Hearing a knock on the door in a daze, Cai Jianguo walked out with his clothes on, stood at the door of the room and shouted, hearing Cai Baoman's voice, he stepped on his shoes and went out to open the door.

"Big brother, it's the middle of the night, what's going on so urgently?"

Cai Jianguo thought that there was something wrong with the old Zhou family, rubbed his eyes, put on his shoes, and wanted to follow Cai Jianguo.

"Brother, I have something to say in my heart, and if I don't tell you this, I won't be able to sleep all night."

Cai Baoman lit a cigarette and took two puffs before speaking.

"Why are you in such a hurry, you can't sleep all night, don't be here to fix the scene, two old men, if you have anything to say tomorrow."

Cai Jianguo's smiling appearance, Cai Baoman couldn't wait to punch him, threw the cigarette on the ground, held Cai Jianguo's collar, his face turned black, Cai Jianguo was startled, and looked at Cai Baoman nervously.

"Elder Zhang told me, your daughter-in-law ......"

Looking at Cai Jianguo's eyes, Cai Baoman didn't know why, and when the words came to his mouth, he couldn't speak.

"What did Mr. Zhang say, what's wrong with my daughter-in-law?"

This sudden pause made Cai Jianguo a little worried, looking at Cai Baoman's tangled expression, he pulled Cai Baoman's collar and asked.

"Elder Zhang said that your daughter-in-law's heart disease is about to run out of oil and run out of lights."

Cai Baoman hesitated for a long time, but finally said it, saying that the whole person took a few steps back and leaned heavily against the wall.

Cai Jianguo looked at Cai Baoman, his lips trembled, and he pointed to his hand and shook without obeying the call, asking Cai Baoman to say it again.

"Elder Zhang said that your daughter-in-law's heart disease is incurable."

Cai Jianguo suddenly laughed, then squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, crying loudly, Cai Baoman's heart was not good, Zhang Lao's medical skills are obvious to all, since what he said, it must be bad.

"Brother, whether to go to the hospital for treatment or buy her some delicious food at home to accompany her, you make your own decision, I really can't bear to watch you being kept in the dark, watching her die when you don't know the situation."

When Cai Baoman said this, tears couldn't stop flowing.

Cai Jianguo on the ground didn't speak, laughed and cried, crying and laughing, and didn't say a word.

"Brother!"

Cai Baoman sat beside him and slapped his shoulder with his fist, Cai Jianguo did not react, his eyes looked away with dull eyes, and he did not move.

"I'll go to the village chief's house to borrow money and take your daughter-in-law to the hospital, we can't watch the big living people disappear!"

Cai Baoman got up and was stopped by Cai Jianguo, he thought that Cai Jianguo didn't want to go to the hospital, and frowned.

"How can I let you go about borrowing money, you go home, I'll go by myself."

Saying that, Cai Jianguo patted the soil on his body, dragged his heavy steps, and walked towards the village chief's house.

Looking at Cai Jianguo's back, Cai Baoman felt that he was a lot older in a trance, I don't know if it was an illusion, he seemed to feel that Cai Jianguo's back couldn't stand upright.

Don't worry about Cheng Qian alone, Cai Cai Baoman hurriedly followed, this black light is blinding, he is absent-minded, really afraid that something will happen.

The two of them may have been too sad to notice Zhang Wenfeng standing at the door of the room, she heard everything they said just now, touching her chest, Zhang Wenfeng sat on the threshold and sobbed, for fear of disturbing Cai Jun, so she covered her mouth.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

Cai Jun ran out with his upper body naked, looking at Zhang Wenfeng crying there, he was also anxious, and he didn't wear shoes.

The courtyard of the village chief's house is relatively long, and after patting the door for a long time, the village chief heard it, walked out with a kerosene lamp, and opened the door for two people.

The first sentence that came up was also, I didn't sleep in the middle of the night, why was I in such a hurry.

Cai Jianguo didn't say anything, and knelt in front of the village chief, Cai Baoman didn't react, and the village chief was also taken aback.

"Cai Jianguo, what are you doing, hurry up, and say something if you have something."

The village chief handed the kerosene lamp to Cai Baoman and hurried to help Cai Jianguo, but Cai Jianguo shook his head desperately and couldn't get up.

"Just let him kneel."

Cai Baoman also stopped the village chief next to him, the village chief stretched his clothes, looked at Cai Baoman, and asked with confused eyes: "You two ran over in the middle of the night, something happened, if it's urgent, just say quickly, don't delay it." ”

"Village chief, I'm in a hurry to use money for treatment now, you know the situation in my family, how can I have extra money for treatment."

Cai Jianguo was crying in front of the village chief, and Cai Baoman looked at him with no taste in his heart, and pinned his face to the other side.

"It's cold here, what to say in the house, I guess I can't understand it for a while."

