passenger

At noon, Qiao Hao sat on a bench in the small garden of the hospital, looking at a brand new thermos in his hand.

He was waiting for Molly. A few minutes ago, he had just called Molly and asked her to come downstairs for a meeting.On the phone, the girl's voice was full of unexpected joy, and Qiao Hao had to take a deep breath.He thought that his decision was right.

It was a cloudy day, but the weather in June was getting hotter, and the small garden gradually disappeared at noon.

Qiao Hao looked at the empty surroundings, then lowered his head and sorted out what he was about to say in his heart.

Soon, footsteps came from beside her, and the girl walking over was Molly. She took off her white coat and put on a light green dress.

"Mr. Qiao, are you looking for me?" Molly looked at Qiao Hao with a smile, and glanced at the vacant seat beside him on the bench. She seemed to hesitate for a moment, but finally leaned over and sat down.

Qiao Hao moved some of his body unconsciously, then passed the cup in his hand, "This is for you."

"Starbucks' new cherry blossom cup? Is it for me?" Molly raised her eyebrows, her face full of joy, and she turned the cup in her hand to look at it.

"Yes, it's for you," Qiao Hao said, and paused, "I took your thermos last time, and I kept forgetting to return it, and I used that one too, so let me return it to you. .”

"How embarrassing, my cup is worthless, this... is quite expensive..." Molly said, her tone lowered, her face flushed slightly.

Qiao Hao had no choice but to say, "It happens that there is a Starbucks on the corner of my house, and I just bought it while I was at work. Otherwise, I would have been in debt to others, and I would be very sorry. After all, we are just ordinary colleagues."

As soon as Qiao Hao's last words came out, there was a moment of coldness in the air.

Molly's smile quickly froze on her face, as if she couldn't speak for a while, and the cup in her hand was slowly put down from her eyes.

"Is that what you mean?" She blinked a few times, trying to move the corner of her mouth.

"I don't want people to misunderstand, after all, you are still a single girl...Maybe because I often go to your department, but you know, I just go to see..."

"Is there any misunderstanding?" Qiao Hao's words were interrupted by Molly, "We are not ordinary colleagues."

Qiao Hao was shocked. He was not ignorant of Molly's enthusiasm. At this moment, he was afraid that this explanation would lead to another confession.He looked at Molly with indifference in his eyes, and even began to wonder if he should say something more thorough.

"You are my internship teacher, why... are you an ordinary colleague?" Molly finally lowered her head and explained, "So... I have never regarded you as an ordinary colleague, and I have not entered this hospital yet. , just a small intern, how can he be considered a colleague?"

Qiao Hao gradually breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that Molly must have understood what he meant, but the ensuing atmosphere made him a little at a loss.

Molly raised her head, and he realized that the girl's eyes were red. She was holding the cup tightly in her hand, and her lips were pursed stubbornly. Just when Qiao Hao thought she was going to cry, he suddenly asked, "Just , am I really not good?"

Qiao Hao could only sit indifferently, then shook his head.

"You also... have never had a girlfriend? I don't think I'm not cute at all. Why did you deny me so quickly? Didn't you also encourage me to take the postgraduate entrance examination? In the future, we can also work together..." Molly Said, desperately holding back tears.

"I'm sorry, I don't want to force myself, and I don't want to delay you." Qiao Hao stood up. He was really embarrassed to sit in the same chair with Molly again. He made the girl cry, but he had no position to comfort her. , nor to comfort her.

"I see." Soon, Molly also stood up.

She pushed the cup into Qiao Hao's hand, her movements were very hasty, as if she wanted to compete with someone for time, "You don't need to pay me back anything, you don't owe me anything in the first place."

After finishing speaking, she ran straight towards the inpatient building, and the green figure quickly disappeared from Qiao Hao's sight.

Qiao Hao held the thermos cup in his hand, feeling empty for a moment.Many times in the past, he might have been frank in refusing to meet girls on a blind date, but this time, after all, it was not the first time Molly met.Although she was careless on weekdays, she didn't hide her feelings for him too much. Now that she left crying like this, Qiao Hao couldn't say that she didn't feel guilty.

