Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 8

The door of the ward was gently pushed open, and Lin Yidan in a white coat appeared in Liu Zhixin's field of vision.

As if knowing that Liu Zhixin would wake up, Lin Yidan walked to the hospital bed with a relaxed smile, bent down and touched his forehead with his hand, his soft eyes approached his eyes with warmth, and asked softly: "Are you awake? "

Liu Zhixin's heart felt hot, it's good to be alive!Can see the loved ones most want to see.A few tears flowed down from the corners of his eyes unconsciously, his lips were trembling but he couldn't speak.

Lin Yidan took out a handkerchief and wiped Liu Zhixin's tears away, smiling: "Okay, okay, it's okay. A man has gone through a life-and-death test, so he should become stronger."

Liu Zhixin licked her chapped lips and said, "Hearing your voice, I know I can't die."

Lin Yidan carefully checked Liu Zhixin's chest with a stethoscope, nodded with satisfaction and said, "You are in good health and recovered quickly, you can walk around and eat today."

After the infusion, Lin Yidan removed Liu Zhixin's urinary catheter himself, and helped him walk around on the ground, exercising his muscles and bones.Liu Zhixin felt weak, his hair was still a little dizzy and his legs were fluttering. He pushed Lin Yidan's hand away, leaned on the wall by himself, and walked out slowly step by step.

Lin Yidan said: "You can't go out to meet the wind yet."

Liu Zhixin said, "I want to pee."

Lin Yidan stepped forward to put Liu Zhixin's arms back together and said, "I'll help you go."

Liu Zhixin said embarrassingly: "I can do it myself, it's not good for others to see."

"I'm a doctor, and you're the wounded." Lin Yidan insisted, "Didn't I clean up the muddy water all over your body? I was afraid that the nurse was not skilled, so I personally inserted the catheter for you in front of a doctor. , you have nothing to hide."

"Did it scare you then?"

"At that time, I didn't care about the fear, I just wanted to save you. When you were sent to the hospital, you were not breathing or your heart was beating. I gave you artificial respiration with CPR and gave you a booster, and you were relieved. More than that I was frightened, and after you recovered my heartbeat, I started to be afraid, and I was scared to death by you."

Liu Zhixin grinned feebly.

With the help of Lin Yidan, Liu Zhixin successfully urinated for the first time when he returned to the world.After returning to the hospital bed and lying down, Lin Yidan asked Liu Zhixin, "Do you want to inform your family?"

Liu Zhixin shook his head and said, "No need, lest the family members be worried."

At noon, Lin Yidan served noodles with chicken soup and sent them to the hospital in a lunch box, watching Liu Zhixin finish eating.Tell him to take a nap to recover his strength, and she also has to find a place to take a nap as soon as possible.

After Lin Yidan left, the nurse told Liu Zhixin that Dr. Lin was exhausted these past few days, and she kept watch over him during the day and night without much sleep.

Liu Zhixin lay sideways on the bed and looked out the window, not feeling sleepy at all.The noon sun shines on the hospital bed through the window, and he bathes in the warm sunlight, feeling the vitality of life gradually revived in his body, and his thoughts are complicated.

It's been ten years since I met Lin Yidan by accident. The time is neither too long nor too short, but it is enough to make youth fade away and enter middle age.

On the way from the station to the mining area, he saw a woman walking with her luggage on her back.

He didn't want to meddle in other people's business easily, but for some reason that day, when he looked back, he felt a little familiar and uncertain.After looking back again, he hurriedly turned around on his bicycle and came to the woman. He believed that his memory was correct.

As soon as Liu Zhixin got out of the car, the woman asked him, "Master, is this the way to go to the mine?"

Hearing this soft voice, Liu Zhixin became more sure.Classmates for three years, even though they have been separated for more than ten years, some physical characteristics will not change completely with the passage of time.

When she was studying at school, she was generous and generous in her dealings with others. She was handsome and good at learning but she was not arrogant. She never looked down on poor rural students like him.Now she has the elegant temperament of a mature woman, her clothes are elegant and clean, her figure is moderate, her eyes are calm and calm, but there is a trace of sadness on her thin round face.

