Fate

In just over four months, Wen Hui's condition took a turn for the worse, to the point where she had to live on a respirator in the hospital.

When the Spring Festival is approaching, the number of patients in the hospital is much less than usual. Chinese people always hope to get a good fortune during the Chinese New Year in order to look auspicious. However, those who are not seriously ill are required to be discharged before the Spring Festival. formalities.

Every year during the Spring Festival, Shen Yuan would bring Wen Hui and Xiao Jiale back to her parents' house to celebrate the New Year, but this year, their whole family might spend the entire Spring Festival in this cold ward.

On the day of New Year's Eve, Shen Yuan cooked a lot of dishes. Even though Shen Yuan's stomach is not very good, the customs of the New Year must be followed.So early in the morning, Shen Yuan went to the supermarket, bought a lot of ingredients, cooked a table of delicious dishes, including fish and shrimp, and fried some spring rolls. After putting all the meals into a lunch box, he took a taxi and took Take Xiao Jiale to the hospital.

It was almost noon when the father and son arrived at the hospital. When Shen Yuan walked into the ward, she saw Wen Hui talking to Chen Mo. Wen Hui looked very energetic today, and her face was much better than usual. Seeing Shen Yuan Yuan and Xiao Jiale came and waved to them with a smile.

Chen Mo also saw Shen Yuan at the same time, greeted him with a smile, and silently stepped aside.

In fact, since Wen Hui was hospitalized, apart from Shen Yuan, Xiao Jiale and Shen Yuan's parents, Chen Mo has been the most diligent person to come to the hospital.Not only that, Chen Mo also spent a lot of money to hire foreign medical experts. Even though he knew that Wen Hui's illness had no hope of being cured, Chen Mo still hoped that at least Wen Hui would be less painful when he left.

It's not that Shen Yuan doesn't know what Chen Mo is doing, it's just that Shen Yuan doesn't know what kind of attitude he should use to face Chen Mo. He can only build a wall against him and be polite to him Yes, but the distance is far away.

Chen Mo also knew that there was a pimple in Shen Yuan's heart, and this pimple could not be untied in a short while, so Chen Mo chose to silently stay by Shen Yuan's side, waiting for him to untie the knot bit by bit. Knot.

Seeing that the family was preparing to eat in a friendly manner, Chen Mo rubbed his nose in embarrassment, and was about to leave, but was stopped by Wen Hui, "For those who are celebrating Chinese New Year, stay and eat together."

Chen Mo turned to look at Shen Yuan who lowered his head while serving the dishes silently, Shen Yuan lowered his head and did not speak.

Chen Mo stood aside in embarrassment, not knowing whether to leave or stay, Shen Yuan's attitude towards him was almost the same now, either ignoring him as if he didn't exist, or being polite, as if he was very strange .

Wen Hui lowered her head helplessly, but her face was not good. Shen Yuan glanced at her son at the side.

Xiao Jiale was a sensible and smart child since he was a child. After receiving the wink from his mother, he immediately ran over, hugged Shen Yuan's thigh, showed an innocent and bright smile, and said in a childish voice: "Dad~ let Uncle Mo, come eat with us!"

Shen Yuan picked up Xiao Jiale and sat on Wen Hui's hospital bed, while she went to the side and moved another chair over, gave Chen Mo a wink, and didn't care if Chen Mo understood it or not, just He sat down by himself, took out disposable bowls and chopsticks, and filled the hot rice from the thermos bucket, but what Shen Yuan took out were four transparent disposable bowls.

Chen Mo couldn't help showing a happy smile, strode over, and sat down on the other side of Wen Hui's bed.

There was not much Chinese New Year atmosphere in the meal, the adults all ate quietly, only the children's childish words would occasionally add some popularity to the meal.

After eating, Wen Hui said that there was no taste in his mouth and that he wanted to eat some fruit, so Shen Yuan led Xiao Jiale out of the ward.Shen Yuan knew in her heart that Wen Hui had something to say to Chen Mo, and deliberately pushed herself away.

After buying some pears at the fruit shop in front of the hospital, Shen Yuan calculated the time in his heart, then walked back, and heard the voices of several nurses talking on the way.

"The patient in the third room is much better today!"

