Section II

Li Hongxia doesn't remember how she got home. Walking into the house, she mechanically took off her coat, tied her apron, and began to prepare dinner. She was in the kitchen chopping vegetables reluctantly, her head was blank, and by accident, her fingers were cut. Li Hongxia sucked the red blood oozing from her fingertips, and tears slipped down drop by drop. The weak body could no longer support it, and sat on the ground in a dejected manner. A voice echoed in Li Hongxia's heart, "Life, why are you so cruel to me?" If she knew Ma Weiguo and had this family before, in the face of the same blow, she would calmly accept, and even look forward to such a disaster, as a complete relief. She did not have the courage to commit suicide, so she could only use external forces to end this painful life. But now that she has something worthy of her nostalgia, with Ma Weiguo, Duoduo and this family, she has just seen the beautiful side of life full of sunshine, but God wants to end her trip in the world, so that Li Hongxia has infinite attachment and complains about God's injustice. How can this newly settled home withstand such a flying disaster? Li Hongxia's heart was in a mess, and she didn't know how to deal with it.

The door opened, and a voice called "Mom" came from the door. Li Hongxia stood up with difficulty holding on to the cupboard, and before she could turn around, Ma Weiguo rushed into the kitchen, hugged her from behind, and kissed her the cheek. This kind of intimate behavior Ma Weiguo has never been, Duoduo stood at the door of the kitchen, and smiled evilly. Li Hongxia looked at Ma Weiguo in surprise, Ma Weiguo pulled her shoulders and looked directly into her eyes, with excitement on his face that could not be concealed. "Today I signed a big order, and a sanitation department ordered 50 boxes from me at once, which is developed!" Ma Weiguo shouted, picked up Li Hongxia and spun around.

Putting down Li Hongxia, Ma Weiguo lifted Duoduo up again, "Your father is rich!" Ma Weiguo, who was too excited, didn't notice that Li Hongxia was unsteady on her feet because of physical and mental exhaustion, and her body shook and almost fell. Ma Weiguo excitedly circled in the narrow kitchen, and Duoduo, who was held up in the air, let out a "giggle" laugh, as crisp and pleasant as a silver bell. Looking at the overjoyed Ma Weiguo and her innocent and lovely daughter, Li Hongxia concealed her illness and spent the last happy time with them, as long as she could! This is the last sacrifice and last sacrifice for her beloved husband and daughter.

Duoduo fell asleep, Ma Weiguo and Li Hongxia hugged each other and lay on the bed. Ma Weiguo's high mood has not calmed down, and he paints a bright picture of the future for his wife - "The most important thing is that I have found a vast market, as long as I seize the opportunity, dig deeper, and get the city's sanitation department done, the orders are sky-high." At that time, we may not need a loan at all to buy a house......" Ma Weiguo gushed endlessly, suddenly feeling a wetness on his body, and looking down, Li Hongxia's shoulders shrugged and sobbed suppressedly.

"What's wrong with you?" Ma Weiguo asked eagerly.

Li Hongxia raised her face, wiped the tears on her cheeks, shook her head and said, "It's okay, I'm happy, happy for you, happy for me and Duoduo." We've finally made it through. Li Hongxia said excitedly. Her excitement is heartfelt, but she may not have a chance to participate in such a bright future. Her only hope now is to live to see that day come.

"The future is bright, the road is tortuous, we must make up our minds not to be afraid of sacrifice and overcome all difficulties to strive for victory!" Ma Weiguo said in high spirits.

In the bathroom of the hotel, Li Hongxia was busy as usual despite the pain. A drunken girl rushed into the toilet, pushed open the bathroom door, and vomited on the toilet, Li Hongxia looked at her attentively, as if she saw herself when she was young. At that time, on the days when there were no performances, she never went home before dawn, and spent the night in bars and KTVs, not once she was not drunk, coupled with drug abuse and indulgent sex, all of which were destroying her health and planting the bane for today's terminal illness. She wanted to go forward and persuade the girl, but she was afraid that she would be bored, so she finally hesitated and did not speak. She was also young, and at such an age, other people's good words are just a fart!

The drunken girl finished vomiting, staggered in front of the washstand to rinse her mouth and wash her hands, and let her back take out her lipstick makeup in front of the mirror. From the mirror, she found Li Hongxia looking at her in a daze, was stunned for a moment, then grabbed a handful of banknotes from her pocket and threw it to Li Hongxia, turned around and walked out drunk. The lipstick that fell there was eye-catching like a bullet.

