Fang Yi went to say hello to the prison authorities, and Wu Zhongyuan also left the smoky room that was smoked by everyone and went outside to breathe.

At this time, the prisoners in the prison area have already begun to exercise, one by one shaved their heads, and there is a decadence and helplessness that cannot be concealed between their eyebrows, for most people, the loss of freedom is the most terrible thing, which means that they cannot see their relatives and friends, and it also means that they have no chance to participate in everything that happens outside.

There are many people who claim that they like to be quiet, but in fact, they are just Ye Gong and a good dragon, just for the poetry to say that they are worried, there are very few people who really like quiet, only people who are strong enough can enjoy quiet, ordinary people can't bear loneliness, they like to participate, like to be lively, like to socialize, in their opinion, this meaningless busyness is to get and have, a day without going out is like a big loss.

The prison authorities were originally in awe of Wu Zhongyuan, lest they would complain if they didn't cooperate well, and when they heard that the two were leaving, they were instantly relieved, and after keeping the two of them for dinner, the prison sent a car to send them to the city.

Wu Zhongyuan had a whim and wanted to pick a few good cars to send back, but this idea was denied by himself as soon as it appeared, not because of his lack of ability, but because the ancient road conditions were not good, and there was no gas station.

If a person is strong enough, even if he is cranky, in the eyes of outsiders, he is also thinking deeply, how did Fang Yi and the driver know that Wu Zhongyuan was stunned and was thinking about whether to send a car back, and when he was thinking about some important question.

It was more than ten o'clock in the morning when he went to the city, and Fang Yi was not in a hurry to go to the airport, but found a seafood market, let Wu Zhongyuan choose what he wanted to eat, and then found a small shop and spent money for someone to help make it.

Wu Zhongyuan had money, but Fang Yi didn't let him spend it, so he had to invite him, Wu Zhongyuan had no choice but to let him.

Nowadays, there are many people who envy the iron rice bowl and 9-to-5 of public officials and hate them because of this, but in fact, the salaries of public officials are not high, and they can only ensure that they have no worries about food and clothing, and the price they pay is that they can never become rich, because their superiors do not allow them to do business, and if they want to gain both rights, they will face the risk of entering.

A meal cost Fang Yi more than 4,000, more than 1,000 meals and more than 3,000 drinks, the two drank a bottle of Moutai, often people say what brand of cigarettes and what brand of wine they like, just this mouthful, this is actually a self-deceptive statement, in terms of taste and quality, Moutai China is indeed superior.

During the meal, Fang Yi played the emotional card, recalling the scene when the two of them were looking for the leper turtle from Poyang Lake together, and told what tasks he and Wang Xinran had performed together, Wu Zhongyuan knew that Fang Yi did this for a purpose, but he was not disgusted, because most of the kindness is actually wanted, and the other party's kindness cannot be denied just because the other party has a request.

In ancient times, the alcohol degree was very low, not even twenty degrees, and suddenly drank more than fifty degrees, plus did not suppress the alcohol power with aura, Wu Zhongyuan was a little drunk, he carried a lot of qi tonifying pills with him, so he found a light blue cave Xuan Ling Pill from it and gave it to Fang Yi, and then gave Fang Yi a ride, and directly sent him back to the eighteenth bureau.

Sending Fang Yi away, Wu Zhongyuan began to consider where to go, he didn't go far, he saw a nursing home not far away, so he went there incognito, he didn't have any specific object of observation when he came back this time, any place, any random person, could become his observation target.

When he went to the nursing home, the nursing home was having dinner, it was an ordinary nursing home, the food was average, and there were seventy or eighty-year-old people living in it, with many old men and few old ladies.

The atmosphere and aura are real, and there is inevitably a sense of twilight in places where there are many old people, and the biggest characteristic of the elderly is that they are slow, slow to eat, slow to talk, slow to walk, and slow to do anything.

After eating, the old people began to bask in the sun, and when they basked in the sun, they were inevitably able to talk and chat, and the topics were mainly divided into two kinds, one was to talk about children, vanity was common to everyone, and the elderly were no exception, they would talk about how good their children were, how busy they were, so they could not take care of them personally, and could only send them to nursing homes.

This is actually a kind of self-deception, it can be seen that they don't like nursing homes, and the elderly who are sent to nursing homes have the idea of being abandoned, but they try their best to find excuses for their children to comfort themselves.

In addition to their children, the old people talk more about the past, that is, recalling the past, what they did when they were young, what they did to show off, and what others did not dare to do.

Wu Zhongyuan has good patience, since the afternoon has been hearing the old people return to the house at three o'clock, the summary is that these old people have not actually done anything different, there are very few things worth remembering and gratifying, in fact, in the same education, similar environment, most people's ideology and life trajectory are similar, few people are really different, more are thinking they are different.

Wu Zhongyuan waited until the nursing home for dinner before leaving, he did not blame those who sent their parents to the nursing home because the old people were depressed in the nursing home, and there were very few children who were really unfilial, most of them were poor people who were busy making a living, and they did not have too much energy to take care of and accompany their parents, so they could only send their parents here.

In fact, everyone should go to the nursing home to see those who are dying and decrepit, mediocre and innocent, but willing to be mediocre and not enterprising is really guilty, even if it is just for more bragging capital after old age, you have to muster up the courage to do a few vigorous things when you are young.

