At about five o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, Fang Gang's friend replied, saying that Lao Xie had flown to Guangzhou and bought a train ticket to Wuhan at a nearby train ticket agency, and he also bought the same train, in order not to be recognized by Lao Xie. Fang Gang, who deliberately bought two carriages, complained that the person who was following him was too picky, and he actually bought the slowest car, which took more than 13 hours. This work is too tiring, and the hard work must be increased.

Xiao Yang said: "It seems that Lao Xie really went home to sell the house, right?" ”

I shook my head: "Not necessarily, it's true to go home, not necessarily to sell the house, maybe Lao Xie wants to go home and get the passbook." ”

The next morning, when the three of us were eating, Fang Gang's phone rang and he was heard answering and saying, "What, Lao Xie didn't go home when he arrived at the place, and went directly to the hospital?" What did that guy do in the hospital. Beaten so badly by moneylenders? Xiao Yang and I both looked at Fang Gang, Fang Gang nodded while listening, and finally hung up the phone and put it on the table.

Xiao Yang hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, was Lao Xie broken?" ”

Fang Gang shook his head but didn't speak, his expression was still a little dignified. This surprised me, I had never seen him look like this before, what was the matter, the sun coming out of the west? Under my questioning with Xiao Yang. Fang Gang snorted: "This old fox, it turns out that there is still this matter." ”

"What the hell is going on?" I'm in a hurry.

Fang Gang stood up: "Let's go!" ”

I was stunned, where are I going? Xiao Yang was about to ask, but Fang Gang waved his hand: "Don't ask, go to Wuhan and see!" With that, he walked briskly outside the restaurant. Xiao Yang hurriedly followed. I pulled out my money and paid for my meal, and I quickly followed.

When we arrived at Bangkok Airport to book a plane ticket to Guangzhou, on the plane, Xiao Yang and I saw Fang Gang's solemn expression, so we didn't open our mouths to ask more. Xiao Yang asked me privately what the situation could be, and I shook my head, thinking to myself, could it be that Lao Xie was seriously ill?

Transfer from Guangzhou and then fly to Wuhan. It was already evening when I came out of Wuhan Airport, and then I called a taxi to go straight to Xiantao City≤ a distance of more than 100 kilometers, and it took less than two hours to arrive. According to the name and address of the hospital provided by Fang Gang's friend in the text message, the taxi stopped at the entrance of the hospital, and I immediately recognized: "Isn't that person your friend?" Last time in the temple of Khon Kaen! ”

After getting out of the car, the man pointed to the hospital building, and the other party just said: "Lao Xie's son's ward is on the ninth floor, and they are all here today." Come with me. "Xiao Yang and I were stunned when we heard this, what does this have to do with Lao Xie's son.

I went up the elevator to the ninth floor and walked outside the door of a ward, where I heard someone crying in the room. A few of us quietly opened the door of the ward and looked in, there were three beds in the ward, one was empty, the other had a patient sleeping, and a young man was lying on the bed by the window. There was a vertical machine next to the bed, much like a water dispenser, with a light on it, and a hanging bottle rack, and several thin plastic tubes with red liquid flowing from them to the young man's arm.

A young nurse stands in front of a hospital bed, writing down something in a notebook. Lao Xie and an old man with white hair sat on the edge of the bed, Lao Xie's face was covered with a lot of gauze, and some places were still swollen, he lowered his head, hugged the young man's shoulders with both hands, and whispered while crying: "Dad is impatient, he didn't cure your illness, and he made you suffer for several years......

The young man lying on the hospital bed didn't speak, it seemed to be very weak, he only raised his hand and gently touched the injury on Lao Xie's face▲ The old man next to him stood up, picked up the thermos from the table and walked out the door, seeing a few of us peeking, the old man asked: "Who are you looking for, are you here to see the patient?" ”

At this time, Lao Xie also saw us, and we walked into the ward. Ya found the holy stroke.

"You, you...... How did it come? Lao Xie stammered when he spoke.

Fang Gang walked up to the nurse and asked, "What disease does he have?" ”

The nurse looked at Fang Gang suspiciously, and then looked at Lao Xie, Lao Xie didn't speak, and the nurse saw that the two sides obviously knew each other, so she said: "Oh, middle and advanced uremia, you have to dialysis every day." ”

We were all stunned, the nurse walked out of the ward, and I asked Lao Xie, "Is this your son?" Uremia? Lao Xie nodded.

Xiao Yang asked, "How long has it been?" ”

Lao Xie sighed: "It's been more than five years, and next month will be the sixth year." "The young man who was lying on the hospital bed saw his father's friend coming, and thought we were visiting, nodded at us slightly, smiled, and said hello.

