Dead but not stiff

Shen's mother lay on the bed for nearly two days and two nights. On the evening of the third day, she opened her eyes in a daze, her body moved subconsciously, and then her drowsy consciousness began to return to the Lingtai.A surprise call sounded next to my ear, and Father Shen who was not far away excitedly got up from the sofa and ran over, grabbed her hand and hurriedly asked, "Are you awake? Is your head hurting? I'll call the nurse." .”

Mother Shen grasped her husband's hand with great effort, her lips trembled, and she asked him hoarsely, "Where's Shen Bai?"

Father Shen's face darkened, and he said in a deep voice, "It is said that there is something wrong with the company, let's leave him alone, I'll get you some porridge."

Mother Shen shook her head slowly, "Go...call him."

"Don't be self-willed. The doctor said that you should not be emotional these days. Take care of your body first."

Shen's mother still shook her head stubbornly, and repeated in a weak voice: "...call him."

Father Shen couldn't help it, he sighed heavily: "Okay, I'll call him."

He turned around to get the cell phone in his coat, but was held back by Shen's mother again. She hesitated for a moment, and then said quietly: "...don't wait, you use my cell phone to call Xiao Gu."

Father Shen looked at her with a complicated expression, and nodded.

Gu Xi'en, who was called to the hospital by Shen's father, stood outside the ward door and collected himself. He knew that he would have to pass this test, but when it came to him, he found that he still didn't dare.

Wu Jiaying said that he was guilty, but he was not wrong. He lacked maternal love since he was a child, so after the first meeting, Shen's mother's appearance was vague, and she gradually merged with the childhood grandma in her memory.And that disappointed and shocked look in his eyes that night was like a whip, hitting his heart heavily through the dusty years.

Gu Xien hesitated outside the door for a moment before slowly opening the door, Shen's father was nowhere to be seen, Shen's mother lay quietly as if asleep, there was a bowl of white porridge on the bedside table, but it was full and did not move at all.

Mother Shen opened her eyes when she heard the movement, turned her head slightly, looked at him and said softly, "Come in."

When Gu Xien walked to the bed, Mother Shen moved her body to adjust to a comfortable posture. Gu Xien quickly reached out to support her upper body, and helped her raise the pillow a little higher.Mother Shen breathed a sigh of relief, looked into his eyes and said, "Thank you."

Gu Xien's body paused suddenly, then he lowered his eyes and remained silent.

"I'm still old, and I can't stand it. A fall is about to kill me." Shen's mother sighed, holding Gu Xi'en's sleeve with her hand outside the quilt, "Mr. Gu, sit down."

Not Xiao Gu, but Mr. Gu.

Gu Xien looked at Shen's mother, who showed him a very faint smile, and said slowly: "Don't blame yourself, it was Auntie who was careless that night, so I don't blame you."

Gu Xien opened his mouth, Shen's mother shook her head, and the emotion in her eyes was unbearable for a moment: "You answer Auntie first, you and Shen Bai, are you two like what Wu Jiaying said?"

After Shen Bai stopped the car, he opened the door and walked down. Not far away, Xiao Liu, who had been waiting outside the gate of the construction site for a long time, trotted over in a panic, with a mournful expression on his face, and said incoherently: "Mr. You are resting..."

Shen Bai stopped his nonsense with a sullen face, and asked him while walking towards the construction site: "What's going on?"

Xiao Liu followed behind him, explaining quickly: "A worker got up in the middle of the night last night and ran to the base of the wall of the newly erected ancillary building to the west to urinate, and by coincidence, the building collapsed with a bang. , directly pressed him down. Isn’t this fatal?”

"How are people?"

"When it was dug out, there was still gas, and it was immediately sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. I arranged for someone to look at it. In addition, people from the Quality Supervision Bureau came early in the morning and said that the quality of the project would be re-inspected."

Shen Bai's heart sank, "Have all the relevant materials been prepared?"

Xiao Liu nodded with a sullen face: "Our engineering supervisor and Xiao Li are all there. By the way, Mr. Shen, is Mr. Gu back?"

Shen Bai paused, and Xiao Liu added in time: "Xiao Li said that some construction materials are in charge of Gu Gong. I called Gu Gong in the morning, but no one answered."

At this time, Gu Xien should still be sleeping on the big bed in his house. He confiscated his mobile phone and left it on the coffee table in the living room. It is understandable that no one answered it.

"Wait first." Shen Bai continued to walk forward, "Maybe the phone is not with me."

"Oh." Xiao Liu didn't ask any more questions, and automatically acquiesced in the setting that Mr. Shen knew everything about Mr. Gu.

