"In this way, your brother-in-law is also a filial son."

"My brother-in-law was in debt when he was young, and he hid in the countryside, and later his family helped him pay back the money. He is now almost 50 years old, likes to drink, and feels that he was not sensible before, and he can't help it. These days, he is also anxious, dreaming many times about his grandmother in the hospital bed. The young man nodded slightly, and it could be seen that he also understood his uncle's thoughts.

"Sir, is what you just said true?" The young man was just about to speak, but he seemed to think of something again, looked at Li Rui and asked.

Li Rui nodded and said, "Don't worry, what I said is true, if I can't save your grandmother, I'm willing to take my life." ”

The young man shook his head and said, "You are saving people, how can you let you die, if you can't save it, it means that the calamity has come, and none of us complain." ”

Li Rui smiled: "Believe me." ”

"Hmm." The young man nodded again and continued: "On the day of the waist piercing, my grandmother unexpectedly quieted down. When the anesthetic needle plunged into her spine, she cried out to God a few times, and then stopped making a sound, blinking her eyelids, her eyes black and hollow. In the past few decades, my grandmother has been so forbearant and silent. Hearing my grandmother dancing and singing loudly on the hospital bed, my mother cried and said let her sing, let her sing, she was too depressed. ”

The two cigarettes were quickly smoked, and Li Rui lit another one and listened to him quietly.

"She was born into a family of doctors in the countryside, and the girls were required not to go out, not to study, but to take the soles of their shoes and do work at home. After a few months of night school, my grandmother went to a small town in Linxian Province as a family member of the army and worked as a female worker in a laundry paste factory for more than ten years. Grandpa was busy with work at the time, and my grandmother got off the night shift, went home and peated with charcoal, and took care of the four children. The young man couldn't help but remember the past, and his face was sad, "Grandma told me that she had only blushed with Grandpa once. That time, she was doing needlework at the head of the bed, and her grandfather was noisy until he went to sleep, and his grandfather got up and cursed. My grandmother told him that you can beat me, but you can't insult me. Later, my grandfather left, and my uncle died of mouth cancer two years later. The uncle was the most promising, but he was only in his thirties at that time, and his grandmother cried until she woke up. She supported the family by herself, and now reminds my mother to go to the bank every month to help her put her pension into a passbook, so that the future generations can receive an extra year. ”

Huge snowflakes fell from the dim sky.

A thick layer of snow has accumulated on the roof, and when you stand on the flat roof of a tall building, you can look out like a rolling snow-capped mountain.

"In my upbringing, my grandmother was the only direct grandparent. My parents used to be busy at work, so they used to leave me at my grandmother's house. Unlike my mother, she has a gentle personality and always purses her lips and smiles at us with bent eyes. When I was in preschool, I participated in a storytelling contest and got a countdown, and my whole family gathered around me and kept asking. I was about to cry, my grandmother sat on the other side of the round table and said slowly, let's not ask, the child is tired, there is a drink in the refrigerator, go and drink. ”

seemed to feel that he was far away, the young man cleaned up his emotions and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I ran away when I was talking, my grandmother really gave a lot of good memories, so I ......"

Li Rui shook his head and said, "No, I was very moved to hear you say this." ”

"Actually, you're luckier than me, I didn't have parents since I was a child, and I only had a childhood sweetheart's sister who depended on each other, and I felt very happy to hear you say about your past." Li Rui said gloomily.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know ...... you"

"It's nothing, it's all in the past." Li Rui smiled, "You continue." ”

"Later, when I went to study at a university in another place, my grandmother gave me money before I left. The older she gets, the more she gets up, takes a bunch of keys from her trouser pocket, and opens the cabinet in her room. Ever since I was a child, I felt that the cabinet was particularly mysterious, and there must be something important for her to open it. Later, I leaned behind her and looked inside—it turned out to be some old clothes, a few passbooks, a broken iron box, and some paper money. ”

The wind was blowing very hard, and snowflakes were flying in the air like torn cotton wool.

"In the past few years, as soon as I left home, she cried, said a word through the door, and called home when I arrived. But a few years ago, the landline at home had long since stopped. She kept me at the top of the stairs and watched me leave. ”

The young man finally walked out of the meeting and continued: "In the past ten days, I have been thinking repeatedly: if I had been hospitalized earlier, if I had taken special drugs earlier, if I had been transferred to the respiratory department...... Will her condition not be like this? ”

On the night when he was found to have an infection in both lungs, the second uncle told his cousin on the way home that it was not that he didn't want to send it, but that he had no way out and was afraid that he wouldn't be able to send it. The second uncle is an honest middle-aged man, who has been an ordinary employee in the unit for 30 years, is in his fifties, and sometimes blushes and stutters when he calls his colleagues. That night, I kept asking for consultations online, hung up the numbers of several hospitals in Beijing, and asked a friend to consult a doctor, and the answer I got was the same: if I don't go to the hospital, I can stay at home for a week at most. I sent all the screenshots of the consultation to the group, and at night, my brother-in-law finally decided to trust the relationship. He found an old classmate of a colleague who had a job in the hospital and left a bed. ”

"Then why did you decide to go back to Shanghai?" Li Rui asked.

