(Due to the excessive number of words in this chapter, it has been updated in two parts, and the following is the second part of "43 Middle".) ）

"Dear dear, I have discovered a strange thing!" At half past ten o'clock in the morning of Sunday, He Zhiyuan parked the car and rushed to the gate of the city hospital to meet Gui Ying.

Gui Ying held the medical record book with her bag on her back and asked in surprise, "What's the matter?" ”

"We come to the hospital at least seven or eight times a year, and for more than ten years, I found that the parking space of the hospital is vacant for the first time! You say it's not strange! Zhiyuan's surprise is full of surprise, and surprise is mixed with surprise.

"I told you that this year's market environment is different, you don't feel it! Now it's confirmed! The two of them said as they walked towards the Chinese medicine hospital.

"Why don't I feel it? Didn't I tell you, the price of vegetables in the vegetable market and the price of food in small restaurants have dropped a lot! ”

"If prices have fallen, it means that income is not growing or is negative! I rented a house for Xiaotang before, and the houses around our house haven't risen sharply for two or three years! But housing prices across the country are still strong! Ay! ”

Gui Ying's appointment was at 11 o'clock in the morning, and she queued up for the number, paid the bill, and did a gastroscopy, and she was busy until the afternoon.

At noon, there were only three people left in the family, and the boy had three takeaways at a little bit of eleven, and the takeaway delivery had not yet come at half past twelve, and the two children had eaten snacks and fruits early, and they were tired and groggy after eating, and went to take a nap. The old horse waited left and right, it was not a taste in his stomach, and he stayed up until half past one and a half The doorbell finally rang, and the old man didn't have time to use his crutches, so he swayed and ran to open the door to get food. When I opened the door, I was surprised! It turned out to be a gray-haired old man who came to deliver food.

"Is it the phone with the tail number 1869? Three small stir-fries! I'm sorry to be late! The white-haired old man panted and waved to the old horse in apology.

"Oh! Yes, yes, yes! It's okay, it's okay! The old horse, who had been hungry and agitated, was distracted at the moment. After taking the box lunch, he asked curiously, "How old are you, brother?" I think you're older than me! ”

"Oh roar! I'm seventy-two! The man spoke with a southern accent, and he was afraid that the old horse would not understand and gestured.

"Then why did you send this? I can't even do anything if I leave it alone! The old horse asked again embarrassedly.

The old man slapped his stomach and shrugged his shoulders, and said, "No way! My wife has cancer, I have to make money! ”

Seeing that the old horse couldn't react in surprise, the old man continued: "It's okay! When people see that I am an old man, they don't give bad reviews, but give me good reviews! The store specially arranged for me to deliver those ordered dinners! Other shops don't want me at this age, but the owner of this shop heard that my wife had cancer, and gave me so much in a month - four thousand five! Okay, okay! ”

The old horse didn't know how to answer, so he just nodded vigorously.

The white-haired old man waved his hand with a smile, and said to the old horse in a hurry: "I'm leaving, I'm leaving, I still have a list!" ”

"It's done, it's done! You're busy, you're busy! Take care, man! The old horse waved his hand and saw the old man enter the elevator.

After closing the door, the old horse sighed again and again, and the hunger that he had saved for a long time suddenly dispersed, and he ate his grandson's favorite meal in the restaurant alone, which tasted like chewing wax.

Repeatedly recalling the look on the old brother's face, it was not so pitiful and miserable, there was a sense of relief after delivering the meal, and it was very hearty and optimistic to chat with people! This seventy-two-year-old man with a wrinkled torso is old and has a strong face, and there is an open-minded Heineken in his desperation and helplessness for fate. The old horse should have cheered for the man, but unconsciously left tears for the man. Perhaps he wept not for the man, but for himself, for himself in the same situation as he expected.

At half past three in the afternoon, Gui Ying and his wife came back sweating profusely carrying large bags of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine.

"How? Is there something wrong? The old horse asked the two of them while lying on the sofa.

"Nope. Done a full check-up and no major problems! The doctor diagnosed it as a weak spleen and stomach, inflammation, and finally prescribed a lot of drugs and it was over! Zhiyuan said and came over to let Lao Ma see the medicine. Gui Ying was tired, changed her shoes and yawned and went back to her room to sleep.

"Oh, it's okay! How much does this medicine cost? The old horse raised his eyebrows and asked softly.

