Peach Branch Bubbles

When Tao Zhi and Tao Xiuping walked out of the inpatient department of the radiology department, none of them spoke.

There are a lot of people going through the formalities. It took more than ten minutes for Ji Fan to walk in front. Two-thirds of the people in front of them walked. The teenager was getting a little impatient. Holding the small hospital book in his hand, the left fan, the right fan, and he turned his head. I just saw her waiting at the door.

The boy grinned and bared his white teeth, and beckoned to her.

Tao Zhi's first reaction at the time was that he must not let Ji Fan know about this.

Unlike her, Ji Fan grew up and never left Ji Jin. She watched him from babbling to staggering, and growing from a young boy to a tall boy. Every day, he grew up with her company. .

When he realized this, Tao Zhi had a very, very shallow sense of loss uncontrollably, being left in place. However, the more fact is that Ji Fan’s feelings and dependence on Ji Jin are probably better than the current one. She is much deeper.

Tao Zhi raised his hand, pressed his hot eyes with his cold fingers, and then said softly, "Did you tell your mother about my matter?"

Tao Xiuping looked at the teenagers in the crowd from a distance: "No."

Tao Zhi nodded.

She understood what Tao Xiuping meant, and why he had kept it secret for so long. He suddenly told her today.

If Ji Jin knew about this, how would she react, Tao Zhi didn't even have to guess.

Tao Xiuping might no longer be as strong as before. He was just using this silent way to discourage her, telling her that at this point, she must be sensible.

The bright lobby was crowded with people, and every window was winding into a long serpentine shape. They crisscrossed, rushed, and twisted and walked on their own territory in an orderly and disorderly manner.

Like the snake-eating game I played when I was a child, I bite down beans one by one, and then watched the long snake slowly fill the screen, and my heart was full of satisfaction.

Only this time, after biting to the end, Tao Zhi suddenly felt a little at a loss as he looked at the full screen.

She didn't know where she should go.

No matter which way you choose, it seems that you will hit that long dragging tail, and then the whole army will be wiped out, and everything will return to zero.

Tao Zhi stayed at home for a weekend.

Aunt Zhang changed her tricks every day to stew various nourishing soups for her, wishing to send her three meals upstairs to keep her from getting out of bed, and she had to stare at her and drink them all.

The battle was so serious that Tao Zhi almost thought he had a comminuted fracture.

She was already fine, except that the deepest wound behind the ear was stitched, and it was slowly healing.

On Monday, she rushed to school eagerly.

I haven't come to school for a week, and nothing seems to have changed.

Except for the approaching winter vacation, the study atmosphere for preparing for the final exam is more intense and intense than usual.

The last two rows of the first group of the classroom finally showed up. There is no need to look at the three empty seats alone. Fu Xiling was about to cry with joy. The moment she saw Tao Zhi, the little girl rushed up and hugged her. : "Branches."

Tao Zhi felt such a straightforward welcome for the first time, and was suddenly at a loss. She patted her back hastily: "Hey, it's there."

Fu Xiling said nothing to let go: "Zhizhi."

Tao Zhi answered patiently: "I'm back, I'm back."

Fu Xiling rubbed her head and whispered, "Your chest is so soft."

Tao Zhi: "..."

The vacant seat alone has turned into a cadre, a half-slinger, and a trash trio. Jiang Qihuai's position is always empty.

If it was before, after she was discharged from the hospital and escaped Tao Xiuping's sight, the first thing she would do was to force and lure Ji Fan out of Grandpa Jiang's ward to meet Jiang Qihuai, but now she is a little daunted.

Her greedy snake turned aimlessly in the cage, smashed his head against the hard wall, but still couldn't find the way forward.

For a whole week, she did not send WeChat to Jiang Qihuai for the first time.

On Saturday morning, Tao Xiuping went to the company for a meeting. Tao Zhi's tutoring classes for these two weeks were temporarily suspended. She dressed neatly and ran to the door with shoes on, ready to go out.

As soon as Ji Fan got up, she saw her standing at the door wearing gloves when she came downstairs.

The boy scratching his hair stopped: "Are you going to the hospital?"

Tao Zhi lowered his head, silently put his hand into the soft woolen glove, spread his five fingers and propped it up.

Ji Fan didn't say anything, he walked down the stairs into the kitchen, and only left one sentence when he passed the hallway: "603."

Tao Zhi was stunned, raised his head and looked over.

The young man didn't look back, and waved his hand with his back to her handsomely: "Be careful of your own safety."

Tao Zhi pursed his lips and went out.

It was almost noon when he arrived at the hospital, and Tao Zhi first went to the inpatient department of the radiology department.

She stood at the door of the ward and looked in. Ji Jin was not there. The ward was empty. There were two small pots of unknown plants on the windowsill. The tender leaves slowly stretched out and climbed along the windowsill.

Tao Zhi waited for a while, when there were gentle footsteps in the corridor.

She turned around.

