Section 40 Left Ear (40)

  Section 40: Left Ear (40)

  I grabbed her arm and interrogated her: "What did Ba La tell you? Tell me the truth!"

  "I also want to know." She smiled and didn't struggle free from me.

  "You have to say it today."

  "What if I don't say anything?"

  "Then I'll force you until you can't say anything!" I snatched the sparkler out of her hand and pulled her into my arms. This detestable little witch, if she really thought I didn't dare to do anything to her, then she was greatly mistaken!

  Our faces were very close, her body was incredibly soft, I could clearly feel her trembling, I used all my strength to control myself not to kiss her, we froze for about a minute, don't know if it's because of the cold or fear, her lips turned purple, in the end she gave in, she said: "Okay, Zhang Yang, I'll say."

  I let her go and took a deep breath myself.

  She turned her body a bit and told me: That day I went to the hospital, I had a hard time finding Ba Lā's ward. When I arrived, she was already gone. There were many people in front of the bed, and when Ba Lā saw me, her eyes lit up immediately. She raised her left hand and said to me: "Little Ear, can you come over for a moment?" So I walked over. Ba Lā's face was extremely pale, like a sheet of white paper, without any color. She said to me: "Little Ear, I have something to tell you." I leaned down my body, then Ba Lā stretched out her hand and grabbed my shoulder with force, pulling me close, her lips close to my ear, those lips were cold, without temperature. After she finished talking to me, her hand suddenly fell from my shoulder...

  "What did she say to you?" I couldn't help but interrupt her and ask.

  "I don't know," she said. "I also want to know."

  "Don't give me nonsense!"

  "Zhang Yang, I didn't deceive you," said Li Er. "If you don't believe me, I can show you my medical records. My left ear has been hard of hearing since birth. Many times, especially when I'm anxious, it can't hear anything. But that sentence was spoken right into my left ear!"

  "She said it in my left ear!" She shouted again, tears streaming down from her eyes.

  I couldn't help but hold her tightly. Her tears, like a warm current, shattered the ice that had already formed around my heart, leaving me momentarily disoriented and unable to distinguish east from west.

  tnnd！

  At 11 o'clock at night, I sent Li Ru back home. It was still the small road behind the ramen shop, and we were both silent, neither of us speaking. That day, I had been sending her to just outside her building, and when it was time to part ways, I asked her: "Will you get scolded when you go home?"

  "Maybe it will," she said, "but I'm not afraid."

  "Alright," I said, "if Yu dares to bully you, brother will stand up for you!"

  She smiled and said goodbye to me. I watched her leave, about five steps away, Li Er suddenly turned around, put his two hands together at his mouth, and shouted loudly to me: "Zhang Yang, Happy New Year!"

  I also told her Happy New Year. But I just opened my mouth and made a very exaggerated lip shape without making any sound.

  She smiled slightly with her head tilted and went upstairs.

  I went back home, and soon after, he came back with an empty thermos.

  I asked him: "Where did you go?"

  He said: "Hospital."

  "Who did you send chicken soup for?"

  "He said: 'Friend.'"

  "What friend?"

  He ignored me, took the thermos and went to rinse it under the faucet. I followed him, grabbed his thermos and threw it on the ground. The thermos rolled away, splashing water all over the floor.

  I shouted at him loudly: "Do you have any self-respect? Are you happy only when everyone laughs at you to death?"

  He looked at me with his aged eyes and said word by word: "I did what I should have done."

  "She never loved you, she didn't even want her own flesh and blood son, such a vicious woman, this is her retribution, retribution, not worthy of sympathy! I'm telling you, if you go to the hospital again, I won't let you off!"

  "Yan'er," he pulled me, "don't get excited, sit down and listen to me slowly, okay?"

  "I have nothing to say to you!" I shook him off. "In short, don't ever go to the hospital again, or else I'll never come back to this house! Never come back!"

  "She has no one to take care of her. Something happened at home, and her son is out, feeling ashamed, and didn't even come back for the New Year." He explained to me, "I couldn't just abandon her, after all, there was something between us..."

  "That's it." I interrupted her, "Is this also called emotional debt?" Jump to! ~! ?????.