Li Hongxia looked at the banknotes scattered under her feet, slowly bent down, carefully picked up the hundred-yuan bills, and held them tightly in her hand, which was half a month's salary. She picked up the girl's lipstick, looked in the mirror, painted her mouth red, and cried as she applied it. The lost youth is like flowing water, which makes people infinitely nostalgic and touches the scene. Standing near the end of her life, Li Hongxia suddenly looked back, only to feel that her youth was so ridiculous and her life was so meaningless.

On the weekend, Sihua and his wife brought some gifts to see Ma Weiguo's family, all of which were daily necessities. Sihua understands Ma Weiguo's temper, and too expensive gifts will make him unhappy, because he is unwilling to accept charity in any sense, and his strong self-esteem makes him abide by the principle of life of killing people and not asking for help.

Li Hongxia fought hard and talked with Sihua's wife. Sihua's wife looked at Li Hongxia for a moment, and asked hesitantly: "Sister Xia, are you uncomfortable?" I see that your face is very bad. Her words attracted the attention of Ma Weiguo and Sihua, and she unceremoniously blamed Ma Weiguo: "Weiguo, look at you, men are just careless, and his wife is in such a bad spirit, she doesn't know." The four modernizations also counted Ma Weiguo, "Yes! Why don't you care about your sister-in-law at all. ”

Ma Weiguo looked at Li Hongxia and muttered in his mouth: "I've been a little busy lately, so I didn't pay attention!" ”

Li Hongxia was worried about being seen as a flaw, so she hurriedly covered it up and said: "I slept last night with a little stuffiness in my chest, so I got up and went to the balcony to breathe, maybe I had a cold, so the color was poor." It's not a big deal, I've already taken medicine, and I'll boil some ginger soup to drink at night, and I'll be fine soon! Hearing her say this, everyone was relieved and continued to laugh.

When Duoduo came home from music class, he shouted at Sihua and his wife, "Hello uncle and aunt!" Then he pestered Li Hongxia, "Mom, I'm hungry!" Li Hongxia held Duoduo's little face, a little distracted, and didn't even hear what Duoduo said.

Ma Weiguo urged: "Hurry up and get some food for the child, there will be a dance class in the evening!" ”

Li Hongxia reacted at this time, and hurriedly got up to give Duoduo hot milk, took bread, and staggered. Duoduo shouted while eating, "Mom, I'm going to wear the new clothes I bought yesterday, and besides, get my dance costume ready, I'm going to be late." Li Hongxia agreed, a little sluggish, and seemed to be absent-minded.

Sihua leaned into Ma Weiguo's ear and whispered: "I think my sister-in-law is a little wrong, you should pay more attention and take her to the hospital for a check-up." Don't let small problems become big problems! Ma Weiguo looked at his wife worriedly and nodded slowly.

Li Hongxia sent Duoduo away and returned to the table. Sihua hurriedly changed the topic, "It seems that you husband and wife have really spent a lot of money on Duoduo!" It's music and dance, don't tire the child, these things depend on the child's own interests."

Li Hongxia smiled bitterly and said, "I like it a lot!" ”

Ma Weiguo added: "Don't be soft on spending money for children! ”

Sihua and his wife laughed. Sihua's wife half-truthfully ridiculed Sihua: "He's good, he spends all day drinking outside, and he is very slamming at home." ”

Sihua glared, "If you give me a child, I'm still willing to spend money!" "They haven't had children until now.

Ma Weiguo said cautiously: "Have you been to the hospital for a check-up?" In case of...... Let's hug one too! You see a lot, now the relationship with us is also very good, there is a child in the heart of the heart, you know why you should work hard! ”

Sihua waved his hand disapplausively, "Don't worry, I'm not as dedicated to her as you are to your sister-in-law." If she really can't give birth, change her head immediately! Sihua's wife gave him a blank look, and Li Hongxia was silent. Sihua realized that he didn't speak through his brain, and turned to talk about Tietou, saying that Tietou finally got his wish and gave birth to a big fat boy. But the atmosphere in the room was still a little dull, Sihua simply pulled up Ma Weiguo, went out to drink, and threw the two sullen women in the house.

