Euthanasia

Jon originally had a minor operation these two days, but when he heard that Liu Zhiwei would be with him for two full days on vacation, Jon sneaked to the nurse on duty to postpone his operation while Liu Zhiwei was shopping for food.

The nurse said: "This operation is postponed and we have to wait another half a month, and the follow-up operations will have to..."

"What are you talking about? I don't understand your accent," Jon smiled and patted the table. "You mean you can help me arrange surgery in three days? Okay, thank you so much, God bless you." Seeing Liu Zhiwei appearing at the corner, Jon finished speaking in one breath and pushed the wheelchair back to the ward.

Nurse: "...Hey, wait, sir..."

Liu Zhiwei walked into the room and asked, "What were you doing at the nurse's desk just now?"

Jon blinked his eyes and looked at him: "Make sure I really don't have any infusion surgery and inspection this afternoon."

"No?" Liu Zhiwei was a little surprised, he always felt that Jon had an operation going on recently.

"No." Jon said firmly.

"Then—" Liu Zhiwei looked at Jon's hopeful eyes, raised his eyebrows and said, "Where do you want to go?"

Jon usually rarely leaves the ward.Although Lu Yi didn't stop him, just like what the nurse said, Jon was alone in a foreign country, it was inconvenient to move around, and he didn't have acquaintances to accompany him. Going out was as meaningless as staying in the ward.

It’s not that Jon doesn’t know anyone in China. On the contrary, he has cooperated with Chinese companies too much, and has also communicated with people from the government. It can be said that he can arrange such good wards and medical conditions. China has also left part of this relationship.

It's just that Jon doesn't want the identity of the head of the hurricane at all.He didn't even want the name "Jon Williams."

So he doesn't want to meet people who need to wear a suit and a fake smile to meet.

"Where do you want to go?" Jon's eyes lit up as soon as Liu Zhiwei asked.Liu Zhiwei was ready to risk his life to accompany Junzi, even if Jon wanted to go to the amusement park, he would do so.

Jon seemed to have been prepared for a long time, and said, "Children's Park!"

Liu Zhiwei: "..." I never expected that a mountain would be as high as another.

"What are you doing in the children's park? You are 34 years old, not four years old." Liu Zhiwei reminded him.

"It was you who asked me where I wanted to go." Jon said persistently.

Liu Zhiwei had no choice but to bite the bullet and search for children's parks on the map, and finally found a children's park in the old city, next to a kindergarten.

The two took a taxi outside the hospital and drove bravely to the children's park.Sitting in the passenger seat, Liu Zhiwei only felt that the driver kept looking at Jon in the rear seat through the rearview mirror.

Even if foreigners are rare, drivers have seen too many times.

Liu Zhiwei couldn't help but patted the driver on the shoulder and said, "Master, what are you looking at?"

The driver quickly came to his senses: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, your friend looks a bit like the one in the mobile newspaper today, maybe it's because I see the faces of foreigners all the same..."

"Mobile newspaper?" Liu Zhiwei froze for a moment, "What mobile newspaper?"

Jon in the back seat suddenly raised his head, and when Liu Zhiwei turned his head to look at him, he quickly pretended to look at the scenery.

The driver showed his mobile phone screen to Liu Zhiwei and said, "Here, this one, doesn't it look a lot like it?"

Chinese people think that the faces of foreigners look alike, just as foreigners think that Chinese people look the same.But Liu Zhiwei has been with Jon for several months, and he is very familiar with his face.

That photo was clearly Jon's.

Liu Zhiwei immediately took out his mobile phone and opened the mobile newspaper. Sure enough, the headlines were a netizen-style witty and humorous way of telling a piece of news reported by foreign media that shocked the IT world—the head of Hurricane went on strike.

This news was actually a few months later than Jon's departure from the United States, but until now many people suddenly discovered that Jon had not heard from him for several months.

Hurricane is a company that maintains vitality and updates at all times. In the past, when Jon was in Hurricane, every time a new system update was released, Jon would post a short video on his Twitter.But a few months passed, not to mention the system update, even the previous new product launch conference, Jon didn't show up.Standing at the press conference and speaking was Jon's CEO, Mona.

Everyone started to feel something was wrong.

On the mobile phone newspaper is a picture of Hurricane employee P in Twitter. On the top is a work photo of Jon, and it says "WANTED $500".Then that amount was marked with a red cross and changed to "ALIVE$000".