Ji Jin walked forward alone, with her head down. Tao Zhi didn't know if she would lose her hair during radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but her hair didn't seem to fall. It was still a long black hand, which was neatly tied behind her head, making her pale. The face is smaller.

She was so thin that she could barely support the big white clothes in the hospital. She looked very tired and walked forward very slowly.

As if feeling her gaze, Ji Jin suddenly raised her head.

She looked at her, first in a daze, then slowly came back to her senses, and called her with some uncertainty: "Zhizhi?"

Tao Zhi opened his mouth, and before his voice came out, tears had already begun to fall in despair.

She suppressed her choking and said softly, "Mom."

Ji Jin closed his eyes and shook his whole body.

Tao Zhi quickly wiped away her tears. She ran over in a panic and held her back. The moment she touched her arm, Tao Zhi intuitively and vividly felt her fragility at this time.

Her fingertips are separated by the material, as if they can directly touch the outline of her bones.

Tao Zhi lowered his head and bit his lip, tears falling on the back of the woman's pale hand.

Ji Jin sighed, then hugged her.

"What are you crying?" Her voice was weak, but still gentle and gentle, "Mum is actually very happy to see Zhizhi here."

"Although I kept hiding from you, I didn't tell you, I didn't want you to worry, and make you unhappy, but now I really see you here, my mother is very, very happy."

The woman's embrace was still warm and gentle, with a familiar smell that could not be concealed by the smell of medicine and hospital disinfectant water.

It seems that everything has changed, and it seems that nothing has changed.

At that moment, all the things that used to be, those lonely cold nights and the awkward estrangement Tao Zhi couldn't remember at all, only the warmth that was once accompanied by her all poured into his mind.

The mother who smiles gently, the mother who pinches her nose sadly, the mother who sings to her softly, the mother who helps her cover her quilt, touches her hair and says that Zhizhi is the most sensible child and loves her mother.

Tao Zhi hugged her, almost crying, she sobbed and said vaguely: "I don't know anything, I always leave you alone, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

Ji Jin also cried. She hugged her tightly: "Zhizhi did not sorry for her mother, it was her mother who was sorry for you. Zhizhi was very well-behaved and took care of her father alone. It was her mother who did not fulfill her responsibility and did not take good care of you. I care about you and didn't watch you grow up."

The little boy in the ward next door heard the sound running out. He tilted his head and looked at them. He seemed a little scared and didn't dare to pass. He just stood there and carefully called out, "Aunt Ji?"

Tao Zhi let go of his arms, sucked his nose and turned around slowly.

The little boy pursed his lips, walked over slowly, and then comforted her in a low voice, "Auntie went to light the lamp. The lamp is painful, but it's okay. If you take the light, you will be cured."

Tao Zhi wiped away tears indiscriminately, and nodded.

She helped Ji Jin back to the ward, and the little boy held his little painting book and followed at every step, but was called back by his mother.

He was a little reluctant, and said reluctantly: "The elder sister will play with the aunt first, and Ari will be back in a while."

Ji Jin responded with a smile.

Tao Zhi ran to the small bathroom in the ward to wash her face, and patted her cheek with cold water. She calmed down a lot. She looked at herself in the mirror and patted her eyes with cold water.

Don't be unhappy, she is the little pistachio in the family.

She took a deep breath before walking out.

Ji Jin was already lying on the bed, Tao Zhi picked a big apple from the table, and sat awkwardly by the bed to cut it one by one.

She peeled apples and potatoes, and the peels and large pieces of pulp fell into the trash can. Ji Jin didn’t say anything, just looked at her, and suddenly asked, "Your father said, you have a favorite recently. boy?"

Tao Zhi shook his hand and clicked, she cut off a large piece of the apple.

Ji Jin smiled: "We Zhizhi has indeed grown up, and we will have a boy we like. What kind of child is it?"

Tao Zhi lowered her head, her mood was still a little depressed, and she whispered: "Yes, a very good person."

"It's very good. Every time I take the exam, I rank first in our school. I always get full marks in mathematics. I also work hard to live."

"Are the conditions at home average?" Ji Jin asked when she said that.

Tao Zhi nodded dullly: "His father...not very good."

Ji Jin sighed: "When I first met your father, the conditions in his family were not good. He was a poor boy, but he worked very hard. I just thought he had a drive and was very attractive."

"Later, we two got married and got married. With you and Afan, although the two of us are not in the same pace, the life I want and the life he wants are too far apart, and they cannot be reconciled. They are still separated. But thinking about it now, I still don’t regret choosing to be with him at that time."

Ji Jin turned her head and looked at her: "So is Zhizhi, just do what you want to do. Even if you do that after a few decades, if you look back, you still think the original choice was It's worth it, that kind of thing."

Probably because the treatment consumed too much energy, Ji Jin was already asleep when she finished peeling an apple.

Tao Zhi put the first apple he had cut in his life in a small bowl, got up to wash her hands, helped her cover the quilt, and closed the ward door.

The sun was in full bloom when I came out of the inpatient department of the radiology department. It was lunch time. The trolley in the inpatient canteen was parked by the wall of the lobby of the main building. Playing porridge.