"Well, but it should be a flashback. The doctor said that she can't last for many days. Now I just hope that I can pass the year safely."

Shen Yuan listened silently, but there was infinite sadness in her heart.

When he walked to the door of the ward, Shen Yuan saw Chen Mo running out of the ward in a hurry. After seeing Shen Yuan, he gave him a gloomy look, and said softly, "Go and see her." , and then ran towards the office while shouting "Doctor!"

The fruit in Shen Yuan's hand fell to the ground, and he walked into the ward in a daze. What he saw was Wen Hui lying on the bed in a semi-conscious state, her face was pale and bloodless, and the oxygen mask was covering her face, blocking half of her face. Shen Yuan's face, but Shen Yuan could still tell that Wen Hui was smiling faintly.

Shen Yuan walked over, sat down beside the hospital bed, and quietly held Wen Hui's hand in it.

As if sensing someone, Wen Hui struggled to open his eyes, and when he saw Shen Yuan's face, he lovingly raised his other hand, and gently caressed Shen Yuan's cheek.Wen Hui didn't have the energy to speak at all, so she could only look closely at Shen Yuan's with her eyes, as if saying: "After I'm gone, you have to take good care of yourself."

Shen Yuan shook her head, the feeling in her heart, the unspeakable pain, as if the sky that had been covering and protecting her was about to collapse. "No, don't leave me, without you, I really don't know how to live!" Shen Yuan's voice was choked with sobs, although he told himself over and over again in his heart not to cry in front of Wen Hui, but the tears still didn't stop. Consciously dripping from Shen Yuan's eye sockets.

Wen Hui reached out and touched Shen Yuan's hair, a faint smile appeared under the oxygen mask, and shook his head at Shen Yuan.

When Chen Mo and the doctor arrived, the heart rhythm monitor next to Wen Hui's hospital bed had already formed a straight line and let out a sad "beep—" sound.As for Shen Yuan, his head was lowered, his long bangs covered his expression, his hand tightly held Wen Hui's cold hand, his shoulders trembled uncontrollably.

Looking at Shen Yuan's familiar sad expression in front of him, Chen Mo's heart throbbed fiercely, his eyes kept up with Shen Yuan's mournful voice, and he clenched his fists tightly.

All of Wen Hui's funerals were arranged by Shen Yuan himself. Although Chen Mo wanted to help with something, before he could say anything, Shen Yuan politely refused.

Chen Mo could only silently look at Shen Yuan from the side, watching him from Wen Hui's funeral to Wen Hui's cremation and burial, watching him continue to lose weight, watching him reluctantly show a comforting smile, heartbroken You can only press it tightly with your hands.

Wen Hui didn't have many friends and no relatives, but Shen Yuan still wanted to make Wen Hui's funeral more grand and lively, at least let her leave this world with a smile.

Shen Yuan had been busy for a long time, and when she could finally rest, she felt empty in her heart.He threw himself on the three-seater sofa full of memories, smelling the familiar smell, thinking about the fragments of life in the past, his chest felt tight as if a heavy weight weighed on him, but he couldn't shed a single tear.

The new year is over, and the kindergarten has started. On that day, Shen Yuan sent Shen Jiale to the kindergarten, and she returned home and started to clean up the things left by Wen Hui. Feeling sour, I picked out a thick photo album among the sundries, opened the first page, and there was a group photo of three people. In the photo, Shen Yuan was very thin, almost skinny and bone-covered. Under the light, her pale face was slightly pink, and Wen Hui, who was sitting beside her, still had a peaceful expression on her face, smiling softly, holding Xiao Jiale who was still a baby in her arms.This is the first family portrait of their family of three, and it was taken on the day when Shen Yuan proposed to Wen Hui, so at that time, both Shen Yuan and Wen Hui were wearing hospital gowns.

Turning to the second page, it was the photo of Shen Yuan and Wen Hui on their wedding day. Wen Hui was wearing a pink dress, because she said that she was only able to wear a pink wedding dress for her second marriage!And Shen Yuan was only wearing a white shirt, although he was still so thin, he looked very energetic.There was no banquet for their wedding, and even the photos were taken at the door of the marriage registration office with the help of staff.

Then on the third page, Wen Hui is holding Xiao Jiale, sitting on this familiar three-person sofa, smiling and looking at the camera. On the other side of the camera is Shen Yuan holding a camera.

