Zi Feiyu

In a house, there lived a group of people who were dying.

Zhang Ran is 19 years old this year. He did not go to school after the college entrance examination last year.One is that his grades are not good and he can't pass the exam; the other is that he has no money; the third is that the relationship between his parents makes him collapse.

The landlord went to the second floor and knocked on the door. Zhang Ran put down the scissors in his hand and opened the door.Zhang Ran has been with the landlord for almost half a year, but he still doesn't dare to meet the landlord's eyes directly.At the beginning, he felt that the landlord's eyes were too bright, which made his eyes hurt. Later, when he thought about his situation, he felt ashamed. Now, he is wearing bandages around him to avoid seeing everyone.

The landlord is in his 40s, neither fat nor thin, nor bald.He has a kind face, always smiles, and is a very nice person.The people in this room who were looking for death were all the lives he saved.Zhang Ran lowered his head, his voice was a little low: "...what's the matter?"

The landlord looked at the white bandage on Zhang Ran's neck and said, "Old Liu will prepare breakfast for everyone tomorrow. I want you to help him. Would you like to?"

Zhang Ran didn't speak, just picked his pants and nodded in agreement.

After the landlord left, Zhang Ran returned to the table and continued to wrap the bandages around his body.

Early the next morning, the thin little old man Lao Liu went to the morning market with a vegetable basket to ask for ingredients.Most of what they ate was to come back, because the landlord had no savings except for an old two-story house with a yard.And from time to time, I have to do volunteer work.Therefore, vendors who know a little about the landlord will give the selected ingredients to the landlord, which is considered a good deed.Lao Liu, who got up early today, did not wait for Zhang Ran to go to the morning market. He was alone in front of the vegetable stall with a vegetable basket to get the ingredients for the day, and also the vermicelli. After returning, he could make soup noodles to eat.

Zhang Ran actually got up early, he has been standing in front of the window, watching Lao Liu go out and come back.He has been struggling in his heart, he hates himself and everyone, he wants to help, but he just can't take that step.He lived in a family without warmth since he was a child, and his parents regarded him as a burden.The two often quarrel and fight at home, and when they are not arguing or fighting, they are cold and violent.He felt that his sensitive, fragile and distorted psychology was caused by his parents together, so he hated his parents and wished that they would die and get divorced sooner.Mom and Dad did get divorced in the end, and they chose a special day to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to sign.That day he took the college entrance examination, a turning point in his life, a key point.They abandoned him, the abandonment he had been waiting for, and finally, he was desperate.He huddled in the house that his parents didn't want to play suicide, cut his wrists again and again, bandaged him again and again, he wanted to die, and was afraid of death. ——The corners of his mouth twitched, his hands trembled, he felt so useless.

At this time, the landlord's kind and warm voice sounded downstairs, talking to the silent old Liu.The twitching of Zhang Ran's mouth turned into an ugly smile, he took off the bandage on his wrist, rolled it into a ball, put it in his pocket, and went downstairs.

After going downstairs, Zhang Ran stood at the door of the kitchen, looking in the direction of the landlord, looking at Lao Liu with his back turned, at a loss for what to do.The landlord smiled at Zhang Ran, then turned back to Lao Liu, who had been serving vermicelli with his head down, and said, "Look, the helper is here."

Lao Liu didn't say a word, put vermicelli, vegetables, and meat.The landlord brought the bowl of noodle soup to the living room, Zhang Ran stepped aside, followed the example of the landlord, and brought the bowl of noodle soup to the living room.

The people in the living room also got up, some crouched, some stood.After the soup powder is ready, sit and eat with the landlord, Lao Liu, and Zhang Ran.Although the group of them lived together, they rarely communicated and had nothing to say.After breakfast, there was only the sound of the landlord eating noodles and soup.

After breakfast, the landlord took the old and the young to the hospital as volunteers. Some of the others sat in the corner with their legs crossed, and some squatted in the yard.Lao Liu is washing clothes in a washing machine, and drying them in the yard after washing.The houses in this area are all similar to the landlord’s house. They were built in the early years and have a history of several decades. The location is not too far away, but except for one or two old guys in each household, basically no one comes here to rent a house, so , very quiet.

