Chapter 59 Chapter 59 Winter is coming, and the wind is rustling outside the window...
Winter is coming, and the leaves outside the window are rustling in the cold wind.
As the nurse tidied the room, she caught a glimpse of a car driving away outside the window and said with a smile, "Mr. Jin's family is here to pick him up. They're acting very cautiously."
She just wanted to sigh, but she saw the man standing silently by the window change his expression slightly. She didn't know which of his words did not go along with her feelings. When she realized what was going on, there was only a gust of cold wind in the room.
Xu Wen drove a car and sent a room full of patients home. His business in Bincheng required people to come, so he sat for a while and then went back.
Jin Man smiled and offered to see him off. Xu Wen's forehead was covered in sweat. He had to consider the patient's fragile state and be careful not to hurt him. After a long pause, he managed to say, "Okay, I'll carry you on the way."
Jin Man couldn't help laughing.
Zhou Yu couldn't bear to listen any longer, so he handed over the crutch in his hand and said, "Take it and find the way."
Xu Wen was baffled, a mixture of worry and dissatisfaction. How could such a rough-and-tumble guy take such good care of a blind patient? "You know he can't see. What if he falls?"
Zhou Yu didn't take it seriously at all. He was feeling sleepy at noon, and he was annoyed by Xu Wen's nagging. He said impatiently, "He knows this road well. Not only can he not see it, he wouldn't get lost even if he broke both legs."
Xu Wen was furious, muttering all the way. Finally, standing by the canal at the village entrance, he said with deep worry, "I just gave up. It's only half an hour from here to the hospital in town, and the environment is terrible. You injured your eyes, so it's inconvenient to get around. There aren't many blind paths in the countryside. If you fall, or suffer from sequelae... Oh, Jin Man, you should just come back to Bincheng with me."
Jin Man listened intently, then suddenly, leaning on his crutches, lightly leaped forward. Frightened, Xu Wen reached out to grab him, only to see him land right next to the ditch. He didn't seem to be in any way uneasy, but instead said steadily, "Are you still worried? Go back quickly. This is where I grew up. I'll come to Bincheng to see you when I'm better."
Xu Wen sighed in irritation, his mind full of mixed feelings. After a moment, he said, "Jin Man, when you were discharged from the hospital, I saw someone upstairs looking at you."
"Isn't it common for hospitals to be occupied?"
Jin Man said calmly, then laughed again: "Go back early, I'll ask Zhou Yu to send you some food later."
Xu Wen was hurried onto the bus. Before the bus started, he leaned out of the window and gave a few instructions before finally getting to the topic he wanted to talk about the most: "Xiao Man, is it really impossible for you and Lu Yanlin to remarry?"
Ordinary people don’t know how to deal with such a sharp question.
Xu Wen was afraid that he would be angry, and even more afraid that he would misunderstand that he was here to lobby, so his expression was very unnatural.
"Hmm?" The question involved someone else, and Jin Man finally stopped laughing. He didn't answer directly: "Why do you say that?"
Xu Wen weighed his words, speaking awkwardly. "I was careless and got into trouble. I was in a state of panic during that time and thought my life was ruined. But your sister-in-law found the evidence the next day when she opened the door. My connections, which I couldn't get through, suddenly came to me on their own initiative. I was able to get my revoked license back, and the loan sharking that was chasing the debt was also banned. How could such a coincidence happen in the world?"
"After thinking about it, the only one is Lu Yanlin."
"He saved me twice for you. I can't just pretend I don't know."
"If you don't want to remarry, just relax. I will repay the favor myself. Don't let these things make you feel wronged."
Xu Wen was worried that these favors would make things difficult for others, but he didn't know that the person who did these things had never mentioned it to Jin Man, and was even scolded by an angry Alpha in the hospital until he lost his voice. When he left, he only dared to whisper earnestly, "I'm leaving, don't be impulsive."
Jin Man thought of the man's cold black eyebrows and dark eyes, and when he looked at him, he could only feel speechless loss.
Xu Wen noticed Jin Man's silence. His thin face and shoulders reminded him of Jin Man's past happiness. He was filled with an impulse that came from nowhere, and blurted out, "Actually, he might not be such a cold-hearted person. For someone like the Lu family, power-for-sex transactions are probably just a daily occurrence. It's not that you're wrong, or that he's wronged you..."
Jin Man interrupted helplessly: "He didn't cheat."
Xu Wen suddenly fell silent and coughed awkwardly twice. He felt melancholy about his friend's loneliness, but couldn't help but worry about him. He muttered, "Then... why?"
His expression gradually turned worse: "Did he hit you?"
Jin Man's breathing was stagnant for a moment. He couldn't see Xu Wen's expression, and only smelled the cold autumn wind at the tip of his nose. He couldn't tell whether he was crying or laughing. He shook his head: "No."
Before Xu Wen could ask clearly, the car was about to leave. He was very worried and reluctant: "What are you going to do when you're alone in the future?"
Jin Man smiled and waved, then took a half step forward with his crutches: "Goodbye."
Xu Wen did not say goodbye, but tried to look back from the window. The fields receded into the distance, one row after another, without a sound. Occasionally a bird flew by, but soon flew away. The young man slowly disappeared among the hazy mountain shadows and the path, just like his life, full of endless desolation and loneliness.
