What Are They Doing 2022 Chapter 11

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Liu Sang sat in his car, silently eating a baked sesame cake.

It was raining heavily outside.

The car was parked in a parking spot in front of the hospital so that he could look at the entrance. There was no shortage of people in the hospital even when it was raining heavily. Humans and diseases were truly inseparable from each other.

The weather forecast, which was still being broadcast on the radio, stated that the torrential rain was going to continue for another week or so.

He didn’t know what happened to the victim after that.

He also didn’t know how Wang Guo was doing.

That was why Liu Sang was waiting here. He hoped that Wang Guo could survive because their deal wasn’t done yet.

At this time, a man knocked on the car window.

The man didn’t have an umbrella and was standing directly in the rain—he looked like a policeman.

He seemed to have seen him at the scene earlier.

As Liu Sang rolled down the window, his ears were assaulted by the sound of the rainstorm. The other party raised his voice to be heard over the rain and said loudly, “Wang Guo wants to see you.”

Liu Sang put down the half-eaten sesame cake, pulled the hood of his raincoat up, got out of the car, and followed the man into the hospital.

2

Wang Meng cautiously walked up to the bike.

The Xiali…the bicycle…

The lamp over here was a floor lamp, and in its light, he could see that the bike had been bent all out of shape.

He looked around in confusion, his hands shaking a little bit.

Although he didn’t want to remember it at all, he couldn’t seem to forget the image of his mother falling to the ground.

That moment had happened way too fast.

Although the car came to an abrupt stop when it hit the bicycle, his mother was sent flying three meters away.

Just like on TV, it didn’t look like a strong collision at all.

He thought that his mother would immediately stand up and start yelling at the driver but she wasn’t moving at all.

Wang Meng watched this all from among the crowd.

His mother had come on a bicycle to pick him up and take him home. He was the only one left in the kindergarten since all the other children had already been picked up by their parents.

Wang Meng often had to sit alone at the classroom door because the teachers couldn’t wait around for his mother to come and pick him up. They had their own families too so they couldn’t wait there endlessly.

But his mother couldn’t help it. His father gambled so she had to work very hard to pay back the money.

As a result, Wang Meng had a special bench at the kindergarten’s entrance where he would sit and wait for his mother to pick him up.

The family next door who sold radish cakes helped the teacher keep an eye on him so that the teacher could go home first.

Wang Meng sat on the bench, watching all the people in front of him come and go.

When his mother came, he would stand up, put the small bench in the unlocked reception office, and walk towards her.

Maybe that was why Wang Meng was always able to sit there motionless ever since he was a child.

That day, his mother came so late that he was left sitting there until it was almost time for the radish cake shop to close.

This was the first time Wang Meng felt scared.

In fact, he was fine when the teacher was with him, when the grandfather in the reception office was with him, and when the aunt and uncle from the radish cake shop were with him.

He never felt sorry for himself because his mother was better than anyone else’s mother.

So, he often thought to himself, it’s ok to wait for her.

Wang Meng couldn’t remember what he was thinking when he saw his mother lying motionless on the ground, but up to this point, he had never cried whenever he thought of this scene.

He drowned the memories of his mother’s incident in the sluggish monotony of Minesweeper, but after he became an adult, his father was released from prison after serving his sentence for gambling and swindling money, and then Wang Meng saw this scene again.

It was like he had suddenly returned to that moment—the exact moment when he had just finished putting the bench away, breathed a sigh of relief, and started walking towards his mother.

As an adult, he suddenly found that his face was covered in tears. The feeling he had been suppressing in his heart for all those years suddenly burst out like a flood, and he realized that he was crying.

But no sound came out of his throat.

He yelled hoarsely and squatted on the ground, his whole body trembling as he tried to let that cry break free.

But he just couldn’t do it.

3

Wang Guo’s voice was still very low as Liu Sang approached his room.

Wang Guo looked at his wife and labored to point to the bananas next to him that had been sent by his colleagues.

Liu Sang shook his head, “Don’t try to take care of others. You should save your strength since your current condition isn’t good.”

Wang Guo’s wife was a very quiet person. The two must’ve had an arranged marriage since their interactions were somewhat awkward but his wife seemed to be very capable as indicated by how clean the hospital bed was.

Wang Guo whispered to him, “The doctor said I would’ve died in ten minutes. Thank you.”

Liu Sang nodded, “Eat more vegetables.”

Wang Guo smiled with difficulty, “I thought rice was also a vegetable.”

“Since you haven’t recovered, hurry up and tell me what you wanted to say and then get some rest,” Liu Sang said.

“We have to catch him before the rain stops,” Wang Guo said.

“You can’t leave the hospital,” Liu Sang argued. “This matter has nothing to do with you.”

Wang Guo nodded, “No one else can catch him, either. It all depends on you.”

There was the sound of thunder outside.

Liu Sang looked out of the window, “You have to tell me what you know.”

Wang Guo shook his head, “You have to tell me why you’re here first.”

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Surprise! Everyone’s still drunk off their margaritas from last night and I’m the only one up lol.