In the general ward of the central hospital in City C, there are six people in one room, and the white walls and white lights are full of people wearing blue bar hospital gowns, coughing to death, and the patient's family members with sad faces.

Yu Xiaoshan's mother is a simple rural woman who has never left City C in her life.

The fifth head, wearing a cotton shirt with dark red florals, his hair was gray and white, his complexion had the kind of bright and healthy red peculiar to working people, and there were more wrinkles on his forehead and the corners of his eyes, and he looked older than his actual age.

The old man had woken up, with an oxygen mask still hanging from his mouth, and his hand was still being hit with an infusion needle that had been uninterrupted for several hours.

If you see the appearance of Yu Xiaoshan's father, you can judge what it looks like when Xiaoshan is old. The same size, the same figure, and the proportions of hands and feet are exactly the same. The lines on his face are as hard as a knife and an axe, and he looks at a tough guy at a glance.

Yu Xiaoshan's parents have a good relationship. In his 60s, he could chat and chat for a night, sometimes Yu Xiaoshan went home and occasionally accompanied them for a day, and in the middle of the night, he could hear his parents chattering and chattering quietly. He was so helpless that he often protested: "Mom and Dad, I can come back for a day so easily, if you two have anything to say to me, we will talk all night." ”

I have the impression that my parents rarely quarrel, and my father has only done anything to his mother once in his life. In the years of his mother's menopause, every day his temper was so weird that Yu Xiaoshan took a detour, for fear that any word and which look would touch the old lady's minefield, she could babble in your ear for days.

Once I really annoyed the old man and slapped the old lady. When Yu Xiaoshan went home for dinner, the old lady complained: "Tell you, your father did it with me today!

Yu Xiaoshan asked his father, and his father ate silently. When the old lady finished eating, the old lady wanted to clean up the dishes, and the old man pulled his wife: "Go and go, stay side, I will wash the dishes today." ”

You must know that his father may have washed dishes for a day in his life. Fools can see that the old man regrets it, but he is stubborn and silent, and he will not admit his mistake.

Yu Xiaoshan caused a lot of trouble when he was a child, the old man and the old lady had never read and could not educate their children. Once in elementary school, a classmate beat Yu Xiaoshan to a bruised nose and swollen face, and when he came back, his father asked him what was wrong, and he said that he was beaten by his classmates.

Not only did his father not comfort him, but he beat him again with a broom, scolding while beating: "You are a calf thing, you can't beat anyone else in a fight!"

Later, he was bullied by his classmates again, Yu Xiaoshan was afraid that he would be beaten when he went home, so he took the hook of the rural kang and directly opened a huge hole in the back of the head of the classmate who bullied him.

When he went home, he was beaten half to death by his father, and scolded while beating: "You little bastard, the fight is neither light nor heavy! Can the stove hook be cut on someone's head? What should I do if someone dies? What kind of enmity do you have against you, you beat others like this! Whose child was not raised by his mother's father!"

After the beating, the old couple carried a sack of money to the hospital to apologize, and visited the little classmate who was opened. At that time, my parents had land, and they used a large piece of land to build more than 200 small fish ponds, and all of them were contracted out. has a little money of his own, because Yu Xiaoshan always caused trouble when he was a child, the little savings of the old couple were basically spent on him.

Later, Yu Xiaoshan made money, as long as relatives and friends came over, his parents would let him borrow money to help find a job, which was also a gesture for Xiaoshan anyway, and gradually gained a high prestige in the family.

Time flies, time flies. Parents are old, just like parents all over the world, they are looking forward to their children going home for dinner often, starting a family as soon as possible, and being happy and safe. As for whether or not it can bring face and glory to parents, it is the icing on the cake rather than something that must be achieved.

At this moment, the old lady was sitting on the edge of the old man's bed, holding his hands—both calloused hands, but thick and powerful. The old man was pressed by the oxygen mask and couldn't speak, so he only rubbed the back of his wife's hand back and forth with his thumb, trying to comfort her in silent words.

Xiaocheng took Yu Xiaoshan to push the door in: "Mom, Dad, I brought this deflated calf to you." "Xiaocheng has often gone to Xiaoshan's house to eat since he was a child, and the old lady who has raised fish all her life has made fish that is unparalleled in the world. After a long time, the old couple also raised the small city as their son.