Jin Man had been away for so long that a lot of weeds had grown in the yard of his home. He fumbled with a sickle to cut them, but was terrified when he cut his hand. He banged his head against the door frame like a headless fly. He couldn't find a tissue or water, so he sat there for a while in distress before he slowly pulled out a handful of wormwood and wiped his hands.
Many inconveniences can only be noticed when you are alone.
Apart from eating, Jin Man spends most of his time sitting at home, waiting for Duoduo to come back from kindergarten.
Such time was of course very boring, but he was like a stone statue that could endure loneliness and never complained to anyone.
Xu Wen said he had found a caregiver for him, but he refused twice. However, Xu Wen didn't even bother to ask for his opinion. He said in a hoarse voice, "The person is already here. They will be at the door in two minutes. I know you are not used to this. You should come with me to Bincheng. Your sister-in-law has prepared the room."
Jin Man had no choice but to stand up, groping for the bamboo pole, and said good-naturedly: "It's so remote here, you..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a clear voice: "Mr. Jin Man."
The caregiver is already here, there is no point in refusing.
Jin Man hung up the phone. He couldn't see, so naturally he couldn't invite him. Fortunately, the other party seemed to understand the situation very well and opened the fence to come in. The green trees in the yard had turned yellow. The young man sitting on the stone bench was chilled by the autumn wind, his cheeks slightly red under the gauze. He stood up and greeted him.
The nurse's voice was very young. He said his surname was He and he had just graduated this year. He had experience as a senior nurse. He brought a lot of health-related things and packed them into two large boxes.
Jin Man listened attentively. He felt a warmth in his calf and subconsciously shrank back. Then he heard the nurse's pleasant voice: "Here and the knee are both bruised."
The process of applying the medicine was not pleasant. Jin Man always wanted to do it on his own. The nurse politely asked: "Can you see how to apply it?"
Jin Man was speechless, looking at the darkness in front of him depressedly, and slowly let go of his hand.
Zhou Yu had brought lunch, having been in charge of the meals for the past month. Seeing a strange man in the yard was quite strange. After Jin Man briefly explained it to him, he nodded and said in a cheeky tone, "Luckily it's not summer, otherwise your caregiver would be wrapped up like a dumpling, and if he got a heat stroke, who would take care of him?"
Jin Man couldn't see it, so he didn't know what a zongzi looked like.
Seeing that someone was taking care of him, Zhou Yu felt relieved and went home to work. Jin Man was the only one left in the yard. He sat on a stool, with his mouth drooping and staring blankly, looking pitiful and bored.
"My hands are dirty."
Jin Man quickly lifted it up and asked, "Where is it dirty?"
His arm tightened slightly and he was pulled forward.
He touched the stone counter and the soap, and felt an unusual greasiness on his wrists and cuffs, perhaps a remnant from the previous meal, a stain no one had noticed. Jin Man's ears flushed red, as if he had become the embarrassment of a dirty child who, caught by the teacher in the office to clean his face, had stained half the basin of water.
He washed his hands haltingly, and before he could say anything, a clean towel covered him. He was wiping and suddenly stopped: "Sorry, please wait a moment."
Jin Man was confused. After a while, he felt a warm towel wrapped around his palms, and then he realized that his hands were probably too cold. There was no difference between the mountain spring water in late autumn and ice cubes.
"Are you hungry?"
Jin Man listened attentively, shook his head and explained, "Thank you, I can do it myself."
He spoke politely, but his arms were tightly protecting the lunch box that Zhou Yu had brought him. He probably couldn't accept being fed by someone else, so even if he tasted the seasoning, he swallowed it without changing his expression.
Jin Man's mouth was filled with a strange bitter taste. After he finished his meal, he didn't have to stumble to clean up as his lunch box was taken away. He also had a cup of warm water and xylitol gel in his hand for rinsing his mouth.
In fact, no one doesn't care about him. He adapts well and is in the mood to joke with others.
But no one was particularly close to him and could notice the inconveniences of blindness.
He had been feeling uncomfortable and unlucky since he became blind. He couldn't find a place to live in the intensive care. He was persuaded to change his clothes without knowing why, and he couldn't even find an excuse to refuse.
The nurse seemed to have also taken a minor in mental health. He said that staying at home was bad for one's mood and could easily lead to pessimism.
Jin Man raised his head and said jokingly, "I'm blind, how could I know that?"
The nurse said nothing for a long time, which made people puzzled. After a while, Jin Man heard a low voice, which seemed unhappy: "He's not blind, he will be fine."
Probably no nurse would want the condition of the patient under his/her care to worsen.
Jin Man scratched his head, took the arm of the nurse and went out. The air, the sound of water, the smell, everything outside the yard was different from those in the yard. The feeling of freedom infected his soul and made him feel happy unconsciously.
He found that he didn't want to go out, but was afraid of bothering others.
The nurse also took Jin Man and spent an afternoon getting him familiar with his yard again to avoid bumping his legs again.
When Zhou Yu brought Jin Duoduo back from school, he happened to see the tightly wrapped nurse carefully picking up the broken porcelain pieces at Jin Man's feet.
He raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes darkening. After a moment, he let go of Jin Duoduo's hand and said lazily, "Jin Man, did Yue Wei call you?"
The two figures in the yard stopped, and a gaze was piercing, so strong that it seemed like an illusion.
Jin Man shook his head in confusion, and the phone rang at the right time.
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