Chapter 62: The Love of Adoptive Parents
Who can support your body, how can you have no relatives and friends.
Sincerity and purity, great love, selflessness and good roots.
Ever since Master passed away, my mood has been very low for a few days, as if no matter what I do, I suddenly lost interest, and I seemed to become a little indifferent to everything in the world.
My parents and Mr. Cao also noticed that I had been strange in the past few days, but no matter how they asked, I just laughed it off, did not explain anything to them, and did not extract any truth from my mouth, in fact, I could not tell them the truth. Therefore, they no longer asked, after all, they were still very relieved of me, knowing that I was a measured person who knew how to advance and retreat.
Today is the fourteenth day of the first month, after the fifteenth day of the first month, we are going to start school the day after tomorrow, I received a phone call, it was Liu Ling called, I have not contacted her for a few days, her phone called, when I heard that the person who answered the phone was me, she used a somewhat reproachful tone, asking me about the situation here.
In the past few days, I have not contacted her, she is a little uneasy about me, I adjusted my thoughts, and explained to her that the reason may be that there are more things in the clinic these days, and she may be a little tired, so she does not worry.
I was talking to Liu Ling, and suddenly remembered one thing, that is, Haohai asked me to attend their company's annual meeting tomorrow, I thought about it, this is also very good to relax my mood, and it can also make me change my mind, it is better to take Liu Ling with me, let her also see.
Thinking of this, I told her about this idea, Liu Ling agreed without any hesitation, so that we agreed on a time, and I would go over to pick her up at that time, and we said something on the phone, and after going to school the day after tomorrow, we hung up the phone.
Today's mood is much better than the previous two days, I am still walking towards Mr. Cao's clinic as usual, I walked slowly on the street, watching the crowd coming and going, which gave me a new understanding of life. Life is short, children are long, people are busy with what they think is right, are pursuing what they think is happiness, in fact, what people don't know is that sometimes happiness is around them, just on the people around them, it is a simple feeling of happiness, however, people nowadays are blinded by fame and fortune, and do not find the true meaning of this happiness. When "happiness" really leaves him, he knows the preciousness of this "happiness", but it is too late at that time.
When I appeared in the clinic, I found that there were only a few patients in the clinic waiting in line to see a doctor, and Mr. Cao saw that I came in, and at the same time, he also found that my mental state today was much stronger than the previous two days, so he called me to his side with a smile, and I became an assistant to Mr. Cao, who was having an elderly patient here, who was being treated by Mr. Cao.
The patient Mr. Cao saw was a man in a gray tunic suit, from the appearance, he must be in his 70s, his hair was relatively thin, his eyebrows were very thick, there was a big mouth under the big nose, with a pair of glasses, he looked very much like an intellectual, even the beard with sideburns and cheeks was almost to the chest, his hands trembled and he was on crutches, and he looked a little sluggish.
Teacher Cao gave him a pulse, and chatted with the old man with a smile, when he heard Teacher Cao ask him, "Old man, this year is a long life." "I'm almost eighty!" The old man replied.
Teacher Cao continued to ask, "The old man's body is awesome! What other relatives are there at home? ”
The old man said: "Oh, my wife passed away a few years ago, and now there is only one disabled son in the family who lives with me. ”
Teacher Cao asked again: "Don't worry, you are in good health, there is nothing wrong with you, if you have time to let your son come to the clinic in the afternoon, can you do it?" ”
When the old man heard that his son was asked to come to the consultation room, he was also a little puzzled and asked, "Doctor Cao, why is this, why do I let my son come over when I see a doctor?" ”
Teacher Cao explained: "Oh, that's right, we are doing activities here in the clinic now, you are very lucky today, it is my 20th patient here, this activity is only today, the prize is a bag of 20 catties of rice, I see that you are too old to take it, so this afternoon I have time to let your son come over and take the rice away." When the old man heard that he had won the lottery, he looked very happy, nodded his head, and agreed, saying that he would let his son come to the clinic in the afternoon to receive the prize.
