In the early morning of the sixth day, I received a strange call. At first I thought it was a sales call, but I let it ring for a long time. Later, I saw that it had been persevering and kept ringing, and I was afraid that it was an important call, so I picked it up.
As soon as the other party opened his mouth, he declared himself home, calling himself Lu Feiheng's sister, Lu Yue.
When I heard that the other party was Lu Feiheng's sister, I was a little afraid that something had happened to Lu Feiheng's parents. Except for me, the hometowns of the three roommates can be described as far and wide, and none of them are in this city. Although I haven't had much contact with their family members over the years, we send greetings text messages to each other during New Years and festivals, and they sometimes ask about my current situation.
In the past twelve years, I have only swept the tomb of Lu Feiheng and the other three once, five years ago. But the road to Jingshen's cemetery was too narrow, so I couldn't get in, so I just offered him a bunch of flowers at the door.
Lu Feiheng's parents are very kind and kind. When they talk about their son, they are always proud. They will sigh with pity when they see me, and they will tell me that it's good to live. They never talked about the car accident in front of me, but I knew that Lu Feiheng's death hit them hard. When I saw them five years ago, they were in their 60s, but they were already gray-haired, say they were not even in their 70s. for too.
"Beijie, my parents won't let you tell you, but I... But I have no choice." Lu Yueyu choked up and told the whole story.
I saw Dad Lu five years ago. In the past few years, his body has deteriorated day by day, and his lungs have been plagued by various diseases. In the past two years, he has reached the point where he can only rely on oxygen to maintain his life.
The Lu family was poor, and Lu’s father and Lu’s mother sold their house a few years ago for medical treatment and moved in with their daughter. However, the property on their side was cheap and they didn’t sell much money. Now that Lu's father's illness can no longer be delayed, the only way is to have a lung transplant. They borrowed some from relatives and friends, which is far from enough. Lu Yue overheard her parents mention me and thought of asking me to borrow it.
"I've borrowed everything I can. I know you have nothing to do with us. I shouldn't have opened my mouth to you, but I'm really desperate. Whether it's 10,000 or 20,000... Feiheng is gone, I can't let it go. No matter what happens to my parents, I must save my dad... I will save no matter how much money I have!"
A few days ago, I sent New Year's greetings to Lu's mother. She didn't mention Lu's father's serious illness at all. I thought... They were doing well.
"How much are you missing?" I asked.
Lu Yue calmed down and said, "It's still about 300,000."
300,000, say more, not much, say less. The savings I have on hand are about 100,000, and 200,000... I can't help but look at the Celestron telescope that stands in the living room and sells for 300,000.
"There are still 300,000. I will find a way."
Except for the lack of packaging, this telescope is basically the same as a brand new one, with a discount of 100,000 yuan. There should still be many people willing to buy it.
Lu Yue was startled, and she trembled when she spoke: "I, I will not ask you for nothing, I will definitely pay you back the money, I will pay it back if I am alive, and my son will pay it back when I die... Thank you, thank you very much, Bei Mustard. You don't know how many people I begged and knelt to raise money these days..." At the end, she burst into tears.
I hurriedly said, "I'll talk about the repayment later. It's the most important thing to take care of the disease right now. If Lu Feiheng was alive and my family needed money urgently, he would definitely do his best to help me."
Lu Yue thanked me for a long time. After hanging up the phone, she quickly sent Lu's father's case and various examination reports to my mobile phone.
Pulmonary interstitial fibrosis, severe pulmonary hypertension, respiratory failure, heart disease, diabetes... A series of disease names are shocking.
If it wasn't for extreme difficulty, Lu Yue would never have come to find me. Since she will find me, she must have reached the point of nowhere, as she said.
I came to the Star Trek and carefully stroked its various parts. Even though my heart was full of nostalgia, I knew that, just like Shang Muxiao, it had become an existence that I had to give up in my life.
"Finally, I still can't keep you." Leaning down, I kissed lightly at the eyepiece and sighed.
In the sixth day of the first year, she had agreed with Shen Luoyu to go to her house for dinner. I thought she only called me, but when I went I found out that she also called my parents and them.
After a few months of absence, although it was not too ugly at the time, it was somewhat embarrassing to see him again because no one was allowed to go down the stairs. They were already rusty, and now they even avoided eye contact, and they looked like strangers to each other.
My aunt and my mother were busy in the kitchen, and my father and Shen Luoyu sat down in the dining room, poured a cup of tea each, and chatted about work and life. I stayed with Beiyan in the living room, he watched cartoons, and I watched cartoons with him.
"Brother, is the puppy okay? Can it walk?" Bei Yan held a big bag of potato chips and kept stuffing the potato chips into his mouth like a squirrel.
The egg yolk can be regarded as a blessed puppy, and this is the second human being who cares about it so much.
"It's fine..." Saying it's okay, it still doesn't want to walk on the ground, saying it's not good, it seems to be enjoying a good life in the business.
"Then can I go see it?" Bei Yan blinked his innocent little round eyes, making it really hard for me to refuse.
"... Wait until I ask its owner to see when I'm free to bring it to meet you."
Shang Muxiao's road is blocked. I don't know if I can go to Shang Yunrou and let her take the dog out.
Bei Yan's eyes lit up, and he cheered softly: "Thank you, brother!"
He was sitting cross-legged on the ground, but now he put the potato chips aside, clapped his hands, made fists with both hands, and gently went up his calf, knocking my leg up.
"What are you doing?" I looked at him funny.
"Massage you." Bei Yan said, "If you massage more, your legs will get better. I've been practicing for a long time, but you don't come back, and I can't do it. But I keep giving my classmates a massage, and they all Say it's comfortable."
Even if you press me, I can't feel it.
"Who told you that?" I asked him with a smile.
