Shi Yao's emaciated face, the high protruding cheekbones, and the deep sunken lower eye frame speak for themselves. He didn't seem to care about his health, but asked about the meat ball.

"It has a strong vitality, and the laboratory can provide him with a better growth environment." Fang Xu looked at Shi Yao's godless eyes, "It grows on you?" ”

Shi Yao seemed to have struggled very hard before he nodded his head, which was regarded as an acknowledgement.

"Can you tell me about it? Maybe I can help you! ”

At first, Shi Yao never said sincerely. Fang Xu lit a cigarette for him, and after the two chatted for a while, Shi Yao had some trust in Fang Xu before he opened his heart.

Shi Yao's mother was a famous beauty in their ten miles and eight towns when she was young. According to the elders in their village, the people who came to Shi Yao's house to talk to the matchmaker didn't know how many thresholds they had broken. But she was rejected by his mother, because she had been waiting for her sweetheart, a young man who had gone to college far away.

At that time, going to school depended on the ingredients, so her mother's hair was supposed to be the descendants of the lowest level of society after turning over, so she was eligible to be recommended to go to school.

In that backward and special era of communication, she only received a letter, and she waited for ten years to keep that letter, and when she was thirty years old, she still did not hear from her sweetheart. Also in this year, she was suddenly inexplicably criticized by a group of angry young people for an afternoon, and then became mentally abnormal.

After another ten years, a scientific expedition team came to the village, and they lived for more than a year. During this period, a middle-aged scholar actually got along with her mother, and Shi Yao was born more than half a year after the expedition team left.

But the scholar never returned, and Shi Yao only knew that it might be his father, and as for who the surname was, no one in the village knew except his mother, who had brought the man's name into the earth.

The scholars of that era, if they were still alive until now, must be a senior expert of a certain Fang Xu, and with Shi Yao's current life class, it is impossible to inquire about his father's name.

My grandfather was an old teacher, and Shi Yan's mother made him, a half-intellectual with a bit of high but little connotation, very angry. As soon as Shi Yao was full moon, his grandfather kicked him out of the house with his mother.

If it weren't for the group leader in the village arranging an old community house left over from the collective era, Shi Yao's mother and son would not have survived that cold winter.

At the time when Shi Yao was born, rural people relied on manual labor to make a living. When Shi Yao's mother was in good spirits, she went up the mountain with the village lords to cut down trees for the owner of the timber business.

Wages are not hourly but piecemeal, so there is no such thing as helping each other with the people who do the work. A section of 100 pounds of wood rolled from the mountain forest to the bottom of the mountain, and then carried along the rugged path to the road four miles away, before receiving two cents.

Women in the breastfeeding period are the hardest, and one person eats two people's meals, so the amount is also very large. Shi Yan's mother carried him on her back, and she had to carry it more than ten times a day to earn enough living expenses for the two of them for a day.

In this way, Shi Yao's mother became ill from overwork and passed away shortly after he was just a year old. Shi Yao can grow up because of the kind people in the village. In his own words, he grew up eating a hundred family meals.

After Shi Yao was born, the frequency of his mother's mental disorders became more and more frequent. According to the elders of the village, when her mother was sick, she put the stone wall upside down in the basket and did not know it, and the kind villagers would take turns to visit her mother twice a day when she was sick. Sometimes everyone is busy, and Shi Yao is carried upside down for a day. On snowy days, villagers often see her mother sleeping in the snow to nurse him. So everyone said that Shi Yao could survive, and there was really a god secretly guaranteeing it.

But because of this, Shi Yao's body is very weak and often sick.

When he was ten years old, another scientific expedition team came to the village, and the villagers said that Shi Yao's father might have returned. took Shi Yao to look for it, but when he saw the expedition team, he found that there was no familiar face inside.

Later, a middle-aged man surnamed Liang said that he knew his father, and when he saw that Shi Yao was in such poor health, he left him some nutritional products and a special canned food. Shi Yan said that he was very reluctant to eat, and after spending a year eating, his body was much better, but his stomach would hurt slightly from time to time. Because he is an orphan, where he has money to go to the doctor, he has been dragging it out.

It wasn't until he was eighteen years old that his stomach burst once, and all the methods he had used before to relieve the pain still didn't work, so Shi Yao dissolved all the small half packets of salt left in the house at that time and drank it all in a scoop of water.

Then a ball of meat the size of a female finger spit out of his mouth with a mouthful of old blood, and Shi Yao was stupid at that time, thinking that it was too painful, and got all the organs in his body out.

At this time, the villagers who heard Shi Yao's painful scream just now also came, and when they saw the small meat ball in Shi Yao's hand, they all said that Shi Yao might not survive.

At this time, his stomach hurt again, and an old man told him to quickly swallow the ball of meat and plug up the bad place, even if he died, he would be considered a whole corpse.

Shi Yao did so, and it didn't hurt anymore after swallowing it. But after that, every time there was a sign of pain, Shi Yao drank a lot of salt water, and then spit out the meat ball and swallowed it for a while, and then it was fine. Since that incident, the villagers have regarded him as a strange person and dare not care about Shi Yao anymore.

Hearing this, Fang Xu's eyes looked at the water bottle on the table again, these might be the water he had prepared to prevent his stomach from hurting.

