godfather

Shaotang didn't know how he drove the car to the hospital that day, and there were two wounded people in the back seat of the car.His own waist was bleeding, and his fingers almost crushed the steering wheel and twisted it into twists.

They went to the nearest big hospital, Chaoyang Hospital.The ambulance quickly pushed Meng Jianju into the examination room, and soon into the operating room for rescue...

After an examination, Auntie Meng's unilateral kidney ruptured, bleeding, and coma.

The little uncle's push broke the kidney.

The Meng family is not just old and sick sister-in-law.Soon after the incident, the eldest sister, second sister and second uncle of the Meng family rushed to the hospital one after another, and even called the police, and all the police were called to complain about the grievance of domestic violence in tears.

Originally, Shaotang's eyes were bloodshot, and he wanted to go wild and find someone to settle the score. If he stripped off his military skin, he would not spare those bastards and scum.As a result, he walked to the other end of the corridor and saw that the scene of the chaotic fight between men and women was obviously unnecessary for him...

The two sisters of the Meng family are extremely fierce and violent people outside, they surround my little uncle to reason and fight, you beat my little sister, and now she is in a coma and is being rescued in the operating room. Life is gone, can this matter be over!Two sturdy women are worth ten domineering men.The eldest aunt talked like a cannonball, pointing at the younger uncle and reasoning and complaining one after another. The second aunt was tall and strong, she jumped up with her handbag and swung her brother-in-law, chasing and beating her brother-in-law all over the corridor, without caring about her image at all.

The second aunt came back, gritted her teeth and said quickly: "Mom, sister, I swung Xiao Zheng several times, this time I can relieve my anger!!"

The bastard who stabbed the knife was scared away, so he didn't dare to follow.

Afterwards, the police station that received the report made an investigation and detained the cousin, and mediation allowed one party to pay some money.

The Chinese tradition is to pay attention to the prosperity of the family and everything, and would rather tear down a wall than break a marriage.As long as the case of domestic violence between husband and wife does not reach the day of killing, it is a mediation and settlement.After the fight, you can still change back to being a family, pretending that nothing happened, and paper the broken relationship, how ridiculous.

The little uncle was also dumbfounded, panicked, and remorseful. He never thought that he would push his daughter-in-law's kidney out of his head.As a man and a husband, this matter cannot be justified anyway.This man is timid when things happen. After all, he is the driver for the unit leader, not the leader himself.

The eldest sister spoke harshly, and simply reasoned with her brother-in-law: "Xiao Zheng, you are really sorry that our family trusts you for what you did today, and that my parents married their daughter to you!"

"You said that you married my sister out of sympathy and pity for her. This is a relationship issue between the two of you and I will not comment on it. But since Meng Jianju married into your family, your father is still paralyzed on the bed. It is because she has been taking care of her day and night. Your parents, she cooks, washes and manages a family at home, and she even gave birth to a son for your family!... She has no credit, but she always has hard work, right? There is no love between husband and wife, and there must always be a grateful heart!... Be a human being You must have at least a conscience!!"

The little uncle was terrified of hearing a series of truths from the eldest sister of the Meng family, so he sat down on the bench in the corridor: "Elder sister, elder sister, I didn't do it on purpose today...I really didn't expect her kidney to be broken, and her body is too big. , too what..."

The eldest sister said: "My younger sister was malnourished since she was a child. At that time, there was a natural disaster in 1960. There was no food at home. During the confinement period, there was no milk or eggs. My elder brother Meng Jianmin and I went out to dig the roots of wild vegetables to eat. So she is the thinnest one in our family, and every organ in her body is fragile, and she can't help tossing. My little sister was also the apple of the eye at home since she was a child. She was never bullied or asked to do housework, but she can do everything when she comes to your house. Do you think she is easy?"

The little uncle said in a low voice: "It's not easy."

The eldest sister stared and said sharply: "She hasn't starved to death in three years of natural disasters, and you pushed her into a 'critically ill' and sent her to the emergency room! If her body is ruined by your family, something will happen to her in the future. Son, our whole family will never end with you!!"

