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Mama Xia is currently in a sober state, but since her brain was injured, even if she is sober, she is still stupid.

The three came to the ward, and Mother Xia was counting the days on her fingers: "One day, two days, three days..."

Xia Nan pushed the wheelchair in: "Mom, we're here to see you."

Xia's mother glanced at her, ignored her, and continued to count with her hands: "Five days, six days, seven days..."

Yin Shun asked curiously, "What is she counting?"

"I'm counting the days when my dad left." Xia Huai said, "20 years ago, my dad went to work in other places, and my mom counted the days every day waiting for him to come back. Finally, she waited for the death notice from the foreman."

Yin Shun was silent for a while, then asked: "How did you get there?"

"The landslide landslide directly crushed the spine." Xia Huai sighed, walked into the ward, and came to the delirious mother, "Mom, Xiao Nan and I came to see you."

"Eight days, nine days, ten... ten..." Mama Xia didn't count down "ten days" and ignored Xia Huai, staring at Yin Shun in a daze.

Xia Huai pulled Yin Shun to Mother Xia: "This is Yin Shun, Aunt Xiang's son. Aunt Xiang, do you remember?"

A kind smile suddenly appeared on Xia's mother's face, she took Yin Shun's hand and said, "My daughter-in-law is so pretty."

"..." Xia Huai was stunned, "Mom, what are you talking about?"

"Hahahahahahahahaha!" Xia Huai looked up to the sky and laughed wildly.

Xia Huai anxiously said: "Mom, he is not your daughter-in-law, he is Aunt Xiang's son!"

Mother Xia patted the back of Yin Shun's hand and asked, "How old are you, daughter-in-law?"

Xia Huai said: "..."

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!" Xia Nan fell on the wheelchair and patted her stomach.

Yin Shun replied: "17."

Xia's mother looked at Xia Huai with reproachful eyes, and scolded angrily: "Why are you so young and you want it!"

Xia Huai wanted to cry without tears: "I..."

"17 is still too young, you have to keep my son waiting for a few years." Mother Xia looked at Yin Shun with an expression of love and distress.

Yin Shun said obediently: "Okay."

Xia Nan turned the wheelchair: "My sister-in-law is 17 years old hahahahahaha!!!"

Xia Huai wished she could slam her head against the wall to death.For the rest of the time, Xia's mother hardly paid any attention to Xia Huai and Xia Nan, as if the pictures were fresh, she called Yin Shun on the left and Yin Shun on the right.

Xia's mother called: "Daughter-in-law."

Yin Shun responded, "Hey."

Xia Huai broke down: "Why did you still answer!"

"Tell mom, is that bastard treating you well?" Mother Xia pointed at Xia Huai.

Yin Shun said: "Very good."

"Is it true or not?" Xia's mother solemnly advised Xia Huai, "Your daughter-in-law is your treasure, so don't bully your daughter-in-law. If the bully runs away, you have nowhere to look for it. Let's see where you go to ask for it."

At this time, the TV in the ward was on, Xia Huai immediately picked up the remote control to change the channel, and said angrily: "Why does this TV keep playing cross talk for my mother!"

Xia's mother called: "Daughter-in-law."

Yin Shun replied: "Yes."

"Come and eat more eggs." She picked up two eggs from the ward this morning and stuffed them into Yin Shun's hands. It made my wife laugh haha."

"..."

"..."

This time, both Yin Shun and Xia Huai were speechless, and Xia Nan was already laughing until he was about to lose his breath.

Xia Huai listened to her mother talking about the stand-up comedy all morning, Yin Shun asked her to call her "daughter-in-law" all morning, Xia Nan almost laughed three times in the morning.

Xia Huai cut up a plate of fruit for her mother. Before the old man had time to eat a few bites, the nurse opened the door and came in to remind her, "It's time for an infusion."

Mother Xia refused to go to the bed for an infusion, and held Yin Shun's hand reluctantly: "I haven't had a good chat with my daughter-in-law yet."

Yin Shun persuaded in a good voice: "Auntie, you go for an infusion first, and after the infusion, we can chat."

Mother Xia went to the hospital bed with her mouth pursed, and the nurse put her on a drip.Not long after the drip was lost, Mother Xia fell asleep.

Xia Huai looked at her sleeping mother and asked the nurse, "Will she wake up this afternoon?"

The nurse said "I don't know" and went out to do other things.

At noon, Xia Nan stayed with her mother in the ward, while Xia Huai and Yin Shun went to the hospital cafeteria to buy food.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to be alone with Yin Shun, Xia Huai said apologetically, "Daughter-in-law... no, Yin Shun, my mother is a little confused now, and I asked you to..."

Yin Shun said while ordering vegetables, "It's okay, as long as Auntie is happy."

Xia Huai said gratefully: "Thank you." She sighed regretfully in her heart: Aunt Xiang, why don't you have a daughter!

Xia's mother fell asleep like this all afternoon, and didn't wake up until the hospital got off work.Xia Huai and Xia Nan knew that she had entered a coma again.Xia Huai looked at his mother's sleeping face in a daze, while Yin Shun looked into his eyes, those clear eyes were filled with haze in an instant, as if they had fallen into an endless abyss.

Yin Shun tried to grasp the secret in his eyes, but soon, Xia Huai closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, tears covered the haze and everything behind the haze.

