Squeezing the train all the way back, I finally returned to my hometown - a small city near the Central Plains - exhausted.

Zhouyang's hometown is a county-level city, and the economic development of the province belongs to the middle and upper reaches. The scale is small, with a population of more than 1.5 million people, and some natural resources, so it prospered at the beginning with mining factories.

Zhou Yang's parents both worked in a local factory and were honest workers. With hard work for most of his life, every time he thought of this, Zhou Yang felt a burst of warmth and guilt.

Now he has a lot of spare money in his hand, and he is like an arrow, so he took a taxi as soon as he got out of the car and went straight to the workers' community where his home was located.

Running all the way, it was already nearly eleven o'clock in the middle of the night. Before he got closer, Zhou Yang found that it was dark on the balcony of his home.

Got out of the car and settled the bill. Zhou Yang walked some distance.

This working-class neighborhood is a product of the end of the last century, with only six floors of residential buildings. There is no such thing as security property greening, and there is only an old lady downstairs who is looking at the bicycle.

The whole building also looks unremarkable, with a dusty exterior and peeling wall skin that enhances the sense of vicissitudes. But all this fell in Zhou Yang's eyes, and it was extremely warm.

The only advantage of the backwardness of the community is that the relationship between people is relatively close, and I don't want the current high-end community to be a neighbor who does not get along with each other. Near Zhou Yang's house, it is basically a quarrel between the husband and wife, which can be heard in half of the building.

Because he is one of the few young people in the community who has been admitted to university, he is also relatively famous among his neighbors.

"Zhou Yang, why did you come back before you had a holiday?"

"How many years are left after graduation, does the school manage to assign jobs?"

Along the way, I met an old man and an old lady who had a lot of good things to do. Some of the questions are even laughable.

I finally finished coping with it, and when I came to the door of the house and knocked on the door, there was no sound inside.

Nobody? Nobody. Neither of the parents' posts needs to be on night duty, and their usual life is relatively monotonous, so it is impossible that they have not come back so late.

Zhou Yang thought that his parents were asleep at first, so he took out his mobile phone and dialed his mother's number.

"Hey, son. Why haven't you slept so late?" came a familiar and kind voice.

"Mom, where are you now?"

"At home, watch TV with your dad. ”

"Huh?"

Zhou Yang was stunned for a moment, took the phone away slightly, and once again confirmed that there was no light in the living room at home, and there was no light.

"Really at home?"

"That's right. ”

After listening carefully this time, I felt that my mother's voice showed a hint of panic.

I just wanted to speak, but I heard a woman's exhortation voice in the distance on the phone:

"The patients are all asleep, and the phone calls in the hospital corridor at night are quieter!"

Mom is in the hospital, there is only one possibility - Dad's illness......

Zhou Yang's heart immediately hung in his throat, and at the same time, he was a little anxious.

"Mom, I'm at the door of my house right now, and I'll rush over to the hospital where you are. ”

"Huh?"

Mother Zhou was obviously surprised, and paused for a few seconds before she panicked: "Son, why didn't you call and say a word before you came back?" Wait, I'll go back and open the door for you." ”

"Don't tell me which hospital, and I'll go there. ”

"But it's so late, and there is no bus yet, how inconvenient is it for you to come here?"

Zhou Yang was speechless, it was inconvenient for him to go over, and it was even more inconvenient for his mother to come back!

Finally, at Zhou Yang's strong request, my mother knew that she couldn't hide it, so she reluctantly told the Second People's Hospital.

This hospital is one of the best in the city and is not close to home. Zhou Yang hung up the phone, rushed out to take a taxi as soon as possible, and arrived quickly.

After arriving at the place, I called my mother again to confirm the location of the ward, and finally found it.

"Mom, my dad's illness...... Why don't you tell me!"

After Zhou Yang saw his mother, he protested as soon as possible.

"Hey, it's just an old problem, and it's not too serious. We thought we couldn't disturb your studies. By the way, you haven't eaten yet, why don't I go buy you some?"

Zhou Yang couldn't cry or laugh, how could he still be in the mood to eat now, find the ward and walk in. I saw my dad sitting on a hospital bed in the back of the room, and a nurse in her thirties was changing fluids.

"Dad, how are you now?"

Seeing his father half-sitting and leaning on the head of the bed, his face was in good spirits, Zhou Yang's heart was half relieved. He walked over and asked.

"Please be quiet in the hospital!"

The nurse who changed the liquid waved her hand dissatisfiedly, but after seeing Zhou Yang clearly, she couldn't help but be a little surprised and took a few more looks.

"It's still a little problem from before. Why did you come back so quietly and run so far without delaying your studies?"

Zhou Yang's father, Zhou Cheng, had just learned that his son was back, but he still asked with concern.

"Is this your son?"

At this time, the nurse looked at Zhou Yang and turned back to Zhou's father and asked. Seeing the other party nodding, the expression on his face immediately became disgusted.

The nurse's eyesight was not weak, and at this time Zhou Yang was wearing a new dress that he had just bought. She immediately recognized that they were all brand goods, although they were not luxury goods, but there were no seven or eight hundred people in this body.

Zhou's father and mother are poor workers who have been poor all their lives, and their appearance is simple, and they are very ordinary. So now it's a stark contrast to my son.

When it comes to Zhou Yang's student status, he has no earning ability yet. The nurse immediately made up his brain into the kind of loser child who did not understand his parents' suffering at all, and spent lavishly outside, and then developed contempt.

"Do you know that your father's illness has accumulated over the years, and he must be hospitalized for a long time to meditate and recuperate? It's just that you didn't follow the doctor's advice, and now it's getting worse a lot. ”

"Hey, Miss Nurse, I'm not seriously ill. My body knows on its own, isn't it a job to be hospitalized? My son he doesn't know. ”

Father Zhou Cheng hurriedly excused his son.

"I was told that you are responsible for what goes wrong, and it has nothing to do with me. ”

The nurse was in a bad mood on the night shift, and her tone became heavier for a while, which sounded harsh. Zhou Yang was a little dissatisfied, but he couldn't bear to say it.

The nurse who had changed the fluid thanked her and walked over to the bed and sat down.

Zhou's mother also walked in, and after inquiry, he learned that it was indeed his father's old problem.

After so many years of working in the factory, Zhou Cheng was infected with some respiratory diseases, and now he is getting more and more serious as he gets older. This is also a type of occupational disease among front-line workers. But fortunately, it was not more serious, causing pneumoconiosis. Now it's just about staying up and waiting for retirement.

This disease has been treated several times before, and it costs a lot of money, but it has not been cured. This time I still felt uncomfortable, so I was hospitalized again, and I didn't expect to meet my son coming back.

"Dad, our family is not in urgent need, so let's take a long vacation and take care of the hospitalization. ”

"I took out all the savings, bought you a suite on Renmin Road, and let you marry your daughter-in-law in the future. This little problem of mine is out of the way. ”

"Oh, how can you buy a house there? The location over there is not good, the picture is cheap, right? My son went to the city center to buy a suite. Ordinary people can't afford to take out loans. ”

Father and son were talking, when someone next to them suddenly interjected.