At the same time, Na Wei was on the phone at a nearby coffee shop. The reason why he didn't go home was mainly because he didn't want his mother to see him groveling and begging for help.
"Hey, Mr. Wu, it's my boss... Oh, you can do that first. Let's have dinner together some other time."
"Mr. Li, why can't you even hear my voice? Old man, that's right, there's a meeting, okay, we'll talk later."
Na Wei sat in a chair with some dejection and made more than a dozen phone calls. The bosses who used to be polite to him now all changed their faces.
At this time, Na Weicai deeply realized what his younger brother Na Juan once said: Is your success brought by your own abilities or by the platform?
Core competitiveness, he is already this age, what other core competitiveness does he have?
Loyalty? It turns out that this thing is worthless.
Just when Na Wei was confused, his cell phone suddenly rang. When he saw the caller ID, it was Shen Lin calling.
"Hey, okay, I'm right next to your company and will pick you up right away."
When Na Wei and Shen Lin hurried to the hospital, Shen Lei was leaning on the bed with a sad face.
The hospital bed has been covered with white cloth. Mother Xie has passed away.
"Where's Xie Meilan? Why are you alone here?"
Shen Lei covered his face and said painfully: "She just went to the company and is on her way here now."
"Her mother is like this, why is she still in a class? Hasn't she always said that she is very filial?" Shen Lin was speechless for a while.
While he was talking, Xie Meilan ran in, lifted the white cloth covering the body, and cried bitterly while holding the cold body.
"Honey, don't be too sad. The doctor said that if we continue to delay like this, our mother will only suffer more..."
Before she could finish her words, Xie Meilan roughly pushed her away.
Xie Meilan stared at Shen Lei with red eyes: "My mother is dead and I don't have to spend money anymore. You are happy now."
Shen Lei looked at Xie Meilan in disbelief. Shen Lin couldn't bear to see her brother being bullied like this, so she said to Xie Meilan.
"Your mother just passed away. It's understandable that you're sad, but you can't blame Shen Lei for everything, right? Didn't Shen Lei spend any money to treat your mother? He just borrowed two hundred thousand from us."
Na Wei secretly tugged on Shen Lin's sleeve, trying to smooth things over. After all, quarreling in the hospital was not a good look.
Shen Lin couldn't stand it anymore, so she threw away Na Wei's hand and pointed at Shen Lei: "As far as I know, Shen Lei has been taking good care of your mother during the past few months when she was hospitalized. During the New Year, he even You didn't even return home, so you just stayed in front of the hospital bed. How about you? How many days did you take care of your mother wholeheartedly?"
"Look at Shen Lei's haggard and disheveled look, and then look at you, so bright and radiant. I'm just wondering, is it your mother or his mother lying on this hospital bed?"
Xie Meilan was so shocked that she broke her guard and rushed towards Shen Lin. Na Wei and Shen Lei quickly separated the two of them.
Fortunately, the nurse came with the doctor at this time.
"Stop making noises. This is a hospital. If you make any more noise, you will call the police."
Xie Meilan glared at Shen Lin fiercely, then turned around and threw herself on the hospital bed crying bitterly.
Upon seeing this, Shen Lin called her younger brother Shen Lei out of the ward.
"You can figure out the next thing by yourself. If you have any questions, please contact your brother-in-law. I'll go back to work first."
Shen Lei also knew that his sister and Xie Meilan were at odds with each other and did not want to get involved anymore.
"It's okay. Sister, you and your brother-in-law should go and do your own business. I was actually a little panicked just now. I didn't need you to make a trip."
Na Wei said: "Let me stay. Anyway, I have nothing to do now. Your sister can just go back."
After Shen Lin left, Shen Lei asked doubtfully: "Brother-in-law, you just said you had nothing to do..."
"I left every day and resigned." Na Wei forced out a smile that was uglier than crying.
Shen Lei didn't know how to comfort Na Wei for a moment, but Na Wei patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, your brother-in-law hasn't seen any big storms in so many years. He just needs to find another one when his job is gone. Besides, I also gave him some money before I left." Once you get options, it’s okay to maintain your life for the time being.”
"That's good, that's good."
For the next whole day, Na Wei was busy with Xie Meilan's mother's affairs for Shen Lei. Shen Lei's personality was not good at communicating with others. In addition, in the past few months, he had to take care of his mother-in-law while working. The whole person was seriously deprived of sleep and his head was numb.
