Old, feel light, Shi Gengtian got up very early every day, had breakfast early, carried the dung basket back and forth on the main road in the village, touched the dung left on the ground by the livestock and shoveled it up, carried it home to save the fertile field, today a good business, the dung basket is full, he thought about sending it home first, and then came out again, the dung basket is very heavy, he hunched his waist, and carried the stuffy head with the strength of his back to walk.

Ercheng took a few brothers to run all the way, just ran out of the village and was tired and out of breath, feeling that his legs were getting heavier and heavier, and gradually his pace slowed down, Sanfu saw that the second brother was bored, he ran a few steps, ran to Ercheng's side and grabbed the handlebar: "Second brother, I'll come to the meeting, change me." ”

Ercheng was really bored, and he was not polite to his younger brother, stopped, took the reins off his shoulders, helped Sanfu hang up, walked to the car gang by himself, touched Shi Youtian's face and called several times: "Dad!" Father! What's wrong with you? Better, isn't it? Father! ”

Shi Gengtian, who was walking with his head bored, suddenly heard a familiar voice in his ears, he raised his head, but saw the five nephews of the brother's family hurriedly pulling the car in front of the car, and the brother and daughter-in-law followed behind. Shi Gengtian hurriedly walked a few steps forward to meet him: "Second and third, what are you doing here?" ”

The brothers patronized and ran, and they were not in the mood to pay attention to the people on the side of the road at all, and when they saw someone talking, they looked at it, it was their father's own brother, their own uncle, Sanfu's footsteps did not stop, but slowed down slightly: "Uncle, my father vomited blood this morning, and then fainted, and he has not woken up yet, and we are in a hurry to go to the hospital now." ”

"What?" Shi Gengtian was startled, hurriedly put down the dung basket, and trotted to keep up with the car: "Youtian, Youtian, brother, wake up!" ”

Shi Youtian in the car, his face was sallow, and there was still a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth, lying there indifferently, his gray head swaying unconsciously with the shaking of the car.

A dead face! An ominous premonition floated in Shi Gengtian's mind, he chuckled in his heart, stretched out his finger and tested it under Shi Youtian's snort, his heart said that it was okay, although his breathing was weak but still angry, he turned his head to Ercheng, and asked anxiously: "Second child, what's going on with your father?" ”

Ercheng's face was full of sweat one by one, he lifted his front placket to wipe the sweat off his face, and gasped and replied: "Uncle, don't ask, I don't know, my father was fine a few days ago, but it was suddenly like this early this morning, uncle, I won't tell you, we have to leave quickly." After Ercheng finished speaking, he motioned for Sanfu to go quickly.

"Okay, you guys go! I'll go to the hospital and look for you in a moment. Shi Gengtian let go of his hand and saw a few nephews go away, he turned around, Sun Xiufang also ran to him, and he shouted: "Brother and sister." ”

Sun Xiufang waved her hand at Shi Gengtian, and ran over like a wind: "Big brother, I'll talk about it when I come back." "A man in his fifties, his hair has long been gray, and he originally wore a bun at the back of his head, but with the violent running, he has long since fallen out, and he is so messy that he draped over his shoulders.

Shi Gengtian watched his brother and daughter-in-law walk away worriedly, raised his leg and was about to go home to say to the child's mother, he walked a few steps quickly, and suddenly remembered that the dung basket was still there, and hurriedly returned, picked up the dung basket and ran.

Along the way, several brothers took turns pulling the car, even so, when they arrived at the county hospital, they were tired and sweaty, their legs and feet were paralyzed, and as soon as they entered the hospital gate, Liuquan shouted: "Doctor, help!" Come and save my dad! ”

When a doctor heard this, he quickly gathered around: "Comrade, what's wrong?" Let me see! Quick, get to the emergency room first! ”

After an emergency rescue, Shi Youtian woke up quietly, he slowly opened his eyes, looked confused and asked softly, "What's wrong with me?" "The voice was small, almost inaudible.

Sun Xiufang and her five sons all surrounded him nervously.

"Dad, you're awake!"

"Dad, are you feeling better?"

Seeing that Shi Youtian woke up, Sun Xiufang's heart fell into her stomach slightly, she grabbed Shi Youtian's hand and asked in a stack: "Master, what do you think?" ”

Shi Youtian focused his sloppy gaze on Sun Xiufang's face, and ran wildly all the way, Sun Xiufang looked worried, her eyes were red, her hair was already messy, and sweat also stuck strands of gray hair on her cheeks.

"I ...... It's okay, don't be afraid. The old woman was frightened, Shi Youtian felt that Sun Xiufang's palms were cold, and he was still shivering. He looked around, knew that he was already lying in the hospital, and asked steadily, "What did the doctor say?" ”

When the family woke up, Sun Xiufang breathed a sigh of relief temporarily, and tears couldn't help but fall: "Old man, you're scared to death." Sun Xiufang wiped her eyes with her sleeve and said, "The doctor said that he would do an examination, and he would not know what was going on until the results of the examination came out." ”

"Oh."

Dr. Zhang of the emergency department saw that the patient had woken up and walked over with a medical record book: "Comrade, tell me, where have you been feeling unwell recently?" ”

"Doctor, my head of the house told me last night that I didn't eat well, and I choked when I did a little bit, and the water was not easy to swallow."

"Comrade, is that so?" The doctor asked Ishi.

Shi Youtian nodded.

"Comrade, tell me about any other symptoms."

