Still tide

Chen Chao hadn't contacted Miao Jiayan for two whole days, and if you counted the half-day jet lag, it would be nearly three days.

Only on the second day, Miao Jiayan replied to him: Something is up, Brother Chao.

Afterwards, they never spoke to each other again. Chen Chao didn't receive any reply to his message, and Miao Jiayan didn't answer his phone call.

Grandma Miao’s vascular condition is not good, so she can’t do stents anymore, and doctors don’t recommend bypassing. Doctors usually don’t recommend surgery for elderly people in their 70s, for fear of poor postoperative recovery and a higher chance of infection. However, if family members ask for bypassing It's not impossible.

Granny Miao's left half of her body gradually recovered, and she was able to hold things and turn over.Sometimes the other arm can move, sometimes not.

Miao Jiayan gives her a massage every day, and grandma can occasionally speak short sentences suddenly, but not all the time, everything becomes intermittent.

One day, Miao Jiayan suddenly discovered that her grandma no longer recognized her.

Miao Yanqi came to see grandma, standing by her bed, a little timidly.

Grandma raised her moving hand and touched his little hand.Miao Yanqi seemed a little scared, subconsciously moved his shoulders back, but still didn't take his hand away, and stood there to let his grandma touch his hand.

Grandma rolled over to face him, studying his face.Miao Yanqi didn't dare to look at grandma, he lowered his head and stood in front of grandma.

Grandma asked something, but the voice seemed to be in her throat, so she couldn't hear clearly.

"Huh?" Miao Yanqi blinked, looked up at grandma's face, and asked softly, "Grandma, what are you talking about?"

Grandma Miao squeezed his hand hard, her voice was a little louder, and she asked again: "Did Dad hit you?"

"No..." Miao Yanqi didn't quite understand, so she looked back at her father and mother.

Grandma Miao said something again. This time Miao Yanqi lay down to listen, but she couldn't hear clearly after several times. She raised her hand to touch the top of Miao Yanqi's head, and said "woo woo".

No one in the room could hear clearly, Miao Jiayan came in from the outside, looked at them for a while, then stood at the foot of the bed and said, "Grandma said hair."

Miao Yanqi didn't understand, but my lord understood.

"Are you mistaken?" Sister-in-law said softly while sitting on the chair inside.

Miao Jiayan walked over, squatted beside the bed, took grandma's hand and placed it on her head.

"The hair is here, not cut." Miao Jiayan said to her.

Grandma slowly scratched his head a few times, and stopped talking.

She was very sleepy now, she put her hand on Miao Jiayan's head, and fell asleep again after a while.

Xiao Wang packed some Miao Jiayan's clothes and daily necessities and sent them over. Jiang Xun also came here often. They didn't call in advance when they came. They always went upstairs when they arrived.

Miao Jiayan doesn't talk very much now, except with grandparents and doctors.He always accompanied grandma quietly, sometimes lying next to her and sleeping lightly for a while.

Grandma woke up, turned her head to look at him for a while, then pulled the quilt with her left hand and covered him with difficulty.

Miao Jiayan woke up as soon as she moved, but she didn't move, covered with a little quilt pulled by her grandma.At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, it was getting dark outside, and I couldn't see clearly without turning on the lights, and it was still early to turn on the lights.

This time period always makes people feel cold and desolate.

Miao Jiayan hugged grandma gently under the quilt, and said sullenly, "You don't even know me anymore."

Grandma just laughed, with old but soft lines appearing on her face, she said vaguely, "Why don't you know..."

"Who am I?" Miao Jiayan sounded a little aggrieved.

The smile in grandma's eyes was still there, and she patted him quietly.This is because she can't speak again, and she often laughs when she can't speak.

Sometimes when grandma was sleeping, Miao Jiayan couldn't sleep at night, so she would look through the chat records with Chen Chao.Flipping from bottom to top, as if flipping through it unconsciously.When Chen Chao talked to him, it was really different from usual, it was Chen Chao that no one else had seen.

Miao Jiayan has never dared to listen to Chen Chao's voice or speak to him since her grandma was hospitalized this time.

Brother Chao can make people feel at ease and feel safe.

