93. Bitter Summer(1/26)
Jiang Tian met Sheng Mingyang again at noon that day, in a chaotic hospital.
None of them wanted to make the matter happen in front of Jiang Ou, but they forgot one thing - there is never a tight wall in the world, and schools are the place where rumors are most likely to breed.
After Jiang Ou held a parent-teacher meeting in grades, no one answered the phone call from Sheng Mingyang. Only one WeChat message said, "It's a bit urgent, I'll come back late." Because of Ji Huanyu, she and Sheng Mingyang were in a period of conflict that was about to be broken, and because of their health, the business side no longer interfered. So she didn't ask much when she saw WeChat, but followed the large army to Mingli Building, wanting to say hello to Jiang Tianshengwang and leave.
As a result, he heard rumors about her son in the corridor.
Gao Tianyang knew Jiang Ou and was the first person to find out that her condition was not right. Sheng Wang Jiang Tian’s mobile school bags were all in the classroom, so he could only turn back and dial the previous number, and then notify Old Man Ding’s place on the phone.
So things became out of control.
When Jiang Tian rushed back to the affiliated high school, he was greeted with such a mess.
At that moment, he felt someone was making an absurd joke with him. He was obviously very hard, but he seemed to be slowing down for a few seconds. He was destined to miss everything before he caught the first step, and then watched the carriage hit one by one, turning the earth and turning it over and beyond recognition.
And he could only stand and watch.
He is not good at speaking and venting, and is a mute who is just a pretense.
Sheng Mingyang rushed to the hospital very quickly. When he got out of the elevator, he saw Jiang Tian sitting on an unmanned bench in the corridor, with his legs bowed and his head almost lowered to the bend of the elbow. His eyebrows were still as sharp as a young man, but he was exhausted.
He originally wanted to say something, but he came with a strong anger. When he saw Jiang Tian who looked like this, he suddenly forgot to say anything.
At that moment, he suddenly realized that the big boy in front of him was actually about the same age as Sheng Wang...
He never really realized this.
But this thought flashed and was suppressed again. Jiang Tian heard the steps and glanced at him subconsciously. The elevator was empty and closed again with a clang.
Sheng Mingyang frowned and said after a moment, "Sheng Wang hasn't come, I'll ask someone to take care of him."
The feeling of explaining his son's whereabouts to others was very strange. He felt annoyed in his heart, and the anger he had just suppressed surged up again. But he couldn't talk to Jiang Tian like he was to Sheng Wang, and he would subconsciously restrain himself and make an official voice.
It was not until this time that he realized that he actually did not really regard Jiang Tian as his family member.
Jiang Tian stood up from the chair. He was actually taller than Sheng Mingyang. Although he had the thinness of a boy, he still felt oppressed. He said: "My question, don't scold him."
Sheng Mingyang thought it was ridiculous. He was obviously his son, but others were interfering in his affairs, as if he was a big villain and was deliberately trying to harm Sheng Wang: "When did you see me scold him?"
He asked back, and didn't want to say much, so he hurried in.
Sheng Mingyang had never seen Jiang Ou look like a hysterical person. For a moment, he even thought she would be crazy or impulsive to do something irreversible. In short, it was completely different from the people he knew back then. It was not as if they had a deep relationship between them. It just happened to be such a person who just aroused his nostalgia for his deceased wife, which was just right. It was as if Jiang Ou's most intense relationship was not with him, but to Ji Huanyu.
During the winter vacation, the tense nerves that were always tight during the winter vacation were not very strong. He only had a little responsibility, a little sympathy for Jiang Ou now, and a blame that he didn't want to admit it but could not ignore it-
Without Jiangou, there would be no Jiang Tian, and things would not be so uncontrollable.
But similarly, for Jiang Ou, without Sheng Wang, there would be no such things today. So in addition to blaming, Sheng Mingyang felt a little guilty.
The ward was filled with a strong smell of potion, accompanied by the screams of women's collapse and the low and uninterrupted sobs, and the crying that broke out and stopped sometimes, like several bad tones that were contradictory and forced to mix, which was so depressing that it was hard to stay silent.
Sheng Mingyang didn't know how long Jiang Tian had been in the hospital, but in just a few minutes, he couldn't stand it anymore. During this period, he went downstairs several times. When Old Man Ding rushed to school, he fell while pulling Jiang Ou because of a trance.
It is said that older people cannot fall, and there are many old man Ding, so he cannot be angry or anxious. During the winter vacation, Ji Huanyu's bad things have made him sleepless all night and become dull. This time, he has another blow and he is completely embarrassed. He leans against the head of the bed with white hair, hunched his shoulders, looking at somewhere outside the window, dazed for a long time, as if he has grown old all of a sudden.
