Xia Yang looked at Liu Gen, handed him the medicine he bought from the pharmacy and said, "Brother Liu Gen, remember to take the medicine on time and don't let the wound get wet. After I arrive in Nanhai, I will go to Nanhai Medical University to find you."
Liu Gen took out the change from the ticket purchase from his trouser pocket, without counting it, and handed it all to Xia Yang: "Thank you, Xia Yang, take it. The money for medicine and buns may not be enough." He couldn't take off his pants.
Taking money out of underwear.
Xia Yang didn't answer, and ran out of the house as if he was running away. A voice came in from outside the door: "I will go find you, Brother Liu Gen..."
Liu Gen was about to chase out, but was stopped by a female police officer named Wang: "Stop chasing, Liu Gen, you helped Xia Yang recover the robbed bag and she was injured. If you have to return the medicine money to her, she will
You will feel very sad, please sit down and drink some water."
Liu Gen glanced at the arm held by the female police officer. This was the first time, apart from his mother and sister, that a woman's hand touched his body so intimately. He felt that the hand holding his arm was cool and comfortable, and slowly
He sat down on the chair, drank the water in the paper cup in one gulp, and asked: "Sister Wang, which bus should I take to get to the Provincial People's Hospital?"
The female police officer surnamed Wang asked in surprise: "Are you going to visit Jia Hekai's father?"
"It's all because of me, Jia Hekai, that I was arrested. If I had been..." Liu Gen didn't say any more.
Liu Gen thought to himself: If he had not gone through this muddy water and Jia Hekai had grabbed Xia Yang's bag and escaped, his father in the hospital might have been able to successfully complete the operation, and his sister Jia Hehuan could have reported to the county No. 1 Middle School on time.
A poor student boy from a poor ravine, Liu Gen associated it with Jia Hekai's family from his own family. If he didn't lend a helping hand, no one would be able to help them. Jia Hekai's father, who was lying in the hospital, might never see his son again.
After Liu Gen listened to Jia Hekai's story with runny noses and tears, he made a determination: to help his family get through the difficulties before Jia Hekai was released from prison.
Liu Gen already had a plan in mind, so he repeatedly told Jia Hekai not to tell his family about his arrest.
"Take bus No. 2 and get off at the stop of Provincial People's Hospital." said the female police officer surnamed Wang.
"Can I put my bag here first?" Liu Gen asked, looking at the woven bag placed at the foot of the wall.
"Okay, but don't delay the train. There is a time on the ticket, so you have to come back half an hour early." From the case she handled, the female police officer surnamed Wang saw that Liu Gen was a simple young man.
She seems to have become pure in front of young people who have been polluted by the big dye vat of society.
Only then did Liu Gen remember that he had not had time to look carefully at the train ticket he had bought. He took out the ticket and saw shiny black characters printed on the square piece of light red paper: boarding time: 17:30 on August 28, 1999.
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"Excuse me, what time is it now?" Liu Gen asked the female police officer.
"A quarter past ten." The female police officer looked at her watch and replied.
"There are still six or seven hours, which is enough." Liu Gen put away the train ticket, stood up, and put the paper cup on the table: "Thank you, Sister Wang." He turned and walked out.
"Remember in advance..." Liu Gen didn't hear what the female police officer said later.
Liu Gen was on the bus, thinking about a question all the way: What should I do with my tuition?
In a ward shared by several people in the oncology surgery department of the Provincial People's Hospital, there are all hospitalized patients lying on the bed. On the innermost bed, a dark and thin old man is sitting beside the bed, helping him pinch his legs.
The four or five-year-old girl said: "Hehuan, where is your brother? Why haven't you seen him all morning?"
"Brother said he would go to the construction site to ask for wages." The girl named Hehuan was wearing a T-shirt that had been washed so that the original color could not be seen, but it was very clean. She had a thick and dark ponytail tied behind her head.
Her hair looked like it hadn't been washed for a few days and was stained with a little dust. Her watery eyes projected a pure and kind-hearted tenderness, and her pink face had the shy blush of a girl.
"Alas... It's all in vain to go." The old man sighed and said.
"Dad, you don't have to worry, my brother will find a way." Hehuan pretended to smile to comfort the old man.
"I said not to do this surgery, but your brother insisted on letting me do it. Isn't this a waste of money? It's not like dad doesn't know about our family's little wealth. You are about to start school and you are still waiting for money..." The old man
With a frown on his face and before he finished speaking, a nurse walked into the ward.
"Jia Qingsheng's family members, if they don't pay in full before five o'clock today, they won't be able to live here! The hospital's beds are very tight, and many patients are queuing up to wait for empty beds!" The nurse is here to give an ultimatum.
The old man raised his upper body from his knees and said, "Nurse, I request to be discharged from the hospital now."
Hehuan held her father down and said to the nurse with a smile on her face: "Sister, my brother is looking for money. He will be back in a while. He will pay all the money today."
The old man opened his mouth to say something else, but He Huan stopped him: "Dad, I told you that your disease can be cured as long as you undergo surgery. You cannot be missing from the family as the backbone of the family. Didn't you often say that you have to wait?"
I'll graduate from high school and go to college. I'll become a city dweller in the future and enjoy my blessings. Then you should listen to my brother and just lie down and don't move."
