The dexterous family walked in front, Dongmei's family walked behind, and everyone walked towards Yanyan's house.

Yan Yan's house is very dilapidated, although the whole village is building bigger houses and building new ones, but only Yan Yan's house has no movement.

Against the backdrop of the brand-new, tall houses around, Yanyan's house is extraordinarily short.

After entering Yanyan's house, Dongmei found that for decades, the yard of Yanyan's house had not changed.

If you say it is good, it is antique, and if you say it is unpleasant, it is incomplete.

Yanyan's mother walked to the backyard, in front of the innermost house, and said, "Let's go, let's go in, Yanyan is lying on the kang inside." ”

As the door was pushed open, a musty smell rushed towards me.

This was followed by a smell of moisture and the fishy smell of rotting wheat straw.

It was dark inside the house, and the lights were broken.

When Yan Yan's mother opened the window next to her, the whole room was a little brighter.

Yanyan saw that there were many people coming in, and she hurriedly got up from the kang.

Looking at Yan Yan in front of her dexterously, she couldn't believe how the beautiful girl who used to be tall and generous suddenly became a little old woman.

I saw that Yan Yan was skinny, with gray hair, wearing a very torn cotton jacket, sitting in the corner of the kang.

And Dongmei was also stunned, she was at least five years older than Yanyan, but Yanyan in front of her looked much older than herself.

Dongmei vaguely remembered that when Yanyan and Lingqiao were together, everyone would be unnatural and set their eyes on Yanyan.

Because, compared with dexterity, Yanyan is much more beautiful and fair-skinned.

Moreover, Yanyan always cleans herself up very cleanly, very neatly, unlike dexterity, black and thin, her face is always dirty, her hair is always messy, there is no way at all, compared with the beautiful Yanyan.

But now, more than 20 years have passed, when Yanyan and Lingqiao stand together, it is hard to imagine that the two are the same age, and the two were classmates back then.

Compared with Yanyan's, she is black and thin, dexterous, white and fat.

Compared with Yanyan's hair, her hair is gray, and she has a big wavy curl, and she is dyed flaxen, which is very foreign.

Compared to Yanyan's dull and sallow skin, the dexterous skin is not only white, but also shiny, and even gives people a feeling of elasticity.

Dexterously climbed to the kang head, looked at Yanyan and said, "Yanyan, don't you know me?"

Yanyan was very weak, and she was weak to speak.

She said, "Who are you?"

Lingqiao's heart was sour, and she said: "Yanyan, when we were in Douhui Middle School, we were at the same table from junior high school, and we sat at the same table until high school, whenever the two of us came together, the male classmates around us praised you as a fairy and said that I was a clown, did you forget me?"

Suddenly, Yan Yan thought about it, she cried and laughed and said, "Dexterity, are you dexterous?"

Hearing that Yanyan finally recognized herself, she said smartly and excitedly, "Yanyan, you finally recognize me?"

Yan Yan moved her body, got off the kang, put on her cotton shoes, and said, "Lingqiao, when we were in Douhui Middle School, we were best friends, since you went to college in the provincial capital, we have separated, I really miss you."

I've been waiting for you for half my life, I've been thinking about you for half my life, and today, I'm finally waiting for you to come and see me. ”

As she spoke, Yan Yan choked up and couldn't speak.

Thinking about the scene when she was with Yanyan, she said: "Yanyan, do you remember when we were children, we went to the second uncle's house next door together and stole persimmons?"

Yanyan stood on the ground, took her dexterous hand, looked at her and said, "Why don't you remember, you are too stupid to go up the tree, you are outside, show me people, I will climb the tree and go to pick persimmons for you."

However, at that time, the persimmons were not fully ripe, and they could not be eaten, so we hid the unripe persimmons in the wheat straw stacks and put them for more than half a month. ”

Listening to Yan Yan's narration, her dexterous thoughts also returned to the past.

She said: "Back then, after we failed the college entrance examination in the first year, we all cried, and we cried very sadly.

However, when we tutored for a year and failed the college entrance examination in the second year, not only did we not cry, but we laughed, do you remember what you said back then?"

Yan Yan shook her head and said, "I don't remember, what did I say back then?"

Lingqiao said: "Yanyan, you said back then, I finally don't have to study, and I can finally find a prince charming to marry." ”

Hearing this, Yanyan, who had been crying for a long time, finally laughed, she said, "I forgot, you still remember." ”

"Of course I remember, and I said something that made you cry?"

Yanyan said, "What are you talking about?"

Lingqiao said: "I said, the prince charming you are looking for is not a prince, but a Tang monk." ”

Hearing this, the people around him were amused.

But after laughing, the people around him fell into sadness again.

Because everyone found out that Yan Yan had only stood for a while, she couldn't stand.

She was panting, with cold sweat on her forehead, and climbed onto the kang again.

Yanyan saw that everyone was looking at her with concern, and she said, "Hey, after giving birth to the third child in our family, my heart was uncomfortable, but I didn't have the money to go to the doctor at that time, so I held on." ”

Yan Yan's mother said next to her: "She gave birth to a child, not long after, she went to work in the field, under the mountain, although there is a lot of land, but it is very barren, the light is not long, in order to let a few children eat enough, Yan Yan and her husband, is working in the field day and night, through the hard work of their husband and wife, the whole family is not only full, but also has some money, now, it looks like it is about to run to a well-off, but Yanyan's heart disease suddenly became serious. ”

Lingdex looked at Yan Yan and said, "I didn't have money before, you didn't see a doctor, but now that you have money, then you have to go to the hospital too?"

