escape and return

Fangge spent almost the entire summer vacation in the hospital. He and Fang Jianguo and his son were relatively silent every day, as if they had reached a tacit understanding.In the past, Fang Jianguo was addicted to smoking and drinking. Since he fell ill, Fangge handed him a piece of candy every time he became addicted. He bought a large bag of candy and put it in the drawer of Fang Jianguo's bedside table.

During this period, Fang Jianguo underwent chemotherapy twice, and relatives and friends also visited him in the hospital one after another.Except for the relatives at Lin Fenghong's natal family, there were more relatives and friends at Fang Jianguo's side, most of whom Fang Ge didn't know.This was the first time that Fang Jianguo acknowledged Fang Ge in front of them, and it was also the first time that he introduced him to everyone more formally.

For this belated acknowledgment, Fang Ge couldn't tell what it was like, and he definitely didn't feel any joy.Those relatives just looked at him curiously, and then made fun of him, or praised Fang Jianguo's good fortune, but they didn't say a few words of sincerity.When they came, they gave three hundred and five hundred dollars, and when they left, they said a few words of comfort. Fangge looked at these people, feeling depressed and panicked. He felt sad.

There will be a night market in the old street outside the window. As long as the weather is good, people will come to set up stalls every day. It is bustling and very lively.Fang Jianguo lay on the hospital bed and felt itchy every day just listening to this sound. He really wanted to go out for a walk, like a healthy person.

At dusk that day, the golden light outside the window reflected on their faces through the transparent windows, the crowd downstairs began to move, and the sound of traffic gradually faded away.Just as Fangge was still immersed in the silence of the evening, Fang Jianguo behind him called out to Fangge in a hoarse voice.

"Huh?" Fangge turned around, and a ray of sunset just fell on Fang Jianguo's face, which seemed to soften his outline instantly.He waved to Fang Ge by the window, signaling Fang Ge to walk over.

Fang Ge walked towards him suspiciously, and asked as he walked, "Dad, do you want to go to the bathroom? Or do you want to drink water?"

I saw Fang Jianguo shook his head with a slight smile, lifted the quilt and hooked his feet over the trousers at the end of the bed, slowly inserted his feet into the trouser legs, and then stretched out a hand tremblingly towards Fangge, he wanted to get out of bed .

"Help me downstairs and walk."

Fangge froze for a moment, then looked at Fang Jianguo's body, thinking about the possibility of this action.

"It's okay, people who lie on the bed every day will be crippled, you need to move." Before leaving, he asked Fang Ge to take out his black peaked cap from the cabinet. After two rounds of chemotherapy, his hair was about to fall out. up.

Fang Jianguo walked very hard. Due to the edema on his feet, it was not convenient to wear shoes, so he had to wear slippers and walked slowly forward.Fang Ge held his arm and walked carefully beside him. There were people coming and going downstairs, and they walked slowly and cautiously into the crowd.

The scorching heat of the day had not yet faded from the street, and there was still a smell of sunshine in the air. Fang Ge followed Fang Jianguo and stopped in the middle of the crowd to see him staring straight ahead.He seemed to be watching the crowd, but he didn't seem to, and there was an inexplicable nostalgia in his expression.He was obviously standing in the crowd, but he seemed to be missing the lively crowd.Fang Ge held his hand, lowering his eyes silently.

A grandma pushed a tricycle past them, shouting loudly: "Liangfu~ Selling Liangfu~ Liangfu~ Selling Liangfu..."

Fang Jianguo suddenly stretched out his hand to stop the granny, his eyes were wide open, people would be frightened by his ferocious appearance if they took a quick look.The granny paused, as if she was also frightened, and shrank tremblingly.

"I want a bowl of cool rot." Fang Jianguo's voice was hoarse, as if his throat had been pierced by a cold north wind.

Fang Ge quickly smiled and patted Grandma on the back, and handed over the money.

"Grandma, get two bowls."

When Fang Jianguo held the small bowl of cold rot in both hands, his eyes seemed to shoot out a ray of light. He raised his head and showed a clear smile at Fang Ge. Like a child, he said happily: "There are five or six I haven't eaten this stuff in years."

Fangge pursed his lips and saw that he lowered his head and continued to eat cold rot, so he looked away and stood in front of him silently, blocking most of the traffic for him.Mint water is added to the cold rot, and it is refreshing and refreshing when scooped into the mouth. A handful of banana-flavored sesame seeds are sprinkled on top. It is the best summer snack.After a while, Fang Jianguo finished eating.He smacked his lips and seemed to have more ideas, and handed the empty plastic bowl to Fangge, motioning him to throw it away.

"Then you stand here and don't move, Dad!"

Many years later, Fangge can still clearly recall any scene of that evening.Just as he turned to throw garbage on the street, Fang Jianguo dragged himself away,

When Fangge ran back, Fang Jianguo had disappeared. He kept searching through the crowd, but there was no such thin figure. Why did a patient who had no strength to walk disappear in just a moment? up?

"Dad? Dad? Fang Jianguo! Where is he?" In the end, Fang Ge panicked, and he started calling Fang Jianguo's name loudly, hoping to get a response.However, no.The people who passed by him changed batch after batch, but none of them was the person he was looking for.

There are many small alleys on both sides of the old street. I couldn’t find it on the street. Fangge searched for it one by one, and finally found it at the entrance of a noodle shop in a small alley.He sat on the steps of someone's noodle shop with his hands folded and his knees tightly huddled against the side of the steps, staring blankly at the herbal medicine shop opposite, and he didn't know how long he had been sitting here.

"Dad! Why didn't you tell me when you left?" Fang Ge ran up to him panting, Fang Jianguo just raised his head and glanced at him, then looked away, didn't speak, just maintained that movement all the time sit there.When customers came out of the store, they couldn't help but look at them strangely, Fangge coughed lightly, and blushed in embarrassment.