Miao Jiayan knew that he must be angry now, but now she dared not call to coax him.

Only sent a "sad" emoticon package in the past.

I typed, deleted, and wrote again, and it took a long time before I sent out a message: Brother Chao, my grandma is sick.Grandma's condition is not good, and the doctor said that it can't be cured.I'm not trying to hide it from you, it's just that I can't hear your voice.Recently, I need a little independent space to face these.

Chen Chao replied him a message almost instantly.

-good.

Chen Guangda had been out of town before, and came to the hospital as soon as the plane landed.

When Miao Jiayan saw him, she greeted him as "Uncle Chen".

Chen Guangda said "Hey", and when he walked over, he patted him on the back and said, "It's okay."

Miao Jian was also there, and Chen Guangda said a few words to him, then bent down and asked Grandma Miao, "Do you know me?"

Grandma Miao nodded with a smile.

"I don't know you anymore," Chen Guangda said with a smile, "If you know me, call me by my name."

"I don't know each other anymore," Miao Jian said, "Sometimes I understand and sometimes I'm confused."

"It's normal, it's like this for many people with this disease." Chen Guangda said, "It looks like he's in good spirits, and there's nothing wrong with him."

The accompanying bed is released and confiscated. Anyway, the single room will not affect others.

Chen Guangda and Miao Jiayan sat on the small bed together, talking to him.Chen Guangda asked a question and Miao Jiayan answered a question, and the most common sentence Chen Guangda said was "it's okay".This is the most relaxed of all the people in the past few days.

At this moment, Miao Jiayan suddenly felt very at ease.

Chen Guangda's coat hadn't been taken off yet, and his suit was neat inside.His tone and movements are very natural, without deliberately comforting him, he just speaks in a normal way. When talking to such a person, you will be infected by his calmness and calmness.

The most relaxed moment for Miao Jiayan in the past few days is now, when Uncle Chen is sitting next to him, Miao Jiayan seems to have a backbone inexplicably.

I don't know if it's because Uncle Chen is already reliable, a trustworthy uncle, or because the relationship between them is closer than others.

"Are you scared?" Chen Guangda patted Miao Jiayan on the back again, and said, "Grandma suddenly became like this. She can't move or talk."

Miao Jiayan nodded.

"Sure, you are so young, you have never experienced it." Chen Guangda thought about it and sighed, "You have never experienced birth, old age, illness and death."

Miao Jian went downstairs to buy millet porridge for Grandma Miao, and there were only grandma and the two of them in the room.

Chen Guangda smiled, and asked him again: "Too scared to answer the phone?"

Miao Jiayan looked up at him, but said nothing.

"Chen Chao always comes to my place," Chen Guangda said helplessly, "Call me every day, even when I have a meeting, and also when I have dinner with clients."

Miao Jiayan looked at Uncle Chen unexpectedly, looking stunned.

"Ask me when I'll be back," Chen Guangda cursed with a smile, "It's annoying me."

Hearing Chen Chao from Uncle Chen's mouth, Miao Jiayan suddenly felt in a trance.

Usually, Miao Jiayan didn't dare to think of him often, but today it might be because Chen Guangda came, the sense of steadfastness brought by Uncle Chen made Miao Jiayan feel less afraid.

When the feeling of fear that she was tense enough to resist subsided a little, Miao Jiayan suddenly missed Chen Chao very much at this moment.

Chen Guangda stayed in the hospital until dark before leaving. The doctor in charge of the bed came once, and Chen Guangda chatted with him for a long time.

Miao Jiayan lowered her head and sent a message to Chen Chao, saying: Brother Chao.

Now it was time for Chen Chao to sleep, Miao Jiayan sent a message and didn't receive a reply, so she didn't bother him anymore, and just sent another message: Uncle Chen is here today, he is so nice.

Chen Guangda raised the atmosphere of the ward to a certain extent.

The aunt and sister cried every time they came. Although Miao Jian didn't cry, she was not very optimistic. They hardly talked in the ward, and the atmosphere was always stuffy and sad.

