At the turn of Jinlan

Sometimes, when a person is seriously ill, he can hear his own heartbeat in the silence.

Like a drum beating, it was beating against the clock.

Meng Lian was unexpectedly absent on the day agreed upon to return to school.

Fei Yingxing hadn't contacted Meng Lian since last night.

No matter how I make a call, it shows that the phone is turned off.

Although Fei Yingxing was worried, he didn't think too much about it. He only thought that Meng Lian had been busy at the farewell party yesterday, so he should have rested early.

But after the morning class, Meng Lian's cell phone was still turned off.

As soon as the lunch break bell rang, Wang Lie put away the review papers on the table, and said to Fei Yingxing who was behind him, "I remember Meng Lian said a few days ago that he was going back to school today, right?"

"Yeah." Fei Yingxing was frowning at this moment, looking restlessly at the silent phone in his hand.

"Where's Meng Lian?" Ye Zhi took the wallet and meal card, and moved in front of the two of them, "Fei Gou, do you want lunch?"

"Eat." Fei Yingxing took a deep breath when he heard the words, put away his phone, and strode towards the door together.

He walked a few steps, and found that the two people behind him didn't intend to follow at all, so he turned to Wang Lie and said, "What's the matter? Let's go, let's eat."

Both Wang Lie and Ye Zhi stood there in a daze, looked at Fei Yingxing and said, "No, Lao Fei, you look a little pale, isn't Meng Lian answering your call?"

"His phone is off."

"What? Are you having a conflict?" Ye Zhi asked.

"No, I'm just worried that something happened to him." As soon as Fei Yingxing finished speaking, he heard a hurried female voice behind him. He turned around and saw that it was Wang Siyi who had just returned from Teacher Zhang's office.

"Fei Xiaocao, I saw Meng Lian's mother in the office just now... She seems to have come to help Meng Lian drop out of school... What's going on?"

Wang Siyi's voice was full of doubts and anxiety. She raised her head and looked at Fei Yingxing in front of her. Fei Yingxing was also taken aback for a moment, and then her brows were furrowed.

"Let's go first, I'll go to the office." Fei Yingxing left the words and left the classroom without looking back.

Only Wang Lie and Ye Zhi were left standing there, looking at each other in blank dismay.

It was lunch time at this time, and the students all went downstairs, but the teaching building was more deserted than usual.

When Fei Yingxing rushed to Teacher Zhang's office, he happened to meet Meng Lian's mother, Xu Jinyi, coming out of the office.

Although Xu Jinyi is over forty, but with proper maintenance and art work, she still looks young with excellent temperament.

Compared with his elder brother Meng Yuan, Meng Liansheng was more like a mother, especially the tenderness between his brows and eyes, like floating waves, was unforgettable.

Fei Yingxing recognized Xu Jinyi at a glance. They had met several times before, and the Fei and Meng families had some past friendships. He walked up to Xu Jinyi in a few steps, and called Aunt Xu in a deep voice.

Xu Jinyi was immersed in sorting out Meng Lian's graduation materials. She did not expect to meet an acquaintance in school. She raised her head in surprise, looked at the tall boy in front of her, and smiled softly.

"Tip classmate."

Fei Yingxing looked at Xu Jinyi in front of him. He hadn't noticed it from a distance just now, but now he looked closer, and found that Xu Jinyi's eye sockets were red and swollen.

It looked like he had been crying for a long time, and his face was haggard.

Fei Yingxing paused, and immediately had some bad premonitions in his heart, and the words stuck in his throat, neither in nor out.

"Aunt Xu, this is..."

"I'll help Xiaolian complete the graduation procedures..." She was holding several certificates in her hand, and judging from the appearance of the covers, it should be the graduation certificate and completion certificate of the Experimental Middle School.

"Graduation procedures?" Fei Yingxing was puzzled.

Seeing the anxious and worried look of the big boy in front of him, Xu Jinyi was silent for a while, then seemed to muster up the courage to face his younger son's serious illness, took a deep breath and said: "Xiao Lian is sick, lymphoma, Maybe he won't go to school next semester. So I'll help him get his graduation certificate back today."

Xu Jinyi's sound hit Fei Yingxing's heart like a thunderbolt. His deep pupils constricted instantly, and the blood in his whole body seemed to flow backwards, and his whole heart instantly became an empty shell.

There is no imagined canthus cracking, when the heart is really heartbroken, the whole person is numb and empty, and all consciousness is emptied at that moment.

Fei Yingxing heard himself asking, "How did he get sick?"

The voice was so calm that it made one's back tingle, but even he himself didn't notice the hidden tremors in his calm voice.

"The doctor said there was no reason for this disease, it was simply bad luck. I think it may be more or less related to genes or heredity." Xu Jinyi said, looking at the boy in front of her with some concern. The boy's reaction was somewhat unusual.

Fei Yingxing's instinctive physical reactions were not like ordinary friends or classmates who were full of worry and concern when they learned that the other party was ill. The despair in him was no less than that of himself who heard the bad news yesterday and was Meng Lian's biological mother.

Xu Jinyi suppressed the other emotions in his heart, subconsciously reached out and patted Fei Yingxing on the shoulder, but instead comforted the boy in front of him helplessly, "Don't worry, Xiao Lian will be fine."

