Descendants of Pangu in the Great Desolation

Chapter 4

The dimly lit ward seemed particularly quiet. The young man was reclining and sleeping soundly on the sofa, his face full of exhaustion, making one reluctant to disturb his lucid dream. "Yi'er, wake up" I felt in a daze that someone was shaking me. I opened my eyes and found Cousin Yunxiang standing in front of me. I felt uneasy and asked, "Cousin Xiang? What's wrong with Dad?"

Cousin Yunxiang looked at my half-opened eyes and said, "Nothing happened, I just wanted to ask you what you want to eat. It's getting dark now, and it's time to sacrifice to the Wu Zang Temple." I rubbed my eyes and said: "Oh, ah... I have been sleeping for so long, is my mother awake?" Cousin Yunxiang said to me: "My aunt woke up before, drank some chicken soup that I asked the nanny to bring from home, and now she fell asleep again " I blamed myself and said, "Well, thank you, Cousin Xiang, I wanted to take a break but I didn't expect to sleep for so long, I'm so confused."

Cousin Yunxiang looked at me like an aggrieved kitten, touched my head with his hand and explained: "What are you confused about? Of course, people tend to fall asleep when they are tired. Don't worry too much about it. Besides, you If you don’t have a good rest, who will take care of your aunt? You should be hungry after sleeping for so long, go eat with cousin Xiang.” I drooped my head and said, “cousin Xiang, I can’t eat anything now, so it’s fine. Right." Cousin Yun Xiang shook his head and said, "How can that be, no matter what happens, you have to eat, so just eat with Cousin Xiang?"

I raised my head and asked, "Brother Xiang, haven't you eaten yet?" Cousin Yunxiang pouted and said, "I planned to come to find you for a quick meal, but when I came here, I found you fell asleep on the sofa. I didn't bother you, I just chatted with my aunt and let my aunt drink the chicken soup by the way." I blamed myself even more when my cousin Yunxiang didn't eat in order not to wake me up, and hurriedly said: "Really, you can Call me, because I caused you not to eat, you must be starving."

Cousin Yunxiang pulled me up from the sofa and said, "What are you talking about? Cousin Xiang is also a big man, can you be overwhelmed by such a little difficulty? But now I'm hungry, let's go with me Cousin Xiang is going to eat." I glanced at my mother who was sleeping soundly on the bed, and followed Cousin Yunxiang out of the ward.

In a fast food restaurant full of people, two men sat at the table and looked at the simple menu hanging on the wall.Sitting on the chair in the fast food restaurant, I was in a daze quietly, while cousin Yunxiang talked non-stop. "Yi'er, what do you want to eat? You don't need to save money for Cousin Xiang. You can order some." Seeing that I was in a daze, Cousin Yunxiang shook my shoulder and said, "I said Yi'er, give it to me anyway." To save face, say something, and make me talk to myself like an idiot, you are bullying your cousin Xiang, be honest."

The sudden shaking made me wake up from the dazed state, and asked: "What are you doing, Cousin Xiang, you shake me like a rattle." Cousin Yunxiang complained to me when he saw that I had regained consciousness: "You come back to your soul! Okay, I’ll take you out to eat, and you’re just in a daze, who will you shake if I don’t?” I said worriedly, “I’m thinking about what the doctor said, I’m so worried now, why would I want to order food? You decide, I can say anything."

Cousin Yunxiang comforted: "Don't be like this, Yier, I know everything? You can't go down anyway, you are my uncle's hope, if you go down, won't my uncle's hope be shattered? Now you You have to adjust your mentality, and when my uncle recovers, you still have to fulfill your obligations as a son." I really don't have much appetite, so I can only say sorry to Cousin Yunxiang's kindness, "Okay, but I'm really hungry now No more food, Cousin Xiang, you should eat by yourself."

