Chapter 30: You Can't Understand Other People's Worlds
Yanzi and I went to the hospital for a good examination in the morning, and we had already agreed last night that we would go to Yanzi's parents' house for dinner after the hospital examination, and by the way, we would tell Yanzi's mother about the test results. In fact, it seems superfluous for them not to inform Yanzi's mother about the results of the examination in the hospital, because this result is the same result that they have already checked many times during Yanzi's first marriage, and this examination is just to verify, and in their hearts there is more hope for a miracle. However, this is science, this is an indisputable fact, in front of the hospital examination report from left to right, Swallow and her mother finally accepted this cruel reality and decided to let us do IVF.
Regarding the decision to let us do IVF, this is something they have decided a long time ago behind their backs, and they are just hiding it from me. When Mother Swallow told me that she had decided to let us do IVF, I said that I would wait a few years and see. But Yanzi and Yanzi's mother couldn't wait, Yanzi's mother said to me sincerely and as if begging, you don't have to worry about money, I'll give you 10,000 yuan first, I heard that the upfront cost of doing IVF needs about 10,000 yuan, if it's not enough, I'll give it to you at that time.
I wanted to reject Mother Swallow's decision to let us do IVF, but when I looked up and saw Mother Swallow's almost pleading eyes, Swallow's loss, Swallow's father's helplessness and confusion, and their full head of gray hair, I relented, and in an instant I changed my mind and I decided to agree to do IVF with Swallow. However, I would not ask them for money, so as not to be laughed at by them later, so I gave them an IOU of 10,000 yuan, because I really didn't have any extra money at that time.
Our plan to do IVF was launched soon, usually I always don't look down on this maternal and children's hospital in the city, but I heard from friends in the hospital, don't underestimate this maternal and children's hospital in our city, it is one of the best hospitals in our province to do IVF. I and Yanzi went to this women's and children's hospital in our city with the mentality of trying, my friend who works in the hospital may be true, when we go to the hospital, among the people who plan to do IVF with us, there is a couple who are from other cities, I heard that the success rate of IVF in this hospital in our city is very high, they only took five or six hundred kilometers to come here, and there is a couple who work in our city from other provinces. Our hospital is so famous in other provinces and cities, we as people in this city did not know, with full pride we decided to start our IVF baby program in this women's and children's hospital in the city.
A total of three couples were admitted to our ward, Yanzi and me, a young couple from other cities in this province, and a couple from other provinces who worked in this city. Alas, every family is a story, and each person has a piece of bitterness, and their story is enough for a writer to write a book and a director to make a movie.
This young couple from other cities in this province, about 30 years old, the husband is a company commander, although he is wearing civilian clothes, but the quality and physique of a soldier can still make it easy to see that he is a soldier, and his wife is also a teacher, a very beautiful and quiet primary school English teacher. Usually they live separately, the wife is an English teacher in a primary school in the city, and the husband is also very busy in the army, but they spend a lot of time together every year, but they are not pregnant and have children, and they have been married for five or six years. This is a young couple with a good family background and happiness and love.
Another couple from other provinces working in the city, their story I can't understand until now, I can only admire the power of fate is so strong, and sigh at the colorful and helpless life. They came from the same small mountain village in the remote mountainous area of another province, and my husband was exactly 50 years old this year, a migrant worker who looked very old and tired, wearing overalls, but he looked very clean, he was not good at talking, and most of the time he just sat there and listened to us. And his wife is exactly half his age, only 25 years old, and I don't know what fate brought them together. What makes us puzzled is that her husband is just an ordinary worker, no money and no outstanding appearance, but this girl is a very delicate girl, soft-spoken, although she dresses very ordinarily, but the elegance and kindness revealed in her bones, I don't believe she will fall in love with this old man sitting in front of us, the key is what she wants? I don't understand, we don't understand, and I still don't understand!
The fifty-year-old man sitting in front of us was actually married and had children in his hometown, and there was a boy who was the same age as his current wife, working in Guangdong and not starting a family. His original wife later got mentally ill for some reason and spent everything in the family, but it was always incurable, always good and bad, and helplessly, they divorced. The crux of the matter is that even though they are divorced, the 50-year-old man has to pay 1,000 yuan a month to take care of his mentally ill ex-wife in his hometown, and his current wife tells us that this was agreed upon when they divorced.
This delicate and a little melancholy current wife told us that her husband goes out early and returns late every day, and his salary is only 3,000 yuan a month, and in order to do IVF, she is not allowed to go out to find a job in order to maintain her body at home, but every month she can't be moved to send 1,000 yuan back to her hometown to support his ex-wife, and her husband also requires her to deposit 500 yuan in the bank every month for the cost of IVF, as well as the expenses for raising children in the future, their living expenses, rent, All miscellaneous living expenses must be controlled within 1,500 yuan, only the surplus, and must not be overspended, the key is that their rent needs 500 yuan every month!
Listening to this twenty-five-year-old woman, who should be called a girl, listening to her narration, none of us believed that such a thing could happen, and it happened to the old husband and young wife sitting in front of us, what was the reason why this girl was willing to die with this old man to suffer and be poor? Or how much magic did this old man sitting in front of us have captured the heart of this twenty-five-year-old girl?
We don't know, we can only sigh, especially me, it's just envy, jealousy and hatred! If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that the old man sitting in front of me would be so blessed, after many years, even now I still don't understand what the hell is going on, I look at the swallows beside me, the thick and thin figure and the appearance that dare not compliment, I only hate myself for being blind and not good!
The girl said that her husband did not want children, but she insisted on having a child, and only a woman who had given birth to a child was a complete woman. Her husband couldn't help her, and finally agreed to save money for IVF, so they finally saved enough money for IVF after nearly two years of accumulation. The girl said that in order to save money, she always goes to the supermarket to buy discounted vegetables, fruits or meat, and if she is not careful in the early stage of the month, they would rather eat white rice and drink boiled water every day for the remaining days at the end of the month, and they will save 500 yuan a month, and they must not overspend.
As she spoke, the girl's eyes turned red, and then she choked up and said that in order to save money for IVF, they had not returned to their hometown for the New Year for three years.
What kind of magic is it that supports this twenty-five-year-old girl from a foreign country to love an old man who is twenty-five years older than herself so deeply? I don't understand, we can't understand, only make me envious, jealous and hateful!
Yes, you can't understand someone else's world.