Chapter 29: The Wish-Selling Man(2/3)
The other person's surname is Cheng, and there is a smell of medicine permeated, and even the neighbors living in this building dislike it.
The old man often sighs sadly, and he will cry in his tears late at night because of loneliness.
People will hear unheard and sad crying.
But just last night, laughter and joy came from the room where the old man lived.
It turned out that the old man's children were back to visit him.
In the evening yesterday, someone noticed that there was a purple flower on the balcony on the second floor.
It blooms extremely beautifully, and it is the most beautiful moment for a flower.
It was also the old man who was crying every night, who met his children last night.
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These children were raised by the elderly since childhood.
At that time, the old man made some money by going to the heart to test medicine, using the attitude of wanting money but noting life to earn money and pulling these children.
But because of this, there was a smell of medicine that could not be washed away no matter how hard he cleaned it.
He began to gradually become disgusted, but he didn't care.
Because his children finally have money to go to better schools.
He fantasized that life in the future would be beautiful.
If you can't get out of the lung area yourself, but your own children can get out, and your two children will definitely have a future.
That year he was forty and his two children were fifteen years old, and he was about to enter the closed campus.
In a few years, a turning point in life will come.
It was also since then that he had almost never seen his children again.
When the old man asked the reason, the children only said that they were busy with schooling.
The only contact every month is to ask the elderly for money.
Over time, the old man’s longing for them became heavier and heavier.
So one day, when he was forty-two, he went to school to see them.
He will always remember that day when he walked to the door of the classroom.
The middle school students pinched their noses and made disgusting expressions. He brought the candy that the children in the lung area liked. He originally thought the children would be happy after seeing it.
But it is obvious that many things that the elderly like are not liked by children.
"Cheng Bingsheng, who do you think is this person? It smells so smelly, how did he come in."
"He can't be someone's father, right? Hahahaha..."
"Then I have to see who is so unique."
"That's a specialty in the lung area. Do our school still have lung substances?"
Everyone was talking and the atmosphere was joyful.
Cheng Bingsheng's face was strange. He turned his head and followed him with a symbolic smile, without saying anything.
The old man suddenly received a text message. Looking at the content of the text message, he seemed to have become several years older in an instant.
He felt the disgust of people around him, the despise and disgust between the lines of text messages...
Suddenly I felt that the bag of candy in my hand was very heavy.
He saw his child and the child's dodging eyes.
In the end, he did not choose to talk to the child and left silently.
Since then, although Mr. Cheng still gave money to his children, he no longer hoped that his children would come back to see him.
Further down...
His health is getting worse day by day, and his contact with his children is getting less and less.
The last time he called, his daughter Cheng Bingyi just said: It's very busy, don't call me, I'm really busy.
Then hung up the phone.
The old man was lost and lost as he listened to the busy voice after the phone hung up.
After all, like many lonely patients, he could only wait to die in a low building.
Originally, he thought that he would die in a low building, with no one caring about his body odor of medicine.
But unexpectedly, he met a girl in a purple skirt.
He held the flower and made a wish that he didn't believe would come true.
Then... a miracle happened.
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In the low buildings on Tuberculosis Street, these old communities, young people from the liver area are reluctant to touch them.
But today, it is rare for Cheng Bingsheng and Cheng BingDoctor Brother and sister to return to the place where they often played when they were young.
The old man's house was very lively. When he saw his children come back, tears were hanging on his shriveled face.
The two children were also very excited and kept apologizing to the old man, saying that they were ignorant before and should not forget their roots.
Everything seems to be getting better.
They have clearly lived a relatively refined life in the liver area, and even the patients they come into contact with are the kind that looks no different from normal people.
If it were the old man who smelled of medicine, they would only cover their noses with disgust.
But today not.
Cheng Bingsheng and Cheng Bingyi ate the clean water cooked by the old man and told their experiences in the liver area over the years.
Cheng Bingsheng has already gained a foothold in the company, and the disease has entered the incubation period. Once it is incubated, promotion and salary increase are just around the corner.
Cheng Bingyi also made a rich boyfriend. The other party was weak and sickly. Although the disease had not been hatched yet, it could be hatched at any time.
When the old man listened to this, he felt like all the depression that had been over the past decade had turned into nutrients.
Then those futures that you dare not expect... suddenly bloomed and a flower bloomed.
This night, the family was in a state of joy. Listening to the laughter of their children and the elderly, many neighbors were envious.
No one noticed...
The flower on the balcony began to wither in just a few hours after it bloomed.
The purple petals slowly turn black and then leave the flower body.
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late at night.
Cheng Bingsheng beat the floor.
Cheng Bingyi covered her with a layer of worn-out blanket and slept on the sofa.
The old man lying on the bed is dreaming of happiness.
Cheng Bing, who was originally asleep, blew down his last petal with the cold wind...
They suddenly woke up.
"Vomit... what's the smell? It smells so bad!" Cheng Bingsheng frowned.
He was surprised, of course he remembered what happened.
But I never thought that I would have wanted to come back and take a look.
"Ah!" Cheng Bingyi screamed.
The cockroaches in the old building reminded her of her childhood nightmare.
"Damn old man, will you let me sleep on the ground?"
Cheng Bingyi turned on the light and stared at the old man in disgust.
The old man who was woken up looked at the expressions on the two of them... suddenly had a bad premonition.
"I still have a job tomorrow. Can you stop bothering us all the time? What if the stench on your body affects my hatching?" Cheng Bingsheng seemed to have become a different person.
His attitude is completely different from that during the day. Or is this the real Cheng Dysfunction?
Cheng Bingyi is also:
"I don't expect you to give me any dowry when I get married, but you call me back at this time. Wouldn't this hurt me? Speaking of which, I would actually agree to come back. It's a damn thing."
"If my boyfriend knew that I had grown up in such a place since I was a child, he would think I was not clean!"
"vomit……"
To be continued...