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Should be quite comfortable. "

"Is our family short of 50 yuan?" Zhong Jurui sighed, "Why are you saving money?"

"I bought something good for you." The old lady said mysteriously, "I'll give you something after dinner."

Zhong Jurui was very disturbed.He has always been afraid that his grandma will be brainwashed when she goes to the health care product class and buy a bunch of useless equipment.If the old lady really bought it, he can't blame her, otherwise the old lady will blame herself and hurt her body.This meal was really tasteless, and when his mother-in-law took him to the back room, unscrewed the small lock on the drawer, and pulled out an iPhone case from the corner, Zhong Jurui was stunned.

"I've asked, and this brand is the best. Your mobile phone won't work for a while, so it's not as good as the landline at home." The mother-in-law handed over the mobile phone case and said happily, "Take it apart and have a look, hi!" dislike?"

The iPhoneX is already in the world, and the mother-in-law is reluctant to spend money, so she bought the iPhone 7 that was released two years ago.

"I think they look about the same. I don't know why the new one is more than twice as expensive." The mother-in-law urged him to turn it on, "See if it works. If it doesn't work, there will be a receipt, so I can return it."

Zhong Jurui felt his nose a little sore. 50 yuan to buy two clearance summer clothes, more than 4000 mobile phones do not know how much determination to make.He didn't want to be sensational, so he demonstrated it a few times in front of his mother-in-law, and said pleasantly: "Sure enough, there are reasons why you are expensive, and the texture is different."

"Really?" The mother-in-law leaned over to look, her eyes gleaming with pride, "Hurry up and buy a case, don't bump into it. Don't use that broken phone! It's so shabby!"

Zhong Jurui hugged her mother-in-law, and found that the little old lady was getting thinner again, she was like a tree stump when she was old, she gradually lost all moisture, and slowly shrank, and the smell of soap on her body was also mixed with the smell of an old man—it’s hard to say Come, the taste exclusive to the elderly.He rarely acted like a baby and said: "Mother-in-law, I will be filial to you in the future."

The old lady patted him on the back and said with a smile, "You have always been filial, so how filial should you be?"

--not enough.Zhong Jurui thought, wishing to bring gold and silver mountains here so that she would not suffer a little bit of life, wishing to block major illnesses and minor disasters so that she would not suffer a little physical suffering.

The mother-in-law suddenly said "Hey" and asked why she didn't call Xu Xu over, it's the weekend today.

Zhong Jurui said that he is usually not in the dormitory, but in the rented room. This year, he rarely goes home, and it is rare to have a reunion. He does not bring Pei Xu's light bulb.

"Xuxu isn't a light bulb." The mother-in-law said, "He has a girlfriend? Does he have a girlfriend who doesn't want you? Why didn't he introduce you?"

Zhong Jurui didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he found an excuse to wash the dishes instead of listening to his grandmother's nagging.

However, the missed Xu Xu is enduring his sister-in-law's nagging.

Sister Xue has been preparing for pregnancy for a long time, and there has been no movement.But her mother was very anxious, and came up with a bunch of weird earth recipes, using the little couple as pigs about to mate, and kept experimenting.

"I saw my mother send me a message that today is a good day, and I started to despair." Sister Xue said, "I don't know if you can understand this feeling of having no expectations for life?"

Pei Xu was lying on the sofa reading National Geographic magazine, crossing his legs happily, and said: "I can't understand, after all, I often talk to Ruirui and I don't know what the world is, and I sweat profusely on the small bed. My black little The shorts are still hanging from the lunatic's belt."

Sister Xue: "..."

Pei Han who was writing couldn't bear it anymore and turned his head: "..."

Pei Xu slowly turned the pages of the magazine, and propped his chin to add: "Hey, the mood you are in now is the mood I heard when you two worked hard to give birth to my eldest nephew. We are all relatives under the same roof, and we are sympathetic to each other. How's life going?"

Pei Han opened his mouth several times to say something, but finally held back, hugged his laptop, and went back to the bedroom silently.

"If you don't talk about it, don't talk about it." Sister Xue said intentionally or unintentionally: "We are very open-minded parents, you can also bring Rarity back for dinner next time, and we will meet too."

"Is the food you cook delicious?" Pei Xu wondered, "Is it worth it for me to bring my boyfriend?"

