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I don't even know how to speak up.
Am I okay? My situation is known to the whole nation!
Is she okay? It's all here! At noon, take them to eat fried sauce noodles in the Shantang Street. Niuniu eats very well and still remembers to say to Zhen Zhen: "Mom, you didn't have breakfast this morning, eat more!" I asked without any nutrition: "Why didn't you have breakfast?"
She doesn't look at me: "I feel carsick!"
She asks me: "What are you doing here?"
I don't want to talk about depressing things, "I'm not busy these days, just came out for a walk. I was originally going to Dongdan Park, didn't expect to see you...you all!"
At noon, we sat in the hospital lobby waiting for the test results. She said the child's left eye had "congenital retinal hemorrhage," a rare and difficult disease in pediatric ophthalmology. In the afternoon, the results came out, and we found the doctor to review the report. The doctor caught sight of me entering the consultation room and directly frowned, saying, "You as a father are not doing well. Do you know how difficult it is for your wife to bring your daughter to Beijing for medical treatment all these years?"
Both of us feel very awkward. The doctor then spoke in a slower tone, "I won't say anything more. As a man, you've had it tough too. Over the years, the child's illness must have cost tens of thousands, right?" After reviewing the various test results, he said, "Currently, the situation is relatively stable. You can go back for now and come back for a follow-up in three months." How could this be?
Zhen Zhen lives in Daxing. Her child has to go to school the next day, so they have to hurry back. She politely refused me: "You have been running around for most of the day, go back early." I insisted on sending her.
My daughter fell asleep in the back seat.
I asked her, "What are you doing now?"
Zhen Zhen didn't look at me and said, "I'm helping out in homeboy's greenhouse. There's work to do all year round, but I'm getting by."
I couldn't help it anymore: " Niuniu, with such a serious illness, why do you always take her alone? Where is her father?"
Zhen Zhen's face turned pale: "Her father... passed away before she was born!"
My heart was fiercely gripped.
I touched her hand, and she glanced at Niuniu in the rearview mirror and gently untangled it.
9
The mother and daughter rented a place in a relatively old residential area. The rent was cheap, but it was a bit far from Niuniu's school.
I asked Yu Niuniu: "How do you go to school every day?"
"Running, it's good for my health and saves money!" Niuniu answered me with a sunny smile.
"How are your grades?" I asked her.
"The class first, grade first, and none of them have ever been in the top three in Chinese, math, and English," Niuniu proudly said.
I gave her a thumbs up.
Their house doesn't have an elevator, and I followed the two of them up to the third floor.
They actually share a rental with others. A three-bedroom apartment plus a living room has been divided into four households, sharing the kitchen and bathroom... This kind of living situation is already very far away from me, so far that I almost forgot about it. Zhen Zhen invited me to have dinner, and I readily agreed.
Back then, in our shared rental house, she always cooked for me. The two of them shared the master bedroom, which had a balcony with a small dining table and two plastic stools. Soon, I smelled the fragrance of boiling corn porridge and got lost in chatting with Niuniu. It wasn't until Niuniu woke me up, saying, "Uncle, what's wrong with you?"
I forced a self-mocking laugh: "I'm fine." My face felt cool, as tears streamed down. I didn't leave; I parked the car in the shade of the yard and sat there foolishly staring at the warm light in their mother-daughter room until it went out, then I haphazardly reclined the seat and fell asleep in the car.
- I'm afraid!
I'm afraid Zhen Zhen will move away overnight and I'll never find her again!
She's a single mother, and I'm all alone, with nothing to hold on to...
I kept dreaming at night: she was wearing a wedding dress, and I wanted to hold her hand, but Niuniu suddenly appeared and took her away.
At night, the wind rose.
The sky was dimly bright, and it started to sleet again.
At 7:10 in the morning, Niuniu appeared, wearing a cotton coat, cotton pants, and a cotton scarf, carrying a big backpack. Zhen Zhen came out pushing a somewhat old electric bike: "Let me take you, the weather is bad!"
Niuniu turned around and waved her hand: "No need, I'll run there, it's still warm. Don't worry about me!"
Zhen Zhen stopped in her tracks, with sadness and concern in her eyes.
I jumped out of the car and stopped Niuniu: "Uncle will take you!" I appeared very abruptly, but Niuniu didn't seem surprised at all. She waved to Zhen Zhen: "Now you can rest assured." There was enough time, but Niuniu and I suddenly didn't know what to say.
She ran into the school gate and loudly said to me, "My mom is feeling a bit unwell, so she won't be doing any work today..." Zhen Zhen had a flushed face, sweat all over her face, and her hand pressed against her stomach. I knew her old ailment had flared up again. Following her instructions, I found Red sugar, ginger, and dried dates and brought them to the shared kitchen. A young couple was boiling milk, and as soon as they saw my face without a mask and sunglasses, they both opened their mouths wide and said, "Oh my, it's really brother Biao. We thought you looked familiar when you left yesterday, but we couldn't believe it..."
When they promised not to post anything about the social circle, not only did I sign my name for them, but I also took a photo with the couple. But one sentence from them made me feel like my world was turned upside down: "We also asked Niuniu, and she said your uncle and brother Biao look so much alike... it's really like nephew resembling uncle, Niuniu's features are just like yours, as if carved from the same mold!"
Zhen Zhen has an old problem, she's just too busy usually and always neglects herself. After drinking the ginger soup with red sugar that I brought, she quickly regained her spirits.
Their bedside has a photo album, and Zhen Zhen asked me to see Niuniu's childhood appearance. There is a photo of me in my wallet, and I put the two photos together. Finally, I couldn't hold back and turned around to hug Zhen Zhen.
Zhen Zhen left me and went back to Ba Shu after leaving me. She and the son of the provincial art troupe leader were high school classmates, and he really liked her. Knowing that Zhen Zhen promised to end her time in Beijing and come back, he was so happy that he even prepared a wedding house. But this silly girl Zhen Zhen made a huge mistake. She told the troupe leader's son, "You have always liked me, I know, so I can't bear to lie to you... I'm pregnant, I... want to keep it!"
The result is that she returned home for less than a month and hurried back to Beijing to seek refuge with a relative who grows watermelons in Daxing. She went through great difficulties to give birth to Niuniu, only to find out that Niuniu had an eye disease when she was about to go to kindergarten.
Over the years, she has been paying attention to me and knows that I am no longer the same brother Biao as before, but she has never thought of finding me.
Zhen Zhen is mine, and Niuniu is also mine!
Niuniu I came out of school, lowered the window and waved to her, she ran over swaying her ponytail.
12
During this time, buddy has been quite busy, Daxing just bought a new house and needs to renovate.
My wedding made headlines in the entertainment sections of major media outlets. I also talked to Director Mu about wanting to film a drama called "Traces of Time." I will invest, act as the screenwriter and play the male lead, Zhen Zhen will be the female lead, and Niuniu will play the second female lead... Whether it makes money or not doesn't matter. Director Mu pondered for a long time with a cup in hand, then slowly uttered one word: "Good!"
My depression?
I got over it a long time ago.
(End)
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