The rain was pouring down, shrouding the entire Qinglan City in a haze.

On a street in the north of the city, a girl is running hard, about ten years old, a little thin, wearing a washed linen clothes that I don't know if they have turned white, and the lower body is a pair of the same old thin cloth trousers, and the patches on the clothes and pants all indicate the girl's family background.

The bare little feet are constantly rising and falling on the cold stone road, and the rain puddles that have been stepped on splash are splashing, this is the only market in the slum area of Qinglan City, and there are rice shops, butcher shops, pharmacies, etc. on both sides of the street, but compared to the bustle of the Qinglan market, it is obviously a little dilapidated and deserted.

After all, it was only a half-grown child, and by accident, the girl tripped over a stone and fell to the ground, and the pain in her feet was mixed with the numbness caused by the cold, which made the girl's tears roll in her eyes, but as if she thought of something, her lips that had been frozen purple pursed hard, and she stood up again and ran towards the depths of the market.

Fu Bo is seventy years old this year, he has been running a pharmacy in the market in the north of the city for most of his life, the weather is cold these days, the rain does not stop, and there is no business, so he pressed the door panel of the pharmacy early, sat alone in the back room, warmed a pot of wine, served a plate of peanuts, and enjoyed it comfortably.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

A quick knock on the door interrupted the little old man's comfortable evening life, and he thought that it must be a neighborhood leader who was suddenly ill and needed some simple herbs, so he quickly got up from his rocking chair and walked to the front hall to reopen the door.

"Xiaoyu, why are you here, this kid? It's raining so hard, come in quickly, quickly. ”

The girl standing outside the door made Fu Bo stunned at first, isn't this the girl of the old Nie family? How could such a heavy rain come to him, seeing that the clothes were all soaked, and there were obvious abrasions on his legs and arms, he knew at a glance that this child had suffered a lot on the way over.

"Fubo, save my father and mother, save them...... Woohoo......"

Nie Xiaoyu, who gritted his teeth and persevered all the way, finally cried loudly from the moment he saw Fu Bo, begging the old man in front of him to help him with a handful of snot and tears.

"Speak slowly, speak slowly, come in first, it's raining so hard outside, ouch, this kid, it's evil. ”

The situation of Nie Xiaoyu's family is still relatively clear, the Nie family is not a native of Qinglan City, but came here twenty years ago, when Nie Liang and his daughter-in-law traveled a long distance to escape the war, and experienced nine deaths and lives before they came to Qinglan City, but they never thought that this extravagant and prosperous city was not as wishful as they imagined.

Due to his lack of skills, Nie Liang had to work as a coolie in a mine outside the west of the city in exchange for a meager income to support the family, and his daughter-in-law also asked for a job of washing clothes for a large family.

Such a poor day passed day by day, ten years ago, a baby's cry sounded in the Nie family's hut, Nie Xiaoyu was born, don't look at Nie Liang, this person looks five big and three thick, his daughter is born with an abnormal water, since then the neighborhood leader can see this upright man put his girl on his shoulder and smile on the street every day.

But years of work in the mine also eroded Nie Liang's body, first his throat was uncomfortable, then he had a long-term cough, and then he could even cough up blood, but all this Nie Liang didn't tell his daughter-in-law and Xiaoyu, he knew that he was the pillar of this family, no matter how difficult it was, he had to persevere.

Nie Liang, who came back from the mine on this day, finally fell at the door of the house, his body was hot, but his face was as pale as water, and blood spurted out of his mouth after coughing violently, which scared Xiaoyu who was alone at home, crying and asking his father what was wrong, the crying alarm alarmed the neighbors, and everyone moved Nie Liang back to the house, but after all, they were all poor people, and they didn't know what kind of disease this straightforward man had, so they could only watch with their eyes.

As Nie Liang continued to cough up blood foam, Nie Xiaoyu on the side began to force himself to calm down, remembering that Fu Bo, who ran a pharmacy in the north of the city, was familiar with his own family, and his father often went to Fu Bo's pharmacy to buy plasters for his mother who suffered from low back pain, which might be able to help, so he asked Nie Liang to a group of neighbors, and he spread his legs and ran to Fu Bo's pharmacy.

After listening to Xiaoyu's description briefly, Fu Bo also knew that the situation was urgent, so he didn't say anything more, and directly picked up the medicine box and followed the poor girl into the rain curtain together.

"Let's all disperse, don't crowd in this room, Lao Nie needs to rest now. ”

In the small room, the furnishings are simple but very neat, on the wooden plank bed, Nie Liang is lying quietly, his cough has been relieved, but his face is still not good, his eyes are closed and his breathing is a little short.

The neighbors who were watching saw that there was nothing to do and dispersed, leaving Nie Xiaoyu in the house, as well as the daughter-in-law of the Nie family, Fu Bo and Nie Liang, who rushed back.

"Fauber, what disease does Daddy have, is he getting better now?"

Seeing that her father no longer coughed up blood, Simple Xiaoyu thought that her father's illness had been cured, and she was grateful to Fu Bo in her heart, and at the same time, she also became very interested in the white pills that the old man fed her father.

"Fubo, Ah Liang, what's wrong with him? I have been in good health, why did I get sick like this all of a sudden?"

The woman on the side knew that her husband had not been cured, but had only relieved the symptoms by taking medicine, and looking at Fu Bo's solemn expression, she couldn't help but feel a tightening in her heart, and quickly wiped the tears on her face and asked the old man about Nie Liang's situation.

"Alas, he has a lung disease, and it has been a long time, and now I estimate that the whole lung is almost bad, I temporarily used medicine to relieve his symptoms, but if you want to cure it, it is impossible. ”

The kind old man hesitated for a long time, but still told the mother and daughter in front of him the cruel bad news, the man on the bed was dying, and he really couldn't bear to deceive the poor man again.

The old man's words made the woman no longer able to control her emotions, and sat directly on the ground, she didn't understand why her family was still suffering from this misfortune despite their desperate life, and why God punished them like this.

"Fu Bo, is there really no way to save Daddy? There must be something, right, Xiaoyu doesn't want Daddy to leave. ”

Looking at the little girl tugging on her sleeve, Fu Bo's heart was also extremely uncomfortable, what kind of sin did this create, God wants to treat this family like this, they just want to live, is this wrong?

"It's not nothing, it's just ......"

Hearing Fauber's words, the little girl's eyes lit up at once, and she hurriedly pestered the old man to ask how she could save her father's life.

"With this level of lung disease, ordinary medicinal materials have no ability to recover, but those real pills can, it is said that there is a high-grade pill called Yuping Immortal Spirit Pill that specializes in treating your father's lung disease, but the price is simply astronomical, and it is not at all imaginable for us civilians, so I didn't say it before. ”

As soon as the hope in the little girl's eyes rose, she was poured cold water on Fuber's words, the children of poor families have long been in charge, and she understands very well what the astronomical numbers in Fubo's mouth mean, which means that even if she works hard for several lifetimes, she may not be able to earn this money.

"Fu Bo, where can I buy this elixir?"

The old man was also sad at this time, and carefully checked the pulse of the woman who was sitting paralyzed, and found that it was only shortness of breath caused by excessive sadness, so he was a little relieved, and an inquiry came from behind the cold back.

"Baicaotang should be able to buy it, but it's not necessarily, I've never seen this level of elixir, alas, Xiaoyu, where are you going......?"

In the old man's astonishment, Nie Xiaoyu once again plunged into the pouring rain outside, and Qinglan City at this moment seemed so cold and not close to fireworks......