Chapter 13 Section 12

Wu Leting quickly returned to the ward. This time, Di Nong asked, "Why do you go out to talk to this doctor every time he comes?" Wu Leting walked to Di Nong's bed and said hesitantly, "I'll ask him... something." "What? About me?" Wu Leting lowered her head, thought for a while, then raised her head. "Old Di, I don't know if you would mind talking about this issue." "what is the problem?" Wu Leting hesitated for a while. "Your hands have been pinned to both sides of the bed. Do you...do you have any objections?"

The room fell silent. About a minute later, Di Nong said something that shocked Wu Leting: "Yes, I have no objection." Wu Leting was tongue-tied, and said involuntarily, "Do you think it's more comfortable to have your hands fixed...?" Di Nong smiled wryly, "Silly girl, who would feel comfortable with their hands fixed all the time? I just said I have no objection, it doesn't mean I feel comfortable." "Why don't you mind?" Wu Leting asked in wonder. Di Nong took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled: "When I was young, I did a wrong thing, which made me regret for the rest of my life. For this, I am willing to use my whole life to redeem the sin. Don't talk about fixing my hands, even if it is I am also willing to accept even greater pain and suffering. You won't understand..."

Dinon fell into a sad thought.Wu Leting stood aside blankly, speechless. After a while, Dinong breathed a sigh of relief. "Forget it, let's not talk about this." He smiled and stared at Wu Leting. "You ask me how I feel about this matter, can I understand this as concern for me?" Wu Leting said sincerely: "Mr. Di, I hope to do my best to make you comfortable and happy." Di Nong stared at Wu Leting for a long time, then said deeply, "Thank you." Maybe it was Wu Leting who touched him, and Di Nong said kindly: "I rarely talk about my family with others. But you, I would like to share with you."

"It's a great honor." Wu Leting said with a smile. Dinon pointed to the cabinet on the left side of the hospital bed. "This cabinet has a little secret." "Oh?" "Before I tell you, you have to promise not to tell anyone." "I promise." "Okay," said Dinon, "you open the bottom drawer." Wu Leting bent down to open the drawer, and saw a dark leather bag inside, as well as daily necessities such as basins and cups. "Take out these clutter." After Wu Leting emptied the cabinet, Di Nong said again: "Have you noticed the wooden board below? Hold it down and press it outward."

Wu Leting complied.There was no response at first, but as she increased her strength, with a "wow", the floor slid outwards, revealing a hidden interlayer. "Ah!" Wu Leting exclaimed in a low voice. "This cabinet actually has a mezzanine." "It was my stealth," said Dinon. "Now you should see what's in there. There's a photo album, and there's a little wooden box, right?" "yes." Dinon's expression suddenly became very serious. "Don't touch that little box. Just take out the photo album. Then close the cabinet."

Wu Leting carefully took out this thick photo album.She glanced at the small wooden box and thought to herself—what's in it? This photo album is not big, but it is so thick that it feels like a brick in your hand.Its outer shell feels like sheepskin or cowhide, which has been yellowed, and it is obviously old stuff from many years ago. "Don't rush to open it." Dinon said, "Let me tell you how to read this album." "Do you need to follow a certain order when looking at the photo album?" "Yes. My photo album is like this. You can't open it from the front, you have to read it from the back."

"Back?" Wu Leting said, flipping through the photo album. "Yes, this photo album has to be read backwards. Now you can open it." Wu Leting flipped through the photo album from left to right, as if reading an ancient book, which felt strange. What caught her eye was a group photo.color photo.Two middle-aged men in their forties—a man and a woman—stand by the shimmering lake.Wu Leting recognized at a glance that the man among them was the middle-aged Dinong. "Old Di, this is you and your wife, right?" Dinon nodded. "This is the last picture she took with me before she died."

"Feel sorry……" "It's okay. It's been so many years." Di Nong introduced, "This photo was taken after we traveled to Ganas Lake in Xinjiang after she suffered from advanced liver cancer—and it was incurable. My wife is a A strong and optimistic person. After learning that she had cancer, she did not blame others, give up on herself, and did not want to spend the rest of her time in the hospital bed. She told me that she wanted to travel and see those beautiful, pure The place……" Wu Leting sat next to Dinon, listening quietly. The second photo is what Dinon looked like when he was young.He was wearing a white shirt, dark suit pants, and shiny leather shoes.With a big banyan tree as the background.It looks like a jade tree facing the wind and looking radiant.

Wu Leting smiled and said, "Old Di, you were quite handsome when you were young!" "Young people full of vigor are very handsome. This photo was taken after I graduated from university. The banyan tree is an ancient tree in our university with a history of thousands of years. I like reading books under this tree very much." Wu Leting jokingly said: "I guess, if you look forward, it must be a photo of you when you were a child." Dinon was silent.After a long time, he said slowly, "I don't have any photos of my childhood."