camouflage

Resisting the drowsiness, he stayed up until seven o'clock in the morning to hand over get off work with Liu Qiang. Shu Xia called Mei Ting, but no one answered after ringing for a long time. He suppressed the bad feeling in his heart and got on the bus in Dawanzi rush back.

There were very few people leaving the city early in the morning. There were only four people in the car including the driver, an old man in his [-]s and [-]s, and a girl in a school uniform from an unknown school.The driver was yawning and driving on the potholed road, the bus was panting, even if there were few passengers, he still stopped at each stop, Shu Xia also shook back and forth as the car stopped and walked, her heart was shaken It's all messed up.

When I went back, the house was as quiet as ever. The three hens were screaming in the cage. Seeing him clucking and pecking at the chicken cage, Shu Xia turned around and went to the yard by the door to grab two rotten Chinese cabbages and throw them away. Going in, three old hens rushed up immediately.

The door was left open, and he went in to put the bag in the room.

"mom?"

Called twice, but no one answered, he went to Mei Ting's room and knocked on the door: "Mom?"

"Arguing with your mother, courting death!"

Shu Daqing's rude voice.

Shu Xia frowned, kicked open the door, and saw Shu Daqing lying on the bed wrapped in a quilt, his mother huddled in a corner, his face was covered in bruises, staring blankly at the ground without saying a word.

Furious, Shu Xia grabbed the blue plastic stool next to him and threw it at Shu Daqing's body.

The stool immediately broke a leg.

Shu Daqing wailed in pain, got up and pointed at him and cursed, "Shu Xia, you son of a bitch, I am your father, you will be struck by lightning, wicked son, unfilial, sooner or later the sky will be struck by lightning..."

Shu Xia was furious and typed again: "I told you, don't hit my mother again, you are so fucking hard of hearing, right! You bastard!"

Shu Daqing was beaten so that he could only hide on the other side of the bed, and pointed at Shu Xia with a ferocious face: "You son of a bitch, you wait for me, I will not let you go, you wait for me." Look, I didn't find anything convenient, so I threw the quilt over in anger, Shu Xia turned sideways to avoid it.

"Okay, come on!" Shu Xia kicked the corner of the bed, kicked the bed three feet away, and pushed Shu Daqing against the corner.

"Shu Xia, you fucking son of a bitch, come here, help me, my son is beating me! Come here!"

Shu Xia flung the stool over and hit Shu Daqing on the head, so frightened that he shrank in the corner, not daring to speak, his eyes flickered with sparks.

"Call it, call it whatever you want, let everyone know your virtue." He wiped his hair and pointed to the outside, "Are you still a man?"

"I am your father, you will be struck by lightning, you will be crushed by a car when you go out, and you will fall into a cesspit when you walk, you bastard, you son of a bitch..."

"You'd better pray for my early death!" Shu Xia was so angry that she wanted to beat him up.

Shu Daqing was stunned by his ferocious expression, and after a few seconds, he started crying, shouting, and being extremely rude.

Shu Xia ignored him and went to pull Mei Ting who was hiding in the corner. She kept muttering, trembling with fear, "Don't hit me, please, don't hit me..."

Shu Xia closed her eyes, suppressed her anger, calmed down, squatted down and spoke softly: "Mom, don't be afraid, I'm back, shall we go out?"

"Xiao Xia, you're finally back. Mom is in so much pain that she's going to die of pain! You're not coming back, uh... Mom is so scared..." Mei Ting grabbed Shu Xia's arm, as if grabbing a life-saving hand. The straw tried his best to pinch it into the flesh. Enduring the pain, he pulled him up.

"Mom, don't be afraid, I'm here." With a soft tone, he took Mei Ting out of the room and sat in the living room. Only now did he see that the sofa was broken and was about to fall apart.

He squatted in front of her and comforted her softly, "Mom, don't be afraid, I'll get the medicine." Patting her knee, he went to his room to find the medicine box.

