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Town Hospital, Inpatient Department.

Shu Xia leaned on the single bed and buried herself in the English test paper, with Oxford dictionaries and English textbooks next to her, and the only sound in the whole ward was the sound of writing and breathing.

"Xiao Xia, mom is fine. Go back to class quickly, don't delay your studies." On the hospital bed, Shu Xia's mother, Mei Ting, looked concerned. She looked weak after a long illness, her hair was yellow and messy, and her face was full of concern. I'm so thin that only a layer of skin remains, but I'm in pretty good spirits today.

As soon as she opened her mouth, it was like turning on the torrent switch, and the sound of breathing, coughing, turning over in the ward... followed one after another.

"Mom, don't worry about my affairs. My grades haven't dropped. You should rest well. It's the same when I study here." Shu Xia looked up at her, then buried her head and continued to do the questions.

There were three people living in the ward, his mother, an old man, and a middle-aged woman who was about the same age as his mother.

"Your son is so filial!" said the middle-aged woman, her voice was so hoarse that she couldn't speak, but Shu Xia hoped that she could be quieter.

I took out the earphones from the white-washed backpack and stuffed them into my ears, turned up the volume, and felt that the whole world was quiet!

Shu Xia's biggest advantage is that the things he doesn't want to hear come in his left ear and come out of his right ear. He didn't remember a single word of the conversation between his mother and the middle-aged woman.

When the English test papers were finished, they were still chatting, talking about everything, nothing more than eating, drinking and gossip.

Shu Xia looked at the silent old man with some sympathy, he must be annoyed too!

"Mom, I'll bring you food. You take care of yourself and call the nurse if you need something, okay?" After giving instructions, Shu Xia checked again and again, seeing that there was no hot water in the thermos, she hurried to boil water again. The middle-aged woman said at the moment the door was closed: "Your son is so filial!"

Shu Xia paused for a moment, as if she didn't hear it, she went to the water room to fetch water.

When they came back, they were still talking.

He checked to make sure everything was fine, packed his schoolbag, and said to his mother, "Mom, I'm going back first!"

Mei Ting nodded, "Okay." He opened the door and went out.

"Your son is so good! He is studying very well!" the middle-aged woman said again.

The town hospital is not big, the inpatient building is only four floors high, his mother lives on the third floor, and the decoration is a bit old, the brick-like white tiles reflect stubbornly in the sun, some are damaged and stained, and there is no chance of reflection No.

There are many patients at the door, with food and drink in their hands, and they compare themselves with other patients who are suffering from the same disease. My body is failing, I have heart disease, high blood pressure, and I don’t know how long I can live... The voice is loud , Shu Xia glanced at him, looking at the very muscular middle-aged man, holding hot and sour powder in his hand and hula breathing vigorously.

Most of the people in this hospital are sick, and they want to tell the whole world that I can eat, sleep, and jump when I have so many illnesses.

Shu Xia put the earphones in her ears and turned up the volume, and went out from the winding garden. The hospital was built in the 80s and [-]s and has not been remodeled until now. Many facilities are relatively old, but the garden is more interesting.

Shu Xia would go around the garden every time, after seeing the flowers and plants, her mood improved.

There are no benches in the garden, so no one comes to wander around. It is much quieter than the hospital gate.

There is a bus stop at the entrance of the hospital. There are many people, but the bus has not come yet.

He walked over slowly and blended into the crowd. The conspicuous school uniform was out of place in the group of people. Now is not the time for the students to rest. The eyes from the side glanced over for a while, with the eyes of "this child must not be good at studying, skipping classes, and not good enough", which is too much I whispered to the people around me a little bit, and I didn’t forget to take a sneak peek, look, I’m still wearing a school uniform, to see if I’m right.

What Shu Xia has never lacked since she was a child is gossip. She has long cultivated the ability to have nothing to do with herself. Everyone is drunk and I am alone awake.

"Young man, I didn't go to class today. Are you uncomfortable?" The bloated aunt next to her was half worried and half curious, and there was still two points of gossip. When she asked, the aunts around stopped their mouths and pricked up their ears. listen.

Shu Xia glanced at her impatiently and indifferently, "You really care too much!"

"You... you young man, what are you talking about? Auntie is also concerned about you, can you talk!" The aunt immediately shouted, and the people around were also pointing, impolite, whose family? , Tsk tsk, luckily it's not from our family, otherwise his legs would be discounted...

