passenger

When Qiao Hao left the ward, Shi Dongdong was already sound asleep.

When the sky was pale, he gently closed the curtains for Shi Dongdong. Another sunny working day was waiting for him to be busy. He pressed his temples hard, took another look at the sleeping face of the person on the bed, and finally left the ward. .

In the early morning of summer, the breeze blows people cool and refreshing. After a worrying day, Qiao Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This day was his outpatient clinic, and the crowded waiting room left him no room to think about other things. He washed his hands and called the first number.

The person who came in surprised Qiao Hao, it was his bald mother.This time, he was not wearing a mask, and the woman finally recognized him when she saw him.

"So you are a doctor in this department." A rare light flashed in the woman's gloomy eyes.

Qiao Hao nodded and smiled, and asked, "Is your cough still not healed?"

The woman didn't answer his question, but hesitated before she spoke, "Since you are a doctor here, can you please prescribe me some anti-inflammatory drugs directly, the drugs are stronger, I think I have some inflammation, Get on fire."

"Auntie, you can't prescribe medicines like this. You'd better go check it out. Pay special attention to lung problems. You've been coughing for so long..."

Before Qiao Hao finished speaking, he was interrupted by the old woman, "It can't be cancer again."

The woman shook her head and smiled, "That's fine, you can go and accompany my son."

"Auntie, don't say that, you have to take good care of him."

The woman lowered her head, sighed, then picked up the medical records on the table as if she had suddenly figured something out, and stood up.

"If you can't prescribe medicine, forget it. I'll go and buy some over-the-counter cough syrup myself." She lowered her eyes and said with a numb expression on her face.

"Aunt..." Qiao Hao still wanted to persuade her again.

"The doctor said he didn't have much time." The old woman raised her head, choked up and said, her red eyes only glanced at Qiao Hao, then quickly turned and walked out of the ward.

Qiao Hao called her and wanted to chase her out, but there were too many patients, so he had to stand up and sit down again.

Looking at the patient column in the computer where no information has been entered, Qiao Hao finally clicked the cross.

He thought he should be thankful, at least he didn't have to experience the old man's despair at this time.

……

Shi Chongshan sat on the sofa in the ward, and put a itinerary plan to the United States in front of Shi Dongdong's bed.

Shi Dongdong just glanced at it lightly, and didn't pick it up to look at it.

"What are the chances of the operation being successful?" he asked.

After a brief silence, Shi Chongshan said, "The doctor over there will have to wait for the craniotomy to see what's going on in your brain before making a conclusion. Moreover, this problem is not something that can be solved with one operation, but at least it is better than before. Domestically, there will be some chances of winning.”

"Odds? Is my survival a gamble?" Shi Dongdong smiled and leaned back on the bed.

"I'm talking about the success rate of the operation." Shi Chongshan said in a deep voice.

"Really? So what happens if the operation fails? Am I a vegetable? Or die on the operating table?"

"Do you have to be so negative?" Shi Chongshan pressed his hand tightly on the armrest of the sofa.

"I'm not negative." Shi Dongdong stopped laughing and closed his eyes, "I feel so painful every day that I want to die."

"Your surname is Shi, you can't be so cowardly! Since you are not afraid of death, why are you afraid of surgery?"

"Your rhetoric is too old-fashioned. I want to die because I'm afraid of pain, and I don't want surgery because," Shi Dongdong paused, before saying, "Because I don't want to please you."

"What are you talking about!" Shi Chongshan stood up angrily, his hands clenched into fists, but in front of his sickly son, his two old fists couldn't be thrown out after all.

"You let me have the surgery, just to make up for your mistakes back then? You didn't choose surgery for your mother back then, but let her lie in bed waiting to die... You can't bear to part with your fledgling business! You can't bear to spend time taking care of her. She! You must have been thinking about compensation back then! I was eight years old then, and I knew everything! I remember it all my life! Now, you just want to atone for your sins, no surgery for your mother, You did it to me!" Shi Dongdong said more and more excitedly, the monitoring equipment in the ward rang, and doctors and nurses quickly ran in.

Shi Chongshan was blocked by a group of people, but his eyes were still red and motionless.Shi Dongdong said something he had never said before. The decision he made many years ago is now like a huge rock between father and son. He can't argue with it, but he may really lose his son because of it.

A doctor invited him out of the ward and whispered something in his ear. Shi Chongshan waved his hand, just wanting to be quiet.

He no longer knew how to make a decision, to have surgery or not to have surgery, to atone for himself or to push his son into a deeper abyss...

"The doctor gave Dongdong a tranquilizer, and he is already asleep." Chen Zhi stood beside him at some point, and seeing that he was still silent, he added, "Mr. Shi, maybe we should give him more Time to think about it."

Shi Chongshan nodded blankly and repeated, "More time..."

……

When Qiao Hao saw Shi Dongdong again, he had already been transferred to the previous general ward.

There was still a pale sleeping face on the hospital bed, Qiao Hao stared at it for a long time as if he never tired of watching it until he woke up.

"Why do you act like you don't have to go to work?" Shi Dongdong was still sane, and after seeing that it was Qiao Hao, he said something blankly.

