Darkest Action

In the dark intensive care unit, several diligently operating instruments are struggling to maintain Meng Guoxiang's vital signs.

The uncontrolled sepsis is getting worse day by day. The overwhelming infection collapses from the original site and spreads to the whole body. The intractable abscess leads to severe meningitis, and then it gets out of control, and other fatal diseases appear. complication.

The treatment and rescue lasted for a month, and finally, the attending doctor persuaded Meng Ran to retreat, but the latter persisted repeatedly, refusing to give up any hope of letting his father live.

Late at night, people are not quiet.

Meng Ran stood beside Meng Guoxiang's hospital bed for a long time, looking at his father with sunken outline and panting for breath.He suddenly uttered a voice and told Wu Xia beside him: "Go to the suburbs now and find someone for me, and tie him up too."

Wu Xia was ordered to leave, but suddenly remembered that Qi Rui had been guarding the corridor all night, so she cautiously asked Meng Ran: "Boss Meng, do you want... let the political commissar come in and see uncle?"

Meng Ran didn't seem to hear anything, but repeated again: "Go quickly."

At dawn, Meng Guoxiang's youngest son, Meng Huang, was taken to the ward by Wu Xia and two policemen.

After many years, Meng Huang is now married and has a child. He runs a small restaurant in the town and married a foreign daughter-in-law north of the Huaihe River. His son just turned one year old this month.

An hour ago, Meng Huang's family was forcibly woken up from the quilt, and they were almost escorted into a police car, and drove all the way to the urban hospital at high speed.Along the way, he kept asking where he was going and what he was going to do, but no one around him answered.

Meng Huang panicked, pressed the window of the car and wanted to yell, but was hit by Wu Xia's elbow with chest tightness and shortness of breath. He immediately became honest and dared not continue to make mistakes.

Entering the intensive care unit at this time, Meng Huang saw Meng Guoxiang who was dying on the hospital bed, and immediately came back to his senses, grabbed Meng Ran's skirt and asked, "What's wrong with Dad? He has been following you all this time, why is he so sick?! "

Meng Ran's eyes stayed on his father all the time, and he didn't even look at Meng Huang directly, but said, "I asked you to come here so that Dad can take another look at you."

Hearing this, Meng Huang was taken aback for a moment, and then wept as if changing his face.He let go of Meng Ran's hand, stumbled to Meng Guoxiang's side, and cried, "Dad! My son has been wanting to see you all these years! It's Meng Ran! It's him who sent people to threaten me time and time again, warning me I'm not allowed to harass you! The bones are broken and the tendons are still connected. Is Meng Ran's heart really long? Even when Mom is dead... Mom is dead, he doesn't even look at it, don't ask!"

As early as half a year ago, Meng Ran's biological mother, Zhang Aiying, got a good hand of cards on the mahjong table. A greedy and absurd life.

Zhang Aiying's life was a life of ignorance and ugliness, a life of oppressing Meng Guoxiang, a life of spoiling the elders and pampering the young according to her preferences, and a life of being extremely unfair to the young Meng Ran.

Finally, this woman's life came to an end. At her funeral, the eldest son Meng Ran was never present.

For this matter, Meng Huang secretly wrote a letter to the municipal party committee.Facing today's Meng Ran, he does not dare to confront Meng Ran head-on. He will only report and expose. The reason for the accusation is naive and ridiculous. He said that Meng Ran, as a cadre, has no regard for human relations, is unrighteous and unfilial. Such a corrupt character, it is really difficult to shoulder the leadership responsibility.

To his surprise, the reply letter from the Municipal Party Committee was written by Director Meng himself, and his reply was only eight characters——

Have never licked the calf, delusional to feed back?

At that moment, Meng Huang's crying alarmed the dying Meng Guoxiang. He opened his eyes slightly and saw his youngest son whom he hadn't seen for a long time.There is no anger, no estrangement and resentment in the pair of cloudy eyes, but only the unspeakable love and reluctance of a father when he is taking care of his children.

Meng Huang was still crying non-stop, causing his wife outside the ward to push the door and look around with her one-year-old child in her arms.

Hearing the sound, Meng Ran glanced outside the door, then raised his chin to Wu Xia: "Bring the child here."

The woman a few meters away heard this and couldn't help feeling very nervous. She was about to run back, but was stopped by two policemen, and while struggling and screaming, she was forcibly taken away from the child in her arms.

In the corridor, Qi Rui saw the woman crying and screaming, and a policeman had already taken out the handcuffs, so he intervened and comforted her, saying, "The people inside are the child's grandfather and uncle, no one will hurt him."

At the same time, Meng Huang in the ward also jumped up. Although he felt frightened, he did not forget to protect his son, and shouted at Meng Ran: "You...what are you going to do? You can come to me if you have any dissatisfaction. Touch my son!"

Meng Ran turned a deaf ear, took the child in Wu Xia's arms with one hand, and ordered his subordinates again: "Clear everyone else out."

Meng Huang, who was helpless, was quickly kicked out, and there were only three grandparents and grandchildren left in the huge ward.

Meng Ran hugged the little boy who was still whispering in his sleep, and sat beside Meng Guoxiang's bed.

