Chapter 41
It happened to be New Year’s Eve when Xu Man brought Dongsheng all the way to Haicheng
Haicheng was not a well-known big city, at least it was the first time Xu had heard of it and the first time she had ever been here in her two lifetimes
The only thing she knows about Haicheng is that there is the First Naval Hospital of the Southern Military Region here
Because Lu Yuanzheng is in this hospital
The train station in Haicheng is very small, so there is no fear of getting lost
It’s just that she doesn’t understand the language here, and she doesn’t even dare to take a taxi for fear that she and her son will be dragged away by the bad guys and sold without even realizing it
Without a cell phone and no navigation, Xu held Dongsheng’s hand and stood at the exit of Haicheng Railway Station at eight o’clock, very confused
After waiting for a while, Dongsheng shook Xu Man’s hand: “Ma-ma, are we waiting for Dad to pick us up?”
“Your dad probably can’t wait” Xu Man shook his head, “I heard that your father is still in a coma But, I don’t know how to get to the hospital”
“We can ask someone”
Xu Man smiled bitterly, “I’d like to ask, but I can’t understand them”
“I can understand” Dongsheng let go of Xu Man’s hand and ran
Xu Man quickly picked up his luggage and chased after him, shouting at him, “Lu Dongsheng, I’m going to be angry if you run away!”
The train station is crowded with people and lost, where can she find someone?
Dongsheng stopped by the side of the road and chatted with a pedicab driver
Xu Wen was surprised that Dongsheng really knew the local language
Dongsheng listened for a while, a little distressed, frowning and Xu asked: “Ma Ma, he said the route I can not remember how to do?”
Xu asked, “”
A three or four year old child can remember so many words
“You help Ma Ma ask how much it costs to take his car from here to the hospital”
The man listened to Dongsheng’s words, looked Xu Man up and down, and put up his finger and compared it to a one
“Ten cents?”
“He said one dollar”
Xu Wen let out a laugh and took Dongsheng by the hand, “Let’s go, let’s take the bus”
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to give up money, it was just that the look on the bus driver’s face definitely didn’t need a dollar
It’s okay for him to rip off customers, but what if he really has bad intentions? It’s safer to take the bus
There was a bus stop not far from the station, and it didn’t look like there was a bus to this hospital
Waiting for the first car to the station, Xu asked to take Dongsheng on board, let Dongsheng asked to this hospital should take which bus
After Dongsheng asked, the driver opened the door again
Xu asked, the driver opened the door again Xu looked at Dongsheng, Dongsheng said: “The driver uncle said to take the 12 direct”
Xu Man frowned, not seeing a direct stop, but politely thanked him
She couldn’t understand the driver, who could still understand her
In the gap between waiting for No 12, Xu Man carefully studied the bus route again, and indeed didn’t find any words like Naval Hospital, and there was only one with a hospital on the entire roadmap of parking stops called 422 Hospital
A long time later Xu Man realized that, like the army number, the hospital also has a number of pronouns
And even if there is a bus stop in front of a unit of the army, on the road map is not displayed, Baidu can not Baidu the kind
However, this is the latter part of the story, ignorant Xu asked in the case of language, with practice to understand the 422 hospital is the first naval hospital, has been two hours later
Mother and son off the bus after the mouth is dry
Into the hospital to ask Lu Yuanzheng’s ward thought it would take a lot of effort, did not expect to casually ask, the nurse knew, told Xu asked: “hospitalization a, second floor, seventeen beds”
Xu Man was a bit puzzled, the quality of the medical staff here is so high that they can remember the information of every sick and wounded hospitalized officer and soldier clearly?
With this doubt, Xu found the 17th bed on the second floor of the first hospitalization unit
Hospitals in the seventies are still quite simple, wards and classrooms like especially large, a ward is a dozen or twenty beds
Lu Yuanzheng, a patient with a particularly serious illness, lived in a single room and was still in the ICU after a few decades
Xu Wen found the ward where Lu Yuanzheng is, knocked on the door and went in
In the ward, there was only Lu Yuanzheng lying on the bed, and he didn’t see any accompanying nurse
This kind of Lu Yuanzheng is a bit miserable, so hot days wrapped into half a mummy, the face is also bruised and broken skin, closed eyes are also a swollen out of shape
“Ma Ma, is this my father?” Dongsheng was a little afraid to recognize him
Xu Wen sighed softly, “Yes”
Miserable is a bit miserable, still eating barely recognizable
Fortunately, finally alive
The day is hot, a ceiling fan in the room squeaking and squeaking, Lu Yuanzheng upper body naked
Strictly speaking is not naked, after all, most of the body is wrapped in bandages
After a while, Xu Wen finally realized that something was wrong, and looked back at Dongsheng, who was staring at Lu Yuanzheng’s research, and asked him, “Dongsheng, aren’t you sad that dad is hurt like this?”
Shouldn’t a normal child cry out in a flash?
She just saw Lu Yuanzheng are nose sour, but Dongsheng seems to be very accustomed to it?
Sure enough, heard Dongsheng said, “Not sad Dad every time he comes back is first to the hospital and then come to see me, not, I see him Just this time it seems like the most bandages Dad said he was lucky to be back alive If you’re lucky, why should you be sad?”
Xu asked, “”
What kind of thinking is this instilling in children?
He couldn’t even say it was wrong
Xu Man sighed softly and stroked Dongsheng’s head, “Getting your life back is indeed a lucky thing, but being injured can be painful and sad Being hospitalized is not a thing to be taken for granted, injuries that happen to any person are considered disasters and are things that make people sad Daddy is telling you that because he doesn’t want you to be sad”
“So is dad in a lot of pain right now?”
