"Xiao Zhang, are you back from the hospital? How is your mother's condition? Is it serious?"
In an old unit dormitory, an old aunt in her 60s or 70s was sitting by the flower bed enjoying the cool air. When she saw her neighbors in the same unit, she greeted her warmly.
"Aunt Xu!" Xiao Zhang greeted and said with a wry smile: "I just came back from the hospital. My mother, alas, the doctor suggested that it is best to take conservative treatment!"
"Oh, there's nothing we can do about it. Your mother is already over seventy years old. Surgery would be too risky!"
Aunt Xu sighed and shook her head. They were all old neighbors who had lived together for twenty or thirty years and were very familiar with each other.
When I think of the old lady I was chatting with a few days ago, who is now suffering from a fatal disease like cancer, I can't help but sympathize with her and feel a little sad at the same time.
Xiao Zhang’s mother is two years younger than me. She just saw her grandson going to middle school. It was time for him to enjoy his happiness, but in the end—
"The doctor also considered that my mother is too old and not in good health, so she did not recommend surgery!" Xiao Zhang looked tired.
The doctor didn't explain it too clearly, but actually everyone understood what he meant.
A situation like his mother's can only be treated conservatively.
Have surgery?
If an elderly person enters the operating room alive, whether he can come out alive is a question.
Even if the surgery is successful, there is no guarantee that there will be no other problems.
At most, the difference is just a few more months of life.
However, if nothing is done and the old man is left waiting to die, Xiao Zhang cannot do it.
It's not just about money or not, or whether he is filial or filial. The key is that he can't get over the hurdle in his heart.
Aunt Xu felt pity for Xiao Zhang when she saw his physical and mental exhaustion. She suddenly thought of something and opened her mouth. When the words came to her lips, she swallowed them back.
Xiao Zhang noticed Aunt Xu's abnormality and couldn't help but be curious, so he asked casually, "Aunt Xu, do you have something to tell me? Just tell me, is it that the lights at home are broken or the sewer is blocked? I
Help you get it!"
Xiao Zhang's enthusiasm is not only due to neighborly relations, but also due to professional reasons.
He is a policeman, and he usually helps the elderly and aunties in the community to find cats and dogs, and does this and that.
Seeing Xiao Zhang's warm-hearted look, Aunt Xu finally couldn't hold it back and lowered her voice and said, "Xiao Zhang, if you can't do it, just take your mother to the health club of He's family on East Street!"
At first, when Xiao Zhang saw Aunt Xu’s mysterious appearance, he thought she was going to introduce him to some old Chinese doctor.
It is said that since his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, relatives and friends around her helped to find good hospitals or doctors.
Xiao Zhang also took his mother to the provincial capital to see it, but the conclusion was the same.
One doctor couldn't bear it and said one more thing: "Why don't you try Chinese medicine?"
This is probably a slightly better suggestion than waiting to die, and it can barely give the family the last bit of comfort!
As a child born in the 1980s, Xiao Zhang has been taking antibiotics and various Western medicines since he was a child. When he heard about traditional Chinese medicine, his first reaction was that he was a liar.
However, traditional Chinese medicine has a bad reputation, but it is still a legal and compliant form of medical treatment.
As for the "health club" that Aunt Xu refers to, isn't it just a place that sells health care products?
Xiao Zhang often receives calls from the children of some elderly people and has to go to specialty stores and clubs to mediate disputes every month.
Although Xiao Zhang has rarely received police calls from the He family in recent years, he often goes to other clubs in the county.
Every time I go there, there is a big argument about "whether health care products are a scam?" and sometimes it turns into a big fight between the old man's son and his daughter and the salesman.
Having witnessed too many farces with his own eyes, Xiao Zhang would have a physiological disgust when he heard words like "health products" and "club"!
He never expected that when his mother was terminally ill and the whole family was in dire straits, Aunt Xu, who usually seemed to be relatively reliable, would secretly ask him to take his mother to some health club.
What?
Does she still want to recommend them to buy health care products that can cure all diseases?
Let him, a dignified policeman, go give money to scammers?!
This, this is not a joke.
Xiao Zhang would definitely not go to those health clubs or anything like that. Not only would he not take his mother there, but he also didn't want people like Aunt Xu to be deceived.
"...Aunt Xu, our institute has organized activities more than once and repeatedly promoted to everyone that health products can only protect health, but cannot cure diseases at all-"
Xiao Zhang said seriously.
However, before he could finish his words, Aunt Xu waved her hand impatiently, "I know that health products cannot cure diseases. I didn't let you go to other people's clubs either. You go to Stanley Ho. He,
I can definitely help you!”
Xiao Zhang wanted to say something more, but seeing Aunt Xu's stubborn look, he swallowed the words that came to his lips.
Alas, working in the community all year round, he interacts with these elderly people almost every day.
Xiao Zhang knows the stubbornness and perseverance of these old people better than anyone else.
Not to mention him as an outsider, even the old man’s sons and daughters are almost scratching their heads, but they still believe in those scammers who sell health care products!
"Oh, Xiao Zhang, we have been neighbors for 20 or 30 years, and your mother and I have a very good relationship. Could I still harm you?"
Seeing Xiao Zhang's appearance, Aunt Xu was so anxious that she almost slapped her chest and promised: "Really, just take your mother to the He family's club. Xiao Zhang, I tell you, if it weren't for our
The relationship between the two families is good, and seeing how kind you are, I, I wouldn’t take the initiative to recommend you!”
"I know, you young people always think that us old guys are confused and are coaxed around by those liars every day!"
"...Hmph, we have eaten more salt than you have eaten, will we be deceived? If you still want to save your mother, go to Stanley Ho. I dare not say that it will be completely cured, but it can be cured by talking less.
Your mother will live another three to five years!"
As Aunt Xu talked, she felt annoyed at first, and simply waved her hand, "Okay, okay, I won't say anything anymore, so that you don't have to scold me as an old fool in your heart!"
"No, Aunt Xu, I didn't scold you. I just think that health care products really don't cure diseases, and they are very expensive -"
Xiao Zhang swallowed it back before he finished speaking.
Because Aunt Xu had already stood up, picked up the ponytail and went home.
have to!
The old lady is really angry.
Seeing the angry back of the old lady, Xiao Zhang was not angry, but instead became somewhat interested in that Stanley Ho figure.
Although no police reports have been received about the He family in recent years, Stanley Ho and his club are still quite famous in the county.
In the dormitory of their unit, there are several old men and women who are customers of the He family.
However, unlike other salesmen who diligently come to be their godsons and goddaughters, the He family seems to have never visited customers.
Also, Aunt Xu seems to believe that the health products sold by the He family can cure diseases.
Is there any ambitious misdirection in this?
If this is the case, Stanley Ho is suspected of fraud.
"Find some time to go to the He family's club!" Xiao Zhang thought to himself.
