The two did not dare to hesitate, hurriedly came out of the house, found a public phone in the nearby commissary, and pressed the caller number to reply.

Soon the phone was connected, and the second sister Wu Xiaomei's anxious voice came, crying and complaining, "Xiaojun, what did you do in the afternoon, no one answered the office phone, and the pager always didn't reply, and the person was about to die!" ”

Usually the family doesn't call themselves during the day, so anxious, it seems that the situation is very bad, is it the father-

Wu Xiaojun was suddenly startled, and suddenly a sense of foreboding came to his heart, the first feeling was that his father was seriously ill, and he didn't give any explanation for Wu Xiaomei's complaint at all, and asked eagerly, "Is something happened to our father?" ”

"I'm afraid my mother won't be able to!"

Wu Xiaomei whimpered and cried in pain.

When Wu Xiaojun heard this, he couldn't believe his ears, and his lips twitched and asked in surprise, "Our mother?" What the hell happened to her? ”

Wu Xiaomei said, "I came to the hospital at about two o'clock in the afternoon, the doctor briefly checked it, let the brain CT, the third brother and the eldest sister helped her to go out, and collapsed to the ground, and now she is still in the rescue room and has not come out!" ”

Wu Xiaojun asked anxiously with a cold face, "What kind of disease do you have?" ”

"I took a CT, and the doctor said that it might be a cerebral infarction, but the specific disease is not clear!"

"How did you find out?"

"Second sister-in-law Li Qiuping said that our mother has been a little weird in the past two days. Our mother said that she was a little dizzy, and after two days, the eldest sister was free, and asked the eldest sister to take her to the county seat to have a look. Others wanted to take her, but they resolutely refused, saying that they would definitely wait for the eldest sister to come and let her take her. The eldest sister went to our house at noon today, saw our mother's sallow face, and sent her to our third brother's house. After lunch, as soon as I went to work in the afternoon, I went to the outpatient clinic to let the internal medicine doctor take a look, and I was unconscious as soon as I went out. Come back quickly, you may never see our mother again if it's late. ”

Wu Xiaomei cried sadly as she spoke.

"I know, I'll go to the station right away!"

Wu Xiaojun hung up the phone with a "snap".

Some time ago at home, although the second elder was weak and mentally depressed, his father's situation was much worse than his mother's, and he was always worried that his father would have an accident, but he didn't expect his mother to suddenly get seriously ill.

He knew very well that his mother had always been in good health, and he had not even had a small headache and brain fever for many years, and suddenly getting such a serious illness was by no means a good sign, and it was difficult to predict whether he could be saved.

Bai Lingyan looked at his distracted eyes and asked leisurely, "What's wrong with your mother?" ”

"My mother can't do it! - I'm gone! - My mother can't do it! -- I'm no longer a mother -- I'm going home, I'm going home! ”

Wu Xiaojun's face was pale, his mood was very heavy, he muttered to himself over and over again, raised his legs and walked out without direction, and almost hit his head on the door frame.

Fortunately, Bai Lingyan was relatively fast, grabbed him, and said in a low voice, "Xiaojun!" You calm down and don't panic! ”

Wu Xiaojun was silent for a while with tears in his eyes, and said in a cold voice, "My mother can't do it anymore, I have to call Dean Fu, I want to go home!" ”

As he spoke, he picked up the phone and dialed Dean Fu's house.

"Dean, my mother can't do it, I have to go back immediately!"

As soon as the phone was connected, Wu Xiaojun cried eagerly and said to Dean Fu.

"Serve the army! Don't worry, what's wrong with your mother? ”

Dean Fu asked in a gentle voice.

"My sister said it was a cerebral infarction, and she passed out at two o'clock in the afternoon, and she is still in the emergency room!"

"Can you go back alone, do you want to send someone to accompany you back?"

Dean Fu asked with concern.

"Thank you, Dean! It's okay, I can hold it! ”

"Don't be too anxious, you must be careful on the road, and call the hospital in time when you get home to report your safety!"

Dean Fu instructed.

"Hmm!"

On the phone with Dean Fu, Wu Xiaojun ran home in a hurry, grabbed two pieces of clothes and stuffed them into the cloth pocket, the more anxious he was, his hands trembled and he couldn't stuff them in.

Bai Lingyan understood Wu Xiaojun's mood very well at this moment, frowned, didn't dare to say a word, helped him pack his clothes, took out two hundred yuan from his bag and put it in his clothes pocket, and said very distressedly, "Can you go back by yourself like this, or I'll go back with you!" ”

Wu Xiaojun stabilized his nerves, thought for a while and said, "Yanzi, I couldn't accept this reality just now, I was in a trance and lost my mind, now calm down a little, I know that it is a disaster that cannot be avoided, and my mother may not be able to escape this catastrophe." You just came back from Yindu, you're very tired, don't go back, don't worry, I'll be fine. ”

Bai Lingyan comforted with tears in her eyes, "It's useless to worry, there are so many people in the family, they will take care of your mother!" Don't be too sad on the road, be sure to stay awake! ”

Wu Xiaojun nodded lightly and said with tears in his eyes, "I will!" I don't know how long it will take to go back, you can rest and work, don't worry about me. ”

After Wu Xiaojun finished speaking, he went straight to Pingxi Railway Station with a cloth bag.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Wu Xiaojun took the passing train from the east to Nanhang, and embarked on the journey home worriedly.

