Chapter 10 Can I Advance the Bride Price?

At night, Lu Wanwan changed his mother to accompany his father in bed. Lu Jianguo's anesthetic effect seemed to be about to pass, and in the two days he was asleep, he had no idea that he had experienced a life and death, that his family had undergone earth-shaking changes, and that he was now lying on the hospital bed and had become a four-legged gold-swallowing beast that spent money like water. It's hard to imagine how he'll feel when he learns all this.

Lu Jianguo has been very frugal all his life, and at this point, his two daughters are very similar to him, picking on himself and being very generous to his relatives.

When Lu Wanwan saw Lu Jianguo on the bed moving slightly, he immediately called the doctor.

"This is normal, don't be nervous, the patient's anesthesia effect has passed, and it will take a little time to resume action by relying on his willpower. The patient's signs are all good, and the cardiopulmonary function is also normal, remember to feed him some water every once in a while with a cotton swab, do not drink a lot of water, it will increase the burden on his kidney function. The doctor in charge of the bed checked and found nothing unusual, and left the ward after telling the family a few words.

The patient next door also went home to rest today, and the hospital bed was lent to Lu Wanwan.

Lu Wanwan was lying on the hospital bed, she couldn't have imagined that her father, who had always been strong, was so seriously ill, and she was worried about her father, but she was even more worried about where the huge medical expenses would come from. She was also worried about Hu Rui, afraid that he would be embarrassed. Lu Wanwan hadn't seen Dabao Erbao for several days, and as a mother, she missed her children very much, and she could better understand her parents' selfless love for her.

The county party committee kindergarten where Lu Wanwan works is a fragrant dumpling. As a welfare for civil servants, only the first, second, and third generations of civil servants can attend this kindergarten, and the parents are very polite, and the working environment of the teachers is relatively relaxed. If there are shortcomings, the only drawback is that the salary is too small. Usually, Hu Rui goes to Zhang Luo for a large amount of money at home, and his salary is basically enough to support himself and buy some daily necessities for the family. The excess deposit is also Hu Rui in Zhang Luo. Usually, Hu Rui will often send red envelopes to himself, and he will give them to the family on time every month, which is a typical family model of male protagonist and female protagonist.

However, now that my father has suddenly become so seriously ill, where will the cost of follow-up treatment come from? How much do I need? What should I do? I can't always count on my in-laws, and I'm embarrassed to speak. Lu Wanwan's mind is very complicated.

Hu Rui, who returned to his mother's house, also stayed up all night, he was worried about the problem of money, he had some savings, and some of the money had not been recovered. The hardware store is ready to expand its business in the second half of the year, and originally planned to take the apprentice to open another branch in the Nancheng community, so that it can attract more business. The idea of not losing at the starting line since childhood is now very common in the county, cultivated from an early age, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and a wave is stronger than a wave! Parents are competitive, and the children's daily two tutoring classes are standard, three tutoring classes are the norm, and four, five, and six are not uncommon. Parents also know that the level of these training courses is uneven and the quality is worrying, but they still can't help but send their children over. On the one hand, you can get some relaxation and freedom, on the other hand, when talking with other parents, you will not be short of breath and ashamed of your child, and when the child grows up, if you mix well, you don't need to be grateful, and if you don't mix well, you won't be left complaining.

Pity the hearts of parents all over the world, after becoming a parent, I have more worries. Now I can't take care of the two children, today I entered the door and saw Xiaobao in the walker staggering towards him, my heart was infinitely melancholy, and it was difficult to balance the emotional scale, on one side was my father-in-law, on the other hand was my own children, and the balance was not weight, but money.

"Hu Rui, what kind of illness is his father, the illness is so sudden" Hu Rui's mother, Ye Lanying is a kind and simple woman, after the director of the street office retires, she will live at home for a long time, raise children and grandchildren, and there is no burden financially or mentally.

"yes, I saw that you came back in a hurry that day, and I didn't want to ask you what was going on. Hu Rui's father, Hu Tiejun, also asked worriedly that at this age, it is inevitable that there will be some minor physical problems. Although I often hear that illness comes like a mountain, it also falls too quickly, and there is always a sense of foreboding.

