Chapter 8 Dusk is Coming 04
Along the way, I seemed to feel the driver peeking at me through the rearview mirror. After a while, he whispered, "Beauty, are you cold?"
After hearing what the driver said, I realized that my whole body had been shaking non-stop since I had no idea when. I finally straightened up after using all my strength. I looked through the rearview mirror and saw that my face was as pale as a piece of paper.
I couldn't imagine what kind of condition Yao Yizhou was in. I could only tell myself over and over again that he would be lucky and safe. But no matter how many times I told myself in my heart , it had little effect. My whole body was still shaking.
A huge feeling of fear and palpitations filled my heart. I just wanted to get to the People's Hospital as soon as possible. But today, I had no idea what was going on. The originally short journey turned out to be terribly long. I had never felt that the journey from my home to the People's Hospital was so long as to cross a province. I had never felt that Yao Yizhou and I were so far apart. I tried my best but couldn't see him or touch him.
Time seemed to have passed for a long time, so long that it felt like a light-year. I finally arrived at the hospital. I only vaguely remember taking out a piece of money from my bag and giving it to the driver, but the driver kept shouting behind me: "Beauty, wait a minute , I haven't given you the change yet!"
My mind was in a daze, and I vaguely thought that Wen Shaoye was found, but Yao Yizhou was in trouble. These two things might be related, or they were related to Wen Shaoye themselves.
I didn't dare to think further and rushed into the hospital like a madman. When I saw the nurse, I grabbed her quickly and asked anxiously about Yao Yizhou's recent condition.
"Nurse, my friend is in the emergency room. Please tell me how he is doing."
The nurse seemed frightened by my crazy behavior. She shook her head and pointed in the direction of the emergency room and said, "I'm not a nurse in the emergency room. I don't know the situation of the patients there. Go over there and ask. That's the emergency room."
Without even saying thank you, I rushed towards the emergency room.
The emergency room had its own information desk, so I went straight to it, grabbed the nurse's arm and asked anxiously, "Nurse, my friend is in the emergency room, can you tell me how he is now?"
"When was it delivered and what was its name?"
Seeing my anxiety, the nurse cooperated with me by looking through the records. Finally, I found the right place. I wiped the sweat from my forehead and said quickly, panting, "His name is Yao Yizhou, he is 22 years old and a college student."
With the name and age, the nurse quickly found out and pointed to the second floor and said, "He's in the emergency room on the second floor. Go over there and take a look."
I ran upstairs in the direction the nurse pointed. When I reached the second floor, I looked around but couldn't see a sign saying "Emergency Room". I could only grab anyone I saw along the way and ask them where the emergency room was.
Passersby seemed surprised that I couldn't find the emergency room. One of them pointed at the three big words "Emergency Room" above my head and said in confusion: "Where you are standing now is the emergency room. Walk forward and turn a corner and you will see the emergency room."
I looked up at the three huge words above my head, and without bothering to say thank you, I ran directly in the direction pointed by the passerby. When I just ran to the corner, I saw my father and several relatives standing in the corridor outside, and Wen Shaoye curled up in the corner.
When my father saw me, he opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing and just stood there looking at me with a sad face. I didn't know what my father wanted to hide, but I didn't even have the courage to ask him a question, for fear that I would finally muster up the courage and get an answer that I couldn't bear.
Wen Shaoye stood up from the ground when he saw me. He slowly walked up to me and cried, "Sister, can you please forgive me? I'm sorry, I really didn't mean it. I really would rather be the one who got into trouble."
I didn't bother to respond to Wen Shaoye who was crying. Although I had already guessed that Yao Yizhou's accident was related to Wen Shaoye when I came here, when I saw him, I was really afraid that if I looked at him for one more second, I would no longer be able to control the anger in my heart and would beat him up severely.
"Dad, what happened to Yao Yizhou?"
I turned around and looked at my father helplessly, feeling both expectation and fear. I was expecting that my father would tell me in person that Yao Yizhou was fine, but I was afraid that my father would tell me the thing I least wanted to hear.