"Dad..." he whispered softly, "See, this is your grandson, don't worry."

There were sporadic lights in Meng Guoxiang's sunken eye sockets. He looked lovingly at the chubby little boy in Meng Ran's arms, stretched out a hand like a dry branch, and slowly stroked the child's forehead. Slightly rising, he looked at Meng Ran: "Let's let the past go, in the future, you have to protect this child more..."

Meng Ran said nothing, just nodded.

The upper monitor on the bedside table gave out "beep" alarms from time to time, and Meng Guoxiang's heart rate and blood pressure fluctuated up and down, and when the values ​​fell, they often fell sharply below the safety line.

Meng Ran, who was usually decisive in killing and attacking, let go of his murderous spirit at this moment. With his eyes half down, he sat quietly beside Meng Guoxiang.His father's hand came slowly and took his left hand.

Meng Guoxiang caressed the gully running through Meng Ran's palm, and suddenly laughed lightly: "It's really not a mistake, my son is indeed destined to be a high-ranking official... I am really proud of my father..."

Meng Ran suddenly withdrew his five fingers, squeezed Meng Guoxiang's withered hand, and called out in a low voice, "Dad..."

As soon as he uttered his voice, he was already slightly choked with sobs, and he reluctantly continued: "Can you... can you not leave? Can you... stay with me a little longer?"

Meng Guoxiang's eyes were also red, and he opened his mouth, speechless for a while.

All of a sudden, many warm memories between father and son flooded into Meng Ran's mind - he saw Meng Guoxiang when he was young in the noisy market, holding him firmly on his shoulders when he was a child; Meng Guoxiang, carrying Zhang Aiying on his back, secretly stuffed a handful of change into his school uniform pocket at the door of the house; saw Meng Guoxiang rushing out of Qi Rui's house in his old age, and came back with two thick red envelopes in his hand, saying it was for him And Qi Rui's wedding present...

Suddenly, two lines of tears fell from Meng Ran's eyes involuntarily, and he held Meng Guoxiang's hand tightly as if pleading: "Dad, I beg you, it's too dangerous outside, and I can't hold on alone. If you're gone, The home is completely gone..."

Meng Guoxiang's tears also flowed down, but he still shook his head: "The family will not be separated, the family will always be there...you go and call Xiao Rui."

"Dad!" Meng Ran almost roared angrily, "He is the one who hurt you, why do you still think about him now?"

Meng Guoxiang was taken aback for a moment, and then sighed heavily: "You are so confused! After all, you still want to worry me!"

Meng Ran froze, Meng Guoxiang took a long breath, he had no choice but to threaten: "Are you not even willing to grant my last wish?"

These words were so powerful that Meng Ran was speechless, so he could only call for Wu Xia to take the child away, and then call for Qi Rui.

Finally, Qi Rui stepped into the intensive care unit.Standing by the bed, Meng Ran always turned sideways to him, without even giving a single glance to him. Only when Meng Guoxiang saw him, his eyes revealed a warm and kind light.

Qi Rui leaned down, approached Meng Guoxiang, and called softly, "Dad, I'm here."

Hearing this, Meng Guoxiang grabbed his arm tremblingly, and whispered in his ear: "Xiao Rui, you have to... forgive Meng Ran..."

In a split second, Qi Rui understood all the profound meanings in his father's words.

As he was dying, Meng Guoxiang, relying on his extreme understanding of his own flesh and blood, had already deduced in his heart a tragedy that was about to be staged later.So, he seized the time, cut to the point, held Qi Rui tightly at the moment of dying, and repeated again: "From now on, Meng Ran... only you, you must forgive him..."

"Dad..." Qi Rui called out again, tears gradually welled up in his eyes, and he said to Meng Guoxiang, "I never blamed him..."

"Okay!" Meng Guoxiang said that word as if he had exhausted all his strength, and then became angry again, "Dad didn't miss it, you are really a hard-to-find, rare good boy..."

After this sentence, Meng Guoxiang seemed to be unable to speak anymore, and could only wave his hands vigorously, ordering Qi Rui and Meng Ran to stand side by side, asking them to hold each other's hands.

Meng Ran stood motionless on the spot, and when he felt the touch of Qi Rui's palm, he quickly withdrew his hand back.

Being rejected, Qi Rui remained calm and took Meng Ran's hand again.They compete with each other and wrestle secretly, one is as warm as the sun, and the other is as cold as ice, familiar yet unfamiliar.

Finally, under Meng Guoxiang's heavy panting, the two returned to superficial calm.

At this time, Meng Guoxiang was losing his life at a speed visible to the naked eye. He calmly looked at the pair of sons who were most reluctant to part with him. Witnessed sights that no one else could see.

Qi Rui felt that the hand in his palm was trembling uncontrollably. Looking sideways, he felt that Meng Ran beside him seemed to be a different person again, a different person from the past. The two were clearly so close, but It's so far away again.

The next moment, the monitor kept sending out alarms, and the medical staff came in a hurry to rescue him, but the values ​​representing Meng Guoxiang's life still fell all the way until they returned to zero.

At the same time, the hand held by Qi Rui also seemed to have completely lost its temperature. It burst out with huge strength in an instant, and broke free suddenly, full of determination and coldness.