I listened to Mr. Cao say that there was an activity here in the clinic, and I was confused and a little confused, so I thought, when will the clinic hold activities? I don't know, it's weird.
Just as I was thinking about this question, the old man stood up, I immediately stepped forward to hold the old man, helped him out of the pharmacy, saw him on crutches, some rickety back, and sighed in my heart that life was not easy.
When I returned to the pharmacy clinic, there were several patients who were seeing a doctor, and they kept asking Mr. Cao about the prizes, and one of the women who saw the clinic asked: "Dr. Cao, when did our clinic start to carry out activities, why don't you publicize it in advance, we don't know, we just heard what you said, we only knew, Dr. Cao, you are not right, I am afraid that everyone will not know!" "Yes, yes, Dr. Cao, your clinic is famous far and wide, so you won't hide this thing!" Several people around were talking about it.
Teacher Cao, who was sitting in the seat, was not in a hurry, helped his glasses, sighed, explained to everyone, and said, "Don't be impatient, our clinic has never been active. "Ah, no event? Didn't you just let that old man get a bag of rice? The woman asked, confused.
Teacher Cao continued to explain, saying: "Hey, the reason is that the old man who saw the doctor just now will pass away in the evening in seven days, and I asked his son to come over in the afternoon in this way, so that his son can be mentally prepared in advance and prepare for the old man's future in advance." When Mr. Cao told the truth, the people in the clinic were very shocked, and they couldn't believe their expressions, because, after all, this is incredible, no one believes that Mr. Cao can see a person's life and death so many days in advance.
I thought to myself: I see, I said why Mr. Cao suddenly said that he was holding activities, this is the reason.
Teacher Cao looked at the woman who spoke just now and asked, "Sister, do you know the reason, do you still participate in the event?" "I didn't participate, I didn't participate, I'm embarrassed, what's going on, haha..."The woman said with a little blush, and everyone around her also showed very embarrassed expressions, because everyone didn't expect this reason.
This little episode happened in the morning, and the rest of the consultation time was very peaceful, and we stayed with the consultation until the lunch break, and I did not go home at noon, but had a meal with Mr. Cao and them in the consultation room.
While we were eating together, we were discussing, and in the morning, the old man who saw the old man heard Mr. Cao say: "The yin and yang of the human body complement each other, and there is a world, whether it is yin and yang, or yang and yin are unbalanced. In the morning, the yang energy of the human body is rising, and at noon it is the time when the yang energy is at its peak and the yin energy is declining, so the person's mental outlook is the best. However, the old man, judging from his pulse and complexion, at that time his yin qi was growing stronger, which was contrary to common sense and very dangerous, and his pulse was disordered, and he was gradually showing signs of defeat, so I deduced that he would be the limit after seven days, and I was unable to return to heaven, and this was a certainty. ”
Dr. Wu and I listened quietly, and since I started my medical career, I have experienced many things like this.
However, this incident reminded me of my master, ordinary people can be relieved quickly when they see the death of their loved ones, not to mention a reasonable practitioner like me, I began to reflect on my mentality and attitude towards things during this time, when I really calmed down and let go of my irritability, I suddenly understood a truth.
That is, human life and death are like the metabolism of the human body, this is the law of nature, it is irreversible, we can only face it calmly, we as doctors, we can only do our best to save a life, when there is no way to return to the sky, we can only sigh that life is fragile, therefore, we doctors also cherish life more.
When I figured this out, my mood suddenly brightened.
At this time, Dr. Wu, who was listening to the side, sighed and said: "Lao Cao, just do your best, we can't change this matter, what should come will always come, the man's son came in the afternoon, what are you going to say?" ”
Teacher Cao stroked his cheek and said, "Let's be honest, let his son prepare in advance, that's all I can help them." "Actually, when we all heard the news, we were still a little sad, although we didn't have anything to do with the old man, but when we heard that a life was about to fall, and we couldn't do anything about it, it was very painful to be a healer.
In this way, we all finished the lunch in a rather sad atmosphere, and in the afternoon we all just took a nap and began the afternoon consultation.