Xie Meilan looked completely lost and couldn't handle the matter at all, so Na Wei had no choice but to rush around and spend more than 20,000 yuan to send Xie's mother's body to the funeral parlor.
By the time he finished his work and it was already dark, when Na Wei returned home, Shen Lin had already returned home from get off work.
"How's it going? Is my brother okay?" Shen Lin asked with concern.
Na Wei took off his coat, sat down at the dining table, and sighed: "What can happen to him, but it's hard to say for Xie Meilan."
"Huh, what can happen to her? I think she is in very good condition." Shen Lin said angrily.
Na Wei took a few mouthfuls of food and waved the chopsticks in his hand: "That's not what I'm talking about. What I mean is that she is full of complaints about your brother. If she doesn't solve it, the problem will be big."
Shen Lin was not happy when she heard this: "She still has complaints? It is said that there is no filial son before a long-term illness. My brother is still taking care of her mother while working. The chicken soup has never stopped, and she has done her job. She still What do you think, she is so filial, why don't you see her staying up late every day to take care of her mother?"
Na Wei swallowed his food and analyzed: "You think so, but Xie Meilan doesn't think so."
"She will only think that your brother is useless and can't make money, which is why her mother can't afford targeted drugs and finally dies in pain."
Shen Lin said angrily: "My brother has also tried his best. All his savings over the years have been emptied. We even loaned him more than 200,000 yuan. Besides, there is no medicine for late-stage lung cancer. The longer it is delayed, the more likely it will be." Her mother suffers more."
"The problem now is that Xie Meilan is not as rational as you. She may have accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction with your brother, but it just exploded through her mother's incident."
Hearing what Na Wei said, Shen Lin was a little confused: "If you want to say that, it seems to be true. Ever since we bought this apartment, Xie Meilan's attitude has been very cold every time she comes. I thought that was her personality. Now It seems that he is jealous of us and dislikes my brother for not having enough money to buy a house?"
Na Wei nodded and analyzed: "Honey, think about it, where does Xie Meilan work in a financial institution? Although her monthly salary is only 20,000, who do she come into contact with? She talks and laughs with those rich people every day, After a long time, you will inevitably feel that you are in the same class as those rich people. When you go home and see your brother, although he is a stable civil servant, he can't even raise the down payment for a house. What will she think? "
Shen Lin's face was full of melancholy: "I remember when Xie Meilan first got together with my brother, she was a very cheerful and optimistic person. She rented a house with my brother and got married for so many years without any complaints. I thought she was pretty good and kept trying to persuade me. If I was nice to her, why would she become like this?"
"There are three things a man should not marry: a nurse, a teacher, or a financial woman. The environment is what changes people the most."
Hearing what Na Wei said, Shen Lin couldn't help but become nervous.
"According to this, Xie Meilan wants to divorce my brother?"
"Most likely yes, and with Xie Meilan's character, it is very likely that she will blame all the fault on your brother. You also know your brother's character, it is easy to get into trouble..."
The more Shen Lin listened, the more frightened she became: "Husband, why don't you stop looking for a job and watch over Shen Lei for me these days. Don't let anything happen to him, or my parents..."
"Honey, don't worry, I will keep an eye on Shen Lei. Don't be too anxious. After all, this is just our guess. Maybe the situation is not as bad as we thought?" Na Wei comforted.
…
However, the situation was actually worse than Na Wei thought. After Xie Meilan and Shen Lei returned home, Xie Meilan hugged her mother's portrait and lay down on the bed without saying a word, as if she had lost her soul.
Shen Lei asked for help, but there was no response. In addition, Xie's mother's illness had been recurring these days, which made him suffer so much that he fell asleep without even washing.
Xie Meilan felt more and more dissatisfied as she listened to Shen Lei's slight snoring.
It was daylight in a blink of an eye, and Shen Lei was pushed awake by Xie Meilan.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Xie Meilan holding the portrait, and she quickly got up.
Xie Meilan just walked out without saying a word, and Shen Lei followed her without even bothering to wash up and put on his glasses.
All the way to the funeral parlor, since Xie’s mother lost her husband early and had no relatives at home, there was no need to hold a memorial service and just cremate the body.
After the cremation, the staff of the funeral home began to sell urns of various price ranges, ranging from 500 to 5,000.
