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On the bumpy bus on the way back, Zhong Cheng looked down at the time, then turned sideways and said concernedly to the people beside him: "The road here is not very good and a bit bumpy, but we will be there in a while, I guess we can get back before six o'clock."

Chen Yixiao seemed to be in a heavier mood than before, she nodded after a while and said, "...Thank you, Zhong Cheng."

"Don't say that, Big Brother Chen, last year I missed that visit due to a sudden illness, otherwise I would..." Zhong Cheng sighed, "I guess I will leave here in another period, and I am afraid that there will not be many opportunities to meet in the future. But if you have the opportunity to go to Taiwan in the future, you must remember to contact me." He looked back at Yi Xiao who was sitting alone diagonally behind, and said from the bottom of his heart: "I hope he can cheer up soon."

Yi Xiao was even more silent after he came out of the cemetery. His sunken eyes made him look lifeless. Zhong Cheng himself experienced the piercing pain of his lover leaving, and knew that any comforting words at this time would be It's superfluous, and when he caught a glimpse of the extra ring on Yi Xiao's right ring finger that was the same as Chen Anhua's, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it might take a long time for this man to forget.

After a while, when the bus arrived at a stop sign, a black woman in simple clothes led a little boy who was only three or four years old into the bus. Probably in order to make room for the huge package in her hand, the woman looked around the bus. After getting inside, take the child across the front row and go directly to the empty row of seats at the end and sit down.

There were not many people on this bus, except Zhong Cheng and the three of them and the mother and son who just got on the bus, there were only four or five passengers, and not long after the bus started up again, the little boy just left his mother and walked all the way. Holding the seat, he came to the seat in front of Zhong Cheng and Chen Yixiao and sat down on his own.

The child is very curious, and has been attracted by these faces different from his own skin color since he got in the car. He staggered all the way and wanted to take a closer look, but when he peeked through the gap between the chairs, he didn't see the two faces behind him. After being dissatisfied with his peeping behavior, the little boy simply knelt on the seat and turned around boldly, staring at the two of them carefully.

Zhong Cheng was sitting right behind the child, feeling quite uncomfortable being stared at by the unavoidable eyes, so he could only look back at the little boy and smiled politely, just when his finger touched a piece of candy in his pocket, he flipped it out and handed it to him. past.

Unable to resist the temptation of the colorful candy wrapper, the little boy hesitated for a few seconds before taking it. When the sweet and sour candy melted in his mouth, a satisfied smile burst out on the little boy's round, dark face.

After a while, the little boy got his wish and climbed down from the seat, intending to go back to his mother, but when passing by Yi Xiao, he suddenly stopped and stared at a certain place, and then lifted the little boy The small arm pointed to one place, and at the same time spoke a short word.

Although the little boy's voice was a little muffled by the candy in his mouth, Zhong Cheng still heard it because there was only an aisle across, and when he inadvertently turned his head and saw where the little boy was pointing, Zhong Cheng couldn't help but frowned slightly and muttered to himself Said: "Strange..."

"What's wrong?" Chen Yixiao asked with her head turned.

"...It's nothing, maybe I heard it wrong," Zhong Cheng shook his head hesitantly before saying, "That little boy seems to say... the same thing."

"Same?" Not understanding Zhong Cheng's reaction at the moment, Chen Yixiao also looked back at the little boy's back and asked, "Do you understand the local language?"

"Yes, I've been here for more than a year, and I'm more or less familiar with it." Knowing that he was acting strangely, Zhong Cheng looked at Chen Yixiao and explained, "It's nothing, maybe I was thinking too much, that kid just now seemed... like Pointing to Yi Xiao's ring and saying 'same'."

After coming out of the cemetery, Chen Yixiao also noticed the ring on Yi Xiao's hand. When he turned his head and saw the little boy who was still standing there, Chen Yixiao couldn't help frowning. After a while, he turned to Zhong Cheng to confirm. : "That ring is the one you've seen before, the same one as An Hua?"

"It should be...the plain black and white ring looks special. Anhua wears it around his neck all the time. I've seen it a few times. It shouldn't be wrong." But after thinking about it, Zhong Cheng shook his head and said, "Maybe I'm overthinking it." Well, maybe it's just a coincidence..."

Even though he said so, he couldn't convince himself to ignore this matter anyway, so before Chen Yixiao could speak again, Zhong Cheng had already turned around and asked the little boy in the local language, "What did you just say the same?"

The little boy showed a row of white teeth and smiled naively. He tapped the ring on Yi Xiao's hand again, and said a word while puffing his cheeks that still contained sugar.

The simple movement woke up the lifeless Yi Xiao, and made him slowly raise his head.

But Zhong Cheng stared blankly, and was speechless for a long time. After a while, he said to Yi Xiao in disbelief: "He just said... that this ring is exactly the same as his mother's one."

The three raised their heads in shock at the same time, and looked at the child who was still smiling in surprise, but the little boy had no idea what the words he just said meant to these people, so he still looked at Zhong Cheng with a smile, and then He leaned on the seat and walked towards his mother in the back row.

