Chapter 6 Section 06

I thought it was a minor cold, so I refused to take the medicine, but I never expected that the next night, my body heat would suddenly increase again.The unhappiness of the mind and the dizzy pain in the head only felt aggravated compared with the first day, and I was also a little scared in my heart. This day was Saturday, and as usual, there was a day show in Anyuan, so Xie Yueying didn't come to see me until dinner time.Although in my heart I really hoped that she would come and sit by my bed to accompany me, but at the same time I was also forgiving her and defending her, and I was so sleepy that I didn't know when I fell asleep.I heard the door open in my sleep.

Pushing up my upper body, I raised the tent door and looked out. In the cold yellow light, I suddenly saw Xie Yueying's round smile, which was not far from the face of that little white-faced Chen Jun.Both she and he approached my bed as if they were cautiously afraid of waking up my sleep. "Oh, is the play over?" I asked them with a smile. "Long time no see, come here tonight. I only found out about your illness after hearing what Yueying said." "Where have you been all this time?" "I went to Hankou. Do you feel better today?" Chen Jun and I were in the middle of the question and answer, Xie Yueying hid behind Chen Jun and stared at my watery eyes that were steamed by body heat.While I was asking Chen Jun what to say, I was also paying attention to her attitude and expression.When I stretched out my upper body and pointed to the stools in front of the table for them to sit on, she suddenly said to me in a hurry:

"Mr. Wang, go to bed, it's getting late, we'll come see you tomorrow. Don't catch the cold, it's not good to turn around." She turned around and walked away gently, Chen Jun also After saying a few clichés, he walked out with her.At this time, although my head was already hot and dizzy, after listening to her "we" who said: "We will come to see you tomorrow", and seeing the way Chen Jun walked out of the room with her, An inexplicable resentment arose in my heart, and as a result, I couldn't fall asleep in the middle of the night. Probably due to heart disease and the attack of external evils, I lost sleep for several nights in a row, and my body fever never went away.Before noon on the fifth day after my illness, someone from the government office sent me to see my illness.He was originally a person who worked in the accounting office and a distant relative of his father's generation.After seeing my emaciated sick appearance and my deadpan conversation, he insisted that I go to the hospital.

Although this city A is also a provincial capital, there is only one hospital established by a few foreign missionaries.This hospital is located on a small high hill in the northeast corner of City A. A few plain bungalows and a clump of ancient trees make the scenery of this area simple and deep, so that people can feel it when passing through it. Give off a religious smell.The accountant clerk spent half a day going back and forth, and put my body safely on a bed in a special room in St. Paul's Hospital. The ward is on the southwest corner of the second floor, facing west and south, with two glass windows and doors. When you open the doors, there are two corridors that meet at right angles.Outside the cloister sill, there is a small garden to the west, and a grass field to the south, along which are planted some foreign sycamores. At this time, the leaves have fallen and the grass is a little yellow.

In the three or four days after entering the hospital, because the fever persisted, I lay in bed all day long, but I didn't feel bored in the hospital life.It was an afternoon nearly a week after entering the hospital.After Xie Yueying bought a lot of fruits and came to see me, my body recovered day by day, and the life in the hospital also became lonely day by day. In the early afternoon, when Dr. Han from the dean came to examine me, he looked at my thermometer, listened to my breathing on the back of my chest, and said to me in Chinese that he could not understand: "We want to congratulate you, congratulate you soon, you can go out here."

I asked him if he could sit up and walk around, and he said, "Very good." After he went out, I asked the nurse to help me sit up, put on my clothes, and walked out to a table by the glass door. Sitting on a deck chair, watching the sun on the treetops outside the corridor railing.After sitting for a while, I heard a woman talking downstairs, as if asking something.With the delicate nerves of a patient, I knew intuitively that this was my illness as soon as I heard it, because the weather was cold and there were not many people living in this special ward, so I concluded that this was the case. Must have come to see me.Before I could think about it for the second time, I called the nursing student to say hello and accompany her in.When he came to see, it was indeed her, Xie Yueying.

She was still wearing the foreign woolen gown, with a black and white silk scarf around her neck, and under the black velvet peaked cap, she had twinkling eyes, and she seemed very surprised to see my weakened face after my illness. look.After entering the room, she held a large bag of fruit in her hand, and stared at me for a few minutes without moving. "Ah, I never thought you would come here!" I said to her with a smile on my face. "Mr. Wang, why, why are you so thin!" When she said this, the smile that was always on her face disappeared, and her eyes were all fixed on mine. face.I have never seen such a serious and sentimental expression, even on the stage when she is performing tragedies.

