My father was born at the end of the second decade of the People's Republic of China, and the bruised New China was in the recovery period at that time, and it was the only goal of the Chinese people to be well fed and clothed. From childhood to adulthood, my father lived in the hard work and expectation of filling his stomach and wearing warm clothes, so the lack of nutrition and the overload of physical labor made his body not as strong. Five years ago, he had a gallstone removal operation, and the doctor said at the time that my father's entire gallbladder was full of stones and he had to remove his entire gallbladder.

Perhaps it was because of the hardships of hard work and the big and small illnesses in the body, coupled with the poor luck of the family later, my father's temper has not been very good. In order to accompany her father to see a doctor, her mother, who couldn't sit in the car, vomited almost half her life every time she went to the hospital.

Father Qu was curled up on the bed in the bedroom, and the fan next to the bed was blowing a cool breeze. Yu Xi walked in and shouted, his father turned around, and when he saw Kang Kang, he immediately smiled, stretched out his hand to touch Kang Kang's head and hands, and Kang Kang, who was not very familiar, took a step back, looking at Yu Xi and not knowing what to do. Yu Xi held his shoulder and gently pushed forward: "Kangkang, this is my father-in-law, don't you remember?" ”

Kang Kang hesitated and slowly approached the bed, called "father-in-law", and handed the toy in his hand to his father-in-law to share with him.

Yu Xi looked at his father carefully: his face was yellow, and his originally thin body was a little lighter than during the New Year. Her heart suddenly felt like it was sinking, but she didn't know how to comfort her father.

Since she was a child, her father has been very strict, so she only has awe and intimacy with her father. But my father was a very talented man, he liked to read, and he wrote well, and even more so with a good brush. When I was a child, the Spring Festival couplets posted by relatives and neighbors for the New Year were all created and handwritten by my father.

Since he was in elementary school, Yu Xi has acted as his father's assistant every few days after the end of the year, standing at the table opposite his father every day, helping him hold down the sides of the red paper cut into long strips. After his father finished writing one, Yu Xi spread it in an open space next to it to dry the ink stains.

Father holding a brush, although there is no ancients swaying heroic, dragon flying phoenix dance, but he has a good hand of calligraphy can definitely be called "everyone", but subject to the environment, my father failed to go to school to read more books, talent was buried in the perennial labor, failed to emerge, famous. When he was young, his reverence for his father made Yu Xi sprout a good brush like his father. But until now, Yu Xi not only has not practiced a good calligraphy, but even the pen writing is not as good as his father.

The clatter of pots and pans came from the kitchen, and they emitted a piercing "symphony" in the hands of the mother for many years, who was like a spinning top that could never stop, even if she was idle at home on a rainy day, she had to be busy with housework inside and out.

Yu Xi walked into the kitchen and inquired about his father's condition, and his mother looked disgruntled and said, "The doctor said that your father had a stone in the liver tube this time and had to be surgically removed." Your dad is really miserable, too! Live one life, sick half a life, alas! ”

"Did the doctor say how risky it is to have surgery? How much does the surgery cost? ”

"How can the doctor guarantee how risky the surgery is, the operation must be a lot of money, but as long as your father's illness is cured, how much money will have to be spent!"

At night, Yu Xi's mind lingered with his father's emaciated and yellow face, and his mother's voice and sighing. She only hated that she couldn't bear everything for her parents, to soothe her father's illness, and her mother's sighs and sorrows.

Early the next morning, Yu Xi took out the card that Xia Zhi gave her from her bag, and was about to go to the bank to withdraw some more money and hand it over to her mother, but she accidentally saw the bright business card "lying" in the corner of the bag. She suddenly had an idea: Dr. Gao is a doctor in a municipal hospital, and his medical skills should be better than that of a doctor in a county hospital. Call him to check on his father's condition.

After withdrawing the money and returning home, Yu Xi locked himself in his room and called Gao Liang. When she heard Yu Xi's voice, Gao Liang was very excited and asked her when she would return to Xunjiang. Yu Xi felt a sense of guilt in his heart for using Gao Liang, and he was hesitant: "Doctor Gao, I... I'd like to talk to you if... If I have liver duct stones, is it risky to have surgery to remove them? ”

"Who got hepatic ductal stones? Is that you? Still is... Who is in your family? Don't scare me! ”

"It's not me, it's... Can you tell me first? Such an operation... Is it risky? ”

"It depends on the formation, size and location of the stone in the liver duct, as well as the age and physical condition of the patient. Preferably, let me see the film I have examined before I can make a conclusion. ”

Gao Liang gave Yu Xi all his online contact information, and asked Yu Xi to send him the video that his father checked. At noon the next day, Gao Liang called Yu Xi and asked her who was sick, and Yu Xi had to tell the truth. The other end of the phone was silent for a while, and said: "Yu Xi, judging from the film, the condition of the stones on Uncle Yu's liver is not very optimistic, I suggest that it is best to take him to Xunjiang for a check-up, the city hospital should have better medical equipment and conditions than the county hospital." ”

Yu Xi relayed Gao Liang's analysis to his mother and younger brother, who agreed to take his father to Xunjiang for treatment, but his father was stubborn and refused to go, worried that it would be bad if the city hospital did not have a familiar doctor. In the evening, my mother called my uncle, hoping that he would persuade my father. As soon as my uncle entered the door, a white car came from far and near, and finally stopped outside the courtyard gate. The person who got out of the car was Gao Liang, and he picked up Kang Kang, who came forward, and said, "Kang Kang, Uncle Gao is here to pick you up." ”

Gao Liang's sudden visit made everyone confused, and temporarily put aside his father's affairs, and his mother pulled Yu Xi aside and asked who Gao Liang was, why didn't Hu Cheng come when his father was sick. Yu Xi had no choice but to make up a lie, saying that Gao Liang was her high school classmate and was now a doctor at Xunjiang People's Hospital. The mother was skeptical and didn't ask too much.

A professional doctor persuaded him, and my father nodded and agreed. The mother packed some changes of clothes and wanted to get some more items for hospitalization, but was stopped by Gao Liang: "Uncle and aunt, I have already arranged the beds in the hospital, and you don't have to worry about what is lacking in daily necessities when the time comes." ”

Gao Liang's meticulousness made his father and mother very pleased, and his mother even whispered to Yu Xi why she didn't marry such an excellent classmate, but married Hu Cheng, who had no ability and a good temper.

Gao Liang's car carried his father, mother, Yu Xi and Kangkang, and rushed to Xunjiang overnight, his father was admitted to the ward arranged by Gao Liang, and his mother wanted to stay in the hospital to accompany his father. My father had always been very dependent on my mother, and when I was sick in the past, I never needed to be cared for by anyone other than my mother. This removed Yu Xi's embarrassment, because they didn't know about her divorce again, and if her mother went home with her, everything could not be hidden.