Chapter 284: A Choice of Fate
Pesticide bottles and small pairs are playing near the shoe repair stall, the shoemaker is busy with his head down, and a middle-aged woman with a slender figure and gorgeous clothes stands in front of the shoemaker.
"Lao Li, where is my daughter? If you just mend your shoes every day, can you earn back the hundreds of thousands of dollars you spent on your daughter's surgery? The woman opened her bag and handed the shoemaker a bag of things, wrapped in layers of newspaper, presumably of great importance.
"What is this?" The cobbler was a little confused, the woman in front of him was his wife, Xiaoshuang's mother, but now she was very strange.
The woman looked around with a frustrated expression: "This is 30,000 yuan, not enough money for surgery, come back to me again...... You take it to Xiaoshuang for surgery, and then go back to the countryside, live a good life, don't set up a stall here, it's not suitable for you, and it's not good for children. ”
The cobbler didn't take the package, and asked vigorously, "What about you?" Is Boss Cai good to you? ”
"It's good, but his four children don't come to see him, he is not in good health, I don't know what will happen in the future? Let's count it as a day...... If it weren't for the purpose of raising money for her daughter's treatment, it would be better to stay in the countryside and not come out, and she wouldn't be able to go back now. The woman was preoccupied and thoughtful, "You can take the money and go to the big hospital in Yangzhou, I heard that you can do surgery there." ”
"And how did you get the money?" The cobbler felt that the money was quite heavy and unbearable, and his heart was hesitant and contradictory, and he was cramped and uneasy.
To pick up or not to answer, hesitate.
"Do you want this money or not?" The woman asked rhetorically and forced the money to the other party, "You don't care about this, you better think more about your daughter, you can take the money while I haven't repented." ”
Men have short hands and soft mouths. Although the other party is for his daughter, it is a drop in the bucket, and it is also a thought, which shows that the other party is still emotional, as for the rest, it will not be investigated.
The cobbler was still moved. The voice was a little choked: "Then you come back, we can slowly raise money......"
"I know you hate me very much, and I don't expect you to forgive me, just when I do my little bit to you, I will raise my daughter well in the future and nurture her well...... I won't say much, Lao Cai is waiting for me in front, while he can still get some money out now, it will be difficult to say in the future. The woman finished. It's leaving.
"Well, I will, take care of yourself." The cobbler sent the other man away.
In front, the gray-haired old man was Boss Cai, and the two went to a commercial market in front.
Holding this bag of money, where is 30,000 yuan, it is simply a deed of sale. And the personality, dignity of a man or a woman? No money, how easy is it?
Boss Cai is doing wholesale business in the front mall. Although it is a small merchant and a hawker, but for the cobbler, it is a different level, and in those years the business was relatively easy to do, but the poor cobbler has no strength, and the hero is useless. The woman who can only look at herself, and the old man who is close to the sixtieth birthday, not only can not complain, but there is also some kind of gratitude, what kind of sadness is this?
The cobbler looks at the back of a woman who is far away. Looking back at her innocent daughter, she could only silently wipe her tears from the street corner.
Xiaoshuang was born in a small town on the outskirts of the city, according to his mother's recollection, when she was pregnant with Xiaoshuang, there was nothing abnormal, and when she gave birth to Xiaoshuang, it was also very smooth, but she had a little back pain.
Because it was too late, the mother-in-law in charge of the delivery just scrubbed Xiaoshuang's body and fell asleep, until the next day at noon to bathe Xiaoshuang, only to find that Xiaoshuang's genitals are different from other children, both female reproductive organs, and like a boy is a "handle".
Although he felt that the child was a little strange, the family didn't take it to heart, and Xiaoshuang was raised as a boy in a regular manner.
When Xiaoshuang was four or five years old, her parents took her to the local hospital for treatment.
"It costs 10,000 yuan for a girl and 20,000 yuan for a boy." The doctor gave such a price and choice.
"Of course, it's to be a girl...... "Xiao Shuangyang begged his parents.
But Xiaoshuang's parents are not keen on the choice of their son and daughter, what they consider is the word "money", otherwise they will miss it and put it on the shelf.
Surgery means it costs money, and they don't have time to care, is their child male or female? How will you survive in the future? Even the time for surgery can be far away......
But for the sake of the child's healthy growth, the mother decided to go out to work to earn money and raise money for the child's surgery.
Xiaoshuang's story gradually spread among friends of the same age, sometimes walking on the road, friends would suddenly pull off her pants to see, and then sneering at her to give her an indecent nickname.
The family couldn't stay at home, and there was no way to go to school, so her father had to take her to the city to make a living by mending shoes, but the income was meager, and she didn't know when she would be able to make up enough for the surgery.
On this darkest day in their lives, the father and daughter encountered a pesticide bottle, a kind of sympathy, compassion for the world, and the three composed an unusual concerto.
No one can live without whom?
In life, Xiaoshuang is used to living alone in a lonely space other than her father, so there is one more person who does not laugh at her, thus adding a lot of joyful days.
The pesticide bottle was displaced, but fortunately he met the father and daughter, and finally found the long-lost feeling of being like a family, which changed or influenced his later life.
Although he has two sets of reproductive organs for both men and women, Xiaoshuang has never suspected that he is a girl, just for convenience, the cobbler calls Xiaoshuang a boy to outsiders, but how can he escape the eyes of the people around him?
The most embarrassing thing is Xiaoshuang, fortunately, she is still just a child.
Now, misfortune is about to leave, and Xiaoshuang will usher in a new life.
Office of Yangzhou Overseas Chinese Hospital.
The pesticide bottle led the little pair, and the cobbler asked the doctor.
An old doctor with a childish face who looks like an expert authority said: "The surgery fee is very expensive, if the money is not enough, like you, you can apply for poor families and assistance projects...... Go back and prepare. ”
"Doctor, it's not easy to come here...... "The cobbler begged the other party bitterly, "I don't know when I will come next time?" It may delay the child for a lifetime, can you do it? ”
"It's the rule, and we can't help it." The old doctor shook his head, "People waiting for surgery are lining up, you see, ......"
A pair of young patient family members stepped forward.
The cobbler reluctantly took the little pair out of the office, and because of his depression and distress, he left the hospital building, sat on the side of the road for a long time, and then walked a long way, and was about to embark on the journey back.
At this moment, I found that the pesticide bottle that came with me was missing.
The mud bodhisattva crosses the river, and it is difficult to protect himself, so let him go.
In the square of Yangzhou Railway Station, I saw a boy running in a hurry and shouting loudly...... (To be continued.) )
PS: It is always a pain for a man to accept a woman's gift, no matter what the situation?