At dinner, Jiang Shuiyuan finally met his father Jiang Youzhi. It's only been a week, Jiang Youzhi is haggard and aging, his hair is unkempt, his face is full of stubble, his clothes are also wrinkled everywhere, and his eyebrows are full of tiredness.

It's not that Jiang You is sloppy, the key is that he really doesn't have time to care about this. During the day, he has to attend classes, prepare for classes, produce exam papers, correct homework, and worry about all kinds of things in the class. This is the first time he has taken the third graduating class of junior high school, and the high school entrance examination is imminent, he must be cautious everywhere, and he must not make a half-point difference. When I came back from school at night, I had to take care of my wife, who was unconscious in the hospital bed, and often stayed up all night. Turning day and night like this, even an iron man can't bear it, let alone a middle-aged man who is nearly forty years old?

When he saw Jiang Shuiyuan, he still smiled and said, "Stinky boy, tell sù that you stayed in Jiangning honestly to compete, why did you still run back? When you win the trophy, I guess your mother will wake up too, just in time to surprise her!"

Jiang Shuiyuan's nose was a little sour: "I'm not going back, I'm going to stay here and take care of my mother!"

"What can you take care of?" Jiang Youzhi rubbed his eyebrows, "Take care of your mother, me, and your grandma and grandfather, you don't need to interfere, you better go back to Jiangning quickly! I'll ask your uncle to buy you a ticket later." ”

"No!" Jiang Shuiyuan refused categorically.

Although the competition is important, the mother is even more important. Although grandma and grandpa can also take care of them, they are already over seventy years old after all, so how dare they let the two old people overwork? Moreover, they are so distraught now, how can they participate in the competition? Reluctantly participating in the competition is also adding to the chaos, so it is better to stay at home and take care of the mother.

Jiang Youzhi persuaded a few more times, but when he saw that Jiang Shuiyuan had made up his mind, he didn't persuade again, not to mention that the family really needs someone to take care of it now.

In the next few days, Jiang Shuiyuan not only didn't go to Jiangning, but also didn't even go to school, and sat outside the ICU in a daze every day with a book, hoping that his mother would wake up from her sleep in the next second. But such good wishes are always shattered again and again. When I asked the doctor, he always said, "Wait, wait." "As for when it will be, they can't say. However, doctors are very sure of one thing, that is, the duration of coma is positively correlated with the severity of the disease, and the prognosis of patients with long-term coma is mostly poor. Even if you are awake in the future, you will have sequelae such as amnesia, dementia, speech impairment, confusion, hemiplegia, and uncoordinated movements.

As time passed, Jiang Shuiyuan's heart gradually hung up, and he couldn't even read three or five pages of a book in the last morning.

During this period, the head teacher Zhu Qingjia, classmates, Liu Chenyu, Pu Xiaoxiang, and Ge Juntian all came to visit once or twice one after another. As for Wu Zichen, he basically comes once a day, either after school at noon or before self-study at night, and when he comes, he will bring some seasonal fruits and delicate pastries, and then chat with Jiang Shuiyuan for half an hour to relieve the boredom in his heart. Cai Xiaojia also followed him four or five times.

What surprised him even more was Xie Bishou's visit, and it was this visit that made Jiang Shuiyuan roughly understand the current embarrassment at home.

It was the morning of the fourth day when Jiang Shuiyuan returned to Huai'an Mansion, he was looking at his mother in the ICU in a daze, Xie Bishou suddenly appeared in front of him with flowers and fruits, and apologized when he met: "Jiang Shuiyuan, I'm really sorry, I lost my words at the next moment, and I actually led you to miss such an important game." If it weren't for my talking, I'm afraid you'd already be in the finals by now, right? I'm really sorry, please don't care about the unintentional mistakes below!"

Why is this guy always haunted? And he has a dog's nose, he can find him wherever he is! However, Jiang Shuiyuan was not in the mood to talk to him, so he waved his hand at him casually: "Forget it, forget it, I understand, no need to say more." ”

Xie Bishou is familiar with shopping malls, so he naturally knows how to deal with different people. Knowing that Jiang Shuiyuan was impatient, he still asked him about Chen Fangyi's condition with sincerity, and expressed sympathy or anger from time to time, narrowing the psychological distance between him and Jiang Shuiyuan. After gossiping for a long time, Xie Bishou suddenly changed his words: "I wonder if Jiang Shuiyuan is interested in joining us now?"

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Jiang Shuiyuan didn't understand why he was still discussing his mother's condition one second, and the next second he suddenly turned to this issue. Xie Bishou immediately explained: "Do you know how much it costs your mother to live in such a ward? As far as I know, an ICU ward like Huai'an Mansion costs an average of 6,000 yuan a day, and if you use any special drugs or other instruments, you won't be able to beat 10,000 yuan a day! I don't know how much savings your family has, but your father, as a teacher at Shanyang Junior High School, has a salary of 4,000 yuan a month, right? In other words, your father's two-month salary is not enough for your mother to live in the ICU for a day! ”

Jiang Shuiyuan was stunned. Since hearing the news of his mother's hospitalization, he has been thinking most about when his mother will be able to wake up, and he has never considered the cost. Even if I think about this problem occasionally, I would never think that it would cost so much money to stay in the ICU for one day!

The Jiang family is indeed not wealthy.

Dad Jiang Youzhi is a phoenix man, and he only has a dead salary after work, so naturally he can't save much money, so he relies on his mother Chen Fangyi to open a store to subsidize some families. It's just that Chen Fangyi opened the store full-time after going to primary school in Jiangshuiyuan, and she also made and lost money in business, and she didn't save much money. Fortunately, the family has not spent much over the years, and it is estimated that they have barely saved two or three hundred thousand yuan.

This money is a lot of money in normal times, but it is not enough to stay in the ICU for a month!

Xie Bishou said again: "What I said just now is still the price of Huai'an Mansion! You should know that the medical level of Huai'an Mansion can only be medium in the country, and it cannot be compared with Jiangning and Beijing at all. Your mother has been in a coma for more than a week now, and the further it drags on, the greater the risk, so it is best to immediately transfer to the best hospital in Jiangning or Beijing to find the best doctor to treat you, so as not to delay the best treatment. And how much does the ICU ward in the best hospitals in Jiangning and Beijing cost per day? I guess it will cost 10,000 to 15,000 anyway! This is only the price of hospitalization. Coupled with medicines, consultation fees, etc., I can't even hear the sound of water for 30,000 or 20,000 a day. If you want to be cured, you must first prepare 350,000 yuan and put it there! -- Even if you continue to stay in Huai'an Mansion for treatment, who knows how long you will stay in the ICU ward?

Although Xie Bishou really didn't like what he said, Jiang Shuiyuan didn't say anything to refute it, because what he said was the truth.

Xie Bishou finally tried to see the poor dagger: "Nowadays, as long as you are admitted to the hospital, in fact, you are buying your life with money and extending your life with money! Fortunately, we have always been people-oriented, and we have a wide range of contacts in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, as long as Jiang Shuiyuan students join our company, our company will immediately help you contact the best hospital in Jiangning and find the best doctor to visit." If you sign a 10-year agreement with our company, we can also pay a signing fee of 500,000 yuan in advance, or 1 million yuan if it is 20 years! How is it, Jiang Shuiyuan-san?"

Jiang Shuiyuan is not a fool, he knows that the sky will not drop pies for no reason, even if pies are dropped, they are also poisonous. was silent at the moment, and did not answer Xie Bishou's question.

Xie Bishou was not in a hurry, and handed over a business card when he got up: "You can think about it carefully." Here's my business card, if you figure it out, you can call me on your phone!"