Although Tong's father is very reluctant to give up Tong Yuexin's life like this, he is not willing to lose the spiritual sustenance of the past twenty-three years, and he is even more ashamed that he failed to fulfill the last wish of his wife who died unexpectedly nineteen years ago, but so many unwillingness and unwillingness can only be replaced by helplessness, and he has to accept the fact that Tong Yuexin's life has run out.

Tong Yuexin in two years and three months due to accidentally fell into the water after causing a high fever, general discomfort, limb pain and failed to get timely treatment, after Tong Dad all night over the mountains and mountains from the work of the Qingyu Mountain nursery to carry Xiao Yuexin to the county hospital more than 50 kilometers away, due to the spinal cord anterior horn motor neuron damage, the muscles related to it lost the nerve regulation and atrophied, while the subcutaneous fat, tendons and bones also atrophied, so that the whole body became thinner, and finally was ruthlessly rash Xiao Yuexin for polio, since then, Xiao Yuexin could only sit in a wheelchair.

In these twenty-three years of limited life, Tong Yuexin's greatest wish is to have a bouncing childhood like a normal person, and when she grows up, she yearns for the comfort and freedom of swimming in the sea and the sky, and finally has to accept that she has become an eternal dream because of her own inadequacy.

One night nineteen years ago, Tong's mother excitedly told her father: "Yongfeng, this afternoon Aunt Li finally inquired about the herbs that may cure our Yuexin's disease, there are two herbs when I went to work more than a month ago I saw that there were on the edge of the cloud cliff, and I will go to pick it for my daughter tomorrow morning." It's been more than a year, watching Yuexin sleep badly every day, and she can't eat, this child is still so sensible, and she doesn't cry out loud, but when she endures it and doesn't want us to see it, my mother's heart is more uncomfortable than poking and frying with a knife, even if it can't be cured, it's good to let Yuexin relieve some pain, right? ”

As he spoke, he burst into tears, and he couldn't cry silently, and the excitement when he first heard the medicine had long been wiped out, replaced by heart-wrenching pain.

Why didn't Tong's father think so, his daughter who was hurting on the tip of his heart suffered such a great sin and was suffering from illness, but he could only watch, and he couldn't help his daughter at all, how could he feel good in his heart as a father?

"Hey, why is this kid so miserable? If I could, I would be willing to trade my life for my daughter's health, but ......"

"Yes, as long as I can get Yuexin's health back, God can punish me however I want."

Mother Tong said while wiping tears and sobbing.

"Tomorrow, the seedling experts invited by the bureau will come over, I am not good not to be there this time, or wait for me to pick it after work, the cliff there is a bit high and steep, I don't worry about you going alone, and I am not in a hurry At this time, the herbs will not run there, just wait for half a day I can go and pick back to treat my Yuexin."

After speaking, Father Tong let out a long sigh.

"No, Aunt Li said, the old Chinese medicine doctor also specially instructed her that this medicine must be picked back before the sun comes out to have a special effect. You can go tomorrow, or I'll ask Aunt Li to come with me, okay? ”

"Well, that's all. Also, when you go tomorrow, bring some bacon from your hometown, and eat steamed buns at noon, don't let Aunt Li go hungry. ”

"Okay, then I'll go cook the bacon now, you can also eat it hot at noon tomorrow, and you have to steam a bowl of eggs for Yuexin at noon tomorrow, the child will only eat this for the past two days, and I will go to Grandma Yang's house tomorrow to change some."

Mother Tong got up and went to wash the bacon as she spoke.

Father Tong watched his wife walk into the kitchen, but his heart was full of guilt, thinking that his wife had no smile since his daughter was sick, looking at her increasingly haggard face and feeling that he was really incompetent, not only failed to make his wife happy, but also could not give the child a healthy body, in order to cure polio for Yuexin, they never gave up any hope, as long as they heard that it was effective for this disease, no matter how difficult and expensive they had to try, although they always went back with hope and sadness and disappointment, But he still can't stop their thirst for medical treatment, and he also knows that he is in a hurry to seek medical treatment, but aren't all parents in the world like this?

Whoever else will insist.

After seven o'clock the next morning, Tong's mother took simple equipment and went up the mountain with Aunt Li, but because it had rained the night before, there was dew on the grass blades, and Tong's mother accidentally slid down the bottom of the mountain from the cloud cliff five or six meters high.

When Tong's father carried back to Tong's mother, Tong's mother had died of excessive blood loss, and Tong's father can still remember that when he found Tong's mother under the cloud cliff, Tong's mother used the last sobriety to make Tong's father must continue to find medicine for his daughter, and do his best to reduce his daughter's pain and live happily every day.

