Juliet Tower

"The orientation of this room is not the best, but the windows are big enough for ventilation and air conditioning. During the day, our professional escorts will take them outside to bask in the sun and do some simple activities, and then come back to have calligraphy lessons or watch movies, sing, play games and so on. Yes, back to the room is basically to sleep, I personally don’t think it’s particularly disturbing.”

The nurses in the nursing home were very honest with Qiao Yumian.

This room was unoccupied, Qiao Yumian touched the crack of the window calmly, it was spotless.

Although it is not the best room, it is difficult to find a sanatorium specially set up for dementia, and it is already a high incense to get a place.At least here, equipped with professional doctors and escorts, no one will think that his mother is a terrible psychopath, and everyone has sympathy for each other.

"Well, Doctor Xu said you haven't graduated yet?" The little nurse sent him out, "Which school do you go to? How old are you?"

"Fourth year at the beginning of school." Qiao Yumian replied casually, "Finance and economics."

"Wow, Xueba!"

Qiao Yumian was lucky. She got an interview opportunity from a big company through someone's introduction. The salary for her senior year internship was not low, so she was able to send Li Huiyun to a professional escort agency without any worries. She didn't need to worry about her getting angry every day. Make a mess of yourself.

Three years seemed to pass in the blink of an eye. Qiao Yumian's college life was busy and regular. He had to attend classes, exercise, and take care of his mother who was a hundred times more annoying than the naughty little boy, so he couldn't live on campus. Day reading.

He followed the routine of high school, getting up at 05:30 in the morning, and doing 10-minute morning exercises without moving.This is according to the doctor's advice. In order to prevent his acute panic attack from developing into an anxiety disorder, he must maintain physical and mental health, and exercise is the cheapest, most direct way without side effects.In the past 18 years, he has been extremely lacking in exercise. At first he felt that aerobic exercise was too difficult, and he went to class every day dizzy, but within a month he began to enjoy it. The endorphins produced after exercise made him feel more comfortable than ever.

He spent all the time that others used to socialize, play clubs, fall in love, enter the student union, and explore university life. At the end of the first semester, he successfully won the scholarship with the second place in his major, which not only offset the tuition fees, but also part of the balance.

Almost at the same time, the counselor told him that although he could not meet the standards of poor students at all, the list of work-study positions came down. By Friday evening, spend three or four hours every evening to go to the library to help, just do chores like sorting and sorting.In this way, if he saves everywhere, his monthly salary, plus Li Huijun's generous pension, and after deducting the mortgage, can almost cover most of the living expenses of their mother and child.

Everything was smoother than he imagined.The fly in the ointment is that he doesn't have time to expand social relationships, and the few people who can talk are probably librarians besides counselors.

But he is very content, especially when he drags his tired body home and sees his mother standing on the balcony watering the flowers for him, maybe the future will not be as bad as he imagined?

But fate is unruly, and it likes to give him a little sweetness every time, which makes him involuntarily give birth to some redundant hopes, and then kicks him into the quagmire.

Li Huijun's condition deteriorated faster than the doctor expected.

But in the past half a year, she has been unable to do the practice tasks that Qiao Yumian left him every day. Those copy books, practice calligraphy, and coloring books are spread out on the desk, and often there is no progress for two or three days, which is even more terrifying. What's more, she ran out of the house in disheveled clothes over and over again.Qiao Yumian often received calls from the wife of the fruit shop downstairs at school. He had to skip class and go home, lock his disgraced mother in the room, and rush back to class again.If you go back and forth in this way, not to mention the delay of a big class, group cooperation will even cause trouble for everyone.He was sorry, but there was nothing he could do. Fortunately, most of his classmates were tolerant.

At the end of the freshman year, Qiao Yumian finally decided to rent out the house they were used to living in, and took Li Huiyun to rent a crowded small second room near the school.Although the conditions are far inferior to those at home, it is enough to save time and the price is fair.Once the rent is out and in, you can save more money.He had to plan for the future of their mother and son, and he didn't dare to take any chances.

as predicted.

One day in the second semester of her sophomore year, Qiao Yumian was busy in the library for five hours after class, and only opened the door at 10:30, only to find that the living room was in a mess.

The clothes that had been hung out to dry before school in the morning were all crumpled and half wet on the chairs by the dining table, giving off a disgusting musty smell.

