Hechun and Jingming

On a sunny afternoon, Hechun received a call from Gu Shangyuan's little friend, and he weepingly brought a message, Xiao Lai... oh no, it's old Lai, who died in the yard.Died at the age of 14.

It has been healthy and happy throughout its life, and has almost never suffered from serious illnesses. At most, it is too hot and suffers from heat stroke.But, it still came to this day.

Hechun was a little dazed.

The original intention for Xiao Lai to be brought home was that he and Qu Jingming had seen the old lady Chen and the old goose in their desolate twilight years, and wanted to inject a fresh young blood into the lively atmosphere.As a result, it was this young blood that left first.Now he thinks back to the day when he and Qu Jingming took the grumpy little Shiba Inu home when it rained on the day of the first three summer vacations, he can't help but feel sincerely that life has its end.

He called Qu Jingming to inform him of the news and asked if he would have dinner with the Rong family at night.When Qu Jingming heard that Xiao Lai was gone, he readily agreed.In the evening, he got off work earlier than Hechun, so he bought some things and went there first. When Hechun arrived, he saw Qu Jingming, Gu Shangyuan, Mrs. Chen, He Rong, and Gu Jianfeng. Except for Aunt Zhou who was probably cooking, all of them were there. It's all set, surrounded by the yard.

He walked over: "What are you doing?"

Gu Shangyuan turned his head, his eyes were red, and he pursed his mouth: "The old goose seems to be about the same."

For the old goose, Hechun still has more affection, and immediately surrounds him.The center of the crowd was Xiao Lai who still maintained his usual resting and lying position.It looked a little old, a little tired, and fell asleep. He Chun looked at it suspiciously for a while, making sure that he didn't feel the slightest ups and downs of its breathing, and then secretly sighed that it had really gone.

The old goose stayed by Xiao Lai's side, looking really uncomfortable and sick, his neck didn't hide under his wings, it just hung on Xiao Lai's body.The dog is big and the goose is small, life and death, relying on each other, is a very eye-swelling picture.

For a while, everyone looked at them, quietly, no one spoke.

Dusk is coming, the weather is good, the sky is full of beautiful clouds, the colors are gorgeous, dyeing the sky.The old goose hummed and chirped a few times, but didn't make the once arrogant "quack".It lifted its neck twice in pain, looked around blankly with its two bean-like eyes, then lowered its neck as if disappointed, and pecked at Xiao Lai's ears with its long beak, Xiao Lai naturally No feedback.It probably also felt very boring, so it struggled to make a low cry. The sound was not a clear "quack", nor was it an out-of-shape sound before, but a tune that everyone had never heard before, like some kind of bird song, mournful. miserable.

After chirping, it retracts its neck into its wings, and no one can see its two eyes, whether it is open or closed; but everyone can feel its pain, and understand that it is indeed coming to an end. up.

"Forget it, don't look at it, go back, let it be quiet for a while." He Rong stood up and said to everyone.

Everyone agrees.Gu Shangyuan is a young man, full of emotions, reluctant to let go, so He Chun pulls him to get up.Qu Jingming stretched out his hand and gently stroked the old goose's back. Now, anyone would treat the old goose lightly, for fear of losing his old life if he touched it.Qu Jingming also just kept the range of contact.In the end, he got up and walked into the house with Hechun and the others.

He Rong pushed Mrs. Chen's wheelchair, and Mrs. Chen suddenly said, "I won't go."

Whether she is suffering from dementia now, the difference is very clear, and it can be judged from the tone of her voice.This sentence was obviously sober, even Qu Jingming, who had never seen her sober since he came back, could hear it.Startled, he stopped and looked back at her.

She lowered her head, touched the old goose with her foot, and said, "It has been with me all my life, and I will be with it too."

He Rong and Gu Jianfeng looked at each other, then let her go.Qu Jingming also gave He Chun a look, and He Chun understood what he meant as soon as he greeted him, and smiled back at him. This smile contained both "you are free" and a little bit of "handle with care". Warning, the former is an old goose and the latter is an old lady.

So, only Qu Jingming and Mrs. Chen were left by Old Goose's side.

Now that Mrs. Chen is awake, and Qu Jingming is standing here, she naturally knows who it is.But she still just lowered her head, her eyes fell on Old Goose and Xiao Lai, her hands were placed on her knees, and they were clasped together.She is almost motionless, only her breathing is dynamic.

