Chapter 12: The Cruel Reality
"Xiao Mu, your phone. Yu Yun's loud voice shouted at Lin Xiaomu, who was washing clothes in the bathroom.
"Oh, it's coming, it's coming!" Lin Xiaomu's wet hands rubbed his pants, and then he walked over and picked up the mobile phone on the table.
found out that it was her mother Wang Aiping who called, and she conditionally became nervous again.
pressed the answer button, and I heard Wang Aiping's crying: "Xiao Mu...... Your grandma seems to be dying, I don't know how long she can survive, do you want to come back and see her......"
Lin Xiaomu only felt that her legs suddenly became sore, and her eyes suddenly became dark, the sky was spinning, and her whole body was shaky, Yu Yun was so shocked that she immediately helped her sit down on the bed.
"How's it going, do you feel better?" Yu Yun looked worried after knowing what was going on at home.
"Hmm...... I'll pack my things and get ready to take the train later. ”
on the train.
After Lin Xiaomu put down her things and sat down, she found that there was a thousand yuan in her bag, and she didn't have to think about it to know that Yu Yun must have secretly put it in, looking at the scenery flickering outside the window, she had mixed feelings, and tears were uncontrollable.
Sitting opposite was an old couple, first saw Lin Xiaomu crying red eyes, and hurriedly comforted softly, sitting on the left side of Lin Xiaomu A little girl also handed over a tissue with concern, Lin Xiaomu was difficult to tell everyone, but she cried uncontrollably, for a while, many people in the carriage looked at her, curious about what happened to her.
Fell into a deep sleep.
When he woke up, it was already 9:15 in the evening, and Lin Xiaomu suddenly remembered that tomorrow was the day when he was going to go to the grapefruit restaurant to work part-time, and hurriedly called Manager Wu to ask for leave.
"Manager Wu, I have a relative at home who is sick and needs to go back to my hometown, so I want to ask you for a leave......
"How long will you take a leave of absence?"
“…… This one...... I'm not sure either, it might take a while. ”
"That's not going to work, you're not sure about the time, the restaurant is already tight, how can you do it for more than half a month, so you can only resign"
Lin Xiaomu's heart was steep, and he said gloomily: "Okay, I'll quit this job, I'm sorry for you!"
hung up the phone, and a sense of sadness arose, she was really reluctant to do this job.
After the train arrived at its destination, Lin Xiaomu took two buses in succession before returning to her remote mountain village.
After putting the luggage away, Lin Xiaomu couldn't wait to run to her grandmother's room.
In the quiet room, the tungsten lamp flashed dimly, Lin Xiaomu opened the gray mosquito net, and saw her grandmother lying on the bed, her face was withered, and she was panting faintly.
At this time, Wang Aiping walked into the house and saw Lin Xiaomu, a trace of joy flashed in her heart, she hadn't seen her for more than half a year, she heard from her neighbors that Xiao Mu was back, but she didn't see it at home, this child really came here for the first time.
"Your grandmother has been in a coma for a few days and hasn't woken up yet, and our family doesn't have much money to keep her in the hospital, so we can only stay at home......"
Lin Xiaomu couldn't answer, she knew the situation at home better than anyone else, her grandparents had already lost their labor force in their twilight years, and the family only relied on her mother to grow a few acres of vegetables and do some casual work to make a living, and the elder brother in the town went to work in a shoe factory, smelling the dangerous smell of chemical glue every day but taking a humble salary.
She suddenly remembered that since she was seven years old, there was a kind person named Aunt Su in H City, who donated money to her school, which has continued until now, although she gave her mother all the bank cards for the donation, and this money is the guarantee of Lin Xiaomu's annual tuition for so many years.
"Mom, do you remember Aunt Su, I'll write to her to see if I can help us. ”
Wang Aiping seemed to see a glimmer of life in Lin Xiaomu's eyes, and nodded again and again at her daughter's suggestion, she carefully looked at her daughter's thin face, and saw that she was carrying the pain that should not be her age, and her heart ached faintly.
Lin Xiaomu immediately decided to ask for help from well-wishers, she dug out the business card left by the donor when she was a child, and found Aunt Su's contact address.
She wrote in the letter about the situation at home, and her grandmother's coronary heart disease bypass surgery cost more than 60,000 yuan, hoping that Aunt Su could save her grandmother.
After writing, Lin Xiaomu carefully folded it and put it in the envelope with apprehension.
The next day, Lin Xiaomu took a hitchhiker from the village to the county and sent it with SF.
At night, the village was quiet and peaceful, as usual. The autumn wind blew, and the leaves of the plane tree in front of Lin Xiaomu's house fell down.
Lin Xiaomu sat in front of her grandmother's bed and talked with her grandmother, although her grandmother hadn't woken up yet. She talked about the bits and pieces of her childhood, the grandfather on the side looked at her granddaughter and secretly wiped her tears, Lin Xiaomu turned around and saw the grandfather's criss-crossing wrinkles, full of tears, and the grandfather never shed tears in his memory.
Two days later, Lin Xiaomu received a call from a stranger, it was a call from the secretary of a well-wisher, saying that he had transferred 80,000 yuan to help, Lin Xiaomu's family was ecstatic and hurriedly took her grandmother to the hospital.
Outside the operating room, Lin Xiaomu's family was anxiously waiting, and after the operation lasted for more than three hours, the door of the operating room slowly opened.
"The operation is complete, but the old man's functions in all aspects have deteriorated, and we still need to see if I can survive tonight. The attending doctor pulled down his mask and looked tired.
Although before the operation, the doctor had emphasized that the recovery rate after the operation was not high, Lin Xiaomu still wanted to give it a try.
She looked at her grandmother on the hospital bed, although her face was pale and godless, but she had a kind and peaceful demeanor.
Eventually, Grandma was gone
In the ancestral hall.
Lin Xiaomu cried uncontrollably against her grandmother's coffin, and the relatives on the side were persuading her to cheer up and send her grandmother on her last journey.
Lin Xiaomu felt that the people who loved her the most in the world were leaving one after another, life was like a drama, the people in the story had to take a curtain call after the performance, and they would never find a place to stop.