Liu Zhixin said, "If I remember correctly, you are Lin Yidan."

Lin Yidan opened his slender eyes wide in surprise, looked at Liu Zhixin suspiciously and asked, "How do you know me? You are."

Liu Zhixin reminded Lin Yidan: "Think about the graduation ceremony of high school in [-], with whom did you stand on the podium."

Lin Yidan remembered it, but still couldn't believe it: "Could it be that you are Liu Zhixin? How is it possible, you were short and thin back then, not like now."

Liu Zhixin said: "I work in the mine, as a miner, and I have worked out."

Lin Yidan said: "That's a coincidence. I'm going to the mine to report."

After shaking hands enthusiastically, Liu Zhixin put Lin Yidan's luggage on the back seat of the bicycle, and the two walked and chatted like old friends for many years.

Lin Yidan told Liu Zhixin that when he was in high school, his classmates wondered why he was alone.I found out from the teacher later that something happened in his family, and they felt sorry for him.

After graduating from high school, she and Yue Zifan were admitted to the medical school together. After graduating from university, they were assigned to the hospital directly under the Bincheng City and got married naturally.

In order not to hurt her and their daughter, Yue Zifan proposed a divorce in prison. After much deliberation, she agreed and divorced her husband to draw a clear line.

Liu Zhixin sighed and asked, "Where is Yue Zifan locked up? I'll go and see him."

Lin Yidan said: "I can't see him anymore. I was locked up in the city prison at first, and I was able to see him a few times to deliver some food. Later, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, and it is said that he was sent to the Great Northwest for labor reform."

Liu Zhixin felt infinitely moved in his heart, the top three in the [-]nd Senior Primary School Graduation Examination of No. [-] Middle School all fell into such a situation.

Liu Zhixin accompanied Lin Yidan to report to the mine hospital.The mine hospital temporarily arranged for Lin Yidan to be a nurse, and arranged for her a separate room next to the administrator's office in the mine worker's dormitory, just one room away from Liu Zhixin's dormitory.

After everything was arranged properly, Liu Zhixin took Lin Yidan to a small restaurant run by the big group for dinner, to cleanse her up.

There is no wine, the meals are simple, and there are not many customers, which is very suitable for conversation.Liu Zhixin briefly introduced the situation in the mine to Lin Yidan, and he tried to talk about some light topics, so that Lin Yidan could get rid of his sadness and settle down.

Because Lin Yidan met an old classmate by accident, he felt that he was not so lonely with support, and his frustrated mood improved greatly.

Lin Yidan told Liu Zhixin that in fact there is still a relationship between them. Liu Zhixin's mother is Lin Yidan's distant aunt.After Liu Zhixin dropped out of school, she went home and mentioned to her parents how he gave up his studies due to family changes, and her father immediately matched up after hearing this.

Her father had attended his father's funeral and learned about his family's situation. Only then did she know that there was another layer of relationship between the two of their classmates.

Lin Yidan asked Liu Zhixin: "I also know some old things about your mother when she was young. Of course I heard it from the previous generation. Do you want to hear it?"

Liu Zhixin was deeply surprised, of course she wanted to know what her mother had refused to tell her about the past, and even more wanted to hear what kind of image her mother was in the eyes of her natal family.

Lin Yidan said: "Your grandma's family used to be in business and lived opposite Hengshan Academy. Your mother often went to help in the shop. Later, your mother secretly helped a poor scholar who couldn't afford a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, lived in poverty and had a pigtail. , Over time, the two established a relationship.

"That poor scholar was rejected by your grandma's house several times. Your mother wanted to elope with that poor scholar, but her family found out, and she was forced to marry the old Liu family who had business dealings with the Lin family, that is, your father.

"The elders say that your mother is beautiful and wise, she is a young lady, and she never dared to imagine that she could do such a bold and reckless thing. You may think, how could I know so clearly. To tell you the truth, my father was in your grandmother's house. I used to work as a clerk in the shop at home, and I am about the same age as your mother, so I know a little bit."

I understood everything, and all my doubts were resolved.Liu Zhixin said: "That poor scholar with pigtails was my first teacher, and everyone in the village called him Mr. Guan. He followed my mother to teach in Liuzi Street, and I knew my mother all my life, but he never crossed the threshold." In their seventies and eighties, they still share the same mind."

