silver sea

Qiu Sheng just finished the examination an hour ago, and now he is sitting on the bed in the emergency department, taking off his shirt to show the doctor the scissors wound.The smell of alcohol diffused, he bit his lower lip to endure the pain, and raised his eyes.

The atmosphere was almost eerily quiet.

Qiu Sheng wanted to spy on Wen Youxia's expression changes, but he turned his face away and hid himself behind a heavily guarded mask.Compared to the wound on his back being cracked, his heartbeat was still a little anxious when he remembered the scene just now. As soon as Qiu Sheng came back to his senses, Wen Youxia held his shoulders to protect him, as if he had scolded Wen Haoqian.

His back hurts, and Qiu Sheng wanted to reach out to touch it, but the nurse who rushed over screamed: "Bleeding! Send him to the emergency room!"

In fact, Qiu Sheng wanted to seize the opportunity to occupy the moral high ground, wishing that he would be scalded and cut, and then Wen Youxia would spend his whole life regretting not showing up earlier——Based on what he knew about Wen Youxia, this person might be from him and Wen Haoqian He had already started to listen to the corner while talking - but Wen Youxia immediately took him away as the nurse said.

Arriving at the emergency room, Qiu Sheng thought he was going to say something, but Wen Youxia stood two steps away, not looking at him.

They chased each other with their eyes, and the abnormal doctors on duty didn't notice it. They frowned and asked, "This wound...how did it become like this?"

"I fell by myself."

The doctor's face was full of "do you believe me?", but he probably encountered too many strange things, and he was not surprised by Qiu Sheng's behavior of making up nonsense without changing his face.The wound was only long, but not deep, no need for stitches, just need to debride and bandage, the doctor finished it very quickly, probably felt that Qiu's voice was unreliable, so he turned his head and called out Wen Youxia.

"Hey, that, family members." The doctor didn't see the subtle expressions of the two people at the same time. "Keep the wound dry, and be careful of infection these days. The prescribed medicine is changed two to three times a day. If there is no abnormality, just wait for it to heal slowly."

Wen Youxia: "Yes."

Qiu Sheng: "He is not my family member."

They spoke at the same time, and fell silent again at the same time.

The doctor sensed some kind of quarrel between the patient and his family, so he said nothing more, put the medicine in Qiu Sheng's hand, and rang the bell to remind the next patient to come in.

Qiu Sheng buttoned his shirt again. When the material rubbed against the gauze, it was a little itchy but not very painful.He jumped off the hospital bed and walked out indifferently, planning to go home and lie down for a while, thinking in his heart that it was unlucky, it was not so serious at first and was disturbed by Wen Haoqian, but now it is necessary to apply medicine every day...

Fuck, yeah, what about applying medicine to your back?Will there be scars if I don't apply it?Or leave a scar.

"I sent a message to Gu Qi." Wen Youxia followed, "He's here to pick you up."

Qiu Sheng snorted coldly: "Did Gu Qi make me like this?"

He was so righteous that Wen Youxia was stunned for a second.This moment of hesitation and silence made Qiu Sheng's face darken, and he shook off him and strode away.

Wen Youxia noticed that Qiu Sheng was cold and did not leave him alone, and accompanied Gu Qi who was waiting at the gate of the hospital in a hurry.

I don't know exactly what happened, but Gu Qi only heard that You Xia said that it probably wouldn't work. Now when he ran over and saw Qiu Sheng's pale face, he thought that the thermos bottle had hit him, and the guitarist immediately went into a fit: "Wen Xia, your brother What's wrong, not clear-headed? Has he turned sixteen?! If something goes wrong, he will be held criminally responsible!"

"I'm sorry." Wen Youxia apologized in a low voice.

Gu Qi couldn't hold back for a moment, he turned to Qiu Sheng: "You too! A routine checkup can get me to the emergency department for stitches, I'm really convinced."

"No stitches, listen to his nonsense." Qiu Sheng frowned.

Gu Qi indiscriminately played [-] big boards each, and didn't want to talk nonsense after saying a word.He stuffed Qiu Sheng into the back seat of the car, said simply "See you in rehearsal", and never looked at Youxia again.

It only takes about ten minutes to drive back to Qiu Sheng's house.

As soon as Qiu Sheng got home, he lay down on the lazy sofa. Gu Qi read it to him after identifying the adverse reaction of the trauma medicine, and after reading a few words, he said, "Did you go to provoke Wen Haoqian first today?"