"Dad, Mom, my father is in the advanced stage of liver cancer, I fainted in the bathroom of the hospital during the hospitalization examination, and the results were checked, and there were three highs, high blood pressure did not pay attention to taking medicine all year round, I was in a hurry and did not sleep well, and I directly detonated the blood vessels, and the craniotomy was done only after cerebral congestion. Hu Rui didn't know how he described it, whether the causes and consequences of the illness and the logical sequence were wrong, and he couldn't care so much about it. It's not as easy to talk about your own family's affairs as it is to gossip about other people's homes.

"It's so serious, I heard that the advanced stage of liver cancer is basically not saved, and it's very fast. Ye Lanying works in the neighborhood office all the year round, and she also understands the birth, old age, sickness and death among street residents and colleagues, and also has basic common sense about some diseases that are often heard about.

"Yes, the old Li in front of our building, do you remember? I heard that it was stomach cancer, and he left in less than two months. Hu Tiejun attaches great importance to physical health, and his peers in the community have headaches and brain fevers, and he wants to ask about it, not to spy on other people's privacy, but to take responsibility for prevention, and to encourage if there is none.

"This disease seems to cost a lot of money, cerebral congestion and craniotomy cost tens of thousands, people can still be saved, liver cancer is still advanced, this is not easy to do, his father only has rural social security, the reimbursement ratio is not much, can he bear it?" Ye Lanying still has some common sense about rural medical insurance.

The reimbursement of NCMS can be divided into three categories: outpatient reimbursement, inpatient reimbursement and serious illness reimbursement, and the reimbursement ratio of the three categories is as follows:

The reimbursement ratio of village clinics and health centers is 60%, the reimbursement ratio of town health centers is 40%, the reimbursement ratio of secondary hospitals is 30%, the reimbursement ratio of tertiary hospitals is 20%, and the reimbursement limit of town-level cooperative medical outpatient clinics is 5,000 yuan/year.

The limit of reimbursement for auxiliary examination items such as new EEG, X-ray, radiograph, laboratory test, physiotherapy, acupuncture, CT, and MRI is 200 yuan. The minimum payment line for surgery expenses shall be reimbursed according to the national standard within 1,000 yuan, and more than 1,000 yuan shall be reimbursed according to 1,000 yuan; Hospitalization and nursing expenses for the elderly over 60 years old can be reimbursed 10 yuan per day, with a limit of 200 yuan; The reimbursement ratio of hospitals at all levels is: 60% reimbursement for town health centers; 40% reimbursement for secondary hospitals; 30% reimbursement for tertiary hospitals.

The cost of NCMS treatment in large hospitals is not high, and patients still need to bear part of the cost, and in the process of treatment, some drugs are self-paid items, not to mention expensive, and may not be able to completely cure the disease. "I Am Not the God of Medicine" is illegal and illegal to buy and sell imported drugs, but it does illustrate the chaos of the pharmaceutical market and the unbearable physical and monetary pain of ordinary patients.

"This surgery, I will have to treat it with radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the future, Lao Lu's body may not be able to eat, our neighbor Lao Li, it turns out that he is a more energetic person, you see that after radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the whole person is flying a kite, and when the wind blows, he can fall. Hu Tiejun suddenly thought of Lao Li's appearance, as if Lao Li was standing in front of him at this moment, which also showed that Lao Li's condition really left a deep impression on Hu Tiejun.

"Lao Li has medical insurance, and his family also took a lot after reimbursement, and he heard his son say that he spent hundreds of thousands, and in the end he didn't keep anyone. It's empty. Ye Lanying also heard about the expenses of Lao Li's family, and in the end, her sons also gave Lao Li a grand funeral, which can be regarded as filial piety.

Hu Rui listened to his parents say this for a long time and was silent. Lao Li's son is a well-known figure in the county, black and white, doing business and playing side balls, and he has made a lot of money for so many years. If you say that it is not formal, you have formal qualifications, and if you say that it is not formal, there is no violation of law and discipline anyway. The family background is quite solid, if the old Li family feels that the consumption is very large, it is likely to be an astronomical amount for a small businessman like Hu Rui. Thinking about it this way, Hu Rui's psychology is also bottomless. The two children are lively and cute, one of the two treasures wants to be hugged by grandpa and the other by grandma, and the love of the next generation is different.