Fei Yingxing was silent for a while, then suddenly raised his eyes, looked deeply at Xu Jinyi in front of him, lowered his voice and asked, "Aunt Xu, can you let me see Meng Lian? Just now, just one glance, okay? "

The boy's eyes were sincere and sincere, and it was almost impossible to detect a look of pleading.

Xu Jinyi looked at the tall and handsome boy in front of him, who was clearly the same age as her youngest son, but it gave her a very different feeling.

Both were handsome boys, but the boy in front of him was taller than Meng Lian, with a stronger body, and his facial features had begun to show the toughness that an adult man should have.

But no matter what, in Xu Jinyi's mind, Fei Yingxing was still a half-grown child. She smiled softly, and asked softly, "Do you still have classes in the afternoon, are you not going to class?"

"No more." Fei Yingxing shook his head.

Xu Jinyi: "Okay, I'll help you ask for leave for your teacher Zhang."

Meng Lian just started receiving treatment last night. She had a puncture in the morning, and she vomited in the dark at noon. She didn't have an appetite for lunch, so she swallowed some painkillers, and she fell asleep after being tired until after one o'clock in the afternoon.

During this period, the two elders of the Meng family stayed in the hospital. Seeing the precious grandson enduring the pain, the eyes of the two old ladies turned red with distress.

The intensification of pain after starting treatment was beyond Meng Lian's expectation, but it can also explain why most cancer patients give up treatment decisively after they are diagnosed.

But there was tenacity in Meng Lian's bones, after a whole morning's inspection, he just didn't say a word.

Together with the attending physician, they looked at this handsome boy with special regard.

Patients with a strong desire to survive are of course seen a lot as oncology doctors, but it is the first time I have seen such a patient.

Xu Jinyi parked the car downstairs in the inpatient department, and led the boy beside him into the elevator.

When Fei Yingxing entered the building, he felt inexplicable palpitations the moment he smelled the hospital's unique smell of disinfectant.

The ringing of the bell at the nurse's station, the crying of the child, the rolling of the wheels of the operating cart, and the noisy sounds in the hospital corridor, as he gradually approached Meng Lian's ward, Fei Yingxing became nervous for no apparent reason.

But the moment Xu Jinyi opened the door of the ward, Fei Yingxing's world seemed to have suddenly quieted down, only the barely audible but familiar sound of breathing, accompanied by the sound of dripping drips.

The blackout curtain was drawn in the ward, but it still couldn't block the warm yellow sun in the winter afternoon.

With her back to the door, Meng Lian lay quietly on her side on the bed.

Under the soft hair on the back of the neck is an unsightly gauze, which tightly covers the beautiful back of the neck.

Xu Jinyi saw that the big boy behind him stared blankly at the sleeping son on the hospital bed, standing motionless at the door for a long time as if he had lost all mobility.

She sighed secretly, beckoned to the boy at the door, and said, "Tip, please guard this side for me first, I'll go downstairs to find two old ladies, and the two of them went down to get medicine."

Hearing the sound, Fei Yingxing came back to his senses in an instant. He nodded and saw Xu Jinyi walk out of the room, so he walked lightly into the room.

Meng Lian's face was much paler than usual, lost all color, showing a little sickness.

But the familiar eyebrows are still the same as before, too good-looking, and the cute appearance with closed eyelashes is exactly the same as Fei Yingxing's memory.

The light that came through the curtain illuminated Meng Lian's face, looking at Meng Lian's whole body as if it was about to melt into the warm light, this almost gave Fei Yingxing an illusion - maybe God repented, maybe it was cruel He wanted to take back the little fairy sent to him with his own hands.

Fei Yingxing stood in front of the bed for a long time before approaching quietly, stretched out his hand tentatively, brushed off the loose hair on Meng Lian's forehead, then bent over, and pressed his lips on Meng Lian's eyelashes.

For a long time, Fei Yingxing didn't do anything else, just kissed Meng Lian gently, and the two of them kissed each other skin to skin. Fei Yingxing looked devout and serious, as if he wanted to feel the warmth from the tip of his lips. It is the temperature of the life of the next person at the moment.

Meng Lian's heart was still beating, and it was still intact in front of him.

In the ward, which was so quiet that one could hear needles falling, suddenly there was a soft thud, and a crystal drop of water landed on Meng Lian's clean cheek.

two drops... three drops...

One after another, it was like rain.

Xu Jinyi stood outside the door, looking at the tall and handsome boy who was sitting on the chair in front of the hospital bed at the moment. He held Meng Lian's palms in both hands like a treasure, buried his head with red eyes, and wept silently. up.

As Meng Lian's mother, Xu Jinyi didn't even have time to be surprised by the real relationship between Fei Yingxing and Meng Lian, because the unintentional grief in the boy's expression and the silent love floating in the air seemed to overflow, It made Xu Jinyi's heart sore and soft, which was very unpleasant.

The wet fingertips made Meng Lian struggle uncomfortably for a moment, then slowly woke up from a light sleep, and opened her tightly closed eyes.

Sensing Meng Lian's movement, Fei Yingxing quickly wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, and said in a hoarse voice, "Sorry, I woke you up."