Following the little boy's footsteps away, Yi Xiao stood up unconsciously as if out of control, and when his eyes followed the little back to the last row, when he saw the black woman smiled and stretched out his hands to hug her. At the moment of the child, a light reflected from the metal suddenly pierced into Yi Xiao's eyes.

Yi Xiao strode over like crazy, came to the side of the mother and son, grabbed the woman's right hand regardless, and growled in a hoarse voice: "Where did the ring come from?!"

Zhong Cheng and Chen Yixiao also quickly followed, Zhong Cheng stepped forward and pulled Yi Xiao's arm away, "Calm down, maybe it's just a coincidence."

The woman finally broke free, and held the child tightly in her arms like a conditioned reflex, and looked at the three men in front of her in horror and yelled in a low voice in the local language.

"Impossible!" Yi Xiao said with red eyes, "This is a limited edition of only a dozen pairs in the world. It's not such a coincidence! It's definitely not hers!"

Chen Yixiao, who has always been calm, couldn't be calm anymore, so she hurriedly turned to Zhong Cheng and said, "Zhong Cheng, please help me and ask her where did this ring come from?"

Zhong Cheng was actually no calmer than the two of them, but after nodding, he tried to restrain himself as much as possible, and explained to the woman in a language that was not very fluent: "I'm sorry just now, because we have a friend who wears the same ring as you So I want to ask, my friend..." Zhong Cheng hesitated before using a more acceptable way of saying: "My friend has disappeared, and we have been looking for him. Can you tell me where this ring came from?" Us?"

And when the woman understood Zhong Cheng's meaning, her facial expression became bewildered, and she hesitated for a moment before raising her head to look at the three Asian men who were waiting for her reply, but just as she hesitated, she just wanted to open her mouth to say something When, after seeing Yi Xiao's angry and anxious eyes, he was still frightened, and then turned his face to one side in an extremely unnatural manner, and said something in a low voice in a panic.

"What did she say?!" Yi Xiao couldn't wait.

"She said she bought it on the side of the road..."

"She's lying! Her expression is obviously lying!" Yi Xiao almost roared, and raised his already hoarse voice, pointing at the woman and said: "Let her take off the ring, each ring has a number, even if it is an imitation It's impossible to even have the same serial number!" Yi Xiao stretched out his hand to the woman again as he spoke.

Seeing this, the woman quickly shrunk her body, and unconsciously tightened her arms around the child. The child in her arms was strangled very uncomfortable and kept calling her mother, causing other passengers in the car to look sideways in surprise when they heard it.

Zhong Cheng pulled Yi Xiao back vigorously, and tried his best to dissuade him: "Yi Xiao! The ring is not the most important thing now, you scare her so much that she refuses to say anything, so what if you get the ring back?!"

This sentence finally made Yi Xiao stop. He resisted the urge to rush up and pull the ring off, and stood by the side silently, but his panicked and anxious eyes never moved away from the woman for a moment.

Then Zhong Cheng turned to the woman again, and said in a low voice as softly as possible: "This ring is rare, where did you buy it, can you show us?" In order to make her not be too defensive, Zhong Cheng added : "My friend is usually careless. Even if he loses it, it's normal. Please think about it again. We can give you some money to express our gratitude."

As he said that, he took out all the cash in the wallet and handed it over, "This is our kindness, please accept it first, please help us remember it well, may it be where I picked it up and remembered it wrong?"

The woman who had been shaking her head at first, was finally attracted and slowly turned her head when she saw Zhong Cheng hand over enough living expenses to support the family for several months.

Seeing the woman wavering, Zhong Cheng said in a more sincere tone: "We are Chinese, and we are doctors who came here to help volunteers. My friend has been missing for a long time, and his family has been very worried. This is his brother. We I have been looking for him, please help us, please?"

I don't know if she was touched by the last sentence. After seeing the certificate in Zhong Cheng's hand, the woman finally dared to look up and face the anxiously waiting eyes of several people. After the malicious Chen Yixiao finally lowered her head gradually, she said something with shame on her face.

Zhong Cheng paused in a hoarse voice and felt that his breathing was stagnant. It was not until Chen Yixiao urged him that he translated tremblingly: "She said...she is a temporary nurse at St. Mary's Hospital, and there is a patient who has been in a coma for a long time. This is what she... got from that person a week ago."

A short and hoarse cry came suddenly from behind, causing Zhong Cheng and the others to look away, only to see Yi Xiao covering his face with his ring-wearing right hand and suppressing the sound, even so, he couldn't suppress the pain in his shoulders. Trembling and tears welling between the fingers.

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The three of them rushed to the hospital as quickly as possible, and ran straight to the fourth floor to find the room the woman mentioned, but the moment Yi Xiao who rushed to the front put his hand on the doorknob, he suddenly froze. stopped abruptly.

After a few more seconds, Yi Xiao dared to gently push open the door until Chen Yixiao's reassuring strength came from his shoulder...

As the gray and old door was slowly pushed open, and when the sight inside the door gradually opened up inch by inch, he finally saw the familiar figure that he missed so much on the innermost hospital bed...