Tao Zhi walked to the elevator and pressed the sixth floor.

She found 603, and the door was hidden. She stood at the door, pursing her lips and knocking on the door.

After waiting for a few seconds or several minutes, the door was opened from inside.

Jiang Qihuai stood at the door, carrying a small heat-preserving kettle in his hand, and his eyes stopped when he saw her.

The teenager who hadn't seen him in the past half a month did not seem to have changed, except for a little thinner, and the angularity of the jaw line appeared more distinct.

He stared at her steadily, motionless, Tao Zhi only glanced at him, then lowered his eyes, pinching his fingers tightly together.

This was the first time that when she saw him, she seemed to be suffering from aphasia and couldn't say a word of gag.

For a moment, Jiang Qihuai turned sideways and said in a low voice, "Come in."

Tao Zhi walked in.

Ji Fan told her about Grandpa Jiang’s general situation. Tao Xiuping originally said that he would have to pay all the expenses for hospitalization and treatment. The amount was not small. Jiang Qihuai disagreed. In the end, he took out the money himself.

Fortunately, there was no shortage of wards at this time. Jiang Hesheng’s father was the director of orthopedics and arranged a two-person ward. Another patient was discharged from the hospital last week, so Grandpa Jiang was the only one left in the ward.

The old man was sleeping, and he didn't seem to have any injuries except for the plaster on his arm. Tao Zhi heaved a sigh of relief and asked in a low voice, "How is Grandpa Jiang's spirit?"

"Very good," Jiang Qihuai poured the hot water into the insulated kettle, "I played cards with the old lady next door in the morning. I might be a little tired now."

Tao Zhi sat on the empty bed, dangling his legs, and didn't know what to say.

In fact, I knew it.

It's just that she didn't dare to ask.

Originally, she hadn't waited until Jiang Qihuai came to see her in the hospital. Tao Zhi didn't expect this, but after a long time, she felt that she understood his thoughts a bit.

So I dared not send him WeChat again.

So I dare not look for him again.

But she didn't want to make herself regret it.

Are you scared?

Do you regret it.

Do you feel sorry for me, so you want to leave me.

Don't you, don't want me anymore.

She has a basket of words and wants to ask him, she wants a clear answer, wants to know his thoughts.

She wanted to tell him that it was okay, she hadn't suffered any injuries, she was a little hero now, and she was very brave. She is willing to accompany him, and she can also follow him to overcome all difficulties.

That's how I grew up.

To grow up is to endure a lot of hardship, keep getting hurt, do the impossible under the eyes of everyone’s doubts, and desperately get rid of all kinds of shackles and cocoons that make people almost unable to breathe, and then rush. To the sky.

Tao Zhi grabbed the snow-white bed sheet, bit his lip, and still asked him with difficulty: "Why don't you come to see me?"

Probably because someone was sleeping in the room, the little girl's voice was soft, with an unconcealable depression.

Jiang Qihuai put the kettle on the small table between the two beds and turned around to look at her.

Her arms were tight and stiff, her fingertips were pale because of the force, her eyelashes drooped and trembled, and the corners of her lips were tightly pressed.

In the winter, the sunlight is cold and gentle, the freshly-boiled hot water is still steaming in the kettle, and only the quiet and gentle breathing remains in the ward.

Jiang Qihuai didn't speak, he just looked at her silently and intently for a long time.

When did the initial feeling begin, Jiang Qihuai couldn't tell.

It may be that the girl awkwardly gave him a new book and test paper, and then handed him a piece of gingerbread man from the front, and pressed it to the table to urge him to read it.

Or he was standing on the playground, watching her standing in front of the flag-raising stand, under the early morning sun, arrogantly uttering the naive and arrogant words of justice envoys everywhere.

At that time Jiang Qihuai realized that this was a completely different person from him.

Different growth trajectories, different destinies, different personalities, and different worlds.

She did things he wouldn't do in his life, said things he wouldn't say, thought of thoughts he didn't dare to think of, and then kept moving forward.

The huge to extreme difference between the two people made him attracted by the firelight like an insect, wanting to find out.

While trying to stay away, I couldn't help but keep getting closer.

It wasn't until he flew hard to reach the burning flames that he really felt that in this world, he had been hoping to have such a temperature.

Jiang Qihuai's hanging fingers moved, and then slowly lifted them to cover her neck.

His thumb touched the back of her ear lightly, and there was a slowly healing wound.

With only a light touch, he removed his hand.

His warm palm covered the back of her neck, and then called her: "Branch."

Tao Zhi raised his head.

There was a shadow over her, Jiang Qihuai bent down and lowered her neck, her lips pressed against her soft lips.

Cold, delicate, careful and gentle touch.

Tao Zhi opened his eyes wide.

His breath and smell enveloped the sky, running through his body, in a blank, his lips were close to hers, his voice was low and hoarse, like sand that was crushed by a turbulent river slowly sinking into the river bed: " Don't come again."

She heard him say.