No.70 days

On January [-]th, Wang Yujun and Shao Wu sent Wu Yan to the operating room together.The operation was slower than they expected. Wu Yan was pushed out nearly three hours later. Due to general anesthesia, her consciousness was very drowsy.

Fortunately, the doctor said, everything was fine.

After that, it was a slow recovery. Wu Yan had hired a female nurse in advance. First, it would be more convenient for the female nurse to take care of her.Shao Wu and Wang Yujun stayed in the hospital in shifts, and generally speaking, they didn't find it hard.

By January NO.15, Wu Yan was able to walk slowly in the corridor.After this operation, she lost five catties, but maybe because she was in a good mood with her son, she was in a good state of mind.Whenever colleagues and friends come to visit, she can chat with others for a long time.

Once she mentioned Yang Shuyi to Shao Wu, and asked casually, "Has your classmate surnamed Yang married yet?"

Shao Wu was peeling an apple for her, without raising his head, he said, "It's done."

"Oh..." Wu Yan paused, "That kid looks good."

"Yes," Shao Wu smiled at her, "Okay, Mom, are we half of each other?"

So the two of them started to eat apples, and no one mentioned Yang Shuyi again.

On January No. 16, the day before Yang Shuyi's wedding, Zou Xin called Shao Wu and asked him to meet.

It was in a tea restaurant of a newly opened hotel. At 08:30 in the morning, there was no one else except the waiter dozing off at the door.

Zou Xin said, "We will hold our wedding here."

Shao Wu nodded: "I know." It was Longlong who told him.

Zou Xin opened her Hermes, took out a small gift bag from it, and pushed it to Shao Wu: "This is wedding candy."

The gift bag is a bright royal blue and the two handles are made of silk for a very delicate look.In the center of the bag, a simple "ILOVEYOU" is printed in cursive English.

Shao Wu was silent for two seconds, and said to her: "What can I do for you?" He might not really come to give the candy.

"What did you say to him after I left that night?" Zou Xin asked with a smile.

"Nothing - it won't affect your wedding."

"Of course it doesn't matter. We have to rehearse again in the afternoon."

"..."

"He's been in a trance these days, as if he's lost his soul," Zou Xin stirred the coffee, "I told him yesterday that it's too late to regret it now. In the end, he still wants to get married."

Shao Wu was silent and didn't talk to him.

"Honestly, Shao Wu, you don't have to be awkward, just stay together. Anyway, I have no objection. Consensual, how rare."

She continued to be persuasive: "Now we are getting married to give an explanation to our family. In fact, we all understand that it's fake. And you two can't get a certificate anyway. Lao Zhang and I, you and Yang Shuyi, let's help each other cover up, don't we?" Good?"

Shao Wu said: "Before, he really wanted to be with you."

"Not now."

"It has nothing to do with me," Shao Wu picked up their wedding candy, "That's it, I wish you a smooth wedding."

Shao Wu walked out of the tea restaurant and came to the lobby on the first floor of the hotel. The light was warm orange, and the shadow of the crystal lamp swayed gently on the marble floor like ripples.This newly opened hotel is elegantly decorated and is indeed a good place for weddings.

Zou Xin didn't chase him out, so Shao Wu took a few glances in the hall and then left.

Today Wang Yujun is on the day shift, and he is on the night shift, so there is no need to go to the hospital right now.Shao Wu went to the bun shop to eat a drawer of soup dumplings, then went home and took a shower.

After taking a shower, he started to wash clothes.Before my parents divorced, the house in Jinxiuyuan had been vacant, so there was no washing machine at home. Fortunately, Wu Yan had already bought the basin and laundry detergent.Shao Wu mixed some laundry detergent with warm water, and when the laundry detergent melted, he took off his sweater and long johns, and soaked them in.The bathroom heater was turned on in the bathroom, so it wasn't cold. Shao Wu was wearing only a pair of underwear, sitting on a low bench, rubbing his clothes.

After rubbing and rubbing, I realized, no, these long johns are gray and faded.

So he quickly grabbed the sweater out, but it was too late, the white sweater was stained with a layer of light gray.Shao Wu stared at the dripping sweater, and put it back after a few seconds.

Just like a new sweater.

