At the entrance of the hospital, Shen Xiaoxiao said to Xiaomei: "It's almost lunch break. You go to eat. I have nothing to do here."
But Xiaomei was very stubborn: "No, I have to wait until uncle comes before I go back."
"I'm fine, really." Shen Xiaoxiao turned around and smiled at her, "I'm feeling better now. If I can't stand up, I'll continue training. What can I do? You think so."
"Sister Xiaoxiao, if you think so, you're right! Failure is often the mother of success. You can't give up on yourself after failing once or twice. I'll ask the dean in the afternoon what's going on with you. In the evening I'll send you a WeChat message." Xiaomei saw that she was thinking about it, and then she said another way for her.
Shen Xiaoxiao held her hand and said movedly: "Thank you, Xiaomei."
"Sister, I also want you to get well soon." Xiaomei said with a smile.
Shen Xiaoxiao said "hmm", let go of her hand, and said, "Go back, my dad will be here soon. Don't worry about me."
Xiaomei glanced at the time and said, "Can you really do it on your own? There are only a few minutes left."
"You're late, there aren't many dishes in the cafeteria. Go back quickly." Shen Xiaoxiao asked her to leave.
"Okay then, send me a text message after you get in the car." After Xiaomei said that, she turned and left.
Seeing Xiaomei enter the building, Shen Xiaoxiao waved and stopped a taxi. The driver was a man, and he was quite kind and carried her into the car.
"Driver, please go to the riverside."
The driver drove and merged into the traffic flow.
"You are in a wheelchair, why are you coming out alone? You don't have any relatives or friends to accompany you?" the driver asked kindly.
Shen Xiaoxiao said: "My family and friends all work, so I have no time. I am used to it myself."
"It's inconvenient for you to be out here, so be careful," the driver reminded her.
Faced with the driver's kindness, Shen Xiaoxiao actually didn't want to talk to her, but he just helped her again, and it didn't feel good not to speak, so she had to hold back the pain and helplessness in her heart and said back to him: "I know, thank you. "
"No thanks, you're welcome. Helping the disabled is what we should do." The driver said carelessly, without caring about the other person's feelings. His words were like a knife piercing Xiaoxiao's heart.
Shen Xiaoxiao lowered her eyes and said dejectedly: "Yes, disabled people will cause inconvenience wherever they go. If your legs and feet are not good, don't go out. Why bother others."
"Sister, what you said is wrong!" The driver glanced at her in the rearview mirror and retorted: "Disabled people are also human beings, and they also have needs to go out. You can't say that because you are in a wheelchair, you deserve to be able to go anywhere at home. I won’t go. Nowadays, there are passages for disabled people in public places, which are very convenient. Look at me, I didn’t say that you will be refused transportation because you are in a wheelchair. Sister, you can’t give up on yourself!”
What the driver said was reasonable, but Shen Xiaoxiao couldn't listen to a word of it, and only thought that these were words to comfort herself.
"Sister, I saw that you just came out of the rehabilitation center. Did you go there for rehabilitation?" The driver saw that she didn't look right and was depressed, so he chatted with her, trying to make her feel better.
"Well, it's been three months and my legs are still not healed." After Shen Xiaoxiao finished speaking, tears of grievance suddenly filled her eyes.
The driver said: "Sister, you are still too young and don't know much. Haven't you heard these two sentences? Sickness comes like a mountain, and sickness goes like a thread. Sometimes, it takes just a moment to stand up. You have to Relax your mind.”
"Haha, you said it lightly, just for a moment, how long should I wait?" Shen Xiaoxiao raised the back of her hand to wipe away her tears and muttered.
"Don't worry, you are still so young." The driver comforted her with a smile: "Actually, sometimes God gives you some training, and that is also a gift. You have to learn to enjoy it."
"Do you want such a gift?" Shen Xiaoxiao felt that he was making sarcastic remarks and retorted back angrily.
The driver smiled disapprovingly and continued: "Everyone's gifts are different. The gift God gave me is much better than yours."
"What is it?" she asked curiously.
The driver said: "I am an orphan. I have had no father or mother since I was a child. I grew up eating the food of hundreds of families. I live a life of dependence on others. Is it hard?"
"Bitterness. But you are a healthy person." Shen Xiaoxiao's implication is that you still don't suffer as much as me.
The driver said: "I would rather be a disabled person and have my parents by my side. Hey, people have different needs."
Shen Xiaoxiao didn't speak anymore and stared blankly out of the window. She didn't deny what the driver said, but she couldn't accept the pain she was suffering now.
"Sister, where do you want to park by the river?" The driver saw that she didn't speak for a long time, looked at her again in the rearview mirror, and asked.
Shen Xiaoxiao came to her senses and said, "Let's go over to Sandao Wharf."
"It's close to the river embankment. What are you doing there?"
"I didn't go down to the river embankment. I made an appointment there with some friends."
"Oh, that's it." The driver said, "Don't be too presumptuous in everything. Just think about it. Life or death is a big deal."
"Thank you, master, for guiding me along the way."
"It's okay. I saw that you were in a bad mood, so I just said a few more words, please don't find me annoying." The driver laughed twice and parked the car on the side of the road.
Helping Shen Xiaoxiao sit in the wheelchair, he gave a few more instructions, "If you are in a bad mood in the future, don't come to the river. There is nothing to see and the wind is still strong. Just buy yourself two cups of milk tea and drink it and your worries will disappear. !”
"I know." Shen Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and chuckled, watching the car drive away.
The wind by the river is blowing gently, and the river water is sparkling.
Shen Xiaoxiao slowly came down the slope. There were many stones on the river embankment, and she could not get close to the river, so she could only watch from a distance.
"Do you want to regard your suffering as a gift from God?" She said to herself, smiling helplessly, "Everyone tells me this, but I don't want such a gift. Where is the grace?"
She looked up to the sky and sighed, staring at the flowing river water in a daze.
Not far away, there were three young men having fun, laughing, making noise, swearing, and making Shen Xiaoxiao upset. She frowned and glanced over, then turned around and wanted to leave.
There was a kid over there who happened to look over, with evil intentions in his eyes, and whistled teasingly at Shen Xiaoxiao.
"Hey, there's a beautiful woman over there, let's go and have a look."
The other two people also looked over, and one of them said: "It's just a paralyzed man, what's there to see?"
"Even if she is paralyzed, she is also a beauty." After the whistling man finished speaking, he raised his feet and walked towards her first. The two behind them looked at each other and followed her tacitly.
When Shen Xiaoxiao saw the three people walking towards her, her heart skipped a beat and she became alert. The movements of her hands turning the wheelchair sped up a bit.
"Beauty, can you go up this slope? Let our brothers help you." The man said to her in a joking tone.