Shu Xia tilted her head and looked into the distance, not caring that she was in the center of public opinion.

The hospital's economy is not good. In the past, it was possible to earn some money from the coal mine. Later, after an accident in the mine, the coal owner ran away, leaving a mess, and the economy was in a downturn for a time.

The buildings are also scattered here and there, without planning, and they can be built wherever it is comfortable, which is very different from the county center.

The cement road is full of potholes. On both sides of the road, most of them are repairing electrical appliances, motorcycles, and decorations.

This road is called Huancheng Road, which means walking around the outside of the city, so the buses are also very broken, even if it is next to the hospital.

The car came quickly, and the pitch-black body was staggering on the potholed road, which could be seen from a distance. People at the bus station were crowded on the side of the road, occupying most of the road.

Shu Xia takes this bus every day, knowing that there are not many people, and almost everyone has a seat, but those who may enjoy crowding like to crowd together.

The bus wobbled for 2 minutes before arriving at the stop sign. With a thud, the bus came to a stop. The crowd found their target like a hornet's nest. They rushed up and squeezed at the door. The master kept shouting in the car: Back up, back down, The car door can't be opened, deaf, didn't hear it!

At this time, the aunt in front will step back a little bit, wait for the door to open, and swarm in. The master is calling for money, who has not put in money, and the back is urging to hurry up, hurry up, my grandson is crying at home Panic!

Shu Xia doesn't like to sit, those aunts like to carry baskets on their backs even when they have nothing to do, carrying baskets, big bags and small bags on their shoulders, one person's bus fare takes up two seats.

He stood by the handrail of the back door without holding it, because the aunt in front of him occupied it alone, so he could only pull the crossbar above his head.

It was still very hot at the end of September, and the smell in the car was mixed, steamed stuffed bun smell, sweaty smell, motor oil smell from the car, and someone who just dyed their hair, the wind blowing from the window, the smell of chemical dyes smell.

Shu Xia held her breath, holding her breath as much as she could, watching the houses outside the window slowly recede, gradually the number of houses decreased, the farmland increased, and the car stopped every time, and Shu Xia didn't know where else to go How are the stop signs designed? The stop signs here are based on the fact that there are few people, and there are many stop signs in places with dense houses. In sparsely populated places, there is only one stop every one or two kilometers.

The number of people in the car is slowly decreasing, but the voice of speaking has not decreased.

"The station ahead is Dawanzi Station. Passengers who need to get off, please get off at the back door and take your belongings with you."

As soon as the car door opened, Shu Xia jumped out of the car, feeling alive only when the fresh air came in.Dawanzi is a veritable place name. There is a lake here, which forms an encirclement circle between the three mountains, with the water in front and the mountains in the back. At that time, superstitious people repaired houses to see Fengshui, probably the same Fengshui master. There lived about a dozen families in the house.

Shu Xia's family is one of them.

In this village, his family is the most dilapidated, and it is easy to recognize.

When they were all using cement and steel bars, their house was a tile-roofed house, and when they were laying tiles, their house was still a tile-roofed house.

In the stone-paved yard, some garlic and onions were planted around the fence, a piece of green vegetables with drooping heads, and several pots of dry camellias.When Shu Xia went in, she picked up a few green onions, pulled a few vegetable leaves and threw them into the chicken coop. The skinny hens rushed up and ate them up.

The yard was in a mess, piled up with a few large wooden boards, a few pairs of unwashed shoes that hadn’t been worn all year round, a broom that fell on the ground, and other useless little things, it was a mess.

The house is very quiet, no one is there.

He took out the key and opened the wooden door that had been exposed to the weather. The house was in a mess as always, and the walls were full of awards, all of which were first prizes and No.1. Some were new, some had faded, and some had faded. The detached corner hangs on the wall.

Annoyed, he threw his schoolbag into his room and went to the kitchen to cook.

There is no food at home, even if he has cooking skills, it doesn't matter if he has no ingredients.

He suppressed his anger, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and kicked over the low wooden stool by his feet, venting the unknown anger in his heart, everything around him made him wish to escape far away.

"You son of a bitch is back? Didn't cook, I'm going to starve to death." A familiar drunken voice came from outside the door, Shu Xia compromised and lit the fire, just after looking at it, the electricity at home had already been cut off due to arrears.

Shu Xia was familiar with lighting the fire and pouring water into the pot, ignoring the roaring outside.

