Chapter 2: A Turning Point in Life
Chen Zhili has been in a coma, temporarily out of danger, and did not come out of the intensive care unit until the third day. The doctor said that even if he woke up, he was basically out of labor. In just a few days, Zijun's mother and daughter lived a miserable life.
Wang Lanfang accompanies her husband in the hospital every day, she was originally a woman with no knowledge and no opinions, washing and cooking, working in the fields, and being whatever her family says. Now that the pillars of the roof have collapsed, she is crying or crying, lying on the edge of the hospital bed, crying for a while and resting for a while, and after a while, she cries again when she thinks of the sad place.
Zijun hurriedly climbed upstairs with her food and before she entered the ward, she heard her mother crying, and a sour feeling surged in her heart, but she couldn't cry.
Zijun wiped the sweat from his forehead, made some noise, and then deliberately used a brisk voice, pretending not to notice that his mother was crying and said, "Mom, I brought rice, fried eggplant, fried chili, and beans, do you smell it?" It's so fragrant, you can taste it!"
"Your dad is like this, where can I still eat. The tone seemed to condemn Zijun's indifference and ruthlessness, and she couldn't help crying again after saying that. On weekdays, her husband is partial to her eldest daughter, but now that her husband has an accident, she is so sad that she can't eat, and she can still laugh! How can she have such a heartless daughter?
"Mom, no matter how sad you are, you have to eat. Zijun hurriedly opened the tied cloth bag, uncovered the small bowl on it, revealed the fragrant food, and handed her chopsticks: "Eat as much as you want, Mom, didn't you praise me for my delicious rice before?" Look, I added chili peppers and chives to the eggplant today, and they all said it was delicious. ”
Wang Lanfang glanced at her daughter, looked at her courteous face, and finally took the meal and started eating.
Zijun sat on the edge of the bed, looking at his father's increasingly thin face, his eyes were hot and tears welled up. Thinking that her mother had finally stopped crying, she endured it and turned her back again.
She carefully took her father's hand, it was so hot and cold. Her nose was sore, and the line of tears that had flickered in her circle for a long time finally couldn't hold back and slip down.
Wang Lanfang has finally finished eating, and these days are really like years. Zijun lowered his head and silently cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks. The old ceiling fan on the roof was whirling, and the outside knew that it was screaming. Zijun was thinking about his own thoughts, Wang Lanfang also had his own thoughts, and there was a strange atmosphere between the mother and daughter, as if they both wanted to say something, but they seemed to feel that there was nothing to say.
It's just a matter of a minute, but there is a feeling that it has finally been cleaned up. Zijun breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, picked up the dishes and chopsticks and walked outside the ward, she stopped just when she reached the door, turned around and called, "Mom-"
Wang Lanfang looked at her daughter standing at the door, in the past few days, the hospital has been running at both ends, and it is the time when the sun is the most poisonous, a originally white and tender face has become tanned, and people are also a lot haggard, only a pair of eyes are bigger and brighter, shining with some light that she doesn't understand very well.
Wang Lanfang couldn't help but feel a little distressed when she looked at it, and felt a little ashamed of her previous thoughts. But for a while, she didn't know what to say, she just looked at her daughter fixedly, and she didn't know what she wanted to say when she called her, and some doubts flashed in her eyes.
Zijun looked at his mother, and suddenly burst into a smile, the smile was a little shallow, but there was a sense of calming people's hearts, "Mom, you just take care of Dad, don't worry about money!" The voice was not loud, but there was a kind of firmness in it.
Wang Lanfang was stunned for a moment, and her heart warmed for her daughter's intimate feelings, but how could she not worry about money? She was sad and desperate when her husband had an accident, but what she couldn't bear the most was that the family had no money? A man needs money for medical treatment, and a child needs money to go to school, how can she support this family as a woman?
At this time, when her daughter said such words, she could feel her daughter's heart in her heart, but after all, she was still a child, where was it as simple as she said? This big family wants to live, and the money can only come in and out, and how many days can it last? She was stunned for a moment, and her expression became a little faint from the initial intention. "Go back quickly, take care of the chickens and pigs at home. "The chicken can lay some eggs for the man to replenish his body, the pig was originally going to kill himself for the New Year and keep half of it and sell half of it, but now it seems that it will be sold as a whole, and it can be sold at a good price if it is fattened, Wang Lanfang thought in her heart.
"Okay. In the morning, we were fed some rice bran, and in the morning, my sister and I went to the field to pick up rotten pumpkins to feed the pigs. Mom-" Zijun stretched out his voice but didn't speak, Wang Lanfang looked at her daughter again with some puzzlement, always feeling that she wanted to say something, but she seemed to be a little embarrassed.
"What's wrong, is there something wrong?" Wang Lanfang heard her voice, and after asking, she felt a little remorseful. She didn't want to ask, she didn't want to know anything now, and she didn't want to care about anything, what was there to wait for Zhili to wake up, if he didn't wake up, her life would not be able to go on.
Zijun licked his dry lips, opened his mouth, and finally seemed to have made up his mind: "After two days, Dad's condition is stable, and I-I'll go out to work." With that, she ran away without looking back.
Although she had thought about it a long time ago, she still couldn't hold back tears at the moment she said it, and she hurriedly ran downstairs with blurred eyes, as if someone was chasing her behind.
Wang Lanfang was stunned, her heart was in a mess these days, thinking about what to do if the man couldn't get better, and thinking about why she was so miserable, how could she support such a big family as a woman in the future? The eldest daughter has good academic performance, and the man said earlier that as long as she wants to study, she will be able to study even if she smashes the pot and sells iron. She has been thinking about how to speak these days, and she has been thinking that it would be good if Junjun stopped going to school, not only could she help her, but also save a lot of money. But she dared to think in her heart that her daughter would be like her father, and she couldn't control it. Now that her daughter has offered to come to work, she is also relieved.
Zijun pushed the bicycle, came out of the hospital, and turned three hundred meters away, which was Longcheng No. 1 Middle School. The junior high school exam was taken here, and at that time, my eyes were full of joy, and now I ......
"Junjun, what college do you want to go to when you grow up?" her father always liked to ask her when she was a child.
"Tsinghua University, Peking University. At that time, she always replied with pride and anticipation on her face. That's what she knew, the highest institution and the highest hall of honor as a student. And all this will be gone......