my summer

Less than a year after living in the new home, Aunt Sun was found to have moderate gastric ulcer and was admitted to the hospital where Xia Zhi worked.Xia Zhi arranged a single ward for her and invited a professional nurse to take care of her day and night.

Every day after work, I go to the hospital to sit with her, chat for a while, or have dinner together, and wait for Xia Zhi to go home together after get off work.On rest days, I learned how to make soup in a crock pot and sent it to the hospital, and asked Xia Zhi to come and drink it together.

Although the ward of the urology department is in the same building as the department of gastroenterology, the time that Xia Zhi can come is very limited, and often he will be called away after staying for less than 5 minutes.

The nurse went out to buy daily necessities that day, and Xia Zhi hurriedly finished the soup before going back to the urology department.I got up to see him off.

"Yangyang." Xia Zhi who was walking towards the door suddenly turned around.

"Huh?" I slammed on the brakes and almost missed him, "What's wrong?"

He tilted his head to glance at the hospital bed, then quietly took my hand, and said softly, "I've worked hard for you during this time."

"Should I say, don't work hard, this is my job." I said with a smile.

"Isn't it?" He also laughed, moved closer to my ear, and said in a low voice, "A good daughter-in-law who serves my mother-in-law."

"Tsk, can't it be the mother-in-law?" I pinched his hand.

"No..." As soon as he said that, the door behind him that was originally hidden was pushed open, and it turned out to be Dad!

I hurriedly shook off Xia Zhi's hand, cleared up the panic on my face, cleared my throat, and shouted loudly: "Dad, why are you here?"

Xia Zhi had already turned around, and smiled at her father, "Uncle, are you coming to visit my mother?"

Dad was obviously taken aback, he stood by the door with a fruit basket in his hand, looked at Xia Zhi and me, and didn't speak for a long time.

I became even more flustered right now. Did he see the scene where I held hands with Xia Zhi just now, or didn't he see it?Or did you see it but didn't see it clearly?And our conversation, how much did he actually hear?

"Who is it..." Aunt Sun's thin voice came from the hospital bed.

"Uncle," Xia Zhi raised his voice, "my mother is calling you."

"Oh... oh..." Dad seemed to have just woken up, and walked into the ward, "It's me, Lao Zhang. I heard Wenxiu said that you were hospitalized, so I came to take a look."

"Dad," I walked over quickly and moved a stool by the bed, "Sit down, I'll get a pot of boiling water." After finishing speaking, I didn't look at Dad, picked up the kettle and rushed out.

"Uncle, you have a chat with my mother, I have to go to work beforehand." Xia Zhi left the words and walked out of the ward quickly.

Xia Zhi and I looked at each other at the door of the ward, and then walked to a certain corner of the fire exit one after the other.

"Xiazhi," I said anxiously, "what should I do? My dad seems to have seen it..."

"Don't worry, think about it calmly, did he see it?" Xia Zhi said.

I desperately recalled the scene just now several times, and finally came to a vague judgment, "I should have seen it, but I'm not sure if I saw it clearly..."

"It's okay, don't be afraid," Xia Zhi looked at me, "If this matter is really revealed, we will admit it generously and not cover it up."

"But Aunt Sun is still in treatment..." I said.

"Her stomach disease has been brought under control, and she will be discharged from the hospital in a few days, don't worry," he said.

"I haven't figured out how to explain it to my parents," I said sullenly, "It's too sudden."

"To be straightforward," he quickly squeezed my hand, "words that beat around the bush will only deepen their incomprehension. You must not go and say it by yourself. This is a matter between the two of us. If you want to confess, you must confess together. ,do you know?"

I nodded in a daze, my heart was not at a loss, like the pendulum of an old-fashioned clock, swaying back and forth non-stop but never touching anywhere.

Xia Zhi went back to the urology department, I slowly poured boiling water, stood in front of the ward for a long time before reaching out to push the door.Didn't push it, it was locked inside.

Dad and Aunt Sun are talking about something important, the kind that they even want to keep secret from me?

I had no choice but to sit on the bench in the corridor, put the kettle by my feet, and try to keep my mind as empty as possible.Don't think about anything, and don't dare to think about anything.

After a long time, my feet were a little numb, and the door of the ward was opened.

Dad came out from inside sullenly, stared at me for a while, then sighed heavily, turned and left.I looked at my father's back that was drifting away, and suddenly found that the back that I thought was very tall when I was a child has now become a bit stooped...

I picked up the kettle and walked slowly into the ward. Under Aunt Sun's gentle gaze, I filled her cup with water, and then gently put the kettle on the table beside the bed.

Aunt Sun always looked at me and smiled, and there were many things in this smile that I couldn't figure out.

"Aunt Sun," I hesitated for a long time, and summoned up the courage to ask, "What did you talk about with my dad just now? So mysterious?"

Aunt Sun shook her head lightly, "It's nothing, just doing ideological work for your father."

"Oh..." I felt that the conversation was no longer going on, and if I continued to ask, if I was not sure, I would really ask something.

"Yangyang, from the first time I saw you, Auntie knew that you are a good boy." Auntie Sun continued, "Xia Zhi, this child has a relatively tortuous growth experience. He has been withdrawn since he was a child, and he doesn't say anything easily. , has always been lukewarm towards people. But only because you get along so well, you can be considered to have grown up together, knowing each other well, and being able to take care of each other together is also a good thing."

My mind is already in a mess.There is something in Aunt Sun's words, is she just testing, or is she implying something?

"Aunt Sun," I carefully considered my words, "Xia Zhi and I are like brothers, I will take good care of him."

"Oh..." Aunt Sun smiled lightly, "Brother?"

I was silent for a while, then nodded slightly.

In the afternoon, I found a reason and came out of the hospital and went home directly.Staying in the ward, bathed in Aunt Sun's gentle eyes, is really a bit tormented.

I eagerly wait for Xia Zhi to come back from get off work and have a good chat with him.

Unfortunately, when it was almost time for dinner, Xia Zhi called and said that he was temporarily on night shift and couldn't come back.

Okay, why are you on duty all of a sudden?This has never happened before.

I don't feel hungry at all.My heart was full of ups and downs, full of panic, nervousness, confusion, fear, and worry.

Without changing clothes, she just lay on the bed without moving, her head covered by the quilt, gasping for breath, breathing hard.How I fell asleep afterwards, I don't remember.

Early the next morning, I was woken up by a phone call.

It's dad.The voice sounds dry.

"Come over to me now, immediately." Dad finished speaking in an imperative tone, and hung up before I could speak.

I stared at the blacked-out screen in a daze for 5 minutes before I got up, changed clothes casually, washed up in a hurry and went out.

What should be faced is always to be faced.

The cement factory that my father had worked for for decades closed down because of the system reform. He used the compensation money to buy a small two-bedroom house in the county town, and then found a job as a janitor in a certain school again.The original dormitory in the cement factory is rented out to outsiders, who can receive a meager monthly rent.

I asked for leave from the leader, drove from the urban area to the county, and knocked on the door of my father's house with a feeling of apprehension.

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