Running Snail - Chapter 40

After Lu Shuang went home, he found that the room was not lit, and he was startled.

Wei Nan hasn’t come back yet?

Looking down at the watch, it is already half past six. Wei Nan used to toss dinner at home at six o’clock, what happened today? Could it be that the confession last night made her dare not face it, so she didn’t come back? Lu Shuang frowned, put the packed rice noodles in the kitchen, and went to the bathroom to simply wash his face.

There was no light in the room, but the TV was on, and the light from the screen cast on Lu Shuang’s face, flickering and dimming. Lu Shuang always stared at the news broadcast without expression, staring at the time in the upper right corner.

seven thirty.

It seems that she is really not coming back.

Lu Shuang smiled helplessly, although it hurts his self-esteem to call her cheeky, but at least…knowing that she is safe, I can rest assured.

Picking up the phone and dialing Wei Nan’s phone, there was no one answering.

Lu Shuang frowned and dialed Wei Teng’s cell phone again.

“Hey, why are you guys looking for me?”

Lu Shuang asked, “Is Wei Nan with you?”

Wei Teng laughed: “I didn’t ask you that abducting my sister is enough to give you face, but you ask me instead?”

Lu Shuang was startled: “She didn’t go home?”

“No. I packed up and I was going to the train station, so she wouldn’t kindly come to see me off.”

“Are you back to school today?”

“Yes.” Wei Teng replied, and then suddenly wondered: “Isn’t Wei Nan living with you? What happened?”

Lu Shuang whispered: “It’s okay, you go back to school first.”

“Really all right?”

“Um…just quarreling.”

“Listening to your voice so serious, I thought she was kidnapped. It turned out to be a quarrel. It’s a waste of emotions.”

After Wei Teng hung up the phone, Lu Shuangcai sighed lightly, grabbed the coat on the sofa and went out.

Drag racing all the way to the hospital.

While calling her, she was looking for people everywhere in the hospital and searched for the department where the intern was located, but Wei Nan was still missing. He saw Feiteng at the corner of the stairs. Lu Shuang hurried up to greet her and asked, “You saw Wei Nan. Yet?”

Fei Teng smiled and said, “I didn’t see it.”

Lu Shuang lowered his face, “Don’t be kidding, where is she?”

Fei Teng shrugged: “Since we are comrades-in-arms, I kindly tell you. Wei Nan is sitting outside the door of the intensive care unit on the 14th floor with her sister Qi Juan lying inside.”

Lu Shuang was startled: “What happened to Qi Juan?”

“I believe you have heard of the car accident this morning.” Feiteng seemed very tired, and then turned and walked away.

Lu Shuang remained silent for a long time before turning around and entering the elevator.

When I reached the 14th floor, I saw Wei Nan in the corridor at a glance. Sitting there alone, holding his legs and burying his head, I don’t know if I am asleep or thinking about something.

Seeing her like that, Lu Shuang only felt his heart hurt as if he was being grabbed. He hurried to her side, placed his hand on her shoulder and whispered, “Wei Nan…”

After hearing the sound, Wei Nan raised his head, his eyes were red, but the moment he saw Lu Shuang hurriedly turned his head away, pretending to be nonchalantly touching his nose, and said: “Why are you here.”

“You don’t come back so late. I’m worried that something will happen to you, so I will come to the hospital.” Lu Shuang’s voice was deliberately lowered, revealing a little gentleness. He raised his head and glanced at the number plate of the intensive care unit and asked softly, “What about Qi Juan? How is it?”

Wei Nan lowered his head and said, “Successful operation must survive the dangerous period tonight.”

“That’s good.” Lu Shuang patted Wei Nan’s shoulder lightly, “Don’t worry, she will hold it through.”

“But…” Wei Nan whispered suddenly: “Her mother…”

“Ok?”

“died.”

Lu Shuang was silent for a moment. Seeing Wei Nan trembling lightly, the hand on her shoulders pressed hard, hugged her in his arms, and whispered: “If you want to cry, just cry, I will treat it as no see.”

Hearing his soft voice in his ear, Wei Nan really cried.

The emotions that had been suppressed for a long time finally got a chance to vent.

Today, because there were so many people present, I was still carrying the identity of the medical rescue team. After being scolded by Brother Fei Teng in the ambulance, I didn’t even dare to cry. In other words, I was so nervous and shocked that I forgot to cry. . Now it calmed down, all emotions slowly settled in the bottom of my heart, and my chest was like a heavy stone, making people breathless.

