The man kept bending over, wiping the table. Unconsciously, the man's movements stopped. He seemed to have fallen asleep, and his whole body staggered, almost falling to the ground.
It was only then that Zenin Kiyoshi noticed that the man's body was trembling slightly at this moment. His face was pale, his limbs were cold. In this hot summer, it was not at all the state that a normal healthy person should be in.
However, after staggering a few times, the man supported himself against the wall and still stood up stubbornly. He wiped the table, as if only in this way could he find the direction to live.
And at this moment, the man's cell phone rang. He opened his phone, and on it was a text message from his wife.
"Darling, the queue at the hospital is a bit long today. I might be back a little later. Can you cook for yourself?"
Below this text message was a picture. It was a photo of almost all the patients with haggard faces. His wife was standing at the back, and in front of her were一个个 patients queuing up to get a number.
Looking at the text on it, the man was silent for a while, then he typed with some difficulty and clicked send:
"I'm sorry, Kyoko, for making you queue at the hospital alone. It must have been hard. I'll make dinner and wait for you to come back to eat together."
The scene changed, and Zenin Kiyoshi came to the hospital where the woman was. She was standing at the back at this moment, about 1.55 meters tall, and looked to be no more than 80 pounds. She was so thin and small, standing in the crowd, like a small boat that could be swallowed up at any time.
But for some reason, Zenin Kiyoshi could feel a huge force from that thin and small back.
It was a kind of unspeakable power that he had never seen in any sorcerer.
She looked at the text message on her phone, a smile on her face. Just as she was about to type a reply, the other party's message came again.
"Kyoko, let's give up the treatment. You're already in the late stage, and it can't be cured. Instead of us ending up with nothing, why don't we just end it now..."
Looking at the message that came, Zenin Kiyoshi felt a little angry in his heart. He didn't know where this emotion came from. Perhaps it was anger based on the most basic moral values of a normal human being.
People always hope that beautiful things can be taken care of, but this world often doesn't do that.
The woman looked at the message on her phone, and the smile on her face froze.
Zenin Kiyoshi originally thought that the woman would break down, cry her heart out, and call back to curse the man regardless of everything. But what happened next was something that Zenin Kiyoshi would never forget in his life.
The thin and gaunt woman stared at the phone screen for a few seconds, and then the smile that had not completely disappeared on her face became even brighter.
She used her index finger to type the two words "okay, okay" on the keyboard with some difficulty.
But just as she was about to send it, she suddenly thought that if there were only two words, "okay, okay," it would seem like she was having a tantrum.
So, the woman found a cute panda emoji online, then typed two "okay, okay" on it and clicked the send button.
After sending those two words, the woman let out a long sigh of relief. She looked at the many patients in front of her, and for some reason, she suddenly smiled.
She smiled without making a sound. Lu Shi didn't know how to describe that expression.
Relief, reluctance, nostalgia, open-mindedness... At that moment, the expression on the woman's face made Zenin Kiyoshi's heart pound heavily.
And before Zenin Kiyoshi could continue to think about anything, his perspective changed again. He returned to that basement once again.
For the man who wanted to watch his wife die, Zenin Kiyoshi naturally would not have any good feelings for this guy. But at this moment, the man's crying suddenly attracted Zenin Kiyoshi's attention.
He turned his head and saw that the man was currently looking down at his phone, and one by one, large teardrops were falling from his eyes. The man's crying was very quiet, but it was very penetrating. The sound of whimpering was stuck in his throat by life, and not a bit could be revealed.
Tears fell on the phone screen, wetting the cute panda picture his wife had sent, and distorting everything in front of the man. He whimpered almost silently, but it was like a blunt knife cutting his heart and lungs.
And at this moment, the man began to cough violently, but he didn't care about those things at all. He just dragged his heavy body and cleaned the house bit by bit.
He knew Kyoko's character. If there was still work to be done at home, she would definitely rush to do it. She would definitely want to accompany him more in the end of her life and give him all the love that she couldn't give him in the second half of her life.
But... wasn't he the same?
Zenin Kiyoshi looked at the man who was trembling all over but still tidying up various things at home, at the two confirmed diagnosis reports from the hospital and a diary. Zenin Kiyoshi was silent.
The diary was not finished yet, and the general content on it was not much:
"February 17, 2000, cloudy. It has been three months since Kyoko and I were diagnosed with cancer. The situation is deteriorating very quickly, and our money is simply not enough. I calculated that if we continue like this, we will both die. So, I hid it from Kyoko and secretly stopped my own treatment.
I know that Kyoko will definitely be furious when she finds out about this later, and she will definitely cry a lot. But I am such a selfish person. I will tell Kyoko that when I confirmed our relationship, I already said that I would definitely die before Kyoko, because death is the end of everything, and the living have to endure a lifetime of dampness.
March 14, 2000, light rain. Kyoko still found out about me stopping my treatment. As expected, she made a fuss for a long time. She cried and begged me to get treatment, but I just shook my head and told her to live well. We still have a child, and our child still needs to be taken care of. She needs to live well.
April 17, 2000, sunny. Kyoko is very strong. She told me that after our child gets married, she will come down to accompany me immediately. I told Kyoko that if she came down so early, I would hide from her, because people who commit suicide are very scary.
May 18, 2000, heavy rain. Kyoko's condition has worsened. It seems that even God doesn't want us to have a good time. Her condition has also reached a point where it is almost impossible to be cured...
June 19, 2000, heavy rain. We are almost out of money at home. I am preparing to persuade Kyoko to give up the treatment..."
The diary stopped here, but from the almost distorted handwriting and the traces of a few dried teardrops, some clues could be seen.
Zenin Kiyoshi felt his heart sink.
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