Cousin Yunxiang pointed to my head and said: "It's wasted a long time persuading you. I brought you to this fast food restaurant just to eat. If you sit here in a daze, you might as well go back to the ward in a daze. Let me decide." , don’t you like food with stuffing the most? Dumplings are too slow, it’s better to buy wontons, you sit down and I’ll go buy them, we’ll go back after eating, maybe when you go back, uncle has already woken up.” Then Yun Xiang I stood up and went to the counter to buy dinner.

I ate all the wontons in front of me under Cousin Yunxiang's hard and soft actions. The meal made Cousin Yunxiang so depressed. It seemed that what was placed in front of me was not wontons, but food that would be fatal if one more bite was eaten.After eating, Yun Xiang led my puppet-like body back to the outside of my father's ward in the hospital.Looking at the busyness of the nurses in the ward, I suddenly felt that I am really cowardly now. My father is still desperately surviving under the maintenance of the machine and does not want to give up his life, but I am torturing my body here. I secretly swear that I will We need to stabilize our current emotions and not waver. We must firmly believe that Dad will get better, and our family will eat and play together happily.

I looked up at the electronic clock hanging in the corridor, and it turned out that it was already so late, so I said, "Cousin Xiang is very late, you can go home, as long as I am here." Cousin Yunxiang said to me He shook his head and said, "How did this happen? Yi'er, my aunt needs someone to take care of her just after the operation, and my uncle also needs someone to watch over him. Anyway, there is nothing important about my company recently. I will accompany you after I explain it to you." It's all right here, so you don't have to run around in your school and hospital, and you don't have time to rest." I said to him: "I'm fine, Cousin Xiang, tomorrow I will go back to school and ask the teacher for a week off to take care of my parents, and another week. Let’s talk about it later, I will hire a nanny at Mom’s place, and I don’t need anyone here at Dad’s place for the time being, so I’ll just come and see it every day.”

Cousin Yunxiang did not approve of my plan, and said to me: "Nanny is in short supply now, so it's not so easy to find. Let me help you. Besides, you are going to take the college entrance examination in a few months. You have to leave time to review your homework, and listen to me." I looked at my father who was unresponsive in the ward and said, "The college entrance examination? Now that my father is like this, I don't have the mood to review. At worst, I will suspend school this year and wait until next year. Cousin Ke Xiang, you are also a manager after all, you can’t just leave the company and ignore it.”

Cousin Yunxiang shrugged his shoulders and said: "That's fine, anyway, your grades are good, and next year's exam will be the same. But you underestimate your cousin Xiang, anyway, Tengyun Company was founded by myself, although it is The property left by my father, but you should also know that what was left behind was just an empty shell, and now it can be regarded as a well-known enterprise in this city. If it’s bad, what do I want them to do, be rice bugs for me?”

Seeing his smug look, I decided to tease him, and said, "You know you're great, so I don't care about it. Anyway, Tengyun is not my family, so I don't care if it goes bankrupt." Cousin Yunxiang Seeing me pouring cold water on him, he said unconvinced: "You just have a crow's mouth, you, what good do you get if Tengyun goes bankrupt, if Tengyun really goes bankrupt, then I will go to your house every day and stay as a rice bug."

"I can't afford you, rice bug" It's so funny watching Cousin Yunxiang when he's angry.

Cousin Yunxiang said rascally: "You can't afford to support me? Your Cuixuan store is the largest jade store in the province. It won't be very difficult to raise me a handful of rice worms. I really hope that my If Tengyun is down, I can go to your house to be a rice bug, and then you must not let your cousin Xiang enter the house." Seeing his shamelessness, I had to surrender and said: "Come on, I was wrong. No, you are welcome to come to my house to be a rice bug anytime, anywhere, it's done."

Cousin Yunxiang smiled proudly: "Well, I don't have such a plan now, and when I really go, my uncle won't let me be a rice bug with peace of mind."