After washing his own clothes, he washed Wang Yujun's jeans again. The jeans were hard and not easy to wash, so he washed them slower than before.Shao Wu hung three pieces of clothes to dry on the balcony. The sweater and long johns were wrung out very dry, but the jeans were dripping, so Shao Wu took the basin and put it under the jeans.

It is a rare sunny day in Yongchuan, and the sun is warm and comfortable on the body.Shao Wu just squatted on the balcony basking in the sun for a while while staring at the basin in hand.Tick, tick, tick, water droplets dripped from the hem of the jeans, hitting the bottom of the basin crisply.

Feeling a bit cold, Shao Wu went back to the bedroom.At this time, the phone was fully charged, and he started to play Glory of Kings. Shao Wu had heard a saying that only straight men would play jungle, and he thought it made sense—because he himself couldn’t play jungle.Maybe you can ask Wang Yujun and Chen Yimang to try if you have time. If they can't play wild, then it seems that this statement is true.

Shao Wu's rank is relatively low, platinum, and he is often ranked as a rookie like him in the rankings. Fortunately, he has a calm mind and doesn't get angry when he loses.It takes at least 15 minutes for a round of qualifying. Shao Wu played a few rounds, and it was noon.He ordered a takeaway braised pork rice, ate it quickly, and continued playing games.After losing two more rounds, Shao Wu quit the game and put the phone upside down next to the pillow.

Then sleep until 06:30 pm.

When I woke up, it was already dark, and the room was also dark. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, I could see that almost every household on the opposite floor was lit with lights.Shao Wu was in a daze for a while before he confirmed that he was in Yongchuan, not Zhuhai.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Yujun sent him a WeChat message: Don't come over tonight, mom won't be infused tonight, and I'm sleeping in the hospital, too.

Shao Wu replied: I will come.Have you eaten yet?

Wang Yujun: Mom, eat it, you can make a copy for me.

Shao Wu: OK.

When I arrived at the hospital, my mother was chatting with the daughter of the old man in the next bed. The daughter seemed to be in her early thirties, and she was enthusiastically asking her which kindergarten to choose for her child.Wang Yujun took the Chao Shou and said to Shao Wu while eating: "You should go back later."

"It's okay," Shao Wu said, "you go back and shave."

"Hey, should I shave?" Wang Yujun stroked his chin, "I just shaved yesterday."

"Brother," Shao Wu said softly seeing his mother getting absorbed in the conversation, "Dr. Zhou asked me just now if you would accompany me tonight."

Wang Yujun glanced sideways, as if Dr. Zhou was standing here: "This person has a lot to do."

Shao Wu just laughed and didn't speak.

Dr. Zhou is a doctor in the oncology department. He looks like he is in his 30s. He is tall and has long legs and good facial features.Shao Wu was stopped by him a few days ago: "Xiao Shao, can you send me your brother's WeChat?"

It's very straightforward.

Shao Wu felt that the two of them might be having an affair.

After eating and copying hands, Wang Yujun went back, and Shao Wu stayed in the hospital with his mother.That is to say, in ten or so days, everyone in the same ward has become acquainted. Of course, it may be because of boredom, so everyone can only get together and gossip.Shao Wuman listened with interest, a distant relative of this family gambled and lost two houses, and a friend of that family engaged in illegal financing and couldn't get back the principal and jumped off the building... Occasionally, I heard my mother talk about the kindergarten She said that children nowadays are no different than before, one is more delicate than the other.

Shao Wu thought, will Yang Shuyi have a child—Zou Xin is really willing to give him a child?

This question flashed through his mind, and then Shao Wu took out his phone and started playing King of Glory again.He charged 200 yuan in coupons to his account and bought a new skin, which was very comfortable to use.

The call lasted until 10:30, my mother fell asleep, and Shao Wu also felt a little sleepy.Lying on a folding chair, he sent Wang Yujun a WeChat message: I will be in the hospital during the day tomorrow, and you will come back at night.

Wang Yujun didn't come back, I don't know if he went with Dr. Zhou in style.

Shao Wu put down his phone and fell into a deep sleep.

梦里，五彩斑斓的画面频频闪过，醒来后，他一个都没记住。手机上显示：03：17。是1月17号的03:17。

You should get up early to pick up the bride, but not so early.

Shao Wu closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

This time he slept soundly, without dreaming.

