Baby

The goat has entered old age, its hair is no longer shiny and smooth, and its daily energy is consumed very quickly, most of the time it just lies lazily on the sofa.

Jiang Ye stroked the goat's head to tease it, but the goat just arched Jiang Ye with its head in cooperation, and then drooped its tail again.

Jiang Ye always thought of Tang Li, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt uneasy.Goat and Tang Li grew up together, and they like to walk in the park with Tang Li, play and sleep together.In the family, the goat is closest to Tang Li.

After Tang Li left, Goat's spirit declined a lot, and Jiang Ye also grew up overnight.

After they moved to this rental house, the goat spent most of the day lying lazily on the sofa cushions, looking at the door thoughtfully.Dogs are not allowed in the hospital, and families spend even less time with the goats.Most of the time, the goat is just a lonely old dog.Only when Tang Daihe or Jiang Ye came home, would it wag its tail and slowly jump off the sofa to greet them.

When returning home, Jiang Ye will try his best to spend time with the goat.The goats are his friend, but also his family.Jiang Ye hoped that the goat could spend his old age safely, so he tried his best to give him the best.Sometimes, Jiang Ye always paranoidly felt that the goat entrusted Tang Li's feelings. The name "Goat" was given to it by Tang Li. Looking at the goat, it was as if Tang Li was still by his side, living with them.

During the Chinese New Year this year, Jiang Ye did not let himself be idle.He found a part-time job in a hot pot restaurant, and he could earn nearly 5000 yuan a month during the winter vacation.Business is booming these days on New Year's Eve, the boss does not allow a holiday, but pays five times the salary.Jiang Ye resolutely chose to stay.So this year, I had to reunite with my family in the video.

Jiang Ye was busy shuttling between the dining tables in uniform for a long time, and finally got a little time to rest at eleven o'clock in the evening.Jiang Ye changed into greasy clothes, washed his face clean in the bathroom, and then turned on his cell phone to call Tang Daihe.

The video was quickly connected, and Tang Daihe in the screen was wearing a simple plain cotton jacket, and his face looked a little tired.When she saw Jiang Ye, a faint smile could not help but appear on the corner of her mouth: "Jiang Ye, are you done?"

"Well," Jiang Ye said, "Where's Dad?"

Tang Daihe turned the camera around and pointed at Jiang Shaohui who was on the hospital bed. Jiang Shaohui was drinking soup through a straw and still had an IV in his hand.Jiang Shaohui looked pretty good, Jiang Ye smiled: "Dad, what do you want to drink?"

Jiang Shaohui spat out the straw, his expression softened a lot: "Your mother made me broth."

Jiang Ye nodded, but the supervisor over there was calling for someone again, so Jiang Ye could only hastily said, "Mom and Dad, I'm going to hang up first and go home after the rush hour. The wages are doubled these days. You guys Take good care of yourself and tell me if you don’t have enough money.”

Tang Daihe hastily added: "The money is enough these days, you have to take care of yourself, Chinese New Year, eat something good!"

Jiang Ye agreed, then hung up the call.The supervisor asked him to help in the kitchen, and Jiang Ye went to wash the dishes and deal with the bottom of the pot.

Ever since Father Jiang had an accidental car accident during the winter vacation at the end of the first semester of his freshman year, Jiang Ye has been working part-time and part-time for more than a year.

Even in the top institutions of higher learning in China, there are many poor students who are forced to work and study for a living.Jiang's father's unexpected encounter changed the life trajectory of their entire family, like a watershed in a canyon.Jiang Ye was not the first student to go out of school to work everywhere, but he was the hardest one among the people around him.He gave up his plan to take the postgraduate entrance examination for further study, and spent his spare time looking for part-time jobs for students, and then submitted articles to academic journals. After a month, he could not only pay for living expenses by himself, but also save thousands of dollars for his family.Although he was very busy with work, Jiang Ye gritted his teeth and persisted in not leaving behind his studies.At the end of his freshman year, he received a professional scholarship worth nearly [-] yuan.This incident has also become a good story in the whole college, and Jiang Ye has become a role model in the hearts of every student.

But fate played tricks on him. In his sophomore year, he was lucky enough to find a semi-full-time job with a good salary, working in a private studio, and having a little contact with his professional knowledge. There is a salary of 6000 yuan.The only downside is that he needs too much sitting time every day, which has a serious conflict with his school's schoolwork time.

