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Chapter 42 Chapter 7 Awakening

The Oriole 苏童 5103Words 2018-03-19
Doctors later told her that she had been in a coma for eighteen hours. The first time she woke up, she saw three infusion bottles hanging above her head.In the messy emergency room, the white figures of two young female nurses came and went in a hurry.Hospital beds were packed to the left and right of her, and a sour smell lingered in the air.There is an old woman moaning loudly, it hurts me to death, you let me die, don't you all think it's crowded here?I'm dead, make room for everyone.I don't know who took up her words next to her, you are dead, and there will be another rescuer right away, where can you make room for it?It's better to die than to live, let's live.

she lives.She remembered the mysterious scenery on the road, the grandfather holding the cardboard box, the two rabbits in the cardboard box, and the angry coal truck.Eighteen hours later, she came to the lucid realization that she had received the elaborate gift of death on that highway.The roar of that truck driver is still in my ears, go to the morgue go to the morgue!A man she had never met read her fate's judgment, so succinctly and full of justice.One step away from the morgue, she came alive again.Who overturned that strange man's sentence against her?She was alive, but she didn't feel lucky at all. Her heart was full of grievances and anger.

With a feeding tube stuck in her nose, a needle in her hand, and a bandage wrapped around her body, she couldn't move.After trying the legs, the left leg was fixed, but the right leg could move freely, so she kicked the bed vigorously. Is everyone dead?Come on, let me go, let me go.Her cry attracted an angry nurse. The nurse was going to give her a lesson, but seeing her fierce and sad expression, she turned away and said, I don't have time to quarrel with you, I'll find your family. At first she thought that the nurse had mistaken her identity. Besides her deceased grandparents, what family members did she have?About ten minutes later, a woman came into the emergency room with a bunch of bananas in her hands. She just felt that the face was familiar. When the woman slowly approached her hospital bed, she bent down to look at her, with a sad and mournful face. Her face was filled with a sharp needle-like cold light, and she gasped, she recognized that it was Liu Sheng's mother, Shao Lanying.

Shao Lanying has aged a lot in recent years, and her hair has turned gray. After all, her fair and tender skin was no match for the erosion of the years. Not only did she wrinkle, but she also developed a few brown age spots.Shao Lanying touched her hair, took off a coal dust, twirled it, and threw it away. She wiped her hands with the sheet and said, it was so dirty. She tolerated Shao Lanying sitting next to her, but turned her face to the other side in time to show that she was not ready to talk to Shao Lanying.She waited for Shao Lanying to speak, but the other party did not speak, but kept sighing, one long and one short.She finally couldn't bear it anymore, and took the lead in protesting, why did Auntie sit beside me and sigh?What are you sighing for?She said, your son, is he alive?

Such an unfriendly attitude made Shao Lanying sigh again. Shao Lanying said, Fairy, I don’t care about you. I didn’t listen to you when I was young, and I’ve grown into such a beautiful girl. I still can’t change your bad temper. He's alive, and you're alive too. The luck of misfortune, aren't you happy? Please don't sigh beside me.She said, I don't care, I don't feel well, and I feel sick when I hear other people sigh. Shao Lanying peeled a banana and tried to feed it into her mouth. She bit her lip tightly and ate it by herself without forcing it.Shao Lanying said, fairy, fairy, I know you are in a bad mood, and I am also in a bad mood.You are destined to be with our family. Recently, Liu Sheng's soul is gone, and my right eyelid keeps twitching, and I have been frightened for a long time.I'm not afraid that you don't like to listen, I'm not afraid of anything, but I'm afraid that you and Liu Sheng will be together!People are unlucky and have no choice but to come here for whatever they are afraid of. Liu Sheng has been driving for so many years and has never had any accidents. This is good, and you, a fairy, will be in a big car accident and almost lose his life.

