It was just after 6 o'clock in the morning. Chen Yue got up from the bed and walked into the kitchen. He washed his face and brushed his teeth, then went to the yard to fetch a bucket of well water and put it back in the kitchen. His father asked him to exercise every day, and his original plan was to run along the road to the market, then run around the market and back. However, after running for a few days, he found that this kind of exercise was really difficult, and the waste of time was not mentioned for the time being, and the smog weather would be a big problem. When the air pollution is severe, it is common to run back in a circle, and the throat hurts for a long time. He immediately begged his father to cancel such a morning exercise, and his father agreed after listening to his reasons. Instead, press your legs fifty times a day. That's enough for him. Dad told him that everything is for the sake of your physique. Now that he had finished his workout, he was standing in the hallway, panting roughly. Soon, there was a noise outside the door, and he strode to the courtyard gate, tilting his head and looking out. "It's so early today?" He asked.

"Yes," Jiang Yang stepped forward and said, "There is something wrong with my car. ”

"Cars? What happened to the car? ”

"The tires were blown. I guess it took too long, or I didn't notice the glass slag on the road yesterday. ”

"What about the car?"

"This time it's in someone else's house to repair, I'm going to get it early, it's quite far from home."

"After you get the car, will you come back?"

"I'm not coming back, I'm going straight to school." Saying that, Jiang Yang walked away.

"Stay safe."

"I will."

At 7 o'clock, Chen Yue set off for school. Take bus No. 1 to get off at the city stop, and take a shortcut through the City Light Community. When we got back on the road, we were not far from school. As he was walking, two men came out of a path on the side of the road and stopped him in front of him. "Stop! Come with us. One of the two said.

They had dull yellow faces, two hands in their trouser pockets, and looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, students of his age. The taller boy wore a black baseball cap and a cigarette in his ear. "Why?" Chen Yue asked carefully.

"Of course I'm looking for you." The tall man said, and the other next to him grinned and said, "Hey! Would you like to have a cup of tea? ”

He could tell it was a lie. "I'm not going." He sideways around one of the shoulders and tried to leave, but he tripped and staggered forward. By the time he could stand up, his arms were already tightly grasped, and his body couldn't move.

The two hooked his shoulders left and right, trying to lead him into the alley on the side of the road. There are also pedestrians on the road, and there are quite a few vehicles passing by on both sides of the street. He still has a chance to shout loudly and get rid of it. But he didn't do this, and his always obedient personality completely harmed him at this time.

In that dark and gray alley, the courage of the two was obviously magnified. Whenever Chen Yue asked a question, the two of them scolded him, asking him to talk less nonsense, and only pushed him forward one by one.

It's coming, it's really coming. The incident that Jiang Yang often warned him about really came on this day. How could he fall into a trap so carelessly.

After the two arrived at their destination, they pushed Chen Yue violently. Then, inexplicably, he heard an unfamiliar voice shouting, "Look! It's coming, it's coming. The man shouted as he turned another path deep in the alley, stood at the intersection and shouted again: "Hey, hey, hurry, he's coming." ”

Chen Yue turned his head, his vision was blocked by a mud wall used as a thatched house, he turned his head slightly to change direction, there was a jungle, through the gaps in the branches of the jungle, and he could vaguely see people and vehicles on the street in the distance. Someone approached him, and he felt that there were more than two people.

"Oh! Yes, that's right, it's him, that's it, this kid. ”

There are 5 guys. Each of them pushed him on the shoulder, and he stepped back in fright, slamming into the wall behind him.

"What are you doing? Get out of the way. Xu Qiangqiang pushed the two people away to make way for the people behind him.

"Morning, my comrade."

Through just two sentences, Chen Yue guessed who was speaking. He opened his mouth wide in surprise, "You... Xiao Yu Lei. ”

"Yes, it's me. It's been a long time since we've met like this, but even before, you didn't have such an experience, after all, Jiang Yang protected you at that time, but look at it now? ”

"You got me here?"

"Good fellow, don't you understand any politeness?" A palm slapped towards Chen Yue's head.

"Excuse me, what's the matter?" Chen Yue asked again. "Brute! Our boss is something you can ask casually? Is it allowed? The other hand slapped on his skull again.

He felt dizzy and almost unsteady on his feet, not because of the pain of the two beats; The crowd surrounded him in front of him, making it extremely difficult for him to breathe; The important thing is that this is only the beginning, and he just asks a few words about his situation, but the gains outweigh the losses and arouses their disgust.

