On the day of Xu Chen's surgery. I got up early in the morning, and when I went out, it was not yet dawn, so I called for a taxi and I flew to the hospital. Xu Chen had already woken up, he sat on the head of the bed, and smiled when he saw me enter the room, he was relaxed. It's me, and I'm tense and nervous.

It's really strange, I don't have any extra memories of Xu Chen's memories except those told in the diary. But every time I see Xu Chen, I feel a strange slow sadness for no reason. It seems that this sadness is already there, but it is temporarily sealed in the depths of the cerebral cortex, once you see Xu Chen's sad smile, it is like touching a button in your body and being completely released.

Like a hibernating snake that wakes up in spring, my reaction is almost instinctive.

Yesterday, the head nurse informed in advance that Xu Chen's operation was scheduled for the third station today, and he had to enter the anesthesia room at about half past ten in the morning. I fidgeted and walked back and forth looking at my watch, for fear of missing the time. At this time, Xu Chen pulled out a magazine from under the pillow, he opened the magazine and beckoned me over, I walked over, he pointed to the black and white checkered chart on the book: "Come and help me think about it, this question is so difficult to ......" It turned out that he was playing "crossword puzzle". At this time, a childlike childishness appeared on his face. The topic Xu Chen refers to is: an early-stage undifferentiated cell with multi-differentiation potential and self-replication function, which the medical community calls "universal cells". The answer is three words, and one word has come out - dry OO. "Stem cells?" As soon as I said the answer, Xu Chen gave an exaggerated thumbs up: "It's amazing!" "That's it." Immediately after, he made another comparison: "What is the core idea of Darwin's Theory of Evolution?" ”

Crossword puzzles take a little brain effort and are too tiring. Pick the easy ones first, and skip them first if you encounter a really difficult question. Before they knew it, the two worked together to make several crossword puzzles in magazines. I noticed that my tension had eased a bit.

was biting the tip of the pen to think about the answer to a certain question, and suddenly, I heard Xu Chen say: "You are different from before." ”

My gaze followed the tip of the pen to the topic, the black ink left a tortuous line on the paper, and I pretended to be indifferent: "What was I like before?" ”

Xu Chen paused slightly, and replied for a long time: "Sober." ”

"Huh?" I looked at him with an eyebrow.

"Too sober." He added one more word.

"People who are too sober mean that they are less fantastic, less romantic, and even lose a little blood?" I defined what Xu Chen said was "too sober". Too sober, that doesn't sound like a compliment.

Xu Chen smiled: "Occasionally, I envy your sobriety. ”

Xu Chen bent down and took out several magazines from under the bed and stuffed them into my hands: "You will do these questions when I enter the operating room, and I will read them when I wake up." ”

After Xu Chen entered the operating room, I sat outside the operating room and waited for him. When he opened the magazines in his hand, sure enough, each of them contained a crossword puzzle, which he deliberately found.

However, at such a time, how can I still bother to play games......

After a long wait, I finally have exciting good news. Xu Chen's surgery was a success. The doctor said, "Take good care and you will be able to recover in no time." I sighed deeply that the rock that had been pressing on my chest could finally be removed, and I thanked the doctor repeatedly.

After several days, I was busy asking for leave, and I divided the day into two, going to work in the morning and visiting Xu Chen in the hospital in the afternoon. Xu Chen is in good spirits and his body is recovering quickly. I didn't think there would be an emergency. In the morning, when I was working in the store, I suddenly received a call from the hospital asking me to hurry up. I suddenly bounced out of my chair, and my heart jumped violently. Xu Chen is now under postoperative observation, in other words, he has not officially received a "safety card"......

Stop, stop! I didn't dare to think deeply, and I didn't dare to stop myself from thinking about it here. I dropped the electronic pen, grabbed the coat draped over the back of my chair, and rushed to the door. At the most urgent moment, I bumped into the person who was about to enter the store, and I experienced the decay of today's bad luck. I didn't even raise my head, and quickly bowed and apologized, but my arm hurt fiercely, and it was the other party who grabbed me hard.

"Where are you going in a panic?"

Only then did I come back to my senses and focus on the person in front of me. Ritsu Zhaochuan maintained his usual cold and ruthless face, and at this moment he clamped me vigorously, so that I could not break free.

How did he get here?

It occurred to me that this was the first time in so many days that he had taken the initiative to speak to me.

I explained: "I just called from the hospital and asked me to go to ......"

Before I finished speaking, Lu Zhaochuan cut off my words and said in a cold tone: "Why are you going?" ”

I stiffened.

He asked again, "Who are you from Xu Chen?" ”

I said: "I ......"

"Who is he to you?"

Ritsu Zhaochuan's repeated questions couldn't help but make me take a few steps back.

Who is Xu Chen?

Is it my colleague, my forgotten childhood friend, or my brother-in-law......

