Chapter 1359 I am stupid, but you are even more stupid!
The morning light was like a gold foil sieve, filtering out some clarity from the sky after a sandstorm.
Dingxiang opened her eyes to the smell of disinfectant and morning dew, and finally woke up from several days of slumber.
The green light of the monitor was still flickering on her eyelids, just like the fireflies that had landed on the threshing ground of Lijia Village during the autumn harvest several years ago.
\"Xiang'er?\"
This hoarse call was like a rusty key that suddenly opened the door of her memory.
Dingxiang's pupils, which were originally looking at the azure blue sky outside the window, suddenly trembled. She turned her head away, unable to believe that the scene before her was real!
She blinked her eyes suddenly, then closed them suddenly, and finally rubbed them quickly with the back of her hand.
Then rubbed and rubbed again.
Finally, all eyes focused on the gynecology ward on the second floor of the inpatient department.
Pang Weinong's outline gradually became clear in the morning light.
The collar of his gray polyester shirt was worn to a shine, and his brow bones were still stained with dead poplar fluff from last night. The black hair on his head matched the gray dust.
Only those eyes were frighteningly bright, like a traveler who had walked in the Gobi Desert for three days and suddenly saw an oasis.
\"Weinong? Weinong? You...why are you here?\"
Dingxiang wanted to stand up, but she felt as if her whole body was crushed and painful.
The soles of Pang Weinong's cotton shoes made a harsh sound as they rubbed against the concrete floor. He almost pounced in front of the bed, his gauze-wrapped hands hanging in the air. In the end, he did not dare to touch her arm that was full of tubes.
\"You called the Corps that day and scared me crazy! I know your personality, you would never say such a thing! You are hiding something from me! I went to the Corps to look for the phone directory of Yanjing, I called your brigade, and then called your school. Your roommate said Chu Qiao took you away, so I went to the Union Hospital where she was...\"
His Adam's apple rolled violently, as if he wanted to tell the woman in front of him all his efforts in the past few days in one breath so that he could let her know his feelings.
A bitter smile appeared on Dingxiang's lips, and she suddenly turned her head to look out the window.
The sparrows outside the window were chattering on the electric poles, and seemed to be speaking for Pang Weinong about the difficulties he had been facing recently.
"Look, look!"
As if he knew she was blaming him for coming uninvited, Pang Weinong hurriedly rummaged in his bag and pulled out a glass bottle from the inner pocket, which contained a few light-colored dried flowers.
"This is the wild lilac I picked at the foot of Tianshan Mountain in early spring last year. Look, it's light pink, different from the purple lilac in Yanjing!"
Ding Xiang's eyelashes trembled, and the ripples on the monitor rose and fell.
She remembered that she had mentioned in a letter to Pang Weinong when she just returned to Yanjing: "When I get back to the city, I will go to the Summer Palace to see the peach blossoms on the West Bank. I heard that they are so beautiful that they are blinding. But what I want to see most is actually the lilacs on the Tianshan Mountains and Kunlun Mountains. They can survive in the mountains and must be more dazzling than the lilacs in Yanjing!"
But what caught my eye at this moment were the wild flowers, not much bigger than a fingernail, that this silly boy had brought back after traveling through mountains and rivers.
It turned out that the little wish I had mentioned to him was already in his heart.
even if...
Even though he was about to die this time, he did not forget to bring the petals from thousands of miles away to Yanjing!
\"Fool.\"
After she cursed, a rusty taste rose in her throat, but she still curled the corners of her mouth.
Pang Weinong then picked up the enamel pot from the ground, his eyes red.
When he saw her just now, she was so thin and looked completely different from before, which still gave him a heart-breaking shock.
"I am stupid, but you are even more stupid!"
Pang Weinong placed the small glass bottle with flowers on the bedside with trembling lips, looked at her sideways, and said seriously: "Didn't you say you were going to get married?"
"I……"
Ding Xiang's body trembled.
A pair of footsteps approached. Li Xiangnan, who was standing at the door ready to go in, looked back and quietly closed the door.
"Is Wei Nong here?" Lin Chuqiao stretched her head and took a look inside the ward.
"Yeah!" Li Xiangnan nodded, and Ding's father and mother also nodded, "Ding Xiang just woke up!"
"Then let's...let's wait a while!" Father Ding breathed a sigh of relief.
"Who is your husband?"
