《花凋》叶藏

48、丁香

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　　MengHuan and MengYi walk on the road, who also didn\'t speak. Along the way, almost empty, this is not the usual way home. Meng Yi did not ask his brother where they were going, no matter where the road leads, as long as his brother in, she can even go without opening her eyes.
　　The thick snow sucked the sound of their footsteps, and the places they stepped on formed small puddles, one big and the other small.The snow is still under, Meng Yi suddenly remembered a poem he had seen before: \"two lovesickness with the snow, this life is also a total white head.\" Looking at her and her brother\'s white hair, she thought, \"I heard that the two people who have seen the first snow together will grow old together. Then, is it \'altogether hoary\' twice?\" She was ashamed of her little girl\'s idea, and secretly looked forward to the future of Meng Huan.
　　A sudden pain from her forehead brought her back to reality. She hit a \"wall of meat,\" is Meng Huan suddenly stopped.
　　\"Hurt?\"
　　\"It\'s all right.\"
　　\"Let me see.\" Meng Huan put his sister rubbing his forehead in his hand and lowered his head to see his sister\'s forehead. Okay, just a little red, he was relieved.
　　\"Walk all absent-minded, thinking what?\"
　　\"No.\" Come out such childish idea, Meng Yi how embarrassed to say to brother.
　　“Really? I thought you were missing your classmate. ”
　　“Classmate? What classmate? ” Meng Huan lips micro pursed, brow furrowed, looking at his brother\'s tight face, meng Yi realized who his classmate was.
　　“Is that Li Zhong? He had something for me today. ”
　　\"Yes?\"
　　\"Yes, he says he likes me.\" MengYi voice low.
　　\"Are you sorry for him?\"
　　\"Yes. Brother, you know what? Since junior high school, there have been classmates in the class fall in love, I do not think, because I know, those people are either curious, or go with the flow, exaggerate a little bit of affection as like, and then imitate others, buy breakfast, give gifts, say good night. Even the cause and result of a quarrel is the same as that of others. But Li Zhong is not the same, I do not know how good this person, otherwise, he would not have become my only male friend in so many years. It is no exaggeration to say that if one of the 100 couples will not break up at the time of graduation, the hero of the couple must be Li Zhong. He is sincere to me, is love; I am also sincere to him, but it is friendship. Brother, will we be together forever? \"
　　\"I will.\" Meng Huan looked firm. \"Ah Yi, we are not only lovers, but also brothers and sisters. We have half the same blood, only in each other\'s side, we are complete. Before falling in love with you, it has become my habit to accompany you and take care of you. Yi, I won\'t leave you as long as you need it. \"
　　Meng Huan\'s eyes are gentle and firm, like the sea, Meng Yi indulges in it, but there is no uneasiness. She knew that her brother\'s sea had oxygen to keep her breathing, and she didn\'t have to worry about drowning.
　　The first snow this year is very cold, the roaring cold wind carried the snow, along Meng Yi\'s neck into the whole body, really into the flesh and blood. This year\'s first snow is very warm, falling on the lips of the snowflakes were gently kissed away, suddenly, she opened her eyes wide. Meng Huan frantically licked and gnawed on her lips, with a trace of ferocious desire to swallow her into her stomach. Her lips were pried open, and the hot and humid soft tongue licked the teeth one by one. He pinched Meng Yi\'s chin and pressed hard to find her slippery.
　　He came with a tornado, greedily grabbing the breath that belonged to her, and exploring every corner. Between lips and tongue entanglement, Meng Yi tasted a hint of clear taste, is the taste of snow. They are like dry fish in the desert, and only by soaking each other with liquid can they survive.
　　When I got home, there was a lot of noise on the card table in the living room. She said hello to her brother one by one, and the uncles and uncles concentrated on the cards in their hands and perfunctory answered them.