I couldn't answer any of Lu Zhaochuan's questions.

Lu Zhaochuan glanced at me impatiently, and while I was still thinking about his words, he took out his mobile phone and made a call, and after the phone was connected, he said softly: "Xu Chen is hospitalized." Central Hospital. I'll send you the ward number in a moment. ”

"Who are you calling?"

"The person who walked into the wedding hall hand in hand with Xu Chen." Lu Zhaochuan replied to me coldly, "She is the one who is qualified to be nervous about Xu Chen." ”

These days, I go to the hospital on time to report, but I never think about the question of "whether I am qualified or whether I am appropriate". At this moment, when Lu Zhaochuan dragged out the problem I ignored and threw it in front of me, I was at a loss.

I muttered, "Do life and death, identity or qualifications matter?" ”

"Life and death, identity or qualifications, of course these are not important!" Ritsu replied neatly, "But—this is not a matter of life and death. Xu Chen will be fine. His surgery was a success and he will soon be back to health and back to his daily routine. In secular rules, identity and qualifications are very important! ”

I was half a beat slower, first stunned, then depressed. What a deafening admonition. After a pause, I broke his grip on my hand and nodded in agreement, "You're right." ”

Not only did he say it right, he did it right.

Silently walking back to my station, I grabbed the electronic pen and continued to work. Drawing, drawing, suddenly there was water dripping on the board, I immediately wiped the watermark off the touch screen with my sleeve, just wiped it off, and dripped it down again.

What's going on? I raised my hand in disbelief and tentatively touched my face, wet! I hurriedly took a tissue to wipe away my tears, and for fear of being known, I looked at the people around me to make sure that they were busy with their own business and really didn't have time to pay attention to me. I just wanted to rest assured, but when I raised my eyes, I saw Ritsu Zhaochuan standing in the corridor on the second floor, looking at me indifferently.

How long has he been standing there?

Has he caught all my rout?

I was so excited that I accidentally knocked over the teacup in my hand. The water at the water's edge suddenly attacked my sketches, and I scrambled to clean them up. The culprit glanced at me and walked away slowly.

Looking at the place where no one was anymore, I still felt unsettled.

He was always so elusive that I was caught off guard.

In the afternoon, I stayed in the store and didn't go anywhere. At the end of the regular meeting, Zhang Jifan left me alone. As the other clerks walked past me, I realized how outrageous my time was. Although I don't have to come to a florist to complete my work, the frequency with which I've been taking time off lately can be described as arrogant.

When it was just me and them in the room. "Xu Chen is fine, it's just that some documents need to be signed, and someone has already dealt with them. You don't have to worry. Zhang Jifan took the lead in finding out the reason.

I was a little confused: "Mr. Zhang, you are obviously the same as me, you have been in the store all the time, how can you know about Xu Chen's ......"

Zhang Jifan coughed twice and said mysteriously: "If someone is there, what we get must be the freshest information." ”

It turned out to be Ritsu Shogawa.

Now that I think about it, I have an inexplicable fear of him, and it is precisely because of this. He simply knows everything, everywhere.

"Isn't Mr. Zhang curious about what's going on between me and Xu Chen?" I threw out temptations.

Zhang Jifan suddenly sat up straight and excited: "Curious, tell me what's going on!" When our store invited Xu Chen to be a floral lecturer, I thought it was a stroke of luck. Who is Xu Chen, he is a master of floral art, a person who receives an hourly salary. He was willing to wait for our store to start classes, and he was not the slightest surprised by this matter. Moreover, I have known him for so long, and I only recently learned about his acquaintance with Xu Chen. Also, you and Xu Chen knew each other before, right? I knew that with his qualifications and abilities, he couldn't go anywhere, he had to stay in our small shop, and that was because we had you in the store! Am I right? ”

His questions came one after another.

"Mostly, correct." I can only answer in general terms.

Zhang Jifan saw my expression and understood everything: "Hey, the law is not allowed for me to inquire...... By the way, you didn't eat at noon. ”

"I'm not hungry."

At the moment, I still feel like it's going up, and I can't stuff anything else. Some people rely on sweets to keep them from being unhappy, but I'm not. If I have something in my heart that I can't get rid of, I can't eat anything.

"Anyway, you still have to eat." Zhang Jifan took out a cardboard box from under the table and handed it to me, I was puzzled and received it in my hand, and he emphasized, "You must eat it!" ”

"Oh. Thank you, Mr. Zhang. ”

I carried the food box back to my desk. When I opened the lunch box, I found that it contained a fish steak, which was still hot. I subconsciously looked upstairs at the place where Ritsu Zhaochuan was standing just now.

No one was there.

At this time, I also found that there was a cut fresh lemon hidden in the lunch box. I squeezed all the juice of the whole lemon onto the fish steak and lifted it up and took a big bite.

Belch!

Good sour.

But it's better than being sad.