No.70 days

The six hospital beds were full, and each patient had at least one family member accompanying the bed, so the not-so-spacious ward was even more crowded. Shao Wu didn't even have a place to sit. He came and stood for half an hour.

Before ten o'clock, the nurses began to check the beds in each ward, and at the same time chased people away—asked the visitors away.

"Go back," Yang Shuyi said to Shao Wu, "I'll take you to the station."

Indeed, the old man's son on the opposite bed had already unfolded the folding chair, and it seemed that he was going to sleep.

"You also sleep on this... chair?" Shao Wu asked.

"Well, I sleep outside."

"Outside?! Corridor?!" When entering the ward, Shao Wu did see some simple camp beds or folding chairs standing on the side of the corridor.

"The mother-in-law was the last one to live in, and there is no room for her in the house."

Shao Wu stepped out of the ward with one foot, and immediately felt a gust of cold wind brushing across his cheeks.The window at the end of the corridor was open, Shao Wu shivered, and said in disbelief: "I thought those people were going to move the bed into the ward at night...how do you sleep here? It's so cold!"

"It's okay," Yang Shuyi said with a look of indifference, "It's better to wrap your clothes tightly."

There is no heating in winter in the south. The air conditioner is turned on in the ward, which is very warm, but the corridor is another world. Shao Wu couldn't help but reach out and tug on Yang Shuyi's collar: "Is your down jacket tightly wrapped?"

Yang Shuyi: "It's okay."

OK a hammer.

Shao Wu was getting bolder now, maybe he was really anxious - he grabbed the front of Yang Shuyi's down jacket with one hand, held the zipper pull up with the other hand, and sure enough, as soon as he let go, the zipper pull slowly slid down.

"It was issued by my father's unit," Yang Shuyi raised his hand to pull the slightly rusty pendant, "The quality of the zipper is not good."

"Is it cold at night?"

"...Go get some hot water to drink when it's cold," Yang Shuyi finally said truthfully this time, "or eat something—you bought so much food for me, didn't you?"

Shao Wu looked at Yang Shuyi, and suddenly a crazy idea popped up in his mind.

The day before yesterday, my father went on a business trip to Guangdong, and he hasn’t come back yet. In the morning, my mother said that today their kindergarten has to work overtime for environmental innovation, and she will not go home at night, and stay in the kindergarten.

Shao Wu blinked his eyes, and his tone became very light, as if confiding a secret: "Shall I stay here with you tonight?"

Yang Shuyi was taken aback: "Why are you staying overnight in the hospital? Go home."

"There's no one in my house."

"Then there's no need for you to stay here for the night, do you know how cold it is in the middle of the night? I—" Yang Shuyi paused, knowing that he had accidentally told the truth, and turned his face slightly annoyed: "Anyway, you go back."

"I haven't finished yet..." Shao Wu put his hands in his pockets, shrinking his shoulders, looking very pitiful, "My parents are not at home, I'm afraid."

Yang Shuyi: "What?"

"That's right, my community is a bit evil," Shao Wu said nonsense, "I heard that two workers died during the construction of the building. The family members thought that the development company did not pay enough, so they kept making trouble, and the bodies stayed in the building for a week... ...Later, our neighborhood was quite evil, alas, I dare not say it this late in the evening..."

Yang Shuyi doubtfully said: "Really?"

Shao Wu nodded: "Really, actually, one of the reasons why I came to see your mother-in-law today is... I don't want to go home."

Yang Shuyi frowned, and after a while, he finally let go: "Then you can stay here tonight."

Shao Wu was overjoyed, and quickly made a grateful and ashamed expression: "Thank you."

So Shao Wu lay down on the folding chair in the corridor.The night was getting deeper and deeper, and the hospital gradually became quieter. Shao Wu stretched his head and saw Yang Shuyi walking back and forth in the ward.He first used the urinal to collect urine from the mother-in-law's urine bag, and then fetched a basin of hot water to wipe her face and legs.After all this was done, Yang Shuyi sat by the hospital bed and massaged his mother-in-law's legs and arms until the medicinal liquid in the bottle dropped slowly and reached the mouth of the bottle.

Yang Shuyi went to the nurse's station and asked the nurse to pull out the needle and take the temperature. Everything was normal. He brought another glass of warm water and watched his mother-in-law take the medicine.