　　Uncle Wang, who sat watching the cards, stood up and looked at Meng Yi in surprise. He took a step forward, took Meng Yi\'s hand, and asked Mr. Meng, \"Xiao Hong, this is your daughter?\" Are you growing this big? It\'s beautiful. It\'s a big girl. The last time I saw her, she came to me. \" As he spoke, his hands were scratched on his chest. Meng Yi quietly pulled out her hand, and she remembered the uncle Wang.
　　That year, when she was eleven years old, he and a group of people came to eat at home. In the living room, everyone else was playing cards and there was a lot of noise. Meng Hong and his wife are preparing food in the kitchen. He pushed open the door of Meng Yi\'s bedroom and gently closed it.
　　He took Meng Yi\'s hand and asked how old she was. Where do you go to school? When he spoke, he clasped Meng Yi\'s shoulder with both hands and looked at her carefully, \"do you want to bite uncle?\" Bite? Meng Yi looked at uncle wang doubtfully, she did not understand uncle wang what does this mean? But as he got closer and closer to the face, Meng Yi subconsciously felt that he should retreat. She turned and poured Uncle Wang a cup of tea.
　　As Mr. Wang sat on Meng Yi\'s bed, she forced herself to be polite and not frown. Mr. Wang gently stroked the quilt, Meng Yi do not know why, to the king uncle some faint antipathy. Mr. Wang pulled Meng Yi and held her in his lap. Meng Yi is no stranger to this action. When I was a child, and my mother took the bus, I met many people. There were always enthusiastic uncles and aunts who worried that she could not stand and held her in their arms. But she\'s past that age now. She wanted to go down, but Mr. Wang\'s arm stopped her. He hugged Meng Yi tightly, and his other hand was rubbing his leg, and it was going up. Meng Yi struggled, \"uncle wang, you put me down, I am not comfortable.\" But Mr. Wang turned a deaf ear and hugged Meng Yi.
　　At that moment, Mr. Meng came in. He came to tell his daughter to go down to dinner. Mr. Wang hurriedly pushed Meng Yi down and stood up. Meng looked at a good friend holding his daughter, smiled and said, how can not find you, think you are in the bathroom, did not expect you in the yi here. If you like, let her recognize you as adoptive father. Wang smiled and promised, saying, I can give my goddaughter a big red envelope. The two men laughed and laughed.
　　Now, Mr. Wang is smiling asked Mr. Meng, said before the yi yi to me to do dry daughter, also do not know still count. Mr. Meng said, calculate, how not calculate, yi yi, quickly kneel down kowtow to your adoptive father. Meng Yi looked at Mr. Meng, outside, she was still the well-behaved daughter. She smiled and said, no, I have only you a father.Other people listened, have said that Mr. Meng has a good daughter.Mrs Meng was tidying up the mess of cups and plates on the table with her aunt. The sound of the bell made her take an early rest tonight come to naught.
　　Mrs. Liu\'s period is still late for more than a week. Pacing back and forth in the cramped living room, Mr. Liu felt as if his wife had been inside for a century. When he tried to open the bathroom door against his wife\'s wishes, Mrs. Liu came out, stroking her belly.
　　Mrs. Liu nodded to her anxious husband with a smile. Mr. Liu\'s round face was covered with tiny wrinkles. He carefully helped his wife sit down, turned to his wife to wash the fruit, in the bustle, legs knock to the tea table, Mrs. Liu dumbfounding, he perfunctorily rubbed a few times, limped into the kitchen.
　　In the evening, Mr. Liu felt contented lying in bed with his arms around his wife. His parents are alive and well, his daughter is obedient and filial, his wife is pregnant with children, life is so, what is not satisfied?
　　\"I hope it\'s a boy.\"
　　\"You say that you prefer boys to girls, and you don\'t admit it. It\'s a bit of a show.\" Mrs. Liu said angrily.
　　\"No, the father-in-law is also older, in case there is one in the future, there is a man at home to take care of your mother and daughter.\"
　　“What are you talking about? I\'m just pregnant and you want to leave us? ”
　　\"Where am I willing to ah, you can rest assured, I must take care of the body, and strive to grow old with you.\" See his wife eyes red circle, Mr. Liu quickly comfort way.
