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Chapter 80 Poison Apple

What's there to cry about? Didn't you jump into Snow White? Don't you know that before the prince appeared, Snow White got sick because she ate poisonous apples.

Early the next morning, Ju Nian got up from the inferior folding bed provided by the hospital. After washing up, she called the store and asked for a day off. When she came back, she found Fei Ming was awake.

In fact, Fei Ming did not open his eyes. Ju Nian saw the clues from her eyes that were closed tighter than when she was asleep and her trembling eyelashes. A long time ago, Ju Nian was also a child who pretended to be asleep. When his parents were talking about their soon-to-be-born brother, when her aunt and uncle shouted loudly, she also closed her eyes so hard. The more she hoped that she would be harder to fall asleep. Later, there was a Wu Yu next to her, and the two of them often lay on the grass next to the pomegranate tree. The sun painted an orange-red color in the dark through her closed eyes.

Wu Yu's breathing was even and long. She tried to adjust her breath to the same rhythm as him. She couldn't sleep. Her mind was filled with a faint smell of grass and the breath of the sun shining on the pine branches. Occasionally, fallen leaves hit her face, itchy, but she didn't want to alarm the people around her. She wrinkled her nose and endured it, but she heard Wu Yu's laughter... Han Shu said that Fei Ming was not like her at all, that was natural, but Ju Nian seemed to have seen herself in Fei Ming for a second. After all, she was the child she raised.

She sat down beside the bed and called softly, "Fei Ming, are you awake?"

Fei Ming didn't move at all, but after a few seconds, tears as big as beans flowed down the corners of his closed eyes.

"Are you hungry? My aunt is going to buy you breakfast, what do you want to eat?"

"Don't cry, aren't you feeling uncomfortable?"

"Fei Ming, have you heard your aunt speak?"

Let Ju Nian persuade him, Fei Ming seemed to be unable to do anything else except crying.

"Wait, my aunt calls you a doctor." Ju Nian was helpless and afraid that the child would have any unobserved symptoms, so she stood up.

But Fei Ming burst into sharp crying at this time. She waved her head on the pillow with all her might, but her eyes were still unwilling to open and she shouted: "I don't want a doctor, I don't want a doctor... I'm not sick."

Ju Nian was also a little panicked and rushed to wipe Fei Ming's tears, "Okay, you are not sick, then you can open your eyes and look at your aunt first."

Fei Ming's voice was filled with heavy sobs, "I don't open my eyes. If I open my eyes, the dream I had before would become real. The teacher was urging me to dance... The next program is ours..."

"When you wake up, we are out of the hospital and you can still dance."

"You lied to me, no one asked me to dance anymore. Others saw my strange appearance, and Li Te also saw it..."

She cried so desperately, her hands twisted the bed sheets on both sides, and Ju Nian's heart slowly tightened in the crying of the child. It was not that she didn't understand Fei Ming's sadness, but this blow must be too heavy for a child like Fei Ming to exceed the load.

The nurse came and left. The family members of other patients in the same ward were enthusiastic and helped Ju Nian coax it for a while. They found that there was nothing they could do, so they could only helpless. Ju Nian stopped persuading her, sat aside, watching Fei Ming cry with all her might until she was powerless, and she had no tears to shed, leaving only intermittent sobs. She hated herself at this moment. If she was smarter, she might be able to give Fei Ming more comfort, and she would not be able to do anything like she is now.

The doctor also came in and told Fei Ming to take a CT scan several times, but Fei Ming's condition was not a good time to observe. Ju Nian was helpless and spent a while. Han Shu blew in like a gust of wind. Without saying a word, he opened a box in his hand and filled the entire bedside table with messy gadgets.

I guess he also noticed Fei Ming's bad appearance. Han Shu gave Ju Nian a questioning look, and Ju Nian lowered her head.

Han Shu cleared her throat and sat beside Fei Ming, "Little beauty, see what I brought you."

What no one expected was that Fei Ming heard his close voice, sat up in shock, hugged him, and started crying again while calling "Uncle Han Shu". Han Shu glanced at Ju Nian, and quickly patted Fei Ming's back and coaxed him, "What's the matter worth being so sad? His face was wrinkled. How ugly... Stop crying, his snot was rubbing against my shirt. How can Uncle Han Shu go to work later?"

Fei Ming didn't care, he would do whatever he should do, "I can't go to school again, everyone else saw it."

"What did you see?" Han Shu asked deliberately and lightly.

Fei Ming refused to answer, but he cried even more sadly.

