Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Three Soul Musicians
Because my corneal surgery uses the advanced EPI-LASIT laser cutting technology, according to the surgeon, after 24 hours, I was able to remove the blindfold and open my eyes.
So for the next 24 hours, I stayed in bed as I dutied, while Ah Xue was always taking care of me, pouring water for me, buying fast food downstairs for me, or washing towels for me, or even helping me out of bed......
During this period, except for a trip home in the evening and from 8 to 10 pm, Ah Xue has always been by my side, taking care of my daily life, taking care of me, and being considerate and considerate...... Talk to me and reminisce with me so that I don't fall into a blind mind.
At that time, I couldn't help but sigh that having a younger sister was really a blessing in life.
The waiting time is long, but the waiting from death to new life is the happiest thing.
Although my heart was as cold as frost, I was still extremely happy and relieved to be able to open my eyes and see the world again the next day.
Wait and hope.
This is the last sentence of the Count's letter to Morel in Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo.
At this moment, I realized it deeply.
However, the reality is such a cruel creature that he will never give you a good face. No matter how much you long for a casual glance back and a begging smile.
At four o'clock in the afternoon the next day, it was time for me to take off my blindfold.
"It's been 24 hours and it's time to take off the blindfold. β
The chief physician in charge of my corneal surgery came into my room on time with two caretakers and reminded me that I could take off my blindfold and see again.
"Are there any side effects?" I asked, feeling the caretaker's hand already on the buckle of my blindfold.
"Nope. I have just had a corneal transplant, and I may not be very comfortable, my eyes will have some stinging, and it will be difficult to focus the light, that is, my vision will be blurred and astigmatism. This requires a few weeks of adaptation. But seeing things is not a big problem. The director reminded me.
"Great, brother, hurry up and open your eyes and see. I heard Xue's voice of relief and joy, bowed slightly, and let the nurse take off my blindfold.
My eyes have been closed since my cornea was destroyed with sulfuric acid by Ugly Brother, and I haven't opened my eyes for four days except during surgery.
The suffocation on my eyelids disappeared, and I knew that there was no obstruction in front of my eyes at the moment, and I only needed to open my eyes gently to be able to see this colorful world again.
Just open your eyes gently.
I never imagined that such a simple act as opening my eyes would be such a luxury for me.
I never thought it would be so rare to be able to see the light again.
There was a feeling of sweat in my palms, I clenched my hollow fists with both hands, and after two breaths, I finally exerted my eyelids, and the orbicularis oculi muscle slowly pulled, and my eyelids slowly propped up like ancient hanging mahogany window latticesβ
Then, I opened my eyes.
I heard the director and caregiver take a deep breath.
"How's that? can you see it?" the chief physician asked me, a little nervously.
"I can't see ......" I opened my eyes and looked left and right, but there was still darkness in my vision, so thick that I couldn't dissolve it.
How so?
"Can't see, or ...... Nothing can be seen. How so?"
Impossible!
It shouldn't be this way!
I touched my eyes in a little panic, my eyes were clearly open, I had already opened my eyes, but ...... Why is it still dark in my field of vision?
"No way. How so. Even the chief physician and several nurses made a surprised voice, and he seemed to hit me with something similar to a bright light, "Look at me, look closely, can you see this light bulb?"
I held my breath and looked in the direction from which the chief physician's voice came, but ...... It's still dark in the field of vision.
Endless darkness.
Nothing to see.
At that moment, mine was like falling into a river of ice.
"Invisible...... I can't see!!"
"Don't move, I'll check your eyes. The chief physician opened my eyelids with his index finger and thumb, carefully examined my cornea, but made a suspicious voice, "The cornea is fine, the recovery is good." How can it not be seen?"
"But I just can't see it!" I gripped the sheet with both hands, my throat dry. "Is it because you didn't check it thoroughly, and something went wrong somewhere else?!"