Shu Daqing staggered in, holding a bottle of white wine in his hand, reeking of alcohol, his clothes hadn't been washed for an unknown amount of time, and they were filthy.

"I'm asking you something, deaf, is it itchy, I want you to relax?" Shu Daqing leaned against the kitchen door, pointed at Shu Xia while drinking.

Shu Xia ignored him, and put firewood into the stove, filling the room with smoke, as if it was on fire.

Seeing that Shu Daqing was covering his nose, coughing badly, swearing and staggering out, he slowly reduced the firewood, looked at the flames in a daze, his mind was in a mess, a fire went out and then ignited in the bottom of his heart, ignited and then ignited. off.

He couldn't find a way to relax himself, so he took out his phone and planned to play a game to divert his attention.

Chicken eating games are popular recently. He doesn't know how to play them very much. He spends most of his time studying and taking care of his mother. He has no extra energy to understand.

While adding firewood to the stove, open the game interface.

Shu Xia didn't know much about eating chicken, so she skydived in a muddleheaded way, and couldn't control the parachute well, so she opened it early and floated in the air.

He didn't know where to go, so he could only open the small map and saw that there was a military base near him. He knew this, and he usually needed to go to these places to pick up equipment.

After finally landing safely, he realized that it was quite far from the military base. He opened the small map and walked towards the military base.

Unexpectedly, he was so lucky. He found a car as soon as he entered the entrance. He ran over excitedly, eager to try it. Unfortunately, before he figured out how to drive, he found that he was surrounded.

It's not easy to come in once, and you can't die in vain.

Shu Xia glanced at the IDs around her. That ID called me a tyrant you can't afford to mess with, and the level is quite high.

Not wanting to die early, he turned on the voice, intending to discuss it with the other party, and said softly in a low voice: "Hey, that ID calls me a bully friend you can't afford to mess with, hello, can you help me?"

Shu Xia spoke out her plan, and discussed gently: "Let's discuss, I'll take you across the bridge, but you have to protect me, how about it?"

After a while, a cold voice came from over there: "It's not that good, I can just shoot you down and steal your car."

Unwilling to give up, Shu Xia asked again: "Are you sure you won't discuss it any more?"

The other side said: "There is no negotiation."

Shu Xia doesn't have the habit of coercing people, since that's the case, forget it, he said in a low voice: "Okay, goodbye!"

You can't stand obediently and wait to die, how embarrassing!

Shu Xia messed around with the operation, and unexpectedly pressed the right button, and the car started.

But he didn't know the direction, so he could only drive in one direction at random, when a person suddenly appeared in front with a bomb in his hand, Shu Xia was so frightened that he rushed towards him.

It's all over!

Alas, I knew his technique was too bad!

The water in the pot boiled to the point of gargling, Shu Xia put the phone back into the bag, scooped up two bowls of rice in the rice tank, washed them clean, cut a little bit of bacon, put them in together, stirred them, and went to the yard again Pull a handful of vegetable leaves, and pull out an egg from the chicken coop.

Shu Daqing should have fallen asleep, and there was no noise, the surroundings became quiet, and occasionally he could hear chickens and dogs barking from other people's houses.

His mother has a bad stomach and can't eat hard food. Shu Xia can only cook some lean meat porridge for her. Today, Xiao Hua in the chicken coop is up to date, and she can even add an egg to her.

The porridge was ready, but Shu Xia didn't go to call Shu Daqing. After drinking, Shu Daqing would go crazy with alcohol and would do it. He was not a fool to provoke him.

Put a bowl for himself, take a few mouthfuls casually, taking advantage of the spare time, Shu Xia took out his mobile phone and continued to play, but the Internet was not very good, so he kept spinning in circles, he could only wait while eating.

After finally getting in, after the parachute jump, he ate the last bite.Seeing that it was running out of time, he withdrew directly, since he didn't know how to fight anyway.

He put the porridge into an insulated box, put a piece of golden fried egg on the compartment, and kept the rest warm in the pot.

Take the time to go to the bus stop sign, luckily, the bus came as soon as we got there, it was the same driver as before, and after seeing Shu Xia, he chatted with a smile, but Shu Xia didn't understand what he said, just nodded, after swiping the card, Go to the back door with your bag on your back.

The way back was much smoother, my mood suddenly became brighter, and the depression was gone.Suddenly thinking that today's English listening task has not been completed, he happily took out the earphones and punched them in his ears. There was good weather and a breeze outside the window, and he listened to the American accent in the earphones.