Liu Gen finally found out the ward where Jia Hekai's father lived. Before entering the ward, he first went to the smelly hut in the hospital, took out the money from his underwear, counted it over and over, and first put the money into the hospital.
The envelope of the notice was emptied, and he put twenty hundred-yuan bills into the envelope. This was the number Jia Hekai said, but after thinking about it, he counted ten more and added them to the envelope. He touched the deflated bag in front of his underwear and found that there were
It was less than 3,000 yuan, not even enough for tuition. I hesitated for a moment, cheered myself up, and murmured to myself: "There will be a way. I am a grown-up man, and I won't choke to death for this little money."
Just as the nurse who was urging money walked out of the ward, she met Liu Gen who was about to enter the ward.
"Who are you looking for?" the nurse asked, frowning and looking Liu Gen up and down.
"I...visit the patient." Liu Gen answered with a smile.
The nurse fixed her eyes on the spot where the band-aid was on Liu Gen's left cheek, and said coldly: "Now is not visiting time!"
"Just for a short while, I have something important..." Before Liu Gen finished speaking, the nurse glared and said:
"No! Go away! Otherwise I'll call the security guard!"
"I'm here to deliver the surgery fee to Jia Qingsheng." Liu Gen said quickly.
When she heard that it was for Jia Qingsheng's surgery fee, the nurse's frown relaxed, and she stepped aside and said, "Go in."
Walking into the ward, Liu Gen glanced at the old man and the girl sitting by the bed with her back to the door: "Excuse me, are you Jia Hekai's father?" Liu Gen stepped forward, looked at Jia Qingsheng and asked.
Hehuan turned her head and stared at Liu Gen with her watery eyes: "Who are you?"
The old man also turned his attention to Liu Gen: "I am Jia Hekai's father."
"Hello, old man." Liu Gen forced a smile, greeted the old man, and then glanced at Jia Hehuan: "Your name is Jia Hehuan, right?"
"How do you know my name?" Jia Hehuan blinked his watery eyes and asked warily.
"Your brother Jia Hekai told me." Liu Gen felt that his smile was ugly.
"Where is my brother? Are you his classmate?" Jia Hehuan asked with doubtful eyes flashing.
"Oh, your brother went to the South China Sea..."
"Brother has gone to the South China Sea!" Jia Hehuan stood up in shock, looked back at his father, and asked Liu Gen: "Brother, what are you going to the South China Sea for?"
On the way here, Liu Gen made up a story: "Oh, that's it, I met your brother at the train station. We were classmates before and we often played football together. My name is Liu Gen, and I live in Gangou Village.
Yes, haha... Your brother found a job over there in Nanhai. He had to catch the train and leave immediately. He didn't have time to go to the hospital to say goodbye to the old man. He asked me to bring this to you, saying it was the old man's surgery fee." Liu Gen.
With that said, he took out the envelope containing the money from his trouser pocket and handed it to Jia Hehuan.
Jia Hehuan was so happy that she reached out and took it, turned to her father and said, "Dad, look, my brother said he will definitely find the money."
"Young man, did my family members tell me where the money came from?" Jia Qingsheng asked doubtfully.
"Oh, I told you, it was the salary advanced by the factory recruiting people in Nanhai. Jia Hekai also asked me to tell you, old man, that you should be treated in the hospital with peace of mind. He would send money and write letters to his family every month. He also said
, I want Sister Hehuan to report to the County No. 1 Middle School as soon as possible after my uncle is discharged from the hospital. He will send back the tuition and living expenses on a monthly basis." Liu Gen told the lie he had thought up on the way as if it were true.
"Dad, it seems that I have found a good job this time. Unlike the construction site where he worked as a coolie before, he was not paid for two years." Jia Hehuan said holding the money tightly in his hand.
"How could such a good thing happen?" Jia Qingsheng said to himself doubtfully.
"Oh, Dad, don't think so much. Now that I've collected the money for your surgery, I'm going to pay it." Jia Hehuan was young after all, and thought that this society was like what was described in the text she studied.
How beautiful it is.
"Yes, old man, you don't have to think so much. Get well soon. Sister Hehuan is counting on you to support her going to college in the future." Liu Gen helped Jia Hehuan comfort the old man with a smile on his face.
"Should I call you brother too?" Jia Hehuan looked at Liu Gen with a smile: "Brother Liu Gen, what's wrong with your face?"
"My face?" Liu Gen reached out and touched it, and replied with a smile: "I accidentally scratched it, and the skin was injured. It's not a problem."
"You sit down for a while, I'll go pay dad's surgery fee. The nurse came just now to urge me." Jia Hehuan said and was about to walk out of the ward.
"I won't sit down anymore, I have something else to do." Liu Gen replied.
"Are you working in the provincial capital?" Jia Hehuan asked.
"Yes, I took the time to come here at noon. I should go back now." Liu Gen said goodbye to the old man perfunctorily, and walked out of the ward with Jia Hehuan.
"Brother Liu Gen, thank you." Jia Hehuan and Liu Gen walked into the elevator and thanked them shyly.
"You're welcome, you should." Liu Gen looked at Jia Hehuan and thought of his sister Liu Zhi.