"Oh... you mean what happened last night, I heard about it." Han Shu elongated his tone, blinked at Ju Nian, and said to Fei Ming, "What's the point of crying about this? Didn't you jump into Snow White? Don't you know that before the prince appeared, Snow White got sick like this."

"I...I didn't eat apples..." Fei Ming said intermittently.

"You ate a long time ago, it's just chronic." Han Shu rubbed Fei Ming's hair, "No one laughed at you. When I rushed there, my classmates were very concerned about you. What was the name of the boy you mentioned last time..."

"Li Te." Ju Nian hurriedly reminded.

"Yes, Li Te, he was so anxious that he looked like a little old man..."

"You're talking nonsense!" Fei Ming protested.

Han Shu laughed, "Look, the prince will definitely not laugh at Snow White. Those who can laugh at them are all witches. Hurry up, see what Uncle Han Shu brought to you. I specially sent it to you and I have to go to work soon."

Although Ju Nian couldn't believe it, Fei Ming slowly opened his eyes as Han Shu coaxed and deceived Han Shu slowly opened his eyes, picked up one of the Winnie bears with one hand, and looked at it while sucking his nose.

Seeing this, Ju Nian quickly went out to contact the doctor for the next examination, leaving Han Shu and Fei Ming talking. When she came back, Han Shu was already standing outside the ward with a briefcase on her back.

Ju Nian still felt embarrassed, but Han Shu's appearance helped her a favor, which has to be admitted. Putting aside the past, as far as she is concerned, it doesn't make sense that she ignores him.

"Are you... rushing to go to work? You're going to be late."

Han Shu nodded, "There is an important meeting today to be held."

"Then...goodbye."

"You seem to be more anxious than me." Han Shu said with a smile.

Ju Nian couldn't smile and curled her lips far-fetchedly, "I'm going in, I'll accompany Fei Ming to do CT later."

"If you have any results, you must tell me. I'm really late." After Han Shu said that, he glanced at Ju Nian holding a cup of soy milk in one hand and putting a straw in it. Before she could react, she grabbed it and muttered, "I'm starving to death, I haven't even eaten breakfast!"

Ju Nian suddenly petrified. Looking at his empty hands, he seemed reluctant to say: "This cup..."

Although he knew that there would be no obvious reaction with her temper, Han Shu took a step back and shook the soy milk that had only half a cup left. He took a sip of the raw rice like a cooked rice. Then, looking at Ju Nian's eyes wide open, he felt very happy.

"Xie Juinian, just a cup of soy milk. You are not so stingy, are you?" Han Shu was still behaved when he got the bargain.

"The problem is... the problem is..." When Ju Nian was anxious, her mouth became stupid, which was no faster than Han Shu's rogue and slut.

He snatched the white snatch and said, "What's the problem? I don't mind drinking it. Why are you nervous? Do you have an infectious disease?"

Han Shu walked while drinking, Ju Nian's face turned red. Seeing someone coming, she said carefully: "I'm not sick, but the child's grandmother in the bed next door caught a cold."

Han Shu was stunned for a moment, not keeping up with Ju Nian's jumping thinking speed until he saw the old lady walking towards them from afar, with a familiar face, holding a kettle in both hands, and a bag of buns hooked on one of his fingers. He seemed to have suddenly learned a terrible truth, and looked at the cup of soy milk again, with a weird expression, as if he wanted to say something, but was interrupted by a disgusting expression, and then quickly disappeared from Ju Nian's sight.

Ju Nian had no choice. Seeing the old lady approaching, she greeted her, helped her take a kettle, and casually weaved a reason for the disappearance of soy milk. The old lady generously forgave her.

It was almost eleven o'clock, Ping Feng came to see Fei Ming again. Her makeup on her face had not been taken off completely, and her eyes were blue. She thought she had just returned from get off work. When she arrived, Fei Ming had just finished all the examinations and fell asleep again tiredly. She was still holding a Winnie bear in her hand. Ju Nian was looking down at the serials in the newspaper. When she heard Ping Feng's footsteps, she raised her head and smiled.

Ping Feng gently moved a stool and sat beside Ju Nian, looked at Fei Ming, "No big problem, this child is also very pitiful."

Ju Nian put the newspaper on her knees and nodded, "The doctor said that when the examination results come out, there is nothing to do and you will be discharged tomorrow."

"I feel much more at ease when you look like this. As a child, who doesn't have any troubles or difficulties?" Ping Feng said, taking out an old envelope from his bag and stuffing it under Ju Nian's newspaper.