"This ...... It should be unlikely. Wait a minute, I'll ask Deputy Director Chen of the Department of Ophthalmology to give you a full set of examinations again. "The chief physician stabilized me first, and then immediately found someone to take me to the eye examination room, and did a series of examinations on me with instruments such as slit lamps and microscopes.
The results were not long in coming.
"There is no problem with the cornea, the old and new corneas are repaired very well, it doesn't seem to be a problem with the cornea or the eye, it is recommended to go to the brain department or neurology department for examination. β
This is a reminder given to me by the deputy director, whose surname is Chen.
No, I was asked to do an MRI or CT for the first time.
Originally, it was necessary to register and queue up for brain examinations such as CT or MRI, but because the hospital did not have an appointment that day, and I was considered a caregiver that the hospital is currently paying more attention to, I was sent directly to the CT room for an electroencephalogram examination without a waiting process. When Ah Xue walked into the CT room with the blind man touching the elephant, my mood was unusually heavy.
Half an hour later, the results came in.
"The density of both ventricles was normal, and there were no abnormalities in the size and shape of the ventricular system. There was no abnormality in sulci size, and the midline structure was centered. The frontal lobes are well developed...... It's all normal, nothing wrong. β
"It's weird, your brain is quite normal, even more developed than the average person...... Logically, there should be no problems, and there is no damage to the optic nerve. Strange, so weird. The director of the brain department made a positive and doubtful decision.
And when I heard the other party's diagnosis, my heart sank to the bottom of the abyss.
Everything works fine...... But why can't I see it?
Why!?
"Doctor, please give me a definite answer. For this cornea, my sister has paid a lot, please ...... Be sure to check it out. I pleaded, trembling.
"I can't help it, I've never encountered such strange symptoms before in the examination. Dr. Jiang, the brain doctor who was in charge of analyzing my CT image, said a little tiredly, and was silent for a long time before he guessed, "Wang Shengsheng, I can only judge like this, I'm afraid your problem is not in the eyes, nor in the nervous system." But...... Psychological problems. β
"Psychological problems? How is it possible, I am mentally normal and in a good state of mind now. I shook my hand and said.
"We can only judge like this, all the tests that can be done for you have been done, and the doctors of several departments have shown you the situation, and there is no problem. I'm afraid this is really your psychological problem. β
There was a chill in my heart, but I didn't want to quibble too much on the subject.
"Okay. Even if it's my mental problem...... What's the cure? Doctor, tell me. β
"I can't tell you how to treat it. Because everyone's psychological problems are different, if you want to solve your psychological problems, you must find out the key to your psychological problems. That's the most important eye, and if you find it, I think you'll be able to see it again. β
"Otherwise...... I'm afraid that's all for your life. β
Doctor Jiang's gentle words were like the arrows of the prison officer.
I was sentenced to death.
"Brother, how can you ...... like this" Ah Xue cried on the spot, her voice was intermittent, constantly twitching, and she seemed to be trying her best to restrain herself.
"How can this be? Being blind all my life? So much hard work...... It's all in vain? ridiculous. I froze there, my hands on my forehead, smirking stupidly, like a demented old man, and the sounds around me no longer meant anything to me.
I felt that the whole world was spinning at high speed, as if the earth had been speeding up hundreds of times thousands of times in vain, and I was standing at the very center of the world, and everything around me was out of reach.
"Doctor, please think of a way, you must cure my brother's eyes, please! you must have a way!" I heard Ah Xue crying and pleading.
"Well, what can we do? We are not experts in this area. You should contact a psychiatrist or something. We just can't help anymore. "Dr. Jiang gave me the most desperate answer, I felt my whole body stumble, my whole body collapsed, and I accidentally fell to the ground.
I barely managed to get up from the ground, and there was a strong feeling of suffocation in my chest, but it almost made me breathe.
A pair of gentle hands gently pulled me up and held me, and I didn't answer anything.
Because I know it's Ayuki's hand.