　　“That\'s more like it. Well, you should apply to your manager to transfer you to another department. It\'s dangerous not to be underground. I\'m pregnant. Don\'t keep me on tenterhooks all day. ”
　　“OK, then you should stop going to the factory and keep the baby at home. There are some savings at home, and so after the birth of the child, you recover, go to work. ”
　　\"Good.\"
　　Manager Li is sitting on the sofa in the office. \"Xiao liu, I told you before to transfer you to another department, what do you think?\"
　　\"Thanks for the manager\'s sympathy, but my wife is pregnant, and there is a daughter at home to go to school, I can\'t quit.\"
　　\"So ah, but you know, underground dust, it is easy to fall disease, you have done for several years, have to pay attention to the body.\"
　　\"The manager can rest assured that I will work for a few years, and when the family is not so tight, I\'ll bother you again.\"
　　Back home, Mr. Liu saw two large bags of beads and silk thread lying on the ground, his wife sitting on the sofa in the string of beads.
　　\"What are you wearing a bead curtain for?\"
　　“This is not boring at home, the director asked me to wear some bead curtain. Can kill time, but also some income. ”
　　“Didn\'t I tell you to rest? I\'ll make the money. ”
　　\"You don\'t have to go out, and it doesn\'t matter.\"
　　\"Then you take care not to boil your eyes bad.\"
　　\"Know, rest assured.\"
　　In the past, the meaning behind the joke, now to the present. More than a month later, Mrs. Liu appeared fatigue, loss of appetite, anemia and other symptoms. She thought that it was because of pregnancy, but also afraid that her husband knew, and did not make a statement.
　　During pregnancy, Mrs. Liu had various discomfort, joint pain, and even fever.
　　Mr. Liu is afraid to give his wife medicine. He covered his wife with a quilt, dipped the towel in cold water, wrung dry, and covered her forehead, still to no avail. That day, Mr. Liu asked his mother to come and take care of his daughter. The little girl looked at her mother, her face was still at a loss. She didn\'t know that this was the last time she saw her mother.
　　Mr Liu took his wife to the hospital on a scooter. Because Mrs. Liu is pregnant, many hospitals have been refused. Mr Liu was so anxious that he settled down at the First Hospital of Suzhou City until midnight.
　　Meng was called back to the hospital for an emergency meeting. By the time she arrived, Liu had fallen into a coma and was wheeled into the intensive care unit. Mrs. Liu was diagnosed with leukemia terminal, her attending doctors to cure, can be tens of thousands of yuan every day medical expenses overwhelmed the family.
　　Mr Chen sought help on various Internet platforms and, despite little hope, reposted the same content over and over. The doctor said that although pregnant women have been unconscious, but a strong sense of survival, the condition has improved, there is hope for treatment. He humbly prayed for good Samaritans to save his wife and the mother of his children. Men don\'t shed tears because they haven\'t been to the sad place. In just a few days, this man in the prime of life has aged for decades. His gray hair was thick, and his face, which had been so happy a few days before, was now covered with sorrow.
　　More than 10 days later, borrow all the relatives and friends of Mr Liu, finally at a loss. Thinking of the Chinese bone marrow bank, thinking of debt-ridden families, thinking about the age of the daughter of the general point, thinking aging parents, The man, who only a few days ago was smiling for the first time since his wife got sick, knelt down in front of his in-laws and burst into tears. Finally, he signed the DNR with a trembling hand.
　　Happiness is like a meteor in the night sky, after a long wait for a row, fleeting. After the brilliant, the rest is just the eternal loneliness. That night, Mrs. Liu died with her unborn child.
　　Reality always runs counter to people\'s hopes. The great ship of destiny roared to the North, leaving the people in the South to chase and shout, until it crushed poverty, crushed dignity, crushed dreams that were within reach.