On the 29th day of the New Year, Xuezhu found out that Uncle Meng was hospitalized again.

She went to see Uncle Meng with her parents. Only Aunt Xu was guarding her by the bed, but she did not see Brother Ningning.

"Where is Brother Ningning?"

The girl asked curiously.

This question suddenly silenced the two adults in the ward.

"I don't know." Meng Yunjian said.

Xu Qin had a complicated expression and explained to her husband: "The father and son had a fight that day, and his son went out, and then he didn't know where he went and has not come back yet."

Song Yanping opened her eyes wide in disbelief: "Ning Ning ran away from home?"

"Let him go," Meng Yunjian said weakly, "Anyway, he is too big."

"Are you not your son when you grow up?" Pei Lianyi was excited and didn't care that the patient was lying on the bed in front of him. "It's too late to be born in other people's houses to be favored. Why don't you know how to cherish Lao Meng?!"

“…”

Meng Yunjian didn't say anything.

He never knew how to cherish it.

In fact, he has a very good father and a very good son. God has treated him well.

He was ruined by himself.

As for Meng Yunjian's various behaviors, I used to say that it was because I was not easy to interfere in other people's affairs. Now there is another day when I will be in the New Year, Meng Yuning is alone. This makes Pei Lianyi and his wife really unbearable, and they immediately criticize Lao Meng's all kinds of things.

Xu Qin couldn't hear the two buttons yelling at the patient, and spoke for Lao Meng: "Meng Yuning is not your son, can you say less than a few words? The doctor said Lao Meng needs to rest."

"Xu Qin, don't talk," Song Yanping took a deep breath, too lazy to protect her neighbors, pointed to her nose and said, "You are Ningning's stepmother. When you got married to Lao Meng, I didn't expect you to be good to Ningning. If there is a conflict between the father and son, you don't help you solve it, but you don't care about the big deal. What's your mentality? After you force Ningning away, you two will have another child by yourself, right?"

Xu Qin was at a loss in the face of this straight-forward accusation. She didn't expect that the neighbor who was still playing cards and chatting with her on weekdays would say this to her now.

"I'm too lazy to tell you that when Ningning is found, I will take him to Grandpa Xiaozhu's house for the New Year. You don't have to worry about it anymore. Lao Meng, please take care of yourself first."

Song Yanping put down the fruit basket and said to her husband and daughter: "Let's go."

The family left the ward.

"Xiao Zhu," Pei Lianyi asked his daughter, "Do you know where your brother might go?"

Xuezhu shook her head: "I don't know."

"Why."

Pei Lianyi and his wife sighed at the same time.

They were still quarreling before they got the news that Lao Meng was hospitalized, but now they were worried that Ning Ning would not be able to continue the argument.

"Are you Meng Yunjian's family?"

When the family of three was frowning, the doctor stood in front of them with medical records at some point.

Pei Lianyi calmed down and said, "No, we are his neighbors, and his wife is in the ward."

"Oh, what about his children?"

"...I haven't come over if I have something to do, what's wrong?"

"Then please inform his children to come to the hospital. Meng Yunjian's condition is not very good." said the doctor.

Song Yanping felt a thrill in her heart: "What does it mean?"

"The lung cancer is in the late stage, and the tumor has symptoms of pleural expansion, and it has been metastasized to multiple organs throughout the body. He had already undergone an excision surgery in the early stages, so he was asked to pay more attention to his body. It is not that the tumor can be cured 100% after it is removed," the doctor said this and looked very angry. "Why are you almost fifty people not even understanding this."

Pei Lianyi and his wife were hard to say for a moment.

Later, the doctor told Meng Yunjian the situation truthfully.

Xu Qin lay in front of the hospital bed and kept cursing, like a shrew, scolding Meng Yunjian, scolding the doctor and the hospital, and cried as she cursed.

On the contrary, Meng Yunjian was much calmer after hearing the news and smiled and said, "Repay."

***

Xuezhu followed her parents home.

Pei Lianyi sat on the sofa and didn't know what to do. He was silent for a long time, and finally took out a cigarette from his pocket to light it.

