Chapter 8 Potential
The beer was delivered, but the group didn't have the heart to drink it for the time being, just waiting for a few girls to come back and see what was going on.
This was ten minutes, and when Ma Tao couldn't sit still and was about to go out to find them, Yang Lulu came back with the two girls first.
"What's going on?" Ma Tao hurriedly asked.
"What's the matter with you! The whole is a lot of things to do with you! Is it quiet? After going out, Yang Lulu's mood obviously deteriorated a lot, and she said unceremoniously.
Inexplicably, Ma Tao was as uncomfortable as eating a fly, but he saw that Yang Lulu was in a bad mood now, so he didn't get involved with her as usual.
"Lulu." Li Mian called out to her.
Yang Lulu glanced at him and sighed mournfully.
"Lu Qianqian, something happened to her family." She said in a complicated tone and whispered: "Her father was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer, and it won't be long before he can live." ”
Li Mian opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.
"I remember, didn't Lu Qianqian's mother just leave last year?" Yang Feiyu hesitated for a moment and asked with some uncertainty.
"Yes, it's cancer too." Li Mian nodded, and his tone was low.
Everyone fell silent.
"Lu Qianqian's family has no money, her mother spent all the family's savings when she was treated, and borrowed a lot of money from relatives, and now her father has fallen again......"
Li Mian was silent, Lu Qianqian's family is just an ordinary working family, and they can still have some savings when they have nothing to do, but when they encounter a serious illness and disaster, they can't support it at all.
Yang Lulu said in a low voice: "She didn't go to college in September to sign up, and followed her cousin to work in other places to make money and pay off her debts." ”
"She's not going to college?" Li Mian was taken aback.
Lu Qianqian's school admitted this time is very good, if she just gives up this opportunity and goes to work in other places, it can be said that her life has been ruined.
At this time, he also understood why Lu Qianqian had such a reaction just now.
The classmates are all glamorous and have a bright future, but she has become a working girl who brings them tea and water, such a psychological gap, not to mention her introverted girl, even a faceless boy like Ma Tao can't stand it.
"Her father borrowed all the money for his hospitalization now, and how can he go to college." Yang Lulu sighed.
Li Mian frowned, he didn't expect the situation in Lu Qianqian's family to be so bad.
At this time, the other students in the box also knew what happened to Lu Qianqian, and they all talked in low voices, and the previous atmosphere was gone.
After a while, Chu Xue came back from outside, her eyes were red, and she had obviously just cried.
"You say, if we have a fundraiser now, can we do it?" After Chu Xue sat down, she looked at everyone and asked.
Obviously, she wanted to use fundraising to provide a little help to Lu Qianqian.
"Don't, not all of your classmates have money." Li Mian glanced around, and saw that many students had embarrassed faces on their faces.
Everyone is still a student, and the only source of income is the pocket money given by their parents, which is not much, and they spend it quickly, and most of them have no money.
At this time, launch a fundraiser, so what should those students who have no money do? Not only will it embarrass the students who have no money, but the students who pay will also be dissatisfied, and finally make everyone unhappy.
"Then forget it." Chu Xue was slightly disappointed.
"Let's eat first, and then we'll talk about it when we're done."
Li Mian made up his mind and was going to wait to find Lu Qianqian, and if he could, give her some help as much as possible.
Although Lu Qianqian's experience is regrettable, it didn't happen to her after all, and after the beginning of the discussion and regret, the topic about her fell silent for a long time.
Not everyone can empathize.
The dinner ended quickly, and after eating, Ma Tao led the classmates to a nearby KTV that he had already found, and chartered two luxurious large boxes to start karaoke.
Li Mian didn't sing along, and he had already arrived at a hospital by this time.
In the hospital corridor full of the smell of disinfectant water, Lu Qianqian walked in front with her head down, holding a lunch box with her hands clasped, which was the lunch she brought to her father.
Li Mian, Yang Feiyu, Chu Xue and a few others walked behind her with the fruits and other things they had just bought.
They are all classmates who usually get close to Lu Qianqian, and they came to visit her father together.