I looked at her, overwhelmed by her attitude, and naturally put away my smile, stopped talking, looked down on her, and two tears rolled down my eyes . She was also stunned. After saying that exclamation, she seemed to be unable to find a second sentence.The two were silent for a while, but I felt sad, so I reluctantly said to her: "Yueying! I'm so sorry for you." At this time, the nursing student was not around, so I stood up tremblingly and wanted to go to the bed.Seeing my unsteady movement, she immediately threw the bag of fruit on the table and ran over to help me.I leaned on her hand, walked slowly, and said to her intermittently:

"Yueying! Do you know that half of the cause of my illness is also because of you!" She helped me into bed, helped me fall into bed, and sat on the edge of my bed without saying a word for a long time.I also closed my eyes and fell asleep on my back, unwilling to say a word, and cold tears flowed from the corners of my idle eyes.This kind of silence does not know how heavy it is.As if under anesthesia, I stretched out two hands from under the quilt and hugged her head. The two were hugging and kissing tightly, I didn't open my eyes to look at her, and she didn't say a word, and after a few minutes of not moving, suddenly there were footsteps outside the door.After sucking her desperately, I let go of my hands, and she immediately stood up and said to me very comfortably:

"Take good care of yourself, I'll see you again tomorrow." By the time the nursing student came to my bed to deliver the medicine, she had already walked out of the room and on the corridor. Since this time, I feel that the time in the hospital is extremely long and monotonous.The next day I waited for her all day, but she finally didn't come. I didn't go to bed until after dinner, when I saw the cold moonlight shining on the light corridor. This kind of waiting for her to come is only slightly comparable to the yearning for the second coming of Christ by zealous religious fanatics.There is no way to describe the affection I have felt in the few days since she came.But the cruel Xie Yueying, whom I was looking forward to so eagerly, has disappeared since that day.On the one hand, my sick body has recovered very quickly since she came here once. Within a few days after the fever subsided, I was able to eat two small bowls of dry rice and go downstairs for a walk.

On the morning when the doctor allowed me to be discharged from the hospital, the north wind was blowing very hard. Before I could wait for the discharge letter from the accounting class at ten o'clock, I packed my luggage and sat on the corridor to wait.Forty or fifty minutes after a quarter of a year, I entrusted the nursing students to attend accounting classes to urge me several times. When the discharge permit came, I walked out of the St. Paul's Hospital just like a prisoner released from prison. When I took a rickshaw to the entrance of Daxin Hotel, I rushed to the clubhouse like a lover who had a secret meeting with a woman. My heart was beating violently in my chest, and I drove into Room 48, a room that had been sealed for a long time. The suffocation in my face rushed to my nose, and the waiter came in to clean the floor for me. Although I was very anxious, I asked him hesitantly, "Have Xie Yueying and the others at the back woke up?" He listened to me. Without sweeping the floor, I stretched my bent waist, looked up and said to me: "Mr. Wang, you probably don't know yet, right? Because of Xie Yueying and Chen Liankui's slashing of their mouths these days, they have to make trouble until dawn every day before going to bed. At this time, they are probably in the middle of their sleep!" I asked him again why they were arguing.He twisted his mouth, closed one eye, made a funny description and said to me: "Why! Anyway, it's for this!" As he spoke, he pinched a circle with the thumb and second finger of his left hand to show me.According to him, it seems to be because of that little boy Chen Jun.Chen Jun originally praised Xie Yueying, but now, for some unknown reason, he favored Chen Liankui.A few days ago, Chen Jun ordered an embroidered robe for Chen Liankui from Hankou, and this was the proximate cause of their quarrel.Judging from his tone, it seems that Xie Yueying's complexion is not good these days, and she keeps telling people that she wants to go back to Beijing, to go back to Beijing.But the period of the contract has not yet expired, so there is no way out.After hearing these words, I understood the expression on her face when she came to the hospital a few days ago, and also understood the reason why she stopped visiting me after that day. After he finished sweeping the floor, I tidied up the room briefly, and when I sat down at the table nervously, a mirror placed against the wall on the table suddenly reflected my thin and thin face without pretense. look.I saw it myself, and was shocked.My two eyebrows were originally very thick and beautiful, but this time the bluish-yellow face is erected, not only can't add to my bearded masculine beauty, but also cast a layer of lifelessness on my face. Yin Qi.The scorching sparkle in the eyes could have expressed a kind of wise spirit in normal times, but today, it seems that it especially describes the complete lifelessness of the face.The Hu shadow on the corners of the nose and mouth is also very black, so I touched it with my hand.I think it looks like a miscellaneous voice.Losing the courage to take a second look, I stood up and closed the door behind me.In a hurry, I went out and hired a car to go to the barber shop. After finishing my haircut, I went to the bathhouse in front of the government office to take a shower. I saw that the sun had set, so I didn't go back to the hotel. I went to a nearby restaurant to drink some wine and eat some snacks. Drunken reddish.I hurried back to the hotel before I sobered up.When I entered the hotel, I was about to go into my room and take a look in the mirror again, but the waiter came up to me, twisted his mouth again, and said to me with a deliberate smile: "Mr. Wang, the repairs are beautiful today. Xie Yueying in the back just got up and had a meal. I told her to come back with you, and she seemed to be in a hurry to see you. Hmph, hurry up, hurry up Show her the newly repaired white noodles!" When he said that, I was happy and angry. Normally I would scold him a few words, so I ran back to the room and hid, not daring to come out again. But today, because of the power of those few glasses of wine, I was taken To dispel this kind of shame, he smiled at him, scolded "bastard" lightly, and stepped into Lijin's door openly and unceremoniously, and went to see Xie Yueying.