Xu Wen nodded, “It should hurt Think about it you usually cry out in pain when you bump a little bit of skin, dad must be in pain as well after breaking so many places on his body!”
Dongsheng ah’d, very puzzled, “It can be before such, dad said it doesn’t hurt!”
“He said it doesn’t hurt because he’s strong, not because the wounds don’t hurt” Xu asked a little pain, see to the child are taught into what kind?
Saying yes or no, Dongsheng is more calm in the face of injuries than the average child
Saying it is not good, this in itself is a disrespect for casualties, will make Dongsheng some misperceptions
After all, in the final analysis, Lu Yuanzheng is “cheating” Dongsheng
“Oh” Dongsheng nodded, both hands propped up on the side of the bed and stretched his neck to give Lu Yuanzheng’s wounds a whir
At this time, a young man wearing a military uniform carrying a water bottle walked in, saw Xu Wen froze: “Comrade, you are?”
“Hello, my name is Xu Man, I am the lover of Lu Yuanzheng ,” Xu Man pointed to the mummy on the hospital bed, “the lover”
“Oh oh oh! Sister-in-law ah!” The young man placed the green hollowed out aluminum water bottle in his hand on the bedside table and smiled coyly, “How did you get here? I didn’t say hello in advance so I could pick you up at the station”
Xu Wen smiled and didn’t say anything
He thought to himself, “I would have liked to say hello and find someone to pick me up, the problem is that no one gave me a way to say hello either
“Sister-in-law, you sit down first Haven’t eaten yet, right? I’ll go buy you and the child some rice and come back”
Before Xu Wen could refuse, the young man had already trotted away
Xu Wen: “”
“Dongsheng, do you recognize him?”
Dongsheng shook his head and nodded again, “Seems a bit familiar”
After a while the young man came back, but not alone back, there are two more people around
The young man pointed to one of them to introduce Xu Man, “Sister-in-law, this is our battalion commander ”
Before he could even finish his sentence, Dongsheng pounced towards the man, “Uncle Song!”
“Song Xueqin” The young man finished as well
Xu Man was busy nodding his head, “Hello Battalion Commander Song”
“Hello Comrade Xiao Xu, I’ve heard a lot about you Speaking of which, I still have to thank you for helping us find Comrade Lu Yuanzheng” Battalion Commander Song hugged Dongsheng into his arms, “You’ve grown taller and sturdier in half a year!”
Xu asked, “???” What do you think I’m helping you guys with?
The other man took the initiative to reach out and shake Xu Man’s hand, “Hello sister-in-law, my name is Dong Chao, I’m the one who called you It’s like this, Lu Lian was found by his brother’s unit and sent to the hospital before we found him, but he was seriously injured and unconscious, he didn’t have any documents on him, and the hospital didn’t know which unit he belonged to and didn’t notify us in time And the message we received, Lu Lian basically no possibility of survival, in accordance with the provisions of the open the suicide note he stored, and in accordance with his request sent to you
I just didn’t expect to cause so much trouble for you and the child”
Dong Chao smiled apologetically
Xu Wen shook his head, “It’s okay Then how did you guys find him? Something to do with me?”
“Right Just because of that article of yours” Dong Chao pointed to the newspaper rack in one corner of the room “By coincidence, when he came to check on the room that day, one of the intern doctors accidentally knocked over the newspaper rack and got the newspaper on the floor He saw the article and thought it was interesting and read a few sentences Maybe people are more sensitive to their own names, Lu Lian heard his name opened his eyes and said ‘I’m not dead yet!’ and fainted again
There was a doctor who reacted quickly and thought he should be Lu Yuanzheng, so he released the news within the army, and we inquired and rushed to see that it was really him I also read that newspaper, afraid that you are at home days are difficult, so I gave you a phone call to say I didn’t expect that you would personally come over”
At that time, Dong Chao called just to tell Xu Wen that although Lu Yuanzheng was seriously injured, he had been rescued in time and his life was out of danger Let her not worry In addition, he also told Xu Man that they had informed the newspaper and radio station to remove the news of Lu Yuanzheng, after all, Lu Yuanzheng was still alive
Xu Wen did not say anything at that time, only asked about the current situation of Lu Yuanzheng and the location of the hospital, did not expect to come by himself without saying a word
Comrade women who dared to go out alone these days were really rare
As soon as the orderly responsible for taking care of Lu Yuanzheng reported, Song Xueqin brought Dong Chao here
Xu Man thanked Dong Chao again one by one after hearing his words
“This way, Comrade Xu Man You’re already tired from your long journey, why don’t you first stay at our compound’s guest house for the night and come back to see him in the morning?” Song Xueqin was here to pick up Xu Man
Xu Man was indeed a bit tired
These days when traveling by train, ordinary people can only buy sitting tickets, like sleeping tickets or something she is not qualified to sit on
Still carrying her luggage with Dongsheng, she almost didn’t dare to close her eyes, she was really tired
Xu asked and thanked her, riding in Song Xueqin’s car to the compound
Xu asked nervously, her palms were sweating, and the images she had seen on TV dramas were playing out on her right now
Song Xueqin could see that she was nervous and took the initiative to talk to her, “I read the newspaper too You’re still the top student in the college entrance exam?”
Xu Man was modest: “Luck”
“It’s not just luck that makes you a top student!” Song Xueqin shook his head, “You’re a good comrade, and so is Lu Yuanzheng”
Xu Man was just about to say a few more modest words when he heard Song Xueqin grunt, “This brat! Really knows how to pick a target!”
Xu Man: “”