Chapter 7: A Bitter Past
Li Lanfang jumped mischievously with her hands behind her back, pretending to inadvertently lean on Zhao Yunfei's shoulder with her shoulder, and said, "The good news is that 'corn can be replanted'!"
Han Tuo rolled his eyes and said contemptuously, "This is still good news, I'm not rare......
Without waiting for Han Tuo to finish speaking, Zhao Yunfei asked anxiously: "Is it really too late to replant?"
"What my dad said, he said that it must be planted quickly, and it may not be ripe if it is too late!" Li Lanfang put away her mischievous expression and looked at Zhao Yunfei's eyes intently, the tenderness in her eyes seemed to be overflowing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
When Zhao Yunfei heard the news, his heart immediately felt much more relaxed, if he planted two acres of corn and only lost more than one acre of rice, it seemed that he would be able to survive this year.
The meat in the pot was cooked, Xiao Ji had already muttered that he wanted to eat, Zhao Yunfei put a small square wooden table under the big apricot tree, Han Tuo set up a bench, Li Lanfang took the dishes and chopsticks, Zhao Yunfei took a small ceramic basin full of meat, and gave each person a bowl of broth, the soup was soaked in pancakes, and everyone sat around the table and ate happily!
It's still easy to eat some game in the countryside, and although the countryside is more backward than the city, it is very resilient to pressure, and as long as it is not a particularly big famine, even a lazy man who is lazier than a pig will not starve to death.
Li Lanfang and Zhao Yunfei were very close to each other, and she touched Zhao Yunfei's arm with her elbow from time to time, and then the two looked at each other meaningfully.
Zhao Yun flew away and quietly reminded Li Lanfang: "Don't let your parents see that shirt!"
Li Lanfang's face turned red all of a sudden, and she whispered, "It's washed, it's almost dry!"
Although it was under the catastrophe, the courtyard of Zhao Yunfei's house was full of warmth and laughter, and the first taste of love made Zhao Yunfei feel a long-lost feeling of home in his heart, which seemed to be a ray of sunshine after the rain, sprinkled into the depths of his heart.
For Zhao Yunfei, life is no longer just about taking care of his sister Xiaoji, no longer just about those tiring farm work - life suddenly has more meaning!
Some people said that the village was going to be destroyed, and no one in the village could survive, and those who believed in this statement even ran away with their families to take refuge, of course, they temporarily went to live at a relative's house for a few days, and when they saw that nothing happened, they came back in disgrace.
Some say that the disaster will not appear until 2012, when flash floods will turn Donglongquan Village into a vast ocean.
There are also people who hold objections, saying that the dragon symbolizes auspiciousness, the dragon formed by dark clouds is a good omen, East Longquan Village wants to produce a powerful person, at that time the dragon head points to whoever this powerful person is out of whom's house, there are several families in the west of the village seem to be within the scope of the dragon head, these families all bought firecrackers to set, on the one hand, it is to celebrate, on the other hand, considering that there may also be an unlucky omen, firecrackers can collapse an evil spirit, the people in the village see these few households set off firecrackers, and they also follow the firecrackers to join in the fun, so that several neighboring villages also set off cannons, and it seems that it is the New Year under the catastrophe。
The next few days were busy buying corn seeds, preparing the land, and sowing seeds, Han Tuo and Li Lanfang came to help, and after a few busy days, they finally replanted the corn, Zhao Yunfei just breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately came to another worrying thing - the money was gone.
If there was no hailstorm, the hundreds of yuan in his hand, life would have been completely possible, this unexpected hail completely disrupted Zhao Yunfei's rhythm, originally there was wheat at home and could still be sold for money, but now the market is too low, it is too cost-effective to sell, and he does not dare to sell more, and he is afraid that if he sells more, he is afraid that it will not be enough for a year's rations.
What he is most afraid of now is that his sister is sick, he can eat one less meal and not die of hunger, if he is sick, he will have to spend money to see a doctor, and if he doesn't see a doctor, he will really die!
Speaking of borrowing money, Zhao Yunfei had an experience of borrowing money.
When my mother just went to work in other provinces, she would send 200 yuan of living expenses to their brothers and sisters on time every month, suddenly there was a month, Zhao Yunfei did not receive the remittance slip, fortunately there was some money left last month, the brother and sister saved the food and boiled for a month, and the second month still did not receive the remittance slip, at this time, Zhao Yunfei and his sister Xiaoji had already eaten the last meal without the next meal, the younger sister was still too young, only two years old, she knew how to cry when she was hungry, Zhao Yunfei was not very old at the time, and she was helpless in the face of this situation, and she didn't know what to do at all, fortunately, Li Lanfang and Han Tuo brought a pancake from time to time, and then Li Lanfang told her father about the situation of Zhao Yunfei's brothers and sisters, Li Lanfang's father and mother discussed, after all, they have lived in the front and back yards for so many years, and they can't watch the two children starving, so they can cook more lunch and dinner every day, and let Li Lanfang send them over to their brothers and sisters, so they insisted on it for another month.
