After Lin Qing finished the operation, the nurse pushed him back to the ward. His wound was actually not a big problem, it was just torn and re-sutured.
Lin Qing couldn't calm down when he returned to the ward. The presence of the substitute made him upset.
No matter who the other party is, Lin Qing will be full of hostility whenever he thinks of the existence of the substitute.
He just recovered and realized that his mother was not in the ward. After waiting for a long time, Lin Qing limped around and searched every corner of the hospital, but her mother was nowhere to be seen for a long time.
It seemed that it was the influence of the lake water that had not been purified from the body. Lin Qing always felt that something was sharing something with him.
When I was looking for my mother, I don’t know whether it was because of infection in the wound or some other reason, but there was always the sound of quarreling in my ears.
The characters quarreling were very much like his mother and Lin Qing himself, and the auditory hallucinations had a familiar feeling, much like the weird whispers that kept ringing in his ears when he first entered the lake.
It wasn't until I reached the end of a certain corridor on the first floor that I saw my mother slumped there, sobbing intermittently.
The light in the corner was dim. Lin Qing's mother buried her head in her clothes. There was a hospital-specific smell of disinfectant and medicine nearby.
In the hospital in the evening, no one paid attention to the two people in the corner. There were constant footsteps, the sound of the rolling cart sliding by, and the collapse and crying of people of different ages.
"Mom? What are you doing there?"
Lin Qing's voice reached her mother's ears, but the mother still didn't respond and just sat there.
It looked like he had really just finished an argument with someone and had been greatly wronged.
The scene in front of him reminded Lin Qing of the horrific experience in the lake. He wanted to take a step forward, but he couldn't help but have some concerns. However, the person in front of him was his mother. Even if it was related to the strange incident he encountered recently, he couldn't just sit back and watch.
Lin Qing slowly moved to her mother's side and gently held her mother's face up. The light makeup on her face had been stained by tears, her eyes were bloodshot, and the whites of her eyes were almost occupied by red bloodshot eyes.
Looking at his mother's appearance, Lin Qing couldn't help but feel distressed. He didn't know that everything was fine when he had the surgery, but how could it become like this not long after.
"Mom, what's wrong with you?"
The mother's throat twitched up and down, her chapped lips closed silently, and her nostrils closed unconsciously. After seeing Lin Qing, her eyes became even more aggrieved and guilty, as if she was choking on a thorn, unable to make a sound.
Lin Qing had no choice but to hug her mother, use her body to give her a negligible amount of warmth, and put her head close to her, eager to establish a connection with her mother and feel her pain. Even though he knew that doing so was in vain, it was out of instinct and love for his mother.
The two of them stayed like this for an unknown amount of time. There were two dried tears on the mother's face. After her mood calmed down a little, she slowly opened her mouth in a hoarse voice:
"Your brother is back..."
"Brother? When did I have a brother?"
Lin Qing had no idea about his younger brother's existence, but based on his own experience, he quickly came to another guess:
"If there is a person who does exist, and I have completely lost the memory related to him, then there is only one reason. My younger brother died in the school lake..."
Seeing that Lin Qing's mood was relatively stable, her mother rubbed her eyes, straightened her demeanor a little, and began to talk about Linzi's death that year:
A year ago, when you were in your third year of junior high school, you were admitted to the high school section of the No. 5 Middle School with the best score in the city. Your younger brother Linzi had already started studying in the No. 5 Middle School as a special enrollment student. I'm still studying high school courses.
Compared with your intelligence, your brother can already be called a genius. His talent is not only far above yours, but also surpasses that of some teachers in the school. His talents in other aspects can even amaze the school leaders.
But the problem also arises from this. He doesn't know how to restrain his sharp edges at all, and even gradually becomes arrogant, and his ideas are more extreme and extreme than ordinary people, even if his starting point is mostly good.
He began not to want to be bound by the school's rules and regulations. Compared with other schools, No. 5 Middle School, the number one school, was special. Its puzzling rules and unwritten rules had only been followed by some people for many years, and no one thought about it. Understand the reason behind that.
But all the mysteries were solved by him, and he told me that he had discovered the deeper and darker secrets of the school. However, I was only worried about his safety, and I only hoped that he would be an ordinary little genius.
He began to gradually build his own power in an attempt to overthrow the management's long-term dark rule of the school. Yet he was always alone.
I began to be constantly told by the school that Linzi had made various mistakes at school, causing a lot of irreparable losses. For him, I apologized everywhere and paid a lot, until one day the school informed me... …He killed people.
In order not to affect your future, in order to give an explanation to the school, in order to put an end to everything. They gave me a perfect choice...
Just... just push Linzi into the lake at your school and everything would be over. They told me no one would remember him after that. To show me how possible it was, they pushed a student down on the spot...
I hesitated for a long time, for the normal life of our family, for your studies, and for him to atone for his sins. After I had a big fight with him, he threw himself into the lake with tears of regret. After that, his existence disappeared completely...
Until just now, he appeared in front of me again and gave me back all the memories about him that I had forgotten. So I had a big fight with him and he ran away.
Mother raised her head and pulled away from the memories.
After hearing everything, Lin Qing looked at his mother in disbelief and asked:
"You killed him..."
"It wasn't me! He committed suicide by jumping into the lake!"
The mother's eyes were beating erratically, she stood up in a panic, and her voice became hysterical.
Seeing his mother's panic, Lin Qing hesitated in his heart. He was already in a mess today, and he couldn't think at this moment.
The strange thing chased out of the lake turned out to be his twin brother.
What he had experienced in the past few days had a huge impact on him. For a teenager, it was simply unacceptable, even if he had the calmest mind among his peers.
Seeing her mother slumped aside again after being hysterical, Lin Qing was left with only one emotion after her thoughts were overloaded: distressed.
His heart had no time to understand the reason why his mother became like this. He only knew that he should put an end to all this absurdity.
Lin Qing stood up, helped up her mother who was almost collapsed and crazy, held her in her arms, and said softly as if she had made some kind of decision:
"The person who is already dead, I will not let him affect us anymore..."
The mother raised her head to look at her son. There seemed to be a light in her eyes, and her tired expression finally relaxed.
However, the already dim light above the mother and son seemed to be getting darker now.