Song Yanping immediately snatched the cigarette from him: "Is there still smoked! Why did Lao Meng have any illness? Didn't you hear the doctor say in the hospital just now? Do you also want to have lung cancer and even have no life to smoke?"

Pei Lianyi curled up his fingers awkwardly, and finally threw the whole bag of cigarettes on the coffee table, leaning his head against the sofa and not speaking.

Xuezhu didn't say anything, her parents were sitting in the living room in a daze, and she sneaked into the study.

It’s definitely not because she wants to play with the computer, she isn’t so heartless.

Xuezhu thought that his brother would not answer the phone or reply to text messages. Is it possible to contact him using QQ? There are no Uncle Meng and Aunt Xu in his QQ contacts, and maybe he will go online.

When he logged on to QQ, his avatar was gray.

Xuezhu knew that he was often invisible.

He still sent him a message with one percent hope.

【Brother, are you here?】

After not responding for several minutes, Xuezhu thought that she might have thought things too simple.

The gray avatar suddenly jumped.

"Didi--"

It is the message prompt.

She quickly opened the chat box.

【exist】

[Brother, where are you? Can I come to find you?]

No answer for nearly ten minutes.

When I send another message, it is the name of an Internet cafe and there is a request.

【Don't tell them】

Xuezhu knew who Meng Yuning said "they" meant.

【Okay, I'll get off first, I'll come here right away】

【Um】

Without saying a word, she put on her coat and prepared to go out. Before leaving, her mother asked her where she was going, and Xuezhu just said perfunctorily to go to a place.

The street was deserted. As the Chinese New Year approached, many stores had already opened the rolling gates to close. Xuezhu stood at the intersection and waited for a long time. She was anxious and forgot to wear gloves. Her hand was blowing red by the wind. Finally, she called a taxi.

The driver said he would not be on the watch during the Chinese New Year. Xuezhu took out a fifty yuan from his pocket and showed it to him, and said in an anxious tone: "I have money!"

I didn’t care how expensive it was to take a taxi at this time. As soon as I got on the bus, Xuezhu rubbed her hands to keep warm while reporting the name of the Internet cafe.

She kept asking the driver to drive faster and then faster. The driver was helpless, and I wonder why the little girl was so anxious when she went to an Internet cafe.

Are you afraid that you will not have a machine to play if you go too late?

"Little girl, don't go to the Internet cafe, there are a lot of sluts there, it's not safe." The driver kindly reminded.

The more the driver said this, the more Xue Zhu wanted to find Meng Yuning sooner.

When he arrived at the place, Xuezhu stood at the entrance of the Internet cafe. Without time to think about it, she opened the curtain and walked in.

As soon as he entered, he was choked by the smell of cigarettes. Xuezhu covered her nose and coughed a few times.

The boss sitting by the counter glanced at her: "Little sister, have you grown up? I'm not a black Internet cafe here and can't receive you."

"I don't go online, I'll find someone."

"Who are you looking for?"

"Meng Yuning, he is my brother."

The boss looked at her for a long time, and saw that she didn't look like she was here to collect debts and fights, nor was she like a black society looking for trouble. So she checked the registration information for her, then pointed to the box at the end and said, "Your brother opened a box inside."

"Thank you, boss."

Xuezhu hurriedly thanked and ran directly to the private room.

When I opened the door of the private room, I couldn't smell the smoke outside at once. In the clean Internet cafe, Meng Yuning sat in front of the computer to play games.

She didn't know what game he was playing, she only saw that the picture on the computer screen was a bit horrible and bloody. Meng Yuning put his slender fingers on the keyboard and pressed them repeatedly anxiously.

"Brother." Xuezhu called him softly.

Meng Yuning's hand movements on the keyboard stopped and he nodded with his back to her.

Xuezhu walked to him, not knowing what to say at this time. She opened her mouth and brewed for a long time, but didn't say a single word.

One game ends.

Meng Yuning took off his headphones, turned around and looked up at her, and his voice was very soft: "Did you come by by bus?"
To be continued...