Lu Anqi and her mother Lu Xiangxiang returned to her sister's house, and the two had mixed feelings, and the chat was also a match, without a point. They don't dare to get to the point, they want to escape but there is nowhere to run. After hastily eating dinner, Lu Xiangxiang, who had been busy for a day and a night, collapsed on the bed for no more than five minutes after washing, and was already snoring.

Lu Anqi couldn't sleep, it wasn't that her mother snored and she couldn't sleep, she was worried about her father's medical expenses, and the first thing she did when she came back was to search on the Internet for how much advanced liver cancer medical expenses needed, and there were as many as they said on the Internet, and some said that medical insurance and commercial insurance can reimburse part of it, but individuals also need to pay a part, excluding self-paid drugs.

The condition of each patient on the Internet is different, the length of the disease is also different, the situation of each family is different, and the cost of treatment is naturally very different, which can only be used for reference and cannot be copied.

No matter what the difference is, the only thing that is the same is that it costs a lot in the advanced stage of liver cancer, and people are not good.

Where does the money come from? My sister and brother-in-law also have to live by themselves, and the cost of raising children in the county town is not lower than that in the big cities. As the saying goes, emergency relief is not help the poor, if the Lu family has a little family background, it will not be so difficult at this time, there are no rich relatives around, they are all poor relatives, and anyone can talk about the situation with their fingers. Borrowing money is unlikely.

Lu Anqi came out of the hospital and thought about where to go for a while, but she didn't have a reason to think about it. I only blame myself for having no skills, and I have no strength, I can't do the work on the construction site, I can't do the riveting and welding of the tongs, and the work of daily wages is basically useless. Be a tutor, knowledge is power, knowledge is money, and now happens to be the peak of summer vacation. However, it is impossible for the tutor's salary to be paid on a per-quarter basis, and the training center's class fee is generally settled on a monthly basis, not on a daily basis.

At this time, the mobile phone screen lit up, and Wang Zimo sent a WeChat message asking what he was doing, and why he didn't reply to WeChat. Lu Anqi suddenly thought that it had been almost four days since she went home, and she had not replied to WeChat on her mobile phone.

For a long time, the relationship between the two has always been okay, not vigorous, but they have always supported each other, before he proposed to get married after graduation and go to City B to live and develop, Wang Zimo did not deny it, he acquiesced.

According to the folk customs of weddings and funerals, when two people get married, the man's family inevitably has to pay some bride price, and in some places also call for money to propose marriage. The woman's parents will not accept this money, most of them are brought to their daughters to their own small families to maintain daily expenses, and now young people have a lot of expenses, and they inevitably need to be subsidized by their parents.

Since I already plan to get married after graduation, and I have also met the parents of the Wang family, now the family is in a special situation, and I am anxious to use the money, and there should be no problem with this gift money to advance in advance.

Lu Anqi could feel that Wang Zimo's mother Li Yuemei was unkind to her, and she could also see Aunt Zhao's disdainful look, all because she grew up on a barren soil. Wang Zimo's father Wang Xinghai is more sympathetic to her, which may be the resonance caused by similar backgrounds. On the whole, there should still be room for negotiation with Wang Zimo. If it weren't for the urgency of the situation and her desperation, Lu Anqi would never have asked the prince to ask for a bride price, in her opinion, it would be too sensitive for two people to talk about money together. At this time, it is not okay to talk about it, and it is her only father who is waiting for life-saving money on the hospital bed.

Thinking of this, Lu Anqi unlocked the screen and clicked on Wang Zimo's dialog box, she hesitated and typed a line of words.

"Husband, my dad suddenly fell ill and I was in the hospital all the time. Lu Anqi was embarrassed to mention the money as soon as she came up, she wanted to lay the groundwork. Just this sentence, she deleted it repeatedly, and only clicked the send button after careful consideration.

