Reborn on the Happy Hall + Spoiler

After a while, the dishes were ready, half a piece of steamed Wuchang fish, a bowl of fried vegetable moss, a bowl of seaweed and egg drop soup, and a round brown sugar bun.

Deng Yuan sat down opposite Xu Yihan, put his face in his hands and smiled at him, with a naive expression, with an expression of asking for credit and waiting for praise.

Only then did Xu Yihan discover that Deng Yuan had left him the side of Wuchang Yuyu's stomach.

Xu Yihan ate all the dishes, this supper made him full, he even felt that he hadn't eaten like this for many years.After taking a bath, I didn't even feel sleepy at all.

And Deng Yuan covered his mouth and yawned, and asked innocently after the yawn: "Yihan, aren't you sleepy?"

Xu Yihan stepped forward and grabbed Deng Yuan's hand, nonsense said: "I've been a little insomnia lately."

"Ah? Is it serious? Why do you suddenly have insomnia?"

"Sister, why don't you come to my room to sleep tonight," Xu Yihan said without changing his expression, "talk with me, maybe I can fall asleep earlier."

At 01:30 in the morning, when Deng Yuan was so sleepy that he fell into Xu Yihan's arms, Liu Yusheng's mother was pushed out of the operating room.The doctor removed her appendix and a section of large intestine. Fortunately, the operation was minimally invasive without surgery.

The operation was under general anesthesia, and the mother was still awake. The nurse administered an IV for her, connected the equipment, and told Liu Yusheng to turn her over on time. He also had to keep an eye on the IV bottle, and called the nurse to change it when the fluid was infused.Liu Yusheng wrote them down one by one.

The nurse left, and the night in this hospital suddenly became silent.The mother lived in a three-person ward, and the patients on the other two beds were asleep, and the family members who accompanied the bed each slept on a foldable bed in the corridor.There was still an empty folding bed in the ward, and Liu Yusheng told Uncle Wang to go and rest first, while he came to take care of his mother.Uncle Wang nodded and walked over to lie down. After a while, he started snoring.

Although the mother had her eyes closed, she slept very restlessly. She moved her lips for a while and frowned for a while. Liu Yusheng followed the nurse's instructions and wiped her lips lightly with a cotton swab dipped in water.He leaned down to look at his mother, and suddenly realized that he hadn't looked at her so carefully for a long, long time, it seemed that after that incident - dropping out of school -, he didn't dare to look at his mother anymore, he always looked at her. He was very guilty, and at the same time, he was afraid that she would bring up that matter again and again.

It turns out that she already has such deep nasolabial folds and forehead lines.

She is 51 years old, her husband died early, and she raised her son alone. More than half of her life has passed, but she still endures the pain because she is reluctant to spend money to go to the emergency room.In order to support Liu Yusheng's education, she borrowed money from many relatives, her relatives, Uncle Wang's relatives... Later, because Liu Yusheng dropped out of school, she was completely disgraced.So much so that tonight, he almost couldn't even borrow emergency money.

Liu Yusheng pinched the bridge of his nose hard.

Until after five o'clock in the morning, Uncle Wang woke up, rubbed his eyes, and said with some embarrassment: "Yusheng, why didn't you ask me to get up and go to sleep instead?"

Liu Yusheng's eyes were bloodshot, he shook his head and said, "It's okay, I'm not tired."

Uncle Wang came to change shifts to take care of his mother, and Liu Yusheng slowly walked out of the turbid inpatient building.After tossing and tossing all night, he seemed to be not sleepy anymore, but tired, and wanted to sit up on the bench and sit like a statue.

Liu Yusheng took out his mobile phone slowly and dialed Zhao Xin's number.

Just after two rings, he suddenly realized that it was only after five o'clock in the morning, and he was about to hang up immediately, but at the moment when his fingertips would touch the screen, the call was connected.

"Yusheng?" Zhao Xin's voice was sober.

"I forgot the time," Liu Yusheng felt that his brain was not clear enough, and his words were jumping out, "I'm sorry."

Zhao Xin smiled softly: "It's okay, I didn't sleep, I've been waiting for your call—is your family sick?"

"Well, my mother, appendicitis."

"Have you had surgery? How is the situation?"

"I did, it's fine."

"Then you haven't slept all night?"

"Ah."

"Where are you now?"

"I'm here," Liu Yusheng said blankly, "on the chair."

Zhao Xin: "...I mean, are you still in the hospital?"

"Ah, yes."

"Is anyone taking care of Auntie with you?"

"Wang... my stepfather."