In the middle of the night, Li Hongxia, who was lying on the bed, was like a knife, she shook her lips to prevent herself from making a sound, leaving a row of bleeding tooth marks on her lips. The pajamas on his body were already soaked with cold sweat. Li Hongxia was worried that she wouldn't be able to hold on, so she screamed and quietly got out of bed and went to the bathroom. Sitting on the toilet, she pressed one hand to her stomach, the other tearing her hair, and her head buried deep in the middle of her thigh. Such pain erupted more and more frequently, and Li Hongxia's will was on the verge of collapse. She never thought that she would be so strong, in the past, whenever she felt a little unwell, she would call someone to serve her, and she was coquettish like a child. Those suitors all rushed to seize this opportunity to pay tribute to her and take the opportunity to rub oil. Now, she is an ordinary man, for Duoduo, who is not her own, and is fighting to the death against the unbearable pain of ordinary people. She was trying to delay the end of her life, wanting to spend more time with her husband and daughter, and once she was knocked down by pain, it meant that the end of life was at hand.

The pain eased a little, and Li Hongxia prepared to go back to bed, lest Ma Weiguo find out that something was wrong. The moment she stood up from the toilet, a sharp pain hit her heart, Li Hongxia felt that it was dark in front of her, the sky was dizzy, and her body fell down softly, silently.

Ma Weiguo waited in bed for a long time, and found that Li Hongxia had not come out of the bathroom, so he got up and pushed the bathroom door, and the door was locked. Ma Weiguo called "Hongxia" a few times, no one in the room answered, Ma Weiguo, who had a premonition that something was wrong, kicked open the door and saw Li Hongxia lying curled up by the toilet. Li Hongxia clenched her teeth, her face pale.

Ma Weiguo called out to his wife loudly, shaking her body vigorously, but Li Hongxia did not react, like a dead person. Ma Weiguo felt a chill rise from the soles of his feet, and his whole body was cold as if he had fallen into an ice cave. He picked up his wife and put her back on the bed, and Duoduo had been woken up by the violent noise, and he was so frightened that he couldn't stop crying on the top bunk. Ma Weiguo was at a loss, his mind was in chaos, he picked up the water cup from the table, poured it down, and calmed down a lot. He asked Duoduo to put on clothes, and put a coat on Li Hongxia to block the wind, and then rushed out of the house with his wife on his back, Duoduo took the corner of his father's clothes, and trotted all the way behind. At the gate of the community, Ma Weiguo finally stopped a taxi, "Go to the hospital!" The driver looked at Ma Weiguo's blood-red eyes, didn't say a word, stepped on the accelerator and went straight to the hospital.

The lights in the hospital's emergency room were on, and Li Hongxia was rescuing inside. In the corridor, Ma Weiguo sat on the cold bench, his eyes looking straight ahead, his eyes were empty, and he was stupid. Duoduo was lying on the bench, pillowed on his lap, already asleep. In the distance, the TV in the hospital lobby heard the sound of the whole country jubilating after the successful Olympic bid, and the host's voice was hoarse because of excitement. In this celebratory atmosphere, Ma Weiguo's family slipped into the abyss of disaster.

The lights in the emergency room went out, the doctor walked out, and Ma Weiguo hurriedly woke up Duoduo and greeted him. "Doctor, how is my wife? Not life-threatening, right? What exactly is the problem? Ma Weiguo eagerly asked the doctor.

The doctor glanced at Ma Weiguo with a solemn expression, "Come to my office!" ”

In the doctor's office, Ma Weiguo put his arm around Duoduo, like a prisoner standing in the dock waiting for the verdict to be announced. Duoduo snuggled in his father's arms and looked at the old doctor who was over half a hundred years old with frightened eyes.

The doctor coughed dryly, looked at Ma Weiguo's father and daughter, "You have to be mentally prepared...... Ma Weiguo's heart suddenly sank to the bottom. "Your wife's previous ** lesion has turned into cancer because it was not treated in time. The situation is not optimistic......"

Ma Weiguo asked mechanically, "How serious is it?" ”

"I'm afraid I won't be able to celebrate this New Year!"

Ma Weiguo's body trembled, and Duoduo shouted in panic: "Dad, Dad, is Mom okay?" ”

Ma Weiguo begged: "Doctor, you must save her." She has suffered so much, she has just lived a good life, and she has not enjoyed a few days of happiness! If you can't just let her go, what will my daughter and I do? ”

The doctor nodded understandingly, "We will do our best to save the patient's life." It's just ...... "He has been a doctor for decades and has been in contact with countless patients, and he can intuitively judge the financial situation of this family, and the medical expenses may be astronomical, which they simply cannot afford."