Sister Xue said, "We can go to the restaurant."

"Since we're going to the restaurant, why don't we live alone, and bring you two light bulbs?" Pei Xu said, "What if my brother gets anxious and thinks about our mess, he takes off his prosthetic limb and hits my precious boyfriend on the head?" ?”

Sister Xue hit Pei Xu with a pillow: "Can you not be so irritating when you talk? Do you have this kind of virtue towards your boyfriend? How can your boyfriend stand you!"

Pei Xu jumped up and retorted: "Can you stop hitting people with pillows! Do you have the same virtue for your husband! You have a husband with the virtue of yours, so why should I be more eloquent? Doesn't being eloquent make people hurt? ?”

Sister Xue was so angry that she stuck her waist and called Pei Han for help.

Pei Han's voice came through the door: "Pei Xu, pay attention to me! What's your attitude towards sister-in-law!"

Sister Xue immediately made faces at Pei Xu.

Pei Xu flipped through the silver, covered his face with a magazine, and lay down slowly again.

In the evening Pei Xu and Zhong Jurui made a video call.

Pei Xu said: "I gradually feel that it is good to live at home."

"How to say?" Zhong Jurui distracted himself from chatting while working.

"Maybe the food at home is better."

——Obviously not, it's because we are both at home that we can make such unscrupulous videos.

In the camera, Zhong Jurui lowered his head and flipped through the book, and the faint light from the computer screen reflected on his face, as if a filter had been applied.He said: "I think it's good to stay in the rented house together. I will get a formal offer next year and confirm where I will work. I will rent a spacious house again." After thinking about it, he said, "When you graduate and find a job , I will move to a place that is convenient for both of us."

"Have you thought about it so much?"

"Yeah." Zhong Jurui didn't have the nerve to say that he even thought that Pei Xu should go to work earlier than him in the future, and it would be fine to rent directly near Pei Xu's company.He can squeeze the subway every morning, and Pei Xu doesn't have to be so tired walking to work.

Zhong Jurui had a lot of thoughts in his mind, but he felt that some words were hypocritical, so he kept them in his heart.Children who are too sensible have such a common problem. They are like clams, pitifully putting their most beloved treasures on the most defenseless soft meat, accepting the pain of tempering and enjoying it.They have no ambitions, don't want anything, and the most beloved are only one or two people.

He hugged his little blanket and looked at his phone before going to sleep.On his birthday this year, his father didn't say much as usual.Most of the time he couldn't think of Zhong Jianxing, but occasionally on such a birthday, he would also think about it, whether his father remembered that it was a somewhat special day.What is the difference between a birthday and other days if it is not remembered.He thought, maybe next year, he won't even have the idea of ​​waiting for Zhong Jianxing's text message.

Zhong Jurui suddenly heard a voice outside the door, he put on a coat and went out.The mother-in-law was retching with a plastic bag in her pocket.

"Where is it uncomfortable?" Zhong Jurui hurried forward.

"Maybe I caught a cold, and my stomach felt a little nauseous." The mother-in-law vomited for a long time, but she didn't vomit anything, and said sadly.

After a while, the mother-in-law straightened up, tied up the bag, and put it at her feet.

Zhong Jurui stroked her back, telling her to remember to go to the hospital.

"I know." The mother-in-law touched his hand, "I'll wait another day and take some gastrointestinal medicine. If it doesn't work, I'll go. It's like this when you get older. Small problems keep coming. There's an old saying that it's a good thing to survive a serious illness if you keep getting a little sick. .”

Zhong Jurui poured a cup of hot water in distress.Grandfather and grandson sat quietly.

The mother-in-law suddenly said: "Pingru gave birth to you very hard. It is not the coldest time this year, and you will be frozen to death when you were born. Pingru said that his stomach hurts in the middle of the night, and I am afraid that he will give birth early, which scared me a lot. .”

Zhong Jurui said, "Do you miss my mother?"

"Can you not think about it? The older you get, the more you think about it." The mother-in-law looked at Zhong Jurui's face, that handsome face was somewhat flat, and her cloudy eyes rolled slowly, "Do you miss her?"

