Chapter 204 Trauma
When Rowling was stating the content, her voice was trembling slightly. Song Yuanchao could feel the cruelty and intensity of the battle at that time from these simple statements, and he had great admiration for the second brother Lin whom he had never met.
A soldier, a modern soldier, faced the enemy's artillery fire and charge without giving an inch, fearless of life or death, using his own blood and life to hold his ground and defend his country.
How can such people not be respected and admired? At this moment, Song Yuanchao couldn't help but think of "The Loveliest People". Aren't Lin Yuhang and his comrades the loveliest people in modern times? Like their predecessors, they have proved with facts that they are worthy of being Chinese soldiers and worthy of the military uniforms on their bodies.
But Song Yuanchao didn't expect Lin Yuhang to be so seriously injured. He lost one eye, lost two fingers on his right hand, and had many injuries. It can be said that after this battle, although Lin Yuhang was saved, he could never return to his beloved military life.
Thinking of this, Song Yuanchao felt extremely emotional, and his eyes were also slightly moist.
Lin Yuhang has now passed the critical period and gradually regained consciousness. However, lying on the hospital bed, Lin Yuhang was in a very low mood and his temper became much more irritable.
In Rowling's eyes, Yuhang used to be a cheerful and smiling young man, and also a thoughtful and caring man.
But now, the second brother Yuhang seemed like a different person. Although he was awake, he often lay on the bed without saying a word. Many times, he stared blankly at the ceiling with his only remaining eye. He did not communicate with Rowling who came to take care of him . It seemed that he had lost interest in everything.
In addition, Lin Yuhang was very easy to get angry, and many times he got angry for no reason when Rowling was taking care of him.
Rowling endured all of this silently. She knew it was because of the battlefield and her injuries.
As one of the soldiers from the art troupe who visited the front line to comfort them, Luo Lin had seen many injured soldiers coming down from the front line in the past six months. These soldiers had more or less similar conditions, and some were even more serious than Lin Yuhang's.
Without any complaints, every time when Lin Yuhang lost his temper at Luo Lin, Luo Lin endured it silently, and after he lost his temper, she patiently coaxed Lin Yuhang like a child. In Luo Lin's eyes, no matter what Lin Yuhang became, he was still the cheerful and smiling big boy in her memory, and the big brother who had always taken care of and loved her since she was a child...
"Thank you for your hard work. It has been really difficult for you these days..." Song Yuanchao sincerely expressed his gratitude to Luo Lin.
Luo Lin smiled and extinguished the cigarette that was almost burnt out: "Isn't this what I should do? In fact, I should have done better, but until now, Brother Yuhang has not come out of the shadow of the war. Seeing him like this now, I feel very uncomfortable..."
As she spoke, Rowling's tears fell. Song Yuanchao sighed in his heart. He certainly understood Rowling's feelings for Lin Yuhang. If the person lying over there was Lin Yan, perhaps he would be feeling the same as Rowling.
"Let's go and see him." Song Yuanchao stood up and said to Luo Lin.
Rowling wiped away her tears and nodded. She accompanied Song Yuanchao back to the building and went up the stairs to the second floor. Lin Yuhang was in a single room on the second floor.
The ward is not big, but very clean and tidy. The walls and ceiling are all painted white, and there is a faint smell of disinfectant in the air.
Lin Yuhang lay quietly on an iron hospital bed. Just as Rowling said, he stared at the ceiling with one eye open, as if there was something worth seeing on the ceiling.
His other injured eye was wrapped in gauze, his entire body was wrapped in bandages, and his half-naked body was covered with scars. When Song Yuanchao and Luo Lin came in, he still did not react at all and maintained this posture.
"Brother Yuhang, someone is here to see you..." Luo Lin walked in front, gently put the face plate in her hand aside, and then said to Lin Yuhang.
Lin Yuhang still didn't respond, as if he didn't care about what Rowling said.
Luo Lin was about to say something, but Song Yuanchao raised his hand to stop her. He winked at Luo Lin, then stepped forward and looked at Lin Yuhang on the bed and said, "Hello, second brother. This is the first time we meet. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Song Yuanchao, and I am Lin Yan's boyfriend. Our relationship has been confirmed, and my uncle and aunt have also agreed to Yan Zi and I. The two old people and Yan Zi already know about your injury. Since it is not convenient for them to come to visit you, I am here to see you on their behalf."
When Song Yuanchao finished speaking, the one eye of Lin Yuhang on the hospital bed seemed to have some color, no longer the grayness just now, and there was also a slight change in the expression on his face.
However, when Song Yuanchao continued to speak, Lin Yuhang returned to his previous state, as if he had no interest in anything around him and ignored what Song Yuanchao said.
Seeing him like this, Song Yuanchao frowned slightly. It seemed that Lin Yuhang's war trauma, especially the psychological trauma, was more serious than he had imagined. Although Song Yuanchao was not a doctor and had never studied medicine, as someone who had experienced the information explosion of later generations, if his guess was correct, Lin Yuhang's current condition should be a kind of post-war psychological syndrome, not only because of his own physical trauma, but also because of the comrades who fell beside him one by one in the war and their departing figures.