Not only that, but there was a long strip of suspicious water in the center of the living room reflecting the light. When I got closer, I realized that it was not water, but yellowish, pungent, half-evaporated urine stains.

The door of Li Huijun's room was left open, and he saw his mother, who was wearing only underwear and socks, sitting on his bed with the lamp on and watching a TV series, and the fluorescent light from the screen illuminated her expressionless face.

Qiao Yumian didn't make a sound, changed her shoes and put down her schoolbag, threw the clothes back into the washing machine, and knelt on the ground to clean up the stains carefully.

The doctor said early on that the symptoms are irreversible, those lost abilities will never come back, and the condition will only get worse.

He was mentally prepared early in the morning.But watching the strongest person suffer from the most disgraceful disease, it was still difficult to face for a while.

As usual, he finished his homework in the living room. After Li Huijun fell asleep, he went into the room to turn off the TV for her, picked up the pants stained with her excrement from the floor, and threw them into the sink.

Aphasia and incontinence struck almost at the same time. Recently, when he communicated with Li Huijun, he had to avoid sentences with more than four words, because the other party couldn't understand them well, and she herself could only jump out word by word, and she didn't want to communicate with others. communicate.

Qiao Yumian was afraid that she would go out and cause trouble, so she always locked her in the room alone, and her temper became more and more weird, and she often released inexplicable hostility.

After Qiao Yumian washed the dirty trousers and put all the clothes to dry again in the corner of the balcony, it was almost twelve o'clock. After checking the account records, she still hadn't received this month's rent.I don't know if the other party thinks that he is easy to talk to, and sometimes it takes ten and a half months in arrears before he is willing to transfer the money to him.

——Sorry Brother Qi, I'm still waiting for the money to pay the rent, please help me.

After hesitating for a moment, he still lowered his face and sent a rent urging message. As he expected, after waiting for more than half an hour, the news disappeared like a rock.

He pretended to be obedient and misbegotten, but it seemed that everyone had something to hide. The other party made a good promise on the surface, but still went his own way afterwards.

The temperature was low in the late autumn night, and the sigh of annoyance took shape, and the hazy whiteness quickly floated into the dark sky.Occasionally, he would experience an inexplicable sense of depression at night like this, as if he was in the polar circle at that moment, and there was an endless night in front of him.

Fortunately, the polar night is not completely dark, and the erratic aurora will come unexpectedly.

He flipped through Weibo anxiously, and found that An Jiayu, who hadn't heard from him for a long time, appeared.

Classical music is a niche culture in China, and most of the stars in the classical music world are quiet and do not produce gossip. They are very different from those entertainment stars who are jokingly called "actors".Those classical music magazines, the media mostly reported content related to concerts and albums, with an elegant style, and the words and sentences were all high-minded, unapproachable to ordinary people.

An Jiayu has been silent for a long time, and finally won the first prize again in the just-concluded Tchaikovsky Violin Competition. Although he is still very young, he already has a life history that is so dazzling that ordinary people can't look directly at it.

Qiao Yumian smiled, and subconsciously rubbed the photo on the screen, just like they used to gently rub each other's skin when their fingers were intertwined.

The figure of the performer standing on the stage was only as high as his little finger. Looking at that blurred face, he took a deep breath, as if he smelled the childish fruit fragrance, and all his emotions returned to tranquility.

Qiao Yumian always wishfully felt that a part of herself was taken away by An Jiayu, maybe it was just a small piece.

But that fragment now follows An Jiayu across the sea and mountains, living in the brightest part of the world, where there is warm sunshine and fresh wind.

Leaning against the waist-high balcony wall, he stretched out his hand and lightly flicked the wind chimes hanging on the flower stand beside him. The crisp sound brought a touch of smart warmth to late autumn.

Everything inside this house is old, but there is a big balcony. The metal shelf on one side was left by the previous tenant. On the third floor, Qiao Yumian used it as a flower stand to raise roses. He gradually experienced the joy of growing flowers. Use water to fertilize and eliminate insects, and watch them flourish day by day, giving you infinite vitality in return.

A small dragonfly plant was raised by him and grew bigger and bigger. It was divided into two large five-gallon flower pots, and dozens of flowers burst into bloom. They were light blue and purple, and the fragrance was overwhelming. This somewhat reminded him of their high school life. At that time, he only had near-term worries, but no long-term concerns.

The author says:

In the past few years, Xiao Qiao has had a hard time, but she has received help from many people.

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