Auntie, don't talk about it, I understand everything, I am a broom star, can I admit it?She closed her eyes and gave the eviction order. I just came back to life and I don't have the energy to talk to you. Go talk to your son. I didn't say you were a broom star.Shao Lanying said, I know you don't have the strength to speak, so you lie down and listen to me.The world is so big, you are so beautiful, you can sing and dance, you can go to Hong Kong and Taiwan to develop, at least you can go to Beijing or Shanghai to become a singer, why do you want to come back to our small place?If you want to come back, I can't stop you, why did you provoke Liu Sheng again?Everyone has a memory, so I don't need to remind you, you are enemies in the previous life, if you get together, it will be a disaster, and there will be no good fruit for anyone.

I have a memory, but your son has no memory.She said, let's go and ask your son why he has no memory? He should also be scolded, men are light-headed, they will be cheap when they see beautiful girls, and they can't control themselves.Shao Lanying scolded her son sloppily, and wanted to continue to reprimand her. Seeing that her eyes were filled with tears, she stopped there and stretched out her hand to pull the socks for her. You are a fairy, and nothing happened. Wake up and throw a tantrum!Shao Lanying said, my family Liu Sheng was miserable this time, with no money and no money, three broken ribs and one leg bone, and six stitches on his face, so disfigured!The van was smashed to pieces, what will I do business with in the future?

Her wet eyes quickly dried up.The bunch of bananas was placed next to her pillow, and she swept it with her hand and swept it to the ground.She said, Auntie, you don't know how annoying I am, please do me a favor, get out quickly, or I'll get up if you don't, and I'll go out. Shao Lanying picked up the banana from the ground, and the patients around her looked at her sympathetically. She smiled generously and said, young people nowadays can't argue with them, who knows how to be polite?They were all favored by the elders, and they deserved their anger.She comforted herself like this, and bent over to the side of the hospital bed again.I know you are in a bad mood, and I am also in a bad mood. There is one last sentence, and I will leave after I finish speaking.Shao Lanying's eyes were piercing, and the nostrils on both sides twitched for some reason. Fairy, I can't bear to quarrel with you while you're lying on the hospital bed. I just want to ask you, have Liusheng owed you debts for so many years? pay off?If you didn't pay it off before, you should pay it off now, right?

She stared at Shao Lanying's face in surprise, biting the corner of her mouth tightly, as if weighing the weight of that sentence in her heart.After a few seconds, her eyes returned to normal, irritable, sharp, and unruly, and a hard smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. That pays off?uncertain.She said in an exaggeratedly delicate voice, Auntie, that's not necessarily the case! The fetus is still in her womb, safe and sound. The doctor told her that it's a miracle that you didn't have a miscarriage in such a serious car accident. Your child outlived you.She didn't react to the good news, she just rubbed her abdomen carefully with her fingers and said, it doesn't matter, I don't feel anything.This is the truth, her mother's love is just another embryo, between liquid and solid, vague, big and small, the so-called mother's love is still far away from her.She has never been the kind of woman who loves babies, she only prefers small animals.Now, with everything lost and only one fetus saved, she doesn't know if she should be thankful.

For the suitcase left on the road, she called and looked for a relationship. She was busy for several days, but in the end she failed.Before the traffic police arrived, the coal truck that caused the accident had disappeared. The nearby farmers picked up items at the scene of the accident, including wallets, mobile phones, clothes and brand-name cosmetics. None of them survived. She only received a sandal stained with soot from the police. , I heard that the dead people's shoes are the most taboo among farmers, and they kicked them into the vegetable field under the road. Old Ruan promised to send her some money, and she waited for a few days until a waitress from the Shunfeng Hotel came and sent her two thousand yuan.The girl had just come out from the countryside of Guizhou, and she spoke and dressed very rustic. She conveyed Lao Ruan's apology clumsily, saying that the boss has been very busy recently, that the boss has been short of money recently, and that the boss recently asked a great fairy to tell his fortune , Daxian warned the boss not to get close to pregnant women, so as to avoid bloodshed.As soon as she heard it, she understood that Lao Ruan was going to get away, and Lao Ruan was going to get rid of her big trouble.She was heartbroken and hard-spoken, and before the girl finished speaking, she gave the order to evict the guest, and you go too, I have a bloody disaster on my body, and anyone who gets close to me will be unlucky.The girl was honest and said, what disaster have I never seen?We have seen too many natural and man-made disasters, so what bloody disaster are we afraid of?Lao Ruan asked me to take care of you.She said, I want you to take care of me?You are so stupid that you don't understand anything, and you still need someone to take care of you, how can you take care of me?The girl was a bit stubborn, so she sat down on the bed and said angrily, "You can learn if you don't understand. If I leave, the boss will scold me instead of you."She found that the girl was so simple and simple, so she picked up a stick and pushed her back, and said, go, go, if you stay here, the job over there will be ruined, go back and tell Lao Ruan, I will take care of myself Well, a big brother like him is considered righteous, and he will never be implicated in the future.

