Chapter 6 Loving and Being Loved
The emotional experience in the county is as unforgettable as the experience of studying.
After sending my father, who was interviewed by my homeroom chemistry teacher, my fever became severe.
I don't know how long the wake-up call rang in the morning, but I was still lying on the bed in a daze, and I heard the sound of my classmates in the same dormitory and the dormitory next door clanging one after another to get up, go out of exercise, and go back to the dormitory. But I couldn't move, my body was soft and hot like freshly fished out of the pot and cooked noodles, soft and without a trace of strength. The eyes are also heavy and glued, and they can't be opened.
"Dude, what's wrong with you today, why haven't you gotten up yet?" Da just came back from and kicked my bed hard.
"Get up, get up, it's time for breakfast."
I struggled to sit up from the bed. I rubbed my eyes vigorously, and saw Da Gang's round face, and his small eyes stared at me with concern.
"Aren't you sick? Why do you blush like a monkey's ass? After he finished speaking, he probably thought my sick appearance was a little ridiculous, and he smiled to himself.
Dagang is in the same town as us, in the same class as me in junior high school, and in the same class in high school, and in the same dormitory.
"I, I feel very hot on my body, I had a fever for the other few days, and today it seems to be serious." I replied weakly.
Due to the limited cost of living, I bought some cold medicine and kept taking it, trying to carry the illness through, but now it seems that it is not possible.
"Silly donkey, let's go to the hospital." He wiped his face with a wet towel, put the towel on the bed rail, turned around and touched my forehead with his hand. Since I had just returned from the outside, Dagang's hands were cold, and I breathed in the cold as if an ice cube had been pasted on my forehead.
"Damn, it's so hot, I'll take you to the hospital on leave, don't burn to death, I still have to buy you a wreath, I'm dying of poverty, and I don't have the money to buy you a wreath." He muttered as he hurriedly put on his coat and walked out.
"You wait, I'll ask for leave."
"I, should be fine, right?" I had no strength to stop him, so I let him go.
After a while, he hurried back.
The county hospital is very close to the high school, across the two roads, Dagang drove me to register, check, and when he was done, he threw me on a chair in the hall and went to the doctor with the test results.
After a while, he rushed back, "How much money do you have?" He asked me.
I took it for a long time and handed him the two tickets that my father had stuffed into me before leaving.
"Not enough," he scratched.
"The doctor said it was acute gastroenteritis, and he needed to be hospitalized for infusion, and the deposit was 500."
“500?” , I suddenly came to my senses, opened my round eyes, and glared at him, "So expensive? I don't look at it, I should be fine!. ”
I struggled to my feet, ready to walk out.
I know too well what the number 500 means to me.
"Are you crazy? Don't move, wait for me", Da Gang held me down.
"You wait here, I'll go back to school and find someone to figure it out." With that, he rushed out and ran towards the school.
I sat in a chair in the waiting hall, distraught and with a dull ache in my head. In a daze, he fell asleep in a chair.
I don't know how long it took, "Hey, hey, you're not dead, are you?" "Da Gang came back, and he woke me up, with a few crumpled tickets in his hand, and I don't know where he got them.
He pulled me up, "Let's go, let's get the infusion, we have enough money!" ”
Although it was cold outside, there was heat on his head, "It's timely, it's timely, I found a good buddy to borrow it." ”
He turned his head to me and grinned, "Remember to pay me back." ”
After five days of hospitalization, I have recovered very well, and during the hospitalization, Da Gang has been running around to take care of me.
One sunny morning, Da Gang ran into the house and told me, "Dude, congratulations, the doctor said that you can be discharged from the hospital after the infusion today!" ”
"But, wait, I have another surprise to tell you, but I'm going to keep it a secret for now."
"How can I have any happy events?" I smiled wryly, "It's not a trouble to find me." ”
"Don't believe it yet, today's event is really a happy event, but now it's confidential, confidential, and I can't tell you yet." He ignored me anymore.
"You'll find out in a moment."
After the discharge procedures were completed, there was still more than 50 yuan left, and Da Gang stuffed it into my pocket, "Don't take advantage of you, I don't want change, you just pay me back the whole number, I also borrowed money from others, so I have a big face." He grimaced. Remember to pay it back. ”
We walked to the campus together, and when we walked to the gate, he stopped me, "Wait a minute, close your eyes, I'll go and bring your surprise!" He pushed me behind the doorpost, shook his hand in front of my eyes a few times, double-checked that I really closed my eyes, and without feeling at ease, took off his cotton hat, buckled it on my head, and pressed the brim of it against my eyes.
