He Zengren

There is a unique smell of disinfectant in the hospital, which Zeng Luli liked very much since he was a child.Sitting next to the hospital bed, he used a knife to peel off the apple's skin in circles. The apple's skin was broken several times in the middle, but it couldn't be connected together after all.Grandma was lying on the hospital bed, looking straight at the ceiling.

Zeng Luli finally peeled off the outer skin of the apple, and used a knife to thin it piece by piece, until there was only one core left. He inserted a toothpick into the piece of fruit and said, "Grandma, it's time to eat fruit."

Grandma's lips twitched a few times, and he rolled the bed so that she could lean on it halfway, sat on the edge of the bed by himself, and fed her mouthfuls.

The phone on the shelf next to the bed vibrated a few times, Zeng Luli glanced at it and ignored it.But it started to ring the bell reluctantly.This time he put down the bowl in his hand, connected to the phone, and heard his mother's voice on the other end of the phone: "Son, are you in the hospital?"

"Yeah. What's wrong?"

"There is a person looking for you, saying that it is your classmate, He Ren..."

Zeng Luli still threw the phone back on the shelf, and continued the action of refeeding the apple just now, but there was a real pause, and the grandmother who was suffering from the pain would start to wonder, and he was about to recover.

He couldn't bear to sit at Zeng Luli's house here.Zeng's house is also a two-story building, but it is quite different from the two floors of his house.The two-storey building is swaying in the wind. On the surface, there is barely a sense of wealth that can deceive people. When you actually walk in, there is a table in the middle of the four white walls for eating, and one wall is reserved for worshiping gods and Buddhas. There are no other decorations.He Ren had never seen such a house before, and walked in suddenly, only to feel that the temperature inside the room was lower than that outside, cold and palpably gloomy.

Zeng Mu walked in from the yard and said, "Lu Li is taking care of his grandma in the hospital. He came back after saying hello. Would you like to wait a little longer?"

"Of course. Thank you." He Ren said.

From the very beginning when he came here, he never expected to see Zeng Luli for the first time, and he was even more curious about Qingnan, which he had never been to.So after sitting for a while, he walked out of the house.

Facing this row of houses is a piece of green field. The land is so vast that there is no room for everything to grow.Connecting to the sky is endless emerald green, blue-gray laying on top.

Standing there, He Ren heard the familiar sound of footsteps behind him.He wondered if he was being too picky, so he could even recognize the rhythm of a person's voice when he was walking.

"Why are you here?" Zeng Luli walked to his side.

He Ren said, "I've never been to Qingnan. I just came here to relax on my annual leave." But wait, why did he come to Zeng Luli's house when he came to Qingnan on his annual leave?This reason is really full of mistakes and omissions, I don't know how I said it.

Fortunately, Zeng Luli didn't care about his inner entanglement, he just said: "I thought I would never see you again."

"What are you thinking?" He Ning asked in surprise, "Everyone will be in Baicheng in the future, maybe you won't be able to look up and down after graduation. Which friend's company of mine do you work for?"

"Maybe." Zeng Luli shrugged.

"Hey, just now your mother said you were in the hospital, what's going on?"

"It was my grandma who was hospitalized, she had stomach cancer."

He Ren was silent all of a sudden, seeing him standing beside him, but still looking so ordinary, Xu saw that he didn't know what to say, so he was very understanding, and said: "You don't have to think about putting yourself out. What kind of expression did you make? In fact, when grandma was found to be in the late stage, our whole family was already mentally prepared. In the past few months, I just insisted on being hospitalized, hoping that she could be taken care of there."

Zeng Luli had never bothered to hide the difference between himself and his family in front of him, but now when he heard him talk about the life and death issues closely related to his relatives again, He Ning really realized that there is a gap between him and him. Damn.

Some relatives around him are also seriously ill, but tens of thousands of dollars are spent every day, and the money is exchanged for their lives.But the person standing in front of him had to work hard when he was in school, and even so, he still had to watch his relatives disappear before his eyes.what kind of torture.

He Ren didn't know what to say. He squatted on the ground and grabbed the plant in front of him, and played with its leaves in his hand. He fiddled with it for a while, and then he watched the broken part of the plant that he had pulled off. Liquid like milk.He Ren was taken aback, hurriedly patted Zeng Luli's sleeve, and asked, "Look, what is this?"

Zeng Luli glanced at it, couldn't help sighing with a smile, patted the top of his head almost caressingly, and said, "This is Dijincao. In Chinese medicine, mash it up and apply it on the wound to stop the bleeding." He couldn't bear it. Stopped, and said softly, "Fool."

