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Chapter 13 Kiss potatoes (3)

Selected works of Chi Zijian 迟子建 1725Words 2018-03-20
"Let's go to Harbin and have a look." Li Aijie said sadly. "Is it okay if someone vomits blood?" Qin Shan said. "Sooner or later, I will die. I don't want to spend that little money on medical treatment." "If you are sick, you have to be cured." Li Aijie said, "There is no incurable disease in a big city. Besides, we have never been to Harbin, so let's see the world." Qin Shan fell silent.The couple discussed for a long time before deciding to go to Harbin.Li Aijie brought all of the family's savings of 5,000 yuan, and asked neighbors to help her take care of Fenping, pigs and a few chickens.Neighbors asked if they could come back during the autumn harvest?Qin Shan grinned and said, "Even if I have a sigh of relief, I will come back alive to harvest the last season of potatoes."

Li Aijie patted Qin Shan on the shoulder and scolded him: "Nonsense!" The two took the carriage of Fei Xili's family to sell vegetables in the city.Fei Xili saw that Taishan shrunk his head and was listless, so he said: "If you believe me, don't see any illness. You can smoke two bags less and exercise more." "I saw that Tianchang was working in the potato field. Isn't there little activity?" Qin Shan smiled dryly and said, "What's wrong with you? Let's go to the big city with our wife, buy a pair of cowhide shoes, and buy a pair of open shoes." Changquan's cheongsam."

"I won't embarrass you by wearing that thing." Li Aijie whispered. The two bought a catty of pancakes and two bags of pickles in the city, and headed straight to the train station.The train tickets were not as expensive as they had imagined, and they found seats next to each other when they got on the train, which made them very happy.So Li Aijie was surprised all the way after the train drove all the way: "Qin Shan, look at that purple horse lotus flower, it's so fluffy!" "The dozen or so cows are so strong, whose family is this?" "This family is really taking advantage of it. Look at his house, even the door is painted blue!"

"Doesn't that man in the broken straw hat look like Wang Fu from Lizhen? Wang Fu seems to be a little more solid than him." Listening to his wife's voice as if returning to her girlhood, Qin Shan felt a sadness stronger than the evening glow in his heart.If he is not seriously ill, he can continue to listen to her voice, but if he is terminally ill, the voice will disappear like lightning.Who will come to hug her warm and smooth body again?Who will take care of Fen Ping for her?Who will help her tend the big potato field? Qin Shan didn't dare to think any further. After the two arrived in Harbin, they didn't bother to browse the city. They first ate tofu nao and deep-fried dough sticks at the snack bar in front of the station, and then asked how to go to the hospital.A fat cook in a white apron recommended several big hospitals to them at once, and told them how to take a bus.

"You said there are so many hospitals, which one is the cheapest?" Qin Shan asked. Li Aijie glared at Qin Shan and said, "We're looking for the best hospital, no matter whether it's expensive or not." The cook is an enthusiastic person, and he took the trouble to introduce the conditions of each hospital to them, and finally helped them finalize one. They tried their best to rush to this hospital, and Qin Shan was admitted to the hospital on the same day.Li Aijie first paid a deposit of 800 yuan for hospitalization, and then went to the street to buy lunch boxes, spoons, water glasses, towels, slippers and other hospital items.There are eight people in Qin Shan's ward, two of whom are inhaling oxygen.Among the long and short breaths of the dying were the sounds of coughing, spitting, and drinking from other patients.Li Aijie heard from the attending doctor that Qin Shan would be given a CT scan, which was a considerable expense.But Li Aijie went all out.

After Qin Shan was hospitalized, his complexion began to turn gray, especially when he saw other patients also looked sad and gloomy, he felt that he had stepped on the huge trap that lay in wait for life.During dinner, Li Aijie went to the street to buy two tea eggs and a big bread.The patient next to Qin Shan was also a middle-aged man, very fat, with an ice pack on his head, and his wife was feeding him.He seemed to have had a stroke, his mouth was crooked, his speech was slurred, and he had to struggle to eat. The woman who fed him was in her thirties, with short hair around her ears and a haggard face.At one moment, she accidentally spilled a spoonful of hot soup on his neck, and the patient knocked the spoon away impatiently, cursing with difficulty: "Bitch, leprechaun, broken shoe——" The woman left the bowl and ran to the corridor Sad to go.

After eating and drinking, Li Aijie and Qin Shan asked the family members of other patients how to order meals for the next day, and asked how to get to the tea stove room.Everyone enthusiastically told her one by one.It was already dark when Li Aijie walked out of the ward with a thermos bottle, and there was a cold and unpleasant smell in the dark corridor.Li Aijie met the middle-aged woman who had been scolded by her husband by the coal pile in the tea stove room. She was smoking.Seeing Li Aijie, she asked: "What's wrong with your man?" "It hasn't been diagnosed yet." Li Aijie said, "I will do CT tomorrow."

"What's wrong with him?" "It's the lungs." Li Aijie turned on the switch of the tea stove and listened to the sound of water gurgling into the water bottle. "He's coughing up blood." "Oh." The woman sighed heavily. "Your lover had a stroke?" Li Aijie asked with concern. "It's the disease, it's called a cerebral hemorrhage. I almost died. After being rescued, I couldn't move half of my body, and my temper became irritable. If you don't like it, you can take it out on me. You saw it." "People who are sick are anxious." Li Aijie finished fetching water, closed the lid of the pot, straightened up and comforted him, "If you swear a few words, just swear a few words."

"Oh, it's our fate to see a sick man." The woman strangled the cigarette and asked, "Where do you come from?" "Lizhen." Li Aijie said, "Take the train for two days and two nights." "It's so far away." The woman said, "Our home is in Mingshui." She looked at Li Aijie and said, "The bed where your man lives was just lifted away last night. He is only forty-two years old and has liver cancer. Two children and a nearly eighty-year-old mother, his wife cried and convulsed."
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