"Blind toss!" I laughed and said, but his mysterious behavior made me full of curiosity all of a sudden, and seeing his serious appearance, I had to honestly close my eyes and endure and wait, but I was really puzzled in my heart.
"Big country, are you okay? Okay? A familiar and gracious voice.
"It's Mom!" , I panicked and eagerly ripped off Dagang's hat, it's really my mother!
She stood behind the doorpost, dusty and haggard, and her father's co-worker Uncle Ding stood beside her.
"Mom, why are you here?" I didn't react for a while, my mother had never been far away, and in my memory, she hadn't even been to the town, how did she come here?
"I heard your father say that you were sick last week, and your Uncle Ding just came back from the construction site to run errands, passing by the county, I really didn't worry about you, so I took an early ride with him."
"Mom, I'm fine." It was sad to see her tired and worried.
"Auntie, in fact, the big country is a cold, and he is really fine." Da Gang saw that I was not as surprised as he imagined, and immediately walked over and grabbed his mother, "Actually, he is not hospitalized, it's just, that-", "Ahem, you see, he didn't come out, okay", he was a little incoherent, I don't know how to explain.
"Well, it's just the right time, let's go to lunch together, shall we?" He proposed.
I ordered lunch, and the owner of the small restaurant at the school gate was also very familiar with our group of students. Uncle Ding and Da Gang snorted and ate a few dishes.
My mother also ate very little, she kept staring at me, and kept asking, "Big country, are you really okay now?" ”
"Are you cold?"
"Big country, have you eaten enough? What do you usually eat? ”。
"I eat very well, Da Gang and I usually eat what we eat today, and we are very full." , I was afraid that she would be worried, and lied.
Uncle Ding stopped the dishes and chopsticks and glanced at me strangely. He lowered his head and hurriedly ate the rice, as if he hadn't eaten enough for a long time.
After lunch, I went to check out and ate more than 30.
We walked out of the small restaurant, and the warm winter sun outside was unusually dazzling.
"I'm going back, let your Uncle Ding drop me back to the station, I don't know the road, there are too many cars in the county," my mother said, "Big cities are different, I don't know the way back." She sighed again.
"Uncle Ding, Da and I have to go to class in the afternoon, and I will bother you about my mother's homecoming", I said to Uncle Ding, after eating, Uncle Ding has been relatively silent and thoughtful.
"Okay, it's okay, it's okay", he was a little proud when he heard my request, "I am very familiar with the county, although the county is very large, but this is still not comparable with the provincial capital, I can't get lost in the provincial capital, not to mention this small county, I know all this road!" With that, he tugged at the corner of my clothes and whispered mysteriously: "Dagang, come over a little, I have something to say to you." ”
I went over and drew near to him,
"Say it, Uncle Ding."
"Big country, what did you say when you were eating just now? Do you and Da Gang eat every day like this at noon today? ”
I didn't squeak and looked at him, "Son, this is your fault, you can't waste it like this, you don't know how hard it is to make money now!" "Your father and I work together, and every day I use a lunch box to steam some rice to eat, and never eat vegetables!" Your mother came out with me in the morning, and she didn't even buy a bottle of water, right? I guess they won't say it to you either. He shook his head, "Well, you children are not sensible. ”
"What did you say?" I was stunned and looked at him, a little unbelieving my ears.
I was shocked by his words, and I felt like I had been evacuated, fluttering slightly, as if I wanted to grasp something to stabilize.
My parents love me, I know, and I know that my family is in a difficult situation, but I never thought about what my parents suffered for me. I have been blinded by their optimism and open-mindedness, blinded by their love, and how much truth do I know!
For the first time in my life, I felt that heavy love, the taste of being loved, so sweet and so bitter!
I have always thought that I have suffered a lot on the way to study, encountered a lot of obstacles, and even once imposed all the misfortunes on the family, thinking that it was the hardships of family life that caused me to be unsatisfactory, so that I could not hold my head up in front of my peers, I enjoyed their labor income with peace of mind, completely ignoring all the hard-won life, I never thought about how hard my parents worked for it in order to achieve my so-called quality of life pursuit, however, when I really learned what my parents suffered for me, I realized how selfish I was! How narrow my love is in comparison.
The love of my parents is the source of motivation for learning in my county, and it is also a mirror for me to know myself.
Many years later, every time I recall what Uncle Ding said to me in the small restaurant at the entrance of the county, my heart will be warm and sour, I feel the greatness of my parents' love for me, and at the same time, I am always reminding myself that whether it is to love or be loved, I can't be too selfish, only in this way will I truly appreciate the happiness of true love.