Magnolia flowers
Text/Lee Kwon-ching
This is my friend's story.
That year, not long after I joined the work, I was organized to go to Shekou Mountain to stay in the village, which was a cold land, originally called Longping Township, my hometown was on the bank of the Qingjiang River, just from the low mountain to the "old high wilderness" that the old people used to call.
It's already spring, and I still feel a chill when I come here. The station is the original township government, a two-story civil structure house, just put down the simple luggage, the village branch secretary Yang came to pick me up.
Secretary Yang was a standard rural man, with a burly figure and a loud voice, like thunder. He took me to the village committee and introduced me to the customs and customs here as he walked, and he said very proudly, "We are the closest to the sky here, the highest mountain here is called Shekou Mountain, the sea dial is 1999 meters, and it is only one meter away from the sky."
From the station to the middle of the village committee to pass through a river, the small river meanders along the foot of the mountain, Secretary Yang said that it is called Yuxi River, the name of the river is very poetic. The river is small, trickling, gushing, not wide, narrow where it can be crossed in a big step, and it may be more accurate to call it a "stream".
It is a canyon terrain, where the stream is located is a large flat dam with a very wide view. Looking around, in the field, on both sides of the mountain peach blossoms, apricot blossoms, cherry blossoms, and a large number of unknown flowers competing to open, thousands of purples and reds, flowers are full of flowers, picturesque, dreamlike, I suddenly came to a paradise peach orchard.
There was a flower that caught my attention, the trees were very tall, the flowers were like trumpet flowers, and the branches of the tree were full of flowers, some were red, some were white, and I had never seen such a flower. Secretary Yang told me that this is the magnolia flower. Oh, Tingting Yuli, proud magnolia flowers! I am really happy to be associated with this flower in such a way.
At the side of the stream, there is a family in front of the house and the back of the house is full of white magnolia flowers, the firewood door opens, revealing a smiling face, when the four eyes are facing each other, as if time and space are still, the vast sea of people, the crowd is looking for her thousands of degrees, isn't this the person I am looking for?
Some things always come unexpectedly. Suddenly, it changed your life and my life, changed the trajectory of your life.
On that special New Year's Day, which should have been full of expectations, full of joy and peace, you were officially hospitalized due to infection. You are a pediatrician, reluctant to your beloved job, reluctant to your beloved patient, worried that your colleagues will not be busy, until Chinese New Year's Eve and still working while infusing, until three o'clock in the morning.
On the third day of the Chinese New Year, I obviously felt that your condition had worsened, coughing all night and all night, the fever was uncontrollable, the whole body was soaked, and the toilet paper used all night was like snowflakes. The hospital sent an ambulance to transfer you to a higher hospital, and I drove all the way behind the ambulance. When passing a bridge, the yellow paint brushed on the parapet fell off and flew with the wind, like a piece of yellow burnt paper, and I had a faint sense of foreboding in my heart. Every time we set off in the same car, today I am driving with the ambulance, and the ambulance is my you, will I lose my dearest you forever? Tears couldn't help but blur my eyes.
The fourth day of the Lunar New Year. I received your WeChat "Sweating all over, I feel like I can't do it anymore." Go home, go home! "At that time, I was at the railing of the driveway outside the ward, and I knew that you were in the 28th ward of this ward, close at hand, and I couldn't help it, as if you were the end of the world. Looking back on the bits and pieces of life together, but now my you are like a gossamer, difficult for yourself, tears like rain. I sent you the mountains and rivers along the Yuxi River, you wandered in the quiet Yuxi River, you and your children strolled in that large peach blossom forest, the peach blossoms were delicate, a large piece of red and bright, the rain was clear, the bees were flying and butterflies were dancing, and the magnolia flowers stretching in the wind. I sent you a WeChat message "Hold on! We must still go see that piece of magnolia flowers! ”
The seventh day of the Lunar New Year. I received a WeChat "it is possible that I will not survive tomorrow, I wrote it with all my life", and when I saw these shocking messages, my tears flowed out again. I contacted your tube bed doctor and nurse and asked them to take special care of the 28 beds tonight anyway, and the doctor replied, "We will do everything we can, let's cheer together!" ”
A brother who knew me sent me a text message: "The big one is the country, and the small one is the home!" Everyone's little family is in danger, and this is the test for us to be a man and a writer! All fears, accusations, complaints, and insults must be carried by us, and at the same time, we must also put on a smiley face and give the whole family the confidence to overcome difficulties! In this war, it is not one hospital or one doctor fighting, but all of us! To overcome difficulties, we must first overcome the fear in our hearts! "Yes, the more difficult we are, the stronger we must be, and the more difficult it is, the more we must strengthen our confidence in victory!" Don't give up, don't give up, we will definitely win! I must take care of the looming flame! I keep sending you cute children's photos, sending you the yellow and colorful spring flowers in the highway park, sending the green spring water of the Qingjiang River, and sending the blooming magnolia flowers by the Yuxi River...
It's the eighth day of the first lunar month. After consultation with many experts, the foci of both lung infections continued to expand, and the pleural effusion was severe, indicating that the condition continued to deteriorate. With the care of many parties, you are referred to a higher hospital. Think about how much you have been so responsible for your work, have been so dedicated, have been the backbone of the hospital, think about how many patients you have seen! What impressed me most was that on a snowy night, you went to the hospital three times in a row. I asked you not to go, and you said that the problem was raised by who is responsible? In the words of colleagues and relatives and friends, good people have a safe life, and everything will be fine!
The tenth day of the first lunar month. I got your message in the early hours of the morning "I feel like I've survived the hardest time." It is unfortunate that I am now infected, but we are also lucky, and I am grateful to our country for not abandoning, not giving up! Thank you to our angels in white, who care for life and health with their hearts! ”
Yeah, each of us is lucky, look at us, look out there, how blessed we are to live in this great country, in this great era!
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April 20, 2022 in Padang