All the valuables at home are kept in his room, and they are locked when he is not around, in order to prevent Shu Daqing from selling them off.

The TV, refrigerator, and air conditioner at home, as long as they were valuable... were all taken away by him.

Shu Xia didn't even know what valuable things were left at home, so he dug out the medicine box, squatted in front of the bookcase, sighed deeply, and went out after calming down his irritable mood.

Mei Ting's face was swollen, because she was too thin to tell it was swollen, it was bruised and purple, Shu Xia gently wiped it with alcohol, she frowned in pain, and kept muttering in her mouth, with tears and snot coming together Down.

He squatted in front of her, squeezed the sofa cover tightly, a little resentful: "I told you yesterday, I told you to ignore him and hide, why didn't you listen, why didn't you listen to me?"

"I listened, but he was drunk, shouting...crying hungry, I couldn't hold back...I told him there was food in the kitchen, and he got angry, I hid, but...but he quickly closed the door It's smashed, I can't dodge it...I didn't mean it...uh...I really dodged, Xiao Xia."

"...Forget it, don't cry, I have to wipe it again, it's not me that hurts."

Shu Xia wiped her clean, her face was covered with bruises, there was no way to use a Band-Aid, he rummaged through the medicine box, but there was nothing that could be used, so he could only pour aspirin on a bandage and wrap it around her.

"Does it hurt?" He asked, "Are there any other injuries?"

Mei Ting shook her head. Shu Xia heaved a sigh of relief and put away the medicine box. When she turned around, she heard Mei Ting whisper, "Yesterday, he...he touched...touched me."

Shu Xia's medicine box fell on the ground, and his mind was buzzing. A swarm of bees flew by. He turned his head and frowned at her, suppressing his voice: "You...you say it again!"

"He...I couldn't dodge, so he hit me, and I struggled, but he...Xiao Xia, will my mother die? You said...Will I die...Woooo...why..."

Shu Xia's brain exploded, blood was pouring out to his head, how dare he...fuck it!

He kicked open the half-closed door, tore off the sheet on the bed and wrapped it around his hands, pulled up Shu Daqing who was squatting in the corner, and punched him in the face.

"Damn it, who told you to touch her! Ah, the one who warned you at the beginning, don't touch her, you are fucking looking for death! Bastard, bastard..."

He punched and punched, turned a deaf ear to Shu Daqing's slapstick, his mind was full of AIDS, there was no cure, and there was no end to death... Why, why did he treat him like this?

why?

Furious, he didn't care about the severity of his attack, and turned a deaf ear to his voice.

Shu Daqing was so beaten that he couldn't stand up, and hugged his head in the corner of the wall.

Shu Xia stood up slowly on the bed, threw off the quilt in his hand, showing clean hands, wiped the tears from his face, and walked out slowly with his limp legs.

Looking at Mei Ting crying with her shoulders shrunk, he sniffed and wiped away all the tears.

"Get up, let's go to the hospital for a checkup. Maybe... maybe there will be a turnaround." After he finished speaking, he went to his room and took out a box from under the brick under the bed. Inside was the card he used to save his life, 5000 yuan. Yuan money, not willing to spend, now, nothing.

He changed his clothes. He bought a black coat last year. His mother secretly saved money to give him a birthday present. Today was the last time he wore it.

Remind him that she is his mother and his responsibility, she cannot escape or hide.

When I came out, I saw that she was still crying and she didn't change her clothes, so I knew she was crying.

He suppressed his anger and tried to keep a gentle tone: "Go and change your clothes, we're going to the hospital."

"But... But Mom has no money, forget it!" She cried and didn't move.

"I have it." Shu Xia whispered, "I have it, I'll give it to you, go change your clothes, understand?" He gritted his teeth, suppressing the mentality that was about to collapse.

Along the way, they were all silent, Mei Ting was in a trance, leaning on the chair next to the back door of the bus, Shu Xia was standing next to her, looking at the notice board of the bus, the next stop was Yushi Station...