"One hundred and sixteen Chinese medicines, Chinese patent medicines...... I look at the list, Chinese patent medicine is 304, Western medicine is 201. ”

Zhiyuan had just finished reading, and the old horse got up from the sofa with his feet cocked, sat up straight and stretched out his hand to ask for a list: "I'll take a look!" It's not sick and it costs so much money! ”

"It's just the cost of medicine! Not counting the inspection fee and registration fee! ”

"How many are those two?" The old horse held the toll sheet in both hands and read it silently in the air, word by word.

"She is a famous doctor, the registration fee is three hundred, and the examination fee is three hundred and six!"

"Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God...... "The old horse shook his head like a rattle, and after shaking his head, he silently calculated in his mouth: "Three hundred, three hundred and six are six hundred and six, six hundred and six, two hundred and one are eight hundred and seven, eight hundred and seven, one hundred and sixteen are - one thousand and thirty, count one thousand yuan, one thousand plus this three hundred and four - one thousand three hundred and four!" Oh my God! Didn't get sick and spent so much! The old horse held the toll bill high and asked for an answer.

"It's like this in hospitals now! It took five or six hundred for the boy to go to the eye hospital to check the fundus, it took more than seven hundred for Yangyang to have a cold and fever in the previous paragraph, and it took more than six hundred for Yangyang to be vaccinated by Zhou Zhou's cat earlier...... Now as long as you enter a big hospital, there are so many medicines prescribed by doctors! Zhiyuan's explanation also revealed helpless complaints.

"Oh my God! I'll have to leave sooner or later, and you can't afford to see me when I'm old! Good guy, I was able to raise a few pairs of Chinese medicine without a serious illness, and it cost one thousand three in one go! Isn't this robbery? Don't doctors ask about people's financial conditions? ”

Zhiyuan rubbed his nostrils and said, "How could the doctor ask this!" ”

"There are virtuous doctors in that circle, and they will prescribe medicine according to your financial situation. A good doctor is virtuous and will not let the people spend money in vain! Now this big hospital is so pure that there are some people with technology and no virtue! Oh my God! A cold cost seven hundred! I just think that the country has already solved the problem of difficult and expensive medical treatment! I didn't expect it to be so serious! ”

"Uh...... Hehe! Zhi Yuanjian didn't speculate, found an excuse, circled in the house for a few minutes, and was so tired that he went back to his room to take a nap. Leaving Lao Ma alone, he was anxious and distressed for money - he felt sorry for his own Yingying's money.

On this day, Zhong Li woke up from Lao Tao's house, had lunch at Lao Tao's house, went to Daqiang's house that sold tea to drink tea in the afternoon, drank to the point of dinner, ate a fried noodles outside, went to Zhao Yun's house to sell vegetables at night to smoke nonsense, and at ten o'clock he pulled Lao Zhang, who sold meat, to drink. This drink, I drank until one or two o'clock, and came back in the evening to live on the sofa of Lao Zhang's house for a night.

Zhong Neng went to look for it on the afternoon of the weekend, and saw his son Zhong Li in Zhao Yun, but he couldn't call it back, and he was not ashamed to say superfluous things in other people's shops. Hyosung knew that Jong-ri didn't return on Saturday night and didn't enter the house on the weekend, so he just pretended not to know, didn't pay attention, and sat at the counter and went about his own business.

Xuemei has been sleeping in the bunk lately, sleeping at her aunt's on Saturday, and coming back from work on Sunday night without seeing her father and not asking. Yesterday Dad didn't go to her college banquet, she wasn't angry, she just couldn't figure it out - she couldn't figure out why he didn't go! It should have been curiosity that overrode anger, so the eldest girl was not so angry. But this question has always been in Xuemei's mind, bothering her for many years, and she has never asked anyone. It wasn't until she later became a mother and went to the elementary school to hold a parent-teacher conference for her children, that she suddenly understood.

In October, there was a self-examination exam for college promotion, Bao Xiaotang enrolled in two courses, and now that it is September, she has to make a plan to start reading and studying. On the weekend, I spent most of my day researching the book catalogue at home, allocating the number of pages to read each day, sharing the number of episodes of the daily lectures, and making a plan for the exam in my notebook according to the one-and-a-half-month deadline. She didn't reply to the chat messages sent by Zhu Haotian and "Walking in the Rain" in a timely manner.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Zhiyuan took out a dose of traditional Chinese medicine and washed it twice, put it on a clay pot and boiled it over low heat, then washed his hands and took off his scarf, and came to the living room, where everyone else was in the living room.

"We are discussing how to complete He Yiyang's summer homework! Hurry up, the main force is you, waiting for you to come! Gui Ying, who was curled up on the sofa, happily stretched out her hand to Zhiyuan.