"Can you just drink water to relieve you?"

"No!" Shi Yao moved the wooden board blocking the front of the bed and pointed downward, "I put a box of more salt below." ”

Fang Xu lowered his head and saw dozens of packs of salt neatly stacked in a large old cardboard box placed upside down.

"Don't tell them, or I won't be able to do this job?"

The bosses on the construction site are all shrewd masters, and they really dare not ask for people with strange diseases like Shi Yao. In society, ordinary people are not easy to live, and people like Shi Yao will even have a chance to survive if they are not careful.

Looking at Shi Yao's begging eyes, Fang Xu's heart was uncomfortably involved, and finally agreed to keep it secret for him.

Shi Yao wanted to find something for Fang Xu to show his gratitude to him, but he didn't find anything to do when he walked around the room.

Finally, when he saw the water bottle, he picked up the plastic cup and was about to pour it for Fang Xu, but his hand was just halfway out and took it back. He knew that a college student like Fang Xu would not drink such dirty water as himself.

"The water isn't completely boiling." Fang Xu picked up the stainless steel lunch box on the table, poured some water, rinsed it, and put it on the electric stove before pouring the water in the bottle inside, "Boil it before you can drink it!" ”

While waiting for the water to boil, Shi Yao continued to talk about him.

Ever since he found the ball, the amount of food he's eaten has become astonishing. And the meat ball that I spit out every time I get sick is slowly getting bigger, but after it gets big enough to a certain extent, it becomes the size of a thumb again the next time it comes out.

Just last night, he fell ill again, and after the ball of meat was spit out, he couldn't swallow it anymore. Although his stomach no longer hurts, this abnormal situation made Shi Yao afraid, so he took advantage of Fang Xu, who met the student biology today, to let him see if the meat ball was an organ on his body.

"So far, it's been observed that it could be a tumor."

Shi Yao didn't know what the tumor was, so Fang Xu could only explain it to him slowly.

Fang Xu knew that there were some technical terms that Shi Yao didn't understand, so he told him in very simple words: "You have to go to the hospital for a comprehensive examination to see how your body is doing." ”

Leizi said that he just sneezed last time, and it cost hundreds of yuan to go to the hospital, and when he heard that Fang Xu wanted him to go to the hospital, Shi Yan hurriedly waved his hand, "I... I still won't go. ”

At this time, Shi Yao still had that shy smile on his face, in fact, he had been frightened by the tall threshold of the hospital and lost hope of seeking health.

Yes, there is a lot of mobility on the construction site, and it is impossible for the labor company to give him social security or anything like that. Moreover, where can Shi Yao's salary be high, seeing that at the end of the year, as a migrant worker, he can also ask the boss for living expenses every month, and whether he can get this year's hard-earned money at the end of the year depends on the mood above, and how much money he has left to see a doctor at this time.

Fang Xu's living expenses in the past few years were still given by his parents, and later the prodigal son did some part-time jobs after he turned around, plus the school's scholarship every semester, so that he could live a well-off life. As for the cost of the experiment, if it weren't for the Yuren bursary, just buying double distilled water would have emptied his purse. So he couldn't help Shi Yao at this time.

"Would you like to volunteer?" Fang Xu thought that the professors of the medical school had a task to conduct human experiments, which required volunteers. But a few of today's young people can afford to live like a guinea pig, so despite the good salaries offered by professors, there are few volunteers.

Fang Xu didn't really let Shi Yan be a volunteer, and besides, his body couldn't withstand those inhuman tortures. He just wanted to use the physical examination when recruiting volunteers to let Shi Yao get a comprehensive and systematic examination, saving the high cost.

For professors who can pull off a large amount of money for a project with a few pages of application, this is not a big deal at all, and the whole test is actually not as ridiculously high as the price offered by doctors who have completely converted into businessmen. After turning on the machine a few times, the corresponding reagents and experiments were completed in the interval between their subject experiments.

After listening to Fang Xu's detailed explanation of the medical school's recruitment of volunteers, Shi Yao agreed. But he also has a condition, that is, if he is chosen, he can't throw away his own work on the construction site.

"We'll talk about it then." Fang Xu said and asked for Shi Yao's contact information, and recorded his basic situation on his mobile phone, "That meat ball has been away from you for a night, and your stomach has not felt the slightest discomfort during this period?" ”

"Nope!" Shi Yao shook his head and said, "The time interval between this illness is a little longer, maybe it's because it can't swallow it when it grows up." You said that it would have to get smaller after it came out, and I was really afraid that if my stomach hurts, it hasn't gotten smaller, and I can't swallow it back, I... I'm going to die! ”

"That thing looks like it's alive, have you seen roundworms?"

"I've seen it, when I was a child, I didn't have money to buy gyro candy to repel insects, and after a long time, they will crawl out of my mouth."

Shi Yao said that he didn't forget to make a few gestures, Fang Xu remembered that picture and almost threw it up.

"That's right! They are alive when they first come out, but they will die after a while, which is the environment that leaves the human body and cannot stand the outside world. Your ball of flesh left you in the same condition as a roundworm. ”

"Then what to do, if it dies, if it hurts in the stomach, I..."

"Don't worry, I've kept it in the lab, you're going to stay with me tonight, and if you get sick, I'll find a way to give you pain relief."