Chapter 9 For You, I Can 3
I don't know how long it took before Zeng Chen let me go. Hearing Xiao Nuo's "hehe" giggle, I covered my burning face and lowered my head in embarrassment.
Zeng Chen gently stroked Xiao Nuo's head and said with emotion: "It's such a pity that I haven't been able to watch you grow up in the past 10 years."
"It's okay, brother, my sister takes good care of me!" Xiao Nuo looked at me with a bright smile.
"Who said you can't watch Xiao Nuo grow up?" I rolled my eyes, moved closer to Zeng Chen, and opened the data album on my phone, "Look!"
The first photo in my photo album is of chubby Xiao Nuo. He was still very young at that time. He was sitting on a small stone bench next to my house with his chin in his hand, and his face was full of depression.
"When I first met Xiao Nuo, he was sitting on this stone bench." I looked at the photo and fell into memory. "He was only 4 years old that day and came to our house for the first time. He lost all his relatives in the big earthquake not long ago, so our family decided to adopt him."
Zeng Chen and Xiao Nuo were both lost in thought as they stared at the photo, especially Zeng Chen, whose face was full of tenderness. He touched Xiao Nuo's little face lovingly.
"This is the spring of one year later." I flipped through the second photo. "Xiao Nuo was five years old. On his birthday, I took him to Wutong Park. Because he had been unhappy, I gave him a surprise. I prepared a birthday cake for him and told him that I would be his family from now on."
The 5-year-old Xiao Nuo has a round face and bright eyes, like two black grapes. In the photo, he is wearing a pointed hat and standing behind a cake with candles on it, closing his eyes and making a wish.
Xiao Nuo looked at her childhood self and kept laughing. Zeng Chen's brows were tightly furrowed, and there seemed to be a gleam in his beautiful eyes.
"Six-year-old Xiao Nuo asked me to teach him how to ride a bike, but he accidentally knocked out a large front tooth. He cried for an entire hour that day, and I laughed at him for an hour."
"Xiao Nuo was 7 years old. We found a baby bird that had fallen on the ground. Xiao Nuo climbed up the tree and brought the bird back."
"That summer when Xiao Nuo was 8 years old, we would go fishing in this creek every day after school, and then exchange the fish we caught with our dad for snacks. Look at this silly child, how happy he is smiling while holding a soda can."
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Time flies by, I have changed several mobile phones, but I have always kept every photo of Xiaonuo. This is our precious memory. Every time I recall the happy things, I can still feel the happiness at that time, and every time I recall the touching things, I am still moved.
Zeng Chen listened to my explanation carefully, his eyes becoming brighter and brighter. He looked at me deeply, as if the whole world had shrunk in this ward, and I was the only one in his eyes.
"This is the path Xiao Nuo has walked and the places he has been to in the past 10 years." I put away my phone and said to Zeng Chen solemnly, "From now on, not only will you no longer be absent from his future life, you will also be with him in his life 10 years ago."
"Yuan Wan..." Zeng Chen looked at me seriously, his lips trembling.
"Stop, don't say thank you to me again!" I immediately interrupted him.
He held Xiao Nuo's hand with his right hand, and held my hand tightly with his left hand, and then shook it vigorously. Looking at his star-like bright eyes, I seemed to be able to read the "everything is self-evident" in his eyes.
At this moment, I seemed to have turned into a sunflower, wanting to get closer to his warm smile every minute and every second.
Three days later, Zeng Chen had to undergo a bone marrow extraction operation. I rushed to the hospital early in the morning and stayed with him in the ward.
"Don't be nervous. I asked the doctor, and he said that you will be given general anesthesia before the operation, so you won't feel anything during the operation." I sat beside the bed, chattering while helping him pack up his things.
"I'm not nervous." Zeng Chen, wearing a hospital gown, sat cross-legged on the hospital bed and leisurely played mobile games. "You are the one who is nervous."
"Of course I'm nervous. If anything goes wrong when taking the bone marrow, Xiao Nuo will be the one who suffers." I rolled my eyes at him, deliberately pretending that I didn't care about him at all.
"Oh, don't you worry about me at all?" He put down his phone and looked at me coldly with his eyes slanted.
"Of course not." I blurted out.
Zeng Chen's face turned dark instantly, and the temperature around him seemed to drop to negative values.
"I was just kidding, idiot." Looking at his hurt expression, I couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Zeng Chen frowned, and just as he raised his hand to pull my ear, several nurses walked into the ward.
"The operating room is ready. The patient can now go to the operating area and wait."
After that, they pushed Zeng Chen's bed out the door. I trotted along, and just as Zeng Chen was about to be pushed into the operating room, I ran to his side and held his hand.
"I'll wait for you at the door until you come out safely."
"Don't worry, it's just a minor operation."
Zeng Chen raised his lips to me and held my hand tightly. Although his voice was calm, it seemed to give me a dose of reassurance.
“Beep——”
The door of the operating room closed and the "operation in progress" indicator light came on. My nerves were tense and I kept pacing at the door. I knew the operation would not start for long, but I couldn't help but look down at my watch every ten seconds, hoping that time would pass quickly.
"Yuan Wan?"
I don’t know how long it had been, but suddenly, a familiar male voice came from the corridor and called out my name.
I looked up and saw Lin Tong wearing sunglasses appearing in front of me. What was even more strange was that he was wearing a sky blue striped hospital gown.
"Lin Tong?" I was shocked and looked him up and down. "What are you doing in the hospital? Are you feeling unwell?"
However, he did not answer my question, but asked evasively: "Why are you here?"
"Zeng Chen is having surgery today."
I told him about Zeng Chen and Xiao Nuo. When he heard that they were actually biological brothers, Lin Tong couldn't help but exclaimed: "Oh my God, this is incredible!"
He waited with me outside the operating room for a while. After my repeated questioning, Lin Tong finally told me why he was wearing a hospital gown.
"Actually, I'm here for treatment as well." A hint of melancholy appeared on his always cheerful face. "Remember that time when we were punished to do frog jumps and I fainted for no apparent reason?"
"Ah! Remember, could it be that you--"
I suddenly became nervous.
He nodded and said, "I have a serious genetic disease that prevents me from living , so I wear sunglasses wherever I go. Last time, the professor confiscated my sunglasses and my cornea was irritated, which is why this happened."
"ah……"
It suddenly dawned on me.
It turns out that he doesn't wear sunglasses all day just to look cool! Thinking back to the last time I was punished by the professor, Lin Tong was so loyal that he ignored his illness and wanted to accompany me in the sun. I felt indescribably touched.
"Okay, I won't say any more." Lin Tong looked down at his watch. "My treatment time is up. The doctor is still waiting for me. I'm leaving now."
I looked at the operating room in embarrassment, then turned back to look at him. Should I accompany Lin Tong to receive treatment? But Zeng Chen is still in the operating room...
"No need!" Seeing my embarrassment, Lin Tong smiled with a hint of melancholy in his eyes, "Take good care of Zeng Chen, and remember to say hello to Xiao Nuo for me."
After saying that, he waved his hand and turned to walk to the other end of the corridor.
