Chapter 83: Human Affection Is Thin Over Paper
When I sent the dimple downstairs, I wanted to ask her to borrow 10 yuan to buy dinner for my aunt, but I couldn't open it. A big man who doesn't even have ten yuan on him, what is it like? It doesn't matter if I don't eat, but my aunt has to eat, what should I do? I can't let my aunt starve with me, can I? If Jing Jing can come back tonight, it will be eleven or twelve o'clock. I don't have a single coin in my pocket!
It occurred to me that there was someone, a lady. From the time the aunt was admitted to the hospital until now, the lady has not come to visit once. I went back in the evening and came out in the morning, and she saw me, but never asked. After all, the aunt and the noble lady's mother are sisters, and the noble lady's mother is too old to come to visit, which is understandable. But as a junior, she ignores it and is too impersonal. At the beginning, when the noble lady's husband had an accident, Jing Jing and I worked hard for her and helped each other.
In order for her cousin-in-law to get a light sentence, the noblewoman actively returned the stolen goods. Jing Jing and I did our best to support the noble lady. The aunt also took out her life savings - 80,000 yuan. But now, the aunt is sick, and the lady doesn't say a word about money, and her attitude towards the aunt is so cold, which makes people feel cold. Because of my cousin-in-law, I know that the lady doesn't have much money, but she always has a heart.
The lady is resting today, let her take over from me, accompany the aunt, and I will go out to find someone to borrow money. One hundred or two hundred is fine, and even if you can borrow breakfast for tonight and tomorrow. I dialed the lady's number.
"Hey, lady? I'm tofu. "I'm looking forward to it. She doesn't have any money for me, so she should have time to help me.
"What's the matter?" A cold voice, a little impatient.
"Lady, are you resting today?" I'll start by setting the time.
"yes." The words are still so cold.
"That's the case, I'm going to Lin Gui quietly, I want you to come over to accompany my aunt, I'll go out and borrow some money from my classmates, please." I explain first, then plead.
"No, I'm playing with my kids in the playground and can't leave." There is no room for negotiation.
Toot-toot-tootββγ
The lady hung up and cut off my last hope for her. The lady is so heartless!
"Xiao Chi, it turns out that you are here, I have been looking for a long time upstairs and downstairs."
A grandmother with a backpack appeared at the door, holding a bag of bananas.
"Grandma! It's you! β
Oh my God, the grandmother who cleans the toilet at the Golden Bowl Company actually came to visit me.
"How did you know I was here?"
I got up and pulled over a stool for him to sit down. Dizzy, it's been nearly a year since I entered the Golden Bowl, and I have never spoken a word to her, or even said hello once. What's more, I never looked at her in the eye, so how did she think to come to see me?
"The little girl who usually calls her dimples is now mobilizing everyone to donate money in one department of the company, and I asked her about the hospital and bed number where your mother-in-law lives, and she came." Grandma stood hunched over and did not sit down.
I put the banana on the table in front of my hospital bed, ashamed.
The aunt looked at a big comb of bananas, was very grateful, and said, "Grandma, I am already very grateful that you can come to see me, and I don't need to break the bank." β
Grandma was ashamed, sighed, and said, "Hey, my wife and I live on my hundreds of dollars a month in the company, and I don't have any money." I came to see you today to express my thoughts. β
I pulled the stool closer and said, "Grandma, please be seated." β
"Oh, you are a big cadre who brings me a stool, how can I be happy?" Grandma was flattered and didn't dare to sit down.
She still thinks I'm some kind of official.
"Grandma, sit down. Tired along the way. I said as I made a gesture of please.
After a few polite words, Grandma sat down tremblingly. She reached into her pocket and fumbled for a long time before pulling out a palm-sized bag. The things were packed in plastic bags, tied with red rope, and had three layers of newspaper on the outside. After peeling through the layers, I saw a stack of banknotes stacked from small to large. The largest of these banknotes is the one that picks up the round.
"Hehe, Koike, here you go."
Grandma giggled and handed me the money.
I was stunned and didn't reach out.
"Originally, I wanted to change it to a large one, but the company cashier didn't change it, I'm sorry, Koike."
Grandma thought I was too bits and pieces of money, and explained to me awkwardly.
The cashier is also too snobbish, isn't it just to change some money? It doesn't take more than three minutes! Just because the money changer was a grandmother, she refused. The minister of the Ministry of White Goods, a distant relative of his family runs a supermarket, and the cashier doesn't help him exchange thousands of yuan every day? Usually which colleague wants to change the whole thing, the cashier has to respond, why can't Grandma?! It's too much!
"Koike, take it. This is Grandma's heart. Auntie's words woke me up from my anger.
I took my grandmother's money and wanted to hold her hand with both hands to express my gratitude. Unbeknownst to her, she was frightened by my actions, and her hands quickly shrank behind her back, unable to even speak.
Grandma sat down for less than five minutes, then got up and said goodbye, saying that the old man who was paralyzed in the family would have to wait for her to go back to cooking.
"Grandma, you better take the bananas home and give them to your wife to eat, we can usually eat them." Auntie motioned for me to bring the bananas to Grandma.
Where is Grandma? Just push it off. I think Grandma's income is low, and she rarely buys fruits, and even bananas that are as cheap as 1 yuan a catty, she rarely eats them. But if I insist on giving it back to her, she will definitely think that I dislike her and look down on her. Okay, just accept it, and accept it, and accept her heart.
I kept sending Grandma downstairs. Grandma came on a rickshaw, which was very shabby. In order to save 1 yuan in storage fees, she parked her tricycle downstairs in the inpatient department.
"Grandma, where do you live?"
"Minda."
"Minda? From Shuangyong Road to Minda, it is almost from east to west across the entire Ningnan, when will I be able to return? Mother-in-law. β
"Step on it slowly, I should be back at half past eight."
"You have to step on it for three hours, grandma, aren't you tired? Why not take the bus? β
"Get used to it, no problem. It costs 2 yuan to take the bus back and forth, and I can buy a handful of vegetables, which is a waste. β
is seventy years old, and he is still so tired from running around, which makes people sad to watch. I really want to help Grandma, but I don't have the ability right now. I'm a mud bodhisattva crossing the river now, and I can't protect myself. But when I was able, why didn't I think of helping her? Shame on you! I held my grandmother's money in my hand, and looked at her back on the tricycle with difficulty, and I felt sour and very sad.
I didn't go upstairs right away, but handed over the money. I don't want to take the money given by my grandmother as my own food, I always have a feeling of drifting my mother's food, and I can't eat it. One hundred and three yuan triangle one point, I continued my aunt's hospitalization fee without a penny. It was already half past five in the afternoon, and the money for dinner had not yet arrived. I don't eat it, my aunt always has to eat it, panic.
This book was first published in Reading Book Worm