Zhou Cheng woke up groggy, too tired to speak, but his eyes were still open to show that he was listening.
His attending doctor suggested that he stay in the ICU for another two days. The risk of brain surgery is very high. Apart from being able to speak, he cannot move his limbs. He is in danger of breathing difficulties and high fever at any time after surgery.
Dr. Liu walked out of the ward and told Zhou Cheng's family members: "His symptoms have occurred in the past year. Although part of the tumor was removed, the cancer cells in his head were found to have spread after taking an X-ray. Currently, conservative radiation therapy is being considered. "
Liu Mei burst into tears after hearing this, "Doctor, tell me how long he can live?"
Dr. Liu said: "It depends on Zhou Cheng's physique and desire to survive. Everyone's situation is different. Some people can live for ten or ten years, and some people die within a few months... Recently There is a kind of radiation therapy in China, boron neutron capture therapy. BNCT for short, is very suitable for patients with brain tumors. Because of its high equipment cost, our hospital has not introduced it. It has pilot hospitals in S City and G City. You can consider it .”
Dr. Liu has communicated with Zhou Xiu many times recently, and found that although this child is young, he is very sensible, very smart, and can understand a lot of terms in the professional field. She is already in her third year of high school, but this happened to her family. The doctor is very sorry.
Hearing her mother say that her grades are very good, she just won the gold medal in the national biology competition some time ago, and he felt even more sorry for such a good seedling.
Doctor Liu told Zhou Xiu to go back to school, Zhou Xiu shook her head.
Now even if Zhou Xiu is allowed to go back to school, she will not be able to attend class with peace of mind, so it would be more at ease to stay in the hospital and watch Zhou Cheng.
Regarding BNCT technology, Zhou Xiu has seen it many times in journal papers. It was first invented by a Nobel Prize winner in physics in the United Kingdom in the last century. It was developed in Japan by joint experiments between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the laboratory. A form of radiation therapy for cancer. In the past few days, Zhou Xiu flipped through the information about brain cancer and compared dozens of treatment methods one by one.
The higher the expectation, the heavier the heart. For the first time in his life, Zhou Xiu felt his own insignificance and powerlessness.
After lunch, Zhou Xiu went to check the remaining money in the account, feeling very heavy. The house that Liu Mei listed has not been sold yet, thanks to Xie Cheng's medical expenses saved in advance, otherwise the balance in the bank card would not be able to last for a few days.
Zhou Xiu had already written five of the ten math papers, and the most recent one had a score of 72. During Zhou Cheng's three days in a coma, except for eating, drinking, sleeping, and visiting Zhou Cheng, she spent all of her time studying math.
The people coming and going in the family lounge were a little sad when they saw this scene. They were used to seeing the scene of adults collapsing, and seeing the back of this girl leaning against the hospital bed studying was always very touching. Before she had time to enjoy being loved by her parents like her peers, she had already started to bear the pressure of her family.
Her immature shoulders are always stretched straight, no matter how early in the morning or late at night, she always studies there, no matter how difficult it is. It made many adults feel warm and inspired when they saw it.
Zhou Xiu rubbed her eyes after finishing the math test paper. In the past few days, the system seems to be disconnected, quietly and without sound. With it's company before, no matter how difficult things were, Zhou Xiu never felt depressed.
Zhou Xiu put down her phone, and the screen clearly displayed a credit of 10,000 yuan, which was the reward for the 72-point test paper. Fortunately it is still there.
The next day Zhou Cheng woke up in a daze, clamoring to change wards.
It turned out that after he woke up, he heard the family members of the patients in the same ward arguing. The high cost of ICU treatment made the family members unable to afford it, and the family members were about to give up the treatment.
Only then did Zhou Cheng realize that the ward he lived in cost more than 10,000 to 20,000 a day, and he knew that he was terminally ill.
Zhou Xiu was startled, she didn't expect that the well-hidden things would be exposed so easily. Liu Mei talked to Zhou Cheng in the ward, "You have to be cured, you haven't enjoyed any blessings yet. Be obedient... Let's sell the house and you can be cured."
Zhou Cheng shook his head and sighed: "Not for sale, I bought the house with great difficulty, and left it to you and Xiuxiu, I want to go home..."
That house was the painstaking effort of their family, and even the decoration was done bit by bit by Zhou Cheng. Every piece of wood on the bed, bookcase, and wardrobe had traces of planing by him.
Zhou Cheng kept shaking his head, and Liu Mei kept nodding. Zhou Xiu held the test paper in her hands, "If the father doesn't want to sell the house, he won't sell it, but we have to treat the disease."
Zhou Xiu quickly calculated in her mind, how long would it take to read the 10 G material given by Teacher Wang, a week? Or a month
Is one month enough time? Zhou Xiu grew up poor, and has been troubled by poverty since she was sensible, but she has never understood the importance of money so clearly that a penny beats a hero like she is now.
No matter how hard you try in this life, you can't change the ending of your previous life. "Zhou Xiu" didn't save her father, so she is also powerless. Why does God treat them like this
Zhou Cheng took off his oxygen mask and struggled to sit up. He forced a smile and said, "I'm fine now, just a little dizzy. I'm going to the general ward. I'm fine. I'm staying here now, and I feel uncomfortable all over. Really... "
Liu Mei kept crying, but she didn't nod her head in agreement. Zhou Cheng frowned and kept explaining, Zhou Xiu took a long time to say, "Stay for two more days, and change the ward for Dad in two days."
Zhou Xiu took out her mobile phone to show him the backstage, and found out the historical income records to make him feel at ease. "I make a lot of money doing live broadcasts, don't worry about not having money."
It's just a pity that the money has already been donated... Zhou Xiu's family was thriving when he donated it, and he didn't expect that an illness would easily destroy everything.