Qu Jingming has been a doctor for a long time, and he is very sensitive to breathing. He soon discovered that Mrs. Chen's breathing is the same as that of the old goose's body.But the rhythms of humans and geese are different, so this frequency is a bit rushed when it is reflected in humans.

Qu Jingming called out worriedly: "Aunt."

Mrs. Chen raised her head, glanced at him, and replied "Yes", her breathing rhythm adjusted accordingly, maybe because she was in a hurry just now, when she came back, she choked slightly, and Qu Jingming patted her back.Mrs. Chen calmed down and signaled that he was not busy, but she still didn't say anything else.

They stayed silent like this, and stayed together until the old goose didn't breathe up and down.At that time, it was already dark.

Qu Jingming tried to ask her: "Go back?"

She nodded before Qu Jingming pushed her back into the room.

Aunt Zhou had already prepared the meal. Seeing her coming in, she hurriedly brought over her only portion. She shook her hand and said that she would eat later and wanted to sleep for a while. Aunt Zhou hurriedly took care of her to sleep again.

Over there, Gu Jianfeng called everyone over to have dinner, and he personally distributed chopsticks to each bowl at the edge of the dinner table, very leisurely.In the past two years, he has grown older. He had a lot of sequelae of leg injuries back then. He basically stopped driving, and he often felt pain from time to time, which made him often have to take vacations for his legs. Once he rested, he lived like an old man. As a man, planting flowers in the yard and fishing in Fangzhou's mother river are his greatest hobbies.

After setting the table and chopsticks, only Qu Jingming and He Rong were the only ones obediently serving the table. Uncle Gu was not happy. He patted the table and yelled loudly at the living room: "Hechun, why are you still watching TV, just like Gu Shangyuan?" , wash your hands and come here!"

Everyone in the living room, one big and one small, was startled, they looked over in unison, and they all answered dryly: "Oh."

That posture, that expression, that reaction are really quite different.Because of this pair of living treasures, there was an inexplicably funny and joyful atmosphere in the room, which swept away the previous depression and depression. The meal was like an ordinary reunion dinner, and no one talked much about Xiao Lai and Lao Lao. Goose, just say something homely.

At nine o'clock in the evening, He Chun sent Qu Jingming back to the affiliated community of the hospital.

After Qu Jingming proposed to come back to live that day, Hechun still detained him for a week under the pretext of repairing the dilapidated house.As for the old and dilapidated house that just went through the fire, he did find someone to repair it, mainly to eliminate the hidden dangers of fire and electricity, and brushed the walls by the way. The first bedroom is like new.

Every time he enters the door, Hechun will point here and look there, and praise his own achievements in his mouth. The purpose is very simple and direct, which is "to reward".Now he is a little savvy and can't stop. After holding Qu Jingming for a week and he couldn't hold it anymore, he often sticks to him, wanting to go to bed endlessly.

For this reason, he replaced all the original beds in this dilapidated house.

Qu Jingming actually made an appointment with Director Qi to discuss the issue today, but because of Xiao Lai's matter, he canceled it.According to the old lady's temper, of course she was very upset. Before hanging up the phone, she said "I am also dying, and I don't know how to cherish time", her tone was serious.Qu Jingming thought, he should come to the door to apologize.

He pushed away Hechun, who came up after three sentences, and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go to the opposite door to have a look."

He Chun hugged his arm: "I'll go too."

Qu Jingming looked at him up and down: "That's it?"

He Chun: "Just go like this, can't you?"

It's noisy at first glance.Qu Jingming smiled and slapped his paw away: "Don't make trouble, be serious."

After finishing speaking, he straightened out his untidy clothes, changed a pair of shoes, and opened the door to go to the opposite side.He Chun was not as troublesome as he was, and Pidianpidian followed him in slippers.Qu Jingming knocked on the door, and the two waited for a long while, but the old lady didn't come to open it.

He Chun remembered that the old lady was not in good health, so she asked softly, "Is there any trouble?"

Qu Jingming was also surprised and knocked on the door again.This time, there was a sound of something falling to the ground inside, and the two of them felt nervous when they heard it, thinking that the old lady really had something wrong with her body and she was inconvenient to move.They looked at each other, and Qu Jingming knocked on the door and asked, "Old director, old director, how are you doing?"

No one answered him, but a middle-aged man's helpless voice was heard: "Mom!"

Then the old lady roared angrily: "Don't call me mom, I don't have a son like you, get out!"

