"You'll know when you get there. You're not a doctor, so why don't you just follow along?"
"you……"
Tang Shuxin didn't know what to say. It was the first time she saw such shamelessness, and she was a little angry but helpless.
"What about me, can I go together?"
When Shen Xue saw that he was going, she felt very unhappy and asked.
"No, you take care of Tang Qiang here, we will be back soon." Zhang Yang said to her.
Although Tang Qiang recovered quickly, because he was too seriously injured at the time, he is still unable to get out of bed and walk independently and needs someone to take care of him.
What's more, I went to Wei Hengxun's house this time and I didn't know when he would be back. I couldn't let him lie here alone.
"Okay, then you guys come back quickly." Shen Xue pouted her little mouth and agreed aggrievedly.
"Sister, bring these fruits." Tang Qiang pointed to the fruits on the cupboard.
He had been listening to everyone's conversation just now and couldn't get a word in at all. Of course, he also knew about the illness of old man Wei Hengxun.
Is it useful to get fruit? He knew it himself, he just wanted to express his feelings about not being able to visit.
"Well, let's go."
Wei Hengxun had no time to be polite and turned around and hurried out of the ward.
He drove the car very fast, his brows furrowed tightly, and he kept glancing at the cell phone placed on the dashboard along the way, which showed his inner anxiety.
The car drove out of the city and headed north for more than two hours. There were no high-rise buildings on both sides of the road, but villages and endless farmland.
Fortunately, it has always been a road. Although it is getting narrower and narrower, it is not bumpy.
After driving for an unknown amount of time, we finally entered a small town.
Having grown up here, Wei Hengxun was naturally very familiar with it. After turning a few corners, he drove into a hospital.
The hospital cannot be compared with those in the city. The three-story building is very dilapidated, but it is very busy.
It's just that the patients coming in and out are all plainly dressed, even farmers covered in dirt.
After Wei Hengxun got off the car, he took out his phone and walked quickly into the hospital while making a call, with Zhang Yang and Tang Shuxin following closely behind.
He did not go to the ward, but went directly to a department on the second floor. After pushing the door and entering, there sat a doctor and a middle-aged man in his fifties.
"Dad, what disease does mom have?" Wei Hengxun asked the middle-aged man.
Wei Hengxun's father's name is Wei Hongcai. His dark and thin face, gray hair, and deep wrinkles on his forehead reveal his vicissitudes of life.
The clothes were a grass-green military uniform that had long been worn out. It was obvious that the clothes were not worn by his son's company and he was unwilling to throw them away.
A pair of calloused hands held a medical record and were trembling, and her lips moved but hesitated to speak.
"You are the patient's son, right?"
The doctor picked up a CT chart and shook it professionally with a "click" sound, and continued: "We have been waiting for you to come back and make a decision."
The doctor is in his forties, with fair skin, glasses, neatly combed hair, a chubby figure, and a white coat, with a solemn look on his face.
"What is my mother's disease?"
"She has advanced gastric cancer and will not survive for at most half a month."
The doctor sighed and continued: "If the malignant tumor is surgically removed and combined with chemotherapy, you can live for three more months. Of course, if a miracle occurs, you may live longer."
Professional sensitivity prevents doctors from speaking too harshly, but it also shows that even if the patient undergoes surgery, he only has three months to live.
How many people can a miracle happen to?
"Why is it in the late stage? Why wasn't it treated earlier?" Wei Hengxun looked excited and choked up in his words.
"Alas! How could I have thought of such a disease at that time?"
Wei Hong stood up tremblingly, her face full of guilt and regret, and continued: "At first, your mother just didn't want to eat. She thought she was overworked from the farm work, so she didn't think much about it. Then it got worse and worse, and she started vomiting even after eating.
, your mother was afraid of spending money, so she refused to come to the hospital for a check-up. In the end, she couldn't hold on any longer, and it was only after she got to the hospital that she found out..."
Zhang Yang knew this. Rural people were very frugal and their food was very poor. In addition, when the farming season was busy, they often ate cold rice and pickles.
They don’t even eat, so most people have stomach problems, which vary in severity.
"Then do the surgery quickly." Wei Hengxun said without hesitation.
"The operation fee is more than 200,000 yuan. How can you get so much money?"
Wei Hongcai continued with a trembling voice: "Is it worth spending so much money to survive for three months?"
After hearing what he said, Zhang Yang also understood that people in rural areas are said to be aggressive by nature. If they have a slight illness or discomfort, they don't even need to go to the hospital. They don't even want to take injections and medicines. They can just survive it.
In fact, they are afraid of spending money. It is difficult for rural people to make money, so they spend every penny in half.
The so-called fierceness will pass if you endure it, it is nothing more than suffering a little more.
But can you really get through it? Minor illnesses accumulate into serious ones, and when you get older you will be diagnosed as terminal.