"How long has he been like this ? Is he like this after waking up?" Song Yuanchao winked at Luo Lin, and the two of them left the ward and came outside to ask.
Luo Lin answered Song Yuanchao's question. Song Yuanchao thought about it and asked about Lin Yuhang's temper. He felt a little better. Then he asked about Lin Yuhang's attending doctor's office and walked towards the doctor's office...
More than an hour later, Song Yuanchao left the doctor's office.
After leaving the doctor's office, Song Yuanchao went to Lin Yuhang's ward again. It was already lunch time. In the ward, Luo Lin was sitting next to Lin Yuhang with an enamel bowl and spoon, feeding him with a spoon like she was coaxing a child.
Lin Yuhang ignored Rowling beside him. When the food reached his mouth, he opened his mouth subconsciously, chewed it a few times and swallowed it slowly.
While eating, some rice grains would occasionally fall on his mouth. At this time, Rowling would carefully use a handkerchief to wipe them away.
Watching this scene, the softest thing in Song Yuanchao's heart seemed to be touched by something, and his eyes were a little moist. He could see that Rowling loved Lin Yuhang very much, and it was because of this love that Rowling was willing to do all this for Lin Yuhang.
After feeding him two more mouthfuls, Lin Yuhang, who had been calm just now, suddenly got angry. He raised his hand and knocked the spoon that Rowlin had brought to his mouth away. A lot of rice grains and vegetable leaves were scattered everywhere. Rowlin quickly put down the bowl and comforted Lin Yuhang in a low voice. With her comfort, Lin Yuhang, whose chest was heaving, slowly calmed down. Only then did Rowlin slowly clean up the leftovers.
After cleaning up for Lin Yuhang, Luo Lin stood up and was about to go out to wash up when she saw Song Yuanchao standing at the door.
"Have you been to the doctor?" In order to avoid disturbing Lin Yuhang's leisure, Luo Lin and Song Yuanchao walked out of the ward.
"I've been there. The doctor said that my second brother needs to rest now. His condition is not very good. The doctor said that his physical injuries are no longer a problem and will heal slowly, but his emotional injuries will not recover so quickly." It was similar to what Song Yuanchao imagined. Lin Yuhang's current condition was a psychological problem, which required slow recovery. Moreover, the current domestic psychological treatment methods are very effective, and even the experts at the military hospital don't have any good solutions.
Rowling nodded. In fact, she had known about this situation for a long time. She had been with Lin Yuhang these days and of course had asked the doctor about it.
"Let's take our time. As long as people are here, there is hope for everything else." Rowling looked up and smiled. Her smile was a little bitter, helpless, and a little expectant.
She couldn't take care of Lin Yuhang here for a few more days. According to the regiment's arrangement, they would leave Chuncheng and return to the military region after staying there for about a week at most.
Luo Lin is a member of the art troupe, but she is also a soldier. It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders. She is powerless to change the arrangements of her superiors. She can only do her best in the few days before leaving and hope that Lin Yuhang will get better soon.
In the hospital, Song Yuanchao accompanied Luo Lin and Lin Yuhang for a whole day, and he left in the evening. After agreeing to see Luo Lin tomorrow, Song Yuanchao took the bus back to the guesthouse, and called Lin Yan and the others in the room of the guesthouse to tell them about what happened in the hospital today.
On the phone, Song Yuanchao tried to say the best, fearing that Lin Yan and the others would worry too much. But some things could not be kept secret, especially Lin Yuhang's disability, which would eventually be known to them, so Song Yuanchao told Lin Yan about , and reminded Lin Yan to pay attention to her mother's tolerance before telling her, so as to avoid any problems caused by the old lady's anxiety.
But who would have thought that when Lin Yan learned that Lin Yuhang was disabled, she burst into tears on the phone. Lin Yan had deep feelings for her second brother, but she never thought that her second brother would be disabled on the battlefield. Her second brother was still young, and what would happen to him who had always been proud after he became disabled!
It was not easy to comfort Lin Yan on the phone. When Lin Yan's crying gradually subsided, Song Yuanchao told Lin Yan that he would stay here for a few more days to take care of Lin Yuhang. He also asked Lin Yan not to worry too much and to take good care of herself and her parents. Since things had come to this, they had to look forward to it. Being sad and worried in vain would not achieve any effect.
Starting from the next day, apart from going to the military hospital with Luo Lin to take care of Lin Yuhang, Song Yuanchao spent the rest of his time talking to Lin Yuhang by his bedside, using this method to help Lin Yuhang psychologically. In addition, he called back to Shanghai and asked someone to ask domestic experts about psychological treatment.
Since the military hospital is not strong in this area, Song Yuanchao plans to find experts from other hospitals, such as asking experts from Shanghai No. 600 for help, to see if Lin Yuhang can recover slowly, but this kind of thing cannot be accomplished in a short period of time.