Thanks to Lao Ruan's money, she saved her life.When she was about to be discharged from the hospital, she became anxious about dressing up. She walked around the department store near the hospital for a long time, saw a famous brand dress, tried to fit it, and asked the salesperson to wrap it up, only to find that there was no money in the wallet.She ran to Liu Sheng's ward to borrow money, and happened to bump into Shao Lanying and Liu Juan. Shao Lanying stared at her warily, as if she was facing an enemy.She backed out hastily.Liu Juan treated her warmly, and shouted after her, Fairy, Fairy, I left you a bowl of the chicken soup I made for Liu Sheng.She turned around and said, I don't like chicken soup!Fearing that Liu Juan would be entangled, she hurried to the toilet and closed the door of the toilet. She sat quietly in the toilet cubicle, resting her chin on her hands and thinking about her future, the more she thought, the more flustered she became.That future was covered by dark clouds, and she couldn't see clearly at all. She only saw her slightly raised abdomen, like a mysterious mine, hiding a strange life.There are two lives living in her body, and she doesn't know whether she is pregnant with a fetus or the fetus is pregnant with her.Is the future that child?Now, is the fetus her only wealth?Her waist became thicker, her legs were slightly swollen, and her pregnant body made her curious. This body was like a barren field, feeding a solitary tree with the remaining nutrients, but the person who planted the tree had already passed away without mercy.When she thought of Mr. Pang, she couldn't help feeling sad. The feeling came and went faster, but the fetus was a bridge, connecting her body with Mr. Pang.She suddenly felt that she had the right to abandon Mr. Pang, but Mr. Pang had no right to get rid of her. Compared with those men who played tricks, Mr. Pang had the obligation to treat her kindly, at least her body. She remembered the content of the contract with Mr. Pang. Before the child was born, she could not see him, but she still called Mr. Pang because of the beautiful dress.Hearing that Taiwanese man's voice, she almost burst into tears, please embrace me, I can be your mistress.This sentence had already reached her lips, and it was his indifferent attitude that made her regain her dignity.She omitted a lot of foreshadowing, and asked Mr. Pang to do her one last favor, go to the designated fashion store to buy two sets of summer clothes, bring them to the hospital, and pay the remaining bills for her by the way.Mr. Pang asked her why she was hospitalized. She said, I committed suicide and hit a car on the road. Unfortunately, I didn't die.Mr. Pang probably guessed that she was lying casually, he said please stop harassing me, isn't everything settled?We act according to the contract and wait until the child is born before contacting.He regarded her asking for help as harassment, which was a great humiliation to her. She was silent for a moment, and suddenly said calmly, okay, fine.If I don't harass you, I will harass your wife. Don't you like to choose between two?This time is also a choice between two, you choose.Such blatant threats and threats frightened herself first, and she was shocked by her insidiousness and evil, so she gasped heavily.But she overestimated herself and underestimated Mr. Pang. Mr. Pang said on the phone, long time no see. Have you grown up fast and learned to blackmail?Then he let out a grotesque laugh, you're a crime, understand?I have a recording, do you want to play it back for you?If you don’t dare to listen, I’ll let the police listen to it?She froze for a moment, and cursed, you old fox, you bastard, why didn't you record when you licked me in Europe?Licking so much, why not record?Mr. Pang laughed dryly at first, and finally heaved a long sigh, depraved, depraved, you degenerate woman, I should have expected your character, blamed me for being blind and thinking how innocent you are. She returned to the ward in a daze, sat there for a long time, and suddenly borrowed a pen and two pages of paper from the patient in the next bed.Seeing her sad expression, the patient in the next bed asked her what she wanted to write, and she said, no matter what, just write a bill.She lay down on the bed and began to