Lao Liu finished drying his clothes and was going to wash the sheets again.He washes not only his own clothes, but also the clothes of other people who live here.He has been working hard recently, following the pace of the landlord and working slowly. He doesn't expect to be appreciated by everyone for doing these things, but he still wants to be a person who looks like he has lived before he dies.Lao Liu is a widowed old man. His wife has been away from him for ten years, and his children are not filial.He is alone, maybe one day he will die in solitude.It was an accident that he met the landlord. That time he was sick and had no money to treat him, so he thought it would be fine if he died, but he was discovered by a neighbor and called, but instead of being sent to the hospital, a few people from the TV station came.After the TV report came out, many people reprimanded his children for being unfilial and discussed social aging issues and traditional moral issues since ancient times, but few cared about him.He was accepted by the hospital and said that he would be cured, but he was lying on the hospital bed. Reporters and strangers came to ask him: Did your children call you after watching the program? Do you think your children are unfilial? As a widowed old man, do you feel that the society is more helpful to you?He didn't say a word at the time, his body hurt like hell, and he was so annoyed to death by the noise.But after the report passed, he fell into loneliness again.

After Lao Liu was discharged from the hospital, life was worse than death. He carried his wife's photo to the riverside. In winter, he wrapped his wife in the photo with the red scarf she loved when she was alive, and touched his wife's cheek with his fingertips, crying.He tried to jump off the bridge, fell to his death, and drowned.Even if you don't jump, you can be killed by the cold winter.The person in the posthumous photo was speechless, but smiling.She smiled in her husband's arms.

Old Liu didn't die in the end, he wiped the corners of his eyes, hugged his wife, hunched over, and went home.When passing by a fruit shop, he met the landlord, who came out with a bag of oranges and gave him two.The landlord said, "Here, it's very sweet."

The tears in the corners of Lao Liu's eyes were just drawn out by the landlord's words.No matter how you wipe it, you can't wipe it off.

The landlord had watched the TV reports, but he was busy at the time, so after the incident, he came to the area where Lao Liu lived, and wanted to see how Lao Liu was doing recently. In the end, an orange, that's how he got to know each other. .

Ye Qiao flew on Dijiang's back at night, and walked with the kitten during the day.He had already returned to the city where Feiyu was located, but he didn't call Gu Chen, nor let Xi Nang fly back first.When the kitten transformed into its original form, it flew very slowly, and always dozed off at night. Several times, it almost threw Ye Qiao off.Ye Qiao found a rope and held the cat by the neck, "You still don't admit to being fat?"

The kitten hugged Ye Qiao's leg and said, "Ye Qiao, I'm hungry. There's a steamed stuffed bun shop in front. Ah, it smells so good."

Ye Qiao bent down and tugged at the cat's ears: "It's almost noon and you still eat buns?"

The kitten hugged him even tighter, and he didn't have the strength to walk, but he couldn't walk.

Xi Nang rubbed Ye Qiao's neck with her fur, but I was obedient, I don't eat buns, I am the most obedient.

At this time, a woman riding an electric scooter passed by with a child on her back. The child was stunned to see the kitten hugging the owner's calf. When he let go of his hand, the mother's bag fell from his arms.The woman stopped the car, put her feet on the ground, turned around and grabbed the child's ear, which turned red, and shouted: "I asked you to hold a bag, but you can't hold it stably, you are looking for death."

After pulling the ears, he pushed the child. The child was pushed out of the car, fell to the ground, stood up, patted his buttocks, picked up his mother's bag, and climbed into the back seat of the electric car without crying or fussing.The woman's mouth never stopped, swearing, endlessly.

Ye Qiao blinked, and pulled the fingers of the kitten's ears with one hand, which should have been rubbed.

The kitten meowed, knowing that Ye Qiao thought of Lele's mother and Lele when she saw the mother and son, but she still wanted to eat buns, meowed.

When Lao Liu was washing the sheets, he set up another bamboo pole in the yard.After fixing one, he felt a little tired, beat his back with his backhand, raised his head and moved his neck.Suddenly, I saw two little sparrows in the bird's nest under the eaves.Yesterday, I only heard voices, but today, the little bird poked its head out.He smiled, and also smiled at Zhang Ran who was next door to the bird's nest.

Zhang Ran, who was sluggishly standing in front of the window, suddenly noticed, lowered his head, and closed the window.He had agreed to the landlord to try to find a job today, but the landlord didn't accompany him. He was timid, afraid, and didn't dare to go out.He went back to the table, pulled off the bandage, wrapping it around his body from his feet.