Jiang Ye wanted to focus on his studies, no matter what, he was considered a top student, and he didn't want to give up the opportunity to study and improve himself for the 6000 yuan.But at that time, when Jiang Shaohui was helped back to the bed by the nurse from the wheelchair, his waist softened and he fell to the ground.The head hit the ground, the old injury recurred, and there was a sudden emergency intracranial hemorrhage, and money was urgently needed for surgery.

After learning about Jiang Ye's situation, the boss of the studio promised him to pay him three months' salary in advance, and then give him a subsidy of 2000 yuan.Jiang Ye couldn't say no.

In this way, Jiang Ye began to skip classes and go to work.Although he earns a lot every month, he can no longer get a scholarship.

I didn't get off work until four o'clock in the morning today, but the income was considerable.The catering industry during the Chinese New Year is the most lack of people.After Jiang Ye received his daily salary, he immediately ran to the bank's self-service deposit machine to deposit money.

The bank card at home was issued with Jiang Shaohui's ID card, but the main income and expenses of the family were still transferred through this card, so Jiang Ye simply did not open another card.After Jiang's father had an accident, the family had no source of income. Jiang Ye took the initiative to shoulder the financial burden, managed the family's finances, and calculated every income and expenditure carefully.

Jiang Ye inserted the card into the machine and deposited a stack of banknotes in it, but the displayed balance was a figure of one thousand more than what he thought.

Jiang Ye checked the balance again, and it was indeed one thousand more.Jiang Ye felt strange, and took out his mobile phone to check carefully, and found a text message notifying that someone had remitted 1000 yuan to this card this evening.

Jiang Ye was dumbfounded. At that time, he was still working part-time, and he didn't hear the text message when he put his phone aside.But who will remit the 1000 yuan?

Tang Daihe has been taking care of Jiang Shaohui in the hospital without a job.Could it be from Goat Hui?

Jiang Ye thought it was funny when he thought about it, he thought it was someone who sent the wrong money.I found out the card number of the transferer, and sent back the extra 1000 yuan.

Just after entering the card number, the name of the person who transferred the money popped up on the page: "*Li", and Jiang Ye's hand trembled subconsciously.

Will it be him?

A strong intuition came to him, but Jiang Ye suppressed the restlessness, convincing himself that maybe it was just a coincidence.

Because it is too unreasonable.After so many years, it is impossible for him to remember the card number at home... Even if he remembered, at this age, Tang Li should have just entered high school not long ago, where did he get the 1000 yuan.

Jiang Ye took a deep breath, sent the money back, controlled himself not to think too much, then packed his things and went home.

On the way, Jiang Ye was sitting in the night bus, watching the dawn outside the window, recalling bits and pieces of the past in his heart.Is that little radish doing well now?Although Li Ruxue is hateful, she should still treat him sincerely.They made an appointment to go to the same university together. I wonder if he still remembers it... During the days and nights when he and Tang Li were separated, Jiang Ye tossed and turned, and lived in deep guilt and pain every day. .

Due to helpless reasons, Papa Jiang failed to help Tang Li's biological parents in the accident, so Papa Jiang took the orphaned little Tang Li back home.After many years, Li Ruxue, who claimed that she was Tang Li's blood relative, found her. She lied and took Tang Li back to her hometown, but Jiang's father had a car accident on the way to find Tang Li, and the family was almost ruined. Find Tang Li's whereabouts.This is rather like a circular tragedy.

Jiang Ye sometimes thinks that maybe he and Tang Li are like two parallel lines that shouldn't intersect.Whether it's family or personality, the two of them are very different.Later, because of ingenious fate, the two straight lines ran into each other and bent, and finally converged at an intersection.But after all, they still couldn't escape the manipulation of fate, and after the intersection, they gradually drifted away.

But Jiang Ye never gave up the idea of ​​looking for Tang Li.He has been waiting for an opportunity, when the family situation improves, and when Papa Jiang recovers, he will immediately devote himself to finding the whereabouts of his younger brother.Jiang Shaohui taught him how important his family was since he was a child, Jiang Ye couldn't just leave Tang Li behind.But... It's been so long, I don't know if Tang Li has become disheartened with him?

Sorry, radish, sorry.