The fourth page, the fifth page...a thick photo album, each page is a happy memory, but each page has become the past.

Shen Yuan hugged the photo album like this, and sat on the sofa for a whole day, when he came to his senses, it was already five o'clock.

Shen Yuan almost jumped up from the sofa, grabbed the keys on the coffee table, casually put a coat on her body, and rushed out the door.When Shen Yuan arrived at the entrance of the kindergarten, it was almost six o'clock, all the children in the kindergarten had left, and the uncle guard was preparing to lock the door.

Shen Yuan hurried up and asked: "Master, have you seen a five or six-year-old child waiting for someone here, and that child is studying in this kindergarten!"

The uncle doorman shook his head and said, "You should ask the teacher, but now that the teachers have all gone back, there should be no children staying in the kindergarten." After finishing speaking, he continued to lock the door.

Shen Yuan was in a hurry, when she thought that she had lost Xiao Jiale not long after Wen Hui's death, she became flustered, immediately took out her mobile phone and called Shen Jiale's teacher.

"Shen Jiale? I didn't see him after school. All the children who didn't have parents to pick them up stayed behind until their parents picked them up. We all thought that Shen Jiale had already been picked up by adults..."

Without listening to the teacher's justification, Shen Yuan immediately hung up the phone, and then called her parents, but all the answers she got were negative. No one knew where Xiao Jiale had gone.

Shen Yuan had no choice but to hold the phone in his hand, in case someone called to tell him the whereabouts of Xiao Jiale at any time, while anxiously looking for Xiao Jiale's figure near the kindergarten.

Shen Yuan hadn't eaten for a whole day, and her bad stomach had already started to clamor. The pain in her body and the anxiety in her heart made Shen Yuan unable to hold on any longer. She squatted on the ground, hugged her stomach, her shoulders kept shaking twitching.

Picking up the phone that still didn't respond, Shen Yuan couldn't help showing a wry smile. At this moment, it was him that he thought of.

Pressing the call button, Shen Yuan dialed the phone.

Chen Mo almost drove all the way to the entrance of the kindergarten. As soon as he got out of the car, he saw that thin and thin figure squatting on the ground alone. Yuan's arms pulled him into his arms.

The figure of the person in the arms was much thinner than before, and staying outdoors for a long time made Shen Yuan's body cold and trembling constantly.

Damn it!Chen Mo, you idiot!Why not follow him!Knowing that his current situation is not right, why did he leave him alone at home! ?

Shen Yuan, leaning against Chen Mo's arms, was like a person wandering on the sea who finally grasped a floating plank. After feeling the familiar warmth, he couldn't bear it any longer, and put all the pain, troubles and All the anxiety was vented out, and she cried bitterly in Chen Mo's arms.

After crying for a while, Shen Yuan felt much more comfortable. Chen Mo bought Shen Yuan a warm vegetable steamed stuffed bun, a box of hot milk and a bottle of water at the convenience store opposite the kindergarten. In the Mercedes Benz, he handed the things he bought to Shen Yuan.

After sitting in the car for a while, Shen Yuan already felt much better. He didn't want to eat at first, but under Chen Mo's warning eyes, he had to obediently eat a few mouthfuls of steamed stuffed buns, and instead gave him a box of stomach-warming milk. drank it down.

Chen Mo nodded in satisfaction, then searched for something in the car, and said to Shen Yuan: "Don't worry, Xiao Jiale is very smart, I believe nothing will happen, I have already asked the police to My friend helped to find it, and it will be fine."

Shen Yuan nodded silently, but she was still very worried.

Chen Mo searched for a long time, and finally found what he was looking for - a small medicine bottle in the compartment where the CD was placed.In the eyes of ordinary people, it is just an ordinary medicine bottle, but to Shen Yuan, it is an all-too-familiar thing, because it is his stomach medicine.

"I made it by the way when I sent you to the hospital last time. I thought it might come in handy in case you forgot to take your medicine and had a stomach attack one day." Chen Motan's dark eyes looked straight at Shen Yuan eyes.

But this time it was Shen Yuan who dodged first, and after he took the pill and swallowed it in one gulp, he didn't say a word.

No, Shen Yuan, this time I really can't sink anymore.