He Nen's ears were sharp, and when he heard it, he pretended to be angry, chasing after him for an apology.Zeng Luli took a step back, grasped the wrist he offered, and then loosened it, saying, "Where's your luggage? I'll help you find a hotel here."

"I don't want it," He Ren said bluntly, "It costs money to stay in a hotel, or—"

The corners of Zeng Luli's eyes twitched, and as expected, he heard him say, "Let's just stay at your house."

"Whatever you want." Zeng Luli dropped the sentence, and was the first to turn around and walk back to his own courtyard.

"Hey, wait for me!" He Ren shouted behind him, and quickly followed.The two returned to the house together, He Ren pulled the suitcase and followed Zeng Luli upstairs.The layout of the second floor is the same as that of the first floor, and the room on the left of the stairs is Zeng Luli's room.This room can finally see the traces of the owner's careful care. When you enter the door, you will see a row of bookshelves, which are full of books.

He Ren dropped the suitcase in his hand, and the suitcase shook twice in place, and was supported by Zeng Luli with sharp eyesight and quick hands.

"Why are your books crumpled? How many times have you read them?" He Ren took out a copy of "From the Deep" and said.

He opened it and read to the first paragraph on that page: "Our troubled and sad friendship has ended with my ruin. However, that long-term friendship is often The memory is with me, and I am deeply saddened to think that the place in my heart that once held love is to be forever occupied by hatred and bitterness, contempt and humiliation." Then he said to himself. With a sigh: "Wow."

Zeng Luli clutched the handle of the suitcase, and said across the room from him: "An untimely relationship, right?"

"Actually, it's much better now. It's better than going to jail every now and then."

Zeng Luli smiled, opened the door of the closet, took out a quilt and spread it on the floor, tidied the edges carefully, and said, "You sleep on the bed, I'll sleep on the floor."

"Then I'd rather be obedient than respectful." He Ren replied briskly, jumping onto his bed with a fish.

In the depths of the night, He Ren lay on the bed and turned on the small lamp beside the bed.The orange light dimmed, and Zeng Luli under the bed turned over.

He Ren asked, "Are you asleep?"

There was a great silence.After a while, he heard Zeng Luli say angrily, "Didn't sleep."

He Ren smiled to himself, and asked, "Is there anything interesting here in Qingnan? Tomorrow we—"

"I'm going to the hospital tomorrow," Zeng Luli interrupted him, saying, "If you want to go somewhere, go by yourself."

What you said is really ruthless.He couldn't help but twitched the corner of his mouth.At this moment in the middle of the night, he couldn't see his expression anyway, so he didn't care about face, and said like a rascal, "Then I'll go to the hospital tomorrow too. By the way, let's see what Qingnan's hospital is like."

"up to you."

The three simple words made He Ren fall silent. He got up to turn off the small light beside the bed, but he heard Zeng Luli who was lying on the ground say coldly: "Don't turn off the light."

"Why?" After He Ning asked, he suddenly realized that he was probably afraid of the dark, so he had to turn on a light when he slept, so he obediently withdrew his hand.

Zeng Luli, who was lying on the ground, mistakenly thought that he didn't know, so he explained: "I'm used to turning on the light when I sleep. I didn't say it before because I thought you might not be used to having a light."

"why?"

"what?"

"Why are you used to sleeping with the lights on?"

Zeng Luli was stunned: "I don't know, maybe it's because I'm afraid of the dark. When I was young, when the lights were turned off at night, I always imagined some monsters would jump out of those dark places and bite me."

He Ning smiled: "I thought so when I was young. But when I grow up, I don't believe any monsters."

"I'd rather believe it."

"Why?" It was his turn to ask why again, and he seemed to have said this too many times today.

"Because if monsters really exist in this world, then gods and ghosts will probably exist." Zeng Luli said, "So we will never worry about being separated from our loved ones, because they will be in another form. Always be by our side."

"Wow." He Ren involuntarily let out a voice of wonder just like when he saw Dijincao in the afternoon.Lying on the bed, he thought over and over again what Zeng Luli said just now, and said, "So you told your grandma—"

"So if I believe it, grandma will never leave me." Zeng Luli said.He is not religious but understands religious people.People must have something to support themselves in order to live.If such a belief can help the world, it would be great.

"I don't know why," He Ren said, "I always feel that you give me a different feeling every day from yesterday." The indescribable thoughts that moved completely flooded and gathered together in the middle of the night.

Zeng Luli didn't speak any more.This night was completely quiet, under the dim light, only the sound of regular breathing remained in the room, saying goodbye to today.