Late at night trains are sparsely populated and very quiet. Yao Jingjing sat against the window, watching the lights outside the window quickly retreat, and her heart followed the train into the darkness ahead.

Darkness doesn't mean unknown, it's just a journey to another brightly lit city.

Yao Jingjing just went back to visit her mother, and the day after tomorrow she would come back to work, continuing to face every passenger boarding the plane with a standard smile. But she felt that she was saying goodbye to a certain life, and that the days might not change, but from now on, she would have to give up some things that she had held on to for a long time, and she would have to compromise with others.

The road from Chuncheng to Jiaozhou is not far, less than an hour by high-speed rail, and only two hours by ordinary air-conditioned car. However, Yao Jingjing seems to have been sitting in the car for half a century. When she came out of the station and smelled the familiar fog in her hometown late at night, she should have been excited to go home, but suddenly felt that her legs were filled with lead, and her steps were extremely heavy.

The particularly bright square lamp that was still on in front of her dragged a long shadow behind her and the suitcase in her hand.

After the incident in Chuncheng, she didn't dare to call a taxi again, and the subway in Jiaozhou disappeared after a few years of high-profile planning. She simply pulled the suitcase and walked slowly along the familiar road, although it was late at night when there were few pedestrians, but it was safer than sitting in a stranger's car.

Other than that, her slow pace is more like a futile struggle, like a fallen leaf struggling in the wind, no matter how much the wind blows and how many ups and downs, it will inevitably fall to the dust.

When it was just dawn, Yao Jingjing came to the hospital. Her mother's illness had relapsed and she was hospitalized, otherwise she wouldn't have been in a hurry to come back. She looked at the time, although her parents were used to getting up early, but it was too early to go up at this time, and the inpatient department had not yet arrived at the visiting time.

Yao Jingjing thought about it and sat down on the bench in the hospital, preparing to wait for the day to be completely bright before going upstairs. She didn't notice that two sneaky people had followed her all the way out of the train station to here.

"Hey, I mean, it's this girl, right?"

"That's right, the number of trains given by Brother Eight Fingers will not be wrong, and the people and photos are also matched."

"I heard she's still a flight attendant?"

"It should be right, you see how she looks, no worse than the host of our TV station."

"Hey, if you can give me a taste, it's worth three years!"

"Don't think about this, I heard that it was ordered by Brother Eight-Finger's boss, be careful that Brother Eight-Finger picked your skin!"

"Who's the boss of Brother Eight-Fingered?"

"How do I know this!"

When the day finally dawned, the nurses and their accompanying family members came out of the building one after another and went to the cafeteria to make breakfast. Yao Jingjing got up and entered the inpatient building.

Yao's mother, who was wearing a hospital gown, looked good, and when she saw her daughter, she smiled even more, but scolded in her mouth: "Didn't you say that you came back yesterday, why did you only arrive this morning?" Tell my mom, did you go on a date yesterday? ”

"Mom!" Yao Jingjing called home after the train ticket was changed, but in order not to worry them, she didn't say that she would come back in the middle of the night.

Yao's father said: "Oh, look at you, my daughter just came back, and she hasn't eaten breakfast yet, so you ask what you don't want!" ”

Yao's mother said: "Breakfast is to be eaten, and the object is also to be discussed!" How many days will I live like this? If you don't hurry up, don't talk about your grandson, I'm afraid I don't even know what my son-in-law looks like in this life! ”

"Mom, what are you talking about!" Yao Jingjing's nose was sour, and she hugged her mother tightly, "You live a long life!" Not to mention the son-in-law and grandson, even the great-grandson you can see! ”

Yao's mother smiled and said, "Don't comfort me, I don't know about my illness?" I can tell you, you have to go to me on a blind date today! ”

Yao Jingjing said: "Mom, I want to take you to the capital to see, the people from my unit introduced me to a doctor in the capital, very powerful." ”

Yao's father also said: "Yes, the medical level in the capital is high, why don't you go and take a look?" ”

Yao's mother said: "Chuncheng also went, Yangcheng also went, the money was spent so much, isn't it the same as the hospital in Jiaozhou?" I don't believe that the doctors in the capital are better than those in Yangcheng, and can conjure a well-matched bone marrow for you? Besides, how much money has it already cost me for this disease? If we could do a bone marrow transplant, we wouldn't be able to do it. The most important thing now is the marriage of our precious daughter. As long as I see her married, I will be blinded even if I die. ”

Yao's father said, "You are really! Say nothing in front of the child, don't let the money come out, don't we still have a house! ”

Yao's mother suddenly said urgently: "Don't sell me the house!" I can tell you, that house is a marriage house reserved for her daughter, she will marry in the future, if she is bullied by her mother-in-law's family, her mother's family does not even have a house, where do you tell her to go? If you dare to sell the house, even if I am cured, I will die for you! ”

"Mom! Father! Yao Jingjing saw that her mother was in a hurry, and hurriedly said, "You don't have to worry about money, I will find a way." ”

Yao's mother smiled: "Okay, okay, I know you are filial, let's talk about it when you use the money." Your task now is to get the subject back for me. ”

Yao Jingjing knew that today's blind date couldn't escape.

When the doctor came to check on the ward in the morning, he saw Yao Jingjing coming, so he asked Yao Jingjing to come to his office for a while. It is rare for a doctor to take such an initiative to let a patient's family go to his office, and Yao Jingjing is a little uneasy.

When she got to the office, the doctor said to her, "Now there is good news and bad news, which one are you going to hear first?" ”

Yao Jingjing thought for a while and said, "Let's listen first." ”

The doctor said, "The good news is that your mother's bone marrow match was successful. As long as you agree, we can be ready for surgery at any time. ”

"Really?" Yao Jingjing was ecstatic, this was the best news she had heard in a year. She almost jumped up and rushed out to tell her mom and dad the news, but she quickly calmed down, "So do you mean money when you say bad news?" How much does it cost? ”

The doctor said: "Based on your mother's condition, the total cost of surgery and post-rehabilitation may be about 1 million, and your mother's medical insurance can reimburse about one-third of it, so you should prepare 500,000 yuan first." As soon as possible, the longer it drags on, the higher the cost may be. But the bad news I'm going to tell you today isn't about money. ”

"Huh?" Yao Jingjing exclaimed in surprise, "What's that?" ”

The doctor said, "Yes, two weeks ago when we were examining your mother, we found some strange lesions in her brain. At first, we suspected encephalitis and called in a neurologist for a consultation, and now the basic results are in. ”

"What is it?" Yao Jingjing asked.

"We can't tell what it is, I can only describe the symptoms to you." The doctor said, "Your mother's gray matter layer, which is what we usually call the cerebral cortex, has fibrotic necrosis, although the necrosis area is not large at present, but there is a tendency to gradually expand. ”

Yao Jingjing asked puzzledly, "What do you mean by that?" Does this have anything to do with leukemia? ”

The doctor shook his head and said, "Leukemia has the possibility of causing lesions of the central nervous system and cerebrospinal fluid, which we call cerebral white." But the symptoms are completely different from your mother's, so we can't be sure if it's a complication, and we don't know if it affects the bone marrow transplant surgery. ”

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