After three years in Hong Kong, I obtained a master's degree in nursing.
My tutor advised me to stay in Hong Kong. All my classmates were sending in their resumes, but I was the only one who bought the ticket to return to Luzhou.
My roommate asked why I had to go back to that small town, and I said I didn't know.
Actually I know. I just want to go back and take a look at the person I didn't dare to say goodbye to.
On the first day I joined Luzhou First People's Hospital, I went to the power distribution room to find someone to sign.
Opening the door, I was dumbfounded.
The man standing inside was wearing a white shirt with the cuffs rolled up to his elbows. I was holding an electrical inspection record book in my hand, and I recognized the handwriting.
"Why... Why are you here?"
He raised his head, as if I had never left, and said in a calm tone: "I came here after you left three years ago."
Later I found out that in the autumn after I left, he gave up his postgraduate studies and was admitted to the electrical department of this hospital.
The whole hospital knew him. Call him Lu Gong. Although he doesn't like to talk much, he is always the first one to arrive when the hospital has a power outage for emergency repairs. He is responsible for the electricity supply to the entire building, including the nursing department. When I worked the night shift, the lights in the nurse's station never went out.
The head nurse said to me one day: "Before you came back, Xiao Lu never went to the cafeteria. After you came back, he never stopped eating."
I asked why.
The head nurse glanced at me: "Have you forgotten what your undergraduate favorite dish is in the cafeteria?"
I suddenly remembered what I had seen secretly in the cabinet in the power distribution room——
The boxes of sweet and sour pork ribs are neatly stacked, with dates starting from the day I started working.
So I left Luzhou for three years, and he stayed in this city for me for three years. No matter how far I walked, he stood still