"What? You can't do it without talking. One person said.

Dozens of eyes were staring at him, waiting for him to speak. But he didn't know what to say.

"Damn, don't pretend to be dumb, say it." One person scolded.

"What do you want to say?" Chen Yue looked at the person who scolded him and asked in a low voice. The man grinned and kicked him in the knee without saying anything, "You said the wrong thing, don't you apologize to our boss?" ”

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Chen Yue responded in a timely manner.

"No, take his shoes off." Xiao Yu Lei stood quietly aside and said. After speaking, two people approached Chen Yue and squatted down. At this moment, he panicked, his heart pounding uncomfortably, his stomach churning, and his limbs trembling like unconscious. The two men were instructed to take off his shoes and throw them in the middle of the path, and the tubes of the shoes fell haphazardly on the dirt. Now, all he had left was a pair of socks at his feet, and the soles of his feet were stinging from the rocks and dirt. And his eyes couldn't help crying. The cry was loud, and it was the first time he had faced such a group of people, the most ruthless people he had ever seen.

The crying did not make Xiao Yu Lei give up, but made him even more angry. He walked up to Chen Yue in person, stretched out his hand to him, and scolded fiercely: "Cry, cry again and smash your face!" ”

Chen Yue's cry gradually became smaller.

"Okay, don't cry," Xiao Yu Lei beckoned to the people around him, asking them to stand aside. "You can answer whatever I ask you, you know?" He asked.

Chen Yue nodded.

"But let's be honest—huh?"

Chen Yue nodded again. He has already come to his senses, ask! I'll say everything.

"Do you know a person named Jiang Xiaoai?"

Hearing this name, Chen Yuecha was taken aback, he naturally knew her, and didn't Xiao Yu Lei also know that he knew her? That day, they obviously met together. But it doesn't look like it's a question to ask.

"Acquaintance."

"She's Jiang Yang's sister, right?"

"That's right."

"Good!" Xiao Yu Lei cut to the topic: "Can you stay away from his sister?" ”

"Stay away from her?" Chen Yue raised her head a little puzzled.

"I heard you're with her, right?"

It turns out, it turns out. From Xiao Yu Lei's words, Chen Yue figured it out. The elementary school classmate in front of me turned out to be in love with that girl, too incredible, too sudden. That day, he was wondering why Jiang Yang asked him to leave the film classroom first, and asked him to go downstairs to the parking lot to wait first. It turned out that it was all for the two of them.

Normally, when someone asks a question like this, he will definitely think about the question for a while, but now, he casually blurted out, "No, no, no." ”

"Isn't that right?" Xiao Yu Lei slapped his little face, "You still dare to quibble?" ”

"No, no, no. You misunderstood me Xiao Yu Lei, Xiao Yu Lei, you really misunderstood me, we are not what you think, just neighbors. ”

Chen Yue tried her best to explain herself. However, Xu Qiangqiang interjected, "This kid hasn't told the truth since I knew him." He raised his finger and pointed at the bridge of Chen Yue's nose and said.

Xiao Yu Lei pursed his lips and took two steps back. The crowd gathered around. Then came a beating. The more he cried, the angrier the gang became. When the waving hands and legs stopped, he covered his head with both hands and collapsed to the ground.

"Can you still talk?" Xu Qiangqiang jumped over the top of his head, jumped to the wall, leaned down and stared at him, "Hey, can you speak?" ”

"Why don't you believe me, and she really didn't..."

"Yo, dare to scold your mouth." Xu Qiangqiang stood up, "Be honest, did you hear clearly?" ”

In the flurry of kicks, Chen Yue rolled on the ground, letting her belly stick to the ground, and using her arms to protect the rest of her body from injury. But these are all in vain, he must satisfy their ambitions before they are willing to stop, otherwise the beating will continue forever, and Xu Qiangqiang's feet will not stop. Under persecution after persecution, under the deep pain in his arm, the only thing he could do was to echo them. "Got it, got it." He pouted feebly and roared. Xu Qiangqiang stopped his feet and jumped back into the crowd from the wall.

"Got it! Do I admit that it is not possible yet? Yes, I'm with her. Chen Yue put her face to sleep on a convex stone and said. He just said what he meant, and he didn't have a clue what it meant.

"Very good, very good." Xiao Yu Lei squatted down, smiled and asked, "When were you together?" ”

"When? I don't know when, no, know, yes - yes... When I was in my third year of junior high school. ”

"Did you hold hands?"

"Nope!"

There was silence.

"Nope! Not really! He shouted resolutely.

