Chapter 30: The Afterglow of Life
I used to be busy with study, and now I am worried about work, and I rarely get along with my father like tonight, and talk about family life. Perhaps as we grow older, we gradually forget the precious things in life. With gratitude, he secretly rejoiced that he had this long-lost family affection again.
Because the nurse had to check the ward in the morning, Lu Feng got up early, folded the quilt and sheets, and walked out of the room to get hot water. At this time, there were already many busy figures in the corridor of the hospital, and everyone was busy with the work in hand. In fact, it is they who are really tired, guarding the patients day and night, never giving up.
After my father recovered and was discharged from the hospital, my mother took my grandmother into the house to recuperate, at least this arrangement was not so hard for my mother. At nine o'clock in the morning, Lu Feng, who was sleeping, was woken up by his grandmother's inexplicable screams, and then a series of hurried footsteps, his mother quickly came to his grandmother's side. He shouted, "What's wrong? ”
"My hand ......," my grandmother couldn't say in pain. My mother was busy holding the back of my grandmother's hand and rubbing it gently, hoping to relieve some of my grandmother's pain. On the other hand, he screamed loudly: "Lu Feng, call your uncle quickly, and ask him to come over immediately." ”
Now that his father and brother are still at work, and there are only two people at home, he and his mother are the only two people at home, Lu Feng raised the phone anxiously and said, "Hey, is my uncle at home?" Grandma is very sick now! ”
"He went out for business very early. I'll tell him when I get back from lunch. "That's good, it's too late by then, so my mother is busy urging him to beat his second uncle. But dial a string of busy signals, and call several times in a row, and the pager just can't get through.
"What's going on, you can find the phone number of my uncle's factory." The mother was worried, clasped her grandmother's hand, and prayed sincerely: "Well, you are fine, don't be afraid, I am here." Ask Guanyin Bodhisattva to be merciful and keep me safe! ”
It's just that the people in the uncle's factory are mixed, and it is not easy for the uncle in the communication room to find someone, and I don't know when he will arrive. At this critical moment, it was so difficult to find one more person to carry my grandmother downstairs.
About fifteen minutes later, my father rushed to the scene, and when he saw the situation, he hurriedly said, "Lu Feng, you go and call a taxi first, and we will take grandma to the hospital first."
Once this old man has become ill for a long time, and then encounters such cold weather, his body will be very heavy. Together, the three of them struggled to carry their grandmother, who was tightly wrapped in cotton clothes, downstairs and into the car. The cold wind was howling outside, and it was the coldest day since the beginning of spring.
My grandmother was sent to the emergency room of the People's Hospital, and after a series of rescues, her condition has eased. As soon as his father entered the house, Lu Feng couldn't wait to ask, but his father shook his head and said that his grandmother's illness had reached the point where the lamp had dried up, and he could only go home to stay old.
Getting old? Lu Feng was taken aback, this is no different from waiting for death, is there no other good way to prolong his grandmother's life, he was puzzled. The father sighed: "The attending doctor also said that your grandmother must be hospitalized for a long time for this disease, or if something happens, they will be responsible." But it costs a lot of money to stay in the hospital, and it is a bottomless pit. ”
The last time my grandmother was hospitalized, although she was discharged early, she also spent five or six thousand yuan. In the end, my mother and brother discussed it and decided to let my grandmother go home first. Most of the customs in the countryside are like this, even if you are old, you have to lie on the bed of your own home, and the so-called fallen leaves return to the roots.
Lu Feng's heart was cold, what could he say, after all, it wasn't for money. Thinking that my uncle had to go out to work hard for the burden of life, going out early and returning late every day, doing manual work,
He is only in his early forties, but he is already gray-haired, and his face has become old due to the wind and frost sword, and the vicissitudes of time can indeed change a person's appearance. Moreover, because of my grandmother's long-term illness, in order to take care of and distribute medical expenses, family wars have been staged repeatedly, and the marriage has gradually become fragmented.
Aunt Dan is a resolute person, as the youngest daughter, in addition to managing the work in the factory, she will take care of her grandmother whenever she has time, it is difficult to take care of the daily life of the family, and her uncle's complaints and incomprehension are inevitable. But no matter how bitter it is, her smile in front of people is still there, hiding the bitterness in her heart so deep and so heavy.
Although the uncle's family is better, there is no retirement pension in the countryside, only a few hundred yuan distributed in the village every month, so he can only go out to earn some extra money to prevent old age.
Now if you want to throw money into this bottomless black hole, your heart will inevitably hurt, after all, the money is what they exchanged for a little bit of blood and sweat, and grandma's illness can not be cured, even if it is cured this time, I don't know when it will suddenly attack again, and grandma is just seventy-nine years old this year, and the fortune teller said that nine is a catastrophe in grandma's life, and it is not good.
Lu Feng tried his best to comfort himself, he didn't have to be too sad or sad. But these are just boring self-deception. To be honest, for our loved one, who doesn't want her to live well, who wants her to leave early.
The next day, I finally got off work. Lu Feng gently walked to his grandmother's hospital bed, only to see that his grandmother had opened her cloudy eyes, and when she saw him coming, a smile appeared on her face. She tried to open her mouth and called his name in an extremely subtle voice, Lu Feng leaned close to his ear and listened, and couldn't help but smile happily. Holding his grandmother's scarred hand, he could only pray secretly.
The mother helped the grandmother up and leaned back on the bed, after all, lying motionless all day was not conducive to the smooth flow of blood. At this time, my grandmother's eyes looked a little dull, and when my mother brought her another cup of tea to moisten her throat, my grandmother looked around blankly and murmured, "Lu Feng, where is it, let him eat first." And then he woke up from a dream, "Where am I?" ”
Mother seemed to be commonplace, and said with a smile: "Lu Feng, don't be afraid, spend more time with grandma!" At this time, the uncle, who had been exhausted for most of the day, got up to say goodbye, and the grandmother seemed to understand something, and shouted like a child to go home.
My mother hurriedly leaned into my grandmother's ear and said, "You can't go, you still have to recuperate here!" When I went out, I heard my mother and uncle whispering, and I realized that my grandmother was even more delirious than before.
Lu Feng's heart was like a knife, quietly looking at his grandmother who was getting thinner and thinner in front of him, and tears couldn't help but roll in his eyes. I can't imagine that even if my grandmother becomes like this, she still cares about him so much, just like her kind and amiable grandmother when she was a child calling him home for dinner, it is so warm as spring, I really hope to return to my childhood and relive that eternal family affection.
In the silence, the rain was dripping. It was the tears of spring, dripping on the ground, with layers of frost. Lost the arms of spring, lost on the land.
"Di, di, di" A series of hurried voices came from bed No. 1, where a critically ill old man was lying. His family members hurriedly called the doctor and watched as the bubbles in the oxygen tank rose rapidly and boiled violently.
Only then did I realize that life is so small, so small that I can only rely on this small oxygen tank. Life is so short, in a moment of lightning, life has been reincarnated, the sun and the moon are full, and the world has gone through several vicissitudes.
"Ah Dad, I'm leaving, I'll come back to see you in the afternoon if I'm free." Following the reputation, it turned out to be an old man in bed No. 3 who was saying goodbye to his son. The old man let out a soft "oh", and his hands held his son's hand tightly, refusing to let go for a long time, as if he had firmly grasped his own life, which seemed to contain all his hopes.