"Don't help me...... I can walk by touch. I said weakly, "Thank you, Dr. Chiang." β
Thanks to Dr. Jiang, I limped like an old man in the twilight of my life, and slowly walked out of the brain office with the memory of the space when I came.
All in vain.
Everything is meaningless.
All hope is in vain.
Corneal surgery?
I suddenly felt that the expectations and hopes that had flashed yesterday were so foolish and ridiculous.
I walked back to the hospital room in a daze, and collapsed on the hospital bed in despair, my vision dark but my mind blank.
Ah Xue called beside me, encouraged me, grabbed my hand, kept saying that there would definitely be a way, telling me that I could definitely open my eyes...... But I still sat stupidly at the head of the bed, not making a sound.
Perhaps, I'm really tired.
Or maybe I've given up on struggling and given up on myself.
"I'm sleepy, Xue, let me rest for a while. β
"Brother......
"Let me sleep for a while. I repeated, irrefutable, and pulled the sheet over my body, leaning sideways like a dead man.
Probably seeing my decadent and weak state, Ah Xue didn't disturb me, but sat quietly on the side and didn't make a sound again.
Maybe she's asleep, or maybe she's ...... She's already given up.
I lay in bed in despair, more wasted than a waster.
I can't help but feel like laughing at myself.
What tomorrow will be, it doesn't mean much to me anymore.
Because there are only a handful of blind people who can change the world and leave a strong mark on history.
Perfunctory Ah Xue said that she would sleep for a while, but there were so many thoughts in my mind that I couldn't fall asleep at all, and in the end, I just remained in a half-conscious state.
Tomorrow?
How different is tomorrow without light from today?
I froze there, thinking about it non-stop.
But the harsh reality gave me the answer, but it told me that there was no difference.
The only person I'm sorry for is Ah Xue, who takes care of me as a waste person and worries about everything these days. She's been so miserable that I can't imagine how her little shoulders could bear so much pressure. How could her fragile heart take so many blows.
I smiled bitterly and eventually fell asleep in exhaustion and guilt.
I had a dream.
I dreamed of a fox fairy.
I dreamed of that woman who was unstoppable.
She said to me in a cold, almost cruel voice:
"Wang's life, you are already a waste. The wheat is no more than a handful of grass. You are of no value to me anymore. Goodbye, Wang Shengsheng. β
Then, in my dreams, I watched as the peerless shadow faded away from me, leaving me crying hysterically.
And the woman didn't look back......
Such scenes, in my nightmares, were played out again and again, repeatedly, and tortured me to death......
I woke up to the pain of tossing and turning in a hard hospital bed, whipped by repeated nightmares, and when I woke up, it was still dark in front of me, but my heart was beating extremely fast, and the gasping breath around my mouth and the wetness in the corners of my eyes told me what a terrible and desperate nightmare I had just had.
I wiped the beads of sweat from my forehead, sighed, and reluctantly got out of bed.
A world of total darkness.
I still couldn't see anything.
"Ah Xue, Ah Xue, are you right? What time is it?" I shouted, stretched out my hand, and groped around the bed, but I couldn't touch Ah Xue's little hand and hair-covered head.
There was dead silence in the room.
There was no sound.
It was so silent that there was a buzzing tinnitus in the ears.
It's as if the whole world has been erased by some magical force.
It's quiet.
"Axue, Axue?" I called out to Axue over and over again, but there was no answer in the room, and the only thing I could hear was my echo.
And my heartbeat.
A Xue ...... It doesn't seem to be here.
She...... Finally, did you leave me alone and leave on your own......
I was disheartened.
I shuddered uncontrollably.
Sitting quietly at the head of the bed, I didn't know how long I had been asleep, I didn't know how time had passed, the only thing I could feel was my own heartbeat.
"Hehe, Ah Xue, are you also leaving...... Are you all gone......" I muttered to myself, then smiled wryly, the moist feeling sliding from my eyes to my cheeks, "It's good to go...... Okay......"