Sheng Mingyang and Jiang Tian were busy in the hospital and didn't breathe a breath until the night. They rested in the family area, and silence and suffocation slowly spread, filling the corner.
After a long time, Sheng Mingyang looked in the direction of the ward and asked, "Do you regret it? Things have come to this point."
Jiang Tian lowered his eyes, staring at the void somewhere, as if he was trance, or as if he was simple silence.
"You are older and more mature." Sheng Mingyang said patiently with fatigue in his tone: "I'll listen to what you think."
After a while, Jiang Tian spoke: "I don't owe anyone."
He grew up so big that he had never been with anyone for a long time, and he did not regard anyone as a pillar. He was used to sucking out, but rarely took other people's. He would double down on any of them.
He owes no one.
He did what he thought he should do and took on what he should bear. He didn't have to be afraid of anyone, he just looked at Shengwang.
Sheng Mingyang probably knew his situation, and he couldn't find a word to answer for a while. He was stunned for a moment before saying, "But Wangzai is different."
Jiang Tian said "um" and almost got angry at that moment. He said, "I know."
Sheng Wang is soft-hearted and sensitive. He often says that he has a bad temper, but he always considers other people's feelings. He was obviously lonely when he was a child, but his reaction was completely opposite. One simply sealed himself in the ice, while the other stretched out countless tentacles and explored movements from all directions.
But it is because of this that they have intersections.
It was because of his soft heart that he stood alone under the street lights in the Baima Alley late at night that Sheng Wang opened the window and called him.
He knew this very well, so he looked for Sheng Wang all over the morning, but he didn't ask again in the afternoon. It was not that he didn't want to see him, it was that he didn't want Sheng Wang to come to see him, and it was that Sheng Wang saw the mess spreading in front of him.
He knew that Shengwang would feel uncomfortable. He also knew that when Shengwang felt uncomfortable, he would be a little shaken.
It was the second day that Sheng Wang had arrived at the hospital.
He had no schoolbag or cell phone, Sheng Mingyang looked for someone to see him all night. During the day, he was in deep irritability and anxiety, and just wanted to say a few words to Jiang Tian, even if he explained where he would go, so he didn't have to worry. At night, he repeatedly recalled the scene in the cemetery, and remembered his mother smiling at him in the pale photo, while he pursed his lips and looked elsewhere, until his eyes turned red, and he couldn't say what he wanted to say.
It is said that the closest relatives know the best where the pain hurts the most. Sheng Mingyang knew how to make him sad. He was taken to the cemetery on the first day and brought to the bedside the next day. When he went, Jiang Tian was not there, so Sheng Mingyang specially gave a time difference.
The older people felt that there were fewer people. The nurse said that Old Man Ding sat on the bed hunched before dawn, dazed all day long. He fell down, half-hurt and half-feared, causing blood clots and became dull. He just squinted his eyes and smiled whenever others said. It made people wonder whether he was not concerned or not.
When Sheng Wang entered the ward, he turned his head half a beat, stared at Sheng Wang for a while, and suddenly waved with a smile.
After the incident was exposed, this was the only elder who could laugh. Sheng Wang felt inexplicably sore, and he couldn't say whether he was sad or something else. He walked over hesitantly. Old Man Ding grabbed him with his skinny big hands, and while clenching, he turned his head to peel the orange at the head of the bed.
The old man stuffed two of the biggest ones for him, raised his chin and said, "It's sweet."
Sheng Wang lowered his head and held the orange in his elbow and was about to say something when he saw the old man pointing upstairs and said, "Give Xiao Wang one too, it's sweet!"
He was stunned for a moment, and then turned his head and gritted his teeth tightly, his eyes turned red little by little. He knew that the old man sometimes had a misunderstanding and was just a momentary thing, which did not mean that he was really stupid and couldn't tell the difference. But the old man was in good spirits before, and had never had such a situation. This was the first time...
This is even more sad than a slap on the spot, Sheng Wang almost ran away in panic.
Sheng Mingyang pulled him upstairs again, pointed to Jiang Ou in the door and said, "I know you are stubborn. If you don't persist for a while, you will seem particularly cowardly. But look at it again, this is what you want to see?"
Sheng Wang couldn't remember what he felt when he saw Jiang Ou. He only remembered that he walked in almost daze, wanted to say something to the other party, but was speechless. He didn't know whether he should care or apologize, until Jiang Ou slowly looked up at him, and then his emotions suddenly lost control.
The nurse and Sheng Mingyang were both comforting her. She struggled to catch Sheng Wang and said, "Auntie, how are you?"
Sheng Wang's face was bloodless.
Jiang Ou finally calmed down with the efforts of all kinds of people. She looked at Sheng Wang, curled back to his bed, closed her red and swollen eyes and said nothing. Sheng Wang stood stiffly for a while and left the ward.
