Chapter 7 Dust 3
Over there, Guyu's mother's condition worsened again and she was sent to the intensive care unit. I watched all this and suddenly felt a sharp pain in my heart. Everything was fine before this afternoon, but why, why did everything change in such a short time?
The operation lasted for sixteen hours. When the doctor walked out of the operation room exhausted, I immediately went to him and asked, "Doctor, how is my friend?"
The pain in my throat made me frown. It was then that I remembered that I hadn’t had a sip of water for almost twenty hours.
Seeing me like this, the doctor took off his mask, sighed and said, "The patient's condition is not optimistic. He had stopped breathing when he was brought here because he had been drowning for too long. We finally managed to save him, but I don't know if his head hit a hard object under the water, and a blood clot pressed on the brain nerve. Because it is too close to the central nervous system, there is no way to perform surgery. Please be mentally prepared, the patient is likely to become a vegetable."
Become a vegetable.
The doctor's words were like a bomb dropped in my heart.
During these sixteen hours, I kept comforting myself that nothing would happen to Guyu. However, it seemed that God did not hear my prayers and made me face such a cruel fact.
When Guyu was pushed out by the nurses, his head was full of tubes. Seeing him like this, my tears instantly fell from my eyes. This boy should have a better tomorrow, but now he has nothing.
This summer, which should have been bright and sunny, is filled with gloom.
I don't know where Gigi Lai got the news of Guyu's accident, and she came to accompany me for a whole day on the third day. When she left, she told me that no one would want such an outcome. She said, "Hello, Yun, I know you are very sad about Guyu's incident. But your life has to go on. It's almost the end of August now, and you should put yourself in order and start a new life."
I understand what Gigi Lai said, but looking at Guyu and Guyu's mother, I can't let go. I still remember the despair on Guyu's mother's face when she woke up and learned about Guyu's news. It was as if the whole world died in front of her eyes. If I leave them at this time, I don't deserve to call myself Guyu's friend.
The next time I heard from Chen Qiaoluo was a week later. Aunt He Pei called me and asked me to persuade Chen Qiaoluo. She worriedly told me that Chen Qiaoluo had been locked in his room all day and had no appetite. No matter what she said, he would not listen. He walked out of the room today, but the first thing he said was that he wanted to change his major and go to the university in × City. Aunt He Pei asked me to persuade him, but my heart was bitter.
I comforted her and said I would try to persuade Chen Qiaoluo, but after hanging up the phone, I turned off my phone. I knew it was wrong, but at this moment I really didn't know how to face Chen Qiaoluo.
Until now, I still can't forgive him . I can't even imagine how he felt when he saw Guyu drowning that day.
If he had been able to lend a helping hand, perhaps Guyu wouldn't be like this now, lying on a cold hospital bed with IV tubes inserted all over his body.
I don't know when Chen Qiaoluo passed away, but when Gigi Lai mentioned it later, she looked very sorry. She didn't know what happened between Chen Qiaoluo and me, but she thought it must be very sad for me to lose two good friends at the same time.
I asked my dad to help me take a long vacation from school, and I stayed in the hospital day and night to take care of Guyu and Guyu's mother.
Guyu never woke up, and Guyu's mother was not in a good mental state. Guyu's situation made her already weak body even more fragile. Occasionally, when she was in a better mood, she would ask me to help her go see Guyu. At this time, she would always cry and tell me about Guyu's childhood.
I listened to each of them one by one, but my heart felt even emptier.
With the persuasion of Gigi Lai and my father, I finally went to school to register, but every day after school, I would run to the hospital to take care of them. These days, they seemed to have become my responsibility.
I did this voluntarily, and it also felt like I was repaying a debt to Chen Qiaoluo.
When my father decided to marry Aunt Shen, the first person he came to ask for my opinion. He held my hand and said a lot of things to me. It was only then that I noticed that there were many fine lines at the corners of his eyes.