……

No one in the Meng family ever mentioned the word divorce.

It is said that marriage is the grave of love.However, a marriage without even a foundation of love is the grave of a woman's life's happiness.It's a pity that there were still many women who couldn't understand this at that time. For the sake of their families, children, and the face of relatives and natal families, they swallowed bitter water and blood into their stomachs.

In the corridor leading to the emergency trauma department, Meng Xiaobei held two bloody hands and comforted Shaotang along the way: "It's okay, skin trauma, I'm really fine, just stop the bleeding."

Shaotang's face was cold, and his voice was hoarse: "...these are skin wounds on my body."

Shaotang gripped Xiaobei's wrists and held his injured hand, his whole body was shaking.It wasn't the shaking of fear, Shaotang's chest and ribs rubbed and trembled, and the veins on his forehead bulged violently.They were walking in the crowded corridors of the emergency department, and accidentally collided with others when they crossed their shoulders, resulting in quarrels.Shaotang turned his head sharply, staring at the other party with dark red bloodshot eyes, and did not speak.

He stared at the people next to him in a fright, and hid.

Meng Xiaobei had never seen his family, Shaotang, be so fierce, full of hostility, and a kind of unwilling stubbornness.

An X-ray was taken at the orthopedics department, and Shaotang asked an old specialist to look at the film.

Shaotang stood up at the side, propping the table with both hands, with anxious eyes: "He is a painter, will his hands be affected in the future, can he still draw?"

The old expert raised his eyebrows: "Ah..."

"You student, a painter, if you don't protect your own hands, why would you touch a knife?" The old man couldn't help criticizing him.

Shaotang: "..."

Meng Xiaobei's right hand was injured more severely than his left hand. After cleaning off the scab and pus, the wound was completely exposed, making it even more frightening.From the lines on the palm of the knife edge, Shaotang could tell how much strength Xiaobei had exerted to break the blade!

Shaotang's eyes were messed up, and he asked, "The tendon... the tendon in his right hand is not broken, is it?"

When he said this, his heart suddenly stabbed, and his heart ached so much that he wanted to cut off his right hand and put it on his baby.

It's a man's, and he hates seeing the closest people around him get hurt in front of his eyes, and he can't do anything about it.

At that time, Xiao Bei held his wrist and showed his heart in front of the whole family, you are mine, we have always had a good life, and we have always been together.His son has worked hard for ten years and is about to pass the exam. If something happens at this time and his hand is broken, it will leave a lifetime of regrets, and Shaotang will not be able to forgive himself.

Shaotang used to be worried. Meng Xiaobei was young, lively, and had many friends. He was surrounded by a group of cats and dogs, so he was uncertain.

He didn't even know that Beibei could love him so much.

The old expert said that the tendon of the tegumin was fine, and the phalanx was not broken, but the ring finger and little finger of the right hand were severely injured, the muscles were torn and everted, and the whole hand needed anti-inflammation and disinfection, and the wound was stitched up.The skin of young people has a strong ability to regenerate, and it should be able to grow well, but it will leave a hand scar!

The doctor fixed Meng Xiaobei's hands on the operating table with belts, applied medicine, and sewed up the wound.The stitcher was a young male doctor who was very serious about his homework. He concentrated on embroidering thread on his fingers and said, "I will sew the joints for you carefully, so that the fingers will not be deformed in the future." "Fingerprints will definitely change. , your love line is gone, it was cut off by this big knife"...

Meng Xiaobei's mouth hissed, and a layer of mist was forced out of his eye sockets from time to time, and he could bear it back, his fingers connected to his heart.He squinted at the doctor for stitches, and said, "The love thread is gone, so my life will change, right?!"

The doctor said softly: "It depends on your luck. Your hands must not be as delicate as before, that's for sure."

Meng Xiaobei sighed: "Oh, my pair of jade hands, the skin is as thick as fat, it will be impossible in the future, and the hands will be full of scars."

"Don't dislike me in the future!"

Meng Xiaobei turned his head to smile at Shaotang, the corners of his mouth curled up.