It was past eleven o'clock at this time, Shao Wu stared at Yang Shuyi's tall and straight silhouette, and couldn't help but think, what do he usually do at this time?Probably during supper, his mother would serve him a bowl of steaming egg noodles, or steam a few buns, and cook a bowl of dumplings. He would sit cross-legged on the soft sofa, holding the bowl and eating slowly.Their community is one of the few communities in Yongchuan that has installed floor heating. The house is so warm that you can even step on the floor with bare feet in winter.Sometimes he would watch TV, the evening news, or watch TV dramas with his mother while eating late at night.

He never imagined that one night, he would look at Yang Shuyi by the bright white light in the corridor of the inpatient department filled with cold wind.He never imagined that Yang Shuyi spent those warm and comfortable nights doing these things.

The mother-in-law had already fallen asleep, and Yang Shuyi carried the basin and towel into the bathroom to wash up. After a while, Shao Wu saw him come out, the hair on his forehead was a little wet.Is it time to come and rest now?Shao Wu thought.

Not yet.Yang Shuyi took out two bags of milk bought by Shao Wu, went to the boiling water room to make a lunch box of boiling water, and put the milk in it.

Ten minutes later, he finally, finally came over with the milk.

"Is it cold?" Yang Shuyi stuffed a bag of hot milk into Shao Wu's hand.

"It's not cold, my down jacket is thick." This time, it was Shao Wu's turn to lie again.

"Well," Yang Shuyi looked at Shao Wu, as if hesitating for a moment, "If you don't think it's dirty, I'll ask the nurse for a quilt..."

"Okay, you go." In fact, Shao Wu is a bit of a clean freak. Last time he slept in the hospital for a night because of a fever. When he came home the next day, he didn't even touch his buttocks on the sofa, so he quickly took off his clothes and stuffed them all in. washing machine.

Yang Shuyi really brought a white quilt with the words "Yongchuan District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital" printed on the quilt, "This bed has just been washed." Yang Shuyi said.

"Yeah." Shao Wu suddenly became nervous, and a certain string in his mind tensed the moment he saw the quilt—he wanted to make a quilt with Yang Shuyi!No, no, first of all they will all sleep in this folding chair tonight...

The folding chair was quite spacious, and the two of them lay down with their shoulders pressed against each other.It was just the two of them, the quilt could only be covered horizontally, and both of their calves were exposed outside the quilt.

Shao Wu was so nervous that he dared not move.

There was already a snoring sound in the ward. I don't know which family member was accompanying the bed, and the sound was thunderous.

"Shao Wu," Yang Shuyi said softly, "You know why I beat Fan Pengfei."

"Huh? I... heard what they said."

Yang Shuyi's voice was close to my ears: "Our family didn't delay paying the money on purpose, it was—my dad just had a banquet with my stepmother last month, and the little girl she brought was going to study in Yongchuan again. The school choice fee, the family has no money. We didn’t pay the money in the first two days when my mother-in-law was hospitalized, but my dad borrowed the money on the third day and paid it immediately.”

Shao Wu was stunned, he didn't expect Yang Shuyi to explain this suddenly.This seems to be the first time since he and Yang Shuyi met, Yang Shuyi said so many words in one breath.

"I know...Fan Pengfei is mean, he deserves to be beaten."

Yang Shuyi said "Hum".

Shao Wu looked sideways at Yang Shuyi, he had already closed his eyes, and there was no expression on his face.But knowing these things, Shao Wu couldn't help feeling wronged for him. His father and stepmother spent money on banquets, stepmother's children spent money on transferring to another school, and mother-in-law had to spend money when she was hospitalized—only Yang Shuyi didn't spend money from the family, but The bitter fruit of not having money fell on Yang Shuyi - now everyone in the grade knows that Yang Shuyi from the liberal arts class beat Fan Pengfei up because Fan Pengfei spread the news that his family had no money to pay the hospital bill.

Yang Shuyi was slapped by his father, scolded by his boss, and transferred to a special seat next to the trash can. After that, he had to stay in the hospital every night to take care of his mother-in-law, working hard without complaint.

Who of them cared about Yang Shuyi's feelings?