growing up

My mother was anxious to deal with the follow-up work, and hung up the phone after speaking in a hurry.

Gu Qingqing didn't wake up until around eight o'clock, and saw her brother guarding her, with a faint smile on her pale face.

"Brother." Her voice was very soft, and her breathing accelerated with just one sound.

Gu Yuan took her hand and squeezed it, stroked her hair, and said with distressed eyes: "Don't talk, take a good rest, it's fine."

Gu Qingqing shook her head slowly: "Brother, have you contacted your mother yet? I miss her a little bit."

"Contact, she will come back, Qingqing, mother will come back when you wake up from sleep again." Gu Yuan felt his eyes itchy, as if something was about to flow out, he gritted his teeth and endured, not letting Gu Qingqing figure it out.

"Okay, I'll wait for her." Gu Qingqing said: "I seemed to see my dad just now, and my dad was smiling. He said...he is waiting for me. Cough cough...Brother, am I really going to see my dad soon?"

Gu Qingqing struggled to speak, and was wearing an oxygen mask, but Gu Yuan could hear every word clearly. He just felt like he was about to be unable to breathe, and his heart ached.

But he could only comfort his sister slowly, not daring to show any abnormal behavior.

Gu Qingqing fell asleep again without saying a few words. Looking at her closed eyes, Gu Yuan couldn't bear it anymore. He left the ward and went to the stairs of the safe passage, squatting on the sore and swollen body. Tears welled up in both eyes.The lower lip was bitten white by the teeth, but it couldn't stop the sobs rushing out of the throat.

Gu Yuan seldom cried, and he could count the number of times he cried on one hand in his memory. When he was fighting outside, even if he was injured, he would not shed a single tear.Every time he cries, it is because of Gu Qingqing's illness.

He always felt that he was partly responsible for his younger sister's illness. They were twins, but Qingqing was the only one who got sick, while he grew up healthy and healthy.Every time he saw Gu Qingqing lying weak and uncomfortable on the hospital bed, he felt very painful.I wish I could transfer the disease and let myself bear it for her.

Almost everyone in the hospital used the elevator to go up and down the stairs. The stairs in the safe passage were extremely quiet. Gu Yuan cried for ten minutes before he stopped his tears. He didn’t know whether it was because he was too empty after crying or because he was too worried today. I miss Ling Chao very much.

I think of his warm smile, the big hand that loves to touch his hair, the ferocity and loss of control when helping him play the big board, and the firm gaze when he finally led him to the finish line of the long-distance running that day.

He wants to see him, wants to hug him, although he doesn't know why he has such a thought, but that's what he thinks in his heart now.

After he sent a message to Ling Chao, he didn't know what to say.Rubbing the side of the phone with his fingers, he never typed a word in the dialog box.

And Ling Chao didn't reply, wondering if he was busy and didn't see it.

Gu Yuan stood up and leaned against the handrail of the stairs, put his phone in his pocket, and lit another cigarette. Seeing the smoke swirl before him until it cleared up, his emotions gradually calmed down a bit.No matter what, he must be strong, and he still needs to take care of Qingqing.

His mother called when he had run out of cigarettes, telling him that her superior had approved her seven-day leave, but there was no ticket tonight, and she could only return by plane at noon tomorrow at the earliest, which would not arrive until three or four in the afternoon.

Director Li, who was out of his mind, was on vacation, and rushed back from the Linshi resort as soon as he heard the call from the hospital. He took over Gu Qingqing's case since he was a child, and watched this little girl grow from a baby to this big, more or less There is also some emotion.

He came back to check on Gu Qingqing's situation, held a meeting with several experts to discuss it, and finally decided to have the operation at nine o'clock tomorrow morning.

Gu Yuan had a conversation with his mother before slowly returning to the ward.

When Ling Chao called, Gu Yuan had something to do at the nurse's station. His mobile phone was still in his bag, and the volume was muted, so he didn't receive it.As soon as he came back, he heard the mobile phone in the bag vibrate slightly. He took it out and was about to answer it, but it hung up automatically. He saw that there were three missed calls, all of which were from Ling Chao. When he walked out of the ward with the mobile phone and wanted to go back, the phone here we go again.

When Ling Chao asked him what's the matter, Gu Yuan couldn't say anything.Ling Chao finally went back to reunite with his family, how could he bother him.Based on what he knew about Ling Chao, if he said so, the other party would definitely be anxious and worried. Right now, my sister's condition is fairly stable. No one can guarantee how the surgery will go tomorrow, but my mother will be back tomorrow.He is no longer alone here, so naturally he doesn't want to tell Ling Chao these unhappy things to make him worry.

So he didn't say anything, maybe he was too anxious, a little angry, his voice was hoarse.He was afraid that Ling Chao would hear something was wrong, so he pretended to be relaxed and asked Ling Chao what he did when he got home.

But Ling Chao couldn't be so easy to fool. Within a few minutes, Ling Chao logged on WeChat on his tablet and sent a video request to Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan is in the hospital now, if he gets connected, he will definitely be exposed, but if he doesn't, what will Ling Chao think?

In the end, he had no choice but to run to the stairway where he stayed before to connect to the video.

Ling Chao looked at the young man on the screen, he was still the familiar Gu Yuan, but his tired and swollen eyes betrayed him.

Seeing his own appearance, Gu Yuan quickly changed the direction of his phone, but he just scanned a disease promotion poster in the hospital. He only hoped that Ling Chao didn't see it, because the speed just now must have been pretty fast.

Ling Chao did not come to see the poster in a hurry, but a big red cross in the upper left corner caught his eye.

"Where are you?" Ling Chao asked him.