After Tong's mother left, Tong's father found that his daughter was more sensible, and never shouted to find her mother, Tong's father looked at such a daughter's heart like a knife, in order to support his daughter's small piece of sky, Tong's father forced himself to quickly come out of the haze of losing his wife, after thinking about it, in order for his daughter to survive and stand on his own feet as much as possible in the future, he was transferred to the county that year, and then carried Tong Yuexin back and forth in big hospitals all over the country, and also asked around for good Chinese medicine, and went to seek advice whenever he was free. and decided to let Yuexin, who was less than five years old, also follow and study medicine while treating diseases.

In the past 19 years, it has never stopped, although Yuexin's illness not only failed to be controlled, but also the body is getting worse, but this strong child is very serious about learning, during the day the father carried her to school, and after school, she went to study Chinese medicine and acupuncture, and during the winter and summer vacations, the father of the child asked for leave to study medicine with his daughter, which may be the reason for going to medicine wholeheartedly, five years ago, the father and daughter both passed the doctor's qualification certificate, although the father's medical skills were good, and became a free famous doctor in the county, But Yuexin's medical skills are much stronger than her father's, although she can't save herself, she has benefited the surrounding neighbors, which is also Yuexin's only happiness, and the other happiness is to see the smile on her father's face.

Now lying on the hospital bed, Tong Yuexin is gray and skinny, but her deep and big eyes are staring at Tong's father, looking at her father's unwilling, guilty, confused, desperate, and painful eyes, her heart seems to sink to the bottom of the sea.

Tong Yuexin's eyes flashed in front of her eyes again The picture of relying on her father and never admitting defeat over the years, because the money was spent on treatment, on a snowy day, her father wrapped her tightly in a military coat, but she was only wearing a sweater that her mother had knitted for him before her death and had been torn in many places, and her face was purple from the cold; Unable to afford an electric fan, my father in the middle of summer wore a white vest and shook the fan for her with a sweaty smile, but said "Dad is not tired"

； On the dinner table, there will always be a bowl of her favorite steamed eggs, Tong Yuexin knows that this is what her father has never forgotten what her mother told him; During the winter vacation when Tong Yuexin was eight years old, Dad heard that there was a very skilled Chinese medicine doctor in a small town more than a thousand kilometers away, but this person's temper was also very strange, he treated the disease according to his mood, and the patients he was willing to treat heard that there was no number of hands, Dad said, no matter how difficult the old doctor was, even if he knelt for ten days and ten nights, he also asked for his old man's rash treatment, but Dad finally knelt for only three days and two nights and fainted at the door of the old Chinese medicine doctor, and therefore, This heart of love for women and women finally touched the old man who was nearly eighty years old, not only received the rash, but also accepted Tong Yuexin as an apprentice for the first time, every winter and summer vacation Dad will accompany him to the old Chinese medicine doctor home for treatment and medicine, but Tong Yuexin's cause is too difficult and too serious, and the old Chinese medicine doctor can't help, fortunately, Tong Dad and Tong Yuexin learned a lot of treatment methods for incurable diseases in his old man's home, and the old Chinese medicine doctor also passed on the acupuncture and moxibustion skills that he was proud of all his life to Tong Yuexin.

"Daddy"

Tong Yuexin screamed with difficulty.

Father Tong raised his head to look at Tong Yuexin with red eyes, thinking about the critical illness notice that the doctor had just given him, he choked up and said, "Yuexin, please forgive Dad, Dad is sorry for you, and even more sorry for your mother......"

Before the words were finished, the tears had become beads of broken threads.

"Dad, don't do this, okay? …… promised Yuexin that she would live well...... Continue the life of Yuexin and her mother together...... Yuexin, please...... Yuexin ...... Yuexin wants her father to live happily...... Let's go to the nursing home with Uncle Gu...... It's all old people...... There is a common language ......"

Tong Yuexin was already angry after saying these words, but she just couldn't rest assured that her father would live alone, so she wanted to persuade her father to accept her advice with her last breath.

Father Tong listened to Tong Yuexin's words, and his heart was so painful that he couldn't breathe, but he tried to pull out a smile on his face, because he knew that his daughter liked to see him laugh the most: "Yuexin, Dad is so incompetent...... Dad promised you, Dad promised you everything, you must live well, ...... Live well......"

Tong Yuexin seemed to see her father's smiling face, and she also smiled, and the end of her life was marked with her smile.