There are no special patients here in the afternoon clinic, they are generally common diseases now, for Dr. Cao, these minor diseases are basically handy, and it is easy to diagnose the cause and prescribe medicine.
In the afternoon, we waited more for the arrival of the old man's son, until about five o'clock in the afternoon, a one-armed middle-aged man slowly walked in from outside the clinic.
This middle-aged man looks very burly, with broad shoulders, a straight chest, a straight backbone, a slight stubble on his face, and dark skin, but his hair is a little unkempt, and it can be seen that he is a person who has experienced the ruthless destruction of the years. The tips of his right fingers were black, which should have been smoked for a long time, and the entire left hand of his left arm was gone, and it was broken off at the left wrist, which looked a little scary.
As soon as this middle-aged man came in, he caught our attention, and he walked straight to the desk where we were sitting, and saw him come to Mr. Cao's consultation table, and asked: "Hello doctor, I am the son of patient No. 20 who came here this morning, and I heard my father say that he won the lottery and won a bag of rice, so I came here to receive rice." As soon as he spoke, we had already guessed who was coming, so Mr. Cao patiently asked the man to sit down.
Teacher Cao smiled at him and said, "Oh, you are the son of that old man, come and sit down, sir, I have something to talk to you about." The middle-aged man sat down with some confusion and looked at Teacher Cao.
So, Mr. Cao then said to the middle-aged man: "Sir, in fact, your old man didn't win the lottery, and we didn't do any activities here, but I just wanted his family to come over, and I have something to tell you." When the middle-aged man heard this, his facial expression was obviously surprised, as if he had guessed something, and his eyes were staring at Teacher Cao tightly, wanting to get the answer quickly.
Teacher Cao cleared his throat and said: "Your old man came to me in the morning, I mainly gave him a pulse, gave him a serious diagnosis, I am very responsible to tell you, the old man is now, he is close to the state of running out of oil and the lamp is dry, and it has not yet shown obviously, it may be that there are still some things in his heart that he can't let go, so he has been stiffening, the old man has seven days at most, let you come is to tell the truth of the matter in advance, so that you can also have a psychological preparation, redeem me bluntly, You'd better prepare for the future. When I heard Mr. Cao tell the truth of the matter, the man sitting in the seat slowly lowered his head, and I saw a few crystal tears slipping from his eyes and dripping on his right arm.
There was no one in the clinic who spoke, and there was no sound, time seemed to stand still at this moment, after a while, the man slowly raised his head, his eyes were already soaked with tears, his body was constantly twitching, a man in his forties, who wanted to cry out loud, but held back the sad look that he tried not to show, had infected everyone in our clinic, and everyone looked at him quietly.
The middle-aged man choked up a little and said, "I have long heard that Dr. Cao is a master of traditional Chinese medicine, of course I believe what you say, but what I didn't expect was that this matter would come so suddenly." ”
Teacher Cao comforted him and said: "People's birth, old age, sickness and death are impermanent, which we cannot decide and control, what we can do is to try to help him in the process of his life, so that he can go more at ease." ”
The middle-aged man listened to Mr. Cao's words, and said with some melancholy: "Doctor Cao, you are a good person, I believe in you, I have been holding some words in my heart for many years, I want to tell you about it, can I?" "Yes." Teacher Cao nodded.
So, the middle-aged man told us about the family.
It turned out that the old man who came to the clinic in the morning was called Zhang Qiming, and now the middle-aged man who came to the clinic was called Li Youtian, and they were not biological fathers and sons, but the relationship between adoptive father and stepson.
Li Youtian told his life experience, and the more everyone listened, the more they felt the hardships and hardships of their family's life.
Back then, from the time Li Youtian remembered, he had a happy and happy family, his mother was a hospital nurse, his father was a doctor in the same hospital, although the family of three was not very rich, but the family of three was full of laughter every day.
But often there are unforeseen circumstances, and an incident happened when Li Youtian was five years old, which completely changed the trajectory of his life.
