Chapter 108 Chapter 108 He already has enough capital...
Gu Xingshuang soothed him, "Don't worry, calm down first. Are you driving or walking? If you are driving, turn on the hazard lights and take out the warning signs. If you are not driving, ask people around to help you to avoid causing secondary injuries."
The father had lost his mind. He had no idea what he should do or what he could do. After hearing Gu Xingshuang's instructions, he finally found his backbone. He nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay."
He seemed to be talking to someone, and then he answered the phone again after a while: "I asked him to put up the sign."
Gu Xingshuang judged that her father should be talking about the driver who hit Xiaoye.
Gu Xingshuang: "Have you called 120?"
Father: “Yes, I beat him.”
Gu Xingshuang comforted her: "The ambulance is on the way and will be here soon."
"Don't move him. Wait for the ambulance to come and let the medical staff come."
Gu Xingshuang was not sure either, because the ambulance sometimes arrived quickly and sometimes arrived slowly.
But that was all he could tell his father.
The father wiped his tears and said, "Okay, okay, I won't touch him."
Gu Xingshuang: "Have you called the police?"
Father: “Yes, I have reported it.”
Then there is nothing that can be done.
Gu Xingshuang didn't know what to say.
My father showed no intention of hanging up the phone.
Gu Xingshuang knew that his father was in a panic and needed him to say something to help divert his attention.
So instead of hanging up, he chose to continue talking to him.
He thought for a moment and asked, "Did you have the accident on the way to pick him up from school?"
The father found someone to talk to, and cried as he said, "Yes, yes, it's all my fault. He insisted on coming down to buy snacks, and I was afraid that the traffic police would deduct points for parking the car on the side of the road, so I let him come down to buy it himself."
"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have let him go alone..."
Gu Xingshuang interrupted him to prevent him from being immersed in self-blame: "Are you still near the school?"
Father: "No... no more. He drove a long way away."
Gu Xingshuang breathed a sigh of relief. If it was near the school, it would be the rush hour after get off work and school, and there would be a large flow of people, and the ambulance might not be able to get in.
Gu Xingshuang: "Are there many people around?"
Father: “Not much, not much, much…” He stuttered a few words, seeming confused.
Then he finally managed to organize his thoughts and answered again: "There weren't many people at first, but now many, many people come to see it."
Gu Xingshuang said patiently: "Please disperse the crowd. Don't let them surround us. This will make it easier for the medical staff to save people later."
My father went to evacuate the crowd again. After a while, he picked up his cell phone. His voice was obviously much calmer than before, but his sobs could still be heard.
His calmness was just an appearance. In fact, his emotions were on the verge of collapse and he could fall at any time.
Gu Xingshuang asked him about the address where the car accident happened, and his father answered all the questions one by one.
He judged in his mind that with this address, there was a high probability that the patient was sent to their hospital.
And it’s not far away.
He looked at Shen Dongzhi, and Shen Dongzhi nodded at him.
There was no need for Gu Xingshuang to say more. He had already guessed what had happened just by listening to what Gu Xingshuang said.
He asked quietly, "Come to our hospital?"
Gu Xingshuang made the sound of "should" with her mouth.
Shen Dongzhi: "Then go to the emergency room and wait."
Shen Dongzhi didn't know the situation in their family, and was worried that Gu Xingshuang would be in a bad mood, so she looked at him twice with some concern.
Gu Xingshuang nodded.
He spoke a few more words to his father, but there was actually nothing more to say. In the end, he couldn't bear to hang up the phone. When he changed his clothes and walked to the emergency room, he finally heard the sound of an ambulance siren over the phone.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
Gu Xingshuang had never spoken so much to his father before. It seemed that he spoke more to his father today than in all the previous times combined.
"The ambulance is here." My father said and hung up the phone.
Gu Xingshuang looked at the hung up phone and put it in her pocket.
He didn't have any special feelings, just like when he learned that his brother had been in a car accident, there didn't seem to be much of a ripple in his heart.
He stood at the door of the emergency room, quietly waiting for their arrival.
Gu Xingshuang thought he was very calm and didn't care about the difference in his father's attitude towards him and his brother.
But he was so calm that he forgot to send a message to Ying Yuan.
He stood alone at the door of the emergency room. The person he had been waiting for so long was now about to appear in front of him with his little son.
It was not until Ying Yuan called him that he suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to tell Ying Yuan.
Ying Yuan called at the right time, and his hands were shaking as he picked up the phone.
In fact, he didn't hear clearly what Ying Yuan said, but Ying Yuan's voice gradually brought him back to reality, and the pain that penetrated his heart came over him.
It was a late autumn evening, the earth was already covered with the afterglow of the sunset, and he stood at the door, falling into the dim shadows.