"If I told you to stop now, you wouldn't say no, would you?"

"Stop?"

A few grains of dust fell into Chen Yue's eyes and rubbed his eyes.

"It's for you to break up with him now."

"Agreed, agreed."

"You're not lying to me?"

"I don't lie to you," Chen Yue struggled to raise her head, "I swear, it's not a lie." ”

"Good! That's all you have to say here. Xiao Yu Lei stood up after speaking.

"That..."Chen Yue raised a hand into the air and begged in a low voice, "Can I go to school?" ”

No one answered. Several people smiled gloomily at him, and Chen Yue was shocked when she saw this situation. After a terrible silence, Xiao Yu Lei crouched down at him again, and said in his ear, "Think about it-" One hand held his chin, and the other hand knocked on his head, Xiao Yu Lei continued, "Because of you, this matter is all in vain." You're a smart guy, you know what that means, right? Since you have also repented and sworn an oath, I will not continue to ask. ”

After listening to Xiao Yu Lei's words, he temporarily put his mind at ease. I won't continue to ask: I won't hurt people anymore, right? You won't punch and kick him again, will you? Wrong – completely wrong.

Xiao Yu Lei continued: "You are a careless ghost, and this time you are a bit serious, I hope to give some punishment to the flesh, what do you think?" ”

"What do you mean?" He asked carefully, didn't understand Xiao Yu Lei's words, could it be that the behavior of a group of people just now against him was not a punishment?

"You'll find out what that means in a moment."

With that, Xiao Yu Lei retreated and walked under a house on the side of the road.

He didn't know what to do next, the only thing he knew was that the crowd around him was still surrounding him, not letting him leave. If they are Xiao Yu Lei's subordinates, then, when the boss obviously didn't give anything, but they knew what to do next, it seems that this was already before he came to this alley, they had already discussed, discussed their every step of the procedure.

He sat on the ground, his feet cold and his legs trembling. Suddenly, two people behind him grabbed his arms and stood up, his feet off the ground and hanging in the air. Then two more men hugged his thighs. They walked around and stopped at a garbage dump. For some reason, as soon as the two people who were holding his arms let go, he fell to his knees heavily. The perpetrators didn't say a word. His arms were stretched out and pressed against his back. Suddenly, someone grabbed the short hair on his head and shoved his face into the stained garbage heap. With it, a foul smell. He felt bouts of nausea and vomiting. The hand on the top of his head hadn't let go, and his face was still between the damp and rotten mixture. All he could comfort himself was to keep his mouth shut and hold his breath. Fortunately, the organs in his body are not so ruthless that they are out of control.

He was smothered in the garbage heap for a few minutes, and it was a miracle that he could breathe for those few minutes. The hand on his head finally let go, but it was still not over, several people bent down together, grabbed his shoulders, arms, waist, and legs, and threw him into the center of the garbage heap with all their might. He was ready to deal with it, and the moment the few people let go, he buried his head in his arm...

He lay flat in the middle of the garbage heap with his head in his hands, and when he could think with his senses, he looked up at the glowing roadside, and there was no one. The group is gone? Is the program over? If it's not over, what are they going to do with me? He stretched out his nervous arms and lowered them slowly, but he didn't know what was slimy underneath. He quickly lifted his hand, and on the back of his right hand, he noticed a white liquid, like the feces of some kind of animal. Fear and nausea flooded his brain. He sat up among the rubble, found a slightly cleaner tree trunk, and rubbed his hand upward. With that done, he stood up. Not far from the garbage dump, there is a sewage ditch, and green plastic bags, several snack bags, and two beverage cans float on the water. Look at your feet, there are strange white and gray shapes everywhere, moldy tattered clothes piled up into small hills, uneaten lunch boxes, bulging plastic bags, and a few rain-washed sanitary napkins, and the rest is all darkness. Seeing all this around him, he trembled, hurriedly strode to the path, and at the top of the garbage heap, he kicked away a leaky basketball and jumped straight from the top, but the pain in his feet made him scream. Only then did he realize that he had no shoes on his feet. On the path, he found his shoes, and when he bent down to tie them, he smelled a strange smell. He knew that the smell was coming from himself.

When he got to the road, he hesitated for a moment, then ran home. He tried to run on the side of the car lane to avoid people walking on the sidewalk from showing him displeasure. Back home, at the door of the house, he panicked and frightened, and his hand with the lock shook and slammed the doorpost. The door forgot to close, so he ran into the kitchen and hurriedly boiled hot water. In between boiling water, he threw his coat and pants on a chair in the hallway, and sprinkled tap water on his clothes.

