The father was hospitalized before his death, the mother was on the night shift, and the children were on the day shift, because the mother did not dare to stay at home alone in the middle of the night.

Many years after the death of the father, the mother has been carrying her sister's children to alleviate her own fears and ease the burden on her daughter.

Yuan Shuai thought of her daughter in fear, and when she thought of Mimi, her fear plummeted, and her cold heart warmed.

Mimi was born to her with great difficulty, and when she gave birth to Mimi, the husband and wife were still in the countryside and had no money to go to the commune hospital, so they spent two yuan to hire a midwife, and Mimi came to the world like this.

Yuan Shuai thought that in recent years, women have to enter the "Hong Kong-style delivery room" and "warm hut" to give birth to children, and they often spend thousands of dollars. There is a world of difference from having children with Chinese women in the past.

Yuan Shuai felt that it was not too miserable to spend money on giving birth to a child, there were rural pregnant women who worked in the field with a big belly, and went back to the room to give birth to a child with a stomachache, because she gave birth to a group of children, the mother was an obstetrician, and the umbilical cord was cut by herself. gave birth to a child and went to the ground, like a hen laying an egg. The only thing rural women don't know is to have a caesarean section, to open their own belly like the Japanese commit suicide by seppuku. One of the most unforgettable things about Yuan Shuai is; The captain's daughter-in-law gave birth to the fifth child, the child could not be born, lying on the cool bed in the hall, hoarse and howling for several days, and the person was about to die before being sent to the district health center dozens of kilometers away for caesarean section, and the child in the belly was completely rotten and was swept away by the doctor. Therefore, rural women have a lot of gynecological diseases, especially uterine prolapse, after giving birth to a child, the uterus is not in a state, running out of the lower body, in the crotch of the pants, like a hernia.

Mimi was raised by her against all odds. In rural areas, there are educated youths who give birth to children and give them away, and there are various reasons for coming to poverty. But Yuan Shuai insisted on begging for food and raising children. After Lao Wu became the first college student after the resumption of the college entrance examination, he also returned to the city in place of his retired mother. It was another extremely difficult time for the whole family, a family of three, all relying on their monthly salary of 35 yuan, often went to the cold drink shop in the summer, ordered Mimi to eat ice cream alone, and sat with Lao Wu to watch, as long as the daughter's mouth is sweet, the parents' heart is sweet. She thought that after Lao Wu left, she had only one way, to cross Mimi. This big house lives alone, and I'm afraid of death! Sold the house and moved to Mimi's house. is such a daughter, who does she rely on when she is old?

In this sleepless night, only her daughter can calm her heart, and after calming down, she squinted for a while, and at this moment, she felt the affection of flesh and blood. Mimi has become her spiritual sustenance and her sleeping pill.

Professor Wu has been hospitalized for a long time, and his younger siblings can't hold on. Although the younger brothers are laid off and also work, they are all very old, and they feel tired and sleepy. In the hospital, they sleep in rented folding beds every night, and the elderly are light sleepers, barely sleeping, and have to go to work during the day. Although the younger sisters are retired, they all have families and mouths, and they can't stay in the hospital for a long time, leaving their own families behind. Yuan Shuai is considerate of his younger brothers and sisters, there is no filial son in front of the bed after a long illness, not to mention that he is just a sibling, and he has already done his best.

Yuan Shuai discussed with Mimi Datou, whether she and Datou were also on duty? Mimi said that she and Datou are busy with work, and sometimes they have to travel, so they can't help it.

Yuan Shuai was angry again after listening to Mimi's words, this was the first time she got angry since Mimi didn't help her comatose father get dressed, and let him lie naked in a room with other women. Filial piety comes first, my father is seriously ill, he doesn't accompany him, and he emphasizes that he is busy with work, which is not a reason! Besides, who doesn't work? Uncles and uncles have jobs, is it true that only the work of young people is work, and work is play when they are old? Older people can still accompany them after work, why can't you? However, Yuan Shuai immediately helped them again, their work was painstaking and laborious, modern society is a battlefield for young people, and the elderly work to look at the gate and guard the warehouse. As a result, Yuan Shuai came up with a compromise plan and suggested that Mimi pay some money to hire a nurse for her father. Let a caregiver take care of it. Uncles, uncles, aunts, and aunts are so tired these days, it's time for them to rest. Of course, I should accompany the most but I have too many things to be busy, first of all, I have to raise medical expenses, I have to go to acquaintances to find high-level people to dial, whether there are ancestral secret recipes, folk doctors, can cure his terminal illness. The doctor sentenced him to death, and I was unwilling to do so, and I always wanted to find another way out. Yuan Shuai didn't want to tell Mimi how difficult her parents' life was, she knew that young people didn't like to hear these words, and she would be most annoyed to listen to the bittersweet report when she went to school, and singing "Listen to Mom Tell Me About the Past" is to appreciate the beautiful melody of the song. Looking back on the road I have traveled in my life, I feel like living in heaven now, and the days of heaven have not been long after, Lao Wu is going to die, and he can't see it!

