nursery rhymes

Chapter 40 Reconciliation with the past

There is only a wall between the ward where Cao Ying lives and that of Shang Lili.

As soon as Zhuge Yang coaxed Cao Ying out, he heard the nurse in the next ward shouting: The patient has vomited again, please clean up quickly.

He and Xiao Jiang stood at the door, watching the cleaner come in to clean up the dirt on the floor, and watching the nurse lift up the quilt to check Shang Lili's edematous legs.

The two looked at each other, and they both understood the emotion in the other's eyes.

Shang Lili's own experience growing up was not much better than Yao Xin's.

When she was in high school, her parents divorced and started families and left her alone, so she dropped out of school and went to a technical school to study beauty and hairdressing.After completing his studies, he worked as an apprentice in a barber shop and met his boyfriend who went to get a haircut.After the two fell in love, Shang Lili gave up everything and followed each other to a strange city.

But a true feeling is ultimately a wrong payment.Her boyfriend met someone better and not only broke up with her, but also asked her to abort their child.

Shang Lili has no parents to rely on, and no one to guide her correctly.She began not to believe in relationships, let alone look forward to marriage.Since she had a boyfriend, she has never admitted that she was really interested in him.He thought he could manipulate others, but in the end he fell into a place of no return.

After Shang Lili found out that she had pancreatic cancer, she stopped having a boyfriend and began to sell herself out to save money for treatment.After discovering what happened to Yao Xin, he even chose to help conceal it, and even tried to take the blame for others.

In order to confirm the facts of the crime, he took the initiative to attack the police.One by one, it can be seen that Shang Lili is a person with her own ideas.

It's just that these ideas are not used in the right way.

On the first bed near the door in the ward, Shang Lili pressed her hands on her stomach and spoke weakly to the nurse.

"Nurse, please give me an injection to relieve the pain. It hurts too much and I can't stand it anymore."

"The infusion is about to begin, so don't move. Pancreatic cancer is like this. The pain is unbearable. You will be given painkillers, but you should decide as soon as possible whether you want to undergo minimally invasive surgery to block the nerve plexus."

The nurse hung the bottle on the hook and flicked the air bubbles in the infusion tube.

Shang Lili stared at the layer of yellow iodophor circled by the cotton swab on the back of her hand, with a melancholy expression. "Minimally invasive surgery only relieves the pain and cannot save my life. Why is it so difficult to die?"

The slender needle tip penetrated the blood vessel, and red blood appeared in the transparent infusion tube.The tape on the wrist was untied by the nurse with a snap, and the blood flowed back to the back of the hand.After the nurse fixed the needle with medical tape, packed up the tray and left, Shang Lili saw the two people standing at the door.

Zhuge Yang and Xiao Jiang walked in the door side by side and sat down by the bed.

"If it weren't for my illness, I should be squatting in the detention center like Yao Xin, waiting to be judged by the law. What are you here to tell me?"

Shang Lili no longer had the energy she had in the interrogation room. Her whole body looked sickly weak and pale, and her voice also contained a trembling sound of pain that she had been holding back all the time.

Xiao Jiang helped her straighten the corner of the quilt and said hesitantly: "We have contacted your parents for you, and they should come to the hospital to see you today."

"Why are you contacting them? Who asked you to contact them? I don't want to see them at all." Shang Lili's face suddenly changed.Shang Lili had always resented her parents for their divorce, and even complained that they had only cared about her own life for many years and had not cared about her daughter at all.How could she not resist when she suddenly heard that her parents were coming to meet them.

Xiao Jiang held Shang Lili's wrist and persuaded her in a calm tone: "Shang Lili, don't get excited first, listen to me first. Whether it is the case you are involved in now or your illness, it needs to be handled by your family members. You are against your parents in your heart and don't want to see them, but you have been hiding quietly in Beidaihe all these years and haven't given them any news about you. When we called your parents, they heard about you. I cried so sadly on the phone that I was out of breath.”

"What parents don't love their children? You've been hiding and haven't given them a chance to love you. Shang Lili, think about it when you ran away in anger, was it because you were worried about your parents' sudden divorce? Is it difficult to accept? Have they ever really said that they don’t love you and don’t care about you?”

"You were still young back then and didn't understand why the two of them got divorced. Now you are an adult who has experienced a lot of things. If you think about it carefully, your parents are not in harmony. If they don't get divorced, it will be a waste of money. What’s the point of going down?”

Seeing Shang Lili closing her eyes tightly and not wanting to speak, Xiao Jiang sighed and said the last words: "If you can't figure this out, you have to leave with regrets. Those experiences are the catalyst for your maturity. , haven’t you learned to reconcile with the past?”

There were rapid footsteps running down the corridor.

Zhuge Yang and Xiao Jiang stood up together and walked out of the door of the ward, just in time to meet Monk Lili's parents.

Neither party knew each other, they only glanced at each other and stepped aside to pass.

The middle-aged woman who passed by Zhuge Yang and bent down to pick up her shoes threw herself on the door frame and shouted: "Lili, is that Lili?"

Then the middle-aged couple stumbled in, their whimpering sounds reaching the corridor.

"You silly kid, why didn't you tell us such a big thing? How could you carry it on your own, Lili?"

Zhuge Yang stopped and listened.Xiaojiang also stood in front of him, facing him, leaning on the wall like him, tilting his head to listen to what was going on in the room.Her eyes were fixed on Zhuge Yang's profile, watching the beam of light that penetrated into the corridor from the window inside the house and outlined Zhuge Yang's outline slightly.

In her ears, there was Shang Lili's slight, almost inaudible voice. "Mom and Dad."

Zhuge Yang suddenly lowered his head and looked at the palm of his right hand.There were Xiaojiang's five slender fingers, holding his in vain.

Xiao Jiang smiled, the dimples on his cheeks looming. "What about you, Zhuge, have you reconciled with the past?"

Zhuge Yang held her fingers instead. "Well, we have reconciled long ago."

Xiao Jiang's smile became even bigger and he asked: "When did they reconcile?"

Zhuge Yang no longer answered, but took her hand and strode outside.Xiao Jiang, however, kept jumping around and asking questions.

"Just tell me when."

(End of this chapter)