"Yeah." Qiu Sheng admitted, "I want to tease him when I meet him."

"It's funny!" Gu Qi was still terrified when he imagined that child dared to smash the thermos bottle at Qiu Sheng, "I think you should avoid contact with him, he is simply crazy!"

Qiu Sheng started to laugh when he heard this: "Who else do you think is not crazy?"

"You take medicine when you are sick." Gu Qi had a headache, and felt that if he continued like this, he was going to age prematurely, "Wen Haoqian has a 'first heart' after all, no matter if you provoke him or not, in case something goes wrong, his old man Can I let you go?...When the time comes, it will be Wen Xia again."

Qiu Sheng was bored on the sofa, and it took a while before he said, "Got it."

After a moment of peace, Gu Qi suddenly felt emotional: "Wen Xia is also quite pitiful."

Qiu Sheng: "...um."

"Those two grandparents are not fuel-efficient lamps." Gu Qi closed the drawer and poured Qiu Sheng a cup of hot water, "Wen Xia can bear it, so I would have left home earlier."

"It's not that Wen Xia never thought about running away from home."

"Okay, the family who took [-] steps back is really kind to him, right? If this goes on forever?"

"You seem to have said this before." Qiu Sheng reminded.

Gu Qi: "Really?...Maybe it's because I remember those things too vividly...But I can't just forget that Wen Xia kicked me! And your injury, you did it yourself!"

He started to chatter, Qiu Sheng put on the earphones, held the cup and smiled lightly.

Laughing that they could mention the most painful part of the memory so lightly one day, and also laughing that they all feel worthless for Wen Youxia but no one has the ability to help Wen Youxia solve it.

What is a "friend"?

Maybe they are not friends anymore.

Lu Yining once joked that Wen Youxia's experience is suitable for "artistic life": repaying the grandfather who raised him regardless of past suspicions, and starting to make money to support the family in order to help his unrelated younger brother to heal his illness.

"Anyway, I can't do it." Lu Yining concluded, "This kind of moral cultivation is really no one."

Wen Youxia was an orphan, Qiu Sheng heard it, and the first thought was outrageous.

When he mentioned this, on a spring night, the band members had finished their normal tour and gathered at a food stall on Guangming Road to eat barbecue.Wen Youxia took Qiu Sheng's wine glass and replaced it with yogurt, picked the bones of the grilled fish, and then fed Qiu Sheng to eat.Gu Qi just answered the phone call from her family urging money, and was so angry that she kept drinking.

Lu Yining saw Qiu Sheng comforting him, and Wen Youxia did not ask questions about family issues as usual, thinking that Wen Youxia was living a happy life, so he asked through alcohol, "Wen Xia, what about you, what do your parents do?" ?”

"I don't know, I'm an orphan."

"Eh...?" The wine was more than half sober.

Wen Youxia calmly stuffed Qiu Sheng with a mouthful of fish, and continued: "One of the adoptive parents is a bank employee, and the other seems to be from the education department."

As if realizing that he had said something wrong, Lu Yining apologized to him in embarrassment.

Wen Youxia didn't think it was too difficult to talk about. When Gu Qi asked, "Then do you have brothers and sisters?", he continued: "The adoptive parents have a son, who is now in the fifth grade."

Gu Qi was so annoyed by his own younger brother: "If the family relationship is good, adoption is fine, but you have to meet reliable adoptive parents——Wen Xia, how do they treat you?"

"It's okay." Wen Youxia drank and talked a little more, "Before my brother was born."

"They adopted you, why do they want children?" This was Qiu Sheng.

"Because my mother...she was pregnant out of wedlock. She was hanging out with bands everywhere, so she didn't know which musician she was pregnant." Wen Youxia said, this may be the time he spoke the most words at once, "She was in high school He was a student of Changdong Middle School at that time, and I heard that the teacher was very proud of the student, so when this happened, the first reaction was to ask the teacher."

More than 20 years ago, this plot was so dramatic and absurd that it was unrealistic.

The three of them looked at each other and wanted to interrupt, but wanted to continue listening.

"Teacher Wen was about to retire at that time... She begged for a long time before Teacher Wen agreed." Wen Youxia took a sip of wine, "But the main reason is that his son and daughter-in-law found out that they couldn't have children of their own."

"So your dad is some kind of musician."

"almost."

Gu Qi asked without hesitation: "Which band is it from? Is it famous? What do you do?"

