Chapter 67 precipitation

Grandma is sick. In the corridor of the hospital, Yu Zhouzhou stood silently on the side, trying to calm his breathing to nothingness, so as to minimize the smell of the inhaled disinfectant. Yu Zhouzhou seldom gets sick. Even if he catches a cold occasionally, he will recover after taking some medicine.Apart from coming here for vaccinations and school group physical examinations when she was very young, her impression of the hospital was only the night when Grandpa Gu died. "Chen An, I hate hospitals. I always feel that the elderly should not go to the hospital when they are sick. Stepping into the gate and inhaling the smell of disinfectant for the first time is equivalent to getting acquainted with death."

She dared to swallow such unfilial and unlucky words.She wanted to stop the adults from sending grandma to the hospital, but she couldn't speak. Yu Zhouzhou is not a superstitious little girl. She has never been interested in the pen fairy and constellation blood types that the girls in her class are keen on.But she also believes that there are some evil rules in life, for example, when you go well in the exam, you will be able to rank among the best even if you don’t review; but once you start to be unlucky, no matter how hard you work, you will always fall into the decimal point and other problems, which will lead to your ranking Sticking to thirty or forty people, unable to move.Many times, everyone will fall into the dark track without knowing it.

My mother has a wide network of contacts. Yu Zhouzhou hasn't seen her since my grandma entered the hospital. He must be busy looking for a familiar chief physician. Yu Zhouzhou and Yu Tingting stood side by side, and for some reason they were unwilling to sit on the sky-blue plastic chairs in the hospital corridor.There were two women sitting at the far end of the row of chairs. Judging from their attire, they should have come from the countryside to the city to see a doctor, and their eyes were full of slight alertness. "Can you afford to be sick?" Yu Tingting spoke suddenly, and Yu Zhouzhou froze for a moment. There was no hint of looking down on others in this sentence, but she didn't understand what Yu Tingting meant.

"When I was in the fourth grade, I spent a lot of money in the children's hospital. Do you remember? So much money for a minor illness. Do you think they can afford it? If you come from the countryside to the city, it must be a serious illness. You need to be hospitalized. Can’t afford to pay the fee?” Yu Zhouzhou shook his head, "I don't know either." "If you are sick, very sick, you will lose your fortune if you save it, but in fact, you can't save it. It just prolongs your life for a few months. Will you let your mother save you?" Yu Zhouzhou couldn't help turning his head to look at Yu Tingting seriously.In fact, they hadn't seen each other for a long time. Although they were close relatives and were in the same elementary school, they hardly had any more common topics besides watching cartoons and "My Fair Princess" together.For more than half a year after Yu Zhouzhou moved away, I went to see the elderly at my grandmother’s house every Saturday during the daytime, but I rarely met Yu Tingting. She was always making up lessons. Although the 8th Middle School is not as famous as the High School Attached to the Normal University, it is also a very good focus. school.

The last time we met, it seemed to be during Chinese New Year, right?On the noisy New Year’s Eve, the family sat together to watch the Spring Festival Gala, and they looked at each other when they heard Zhao Benshan say to Fan Wei in "Selling Crutches", "You have never met me, you have met me long ago and you have been lame". smile. This little cousin, who was only half a year older than her, was still comparable in size to her, but there was an aura in her body that was breaking free from the shackles of her skin. She couldn't tell what it was, but she could feel it.Yu Zhouzhou can't remember what Yu Tingting looked like when she moved to her grandmother's house when she was very young—for example, did she wear two small braids, a ponytail, or short hair?But no matter what, she remembered that she always felt very gloomy in front of Yu Tingting at that time, and hated her showing off and making noise.

Yes, Yu Tingting at that time was not like a little girl who could say those words just now. Yu Zhouzhou took a deep breath of the smell of disinfectant in the hospital, stared at the strong and strong nurse who was passing by with seven or eight infusion bottles in one hand, and suddenly smiled. What magic did time do to them?Yu Zhouzhou really wants to find a mirror, ask it, what about me, have I changed? "I still remember," Yu Zhouzhou smiled, "in the fourth grade, you always said that you were out of breath and flustered, oh, I still know the words 'arrhythmia' and 'premature beat' from your illness. Two medical terms."

They laughed together, and Yu Tingting took a step back, leaning the back of her head against the gray-white wall. "Many people in that grade had myocarditis. It's actually not a serious illness, but the night-shift specialist clinic at the Children's Hospital is on rotation. Every time I come to check, the conclusions are different. At the beginning, I said I had gastritis, and I was beaten for three days. After hanging the needle, it was said that it was myocarditis. After confirming that it was myocarditis, each doctor gave different treatment methods. I remember that there was something like XXmycin at that time. Every time I hung up the hanging bottle, I would feel My arms were sore and numb, and I cried and shouted not to come to the hospital..."

"Oh, that's right. Later, you also wore a heart monitor for a day, and the tape was all over your chest and back. After the last ECG data came out, the doctor said that you had a premature heart beat at two o'clock in the middle of the night, and your condition was very serious. You But I told the doctor..." Yu Zhouzhou paused and laughed. "You said it was because you had a nightmare and there was a bear chasing you..." Hearing Yu Zhouzhou mention this, Yu Tingting couldn't help laughing and bent over. Yu Zhouzhou suddenly realized that this little cousin was just like him when she laughed, with crooked eyebrows and eyes, as if she couldn't see the way ahead.