In the summer of this year, their family of three went out to play and walked to a small forest, Li Youtian's father found it very cool here, so he beckoned his wife and little Li Youtian to enjoy the shade under the tree, Xiao Li Youtian's child habits, running back and forth between the trees, his father followed him closely in order to protect him.
It may be that their father and son were too forgetful and too devoted, and their father and son ran out of the grove, and on the periphery of the grove was the national highway, although the industry was not very developed at that time, and there were no vehicles, but there were dozens of military vehicles passing through there that day, all of which were old liberation brand military vehicles at that time.
This kind of old liberation military vehicle, the front shield is very thick and wide, this grove is surrounded by weeds that grow more than one person high, blocking Xiao Li Youtian's vision, when Xiao Li Youtian rushed out of the grass, he did not see these vehicles, and the distance between Xiao Li Youtian and the military vehicle is just a millimeter, but behind him, Li Youtian's father saw it, but because there is still a small distance between their father and son, the reaction time left for Li Youtian's father is too short, and the reaction time left for the driver of the vehicle is too short.
Said that it was too late and that was fast, this may be out of human instinct, only when people reach a state of self-forgetfulness, can they burst out of their potential, only to see Li Youtian's father pounced, and immediately rolled under the wheel of the little Li Youtian with one hand to hold it out, his father due to the effect of inertia, the head just hit the front of the liberation car, instantly unconscious and bleeding, although the little Li Youtian saved his life, but his left hand was crushed by the wheel and the bleeding did not stop, All this was witnessed by the mother of Xiao Li Youtian, who was in the woods, and she screamed and passed out.
When she woke up again, she was already in the hospital, and Xiao Li Youtian saved her life, limited by the medical conditions at the time, the doctors in the hospital tried their best, but they couldn't save Xiao Li Youtian's left hand, so Xiao Li Youtian has been disabled for life since then.
When the result of all this was known to the mother of little Li Youtian lying on the hospital bed, she fell into a state of madness, and kept shouting the name of Li Youtian's father, and then fell unconscious again.
When the nurse entered the ward the next day, she found that Li Youtian's mother had hanged herself, and the nurse was completely stunned by the scene in front of her and ran out of the ward screaming.
It turned out that Li Youtian's mother, when she woke up at night, she had completely lost confidence in life, in the face of her husband's death, the child became disabled again, all this happened, so that her own brain and psychology were unbearable for a while, and she felt that she had no hope and meaning in life, so she chose to hang herself that night, ending her young and precious life.
When Xiao Li Youtian came to his senses, he didn't know that his mother and father had both passed away, he cried and screamed every day to find his mother, and many people in the hospital knew what happened to Xiao Li Youtian, and they all felt sad and sad for the child's situation.
Although the accident was an accident, it also indirectly caused Li Youtian to become an orphan, and the leaders of the unit were very responsible, and after understanding, they knew that little Li Youtian's parents were orphans, so they had no choice but to inquire in many ways, and got in touch with many of Li Youtian's relatives, and wanted them to adopt little Li Youtian, and the army was responsible for all the expenses of the child, but the result was that none of the relatives were willing to adopt the child.
This gave the leaders of the army a headache, if no one was willing to adopt Xiao Li Youtian during the period of recuperation in the hospital, he could only send Xiao Li Youtian to live in an orphanage, which was undoubtedly the result that everyone did not want to see.
There is a doctor named Zhang Qiming in this hospital, his wife is a people's teacher, their husband and wife can not have children, so it is also a pity for Zhang Qiming and his wife, Zhang Qiming, who is in his forties this year, participated in the entire process of treating Xiao Li Youtian, he was very sympathetic to Xiao Li Youtian's suffering, when he learned that no relatives were willing to adopt Xiao Li Youtian, he immediately discussed with his wife to see if he could adopt Xiao Li Youtian, his wife was very reasonable, and agreed without any hesitation.
The next formalities are very simple, with the joint efforts of the army and the hospital, soon the adoption procedures of Xiao Li Youtian were completed, and in this way, Xiao Li Youtian came to a brand new family and formed a new family of three again.
