"Cough, cough, cough......" A coughing sound came, like pulling a bellows. When Li Xiaocan turned around, he saw his mother propping up one hand on the table, covering her chest with one hand, coughing vigorously, her face flushed, like a tomato.

"Mom?" Li Xiaocan hurriedly walked over and rubbed his hand on his mother's back from top to bottom to give his mother a good breath. Mother's body also shook with the sound of coughing, Li Xiaocan stood anxiously next to her, and her mother's asthma attacked.

Every time Li Xiaocan proposed to go to the hospital for treatment, but her mother always shook her head: "The old problem is committed, if it is not treated, it will not be cured, and it will be fine if you cough for a while." ”

Li Xiaocan knows that it is not a matter of coughing for a while, every winter, asthma attacks, especially at night, my mother will cough all night. Once you get cold, you cough even more, and the whole person is grinded into a dull spirit, like a withered yellow grass in winter.

"Mom, this time you have to listen to me and go to the hospital." Li Xiaocan waited for her mother to slowly recover her breath and said seriously.

"No, it's ...... old problem," Mom still shook her head and refused.

"Mom, if you don't go, your brother will marry a daughter-in-law in the future, and when people see that you are coughing and wheezing, will they not dare to live with you, and if you don't take care of your body, who will bring you children in the future, you always cough like this, will your daughter-in-law dare to let you take it? If you don't take care of your body, how will you enjoy happiness in the future? Li Xiaocan had no choice but to use her younger brother as a reason, she knew that what her mother couldn't worry about was her brother's marriage and holding her grandson.

Mom can force herself into a situation similar to that of a beggar, just because she has a younger brother who has not completed such a distant and ambitious goal, and this goal is worthy of her mother to endure humiliation and suffering.

"That'......" Mom was a little moved.

Li Xiaocan struck while the iron was hot: "Mom, a few of us will make money in the future, and I want to take you out for a walk, you are not in good health, take two steps and rest for a while, do you say you will be offended?" In the past few years, you and your father have to take care of our bodies, at least let us make our home and lay a solid foundation. If your health is good, we can work outside with peace of mind, and besides, if you are in good health and your quality of life has improved, we are also happy, right? You say that you can't sleep well with coughing every day, aren't you uncomfortable yourself? ”

"Okay." Mom nodded attentively.

Li Xiaocan breathed a sigh of relief, to persuade his mother to go to the hospital is no less than a negotiation with the customer, to persuade his mother to spend money, which is equivalent to her life. But sometimes, money can't buy life at all! It would be nice if Mom could love her life as much as she loves money.

Finally arrived at the hospital. It cost two thousand to do a set of checks. The doctor prescribed an imported spray of more than 600 yuan, as well as a box of Western medicine with only 24 tablets for more than 100 yuan.

Li Xiaocan lived at home for a week, and only went to work when he saw that his parents' medicine had worked and his condition had improved. She chose Wuhan nearby, close to her parents, so that she could take care of her.

A week later, while Li Xiaocan was at work, he suddenly received a call from his mother - his father had a fever again and was weak.

But Xiaocan had just found a new job, and he didn't even know how many people there were in the company, so he couldn't ask for leave, so he could only borrow 1,000 on his credit card and remit it to his mother, so that his mother could take his father to the hospital quickly, and his father was hospitalized this time.

Li Xiaocan was extremely tormented, waited until he got off work on Friday, and ran directly to the station.

When Li Xiaocan arrived at the hospital, it was already nine o'clock in the evening, his father was thinner than before, his eyes were deeply sunken and his eyes were big, his eyelids were swollen, and his two eyeballs were dull.

"Xiaocan, it's okay, the doctor said it would be fine to stay for a few more days." Dad smiled and comforted Li Xiaocan weakly.

Li Xiaocan used the excuse of going to the bathroom to wash apples, so he dared to let the tears fall. After wiping away his tears, he heard his mother's cough, so he hurriedly ran over: "Mom! After putting down the apple and patting the back and chest for a while, my mother relieved herself.

"Mom, have you taken your medicine? Didn't you say that taking medicine improved? Li Xiaocan asked suspiciously.

"No, your grandmother had a cough the day before yesterday, and your mother gave the medicine to your grandmother." Dad said.

Li Xiaocan felt that his mother's approach was incredible: "Mom, what is it bad for you to give to your grandmother, you give medicine!" It's not a good thing! Besides, you have asthma, your grandmother has a cold and cough, and the diseases are different, how can you take medicine indiscriminately? Li Xiaocan really can't understand what her mother is doing.

"Aren't they all the same? It's all coughs, I think, this medicine is very good, so I gave it to her, and I haven't taken it for a few days and I don't have a cough, so I don't need to take it. Mom said lightly. The face has an agitated red color from a violent cough.

"Mom, you also give this imported medicine, this spray twists and presses, it is so complicated, will grandma use it?" Li Xiaocan asked.

