one punch

For busy people, there is usually no concept of time. They pass their meal in the blink of an eye, and it will be dark in the blink of an eye.

It's already mid-August before Dou Tianxiao can feel the taste of the holiday.

This summer, their family didn't even have time to approve popsicles.

Early this morning, after breakfast, Dou Tianxiao was about to go to the hospital to visit his uncle. Before leaving the house, he saw Ye Xi coming out of his grandfather's room with a pair of trousers in his hand.

Dou Tianxiao was stunned for a moment. He remembered that when he washed the clothes in the morning, he had already washed all the clothes that grandpa changed yesterday, so he asked casually, "Didn't you wash it the day before yesterday?"

Ye Xi closed the door of grandpa's room, pulled Dou Tianxiao aside, and then whispered, "He just peed his pants."

"Ah!?" Dou Tianxiao's eyes widened. At first, he thought he was joking, but when he lowered his head, he saw a wet mark on his trousers, "What's going on?"

"I don't know. I originally went in to pour him a glass of water and chat with him, but suddenly it happened..." Ye Xi whispered.

Dou Tianxiao glanced at the closed door, and he could probably imagine how embarrassed Grandpa must have been at that time.

Grandpa has been insisting on cooperating with the treatment since the onset of the disease, and often said that his legs and feet did not hurt as much as when he was discharged from the hospital. Everyone thought his condition was developing in a good direction, but he suddenly started to have urinary incontinence, which is obviously not a good thing. sign.

"Did he urinate on the bed?" Dou Tianxiao asked.

"Well, help me put grandpa into the wheelchair. I'll change the bed sheet and quilt cover."

The fall a few months ago deprived my grandfather of the right to stand up again after all. Western medicine, Chinese medicine, massage, and various rehabilitation treatments could not let him stand up again from the wheelchair.

The right leg became more and more swollen and numb, and it started to hurt after standing for a long time.

When he spoke, it was as if he was holding some ice cubes in his mouth. He could not speak clearly, and half of his body did not respond. Sometimes he would drool while talking.

He can't control his body, and recently found that his thinking is no longer active, and his memory has become very poor. Sometimes he forgets what he wanted to do one second later.

He watched his daughter-in-law and two young grandsons working hard for his affairs, saw a lot of banknotes thrown out, and watched the birds and flowers outside the window, but he still felt that he was living in an ice cellar.

When he was alone, he always thought that if he fell to his death at that time, there would not be so many things.

But the care of the children made him nostalgic for this world. Whenever he had the thought of dying, there would always be a voice in his heart reminding him that if you leave, you will never see them again.

"Grandpa, why are you in a daze?" Dou Tianxiao raised his hand and waved in front of his eyes, "Do you want to eat watermelon? I'll cut two pieces."

"Stop eating, I'm quite full, push me to the hospital to see Wen Tao." Grandpa said.

My uncle is now undergoing the third round of chemotherapy. The cancer cells have not continued to spread, but his resistance has become very weak. The most serious high fever lasted for more than a week, which made my aunt so anxious that she couldn't sleep all day and all night. I feel afraid that he will burn out his brain.

The fever has subsided in the past two days, but the vitality is not as good as before, and the body is too weak to get out of bed.

Dou Tianxiao was called back by Ye Xi to help deliver the goods, and his aunt had to work again. Only the sick father and son were left in the ward, which looked empty and lifeless.

"Wen Tao, I've thought about it for the past few days and decided to leave the house in the country to Xiaoxiao." The old man is now slurring his speech, speaking very slowly.

Uncle was startled, "Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?"

The old man struggled to turn the wheelchair to the head of the bed, and breathed out, "My memory has become very poor recently, I don't know how many things I can remember in my mind, I'm afraid that one day I will leave suddenly, and there will be many things that I won't have time to explain .”

The lonely and deserted ward of the hospital seems to make people more likely to become sad. When the uncle heard this, his eyes immediately turned red, "Dad, what are you talking about?"