I smiled bitterly, the bitter feeling spread from the base of my tongue to my chest, and I shook my head slowly, like an old man, and sighed slightly, and then fell into a depression.
However, at this moment, a beautiful and soothing music suddenly sounded in a dead room, and the beautiful and melodious sound of the song instantly came to my ears, and the beautiful and peculiar melody, like mercury flowing down from my fingers, penetrated into the depths of my soul.
It's the sound of a violin.
In the room, there are people!
"Who's there?" I was startled by the sudden sound of the violin, goosebumps protruded one after another, and the instinctive defense and vigilance made me extremely nervous, because I knew that Ah Xue never played the violin, so the person in the room was definitely not Ah Xue.
However, the violin player did not seem to pay any attention to my question, and continued to play his music to himself, and the soft and melodious sound like silky brocade filled the room.
"Enough, don't you know this is the patient's ward? If you want to play the violin, please go outside the hospital building. I shouted angrily at the mysterious violinist in the room.
However, the other party remained unmoved, and played on his own, and the smooth and beautiful music turned into a series of light notes beating, and I gradually heard the other party's violin playing "Pachelbel's Canon", that is, the world-famous song "Pachelbel's Canon". The tempo is quite soothing, and the tune is not as light and agile as the versions heard on the streets and alleys in the past, but is full of a restrained tranquility and a sense of ancient vicissitudes.
"What a sigh. Lad. β
After two bars, the violin owner finally spoke.
It was an old man's voice.
The voice was old and peaceful, with three points of vicissitudes, two points of affinity, and three points of tranquility and two points of remoteness.
The voice, as if, came from outside the sky.
Hearing this mysterious and distant sound like an ancient bell chime, I instinctively shuddered.
A sense of awe, fear, and uncontrollable vigilance that comes from the depths of the soul arises.
Because, from the other party's standard accent, I can't hear the other party's origin at all.
"Who are you?" I asked calmly after swallowing, calming my alarm. "Why came to my ward. β
"Hehe, that's an interesting question. The old man's voice came slowly, along with his beautiful and wonderful music, "I'm afraid I can't tell you the answer you need in the literal sense that is universally understandable." All I can tell you is my profession, I'm a 'medicalist'. β
"Musicians?" I frowned, searching for information about musicians in a database of more than 2,000 professions that I remembered and remembered, but in the end, I couldn't find a second kind of information about musicians except for "musicians" in the "Witch Doctor Musicians" in "Shi Shuo".
"Of course you haven't heard of this profession, because this profession was pioneered by me, an old man, himself. The old man seemed to see my thoughts, and laughed, but there was not much strange and distant meaning in his voice, but with a strong affinity.
He...... Who the hell is it?
"What is your first profession?" "In any case, although I don't understand the origin of this mysterious old man, and I don't know whether the other party is open or dark, I still plan to talk to him first to find out the origin," dare to ask what the specific job of this profession is, is it playing the violin in the hospital and disturbing the quiet sleep of the patients?" I laughed and sarcastically said to the other party lukewarmly.
But the old man didn't seem to mind my sarcasm in the slightest, but smiled kindly, and said:
"I know what you think, kid. Perhaps you think that what bedridden patients need most is rest and rest. Then you'd be wrong. The sick are the group that needs the most care and greetings. When they lie helplessly in bed, what they need more is a greeting or two from relatives and friends, even if it is just a casual joke or an out-of-tune snort, it can bring them infinite happiness and motivation to live. β
"Loneliness is a chronic poison, child. Without the company of relatives and friends, the patients in the silent ward will gradually lose their motivation and vitality to live, which is tantamount to silently waiting for death to come. β
"So, they need someone to play the violin nearby, they need music, they need people like me. Tell them that there are still people by your side in this world, even if we don't say a word to each other, but music will always convey our hearts. Then, they will smile, they will feel happy, and they will regain the courage and motivation to live. β
"In this sense, music is more elixir than anything else, isn't it, boy?"
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