Chapter 78(1/2)
The air is a little dull.
Qiao Nan opened his eyes and saw everything around him, a little confused.
He has been staying in City B with Mu Xiangxiang since the New Year. He just held a meeting with a confirmed securities company the day before. After this round of meetings, his company is about to be listed, so there have been many business recently. It has been a long time since we went to City A.
But now, he found himself standing at the entrance of Chengbei Park in City A.
I will not admit my mistake. This park that made him meet and Mu Xiangxiang and exchange bodies engrave important traces in his life. After work, every time they come back for the New Year with Mu Xiangxiang, they will come here to visit and memorize.
When did you come back? This is, I have no impression at all. Could it be that I have been really busy and confused recently?
He turned around and looked at the old sign arched above the park gate on his back, a little confused. And what he saw when he came back was not right. He obviously donated a large amount of repair fees to the park on the day he was confirmed to be pregnant last year. The management team sent photos of the public area temporarily repaired. But now, the outer area still looks dilapidated, even more old than before. The signboard that entered the park was less city in the north of the city, and the money was raised. Where did the money be spent? Could it be that the photos sent were P? It's too confusing?
The sky is gray, like a photo with nostalgic filters added.
Qiao Nan thought of Mu Xiangxiang's smiling face after seeing the new photos of the park, and immediately cursed and immediately prepared to beat the dog head of the park.
As a result, before he could take a step, a familiar voice suddenly came from beside him, which made him stunned.
"Brother Nan! I'm sorry, I wanted to sneak out, but the idiot leaders in the factory were too tight to keep an eye on him, and they didn't find any chance..."
"Yan Zhiyang?" Qiao Nan turned his head and was surprised to see the familiar face entering his sight.
After the wedding of his and Mu Xiangxiang, this guy was sent overseas by the real estate company where he worked. After the further study, he stayed at the local branch to earn foreign exchange. His career has been relatively stable over the years and he has never had time to come back. At the beginning of the year, he took his parents, who had never left the province except for his freshman year, and went back to the foreign market. As for the relationship between his buddies, they could only rely on wifi to maintain them.
I haven't seen each other for so long, and I'm still silent when I go back to the country, this is too thief? Qiao Nan didn't care about the slightly old clothes on his buddy, and stepped forward and punched him on the shoulder: "Fuck, when did you come back? You don't have any wind in advance!"
After the words came to the ground, Yan Zhiyang ahead showed a puzzled look on his face: "Brother Nan, what are you talking about? Where am I back? Am I not always in City A?"
Qiao Nan looked at him up and down: "Push, the French fries from Country X are so crazy? Guo Zhi got engaged and you squat on the construction site. He screamed that he hadn't come back. Guo Zhi also said that he would definitely take you next time he saw you..."
Before he finished speaking, he put a back of his hand on his forehead. Yan Zhiyang's confusion expression turned into horror: "Brother Nan, what's wrong with you? Brother Nan, why are you talking nonsense today? Brother Nan? Why don't I know when Guo Zhi got engaged?"
Qiao Nan saw the expression on his face clearly and was stunned: "...Don't you know? Guo Zhi didn't inform you? He got engaged to a classmate he met at the same university last month."
Speaking of which, Guo Zhi and his girlfriend were still a very wonderful marriage. A man and woman who hadn't spoken much for four years in college actually met strangely after work at the same Internet company in H City, thousands of miles away from the school. The two met each other in a foreign country and got closer. Finally, after Guo Zhi was promoted to the head of the project team at the beginning of this year, the wedding date was determined.
Yan Zhiyang also joked about the development of these two people's idol dramas, but now he looked indescribable: "………………………………………………………………………I think you are really crazy. You are also Guo Zhi's college classmate, you are the college classmate you dreamed of? Why don't you know when he went to college? Did he not know when he dropped out of school like me and then went out to work? Could you tell me the chef in the years he went to master to study for? But when did he have a girlfriend? Every day, he is in the back
The chef is so busy like a dog that he actually has time to have a girlfriend? He just called and said that the chef was scolding him and couldn't get off work on time. He asked me to go with you without waiting for him. He told me that his job was really boring. It would be great to come out early and go to the repair shop like me. If you have a car for a few years, you can open a car wash shop together. Although you will definitely not be able to compete with you as handsome as Brother Nan, at least at this age, you have a career and can't get married..."
He talked about his realization that life was not easy and he planned his future countless times. After talking for a long time, he realized that he had a little nonsense and stopped.
I thought to myself, where did my god come from so many words, I will definitely be beaten again.
But when I looked up, I found that the expression on Brother Nan's face, who had been irritable and impatient for decades, was unprecedentedly blank?