After Chen Guangda came here, at least Miao Jiayan was not so depressed. Before he left, Chen Guangda said to him: "Go home and prepare more quilts. You usually lie on the bed like this. If you lie down for a few days and lose your temper, you should tear up the quilt." .”

Miao Jiayan didn't know if he was serious or joking, and Chen Guangda said, "I'm not kidding with you. My second uncle, Chen Chao's uncle, has been lying in bed for three years, and the family has to be torn apart for hundreds of years. The quilt cover is torn to shreds every day, deliberately irritating people."

Miao Jiayan smiled, and Chen Guangda said again: "Later, my cousin was so angry that she didn't put a quilt on him. He was fine anyway, and he didn't have to lie down every day. He is still alive now. For more than ten years, my cousin led him every day. Go out for a walk."

"That's great." Miao Jiayan said.

"So I told you it's nothing serious," Chen Guangda said, "Take care of it and take care of it. Don't be afraid."

Miao Jiayan was like a flat tire, which was pumped by Uncle Chen and swelled a little.

But it didn't take long for this anger to be wiped out by the two aunts.

Grandma got up early in the morning and was confused, muttering in her mouth that she didn't know what she was talking about, and she didn't listen to her.

"Is this not over?" Auntie's tears came quickly, and she wiped her eyes, "I don't know anything about this."

After Miao Jiayan wiped her grandma's face, she took the basin to the bathroom.

It was a weekend day, Miao Yanqi was brought over by his parents, Miao Yanqi came in from the door, just bumped into Miao Jiayan who came out of the bathroom, hugged him almost instinctively, raised her head and shouted " elder brother".

With water in her hands, Miao Jiayan raised her arms and agreed.

The older Miao Yanqi is, the more he shows closeness to Miao Jiayan. He really likes his brother.When holding Miao Jiayan, his hands subconsciously grabbed Miao Jiayan's hair, scratching at the end of the hair.

Seeing Miao Yanqi's closeness to him, his liking for his scent and his long hair, in his mother's eyes, she was really panicked.

"Yanqi, come here." His mother called him coldly.

Only then did Miao Yanqi realize that her mother was there, and hurriedly let go of Miao Jiayan.

Grandma was still murmuring in a daze, and Miao Jian was talking to grandma, asking her what she was talking about.

"Can you stay away from your brother?" His mother didn't look at Miao Jiayan, but her chin was facing this way.

Miao Jiayan paused and looked back at her.

"Or can you keep your hair from loosening when you see him?" His mother frowned as if she couldn't bear it.

"Okay," Miao Jian interrupted from inside, "Stop talking."

Miao Jiayan still looked at her, at his mother.

She is still very beautiful, even though she is not as young as before, she still looks very temperamental and intellectual.

I heard that she is a very good teacher and gentle with students.

Miao Jiayan opened her mouth and said slowly: "Then you might as well not bring him here."

"I brought him to see grandma." She seemed uncomfortable talking to Miao Jiayan like this, she took two steps back and leaned against the wall and said, "I didn't want him to see you."

Miao Jiayan said: "I'm right here, if you don't want him to see me, then don't come. Or don't come, out of sight, out of mind."

"You should be conscious."

Miao Jian called her name, but couldn't stop her from speaking.

"He called you 'Brother', you let him hug you with your hair loose, do you think it's reasonable?"

--"Why!"

The sister-in-law let out a low cry, accompanied by the tinkling of the small iron basin and the sound of the palms.

Grandma Miao didn't know whether it was by chance or on purpose, she swung her elbow and threw the iron basin containing the millet porridge on her small dining table to the ground, and the rice porridge scattered all over the bed.

——"It's the worst thing he calls you 'Mom'."

There was a sound outside the door almost at the same time as the sound of the iron basin falling.

Miao Jiayan first turned her head to look at her grandma, and then suddenly turned her head to look at the door.

Chen Chao walked in with a baseball cap and a backpack on his back.

Miao Jiayan stared at him in disbelief, Chen Chao raised his hand and grabbed his hair on his back, asking, "Didn't you leave this?"

"Don't you like your daughter?" Chen Chao looked at her straight, let down his hair and brought Miao Jiayan in front of him, and asked again, "Isn't this your 'girl'? Why don't you love her?"