To Oak

Zhu Miao had no choice but to think too much. He was thinking about grandma with all his heart. If he thought about something else at this time, he would feel guilty.

He called his uncle several times in a row, and finally got through.His uncle seemed very impatient to tell him, and he didn't say a few words about his grandma's condition, but from these few words, Zhu Miao also felt that it seemed to be really bad, and his stomach tightened and convulsed, which was extremely uncomfortable.Zhu Miao said he wanted to see grandma, and his uncle said Monday night.He wanted to say something, but the phone hung up.

With no other choice, Zhu Miao had to wait anxiously for Monday, as if being roasted on a hot pan.

On Monday, Zhu Miao had no intention of going to class all day, and went straight to the hospital after school.He left early, and when he arrived, his uncle, aunt, and family hadn't come yet, and he was alone, pacing back and forth by the nurse's station, almost dizzy.

After finally waiting for someone to come, they could be heard arguing quietly from a distance.

"...The doctor said that if you need dialysis next time, it will cost several thousand yuan each time. Living in intensive care is already very expensive now."

"But you can't give up the treatment..."

"I can't move normally even after being rescued, I'm too old, who will take care of me when I take her home..."

Uncle and aunt were still arguing endlessly, but Zhu Miao felt a tingling pain in her heart, and couldn't take it anymore, so she walked over and called "Uncle" to interrupt them.Usually, my uncle and aunt didn't have a good face when they saw him, but today they couldn't care less, and they all kept their mouths shut.The nurses at the nurse station were used to such scenes, and led them there without saying anything.

A group of three people put on the special protective clothing and shoe covers for visits on the coats of the intensive care unit, and walked in.

The intensive care unit was quiet except for the "didi" sound of the instrument. As soon as Zhu Miao entered the door, seeing the hospital bed from a distance, his nose was sore, and he took a breath to hold back.He passed his uncle and aunt and walked to the hospital bed.It's just that I haven't seen him for a few days. The old man is aging very quickly. On the hospital bed, his body is connected to the tubes of various instruments.

Zhu Miao didn't dare to touch it, but touched the quilt lightly, and called "Grandma" with a trembling voice.

The two adults behind him were still arguing. Grandma Zhu was lying on the hospital bed with her eyes closed, seemingly unaware. If the equipment was not still operating normally, Zhu Miao might have thought she had passed away.Zhu Miao squatted down, got closer, and babbled about recent events, saying that his grades had improved, he had gained weight recently, and he had grown a few centimeters.

Grandma's eyeballs moved under her eyelids, but she didn't wake up.

The nurse who led them said it was time, Zhu Miao moved reluctantly, while the two couples were still arguing quietly, without even looking at the old man.

After leaving the ICU, Zhu Miao asked, "When will you come back tomorrow?"

His uncle muttered: "Let's talk about it, come every day when you are free."

Zhu Miao was very angry, but he couldn't help it. There are many things in the world that can't be helped.There is no way to like it, and there is no way to not like it.

When he returned to the shop, it was not Yi Ning behind the bar, but Xiang Shu.

The boss wants to stay in his shop, what can Zhu Miao do?He is just a handyman, so he can only water the backyard conscientiously, go to the pet shop in the next street to bring back a bag of cat food and a bag of cat litter, replace the cat litter without saying a word, and put the dirty cat litter Take it downstairs and throw it in the big trash can across the street.

After he threw it away, he looked back and found that the garbage bag containing the cat litter was broken, probably because it had been bitten by a cat. The dirty cat litter leaked out of the hole and formed a line behind him, like a fairy tale The breadcrumbs left behind by the brother and sister in the story who were thrown into the forest.

Zhu Miao stood there, took a deep breath for ten seconds, resigned herself to going back to the store, took a broom, and swept from upstairs to downstairs, sweeping everything clean. During the whole process, Xiang Shu sat behind the bar without saying a word.Zhu Miao felt that she was about to get angry. What's the matter with this person? He can be so good when he is good to others, and he can be so bad when he is bad to others.

Zhu Miao didn't talk to him, but went about her own business, pursing her lips.

Xiang Shu made a cup of coffee behind the bar counter, scalded the small glass cup with hot water, poured some coffee in, tasted one cup himself, put the cup on the bar counter, and said, "Drink?"

Why don't you drink, drink, don't drink for nothing.

Zhu Miao walked over and drank the small cup of coffee in one gulp. There was no sour or bitter taste as he expected. There was a faint creamy taste in the coffee, and the taste was balanced, neither sour nor bitter.

Xiang Shu didn't even ask if the drink was good, but poured the rest to him, cleaned up the bar, and said, "It's closed."

It was still very early, Zhu Miao held the warm coffee and watched the steam come out, the nutty and creamy aroma of the coffee could not stop getting into his nose, making people calm and healed.He watched Xiang Shu arrange things one by one, put the phone in his pocket, and was about to leave, Zhu Miao suddenly called out: "Wait a minute—"

Xiang Shu had already reached the door, the hand that was stretched out to hold the door paused, and then retracted.He looked nervous and wary. He looked at Zhu Miao and joked, "What's wrong? Are you afraid of the dark?"

Zhu Miao suddenly felt strange and boring, lowered her head, and whispered: "It's nothing..."

Xiang Shu just stood where he was, looked at him for a while, and left with a "hmm".The shop was empty, Zhu Miao drank his coffee in one gulp, stood up to wash the cups, a few cats hadn't been fed yet, and kept barking around his legs.The water "squeaked" and Zhu Miao let out a long sigh.

He thought that Xiang Shu took him in and paid him a salary, so he really had no reason to cause trouble for others.

His crush is trouble.

Zhu Miao quickly condemned her feelings, no longer thinking about it, and quickly fed the cat.

The improvement in previous grades made Zhu Miao a model of progress in the class, and the teachers paid more attention to him, but his absent-mindedness in the past two days made the teachers hate iron and steel, chatting with him repeatedly, asking him to "" Guard against arrogance and impetuosity" and "steady and steady", Zhu Miao led their kindness, listened carefully every time, and bowed before leaving.

Zhu Miao’s calls to her uncle were seldom answered. She went to visit her grandma a few times, but she was unconscious. Zhu Miao asked what the disease was, and the doctor said a lot. The function is irreversibly decaying.Zhu Miao feels that every minute and every second is pumping up the balloon, and the balloon is inflating a little bit. I don't know when it will reach the limit, and the balloon will explode with a "bang".

On the day the balloon exploded, Zhu Miao had just finished school and packed her schoolbag.

His uncle called, and Zhu Miao felt bad when he saw the caller ID. When did his uncle call him on his own initiative?Then, there is only a short sentence.

"Come to the hospital, grandma is dying."

Zhu Miao was so frightened that her legs gave way, she stood up, sat back on the chair, stood up after a while, grabbed her things and ran outside.There were a lot of people in the corridor during school hours, Zhu Miao didn't care whether he bumped into someone or not, and kept pushing past them.When he was going downstairs and turning a corner, he bumped into someone hard, and the mobile phone in his hand was knocked to the ground and fell out.

"Fuck, Zhu Miao, do you wear eyes..."

Zhu Miao bumped into one of the people who had picked on him before, and the phone fell at his feet. The person kicked it impatiently, and the phone slid out and hit the steps hard. Zhu Miao saw that the screen of the phone was broken , Cracked into a spider web, I don't know if it was dropped or kicked.

Zhu Miao didn't want to say anything, ran to pick up the phone, held it in the palm of his hand, and rushed out of the school gate like the wind.