Chapter Eight The Reasons for the Fall of the Family
"Dad... I heard mom say yesterday that you are going to stop taking medicine again? Why is this? Didn't we agree to treat it well? Your emphysema is not incurable, you have to have confidence." Zhang Linsheng
He took a bowl of rice and handed it to his father, and said with some dissatisfaction, "If you stop taking medicine randomly in the future, I will be really angry."
"Ahem..." Zhang Qian's father named Zhang Longhai coughed twice, looked at Zhang Lin with some guilt and said softly, "Linlin...Father, it's not that dad doesn't want to continue treatment, but the medical expenses are really too expensive.
... You said that you work so hard to earn that salary every month, treat my illness, and educate your brother, how much can you have left? After all, you are going to get married, and our family can't even raise a dowry now.
Qi, why do you have the nerve to use your money again..."
"Dad! What are you talking about? I am your daughter. Of course I have to contribute to this family." Zhang Lin said anxiously, "My daughter is still young and doesn't want to get married yet. We will talk about marriage later.
Well, now you must insist on taking medicine, so that when our family is rich, we will wash your lungs and expel phlegm for treatment, and then perform surgery for a complete cure. Your disease is not in the advanced stage, and recovery is still very possible.
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"Linlin, don't I know my body? Emphysema is not that easy to cure, not to mention that my emphysema is also accompanied by pneumoconiosis. Just lung cleaning treatment costs hundreds of thousands, and to really do it
Isn't it possible to cure a major operation with millions? Millions! It's impossible to get it together even if you lose your whole family. It doesn't matter if this disease is incurable!" Zhang Longhai said this with some excitement, patted his chest and said sadly
, "Besides, this disease just makes me have difficulty breathing, makes my limbs weak and incapable of working, and it won't really make me seriously ill. I'm not a competent father, but I can't be a father who holds my children back!"
Zhang Lin sighed softly and didn't know what to say for a moment. Indeed, what her father Zhang Longhai said was right. With such a huge treatment fee, how long will it take to make money just by working? Don't tell me.
For a complete cure, the initial lung cleaning treatment will cost hundreds of thousands. For such a family with only a few walls, hundreds of thousands is simply an astronomical figure.
"Linlin, your father still insists on taking the medicine. Although he can't afford the treatment fee of hundreds of thousands for lung cleaning now, as long as the medicine continues, the condition will not continue to worsen. I will find a part-time job at night. From now on, his
I will be responsible for the money for the medicine. I just hope that you can help your brother. If your brother goes to high school or college, no matter how hard and tired you are, you must help him finish his studies, okay?" At this time, all the time
Qin Suzhen, the mother who didn't speak during the meal, said helplessly, "It's really hard on you two children when our family is like this."
"Dad, Mom, sister, I, I have something to tell you." After Zhang Qian heard this, he couldn't help but put down his bowl and chopsticks, and blurted out the words he had been holding in his heart, "If your son is unfilial, you raise him
I'm so old, I'm already very grateful. To be honest, now I'm in the third grade of junior high school, and my grades are not good. I have to go to high school, let alone high school, even ordinary high school is difficult to get into. Uncle Wang who runs a shop in front of the community has given me a
At the end of the month, I started to find a job as a security guard on weekends. It cost 1,000 yuan a month. I planned to stop studying after finishing the third grade of junior high school and start working as a security guard. This would also relieve the pressure on my family and allow me to be self-reliant.
There is no need to spend money at home..."
"No! Absolutely not!!" Before Zhang Qian could finish speaking, Zhang Longhai immediately objected loudly and dissatisfied, "I can tell you Zhang Qian, it doesn't matter what you want, but you must finish reading the book to me.
!My father’s biggest dream in his life is to send you to college. Your sister had no choice but to drop out of high school for this reason. Are you right to say this to your sister??”
"Dad! Why do I have to go to a certain university? All these expenses are unnecessarily adding to the burden on my family. I don't want to drag this family down because of me!" Zhang Qian excitedly pointed at the bruises and redness on his face and said, "You
Look, your son knows how to fool around and fight all day long, and he is not the material for studying at all! We can’t make our already poor family worse just because of your dream!"
"You...you want to make me mad to death, don't you!" Zhang Longhai gasped in anger. At this time, Zhang Lin immediately pinched Zhang Qian quietly, then hurriedly held her father's arm and began to massage his chest.
Seeing that his father was in pain, Zhang Qian immediately did not dare to speak any more. Except for the news playing on the TV, the family suddenly fell into a strange silence.
"With the advancement of our county government's three renovation and one demolition projects, the old city renovation plan has officially surfaced. So the specific areas that this renovation and demolition will involve will also affect our county's future construction planning.
What a profound impact it has, let Director Chen Xuwu of our county’s Construction Bureau conduct a detailed analysis and explanation..."
In the TV screen, the host handed the microphone to a middle-aged man with a Chinese character face, gold-rimmed glasses, and a burly and steady man in his forties. This man was Chen Xuwu, the director of the Construction Bureau mentioned by the host.
