The sound of "beep, beep, beep..." came from the precision instrument, and the strong smell of disinfectant made Chu Qiao's whole stomach tighten and hurt. She took a breath, endured the stomach pain, and looked through the glass window.
He looked at his frail and thin father on the hospital bed.
The familiar face was pale at the moment, with no color at all, and the eye sockets were sunken deeply. The thin body was covered with all kinds of tubes. These tubes looked so thin, but they were frighteningly expensive.
.And I have already used up very little money from my part-time job...
"You! What are you looking at? Will you make money if you look at it? In my opinion, sooner or later, the doctor will have to remove all the tubes on his body!" A sharp voice suddenly sounded in Chu Qiao's ears.
.
When Chu Qiao heard the voice, she was startled, turned her head, and met Aunt Xue's disgusted eyes.
"Aunt Xue, no! Dad's disease requires these tubes. Without them, his disease will only worsen faster!"
Aunt Xue fanned the wind lazily with her handkerchief, squinting her red eyes and looking careless: "I can't care! I thought that marrying this old man would make Xiaoruo and I's life easier, but I didn't expect that we would be involved in such a huge loss.
Goods! No money? No money, just pull out all these pipes! If you die, it will be over! Save us the trouble!"
Aunt Xue is Chu Qiao's stepmother. She usually treats Chu Qiao fairly well in front of her father. But whenever her father is away, Aunt Xue never gives her a good look and lets her do this and that. She can do all these things.
Bear with it, because as long as dad is happy, it doesn't matter, it really doesn't matter!
But now that her father is sick and needs someone to take care of her, how can she leave herself so clean?
"Aunt Xue! Dad has never treated you or your sister badly! He was frugal and gave all his money to you. I don't believe you have no money at all!" Chu Qiao tightened the corners of her mouth, like a growl.
The little beast, but its body could not help but tremble.
Aunt Xue stopped fanning her hand and sneered contemptuously: "Hey! That little money is nothing! How can it be enough? You! If you are really filial, you can make more money to treat your father's illness! I see you
Ah, my academic qualifications and abilities are quite average, but my face is pretty good! If you seduce one or two rich people, won’t all the money come from you?”
"Aunt Xue!" How could she say such a thing?
Chu Qiao's teeth were pressed against her lips, and her eyes were filled with mist. Suddenly, she raised her arm, raised her hand, and slapped Aunt Xue hard, as if she had used all her strength. It didn't matter if Aunt Xue didn't treat her well.
, but how could she not care about her father at all?
"Bang..." There was a loud sound, especially loud in the silent corridor of the ward.
"You... who do you think you are!" Aunt Xue covered her somewhat red and swollen face with her left hand and looked at Chu Qiao in disbelief. The next second, her right hand quickly rose up, facing Chu Qiao in tit-for-tat
Throw it away from his face.
It might be a louder sound than before, but Chu Qiao didn't even hear any sound, nor did she feel any pain. She just felt a sweet and fishy smell slowly spreading in her mouth, and her left cheek was burning. Does it hurt?
?I don’t know anymore. No matter how painful it is, it can’t compare to the pain in my heart.
Aunt Xue pointed at Chu Qiao with her index finger domineeringly, her eyes widened: "Huh! Don't forget, no matter what I do, I am still your stepmother? If I don't teach you a little lesson, do you really think you can go to heaven? What if you don't have money?
, do you think I will let you, a little bitch, go home?" After saying that, she glanced at Chu Qiao disdainfully and left arrogantly.
Money, money, money...
Never before have I felt that money is so important as at this moment.
After standing for a while, Chu Qiao moved her lips and felt that her cheek hurt. The burning pain spread bit by bit throughout her left cheek. Although the pain was so intense, her consciousness was still so clear.
Chu Qiao covered her cheeks that were swollen like steamed buns, and her hot tears fell drop by drop. She looked at the glass window unconsciously, and memories of a family of three having fun appeared in her mind, and she clenched her right hand into a fist.
She secretly swore in her heart: Dad, I will definitely make money to cure your disease!