Alas, Gu Yuan sighed softly, but still wanted to lie to him: "At home."

Obviously, in the video, he scanned the icon posters that only hospitals have, as well as the hole in the spiral staircase that goes into the upper floors just now when his phone was flattened, there is no way that it is his home!

"You can point the phone at you." Ling Chao didn't know why Gu Yuan lied to him, was he sick?Still hurt?

Gu Yuan had no choice but to turn the phone back.The light on Ling Chao's side is very bright, he should be in his own bedroom, and he can see a big bed with blue checked sheets behind him.The sound of wind and rain outside could be heard faintly.

"You are in the hospital, why did you lie to me?" Ling Chao used an affirmative sentence in the first half of the sentence, and the second half of the sentence seemed to be reproachful but distressed.

"I..." Gu Yuan didn't know what to say.

Ling Chao looked at him, wanting to wait for him to speak, but there was no sound behind Gu Yuan.His eyes were lowered, and his long eyelashes cast a large shadow on the lower eyelid under the light.

"Are you sick? Or injured?" Ling Chao couldn't wait for him to speak for a long time, so he could only ask himself. From the video, he could only see Gu Yuan's head, but nothing else.

"It's not me." Gu Yuan finally raised his eyes to look at Ling Chao, but why was the sadness in his eyes more serious?

"It's my sister. She suddenly fell ill this afternoon. I'm accompanying her in the hospital now." Gu Yuan thought about it and said it out.

"Qingqing?" Hearing that it wasn't him, his heart that had been hanging around turned around a little bit, and when Gu Yuan said that his sister was ill, Ling Chao couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

"Then what's going on now?" Ling Chao asked again.

"It's a bit more stable now, but the operation at the end of the month has to be brought forward." Gu Yuan simply said everything.

"When will the operation be done? Are you alone in the hospital with her?" Ling Chao remembered that his mother was not around, and his grandma was so old. Gu Yuan would definitely not let the old man come to the hospital with him.

"Tomorrow morning at nine o'clock, I will be alone for the time being. However, my mother will come back tomorrow." Gu Yuan said.

"Which hospital are you in?" Ling Chao asked him.

"It's the Municipal People's Hospital. Qingqing has been treated in this hospital before." Gu Yuan said.

Ling Chao asked some more questions, and he had a decision in mind, so he didn't say much, told Gu Yuan to rest early, and hung up the video.

He wants to return to City D ahead of schedule.Before, he had been restless and thought about many possibilities. Now that the cause of the matter is confirmed, he knows Gu Yuan's feelings for Gu Qingqing even more. That illness is too terrible. Even if his mother will go back tomorrow, Ling Chao now only wants to I can accompany him.

He didn't want to think about what kind of mentality Gu Yuan had in sending him that message, his eyes obviously showed signs of crying not long ago.

For a long time, Ling Chao had never seen Gu Yuan cry, and those red eyes pierced Ling Chao's heart like needles, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

Gu Yuan would look for him at such a time, even if it was just a friend, even if he didn't express anything, he knew that Gu Yuan needed him at that time.

As for what he needs, it's fine!

He turned on the computer and checked the flight from City H to City D. There was originally another flight at around twelve o'clock at night, but due to today's weather, it has been canceled and delayed.Even the next day's shift is to be determined.

In the afternoon, he was still lamenting that the wind came at a good time, and it would not delay his return journey, but now, he wished that there were thousands of miles of stars outside, so that he could rush over tonight.

Ling Chao left the bedroom. It was dark in his parents' room, so they must have not slept so early.Walking to the door of the study, there was indeed light coming through the crack of the door.

He knocked on the door and Dad let him in.

Pushing open the door, Dad was reading documents on the sofa, and Mom was busy in front of the computer.

"Let me see that you fell asleep first, why did you wake up so soon?" Dad looked at him and asked.

"Dad, Mom, I need your help with something." Ling Chao said straight to the point.

Bai Lan also stopped what she was doing, and she glanced at Ling Chao, wondering what happened to make him so anxious and formal.

"What's the matter?" Dad put the documents aside, beckoned Ling Chao to sit over and said.

"I want to go back to City D, and I have to go back now, in the fastest way." Ling Chao didn't move, maintaining his posture standing at the door.

The two looked at each other, a little confused, what happened to their son?They had never seen Ling Chao's appearance now.

"Can you tell us what happened? There are three more days of vacation, why are you going back there now?" Bai Lan got up and walked over.

"It's Gu Yuan, his sister is hospitalized, and now he is the only one in the hospital. I want to go back and help him." Ling Chao said.

It turned out that it was because of that little boy. Looking at Ling Chao's anxious and worried face, Bai Lan realized that her son seemed to really like him very much.

She glanced at her husband, as if asking for his opinion.Ling Chao finally came back from a long vacation, and they took all their work home to do tonight, thinking that their son would be at home.Now he was leaving, but Bai Lan would definitely not refuse.only……

"The weather here is so bad today, the flight will definitely not be able to take off. It will still be rainy tomorrow, how are you going to go now?" Bai Lan thought for a while before telling Ling Chao.

"I know, I just checked, is there any other way to leave tonight?" Ling Chao said.

"Well, don't worry, I'll call Xiao Tang and ask her to check the flights in other cities and think of a way." Ling Zhifeng said while taking the phone.

Bai Lan dragged Ling Chao over to sit down, waiting for her father to call.

After a while, Xiao Tang called back.It is said that during the eleventh period, it is not easy to buy trains or air tickets in many places.The fastest way now is to take a train from city H to city C at eleven o'clock this evening, and then take a flight to city D tomorrow morning. You can arrive at 10:30, ask them if it is possible.

Ling Chao agreed without saying a word.