"No, listen to me." The old man was in a hurry, and he couldn't speak well, and he waited for a while before slowly opening his mouth, "The house in the city has the names of your young couple written on it, and it will definitely be passed on to Xiaoxi when the time comes. , but Xiaoxiao has had a hard life since he was a child, he didn't live a good life, and he has a very stubborn personality. When Xiaoxi gets married in the future, he will definitely not be willing to live with him at home. He feels that he is an outsider. I am very worried about him. "

It's not that Ye Wentao hadn't thought about these issues of family separation, but the family was healthy and healthy before, so just let nature take its course, but now it seems that fate is very fond of teasing people, if some things are not prepared in advance, it may really be too late.

The old man took out the small square towel in his pocket and wiped the saliva from his mouth, then said vaguely: "I heard that all the houses in the countryside will be demolished to build some high-speed rail. The government is already planning, when the time comes, either To change to a house with a similar area, you have to change the money. You can help to see how to choose these. Even if our house does not have the turn to be demolished, we can rent it to a part-time worker. How can we have a rent of more than 1000 a month? , the most basic food and drink is available, so I can rest assured..."

Ye Wentao knew what to worry about.

Seeing his father with gray hair and getting older day by day, but he couldn't stand up to help do something, the tip of his nose was sore and tears were streaming down his face.

He raised his hand to wipe away his tears, "I know, Xiaoxiao is my youngest son, and I will definitely arrange the house."

"Okay, okay...that's good." The old man finally nodded in relief, showing a relieved expression.

The two were silent for a long time, and the old man smiled calmly, "If I leave one day, don't be sad, I've lived for decades, I've seen enough, I've lived enough, I'm a little tired, I want to Take a good rest..."

This is his wish from the bottom of his heart. Living like this, depressed and painful, is also a kind of torture for his family.

Before leaving, he wanted to get forgiveness from his family, so he could leave with confidence.

Ye Wentao had a stomach full of words to refute, but in the end they still stuck in his throat.

If he wasn't lying on the hospital bed at the moment, and hadn't received various treatments, he would definitely persuade his father, how could he not think about it, it's better to be alive than dead, and it's good to see the world alive, isn't it?

But now he and his father share the same illness, and he deeply understands his father's mood at this moment.

Living, isn't that a drag on the family?

In fact, he also wanted to leave countless times, but every time he had such a thought, his daughter-in-law would cry and hug him and say no.

"When you get married, you say you want to share joys and sorrows, but when it's your turn, you're ready to shake your sleeves and leave? What do you want me to do?"

The daughter-in-law was so scared that she didn't even dare to go home to sleep at night, so the two of them squeezed together on a narrow hospital bed.

The daughter-in-law just grabbed him and refused to let him go.

"Dad, if you persevere... Life will get better." When Ye Wentao said this, he was quite confident, after all, he himself felt that life was bleak.

They drag like this...

Can life really get better?

"Brother, I think we should bring two girls over next time. They may not like the styles we like, and there are still a lot of inventory at home." After paying the money, Dou Tianxiao carried a large bag of odds and ends. bundled things to the back seat of Jiang Ran's electric car.

"It's true, then next time I'll call the female students in our class to come over with me." Ye Xi said.

"Hey, don't," Jiang Ran waved his hand, "The girls in your class are too noisy. Last time, I asked you to fold a small gift box. They hacked me for a Pizza Hut meal and a barbecue buffet. The total amount is less than a thousand Well, where do I have so much money to treat them to dinner?"

"Who made you want to treat yourself so badly?" Dou Tianxiao said.

"Then I didn't know that a group of little girls could eat so much." Jiang Ran said.

"Then why don't you bring one back?" Ye Xi looked at Jiang Ran.

"Are you crazy?" Jiang Ran glanced at his boyfriend, "When you turn around, the washboard is bent."

Dou Tianxiao chuckled, "Did I make you kneel over the washboard? You're just spreading rumors."