A total of three pots of boiling water were boiled, and cold water was added, which was enough for bathing. As he bathed in the tub, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and exhaled again. "Not the first time," he thought to himself, "not the first time such an encounter, why?" What mistakes were made, and where did the motivation come from? ”

After taking a shower, he didn't go to school, opened the door of his room, dialed the number and asked the head teacher for half a day's leave.

In the afternoon, he was dressed up again, greeted his mother as usual, and then went on the road and sat back in the classroom. Before class, Jiang Yang asked him why he didn't come in the morning, he shook his hand and said he didn't have to worry, and changed the topic to talk about common things. He didn't say a word about the incident, as if nothing had happened.

After all the classes of the day, when she went down the stairs after school, Chen Yue suddenly felt a heavy chest. Walking down the last flight of steps, he felt a distinct pain in his chest, as if a large drop of water was stirring in his lungs.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Yang looked back and saw that he was standing still and asked.

Chen Yue put one hand on her chest and said, "I don't know why, it hurts so much here." ”

"Could it be a cold?"

"It shouldn't be, it's better now," Chen Yue took a step, "Hey, it hurts again, as long as you move, it hurts." He said.

"Is it serious?"

"It's not serious, go a little slower Jiangyang."

On the way home, there was a sudden pit, and Chen Yue clenched her chest, "Oh! It hurts, it hurts. ”

Jiang Yang braked the brakes to slow down, and then said, "Look at you like this, it's better to go to the hospital, do you want me to take you there now?" Sikang is not far off. ”

"No, no, it's okay, I think I'll get better in a few days."

"I hope so."

Unfortunately, it didn't work out. For the next week, Chen Yue insisted on going to and from school, and the pain in her chest never disappeared when she walked, and then the pain became more and more intense. Helpless, he had no choice but to do so. Early on Saturday morning, I walked into the First People's Hospital of the city. At the service desk, he briefly explained his physical problems. The man handed him a red note, "Go over there and register." ”

He strode up the long elevator with his medical record sheet in hand, ran up, and reached the second floor. Because he arrived early, the doctor quickly called him into the room.

"How long?"

"Not long ago, about four or five days."

"Let's do a B-ultrasound and have a look."

"Okay, I want to ask, is my genus a serious disease?"

The doctor didn't answer his question, "Let's go check it out first." After that, write a note, "Pay the fee on the first floor, and then check it on the second floor." ”

He did as the doctor told him, and finally stopped in front of the ultrasound room, where the nurse told him to wait in a chair in front of the door. For a long time, no one called his name. He sat there, his legs swinging restlessly.

"Chen Yue!"

He jumped to his feet.

In the gloomy examination room, he sat up and put on his shirt. At this time, the person sitting in front of the computer screen sighed and said to him, "It's a bit serious." ”

Chen Yue's nerves jumped, "What's the matter?" ”

"Hydropleural effusion, and a lot of it."

"So what to do?"

"Prompt treatment."

He returned to his previous room and handed over the results of the examination to the doctor.

"They say it's a bit serious, isn't that true?" When the doctor was looking at the results, Chen Yue asked carefully.

"No," the doctor said calmly, "through what you just said, I thought that you must have hydropleural cavity, there is no big problem, prescribe some medicine and stick to it, you will get better, usually pay attention to the cold." ”

"Okay."

"But," the doctor put down the paper in his hand, "this disease is often a symptom of the onset of other diseases, and it is best to have further examination." ”

"What else to check?"

"Get a chest X-ray."

"Do you mean I have other illnesses?"

"I can't be sure, but for the sake of your health, it's best to do another chest X-ray to find out the root cause of the disease."

"Okay, I'll do it."

The doctor wrote another note and handed it to him, another expense. The chest X-ray was on the first floor, and when he went, there was no one else waiting, and he went straight to the examination room. After he came out, he waited for about 5 minutes before a man handed him a handy bag with a chest X-ray. He took it and asked the man in passing, "Is there a problem?" "Huh? Issue? Go to your doctor and ask. The man replied.

He ran up to the second floor again, endured the pain in his chest, returned to the doctor's room, and handed the convenience bag to the doctor. The doctor stood up from across the table, moved his chair back, and held up the chest x-ray to the light outside the window, taking a closer look.

