After a while, Liu Qian stopped her tears.

She pointed to the creek and said to Zhang Xiaohua: "Xiaohua, you see this river, starting from its birthplace, it is just a thin wisp of water, flowing along the riverbed, there are more streams of water coming over, it grows bigger and bigger, slowly, it will become a big river, a big river, zuihou flows into the sea, just like people, it is also the process of its growth, and the sea is its end." If the river doesn't flow, then what will it become? Ponds, stinking ditches, rivers don't flow, they lose the meaning of life, they die. People are the same, they must go through the process of birth, growth, and death, and this is a complete life. Those who can live forever, we don't know, but for ordinary people like us, birth, old age, sickness and death are the necessities of life, and some notes in the song of life. ”

Zhang Xiaohua said strangely: "Weishenme, we can't live forever?"

Liu Qian said: "Because we don't know how to live forever." ”

Then she went on to say: " Like grandma, she is more than 80 years old, has experienced so many ups and downs, she has gone from babbling to growing up, to meeting your grandfather, forming a family, and then having your mother, and working hard to raise your mother and mother, and seeing your mother and your father married, living together, and watching the old wife who has lived all her life pass away, and now I see you grandchildren, born, grown up, her life has been very complete, she does not have too many shortcomings, you should be happy for your grandmother's complete life, more than 80 years of life, how many people can have it。 ”

Zhang Xiaohua looked up and asked, "Then what should I do?"

Liu Qian stroked Mo Xiaohua's head and said: "What you have to do now is to clean up your mood, so that you can accompany your grandmother, so that your grandmother can always look at her beloved grandson during a period of time in Zuihou, without leaving any unhappiness, and leave with peace of mind." ”

The gloom in Zhang Xiaohua's heart had just dissipated at this time, and some happy little faces also bloomed with a smile, and said: "Sister Liu, you know a lot, and I understand it, if I tell my mother these words, she will definitely beat me and say that I don't think about the good." ”

Liu Qian said: "Everyone has their own way of expressing their thoughts, and your mother also tells you in her own way like that, don't think about it, I just tell you in a different way." If I can understand this method, you can come and tell me anything in the future. ”

Zhang Xiaohua said mischievously: "Of course, I have to talk to my sister in the future." ”

Liu Qian said: "Naughty little devil, let's hurry up and fetch water, the sun is getting tall." In a moment, your mother will talk about you again. ”

Zhang Xiaohua stuck out her tongue and said, "Then let's go quickly, but when I come out with my sister, my mother will definitely not blame me for going back late." ”

Having said that, Zhang Xiaohua still hurriedly went to fetch water, because her grandmother seemed to like drinking this mountain spring water too.

In the next few days, my grandmother's condition became worse and worse, and she coughed up blood, really as Zhang Xiaohua said, my grandmother was not an ordinary disease. At this time, Guo Sufei was really anxious, she didn't care about complaining about the veterinarian Lao Chen, and she didn't care about taking care of a few injured family members, so she quickly found a donkey cart and wanted to take her grandmother to the town to see a doctor. Zhang Xiaohua wanted to follow, but was still left at home by his mother, Zhang Cai, the head of the Zhang family, was going to go, although his leg injury was not completely healed, and he just took this opportunity to let the doctor see, the space of the donkey cart was limited, and only the grandmother's favorite grandson stayed at home.

The donkey cart carrying the group set off in the morning, Zhang Xiaohua helped Liu Qian take care of the two injured brothers, and took the handle to do housework, but unfortunately his mind was still thinking about his grandmother, and peeked out from time to time. Although Liu Qian wanted to tell him that it was dark when her grandmother came back, she still couldn't help it when she saw Zhang Xiaohua, Zhang Xiaolong, and Zhang Xiaohu's absent-minded appearance and anxious looks, she was just very considerate about the trivial things at home, and didn't say anything comforting.

Time passed little by little, the sky gradually darkened, and finally, in Zhang Xiaohua's eyes, I saw the belated donkey cart. Zhang Xiaohua immediately jumped down from the chair, and rushed out of the house without greeting the two brothers, and in a hurry, her foot tripped on a small stool by the door, and she stumbled and almost fell, and she didn't care about the small stool that he kicked aside, and went out.

When he ran out of the small fence gate, the donkey cart was also close, and he saw the person who was driving the cart, jumped off the donkey cart, took the reins of the little donkey and walked a few steps forward, and arrived in front of Zhang Xiaohua, and then grabbed the reins and parked the car in front of the door of Zhang's small courtyard.

The three people in thick clothes sitting in the back of the car couldn't see their faces clearly in the twilight. Before the donkey cart stopped, Zhang Xiaohua heard a heavy cough from one of them, he walked to the donkey cart distressedly, and called obediently: "Grandma~", but unfortunately grandma was coughing hard, and there was no way to promise her grandson's greeting.