write, sobbing after writing a few words, such an abnormal behavior attracted the attention of all the patients, some people came to see what she wrote, she stuffed the page under the pillow, and put it under the bed I drilled in and said, I won’t write if you peek at it, you’d better go to sleep. Later, Liu Sheng came with a cane.Liu Sheng's face was still covered with a piece of gauze, he said, Miss Bai, I heard you are writing a suicide note?Let me ask you, how did you write the last words in the suicide note? His voice sounded almost happy, and a certain tragic atmosphere that should have been inexplicably dispelled.She doesn't want to talk to him.She turned her face away to prevent him from seeing her tearful face, but gave him a chance to steal the suicide note.Yagyu took out the page from under the pillow, and just like that, the hasty and unfinished suicide note was exposed to the public: I hate this world to death, I hate this world to death. Afraid that Liu Sheng would read her suicide note, she got up and took back the page, shy and angry, and simply tore it up.Liu Sheng grinned and wanted to laugh, but he didn't dare. He raised his foot and swept the scraps of paper, and said, who in this world doesn't hate?I hate it too, no matter how much I hate it, I won’t be able to write a suicide note. Isn’t it too early to write it now? I am willing to write now, what does it matter to you?She said, get out, don't bother me. He sat obsessively by her bed, thought for a long time, picked up the ballpoint pen on the cabinet, and slapped it on a piece of paper. How could he not cherish the life he finally recovered?If you commit suicide like this, not only will you blacken the face of the party and the government, but also my face will have no place to rest.Willow said, isn't it just a lost box?I'll write another piece of paper later, write on what's missing, and I guarantee that I'll buy it all back for you within three days. Thanks to Yagyu, she was able to survive the days in the hospital.This untrustworthy man became her only reliance.Their closeness to each other is inevitable and forced.She never thought before that Liu Sheng's hospitality, even frivolity, would become her life-saving straw.In the next few days, they relied on each other like a pair of survivors, and got together to eat like a couple, regardless of you and me.When they were sitting together, her knee bumped into his calf by accident, and because the trousers were rolled up, one could see Yagyu's thick black leg hair, and the smell of male hormones volatilized presumptuously on his lower body.She suddenly lost her mind, recalling the appearance of this man ten years ago, handsome, flamboyant, frivolous, with too much diamond brand pomade on slightly curly hair.He is her dance partner.Xiao La.They dance together.Xiao La.Boom, clack, clack.She remembered Xiao La's dance steps.She remembered the scent of Diamond Pomade.She remembered her disordered feelings towards Liu Sheng at the beginning, sometimes she hated it, and sometimes she liked it.If they were dancing in the water tower, if he knew how to caress the girl, if she loved him more, if the water tower agreement was postponed for three years, what would the story between them be like?The past made her heartache, her nose was sour, and her eyes were inexplicably moist.Liu Sheng noticed her strange expression, and asked with concern, isn't the food delicious?She came back to her senses, stabbed him hard on the leg with a stainless steel spoon, and said sharply, "Pull down your trousers!" It was an expedient measure to stay in this city to wait for delivery, and it was also the result of Liu Sheng's persuasion.She agreed to Liu Sheng, imagining that when the due date was due, maybe Liu Sheng would push her into the delivery room, and her life would be handed over to Liu Sheng, so she couldn't help but have mixed feelings.There is a rope that accompanies her life.There is a rope that still binds her body and soul.She can't resist fate, her fate is controlled by a noose, and the weird noose is passed from one man to another, and finally it is handed over to Liu Sheng.She was hooked.Noose said to her, stay here.The noose said to her, you have lost your soul and everything is up to me.
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