“Do you know…” Wei Nan said softly, “Qi Juan has never had a father since she was a child.”

Lu Shuang didn’t say anything, he just tightened his arms and listened to her quietly.

“Qi Juan has been living very hard. When her mother fell ill and just became unemployed, Qi Juan couldn’t even pay for her tuition. Xiao Qing and I gave her the money, but she didn’t want it. She secretly ran to work by herself and worked several times a day. I can’t take a job for a minute… She kept applying for bursaries when she was in college, and she worked directly without graduate school after graduation. In fact, it was to pay back her money… She was very strong. Her mother had breast cancer. She really couldn’t hold it before she ran to her dad to borrow money, but her dad gave her 1,000 yuan, but only 1,000 yuan…ten yuan…” Wei Nan paused and wiped his eyes. She continued to whisper, “After that, Qi Juan said that her mother was her only relative, and she would never recognize the beast father. She was kind to her mother. When she was particularly hard, she would buy the best for her mother. Good fruit to eat…”

“What should I do? She wakes up tomorrow, how should I tell her… how should I say it? Her mother is dead…”

“How can I say it…”

Wei Nan’s tears welled up, and they all rubbed against Lu Shuang’s shirt.

Lu Shuang gently stroked her hair over and over again, repeating this simple mechanized action, just wanting to make her understand that I am by your side no matter what happens.

This is my promise to you.

Yuan Yuan, who went upstairs with a bag of food, saw such a warm but heart-wrenching picture.

In the simple picture, long corridors, snow-white walls, monotonous green seats, and two people embracing each other.

Lu Shuang always held Wei Nan tightly, and Wei Nan cried while telling Qi Juan’s story. The light projected by the fluorescent lamp on them also seemed to suddenly become soft.

Many years later, Yuan Yuan said, if time can return to that moment, Wei Nan, you only need to look up at the expression on his face, and you will know that there is such a person who loves you so deeply.

Yuan Yuan turned and went downstairs and saw Fei Teng at the top of the stairs.

“I’ll go back and get some change of clothes.” Yuan Yuan explained.

Fei Teng nodded: “I will send you.”

On the way back, Yuan Yuan suddenly asked: “If Qi Juan wakes up and knows that her mother is not there, what will happen to her?”

Fei Teng said indifferently: “You lose control of your emotions, go to the emergency room again… Maybe you will die.”

Yuan Yuan nodded: “I wish I had never known her before. It’s better now, it makes my crocodile want to cry.”

Fei Teng chuckled softly, “In fact, although the crocodile is fierce on the surface, it is still soft inside after being skinned.”

Yuan Yuan didn’t speak, and turned his head away.

The city outside the window is still prosperous, the lights are brilliant, the night sky is dotted with stars, and it will never be changed by the departure of a single life.

When Wei Nan finally vented enough, Lu Shuang patted her shoulder lightly, and said, “Go wash your face and eat downstairs.”

Wei Nan shook his head: “I have no appetite.”

“You haven’t eaten anything for a day. Want Qi Juan to see you look yellow and thin?” Lu Shuang said with a light smile, “Let’s eat something, I have to stay up late tonight.”

“You go back, I am here to guard her.” Wei Nan said softly.

“I’ll be with you.”

“Lu Shuang…”

Wei Nan called his name, but couldn’t think of what to say next.

Thank you He doesn’t need it at all. Sorry? Not necessary. Only at that moment, Wei Nan suddenly thought that if she could fall in love with Lu Shuang, it might be the happiest ending. When I was most helpless and needed support most, there was always a person named Lu Shuang by his side silently, giving myself courage and warmth.

However, why is the name in my heart still Xu Zhiheng? Xu Zhiheng, who gave all his love and the cleanest position in his heart, was taciturn, but always smiled gently to him, where is he now?

Wei Nan actually knew that he should put aside the past rationally, but it was easy to give up, but too difficult to forget.

Lu Shuang found a Guilin rice noodle shop downstairs and took Wei Nan into it.

At this time, it was the prime time for supper. There were a lot of people in the store. Lu Shuang and Wei Nan lined up at the door, and a couple lined up right in front.

The woman said to her boyfriend in a serious manner: “Let’s have a small bowl, whoever eats a big bowl at a girl’s house?”