Or, he should have expressed his attitude earlier, instead of ignoring Molly's enthusiasm when he ran to the fourteenth floor again and again for Shi Dongdong.

Thinking of Shi Dongdong, Qiao Hao suddenly felt boundless longing, wanting to see him immediately.

Those unspeakable reasons, reasons, original intentions, reasons... everything is just because of him.

Qiao Hao rushed towards the elevator room almost immediately, but when he put his finger on the up button of the elevator, the distance of a few centimeters made his movements slow down—maybe he would touch the elevator as soon as he got out of the elevator room. Come on Molly.

Finally, he sighed, and when the elevator came, he pressed the floor key of his department.In the afternoon, at least until she gets off work.

……

It was already dusk when Qiao Hao arrived at Shi Dongdong's ward.

The gloomy weather at noon became more and more sultry at this time, and the gloomy sky was not because of the approaching evening, but because of a heavy rain that was about to fall.

Qiao Hao pushed open the door of the ward. Uncle Liu was sleeping at the door, so his movements involuntarily became lighter.

He habitually looked towards Shi Dongdong's hospital bed, but unexpectedly found that the bed was empty, and a person in a wheelchair was looking out by the window sill not far from the bed.

Although the light was dim, Qiao Hao knew that it wasn't Shi Dongdong.

"Excuse me, where did Shi Dongdong go?"

The bald head slowly turned his head when he heard this question. His face was really swollen, and his skin had become horribly eroded due to radiotherapy, which made it hard to bear to look at.

"Do you know where he went?" Qiao Hao asked again.

The gaze from the bald head was a little dazed, looking at Qiao Hao as if looking at a stranger, and he finally spoke when Qiao Hao almost gave up on his answer.

"It was sent to the emergency room in the afternoon. I don't know if it has been rescued right now."

Qiao Hao's eyes widened, and the words he said calmly from his bald mouth almost made him unsteady, "What did you say?"

"Why are you still here, maybe I'll never see you again." The bald head said, a smile twitched from the corner of his mouth, and there was no warmth in his eyes.

Qiao Hao felt that his hands and feet were cold for a moment, he turned around staggeringly, and rushed out of the ward.

The emergency room of the oncology department was at the other end of the corridor, and Qiao Hao was running with almost all his strength. The familiar distance that he had walked countless times on weekdays had become extremely long at this time.

Maybe I'll never see you again... I won't see you again... The bald-headed words rang in his ears like a spell, and Qiao Hao felt extremely flustered.

The last time he met that person was so unhappy, when he left, he didn't even look at that person again, and today he just didn't press the button on the fourteenth floor because of the damn entanglement... Yes Wasn't all this a foreshadowing of his coming punishment?

The emergency room was finally in front of us, but the lights were off and the door was locked tightly.

Qiao Hao subconsciously knocked on the door twice, but no one responded to him.

The pounding heartbeat seemed to shatter all reason. He took several deep breaths before forcing himself to calm down. Finally, he saw a nurse coming out of the ward not far ahead.

"Please, where are the people in the emergency room?" Qiao Hao concluded.

"There are no patients in the emergency room today." The nurse opened her round eyes and looked at Qiao Hao strangely.

"What?..." Qiao Hao couldn't react for a moment.

"Doctor Qiao, are you looking for Shi Dongdong?" The nurse asked again. The nurses in the department were no longer unfamiliar with this person.

"Yes, he... didn't enter the emergency room?" Qiao Hao almost grabbed the nurse in front of him with both hands, hoping that she could answer his question quickly.

"No, he's quite stable today. He was still in the ward during the rounds just now. How could he be in the emergency room?" The nurse saw Qiao Hao's anxiety, and her tone was somewhat comforting.

"That's it..." Qiao Hao just felt his whole body relax, except that his heartbeat hadn't completely calmed down, and his rationality slowly returned a lot—obviously, the bald head had deceived him.

"Is he not in the ward? Maybe he just went out for a walk. Don't worry too much, there should be someone by his side." The nurse said again.