"Just what?"

"According to her condition, the preliminary estimate of medical expenses is also 300,000 yuan, and you have to pay 300,000 yuan to the hospital first."

Another blow to the head, Ma Weiguo muttered inarticulately: "300,000, 300,000...... Doctor, can you give me a few days of grace first, I will definitely get the money together. It's important to save people! ”

The doctor said helplessly: "This is the hospital system, and I can't help it." In this way, let the patient be hospitalized first, and you hurry back to raise money, otherwise I can't do anything. ”

Ma Weiguo walked out of the doctor's office in a trance, and he still had a dream-like unreality of the disaster in front of him. Through the glass window on the door of the ward, Ma Weiguo looked at his wife who was rolling in pain on the bed, and looked at this woman who had suffered many disasters in her life, and his heart was like a knife.

He went through the hospitalization procedures for Li Hongxia like sleepwalking, and then took Duoduo home, entrusted Duoduo to the care of neighbors, packed up Li Hongxia's clothes and toiletries, and returned to the hospital. In the taxi, he even wondered if it was because of the harm he caused to Sha Wei that God wanted to punish himself and atone for his sins. As soon as the family survived, disaster fell from the sky.

He took out all his savings, 100,000 yuan, and handed them over to the hospital. The 100,000 yuan that Ma Weiguo and Li Hongxia had worked so hard to save was originally used to buy a house, but in the face of expensive medical expenses, 100,000 yuan was just a small fraction and was quickly spent.

Ma Weiguo asked for a long leave from the unit to take care of his wife in the hospital. Li Hongxia was undergoing chemotherapy, and Ma Weiguo just walked to the door of the chemotherapy room with his things, and found that Li Hongxia had been pushed out. Ma Weiguo threw something and rushed up, grabbing the nurse's neck.

"What are you doing?"

"If you don't have money, you will die outside." The nurse's answer was very cold-blooded.

Ma Weiguo suddenly lost his confidence, his angry face turned to despair, and the hand holding the nurse loosened weakly. muttering to himself: "I have money, I have money......" The scene is just like many years ago Ma Jianshe grabbed Yang Shengli's neck and begged him to save Ma Weiguo.

Lying on the stretcher, Li Hongxia, whose hair had become sparse because of chemotherapy, and whose face was pale and bloodless, looked at the helpless Ma Weiguo and closed her eyes sadly.

As soon as the BMW of Sihua stopped at the gate of the factory, a person appeared in the oblique spur. Before he and Luo Gang could see who it was, a bucket of something fell on the windshield of the car, obscuring the view. Sihua and Luo Gang were stunned, Sihua's first reaction was that he was in arrears, and the debt collector came.

Ma Weiguo lay on the windshield and wiped the glass with detergent, and the foam was gradually wiped off, revealing the surprised faces of Sihua and Luo Gang in the car. Ma Weiguo was like he didn't see it, he still wiped the glass very seriously, looking like no one was around. Sihua and Luo Gang got out of the car, looked at each other, and finally looked at Ma Weiguo.

"What are you doing here?" Four questions asked.

Ma Weiguo looked directly at the four transformations and asked bluntly, "How much am I worth?" ”

Sihua was stunned, "Weiguo, what do you mean by this?" ”

Luo Gang was also anxious beside him, "Weiguo, what's going on?" You can kill people in a hurry! ”

Ma Weiguo ignored their questions and repeated his question firmly: "Is the second half of my life worth 200,000?" ”

The four modernizations are speechless.

"Lend me 200,000 yuan to save Hongxia's life, and I will pay it back with the rest of my life!" Ma Weiguo simply explained his intentions.

Sihua understood in an instant, didn't blink his eyes, and said, "Follow me to get the money!" ”

Ma Weiguo went straight to the hospital with 200,000 cash borrowed from Sihua. In the nurse duty station of the hospital, the nurse who once let Li Hongxia die outside in cold blood was looking down at the magazine. Ma Weiguo walked up to her and poured the 200,000 bags in a plastic bag on the nurse's head, "Give me the best medicine......

The nurse looked at Ma Weiguo in amazement, her eyes were full of anger, but she had nothing to say. Money can make cold-blooded people no longer cold-blooded.