The reason why this nursing home is so crowded is that it is close to the hospital, not far from a large hospital in a prefecture-level city, and Wu Zhongyuan went there again after nightfall.

He didn't go into the ward, but sat on the roof of the building, his senses are now extremely sharp, and he can listen to the conversation of many people at the same time without his mind being confused, the building where he is located is the inpatient building of the oncology department, and most of the people who live here are patients with malignant tumors, to put it bluntly, cancer patients.

Wu Zhongyuan had a fruit basket and some dried fruits beside him, the fruit basket and dried fruits were all taken from the supermarket in the hospital, this is a black-hearted supermarket, and the things sold are much more expensive than the outside.

Everything in the world is made up of breath, everyone has a different breath, because they are all malignant tumor patients here, what is emitted is gloomy black gas, Wu Zhongyuan is like sitting on a big chimney emitting black smoke at this time.

Wu Zhongyuan came at six o'clock and sat until eleven o'clock in the evening, and almost all the patients and the bedmates fell asleep at eleven o'clock, and they couldn't hear anything.

For five hours, he heard a lot of different conversations, but they can still be roughly classified into several categories, the most is distressed medical expenses, most of them are rural patients, and urban people also have them, not to mention that there is no medical insurance, even if there is medical insurance, many special drugs are not reimbursed, a person is sick, can really drag down a family, and it will be dragged down in a very short time.

At this time, people who believe in ordinary and valuable people are blind, and they have no money to say that everything is in vain, and if they don't have money, they won't give medicine, and they can't blame the hospital for being ruthless, because the hospital also has to survive, and from the perspective of equal exchange, the treatment and medication should also give people money to the hospital.

Crying secretly, sighing for a long time, calling to borrow money, smoking cigarettes, these are to no avail, everyone knows that work is very tiring, if you want to make money, you must pay more effort and sweat, who doesn't know that it's very comfortable to drink a little wine every other day, who doesn't know that it's fun to play a game after work, who doesn't know that it's very pleasant to fish and play on weekends, but comfort comes at a cost, that is, the reduction of income, not only the book is used to hate less, the same is the money, parents, wives and children need to be unable to take out the money, this is a man's greatest sorrow, but also a man's biggest failure。

After five hours of listening, Wu Zhongyuan also heard a lot of lies, and he wondered if he was sick like this, and many patients even chose to believe the lies of their family members, believing that they were fine, whether they were carried away by a strong desire to survive, or because they were cowardly and did not dare to face the reality.

What should come will always come, what should be faced will be faced sooner or later, it will not happen because of the choice not to face it, all patients have wishes and concerns, but after summarizing, Wu Zhongyuan found a rule, that is, all regrets and wishes can actually be done before getting terminally ill, not that God did not give them a chance, but that they have been procrastinating, have been slacking, and only start to be anxious until they are sick, this is an obvious hindsight, if they are not sick, they may be delayed until they are seventy or eighty.

There are also some patients who are sober and able to face the reality bravely, and they have begun to arrange for the future since they knew their fate, mainly because they strongly requested to be discharged from the hospital, and did not want to spend more money and affect their families.

is the so-called ruthless, the sage who directs the world must first detach himself from the emotions of the world, only detachment can be observed, only bystanders can be just, it stands to reason that Wu Zhongyuan should not make a move to change anything, but in the end he still made a move, a female patient in the ward on the fifth floor.

This is a woman in her fifties, her family is with her, her family is lying to her, saying that she is fine, and the female patient knows that she has a terminal illness, but in the face of the family's well-intentioned deception, she did not expose it, but fully cooperated with them, pretending to be nothing, and in the subsequent conversation, she intentionally or unintentionally told her family how much savings she had at home and where she put her jewelry.

When her family forced her face to laugh, she was able to laugh out loud.

Don't encounter major changes, never know who is a warrior and who is a coward, Wu Zhongyuan admires this woman's psychological quality very much, but what he admires more is this woman's nobility, most people will regard their families as a dustbin of negative emotions, blindly pouring bitter water, hoping to get more care, this woman did not do that, she gave her good emotions to her family, and the huge psychological pressure was borne by herself.

Zhuangzi has a saying, gods and men are useless, and saints are nameless, standing from this point of view, Wu Zhongyuan should quietly make a move, quietly retreat, and should not alarm anyone, not even the patient himself, but Wu Zhongyuan did not do this, but showed his figure and walked into the ward where the woman was open.

He was so touched by the woman's actions that he wanted to praise and praise her in front of her family and the other patients in the room, and he did.

Without waiting for everyone to react, Wu Zhongyuan left the ward, without giving the woman's family a chance to thank him, the reason why he did this was not to get their thanks, but that he wanted to do it.

When he left the hospital, it was almost half past eleven, Wu Zhongyuan thought about the place to go again, thinking of the bar that Big Nose said last night, he had the heart to go over and find out, but after thinking about it, it seemed a little inappropriate to always run to the place where the dirt was hidden, but after thinking about it again, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it, and he came back this time to observe the drunken gold fans and the bright lights.

With his mind up, he got into a taxi in front of the hospital and said, "Go to the bar." ”

"Which bar?" asked the driver.

"The liveliest bar ......"