Chapter 9 The Poor Man on All Sides
If you can describe this room with four walls, you will never use other adjectives.
A bed, empty, next to a dilapidated cabinet, next to the cabinet is the table where Meng Xingyun holds candles. Two chairs. In the past, it was a wooden shelf, on which some daily necessities were neatly stacked.
The woman said to Mo Jiji: "Trouble big brother, help me get the bed quilt out of the cupboard, and spread it on the bed first." ”
Mo Ji opened the dilapidated cabinet, with clothes on top and two quilts underneath. Mo Ji took out the bed above and quickly spread it on the empty bed.
The woman carefully placed the child on the bed, took out a sheet from the baggage she carried, spread it on the quilt, and gently moved the child over. He stroked the child's forehead with his hand, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Come and sit. The woman pointed to the two chairs, and she took a tissue from her pocket and wiped the chairs. Feeling clean enough, he said to Meng Xingyun and Mo Jiji: "I'm sorry, I haven't been back at home for too long, and it's a little dirty." The two eldest brothers really can't help it, if you don't wait for me, I'll go get some water, wipe it and sit again. ”
"No need, eldest sister, why is your family like this? Is it all for the sake of treating the child?" Meng Xingyun sat on the chair that was still a lot of dust, and he didn't dislike it.
"Alas, I'm uneducated, I don't know anything, I don't know a few words. Originally, a person's life depended on farming, and no matter what happened in the village, he had enough to eat, and his life was originally passable. It's just that after the child got sick, his father took the family's only 20,000 yuan in savings and ran away. I want to see a doctor for my child, but I have no choice but to sell everything I can sell at home...... The child is sensible, and since he was a child, he has suffered a lot with me, a mother who has no ability...... I'm so sorry for the child. As she spoke, the woman's tears fell like broken threads.
"Eldest sister, don't be sad. What do you say about the child's illness now?"
"The doctor said that if I want to do surgery, the cost of surgery alone will be 300,000 yuan, as well as post-care and maintenance, so I will prepare 500,000 yuan...... Where can I find it? In the past few years, I have thought of all the ways I can think of, but I really can't help it. I even asked for food with my children, but I still couldn't help it. I've met well-wishers before, and I can only prescribe medicine until this month to help me with money......"
"And what do you want to do when you come back today?"
"All the way home, I can see that you are also a kind person. I'm stupid, but I don't have any bad intentions. If you want, let me do whatever you want, I will be a cow and a horse for you in this life, as long as I can save the child, he will still be ......" said, the woman pounced, and actually knelt down in front of Meng Xingyun and Mo Jiji.
Meng Xingyun hurriedly helped her up, "Eldest sister, don't be like this, we can meet, it is our fate, the child's matter, we can solve it." ”
"Really? Don't lie to me...... If it is true, my little flower's life will be yours in the future. I'll do whatever you tell me to do, and I'll absolutely obey. ”
"Don't, don't, big sister, your life is still yours. As the saying goes: Saving a life is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter, if I can help, I will definitely do my best to help. In this way, after the Chinese New Year, you will come to work in our company, take your children to live in the city, so that it is convenient for your children to see a doctor, and you also have a salary. When the child's illness is cured, you can make other plans, okay?"
"Really, benefactor......" The woman said, kneeling down to Meng Xingyun again, and Meng Xingyun's sad tears were about to fall.
"Hurry up, don't be like this, sit down, and tell me about the child's treatment plan carefully. ”
"Well, I don't know what the treatment is, and I don't understand or remember a word of what the doctor told me anyway. Originally, this time, I brought my son home...... Woowoo woo ......"
The woman wiped her tears sadly, and then said: "Originally, this time, when we brought the child back, we just wanted the two of us to die together peacefully. The child's medicine is only enough to eat until the end of the month, and I have more than 100 yuan left in my pocket. I thought that just like that, two people can live as long as they want. Whenever my son leaves, I'll go with him......"
"However, I didn't expect that it was really the road of heaven and earth, and God let me meet two such great benevolent people, great benefactors! My son was saved...... Me, I, I ......"
Meng Xingyun and Mo Ji were stunned when they listened!
What a helpless woman this is, she has come to such a step of going home and waiting for death, how desperate and sad she must be on the way back, and the entanglement of her previous thoughts.
Meng Xingyun looked at the teary-eyed woman, and then looked around her home. Meng Xingyun found that although this home was very, very simple, it was very tidy. Things are neatly arranged, and the clothes and quilts in the cabinet are also folded squarely. This is not a sloppy woman, nor is she the kind of woman who gives up on life. She is a person with dreams and pursuits, but she is bent over by the helplessness of life.
A person who is so full of yearning for life, but now, has fallen into such a desperate situation, it is too moving.
"Old Mo, come and discuss. ”
"Yes, needless to say, yes. ”
"I haven't even said yet. ”
"Needless to say, I know!"
"Are you sure?"
"Well, let's go now. ”
Meng Xingyun looked at Mo Ji and felt that the tacit understanding between the two of them was getting better and better. At least in this matter, the tacit understanding made Meng Xingyun feel that this was the heart and soul.
What does that mean? Meng Xingyun originally wanted to discuss with Mo Ji and let this woman take the child and simply go to his house to live together. This family is really pitiful. The child is so young that the family doesn't even have anything to eat. More than 100 yuan, to live until the end of the month, or the New Year. How can it be? The child can't even eat a meal of meat!
I didn't expect Mo Ji to agree so readily, and the sentence of leaving now explains everything.
"Eldest sister, why don't you go with us. Go to Brother Mo's house to live, where it is more convenient to eat and drink, and the children can eat better. And, you don't have to worry, we'll give you a separate room, trust us. You see, the child is still so young, can you bear to let him not even eat a good meal during the New Year? Let's go...... Lao Mo's house is in front, and he passed by the village when he just came over. Mojia Village!"
"This ......"
"Eldest sister, let's go, don't look at yourself, just look at the child pitiful. We're not bad people, trust us. ”
The woman bit her lip, glanced at the sleeping child, and then quietly looked at the home that couldn't even afford the electricity bill and was cut off. He nodded to Mo Jiji.