The collapsed auxiliary building leaned in a brand-new ruin. A group of people wearing hard hats stood more than ten meters away. Engineer Xiao Li and another supervisor were surrounded by them, holding a pile of engineering works with extremely serious expressions. Documents, and kept saying something.

"Li Gong!" Xiao Liu called out to Xiao Li in the crowd, but after Xiao Li turned his head and saw Shen Bai, the expression on his face did not ease.He handed the document in his hand to the supervisor, ran over and whispered in a rather heavy tone: "Mr. Shen, things may be a little troublesome."

Shen Bai looked calm: "Be more specific."

"The second batch of steel bars we purchased did not meet the mandatory standards stipulated by the state. Two-thirds of the completed buildings used the second batch of steel bars. Now there is another accident, and I am afraid that we will be ordered to stop work."

Xiao Liu's eyes widened, he looked at Shen Bai as if asking for help, and said with a mournful face: "Mr. Shen, what... what should I do?"

Shen Bai narrowed his eyes: "The quality of the steel bars is not up to standard, what did the supervisor do during the acceptance check?"

"This is indeed a dereliction of duty by the supervisor," Xiao Li said, "but at that time, the purchase of this batch of steel bars was in charge of Gu Gong at Tianyuan."

Shen Bai seemed to be deaf suddenly, his eyes changed, and he asked, "Who are you talking about?"

Xiao Li hesitated and said, "It's Gu Gong, and there are traces of his signature on several documents."

Gu Xien looked at Shen's mother's eyes looking over, and after a long time, he nodded almost imperceptibly.

Shen's mother was stunned for a moment, then smiled softly: "It seems that you are an honest child, much better than our Shen Bai."

Shen's mother suddenly changed the topic, as if she was chatting homely, and said slowly: "Let me tell you a story about Shen Bai's childhood." At this point, she paused, her eyes seemed to be caught in a long memory, and she began to talk Daolai: "When Shen Bai was in primary school, we took him abroad one winter vacation. He saw a telescope and said that it was not available in China, so he insisted on buying it and bringing it back. His father said that if he finished the second semester We will buy it for him if he can get into the top ten of the grade in the exam. He agreed without hesitation, and finally got him the second grade in the exam. Easy. After spending so much effort to obtain the telescope, he held it in his hand and played with it for less than a month, then turned around and gave it to Shen Xi. When I like it, I really like it, and I have to work hard to get it. , but after he got it, he only got heat for 3 minutes. I watched him grow up, and when this kid doesn’t have a long relationship, he will behave a little better unless there are some rules and regulations to control him.”

After Shen's mother finished speaking, she paid attention to Gu Xien's expression, sighed lightly, reached out and patted his arm, and continued to speak slowly.

"Xiao Gu, Auntie's words are from the heart. The two of you are together, this road is not easy to walk. I'm not blaming you. To be selfish, parents love their children. Don't talk about us, yours. If the parents knew about it, they would definitely not agree."

——If she wakes up, will she blame me?

--how come?She likes you so much.

— What if it was the guy who turned his son gay?

--Will not.

You see, Shen Bai, nothing is absolute, there is no way for everything to end in the same way.

Gu Xien held down Shen's mother's hand that was trying to hold his arm, his eyes gradually changed from erratic to clear, he looked at Shen's mother's expectant eyes on the hospital bed, and asked slowly: "If, I don't agree to be separated from Shen Bai, what will happen?" How about it?"

Shen's mother's smile faded away and her expression turned cold, as if she was instantly covered with the coldest frost in winter: "Then, at least for a long time to come, Shen Bai will be in pain, he will struggle day and night Between your parents and your lover, you are exhausted and in a dilemma." She looked into Gu Xien's eyes suddenly and coldly, "Do you want to see such a result?"

The white porridge on the bedside table was finally completely cold, and the indoor lights were turned on dimly. He could hardly see the expression on Shen's mother's face on the hospital bed.It seemed to be raining lightly outside the window, crackling on the windowpane, spreading mottled down.The cold wind blows the creeper vines on the outer wall to keep hitting the window sill, like a group of children scrambling to enter the house to keep warm.

It must be very cold, Gu Xian thought, how cold is it?Will it be colder than the night when my mother left me?

He heard his own voice, but it seemed that it didn't come from his own body, so he asked without any emotion: "Then what do you want me to do?"

The heart that Shen's mother was struggling with finally fell to the ground, her smile resurfaced, and she became that gentle and soft-spoken old lady again.

"It's normal for young people to fall in love and then break up. We old people don't interfere with this. It's your freedom to do what you want."

"Auntie," Gu Xien suddenly looked at her with burning eyes, and asked a question, "Did Wu Jiaying push you down that night?"