"Old Deng, you, the district chief, are too busy, and you don't come to ask you for many times. A middle-aged man stood up and said enthusiastically.

"Don't mention it, there's a lot of things to do. Deng Ming said, "Eating is like pouring rice into a rice bucket, and you don't even have the time to chew and swallow slowly." My stomach now relies on stomach medicine every day. ”

The difference in identity and status, the difference in temperament and temperament, there are not many classmates who can get together more than 20 years after graduation, and they are all familiar old friends. Deng Ming didn't pay much attention to it, put his coat on the hanger, and found a place to sit down.

"What about Old Sui?" Deng Ming asked.

A few classmates, you look at me, I look at you, but they didn't speak.

Deng Ming felt a trace of something wrong wafting in the air, and a sense of foreboding rose in his heart.

After all, they are all in their forties, and in the face of a mid-life crisis, they work as hard as a cow or a horse, no matter how high or low, each has its own sadness and distress.

A few years ago, a classmate died of a cerebral hemorrhage, should Lao Sui ...... Deng Ming's waist straightened up suddenly, swept around, and asked, "What's wrong with Lao Sui?" ”

As he spoke, a momentum of high authority arose.

"Alas, Lao Sui is hospitalized and preparing for surgery. ”

"What disease?"

"Esophageal cancer. The middle-aged man sighed and said, "I remember the time when I came to you for a party a month ago and said I didn't have time." ”

Deng Ming nodded.

"After we met, we saw that Lao Sui had lost a lot of weight, and his face was not good. The middle-aged man sighed deeply, no one wants this kind of thing, but Deng Ming will not hide it from him when he asks.

"At that time, we asked Lao Sui what was wrong, and he said that eating was always reversed, it should be a stomach problem, and he starved his stomach when he was a child. ”

"What nonsense, why don't you go to the hospital?" Deng Ming was not angry.

"That's what we said. The middle-aged man said, "But everyone finally got together, and they forgot about it as they talked." Even eating and drinking, it was nothing big to see Lao Sui eating, but before it was over, Lao Sui began to feel uncomfortable and went to the bathroom to vomit. ”

"Didn't I drink too much? ”

"Not? Lao Sui said that he had been eating fast lately, and that's it......" the middle-aged man said? "We all advised him to go to the hospital, but he said he didn't dare to go. ”

"......" Deng Ming vaguely knows? But I didn't dare to think deeper.

When they are all old, it is the time when the pressure of the whole family is on their shoulders? Even if it's one step at a time, you have to move forward.

If the parents have a retirement salary and good health, the pressure can be less. What if the parents are in the countryside? A family with a geriatric illness that has to be hospitalized every three or five days? It's even more overwhelming.

Even if it's Deng Ming himself? At this age, there are all kinds of different troubles, but the troubles are different.

Speaking of which, Deng Ming misses the carefree years when he was in school.

"Do you know Lao Sui's temper, Lord of the Sharp Eyes? Give him a, and he won't let go if he can bite it. ”

"Half a month after our meeting? I asked Lao Sui if he had been to the hospital, and he said he hadn't. I made an appointment with Xiao Shen and asked him to urge him a few more times. Originally, this was not what classmates and friends should do, but when we saw him vomit that day, we always wondered if Lao Sui had cancer. The more the middle-aged man spoke, the lower his tone became.

"So skinny? Eating is always reversed, not a tumor. You always have to face something, don't you? Don't wait until you find out it's late, that's damn fucked. ”

"What happened later?" Deng Ming asked.

"Alas. "The middle-aged man's continuous sighs? " forcibly dragged him to the medical university for registration and examination. What kind of test was done, that is, to drink slimy, white stuff into it? Then the doctor looks at it with an X-ray machine. ”

"After reading it? The radiology doctor didn't say anything either? Let's go back, and give me a hard look when we leave. Lao Sui left, I sneaked back and asked, and the doctor said that there was a big tumor in the esophagus, which had to be 5cm. If you want to go to the thoracic surgery department, you have to do other tests, and if you transfer it, it will be useless. ”

“......”

Although he already knew the ending, hearing this, Deng Ming was still quite uncomfortable in his heart.

I hope that there is no metastasis, and it can be solved after surgery, Deng Ming thought.

"Now Lao Sui is hospitalized and waiting for surgery? Who will do the surgery?" Deng Ming asked.

"As a freshman in the medical college, I found Director Gu Weimian of the Department of Thoracic Surgery. ”

"Is there a transfer?" Deng Ming asked in a deep voice.

"No, I have some relatives with Director Gu Weimian, I'll ask. The middle-aged man said, "Director Gu said that there is no metastasis, just do an operation to cut off the tumor." Now it depends on the situation, there should be no need for radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and the possibility of cure after surgery is quite high. ”

"Shh~~~" Deng Ming let out a sigh of relief, but he was still very apprehensive in his heart.

"Let's eat. The middle-aged man started with Deng Ming, poured wine one by one, and said, "Have fun in time, who knows how long you can live." ”

Deng Ming wasn't going to drink, but Lao Sui's affairs made him a little uncomfortable. Talk about the start and call a substitute driver, drink!

Although it was drinking, my heart was not happy, but everyone was in moderation.

Two hours later, everyone was a little drunk, and they couldn't rest assured, so they went to see Lao Sui at noon tomorrow.

He is undergoing a preoperative examination in the first hospital of the Medical University, and if there are no contraindications to surgery, it is estimated that he will come to the stage in the next few days.

After the banquet was dispersed, Deng Ming was driven home by car.

Deng Ming didn't rush upstairs, but stood downstairs in the night and lit a cigarette, feeling a little embarrassed in his heart.

I've been too busy lately, and I don't have time to feel that the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and time is like water.

It's late October, and the temperature drops below zero in the middle of the night, and it's freezing all morning. Deng Ming felt a little cold, but he was blown by the cool breeze and felt much more sober.

While smoking a cigarette, he remembered Lao Sui.

Such a strong man, how can he say that he will fall down, the more Deng Ming thinks about it, the more uncomfortable he becomes.

Deng Ming hesitated slightly and picked up his phone.

"Teacher Wu. Deng Ming dialed the phone.

"District Chief Deng, what are you looking for me at such a late hour?" Wu Mian's gentle voice came from the phone.

"I'm not going to be polite to you, Mr. Wu. Deng Ming said, "One of my classmates had esophageal cancer and was hospitalized in the first year of medical college. ”

"Gu Weimian?"

"Hmm. ”

"Director Gu's level is not bad, I know. What do you mean ......"

"Tomorrow we're going to see my classmates, can you say hello if it's convenient for you?" Deng Ming knew that his request was excessive, but after all, Wu Mian's status was there, so it should be no problem.

"It's okay, give me my name, I'll contact Director Gu. Wu Mian said with a smile.