Zhong Jurui didn't know what to say.As if this symbol had gradually faded away, like an insignificant sigh, he was so numb that he couldn't feel such pain, let alone recall the geometry.He understood Zhong Jianxing a little bit.Things like affection, even family affection, are separated by two skins, and there is no inherent inseparable connection.

But he loves grandma, he knows the pain of grandma losing her daughter, and he can't bear to make grandma sad.So he said, "Me too."

Grandma was silent for a while, and patted him on the shoulder: "You pour me some water, I'll soak my feet to sleep."

During the Spring Festival this year, Pei Xu came to pay New Year's greetings.The mother-in-law broke off short peach branches and stuffed them into the jacket pockets of the two of them, saying that it was to ward off evil spirits and keep them safe, and they were not allowed to throw them away.The three of them sat in the yard basking in the sun, playing poker and running fast, using peanuts as chips.Zhong Jurui's mind turned quickly, and he won everything, Pei Xu took advantage of him not paying attention, and secretly stripped him of his chips and ate them.The mother-in-law joined forces and pretended not to see it.

Zhong Jurui said helplessly: "How can you cheat like this?"

"It's not cheating. You are the natural loss of currency." Pei Xu said with a serious face.

"I don't understand what is wasted or consumed." The mother-in-law said, "But there are bamboo shoots at home, do you eat them? If you eat them, cook them at night."

Pei Xu was very active: "Eat!"

Zhong Jurui put his hand on his forehead with a wry smile, his wrist bones exposed the bracelets wrapped several times.

When the mother-in-law got up and went back to the kitchen, they stopped looking at them. They hooked their fingers under the small table and looked up with interest to watch the two sparrows fighting on the wall.

The world is full of blessings.Peach branches to get rid of evil spirits, bracelets to pray for peace.The Spring Festival couplets are full of beautiful words, and they only choose auspicious words when they meet and greet.

—But blessings exist because there are misfortunes.Blessings are meaningless without misfortune.

It was also after the Spring Festival of this year that my mother-in-law's stomach problems became more and more serious.Zhong Jurui was kept in the dark at first, thinking that she had recovered from a cold.In fact, my mother-in-law started to lose her appetite intermittently in autumn. She didn't take it seriously. In winter, she felt nauseous and vomited. She just went to the pharmacy and prescribed some gastritis medicine based on her own judgment.Elderly people don't like to go to the hospital, they think it's a place where a lot of money is spent, so if they can bear it, they can endure it, and they report the good news to Zhong Jurui but not the bad news.

After taking a bottle of stomach medicine, Zhong Jurui's health did not improve. Zhong Jurui was really worried, and he wanted to take her to the hospital for examination, only to find that the situation was more serious than they imagined.

Zhong Jurui took two days off to accompany his mother-in-law through endoscopic ultrasound and a series of examinations, and came to a preliminary conclusion that gastric antrum cancer was accompanied by pyloric obstruction.

Zhong Jurui was stunned for a long time, he didn't understand what the gastric antrum was, he only understood that it was cancer.He eagerly asked whether it was early or late, and how to treat it.

The doctor said the situation is not optimistic.

Zhong Jurui's hands and feet were suddenly cold.He didn't let his grandma listen to these together, because he was afraid that the doctor would say something that would frighten the old lady. In the past, it took a long time to coax a benign tumor, let alone now.He walked around for a long time, but couldn't find the bathroom to wash his face, so he just rubbed his face casually, and forced himself to go to find his grandmother.

Grandma sits on a bench next to a woman holding a baby, who repeatedly hides her face and reveals it again, making the baby giggle.

"Mother-in-law, we may have to be hospitalized." Zhong Jurui squatted in front of her mother-in-law.

"How to say?" asked the mother-in-law.

"You broke your stomach, but it's not a big problem. It's the same as the small tumor before, and you may need a minor operation." Zhong Jurui said slowly, "Let's listen to the doctor, it can be cured, I asked .”

The old lady touched his hand and said nothing at last.

☆、Chapter 42

After handing over the work at hand, Zhong Jurui resigned from the internship, and stayed in the hospital in his spare time to take care of his mother-in-law wholeheartedly.In a trance, he felt that he was back in high school, and it was the same at that time, in a hurry, he ran to the hospital to accompany the bed after class.But luck was better that time. After the small tumor was cut, the mother-in-law went home to recuperate, and he didn't travel for a long time.

