it and looked at it.

I looked at the shoe cabinet at the door, and then sat down at the dining table.

Then he stood up again, went to the toilet outside the room next to him, somehow turned on the rain sprinkler, and then turned it off again.

Flushed toilet.

I couldn't help but smile on my face.

I walked into my room, looked at the game consoles I bought after work, turned on my computer, and canceled my password.

I looked at the model and fiddled with it twice.

I went into my parents' room again, walked around, turned on the lights and ran out.

Then he looked at his sister's room next to him, opened the door and walked in.

"What are you doing?" His sister, who had been observing him, asked.

"Your room is really messy, you don't look like a girl at all, it's a shame!"

"Do you want to care? You have to take care of it! Your room is not very messy, why are you embarrassed to say me. ”

"You're a girl compared to me?" As he spoke, he closed the door directly.

I walked around the living room again and sat down on the sofa.

I picked up the blanket and covered my body, feeling a little cold.

My sister watched TV from time to time, looked at her phone from time to time, and sat back and forth.

Looked at it with his peripheral eyes.

Seeing his brother sitting on the sofa, his eyes had begun to narrow slightly.

The complexion on his face became more and more gloomy, and he quickly turned to a miserable white, and his lips began to turn purple.

Looking at this situation, he kept looking at his sister, and he couldn't hold it back anymore, with a cry in his voice.

yelled, "Mom! Father! Come on! ”

I had expected it a long time ago.

But when that happened, no one could hold on.

The last thing I heard was the anxious footsteps of my parents and the yelling of my parents.

The whole scene begins to shatter.

Arka stood still and watched the scene, looking at the family that had once sat around his body.

Look at the room where you grew up.

Standing on the balcony.

The gold outside began to dissipate.

The image of the whole house began to shatter, dissipating into something like fly ash.

Something that had been buried in my heart appeared.

Regrets, deep regrets and longing.

Alka's figure disappeared, and Hongchen, who had lost his life lying on the sofa, stood up again.

The image of my parents and sister dissipated.

The surroundings have become a vast blue sea and blue sky.

The sky is the unchanging sun, and the only white clouds that flutter.

The sound of the waves was heard.

There was also a melodious song in his ears, and Arka was already standing on the deck of the Dawn Eagle.

The figures of Xia Daiti and others appeared.

Lucilia sat down on his shoulder, and Shadetti came to his side, reaching out and taking his arm.

The crystal dragon glided through the sky and landed on the deck, its tail hanging down to the surface of the sea due to its body.

Bororo jumped off the deck.

Simon ran out of the cabin.

I smelled the smell of food and heard the melodious singing.

Then the girls frolicked around, jumping up and down the vines that could move freely.

The deep regret faded and dissipated.

More things poured in, filling the void that had been created when the regret faded.

Arka just stood on the deck and looked into the distance.

"There are no regrets, Hongchen, at least this time I died at home without regrets surrounded by my family, not in a daze."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and squeezed it hard.

The illusion dissipated.

(End of chapter)