Chapter 36: It's better to die
"Eh, Wang, what's going on. ”
"What are you running, why don't you speak? ”
The woman pushed the man, and walked outside the community with her head down.
The man chased after their butts and scratched his head until the woman was far away.
"Isn't it just a broken leg, what a face? He muttered a few words, and after taking two steps, he greeted the other person, "Hey, do you know how Lao Wang's leg is broken?" What, you haven't seen him in a long time? No wonder I said I haven't been able to see anyone lately, let me tell you, I saw him in a wheelchair just now, and his woman got him a wheelchair ......."
The woman, knowing that the man did not want to see acquaintances, pushed him to another neighborhood two blocks away.
No one here knows anyone.
They wander around the neighborhood, occasionally glancing at them, but quickly pulling their gaze away.
When he got home, the man's face was calm and he didn't seem to be angry.
The woman has a little peace of mind, and then every week, she will take two days out to take the man downstairs for a walk.
She is old, and it is a little difficult to help a man alone, so she can only wait for her son to come over and let her son carry the man down.
The days seem to be gradually calming down.
Men are not noisy or noisy, they stay at home every day, quietly.
The women work during the day and go out to set up stalls at night, and from time to time they pick up some plastic bottles and sell them to the scrap collectors.
Because she was afraid of being discovered by men, she often put the waste she picked up at the top of the stairs.
As a result, she worked hard for two days to collect scrap, and she didn't know who took it away.
The woman wept silently for two days.
After that, she carefully put away the unsold waste and secretly hid it at home.
The man seemed to know something, but he didn't say anything.
One day, she went downstairs to sell the accumulated scrap to the vendor, took the twenty yuan that the vendor gave her, and happily went upstairs.
The two of them are elderly, and the expenses are not high, two taels of pork and two vegetables, and they can eat all day.
However, the price of pork has risen recently, and I can't afford to eat it, so I can only get a little meat every two days or so.
Twenty yuan is their living expenses for the past two days.
As soon as she got home, the woman saw the man sitting in a chair, staring at the window in a daze.
The woman followed his line of sight and saw a large golden cat stepping on the edge of the balcony, poking its head into the room.
"Let's go, let's go. ”
The woman was startled, for fear that the big cat would disturb the man, so she hurriedly stepped forward to drive away.
The big cat was frightened by the woman, shrunk its head, and disappeared from the balcony with a "whoosh".
When she returned from driving the cat, she saw the man retract his gaze.
Looking at the man who had been silent, the woman was a little distressed, she was busy every day, and she had no time to communicate with him.
I have the impression that the man has never said a few words at the end of the day.
When she's not at home, he must be lonely alone.
The woman thought so, so when the big cat reappeared, she didn't step forward to chase it away.
Instead, he found the rice he hadn't eaten yesterday from home, hesitated, poured some soup on top of the rice, and put it under the balcony.
The big cat didn't pay attention to them at first, but looked wary.
The woman didn't care about it either, she sat next to the man and continued to weave the insole.
The big cat tried a few times, but found that neither of them did anything, and after a few times, it cautiously jumped off the balcony.
The big cat turned around the rice bowl a few times, first buried his head and sniffed, and after confirming that there was no peculiar smell, he stretched out his little pink tongue, licked it on the rice, and ate it in small bites.
Since then, a golden figure has often appeared on their balcony.
This figure seems to add a touch of vitality to this dark and cramped room.
It's as if it's back in time.
He Chuan's heart sank.
Women don't know that men are not in a daze when they look at the ceiling every day.
It's listening.
The distance between the buildings of the old house is very small, and they are on the third floor, and he can hear clearly what the people are talking about.
"I heard that Lao Wang's leg is broken?"
"Isn't it, I haven't seen anyone in a long time. ”
"What leg is broken, I heard that it is disabled, and the lower half of the body is paralyzed. ”
"Paralyzed?"
"That's right, I can't walk, I can't move, and I have to be taken care of even when I and pee. ”
"It's so miserable, then who will take care of him in his family. ”
"Who knows, anyway, his son and daughter are not around, and his wife goes out every day, and he doesn't know what he is doing. ”
"Isn't that all the and pee spilled on the crotch ......of your pants? His wife won't have anyone outside, will she?"
"What are you talking about, you're all at this age, who still has the heart to do those things outside, and they are not ashamed. ”
"That's not for sure, anyway, if there is a person in my family who lies in bed and and pees every day, I can't stand it. ”
"That's what I said, anyway, if I become like this, it's better to die, what's the point of living when people come to this point. ”
"But isn't it, maybe his family is looking forward to him dying, dying early and surpassing life early, and living is also a burden to others. ”
"It's also a shame that he can live with a thick skin. ”
"It's better to die than to live, you don't look at those sick people, one by one they sell houses and cars to be treated, for fear that they will leave early. ”
"What's the meaning of living like this, they all say that there is no filial son in front of the bed for a long time, you look at him, his son is not here, his daughter is not there, he is alone. ”
"I heard that his son was selling vegetables at a stall outside, and he was forty years old and didn't even have a house. The daughter was even more miserable, she couldn't give birth to a child, so she went to adopt one, but now it's okay, her husband cheated, the two divorced, and the child was thrown to her. Now she is alone with the children, doing some waitress work outside, and she has a miserable life. ”
"How do you know that?"
"Hey, my son is the purchasing manager. When he went to the next city to buy before, he was invited to dinner, and he happened to meet her in the restaurant. When he came back, he told me that a woman who used to look so beautiful now looks like a yellow-faced woman, but fortunately he didn't marry her in the first place. ”
"Purchasing manager, that position is very oily, right?"
"No, my son has just been working for two years, and he bought a big house of 90 square meters in the south of the city. The car, huh, did you see it, it's the one, the 300,000 BMW. He also has a car for transportation, which seems to be called...... Oh, Tesla, I heard that it costs eight or nine hundred thousand, and it is usually placed on the side of the new house. ”
"Then why don't you go and live with them? ”
"I'm old, why are I running so far, I'm used to staying here, I'm too lazy to change places. ”
"You're so happy. ”
"Hey, that's it, that's it. ”
He Chuan felt it.
The man's fingers, which had not moved, suddenly trembled.