Xingchuan

"Where did you go, little tree?!"

Ling Yi squeezed back and forth between the surrounding crowd and the queue, but where did she see Xiaoshu's half shadow?

"Little tree!"

Did he run away for fun, or was he looking for something to eat, or was he carried away by someone?

Countless terrifying thoughts swirled in his mind.He was looking around like a headless chicken, and within 2 minutes, he was suddenly pulled from behind, "What are you looking for?"

Li Xingchuan came back after buying drinks.

Ling Yi's pupils tightened, and both hands suddenly grabbed his forearm, but there seemed to be something stuck in his throat, and he wanted to speak, but he couldn't.

With this grip, he noticed something in Xingchuan's arms.It was two cups of drinks, warmed with body temperature, and the fingertips almost felt scalding when they touched the cup lids.

"There are too many people, I lined up for a meeting, where is the little tree man."

"He..." Ling Yi was almost ashamed to the point of tears, and at the same time fearful.

"What's the matter, little tree man?"

"I walked away just now, Xingchuan, I didn't mean it, I really just left for a short while, I searched all over this area, I—" He swallowed, his whole body was cold: "Little The tree is gone..."

—

Missed.

In such a short time, a nearly four-year-old child ran away without a trace.

"Little tree—"

"Li Zhuo!"

For the next half an hour, the two split up to search, almost covering several nearby areas, but they still couldn't find where the child was.

The sky gradually darkened, but the flow of people was not less.There are crowds of people around, and children less than 1 meter in size sneak into the crowd of adults. It is not easy to find it under the cover of night.

Ling Yi was already covered in cold sweat from anxiety, and every few steps he would pull passers-by and ask, "Excuse me, have you seen a little boy? It's about this tall, with a round face, single eyelids, and wearing a pair of blue sneakers." , Gray down jacket."

The cheerful and noisy music overwhelmed his voice, and passers-by often said they hadn't seen it before they heard it clearly, and walked away with their hands waved.His exposed hands and neck were pale from the cold, but his cheeks were flushed with heat because of his impatience.As soon as he came out of a store with nothing, he received a call from Li Xingchuan, asking him to go to the monitoring room to watch the monitoring together.

Hurrying over, I saw Li Xingchuan standing behind the screen with a livid face, his bloodshot eyes staring at the screen for a second.

"You are too careless. Two people can lose a child. Do you know how many children are lost in our kindergarten on average every day? It's all because adults are negligent while watching programs on their mobile phones." The staff kept scolding them.

Standing beside Ling Yi, almost all of them were burned.If something really happened to Xiaoshu, not only Xingchuan would not forgive him, but he himself would not forgive himself.As for the future between him and Xingchuan, there is really no need to think about it.

"stop!"

A certain screen flashed by, and Li Xingchuan pressed the pause button before he could, "Start at 0.5x speed from here."

His eyes are really sharp.There are three familiar figures in the corner of the screen, which are easy to miss if you don't look carefully.That was when they were going to line up for the theater, Ling Yi tidied Xiao Shu's clothes and warmed the baby, and then he suddenly left the bench, turned around and walked out from the corner of the screen.

The staff didn't hold back, and slapped their hands together: "What did I say, you can't let go no matter where you go!"

In the low-resolution picture, Ling Yi's dazed expression seemed to be careless.Because his negotiation with Cao Liang was blocked by the pillars, he could only take a picture of a corner from a distance. It looked more like he was chatting with a friend.

"Who are you a child?"

"I'm his uncle." Ling Yi's nails were deeply embedded in his palm.

The other party shook his head and sighed: "No wonder."

It's not his own, no wonder he wasn't dedicated enough.

During the whole process, Li Xingchuan propped his right hand on the table, lowered his pupils and stared at the screen.He didn't say a word, but the air around him seemed to grow a knife blade, slashing at Ling Yi's heart one after another.

The picture continues.Xiaoshu seemed a little bored, stood up and looked around, then turned and rushed out of the screen, and appeared in another surveillance screen after a while.

"He should have entered the mushroom forest. You see, this direction is going to the mushroom forest, and he was not photographed at the intersection behind. I will give you another map, and hurry to find it now."

