Stay on time

so sleepy.He went over and hugged her. "Go back to sleep."

They all looked towards the back room, where their stepfather and younger brother were sleeping; after an hour, the stepfather would get up as usual to feed the cows and chickens, and the mother would go to the kitchen to cook and cook. It was still a busy day.

The sky began to light up, and there was a white waning moon, which looked like a crescent-shaped scar on Lin Qiao's arm - it was caused by Da Shui when he was a child.He thought back to the first day of the first lunar month, oh, what a beautiful day, the sound of firecrackers in the early morning, the smell of food with white smoke at noon, and the reunion and excitement of every family in the evening!But that is already a distant memory.

It's still early in the morning.Lin Qiao walked quietly.

It was snowing when Lin Qiao arrived in the afternoon.Thin rustling, sticking to the original snow shell, sprinkled with a layer of powder.That was the second time Lin Qiao entered the ward.He has been in good health and has never had a serious illness requiring hospitalization.The first time he entered was when his grandfather died.It was so long ago that he couldn't remember it clearly, only the nurses in white clothes and the scary smell of disinfectant were in his memory.

He looked in through the window. The child was sitting on the bed, with his arms wrapped in hospital gowns resting on the table, his shoulders were slightly slumped, and his head was turned to one side.As if meditating.

A nurse saw him and asked, "Hello, are you a visiting family member?"

"2401."

"That's the room." The nurse looked at him and asked talkatively, "Excuse me, are you Lin Ming's brother?"

"I'm."

"He has been waiting for you." She just smiled and walked away.

Lin Qiao thought of a time when he took his children to play in his department.He couldn't leave temporarily, so he put the child in the guard room.When he came out, he saw the guard showing a not-so-serious smile, and he talked to someone next to him, leading him in.Lin Ming looked up and saw Lin Qiao, jumped off the chair, ran over, and stood up a bit reservedly, but looked at him with burning eyes. "The world is really unpredictable." Lin Qiao thought.

The child saw him and laughed.

"I saw you as soon as you came in!"

There was no one around, so Lin Qiao closed the door.The child looked pale, and his hair was a little long and drooped slightly.But he was in good spirits and looked at him happily.There were a few gadgets on his bed, but it was still deserted against the white quilt.The child hugged him with open arms.Lin Qiao gave her a hug, moved a chair and sat beside her, "Where is your injury?"

As he spoke, he wanted to open it and look at it.

The child protected him and shook his head: "The doctor said the lungs are on." Lin Qiao didn't know much about medicine, but only knew that this was a serious problem, otherwise he wouldn't have been hospitalized.He looked sad, his eyes were downcast, and he was sighing deeply.

"I'm pain free now."

"It must have hurt at that time." Lin Changxi stabbed him twice at that time.No blood was seen the first time, so he stabbed the second time; after seeing the red color coming out of the wound, Lin Changxi threw the knife and ran away.The doctor said that the first stab was in the lungs, and the second stab was not deep, but it was a bit serious on the waist.Now Lin Ming's stomach is tightly wrapped in a white bandage, even if he takes off his clothes, he can't see anything.Fortunately, that day was in the evening, and the landlady saw Lin Changxi when he was out for a walk, and he had another troublesome detour.Otherwise, I'm afraid there will be too much blood loss.

Lin Qiao's anger rose again, and the child's eyes suddenly turned red.

Now the child looks whiter, and the red eyes are more obvious, and two tears flow down and drip on the quilt.Lin Qiao sat down next to the bed, hugged him with his left hand, and took out a tissue with his right hand to wipe the child's tears.The child's tears seemed to be wiped more and more. They were only a few drops at first, but after a while they stopped flowing, making a low whimper.

The child had just had the operation, and bled all over the floor again. After crying for a while, he lost energy, and fell asleep in Lin Qiao's arms.In fact, Lin Qiao stayed up for two days and one night. Near night, he almost dozed off and fell over.But caring about the child's wound, he leaned back and didn't dare to move, holding his mobile phone to read the news.

He dozed for a while, and awoke to find the child staring at him with wide open eyes.The child is thinner now, with no flesh on the cheeks, and the eyes appear to be very large.Lin Qiao woke up and said, "Are you hungry?"

He nodded.

"I'll go down and buy you food, it's already evening."

In fact, Lin Qiao really didn't eat. He rushed to the hospital after receiving the news, but he didn't feel very hungry, so he sat down quietly.After a while, a nurse came and asked a few questions, probably treating him as the parent of a child, telling him a lot of taboos about eating and drinking, and telling him to let the child rest well.Lin Qiao sent the nurse out, and turned off the lights with a "snap".The ward was on the fourth floor, and the street lamps outside had little light coming in, so it was pitch black.The curtain at the head of the bed dangled like a ghost.Lin Qiao groped and sat down on the empty bed next to him, and said with a smile, "I'm too lazy to go back, how about staying here with you all night?"