"You don't need it...... Lu Qianqian said in a low voice, "Thank you." ”
She was already very introverted and suffered such a heavy blow, becoming very autistic in front of them, with her head down and her voice low when she talked to anyone.
Chu Xue, who had the best relationship with her, didn't speak, walked next to her and held one of her hands.
It didn't take long to arrive at the ward, which was located on the eighth floor, and it was an ordinary room with three beds living together, and in addition to Lu Qianqian's father, there were two patients in the ward.
Lu Qianqian walked quickly to her father's hospital bed with the lunch box, put the lunch box on the cabinet next to her, and whispered to her father.
Her father's face was pale and haggard, and he even needed Lu Qianqian's help to sit up from the bed.
Everyone who saw this scene was heartbroken, knowing that his situation was already very unoptimistic.
When he learned that his daughter's classmates had come to see him, he seemed very happy and beckoned everyone to sit down.
Lu Qianqian first took the lunch box out of the ward and went to the microwave oven to heat the meal, it was already more than one o'clock, and it was already late to eat, not to mention that her father was still a patient, and she couldn't go hungry easily.
Chu Xue followed, and several of them pooled some money with her, and she just took advantage of this opportunity to be alone with Lu Qianqian and handed over the money to Lu Qianqian.
Inside the hospital room.
"It's so embarrassing for you that you don't even have a place to sit here." Lu Qianqian's father said with some embarrassment.
"We don't have to sit, just stand." Several people said the same thing.
Li Mian's eyes fell on the printed slip on the cabinet next to him, which was the medical bill issued by the hospital every morning, and he saw that it already showed that the arrears were already on.
"There's nothing to entertain you, so let's have some fruit." Lu Qianqian's father turned sideways as he spoke, to get the apple on the ground next to the bed.
But now he was seriously ill and weak, and when he leaned over, his right hand on the edge of the bed could not support him, and he leaned down so violently that he was about to fall out of bed.
Before the others could react, Li Mian had already rushed forward quickly and held him up in time.
"It's okay!"
"It's good that Li Mourning moves quickly, otherwise he would ......"
"It's really dangerous just now."
At this time, Yang Feiyu and the others reacted, and hurriedly gathered around to check the situation, and there were many discussions.
Lu Qianqian's father was also afraid, although the hospital bed was not high, he still had tubes inserted in his body, and the consequences of really falling down were unpredictable.
"Thank you so much, this classmate." He said gratefully to Li Mourning.
"Uncle is so polite." Li Mian carefully supported Lu Qianqian's father's body and helped him up, "It's just a gesture, you don't have any ...... on you"
Before he could finish speaking, his words suddenly stopped, and his eyes fell on the string of prayer beads that he had accidentally touched.
It was a string of prayer beads worn by Lu Qianqian's father on his wrist, the black and autumn were very inconspicuous, looking antique with a sense of history, in fact, everyone knew that this thing was a stall sold everywhere.
Just when Li Mian inadvertently touched this string of prayer beads, his fingertips were slightly numb, and an extremely cold breath surged from the string of prayer beads into his body.
And in his sight, the attribute information also automatically jumped out, and behind the attributes such as force and body sensitivity, a few small words slowly emerged.
[Potential absorption: 1%...... 3%…… 5%……】
"This is a souvenir that Qianqian's mother bought when she was traveling outside the year before last, and she has been wearing it since she bought it."
Lu Qianqian's father noticed Li Mourning's gaze, "I was going to throw it away after her mother left, but then I thought about it as a thought, so I kept it and put it on myself, if you like it, I'll give it to you." ”
"Auntie's relics, then uncle, you are still ......"
Li Mian was about to refuse, but his face suddenly changed slightly.
According to Lu Qianqian's father, this string of prayer beads was bought by Lu Qianqian's mother the year before last, that is, the year before her death, and she wore it close to her body after she bought it, and died of illness a year later.
After Lu Qianqian's mother died, her father wore a rosary himself in remembrance, and just a year later, he was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer.
Both were diagnosed with cancer a year after wearing the rosary, is this striking similarity a coincidence, or is it a ......