The village chief pulled Cai Jianguo up, Cai Baoman also followed into the house, and the movement of entering the door woke up the village chief's daughter-in-law in the house, opened the door curtain and looked at Cai Baoman and Cai Jianguo, put it down again, got dressed and walked in.

"Two big brothers, they don't sleep in the middle of the night, what's the matter with coming to my house?"

The village chief's daughter-in-law sat on the edge of the kang on the side, looking at Cai Jianguo, whose face was full of tears, and was shocked, she had never seen Cheng Qian crying like this.

"I'm here to borrow money."

Hearing Cai Baoman's words, the village chief's daughter-in-law tugged at her clothes and glanced at the village chief next to her.

"Go pour some hot water for the two brothers, I'll drink some too, it's cold."

The village chief looked at the village chief's daughter-in-law and waved his hand, and the village chief's daughter-in-law glanced at Cai Jianguo before leaving, although she didn't speak, but that look was strange and awkward.

"Who's sick yet?" The village chief looked at Cai Jianguo and interrogated.

"Mr. Zhang said that my daughter-in-law has a very serious heart disease and is dying, I want to take her to the big hospital in the county to have a look, maybe there is still help."

Cai Jianguo looked at the village chief and didn't hide it, just said it directly.

"This disease has to be cured, how can a living person not be saved, in this way, how much money do you have to go to the hospital?"

The village chief also felt that Cai Jianguo was right, and hurriedly asked how much it would cost.

Cai Jianguo hadn't calculated yet, and glanced at Cai Baoman next to him.

Cai Baoman didn't know how much the medical expenses were, so he estimated the approximate amount in his heart, and stretched out five fingers.

"Fifty dollars, I'll get it for you."

"Five hundred."

The village chief was going to wear shoes and get money, but when he heard Cai Baoman's three words, the whole person froze and looked at the two of them.

The kitchen of the outhouse clanged, and Cai Jianguo and Cai Baoman glanced at each other.

"What about five hundred dollars?"

The village chief looked at Cai Baoman in surprise.

"Heart disease is not like the disease next to it, and going to the hospital is very expensive."

Cai Baoman glanced at the village chief, and then looked at Cai Jianguo and said.

At this time, the village chief's daughter-in-law came in with a few tea jars and placed them in front of them, with a reluctant smile on her face.

"Wen Feng is sick, it stands to reason that we all have the money to contribute, and we have the strength to contribute, as the village head, we should help and have to help, but this time we took out five hundred yuan, I and your village chief brother really don't have that much, this year's crops are confiscated in the field, the family expenses are still large, and our hands are not rich."

As she spoke, the village chief's daughter-in-law glanced at the village chief.

Of course, the village chief understands what his daughter-in-law means, the five hundred yuan is not a small amount, not to mention whether there is one in the family for the time being, just look at Cai Jianguo, who can't earn fifty yuan a year, how to repay the five hundred yuan.

"Oh, Cai Jianguo, it's not that my brother sees that you have difficulty standing by, it's just that I have been in meetings again and again recently, and I have spent a lot of money up and down, and I really don't have so much money to lend you, you look at this, you wait for me for two months, and when the township gives me a salary, I will lend you the money."

The village chief's words sounded pertinent, but when he thought about it, how could this Zhang Wenfeng's illness drag on for a month or two, Cai Jianguo held the teapot in his hand, kept trembling, and knelt directly on the edge of the village chief's kang.

The village chief and the village chief's daughter-in-law glanced at each other, and quickly got up and went over to help him, but Cai Jianguo dodged with his elbows and didn't get up, the village chief sighed and slapped his thigh.

"Village chief, I'll do this for you, if I don't have this life-saving money, I can only watch my daughter-in-law die."

Cai Jianguo's tears couldn't stop flowing down, and they fell into the tea jar, which made people feel unbearable.

Cai Baoman looked at him, couldn't help but have a sour nose, got up and walked over, looked at Cai Jianguo squatting down and patted him on the shoulder: "Brother, since the village chief doesn't have so many, let's not embarrass the village chief, come in the middle of the night, can't cause trouble to others, let's go home first, see what can be done, if I don't win, I'll make it up for you." ”

Cai Baoman said and glanced at the village chief and the village chief's daughter-in-law, and helped Cai Jianguo up, such a remark, what he said was not a taste in his heart, got up and went to another room to take a hundred yuan out, and handed it to Cai Jianguo.

"I'm here, there's only so much left, you take it and use it first, go to the hospital first to see what the situation is, and then if it's not enough, the village will also help you to see if there is a way to solve it."

The village chief slapped a hundred yuan on Cai Jianguo's hand, Cai Jianguo bowed again and again and thanked him, and Cai Jianguo followed Cai Baoman out on the grounds of not disturbing their rest.

As soon as I walked out of the gate, not far away, I heard the voice of the village chief and the village chief's daughter-in-law scolding behind him, and listened carefully, probably because the village chief's daughter-in-law disliked the village chief for lending him too much money, and Cai Jianguo was too poor to pay it back, so he wasted a hundred yuan in vain.