He finished a required course tonight, and he was a bit torn whether he should withdraw two courses in the middle of the semester.At the beginning of the semester, he only cared about completing all the courses as soon as possible in the junior year, so as to free up the senior year for practice, so he was very full of coursework.Right now, Zhong Jurui is a bit embarrassed to take care of his mother-in-law, and he doesn't want to be perfunctory with those two professional courses.

Fortunately, now that he is no longer alone, when he really can't leave, there is Pei Xu.

Zhong Jurui arrived at the entrance of the hospital, called Pei Xu, and asked if he had eaten. Hearing that the person on the other end of the phone seemed to get up and walk a little farther, he said no, he was already so hungry that he bulged.

"It's not to the point where you can't leave people at all, why don't you go buy some food." Zhong Jurui said, "You want to cultivate immortals with big grains?"

"Your grandma is so good at chatting, I can't find an opportunity to interrupt her." Pei Xu was also quite aggrieved.

Zhong Jurui hung up the phone, went to a small fry shop nearby and ordered two fried rice to take away, his pace was faster than before.He pushed open the door of the ward and found that it was very lively inside, so he couldn't help but subconsciously glance at Pei Xu.

Pei Xu sat beside the hospital bed, so hungry that he didn't want to get up, he couldn't wait to take the fried rice, without saying a word, it was her mother-in-law who signaled Zhong Jurui to pull a stool to sit on the nearby bed.

My mother-in-law lives in a four-person room.The one next to the window is a young man in his 20s, not much older than Zhong Jurui, looks like a dog, and loves to chat.Bed No. 50 is a big fat man. Every day, he lays on the bed crookedly and plays with his mobile phone. When he goes to the bathroom, he asks his wife to help him.The mother-in-law lived in bed No. [-], and a man in his [-]s lived next to the door. He was dark and didn't talk much. Like the mother-in-law, the operation date had just been set.

Today's bustling is the fourth bed.

The mother-in-law likes to read this kind of gossip the most. She only hates that she has no melon seeds, so she looks for them. There are only small bananas on the table, which is not satisfying to eat.

"What's the situation?" Zhong Jurui asked.

"It's more complicated, and I haven't figured it out yet."

The mother-in-law looked at Pei Xu with the unmovable eyes of this class, as if she saw a poor student in the gossip subject, and whispered to Zhong Jurui: "It's the same as Chen Xiaoju's little aunt!"

——The tone is natural, as if the teacher is saying, "This question type is the same as the last question in the last monthly exam."

Zhong Jurui got a call and understood. While eating, he watched the two women arguing next to bed No. [-].To be precise, it's not a quarrel, you come and go like a cross talk, no wonder no one in the whole ward let them go despite the noise.

——Hospitalization is too boring, and everyone is very tolerant of such small adjustments.

Pei Xu puffed his stomach, finally freed his mouth, and then asked the honor student Zhong Jurui, what's going on next door.

Zhong Jurui said: "I won't say it, big men talk about this kind of family gossip, and they seem to be very gossip. I'm not this kind of person."

Grandma praised: "Yes, a man can't be petty."

Pei Xu said in his heart, then you should restrain your piercing eyes, the expressions of your grandparents and grandchildren are exactly the same, okay?

A woman said: "I don't collect waste products, and I don't collect garbage. Even if I do, there is still a deadline for refunding the full price of defective products. It has passed this village long ago."

Another woman said: "Didn't you cry and wait for him forever when you got divorced? Didn't you say that you can't let the child have no father's love? Then I will pay you back now, okay?"

After going back and forth, Pei Xu finally figured it out.The man in bed number four got sick, and his second wife didn't want to take care of him for the rest of his life, so she wanted to divorce and send him to the first wife.Pei Xu was dumbfounded, there is such an operation in this world?The man just curled up on the bed, his face not looking very good, and let the two women discuss his destination.

The first wife said: "I couldn't think about it before, but now I think about it. Why should I wait for him? I have money and a son. When I am old, someone will die for me. If I am happy, I can have another twilight relationship. I can't see it long ago." Come on this old quail."

The second wife said: "Then I don't care. Anyway, I broke up with him. I won't care anymore. If you don't care, just let him die."

After eating a banana, the mother-in-law sighed softly to Zhong Jurui: "Look, what a crime."