Liu Zhiwei was originally insensitive to such numbers, but thanks to Jon, he searched a lot of information on hurricanes and companies related to hurricanes. This number is a bit special.The last time Jon appeared in public in the past few months was when the total market value of hurricanes exceeded trillions. The IT world reveled in Hurricane and Jon.

Since then, Jon has disappeared.

Liu Zhiwei checked the time, and it happened to be the time when Jon planned to be euthanized and was packed and sent to China.

Liu Zhiwei couldn't help turning his head and glanced at Jon who was still pretending to look at the scenery, but moved his eyeballs to peek at Liu Zhiwei from time to time.

Jon almost has the influence to shock the world, but now he is sitting in the back of a taxi, asking Liu Zhiwei to take him to a children's park.

——Too unrealistic.

Liu Zhiwei turned off the phone, and with a wooden face, he deleted in his mind the picture that the other party claimed to spend their honeymoon with him earlier.

The children's park arrived soon, and when they got out of the car, the driver also came down to help open the wheelchair.After paying the money, Liu Zhiwei pushed Jon to a bench in the children's park.

It's not school time, no kids are playing here.Some are just a few adults looking at their phones, sitting bored on certain facilities.

It's already winter, and the ground is covered with withered leaves, looking very depressed.

Liu Zhiwei said: "There is nothing to see here. There are no people or plants."

"I thought there were kids playing here," said Jon.

"The kindergarten is tightly controlled. We are afraid that children will have accidents, so we won't release them during school time." Liu Zhiwei shrank his neck and said, pointing back to the amusement facilities in the kindergarten behind him, "Well, if they want to play, they should all be there playing."

Jon glanced back, and there were no children playing there.

"Are you cold?" Liu Zhiwei said, taking off his scarf and wrapping it around Jon.Jon adjusted the position of the scarf, and seemed to ask casually: "Did you play with these when you were young?"

"When I was young?" Liu Zhiwei smiled, "I didn't have such good conditions. China developed very fast. I didn't have these when I was young. At most, there were some inflatable toys in the kindergarten."

Jon seemed a little disappointed. He stared fixedly at the kindergarten where no children could be seen, and asked, "Will it snow here?"

Liu Zhiwei looked at the gloomy sky and said, "It rarely snows in this city, but it will snow a little bit in January and February."

"What about today? Will it snow today?"

Liu Zhiwei froze for a moment, turned on his phone and checked the weather. "It's cloudy today... Hey, there might be sleet tonight."

"Zeo," Jon called out, "they're out of school."

At noon, all the children who only had to stay for half a day came out cheering, their laughter and milky cries lit up the entire gloomy sky.

Jon saw the toddler in colorful children's clothing running out with short steps and pounced on his parents who had been waiting outside the door.Children are finally starting to play in their empty children's park.

Liu Zhiwei squinted at Jon, and asked casually, "Do you like children very much?"

"I didn't like it before," Jon said.

Liu Zhiwei thought about his words for a while.Does he mean he likes it now?

"They're a noisy life force," Jon said, "I used to hate it."

Liu Zhiwei pondered his complicated words for a while.Before he could figure it out, Jon asked, "What about you?"

"I like children very much." Liu Zhiwei sat down on the bench and put his hands in his pockets. "It's very simple, full of hope, and there are countless possibilities for the future." Liu Zhiwei's mouth slightly turned up, "It's not like us Adults who have grown into boring adults. They can easily talk about their dreams, and we can only keep our dreams in our hearts until one day it finally disappears."

Jon looked ahead and said, "You can."

"what?"

"You can easily name your dreams," Jon said.

Liu Zhiwei laughed and said: "Thank you, dream saves the family."

For a while they sat on the bench watching the children playing.

"Can I smoke?" Liu Zhiwei said.He never smoked in front of Jon, nor indoors.

"Give me one," said Jon.

"You are sick."

"You're still smoking next to the patient."

Liu Zhiwei silently stuffed back the cigarette case he had just taken out.

After 10 minutes, Jon said: "Take it out. We each have half a stick."

Liu Zhiwei silently took out the cigarette case again, and took out a cigarette.

"Lu Yi said you don't smoke."

"Lu Yi also said that I slept with all of Prince William's same-sex friends."

"...Aren't you asleep?"