The two of them rushed out after getting the map, one after the other, rushed into the mushroom forest like a small flower garden.It was too dark to see clearly, and the streetlights alone were not enough.They took out their phones and held them up, "Little tree, little tree!"

There will be a garden band here during the day, and it is very likely that Xiaoshu came to watch the performance.But it's getting dark now, will he go to another place again?

"Li Zhuo—"

From his loud voice at the beginning to his hoarse voice now, Li Xingchuan was rarely so anxious.After searching for more than half of the woods, I suddenly heard a faint "Dad".He shuddered all over: "Li Zhuo, speak up!"

In the southeast there are the cries of children.The two rushed over to peel away layers of grass leaves, and finally heard movement near a large dark green mushroom.

"Li Zhuo?" He raised his hand and lifted the mushroom made of foam, and saw the little tree sitting in the grass with its knees hugged, shaking its head and calling him, "Dad..."

Ling Yi's nerves suddenly relaxed, and he almost fell to the ground.

In shock, Li Xingchuan pulled the child out, "What are you doing hiding here?! Do you know how anxious Dad is?"

I saw Xiaoshu's face was pale, his lips were black and blue, and his upper and lower teeth were chatting lightly, "Father, I don't know the way...how did you come here..."

As he spoke, his limbs became weak, and his body lay on the ground like cotton.Li Xingchuan picked up the child quickly with his eyes and hands, but as soon as he exerted his left arm, it hurt terribly.He raised his knees to support Xiaoshu's back, and Ling Yi rushed forward to help: "Xingchuan, let me help—"

In the end, Li Xingchuan suddenly pushed him aside, and he didn't even let him touch it.

It was busy time outside, brightly lit and full of voices.Li Xingchuan, who was holding the little tree, walked very fast, almost splitting through the crowd and running towards the exit. Ling Yi followed closely behind, "Excuse me, I'm sorry."

His heart was like a mess, shame, fear, worry, and the most tormented feelings mixed together, destroying all the joy, peace, and happiness that had been hard to find during the day.

There is also a firework show in front of the castle at night. The guide said that it is the most worth seeing, and it is also what Ling Yi looks forward to the most.He spent the whole day taking pictures of Xiaoshu, but he didn't have a photo with Xingchuan. He originally thought that he could make up for this regret while watching the fireworks.

So far, of course, this opportunity has been lost.

When he was about to reach the door, the crowd behind him let out an exclamation.Ling Yi turned her head while running wildly, and the gorgeous fireworks suddenly appeared in her eyes, and the gloomy night was illuminated as bright as day.

He only looked at it for a second, then turned back and ran forward again: "Xingchuan, wait for me!"

—

Children's hospital.

Xiaoshu hung the antipyretic needle, curled up in the quilt and fell into a deep sleep, while Li Xingchuan watched silently beside him.Ling Yi went outside to buy clean towels and a washbasin, and then brought back some hot water.

"Let me wipe the little tree."

"Give it to me." Li Xingchuan stretched out his hand.

Ling Yi handed it over resignedly: "Be careful it's hot."

It was not too late, there were many people coming and going in and out of the infusion room, and it was never quiet.But Xiaoshu's inspection results are not all out, and he can't go home yet.This long period of silence was like torture to Ling Yi.

"Xingchuan, I'm sorry." His voice was very low, "I was really careless today, and I shouldn't have left Xiaoshu's side. Fortunately, he is fine, otherwise I really don't know how to explain to you."

"Tell me what." Li Xingchuan wiped off the plaster on Xiaoshu's hands, "I shouldn't have trusted you."

Ling Yiru took a slap in the face: "I met an acquaintance at the time, so I went over and said a few words, I—"

He still wanted to explain something, but unfortunately the next words were interrupted by the doctor who came in, "Is Li Zhuo's parents here?"

"I'm."

"Come out with me."

Li Xingchuan was about to go out when he suddenly looked back at the child, "Let's talk about it here."

The doctor frowned: "You'd better come out with me and say something in front of the child."