Cai Jianguo sighed, holding the hundred yuan in his hand, looking at Cai Baoman as if he was holding a knife, and just wanted to step back, he was stopped by Cai Baoman.

"Just bear with this breath first, your daughter-in-law is waiting for this money to treat her illness, and compared to her, your face is worth a few dollars."

Cai Jianguo had tears in his eyes, squeezed the money tightly in his hand, began to tremble, and bit his lip to look at Cai Baoman.

Cai Baoman patted Cai Jianguo's shoulder, nodded, and didn't say anything.

"Junzi, where's your mother?"

When he returned home, he saw Dongzi sitting on the kang alone, Zhang Wenfeng was not at home, Cai Jianguo looked at Cai Jun and asked.

"My mom said I'm looking for you."

Cai Jun looked at Cai Jianguo and said.

Cai Jianguo turned around and ran to the yard and called twice, but he didn't hear Zhang Wenfeng's echo, and instantly panicked.

Cai Baoman, who had just sat on the kang, heard Cai Jianguo shouting, so he hurriedly ran out with his shoes on and asked across the courtyard wall.

"My daughter-in-law is not at home, she said that she was looking for the two of us, did you see it?"

Cai Jianguo stepped on the grinding plate and looked at Cai Baoman and asked.

Cai Baoman was confused: "What nonsense, let's come back together, where can I see your daughter-in-law along the way!" ”

"My mother said she was afraid that you would come back too late, so she went to look for you."

"Can't anything happen, when did your mother wake up?"

Cai Baoman always felt that something was wrong, and looked at Cai Jun at the door of the house and asked.

"I don't know, when I woke up, I saw my mom sitting on the threshold crying, and then she said a bunch of strange things to me, and said that I went out to find you."

"Your mother is crying, what did she tell you?"

Cai Jianguo turned around, got off the grinding plate, walked to Cai Jun's side, grabbed Cai Jun's shoulder, and asked nervously.

Cai Jun was frightened by Cai Jianguo's reaction and looked at him stunned.

Cai Baoman knew that the situation was wrong, so he jumped over the wall and walked to Cai Jun's side, pushed Cai Jianguo aside, squatted down to look at Cai Jun, and touched Cai Jun's head.

"Junzi, don't be afraid, your father can't find your mother in a hurry, tell your uncle, what did your mother tell you?"

Cai Baoman's tone was much better than Cai Jianguo's, although he was anxious, but he had to smile all over his face to the child, because he knew that the more the adult spoke, the more scared the child became, and he couldn't ask anything.

"My mother said that the weather is going to be cold, let me wear more clothes, and I have a bad stomach, eat less spicy food, let me take care of my father, and I don't remember anything else."

After Cai Jun said this, Cai Jianguo and Cai Baoman glanced at each other, and the faces of the two changed suddenly.

"I can't hear anything."

Cai Baoman began to worry in his heart, two people turned on kerosene lamps, called Chen Lianhua, and several people went all over the village to find Zhang Wenfeng.

This shouting disturbed many people in the village, and as soon as they heard about it, everyone came out one after another to help find it.

"Cai Jianguo, don't worry, don't think nonsense!"

Looking at Cai Jianguo, who was frivolous, Cai Baoman comforted him while looking around.

Cai Jianguo's eyes are hollow now, like a walking corpse, and the sweat on his forehead is dripping down.

"Found it!"

Hearing such a sound from afar, Cai Jianguo seemed to be covered in electricity, and a spirit hurriedly ran in that direction.

Listening to the sound of a pillar in the village, Cai Jianguo ran to his side, looked at the direction of his finger, and walked over the north slope again.

Cai Jianguo walked through the crowd, everyone's faces were ugly, he noticed something, looked at the figure hanging from the locust tree on the north slope, bit his lip and staggered, and fell to the ground.

"Cai Jianguo."

Cai Baoman ran over directly and helped Cai Jianguo up, Cai Jianguo pushed Cai Baoman away, grabbed a few handfuls on the ground, struggled to get up, and walked towards the locust tree.

More and more familiar outlines, more and more familiar looks, every step closer, Cai Jianguo is like walking on a knife.

Zhang Wenfeng's body was stiff, her face was bruised, and her eyebrows were wrinkled on her simple face.

hugged Zhang Wenfeng down, Cai Jianguo also sat on the ground, hugged her and gently touched her face, tears flowed uncontrollably.

"Feng'er, why are you so stupid, I've borrowed money, did you hear something, why don't you wait for me, why don't you wait for me to come back."

No matter how others persuaded him, Cai Jianguo just sat there, holding Zhang Wenfeng's corpse and talking to himself.

Cai Baoman next to him hugged Chen Lianhua, and the two of them couldn't help crying.

"Feng'er, it's cold here, I'll take you home, let's go home, look at it, your hands are cold."

Cai Jianguo hugged Zhang Wenfeng's body and walked down the hillside.