Chapter 2: Hope (2/2)
Every week, he would check information about Xia Shen in the school library for at least an hour. He even watched an interview about a network security engineer who had won numerous awards at home and abroad who even stated ”Xia Shen is my role model, who had helped me to thrive and made me want to become more like him.”
“Xia Shen is a guardian on the road, a model for both ability and political integrity.”
After the interview Tang Jinyu told himself that he should ‘Listen! Defend! Have ability and integrity!! Like Xia Shen!’
Nevertheless, Tang Jinyu had already bought the book for hundreds of dollars and he was reluctant to throw it away also because of the photo on the cover.
Whenever he felt angry, he would pick up the book and would wipe it clean, mindlessly staring at the old photo on the cover for a while, deciding whether or not to read it again.
After a short while, he wanted to look for more useful information but didn't expect to fall asleep the moment he sat down.
When he woke up, he became a five-year-old child in a wheelchair,in a blink of an eye. Tang Jinyu thought that he had been dreaming, but he never imagined that he would enter the book he read.
Tang Jinyu was heartbroken. He didn't know what his body would be like in his world when he transmigrated. Would grandpa be scared if he saw him? The old man is getting older. The thing that worries him the most is his grandfather’s health.
There is still Chinese medicine for grandpa in the refrigerator. If he's not there to supervise him, the old man would secretly store it somewhere else and would drink it whenever he felt like it…
He wanted to go back to his grandfather now, but he somehow came over here inexplicably, and he didn't know how to go back.
Even if it's still several years before he was born, he doesn't know where his parents are, let alone his grandfather.
One of his guesses is that they were in Huicheng because he has a vague memory of his grandfather once telling him that he was picked up in Huicheng. After that they have been living in the old city of Pingcheng.
Tang Jinyu thought for a long time, but he could only stay here first and slowly find a way.
Grandpa can't be found now, but Xia Ye is still here.
Tang Jinyu tried his best to recall the plot in the book. It seems that there is such a family named Tang next to Xia Ye, who gave him a sum of money to help him finish his studies and enter a famous university.
This is one of the reasons why Xia Ye will help other poor students in the future.
As for the places that the family was mentioned in the book is not that much but with only a single sentence, describing them as a kind neighbour that cared about Xia Ye.
His current family is also surnamed Tang and his father called out ”Xia Ye” just now. He… is he living next to the Great God?!
Tang Jinyu was thinking about all this on the way, to the hospital, feeling a little dazed.
In the hospital.
Tang Hongjun and his wife went to see the doctor with their child in their arms. The doctor was a little older, but he seemed to be a kind-hearted person.
It was not the first time that the doctor had seen Tang Jinyu. So when he saw him, he spoke with a teasing voice ”Xiaoyu, you look very good today.”
Chen Suling smiled and said ”Yes, he has been getting much better.”
The doctor examined him and asked him to stand up and walk two steps by himself.
Tang Hongjun stood behind and supported him. Chen Suling squatted down not far away and called his name quietly, appearing more nervous than him.
When they saw their child walking, both the parents’s eyes flushed red. After a few more steps, Chen Suling hugged him and gave him a few kisses and said with tears ”Doctor Chen, look, Xiaoyu walked by himself, he can walk!”
Tang Jinyu's heart softened for a moment and he reached out to wipe her tears. He opened his mouth, but his throat resisted again and it didn't make a single sound.
Tang Hongjun stood there and boasted proudly ”Such a good child, so considerate!”
The doctor smiled then nodded and said ”Yes, he is a good child.” He wrote a list and then said ”We will do a few more tests. The conditions in our city are not as good as those in the province. When you have time, go to the provincial hospital as soon as possible, to look for a diagnosis, and we will have better results there.”
Tang Hongjun and his wife looked over the list and agreed.
On the way to the reception counter, Tang Jinyu kept holding Tang Hongjun's neck, and Tang Hongjun kept him in his arms, he only heard the cries of the children there as they passed the hospital corridor.
Tang Jinyu could hear a few words they yelled from time to time, their voices echoing throughout the hallways.
He guessed that they are like him. They are all children with certain defects, because of their young age, such children are more likely to become anxious and irritable.
If they are forcibly restricted, they will yell, will be unstable in controlling their emotions and will become aggressive.
Tang Jinyu saw a child in front of him, who stretched out his hand and scratched his mother's face, making her bleed a bit.
While Tang Hongjun went to pay the bill, Chen Suling hugged her son and sat on a chair in the corridor to wait. She didn't tie him with any clothes, only held her son in her arms and pressed her chin against his head.
Tang Jinyu suddenly remembered that when they went out in the morning, he was excited when he saw Xia Ye that Tang Hongjun ended up hugging him tightly in his arms, within a few seconds.
They seemed skilled as if they have done it countless times before.
Although the only thing he can't do is walk that well, along with his fingers not being flexible enough. He was very strong. He should have hurt them like the kid he just saw now, right?
Last night, when he slightly retracted his little hand to prevent his Dad from touching him, Tang Hongjun realized that his clothes were dirty and that he was ‘angry’.
They treat him very carefully because they only have him in their eyes.
Tang Jinyu saw the crying child kicking his feet indiscriminately. His mother finally couldn't help but give him a hit on the back as she wiped her tears.
There were also tears on the child's face, with his clothes on his body half worn. The woman holding him wasn't any better than him, her eyes were full of fatigue.
He retracted his gaze, looked down at his fingers, his small fingernails were neatly cut, hand cream was applied because of the cold weather and his clothes were clean and fresh.
It is really rare for Chen Suling and her husband to care for their child for many years and still be so loving.
As if feeling his silence, Chen Suling hugged him and whispered ”Does the baby want to drink water? Mom brought water and your favorite chocolate.”
Tang Jinyu looked up at her, hugged her neck lightly, tried to speak and called her mother.
If he could, he wanted to give her a little bit of hope.