He kept staring at the bus at the next stop to remind the town hospital that it was here, and then he came back to his senses and dragged Mei Ting to the gate to wait.

He knows the level of the town hospital, and he also knows that the incubation period of AIDS is about half a month, but he doesn't know what he can do if he doesn't check it.

He was silent all the way, watching Mei Ting enter the gynecology room, leaning against the outside wall, waiting quietly, time passed very slowly, but also quickly, he didn't know how long he waited, but when the doctor called him, his legs were very painful. Ma, I didn't hear what the doctor said clearly, so I just took Mei Ting outside.

"Xiao Xia, you wait here, mother can go in alone." Shu Xia finally realized, looking at the sign in front saying "HIV Ward" and the blue sign next to it: contact isolation, he nodded blankly.

There was a seat outside the door, he went to sit down, someone looked at him strangely, he didn't want to pay attention, didn't want to listen, buried his head in his knees, let the tears fall drop by drop, crying silently.

The blows of life shattered his willpower again and again.

After an unknown amount of time, the nurse called him, and he turned his head and wiped away his tears, and followed inside.

The doctor is a middle-aged woman, with eyes open, looking at him with no expression, Shu Xia doesn't want to guess any results, just wait for the announcement.

"The test result is currently negative. The incubation period of this disease is quite long. It depends on the patient's physical fitness. You can't find anything at the moment. You go back and wait, and come back to check after two weeks. If it is negative by then, it will be fine. This paragraph Take time, pay attention to hygiene, keep a distance from pathogens, and that's it!"

Shu Xia nodded, knowing the result.

When Shu Daqing was found out, he checked the relevant information, and he had nothing to say, so he took Mei Ting home.

It was silent all the way again.

Mei Ting didn't say a word, like a marionette, he walked wherever he pulled.

As soon as I got home, I saw Shu Meilan at the door of his house. When I saw Shu Xia coming, I immediately shouted: "Hey, where are you going? I shouted for a long time but no one answered. I have been waiting for more than ten minutes. Today Are you still going to sell vegetables?"

Shu Xia apologized embarrassingly: "I'm sorry, my mother is not in good health today, and she just came back from the hospital when she fell ill again. I'm really sorry."

"Oh, I looked fine yesterday, why did I get sick again, forget it, forget it, then I'll go first."

Shu Xia sent her away with a smile, and brought Mei Ting back to the house when she saw the person walking away.

Shu Daqing woke up, sitting on the sofa smoking a cigarette, his face was bruised and purple, the blood was not wiped off, his mouth was dirty, "Yo yo yo, the son who beat me is back..."

Shu Xia didn't care, he didn't want to talk or hit anyone, he just felt tired and just wanted to find a place to lie down without thinking about anything.

"Xiao Xia, mommy will cook for you!" Mei Ting was a little afraid of Shu Daqing, restless and could only find something to do.

"No need, I'm not hungry, just take care of yourself." He was in no mood and had no appetite to eat.

This home is such a mess that it's annoying to watch.

He returned to the room sullenly, and locked the door from the inside.

His eyes were sore and astringent, and he didn't sleep all night. He lay on the bed, unable to close his eyes, and felt pain like needle pricks.

Listening outside, Shu Daqing apologized, begging for forgiveness, this kind of drama has lasted for four or five years, he has become numb, and only Mei Ting can accept him, as long as he begs and apologizes more, and his tone is as low as dust, at that time Mei Ting will compromise and forgive him.

He's tired of these dramas!

Also very upset.

Pulling the quilt up to cover his head, he was groggy, his mind was a mess, obviously his body couldn't bear it anymore, he was tired and sleepy, but his mind was so messed up that he couldn't close his eyes.

It was quiet outside, and he couldn't help guessing whether Mei Ting would forgive him this time?

Tossing and turning, he took out his mobile phone and plugged in the earphones, found some light music to help him fall asleep, dazing, listening to the sound of the waves, retracted into the quilt, and let himself go.

I thought I couldn't fall asleep, but I fell asleep anyway.

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