Mom waved her hand, signaled Li Xiaocan to stop pursuing it, and took out a box of medicine from her pocket, Li Xiaocan saw that this was not the medicine prescribed in the hospital last time: "Mom, this medicine is not right, the doctor prescribed a blue box last time." ”

My mother skillfully opened the medicine, tilted her head and swallowed it: "This is what I bought myself at the pharmacy, the medicine in the hospital is too expensive, four yuan a pill, I have to save it for later." ”

"It's terrible to be uneducated!" , Li Xiaocan only popped out of these few words in his brain. Recently, she has been anxious between her new job and her father's illness, and her mother's uncooperative doctor's confusion has made her a little unbearable and impatient. If this is not her own mother, she really doesn't want to care about this annoying and stubborn menopausal old woman, the tiredness and irritability of the days make her unable to control her emotions anymore, she yelled loudly: "Mom, can you live like a person for yourself?" Can't you eat well, dress well, use well, raise your body well, and then educate your younger brother to become an adult? You think you're tired of living enough, right? You spoiled your brother like this, and now what do you get? I have been fighting with him since I was a child, and every time you ask me to let him more; He didn't do well in the exam, you said it doesn't matter, you can afford to raise him; He skips school, you say it's okay, as long as you don't fight and take drugs; He can't find a job, you go around asking for connections, looking for someone to stuff him into the unit; He can't get into college, and you send him to an aristocratic school for tens of thousands; He wears famous brands and uses famous brands, and you give hundreds of dollars, but he wears a stall for more than a dozen yuan...... But now that he's 24 years old, what can he do? Will he be able to gain a foothold in this society? And how much did he pay for the job you got for him? Has he ever sent you a penny in the past few years? You and Dad have become like this, did he ask a question, did he say that he wanted to come back? This is the good son you educated, a lazy seed who has no sense of responsibility and no responsibility and only knows how to mess around! ”

When my mother heard this, her face changed greatly, and she raised her hand and almost fell on Li Xiaocan's face: "You are not allowed to talk about my brother like this!" ”

Dad also hurriedly stopped: "You are a sister, the family wants to be harmonious!" ”

But Li Xiaocan felt extremely comfortable, she said all the words and dissatisfaction that had been pressed on her chest, yes, at this time, the family needs the manly brother to support her, and she needs her brother to make up her mind.

"Poor people must have something to hate", today, this pitiful situation of parents also has a lot to do with the failure of the younger brother.

Li Xiaocan stopped talking, and his mother's slap didn't fall after all.

Mom slowly lowered her hand and sat down in the chair all of a sudden, hunched over, as if she was several years old. Dad shook his head gently and closed his eyes as well.

Li Xiaocan turned to the window and looked out of the window in a daze, outside was the middle of the hospital, there was a small pond with a small stone arch bridge on it, some people were sitting on the stone arch bridge and chatting, there were children playing next to it, and some people were walking beside it. Why does other people's lives seem so happy and so easy? But because of her parents' illness, she became extremely panicked, and as soon as she got sick, she returned to the pre-liberation period, which is a country that can't afford to be sick, a country that can't afford to buy a house, and a country that can't afford to get married. Li Xiaocan felt a boulder pressed down on his heart.

Li Xiaocan and his mother took turns to guard, Li Xiaocan bought a recliner and spread it in the aisle, but her mother was very satisfied, and lay down on the chair, the chair made a "squeak" sound, and her mother stretched out: "Wow, you don't have to sleep on the edge of the bed, it's so comfortable!" ”

Two days later, Monday arrived, Li Xiaocan had to go to work, and if he didn't go to work, he had no money to treat his father, and he couldn't pay off his credit card, so he hurried to W City.

Li Xiaocan reported his father's illness to the family group, and his sister proposed: "Hey, you can be happy, my husband has a relative here, the old man has cancer, and as a result, he married his daughter-in-law and gave birth to a grandson, and he is miraculously better, why don't we give our father a try?" ”

Li Xiaocan was skeptical: "This seems to be superstition, right?" Sister, it's unreliable, can it? ”

"Let's try, as soon as my brother gets married, maybe my father will be in a good mood, the burden on his body will be removed, and the disease on his body will be gone. It's not that it's reasonable to laugh and laugh for ten years and be sad and white-headed. Besides, my younger brother is not too young, and it's time to get married. My sister said.

Li Xiaocan felt that what her sister said made some sense, so she discussed with her younger brother to keep half of the money to buy a house and half of the money for treatment.

The younger brother was talking about a girl, and as soon as Li Xiaocan and his parents reported, the two were overjoyed. Dad's eyes lit up, and he sat up suddenly: "Okay, bring it back and take a look!" Mom rubbed her hands happily: "This good thing is coming!" Good things are coming! ”

Li Xiaocan felt that her sister's method was credible, and sure enough, in the hearts of her parents, the most important issue was her brother's marriage.

Half a month later, the younger brother led a girl into the house in everyone's expectation.

Li Xiaocan took out a warm heart to be an older sister, took her shopping, bought her clothes, took them to watch movies, and called her parents to say hello and bring gifts, winning the girl's favor. Li Xiaocan struck while the iron was hot and said that she wanted to propose, the girl was stunned, and her sister began to take turns doing ideological work again.

Under the warm reception and bombardment of Li Xiaocan's sisters, the other party's parents agreed to meet first on the phone, so Li Xiaocan kept preparing to propose marriage, the eldest sister took out 5,000, the parents took out 5,000, Li Xiaocan borrowed a credit card to take out 5,000, and on the weekend, he went to the woman's house with his younger brother and the girl.

Li Xiaocan is a person who has come over, and he was also forced by the situation, giving full play to the eloquence of the potential salesman, praising the other party inside and out, and offering gifts very diligently, as well as doing housework tirelessly, and inviting the other party out to play in an atmospheric manner, which finally touched the hearts of the other party's parents. The other party only made one request, he had to buy a house, Li Xiaocan was already ready, so he hurriedly agreed.