Xiao Yang asked again: "Is dialysis a surgery, and how much does it cost every month?" ”

"It's the mid-stage to late-stage transition, and I'm going to have dialysis every day, five hundred times a day. plus other expenses, more than 20,000 yuan per month. Alas, it was only in the early days, dialysis once a week, but it didn't get better in a few years. The roads that my family can sell and borrow are blocked, and my wife really couldn't stand this crime a few years ago, and she divorced me. But his illness is getting worse and worse, and now his kidneys are beginning to shrink......" Lao Xie couldn't go on.

After listening to Lao Xie's words, my heart felt like a lump of cotton, and it was only now that I understood why Lao Xie had been in the amulet business in Thailand for several years but was still so poor. I am reluctant to change my mobile phone, I am reluctant to buy a second-hand car, and my clothes are always worn. I always thought that he was a natural miser, making money and not spending, but I didn't expect to have such a secret secret.

Lao Xie's son, who was lying on the bed, was unhappy: "Dad, look at what you said, why didn't you see it?" In the past two years, didn't you also say that I have increased the amount of food and can eat more than before? It's okay, you said that you would take me abroad for treatment in two years, and when I was cured, I would be able to go to work and make money, and you wouldn't have to work so hard. Lao Xie nodded again and again, but he didn't dare to raise his head, probably for fear of being seen by his son crying.

Xiao Yang turned around and walked out of the ward quickly, and I followed out, and I saw Xiao Yang with his back against the wall, crying very sadly. My heart was also sour, and I helped Xiao Yang to comfort me. Fang Gang walked out, patted Xiao Yang on the shoulder, and said to me: "This old fox is really not like talking, my son is so sick, and he never tells others." How much money can he make alone? Earn a little money and use it for dialysis, which can be used for a fart! ”

"What if you tell us, you can't come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars to sponsor his son to go abroad for treatment." I said dejectedly.

Fang Gang thought for a while and said, "Go downstairs to find a bank in a while, you take out tens of thousands of yuan first, and let Lao Xie pay off the loan shark as soon as possible." In the future, I will discuss it slowly, and I will return the money to you after returning to Thailand, and this money will be counted as mine. ”

In fact, in the ward just now, I already had this plan, and hurriedly said, "It's a big deal, half of each of us, I'll go down to get the money." Fang Gang called Lao Xie out and asked how much he owed in total, Lao Xie took out a pen and paper and calculated: "By tomorrow, it should be less than 350,000 baht." ”

Fang Gang took out his mobile phone and called a friend in Thailand and asked for the person's bank account number. Fang Gang said: "My friend is very reliable, I will go to the bank tomorrow to transfer 70,000 yuan to him, and let him pay off the account." ”

I nodded, and Lao Xie hurriedly said, "This, how can this work?" ”

"At this time, what are you pretending to be polite?" Fang Gang glared, and Lao Xie immediately stopped speaking.

That night, we stayed in a nearby hotel, and the next morning, the four of us got out of the hospital, found a Chinese bank nearby, and I got together two bank cards, transferred 70,000 yuan to Fang Gang's friend's account, and took out 10,000 yuan in cash and put it in my purse. After the international remittance procedures were completed, Fang Gang called his friend and asked him to pay off the money as soon as possible according to the contact information of the loan shark provided by Lao Xie.

Lao Xie burst into tears, holding Fang Gang's hands tightly and speechless. Fang Gang snorted: "You need money to see your son, and you can't find it from the business, right?" How much you can earn in this way, how many partners you lose, this account will not be calculated! Lao Xie nodded again and again, and said that he would never cheat friends again in the future, at most he would only blind customers.

I said, "A customer can't be blinded, a customer can introduce you to ten friends, can't you not be a fool?" Old Xie said again and again. He added that it was not his idea to catch the Monkey King, and that he was a victim himself.

In the afternoon, Fang Gang called and said that the matter had been done and the loan shark money had been paid off. Lao Xie said that he had to invite the three of us to dinner, and I said, "Forget it, you are so poor that you are dying now, what kind of hero are you doing." The money for your air ticket back to Wuhan was also borrowed by my father, I lent you this 10,000 yuan, you pay off the debt, and the rest of the money will buy some nutritional products for your son, and see how thin he has become. If he wasn't afraid that you would be sad, could he say that the amount of food had increased? ”

Lao Xie just nodded and shed tears again.

At dinner in the evening, I asked Lao Xie Azan what he said, and Lao Xie said: "The deposit of 200,000 baht has been paid, and it was said that the final payment would be made within a month, but now the mountain spirit cannot be sold in his hand, and in another ten days, the mountain spirit will have to be returned, and the deposit will not be refunded." ”