"Honey...Chen Xuwu? He is really Chen Xuwu! He, when did he come back to Andu County? And became the director of the Construction Bureau? Oh my god..." In the silence, Zhang Qian's mother Qin Suzhen suddenly let out a cry
She exclaimed, her eyes fixed on the TV screen!
"Chen Xuwu...it's really Chen Xuwu! Yes, it's him. Although he wears glasses, his appearance and figure are all the same Chen Xuwu we know. That's right!" Qin Suzhen said excitedly and happily, "My wife
, Great, he has now become the director of the Construction Bureau, which means he has reached great success. We can ask him for help. Your illness..."
"Su Zhen! What nonsense are you talking about! Even if he is really Chen Xuwu, after so many years, will he still buy your account? If he really meant it, he wouldn't have lost contact with him for so many years, and only now can he
Go back to Andu County!" Zhang Longhai said coldly, "I think Chen Xuwu has been the director of the Construction Bureau for more than a day or two, but has he ever come to us? You'd better stop having such wishful thinking!"
Zhang Longhai's words were like pouring cold water on her, causing Qin Suzhen to shut up immediately and look rather ugly. At this time, Zhang Lin was a little surprised and said, "Dad...you mean the one who was very close to you before...Uncle Chen? Oh my god,
He, he actually became a high official?"
Zhang Longhai did not respond to Zhang Lin's words, but Zhang Qian, who was confused, couldn't help asking, "What is going on? Does Chen Xuwu have anything to do with our family? Why do you all know, but I know nothing about it?"
?”
"Brother, you were still young at that time. I remember you were only born a few months ago. How could I know. Even I only have a little impression. If Uncle Chen hadn't come to play at home, I would not have remembered it.
” Zhang Lin said this and said to her father, “Dad, since Uncle Chen, who is so close to you, has become a high official, how about your illness, we have to ask him if he is willing to help? He...”
"Okay Linlin, stop talking...your dad is right. Uncle Chen of yours has been avoiding us for so many years, so he probably won't be willing to help." Qin Suzhen said with some frustration and dissatisfaction, "An ungrateful guy like this
,Thanks to us helping him so much back then, he..."
"Suzhen, don't talk anymore. The decision was made about what happened back then, so why bring it up again?" Zhang Longhai coughed twice and said, "Let the matter go by now..."
"In the past? Huh, you said it lightly, but I just don't accept it!" Qin Suzhen looked sad and angry, "If it weren't for him, Chen Xuwu, what would you be like now? If it weren't for him, Chen Xuwu, what would our family be like now? At that time,
, you are still the supply and demand director of the supply and marketing cooperative, and you should be the high-ranking official now! If it weren’t for Chen Xuwu, you would be reduced to working as a decorator and contracting this disease? I just don’t accept it, why can he live a carefree life?
, but we have to live in pain because of him! The reason for the decline of our family is all due to him, I can't do this kind of thing like smiling away our grudges!"
"Mom, what are you talking about? What on earth is going on?" Zhang Lin couldn't help but asked in surprise. Not only her, but Zhang Qian was also full of confusion and confusion.
"What's going on? Linlin, don't you know that your dad was fired from the supply and marketing cooperative because he made a mistake? Hum, let me tell you, the mistake he made was because of this Chen Xuwu!" Qin Suzhen pointed loudly and furiously
The image of Chen Xuwu, director of the Construction Bureau, who was being interviewed on the old TV said, "This is the man who caused your father to change from a supply and marketing cooperative director to a decorator. It was all his fault!"
"Shut up Qin Suzhen! How can you talk nonsense to your children like this!" Zhang Longhai frowned and said angrily, "What happened back then can't be slapped away, I am also responsible."
"You have a damn responsibility! Yes, you have a responsibility. Your responsibility is to trust your good friend Chen Xuwu so much that he caused our family to become what it is today!" Qin Suzhen said this, crying and sad, "
Your responsibility is to be good to your friends and be a good person! You said that Chen Xuwu gave birth to a little daughter. As a result, his wife lacked milk and his son became seriously ill and needed nutritional supplements. Unfortunately, he didn’t have enough money to ask you to borrow it, but at that time
Zhang Qian himself wanted milk powder tickets. He didn’t have enough, so he could lend him some extra! At that time, his daughter was short of milk and had no choice. It was because you, the deputy director of the warehouse, had the power, that you privately provided him with milk powder and saved the baby’s life.
Daughter, but later on the matter was exposed and someone found out. It was you who took the initiative and shouldered the responsibility. As a result, he was directly fired! And what about Chen Xuwu? He was a coward. He came to our house to apologize and was given the door.
After the baby kiss, he disappeared and left Andu County. There has been no news from him for nearly ten years, but now he is willing to come back!"
Qin Suzhen's words stunned Zhang Qian and Zhang Lin. They had no idea that their father would become like this! For a time, both of them felt a deep disgust and dissatisfaction with Chen Xuwu. One dared to do something but dare not take it seriously.
What qualifications does a man have to be a high official!
"Dad, a person like this has caused so much misery to our family. I must sue him and expose all his scandals! I don't think he is comfortable being the director of the Construction Bureau!" Zhang Qian slapped him with dissatisfaction.
The table said, "Why is our family so miserable? Why can Chen Xuwu sit back and relax!"