The washboard has never kneeled before, but saying "I went to play with Brother Qingji" every day is enough for him to be bitter.

"I can't. As soon as I get close to a woman, I go to Lao Yu to have an affair. It will easily cause me psychological trauma." Jiang Ran said.

"Fuck off, you're only flirting with women, and 100 of the 80 friends on WeChat are all women." Dou Tianxiao gave him a white look.

"My mother gave birth to me well, what can I do?"

"Have some face."

As soon as the young couple spoke to me, they turned from being aggressive from small voices to shouting loudly.

In the end, it was Ye Xi who came out to stabilize the situation, "What are you yelling about, why can't you bring a woman back if you have the ability to make noise!"

"You should ask yourself this question!"

"You should ask yourself this question!"

Jiang Ran and Dou Tianxiao said at the same time.

At critical moments, the young couple always share the same hatred and fight against each other. Ye Xi waved his hands and stepped on the bicycle.

The online store is just as Jiang Ran expected, with a certain amount of investment and accumulation, the business is getting bigger and bigger, and it can receive up to sixty or seventy orders a day during the summer vacation, which makes Ye Xi, the delivery person, very busy. .

They don't have a face-to-face printer, and the courier bill and delivery are handwritten, and it takes a lot of time to write down dozens of bills.

An online store is not like a street stall. The inventory must be checked frequently, otherwise the buyers will have a headache if the items that are out of stock are photographed.

If you can find spot goods in the wholesale market, it’s okay, it’s just a matter of time. If you can’t find them, you have to call to discuss with the buyer, and various after-sales problems will follow.

Ye Xi wakes up every morning to cook breakfast, and then starts to write face sheets. After serving his grandfather, he starts to receive customers, pack and deliver goods, and occasionally has to deal with after-sales problems. The time for brushing his teeth and washing his face is almost squeezed out of his teeth.

Dou Tianxiao will go to the wholesale market to look for new products when he finds time.

The normal dating mode of young couples is to eat, go shopping and watch movies, while he and Jiang Ran eat, buy goods and do their homework.

Although life is dull, Dou Tianxiao enjoys this ordinary life, and even in the ordinary day after day, Jiang Ran can always conjure up various small surprises for him.

The most powerful one was to shovel out a fist-sized hole in the bottom of the kitchen pan.

At that time, Dou Tianxiao was writing papers in the bedroom, complaining about his hunger, Jiang Ran excitedly said that he would have a special afternoon tea.

"I learned it from the Internet, the special vegetable cake."

"Vegetable pancakes are fine, don't be special." Because during the time in the hospital, Dou Tianxiao was somewhat afraid of those redundant prefixes.

The production process of vegetable cakes is very simple. Wash and cut all kinds of messy vegetables, stir them with milk flour batter, add some salt, and fry them slowly in a pan.

"It's not difficult at all." Jiang Ran was full of confidence.

"Well." Dou Tianxiao expressed his trust in him with his eyes, and then listed at least five possible problems. Although those problems seemed to be people's affairs, he always felt that Jiang Ran could solve them.

For example, if you pour too much milk and find that you can’t make pancakes, and finally find out that you forgot to put salt or something...

"Do you think I'm a fool!?" Jiang Ran was very unconvinced.

However, the accident came so suddenly. Dou Tianxiao got up to go to the toilet, and accidentally bumped his toe against the foot of the bed, and a wailing sound absorbed all Jiang Ran's attention.

"Why are you in a hurry to go to the toilet? Why are you so careless?" Jiang Ran gently rubbed his boyfriend's little toe, "Does it still hurt?"

"I'm afraid it will take a kiss to get better..." Dou Tianxiao pouted with his eyes closed.

When Jiang Shishen returned to the kitchen, the vegetable cake had turned into a piece of black charcoal, and it had successfully merged with the bottom of the pot, making it impossible to shake it upside down.

"Get out of the way, let me do it."

Jiang Ran picked up the spatula and poked it hard, and the vegetable cake fell to the ground along with the bottom of the pot.

