Outside the ward where Lao Fang lived, Yang Chuanfu and Lao Cui greeted Lao Fang's nephew and asked the doctor on duty about Lao Fang's situation, and the doctor on duty told the two of them that Lao Fang had just been transferred from the intensive care unit and was sleeping, and relatives and friends could quietly go in and have a look, at most three minutes, and not wake him up. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The two of them tiptoed into the ward, and Yang Chuanfu was taken aback when he saw that Lao Fang was in the same mood as Director Gou when he saw Fei Yuanqing just now. I saw that the old man was gray and yellow, his body seemed to have been drained of blood, and the wrinkles on his face were like annual rings on a tree stump, recording the vicissitudes of his decades. Lao Fang lay quietly on the hospital bed, with several tubes inserted in his body, which were the channels through which he still kept in touch with the world.

Although the two of them entered the room silently, Lao Fang still felt something by the flow of indoor air, he opened his eyes with great difficulty, saw Yang Chuanfu and Lao Cui, struggling to sit up from the hospital bed, Yang Chuanfu hurriedly stepped forward and pressed his shoulder.

"I felt that my food expenses in the world had been settled, and I didn't expect to be able to come back from the intensive care unit to continue to eat and endure hardships." Lao Fang smiled reluctantly and said to the two fellows.

Lao Cui joked with Lao Fang for a lifetime, and still teased him: "Your food account in the world has not been settled, so you can't leave yet, you have taken care of me for many years, and the debt I owe you has not been repaid, and you are still ready to collect 'rent' from me." ”

"I'm content with the phrase 'cousin', if Lord Yama agrees, I'll cheer up and accompany you to eat for a few more years!" Lao Fang and Lao Cui also joked and continued to say to Lao Cui. "Some of them are really jokes, some of them are true, the last time the villagers gathered, I asked you not to have a grandson as a grandson, and asked you to invite me to dinner, and you said that you would invite me again on April 5 of a certain year, and this sentence almost became a reality."

"When you recover and are discharged from the hospital, I will invite you at any time if you want to eat, although my retirement fee is not much, it is still trivial to invite you to a meal."

"I don't know if I will be able to recover in the future, but now I seem to be 'rejuvenated', you see, I wet the bed when I was a child, and now I also wet the bed, and when I was a child, I was fed by people, and now I am also fed."

Lao Fang's words made Lao Cui and Yang Chuanfu laugh, and the atmosphere in the room was not at all like that of relatives and friends visiting seriously ill patients.

Lao Fang continued: "To tell you the truth, a few days ago, I had already written a will, explained the future, and asked my sons to send my ashes back to my hometown in the countryside, bury them with my parents on the barren hills, and set up a simple stone stele, I even thought about how to write the inscription on the stele. ”

"The will is private, what is not convenient for us to inquire about, listen to how your inscription is going to be written in the future." Lao Cui asked Lao Fang with a smile.

"I'm here, born and raised, I'll go, bury the soil, this is my home, as long as you don't disturb me during the day, I won't disturb you at night!"

Yang Chuanfu and Lao Cui both laughed, and Lao Cui said: "My sister-in-law's ashes are buried in a cemetery on the outskirts of Beijing, and you will return to your hometown by yourself after a hundred years, isn't the two 'separated from each other'?" ”

"Your sister-in-law told me before she was alive, where I was when I was alive, where she was, and we would be together after we died, and she would follow me as a person and a ghost. I will be buried in my hometown after I die, and her ashes will also be shipped back to my hometown, and when the time comes, I don't even have to go through the procedures of 'hukou transfer'. ”

Lao Cui said: "These are all afterwords, and we will all listen to the children's arrangements in the future." ”

When it came to his son, the old man was stunned and said angrily: "The reason why I wrote my will early is that I want to arrange some things in the future now." There are many times when your sons do things that make you feel uneasy, some people are raising children to prevent old age, and some people are raising children to prevent old age, you are not always on guard, they can gnaw you to the end when you are alive, and there is no money. ”

Yang Chuanfu and Lao Cui spoke well to comfort the old man.

The sound of a few people laughing just now alarmed the doctor on duty, and he walked into the ward and asked Yang Chuanfu and Lao Cui not to affect the patient's rest too much.

Yang Chuanfu and Lao Cui came out of the ward, and Lao Fang's nephew told Lao Cui that Lao Fang's second son also came in the morning, and he transferred Lao Fang from the intensive care unit to the general ward with him. The doctor on duty said: Every tube on the patient's body is useful, oxygen tubes, infusion tubes, urinary catheters, which one do you say is not needed?

Lao Cui said to Lao Fang's nephew: "Your two elder brothers are busy, look for them for big things, just call me for small things, I'm retired at home now, there are not too many things, you can come over at any time." ”

Walking out of the ward, Lao Cui said to Yang Chuanfu: "When the villagers see each other and part, they have to say 'goodbye', but there is always a 'goodbye' to become 'goodbye', maybe which 'goodbye' will become 'can't say goodbye'." This time, Lao Fang was seriously ill and could have accidents at any time, so every time I left, I wanted to see him a few more times. ”

Lao Cui said, his voice choked.

"There are many people on the straight road, and there are many people and friends." Lao Cui then said to Yang Chuanfu, "When people are old, their autonomy is poor, and if their children are no longer filial, sometimes they have to tap the resources of friends." Lao Fang is a good person, sincere, in his later years, when he has something, his friends are willing to help, I told his two good friends that we will take turns to come over to see him every day. ”

"Has anyone from Lao Fang's original work unit been here?" Yang Chuanfu asked.

"Came once, symbolically went through the motions." Lao Cui said, "Retirees are all the result in the end, some people, there were more people who took care of him, but now there are fewer people who care about him, not because he has an infectious disease, but because he is retired; Some people, who used to have few people who took care of him, now have more people who take care of him, not because his infectious disease has cured, but because he has become a big official. This is called 'people ask me on the third day of the official office, and I ask people on the third day of leaving the official', we have all experienced a lot of similar things, and it should be said that we are accustomed to it, which is understandable. ”

Yang Chuanfu smiled bitterly and said, "Don't talk about anything else, I don't have too many things at home now, I can take turns with you to take care of Lao Fang." ”

"No need, didn't you just say that there are also old comrades-in-arms hospitalized here, just come and see him when you come to see your old comrades-in-arms." Lao Cui said.

Lao Cui also told Yang Chuanfu that their fellow countryman Lao Liao was also diagnosed with prostate cancer two months ago, and two metastases were inoperable. However, Lao Liao was optimistic by nature, calm, actively cooperated with the doctor, used drug control, and went to the hospital for a follow-up examination last week, not only did the condition not develop, but also improved in some aspects, and the doctor said that he had created a miracle. Lao Fang turned out to be a very optimistic person, and there was not much wrong with his body, but later his health was not very good, because his old mother and wife died one after another some time ago, which hit him harder, and his two sons were not angry, he was pessimistic and disappointed in the future, and he sulked and couldn't think about some things, and as a result, his body collapsed.

The two of them walked and chatted, and walked out of the hospital gate with a heavy heart. (To be continued.) )