Lu Shuang suddenly wanted to laugh. The girl in my family can eat two big bowls…

Her boyfriend nodded and said, “Then a medium bowl and a small bowl.”

After the two entered the door, it was Wei Nan’s turn. Wei Nan seemed a little embarrassed. He touched his hungry stomach and said to the cashier: “I want two middle bowls.”

Lu Shuang said solemnly: “I can’t eat enough, so let’s have two large bowls.”

The cashier looked at Lu Shuang with the look of a monster, and asked, “Two big bowls?”

Lu Shuang nodded.

Wei Nan looked back at him, Lu Shuang smiled slightly and leaned in and said, “Don’t be embarrassed. Let’s find a corner seat and you can eat secretly.”

When the big bowl was brought up, both of them almost dropped their jaws in shock.

It was not an ordinary big bowl, it was a round plate for pigs, and a large plate full of rice noodles… No wonder the cashier looked shocked just now.

Wei Nan opened his mouth into an O shape, touched the back of his head, and sighed: “This… is too exaggerated, feed the pigs?”

Lu Shuang said solemnly, “No wonder it’s worth twelve yuan for a bowl.”

The couple next to him looked to this side with shocked expressions, and the girl still muttered: “Why do they want two bowls of family portraits?” The boy said, “Hungry crazy?” Lu Shuanghui gave them a faint smile, then The two stopped talking.

Wei Nan touched his chin and glanced at the plate seriously: “Are you going to eat?”

Lu Shuang nodded: “Start eating.”

Such a big bowl is really unsightly. Seeing Lu Shuang scooping rice noodles on the big plate with a serious face, Wei Nan couldn’t help saying, “You really have no image. I suddenly remembered that Zhou Fang was pulling a crab. The look of your legs, you two, look alike.”

Lu Shuang looked at Wei Nan’s smiling face and only slightly raised the corners of his mouth, and said, “The huge pig feeding tray, plus two crazy pigs, such a beautiful scene, we should actually take pictures.”

Just as Lu Shuang finished speaking, the woman next to her couldn’t help but sprayed a sip of water directly into her boyfriend’s arms with a puff.

Wei Nan couldn’t help laughing, and pointed to Lu Shuang said, “You really don’t want a face.”

This is the first time Wei Nan has smiled all day.

When she returned to the hospital, Yuan Yuan had brought some of Qi Juan’s clothes to change. Her injury was serious. Even if she woke up successfully tomorrow morning, she would have to undergo long-term rehabilitation in the hospital. Yuan Yuan said that we must be prepared for the war.

That night, Wei Nan stayed to watch the night, Yuan Yuan stayed too, and Wei Nan squeezed into the small bed in the duty room.

In the corridor outside the door, the two men leaning against the wall sighed helplessly.

“Tomorrow I will lie to Qi Juan.” Lu Shuang said softly, “Wei Nan has been friends with her for many years. She can easily see through if we lie.”

Fei Teng nodded: “In addition, my semi-doctor helped to blow a few words, first stabilize her emotions.”

Lu Shuang nodded: “You won’t go back?”

“I’m on duty tonight and will be with her by the way. How about you? Not going back?”

Lu Shuang shrugged, “I can’t sleep when I go back, so it’s better to be her doorman outside.”

The two looked at each other and smiled, stretched out their hands and shook them gently, “Comrades on the same line, it’s equally hard.”

Many years later, as a doctor Wei Nan, every time he was on duty in the hospital, he would think of that night, the scene he saw when he got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom——

Lu Shuang was alone in the long corridor outside the house, some lonely figure, even more tired under the illumination of the white fluorescent lamp. Sometimes he got up and paced, sometimes leaned against the wall to close his eyes and rested, and sometimes went back to sit down in a chair with his hands in his hair, as if thinking about something.

In order to fabricate the perfect lie the next morning, Lu Shuang did not close his eyes all night.

The man who was waiting silently in the hallway had a pretended smile on his face, but his eyes could no longer hide his loneliness. In fact, he has been working hard all the time, but he is too mature and strong, able to hide all his emotions perfectly, and only a little sadness comes out in the dead of night.

Wei Nan couldn’t understand that feeling. I only know that at that moment, there was a slight pain in the bottom of my heart like a needle pierced through the blood, which involved the nerves of the whole body.

Lu Shuang, you treat me like this, so what should I do?