Pei Xu glanced at the old lady's expression, and was very suspicious that what the old lady was thinking was "Fight! Fight!"

The two women didn't discuss and came to a conclusion, they were unwilling to stay in the hospital any longer, and finally they broke up, and the ward fell silent instantly.The young man in bed No. [-] has also been sitting by the bed watching this emotional drama, holding his urine, and waited for the two women to leave before he scooped up the slippers with his feet and hurried to the toilet.

The mother-in-law wanted some hot water to wipe her hands, and called Zhong Jurui: "Ju Rui!"

The two responded at the same time.

Zhong Jurui looked up at the aisle, and the person in bed No. [-] scratched his head in embarrassment, and said, "Huh? I thought they were calling me. My name is Chen Jiarui. I'm sorry."

The mother-in-law smiled and waved her hands, saying it was fate.Chen Jiarui also smiled, and walked to the toilet "slap-tap-tap" in his slippers.

Pei Xu put away the lunch box and told her mother-in-law that he was going back, and her mother-in-law asked Zhong Jurui to give it away.Zhong Jurui picked up the kettle and said, "Let's go, I'll go to the water room to fetch some water."

They walked down side by side, looked at each other, and suddenly couldn't help laughing.

The old God Pei Xu said: "The world is so lively."

"It's as if you have experienced any storms." Zhong Jurui said, "You are so idealistic because you have never seen any storms."

Pei Xu said "Hey": "Why are you talking about me all of a sudden?"

"You said yesterday that you would sign up to do research in some mountainous area during the summer vacation. Is it true?"

"That's it." Pei Xu said, "Of course it's true. I'm currently writing a project application and preparing materials. I still have to go to the school's project to apply for reimbursement."

"What are you going to investigate?"

"There is a graduate student who wants to collect some materials for her graduation thesis, and Lin Ke wants to see their cultural customs. I just went to join in the fun, and I will know what I can find when I go."

"Is this an event at your academy?"

"No, I discussed with Lin Ke and the others to do a field survey, out of interest." Pei Xu thought about it, "It was the Spring Festival when I asked them to count me as my head, and my grandma was fine. Wait for the summer vacation. The operation has been done long ago, I don’t think I’m needed that much, right? If you need me here, I’ll think of a way.”

Zhong Jurui doesn't really need Pei Xu to take care of his grandmother all the time.After all, to grandma, Pei Xu is still an outsider, no matter how good he is, it's strange that he comes too often.

What worries him more is that Pei Xu's heart is too wild.

Getting closer to the society, Zhong Jurui is also more and more aware of some rules.There are some meaningful things that are useless and cannot be exchanged for real benefits.Children whose families cannot provide resources have to pay more to get what they want, and they don't have so much leisure time to waste-it's a luxury due to interest.He had inquired about the newspaper that Pei Xu wanted to go to, but it was not that easy to get into. The background of a famous school and super ability were just the basic threshold, and five points of connections and five points of luck were required to pass the threshold.I heard that people were going to do fieldwork in the mountains—I didn’t think about what to study, so I excitedly said that I would go too. It was really impulsive.With this time, it is clear that you can find a big newspaper that is not so difficult to get into, go in and exercise, and accumulate some network resources.He is a science and engineering student himself, and he knows that when looking for a job, he pays special attention to internships and awards, and it must be the same for liberal arts.Pei Xu's new media internship in his freshman year made him very disappointed in the media circle, and he never found another internship after that, writing nonsense every day, Zhong Jurui was very worried about it.

He told Pei Xu what he thought, and Pei Xu nodded perfunctorily, saying that he knew it well.

Zhong Jurui understood that Pei Xu would not change his mind.Both of them are the kind of people who believe in it and die.He thinks that maybe he will grow up when Pei Xu finds a job by himself, but in his heart, he is reluctant to let Pei Xu hit the wall. He hopes that Pei Xu can fulfill all his wishes smoothly more than anyone else.

—But life is not so kind.

"Assessing the value of something by its usefulness or not, it sounds very philistine, but..." Zhong Jurui sighed, "I won't say it, it seems that I am meddling and long-winded."

Pei Xu thanked him for not continuing.He's actually a bit of a nerd at the core, if someone else said this to him, he would definitely refute in a weird way.But knowing that Zhong Jurui was doing it for his own good, he just went in with his left ear and out with his right ear, and never let this contradiction affect his feelings.

