Chapter 24 second quarter

"Let Lao Shan deliver one or two items for you." "is it okay?" "You go to see my sister." The president reassigned me and bought me time, so after 1:00 p.m. the next day, I drove a truck to the hospital. It's still raining.The downstairs of the internal medicine ward is damp, and there are shoe prints left by the patients everywhere, and the cleaners are wiping them with a rag.There was the sound of clapping slippers in the distance, probably a child.Walking up the stairs to the second floor, my mother's voice came to my ears inadvertently.I stopped subconsciously and slowly walked into the ward.

"Then I'll go back." "Sorry, the shop is so busy." "Here's the key. Your house is quite a sight." "A place to eat and sleep." It seems that the mother brought the necessary things for hospitalization from the sister's house. "Call back when you leave the hospital." The sound of my mother's footsteps approaching me, I hurriedly turned around and walked quickly into a place with a "conversation room" sign.The old man sitting on a long chair and drinking a coffee bag looked at me with deep-set eyes in surprise.There was a vending machine in the corner, and I stood in front of it, putting my hands into my trouser pockets as if to choose something.The footsteps from behind gradually approached, and when they reached the vicinity of the conversation room, they stopped for a while, but left after two seconds with the same rhythm as before.

Did mother notice me just now?But she left without talking to me. A bitterness welled up in my throat, and I walked out of the conversation room. "what?" "Yo." The elder sister wearing a plain long-sleeved shirt has obviously only seen her not long ago, but she feels that she has lost a lot of weight: "Liang, just now—" She probably wanted to ask if she saw her mother in the corridor just now, but she stopped in the middle of the sentence.Not wanting to hear about Mom, I plopped down on the folding chair next to the bed and asked before my sister continued:

"what's the result?" "How about what?" "Body." In the phone call yesterday, she only said that she fainted at work and was sent to the hospital. Before the test results came out, she didn't know the specific situation. "Ah... just overtired. I was a little anemic." "that's it?" For a moment my sister looked away, then looked at me again and said: "It's always been wrong. It's difficult to swallow when I eat. The doctor gave me a B-ultrasound and said that a polyp was found." "Where?" "nearby."

My sister pointed to a little below her thin breasts. "Where is that?" "Esophagus. Connects the mouth to the stomach, like a tunnel." I don't know whether to say that she is overly respectful or what, but as I talked, I said that basic common sense is my sister's fault.This is probably an occupational disease. "This ward is like a classroom." "Yeah. I didn't leave the classroom even though I was hospitalized." My elder sister is a primary school teacher, leading a class for the first time this year.Speaking of which, it started this spring. Is it because of this excessive fatigue?

"How long will you stay in the hospital?" "I don't know yet. Tomorrow is a close inspection. I'm sorry, Ryo, we can't have dinner together." By the way, today is my sister's birthday, and the gift I bought specially - the book cover - is still at home. "Sister is the one. It's depressing enough to lie down in the hospital for her birthday." "I don't care." This is my sister's catchphrase.I don't care, I can do whatever.Just like this, my sister always gave me the last leftover cake, and gave me the TV when I couldn’t watch the TV show I wanted to watch, and if there was only one seat for going to the movies together, she would definitely let me sit, always so.Thinking back to the time when my father passed away, my sister held back her grief for me.When I was buried in the crematorium, my relatives went to the waiting room first, and I lay on the floor in the hall crying and refused to leave.At this time, my sister has been holding my hand.Without saying anything, he held my hand so tightly that it hurt.With my sister holding hands like this, I can feel that half of my grief has been cremated along with my father.If my sister had cried as loudly as I did at that time, my grief would have been doubled, to the point where I couldn't resolve it.It has always been said that if you laugh with your sister, your joy will be doubled; if you cry with your sister, your sorrow will be doubled.My sister in the third grade of middle school knows this very well.

"Liang, have you eaten yet?" "not yet." There was a trace of seriousness on my sister's face without makeup. "Do manual labor and don't eat." "I've been working and have no time to eat." "Eat the fried eggs over there." "Patients leave the others alone—fried eggs?" "The things in the store are brought by my mother." My mother runs a grocery store in a desolate commercial street.It was originally taken care of by the husband and wife. After her father passed away, she was responsible for everything from purchasing goods to receiving guests.But giving fast food from a grocery store to her daughter who was admitted to the hospital because of internal organs problems—what was she thinking?I felt my mother's stupidity again, and I couldn't help but get angry.In the ordinary plastic box, fried eggs were randomly stuffed, and the lid was closed so hard that it lost its shape.

My sister signaled me to eat with her mouth. "I don't want it, besides, isn't it just this one?" "Do not bother me." "Don't worry about me either." I don't want to eat what my mother makes.Ever since I left home after graduating high school, I decided I would never eat my mother's meals again. My sister sighed softly and looked out the window.From the cracks in the curtains, you can see the raindrops falling silently outside.Although it had just passed noon, the sky was pitch black. "Polyps or something, can't be wrong?"

"Although the detailed examination is tomorrow, the doctor has already said so." "It's because it was said before the precise inspection, so there is a possibility of being wrong." "Don't stick to words." My sister glared at me, and then, as if she was taken aback by this, her lips were tightly closed for a few seconds and then slowly opened, showing an ambiguous smile. "It is said that polyps can basically be removed through endoscopic surgery now, and no wound will be left after removal." It seemed to be raining heavily, and there was a wind-sand effect sound from the TV outside the window.

"Liang is also twenty-three." "Time flies." "Do you still have the piggy bank I gave you?" "Of course." --fake. Every time I celebrate my birthday, I think of that piggy bank because it is no longer there.The day after my sister gave it to me, I put the piggy bank in the box and walked home at dusk after teasing everyone at a friend's house.On the way, in order to avoid a bicycle rushing ahead, the box hit the corner of the vending machine, making an annoying sound. ——For a long time after that, I didn't open that box.I didn't want to know I'd ruined my sister's birthday present, scared, sad—and put the box straight in the closet.Whenever my sister asked, I lied that I was hiding somewhere she didn't know and kept saving money.The last time I opened that box was after I was in third grade.The piggy bank was broken into three big pieces, and the bottom of the box was strewn with crumbs of crockery.I still vividly remember that I was sitting in front of the cabinet, fiddling with the pieces, recombining and separating them for a while, feeling a sore in my nose.

"Liang, you must be careful when driving in the rain." "Got it. I'm a professional." For some reason, my sister squinted and smiled.