Yanyan shirked and said: "My daughter is married, and my two sons haven't married a daughter-in-law yet, where do I dare to go to the hospital, if I see a doctor and spend all my money, where will the daughter-in-law of the two sons come from." ”

Hearing this, Dongmei felt very uncomfortable, Yanyan's illness had reached such a serious point, and she still wanted to save money and marry a daughter-in-law for her two sons.

Dongmei knows that the more remote and impoverished the place, the more difficult it is to marry a daughter-in-law, and the higher the bride price.

And Yanyan has two sons, so she has to prepare at least 200,000 yuan for the glorious gift, not counting other expenses.

Lingqiao took out his mobile phone from his pocket and said: "Yanyan, you don't have money to see a doctor, I'll treat you, I know the heart doctor of the Fourth Medical University in the provincial capital, let's leave for the provincial capital tomorrow, give you surgery, and treat you." ”

Yan Yan waved her hand and said, "Dexterity, I know you have been worried about me, but how can I spend your money?"

Lingdexterity took Yan Yan's hand and said, "Yan Yan, I have money, I will pay tens of thousands of professors in a year, so don't be afraid to spend my money." ”

Yan Yan's mother heard that Lingqiao wanted to treat Yanyan, she said excitedly: "Lingqiao, you came today, our Yanyan's illness is amazing, but some of them have been saved." ”

Lingqiao said: "After I graduated from college, I have been thinking about contacting Yanyan, but because of the lack of news at that time, and the inconvenient transportation, there is no way to find Yanyan, now the information is smooth, the transportation is also convenient, and I finally saw Yanyan, can I see that she is sick, and I don't care?"

Yanyan's lips are blue, which is obviously a sign of insufficient blood supply.

She said: "Dexterity, I can't die, you can rest assured, I will spend your money just when we meet, you can bear it, I can't bear it." ”

Dongmei was beside her, persuading Yanyan and said, "Yanyan, heart disease is not a trivial disease, you must pay attention to it, if you don't do it, it will kill you." ”

Wei Guo also said: "An employee of our unit, at a young age, died in his sleep because of a heart attack. ”

Yanyan's mother also persuaded Yanyan and said, "Yanyan, you just go to see a doctor, in case you leave, the white-haired person sends the black-haired person, what should I do?"

The dexterous doctor's husband stayed for a long time, and then he spoke, and he said, "What if there is a case, what will your two sons do, they can't live without their mother?"

At this time, Dongmei thought of Yanyan's husband, and she said, "By the way, Yanyan, what about your husband, it's almost the New Year, and I haven't seen him coming." ”

Yanyan pointed to the guide and said, "He followed the child and went to the south to work to earn money." ”

Hearing that Yanyan's husband went to work in the south, Wei Guo knew the hard work of working in the south, and he said: "Yanyan, your husband is my age, is he still going out to work, doing manual work, can he afford to eat?"

Yan Yan smiled slightly and said: "Is there any way, the money for the two children to marry a daughter-in-law is not enough, he doesn't go out to work, and the money won't fall from the sky, he can eat, he has to eat, he has to eat, he has to eat, he has to eat." ”

Wei Guo sighed and said, "The bride price is really not enough, you let the two sons go to Sichuan or Chongqing to find a daughter-in-law, and the girls there basically don't want a bride price." ”

Hearing that the woman didn't want a bride price, Yan Yan couldn't believe it: "Under Beishan, no matter how ugly a girl is, she needs at least 100,000 bride price, I don't believe it, girls in Sichuan and Chongqing don't need a bride price when they get married." ”

After finishing speaking, Yan Yan said: "Actually, I hope that my two sons can be sons-in-law or inverted doors, because in that way, there will be no need to pay the bride price, his father will not have to go out to sell coolies, and I can also use the money I have saved for a lifetime to go to the doctor." ”

What Yan Yan said pierced her heart, and she listened to it dexterously and burst into tears.

She pleaded with Yanyan and said, "Yanyan, you can follow me to see a doctor, compared to your two children marrying a daughter-in-law, your health is the most important thing." ”

Yanyan's husband of a doctoral student also said: "Yanyan, don't worry about the marriage of your two children, there are many single female college students among my students, I will introduce you to your son." ”

Hearing that her dexterous husband wanted to introduce female college students to her two sons, Yan Yan suddenly laughed, she said: "My two sons, one graduated from junior high school and dropped out of school, and the other went to the second year of high school and dropped out.

Dongmei couldn't figure out why Yanyan wanted her two children to drop out of school early, she asked Yanyan: "The children haven't gone to college yet, why do you let them drop out of school?"

Yanyan said: "It's not that I let them drop out of school, it's the children below Beishan, basically, they all drop out of school at that age, and then go out to work, and no one can escape." ”

Hearing this, Dongmei sighed that if Yanyan had also been admitted to school, then not only would she not have heart disease now, but her children, like dexterous children, would definitely be studying hard in high school in order to be admitted to key universities.