As soon as Tongtong entered the house, an M001 robot came forward and took his schoolbag.
"Da Cheng." Tongtong asked as he took off his shoes, "How is mom today?"
"It's a little worse than yesterday." Da Cheng lowered his head: "When I went to give him water just now, most of him choked and coughed up."
"Cough?" Tongtong stumbled as if he had been hit hard and almost fell down.
"Da Cheng." His voice was trembling: "She can't even drink water. Does this mean that her ALS has advanced to the terminal stage?"
With wet eyes, he stared straight at Da Cheng, hoping to hear a different answer from him.
"Master, although I am also very sad, your mother does not have much time left."
Tears rolled down her chubby face, and Tongtong rushed into the house in large strides.
His mother was lying quietly on the bed, her body unable to move due to bulbar paralysis in the late stages of ALS. Only her eyes still reflected the love for her son.
"Mom." Tongtong wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and tried her best to squeeze out what she thought was a bright smile:
"How are you doing today? I just asked the family doctor, and she said that a new active factor has been discovered for your disease, but it is still in the laboratory stage, so we need to wait a little longer."
He had a loud voice and spoke quickly and urgently, as if he couldn't win the trust of others, including himself, if he didn't do this.
"So don't worry, you can definitely wait until the day when the new drug comes out."
"At that time, you can accompany me to participate in school parent-child activities. We can also go to the amusement park together, take a starship to see the stars, and go to the tourist star for vacation."
When he said these words, his mother's eyes always fell on his face, and the tenderness in them seemed to completely drown him.
Tongtong's eyes became red and her voice was stuck in her throat.
"Mom, I have a gift for you." He turned around hurriedly, choking and ran out of the bedroom.
After crying silently for a while, he washed his face with cold water, then opened his schoolbag and took out the gifts given to him by Luo Luo and Yun Yun.
"Mom." Tongtong brought the topaz-inlaid bow tie and the green branch to the bed to show her mother:
"Do you remember Luoluo? She is one of the few good friends I have in the class. She is very beautiful and very smart. Many people like her."
"More importantly, she never disliked me for being fat. When other classmates talked behind their backs about me being a child without a father, she even scolded them for me."
"So you see, is Luoluo a very, very good girl?" Tongtong said, finding a deep sense of recognition in her mother's eyes.
"But she moved away today, with her brother." His voice lowered: "And I don't even know where they moved."
Having said this, he suddenly realized something and quickly cheered up:
"Mom, don't you think this bow tie is beautiful? Luoluo gave it to me, and I will pass it on to you and put it under your pillow."
"There is also this branch. Even though it is very inconspicuous, when placed in a vase, it should be able to grow roots and become a green sapling."
"I will ask Da Cheng to find a vase and put it on the windowsill in front of you. I hope that by the day it grows its branches and leaves, you will also get better!"
The mother's eyes blinked slightly a few times, and a tear slipped out quietly.
This night, Tongtong slept very uneasily.
For a while, I dreamed that I was standing on a strange planet, and there were terrible monsters everywhere, chasing me with no way to escape;
After a while, I saw Luo Luo wearing a sparkling princess dress, holding her chin high, and entering a luxurious castle surrounded by countless guards. No matter how much she shouted, she never looked back.
In the confusion, he suddenly heard a familiar voice calling him: "Tongtong, Tongtong."
This is my mother's voice. He hadn't heard this voice for a long time since her ALS had worsened.
"Mom, Mom!" He turned over and sat up, realizing that he was breaking out in a cold sweat.
The bedroom was quiet, there was no movement at all.
Sure enough, the call just now was just his hallucination. He just expected too much that his mother would get better.
The bedroom door was opened at this moment, and Da Cheng rushed in.
"Master." His eyes were bright and his voice was full of joy:
"Go and see, your mother can speak!"
"Really?" Tongtong jumped off the bed and rushed into his mother's bedroom as fast as possible.
The starlight spilled in through the thin and transparent window screen, shining on the mother's face.
She was still lying there, but turned her head with difficulty and looked at herself with a smile.
"Tongtong." Her voice was a little hoarse: "My body seems to have some feeling."
Tongtong looked at her in disbelief. Because his mother suffered from this terrible disease, he also read many related books. This disease will only get worse and worse, and he has never heard that it can be reversed.
A patient who has reached the terminal stage and is unable to move can suddenly turn his head, smile, and speak - how is this possible?
But at this moment, Tongtong is willing to use his whole body and mind to thank this impossibility.
"Mom." He climbed onto the bed and hugged her neck heavily.
"Thank you." He buried his head in his mother's arms, and tears fell like beads: "Thank you for never giving up, thank you for getting better for me."
When receiving Tongtong's communication request, Luoluo was already on Tianyan No. 1, the brand new S001 spacecraft.
The speed of the Tianyan was far beyond what previous interstellar shuttles could match. In just a dozen hours, it had flown a million light-years away.
Luoluo was using oil paint to create a picture of the starry sky, and he approved the request without thinking.
"I thought it would take you a long time to discover this little secret." She said as she applied green-gold paint and smeared it on the top of the scroll.
In Tongtong's voice, she tried hard to restrain her excitement: "I didn't notice it at first. But my mother, a ALS patient who had been declared a death sentence, suddenly reversed her condition. This made me realize Doubts arose.”
"Later, I went to check it out and found out that your mother is the world-renowned famous doctor. And you also said that the gemstone you gave me was made with her, so I made a bold decision. guess."
"You guessed it right." Luo Luo nodded, changed a paintbrush, and added a little bit of black and purple on the canvas: "Mom added some special energy into that bow tie, which can drive away diseases for up to two people. "
"So that's it." The little fat man's voice was trembling: ""Lolo, you don't know what your gift means to me. "
"Furthermore, you gave me such a valuable thing casually, but how can I repay you?"
Luoluo smiled calmly: "Being a classmate is fate. If I can help you and your mother, my mother will definitely be very happy. As for the rest, just let it happen. Okay, that's it."
She hung up the communication, shook her head slightly, and put all this behind her, and started painting wholeheartedly again.