This is what Jiang Tian saw when he came from the corner of the stairs.
He saw several nurses rushing out of the ward, obviously just passing a big fuss. He saw Sheng Wang standing outside the door of the ward with his head down, his hanging fingers unconsciously pinching his joints, embarrassed and silent.
At that moment, Jiang Tian suddenly realized that he had not seen Sheng Wang smile without any burden for a long time.
He suddenly realized that everything he was carrying was thorny, and he was densely thrust towards Sheng Wang. Every time the other party approached him, he would be stabbed in and pulled out by the spikes, dripping blood.
The sun that always circles him, because he no longer shines.
He wanted to kiss the other person's lower eyes, and the corner of his lips that was no longer smiling. It was too lonely to stand alone. He wanted to go over and hug Shengwang, but he turned around and saw the thorns on his body... It was not smoothed for a day, and it was not allowed to get close to him every day.
Jiang Tian finally just walked over and shouted softly: "Wangzi."
Sheng Wang raised his head, his eyes turned red.
Sheng Mingyang was busy completing the transfer procedures for Sheng Wang, but suddenly received a call from Jiang Tian. He said: "He has transferred too many times and has not been there for a long time. He is about to take the exam, so don't transfer it to him anymore."
Sheng Mingyang said: "One must go."
Jiang Tian said: "I'll do it."
He took out his luggage for a long time and finally took it back into the box. It seemed as if he had a good dream, but he accidentally woke up again.
Jiang Tian transferred to school in mid-February and took away the cat signed by Sheng Wang. Also leaving here were Jiang Ou and old men Ding. He walked clean with his thorns.
Since then, a seat has been vacant in Class A, and everyone forgot to remind the teacher to collect it. Just like Xu Dazui mentioned it out of thin air twice, but never tore off Jiang Tian’s photo from the wall of honor.
The college entrance examination in early March will be held as usual, and time will not stop because of the gathering and separation in a corner. The collective cramming effect of Class A for one month is significant. All members have achieved 4a without any suspense and no one has fallen behind.
Sheng Wang became taciturn for a long time. Occasionally, Gao Tianyang and the others would see another person's shadow in him, and they would always sigh for a moment and feel sad inexplicably.
Class A is open. The atmosphere was just awkward for a few days before returning to its original position. People with good relationships with Sheng Wang still have a good relationship. They gathered in various lively venues, saying exaggerated jokes and gossip to make him happy. Watching him climb to the first place, nailed to the first place, slowly shook off the second place, and wailed like a cheering again.
The second semester of the second year of high school is a peak season. After the junior college entrance examination, other classes began to enter the general review, and all the energy of Class A was devoted to the competition. Sheng Wanglu reached all the rematch quotas for mathematics, physics and chemistry. In the 7 and 8 months, he was filled with various special training classes, summer camps, and training camps.
As the heaviest crane tail of Class A, Gao Tianyang only entered the chemistry rematch. He had a very good mentality and was happy to be idle. Every time he saw Sheng Wang's class schedule, he shook his head and said, "It's so miserable."
Sheng Wang said angrily: "I really feel miserable and remember to bring tribute to visit the prison."
It was the first time he joked like this after Jiang Tian left. Gao Tianyang and the others were flattered and immediately swore that they would not be human if they didn't go.
Since that day, Sheng Wang has gradually become the same as before. He will sway his chair, turn his pen to remove Gao Tianyang and Song Sirui's stages, raise his head to drink water after playing basketball, and then hold his collar and fan the air while chatting with others.
Sometimes it gives people the illusion that everything has been back on track and the dust has settled.
But occasionally when he passes by the wall of honor in the corridor, he will stop and watch his photos on the wall change from one to two, three, and then more and more, almost occupying half of the country...
And the other half never changed.
During the summer vacation of the second year of high school, Sheng Mingyang mentioned that with two seniors from Beijing, Jiang Tian applied for a foreign school, avoiding the embarrassment of inconsistent progress and examination system, and also arranged a hospital suitable for recuperation for Jiang Ou and old man Ding.
Sheng Mingyang didn't mention himself, but Sheng Wang felt that he should have made a move.
During that time, Shengwang was training. There was a convenience store next to the gate of the school No. 2, and the decoration was very similar to Xile. Shengwang always went there to buy things, even though it was very far away from where he lived. After a while, he became familiar with the boss.
When he received the message from Sheng Mingyang, Sheng Wang was buying water in a convenience store. The boss crossed his legs and sucked the cherries. When checking out, he generously pushed the glass bowl forward and said, "Come on, eat something."
Sheng Wang looked at the phone screen for a long time and didn't come back to his senses. At the boss's urging, he picked up one randomly, but it was strangely bitter when he chewed it.
To be continued...