The scattered memories are like monsters lurking in the darkness, awakening from the abyss of consciousness at dusk, scrambling to break through the sealed cage and crawling out hideously.
The flickering white light, the doctor pushing him to run, the endless darkness, and the person who never came.
Amid his gradually collapsing emotions, he barely found a trace of rationality, and he answered Ying Yuan entirely based on instinct.
His self-proclaimed calmness was shattered when he saw the father in tears, looking at his little son covered in blood with nervous fear.
It turns out that his father also experiences grief and fear.
It turns out that after a child has a car accident, his father will also feel heartbroken as if he were being stabbed by a thousand arrows.
But that person was not him.
He was halfway through his call when his father finally noticed him. He seemed to look at him several more times until Gu Xingshuang's eyes met his and she took two steps towards him.
He finally dared to acknowledge that this was his eldest son.
He was like a drowning man who had grabbed a piece of driftwood, and tentatively called out Gu Xingshuang's name loudly.
Gu Xingshuang could only hang up the phone in a hurry and walk forward.
In fact, he didn't know what he could do.
There was nothing he could do.
It's just that his father needed him, so he came.
He followed the emergency doctor, went with them to pay the bill, take X-rays, and listen to the doctor talk about his brother's current condition.
"Depressed skull fracture. No intracranial bleeding is seen. We will go for surgery now. Who among you is the patient's family member?"
Gu Xingshuang asked her father to sign.
My father was in a completely confused state. He followed Gu Xingshuang like a puppet and did whatever Gu Xingshuang asked him to do.
The doctor told him the general situation, and he nodded stiffly, but was unable to understand complete sentences.
He tried to find some words in it that could comfort him, but because his brain was in a mess, he didn't understand anything in the end.
The younger brother was pushed into the operating room. The father burst into tears instantly. He hugged Gu Xingshuang, and his tears soon wet Gu Xingshuang's shoulders. He cried loudly: "Is Xiaoye going to be okay?"
"He's still so young, and he has to go into the operating room and the intensive care unit."
"He lost so much blood, and I listened to you and didn't dare to touch him. He was lying there, his little face was so pale..." As he spoke, he started crying again.
Regret, fear, pain, the underlying color is soft love.
These things he never had, his father now gave to another child without hesitation.
The lights in the operating room were on and the light was a little cold.
Gu Xingshuang blinked, and the dull pain in her heart became numb.
He listened indifferently to his father's chattering. He looked at his father, but because of the height difference and his father's back hunched due to fear, he had to lower his head.
Gu Xingshuang saw the whorl of hair on her father's head. The roots of his hair were white like frost, which were obviously new white hair that had grown after he dyed it.
He didn't know when, the young and tall father in his memory had grown white hair, and he was now taller than his father.
The majestic and stern father looked at her with eyes full of humble pleading, and she longed to get a comforting answer from him.
He looked completely different from the person in his memory.
Gu Xingshuang answered him: "If there is no intracranial hemorrhage, there won't be any major problems. His fracture is not serious, and he can just do surgery to reset it."
The father's eyes suddenly lit up. He had just heard the doctor in the emergency room say something terrible. He even said that Xiaoye would be sent to the intensive care unit. He was terrified.
Father: "Really? But the doctor just said he has to go to the intensive care unit. Isn't that where only people who are in critical condition go?" He didn't understand.
Gu Xingshuang explained: "Ordinary intensive care units are not that scary. You are talking about ICU. The two are different."
"Generally, only patients with stable conditions will go there for severe cases."
The father instantly lost his strength and felt relieved: "Okay, okay, that's good."
The relieved father released the last bit of his strength and leaned against the wall, barely supporting his body and preventing himself from sliding down.
Gu Xingshuang reminded him: "Have you called your family? They should be worried."
The father woke up as if from a dream: "Yes, yes, I'll make a phone call."
After he said that, he walked aside and called his wife.
Gu Xingshuang stared at his back in a daze for a while. He felt that the father he was looking at was not the father he knew, and was different from the image in his memory.
The man in front of me takes care of his family and loves his children, just like thousands of ordinary fathers.
He once stubbornly believed that he had learned to love himself, and he wanted to live a decent and happy life, so that when his father and mother saw him one day, they would not see the miserable him.
He wanted to prove that he could live well on his own.
It was not until Ying Yuan broke into his life that he finally faced his own heart and admitted that he had always been looking forward to the gaze from his parents.
He lived so hard and desperately, just to relieve the resentment in his heart.
But when he saw his father again, he was not as glamorous as he had imagined. Instead, he looked embarrassed and awkward because of his youngest son's accident, and even had to ask him for help.
Gu Xingshuang didn’t think that his father was living a bad life. On the contrary, unknown to him, his father had already started a new life.
Only he is still standing still.
The definition of happiness has never been decency.
"Xingshuang!" A panting voice sounded from behind him. He turned around and saw Ying Yuan running towards him anxiously.
