In the hospital, doctors and nurses are busy.
Chen Ju was lying on the hospital bed, with a doctor standing beside the bed, pointing at her and asking, "Have the patient's family been contacted?"
"Contacted." A nurse replied.
"Did they say when they will come and pay?" the doctor asked.
"It seems that something happened to their house," the nurse replied. "The house is on fire. Now the two children have nowhere to live. They are borrowing money everywhere to live."
"Something like this happened." The doctor shook his head and sighed, "Misfortunes don't come singly, but you can't just leave people here all the time."
As soon as the voice fell, a weak voice came from behind: "Doctor, I'm here to pick up my mother from the hospital."
He turned his head to look and saw a pair of siblings standing at the door.
Ning Ning looked a lot haggard, and even the papaya lost a lot of weight. After the face that was so fat that the facial features were invisible, it gradually showed the youthful beauty.
After going through the discharge procedures, Ning Ning bent down and said to Papaya, "Come on, do me a favor and bring Mom up."
After the house was burnt down, the two of them completely lost their source of income. Although Ning Ning tried very hard to borrow money from relatives and friends, there are more icing on the cake in this world, and less money is given in the snow. The money she has been begging for is only enough for two people temporarily Renting a dilapidated house to live in, so as not to continue sleeping in a dangerous building, Ning Ning found a job and finally managed to collect Chen Ju's medical expenses during this period.
With such a difficult life, of course there is no money to buy a wheelchair for Chen Ju, so she can only be carried back by manpower.
"Oh." Papaya snorted and walked to the edge of the bed.
Ning Ning bent down and waited for a long time, looked back, and asked, "What are you doing?"
Papaya picked up Chen Ju, but did not put it on Ning Ning's back, but walked out the door. Hearing Ning Ning calling him, he turned back angrily and shouted, "What are you doing to me?"
When the house caught fire, Ningning slapped him, and he entered the rebellious period ahead of schedule. Now Ningning wants him to go east, he goes west, and he wants to go to the sky, so he goes to the ground, and recently he even wants to drop out of school. Work part-time and go separate ways with Ningning.
No! This doesn't match your personality, brother!
Ning Ning hurriedly chased after him, softened his voice, and said in a low voice, "Don't you have exams in the afternoon? Don't be too tired, I'll just carry my mother back."
"Don't you have to go to work in the afternoon? You don't care if I'm tired or not." Papaya said sternly, "Besides, I don't plan to read any books anymore, so what else does he care about?"
Ning Ning felt dizzy.
Little fat man, you can't do this!
Your character is obviously a lazy hamster who is keen on food storage and useless running circles to lose weight, but you have an advantage that people can't ignore - academic mastery. Although your demeanor is disgusting, your academic performance has made you a "child of someone else's family" in the mouth of your neighbors. Later, you were admitted to Tsinghua University and found a good job after you came out.
But it's like that, until you're forty, you're still fat, and you've never lost weight.
… now you’re not only thin, you’re giving up your only good thing…
Papaya took two steps, turned around suddenly, frowned and said, "Sister, what are you doing?"
"No, it's fine." Ning Ning held the wall with one hand and pressed the other hand on his forehead, "I was a little dizzy just now, and now I'm fine."
She put down the hand on her forehead and walked towards Papaya. The two stood in front of the elevator. With a ding, the elevator door opened.
There were people in the elevator. Several men pushed an empty wheelchair and looked at Ningning who was standing at the door.
Ning Ning also looked straight at the man standing in the center, then lowered his head and entered the elevator with Papaya.
The elevator door slowly closed in front of them, and a familiar voice sounded behind Ning Ning, gentle and considerate: "What floor?"
"First floor, thank you." Papaya replied.
A hand stretched out from behind Ningning and pressed the first floor for her.
But the elevator was still going up, and a familiar voice laughed behind Ning Ning: "I'm sorry, we're going up."
"It's okay, it's okay." Papaya said indifferently.
"You don't like to talk?" A familiar voice sounded in Ningning's ears, this time, his voice was especially close to Ningning.
"Didn't I keep talking to you... Hey!" Papaya turned back and saw this scene, immediately turned into a hedgehog, and said angrily, "What are you doing? Stay away from my sister!"
With a ding, the elevator door opened, Papaya and Ningning stepped aside, and the three men pushed the empty wheelchair out of the door. As soon as they went out, Papaya quickly pressed the close button.
At the moment when the elevator door closed, the man in front slowly turned around.
Straight suit, gold-rimmed glasses, and a gentle smile on his face, the same way he smiles when he cuts a steak for you, and the same way he smiles when he pushes you into a sea of fire.
Pei Xuan.
The elevator door finally closed completely, obscuring his smile.
Ning Ning immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and his shoulders slumped.