"Ugh! I'm thinking about it too! I remember taking a screenshot of the task assigned by the teacher on my phone, and I looked for it! Zhiyuan turned on his mobile phone, looked for pictures one by one in the album, and said after a long time: "Oh, there are still a lot of them - 30 Chinese characters, 30 pinyin, 10 digital songs, and 10 ancient poems!" After reading it, Zhiyuan stared at his wife and father-in-law.

"That's a lot! Now there are only seven days left, so we have to increase the horsepower! Morning, afternoon, and evening! Belch...... Let's divide the work! You teach Chinese characters and ancient poems, I teach pinyin, number songs, nursery rhymes, let's stare at her and learn by yourself, Ma Village Chief, how about you teach your baby to count numbers? Gui Ying divided the task, and did not forget to apportionment a little to the old man.

"Oh hehe...... Make it lively day by day! Count the numbers she won't? Still teach? The old horse squinted and looked down at the ripples, and laughed endlessly.

"Tsk! She can only count to ten, not more than ten! Teachers not only require them to be able to count, but also to be able to write numbers! If you don't teach well now, you'll fall behind with other children when school starts! Do you teach or not? Don't teach to pull down! Give you a chance to play with the baby, get close, and you don't cherish it! Gui Ying was straightforward.

"Tsk! Didn't say it, don't teach! I'll teach it in the afternoon! She wakes up slimy and silly in the morning, and she is a little awake when she takes a nap! The old horse waved his hand and squeezed his eyes, humming and softening for Yangyang.

"So what am I doing?" Tsai suddenly moved the mobile phone with his face and asked his mother, without waiting for his mother to answer, he opened his mouth: "I am responsible for supervision, and if I don't obey, I will fight!" Hohoo ho! Tsai Zai slapped Yang Yang in the air, and Yang Yang snorted a few times in his mother's arms in fright.

"The whole family is busy with you, and you're humming! No matter how old a person is, he must have a sense of integrity! Tsai Zai grinned at Yangyang, and Yangyanghu raised his chin and snorted at his brother, and then quickly flashed his face and hid in his mother's arm. The old horse smiled at the two children and had fun, and his heart was as sweet as honey.

Gui Ying reiterated that they had settled their respective tasks, so the He family regarded Yangyang's summer vacation homework as the top priority of the whole family at the moment. Before everyone finished speaking, Zhiyuan was so anxious that he pulled Yangyang to learn Chinese characters first, a flower "flower", a goat's "sheep", Zhiyuan taught hand-in-hand, and after teaching for an hour, he could barely put together many horizontal and vertical strokes together to form a word.

Today is the 26th day of the eighth month of the solar calendar, Monday, the twenty-sixth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the second day of the month of the year of the pig...... The old horse got up early to smoke and wash his face and came to tear up the old yellow calendar, and just after tearing it up, he saw Zhiyuan and got up, flashed his shadow and disappeared.

At half past six in the morning, the old horse sat in a rocking chair and watched the sunrise in the east. After a while, the old man smelled a smell of Chinese medicine, Gui Ying estimated that he was still snoring, it must be Zhiyuan boiling Chinese medicine for Gui Ying. He Zhiyuan, a diligent man, woke up early in the morning and made breakfast for Gui Ying while boiling Chinese medicine — a few slices of bread with tomato sauce and lettuce leaves, and a bowl of oatmeal porridge with raisins, fruit pulp and roasted grains. At seven o'clock, Gui Ying got up unkempt, but saw a small bowl of nutritious porridge, a plump toast, and a small bowl of black Chinese medicine in the restaurant. The middle-aged woman happily ate breakfast and drank medicine with her eyes closed, and then went back to the bathroom in the house to wash up and get ready for work.

Lao Ma looked at his son-in-law's busy back from afar, and he was grateful and recognized. Her own daughter is five big and three rough and rough, she can't do this early morning cooking porridge and medicine, thanks to He Zhiyuan's tireless and careful care. The old horse felt guilty, but in reverse, this little sweetness was nothing compared to the hardships of running outside; Zhiyuan's little hard work of getting up early to cook porridge and boiling medicine is not worth mentioning compared to the difficulty of being a family member to support the family.

The sufferings of life, there are big and small, urgent and slow, hidden and explicit, deep and shallow, people can not only pick up the light, cheap hardship, and avoid the deep and heavy family responsibility, life mission and fate of the trick.