"Mom." Bei Yan raised his face, with a flattering smile on his red apple-like face.
I moved in my heart and continued to ask him: "Mom said that my legs will get better with more massage?"
Bei Yan nodded first, then shook his head after a while, and said, "She didn't say that your legs will get better with more massage, that's what I think. She only said that you won't get married, and you won't have children. So I have to know how to take care of you, and when they're gone, you'll be my responsibility. I'll give you more massages, take you to the sun, and bathe you every day…”
When he said this, I grabbed his arm and forced him to stop.
"Brother?" He looked at me suspiciously, "What's wrong with you?"
He is still too young, he has no idea what he said, what he was instilled, and there is no way to refuse this huge responsibility.
I restrained my expression and said in a serious tone, "I'm not your responsibility."
He seemed to be frightened, and withdrew his hand, looking at my timid expression.
I didn't know how to explain all this to him, so I could only try my best to calm down and say, "I can take care of myself, you just need to live for yourself, you know?"
He seemed to understand, but under my gaze, he finally nodded.
After the meal, the atmosphere was still warm, Shen Luoyu took Bei Yan and went downstairs with my father to set off fireworks.
"It's so beautiful." Auntie took out her phone and took pictures of the fireworks in the night sky.
This snowy night can be regarded as a rare family joy for our family for many years.
Halfway through, my aunt went to wash the fruit, and only my mother and I were left by the window.
Looking at Beiyan's cheerful figure downstairs, I thought about it, and then said, "I don't need Beiyan to take care of me, I can take care of myself now, and I can take care of myself in the future, you don't have to worry about it for me. He belongs to you. Child, not your tool, don't feed him unnecessary thoughts."
There was no sound beside her for a long time, and just when I thought that the other party might not have heard me clearly, she sighed deeply.
"I know you're going to be strong, but when you're old, who else can you rely on without him? I'm not good at doing things, and your aunt can't speak, but I definitely did what a mother should do. I raised you and nurtured you. You are talented, even if you think all this is my vanity and my selfishness, but don’t you benefit from it? I don’t even understand what you are blaming us for.”
I turned my head to look at the kitchen, afraid of arguing with her here. At the same time, she was very tired, and she didn't understand what I meant at all.
When we talk with chickens and ducks, we can never talk together.
"I don't mean to blame you." I might have had a good argument with them before, but now I'm so tired, and everything is piling up and making me exhausted. "I am very grateful to you for raising me and cultivating me to become a talent, but you do this because you are my parents, and you are responsible for me. But Beiyan does not. Beiyan does not need to be responsible for me, but pay for me."
Mother Su Ya's face was expressionless. She said with a cold face, wrapping her arms around her arms, "It's up to you, and it's up to him. Let him be unlucky, who let him go to our house."
All of a sudden, I held my breath in my chest, unable to swallow or spit out, and I was choked with panic.
She made a lot of sense with me, showing that there was more to be said. Now she's blaming it all on destiny, what can I say? This is simply overkill.
"Then I won't be a member of this family, and cut off ties with me." I couldn't stay for a moment, my head was like an explosion, and the pain was terrible.
I quickly drove out the door. My aunt happened to come out of the kitchen carrying fruit, and she was surprised when I saw that I was leaving.
"Why are you leaving so soon?"
"I have something to do temporarily..." I pushed open the door, smiled reluctantly at her and said, "I'll see you next time."
Auntie glanced at the window and whispered, "Have you quarreled with your mother again?"
I smiled and waved goodbye to her.
I went straight out of the underground parking garage and didn't meet Shen Luoyu and the others, let alone say goodbye.
After I got home, Shen Luoyu called and asked me what was going on.
I probably talked to her, and she gasped hard, with a tone of voice that she wasn't sure how to stand.
"I understand what Auntie means, and I understand what you think. Why don't you tell her about your relationship? She may be relieved if you say so."
I was silent for a moment and said, "We broke up."
Shen Luoyu let out an "ah", and never thought that I would date when I said that I would date, and now I'm breaking up when I say goodbye.
"No, it's fine..." She was not very confident, "The next one is better!"
I rubbed my forehead, wanting to scream so hard that I could vent out all the anger and sadness in my heart. But unfortunately, the overwhelming tiredness flooded in, and I was at the limit of even opening my mouth to speak.
"Well, the next one will be better."
I go along with her, but I know in my heart that there will be no next one.
never.
On the eighth day of the new year, I started my first rehab in the new year, but there was still no improvement.
With a slip of my hand, I accidentally fell off the rehabilitation equipment, lying on the ground panting rapidly, sweating profusely, and the muscles from my fingers to my arms were shaking.
The physiotherapist immediately came over to help me up: "Come here first today."
I nodded, took the water he handed me, and took a gulp.
"By the way." The physiotherapist said, "Remember the exoskeleton device I mentioned to you last time? Their company called yesterday and said that there happened to be a second-hand device for the exhibition, which can give you a lot of money. at a discount, do you want to consider buying it?"
"How much is it?" For the exhibition, it would cost half a million dollars even if I gave a half discount. For me now, I can't get that much money together, so I didn't expect much when I asked.
"One hundred thousand."
I held the mineral water bottle, looked at the physical therapist blankly, and asked again, "How much?"
He completely understood my surprise, imitating the host in TV shopping vividly, exaggerating: "100,000, the total price is only 100,000. You can't afford to buy it, you can't be fooled. As long as 100,000, you can have the highest price in the market. The most advanced exoskeleton equipment. The battery life of 12 hours is not a little bit better than those with a battery life of 4 hours and 8 hours. It fully meets daily needs, and the most important thing is that it is very light. Are you interested? Call the shopping hotline below... "
Million-level equipment, the last 100,000 were sold. Is this a discount? It's just a cheap sale.