"Yusheng," Zhao Xin's tone was as gentle as coaxing a child, "then you go home and sleep for a while, if you are worried, you can sleep less for a few hours."

"I..." Liu Yusheng pressed the sun button, and finally remembered the purpose of the call, "I want to tell you that I will pay back the money tomorrow—no, this afternoon at the earliest."

"Don't worry about money, you go back and rest for a while, buy something to eat, okay?"

"That's why you're not in a hurry." Liu Yusheng's nose was sour, and tears flowed down his face for some unknown reason. "If I didn't drop out of school, I don't have to worry about it now."

Zhao Xin was silent.

Liu Yusheng covered his eyes, choked up and said, "I'm sorry, I... I don't blame you, I did it on my own back then... I'm too tired and my mind is not clear, so I won't talk..."

Then, as if running for his life, he quickly hung up the phone.

Chapter 40

Liu Yusheng rushed into the bathroom in a panic, turned on the faucet and splashed water on his face vigorously.In the early morning at the end of March, the cold water made him tremble, and his chaotic brain was finally cleared up.He straightened up and looked at himself in the mirror, his hair was messed up, his eyes were bloodshot, and the stubble was protruding.

He wiped the water off his face, stood in the corridor for a while, adjusted his expression, and returned to the ward.

Mother hadn't woken up yet, so Uncle Wang told Liu Yusheng to go home and sleep for a while, and come back in the afternoon.

"I just packed some things from home and brought them here." Liu Yusheng nodded wearily, "Uncle, if you need anything, just give me a call."

"Okay, don't worry," Uncle Wang patted Liu Yusheng on the shoulder, "I'll call you when your mother wakes up."

"Hey, good."

When Liu Yusheng staggered out of the hospital, it was already dawn, and two sanitation workers were cleaning at the entrance of the hospital, sweeping back and forth with their long brooms.Liu Yusheng was stunned by this regular and slow voice for half a minute before he realized that he should check what time it is and whether there is a bus.

He took out his mobile phone, and saw a series of text messages, all from Zhao Xin.

"Yusheng, I know it's inappropriate to say this now, but I still want to solemnly apologize to you for what happened back then and my cowardly escape in the past four years."

"I don't know how to compensate you, maybe I can't compensate you at all, but I still want to make your life better through my efforts, no matter which way it is, I beg you to give me this opportunity."

"I'm sorry. Give me a call if you can, okay?"

In a cool morning breeze, Liu Yusheng dialed Zhao Xin's number again, and the call was connected with just a "beep".

At this moment, neither of them spoke. Liu Yusheng found his heart was beating heavily. He didn't know why it happened.

"Yusheng," it was Zhao Xin who spoke first, and asked him cautiously, "Are... are you feeling better?"

Liu Yusheng nodded subconsciously, and then remembered that Zhao Xin couldn't see, cleared his throat and said, "I'm fine, just now... I was in a bad mood, I stayed up all night, and I was too tired." He had already started to regret it, and he didn't know Why didn't he control it just now, as if he was questioning Master Zhao Xinxing, he didn't want to do this.

"It's okay, it's okay," Zhao Xinwen said, "Where are you now? Do you want to go home and rest for a while?"

"Well, now... what time is it?"

"Five thirty-five."

"I'll take a taxi."

"Okay, it should be easy to take a taxi next to the hospital, right?"

"Yes, there is..." Liu Yusheng walked forward while talking, opened the taxi door, and reported the address to the driver.

Before the phone hung up, Zhao Xin said again: "Is the hospital far from your home?"

"It's not far, it'll be there in a quarter of an hour."

"Well, that's good, go home and eat something before going to sleep. Is there food at home?"

"...Yes, the snacks you sent." Liu Yusheng's face turned hot, "There are still a lot left."

"Eat something warm, Yusheng, is there any breakfast shop near your house?"

Liu Yusheng thought for a while: "There is a pancake seller, I don't know if there is a stall at this point."

"Let's go and have a look when we get home."

"okay."

It seemed that everything that could be said had been said, but for a while, no one said to hang up the phone.

The two just listened to each other's breathing, as if there was some kind of tacit understanding, floating gently through electromagnetic waves.The phone was a little hot, and Liu Yusheng's ears were also a little hot. He thought it must have been infected by the phone.

The taxi drove unimpeded on the road at 05:30 in the morning, and arrived at the gate of the community in just over ten minutes.

Liu Yusheng paid to get out of the car, at this moment Zhao Xin asked, "Are you there?"

"Yeah," Liu Yusheng smiled, "I saw a pancake and fruit stall."