He babbled like an old man, "My daughter, ever since your mother passed away, I was afraid that you would be wronged in school, so I wanted to be even better to you, almost to the point of doting on you. Later, I also thought that my way of doing things might not be a good thing, but then I thought that I, Zhu Hong, only have you as my daughter in this life, so who else can I love if I don't love you? But fortunately, you didn't turn bad. Although you often act like a child, you have such a good heart."
He sighed and continued, "In the past two years, I can feel that you have really grown up, and you have kept many things to yourself. But every time I see you sad, I feel that I am a useless father who can't make you happy. In the past few days, I know that your classmates' affairs have made you very upset, and I have tried hard to make you happy. But you are still unhappy, and your aunt Shen and I have seen it with our eyes, and we are worried in our hearts. Many times we have wanted to have a good talk with you, but when the words come to our lips, we don't know how to start."
Seeing my dad like this, I couldn't help but feel guilty.
My dad has been very kind to me since I was a child. Just like he said, because my mom left us, he wanted to give me back the motherly love I lost. From childhood to adulthood, as long as it is something I want, my dad will do everything he can to get it for me. I know he loves me, but I love him just as much. But as time goes by, I slowly grow up, and the price of growing up may be that I become more and more distant from the people closest to me. After all, there are so many things that I can't tell him all. I also have my troubles about growing up and the loneliness of youth, which I don't want to tell others.
I reached out and hugged him, and said with a sour nose: "Dad, I'm sorry, I have made you sad these days."
"Ah, what nonsense are you talking about, kid?" Dad sighed and said, "I'm not saying this to make you sad. I just want you to know that no matter what happens, your Aunt Shen and I will stand behind you."
His words made me burst into tears. I hugged him tightly and kept saying, "Dad, thank you, thank you."
Thank you for being my dad.
Thank you for giving me so much love.
Thank you for supporting me unconditionally no matter what I do.
Seeing me like this, my dad hugged me tighter, and after a while he let me go and said, "Actually, I'm not just talking to you about this today. There's something I want to discuss with you."
"What's the matter?" I asked, somewhat puzzled.
"About your Aunt Shen." Dad ruffled my hair, looked at me lovingly and said, "You are grown up now, and you have your own ideas about some things. I have known your Aunt Shen for a long time. When you were young, I was afraid that you would make trouble, so I never brought her to see you. In fact, she has been silently by my side for so many years. Now that you have grown up, I want to discuss with you whether we can give her a name. After all, it is not appropriate for a woman to follow me without a name or status."
I couldn't help but be stunned by what my dad said. I always thought that he and Aunt Shen had just met, but I didn't expect that they had known each other for such a long time. I understood what my dad meant. I was too young before, and it was impossible for me to accept a strange woman as my mother. Now that I have grown up, my dad thinks that I can understand things, so he showed up with Aunt Shen. Although I felt a little sad about being deceived, I was still happy for him from the bottom of my heart. After all, everything my dad did was for my own good. I believe that even if Aunt Shen married into our family, she would treat me well with all her heart.
When I thought of this, I smiled and said to my dad, "You are already old, and you are still asking your daughter about getting married. Isn't it shameful? I will listen to you on this matter. As long as you are happy, I will be happy too."
Seeing me like this, my dad laughed and said, "I put you first in everything. If you say you don't want me to marry your Aunt Shen, I will never go against your wishes. After all, you are my only precious daughter, and no one in this world is more important than you."
My father's words touched me deeply. I sniffed my sour nose and said jokingly as usual, "Dad, come on, just marry Aunt Shen, but remember to give me a big red envelope."
"Okay, you are really a good daughter of dad." Dad kissed me on the forehead suddenly, then stood up and said, "Go to bed quickly, don't you have to go to school tomorrow?"
Seeing my dad's anxious look, I looked at him with amusement and said, "Okay, okay, I'm going to sleep now. It won't stop you from calling Aunt Shen to tell her the good news."
"My daughter, you are really dad's sweet little cotton-padded jacket." Dad didn't comment, but smiled and helped me close the door.