Wen Youxia: "I only know he's a guitar player."

Gu Qi's momentum suddenly weakened: "...not all guitar players are scumbags."

Wen Youxia smiled: "I didn't target you."

He seemed in a good mood, maybe because it didn't hurt so much to talk about the past.The other three got to know Wen Youxia very well at that time, and they drank again, so they didn't get older.

Lu Yining bit the barbecue: "I understand. First, if you don't have a child, you will raise it as your own. But when your biological child is born, it will be difficult to see who you adopt—"

"Well," Wen Youxia paused, "and my brother is sick."

He was not swearing. Wen Haoqian had congenital heart disease and was discovered after school age. At that time, the conditions for surgery were not perfect and he had to take medicine for a long time-there were two children in the family, the biological one did not know how long they would live, and the adopted one did not Consanguinity, it is not worthwhile to educate carefully.

Because of this matter, Wen Youxia's adoptive parents quarreled every day - it was at that time that he accidentally heard about his outrageous background - and they divorced not long after.

After the divorce, he never saw his adoptive mother again, and a few years later, his adoptive father also used the excuse of resigning to go to the business world, left Donghe, and went abroad with his so-called friends.

When he went to Singapore, he sent money back at first, and then he seemed to have formed a new family there. He didn't say it clearly on the surface, but he gradually lost contact.Teacher Wen has retired and has been widowed for many years. With his own income, he has to treat his grandson and support Wen Youxia to continue his studies.

After Wen Youxia, he decided not to go to university for the time being, and worked around to save money to leave Wen's shelter.

When his plan was discovered, Wen Dechang was too angry and didn't feel that he wanted to lighten the other party's burden after leaving, so he called him a "white-eyed wolf" for the first time.

"Then you just go back obediently and get squeezed?" Qiu Sheng was furious when he heard this, "What kind of saint are you doing at this time!"

"If I didn't learn the piano, I probably wouldn't care." Wen Youxia's tone was still very light, "But Teacher Wen wanted to keep me at first, and then took me to learn the piano... If it wasn't for him, I would never have met you, you guys. I feel guilty for him."

Qiu Sheng fell silent for a moment.

Wen Youxia's series of experiences are like dominoes, it is difficult to separate them from the calculation of gains and losses.

As for Wen Dechang, this is a contradictory person.

When he regards Wen Youxia as a "child" and discovers Wen Youxia's musical talent, he can send him to learn violin and bass, and encourage him to touch rock music; but when he regards him as a "burden", Wen Dechang hates him She was also reluctant to let him go, looking forward to his retirement in the future, grasping him like grabbing a straw before drowning.

Qiu Sheng didn't know what Wen Youxia thought.

Did those 18 years of his life make him happy, and was there some hope?And why are these happiness and hopes enough for him to endure for so long?

After several years, he still felt that Wen Youxia was stupid.

Atonement?There is nothing to atone for, the only one to blame is that family wanting everything.

But even if he can help Wen Youxia solve the financial problems, can Qiu Sheng really empathize with this kind of deformed "family affection"?Empathize and then what?

Still nothing to do with him.

"I don't understand him." Gu Qi repeated over and over again, similar to what he said in the past, "It's easy to talk about pure money... This kind of debt of favor is not clear at all."

Qiu Sheng played with his fingers, his eyes darkened.

"Tell me." He suddenly turned his face to the side, "Could it be enough for Wen Haoqian to die?"

His expression was too serious, and he didn't mean to be joking at all. The hatred in his eyes suddenly terrified Gu Qi, and he felt for a moment that if he answered "yes", Qiu Sheng's decision would be irreversible.

So he kicked Qiu Sheng: "Be normal!"

Qiu Sheng sneered: "Why, I know murder is against the law, it's not enough to say a few words behind your back..." At this moment, the phone vibrated for a moment, once, twice.

He went to look, and the dark head was displayed.

"Wen Xia?" Gu Qi asked.

"Well," Qiu Sheng replied, his fingertips were slightly numb when he picked up the phone, "What's the matter?"

Over there, Wen Youxia said briefly, "Lend me 5 yuan."

Qiu Sheng was taken aback, it was almost never before that Wen Youxia offered to owe him anything - even in the matter where they had the most intense quarrel, Wen Youxia and him were largely at fault.

"What do you want so much money for?"

Wen Youxia was silent for a while, and only asked: "I need it urgently, can I borrow it?"

The author says:

I almost forgot to say that tomorrow is Thursday off.