At ten o'clock in the morning, He Yiyang finally woke up, Zhiyuan brought paper and pens, and helped Yangyang with his homework in the bright restaurant, planning to teach three Chinese characters and then an ancient poem in the morning. "Apostrophe, apostrophe, vertical, horizontal and vertical - red, red of red!" Zhiyuan held her fleshy little hand, forcing her to learn what she didn't like to learn. Skimming and apostrophes are raised horizontally and vertically, apostrophe and apostrophes are raised horizontally and vertically, and apostrophes are lifted horizontally and vertically...... I don't know how many times I have been taught a red letter, and the old horse was so annoyed that he went back to the house and closed the door to listen to the play.

After a while, the old man came out to use the bathroom, only to hear the clear children's voice - "I don't see the ancients before, and I don't see the comers after." Thinking of the world and the world, I am alone and crying! After the old man finished the toilet, he sat in the living room to join in the fun, and couldn't help but say to Zhiyuan happily: "This is a good learner!" ”

"Well, I taught her four or five times, and I asked her to memorize it ten more times, and she memorized it quite neatly!" Zhiyuan pointed at Yangyang and smiled at the old man.

"Dengyouzhou Taiwan song, I don't see the ancients before, and I don't see the comers after. Thinking of the world and the world, I am alone and crying! ”

"Dengyouzhou Taiwan song, I don't see the ancients before, and I don't see the comers after. Thinking of the world and the world, I am alone and crying! ”

"Dengyouzhou Taiwan song, I don't see the ancients before, and I don't see the comers after. Thinking of the world and the world, I am alone and crying! ”

……

Yang Yang broke his little finger and counted it from his back, as if he was singing. Lao Ma and Zhiyuan sat on the side, watching the children shake their heads and not knowing the people in the poem, and the adult Pin's sadness in the poem couldn't help but be silent.

"I don't see the ancients before, and I don't see the ones who come after. Thinking of the world and the world, I am alone and crying! Lao Ma has never heard such a good poem, just a few sentences of the vicissitudes and urgency of life, listening to the peace and compassion in people's hearts, overwhelmed with emotion. After lunch, the old horse slept on the balcony, still tasting the spaciousness and sadness in the poems.

Once people in their seventies and eighties feel emotional, they must be inseparable from a dead word or an empty word.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, it was time for him to make a move. The old man held a handful of rice grains and a toothpick, and meticulously taught Yangyang to count. Today's teaching is from eleven to fifteen, and the children babble and count slowly, just like the Qin-accented little student on the stage singing - every number in the mouth must be pulled, and it will be pulled for a long time! The old man's mouth was crooked, his eyebrows fluttering, and he was happy from three o'clock to five o'clock. At five o'clock, his mouth was dry, and the old horse patted his butt and left the table to rest and suspend teaching.

In silence, I sighed that I had never been so happy in all these years! Accompanying the doll to see the world was so happy, the old man was shocked by his hindsight and regretted it.

At this time, in addition to He Yiyang, there is also Bao Xiaotang. Xiaotang sat in front of the simple desk in the rental house, watching the video while flipping through the book and taking notes, the serious beauty is cute and respectable! Suddenly, the phone rang, it was Zhu Haotian calling, Xiaotang answered the phone and chatted with Haotian for a long time, it turned out that she was asking her to go out to play. The two made an appointment to go to dinner first in the evening and then go to a nearby cinema to watch a movie.

People will have different missions at each stage, literacy literacy, class attendance, work at work, fall in love, further study, support for the family, and enjoy the old age in peace...... The same is true on Tuesday and Wednesday.

In the past few days, he has only been in a hurry, his face is as cold and quiet as ever, but his heart is panicked. Seeing that Xuemei is about to start school, this breath is not more than 20,000 yuan, and the few thousand yuan in cash at the moment is still a gift from Gui Yingxing. There is a fire burning in my heart, and I feel uncomfortable in my body, and recently Hyosung has been insomnia until late, constantly burning here and there, and I have no energy during the day and I feel nauseous and dizzy from time to time.

Where to find the money?

The business in the shop barely paid the rent, the loan credit card for the early delivery had been exhausted, and the family's food and drink were nowhere to go, where to find the 20,000 yuan for the start of school.

What else is there to borrow?

In the afternoon, Hyosung went out alone. Mei Mei likes the few women's clothing stores, she goes door-to-door every day, thinking that when she waits for the Mid-Autumn Festival discount or some festival discount, she will buy a few skirts, tops, coats or something in one go, and she must have two or three pairs of shoes. The days are going forward day by day, and the big and small things of this daughter's college are overwhelming, as a wife, how can she still have the heart to care about what Zhong Li is doing! He can do whatever he likes, and it won't be in the way if he doesn't come back for the rest of his life! Thinking so, Hyosung suddenly became short of breath and tightened in his chest, and his swift pace in the hot sun had to slow down, so he found a shady place on the side of the road and sat down to rest.