"How?" Chen Yue approached and asked. "Look, here." The doctor pointed to the lower right corner of the lung skeleton in the chest x-ray and said, "Tuberculosis." ”

Thinking he had misheard, he cautiously whispered, "What?" ”

The doctor put the chest x-ray back in the convenience pouch and repeated: "Tuberculosis." ”

"W-what?"

At this time, there were other patients in the room who consulted, and waiting behind Chen Yue was a middle-aged woman, who saw that the child was stammering and deliberately wasting everyone's time, so she stood beside the child and shouted, "Tuberculosis! Tuberculosis! Tuberculosis, do you hear clearly? ”

Chen Yue glanced blankly at the woman, and her body unconsciously stepped back.

"Take the child, prescribe some medicine for you, and take it on time. Twice a day. ”

He held the doctor's prescription for him, and didn't know what else he was going to ask. "Can you finish eating?" He suddenly squeezed out a sentence.

"Standing water is not much of a problem."

"And then—what about tuberculosis?"

The doctor looked up and looked at him. The doctor's face was still calm, as if to tell him: this disease is not a big deal, it is normal for people to have this disease now, there is nothing to be surprised about. Shouldn't he also be calm and not think about the things that torture him?

"I'll give you a number." As he spoke, the doctor tore off a piece of paper from his notebook and wrote his last name, followed by two dots and a string of numbers. "You call Dr. Zhang, and then tell him about your situation, and he will arrange for you, I know him, a very good person."

"Okay, thank you." Chen Yue stared at the number on the paper in a daze, and the woman next to her had already begun to consult. He knew that the formalities on his side were over and it was time to leave. Slowly, he walked to the door, then walked back again, and asked in a panic, "Doctor - I want to ask again, can I be cured of tuberculosis in my body?" ”

"I'm sorry, I can't guarantee that I can see it," the doctor replied, "You better go home and call and ask your family to talk to Dr. Zhang." ”

He left the room disappointed and walked out of the hospital, his chest still hurting, but he was no longer bothered by the pain, and worse new problems were yet to come. Sleeping in bed at night, although he was very sleepy, he couldn't sleep at all, and he was in pain.

The second time I visited the hospital, I had my mother by my side. According to the introduction on the phone, the doctor they were going to meet now was in another place, some distance away from the main building of the hospital, and Chen Yue understood the reason. As soon as she met the doctor on the phone, her mother hurriedly talked to the doctor. As we talked, we walked into the building and into a room. Chen Yue stood at the table and listened, and he heard the doctor say that his condition required hospitalization. The mother asked with a depressed face if it could be cured, and the doctor said yes. Mother was relieved. At the end of the conversation, the doctor led them to the second floor and explained a few words to the nurses' station.

"Seeing that he's a child, let's arrange a better ward." Dr. Zhang said to the nurse.

The nurse strode ahead, and the three followed. When Chen Yue walked through the crowded corridor, she saw people lying on a white bed in each ward. His heart was pounding, and soon, not long, right now, he was going to be one of them. The nurse did find him a nice spot, the bed leaning against the airy window.

"Sit down first." The nurse turned to Chen Yue and said.

The doctor immediately arranged for the mother to go to the opposite building to go through the admission procedures, and after the mother left, she spoke to the nurse again.

"When your mother comes back, let her come to me." His lead doctor said before leaving.

"Where?"

"Just that room, my office."

"Okay, got it."

The mother worked in the hospital for an hour for the sake of the child, and then went to the nearby supermarket to buy all the daily necessities that could be used. When everything was arranged, she found a bench and sat at the child's bedside.

"It's over." Mother shouted out the door.

"It's coming, it's coming." The nurse changed the medicine bag and instructed her mother before leaving: "Don't shout when the water is finished, just press the bell here, shout, sometimes we can't hear it." "yes, okay."

"Hungry?" After about ten minutes, the mother asked.

"No, not hungry." Chen Yue said, he suddenly thought of something, "By the way, Mom, have you asked the doctor how long I will stay in the hospital?" ”

"Say it's going to be at least 2 months."

"Oh my God! 2 months, 2 months are almost summer vacation. ”

"If you have such a serious illness, it doesn't matter, your mother will contact your homeroom teacher in time. Now, healing is the most important thing. ”

He nodded, and thought of something, "Mom, how can you tell my homeroom teacher about my illness?" ”

"Of course what do you say, kid, you still want to hide it?"

"Yes, 2 months."

Chen Yue raised her head slightly, and her voice was a little louder, "Mom, when you ask my teacher for leave, tell the teacher by the way, don't spread the word that I have such a disease." ”

"Yes," the mother agreed, understandingly.