At first, Shaotang watched Meng Xiaobei stitch in the room, and sat there with straight eyes.Then he got up and went out, really couldn't bear to look at it, it seemed that his son's body was not complete, and his originally flexible, slender and beautiful hands!

Shaotang held a few slips, walked through the long and crowded corridors, and went downstairs to pay for the medicine.

The passers-by saw this man, they all stepped away, sighed, and shot Shaotang's lower body with strange eyes.

Shaotang lowered his head, glanced at himself, and was stunned for a moment... Continue walking.On the right side of his waist, the blood had congealed, and it was glued together with the hem of his white shirt. The blood flowed onto his military trousers. The right half of his body seemed to be covered in blood, spots, and he felt no pain.

Chaoyang Hospital is the largest hospital in the vicinity, and there is still an endless stream of people seeking medical treatment at night, and the corridors of the emergency department and the trauma department are crowded with people.From time to time, there were drunken people, those who fought and made trouble, and those who came from the construction site, with iron drills wedged on their heads and bloody wounds on their faces, were carried into the consultation room by the workers, and there were all kinds of people in the world before them.

Shaotang washed the blood off his waist with cold water, and cleaned it hastily, not bothering to hang up.The little nurse in the consulting room turned around and exclaimed in wonder, "Hey, where is my box of cotton, where did the alcohol go to me?!"

Shaotang sterilized himself, skillfully and neatly, and tied a large piece of gauze around his waist.On the way he slowly walked back, there were many people around him, countless memories of fleeting years, many happy times in the past, rushing into his eyes.Xiaobei kept saying to him on the phone at that time, "Don't worry, baby, you are waiting for me in Beijing"...

After Meng Xiaobei finished stitching, his grandmother and aunt came to see him to comfort him, and the aunt was still in the operating room.

His aunt was very caring, and quietly reported to her nephew: "You godfather, I really love you."

"When I came over just now, I saw him sitting alone in the corridor over there, sitting in a daze, his eyes were quite red, don't cry for you!"

……

That night, in a secluded part of the corridor, Shaotang and Meng Xiaobei sat side by side, spent the night in the hospital, hanging water bottles.

Shaotang made a bottle holder for the human body, and carried the two bottles of glucose water and anti-inflammatory medicine to Meng Xiaobei. Meng Xiaobei said, "I have neither shock nor fainted. Do I need to hang water!"

Meng Xiaobei said in a serious manner: "Injury has delayed my affairs! I wanted to sneak up to their house tonight to see what that kid is doing! He must be hiding someone at home, hiding something dubious." Little fairy, so don't let me go!"

Shaotang looked at Xiaobei: "...can you stop being so heartless?"

Meng Xiaobei also had no expression on his face, he smiled faintly, taking some things for granted.Meng Xiaobei said: "Shaotang, if I don't block that blow, the person who is lying in the operating room with a broken kidney and pierced through the rescue may be you. I have to stop even if I have broken fingers, I can let you Into the operating room?"

Shaotang looked straight ahead, as if he could see through the next ten or eight years: "I've been running around all these years, thinking about changing jobs, entering a company, buying a house, who am I doing it for?...Don't let me raise you up When I'm an adult and I see it's time to harvest, you come here and let me lose the whole thing, is it okay?"

Meng Xiaobei asked back: "I have been chasing you for so many years, desperately trying to get to Beijing, who am I for?"

Shaotang said: "If your hand is useless, I don't have to run for my life."

Xiao Beidao: "If something happens to you, I'll keep a good pair of hands for my ass?"

In the second year after Meng Xiaobei returned to Xi'an, Shaotang began to do business in an office set up by his uncle He Cheng in Beijing, and often traveled on business trips to arsenals in other provinces.

A certain technology company funded behind the scenes by the General Staff's Logistics Department has expanded its international trade business in military supplies in Beijing, established several offices and liaison offices, and brought in and out many people.On the bank of Dongsishitiao overpass, this majestic golden building stands overlooking the urban area within the second ring road.The company covered more than half of the country's arms import and export and military technology industry at that time, selling domestic arms to small countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, ranging from aircraft and missile helicopters to military trucks, cooking vehicles, firefighting water trucks and blanket tents.Many of the internal handlers are members of the military, reliable experts, walking on the commercial roads of the capital, with strong capital and mysterious identities behind them.