Xia Huai's landlord made a wooden bed, which was originally intended to be given to a neighbor's child.A few days ago, the landlord met a wild dog on the road and was almost bitten. The neighbor's children drove the wild dog away with stones.

The landlord kept saying that he wanted to thank the child, but he didn’t know how to thank him. He heard from the neighbor that he wanted the child to sleep in a room by himself and wanted to buy him a bed, so the landlord came back and made a wooden bed for him.

It's a pity that the door of the neighbor's house is too short, and the wooden bed can't be taken in horizontally or vertically, so I can only forget it in the end.

The bed that Xia Huai bought in a furniture store for more than 1000 yuan had not been delivered for several days, so she simply called to return it, and exchanged two catties of beef with the landlord for the sturdy wooden bed.

The bed in Yin Shun's room was firmer this time, and finally he had no excuse to sleep in the same room with Xia Huai.

Xia Huai may not have noticed that since Yin Shun slept with him, he never had that dream again.On the first night when Yin Shun returned to his room, the dream came to haunt him again.

In the dream, the baby was crying silently, the woman was screaming sharply, the man was sobbing in pain, the face was burning with pain, and the group of people were whispering.All this is so real that it seems to be happening at this moment, and sometimes he often thinks that the experience of so many years is just a dream of his, and he may never leave that day.

Maybe one day when he wakes up, he will still be the ten-year-old boy, still in the house of his hometown, with those rural policemen standing in front of him, his uncle and aunt paralyzed in his house, and Xia Nan hiding in his arms Crying, the mother who had slapped him was abusing him.

When I woke up, the ceiling was the familiar ceiling of the landlord's house, and the tears on my cheeks were already cold.

Xia Huai stood up, propped her forehead and sighed, put on her coat and went out, lit a cigarette and walked to the rooftop.

When he came to the rooftop, he blew out a puff of misty smoke, and Xia Huai coughed violently.

Yin Shun, who was lying on the roof fence and drinking orange juice with a straw, looked at him sideways, took a sip of orange juice, and said calmly, "Hi."

"Why are you here?" Xia Huai quickly threw the cigarette on the ground and crushed it.He didn't want Yin Shun to smoke second-hand smoke.

"I hear you crying in the middle of the night and can't fall asleep. Come up to get some air."

Xia Huai smiled awkwardly, and used the usual excuse: "I had a nightmare and couldn't sleep, so I came up to get some air." He walked up to Yin Shun, and took a deep breath into the cold air.

Yin Shun handed the orange juice to him: "Drink?"

Xia Huai wanted to say no, but Yin Shun directly passed the straw into his mouth.He froze for a moment and said "thank you", took the orange juice and drank it.

Yin Shun looked at the remaining tears on his cheeks and said, "You have something on your mind."

Xia Huai sucked on the orange juice and said, "Who has nothing on his mind?"

"You've been an assistant policeman for so long, why didn't you take the exam to become a regular?"

Xia Huai sizzled the orange juice and said, "I'm not capable enough."

Yin Shun said, "It's a lie."

The orange juice in the straw fell back into the bottle, Xia Huai was speechless for a while, and then took a deep breath.

"Is it related to something in your heart?" Yin Shun asked almost certainly.

Xia Huai acquiesced, he put down the orange juice, looked at Yin Shun: "Do you really want to know?"

Yin Shun didn't say whether he wanted to, but just asked: "Would you like to tell me?"

"I'm afraid you won't want to stay here after you find out." Xia Huai said with a smile.

"Didn't you say that I am different from normal people?"

"..."

Xia Huai was speechless.

He never told anyone what was in his heart, and he felt that he could hide it for the rest of his life.Including getting married and having children in the future, I will not tell my wife and children to know.But there are times in life when a person really can't hold on, and there is someone around him, so he can't help but want to confide in this person.

I don't expect to get any comfort, I just hope that my heart, which is about to be surrounded by haze, can have a respite.

Xia Huai looked into the distance, and slowly talked about the things he had kept in his heart for many years: "When I was ten years old, my uncle and aunt gave birth to my cousin. When the child was full moon, they borrowed a piece of land at my house to put a full moon wine At that time, our family was in the countryside, and there was a bright and open field outside, with a dozen or twenty tables set up, and people from more than a dozen households in the village came to have a banquet. My cousin who had just given up the moon was asleep, so he put him on the bed in my room. Mom, uncle, and aunt were entertaining relatives and friends outside, and your mother was there at that time. She was from the same village as me and worked as a nanny at our house.

"Everyone was lively, and no one thought about what would happen. Halfway through, my aunt said she was going to see if the child was awake. She walked into my room. After a while, she screamed and cried loudly. My uncle was the first to rush into the room and asked loudly what was wrong, and then we also heard his crying.

"My mother and Aunt Xiang rushed into the room one after another. My sister and I hid behind the door. We saw my aunt paralyzed on the ground with the children in her arms, and my uncle hugged them and howled in pain."

Having said that, Xia Huai paused.His eyes were dim, and after a while, he said in a calm voice, "My cousin is dead. Just like that, he died on my bed for no reason."

Yin Shun's eyebrows twitched, and he constructed the scene in his mind.A dirt house with a courtyard in the countryside, a dozen tables of guests, rooms, beds, a dead baby, the dead baby's parents, Xia Huai's brother and sister, Xia's mother, and his nanny mother.