After drying the sheets, Lao Liu had nothing to do, so he moved a chair and sat in the corner.In the yard besides him, there are several other lonely old people who are like him but not as old as him.Some squatted, some sat, and no one spoke to anyone.

At noon, a tall, lanky middle-aged man with an unshaven beard was cooking in the kitchen.Cooking takes turns every day, and it happened to be his turn at noon today.He doesn't cook well, but he looks more and more serious about cooking.Old Liu went into the kitchen, took a potato without asking the middle-aged man if he wanted to help, and began to peel it.When the three potatoes were peeled, a hunchbacked old man came in and went out with a basket of beans, sitting in the living room and breaking the beans.After the middle-aged man finished cooking, he began to wash and cut the meat.This was the first time someone helped him, he didn't say thank you, and continued to do the work in hand.

After dinner, everyone has nothing to do.Lao Liu took a bowl of rice to the second floor for Zhang Ran who hadn't come down for lunch, knocked on the door, but the door didn't open, and he didn't say a word, put the bowl on the ground, turned and went downstairs.

Zhang Ran waited for the food to cool down before opening the door, hugging the bowl of rice on the ground, a little sad.

A group of entrepreneurs came to the hospital today to deliver nutritious meals to patients and medical staff.A dozen or so entrepreneurs came, followed by young people who could take pictures. They entered a ward, served a meal, took a bunch of photos, shook hands, and another pile of photos. It's a bunch of photos.One of the entrepreneurs came with an eight-year-old daughter. The daughter was infected when she saw her father and the doctor hugging the patient from left to right. She leaned close to her father's ear and said that she wanted to be a doctor when she grew up. Doctors are the greatest.The entrepreneur praised his daughter for being sensible with a stiff smile, grabbed her daughter's little hand with one hand, separated her daughter from the patient, looked at the camera, and saw another pile of photos.

The landlord chatted with the patient in the ward, talking about a lot of small things, saying that the apples he bought last time were not as good as last time, that there was a new batch of trees in a park recently, that a new sparrow was born in the bird’s nest at home, and that Lao Liu, who came back last week, is getting better and better. I hope you will get better soon.

The old and the young who came with them did not enter the ward. It is an improvement to come to a place with many people. Together with the cleaners, they picked up paper peels and peeled fruit outside the inpatient department.When the time was up, I followed the landlord to get a nutritious meal, but I didn't get it, saying that they did not belong to the scope of their meal.The landlord smiled and took them out to eat.

After eating Chinese food, the landlord went to the nearby pharmacy to buy some rolls of bandages.When he came out, he met the fat cat clinging to the glass door frame, refusing to leave with its owner.Ye Qiao loosened the rope and asked the kitten, "What's wrong with you?"

The kitten didn't speak, just kept meowing.

Seeing the cuteness of the kitten, the landlord squatted down, took out a roll of bandages and waved it in front of the kitten's eyes.When the kitten saw someone tease it with a bandage, it would scratch its paw as soon as it loosened, but fortunately Ye Qiao was quick-eyed and grabbed the kitten's paw, otherwise, the landlord's hand would be covered in several layers of bandages.

Ye Qiao picked up the kitten and apologized to the landlord. The landlord smiled and said the kitten was cute.

After the landlord left, Ye Qiao went to the pharmacy to buy scissors, a razor, and a roll of bandages, and went home.

The kitten rubbed back and forth in Ye Qiao's arms, and said to Ye Qiao, "The hair on the pouch should be shaved."

Xi Nang blinked, and looked at Ye Qiao aggrievedly: "It's not long, it's not long."

Ye Qiao patted the cat's head: "Cut the cat's claws, shave the cat's hair, and tie the cat's legs."

After the landlord and the old and the young returned to the house, the others were still lifeless, but Zhang Ran appeared in the yard.Lao Liu's bamboo pole frame was not firm, and all the bed sheets to dry fell on the ground.He picked it up, washed it again, and when he returned to the yard, Zhang Ran handed him a roll of bandages, and he stammered, "That, that, use, tie it up."

Old Liu took a step back, grabbed his sweaty hands, and rubbed them on his clothes: "Oh, oh."

The landlord smiled and held up a bag of bandages: "Not enough and more."