Chapter 1008 1008 Depressed woman
It is often seen on movies and TV that the hero violently demolished the door and then rescued the trapped people inside. But the fact is that Hugo broke open the door that looked like a paper, but the pain in his shoulder almost made him jump up. Even though the building looked shaky, who knew it was still so difficult to break open a door. No wonder people say that "movies are all lies", and superheroes are not that easy to be.
However, at this time, Hugo didn't care about taking care of his shoulders. It was just a physical injury. He opened the bathroom door and walked in and looked at it, but he didn't see anyone. Hugo's face changed, "No one!" In an instant, Charlotte and others who were standing at the door also looked over. They could also hear the man muttering, "I really saw her going in, but I haven't seen her coming out!" As if he was defending himself.
Hugo frowned and his shoulders really hurt, and then pulled the bathroom door back. When he saw the thin woman huddled in the corner of the wall, Hugo did not show a happy expression. On the contrary, his face immediately changed: Could it be that he actually hit the door and injured the woman? Don't say that the woman was fine at all, but was hit by Hugo and got hurt. Then Hugo really wanted to do something bad.
Hugo immediately squatted down and carefully looked at the woman in front of him, "How are you? How are you?" He held the woman's shoulder with both hands and looked up and down, trying to find something, but the naked eye did not see any problem.
The woman did not answer Hugo's question, but just looked at the floor with unconscious eyes. The red eyes and the traces of tears on her cheeks could clearly feel her bad condition, not to mention that the unconscious eyes revealed a grey decay. The familiar grey decay reminded Hugo again of Zhang Xiaoye. When Zhang Xiaoye disappeared his vitality bit by bit in front of Hugo, that was the same pair of eyes. All the brilliance gathered together and gradually faded.
"Hugo, Hugo..." Charlotte's voice came over. As soon as Hugo turned around, he saw Charlotte's finger pointing to the bathroom window. Hugo looked along his finger and saw the scarf tied to the iron railing of the window. Hugo's heart suddenly shrank, and the facts were obviously simpler: this woman tried to commit suicide. But, I don't know if it was her failure or if she didn't muster up the courage to execute.
Hugo quickly looked outside, shouted, "ambulance", and then looked back at the woman in front of her. Her long blond hair was wrapped around her cheeks and neck like seaweed, making people unable to see her appearance clearly. The eyes that almost disappeared made people look cold all over.
"Wake up, wake up!" Hugo patted the woman's cheek and tried to wake her up, but it was useless. Hugo really didn't know how to deal with this situation. He has never been an expert in this field, not to mention that the person in front of him was just a stranger. Even if he wanted to persuade him, he had no idea how to start.
At this moment, the baby crying in his ears seemed to be broken in chaos and the sound of rain, but Hugo woke up. He quickly shouted to the woman, "Think about your child, your baby!" Hugo was not sure whether this would be useful, but this was all he knew about women: she had a child who was still in her infancy, so Hugo could only be a living person, "Child! Imagine, what if you leave, what should your child do? Don't you want to watch him...she grows up?
? "Hugo didn't know whether the child was a boy or a girl, so he could only mess around. "Don't you want to watch him learn to walk, listen to him call you mother, and then send him to school with your own hands, watch him grow up day by day, find a suitable partner, attend a graduation party, and then walk into the wedding hall; don't you want to let him go shopping with you, spend every Valentine's Day and a bad Thanksgiving day with you; don't you want to watch him become an excellent adult and create his own world..."
Hugo could only search out the things about the children in his mind in panic, but it seemed fragmented, and he was not sure whether all of this would be useful. In a hurry, Hugo could only try his best.
Just as Hugo tried to loot more about the child, he heard a voice sound, "It's her," Hugo couldn't help but be stunned, and asked subconsciously, "What?" Then he saw the woman in front of him slowly lifting her head and saying, "It's her."
It took her a second to realize that the baby was "her", and what he had just said was "him", and this... Hugo suddenly became embarrassed.
The woman saw the embarrassment on Hugo's face and tried to pull the corners of her mouth. Although she failed in the end, at least she could see that her mentality had changed. The woman took a deep breath and wiped the embarrassment on her cheeks. "You are right. I should live for Jessica, and even more so for me."