Even if you don't spend the little money you save, you may even go bankrupt and still not be able to save your life. This is the tragedy of the poor.
"I will find a way and do the surgery first."
"You think of a way? Tell me what you think of?"
Wei Hongcai looked excited and continued with tears: "What's the use of your little subsidy? If you have to pay for the operation now, where are you going to get it? If you can get the money, I will agree to the operation immediately. Who doesn't want your mother to do it?"
How many more days can you live?”
Of course he was speaking out of anger. How could an old man not know about his son's condition?
If you were really rich, would your family be so poor now?
"I..." Wei Hengxun had a painful look on his face, not knowing what to do.
Two hundred thousand is not a small amount for ordinary people, let alone a family of farmers for generations. How much money can they make a year from that little farmland?
He said it was easy to get money, but where to get it? He had no idea.
"Hengxun, dad asked you to come back, not to embarrass you, nor to ask you to make a decision."
Wei Hong walked up to her son, patted him on the shoulder helplessly and choked out: "Dad just wants you to see your mother again and spend more time with her. She doesn't have much time, and she can't delay you for a few days."
At this point, he wiped away his tears and continued: "Without you, there will still be others to carry out the mission, but we only have a son like you..."
"Dad, stop talking." Wei Hengxun, with tears streaming down his face, suddenly turned around and rushed to the door.
boom!
He punched the door, tearing it open, and with a bang, his head hit the glass of the department door.
The glass shards scratched his forehead and blood flowed, which showed the grief and self-blame in his heart. Of course, it was more of a helplessness.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Yang's eyes were filled with red eyes. What could be more painful than watching a loved one waiting to die, but having no choice but to do anything about it?
"Hengxun, don't be impulsive."
Tang Shuxin rushed over with tears in her eyes, grabbed his arm tightly and said.
"What do we get? We go through life and death every day and fight with our lives, but what do we get in return?"
Wei Hengxun burst into tears and continued excitedly: "I need money but no money, I need time but no time..."
He didn't continue to finish. He didn't know if he was still worried about the negative impact of being a soldier at this moment, or if he was so sad that he couldn't speak at all.
It is undeniable that Zhang Yang was really moved and even felt that these soldiers were great.
The doctor was already stunned at this moment, standing there not daring to make a sound, staring blankly at the scene in front of him.
"Don't worry, let's find a solution together."
Tang Shuxin continued to comfort her softly: "I still have tens of thousands of dollars left. I will ask everyone to help me get some more later, and I can always get through this difficulty."
"Girl, thank you."
Wei Hongcai sighed and continued: "The cancer cells have spread to the pancreas. Even after the operation, you have to undergo chemotherapy every week, which costs thousands of dollars each time. Why bother? So why bother? So don't do this operation.
Already."
Anyone who studies medicine knows that chemotherapy uses electromagnetic waves to kill cancer cells, but it also kills normal cells in the human body, so every chemotherapy session is an excruciating experience.
For this honest farmer, it is better to give up the surgery than to go bankrupt and owe a lot of debt, while the patient continues to suffer.
Zhang Yang suddenly thought of Meng Wanting. Her mother must have been in the same situation at that time.
Now that it happens again with Wei Hengxun, this choice will make people fall into a lifetime of self-blame and guilt.
"Let's go see how the patient is doing first?" Zhang Yang suddenly said.
Seeing this touching scene made him even more eager to see the patient's condition, and of course he wanted to see if he could bring the patient back from the brink of death.
He was not completely sure, so he did not dare to say it easily, lest the joy and sorrow would become even more unbearable for the family.
"Yes, Hengxun, let's see your mother first. She has been talking about you." Wei Hongcai said while wiping her tears.
Tang Shuxin took out a tissue and wiped the blood on his forehead. Of course, she also helped him dry his tears.
This move made Zhang Yang jealous, but he couldn't stop him.
The friendship of comrades-in-arms, if he were a soldier, she would definitely care about him so much, he comforted himself in his heart.
Wei Hengxun pursed his lips, deliberately pretended to smile, stood up, walked out of the department, and walked into the ward.
"Mom, I just happened to be passing by here on a mission and wanted to go home for a visit. Then I found out that you were sick. Why didn't you call me?" Wei Hengxun pretended to smile and lied.
If he came back deliberately, his mother would definitely know that his condition was not good.
Otherwise, why would you deliberately call yourself back? This is also a white lie to your loved ones.
"Don't lie to mom. You know my illness yourself. It was your dad who called you to come back, right?" Wei Hengxun's mother said with a smile.
Wei Hengxun's mother's name is Zhao Mei. She has gray and disheveled hair. Her long-term inability to eat has left her with a sallow complexion and a haggard look.
After seeing his son, his originally dull eyes immediately glowed with light.
She had already had an ominous premonition about her illness, especially when she saw that her husband and the doctor were not cooperating with each other to deceive her. The appearance of her son strengthened her idea. (To be continued)