He trotted all the way to him and originally wanted to hug him, but thinking of the current situation, he held back and just raised his hand with restraint and placed it on his shoulder.
Gu Xingshuang's frozen heart melted quietly after seeing Ying Yuan's worried face, and her dark and cramped vision suddenly became clear.
He reached out and held Ying Yuan's hand.
Ying Yuan's hands were as hot as a stove because he had just finished exercising, and Gu Xingshuang's cold hands warmed up instantly.
Ying Yuan was startled: "Why are your hands so cold?"
He quickly wrapped both of Gu Xingshuang's hands and rubbed them to keep him warm.
Ying Yuan leaned very close to him, and this distance made him feel at ease.
Gu Xingshuang let out a very soft sigh.
He didn’t stand still.
He was already moving forward.
Past wounds will never disappear, but fortunately, life is not just about the past, there is also a brand new future.
"Xingshuang." This time it was not Ying Yuan who called him.
He turned his head and saw his father looking at him without error.
He seemed to be frightened by their intimate behavior, and he looked very embarrassed facing Ying Yuan, who was a complete stranger to him.
Gu Xingshuang signaled Ying Yuan to let go.
Ying Yuan pinched his palm, and after making sure it was no longer frighteningly cold, he let go of his hand.
Gu Xingshuang asked her father: "How is it? Did you call?"
My father was stunned for a second. He didn't expect Gu Xingshuang to ask him first instead of introducing Ying Yuan.
At this moment, he suddenly realized that Gu Xingshuang had indeed grown up and became an adult like him. She was no longer the child who looked at him helplessly and was trapped in the family's predicament.
He already has enough capital to support his life.
The father answered subconsciously: "Yes, my wife... Xiaoye's mother will be here soon." He originally wanted to say "my wife", but suddenly realized that it was inappropriate to say this in front of his eldest son, so he quickly changed his words.
Facing Gu Xingshuang who was standing in front of him, he lost the domineering attitude he had on the phone and subconsciously backed down.
Gu Xingshuang replied: "Okay."
He saw his father was looking at Ying Yuan, so he took the initiative to introduce him to him: "This is my boyfriend, Ying Yuan."
Ying Yuan greeted him: "Hello, uncle."
The father didn't expect to meet his eldest son's boyfriend under such circumstances. He had just looked at the two of them and had some guesses, but he didn't dare to confirm. Now that Gu Xingshuang's words confirmed this, he stammered in response: "Oh, hello."
He didn't dare ask Gu Xingshuang to introduce Ying Yuan to him in detail.
Then the atmosphere cooled.
Gu Xingshuang said, "Sit down for a while."
He took Ying Yuan and sat down on the chair next to them. His father hesitated for a while, but finally sat down as well.
Since he learned from Gu Xingshuang that Xiaoye would be fine, he has calmed down a lot and has returned to his normal self.
My father secretly looked at Gu Xingshuang and Ying Yuan several times.
Ying Yuan knew that Gu Xingshuang didn’t have a very good relationship with her family. For a moment, she didn’t know how to maintain her image in front of her boyfriend’s father, so she had to remain silent.
Perhaps it was because he had a new family and experienced the emotions of a normal family. When he suddenly saw his eldest son, the father's overflowing warmth for his younger son was transferred to the eldest son a little, awakening his fatherly love.
It could also be out of guilt for troubling his eldest son today.
Or perhaps, as a middle-aged man, one instinctively feels a little dependence and fear towards a tall and healthy young man, as well as confusion about the social relationships that are unfamiliar to him.
The father got to know his eldest son again.
He put away the sharp edge he had in front of Gu Xingshuang in the past, revealing a bit of the fatigue of a middle-aged man, and seemed much more reserved. He hesitated to speak for several times, and finally mustered up the courage to ask: "Xingshuang, do you want to come to my house during the New Year?"
Gu Xingshuang did not refuse directly, but said: "We'll see when the time comes. If there is a chance, I will come to visit."
This is a very common compliment, but when it comes from Gu Xingshuang's mouth, it sounds quite sincere.
My father had no choice but to answer twice and look elsewhere.
He and Ying Yuan met eyes, and Ying Yuan pursed her lips and nodded at him.
He wanted to laugh, but luckily he realized that laughing was not appropriate in this situation.
The father nodded and quickly retracted his gaze, not knowing how to face his son's boyfriend.
Before he met Gu Xingshuang, if he were allowed to fantasize, he thought he would treat his child's partner like all parents.
It is full of the spirit of a superior and the majesty of a parent.
But now after meeting Gu Xingshuang, he no longer had such thoughts.
Those tricks that ordinary parents use are inappropriate for him to use in front of Gu Xingshuang.
So after that set of procedures, he couldn't think of anything else.
The surroundings became quiet.
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