When Yu Xiaoshan saw his father like this, his heart felt like it had been slashed by something sharp, and blood gushed out.

Xiaocheng asked in wonder: "Isn't the old man's heart sometimes not very good? Why did he stay in the ward of the oncology department? And why don't you stay in the whole special care and ordinary ward? I'll go to the special care!"

Yu Xiaoshan fucking looked at Xiaocheng desperately, Xiaocheng's eyes were sharp, and he quickly shut up and didn't squeak.

The old lady stood up and dragged her son to the door: "You come out, I have something to tell you." ”

Xiaocheng walked to the side of the bed and turned around and said, "You mother and son talk first, and I'll take care of Dad." ”

As soon as she arrived at the door, the old lady's tears flowed uncontrollably.

Yu Xiaoshan panicked: "Mom, what's going on?"

His mother wiped her eyes with her sleeve, sobbed in a low voice and held back: "Let's go, go to the corner of the corridor, where your father can hear me." ”

"Xiaoshan, your dad just found out...... Lung cancer...... Advanced...... It has already begun to metastasize and spread...... Woowoowoo......"

Lung cancer...... Advanced...... These four words were like a big fireball suddenly rolling out of the clear sky, rolling to Yu Xiaoshan's body, and it burned through from head to toe in an instant.

At that moment, he didn't know what kind of facial expression to use to hide his sudden collapse in front of his mother. In the world of Xiaoshan, parents are the least to worry about. When to go back and when to be there, the relationship is good, and the body is healthy.

After he grew up, he didn't talk back to his parents anymore, saying what he was, what he wanted, of course, his parents never cared about what he wanted except for the sake of face.

He hadn't even thought about the terminal stage of lung cancer, and he felt that it would never appear in his world. In the past six months, I have Meng Chuan'er, and I have basically never come back, and I call every other day on weekdays, that is, my dad is very good? You are very good? I am very good at worry!

Mechanically, stupidly, he patted the old lady on the shoulder. He was a little confused, and the word "lung cancer" was still spinning in his head, what is lung cancer? How can he get lung cancer? The old man just quit smoking under the persuasion of the old lady two years ago, and he has quit smoking for two years, why is it lung cancer????

Yu Xiaoshan's mother continued to cry, and said intermittently: "Wu Peng...... Wu Peng's kid used to look very good, but I don't know why it's like this now...... He's been in the house several times in the past few months, and he said...... Say you owe him 10 million, show me the contract......"

"We can't read either...... I looked for the son of the lawyer in the old field in the east of our village...... Wu Peng said...... If you don't give money, you will go to jail...... Your dad won't let me tell you, he says you're in trouble...... I'm afraid that we're worried and hiding it from us...... Your dad secretly repaid you more than a million in interest...... Now we don't have any money......"

"Early this morning...... Your dad and I are sleeping...... Wu Peng found a group of people to come and smash the door...... Say...... Say that if you don't show up again, they will sue you and sentence you to life...... Your dad was angry and said he was going to call the police...... Wu Peng said in a weird way that our family asked for debts, and he didn't beat or scold, and said that your father had no ability...... So even with you...... Have the ability to borrow money, but don't have the ability to repay ......"

"Your dad had a heart attack...... Come to the hospital for a check-up...... Doctors accidentally detect lung cancer...... Or is it late...... O hill...... Why do you owe Wu Peng money? Is something wrong with you...... Woowoooooooo

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Yu Xiaoshan's brain was buzzing, and he felt that the world was spinning for a while, watching his mother's lips move and keep popping out sentences, he knew all those words, but he didn't remember what he said later.

It was as if there was a thick wall in the depths of his mind, isolating him from the outside world. He knew that his mother was crying, and he knew that his father had a disease that might have to die.

The whole person was in the eye of a tornado, and everything around him was blurred, but all his feelings were swept up into the sky by the wind, constantly circling rapidly, rising and rising and then smashing over, and Yu Xiaoshan could not avoid it.

Wu Peng, the name gradually became clear, enlarged, huge, into an ugly, foul-smelling, suffocating, snotty,-like thing lying across the world of the hills.

He wanted to chop the name to pieces, yes! Chop it to pieces, and everything would be fine.

As the old lady was talking, Yu Xiaoshan turned around and left.

"Xiaoshan, where are you going!Xiaoshan!!Xiaoshan, you're back!!"