It's very easy for Shaotang to do this job. He has been in the army for many years, understands these military supplies, can read them, can go to the grassroots level to check and inspect goods, and has a cheerful personality and quick conversation. He can talk about things at the wine table without showing the slightest timidity. .

His relationship is still in the Armed Police Corps, waiting for a formal transfer.Shaotang would not nag Meng Xiaobei about these things.As a man, it's only right and proper to support a family and support his own wife. Needless to say, he wants to let the big baby live a good life in the future.

The wound has been smeared with medicine, waiting to heal and air-dried, without gauze, all left to dry, Meng Xiaobei spread his hands on his knees.

Shaotang winked: "Lie on my lap?"

Meng Xiaobei aimed at the waist of Shaotang's trousers, and smirked: "What are you doing?... Miss me?"

Shaotang threateningly said: "I told you to sleep on my lap, what are you thinking about?...This is a hospital!"

Shaotang supported Meng Xiaobei's hand with one palm, and put his palm against the back of Xiaobei's hand.The two were joking and teasing each other, Shaotang lightly rubbed Xiaobei's fingernails with his fingers, rubbing them back and forth.

During those few days, the Meng family was in a state of turmoil. My sister-in-law had a kidney operation and she was not in serious danger for the time being, but she was weak.The old lady was sitting on the head of the little girl's bed, still talking about the injured finger of her grandson, both of them were worried.

Meng Jianju's physical condition was congenitally deficient, and she was depressed after marriage. Her internal organs were not in good condition, and she was riddled with holes. She needed to go to the hospital at any time to open her belly for surgery, to pick one and mend that.The old man of the husband's family was paralyzed on the bed, the old lady didn't cook, and the children were left alone. Only then did he feel the merit of marrying a daughter-in-law.Zheng Tiejun went to the inpatient department to report on time every day, carrying all kinds of nutritional supplements, his eyebrows drooping, and he was scolded and scolded by the old lady and several sisters over and over again. If I had known today, why did you do it in the first place!

Meng Xiaobei had to linger in Beijing for a few more days because of an accident with his hand.Shaotang called himself, explained to Meng Jianmin, and asked for leave from the school.

He went to work during the day and came back at night to take care of his son.The next day, he still took Meng Xiaobei to the People's Liberation Army Hospital, where he took X-rays for a thorough examination, and was sent back by the experts, who said it was a skin trauma, so don't take so many X-rays.

The worst thing about Meng Xiaobei's finger injury was that he couldn't take care of himself. In the past few days before the wound healed, he couldn't even eat, dress, and go to the bathroom by himself.The two were in the hospital toilet, Shaotang hugged him from behind, helped him pull up his trousers, and took out the chicken.Meng Xiaobei said: "No, no, you can't help me like this, I can't pee anymore!!"

Shaotang said: "What's wrong with me supporting? If I don't support you, you little fool will pee on your pants?"

Meng Xiaobei trembled: "Oh, you helped me and I stood up... It's broken, I really stood up! It's too embarrassing to be seen..."

Would someone like Meng Xiaobei be ashamed?

He can't, he's just acting like a spoiled child.

Shaotang wondered why he liked this kid so much, because Beibei could make him happy anytime and anywhere, and life was so beautiful.Not twitchy, not pretentious, there is no gloomy and gloomy gene in his personality, even if he is struggling to climb the most tortuous corner of his life, facing a major choice of fate, his Beibei will always look forward and move forward with optimism , never look back.

Walking to the small garden downstairs of the hospital, a piece of warm sunshine shines on the feet, and the winter jasmine blooms quietly at the end of winter, a cluster of bright colors of hope.

Shaotang stopped suddenly, and La Xiaobei sat on the stone bench, silent for a moment, with a solemn expression, his handsome profile was like a warm plaster statue.