Guo Sufei got out of the car first, and beckoned Zhang Xiaohu, who had already rushed over at this time, to help Zhang Cai down first, and then with Liu Qian and Zhang Xiaohua, she carefully helped her grandmother, who had just finished coughing, down.

Zhang Cai settled the money with the driver of the car, and the donkey cart went straight away, leaving the Zhang family and his party to stand in the twilight.

Liu Qian and Zhang Xiaohua supported their grandmother, coughing all the way to their grandmother's hut, listening to the cough, Zhang Xiaohua's heart was a little broken. But halfway through, my grandmother said with difficulty, "Let's go to the hall first, and stay with you a little longer." ”

The two helped their grandmother into the hall as they said.

Guo Sufei followed in reluctantly, and then Zhang Xiaohu helped Zhang Cai, who was still limping and had a gloomy look on his face, and it was Zhang Xiaolong who entered the room with his arm still hanging on his chest.

The hall was not very big, and people came in and sat there without speaking, and the air in the room seemed to freeze.

At this time, her grandmother began to cough again, Liu Qian hurried over, poured a cup of warm water for her grandmother to drink, and gradually stopped coughing.

Liu Qian wanted to speak, breaking the silence, but she didn't know how to speak.

Finally, grandma spoke: "The doctor in this town is really not ordinarily expensive, Su Fei, next time we won't go, it will cost a penny of silver to see a doctor, so how long will it take our family." ”

Guo Sufei smiled and said: "Mother, look at what you said, if you are sick, you have to go to see it, even if the family is poor, you can't delay this disease." ”

Grandma said: "I have a spectrum in my own heart for this disease, and if it is not a doctor who can see haode, I will say that I will not go, and you will still spend this money in vain." ”

Guo Sufei's eyes turned a little red at this time, and said, "Mother, don't worry about us, doesn't Zhang Cai also have to see a doctor, you just go by the way." ”

Grandma sighed and stopped talking. After drinking a little more water, the cough seemed to be lightened, which allowed Xiaohua to help her back to the house to rest.

Zhang Xiaohua sent her grandmother to the kang and covered her with a quilt, but her grandmother seemed tired and soon fell asleep. Zhang Xiaohua crept out of the hut.

Back in the hall, the mother in the house was sobbing quietly and wiping her tears. Daddy smoked a dry cigarette with a gloomy face, and the eldest brother and second brother and Liu Qian also did not look good.

Zhang Xiaohua knew that her grandmother's condition was not good, and she was not surprised, so she didn't bother to ask about the specific condition, so she just silently found a small bench and sat in the shadow by the wall.

After a while, Guo Sufei regained a little calm, stopped sobbing, and seemed to see Xiaohua come back at this time, she asked softly: "Xiaohua, is your grandmother sleeping?"

Zhang Xiaohua nodded and said, "Yes, mother, grandma is probably tired, and she fell asleep not long after she was on the kang." ”

Guo Sufei turned her head again and asked Zhang Cai: "Father, what do you think we should do? Do you want to go to a bigger city to find a more doctor?"

Zhang Cai took a deep breath of cigarette, spit it out, squinted his eyes and said: "Alas, you didn't hear the doctor say that my mother's disease is not an ordinary cough, it is because I am old and my body can't support it, so I cough, and there is no way to cure it." Besides, my mother's body is like this, can she go to a bigger town? I heard that Pingyang City, which is the closest to us, will take a day and a night to run non-stop, and my mother is afraid that she will not be able to bear it. ”

Guo Sufei was a little sad again, and her voice was a little crying: "Then watch my mother's body collapse little by little? Listen to my mother's cough so badly every day?"

Zhang Cai smiled bitterly and said: "This is also something that can't be helped, didn't the doctor also say it, a person as old as his mother, he is still rare, and, for people in their eighties, the mother's body is considered haode, I think we should listen to the doctor's words, let my mother take care of haode, rest well, eat well, and let her live this time well." ”

Guo Sufei also has no other way, she knows that her mother has come to the end of her life, but she still has a fluke, and she has been sick for a long time, trying to catch something, but, in the face of this cruel reality, how much is a little hope worth of people?

Guo Sufei stared at the flickering flames on the oil lamp weakly, as if she was pondering, and suddenly, she asked Zhang Cai: "By the way, the child's father, what did the doctor say my mother ate, why don't I know?"

Hearing this, Zhang Cai also raised his head and looked at Guo Sufei suspiciously.

Everyone asked, "What is it?"

Zhang Cai knocked on the dry cigarette and said: "At that time, in the hospital, the doctor just started to diagnose that your grandmother had run out of oil and had run out of lamps, and there was nothing to diagnose, and this cough was only a superficial condition, and the body was already a mess. However, later, your mother begged hard, and he carefully diagnosed, only to find that although your grandmother's body has been extremely bad, there is a essence in the body, but this essence is too little, not enough to maintain your grandmother's life, the doctor said that it must be because your grandmother has eaten some good things such as ginseng recently?"

Everybody's gone, ginseng, how can the family have money to buy that thing?