In the room, Pang Weinong asked softly.
"..." Dingxiang remained silent, her eyes filled with tears as she looked out the window.
Seeing that she was silent, Pang Weinong gently held her hand.
The thin hand was almost as thin as a dead branch. His grip was heart-wrenching and even more painful. He retracted the strength in his palm, but he did not dodge or evade.
"When I heard Chu Qiao say you were in the hospital, I knew you were lying to me!"
"In the past, you always said that I was timid. I was so timid that when we were in Lijia Village, I didn't dare to hold your hand even when there was no one around! Now I want to hold your hand, but we are thousands of miles apart. I can't even hold your hand!"
"Look, now I have it, and I am getting braver!"
The slender hand in his palm struggled again and again, but finally didn't have the strength to break free from his hand.
"My parents saw it..."
"I'm not afraid! Don't be afraid either!" Pang Weinong shook his hand calmly.
Dingxiang turned her head to look at him, her eyes already filled with tenderness and affection that was beyond words.
Pang Weinong reached out his hand and gently stroked her thin but still pretty face, "Xiang'er, you've lost weight!"
After saying that, he stood up and walked to the door, picked up both bags, and opened first one and then the other.
"Look, this is an apple, an apple from Yixiang! You said you wanted to taste the flavor there in your lifetime, so I brought it specially for you!"
"Weinong! You idiot! Aren't you tired?"
Dingxiang choked with sobs due to heartache, but at this moment, a smile appeared on her face.
"I'll peel one for you!" Pang Weinong took out a big, round apple from his bag, found a fruit knife in the drawer, and started peeling it while sitting on the bed.
"Weinong, I'm sick..."
Looking at this man, his exhausted appearance after a sleepless night, and the sand on his body and hair, which was not sure whether it was from Yanjing or the northern border, all showed the man's true feelings. Dingxiang closed her eyes, not having the heart to hide anything from him anymore.
"I know!" Pang Weinong's eyes were fixed on the apple, not moving away at all.
"It's the kind that can't be cured!" Dingxiang said again.
"I know that too!" Pang Weinong peeled the apple peel bit by bit, very seriously, as if helping Ding Xiang do anything was a hundred times more important than doing his own thing.
"your hands……"
Seeing that his knuckles were wrapped in gauze, Dingxiang reached out and grabbed his arm, feeling extremely distressed.
"I came out of Yixiang and wanted to catch the train, so I had to take a tractor. I got scratched when I got on the car!" Pang Weinong had to admit it.
"Is it iron? It's used to give you a tetanus shot!" Ding Xiang said anxiously.
"No, it's the thorns of the poplar branches..." Pang Weinong grinned and handed the apple over, "You eat it!"
"Okay, thank you!"
Dingxiang took the apple, took a bite carefully, squinted her eyes and savored the fragrance of the apple from thousands of miles away, as if she really saw the young Pang Weinong under the orchard.
"Brother Wei Nong." She suddenly spoke, her voice as light as a feather, "When the wheat turns yellow, can you take me to Tianshan to see the Snow River?"
She is still full of longing for the future and yearning for their future.
Pang Weinong's Adam's apple moved, and he took out an oil-paper bag from his blue cloth bundle. The sour and sweet taste of apricots mixed with the coolness of the snow water from the Tianshan Mountains hit his face.
\"Look, Xiang'er, these dried apricots are soaked in snow water, and they are sweet to the heart. You said they were delicious after you ate them last year, so I brought them again!\"
He broke off half an apricot and fed it to her mouth. The icing stuck to her pale lips, like a layer of rouge. "When you get better, we'll take the green train. I asked someone to buy a map of the whole country and marked the route with a red pen. Not only will you see the Tianshan Mountains, I'll also take you to see the grasslands, the real grasslands, every inch of my hometown. I'll take you to see..."
Drop drop!
Suddenly, a sudden change occurred.
The monitor suddenly issued a shrill alarm, and Li Xiangnan rushed in with a nurse pushing a treatment cart.
Pang Weinong was pushed into the corner, but he held the glass bottle of cloves tightly.
He stood by the window, looking at all the people surrounding the bed, feeling like a helpless child.
He turned his head and looked downstairs.
The clusters of purple-blue lilac flowers grow towards the sun in the wind.
Amidst the shadows, Pang Weinong looked at the girl on the bed and made a silent decision in his heart.