As if hearing Shen Yuan's heartfelt voice, Chen Mo's face darkened immediately, but soon he smiled self-deprecatingly, turned the car key, started the engine, and said to Shen Yuan, "Let's look around."

"Ah."

Shen Yuan's phone ringtone came to mind at this moment.

"Hey?"

"Okay, I'll go over right away." After answering the phone, Shen Yuan immediately changed his face, and said anxiously to Chen Mo beside him: "Go to the hospital!"

"What's wrong?" Chen Mo asked, but he didn't dare to delay at all. He turned the car around and drove towards the hospital.

"Doctor Lu said that Xiao Jiale is with him."

It was already past eight o'clock when the two arrived at the hospital.After getting out of the car, Shen Yuan went straight to Lu Xinyan's office, forgot to knock on the door, and went straight in. He saw Xiao Jiale sitting on the sofa alone, reading a storybook and drinking the milk in his hand .

Lu Xinyan, on the other hand, was wearing a white coat, sitting at a desk beside him, looking at the door strangely.After seeing Shen Yuan, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I saw him in the corridor of the hospital. Around four o'clock, I saw a child wandering in the corridor of the hospital. The nurses went over to ask He, he said he came to look for his mother, and he was still wandering around the hospital alone until after seven o'clock. I happened to be on duty today, so I wanted to ask who this child was looking for. I saw it was your child " Then she leaned close to Shen Yuan's ear and whispered, "Didn't you tell the kid about her mother's death?"

Shen Yuan looked at Xiao Jiale who was concentrating on reading on the sofa, and walked over step by step.

When Chen Mo arrived, he saw Shen Yuan throwing away the storybook in Shen Jiale's hand, and yelled at him hysterically, "What are you doing here alone? Don't you know that Dad is going crazy looking for you?" !?"

Xiao Jiale stared blankly at the father with an ugly face, seemed to feel a little strange, and replied cautiously: "I'm here to find my mother."

"Looking for your mother? Your mother is dead! She has left this world! She will never guard us, hold us, and comfort us! Do you understand!?"

Xiao Jiale was shocked by his father's furious roar, and cried "Wow".

"Shen Yuan, won't you speak well?" Lu Xinyan just wanted to go up to coax the child, but was stopped by Chen Mo who was beside him. Chen Mo shook his head at Lu Xinyan, motioning him to continue reading.

Shen Yuan squatted down, stretched out his hands tremblingly, hugged Xiao Jiale's young body in his arms, and patted his back lightly to comfort him: "From now on, mother can no longer protect us Even so, my mother will watch us live in this world in another world, with Xiao Jiale's own father. Therefore, we must live a good life and be obedient, so as not to let They're sad, you know?"

"Yeah!" Xiao Jiale wiped his teary face with his sleeve, looked at his father and nodded.

Shen Yuan showed a faint smile to Xiao Jiale, and patted his head.

After tossing and tossing for a whole night, the father and son couldn't hold on anymore, and fell asleep cuddling each other in Chen Mo's back seat.The car drove downstairs to Shen Yuan's apartment, but Chen Mo was reluctant to wake up the father and son who had slept so peacefully, so he had to carry them from the car to his bed one by one.

Dimming the lights in Shen Yuan's room, Chen Mo sat quietly by the bed, looking at Shen Yuan's sleeping face, Shen Yuan didn't sleep well, and his eyebrows were tangled together, Chen Mo couldn't help reaching out to smooth the tip of his brows Chuan word, but saw the tears in the corner of Shen Yuan's eyes.

He cried in his arms today, does this mean that his position in his heart is still different?

At least make him cry so carelessly?

Smiling and shaking his head, Chen Mo got up and went to the bathroom to wring a hot towel, then gently and carefully wiped the tears on Shen Yuan's face.

Chen Mo closed his clothes and slept next to Shen Yuan all night, gently hugging Shen Yuan's body in his arms, quietly enjoying the long-lost peace and warmth.

At dawn, Chen Mo shaved his beard a little, and planned to make breakfast for the father and son. Shen Yuan's stomach couldn't be hungry.

As soon as he walked to the door, he heard the sound of the door lock turning. The door opened, and Shen Yuan's parents who were talking were stunned when they saw the familiar face in the room.

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