When they first lived together, Xiao Li Youtian was not very used to crying from time to time, but under the careful care and love of Xiao Li Youtian's stepmother, Xiao Li Youtian slowly accepted this new mother and Zhang Qiming, the new father, so the kind two couples spent all their energy and money on Xiao Li Youtian, and this warm family of three lived happily together, living day after day and year after year.
With the growth of Li Youtian, he also knows the ins and outs of everything, he is very filial to Zhang Qiming and his wife, although he is disabled, but through his own continuous efforts, he actually learned to repair cars, and now he himself works in a large local car repair shop, and is also the business supervisor there, and now there is a family of three, life is very happy.
Just a few years ago, Zhang Qiming's wife died forever with a cerebral hemorrhage, and he left very suddenly, which made Zhang Qiming suffer a great blow, and he missed his deceased wife every day.
The people present in our clinic, after listening to Li Youtian's account of their family's situation, everyone was moved, such a kind couple is really rare, and they also feel sad and sad for the fact that Li Youtian will face in the future.
Li Youtian stood up at this time, grabbed Mr. Cao's hand, and said with tears in his eyes: "Doctor Cao, thank you, can you save my father again, his life is really too hard, even if it is to prolong him for some time, I am willing to use my own life as a exchange condition." ”
Teacher Cao also shook his head with tears in his eyes and said, "Brother Li, it's not that I don't treat it, but it's really powerless, I'm really sorry." As he spoke, Mr. Cao lowered his head.
When Li Youtian learned this answer again, the strength of his whole body seemed to be drained in an instant, and he sat on the chair with his butt and cried with a whimper.
None of us stepped forward to stop and comfort him, but silently watched his crying on the sidelines, sometimes it is not much suffering that crushes a middle-aged man, but the departure of the Sauvignon Blanc with you, and the man's tears may be a good release.
Our hearts are extremely heavy, although the passage of life is an inevitable process, but it is extremely painful, life and death parting, is the most difficult emotion in life, but also a test and catharsis of the deceased's emotions.
I looked at Li Youtian's sad crying, my tears also flowed slowly, I thought of the master behind me, who had been silently supporting and protecting me, at the last moment of his life, he also gave me his most precious chaotic space, and gave me his all, which may be what the closest people can do.
Li Youtian cried in his seat for a while, when he vented all the depression in his chest, he stood up, shook hands with everyone in our clinic, and said words of thanks in his mouth, when his figure walked to the door of the clinic and was about to walk out, I looked at his back and said: "Mr. Li, life is not over, the road ahead is still very long, and you still have to work hard for the living, I hope you will pass on the great love of your parents and live up to their expectations of you!" ”
Li Youtian, who walked to the door, heard my words, his body was obviously shocked, he turned his head and looked at me with moist eyes, and said two words in a firm tone: "Certainly!" After that, I strode out of the consultation room, and I looked at him with firm steps and straight back, which made me feel a lot of emotion in my heart.
Just like what I said to Li Youtian just now, life is not over yet, I still have a lot of things to do on the road ahead, for myself, but also for my master, to live up to his ardent expectations for me, I should be more determined to go on this road and never back down.
After Li Youtian left, our clinic resumed the normal order of consultation, Mr. Cao and Dr. Wu had very few words today, maybe they were thinking about their own lives and the people around them, I was busy here in the clinic for a day, and time was inadvertently hurried away.
When I got home in the evening, it was almost nine o'clock, and although there were not many patients to see today, it also consumed most of my energy.
Meditation is a good way to relax and recover my physical strength, and when I slowly enter that state of meditation, my physical strength and energy are recovering quickly, which is something I can experience and feel.
The body feels like sitting in a boat, flickering very wonderful, time is spent in this minute, but the feeling of longing is more profound in the process.
When the next morning, when the first rays of the morning sun shone on my face, I woke up from my meditation state leisurely, I opened my eyes, my eyes were extremely clear and thorough, as if I could see through everything in this world, my eyes showed a determined light, and my body exuded an unprecedented spirit.