That blankness...is like something beautiful was broken without expectation.
Then suddenly, the blank-faced person jumped up as if he was slapped.
What the hell is Yan Zhiyang talking about!
Qiao Nan's mind was panicked, and subconsciously took out his cell phone. His eyes were fixed at the moment when he saw the screensaver pattern that was not Mu Xiangxiang's photo, and the blood in his body faded away.
Impossible!!! Impossible!!!
His body was trembling and his fingers were trembling. He trembled and wrote twice. He used many years of content to use Mu Xiangxiang’s birthday unlocking password. Finally, he successfully unlocked it with his fingerprint and clicked into the latest call list as soon as possible.
There is no long string of [Little Girl]!
His whole body was cold, his breathing became heavy, he directly exited the list and opened the call interface. He dialed out the string of numbers that could be memorized in a sequel without hesitation, but before pressing the dial key, the phone had already started to ring.
After connecting, Luo Meisheng's crying voice came from the other end: "Qiao Nan!!! Come to City B quickly! Your father has been in the hospital due to cerebral hemorrhage!!!!"
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Breathing, footsteps, the roar of the earliest flight taking off, the world that was constantly flipping in front of me, the number that I could not dial out just now was dialed, and the strange voice on the opposite side asked him in confusion: "Who are you?"
Qiao Nan hung up it expressionlessly.
Outside the rescue room, Luo Meisheng dared not approach him and sobbed and explained in a low voice: "...I wanted to tell you very early, but your father kept stopping you. Usually you stayed in City A and didn't contact the company. We don't go back often, and we wanted to tell you that you didn't find any chance... The group was seriously injured due to the failure of Guanghai's merger and acquisition case, and the work has been going very smoothly. Many projects followed halfway through the following, and the stock price went up and down. Your father was very angry recently because of this. He suddenly answered a phone call this morning and said that someone told him that he had seen the stone who resigned at the beginning of this year in Country X... Your uncle appeared with the head of a company that is 'permanent energy', jumped up and put on his clothes and left. Who knew that he hadn't seen him for only a few hours, and it turned out like this..."
The eldest brother on the side looked cold and his eyes were filled with anger, but he saw that he had never spoken at all and was abiding by the distance of not being offensive.
Qiao Nan opened his mouth and looked at the red [in operation] in front of him. The door slowly opened in his sight and stepped out the doctors wearing surgical gowns. The doctor took off his mask and looked at them silently: "The rescue is rescue, but the patient's ability to take care of himself in the future...... The subsequent loss of motor function may occur to a certain extent. The possibility of half-body paralysis is not ruled out. The specific situation needs to be waited and watched after the patient is awake."
The air suddenly became very thin. Qiao Nan stared at the fat dude body who was pushed out, who was sleeping quietly, with a bunch of tubes and testing equipment, and was searching for breathing for a long time.
What is this? Didn’t Shi Jiajun be sentenced very early and early? After he was imprisoned, the company called "Permanent Energy" began to hit the limit explosively until it fell without falling, and was taken to the bottom by Qiao’s family.
The fat old man who was unconscious on the hospital bed, Luo Meisheng, who was cautious in front of him, and Qiao Rui, who was standing far away on the other wall, was as alienated as a stranger. These guys were obviously happily planning to transfer the equity of the newly listed subsidiary of their family to a small embryo that had not yet landed in the womb.
Everything in front of you... everything in front of you...
Think about it! Think about it!
By the way! The village in the city!
Outside the intensive care unit, he stared at the string of digital absent-minded Qiao Nan who was afraid to call out, and stood up.
Luo Meisheng and Qiao Rui just watched his every move, hesitated for a moment, but did not come forward to stop or ask. Qiao Nan no longer looked at the unfamiliar content in their eyes, and ran over them towards the elevator. He wanted to go back to City A and go to the village in the city!
However, after the slowly opened elevator door, he saw a scene that made him even more dazed.
In the overcrowded elevator, he stared at the body that was being pushed in a wheelchair, so thin that it was almost curled up.
The owner of the body was very impatient, closed his eyes, as if he was tired and drowsy, so weak that his breathing was so mild.
Amid the noises of patients and family members around him, the content of chatting with acquaintances next to him was clearly heard-
"Oh, I heard that it was a sequelae of an accident when I was young. I was getting older and I was not active, and it became more and more serious. The hospital in City A was not well received, so my family was sent to City B for a special trip."
"His wife seemed to have worked very hard when she was young and was also sick. She fainted a few days ago and almost had a big problem."
"Their treatment fee is not cheap, and their son has no ability. I heard that he was dying and didn't get into college, but now he is also very useful to send all the money he earns every month. It's a pity that he has a good filial daughter who works in IT and can only afford it if he has a high salary."