"I've been on the outpatient clinic for one day and the night shift all night." Qiao Hao raised his eyelids and opened his dry eyes wide. He knew without looking in the mirror that his eyes must be bloodshot.

"I had a dream." Shi Dongdong lay on the pillow and turned his head stiffly, the gauze from the previous operation was still not removed.

"What did you dream about?" Qiao Hao asked softly.

"My mother..." Shi Dongdong looked at the ceiling, "She is still the same as when I was a child, she has not aged at all, she is a beauty, so the son she gave birth to is also beautiful."

When Shi Dongdong said he was beautiful, he was unequivocal at all, and Qiao Hao couldn't help laughing, "You really are not humble."

"She kept praising me like that at that time, saying that I would follow her." Shi Dongdong curled the corners of his mouth, with a smile in his eyes, and he couldn't hide his handsomeness on the sick bed.Qiao Hao's tired eyes from staying up all night seemed to have received excellent benefits at this moment, and he couldn't take his eyes off his face at all.

"I just dreamed that she came to pick me up from school. It was a primary school. At that time, my father was very busy with work, and my mother picked me up every day. In the morning, she would prepare breakfast for me early. When she picked me up in the afternoon, she would have a root in her hand. Ham sausage or a tea egg, she said that the stomach is very hungry in the afternoon. I sit on the back of her bicycle, she rides the bicycle, I eat, and when it rains, she will wear a raincoat. The raincoat is very big, so I hide in her Inside the raincoat. I can’t see where the outside is, I can only see the small stones on the road receding in a line from under the raincoat. Sometimes I can’t help asking her, Mom, where are you... She never answered me. Where is it, just say 'five minutes' and 'almost there'."

As Shi Dongdong spoke, his brows suddenly frowned.

"What's wrong?" Qiao Hao immediately stood up nervously.

"It's time to take the medicine too..." Shi Dongdong said dejectedly, trying to get up slowly while propping up his body.

Qiao Hao helped him, "The nurse hasn't delivered the medicine yet, is there painkiller?"

Shi Dongdong nodded, "Recently, the effect of painkillers seems to be getting shorter and shorter, can you call the nurse for me?"

Qiao Hao's heart tightened. He didn't immediately agree to Shi Dongdong's request, but just stretched out his hand to hold his hand, and said to him, "Does it hurt? If you can bear it, bear it... the time for taking painkillers There are strict restrictions, otherwise there will be dependence, and the drug is also very irritating to the liver, so," Qiao Hao clenched his hand a little, "wait a little longer."

Shi Dongdong's frowning eyebrows slowed down for a while, and then he managed to relax. His cheeks bulged and then shrunk, "Are you still grumpy?"

Qiao Hao gave a "hmm" and gave him another encouraging look.

Shi Dongdong didn't bother with this issue, and finally just sighed, "My temper is not like my mother, she is a very quiet and gentle person...so she is very quiet when she walks, and she doesn't bother people at all, just like that on the bed. Lying down all the time, I don’t know if she is in pain or not. Do you know that she had a car accident on the way to pick me up from school. It seemed to be raining that day, and I always felt that even though the car was shaking a little under her raincoat, I'm absolutely safe too...but I never imagined that one day my mum in a raincoat would collapse a few hundred meters from our school."

Qiao Hao felt that the fingers of the hand he was holding were slightly cold. He looked down at the fingertips of that hand, and wrapped them all into his palm, "Don't think about those anymore, that's all in the past."

Shi Dongdong looked at Qiao Hao with his head sideways, his chest was breathing up and down, but he just closed his eyes and remained silent after all.The two of them were quiet for a while, and when Qiao Hao almost thought he had fallen asleep again, Shi Dongdong finally spoke again.

He said, "Qiao Hao, my father wants me to be transferred."

The sudden sentence made Qiao Hao a little confused, "Should I be transferred to a hospital in other places?"

In the local area, this hospital already belongs to the first and second. If you want to transfer, then you have to go to other places.Countless thoughts flashed through Qiao Hao's mind. With his current work intensity, it is impossible to go to other places to see a patient frequently. If he asks for leave, the workload of his colleagues will be even greater. Looking at Shi Dongdong, it is rare for him to spare two consecutive full days a month.And even if he saw Shi Dongdong once a month, he felt it was too long.

So, Qiao Hao was speechless for a while.

"He urged me for a long time, saying that the hospital is very authoritative, and the environment is better than here." Shi Dongdong said slowly, as if he was waiting for his reaction, but also as if he was simply stating a fact.

"It's true that the environment in our hospital is not very good..." Qiao Hao reluctantly opened his mouth. When he entered the ward, he saw a few extra beds in the corridor. At this time, there was a lot of noise outside the ward, and they could hear it even through the bed curtain. .

For Shi Dongdong's good, he should persuade him to transfer to another hospital.Only in that way, their meeting became a problem.

Qiao Hao's heart became confused, and the exhaustion from the previous night's shift also made his thinking dull, "You should listen to your father" could not be said no matter what.

Just when he was hesitating, the bed curtain was lifted, and the person who walked in surprised him.

Molly was wearing a white coat and carrying a medicine tray, while his mother carried a thermos and stood beside Molly with a smile on her face.