The father's face became worse and worse. He was silent for a while, then turned his head to look at Wen Shaoye. After a while, as if he had made a great decision, he sighed and whispered, "Xiaoye was wandering around the construction site. When Yizhou found him and persuaded him to go home, the steel bars on the crane fell off. In order to protect Xiaoye, Yizhou pushed Xiaoye away, and the steel bars pierced his lungs. I have already notified Yizhou's family. His parents are in Paris, France, and his grandparents are on their way. The doctor is still trying his best to save him, and it is hard to say whether he is okay or not."
When my father mentioned that the steel bar pierced Yao Yizhou's lung, I was stunned and stood there like an idiot. I couldn't hear what my father said next. My mind was blank and the words "the steel bar pierced his lung" lingered in my ears.
I don’t know if the steel bar piercing his lung is a very serious injury. Only a series of vague questions ring out in my mind.
Will Yao Yizhou die like this? Will he disappear from my life like this? Will he leave me like this?
If Yao Yizhou really disappeared like this, would I never see him again? Would I never see him smile at me and tell me that he liked me again?
I didn't dare to ask, for fear that my words would come true and turn a good thing into a bad thing. My heart suddenly ached again and again, and I could only squat on the ground with my hands covering my chest in pain. I took out my cell phone from my pocket with trembling hands and dialed Shen Xiaoyu's number with trembling hands.
At this time, the only thing I could think of was to tell Shen Xiaoyu, who once loved him so much, about Yao Yizhou's accident. This thought was so clear that I didn't even think about it for a second and instinctively dialed her number.
"Hello?"
Shen Xiaoyu's voice soon came from the other end of the phone, but my mouth opened and closed, my mind was in a mess, and I didn't even know what I said. I could only vaguely hear my own voice that seemed very distant and strange, saying intermittently: "Well... he is seriously injured... his lungs are injured... he is being rescued... Xiaoyu, come here quickly... Come here quickly..."
After I hung up the phone, I squatted on the ground and cried weakly. Wen Shaoye also squatted beside me and kept confessing to me, but my mind was in a complete mess and I couldn't listen at all.
The crying mixed with the boy's confession echoed mournfully in the hospital corridor, surrounding sadly in this already extremely depressing space.
For a moment, my consciousness was clear and blurred, and my mind seemed to be constantly praying to the gods I knew, praying that the dying boy on the other side of the door would be safe, praying that I could see that boy again, see his eyes that were as gentle as the stars in the night sky, see that bright smile that always brought me infinite warmth and a sense of security, and the corners of his mouth that were always raised and the smell that was as clean as summer that belonged only to him.
I missed Yao Yizhou like crazy. In all the years I knew him, I had never missed him so much, and never longed to see him so much. It turns out that people only know how to cherish something when they lose it.
Everything has already happened, and time cannot be reversed. I, a tiny person, have no way to do anything. All I can do is pray silently for Yao Yizhou, praying to the gods over and over again, praying that God would have a little mercy on Yao Yizhou, let him go, and let him continue to stay with me.
More and more people seemed to gather in the corridor. In a trance, it seemed as if someone came to me, hugged me, and cried in my ear. It also seemed as if a familiar voice comforted me in my ear, constantly responding to my prayers, telling me that Yao Yizhou would be safe and sound, and would be blessed with a long life.
Just when I was about to respond to the person holding me, the door of the operating room suddenly opened. At that moment, an extremely strong sense of hope lingered in my heart. I was looking forward to waiting for the doctor to tell me the final answer.
"I'm sorry, we have done our best. The family members should prepare to deal with the funeral."
The doctor's words were like bayonets that stabbed into my heart. My ears went blank, and I seemed to hear a shrill scream beside me. Shen Xiaoyu rushed over quickly, grabbed the doctor's shoulders, and screamed, "Doctor, you must have made a mistake. He was so young, how could he just die like this? You must have made a mistake. Please save him again!"
When sadness and anger merge together, it can really crush a person. I sat on the ground in a daze, watching my father walk up to stop Shen Xiaoyu, but I didn't even have the strength to move.
Yao Yizhou really left so suddenly! He didn't even say goodbye, saying goodbye to all those who loved him in such a cruel way, and expressing his dissatisfaction in such a cruel way. He disappeared from my life just like that, but I, who have always been slow, didn't realize until today that I had already fallen in love with Yao Yizhou without knowing it. To me, he is like water, like air, like the night and dawn that come every day, but now it's too late to say anything, it's too late.
It's dark and will never be light again.
And my world has been destroyed, there will never be a single bit of light again.