"Just busy, working overtime every day, my little body is so thin that I almost lose my body."
The elevator door slowly opened again, and the nurse pushed Dad Mu, who was sleeping, and squeezed out.
Qiao Nan followed them in a daze, passing through the dense crowd of people on the general ward in the hospital area, which was crowded so that even the corridor was equipped with beds. Mu's father was finally pushed into a tidy ward of four people.
When I saw the door, I could see Mom Mu who was sleeping in the bed with a sleeping face, with an old and tired face.
As if he sensed, he withdrew his gaze and turned his head to look behind him.
On the other side of the distance, the elevator door slowly opened again, and a slender body stepped out from it, holding a large insulation bucket in his hand, expressionless and fair and calm.
The moment when my eyes met, it was like a mountain and sea, and the noisy sounds around me faded away like a tide.
The transparent eyes, with a slight bloodshot, passed through a trace of confusion, and stopped in a daze.
"you……"
While she was confused by her inexplicable mood.
Qiao Nan had already stepped forward quickly, spread his arms and hugged him without hesitation.
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Bang!
It seems to be the sound of the insulation barrel falling to the ground.
Qiao Nan was shocked by the sound, opened his eyes, took a quick breath, and his eyes fell on various amazing aesthetic prenatal education posters covered with elegant plain wallpaper on the wall ahead.
On his back and forehead, he burst into cold sweat all over his body, and his arms trembled slightly. He subconsciously tightened his arms and looked down at the slightly warm body in his arms.
Mu Xiangyao also heard the noise, opened his eyes slightly, staring at him steadily: "...Qiao Nan?"
Qiao Nan stared at her still delicate face for a full minute before tremblingly raising her hand and stroked her hair. Her eyes turned away and swept across the sound source. The small floral gauze curtain that did not match the overall decoration of the bedroom was blown by the wind outside the window, and a vase was lying on the floor.
The fingertips gently rubbed their delicate cheeks, penetrated into the quilt, covered them with a high bulge, and could vaguely feel the ups and downs of breathing and the beating of pulses.
"It's okay." He mutely comforted the little girl who was getting more and more sleepy after pregnancy, "The vase fell to the ground."
"What time is it?" Mu Xiangxiang leaned over after a moment of silence. After pregnancy, he was bulky and had many inconveniences in his movements. It made her sleep harder than when she was not pregnant. Since the first time he saw her morning sickness, Qiao Nan turned down a lot of the work at hand and tried to stay with her. Recently, he was a little busy because of the company's preparation for listing. However, when she was not going to the research institute, she insisted on taking two hours to take a nap at noon.
Sniffing the familiar fragrance in his arms, Qiao Nan was still in a daze. He touched the phone on the bedside table.
His eyes fell on the screensaver Mu Xiangxiang's face, smiling sweetly in his wedding dress, and he drew out the password interface, his fingertips trembled, slowly typing down the four familiar numbers.
With a click, the unlocking was successful.
Qiao Nan was stunned for several seconds before he replied softly: "Two:50."
Recently, the call recording interface was rolling down, and various commercial phones were filled with densely packed - [Little Girl].
WeChat interface, pulling upwards, voice messages, text messages, emoticons, small videos, photos... everything is there.
The cold and hot body finally returned to normal heat. He raised his hand to comb the long black and soft hair in his arms and clicked on the circle of friends.
The first news that comes to mind is the photos posted by Guo Zhi.
The picture is a nine-cage grid, and it is clicked on the sofa, coffee table, table, chairs and benches, all of which are fragmented and small details. In the last photo, he is still pale and a round-faced girl with a pleasant appearance, with his head next to his head. On both sides are their parents smiling, the dining table in front of him is full of delicious food, and a string of text is attached to the picture above--
[I have worked for many years and finally settled in H City, where housing prices are abnormal with my own efforts. Thank you for your father for cooking. Although the area is not large and it is only a second-hand house, it will definitely give you a better life in the future. Please give me more advice for the rest of your life.]
Below the news, Guo Zhi's fiancée liked and replied with a love.
Yan Zhiyang followed closely and replied: "Fuck! Congratulations! You little loser finally bought a house in H City! But the fuck you must say that you are not a thing, why are you taking so many good dishes? I stumble on the construction site every day, and I'm almost crazy eating French fries in a ghost place in Country X!"
Qiao Nan's eyes flashed over the crying expression at the end of Yan Zhiyang's content, and his fingers continued to follow Mu Xiangxi's long hair. With a tinkling sound of his phone, a news about City A that was particularly concerned about jumped out.
To be continued...