Shattered to pieces.

Dou Tianxiao laughed so hard that day that his chest hurt for several days.

After the school started, there was no one to receive customers from the online store during the day. Ye Xi’s computer was always on, and an automatic reply was set up, allowing buyers to place orders on their own and deliver the goods when they returned home at night.

Fortunately, there are small things in the store, unlike clothing sellers who have to ask for the size, and whether they accept or accept them will not affect much business. The order volume is similar to that during the holidays, but the delivery time has shortened.

Jiang Ran usually can't help at school, but he rushes home on weekends, rain or shine. If there is no class on Friday afternoon, he will go home on Friday.

Seeing the child running so diligently, Jiang's father thought he was in a hurry to date the little girl, so he followed him secretly twice, only to find out that he was going to Dou Tianxiao's house.

Really boring.

His son is cautious in his work and low-key in love. He never hears him calling the little girl at home. If he doesn't go out on weekends, he will do homework with Dou Tianxiao at home.

Very well-behaved, as if there is no such thing as falling in love.

Wang Yingsong paid attention for a while, but didn't find any clues, so he planned to give up. After all, it's normal for a child to break up after a relationship.

It wasn't until the National Day holiday that he finally discovered some clues from his son's abnormal behavior.

That night he ate too much watermelon, woke up in the middle of the night suffocated by urine, and wanted to go to the toilet. Just as he was about to open the door, he heard the sound of people walking in the living room outside.

At first, he thought it was a thief at home, and was about to go out to beat the thief and handcuff him, when he heard a "click", the sound of the door closing and locking.

The thief still has the keys to the house?

Wang Yingsong understood immediately, and when he knocked on the door of his son's room, no one answered.

No wonder there has been no news for so long, the co-authors always sneak out for dates in the middle of the night...

In the middle of the night, the moon is dark and the wind is high, what good things can be done! ?

Outrageous!

This brat is simply too outrageous!

But reasoning alone doesn't work without evidence.

Wang Yingsong gritted his molars and analyzed the seriousness of the matter with his wife.

"He didn't go to the hotel to get a room, did he?" Jiang Qing felt uncomfortable and wanted to laugh.

It's hard because my son can't help his mother when he grows up, and he can't share anything with her as a mother, but when he thinks that his son has learned how to deal with objects, he can't help being happy.

"I don't know which child it is. If you want to love each other so much, you have to marry that girl home, and you can't let her down." Jiang Qing turned to look at her husband, "Why don't you check your son's house opening records?"

Wang Yingsong didn't close his eyes all night, and heard his son sneaking back to the room around four o'clock the next morning.

Well, we spent the night, and the "charge of adultery" was confirmed.

Of course he couldn't find the room opening record.

Wang Yingsong felt that it was either the ID card that the little girl took out, or the son secretly went to live in the family's house while the parents were away.

Both are highly probable.

As a father, he is too embarrassed to ask directly if he has done anything, anyway, there is a good chance that he did something, which man sneaked out in the middle of the night just to chat with the girl under the quilt?

My son wants to save face. If we discuss this matter face to face, he will definitely not be able to get off the stage.

How to express the embarrassing request of "don't mess with girls, if you do, you have to be responsible to others" in a serious and polite way is a very difficult problem.

Ever since, Wang Yingsong decided to find a breakthrough from his son's best brother, to find out which little girl it was, so that he could have a good idea.

This morning, the sun was scorching hot and the cicadas were singing. Dou Tianxiao brought the freshly made mung bean soup to her boyfriend's house to enjoy it together.

As soon as he entered the door, he was pulled aside by Jiang's father, and had a chat about learning and dreams, which was very unpredictable, impassioned, and inspiring.

Finally, a sentence popped up: "Xiaoxiao, our family, Jiang Ran, recently found a partner, do you know that?"

The mung bean soup in Dou Tianxiao's mouth sprayed the future father-in-law all over his face.