Ju Nian opened it a little and was surprised, "Where do you get so many?"

Ping Feng picked up an apple she brought and peeled it, "It's all for you. It's not for you, it's for you. Did you forget what happened last time?" She refers to the time when she broke her leg. Ju Nian later paid the five thousand dollars that "blacklisted" Tang Ye for her.

Ju Nian lowered her voice, "I'm asking where you got so many?"

Pingfeng knows a little about lifestyle. The money is not easy. Pingfeng's family is burdened. Sometimes it is more comfortable. In addition to subsidizing her younger siblings who look down on her, she buys all kinds of clothes and skin care products for herself. She has the attitude of not giving up until she spends her last penny. She never saves anything. After emptiing it, she will earn a round day and night. It is really urgent. She often asks Ju Nian to borrow from fifty or one hundred. In Pingfeng's own words, being a monk and hitting a bell for one day is short, so who can care about tomorrow's affairs?

Ping Feng lowered her head and smiled, "You really don't believe that I will meet a big fish with 'stupid people and a lot of money'? The money has come easily recently... In short, you take this money, and you are using it now. Seeing that the child has a white face like a wall, I will buy her some delicious food after she is discharged from the hospital."

Ju Nian didn't refuse, and took out part from the envelope, put it in her pocket, and stuffed the rest back into Pingfeng's hand. "You should save some of it yourself, we are not young anymore... Especially you, you have to have some self-defense money. Fei Ming is in poor health now, and I can't help with anything." Seeing that Pingfeng didn't answer, she simply put it directly into Pingfeng's unpicked bag, "You are right to say that you are having fun in time, but as long as you have a breath, there will always be a tomorrow, and there is nothing you can do about it."

Ping Feng listened silently, saw a bunch of gadgets on Fei Ming's bed, changed the topic, and smiled and gently kicked Ju Nian with his feet, "Is it someone given it?"

Ju Nian smiled and refused to answer.

Ping Feng said, "I really can't see his serious appearance, and I still know how to buy this." Seeing that Ju Nian still had no reaction, she continued, "Don't pretend to be stupid. I saw him yesterday, but I didn't expect you to keep in touch with me. Otherwise, he could be so coincidental that the child would come over when he was sick? I think he would be good."

Ju Nian realized that she was talking about Tang Ye and smiled and said, "Don't talk nonsense, others..." She stopped, of course she couldn't say it. Tang Ye liked men, or, he said that he "liked men", although this was no different for Ju Nian.

"What's wrong with others? You said." Ping Feng didn't let it go so easily, "Can't you say it. I said why did you look bad when you first came? You were thinking about him? To be honest, yesterday I found that his eyes looked at you differently, that kind of eyes of men looking at women..."

Ju Nian quickly "shushed" and smiled and stopped Ping Feng's more excited momentum from speaking, "Please, this is pediatrics."

Ping Feng calmed down a little, and his voice was to the lowest point, but he still insisted on saying: "Sometimes I think you have become an immortal, and you have no desires. Then again, it would be fine if you really did that, you would become a lump of wood and you don't have to worry about anything, but can you really do that? If you want to eat grains and grains while living, you are inevitably mundane. Take the present for example. You are alone with a sick child, and you dare to say that it is not bitter at all? The facts are obvious, why don't you have money? You always say that I don't plan for the future. I think you are talking about yourself... Ju Nian, after all, you are different from me. I don't plan because I have no choice, but you still have..."

"Is that true?" Ju Nian smiled and Ping Feng preached to her. The feeling was a bit weird.

"Why isn't it? I can't tell you the big truth, but everyone understands some things. To put it bluntly, women should have a man. Someone is holding him when he sleeps, and some people lean on him when he is unlucky. It's that simple. What's wrong with that person surnamed Tang? How many little money do you have, look good and not bad. The most important thing is that people who are a little bit like that to you. You know, we have all been in it. It's not easy to find a good man, and they are innocent. Who can find someone who is released after sentence? Do you think he is Jesus? By the way, does he know that you have been in it?"

"Who?" Ju Nian was stunned, "Oh... I told him."

"Then what else do you want? I said, Ju Nian, you burned high incense in your previous life. Listen to me, don't be stupid. Even if you live a normal life for this child, you will not have this store after you pass this village. If someone asks me what kind of thing I want, I only ask for one thing, and give me someone who doesn't care about my past and has nothing to do with my past."

"I don't care about my past, it has nothing to do with my past?" Ju Nian repeated mechanically.