"It turned out to be a family dispute..." He Chun whispered, pulling Qu Jingming, "Let's go back first, don't plead guilty to the old lady tonight, she is in a bad mood when she hears it, she will call you a dog later Bloody head."

Qu Jingming felt the same about this, and he turned to Hechun in agreement to leave.The old lady's door suddenly opened from the inside. To be precise, a large object rolled out of it. The large object was probably pushed out by a large force, and it was very unbalanced, and it hit Hechun as a whole.

As soon as He Chun turned around, he found that the person bumping into him from behind was actually a living person.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, are you okay?" This person covered his forehead and raised his face. He was busy apologizing, but the moment he saw He Chunzheng's face, he seemed to have been raped. With the freeze technique, except for the change in eyes, the whole person froze.

The old lady stood at the door with her hands on her hips: "Go, don't bother me anymore, I don't need you to be filial, and don't come to collect my body when I die!" Looking up and seeing Qu Jingming, she gasped and greeted, "Xiao Qu is back, is your dog buried?"

Qu Jingming: "...not yet."

The old lady was very surprised: "You have been there for so long and you didn't bury it, what did you do?"

This question was asked aggressively, and he felt that he was going to scold someone in the next second. Qu Jingming was also a little bit overwhelmed, so he had to smile obediently and didn't answer.

At this time, the middle-aged man next to him finally seemed to have been lifted from the immobilization technique. His limbs were no longer stiff, but he suffered from hemiplegia. He took an uncoordinated big step back and stepped on the stairs. On the edge, his body leaned back. If he hadn't grabbed the handrail of the stairs in time, he would have continued to roll downstairs.

Regarding her son's reaction as if she had seen a ghost, the old lady's first reaction was bored, she rolled her eyes, and then she felt huge doubts.Just now she angrily scolded him to get out of here, but now she grabbed his wrist quickly and pierced her eyes: "What's wrong with you?"

"I...Mom, I, I'm leaving." He hesitated, his face was very ugly, his eyes were flustered, although he tried his best to hide the fact that he didn't dare to look at Hechun, but it was more obvious.At least her mother knew it at a glance.The old lady turned her head to look at Hechun, and suddenly, she also showed a bit of frightened panic.

The scene was so weird.

The old lady loosened her son's hand, looked tangled for a moment, looked at He Chun, and chose to speak: "You...is your father's name He Yonglian?"

Hearing this, both He Chun and Qu Jingming were taken aback, and He Chun subconsciously frowned: "Do you know my dad?"

"That's it." The old lady let go of the middle-aged man and waved her hands impatiently, "You go back first, but I warn you, don't think about anything, I will look for you in two days, if I can't find you You, the next one to find you will not be me."

The tone was very severe, but it was completely different from the fierce temper before. The middle-aged man moved his lips, but he didn't say anything after all. He lowered his head, turned around, and went downstairs. After a few steps, his footsteps The sound became chaotic, and it sounded like fleeing.

The old lady dismissed her son, sighed a long time, turned her head to look at He Chun, calmed down, and said in a harmonious voice: "You are He Yonglian's son, I have something to tell you..." At this point, As if remembering something, he turned to ask Qu Jingming, "Then you, who are you with Yonglian?"

Qu Jingming really couldn't tell who he belonged to this old gentleman. He looked at Hechun and replied vaguely: "It's a relative."

The old lady raised her hand to support the door, showing that "this is fate" smile that is unique to people who have gone through vicissitudes: "Fate...it's all fate. It's late today, and I've been tossing about it, and I'm afraid I can't say no all at once. Finish the work. When you are free, I will tell you."

The last sentence was addressed to Hechun, who was at a loss and was disturbed by her attitude: "Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow... when I come here, I will be free."

"Okay, tomorrow." After the old lady finished speaking, she took a deep breath, waved her hand, and closed the door, leaving the two confused young people outside.

In fact, it's not entirely confusing.Many things in the world are inextricably linked, and their state and appearance are clues to trace the truth.Everyone has a certain grasp of the trajectory and context of their own life, so people have intuition, which is a judgment made in an instant based on thousands of information in the brain before detailed thinking.Almost at the same time, they had the same intuition, and they understood it from each other's eyes.

"Tell me, is there something wrong with my dad's car accident at that time?" He Chun asked cautiously.

Qu Jingming silently held his hand, led him back into the room, closed the door, and said, "Whether there is any problem or not, it will not affect our current life. If you want to know, I will accompany you tomorrow."