Shi Youtian was afraid, he was afraid that if he had any illness, what could he do with this family, his sons would not be able to say that he was still alive, and if he had three long and two short, who would worry about this mess, and his sense of responsibility and desire to survive prompted him to repeat his discomfort to the doctor in detail.

Twenty percent of them were dumbfounded when they heard Shi Youtian say it, their father had been uncomfortable for so long, and their brothers didn't even notice it at all, especially when they were busy for three summers a while ago, their father was not idle at all, and they went out early and returned late every day, no less than their brothers.

After listening to Shi Youtian, the expression on his face became more and more solemn, and he had a plan in his heart, but for the sake of insurance, it was better to do a test, in case he was wrong. He closed the notebook and said, "I'll open a few test sheets in a while, you go for an examination, and the family members will come with me." ”

"I'll go." Ercheng said to his father.

As soon as he arrived at the office, Ercheng hurriedly asked, "Doctor, how is my father?" ”

Dr. Zhang quickly wrote a few test sheets and handed them to Ercheng: "Comrade, your father's disease needs to be hospitalized, you go to the hospital first, and then you go for an examination first, and look at the results of the examination." ”

Ercheng found Sun Xiufang with the slip: "Mother, the doctor has opened it, let my father be hospitalized first, and then push my father to go for an examination." ”

"Oh, the money." Sun Xiufang hurriedly took it out in her arms and took out the cloth bag containing the money: "Here, second brother, our family's money is here, you can pay the money." ”

After some examination, Ercheng took the film and the examination results to Dr. Zhang, the doctor frowned and looked at a few examination results, sure enough, as he judged, it was the same as ----- esophageal cancer, and now with the expansion of the tumor, the patient has appeared swallowing discomfort and foreign body sensation when eating, and vomiting blood in the morning is because the blood vessels have been cracked with excessive force.

"Hmm." The doctor groaned solemnly, pointed to Ercheng and said, "You can come to my office." ”

Looking at the doctor's face, Ercheng felt bad, and he hadn't sat down yet, so Ercheng immediately asked, "Doctor, what's my father's illness?" ”

"Comrade, you have to be mentally prepared, your father's disease is not very good, and according to the results of the examination, your father has esophageal cancer."

"What cancer?" Ercheng hurriedly asked again because he heard it wrong.

"Comrade, it's esophageal cancer, which is choking in our local dialect."

Twenty into one sat on the bench: "Esophageal cancer...... Choking. "He doesn't understand esophageal cancer, if you want to say it's choking, he understands it too well, there are people in the village who have had it, but whoever gets this disease can't get a drop of water in the end, and tortures people to death.

Shi Gengtian quickly ran home, threw the dung basket on his shoulder to the ground, and hurriedly said to his second son who was sitting in the yard: "Second child, where is your mother?" ”

"In the pot house."

Shi Gengtian took three steps and made two steps towards the pot house: "Erxiao, what about your eldest brother, call him quickly, something is wrong, your second uncle has fainted." He said anxiously as he walked, and when he entered the kitchen door, he shouted to the old woman who was brushing the pot: "Child, don't brush the pot, my brother is not good." ”

"What do you say, old man?" Hearing his man speak, Zhou Ronghua stopped his hand and turned his head to look at Shi Gengtian.

The pot house was dimly lit, Shi Gengtian was not used to it, he twisted his eyebrows and beckoned to the figure in the room: "I'll tell you when you come out." ”

Shi Ruiqiang was a little surprised when he heard his father say that his second uncle fainted: "What's wrong with my uncle?" , I saw my second uncle come yesterday, and I didn't see that he was bad! ”

Zhou Ronghua took off his apron and wiped his hands, and asked, "Old man, who did you just say?" Our brothers? ”

"Dad, tell me quickly, what's wrong with my second uncle?" Shi Ruiqiang was a little anxious, Dad, what was going on, he asked several times, but Dad didn't make it clear.

"Your second uncle vomited blood and fainted, and on the way back just now, I saw several brothers from your uncle's family pulling a car to the hospital in the city."

"Why are you vomiting blood? Old man, what's the matter? ”

"How can you have time to ask what's going on!" Shi Gengtian pulled Zhou Ronghua and walked into the house: "You hurry up and get a few money, there is a big deal in the field this time, I see that the second child's face is not a good color, sallow and sallow, ...... a few days ago." Shi Gengtian's mind was thinking of the distant uncle who had just left the village a few days ago, and when he said this, he braked the gate suddenly, and even said "bah" a few times, saying in his heart How did he think of this, it was too unlucky.

Shi Ruiqiang followed behind his father and mother, chattering endlessly: "Dad, my second uncle has vomited blood, what kind of illness does it have to be!" ”

"What's the disease? What's the disease? Can I know what the disease is? Shi Gengtian's heart was in a mess, the second son was still buzzing in his ears, his eyebrows were raised, and his eyes were glaring: "I asked you to find your eldest brother, didn't you hear?" ”

Daddy wants to send bears! Shi Ruiqiang hurriedly said, "I'll go to my eldest brother's house to call him." ”

Shi Gengtian has two sons, and the eldest son, Shi Ruitao, has long been married and has children. Before his son got married, Shi Gengtian built three tiled houses for his son early, so that the young couple could live separately, both of them came from a young age, and how many new daughters-in-law like to live under the noses of their in-laws? It is said that the incense of the distance is the disaster of the near, or the life of each is pure.

Zhou Ronghua climbed into the bed and opened the box to get the money, Shi Gengtian reminded: "Child, you take a few more, the situation of the brother's family, I'm afraid I can't get much money, let's help a few more." ”