Ling Yi patted Li Xingchuan's shoulder from behind, pleading in his voice: "Xingchuan, you go with the doctor. It's okay for me to watch here, and I promise I won't go anywhere."

Li Xingchuan glanced at him coldly, then turned and left.

—

"Who are you a child?"

"I'm his father."

"Where's his mother, let's call them together."

"His mother is gone."

It was a female doctor who came, and she raised her eyes from the checklist: "Dead?"

"Ah."

"Then do you have any other children?"

"No."

In an instant, the way the doctor looked at Li Xingchuan completely changed, soft and sympathetic.

"The child caught a cold and had a fever today. After hanging the needle and going back to rest for two or three days, he should be fine. But to be on the safe side, we did a comprehensive examination for him. It turned out that there was a small inflammatory lesion in his left lung lobe, which was suspected to be cancerous." Possibly, but a biopsy is needed to confirm the diagnosis. Does he usually have any discomfort?"

Li Xingchuan raised his head abruptly.Standing in front of the doctor, he frowned and looked at her, as if he didn't understand what she just said.

The doctor patted his shoulder lightly, like Ling Yi.

"Don't panic, it's just a suspicion right now. Even if you're diagnosed later, it's not incurable. As a parent, you have to hold your ground first."

It took a while for Li Xingchuan to regain his composure.

"Have you ever smoked in front of a child?"

"No, I won't let him near me when I'm smoking."

"Then does anyone in your family have a history of cancer?"

"His mother." He obviously understood.

"That's no wonder." The doctor looked filled with emotion, "Such a young child has cancer, and the possibility of heredity is very high."

After talking for a while, Li Xingchuan went outside to smoke a cigarette, and returned to the infusion room after 10 minutes.Ling Yi immediately stood up when he saw him, "What did the doctor say?"

At this time, the needle in Xiaoshu's hand has been withdrawn.Li Xingchuan ignored Ling Yi, took off his coat, wrapped the sleeping little tree, and hugged him with one hand.

"Xingchuan?"

"Tell me what happened."

All the way to the parking lot, Li Xingchuan didn't say a word to Ling Yi.Before he drove, Ling Yi blocked the door with his right hand: "How is Xiaoshu?"

Li Xingchuan pushed him away mercilessly, and slammed the car door shut.

—

As soon as he was carried into the elevator, Xiao Shu woke up.

He rubbed his eyes: "Dad, are we home yet?"

"Ah."

"Are you mad at me, Dad?"

"No."

"Then why don't you look at me?"

His face was pressed on his shoulder by his father, and he couldn't lift it up even if he wanted to.

"I don't want to sleep with Dad."

"Sleep a little longer, be obedient."

Xiao Shu lay on top of him, and turned his face in a difficult direction, "Okay, I'm obedient."

After entering the bedroom, Li Xingchuan didn't turn on the light, and directly put Xiaoshu on the bed, his hand was held by the child.

"Father," Little Tree said softly in the darkness, like fluffy cotton, "I was really scared this afternoon, I thought I would never grow taller again."

"It's a good thing Dad found me. Dad, I'm so afraid to leave you."

Unlike Li Xingchuan, Xiaoshu is always good at expressing his feelings.Li Xingchuan remained silent for a long time before stroking his hair: "Father can't leave you either."

"Then you must not leave me."

"Ah."

"We'll be together forever, Dad."

"it is good."

This promise does not seem difficult.Because Li Xingchuan always thought that no one could take Xiaoshu away from him.Even if Xiaoshu really got sick, it wouldn't be too difficult to heal until the day he closed his eyes by his side.

Who would have thought that such a simple matter would be obstructed so quickly.The next day a colleague called him and told him something as a joke.

"Recently, the rumors in the courtyard have been extremely outrageous, saying that you violated military discipline and went out to whores, and that your son was not your own, but someone else's. You said it was ridiculous. Don't say whether you are a prostitute or not. You have such good conditions. What's so difficult about having a child, and it's worth robbing someone else?"

The author says:

I’m going to start writing about fighting and killing again, it’s only interesting if there’s a plot and emotions, isn’t it?