"Don't worry, I'll make the decision for you when the time comes, and I promise to let you be a rice bug in the rice vat with peace of mind." I found out more and more how interesting it is to tease Cousin Xiang, and even made me forget all my troubles.Cousin Yunxiang saw me say that, pinched my cheek and said: "What a boy, you are playing with your cousin Xiang, and you put it in the rice tank as a rice worm. But the hope of this rice worm is not very good. It’s come true, anyway, our Tengyun is also a big taxpayer in this city, it’s not easy for me.”

I rubbed my cheeks, showed a mischievous smile and continued to tease: "Knowing your cousin Xiang's ability, you don't need to show yourself like this. Your taxes are collected by the state and not by me. Tell me what's the matter?" No, I won’t give you a certificate of being a big taxpayer.” Cousin Yunxiang was annoyed and funny when he saw my mischievous appearance, pointed at me and said, “Stinky boy, you’re starting to be silly, right? Like a lonely soul, now it's Xiao Jingba, roaring wildly."

As soon as I heard him say these three words, I said to him angrily: "Don't call me Little Jingba, you are telling me to turn my face."

My mother told me that when I first learned how to crawl, I kept crawling at home every day, so that my mother had to tie me so that I would not lose my carelessness, and everyone said that my eyes were like It’s as round and beautiful as purple grapes. Cousin Xiang nicknamed me ‘Little Jingba’. At that time, I didn’t know what to do. I only knew that when I called Xiao Jingba, I was calling me, and I was so fart. I climbed over, and this nickname lasted for a long time. I didn't know what Little Jingba was until I went to kindergarten. With my tenacious resistance, I finally got rid of the nickname 'Little Jingba', and I swore who was calling me 'Little Jingba' Jingba' I'm in a hurry with whoever.

Cousin Yunxiang smiled and said: "You can turn your face faster than the sky, who dares to provoke you, but the name Xiao Jingba is really suitable for you." I pouted and resisted: "You are suitable for Xiao Jingba , I’m not Little Jingba!” Cousin Yunxiang showed a strange smile on his face, and continued: “Your eyes are round and black like purple grapes, and when you just learned how to crawl, you crawled all day long. Non-stop. Tell me, your eyes and this posture are not little Jingba, what is it?" Little Jingba is my weakness, and he keeps talking, making my teeth itch with anger, and I want to bite him, " Besides, I’m Little Jingba, I’ll bite you, I can’t take care of myself if I bite you.”

Cousin Yunxiang was relieved to see the solemnity slowly disappearing from my face, and said, "Look, you are threatening me now. Does Yi'er know? I was really worried about your appearance before, but Now I am much relieved. It is very late now, and my aunt may wake up, so go back and have a look, and leave this place to me, so you can rest assured." I said in a low voice, "Cousin Xiang, I know, I will take care of this If you keep this mentality, I will go back to my mother, but you should also take good care of your health, if you also fall ill, I will really be helpless."

Cousin Yunxiang jokingly said: "You should hit me when you hear what you say. Will your cousin Xiang fall ill with such a strong body? I am not made of grass, and I will fall down in a gust of wind." Hearing him say that makes me feel at ease After talking for a long time, he smiled and said to him: "Then I'll leave it to you, strong man, I'm going back, let's go have breakfast together tomorrow." Cousin Yunxiang said with an aggrieved look: "Okay, But you can’t let Cousin Xiang wait for you on an empty stomach like today.” I nodded and said, “Don’t worry. You’re right, I’m going to fall, and my father’s hope will be shattered. I will persist until Dad woke up. I’m leaving, Cousin Xiang, if you’re too tired, come and rest in Mom’s ward.”

Cousin Yunxiang touched my head and said: "I see, you are so insincere, little mother-in-law. You are almost 30 according to what your cousin Xiang is saying. Don't you know how to take care of yourself? Go back quickly, so as not to My aunt woke up and was worried about you." I said goodbye to my cousin, and I went to my mother's ward.

This day passed in such a muddle, but I didn't know that this was the beginning of my and my family's bad luck, and it also played a lullaby for me to enter the underworld.

(End of this chapter)