It was noon when we arrived at the hospital, and everyone was eating. Many family members like Shu Xia brought incubators and accompanied the patients in the wards, stairwells, and gardens. Everyone eats their own food.

There is an unwritten rumor among the older generation in the hospital that the food in the hospital cannot be shared. Life and death are impermanent. Maybe this meal is the last meal of others, so everyone tacitly eats their own.

In the ward, the family members of the old man and the middle-aged woman came over and were serving them for dinner.

When Shu Xia went in, she happened to meet the old man's family, a simple and honest middle-aged uncle who was the old man's nephew, who came to deliver meals every day and was going out with a bowl.

Shu Xia nodded to him and said hello: "Hi Uncle, are you finished?"

"Well, Xiao Xia is here, your mother was still talking about you just now." The middle-aged uncle said with a smile, and staggered the position to let Shu Xia go in.

"The bus is late today." Shu Xia explained, walking towards his mother's bed, "Mom, it's time to eat."

Mei Ting stood up with some difficulty, Shu Xia hurried over to help her, "Let's have porridge today, there are classes in the afternoon, I won't be here for long."

Mei Ting looked at him and asked, "Have you eaten?"

Shu Xia nodded, took out the insulated box from her schoolbag, and put it on for her. He was a good crafter, and when he opened the insulated box, the fragrance was overflowing, and the middle-aged aunt in the next bed could smell it.

Enviously said: "Did your son cook it? The cooking skills are really good!"

Shu Xia replied with a smile: "Thank you, Auntie!" with a polite alienation.

"You're welcome, your mother is really blessed. If I have such a good son, I will wake up from my dreams with a smile." The aunt has no eyesight and can't read other people's eyes.

Mei Ting also replied cheerfully: "Fortunately, it's just not as naughty as other children. You can get one or two awards every year, which is pretty obedient. If you want to talk about blessings, you are lucky, eldest sister. Look at your daughter-in-law coming every day." How filial to serve you!"

The aunt waved her hand a little bit indifferently, with a little disdain: "What's the matter, it's because of my son's face, if my son doesn't give me the money, how can she take care of me!"

Shu Xia glanced at her daughter-in-law. She had a low eyebrow and was pleasing to the eye. She was a soft-tempered little girl. She looked young and didn't know if she was an adult or not. She had a big belly and was feeding that scornful aunt one mouthful at a time. .

If his mother hadn't said this, Shu Xia would have thought she was her own daughter, so she worked so hard.

"Mom, I don't have enough time. After you finish eating, put it on the table. I'll collect it after class." Shu Xia picked up her schoolbag and glanced at her watch. It was already 01:30, and it would take 10 minutes to get there by car.

"Alright, you go first, don't be late!" Mei Ting nodded, watching Shu Xia disappear at the door.

Sighing, eating spoonful after spoonful, tears could not stop flowing.

Shu Xia's luck ran out at noon, and it might be time for the master to change shifts for dinner. The bus didn't come on time, so he couldn't wait any longer, so he could only rush towards the school with his bag on his shoulders.

Mei Ting's illness got worse this morning, and the hospital called him. He asked for a class leave, and he couldn't miss the afternoon class.Everyone called him Xueba, and they all thought he was very good, but it was because of his redoubled efforts. He was not born to be a Xueba, but acquired by hard work the day after tomorrow.

Missing a class once means that he has to spend more time to make up for it. After making up the east wall to make up the west wall, the schedule is disrupted.

In the afternoon, there are three subjects of science and comprehensiveness, which require a lot of energy to listen and understand.

It was already time when Shu Xia arrived at the school gate. The teacher on duty at the gate saw him and immediately came over and shouted: "What's going on, the bell is ringing for class, don't hurry up!"

He stood still, out of breath, with hot sweat on his forehead, and bent over to apologize: "I'm sorry, I will pay attention next time."

The teacher on duty knew him, so he didn't feel embarrassed, and patted him on the shoulder: "Forget it, go to class quickly, and wipe the sweat off your face."

Shu Xia nodded: "Thank you teacher!" She rushed into the classroom quickly.

When he arrived at the classroom, the physics teacher had already arrived. Seeing that he hadn't entered the classroom yet, he was so tired that he looked like he was being chased by a ghost, so he waved and said, "Come in, what are you doing?"

Shu Xia apologized, and obediently went to his seat, his deskmate Xu Yi made room for him, the teacher saw that everyone was coming, and started to give lectures.

