Chapter 4: Grandma's Pain
After grandma sat down and handed the lunch box to grandma, Wen Xu had time to look at the entire ward.
The ward is not large, with a total of four beds, all of which are covered with untidy white and yellowed sheets.
Each bed has a matching small wooden table, some empty, others with water cups, medicine boxes, fruits and other items.
There are not many people in the town, there are not many hospitalizations, and there are two empty four beds.
The second bed in the door is where my grandmother lives.
In the bed by the window lived an uncle in his forties, and a middle-aged woman of similar age was sitting on the edge of the bed watching the uncle eat.
The only thing in the room that could pass the time was an 18-inch TV hanging on the wall.
In order to ensure a good recuperation for the inpatients, the television is left idle most of the time.
Wen Xu had surgery and was hospitalized.
He knew that Kan Tian'er might be the healthiest choice to pass the time in the ward.
People who meet in Pingshui are familiar with each other here for a short time, and they are destined to be incompatible for a long time.
Those who are sympathetic to each other come without asking about the scattering of the West and the East.
Family situation, what kind of work you do, these private information, often pass by, more to talk about those things in the hospital.
The old woman in the ward was discharged from the hospital in good health, the young man in the next ward unfortunately passed away, and a middle-aged couple heard that the old man who had lived in the hospital for half a month would have to spend hundreds of thousands of fees to transfer to the hospital to be able to recover......
As long as it's a hospital matter, you can talk about it.
At this time, it was time to eat, Wen Xu was a person who was not very good at speaking, and when he saw his grandmother's old and tired face, Wen Xu fell silent, and his thoughts flew again.
Last winter, Wen Xu listened to his parents say that his grandmother might not survive this winter.
The fortune teller said that if grandma survived this winter, she would be able to live an extra year or two.
In the end, Grandma survived last winter.
As for living for one more year or two years or ten years, the ignorant Wen Xu doesn't believe in fortune telling.
The most important thing is that it is better to live than to live, and it is better to live now.
Wen Xu sat on the opposite hospital bed and thought: What supported grandma to survive last winter? Maybe it's because grandma wants to see her eldest grandson go to college.
Admitted to university, this is Wen Xu's dream, it is the dream of his parents, and it is also the dream of his grandparents, and this is the dream of three generations of Wen Xu's family.
In the memories of Wen Xu's grandparents, Wen Xu's ancestors can be traced back to the end of the Qing Dynasty.
At that time, his ancestors of the two generations of father and son were all famous local talents, excellent scholars, teaching and educating people.
In the Ming Dynasty, Wen Xu's ancestor was still a local wealthy merchant and owned a shop on a prosperous commercial street in Qi Town.
It wasn't until the Japanese devils bombed Qi Town that Gaozu took his great-grandfather and newborn grandfather to the countryside for refuge.
At this point, the grandfather's family business declined and lived a poor life.
It didn't end there.
During the anti-Japanese period, Wen Xu's great-grandfather bravely served the country and devoted himself to the great cause of the red revolution to defend the country and resist the invaders, and became a glorious member of the underground party.
Later, the founding of New China and the great-grandfather died of illness soon after.
A comrade who worked with his great-grandfather once wrote a letter to his great-grandfather, but it was forgotten by the village party secretary in the village, and it was handed over to his grandfather a year later.
And this letter has disappeared with the passage of time, and it is missing.
Since then, Grandpa has missed the perfect opportunity to come out of the small mountain village.