In my impression, Yu Tingting seems to have always had only two expressions, the high-spirited one when she was a child, and the melancholy frown and melancholy that are tied behind the "Flower Season and Rainy Season" when she grows up. This way, she is her little sister. "Actually, I was very envious of you at that time. I also wanted to get sick so that I wouldn't have to go to school." Yu Zhouzhou rubbed his nose and smiled embarrassedly. Finally, he came to his senses and quickly added, "I can It's not that you're a sick person!" "However," Yu Tingting suppressed her smile, "There are some things that you won't understand if you haven't had a serious illness."

Yu Zhouzhou opened his mouth, but was still silently waiting for Yu Tingting to speak. "I took a break from school for a long time. At the beginning, my classmates always called to ask questions. At that time, there were a few girls who had a good relationship with me, as well as the class cadres, and they came to our house together to visit me on behalf of the whole class. .Oh, then you were in school and you weren't there." Yu Zhouzhou remembered that when school was over that night, he saw Yu Tingting proudly showing off the fruits and toys brought by her classmates in front of her.Yu Tingting, who is in the fourth grade, still seems to be so bright and proud, and she still can't wait to show all her glamorous side.

How did she suddenly become like this?It was only now that Yu Zhouzhou discovered that there was a huge gap in her little sister's timeline, which she hadn't noticed. "Later, they called less and stopped coming." Yu Tingting lowered her head and tapped the floor tiles lightly with her toes. "In broad daylight, only my grandmother and I were at home. When I was bored, I stood on the balcony, made paper airplanes, and threw them downstairs. Later, the director of the neighborhood committee came to our house and said that I littered." "There was a period of time in the middle, and it got better. I went back to class for three days." Yu Tingting paused for a moment, then smiled wryly for no reason. When did they first learn the wry smile? "When I walked in, everyone looked at me like I shouldn't be there. I also heard that some people said that I was actually a sick person, because when they came to see me, I was very lively, as if I was not sick. I can’t get involved in their chatting, I’m cold when I talk, and I can’t answer questions in class, it’s as if I’m no longer in this class.” Yu Zhouzhou raised his hand, wanting to soothe the vague embarrassment and resentment between Yu Tingting's brows. "Afterwards I really didn't want to go to school. I pretended to be sick, I pretended to be short of breath, anyway, I know all the symptoms of myocarditis. Oh, flipping the thermometer upside down can make the temperature rise, really, next time you want to pretend to be sick Just try it and say you have a fever." Yu Zhouzhou was flattered, "I inserted the thermometer into hot water once, and it exploded." "Stupid," Yu Tingting said succinctly, "really stupid." They were quiet for a while, and just when Yu Zhouzhou thought the topic had come to an end, he suddenly heard Yu Tingting sigh softly. "But thanks to Lin Yang." Yu Zhouzhou heard the tinkling sound of the bottles being carried by the nurse colliding with each other. She lowered her head, as if she didn't care, and almost said, "Which one is Lin Yang?" However, he suddenly felt that it was very strange for him to be so stiffly trying to cover up, so he simply remained silent. "He would call every week. He would also tell me the number of the homework left in the math class, and said that he would let me preview and review by myself, do the homework every day, and it would not be too strenuous when I go back to school. If you have any questions you don't know, you can call him." "I agreed, but at first I didn't read the book or do my homework at all. Later, he called and educated me, saying that I couldn't... what he said, oh yes, give up on yourself, let it go , yes, that’s what it said.” Yu Zhouzhou raised her head, and Yu Tingting's smiling side face staring at the blue chair not far away fell into her eyes, causing a faint ripple. You will always be the best captain in my heart. The purple crystal apple in the snow is a glimpse of the color in that gray winter. But what Yu Zhouzhou remembers is that Yu Tingting held a copy of "Flower Season and Rainy Season" and said in the most dreamy and condescending mature attitude that we are just friends. "That's good," Yu Zhouzhou said softly. "what?" "I said," Yu Zhouzhou smiled, "he is so kind to you." A blush flashed on Yu Tingting's face, but it disappeared quickly. "I almost can't remember what he looks like. Really, he seems to have moved, and his phone number has changed. Alas, that's what happened to my classmates in elementary school, and they all broke up in the end." Yu Tingting's voice was hearty, as if she had just come out of the strange emotion just now, she sat down on the chair and straightened her legs and said, "Is the inspection not over yet? I'm so tired." Yu Zhouzhou stretched his neck and looked at the end of the corridor, "I haven't come back yet." Just after the grandma stood up after eating, she suddenly fell down on the sofa. It was as if God snapped his fingers and performed a hypnotic trick. "Zhou Zhou, tell me, grandma... something serious happened, right?" Yu Zhouzhou said very calmly, "I think it must be a stroke." Those illnesses and poisons are the sequelae of reading too many detective novels. In the corridor where people come and go, the dazzling white lights hit the white walls, and the two children waited as if they were abandoned in a sickly castle.Yu Zhouzhou blinked, and seemed to see a few people appearing at the end of the corridor. The uncle was pushing a wheelchair, and the thin and pale old man sitting on it was actually grandma. Countless times later, when Yu Zhouzhou got into trouble a little bit, she rarely turned back to ask in confusion, how did things become like this, how did we get to this point? Because at that moment she seemed to see a turning point in fate.A wheelchair slowly pushed an old man over. She was dazed and groggy, her cheeks were sickly pale and flushed, and her short gray hair, which was always clean and uncluttered, was hanging limply by her ears at this moment. How did their lives become like that after that?Yu Zhouzhou remembered a long and bright corridor, as well as the beginning and end of everything.