Several girls were eating and chatting, and one of the girls who was eating out of a rice bowl turned out to be Ge Xiaoyu from Xujiacun.
At this moment, the landline phone in their dormitory suddenly rang.
The phone was placed on a girl's desk. At this time, the girl was also eating. She was a little surprised when she heard the phone ringing. She reached out and picked up the phone, "Hello? Hello, who are you talking to?"
"Oh, hello, hello, girl! Is Ge Xiaoyu here? I am Ge Xiaoyu's mother. I am looking for my Xiaoyu. If she is here, please call her for me. Thank you, girl!
"
"Oh, okay, hello, auntie! Ge Xiaoyu is here, she is here!"
The girl said and handed the phone to Ge Xiaoyu, "Xiaoyu, your mother's phone number! Come and answer it!"
Ge Xiaoyu was also surprised.
But he didn't hesitate. He immediately put down his chopsticks, stood up, and trotted over to take the phone.
"Hello? Mom, I'm Xiaoyu, do you miss me? Haha."
Ge Xiaoyu was really surprised when he suddenly received a call from his mother.
Girls are prone to homesickness. For a girl like her studying abroad, it is definitely a surprise to occasionally receive phone calls from her parents at home.
but……
"Little fish..."
On the phone, Xu Hongye's deep voice called "Xiaoyu" and fell into a brief silence. Her mother's silence made Ge Xiaoyu's face change slightly, and she had a bad feeling in her heart.
"Mom, did something happen at home? Is that right, Mom?"
Xu Hongye: "Xiaoyu, can you take leave for the next two days and come back? Your dad, your dad is sick. Come back and see him as soon as possible! You must come back!"
Hearing this, Ge Xiaoyu's face turned pale.
The blood on his face faded a lot, and his lips trembled slightly as he asked: "Mom, mom, don't scare me, what's wrong with my dad? Ah? Is my dad seriously ill? What's wrong with him? Where is he now? In the hospital.
Huh?"
Xu Hongye: "..."
After another brief silence, Xu Hongye said: "Xiaoyu, you worked in the provincial capital this summer and didn't go home, so you don't know. In fact, your dad has been suffering from stomachaches recently and has vomited several times. I forced him to eat it two days ago.
I took him to the No. 1 City Hospital and did a few tests on him. The doctor said, the doctor said...he, he has stomach cancer..."
"Boom..."
Ge Xiaoyu's right hand loosened her hold on the microphone, and the microphone fell on the desk. Her body suddenly swayed. If she hadn't reached out to support the desk quickly, she might have fallen.
Her dad actually got stomach cancer?
For her, this news was like a bolt from the blue.
Her father is the backbone of her family.
The entire family's financial source mainly depends on her father.
If her father dies, how will her family live in the future?
At this moment, Xu Tong's Taoist family from a few years ago suddenly flashed through Ge Xiaoyu's mind.
At first, Xu Tongdao's father suddenly disappeared overnight, and the whole family suddenly lost its backbone. After that, Xu Tongdao's family's life suddenly became more difficult, and she saw it.
From the microphone that fell on the desk, mother Xu Hongye's voice was still coming: "Xiaoyu? Xiaoyu? Xiaoyu, what's wrong with you? Xiaoyu, don't scare mom..."
Ge Xiaoyu looked at the other roommates in the dormitory with a pale face. At this time, they all looked at her in surprise, with different eyes.
Some people are worried; some are curious; some seem to be a little gloating.
Ge Xiaoyu was not in the mood to pay attention anymore. She closed her eyes and composed herself. She lowered her head and picked up the phone again, "Mom, I'm fine. I'm going to ask for leave now. I'll be back tonight! Don't worry!
Don’t be impatient!”
…
Two days later.
late at night.
Ge Xiaoyu sat alone in her boudoir on the second floor of her house.
Outside the window, the sound of running water in the small ditch in front of her house was just like before. She had heard this sound since she was a child, and it had accompanied her in countless sleeps.
Very kind.
But at this moment she didn't want to listen.
She stared blankly out the window at the dark night, as if she could see the future of this family in the near future.
In just two days, she became much more haggard.
Her hair was disheveled, her complexion was pale, her eyes were dull, and her eyes had deep dark circles. She probably cried too hard, and her eye circles were a little swollen.
She has lost the charm of the most beautiful girl in Xujia Village in the past.
She read her father's medical records carefully over and over again the night she returned home.
Stomach cancer!
It was definitely gastric cancer.
And it's already late.
She had heard similar things many times in recent years.
Whenever someone in the village has cancer, as soon as it is detected, it will be in the advanced stage.
Moreover, all the people in their village who had cancer left without exception.
At the beginning, someone was diagnosed with cancer, and the family even tried to sell their medical supplies to treat the patient, but in the end, they lost both their money and their lives.
There are many such examples, and the name "terminal disease" is deeply rooted in the hearts of people in their village.
From then on, no matter who got cancer in their village, whether they were patients or family members, they all tacitly agreed to leave the hospital and go home... to wait to die.
Usually people leave after a few months.
Ge Xiaoyu once thought that cancer was far away from her home. Her parents were usually in good health, so she never worried that they would get the disease.
However, the accident came so suddenly.
It was found at the First City Hospital that her father, Ge Zhiping, had gastric cancer, and her mother, Xu Hongye, took Ge Zhiping home.
This time her mother called her and asked her to come back, and the meaning was very clear - to let her see her father again, and to tell her in advance if he had anything to say before her father was too sick to speak.
Her father did tell her a lot of things in the past two days.
About her studies, about her future work, about her future marriage...etc.
Obviously her father still looks the same as before, just a little thinner and looking fine, but he has been telling her about his funeral in the past two days.
This made Ge Xiaoyu heartbroken.
She tried not to cry, but she couldn't help it.
She couldn't bear the thought of her father leaving her forever in a few months.
what to do?
Sitting at the desk in front of the window, Ge Xiaoyu looked at the night outside the window, and suddenly remembered what an old lady in the village said to her mother, Xu Hongye, this afternoon.
At that time, she happened to be in earshot.
She remembered what the old lady said at that time: "Hongye! You have to express your condolences, and don't be too sad. I know your man is leaving at such a young age, and you feel sad, but there is nothing you can do! Who can let you?
You man is unlucky, you got this
It's stomach cancer! We are all ordinary people. If we get this disease, let alone it can't be cured, even if it can be cured, it will cost a lot of money! In our village, besides Xiaozhu's family, who else can afford it?
That’s a lot of medical expenses? Don’t you think so?”
Xiaozhu's family...
At that time, Ge Xiaoyu thought for a long time before he realized that the old lady was talking about the Taoist family of Xu Tong.
Tongdao Xu’s mother’s name seems to be Ge Xiaozhu.
yes!
In the past few years, haven’t people in the village said that that guy Xu Tongdao has made a fortune? He is rich! He must be rich!
Thinking of this, Ge Xiaoyu's eyes suddenly lit up.