There was no one around, so Shaotang took out two small flannel boxes from his pocket, handed one to Xiaobei, and opened it.Two lustrous and smooth rings, men's simple style, the two are exactly the same, but the size is different.

Meng Xiaobei: "... When did you buy it?"

The corner of Shaotang's mouth twitched faintly: "I bought it before you came to Beijing, and I'm waiting to give it to you."

Xiaobei: "..."

Shaotang said: "Originally, I thought about you finishing the exam yesterday. If you are down-to-earth, I will take you out. Well, find a good romantic place, have a dinner for two on the top floor of the Beijing Hotel, enjoy the night view on the roof, and then I'll give you a good look too, and I'll give you a surprise... The result really shocked me, there's no 'hi', it scared me yesterday."

Meng Xiaobei's tongue curled up and he stammered: "Send me off...you propose to me?"

Shaotang nodded generously: "Isn't it a marriage proposal? Why are you still in a daze, just keep it."

Meng Xiaobei's face was blown slightly red by the wind, or it was red when the boy was happy and shy.His hair was a little disheveled, he sat stupidly, his heartbeat was in a mess, and he sat there with his hands down, suddenly he had the mentality of a big girl, looking at Shaotang foolishly.There is no romance, no ceremony, his man just handed over the ring, in a word, you take it, and you save yourself from kneeling on one knee and so on—Of course Meng Xiaobei originally thought that men who kneel on one knee to propose marriage What my son does should be done by the handsome and handsome grandpa Xiaobei who has grown up!

It seems that everything will come naturally, he "come out" to his grandparents in the midst of the melee yesterday, but his grandparents are too slow to understand and ignore him, and he is too embarrassed to run back and yell again.

Shaotang explained earnestly: "I didn't mean to buy you a cheap one. I spent a long time picking in the store. I can't afford 24K gold, but how I look at it, I feel that the color like a big yellow gold bar is similar to that of a gold bar." The one on your grandma’s hand looks so similar to that worn by an old lady! So I still bought the 18K one, which looks more elegant.”

Meng Xiaobei said happily: "It looks good, help me put it on."

Shaotang said: "It just happened to catch up with your hand, and I can't even wear it."

The two lowered their heads and fiddled for a long time.Xiao Bei's left fingers were covered with gauze, so he could only take off a piece of gauze, put the ring on it, and wrap the gauze back again.Meng Xiaobei saw that there seemed to be water in Shaotang's eyes.

Meng Xiaobei was so proud that he couldn't close his mouth, someone was in pain, and he filled his heart with honey: "Is it considered married?"

Shaotang smiled miserably: "Anyway, you didn't run away. I want to get married now and have a drink. I'm already 32. It's time to get married... Why did I fall in love with you back then?!"

Meng Xiaobei laughed aloud, his eyes seductive under the single eyelid: "If you wear all the rings, you are already married."

Shaotang thought of something: "...I haven't got the bridal chamber yet, can this be settled?"

Meng Xiaobei looked at each other innocently: "I thought, the two of us already have a cave, a cave, a bridal chamber, and I've already put you..."

When Meng Xiaobei said that the word "hole" could no longer be contained, he trembled and laughed wantonly in the cold wind, and then he was strangled by Shaotang's neck until he was about to suffocate, and then embarrassedly admitted his mistake...

Walking quickly from the small garden to the parking lot, Shaotang suddenly reached out and hugged Meng Xiaobei horizontally.

Meng Xiaobei flew into the air sideways, wrapping gauze around each hand, and said in a low voice, "Hey!"

With a blank expression on his face, Shaotang strode towards the car: "You are hurt, can I hug you?"

Meng Xiaobei is a tall and strong person, and with such a hug, it takes up a lot of space, with two legs stretched out, he can directly knock down a large area.It was also a little difficult for Shaotang to hold him, his son has grown up, he is really heavy.

Shaotang's face was sullen, but the lines on his face were filled with soft light and shadow: "Take you home."

Shaotang had hugged Meng Xiaojing before, as well as his sister-in-law. In Meng Xiaobei's memory, this was the first time Shaotang had given him an upright and strong "princess hug" in public and under the sun.