Lin Yidan's eyes were burning, and he sighed, "Is there really such a thing? What kind of holy emotion is that!? I thought it was a lot of embellishment."

Liu Zhixin said: "Such emotions may only exist in the pure hearts of their generation. Nowadays, people fight each other against each other, it's too complicated, and all their minds are spent on fighting."

Lin Yidan said: "Yes, Yue Zifan would never have thought that his best friend would betray him."

At the end of the month, the wages were paid, and the two went home together.Lin Yidan has a little girl who is too young to be with her and left to her parents to take care of.In order to save Lin Yidan the fare of traveling by car, Liu Zhixin offered to take her home, but with a detour of more than twenty miles.

In order to avoid gossip, the two called each other cousins ​​in front of outsiders.Even so, don't be too careless, it is still necessary to be a man with your tail between your legs.Lin Yidan walked out of the mining area first, and then Liu Zhixin caught up with him on a bicycle. After making sure that he would not run into any acquaintances, Lin Yidan jumped into the back seat of Liu Zhixin's car.

Ride all the way, and only get off and walk side by side when going uphill.The mining area is located in a remote place, and the car had to make a detour and back up. The route Liu Zhixin took Lin Yidan was a small road, the shortcut he had been familiar with for many years.

Halfway along the road, there was a melon garden of a production team, Liu Zhixin bought some cantaloupe, and the two of them sat under a tree by the roadside, eating cantaloupe, and had a rest.

Lin Yidan ate the yellow-green cantaloupe in his hand, looked around at the strange village, the strange field, the strange earth and stone path, and said in an admiring tone: "It's hard to imagine that you ran away in the middle of the night along this road, risking a lot of money. I walked alone for more than 70 miles in severe cold."

Liu Zhixin said: "Looking back now, I don't know where I got the guts and courage back then."

"I heard everyone call you Liu Xiucai. You have a very good reputation."

"That's the nickname given to me by the old director of our mining workshop. The old director admired me very much. He submitted reports to the mine several times to apply for promotion, and planned to let me work as a workshop statistician. Every time, it was because of family background. The question got stuck and failed to pass."

"Do you feel lost?"

"It doesn't matter how much you want. The old people often say that there are blessings that cannot be enjoyed and hardships that cannot be endured. The miners are simple-minded and honest. They don't have those flowery ways to punish people. The work is heavy and the heart is relaxed."

"Siblings must be beautiful and virtuous."

"Not to mention beautiful, she is a very ordinary rural woman, far worse than you. It is true to say that she is virtuous. A child from a poor family is hard-working and capable, and gets along very well with my mother and younger brother. Basically nothing to worry about.”

After eating and sweating, Liu Zhixin put the leftover cantaloupe into the tool bag hanging on the side of the car beam, and the two of them started on the road again.It didn't take long to ride to the Fuzhou River. There is a cement bridge on the Fuzhou River. After crossing the bridge, [-] miles to the east is Fuzhou City, and [-] miles to the west is Liuzi Street.

Liu Zhixin sent Lin Yidan to Fuzhou City, took out the cantaloupe in the tool bag and gave it to Lin Yidan's little girl, made an appointment to pick her up tomorrow, and turned around to drive home.

Lin Yidan, who suffered a major change in his life, watched Liu Zhixin go away for a long time.She felt relaxed and happy along the way. Cycling on the country dirt road, admiring the idyllic scenery of the mountains and rivers, she could temporarily forget all the troubles and sorrows brought about by the miserable fate.

Liu Zhixin's confident, optimistic and open-minded attitude towards life has also brought her a positive spiritual force, and she is full of longing and hope for life again. She believes that there are no hurdles in this world that she cannot overcome.

After returning to the mine the next day, Lin Yidan bought a bicycle and often went home with Liu Zhixin.Along the way, they released their imprisoned hearts and suppressed laughter without any scruples, flying in the vast expanse of heaven and earth like two birds breaking out of their cages and regaining their freedom.

It takes ten years to go this way.

(End of this chapter)