Mimi glanced at the big head and said, "It's right to hire a nurse for Dad, but we are short of money and can't afford it." Mom, you also know that raising a child now is not like you used to be, and everything will be fine if you don't freeze and starve. We enrolled in various extracurricular tutoring classes for Xiaoxing, which was very expensive. Besides, you also know that Xiaoxing is going to study abroad in the future, and this fee will worry me to death! ”

The daughter's words shocked Yuan Shuai, her father's illness was so serious, as an only daughter, she refused to contribute either money or effort. No money? You don't have any money? The husband and wife graduated from college, both are white-collar workers, with high salaries, Mimi is in a multinational company, and the salary is kept secret from her parents, saying that there are two things that modern people can't ask, one is age, and it is salary. Although she refused to say it, she couldn't hide it, because she quarreled with the big head and exposed the inside story, Mimi said that the three-bedroom wedding room was her sole proprietorship, and even the decoration fee was hers, and the big head had never even bought a light bulb. Although the big head is not in a foreign company, he is a petty official and earns a lot of money, otherwise, he has no money to buy a private car, and he still Mercedes-Benz. Yuan Shuai thought that her daughter's claim that she had no money was false, and her refusal to pay was true. She refused to pay because she felt that her parents were rich and that she should not pay for such a small amount of money as hiring a nurse. Thinking of this, Yuan Shuai was shocked into a cold sweat, and immediately decided that there are some things, while Lao Wu is alive, he has to step up his work, and if he continues, it will be a big disaster! Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet, relying on his daughter? is unreliable, the most reliable is yourself!

At home, Yuan Shuai is not a marshal, he rules everything. She doesn't care about things, she doesn't care about money, she is the shopkeeper. Professor Wu's name is Wu Yong, he is not a useless person, he is in charge of everything in the family - financial power, the salary cards of the two are in Wu Yong's hands, and the savings are opened in Wu Yong's account. Yuan Shuai didn't even know how much money he had at home, let alone the passwords of those deposit slips. In other words, once Wu Yong returns to heaven, Yuan Shuai will not even be able to get the money in the family's deposits. At the beginning of Wu Yong's illness, Yuan Shuai thought that he was going to open a big knife, spend a lot of money, ask for hundreds of thousands, and ask for millions, rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find the passbook, but the passbook was found, and he didn't know the password. Lao Wu was in a coma and couldn't ask him. It seems that the family's money is not needed. Yuan Shuai was in a hurry, Lao Wu's condition had a conclusion, he didn't open a big knife, he didn't use much money, Yuan Shuai had a little private money, he kept it to call friends and sing karaoke, and then went to the restaurant. On the occasion of the autumn of critical survival, all of them were taken out and used, and they temporarily survived the difficulties. At this time, the salaries of the two were well spent, chemotherapy, health care products, and an injection that cannot be reimbursed by medical insurance, 600 injections per injection, eight injections a month, and this expense alone costs 5,000 per month. Yuan Shuai wants Mimi's money, not pretending to be poor, it is really difficult, and he needs his daughter to save him. Yuan Shuai means that the parents' money is their daughter's money, they are such an only daughter, and they are hers when they die. On the contrary, the daughter's money, of course, is also the parents', the parents have raised her for more than 30 years, not counting the ten months in the belly, and it is natural to hire a nurse with a little money from the daughter. Yuan Shuai never expected her daughter to refuse, which made her instinctively alert. The daughter who was well-behaved and sensible since she was a child, born in danger, became strange in an instant. It seems that there are some things that must be grasped quickly, otherwise, there will be endless troubles. As soon as Lao Wu died, as an inheritance, Mimi could get one-half of the deposit. If she asks for a will while her father is sober and deprives her wife of the inheritance, Mimi will be able to get half of the deposit. Yuan Shuai is not unwilling to give the deposit to Mimi, if she is filial, don't say half of it, give it all to her. But depending on the market, this is impossible. Besides, after Lao Wu died, he couldn't die for the time being. Lao Wu's pension is high, 5,000 yuan a month, and he is less than 1,000 yuan, which is not enough. Savings are the basis for your old age. Originally, I thought that Mimi's money was also her own, but now it seems that she has to pay for her daughter's pocket, just like digging a well in the desert, and she is so thirsty that she can't see water.

Yuan Shuai asked Lao Wu for her ID card, and she had to go to the bank quickly to change the passbook at home to her own name. Lao Wu said the password, it was the day they got married, January 1, 1975. But he couldn't hand over his ID card, saying that his ID card was with Mimi. Lao Wu lived at his daughter's house for half a year before his illness, helped his daughter take care of the children, cooked their breakfast and dinner, and picked up and dropped off the children in the morning, noon and evening. The eldest mother had just come back from her daughter's house, and Lao Wu had just returned to her home when she became ill. Therefore, the ID card is at the daughter's house. Lao Wu said that Mimi took it when he was cleaning his coat once. At that time, Lao Wu's coat was thrown into the washing machine, Mimi took out the ID card in her father's pocket before cleaning, and complained about her father, saying that her father was careless, and the clothes to be washed were not even cleaned in the pockets. Who knows that Mimi listened to her father's words and categorically denied it, saying that her father had a brain problem, what he said was like telling a story, and she didn't take his ID card.