Yi Xiao used all his strength to support himself to move forward, but his unruly legs made him almost fall down, causing him to walk for a long time after only a few steps.When he finally came to the side of the bed almost limply, when the person who had appeared hundreds of times in the dream was actually in front of him, he leaned down with his hands on the side of the bed, so that his already blurred eyes could see clearly and clearly Some... In the end, Yi Xiao couldn't bear it anymore and fell to his knees. With blood-stained hands, he slowly took the sleeping man's hand, and carefully placed it on the side of his face to feel the reassuring temperature. He stopped hoarsely and whispered a name, "Anhua...Anhua...Chen Anhua...I'm here, I knew you couldn't bear to leave me behind, Chen Anhua is me, I'm Yi Xiao, Anhua, wake up ..."

But no matter how Yi Xiao called, the person lying on the hospital bed still didn't respond at all.

Chen Yixiao caressed An Hua's forehead with tears in her eyes, already guessing what was going on, looking at this younger brother who was so emaciated that he couldn't help crying, he said, "As long as you live... just live... ..."

Yi Xiao kissed Anhua's finger and tried to wake him up, "Anhua, open your eyes and see if I'm okay, wake up, okay, we'll pick you up, are you homesick..." He pushed aside Anhua's hair has grown to the sideburns between his ears. He caressed the deep scar on his forehead and said in a daze, "Anhua, are you injured? Why are you so thin? Can you hear me? Can you wake up...I am Yi Xiao, open your eyes and look at me, we will take you home..."

Such a scene inevitably made Zhong Cheng's eyes wet. He lowered his head to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes, said "I'll go to the doctor first", and hurried out.

Yi Xiao kept holding Anhua's hand and knelt on the head of the bed, fearing that this was just a dream that might pass away at any time, he kept muttering: "Anhua, I'm not dreaming now, please get up and tell me it's real. ... Anhua, you are back, right..."

Suddenly thought of something, Yi Xiao hurriedly took out the ring he had just brought back from his pocket, and said incoherently: "It's a ring, this ring led me to find you, you see, God is not willing to let us separate, Li Xiaonian is also counted. We will be together forever, Anhua, wake up, we will get married when you wake up..."

The tears on his dusty face had never dried, Yi Xiao gently put the ring on Chen Anhua's ring finger, "I've already put it on, so I'll put this on for you too..."

But when the originally good-sized ring was easily put on the extremely thin finger, Yi Xiao couldn't control it after all, and cried out again.

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After a while, two medical staff in white coats walked into the ward. The older man was a white man in his 60s who was the director of St. Mary's Hospital. I heard that these orientals were here to provide medical support. When he was a Chinese, he shook hands with Chen Yixiao and Zhong Cheng enthusiastically.When he came to the front and saw a man guarding the hospital bed with concern, the old dean was quite moved. After explaining that he was the first person who met Anhua, he told the two about what happened that day.

A year ago, the local area was the focus of the confrontation between the government forces and the anti-government armed forces. All kinds of armed conflicts occurred frequently. One afternoon, when he was driving back to St. Mary’s Hospital, he suddenly found a road guardrail in front of him [-] kilometers away from the hospital. Traces of being broken.Due to the rugged road and frequent accidents, out of the instinct of a medical practitioner, he hurriedly got out of the car to see if anyone was injured. When he approached, he found that there was a person lying there covered in blood on a protruding cliff corner below.

Since the cliff was too deep to see the bottom, he guessed that the man should have survived by being thrown out the moment the car broke through the guardrail and fell down.After confirming that the injured man still had a trace of breath, he hurriedly took the injured man back to the hospital. After several days of rescue, the man was out of danger.However, due to a serious head injury, he remained in a coma, and could not find anything on the man that could prove his identity. After the hospital contacted several embassies and found no matching information on missing persons from any country, they only The man can be placed in the hospital first.

After Zhong Cheng expressed his sincere thanks to the dean, he hurriedly translated the incident to Chen Yixiao, and then said with regret: "At that time, because I found all the blood and remains of my colleagues in the car, I never thought that anyone would Survived, the embassy did not register the information of the medical team members according to the missing persons..."

Chen Yixiao patted Zhong Cheng on the shoulder so that he didn't have to blame himself. Even though he and his parents had hoped that An Hua would come back one day, how could he have thought that this younger brother had been unconscious here all this time.

The dean believed in Catholicism and firmly believed that all of this was the will of God, so that he could meet with the arrangement of the Holy Mother, but then told Zhong Cheng that Chen Anhua's current situation was not optimistic, "Fortunately, you are here, a few days ago Since the condition of this person has become unstable and he has symptoms of organ failure, there is not much that can help him here due to the limited conditions, and it is best to transfer him to a better hospital for further treatment."

After Zhong Cheng said this worriedly, Yi Xiao, who had been listening silently with his back just now, finally got up slowly, and said in a low and hoarse voice, "I'm going to make a phone call."

Outside the ward, Yi Xiao stared intently at An Hua, who was lying pale on the bed, for fear that if he turned around, that person would disappear again, but when a thick and powerful voice came from the other end of the phone, uncontrollable tears raged again. After thousands of miles away, Yi Xiao choked up and said to the other end of the phone: "Dad...you help me..."

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