Chapter 15 Kiss potatoes (5)

"Well, we didn't have such a good relationship before my man was sick. We didn't quarrel for two days, and we had an early three days. I have to do my duty when he is sick. Who would have thought that this man's temper would become more and more like a donkey. I will wait I have been with him for three months, and his illness keeps recurring. The family’s money has been exhausted, and I have borrowed a whole lot of debt. Those who accuse Sang and scold Huai at me." "Your family also relies on farming?" Li Aijie asked. "No, we are also farmers. When he was healthy the year before last, he co-founded an oil mill with someone else, and earned thousands of dollars, all of which were gambled."

"Then how do you pay back your money?" "I'm starting to work two jobs now." Wang Qiuping said, "Every morning at three o'clock in the morning, I go to the ticket office of the train station to line up to buy a sleeper ticket, and the ticket dealer will give me 15 yuan. At noon, I will feed a family. The pig factory goes to several restaurants to collect leftovers, and it can earn ten or eight yuan. After a day, it can earn more than twenty yuan." "Does your man know that you work so hard?" "If he doesn't scold me, he'll burn the incense. How dare you expect him to love me." Wang Qiuping sighed, "He won't recover well in the future, he's really paralyzed, and I'll be doomed for the rest of my life. Sometimes I really wish that he—— "

Li Aijie knew what she wanted to say, she let out a surprised "ah" in the dark. "You'll know when it's sold." Wang Qiuping said weakly, "If your man really has cancer, he'll need a lot of money, and he won't be able to cure it. I'll help you find some jobs to sell. boxed lunches, babysitting, delivering milk..." Wang Qiuping's voice became thinner and thinner, and the heavy exhaustion finally stopped her voice and pushed her into sleep.Li Aijie tossed and turned, thinking for a while whether Qin Shan could rest well in the hospital, whether he was coughing at night, whether Fenping was used to living in the neighbor’s house for a while, and thinking about her potato field on the southern slope of Lizhen. Only then fell into a drowsy sleep.After waking up, it was already daylight, the landlord was sweeping the floor, a few gray pigeons were cooing in front of the window sill, and Wang Qiuping's shop was already empty.

"Did you sleep soundly at night?" the landlord asked enthusiastically. "It's very fragrant." Li Aijie said, "The exhaustion that has been tossing along the way is relieved." While the landlord was busy, he asked Li Aijie some things.What disease does the man have, how many people are in the family, and how many rooms do he live in.She told Li Aijie that Wang Qiuping had gone to the railway station to buy a sleeper ticket early in the morning, and asked her to buy pancakes at the corner of the street after getting up early. After Li Aijie washed his face, he went to the hospital along the same route as when he came last night.There are so many cars and pedestrians on the street that she can't count them. She thinks that the roads in the city are really the hardest roads.It was a cloudy day, but most of the women were wearing skirts, their legs were exposed, they were carrying exquisite leather bags, and their high-heeled shoes choked the sidewalk.She wanted to buy a pancake on the street corner to eat, but because she missed Qin Shan, she went to the hospital first with an empty stomach.As soon as he entered the corridor, the door of Qin Shan's ward was pushed open, and five or six people rushed out, including doctors and strangers with flustered expressions.Then a patient was introduced, and Li Aijie's legs were so frightened that his legs went limp.It wasn't until he saw that the patient was not Qin Shan that he breathed a sigh of relief and watched them rush towards the emergency room.

Qin Shan helped his wife order a millet porridge. Fearing that the porridge would be cold, he fastened it tightly with a lunch box, put it on his stomach, and covered it with his hands while lying on his back.As soon as Li Aijie came, he took out the lunch box from under the blanket with a smile and said, "It's still warm, eat quickly." Li Aijie had a sore nose, and asked softly, "Did you cough at night?" Qin Shan blinked, shook his head, and said softly, "I can't sleep well if you're not around." Li Aijie glanced at Qin Shan with wet eyes, then lowered his head to eat the box of porridge.The leaves outside the window of the ward were rustling by the wind, like the sound Qin Shan used to tickle her ears with straw when she was young.Li Aijie glanced at Wang Qiuping's husband. He was lying on the bed with his limbs stiff, his head tilted, greedily watching the patient in the next bed eating pancakes.That expression is completely like a child who doesn't know the world.

Qin Shan's examination results came out soon.When Li Aijie was called to the office by the doctor, she knew everything was over. The doctor said: "He has advanced lung cancer, which has spread." Li Aijie didn't make a sound, she just felt like falling into a dark well, she couldn't feel the existence of sunshine.