Down there, some students were already getting ready to fall asleep. Shu Xia took out the physics book and turned to what I was going to talk about today. Xu Yi handed over a piece of paper: "Here, wipe it, why did you go?" ?”

Shu Xia shook her head, took the paper from him and wiped the sweat off her face, "I have some private matters, I missed the bus."

After finishing speaking, he sat upright, listened carefully and took notes. Xu Chen had no chance to talk to him again, so he could only turn around and lie on the table in a daze. He didn't study well, and he didn't have any interest in studying. He just came here every day in a daze. of.

Unlike Shu Xia, who has been working hard.

Xu En looked at him sideways, Shu Xia wiped the sweaty hair back with his hand, revealing a smooth forehead, Xu En discovered that Shu Xia actually had a beautiful tip, with a small bunch of hair protruding in the middle, and thick and stylish eyebrows. Those glasses get in the way and look goofy.He usually has smooth hair, a standard high school hairstyle, like a watermelon head with flat bangs cut with a bowl covered.

Fortunately, he is quite good-looking, with a small face and fair skin, so he will be able to see soon.

Sweat was still running down his cheeks, and there was some mist in his glasses. Seeing that Shu Xia blew up for a while to disperse the mist on the glasses, the mist was also tenacious, and soon filled his glasses again, so he continued to blow.

Xu Chen wanted to pick it for him.

Shu Xia's position was next to the window sill, the third row, the breeze blew in and dissipated the heat, and the glasses became clear, so Xu Chen couldn't see him take off his glasses.

The physics teacher was talking about the series and parallel connections of circuits. While listening, Shu Xia drew pictures on the draft paper and wrote related common formulas. His handwriting was very smooth and beautiful, very standard regular script.

Their class is a class of scumbags, but there is a top student, and the teacher speaks more seriously.

Shu Xia didn't study at this school from the very beginning, he was transferred from the first middle school, because of family reasons, he only transferred at the end of the first semester of high school, one exam refreshed the three views of the students, and the final exam of the second semester of high school directly dumped the grade No. More than .2100 points, ranking No.1.

The teacher's attitude towards the third class was very tangled, and he wanted to speak seriously, but few people listened, and the lecture was not very interesting.If you don't talk about it well, there are a few who have learned well and will let them down.

So try to follow the normal schedule, there is no high-intensity training like that of No. [-] Middle School, and it is not as casual as a vocational high school, drifting with the flow.

Shu Xia didn't dare to relax herself, so she tried to find more difficult problems to do and practice her hands.

"Ji Xi, please come up and do this problem." The physics teacher called out suddenly with the count roll. Shu Xia stopped the pen in her hand, looked up at the problem, and then silently calculated in her heart.

"Ji Xi? Are you here?" Seeing no response for a long time, the teacher called again.

Qi Xin raised her hand helplessly: "Teacher, Ji Xi is sick and asked for leave."

"Ask for leave again?" The teacher frowned, and started skipping class on Monday.

"Shu Xia, come here."

Shu Xia went to the stage obediently, took a chalk and drew a stroke on the blackboard, her thinking was clear, and she finished it very smoothly, without even calculating.

The teacher nodded in satisfaction and let him go down: "Student Shu Xia's solution is very simple, let's take a look..."

The physics class passed quickly, after class Shu Xia started to write a review.

Writing a review is considered extra homework and cannot take up his normal study time.

Dear teacher, dear students, I am Shu Xia from Class [-] and [-] of Senior High School. In response to the fight outside the school last week, I...

what?He fought back only in self-defense, and he was innocent in calculation.

Last Friday, his mother fell ill again, and Shu Daqing went somewhere to fool around, his mother clamored to see him, so Shu Xia had to take advantage of the noon time to visit her.

His mother is mentally weak. When she is good, she is a normal person. When she is not normal, she will bite and beat people. No one can stop her, as long as she is alone.

After comforting his mother, he ran back to school under the tired and helpless eyes of the nurse. There was not enough time, so he wanted to take a shortcut. Unexpectedly, he encountered a fight between Ji Xi and his group from his class and a gangster outside the school. in.

It was also very unlucky to meet Zhang Jun, the director of the Academic Affairs Office, that ruthless and selfless man, who overcorrected and dealt with them together.

Shu Xia didn't bother to explain.

Write on the draft paper: I feel deeply guilty. As a middle school student, I violated the regulations for middle school students and discredited the school...

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