Why it never ends

Before Mesnan could think of how to explain, he had already stretched out his hands to try to untie the bag knot. Si Lei looked at him inexplicably, brushed his hand away, and directly tore open the thin layer of plastic.

"I'm afraid it will spill." Si Lei said, "Thank you, my breakfast today was quite rich."

A few people chatted stiffly for a few more words. After Mesnan arrived, Hesta sat in the ward for less than two minutes before he stood up and said goodbye to Si Lei. The two walked to the door. Si Lei turned around and asked Si Yu to say goodbye to Hesta. Hesta also responded. After saying goodbye, only Mesnan was still standing there, looking at Hesta with some confusion.

"...Goodbye." Hesta glanced at him and whispered.

"Goodbye." Mei Sinan said immediately.

"I'll see her off," Si Lei said, "How about you stay here with Xiao Yu?"

Methnan nodded.

After the two left, he sat down where Hesta had been, and the boy on the hospital bed said softly, "Is that her?"

Mesnan let out a low groan with unknown meaning, as if he was admitting, but also hesitating.

"She is so fierce." Si Yu deliberately lowered his voice, "Is she beautiful?"

"what?"

"I can't see her appearance clearly," Si Yu said, "Is she beautiful?"

Mesnan thought for a while and then spoke with some difficulty, "She's not...well, pretty..."

"Then what do you like about her?"

Mesnan raised his head, "What?"

"What do you like about her?" Si Yu was a little strange, "What's wrong with you?"

"Who told you that I like her..."

"You wrote a song for her."

"You completely misunderstood... completely misunderstood!" Mei Sinan said immediately, and then his voice turned to a whisper, "What a huge misunderstanding..."

"Then why did you-"

"You didn't mention those words to Officer Si Lei just now, did you?"

"How could I say this to my mother."

"Okay, okay," Mesnan nodded again, "Don't say it, okay?"

"Sinan, what's wrong with you?"

"I don't like her," Methnan said. "Not at all."

"Then why did you write to her-"

"You promise me first not to talk to Officer Si Lei about this, okay?"

Si Yu looked at his friend's shadow thoughtfully and said weakly, "If you didn't want to, how could I say..."

"The main reason is that I don't like her, and I don't want to cause any misunderstandings." Mesnan kept repeating, "I just... the inspiration happened to come to me that day. I have written songs for many people, and many people have given them to me. Inspiration, it’s nothing special—”

"You haven't written to me." Si Yu looked at him, "Is it because I don't have any inspiration?"

Mei Sinan opened his mouth slightly, "...No."

The boy on the hospital bed laughed a few times, but the laughter soon turned into coughing. He tried to control his chest and calm himself down. The sound of coughing made Mei Sinan panic. He stood up immediately, but he could only stare through the plastic curtain.

"What should I do? Should I ring the bell for you?"

"Don't move," Si Yu whispered, "I'm fine."

Sure enough, the coughing gradually subsided, Si Yu took deep and slow breaths, and the painful expression on his face gradually calmed down.

"You should write me a song." Si Yu suddenly said, "I also want to know... what I would sound like." "Okay... I'll give it a try."

"Then you can play at my funeral."

"Say something like that again——"

"Listen to me, please," Si Yu said softly, "They will only tell me that they will recover soon."

……

Si Lei sent Hesta to the entrance of the hospital. Just as he was about to leave, Hesta suddenly came around again.

"By the way, I brought you a gift." Hesta took out an unopened square booklet from her bag, "I saw it when I passed by the bookstore yesterday..."

Si Lei took it and saw that it was a calendar with 4633 written on the cover.

"Next year's calendar?"

"Yes," Hesta said, "It will be available for use in more than a month. I think many people will buy it."

Si Lei smiled and waved goodbye to Hesta.

Hesta ran quickly to the nearby subway station, stopping once and looking back. She also waved to Si Lei to recall. Si Lei just stood there, watching her leave with a smile.

Until Hesta's figure completely disappeared on the steps of the subway entrance, Si Lei looked at the New Year's calendar in his hand again.

She couldn't help but smile bitterly. Hesta didn't seem to realize that it seemed inappropriate to give her a calendar at this time. This heavy calendar fell into her hands, reminding her of the weight of time, but it also gave her some hope.

Si Lei walked around the downstairs of the hospital alone several times. After she had processed her emotions, she cheered up and quickly stepped onto the steps of the hospital.

Back in the ward, Mei Sinan and Si Yu were talking. When Si Lei appeared, they stopped at the same time.

"You continue." Si Lei said easily.

Si Yu looked at her mother who seemed to be holding something in her hand, "...What is that?"

"Oh, it's a gift from the sister just now, next year's calendar." Si Lei placed the calendar on the bedside, together with the matchbox display board. "It will be available in more than a month. By then Xiaoyu Can you dismantle it yourself?"

Si Yu looked sideways at his mother's figure.

"Okay, Mom."

……

On Saturday afternoon, Hesta went to see Eleven as usual. Three new puppies arrived at the children's center, and the children were assigned the task of taking care of them. This afternoon it happened to be Eleven and Qiqi's turn. For the first time, Eleven didn't want to go out with Hesta. He just wanted to be with himself. puppies stay together.

Hesta was sitting in the small yard of the children's center watching the children playing with the dogs. Eleven held a piece of dog chew as a retrieval toy and threw it into the distance over and over again. The three puppies rushed to chase it. , rushing to get the dog chews back.

While watching, Hesta's cell phone rang. Ksenia sent a message asking her what she was doing. Hesta answered truthfully and threw the question back. Kseniya said that she and several classmates were posting invoices in the teacher's office. The reimbursement deadline for a certain project was coming soon. They had to sort out all the invoices before four o'clock this afternoon. She was feeling dizzy. A man ran to the window to get some air.

"Who taught the dog to retrieve?" Ksenia asked.

"I don't know, dogs are born with it, right?"

"That's not necessarily true. We also have dogs at home. Some dogs need to be taught by their owners to retrieve them, especially hounds. They must be trained to understand some special commands."

"eleven."

Hesta shouted, and Eleven ran over sweating profusely, "What are you doing!"

Hesta used the translator to ask Eleven the question he just asked.

"It's me!" Eleven said, "I trained you! It's super easy!"

On the 11th, I started to share my experience loudly to the translator. For example, you should throw things in a narrow place at the beginning, so that the dog has nowhere to go after picking up the things and can only come back to you. For example, you should grab a handful of food in your hand. In this way, the dog will naturally put down the objects it has brought back in order to eat...

"Once you get used to it, you won't need to feed it!" Eleven shouted excitedly, "Do you know how to reward a dog that brings back a toy!

“You just have to keep throwing the toy harder and farther than before!”