He watched Zhong Jurui walk into the boiling water room, thinking a little tiredly that people can never understand each other.He wanted to go to that big newspaper not because of its reputation in the industry and its platform resources, but because that newspaper had a chief writer who had written several shocking reports.He asked Pei Han about it, but he didn't know who it was. He wanted to go to that newspaper office for this person.

Zhong Jurui may not be able to understand such a motive in his life.For Zhong Jurui, professionalism is to make money and service, and making money is to serve his family, because it is crazy for a person who has never met to bet on his career and doesn't care how much he earns.

Pei Xu understands Zhong Jurui's incomprehension. Their family environment and growth background are different, and it is normal to have these differences.If it wasn't because Zhong Jurui fell in love with him, his neurotic one-sided crush would have been considered crazy.He is impulsive, idealistic, and romantic. Because of Zhong Jurui's saying "it blooms because of anger", he can look at this person who has never met before, because he sees Zhong Jurui struggling for his family like him and empathizes , because several coincidences believe that this is God's will.He can understand the source of his emotions, but sometimes he is confused why Zhong Jurui likes him—how Zhong Jurui, who is steady, materialistic, and rationalistic, has been tricked.

And this steady, social, and rational Zhong Jurui might have been worrying about him for a long time, but he just kept silent.Pei Xu could only force himself not to think too much.

When Zhong Jurui returned to the ward, her mother-in-law had already chatted happily with that Chen Jiarui. This eloquent young man seemed to have established a revolutionary relationship with her mother-in-law as a patient.

The mother-in-law said, "Aren't you a local? Why don't your parents come to take care of you?"

Chen Jiarui said: "I have a small problem, I don't need to come."

Zhong Jurui poured hot water into the basin, wrung out a warm towel, and wiped her mother-in-law's hands carefully.

Chen Jiarui sat for a while, and when it was time for an infusion, he climbed onto his bed, put on the blindfold embroidered with "I can't see through" from Taobao in the Forbidden City, and stopped talking.

The ward fell into silence again.The second bed was still staring at the phone, the screen was glowing with a faint blue light, and the man in the fourth bed turned his back to everyone, motionless.The mother-in-law also snored slightly.

Zhong Jurui was lying on the folding bed specially used for accompanying the family members, tossing and turning unable to sleep.This week, grandma will have surgery to remove the cancerous part, and then she will consider chemotherapy as appropriate.Zhong Jurui didn't dare to search for gastric cancer-related entries on the Internet. The survival rates found were more and more frightening. He couldn't understand the professional literature, and he was trembling when he heard what the doctor said.

On the day of grandma's actual operation, he was even more nervous and couldn't help shaking his hands.He wanted to call Pei Xu, but he didn't know what to say. Calculating the time, it seemed that Pei Xu happened to have a class, so it was not convenient to answer the phone.

Someone handed him a bottle of water and sat down beside him.

When Zhong Jurui turned around, it was Chen Jiarui who took the water and said thank you

Chen Jiarui said, "Your hands are shaking."

Zhong Jurui smiled embarrassingly, and asked him why he came here.

"I'm going for a walk." Chen Jiarui looked at the light at the door of the operating room, "I'm going to have an operation in two days, come and see. So that's how it feels like someone is waiting outside the door." He stood up and patted his buttocks, "Will you No matter how worried you are, you can only wait, why don't you just relax, or when your mother-in-law comes out, I'm afraid you'll faint first."

Zhong Jurui nodded, thanking him for his kindness.

Chen Jiarui got excited and suggested: "You can walk on all fours and imagine yourself as a gorilla in the wilderness, or a wild wolf who has lost his lover."

Zhong Jurui: "..."

Chen Jiarui first demonstrated by himself, using his hands and feet to climb a few steps in the corridor, enthusiastically asked Zhong Jurui to try.

Zhong Jurui looked at the psychopath and said with difficulty: "No, the hospital floor is very dirty."

Chen Jiarui said discouragedly: "Don't try it out, it's actually very useful. When you're anxious and suffering, take two steps like a reptile, and you'll want to laugh, and then you'll be able to cheer up."

"Do you often do this?"

