The spring rain in the north sprinkled with fine rice-like snow seeds, splashed on the top of the umbrella, and turned into delicate snow seeds when they landed, drowning in the rain in an instant.

The air smells fresh of tree sprouts. Li Tian'er stood under the old willow tree in the yard, feeling that her eyes were a little blurry, and she finally couldn't see the backs of Fan Lihua and Chen Haichao, and her hair and clothes were wet from the rain.

Chen Haichao wanted to go to the provincial capital with An Changlin to work as a temporary worker, Fan Lihua was unwilling, she couldn't stand Chen Haichao's begging, and promised to come back to listen to her arrangement to marry a daughter-in-law after earning a year's money outside, Fan Lihua was moved. She deliberately went to An Changlin's house to inquire and made sure that Chen Haichao was indeed not lying.

An Changlin is still very relieved to do things. Li Tian'er was not at ease, she always felt that An Changlin's departure was related to her attitude towards him yesterday. Guessing is guessing, she can't ask An Changlin to question, even if she thinks, what can she do.

Hearing the spring rain of sleet outside in the middle of the night, Li Tian'er couldn't sleep anymore. She got up and stood in front of the window, looking at the dark night outside the window, and began to worry a little about An Changlin.

After a few thunderstorms, the night grew darker, and the sky seemed to be stained with ink. The clock pointed to five o'clock in the morning, the lights in the main house went on, and Fan Lihua got up to prepare steamed buns for her youngest son to take out.

Li Tian'er did not turn on the lights and continued to stand in the dark until dawn. She thought she would see An Changlin coming over to beat Chen Haichao and go out together, but Chen Haichao said that he and An Changlin were dating to meet at the station.

"Ouch hey! Taotao, why don't you go into the house and drench yourself like this. ”

Fan Lihua came back with a black umbrella with a broken umbrella bone, and saw Li Tian'er standing under the old willow tree at a glance. Hurried over and pulled her into the house.

"You don't have to worry about Haichao, he has a lot of ideas now, and he knows how to go outside to earn money. When he comes back from working outside for a year, how can he earn 1,800, and then it will be almost enough to marry a daughter-in-law. By the way, how much money did you charge the girl in the red coat yesterday, and what kind of illness did she see? ”

Fan Lihua suddenly remembered the rules that her daughter-in-law had set for her, she couldn't inquire about the patient's situation, and she couldn't speculate and spread it around without authorization. She immediately changed her tune and said that she had agreed yesterday that she would charge money for medical treatment and medicine.

"Accepted."

"It's good to take it, your medicine is not blown by the wind, whether you go to the county to buy wholesale goods, or go to the mountains to dig it yourself, it's all a costly, laborious and laborious thing. Don't be soft-hearted and take cheap, you should pay more points. ”

"I know what I know."

Li Tian'er looked indifferent. Seeing this, Fan Lihua couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, she really wanted to get some money out of her daughter-in-law's hands, but she wouldn't open her mouth easily.

In order to alleviate the embarrassment, Fan Lihua said casually:

"Two days ago, I heard An Changlin's wife say that her son was going to get married on February 2, why did he go out to work again? Could it be that the woman's family has added the bride price again, and his family can't get it? I see that his marriage is about to hang, he is also twenty-seven or eighteen years old, he did not mix with an official and a half position in the army, and he went home and wandered around for almost a year, and finally met a good partner, and now it seems that he can't get married. It's enough for his mother to worry about, children are all parents' debts, and no family can make their wishes come true. ”

Fan Lihua muttered a few words, sent Li Tian'er back to the doctor's consultation room, and went out with a broken umbrella to find someone to chat.

For the people in the village, there is no concept of weekends, except for primary school students who only attend half-day classes on weekends. When Chen Jiangchao came back from school at noon, Fan Lihua hadn't come home to cook, he lifted the lid of the pot and took two cold steamed buns, sat on the stool and nibbled on it. It may be that he was in too much of a hurry, and he felt a stomachache when the two cold steamed buns went down.

There was a sister-in-law in Li Tian'er's house who was seeing a gynecological disease, and Chen Jiangchao came in without knocking on the door and pressing his stomach to open the door.

The sister-in-law was so frightened that she quickly pulled up her pants with an "oops", and her reunion face was fiery red.

"Why don't you come in and knock on the door!"

The eldest sister-in-law complained, but Chen Jiangchao didn't look at her, and cold sweat was already on his forehead at this time.

"Peach Blossom, I'm going to die."

Chen Jiangchao was about to fall down on the edge of the kang.

Li Tian'er motioned to her sister-in-law to wait on the side first, she stepped forward to ask Chen Jiangchao where the pain was, and pressed his stomach, and immediately judged that Chen Jiangchao had acute appendicitis and must be sent to the county hospital for surgery immediately.

It was impossible to call an ambulance in Xiaowu Village, so it was difficult to stop a liberation car at the intersection to pull goods from the county seat, and Li Tian'er and her sister-in-law got Chen Jiangchao into the car. The eldest sister-in-law helped to find Fan Lihua, but the driver couldn't wait, and Chen Jiangchao's illness couldn't wait.

got out of the car at the gate of the county hospital, Li Tianer stuffed ten yuan into the driver's hand and asked him to buy two packs of cigarettes to express his gratitude, and the driver excused himself and accepted it. Seeing that she was a slender woman, it might be a little difficult to get the tall and strong Chen Jiangchao into the hospital, so the driver got out of the car and helped carry Chen Jiangchao into the emergency room before turning around and leaving.

Li Tian'er sat on the bench at the door of the operating room, soaked with rain and sweat. In the morning in the rain in the courtyard, I have washed my hair and changed my clothes, and I will wear a thin spring coat and wrap myself in a cold sweat, and I will immediately feel cold.

When Fan Lihua rushed to the hospital, Chen Jiangchao had already completed the operation and was transferred to the general ward. The nurse came in with the surgery and asked them to go to the billing office to pay the money.

Fan Lihua said with a bitter face that she had no money on her. When she heard the news, she came in a panic, not thinking about paying for the surgery.

Li Tian'er has no money. This is the most difficult time she has ever been through, and she has an empty wealth system but can't get money. Except for the cabinet of medicine in the warehouse, she didn't even have a decent piece of clothing. When she returned to her parents' house for the Chinese New Year, she didn't want to bring some decent gifts to her parents, so she felt embarrassed to take two packs of two bags of oil-soaked dim sum fruits that Fan Lihua had been waiting for for a long time, and two bottles of fruit wine to return to her parents' house for New Year's greetings.

"If you don't need money, you have to stop taking medicine, you go to relatives and friends to borrow money to make up for it. It's not that expensive. ”

The nurse lowered her face coldly, and Li Tian'er glanced out of the ward.

The nurse must have thought she was Chen Jiangchao's wife. Li Tian'er felt extremely uncomfortable in her heart, and couldn't help but stand away from the ward.

Fan Lihua rubbed her hands with an anxious expression, and kept saying, "There are no relatives and friends in the county who can borrow money?" ”

"Chen Yunchao."

Li Tian'er and Fan Lihua said almost at the same time.

"Then you go and hang up the phone to the Yunchao unit, and don't let him run home again. I locked both doors of the house, and he didn't have a key. ”

Li Tian'er wanted to call Chen Yunchao, but she didn't know the phone number of Chen Yunchao's unit, nor did she know the full name of his unit. Fan Lihua couldn't say it clearly, but she only remembered that Chen Yunchao was at the county agricultural technology station.

I have no choice but to call the phone number and ask one by one. When Li Tian'er made the fourth call, she finally heard Chen Yunchao's voice.