When Emma and Cindy walked back to the ward, they found that Carl was still sitting with his back to the door beside the hospital bed and smoking. Cindy and Emma looked at each other, they can imagine the mood of Carl at the moment, but they did not know how to comfort him.
Cindy and Emma went to the side of Carl. When they were about to speak, they found that Carl burst into tears. By seeing this, Emma and Cindy were both stunned, especially Emma. In her eyes, Carl has always been a hard man of indomitable spirit, even when she bit him a piece of meat, he didn’t knit the brows, but wiped his brush directly on the wound and poured iodine and penicillin, and then directly wrapped with gauze.
And now this iron man was crying like a child.
The two tried to comfort him. But now they did not what to say.
Carl found the two people coming closer, he took the tissue on bedside, wiped his face, and then stood up, smiled and said to the two, “It’s ok, she is just a kid, don’t take her words seriously.”
“Are you… are you… okay?” Emma couldn’t help but ask Carl.
“Yes, I’m fine.” Carl answered, and then said to Emma, “I want to delay you a little time, I want to wait until the operation is finished before leaving. Please stay in the hospital for a while, I think, it should not take long time, is that fine?”
“Well, ok. The meeting is at 2pm. If the surgery isn’t done by then, I can put the meeting off until tomorrow. Anyway, your sister’s operation is the most important.” Emma did not quarrel with Carl, but directly nodded and said.
“Thank you, thank you. Take a seat. I want to go out by myself.” Carl said, and then lit a cigarette and went out.
“What is he going to do?” After Carl left, Emma asked Cindy.
“I don’t know, maybe he went out to be quiet alone. I can tell he had a very mixed mood. I never thought a man like him would cry.” Cindy shook her head.
“Shall we go out with him and see if he does something stupid?” Emma said with some worry.
“Ok, but it’s better to stay far from him. I think he might really want to be alone.” Cindy said.
After discussion, the two women followed Carl. When they came to the elevator, they found Carl was waiting for the elevator, so they hid in the corner of the wall. Until Carl got on the elevator, they immediately pressed another elevator to the first floor.
But when the two women arrived at the first floor and the elevator door opened, they found Carl waiting for them at the elevator door.
“Are you going out too?” Carl asked. In fact, when they were hiding behind the elevator, Carl had found them, but he did not expose the truth.
“We… we… go shopping.” Cindy said with embarrassment.
“Come with me. I’m going shopping, too.” Carl lightly said, and then went to the outside of the hospital, the two women hurriedly followed.
“You needn’t worry about me. I’ll be all right. Moreover, I believe that Frost will be able to complete the operation successfully, because she is my sister, she is a strong person. I will always believe that man can conquer nature, as long as you do not give up, no one can let you fail.” Carl said to the two women while walking.
The two women looked at each other, did not speak, they all felt the strong confidence in Carl’s words.
“What are you going to buy?” Cindy asked.
“I went to buy some mangoes. Frost likes to eat mangoes since her childhood, but, our city does not produce mangoes, the price has been quite expensive. When I was a child, I cannot afford to eat, even when she grew up, she was reluctant to eat. For many years, if I did not buy for her, she would never take the initiative to buy mangoes.
Carl lightly said. A few simple words contain too much feeling. No matter who, he or she would be touched.
“Don’t but mangos, after surgery Frost is certainly cannot have food. She can only eat liquid food.” Emma reminded Carl.
Carl was stunned after hearing this, and then laughed to himself, “Right, how could I forget this, but I’d better buy her some. Now I can do nothing else for her except this, only to wait.”
Carl was helpless. As he said, he wanted to do something for Frost, but he could not do anything right now. He could only wait for news. He didn’t like this kind of feeling. He used to be the master of everything, and controlled the whole situation. Now this kind of helpless feeling let him very suffered. He always wanted to do something, and now, he could only buy Frost mango.
“Let’s go.” Cindy pulled Emma and said.
Carl nodded, and then went to the fruit stand at the hospital gate with the two women, bought a few pounds of mango. Waiting for the results is the most uncomfortable, just like waiting for the teacher to hand out the test paper to see the score every time after the test, the heart is nervous, even breathing is painful. And this was waiting for a life and death judgment, more important than a test paper score.
All three of them went to the door of the operating room and waited. The door was closed and nothing can be seen from the outside. It was a depressing and uncomfortable feeling. Compared with the two women agitatedly pacing back and forth in the operating room doorway, and looking into it every now and then, Carl was quite, sitting on the chair at the gate of the operating room, carrying mango in one hand, and smoking a cigarette one by one in the other hand, until the whole corridor had smoke around.
“Carl, can I ask you a question?” Sitting beside Carl, Emma has been looking at Carl, hesitated for a long time and asked.
“What?” Carl looked at Emma, and then lightly answered.
“If, I mean if, if Frost… She really didn’t succeed in the operation. What do you do?” Emma hesitated again and then asked Carl.
Cindy was taken aback, she really did not expect Emma would suddenly asked such a question. She really wanted to give Emma a slap. This woman has been quite clever, why just at this time asked such a stupid question? It was a wrong time. Cindy went directly to kick Emma, gave Emma a sharp look in the eyes, and then tried find another topic.
“Make money, buy a big cemetery, and bury her with my mother and father. The whole family will be together, they won’t be lonely.” Carl looked up at the wall, with empty eyes.
Cindy thought Carl would break into a furious rage, but she did not expect Carl was so calmly and spoke of his own plan. His calmness made Cindy feel pins and needles. It’s hard to imagine a person in this time can be so calm, Emma felt unbelievable, thinking she had knew Carl well but now Carl was fuzzy and obscure. She felt like she can’t understand this man, and she can’t not understand what was in his mind.