"Jessica... Oh, Jessica!" It turned out that the crying baby was called Jessica, and Hugo nodded, "This is the right idea. You must know that choosing this way to end your life is not only an escape, but also a betrayal of yourself. Because your departure will not only not be happy for you, but on the contrary, those who love you will be heartbroken, while those who hate you will be happy."
Hugo was just talking about the matter, but this simple sentence silenced the woman in front of her. She sat there blankly without saying anything, which scared Hugo, thinking that she was depressed again. Fortunately, after a short while, the woman raised her head, "This is the fact. What you didn't say is that those strangers would only think I was pitiful, but those sympathetic eyes could not help me through the difficulties."
Hugo breathed a sigh of relief, "At least, these strangers in the Elephant Coffee House today did not give up except to feel pitiful."
"Hugo, the ambulance will arrive soon..." Charlotte shouted anxiously, but his voice gradually lowered, and he stood at the bathroom door with a dumbfounded look on his face.
The woman raised her head and gently pulled her mouth and smiled. Although it was ugly, it was at least an upward curve. "I think they had a waste of time." She tried to end her life just now, but she didn't muster up the courage, so her body was not hurt. Then she tried to stand up, but after struggling once, she sat on the ground again. Hugo stretched out her hand to help, but the woman shook her head and refused, "I want to rely on my own strength to try and see." After that, she gritted her teeth, stubbornly held the wall, and stood up slowly.
At this time, the others standing at the bathroom door received Charlotte's affirmative answer and surrounded them. When they saw the woman standing up again, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
What's even more amazing is that in this chaos, the baby's crying stopped. Once again, only the sound of rain and wind were mixed with the sound of the burning branches of the stove.
Although it is a reasonable explanation for Charlotte to wake up the baby, who can deny it 100%? It is not that there is telepathy between the baby and the mother? It is because the baby felt the mother's departure that he cried loudly, which attracted the attention of everyone in the coffee house, and this is where the rescue comes later. And when he learned that the mother had escaped danger, the baby calmed down again.
The woman walked to the stroller and looked at her daughter who was sleeping peacefully again. Her eyes became hot and tears were about to slide down again. But this time she did not let her go, but quickly wiped the corners of her eyes, smiled again, and cheered herself up.
After the ambulance arrived at the scene, he learned about the situation and conducted a simple inspection of the woman on the spot. After confirming that there was no problem, he left. The woman thanked everyone in the coffee shop separately, and then went to the bathroom to take care of herself briefly. All the riots completely calmed down.
The woman sat next to her desk, a little dazzled.
She is really the most failed person she has ever seen. Her marriage ended in failure. She rushed up like a moth to the flame for this marriage, but she ended up being driven out of the house and wandered on the streets after domestic violence. She graduated for seven years, but still had no formal job and a hungry child. She had tried some different jobs, but got nothing. She even doubted whether she had the ability to survive alone. She is now struggling because she can't pay the rent, and she has nothing except an old typewriter. She is now living on government relief funds. Compared with the homeless man on the street, her only advantage is that she has at least rented a house.
During this period, she always felt that her soul seemed to be sucked away, and all happiness disappeared, leaving only endless darkness and coldness, which made her strongly hope that she had never appeared in this world. Especially when her ex-husband tried to come and rob her daughter of custody, this feeling reached its peak. She almost dragged her last bit of energy to apply for a protection order to expel her ex-husband from the country. After that, she could no longer feel happiness or vitality.
This situation reached its peak today, and she decided to end her life. But in the end, she still didn't muster up the courage.
The woman raised her head and saw Hugo sitting alone next to the coffee table reading the newspaper. She knew that it was this man who pulled herself back at the most dangerous moment and rekindled her hope. Although this fire of hope was still very small, at least she understood that suicide was not the solution to the problem. For Jessica and herself, she had to persevere.
Hugo seemed to notice her gaze, raised her head and smiled, and the woman also gave her a smile, and then she hesitated, "Hello, I'm Joanne Rowling. Although I've said it just now, I still have to say it again, thank you for your help just now."
Chapter completed!