One day after the winter, Xiao Ji suddenly had a fever, Zhao Yunfei hurriedly carried Xiao Ji to the barefoot doctor's house in the village, the doctor took a rusty stethoscope and put it on Xiao Ji's stomach to listen, and looked at Xiao Ji's tongue, said that it was a cold, and he didn't ask Zhao Yunfei for money after prescribing a few packs of medicine, but after Xiao Ji took the medicine for two days, the fever was even worse, and he was in a coma all day, and his hands were hot when he touched Xiao Ji's head, Zhao Yunfei didn't dare to delay any longer, and walked for more than two hours with Xiao Ji on his back to the town's health center, and when he arrived at the health center, Zhao Yunfei's cotton jacket had been soaked with sweat。
The doctors in the town health center are much more reliable than the barefoot doctors in the village, after all, they have studied medicine in a regular school, unlike the doctors in the village who mainly rely on self-taught, full-time to treat pigs, and part-time to show people.
The doctor who examined Xiao Ji was a man, in his thirties, wearing a pair of myopia glasses, after the examination, he said that he was pneumonia and must be hospitalized immediately, and asked Zhao Yunfei: "Why didn't your adults come?"
Zhao Yunfei: "They are far away, and they will come back in a few days!"
Doctor: "Pneumonia is a disease that waits for no one, you should hurry up to the inpatient department to pay the fee and go through the hospitalization procedures." ”
Zhao Yunfei: "Can you treat the disease first, and then I'll send the money when the disease is cured?"
When the doctor heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and looked up and down at the boy who looked about ten years old.
Zhao Yunfei wore a blue cloth cotton jacket on his upper body, no jacket, and a few black cloth patches at the lower corners of the placket, but it was quite clean, the lower half of the body was very thin, and there was already a pair of red autumn pants inside the pants, the legs of the red autumn pants were relatively long, and the long parts were piled up at the ankles, and at a glance, he knew that the autumn pants were not his own.
As a doctor in a township health center, most of the patients I face are from rural areas, and I often meet villagers who have no money for treatment, and those who have no money for treatment are dressed and look very similar, and even the content of their speech is almost the same, which is nothing more than "see a doctor first, and send money in two days!" Or: "Can you prescribe some cheap medicine?"
Based on past experience, the doctor immediately judged that the basic conditions of the two children in front of him were nothing more than these three:
First, the father is sick and cannot take care of himself, and the mother is out to work, or is divorced;
Second, the mother is sick and unable to take care of herself, and the father goes out to work, or is divorced;
Thirdly, both parents are sick and unable to take care of themselves, or one of them has passed away, or both are no longer alive.
......
The doctor coughed twice, calmed down, and tried to slow down his speech: "We are all in the same town, what do you have to say, it's no problem if I don't charge you for my examination fee, don't pay the hospitalization deposit first, and arrange the ward for hospitalization first, but if you don't have cash, you can't buy medicine, you can't get an infusion without medicine, and no one can get medicine without cash in the pharmacy." ”
Although Zhao Yunfei is young, he also knows that what the doctor said is the truth, charging and taking medicine are two windows, and the window for taking medicine only recognizes the list stamped with the fee stamp, otherwise the medicine will not be released.
Zhao Yunfei lowered his head and thought for a while, and asked, "How much does it cost to cure my sister's illness?"
The doctor said, "Depending on your sister's condition, at least ten days of fluids will be infused, which will cost about 2,000 yuan." ”
Zhao Yunfei said: "Okay, let my sister live in the ward first, and I'll go home to get the money." ”
The doctor didn't say anything, and lowered his head to open the hospitalization order.
Zhao Yunfei took the hospitalization sheet and carried Xiao Ji into the ward, found the bed number, put Xiao Ji on the bed, there was a quilt and pillow at the head of the bed, Zhao Yunfei picked up Xiao Ji's head, put the pillow under her head, and pulled the quilt to cover her, and then whispered to Xiao Ji who was still asleep: "Xiao Ji, wait for my brother here, brother will go home and get money to treat you!"
Zhao Yunfei didn't dare to delay, ran out of the health center, and went straight to his uncle's village.
When I arrived at my uncle's house, my uncle asked me what I meant, and I was also very anxious, so I walked into the back room and was about to take the money, and my aunt followed in, Zhao Yunfei heard them arguing in a whisper, and then my aunt's voice became louder and said, "When will their family be able to repay the money?" Don't expect it in this life, your son still needs money to go to school outside, I see you give it to your fart!"
After listening to what his aunt said, Zhao Yunfei didn't say anything, turned around and left.
The uncle caught up from behind, stuffed the twenty yuan into Zhao Yunfei's hand, and said with a sad face: "Your cousin is in a junior college in the province, and I am still worried about the tuition fee, you can take the twenty yuan to Xiaoji first......
Zhao Yunfei didn't take the money, and ran away.
While running, the tears on his face couldn't stop flowing, and he secretly swore in his heart: "Even if I die, I won't borrow money from anyone again!"
Zhao Yunfei ran back to the health center, found the doctor, stretched out his arm and said, "Can I sell this blood to the health center? ”
The doctor had a stunned expression, and after a long time, he said: "Your sister's pneumonia is very serious, you can't wait, so let's do it, I'll give you the money for today's infusion first, and then you go home and think of other ways, to be honest, my monthly salary is not high, if I advance money like this every day, I can't afford it!"
At this point, there is no need to say more, Zhao Yunfei understands that the doctors have already helped a lot, and they can no longer make it difficult for the family.
When he came out of the health center, he was so sad that he hated to die immediately, feeling that although the world was big, he didn't know where to find 2,000 yuan for his sister's medical treatment.