Wu Xiaojun was on the train, he didn't close his eyes all night, he was thinking about his mother's condition, worried about the changes in his mother's condition overnight, whether he could see his mother, and muttered silently, "Mother! You can't leave your little son alone, you are still looking forward to the Spring Festival in front of our house to stop the sedan chair lively, your little son has already discussed with Bai Lingyan, and our family will marry a daughter-in-law during the Spring Festival. You must hold on, see your youngest son marry a daughter-in-law! ”

sighed -

My mother's life is so unfortunate.

When I was young, I was in turbulent years, I didn't have enough food and clothing, I was hungry, and I had to take care of my two children and my in-laws, and I got up early and worked in the fields and collected firewood.

My father spent more than three years in Pingxi, and my mother often left my eldest brother and second brother, who were less than two years old, to work in the fields during the day to earn work, get up early in the morning to earn firewood with others, and sometimes work overtime elsewhere at night like everyone else.

Once working overtime in the county seat at night, the team gave an extra matchbox-sized nest head, she was reluctant to eat it in her arms, and at four o'clock in the morning against the cold wind, she walked ten miles from the county seat, and took it home to let the two yellow muscles thin, the whole body was swollen, and the brother who was waiting to be fed soaked in boiling water to eat.

Later, the third brother, the eldest sister, and the second sister were born one after another, and the burden on the shoulders of the father and mother was even heavier.

Adults are bitter and children make trouble, today this thing tomorrow that thing, the father's temper is getting worse and worse, more and more irritable, often for some family matters to the mother to fight, for this reason, the mother is not less beaten and angry.

Although the mother was physically and mentally tormented, sometimes she even had the heart to die, and she was dragged down by several children, and there was no way out, so she endured the pain and persevered.

With the eldest brother, the second brother grew up to marry a wife and have children, although the days are getting better day by day, but there are many people, and there are more messy chores, today you break up, today he smashed the basin and smashed the bowl, and the two heads of the three days were angry, and the father's temperament was greater, and naturally the mother was his punching bag, and he fell on the bed after sprinkling his anger and did not get up for a few days.

At that time, the third brother, the eldest sister and the second sister did not dare to get close to their father, and they did not even dare to send their jobs in front of him.

Because he was the youngest, he had never seen his father yell at him, and he was not very afraid, and the only person who could get close to his father was himself.

When the third brother just graduated from university, his father finally broke out due to the accumulation of perennial depression and was hospitalized with gastric perforation.

During that time, my mother was the most painful and helpless, and she had no hatred for her father, and she always stayed by her father's side.

The eldest sister and the second sister got married, and the age of the parents also hit, and in the small courtyard where more than a dozen people were together, only the parents and themselves were left.

In order to raise himself into a family, he couldn't go out to do business, work to earn money, and his parents have been sticking to ten acres of responsibility land, relying on the loess with his back to the sky to support him to complete his studies.

However, since the second sister got married, these ten acres of land have become the object of coveting the eldest brother and sister-in-law, the second brother and the second sister-in-law, and they have been angry about it, and they have been tortured physically and mentally, but they still grit their teeth and maintain it under pressure.

I have just graduated and settled down, at least I can take care of and support myself, and I have a bright future, which really makes my parents who have been entangled and suffering in pain feel relieved and relaxed.

As soon as the marriage between himself and Bai Lingyan is completed, the parents will take off the heavy burden that has been pressing on their bodies, and they will have no worries and can enjoy their old age in peace.

The dawn is just around the corner, and good days are coming.

The mother had not yet enjoyed the joy and happiness of the day, and suddenly collapsed, which really made him unable to figure it out, which was particularly incredible.

Wu Xiaojun thought along the way, eagerly looking forward to returning to his mother a moment earlier, counting station by station, and looking forward to station by station.

At half past five in the morning, the sun had risen high, and the train finally arrived at Dong'an Station.

Wu Xiaojun got off the bus and got on the bus to Yuanzhen in the square in front of the station.

In the off-season of passenger transport, a small county-level station like Dong'an, on the square in front of the station, there are few passengers like morning stars, and there are few people who get off the train.

After waiting for the three stopped trains, there were really less than ten people who got off the train to go to Yuan, and the driver refused to show signs of leaving.

Wu Xiaojun with many years of experience in the car, are self-employed, no one wants to run empty cars, people do not get full of cars will not move, scolding, complaining is useless for the owner of the car, so he has to be patient, anxiously waiting for the moment when the vehicle starts.

It wasn't until nine o'clock in the morning that Wu Xiaojun finished the remaining 30 kilometers and returned to the county seat.

At this time, Wu Xiaojun imagined that he didn't know what his mother's condition was now, whether she was out of danger, whether she was still in the hospital, whether-

He thought that he had a feeling of being closer to home, and he didn't dare to continue thinking about it.

Wu Xiaojun got out of the car next to the Yuanzhen County Hospital, ran into the county hospital in one breath of fear, went up to the third floor of the inpatient department, and saw that the corridor was full of people, and his legs trembled and weakened, his eyes were straight and frightened, and he was stunned all of a sudden.