Although the two of them were speechless, they still alarmed Fei Ming on the bed. Fei Ming moved, opened his eyes in a daze, and asked, "Is Uncle Han Shu gone?"

Ju Nian hurriedly said, "Aunt Pingfeng is here to see you."

Pingfeng handed Fei Ming a peeled apple. Fei Ming glanced at her and did not reach out to pick it up.

"I'm still thinking about your poisonous apple?" Ju Nian quickly took it over, and smiled at Ping Feng, "This child really blamed the disease on the apple."

Pingfeng didn't say anything, and stood up and hung her backpack on her shoulders, "It's time for me to go back and have a sleep."

Ju Nian sent Pingfeng out, but Fei Ming did not say goodbye to Pingfeng. This is not the first time she is so cold to "Aunt Pingfeng". Since she indirectly learned the starting point of the aunt and aunt's understanding, this attitude has not changed. No matter how Ju Nian blames or persuades her, it is useless.

Perhaps for Fei Ming, Ju Nian was her aunt, and she had no choice, so she had to ignore the fact that her aunt was once a prisoner and loved her, but Ping Feng was an outsider, an outsider who could not bear the past.

Sometimes Ju Nian doesn't know how to teach Fei Ming to judge good and evil. The child does not understand the things that are too complicated. Even if she grows up, she may not be able to understand. This may have nothing to do with age. The judgment standards of this world are like this. She does not know whether to feel sad or glad for the increasingly distinct concepts of right and wrong of the children. But no matter what, Fei Ming has always had a good life. Unlike her, she has lived in chaos gray for half her life. She fell in love with the son of a murderer, was loved by a boy who might have committed rape, was imprisoned for robbery and shelter, adopted a child of unknown origin, and became friends with a prostitute. Finally, a man said that maybe he could give her a new life, but he ended up being a homosexual. Ju Nian thought about how talented the god who dominated her fate was to direct this crazy humorous drama.

In the afternoon, Fei Ming repeatedly complained about how nauseating the smell of the disinfectant in the hospital was. Ju Nian slowly began to pack up her things. Fei Ming's physical condition and the cause of the disease were clear. Maybe if she got the examination results from the doctor, she could be discharged from the hospital. After all, this disease cannot be cured by lying in the hospital.

Fei Ming lived in a room with three hospital beds. One of them was empty, and the other was lying with a seriously ill child. He didn't even have the energy to get up, so he could only rely on his grandmother to serve him. The girl was older than Fei Ming, but she developed very slowly. She looked less than ten years old and had very little hair left. Fei Ming didn't dare to look directly at the girl. She knew she was afraid of the fragility of life, so she had to keep asking Ju Nian for information about her discharge.

"Aunt, when will we leave?"

"Will Uncle Han Shu come to pick me up?"

"When we are discharged from the hospital later, remember to take the things that Uncle Han Shu gave me."

...

Finally, as the doctor got off work, a nurse came in and asked Ju Nian to go to the doctor's office. When Ju Nian nodded, Fei Ming's expression seemed to see the dawn.

A few minutes later, Ju Nian sat in the doctor's office. The doctor in charge of Fei Ming was an old man who looked very kind. After asking about Ju Nian's identity and the reasons why Fei Ming's parents failed to arrive, he looked over and over again about Fei Ming's case and examination reports.

Although Ju Nian had been mentally prepared before, the silent atmosphere and the sound of slowly turning the pages still made her feel cramped and uneasy.

"Xie Feiming is your niece... Then, do you still know her physical condition?" After a long time, the doctor finally spoke.

Ju Nian nodded. No matter how hard it is to say it, it is just the word "epileptic". She had already known it from the day she adopted Fei Ming. In the first few years, she had been worried, afraid that this disease, like a time bomb, would attack Fei Ming at any time, but Fei Ming was growing up like a healthy child, but this disease had been lurking for too long, so long that even Ju Nian mistakenly thought it did not exist.

The doctor took a look at Ju Nian, then took out the image of the virtual head from a stack of test reports, and then used the end point of the pen in his hand to look somewhere in the picture.

Only a small white dot was seen in Ju Nian.

The doctor said slowly: "We initially diagnosed that the child had a glioblastoma of about 4cm x 3cm in size in the head of the brain hemisphere."

Ju Nian was silent and looked at the doctor quietly, as if it was difficult to understand what the doctor meant for a while.

"In other words, we think Xie Feiming has a brain tumor, which is likely the root cause of her epilepsy."
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