"Ahh Wang Zimo will not think about it in a particularly serious direction for a while, he is reviewing the foundation of literature, he is not brain-burning, but he can memorize enough to drink two pots. The best thing to learn in the liberal arts is history, and the worst thing to learn is history.

"It's serious, I just had a craniotomy yesterday. Lu Anqi sent yesterday's situation over.

"Oh, that surgery should be fine. The prince meditated simply. His parents were both workers in old state-owned enterprises and enjoyed publicly-funded medical care. In the 90s, when the factory was booming, the food sent back by ordinary workers' families for the New Year was carried in and carried out. There are too many chickens, ducks and fish, and I can't eat them at all, so give them away, relatives and friends are basically colleagues from a factory, and each family is not lacking anything. The deepest impression is that once the factory sent pears. A big bamboo basket is full, and it still can't be eaten until it is rotten in the end. There has never been American soap laundry detergent at home, and even the Liushen flower water that repells mosquitoes in summer is haired, and there is no shower gel in the era, it is really fragrant. The carefree Wang Zimo naturally does not think badly.

"It's hard, my dad has advanced liver cancer. Lu Anqi couldn't help but cry again when she saw the words on the screen, she was really helpless.

"Ah, liver cancer is in the advanced stage, it is already very serious, and it is generally of little significance to liver cancer in the fourth stage. When Wang Zimo was at home, he often heard that his uncle and aunt suddenly fell ill with cancer and died soon. Now the efficiency of the factory is declining, it is not as good as before, and it does not send all kinds of materials, and even a shopping card can not be seen during the New Year's holidays, but the workers still go to the staff hospital to see a doctor. 30% of in-service employees see a doctor, 20% of retired employees, and even more reimbursement for employees over 80 years old. What I heard around me was that I was suffering from illness, and I was not embarrassed by the cost of medical treatment. The fourth stage of liver cancer in Wang Zimo's concept is of little significance, which is a scientific cognition and a rational answer.

Rational answers are often incomprehensible to the sensitive.

"What do you mean, looking forward to my father's death soon?" Lu Anqi was not rational at this time, and the anguish in her heart had nowhere to vent. Wang Zimo's answer caused her misunderstanding.

"I didn't mean that, and I just answered based on common sense. Then what are you going to do?" The prince had no intention of arguing with Lu Anqi, she understood her mood at the moment, her father was sick, and her mood was inevitably irritable, which was understandable.

"We are going to have surgery to remove the treatment, and then radiotherapy and chemotherapy to see if we can get better. Lu Anqi stayed in the hospital for a few days, and began to speak a little like a medical student.

"Oh, that's still quite complicated, what do I need to do?" Wang Zimo understood very well that all verbal comfort was pale and weak now, and it was better to be direct and practical.

"Husband, now my dad is in urgent need of money for hospitalization, the hospital urged the fee before the craniotomy yesterday, and I paid all the 8,000 yuan I saved, but I didn't expect the hospital to spend money so quickly, and I came out of the operating room and urged the fee" Lu Anqi said about yesterday's situation, and asked her to immediately ask the prince for the money to propose marriage, but she still couldn't open her mouth.

"The hospital is like this, craniotomy is also a major operation, tens of thousands of yuan are indispensable, and it is normal" The prince's default to normal is too far from Lu Anqi's concept of normal.

"My brother-in-law paid 50,000 yuan yesterday, not including the cost of liver cancer surgery. Lu Anqi is still paving.

"If there is no one to take care of at home, now ask the nurse to call at least 50 a day, less than this number, no one will do it. Li Yuemei is a doctor in the staff hospital, Wang Zimo has been in and out of the hospital duty room since he was a child, and he is no stranger to the situation in the hospital. Besides, life and death are life and wealth, and people eat grains and grains, who can guarantee that there will be no illness or disaster.

"I understand what you're saying, and the most important thing now is to raise money to save my dad. Lu Anqi didn't want to think about who would take care of her after the operation, and asking for a nurse was something they had never thought about, because she happened to be on summer vacation and had time to take care of her old father. If you don't pay for the operation as soon as possible in these two days, if you are one day late, your father will be more dangerous.