I hope you don't blame me, I also have too many unspeakable difficulties.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ye suddenly took out his phone.He took off the phone case and replaced it with the old phone card.Although he got a new card after he went to college, he still keeps this mobile phone card from his hometown.He was afraid that Tang Li would contact him suddenly, but every time he ended up being more disappointed.So he has seldom used this card recently.

Turning on the phone again, Jiang Ye found that the old card had been forcibly canceled because it had not been used for a long time and owed too much.

Arriving here, Jiang Ye lost the last link with the past.

After returning to the hospital, it was already seven o'clock in the morning.Jiang Shaohui was still asleep, but there were only hired nurses guarding him in the ward.

Jiang Ye walked over and asked the nurse where his mother had gone, but the nurse looked away and said he was going downstairs to buy breakfast.

He had just come back from the breakfast shop and he knew the nurse was lying.Jiang Ye asked several questions one after another, but the nurse showed embarrassment, and finally said, "Brother, don't make things difficult for me."

Jiang Ye was taken aback for a moment, and immediately reacted.

Sure enough, at 08:30, Tang Daihe returned to the hospital.She was still wearing yesterday's clothes, and her hair was only hastily tied up with leather ties.As soon as Tang Daihe entered the door, he saw Jiang Ye looking at her with a sullen face, and beside him was Jiang Shaohui with a complicated expression.

Tang Daihe put down the soy milk and fried dough sticks in his hands, and smiled at Jiang Ye: "Let's have some breakfast."

Jiang Ye stood up and asked directly, "Mom, where did you go last night?"

"What are you talking about?" Tang Daihe turned his head in embarrassment, "Didn't I talk to you on the phone yesterday? I'm taking care of your dad in the hospital."

He called Tang Daihe at eleven o'clock last night, when she was still in the hospital.But what about the time after that?

"Mom," Jiang Ye stepped forward and looked into Tang Daihe's eyes, his tone softened, "Just tell me the truth..."

Tang Daihe looked at the nurse who was stiffly washing the cups, and his heart suddenly became clear.Sighing helplessly, she said in a low voice, "I... did the job that Aunt Chen introduced."

"what?"

Jiang Ye was taken aback. His mother tried to ask him several months ago. Aunt Chen in the next ward introduced her to a job as a nanny in a family.That family has a special job and works at night.And the child in the family is sick, always waking up at night and crying loudly.So they asked Tang Daihe to go to cook and clean for three hours during the day, and then go there to watch the night at night.

At that time, their family was short of funds, and Tang Daihe was also impatient, so he wanted to work hard to find a job.But Jiang Ye firmly opposed it. First of all, the job of a nanny is not easy. The request of the family is to keep Tang Daihe on vigil, which means that he can hardly sleep all night, and he has to tense up to take care of the three children at any time.Tang Daihe had already worked hard to take care of Jiang Shaohui in the hospital during the day, and Jiang Ye didn't want her to be too tired.

Furthermore, He was born in a scholarly family in the Tang Dynasty, and married her husband directly after graduating from university. She has been a gentle and virtuous housewife for more than 20 years, and was cared for by her husband.Now that Tang Daihe is getting older, Jiang Ye is very worried that she will go out to work alone.

Jiang Ye objected so much, Tang Daihe had no choice but to take a step back, and turned to sewing clothes and mending shoes for others in his free time. He could earn a meager income of about a thousand yuan a month.

But now Jiang Ye just felt sad.

While feeling sad, he understood this point more deeply—his father has fallen, and now he can only quickly strengthen himself and become the new pillar of the family so that his parents can rely on him.

He has lost the right to act like a baby to his parents, and now he has finally become an adult.

But he is not qualified enough now, not strong enough to protect his mother...

"mom……"

Jiang Ye clenched his hands tightly, and the feeling of helplessness spread in his chest, making him breathless.

"Don't think about it," Tang Daihe just smiled and touched Jiang Ye's face, "I sew clothes and take care of the children. I can earn a lot in a month. Let's work hard together. After this period of time, everything will be fine." It'll all be fine."

"Jiang Ye, you have been our treasure since you were a child. Your journey has been smooth and smooth, you have never been too far away from home, and you have not encountered any major setbacks. This incident may be a test for our family. You Yicun, you have done a good job, and of course I should do my best to help you. Don't feel guilty, and don't feel owed, because we are a family, and we are each other's backing. Where there is a home, there is hope .”