——————————In early autumn, the leaves of the French plane trees on the roadside have begun to turn yellow and are blown to pieces by the wind.
As the lights began to turn on, the coolness of the night was invading Chu Qiao's skin little by little, causing her to subconsciously shrink her shoulders to absorb the subtle warmth.
Her heart was erratic, and she felt like a person holding a driftwood in the sea. The water was constantly turbulent, but she didn't know where she would go with the waves, let alone when she would be safe.
An. Although she secretly swore to herself in her heart, where would she get so much money? The hope was so slim. When Chu Qiao thought of reality, she felt that her heart was tightly strangled by a thin steel wire.
The pain was so painful that it was hard to suffocate.
Chu Qiao took a deep breath, shook her head, and continued walking in the direction of Shan Zihao's house.
After walking for a while, she walked downstairs to Shan Zihao's unit, raised her head, and habitually looked at the rightmost window on the eleventh floor.
It was dark. That dark window, illuminated by the lights from other windows, looked so lonely and gloomy in the dark night.
He's not in now!
Chu Qiao lowered her head, feeling disappointed. She thought she was careless. She didn't even call Zihao before she came, so she came looking for him in a hot-headed manner. Now that she came here, she just missed the point.
Chu Qiao smoothed her bangs that were blown by the wind, and was about to turn around and leave when she heard two voices coming from not far away.
"Zihao, no, no! You are so bad!"
"I'm bad! Okay, I'll listen to you and show you how bad I am!"
They obviously intended to lower their voices, but their slightly excited voices were heard clearly and word for word by Chu Qiao. She clenched her hands, her knuckles turned slightly white, and the blood all over her body
It rushed to the top of his head almost instantly.
Zihao? Is it Zihao? Maybe it's just the same name? But that voice is very familiar to her.
Obviously only a few seconds had passed, but to Chu Qiao, it felt like centuries had passed. Tears were already uncontrollably sliding down the corners of her eyes. She took a breath, turned around in surprise, and looked at
To the loving couple.
I thought that if I was mentally prepared, I wouldn't be too sad when I watch it again.
But when she really saw it, at that moment, Chu Qiao felt that the sky was about to fall. Zihao and a strange woman were kissing each other affectionately, their lips entwined selflessly, as if there were only him and her in the whole world.
.As for her, she was obviously his girlfriend in name, but she seemed redundant at the moment. The only thing she could do was to look at them silently.
Tears flowed freely on her face. She wanted to question him, wanted to ask him what was all this for? How could it become like this? However, Chu Qiao just lowered her head and forced herself to turn around.
Step out of here.
Chu Qiao wanted the answer, but she was afraid of knowing the answer. Besides, what would happen if she knew it? Nothing, nothing could be changed! He had already fallen in love with someone else and no longer loved her, so no matter what he did, he would not be able to change anything.
What's the use?
Chu Qiao walked with long strides at first, and then gradually started to run. She tried her best to run, escape, and escape from here quickly. It seemed that only in this way could she relieve the pain in her heart.
In her haste, she bumped into a passerby who was unable to dodge.
"You bastard, you don't have eyesight when you're walking! You're going to be reincarnated in a hurry!" a passerby cursed.
After hearing this, Chu Qiao was not angry. On the contrary, a self-deprecating smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. Laugh or scold, she really has nothing today.
At this moment, as if even God didn't think Chu Qiao was pitiful enough, light rain began to fall sparsely in the dark night sky. But in the blink of an eye, the rain suddenly became stronger, and raindrops fell from the sky densely.
This rain was like the last straw that pressed on Chu Qiao, causing her grief to burst out from the bottom of her heart.
"Zi, Zihao doesn't want me anymore, he really doesn't want me anymore. Dad, dad, what should I do? How should I make a lot of money..." Chu Qiao was tired from running, slowed down, and murmured in a low voice
As he stood, his whole body began to tremble unconsciously.
The rain wet her face, and under the cover of late night, the tears on the girl's face could no longer be seen.