"Doctor, my mom, how is she?"

Gently closing the door of the ward, Zhao Yang raised his head, glanced at the middle-aged woman inside through the window with a sad face, and turned to the middle-aged doctor with glasses in front of him and asked.

The doctor lifted his glasses, looked at the case in his hand, and whispered, "The patient's condition has been controlled, but the tumor is still deteriorating, and it is now necessary to undergo resection surgery as soon as possible. ”

Zhao Yang frowned, hesitated for a few seconds, and asked, "Doctor, how much does the operation cost?"

"About 500,000. ”

"Can it be cheaper? I can't afford to pay so much money for the time being......

"No," the doctor refused without hesitation, "This is the price set by the hospital, no matter how much money you pay now, the hospital will not arrange surgery for you until the money is paid, so make up enough money as soon as possible, the patient's illness cannot be delayed any longer." ”

Zhao Yang stared at the doctor's departing back, his hands clenched into fists.

500,000 yuan, for a flat-headed ordinary person like him, is simply a sky-high surgical fee, where did he go to make so much money?

Moreover, even if you sell the valuable things at home, there is still a difference of two or three hundred thousand, how to fill this vacancy?

Zhao Yang's heart was like pressing a huge rock, rubbed his face, squeezed out a trace of an ugly smile, and pushed the door in.

"Yoko, what did the doctor say, if you still need a lot of money for treatment, let's get out of the hospital, don't waste money!"

The middle-aged woman on the hospital bed put down the bowl of porridge in her hand, looking at her son who had been working hard for the past few days, and felt distressed.

"Mom, it's okay, don't worry, the doctor said that the next operation doesn't need a lot of money, I still have a little savings, it's enough......"

Mother Zhao raised her head, stared at Zhao Yang, coughed a few times and said, "That's good, but your uncle still owes our family a sum of money, and when he is free, ask him to come back, and return the borrowed money to your friends first, as for your father, don't bother if you can, let's ......"

"Okay, Mom, I know, I still have something to do at work, so I'll go first. Zhao Yang frowned, interrupted Zhao's mother's words, turned around and closed the door to leave.

Maple City, Yuhu high-end community, in front of a luxury suite.

Zhao Yang raised his hand in a nervous mood, his hand stopped in the air for a few seconds, and then resolutely knocked it down.

"Knock knock. ”

The door was opened by a middle-aged man, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, not tall, with a slight beer belly.

"Zhao Yang, why are you?

The middle-aged man looked surprised, he didn't expect Zhao Yang to come to him, and he didn't expect Zhao Yang to know his residence.

Zhao Yang licked his dry lips, hesitated, and said, "Dad, I, I want to ask you to borrow some money." ”

"Borrow money?" Zhao Guoqiang frowned, his face suddenly sank, "How much do you want to borrow?"

"200,000 is enough, my mother was diagnosed with cancer and needs surgery as soon as possible, and the family can't come up with so much money......" Zhao Yang clenched his fists tightly, sweating in his palms.

Zhao Guoqiang's expression looked a little displeased, and he said indifferently, "Zhao Yang, it's not that I don't borrow you, I've been a little short of funds recently, and I can't get 200,000 yuan." ”

Zhao Yangxin "chuckled", gritted his teeth, and continued, "Dad, 100,000 is fine, 50,000 is fine, damn my illness, I can't drag it out, I beg you, I will return it to you with interest in the future!"

"This ......" Zhao Guoqiang's brows furrowed even deeper, and he looked at Zhao Yang, his eyes flashed with a trace of disdain and disgust.

At this moment, a sharp woman's voice suddenly came from the crack in the door, and then the door was completely opened.

"Borrow anything, not a penny!"

A middle-aged woman with heavy makeup and a famous brand appeared on Zhao Guoqiang, with her hands on her waist and a domineering look.

"Is there a mistake? Your mother has divorced your father a long time ago, and you are also an adult, your father has no obligation to take care of your family's affairs anymore, so many relatives on your mother's side do not borrow, but come to borrow money from us, and our family is not a charity, why do you borrow so much money?"

"Besides, my son recently talked about a girlfriend who wants to buy a new car, and 150,000 yuan is all money, how can you say that you can borrow it?"

Zhao Yang raised his head and looked at the middle-aged woman coldly.

Although the woman is middle-aged, she still has a lot of charm, she does not look old at all, she is finely dressed, her figure is slender, convex and backward, and she is not inferior to a beautiful girl in her twenties.

After Zhao Guoqiang made a fortune, this woman became the secretary in his office, the two got together for several years, and gave birth to an illegitimate child.

Zhao Guoqiang sighed, pretending to be unbearable and said, "Xiuying, can you say a few words? No matter what, Zhao Yang is also my son......

"What a son, no son, just a waste thing, after graduating for so many years, he is not a watchdog in a broken antique shop, I don't care! You can't borrow this money, if you borrow it, I will take my son back to his parents' house." Li Xiuying's voice was sharp, and she stared at Zhao Yang with unkind eyes, and she didn't give in at all.

Zhao Yang looked at the woman in front of him with cold eyes, and his heart was filled with anger.

"Zhao Yang, you have also seen it, although our family has money, but we can't say that we can borrow it, you are also an adult, I have no obligation to help you, you go, there will be people coming to talk about business in a while, if you don't leave, I will call the security guard to drive you away." Zhao Guoqiang shook his hand impatiently, his eyes full of contempt.