Shen Lei originally preferred an urn worth one thousand yuan, but Xie Meilan directly picked up the most expensive one.
After selecting the urn, the staff of the funeral home asked again.
"Are you planning to return to your hometown for burial or stay in the capital?"
Xie Meilan didn't even think about it and said decisively: "Of course I will stay in the capital."
"Yes, stay in the capital. We are all in the capital. It will be convenient for us to come and worship later." Shen Lei quickly agreed.
As a result, the staff of the funeral home gave a "kind" reminder: "Since both your cremation and the urn were handled at our funeral home, we have a special service. If you don't plan to buy a cemetery, you can store the urn at The fee for one year of storage here is only 50 yuan."
Shen Lei was a little moved, but before he could hesitate, Xie Meilan refused directly: "No, we buy a cemetery."
"I can't let my mother die without a place to bury her."
The corners of Shen Lei's mouth moved, but he finally swallowed the words that came to his lips.
Just when the two were about to go see the cemetery, Na Wei rushed over.
"Brother-in-law, why are you here?"
"Hey, I resigned anyway, so I came over to see if there is anything I can do to help."
Shen Lei wanted to say something else, but Xie Meilan had already walked out holding the portrait.
Not long after, Na Wei drove the two of them to the cemetery. When asked about the price, Shen Lei was dumbfounded.
"There are two types of cemeteries here, one is hillside burial, the prices are 16.88w, 26.88w, 36.88w..."
Na Wei was shocked when he heard this. He had never known the price of a cemetery before. He didn't expect it to be so expensive. It was almost as expensive as a house in a small county town.
Shen Lei also quickly asked: "What about another kind?"
"The other is ecological burial, which is a 3.8w flower bed burial with ashes retained and a 1.68w tree burial without ashes."
Shen Lei looked at Xie Meilan and whispered: "Honey, why don't we buy this flower bed for burial? What do you think?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Meilan turned around and walked out. Shen Lei was a little confused, but Na Wei reminded him to catch up quickly.
"Honey, if you feel bad, we can buy something more expensive. Don't leave in such a hurry."
Xie Meilan said in a sarcastic tone: "You even have to worry about my mother's cemetery and weigh the pros and cons. You really know how to live a good life."
"Honey, I just think it's more important when our mother is alive..."
Before Shen Lei could finish speaking, Xie Meilan interrupted rudely: "Did my mother have a good day when she was here? I want to take her to live in the capital. Do we have a place for her to live? If we had her earlier, My mother will take it over so that her minor illness will not turn into a terminal illness."
Shen Lei felt as if his breath was blocked in his chest, and he couldn't let it out quickly.
"Is that why I don't let our mother come to the capital? I have already said that we can rent a bigger house if our mother comes here. But you said that our mother is used to her hometown and doesn't want to come here..."
Xie Meilan sneered: "Renting a house, is that a home? Shen Lei, have you ever thought about how many years we have been in the capital? Why do we have to rent a house while others live in big houses, and worry about it all day long? The landlord kicked us out."
Faced with Xie Meilan's questioning, Shen Lei felt guilty: "Honey, I know I have wronged you by letting you rent a house with me all these years. I will listen to you, whether it's 268,000 or 368,000."
Xie Meilan said sarcastically: "If you had come up with this money earlier, my mother would have used that targeted drug long ago."
"Shen Lei, even if I'm with you, I can't live well and I can't die happily."
Shen Lei froze on the spot, waiting for Xie Meilan to take several steps before he came back to his senses and explained.
"You know how much money our family has. We have spent it all and we have no money. We still owe my sister two hundred thousand."
Xie Meilan left the cemetery without looking back.
Na Wei patted Shen Lei on the shoulder from behind. Shen Lei asked at a loss: "Brother-in-law, did I really do something wrong?"
"Shen Lei, we are all mortals, who can avoid making mistakes, but in this matter, I think the fundamental question is not whether you made a mistake, but whether your wife wants to blame all the mistakes on you. "
Shen Lei didn't understand for a moment: "Brother-in-law, I..."
"Haven't you noticed that your wife has changed?"
Pictures of life appeared in Shen Lei's mind. When he and Xie Meilan just got together, they were riding bicycles. Xie Meilan was sitting in the back seat with a happy smile on her face. I don't know when it started. There was no more smiling face in the back seat of the eDonkey.