Chen Jiarui was stunned: "It used to be like this, but after I got used to it, I didn't find it funny anymore, so it was useless."

After much deliberation, Zhong Jurui still felt that the gentleman was sick, so he stopped talking to him.

This year's spring was extremely long.

In the past, Zhong Jurui always felt that summer would arrive just as soon as the weather warmed up. This year, because of his grandmother's surgery, he counted the days and felt that he couldn't make it through.

There is a street near the hospital. The catkins started to fall in May. Before the catkins drifted away, the city government decided to dig up these trees and replant them with camphor trees that would not lose the catkins.Zhong Jurui passed by the construction team, and there were only pits left to be filled on the road, which proved the existence of those willow layers.

Grandma's situation is really not optimistic, and there are a bunch of proper nouns that I can't understand. I give a simple conclusion that chemotherapy is still needed, but it depends on the patient's wishes. After all, chemotherapy is very painful when they are old. They couldn't hold on.

"If the chemotherapy follow-up is good, you can live for five or six years. If it is not good, it will be the worst result."

"What about chemotherapy?"

"If you are optimistic, it will take less than a year. If you are not optimistic... Of course, the recovery of different patients is different, and there are also cases."

There are two pimples on Zhong Jurui's forehead, which are caused by anger.He murmured, "Thank you doctor, I'll think about it again."

He walked towards the ward in a nonchalant manner, then took out his mobile phone and called Pei Xu in a daze.

"Hey, talk to me." Zhong Jurui leaned against the wall in the stairwell, "Don't ask grandma, don't ask me, just say whatever you want, talk something happy, don't stop."

Pei Xu was stunned on the other end of the phone for a long time, and said, "Then let me tell you some funny dirty jokes."

He was very patient and spoke one after another.

Zhong Jurui frowned and listened, he laughed dryly, tears kept streaming down the corners of his eyes.

☆、Chapter 43

Pei Xu was so sunburned that he couldn't open his eyes, he had a premonition that the skin on his neck would be peeling.I thought that there were trees in the mountainous area, which could provide shade, but the stone roadside was bare along the way.The whole world is like a big oven, and the salt is half cooked to him.The only parasol I brought was given to the senior sister and Lin Ke out of gentlemanly demeanor. Pei Xu fumbled in the bag for a long time before he found out a sunscreen - and it was a fake cottage bought temporarily in the town The product is called Anasha, and I don't know if it will be poisoned after using it.Pei Xu gritted her teeth, squeezed some out and wiped it on her cheeks.

Lin Ke turned around and asked Pei Xu how long he had to go, and was taken aback by Pei Xu's pale face of a Japanese kabuki.

"Fuck, this sunscreen can't be wiped off." Pei Xu took a look at the reflection of the phone screen, and the hair all over his body exploded.

"Wash your face when you get to the village later." Lin Ke said, "Why are you so dry? Would you like to go under the umbrella and let's squeeze together?"

Pei Xu didn't want to squeeze under the umbrella, the sweaty skin contact would make him feel uncomfortable all over.

"I don't want to play with three people and four legs." He wiped his sweat again. I am afraid that he doesn't need to wait until the village to wash his face, the sweat can wash away the poor-quality sunscreen.

After walking for about 10 minutes, we arrived at the place.

Lin Ke stood at the door and shouted, "Xiao Man!"

A girl in beige short-sleeves came out of the door and said with a smile, "You guys are here."

Pei Xu and his team's project is very complicated. It is disguised as a summer academic project, and it is also mixed with the important task of collecting materials for the graduation thesis, and it comes with the selfish desire of sightseeing and seeing the customs.In the end, there must be two academic outputs, and the research directions are not the same. The academic topic is about the current situation of rural sex education, and the graduation thesis is about the relationship between rural cadres and the masses, so the task of interviewing is very heavy.When they came here the first day, they knocked on the door of a house, and they were regarded as suspicious by the village cadres. After a long time of questioning, they heard that college students were engaged in academic research and let them go. Because they were worried, the village sent a little girl to follow, saying It is to cooperate with their guides, in fact, it is because they are afraid that they will ask some bad questions.

Lin Ke didn't have any objections. They didn't know the local dialect, and the old man couldn't understand what he said. It was all thanks to this small local company to translate into Mandarin.

