"I'll hold you up, and you try to stand up."
Xiao Tangqiu held Meng Xinghe's armpits with both hands and applied a little force.
Meng Xinghe gritted his teeth and struggled to stand up from the wheelchair.
"Stand up! You stood up! That's amazing!"
Faced with Xiao Tangqiu's unprincipled praise, Meng Xinghe looked helpless: "Don't use that tone of coaxing a child, I'm not a child anymore."
"But in my heart, you will always be my little friend," Xiao Tangqiu said with a smile, "Little Meng, you did a great job today too!"
Meng Xinghe smiled helplessly: "Let go, let me stand alone and try."
Xiao Tangqiu nodded and slowly let go of Meng Xinghe's hand.
Meng Xinghe's body suddenly lost support and shook involuntarily for a few times, but he soon gritted his teeth and stood firm, relying on his own perseverance and balance to stand firm.
A minute passed.
Two minutes passed.
Three minutes passed.
By the fifth minute, Meng Xinghe finally began to lose his balance. Big beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, his face turned pale and red, and his breathing became slightly rapid.
Xiao Tangqiu quickly stepped forward and supported Meng Xinghe: "Didn't I tell you to stop if you can't stand still? Don't force it!"
Meng Xinghe gritted his teeth and said, "I'm not forcing myself. I can still do this... Let go of me and let me continue."
"Don't be so stubborn!" Xiao Tangqiu supported Meng Xinghe without saying anything. "You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry! You can't become fat in one bite! Rehabilitation needs to be done slowly. If you want to do it all at once, your body won't be able to handle it!"
Meng Xinghe pursed his lips: "But..."
"No buts, today is enough," Xiao Tangqiu looked at Meng Xinghe with a firm gaze, "You've made rapid progress recently... Can we continue tomorrow?"
Meng Xinghe looked at Xiao Tangqiu, and finally gave in to Xiao Tangqiu's gaze. He sighed, "Okay..."
Xiao Tangqiu helped Meng Xinghe back to the wheelchair, then squatted down and massaged Meng Xinghe's legs. "Why are you so anxious? Things like this should be done step by step. You've made rapid progress recently. The doctor praised you a few days ago, didn't he?"
Meng Xinghe looked down at the back of Xiao Tangqiu's furry head and sighed softly, "But I want it to be faster... to get back to normal sooner, to be able to walk on my own two legs sooner, to get rid of the wheelchair sooner, so that I won't be a burden to you anymore."
Xiao Tangqiu looked up and glared at Meng Xinghe: "Who are you calling a burden? You are not a burden to me, you are the biggest motivation that keeps me alive... You are my salvation." In the six months after he personally pulled out Meng Xinghe's oxygen tube, although he seemed to have returned to his original life trajectory, and although he seemed to be living a normal life every day, only he knew that he had been living like a program that had been set up by someone in the past six months, and he was executing those steps in a daze every day. In fact, he was just an empty shell of a walking corpse. If it weren't for Meng Xinghe's salvation, perhaps he would have spent his life in a daze in such a bleak and miserable fate.
Meng Xinghe looked at Xiao Tangqiu squatting in front of him, reached out and touched Xiao Tangqiu's hair, and said softly: "During the seven years I lay in the hospital bed, you were my greatest salvation."
After Xiao Tangqiu finished massaging Meng Xinghe's legs, he put his face against Meng Xinghe's legs and asked, "What kind of life did you live during those seven years?" During those seven years, he went from being unable to forget the matter to gradually letting it go and finally deciding to let it go and move on... What was Meng Xinghe going through at that time?
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