Li Mian looked at the slowly increasing potential in his sight, and had a faint answer in his heart.
"Thank you, uncle, I am indeed interested in this string of prayer beads." After a quick consideration, he did not refuse, and chose to take the rosary.
"It's a worthless little thing, there's nothing to thank for." Lu Qianqian's father laughed, not noticing the change in Li Mian's face just now.
After a while, Lu Qianqian, who had cooked the meal, came back, and was also shocked when she heard what had just happened, and thanked Li Mourning again.
Lu Qianqian's father started to have lunch, and after chatting for a while, they didn't stop any longer, and said goodbye to him and left.
Elevator.
"You go down first, I have something to talk to Lu Qianqian." Li Mian didn't rush in, and said to a few people in the elevator.
Chu Xue nodded, pressed the close button, and the elevator door slowly closed.
"Where's your phone?" Li Mian stretched out his hand and said.
"What do you want your phone for?"
Lu Qianqian was a little puzzled and took out her mobile phone.
"I was interested in your father's rosary, and your father gave it to me directly."
Li Mian said as she called up the QR code from her mobile phone, took out her mobile phone and scanned it at the QR code.
"If it's an ordinary thing, it's okay, but the beads on it are all genuine, and they are more valuable, so it's really inappropriate for me to just take them, so let's buy them."
While speaking, he transferred 10,000 Asian dollars to Lu Qianqian's mobile phone.
Hearing the payment message ringing in the mobile phone, Lu Qianqian's eyes suddenly turned red, and she hugged Li Mian and cried bitterly.
She knew that the rosary was an ordinary, only worth a dozen yuan of stall goods, not valuables at all, and what Li Mourning said was an excuse to help her.
It stands to reason that she shouldn't have accepted it, but she really needed the money so badly.
"Let's take care of my uncle." Li Mian patted the girl's back and said softly.
For a girl who is only eighteen years old, all these blows she has suffered are too cruel, and this kind of weight is simply not what she can bear at this age.
Although he really wants to help Lu Qianqian get out of the predicament completely, he doesn't have the ability yet, and this 10,000 Asian yuan is the only help he can provide to the other party now.
kept buying various fighting skills on the dark web, and customized a sword, spending money very quickly, and now Li Mourning only has more than 10,000 yuan left.
"Thank you." Lu Qianqian let go of Li Mourning, her eyes fluttering with tears, "Thank you very much." ”
"Goodbye."
Li Mian didn't say anything more and walked into the elevator.
waited until the elevator door closed before Lu Qianqian wiped her tears and turned to leave.
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After leaving the hospital, Li Mian did not go back with Chu Xue and them, and separated from them under the pretext that there were other things at home.
As soon as he got into the taxi, he took out the rosary and studied it carefully.
Although the experience of Lu Qianqian's parents is very terrible, and they are faintly related to this string of prayer beads, Li Mian is not too jealous, Lu Qianqian's parents wore it for a year before they were diagnosed with cancer, and he only touched it for a while, so there is nothing to be afraid of.
This rosary is made of a total of eighteen black beads, which look like they are made of black jade, but the real material needs to be known through professional appraisal.
After studying for a while, Li Mian suddenly found some clues.
With two fingers, he carefully twisted the square pendant that hung at the bottom, which was only the size of a fingernail and had a dark red body, and when he twisted the miniature pendant, the cold feeling suddenly became even stronger.
The speed at which the potential in the line of sight increased a lot.
"The true source of potential is this pendant on the rosary?"
Thinking of this, Li Mian pulled his fingers hard, and the small square card was torn off the string of prayer beads.
"Sure enough......"
As he had guessed, after losing the small square, the rosary no longer had that cold feeling, and its potential stopped beating.
When he picked up the small square again, the potential regained again.
Li Mian silently looked at this small dark red square card, but he had no knowledge reserve in this area, so he couldn't see what this small square card was all about, and after observing it for a while, he put it away with the rosary.
He has a cousin who is in the antiques business, and he plans to go to that cousin tomorrow to see if he can see where this thing comes from.