The child got into the quilt as if he didn't care, and said, "Do you want to sleep in that bed? The aunt on that bed just transferred to the ward today, and the quilt hasn't been changed yet. It's been covered for several days."

What's there, I don't dislike it.But Lin Qiao thought about it again, the child is turning a corner and wants someone to sleep with him, and he doesn't know how pitiful it is to be lonely all by himself.He simply hugged the quilt and covered the child's bed, took off his clothes and sat in.The child's body temperature was not cold, and his thin legs were half-bent under the blanket, like two firewood sticks.Lin Qiao followed the nurse's instructions, pressed the child's head under the quilt, and stretched his arms to play with the phone.But the child couldn't fall asleep, he hid in the quilt and rubbed left and right, he couldn't continue playing, so he also lay down, clasped his arms around the child, "Don't move, sleep."

This feeling was very novel to Lin Xiaoming. Lin Qiao's body temperature was very high, which made him feel hot; there was still a slight breath on the top of his head, which was very even.He thought he would not be able to fall asleep, but he fell into a dream, and woke up very late the next day, and the sun turned from east to south.When Lin Qiao woke up, he left a meal, but he was gone.

Chapter 12

The landlord had already gone to his daughter's house, so Lin Qiao had no choice but to visit the middle-aged man.His father and the landlord are distant relatives. I heard that the man moved here a few years ago and now runs a small supermarket nearby.Lin Qiao also often goes shopping there.But his home is not there.He lived next to Lin Qiao's yard - it was a simple small western-style building with blue and white tiles on the balcony.

Lin Qiao saw his supermarket from a distance.During the Chinese New Year, ordinary shops will be temporarily closed, but the man's house is very close, and he is basically in the supermarket during the day.The snow in front of his house was shoveled clean, revealing a smooth floor.The counter was further back, and there stood a young woman in a pink padded jacket.

She looked at Lin Qiao and asked, "What do you want to buy?"

Lin Qiao had already circled around the door. "I've come to see the shopkeeper. Is he there?"

The woman took two steps inside and shouted towards the stairs.A middle-aged man came out with all his clothes on.He knew the reason for Lin Qiao's visit, so he directly led Lin Qiao to his house.

"That's my daughter. Did you come back so early, spending the New Year in your hometown?"

Lin Qiao answered briefly, then asked him about the child.

"I don't know much about Lin Changxi. The police just told us that he has been arrested and will be sentenced to several years in prison. They are now contacting the child's uncle, and if possible, he will arrive in a few days."

"Are they reliable?"

"They're already the only ones who can take care of the kids."

But the children are far away from those uncles, they have their own children, how much other people will put their minds on it.Lin Qiao thought: What can I do?A neighbor who prefers children.But if it was him, he would try his best to make the children happy, at least he wouldn't have to worry about being beaten or scolded.He is not a person who can swear and beat others, especially those close to him.They have been together for a year or two, can friendship be broken at will?

Only one brother from Lin Changxi's hometown came, and he looked about 40 years old.His skin was an overexposed earthy black with deep wrinkled forehead lines.He was wrapped in a black coat and looked bloated.May have been sitting in the car for a long time, with a tired face.

He is Lin Changxi's eldest brother—the name is Lin Changqing, and the three of them are elders—asking the police, "Is this serious? How many years will he be sentenced?"

The police said vaguely, and the eldest brother bowed his head and stopped talking.His attitude was very cold and clear: "Look at the sentence, please don't involve us if it's minor or serious. It really has nothing to do with us." The police said that if nothing else happened, he should be Lin Ming's future The guardian is gone, and the uncle still looks calm and doesn't care.

The hospital was only a few bus stops away from the police station, and Lin Changqing went to visit the child with a tired face.He might not recognize his nephew on the hospital bed anymore, so he looked at him strangely and asked a few polite questions.

Lin Ming's face was gloomy from the moment his uncle entered the door, like a dark cloud over his head.He looked at Lin Qiao standing there for a while, and at the uncle beside the bed for a while.Before this man came, Lin Qiao had been sitting next to the bed.

There were three people sitting in the ward, but it was quiet.His uncle took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, smoked one, and then took another one to hand to Lin Qiao.Lin Qiao refused with a smile, and Lin Changqing took the lighter and went out.

The child suddenly became lively.He looked at Lin Qiao nervously: "Is he going to take me back?"

"No, you're not well yet.