"Why? Sigh so much." Papaya obviously got the wrong idea and said coldly, "You like that type of man very much?"
"No." Ning Ning immediately denied it, "I can't stand this type of man, obviously I don't know him well, and I have to talk to your ear."
"Then why don't you hit him?" Papaya got even more angry.
"There are many of them."
"When you hit me, you never thought so much!"
The two quarreled all the way out of the hospital gate, and when Ning Ning came back to his senses, he found that they were almost at the door of the house.
"Aren't you tired? Change my back?" she asked.
"Go and go, it's all here." Papaya urn said angrily, "You go to cook, and you have to go to work in the afternoon."
Lunch is very simple, one plate of cabbage, one plate of potatoes, and two bowls of rice.
The two of them couldn't even afford a table and chairs, so the floor was covered with newspapers as a table, and they sat cross-legged and ate.
"Hello." After Papaya finished eating, she took out a folded piece of paper from her trouser pocket and threw it to Ningning.
Ning Ning took it and unfolded it to see that it was actually a poster that said that it was recruiting troupe actors.
"Resign your current job." Papaya said lightly as she cleaned up the tableware in front of her, "Didn't you always want to be an actress? Go try it."
Ning Ning turned the poster back to him, pointed to the small words in the column below and said, "Welfare Theater, no salary."
"I'm going to work." Papaya snorted out of her nose, "I can do more things than you are, and I will definitely earn more than you."
Ning Ning smiled at him, put the poster in his hand beside him, got up and said, "Remember to take the test, do better. I'm going to work."
Papaya sat on the spot with her back to her. When she opened the door, she suddenly asked, "Isn't it your dream to be an actress?"
Ning Ning held the door, turned her back to him and said, "Isn't it your dream to study at Tsinghua University?"
Papaya turned to look at her.
Ning Ning didn't look back, in a sparse and ordinary tone, said lightly: "There is always one of us who has to give up his dream."
The moment the door was closed, Papaya slammed her fist to the ground.
"Why don't you scold me? It's all because of me..." Ning Ning heard him whisper.
On the way to work, Ning Ning was confused all the way.
"This guy is guilty?" she thought to herself, "Why does he feel guilty? It doesn't fit his character."
After the fire, it was difficult to find a job, and only now did she get a short respite. She began to think about her future path and how to make the lives of the two sisters and brothers, especially Papaya, return to the right track.
"But what is the correct trajectory?" Ning Ning was even more confused.
Lian Lian's memoir cannot be called a memoir because it is half-truth.
There are real places in it. For example, Ning Ning does live with friends and snacks, and he does have a fat younger brother. There are fake places in it. The most fake point is that the one who is said to be a pair of little sisters with her, was born in the same poor family, dropped out of school at the same age, and has an annoying younger brother. Lian Lian, who can become a big star on TV one day... doesn't exist at all.
"Lian Lian lied to me, she doesn't know me at all." Ning Ning thought to herself, "I have come to see my friends these days, from kindergarten to junior high school to high school, and some of them who played together from childhood to adulthood. I've asked, but no one knows who Lian Lian is."
a person who does not exist.
Or someone who has nothing to do with her.
How could Ning Ning believe that what the other party wrote down was true? Maybe Lian Lian just happened to know a fungus, and happened to have dinner at her house, met her mother who opened a black shop, and her fat brother, and then when she was writing her memoirs, she brought it along
"Hey, I can't figure it out, I don't want it anymore." Ning Ning sighed, "The most urgent thing is to make some money first, renovate the house, cure Chen Ju, and then get everything back on track... But I'm going How can you make so much money?"
Ning Ning walked into the hotel where she was working with a lot of thought.
Behind her, the flat-headed man who had followed her all the way did not follow her in, but stood behind the tree and took out the BB machine.
In the hospital, Pei Xuan's BB machine rang.
"Sorry, I'm going out to answer a call." He smiled at the doctor in front of him, turned around and went out, asking, "How is it?"
"It's the same as what I heard before." The flat-headed man replied, "I don't have a father, my mother is in a vegetative state, and I have a younger brother who is in high school. Other than that, I have no other relatives. I work in a hotel and are very short of money... Brother Pei, I think this person can be used."
"Whether you can use it, it's not you who has the final say, it's me who has the final say." Pei Xuan said lightly, "Continue to follow."
After hanging up, he returned to the ward.
The discharge procedures have been completed, and a younger brother came out pushing a wheelchair, a girl sitting on it, wearing a mask on her face, covering her true appearance.
Pei Xuan reached out and touched her face, she closed her eyes tightly, as if she was sleeping soundly.
"The plan has started, it can't be stopped, I have to get everything back on track." Pei Xuan said to her apologetically, "Sorry, I have to find someone to replace you, Lian Lian."