Then, it was dawn, and a new day in the inpatient department began.Washing his face and mouth, buying breakfast for his mother, the doctor's rounds, and his mother's infusion, he stood by and watched the liquid drop by drop from the thin and transparent plastic tube into the small gourd in the middle.

My mother asked: "What's the matter, the speed is too fast?" Some medicinal liquids cannot be infused too fast.

"Do you feel sick?"

"No ah."

"Then it's okay," Shao Wu said with a smile, "I'll just take a look."

So a large bottle of liquid, one drop by one drop... How many drops will it be?

After ten o'clock, the phone rang.

It was Zhu Jingjing, her tone was very careful: "Shao Wu, are you coming?"

What she asked was about Yang Shuyi's wedding. Shao Wu heard that all the students in his class in Yongchuan had received wedding invitations. It seemed that the wedding was quite grand.

"No, I have to stay with my mother in the hospital."

"Oh...that, that's good," she said immediately afterward, "that's pretty good, too."

Shao Wu joked: "I'm drunk this time, so I can't pick you up no matter what."

Zhu Jingjing also smiled: "Are you annoying?"

After eleven o'clock, several students posted photos in the WeChat group.There is a background board covered with golden balloons and red roses at the main entrance of the hotel for visitors to take pictures.Walking inside, we arrived at Hall 2 where the wedding was held. The LED screen scrolled the wedding photos of Yang Shuyi and Zou Xin. One was wearing a light brown suit and the other was wearing an ivory white mermaid skirt.

After a while, someone posted a photo in the group again. It was Yang Shuyi, Zou Xin, her mother-in-law and the master of ceremonies standing on the stage, he was still wearing a suit and she was wearing a wedding dress, and her mother-in-law was wearing a beaming red Tang suit.This link is probably to recall the relationship experience between the two?The four people in the photo are all smiling, and the classmates caught Yang Shuyi and Zou Xin looking at each other with gentle eyes.

Shao Wu was silent for a moment, and turned off the phone directly.

The electronic watch in the ward showed that it was 11:47, and Shao Wu thought that the wedding should end before one o'clock.Then there is one hour and 13 minutes left.

Mom has eaten and is already taking a nap.The phone was turned off again, unable to play King of Glory.

Shao Wu simply took out the paper bag Zou Xin gave him from the backpack he was carrying.It was opened, and inside was a royal blue paper box with two overlapping hearts painted on the top, which had been pierced by an arrow.This is Cupid's arrow.

Opening the lid, it is indeed wedding candy, chocolate toffee toffee, surrounded by strands of pink raffia paper, which looks very delicate.

Shao Wu peeled off a piece of chocolate and slowly swallowed it.

One by one, he ate all the candies.

12:34 minutes.

26 minutes left - why 26 minutes left?

no way.Shao Wu picked up a piece of raffia paper and counted silently in his heart, one.

He picked up another one and counted silently, two.

three.

Four.

five.

six.

seven.

Eight.

……

The raffia paper is fine enough, so enough.Shao Wu patiently picked them up, one at a time, and then silently recited a number in his heart.It's nothing more than to endure, to pass the time, to hold back.What's so difficult about it?When Yang Shuyi uttered the word "love" that night, he was able to hold back from kissing him crazily—so he believed that he could hold back everything after that.

like.If it was Shao Wu in high school, Shao Wu in college, or Shao Wu when he just returned to his alma mater to teach-heard this word-how excited would he be?It's a pity that he is Shao Wu at this moment.He already understood that Yang Shuyi's "love" is true, but unfortunately there are many kinds of "love", "love" is obsession, and "love" is selfless, and Yang Shuyi's "love" belongs to the former.Maybe Yang Shuyi did taste the joy of being loved from him, so he also gave him some "love" back.But so what?Since he doesn't want to have an affair with Yang Shuyi like Zou Xin and Mr. Zhang, and since he doesn't want to be the "compromise" of Yang Shuyi's relationship failure, then he has no choice but to endure it.

Whether it's playing games or counting raffia paper, find some ways to hold back.He can always resist, resist not contacting him, not searching his Dianping, not checking his Weibo, not reading his circle of friends, not thinking about him.It's like peeling off the flesh and blood from the bones.

Maybe one day, he can knock Yang Shuyi out of his life.