"Female soldier, are you going to report to the village secretary today?" Pei Xu joked.In the first two visits, the little girl had to tell the village party secretary who they were looking for and what they asked. Later, it turned out that they only asked the parents about their family's complaints, and the village cadres no longer cared about them.Pei Xu knew in his heart that only young people in this place went out to make a living, few people from outside came in, academic programs were unheard of, and it was normal for the cadres to be vigilant, so they didn't take it seriously.

The little girl shook her head and said shyly, "Is it hot? Let me press some well water to wash your face."

The senior sister quickly said: "I also want to wash my face. Xiao Man, why are you so enthusiastic about Pei Xu? Are you treating Pei Xu differently depending on his face?"

Lin Ke stood in the shade and fanned the wind with his hands: "Don't tease me, the little girl hasn't graduated from junior high school yet."

As expected, Xiao Man blushed, but her face had an indelible redness from the sun and the wind, so she couldn't be seen.

Well water poured on his head, Pei Xu finally came back to life, walked a few steps away, put his hands on his knees, closed his eyes like a dog and shook his head, shaking off the water droplets from his hair.This will not be violent, his face is much paler than before.

"Senior sister, looking at the face is just a need for human existence." Pei Xu raised his eyebrows very smugly, and said to the little girl, "Stick to your aesthetics, your aesthetic orientation is right."

"Pei Xu, do you really not use waterproof liquid foundation?" Lin Ke looked closer, "You are a big man, why do you manage your skin so well?"

"Natural beauty is hard to give up." Pei Xu said regretfully, "I absorb the essence of the sun and the moon every night."

"You become a genius!"

Listening to their bickering, Xiao Man secretly laughed while pumping the well water.

They rested for a while and visited the villagers as planned.Pei Xu watched the girls enter the house, found a shady place under the wall, and called Zhong Jurui.

The mother-in-law finished her first chemotherapy and has not been discharged from the hospital yet. Pei Xu is concerned about the situation.

"Sleeping." Zhong Jurui asked, "How are you doing? Are you going well?"

"It's okay." Pei Xu rubbed his neck, "It's too hot, the back of my neck hurts, and I feel like I'm going to get sunburned. Maybe there's no aloe vera gel in this damn place."

"Then you should pay attention to sun protection." Zhong Jurui rubbed his temples wearily.

Then there was nothing to say.

Pei Xu laughed twice, and said tentatively, "Are you tired? You should also have a good rest. I'm going to do research, so I won't tell you more."

"Ah."

Pei Xu quietly waited for Zhong Jurui to hang up the phone, but the other end did not hang up immediately.The two of them were holding their phones, and the call time jumped for another ten seconds. Pei Xu heard the noise in the hospital over there, and the cicadas here.

Pei Xu thought, what else did Zhong Jurui want to say? He was about to ask, but hung up.

beep.

I really can't figure it out.

There were broken bricks piled up at the base of the wall, as well as several rusty tin cans that were half buried in the soil.Pei Xu stood there for a while, then looked up and saw Xiao Man.

"Why don't you go as an interpreter?"

"Today, this family can speak Mandarin." The interviewee is in his early thirties and has a slight accent in Mandarin, but there is no obstacle to communication, so Xiaoman is not needed.

"I know where there is aloe vera, do you want it? Can it be made into aloe vera gel?" Xiaoman squatted on the ground, looked at the ants for a while, and summoned up his courage to ask.

Pei Xu was stunned for a moment before realizing that the little girl had heard him call just now, and she probably heard her complaining that this place is a ghost.Embarrassed, Pei Xu said no, just wait for two days.

In the past two days of contact, he learned that Xiaoman's parents took her younger brother to work outside, leaving her to live with her grandfather, who had a bad temper and always failed to take good care of the adolescent girl.Pei Xu sometimes thinks, maybe she is not as lucky as Zhong Jurui, at least Zhong Jurui has her mother-in-law who loves her wholeheartedly, and this little girl is left here by herself, but her younger brother can follow her parents, and the family of three come back to kiss each other during the holidays It's hot, I don't know what Xiao Man feels like.Thinking of this, he became more patient, and just stood at the base of the wall watching the little girl dig a beer bottle cap from the ground with broken tiles.

—A girl of her age shouldn't be playing this.but