Chapter 1: The Parting of the Old Husband and the Young Wife

This is a small mountain town in the south, when Xu Lanru got off the long-distance bus and rushed to the county people's hospital, the heavy rain has not stopped, and March is the rainy season here.

She is familiar with the hospital, and she has been here several times before, all of which accompanied her husband Xu Qingming, who is forty years older than her and is seventy-six years old this year. She had only been away from him for four months, but she didn't expect to be so ill, her husband's cousin told her that the hospital had issued a second critical illness notice, and she secretly ran back from Shenzhen.

Xu Qingming lives in the ICU ward on the fourth floor, she changes into the hospital disinfection clothes, can only look through the back glass window, her husband is wearing a ventilator, she can't see his face clearly, but she knows that it is him with white hair and emaciated hands, and the ECG monitoring instrument at the bedside is constantly bending and recording data, and from time to time it makes a crisp sound. A white quilt covers the body. There was no sign of life.

Xu Lanru watched all this, and tears kept flowing: "Husband, you have to survive well, I am back, and I will not leave you again. She silently looked at Xu Qingming on the hospital bed.

The nurse came and said the doctor was looking for her.

"You are Xu Qingming's daughter. The attending doctor saw Xu Lanru and asked.

"No, I'm his wife. Xu Lanru replied.

The doctor took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, afraid that he didn't see clearly, maybe he didn't hear clearly, so he asked again, his eyes staring at Xu Lanru.

"Is it really his wife?"

Xu Lanru did not answer.

This thirty-six-year-old woman, of medium stature, a standard professional women's outfit, is worn convex and concave on her body, her hair is lightly coiled, and under the willow eyebrows are a pair of big bright eyes, and the nose and sexy lips are matched together, making people feel an infinite beauty.

This kind of outfit makes doctors and nurses wonder?

Yes, she escaped from a president training class in Shenzhen, and she started to learn from walking, sitting, dressing, and dressing...... All the way down, four months of going there were spent on it.

How could this lady-like woman be associated with the terminally ill old man on the bed?

"Mr. Xu, you finally turned on the phone. "This is Xu Lanru's secretary calling. "The chairman fired me, saying that it was my responsibility that you were gone. The little girl was crying on the phone.

"It's okay, I'll explain to him when I go back, you are my secretary, what right does he have to fire you. Xu Lanru answered the phone while reading her husband's case report. "Secretary Li, I'm in trouble, I've just arrived home, you just tell the chairman. She hung up.

"Director Liu, is my husband's illness really diagnosed?" asked her husband's attending doctor.

"Well, after three pathological examinations, there must be no doubt that liver cancer is in an advanced stage. ”

"How long can life be extended?" asked Xu Lanru.

"We have already placed a second critical illness notice. At present, it may be ...... at any time" Director Liu didn't finish speaking, Xu Lanru interrupted him and said eagerly: "Director Liu, no, what a big price, even if it is one more day, I will keep him for one day!"

"The advanced stage is generally three to six months at most, and now it is mainly systemic treatment and chemotherapy, mainly targeted drug therapy, but at present, there is a specific drug abroad, and the life can be extended by more than one year, but it is not absolute. The cost of treatment is not affordable for the average family. ”

"How much does it cost to defer it for more than a year?" asked Xu Lanru.

"Not less than a million. A nurse said: "Last time, Deputy County Magistrate Chen spent more than 800,000 yuan, but he only lived for 10 months......

Director Liu glanced at the nurse and said, "This is not necessarily, the old man Xu Qingming is already in poor health, essential hypertension, coronary heart disease and cerebral atrophy all exist, especially the old atrophy is also quite serious." But most patients are discharged from the hospital to rest at home. He will be cured at an advanced stage, and he will be given whatever he wants......"

"No, I won't let him be discharged from the hospital, Director Liu, you say, how much does it cost? It is also my love for him to live a few more days!" Xu Lanru begged Director Liu. "I immediately told them to send the money, is a million enough? You're going to save my husband......"

Xu Lanru cried: "Dad, I'm Lanru, my husband is already in the advanced stage of liver cancer, but I want to save him, no matter what, I want to prolong his life." Well, I'm in a hurry for money, uh-huh, I want a million. I want it now!"

This is the first time in 36 years that Xu Lanru has called her father. It was strange to scream. For thirty-six years, his father had been thinking about her all the time.

Xu Lanyan's father, Qin Tianhe, founded Ganges Group from a small contractor in the construction industry for more than 30 years, which is a mega-corporation that crosses borders. Real estate is his main focus, but biopharmaceuticals and petrochemicals have made their home in more than two dozen countries around the world.

Outside the door of the ward, the dean and the county magistrate hurried over, and no one would have thought that this woman who begged the doctor to do his best to treat her husband turned out to be the deputy general manager of the country's famous Ganges Housing Group.

Ouyang Feng, the county magistrate, held Xu Lanyan's hand tightly and said: "Mr. Xu, on behalf of the people of the county, I welcome you back, if it wasn't for your father calling me, I wouldn't have known that you were back, let alone that your family was sick and hospitalized. ”

Liver cancer is in an advanced stage, Xu Lanru thinks about it and makes her feel distressed, she and Xu Qingming have been together for 36 years, so unforgettable, she regrets that she left him at home four months ago, took her son and daughter to Shenzhen, and deeply blamed herself for making her heart hurt again.

No one would have thought that this old couple and young wife, who were forty years apart, would give us a sad story......

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