"Dad, let's go. We should go back to the hospital. We haven't taken the medicine yet." Fang Ge reached out to help, but Fang Jianguo patted him off. Now he is quite childish, Fang Ge was helpless, and left The corners of her lips curled up, and she stood right in front of him and had a temper with him.Grind it, and see whose patience is good.

After it got dark, the herb shop across the street turned on the lights, and the customers in the noodle shop came and went several times before Fang Jianguo reluctantly followed Fangge back.What he didn't expect was that when he lay back on the hospital bed, the 50-[-]-year-old man started to sob and cry. On the opposite bed was a woman suffering from cancer. Under the influence of Fang Jianguo, the woman also began to sob. Suddenly, the whole ward fell into a downturn.

Fang Ge stood aside and opened his mouth. In the end, he just patted him on the back without saying anything.

Seeing that the start of school is getting closer and closer, Yuan Song has been calling Fangge almost every day recently, reminding him every day, telling him to tell Lin Fenghong earlier to arrange the escort in the hospital, he is afraid that the family will not feel happy. Even if Fangge starts school, he will still be allowed to stay in the hospital.

Fortunately, Lin Fenghong thought about it for Fang Ge this time, before he could say anything, Lin Fenghong said first: "If you want to start school, go to your school first, the family is fine, and the work I took before has already been done It's over, you don't have to worry about it at home."

Fangge still remembered his mood at that time, he felt warm and accepted Lin Fenghong's kindness for the first time.

"Then what should Fang Sheng do?" After thinking about it, he still asked. Lin Fenghong's apple-peeling hand paused for only a second or two, and then continued to strike the knife.

"If Ah Sheng is willing, he can also come to the hospital and let him sleep with Fang Lei at night, it's the same."

Fang Ge nodded, it seems that Lin Fenghong has already made up his mind, he just needs to take care of himself.

On the day he left the hospital, Fang Jianguo rarely showed a look of reluctance. He kept looking at Fangge until he left the room. Perhaps in the past two months, Fangge's hard work made him change. He began to rely on the most marginalized son of the Fang family.He owed Fang Ge, but because of his father's self-esteem, he never talked about this with Fang Ge.So sometimes he felt that he couldn't take Fang Ge's filial piety for granted.

"Okay, don't look at it." Lin Fenghong waved her hand in front of Fang Jianguo's eyes, a little impatiently.Fang Ge, who was hiding outside the door, twitched the corner of his mouth, turned and left.

It's just that they didn't expect this turning around to become a farewell between them.

Fang Jianguo died after the fourth round of chemotherapy. Fang Lei said that he was very calm on the day he left. He was still eating porridge a second ago, and his appetite suddenly increased. Unexpectedly, he hugged his neck the next second With a hoarse voice, it seemed that porridge grains had escaped into the intake pipe.From the doctor's arrival to his death, it took only ten minutes, "I thought he could last for a while, at least wait for mom to come over before leaving, but no, he walked quickly and didn't suffer much. "

Fang Ge held his phone tightly and listened quietly to Fang Lei. He didn't expect Fang Jianguo to go back so fast, and it was only two months before he returned to school.

Yuan Song accompanied Fangge to the funeral, and he was not at ease with Fangge. Although his brother and Fang's family didn't have a deep relationship, it didn't mean that Fangge wouldn't be sad.As it turned out, he was right.

Lin Fenghong found a Taoist priest to calculate the cremation and funeral dates for Fang Jianguo, and then called Fangge to get home before that day.At that time, Fangge was on the train, and he couldn't describe his mood accurately. If he was sad, he didn't seem to be so sad. If he was not sad, when Yuan Song asked him to talk, he clearly couldn't help but feel sad. Can't even pull a smile.

Some of the sadness is hindsight, which may be related to people's reflex arc.Fangge really felt sad when he saw Fang Jianguo's body.The man was lying lifelessly on the coffin in a shroud. The squares that he was most afraid of at ordinary times were suddenly not afraid. He raised his head and took a closer look at his thin face. There was no meat, this was the last time he saw this man, and he would never have the chance to see the man who gave him life again.

Many people came to participate in the cremation. Yuan Song stood beside Fangge all the time. A group of relatives behind him looked at him from time to time. Yuan Song endured the awkwardness in his heart until the body was pushed into the cremation room. Yuan Song understood the cries of the three brothers in an instant. His brother's father passed away. He saw a tongue of fire coming out. After a while, the cabin door fell, and the staff left quickly, leaving only an empty aisle.

"Brother, brother..." Yuan Song didn't know how to comfort Fangge, but he kept holding Fangge in his arms and patted Fangge's back.His eyes are full of Fang Ge, so he naturally ignores the eyes of those around him. If Yuan Song had to choose again, he would still choose to accompany Fang Ge back, and give Fang Ge support and hugs when his brother was most sad.

With Yuan Song's support, Fang Ge followed the crowd out of the cremation room. As soon as he went out the door, when he saw the scorching sun outside, he regained his energy as if the haze had been swept away.When he saw Fang Jianguo being pushed into the door of the cremation room just now, everyone was crying all around him. At that moment, he seemed to understand that his father had passed away and was about to become a piece of loess, and he had just been with him. The man struck up a friendly relationship.

Fortunately, Yuan Song was always by his side.He raised his head and looked at the two brothers Lin Fenghong and Fang Lei not far away with tears in his eyes. Fang Sheng was surrounded by them, one hugged him and the other patted his back.Except for Yuan Song, no one cares about him anymore.He was a bum!

"Thank you, Song Song, it's great to have you!" Fang Gehong turned his head and whispered in Yuan Song's ear.