Zhao Yang was so angry that his fingernails dug into the flesh, overflowing scarlet blood, he looked at the two people in front of him for a few seconds, suddenly let go of his fist, turned to a sneer, pointed at Zhao Guoqiang and said, "Bitch and dog have been around for a long time, since it comes to this, there is no need to scruple, I will also send you a word, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, don't bully the young and poor." ”

After speaking, Zhao Yang turned around and left.

Zhao Guoqiang stared at Zhao Yang's back, his face turned blue with anger, and Li Xiuying on the side turned into a shrew, blushing and spitting a mouthful of phlegm at Zhao Yang and scolded loudly, "Dead poor ghost, useless waste thing, what qualifications do you have to say about us, I'm phew!"

……

At this time, it is the dog days of the year, and the breeze is like a heat wave. The scorching sun is in the sky, passers-by can't avoid it, and few people don't walk outside the shade without an umbrella.

Leaving the high-end community, Zhao Yang walked along the checkered road of the street, walking out of the shadows under the sun's rays, his arms were red from the sun, but he didn't feel it at all.

"Doodoo ......"

Zhao Yang was desperate and dialed his uncle's family's number again, but as before, he dialed the second hanging, and it was obvious that he had been blocked.

"What a fucking reality!" Zhao Yang took a sip fiercely, clutching his sweat-soaked mobile phone, "It's really not good, I can only take the last road." ”

I took a car casually, went around from north to south, and only got out of the car when I arrived at the southern suburbs of Maple Leaf City.

Walking along the gravel road to the depths of the woods, turning a few dirt paths, Zhao Yang finally found his destination, the old house left by his grandfather to Zhao's mother before his death.

This suburb is about to be merged into the new development zone, Zhao Yang originally planned to keep it and wait for the old house to be demolished and get a high amount of demolition money, but unfortunately, now it must be sold, but before selling, Zhao Yang plans to take an item from it back to the antique street for auction.

Zhao Yang crawled out from under the dusty bed, holding a black statue in his hand.

This is a statue of Erlang God Zhenjun, wearing a three-mountain flying phoenix hat on his head, holding a three-pointed two-edged gun in his hand, although the whole body is as black as ink, but the crystal clear, fluorescent eye of the sky between the foreheads is blazing, as if it is real.

This was found by his grandfather in a small stall in the field in the early years, and he never took it for identification, but Zhao Yang often heard his grandfather boast that this was an old object that flowed out of the princely and aristocratic mansion in the late Qing Dynasty, and it was worth at least 300,000 yuan.

Grandpa was a decent person when he was alive, he loved antiques, and rarely looked away, and what he said was true nine times out of ten.

Zhao Yang carefully wrapped the sculpture in an oilcloth, relying on the relationship between many years of miscellaneous work in the antique shop, it should not be a problem to find an acquaintance to briefly appraise it, and then put it in the auction house for auction.

Leaving the old house, Zhao Yang held the statue and casually stopped a car, and the car drove north, and soon came to the largest antique street in Maple City.

The place where he works is an antique shop called "Jubao Zhai", the owner of which is a year-old friend of his grandfather, who takes care of Zhao Yang and is kind.

Zhao Yang studied archaeology at university, but because he did not graduate from a prestigious university as a bachelor's degree, and because he was not admitted to graduate school because of the pressure line, his major became a death major, and he was unemployed as soon as he graduated.

So the grandfather found his New Year's friend, and threw Zhao Yang into the antique shop as an apprentice, saying that it was an apprentice, but in fact it was just a miscellaneous job, Zhao Yang studied in a second-rate school, and he was naturally ignorant of antiques if he was not good at archaeology, so he was useless in the antique shop.

Holding the statue from the car, opposite is the entrance of the antique street, at this time people come and go, shouting and shouting, especially near the entrance of the small stall vendors, always stop one or two passers-by to browse in front of their stalls.

Just as Zhao Yang was about to cross the road, there was a sudden commotion on the street on the right, and in the crowd, a sports car that seemed to be out of control quickly hit Zhao Yang.

"Holy!"

Zhao Yang's pupils shrank, and he stubbornly held the statue and ran in the opposite direction of the sports car, but unexpectedly, the sports car suddenly made a sharp turn and crashed straight into Zhang Yang.

"Boy, get out of the way!"

"Little brother, don't hold that thing, run away!"

"It's over, it's over, the car is going to hit someone!"

"Bang"

The silver-white front of the car hit Zhao Yang hard, Zhao Yang instantly lost his center of gravity and fell back, and the statue of Erlang God in his arms also flew out, and in just a few seconds, with a "clang", the statue and the person fell to the ground almost at the same time.

The statue of Erlang God fell to pieces and scattered on the ground, and Zhao Yang's wrist was cut by the fragments of the statue on the ground, and blood flowed.

"it, my statue!"

Zhao Yang shouted anxiously, endured the severe pain, and struggled on the ground to get up.

"This young man really wants the statue to die!"

"But isn't it, today's young people are looking forward to finding some old objects and getting rich overnight, but how do they know that this thing is more difficult than winning the lottery, rather than engaging in these unrealistic, it is better to be down-to-earth. ”

A circle of people gathered around, staring at Zhao Yang, all pointing and pointing, talking to each other, the environment was noisy, but no one dared to walk over.

"Hey, yes, I'm sorry, you, are you okay?" A girl suddenly got out of the sports car and hurriedly ran in the direction where Zhao Yang was.