"No," Jon borrowed Liu Zhiwei's lighter and lit a cigarette, "I just slept with all the handsome guys among them."

Liu Zhiwei: "..." There is no essential difference.

Jon took two puffs and handed it to Liu Zhiwei. Liu Zhiwei was in a weird mood when he took two puffs, but he took two puffs without saying a word and handed it back to Jon.

"Why didn't you ask me how I slept?" Jon was at a loss for words again.

Liu Zhiwei almost choked on the smoke blown by Jon.He asked, "...how did you sleep?" He also subconsciously glanced at Jon's legs.

"I won't tell you," Jon said.

Liu Zhiwei: "..." This brother can't smoke anymore.

After smoking a cigarette, Jon said, "Come on, I miss lunch."

Under the command of Jon, Liu Zhiwei visited all the kindergartens in the whole city in one afternoon, and saw countless children with similar similarities and minor differences.Jon didn't know what kind of whim it was. He had to see the children being picked up by their parents and started playing before leaving.Just wandering around until dark, Liu Zhiwei decided to take kid Jon back to the hospital.

"Wait, there's another one," Jon said.

There are many kindergartens in the whole city. The last one mentioned by Jon is a Sino-foreign joint venture kindergarten. The building facilities and education are very biased towards the West.

When Liu Zhiwei brought people to the front of the kindergarten, he was a little surprised to find that the walls outside the kindergarten were covered with bright yellow lights, and there was a Christmas tree outside the door. The Christmas tree was full of small gifts wrapped in gift boxes A decorative square box.

The whole kindergarten is built like a log cabin, which has a warm feeling under the light.

Through the window of the wooden house, you can see the children playing inside. The children are clapping and singing inside. The candles are lit high in the room, which looks very festive.

It gets dark early in winter, and many parents are already waiting outside.Some children waved to their parents from the windows.

Jon suddenly said, "Today is Christmas Eve."

Liu Zhiwei froze for a moment, and finally realized why he always felt a festive atmosphere before.He even skips many holidays in China, let alone Christmas!

The surrounding trees were entwined with lamp beads. Jon looked at the children in the window and said in a low voice, "Happy Christmas Eve."

Liu Zhiwei looked at Jon's profile, which was yellowed by the light, and suddenly realized something.For Jon, Christmas is the day when their families get together, but Jon is alone in China, living in a ward without any relatives by his side.Liu Zhiwei doesn't know how important they are to the concept of family, nor how important family and friends are to Jon. He only knows that Jon is lonely now.

The children ran out of the cabin and threw themselves into the arms of their parents.The little hands and feet jumped into the adult's coat together.

The tip of Jon's nose turned cold, he opened his eyes wide, and immediately looked up to the sky, only to see Liu Zhiwei suddenly pressed his shoulders, knelt down in front of him and gave him a hug: "Happy Christmas Eve, Johnny. "

Tiny snowflakes began to fall, falling on Jon's fingers one by one, turning into water droplets, and also falling on Liu Zhiwei's back.

Lu Yi paced back and forth in the ward, checking his watch frequently.It's snowing heavily outside, that bastard Jon hasn't come back yet, and today is Christmas Eve.

—Where did they go?

Lu Yi turned on his phone again, and there was still only a message from Jon that had been read dozens of times in the mailbox: I went out with Zeo on a date, and I will be back before Christmas: P.

Xu Ting leaned on the sofa, with a pile of beer cans at his feet.He got rid of the wish a few hours ago, and he messed up this birthday anyway.

At 21:[-], the doorbell rang outside the door, and it was still a gesture of not giving up without answering.Xu Ting woke up suddenly, and staggered to open the door.There is no one outside the door, only a cake.The cake was surrounded by a cardboard box, and the top cover had been removed. There were a few candles on it, and it was written: Ting Ting, happy birthday.

Xu Ting seemed to wake up suddenly, he glanced at the clock on the wall.

December 24 at 21:29 pm was the date and time of his birth [-] years ago.

After standing at the exit of the escape ladder and watching Xu Ting carry the cake home through the glass, Xu Wish heaved a sigh of relief, rubbed his eyebrows and muttered with a headache: "This little brat..." Then he picked up the phone, He said angrily, "Why? It was you who messed up my brother's birthday... What did you say to him?"

The author has something to say:

Liu Zhiwei: Can you just say it when you miss home?

Jon: No, it doesn't suit my status to say it outright.