"Thank you." Qiao Hao nodded.

When he returned to Shi Dongdong's ward, the bald head still did not move in front of the window sill.

Qiao Hao felt a surge of indignation from the bottom of his heart, he rushed over, almost wanting to grab the bald head from the wheelchair.

But when he got close, Qiao Hao finally stopped, "How can you make such a joke!"

"Hush—" The bald head slowly put his finger to his mouth, and his eyes moved to Uncle Liu's bed, "Hush, the old man is sleeping."

"You're really going too far." Qiao Hao endured and lowered his voice.

The bald man just smiled coldly, and said weakly, "People are always going to die, and this Corey is dying every day. I asked you to prepare in advance, isn't it good?"

"This department doesn't die every day, and Dongdong is also doing well." Qiao Hao gritted his teeth.

"Okay, very..." The bald man took a deep breath with a smile. The smile seemed to have touched some nerve in him, causing him to cough suddenly. After coughing for a long time, he barely cleared his throat and looked thoughtfully Looking at Qiao Hao, "Actually, I am quite envious of him. Are you that one?"

Qiao Hao looked at the bald head defensively, his hands clenched into fists, waiting for the person in the wheelchair to continue.

"I used to be a photographer, and I have met a lot of people like you," the bald head snorted coldly, panting, "Don't be afraid, I'll tell you sooner. I'm just envious, why are you so determined? ? Why did my wife run away as soon as she heard I was diagnosed?"

"Look out." Qiao Hao said bluntly, "At least, your mother has spared no effort in taking care of you, and she never gave up on you."

"But I'm dragging her down." The bald head shook his head with a smile, and then said after a while, "Life is really boring. When you're not sick, you're afraid of this and that, and you're afraid that the film won't make money. Money, whatever angle and composition, as long as the client likes it, what kind of shit is the one that was photographed... I am afraid that my lover will be angry, if I don’t have time to accompany her, I will be angry, if I don’t have a gift on an important day, I will be angry, that’s coaxing, but I really don’t like it. When she needs someone to accompany her, where the hell is she? There are also people like you who hide and hide for fear of being seen, so what if you say it? People can't die, and the saddest thing is this kind of illness , What’s the big deal? Others can bury you alive? People are fucking useless! It’s better to die more refreshingly!..."

The bald head wound up like a clockwork machine, and began to babble and curse.Qiao Hao could understand what he meant at first, but later, the bald-headed words became vaguely connected, and the whole person became a little crazy.

Qiao Hao had no choice but to sit down beside Shi Dongdong's bed. The sky outside the window became darker and darker, and soon there were bursts of muffled thunder.

Uncle Liu was also woken up. He slowly got up and looked around for his mobile phone to call his wife.

Qiao Hao looked at his watch from time to time, and began to worry about Shi Dongdong.

Where did that man go again?

He also took out his mobile phone and dialed a few times, but he was not picked up.The beeping sound was endless, as long as the distance between the two had been inexplicably opened during this period of time.

Then, when Qiao Hao couldn't wait to rush out to find someone, Shi Dongdong walked into the ward with the drawing board on his back.

"Where did you go!" Qiao Hao asked him loudly uncontrollably.

"I went to the rooftop to paint." Shi Dongdong was a little confused.

"Do you still like drawing so much? You don't know how to come back when it's going to rain!" Qiao Hao almost shouted.

"Didn't I come back?" Shi Dongdong took off the drawing board from his shoulder, and the top one was still the one of the Eiffel Tower.

Qiao Hao was defeated again. Before, in the panic and fear of being deceived by the bald head, he thought that if he could see Shi Dongdong again, he would definitely hug him tightly.At this moment, the bald man by the windowsill was still cursing ecstatically, Uncle Liu on the hospital bed was nodding his head in response to his wife's exhortation on the phone, Shi Dongdong, who had put down his drawing board, was standing straight in front of him, Qiao Hao suddenly Lost the reason to hug him.

Not knowing what to say, he walked out of the dreary ward and out of the inpatient building of the hospital.

Then, the heavy rain finally came down.