"Alas, this disease is the first time in the world, and hospitals large and small in Youzhou are helpless." The young man said, "Faced with an unfamiliar machine that blows straight into the airways, my grandmother is very resistant. The transparent mask made her already swollen eyes, and every few minutes, she reached out and pulled the mask, opened the corners of her mouth, and took it off, and took it off for me. My mother immediately regretted that it was wrong to send the old man to the hospital to suffer. I grabbed my grandmother's wrist, which was so thin that only bone and skin remained, and thought to myself, would she be willing to let her live in such pain? ”

"That night, neither my grandmother nor any of us slept. She struggled all night to break free from the ventilator, and we took turns watching over her. Late at night, in the corridor of the hospital, only the alarm of the ECG monitor and the moaning of the grandmother could be heard. My uncles and cousins smoked cigarettes one after the other, and my mother was wrapped in two layers of down jackets, pacing around, still feeling cold. Later, my brother-in-law told me that he was afraid. During that time, four of the people he knew died. Among them is his father, who was a child, and after a few days of infusion, he did not improve, and the doctor asked to be transferred, but other hospitals did not admit him, and then he left on the way, on the night of his grandmother's hospitalization. ”

At this time, he seemed to think of something again, raised his head and asked, "Sir, isn't this disease spread in Shanghai, why, is it circulating all over the world?" ”

Li Rui sighed and said: "This virus is artificially developed, it spreads quickly, it can rely on air transmission, and it survives in the air for a long time. Do you see the cold wind outside? As long as the medicine containing the virus is sprinkled in the air, it will not take half a day to spread throughout half the Heavenly Empire. ”

"Who killed a thousand knives, why did he harm people!"

"Who do you think is most likely to take advantage of chaos?"

The young man shook his head and said, "I'm just a flat-headed commoner, how can I know this." ”

Li Rui didn't speak, and continued to listen to him.

"This half-month care is a drain on the will of the whole family. My brother-in-law hadn't been to the unit for many days, and my second uncle and cousin almost used it to catch up on sleep during the day. The order of my life has been completely broken, the annual leave has been used up, and when I ask the leader for leave, my ears are hot. The young man said, "In the past few years, my grandmother has always said that she hopes that she can still contribute to this family." After hypothyroidism, she sometimes eats two meals in a small porcelain bowl. She never said that she was unwell, didn't want to go to the hospital, didn't want to have a check-up, and was afraid of bothering her children. When my leg hurts and I feel weak, I move to the drawer and eat a few tablets. ”

"Now everyone in the family is discovering that nothing is known about her aging. In her early years, I saw her have an old-fashioned pair of scissors under her pillow. She said that when people are old, they always have two kinds of dreams, good dreams, and there is a Bodhisattva in the dream; Bad dreams, she's going to fight that with scissors. She didn't tell me what was in the bad dream, she only said that when she dreamed of the Bodhisattva, she begged to bless our family with peace and security. I now realize that her world is increasingly cut off from us, facing aging alone. ”

At this time, Ma Ningshuang came over with a bag of fruits, and she saw that Li Rui was not outside the ward, so she guessed that he was smoking here.

Seeing that the two of them were really smoking, they couldn't help frowning and said angrily: "Why don't you even wear masks?" ”

Li Rui smiled and said, "Smoking can kill bacteria." ”

"!"

Ma Ningshuang glared at him, then turned his head and left.

Li Rui had no choice but to extinguish the cigarette butt and put on a mask with the young man.

Through the mask, the guy continued: "After coming back from Shanghai this time, my grandmother rarely recognized me. Maybe this grandson who is far away in Shanghai is getting farther and farther away from her life. In the past few days, she has looked at everyone in the family like a stranger, waving her hands nervously and shouting noisily. One day, my brother-in-law suddenly asked me, did the doctor say anything bad to you today? Later, he said, is it really meaningful to rule like this? My cousin also asked me, if my grandmother is discharged from the hospital, how will she take care of her when she returns home? I can't answer any of them. ”

"Recently, my brother-in-law has always talked about life and death in front of my grandmother's hospital bed, and there are some superstitious rumors in the market, which makes me upset. After graduating from high school, he began to work in society. Only in middle age did he accept his heart and return to work in the unit. Later, I simply interrupted him, I said, uncle, in the future, I will only say auspicious words, in case my grandmother is conscious, she can hear it. ”

As soon as the words fell, Ma Ningshuang pushed open the door of the stairwell again, came over and said, "The news I just got that the virus is still mutating, how sure are you?" ”

Li Rui smiled and said, "Half and half." ”

"Now that people are dying every day outside, Shangguan Liang is peddling special drugs at high prices, we can't wait."

"Don't worry, according to the original plan, we will accept as many patients as there are."

"What about the hospital?"

"Discuss with the hospital to stop using the existing drugs and switch to our medicines."

"I'm afraid it's not that easy!"

"Then find a way to solve it, Shengshi Group is not short of this money, and what can be solved with money is not a problem, but it really can't be done, so buy the hospital."

Ma Ningshuang looked at Li Rui's resolute attitude, sighed helplessly, and said, "You'd better be right, otherwise, I'll see how you end." ”

After Ma Ningshuang left, the young man was still in place. The conversation just now was very informative, and he looked at Li Rui in front of him and didn't know how to speak.

"You, you're from the Shengshi Group?"

Li Rui nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Then you're a savior!"

"Not really," Li Rui shook his head and said, "I want to hear you finish the story, is that okay?" ”

Some people died, but not completely......