After ten minutes of visiting time, Zhou Xiu and Liu Mei walked out of the ward.
A nurse came to inform Zhou Xiu, "Xiuxiu, your family members have come to see you, and they are in Dr. Liu's office."
Liu Mei shed tears and asked in surprise, "Which family member?"
She suddenly thought that because she was busy with Zhou Cheng's affairs these days, the 800 yuan pension fee for this month had not been remitted. If the mother-in-law or those relatives from the countryside came to pester her at this time, it would be too bad.
Zhou Xiu thought so too, even so she went to Dr. Liu's office.
Unexpectedly, what I saw was an elite and capable old man and old lady of the Jiang family.
The old man Jiang and the old lady had been waiting in the doctor's office for a long time at this time, and they were already dissatisfied when they saw that the person hadn't come yet. Before they came, they asked Uncle Jiang to inquire about Zhou Xiu, and what they got was a photo of Zhou Xiu in the countryside. The whole person is dark and thin, not tall.
I heard that Zhou Xiu has always been the number one since he was a child, but is the number one in a township school comparable to the number one in a key city school? These materials and photos successfully reduced their expectations.
At this time Zhou Xiu and Liu Mei came to the office. Zhou Xiu was wearing a clean autumn school uniform, a blue and white long-sleeved jacket, and blue trousers. The simple light-colored school uniform was more eye-catching than the model in the school uniform promotion. She has a pair of black and clear eyes, and snow-white skin all over her body, making her easy to spot in the crowd.
Her complexion was very pale, and her eyelids were covered with a thick layer of blue shadow, which looked particularly distressing.
The old man Jiang and the old lady had difficulty connecting her with the photos. They did not expect that the shabby and unremarkable girl in the past turned out to be the young and beautiful girl in front of them.
After a moment of astonishment, they said, "You are Zhou Xiu, aren't you? I want to tell you something. You are actually our granddaughter."
They looked at Zhou Xiu and finally had a little blood relationship, "Zhou Xiu, we are your grandparents."
Liu Mei was startled, her eyelids kept twitching, she quickly grabbed Zhou Xiu's hand, and said in a panic, "Xiu Xiu, let's go, they recognized the wrong person."
Seeing Liu Mei's flustered appearance, Mrs. Jiang had some bad guesses in her heart. What happened back then was unusual. They were children lost in City B, how could they be lost in such a poor corner of the mountain? She must have been kidnapped.
Liu Mei kept shaking her head, "No, you've got the wrong person, this is my daughter." She looked up at Zhou Xiu, "Xiu Xiu, let's go. You didn't eat anything this afternoon, you must be hungry, right?"
The matter has not been clarified yet, how could the old couple of the Jiang family want Zhou Xiu to leave
In just ten minutes, Mrs. Jiang had already told Zhou Xiu's life experience like beans.
The more she talked, the more tears flowed in Liu Mei's eyes. After she finished speaking, the old lady showed a smile, and said a little reservedly and arrogantly: "Zhou Xiu, come with us. We will help you pay for your father's medical expenses."
"The educational resources here are not very good. We can send you to the best school in City B. You are already in the third year of high school. Although your grades in the countryside are not bad, you will definitely not be able to keep up with them. You can repeat your studies for another year. Take the college entrance examination next year, or send you to study abroad next year. Zhou Xiu, do you understand?"
If the students in class 24 heard these words, they would think it was ridiculous and incredible. Are you crazy, saying such things to Xiushen! Is this because the wealthy family has watched too many dramas and has become a master of drama
Zhou Xiu had been listening all the time without saying a word, seeing Liu Mei's tears falling like beans, she was busy appeasing her mother's emotions.
Her left ear is Liu Mei's cry, and her right ear is the "life experience" dug out by two old people. After Zhou Xiu got over the initial shock, she calmed down quickly, and she quickly sorted out the key points from these chaotic information. , seriously: "I understand, thank you, but it doesn't have to be like this."
She took Liu Mei's hand and went back to the shabby family room. Liu Mei's hands and feet were cold, and Zhou Xiu pulled a napkin several times for her, but she couldn't wipe away her tears.
Liu Mei said: "Xiu'er, you are mother's Xiu'er, they lied to you."
Seeing Liu Mei's appearance, Zhou Xiu already understood in her heart that what the two strange old couples said just now was probably true. She nodded, "I know."
In the afternoon, Zhou Xiu went to pre-deposit the balance in the card to Zhou Cheng's account.
When she came back, she happened to bump into Jiang and his wife who were asking Liu Mei in the lounge. Rather than asking, it is better to say "questioning". Their questions are like knives, each sentence is colder than each other.
"Who did you buy Zhou Xiu from?"
"Are the things she was wearing back then still there?"
Liu Mei kept shaking her head, unable to bear the humiliation, she couldn't help but raise her voice and said, "No, that's not the case..."
That's too much to ask! Zhou Xiu took a deep breath and walked into the lounge, and couldn't bear it any longer and said, "I think I've made it very clear that you are not welcome here, you go away, my mother is very tired, don't provoke her any more."
The old lady Jiang was absent-minded for a moment, and her mouth opened slightly in surprise. She didn't expect Zhou Xiu to speak to her in such a tone.
She regained her usual pride and indifference, walked out of the lounge and turned around to suggest: "Child, you may think we are liars now. But you can look up 'Xingda' before you think about saying these things. Come with me, you You will go to the best school to study, you will know the best friends and teachers, you will have endless beautiful clothes, you can eat whatever you want, you will have everything that others envy and cannot get, and you will never have to stay in the Bad environment, enduring poverty.
Your adoptive father is very ill, and the medical bills must be quite a lot. You can call me grandma now. "
After hearing this, Liu Mei looked at them in disbelief, and then looked at Zhou Xiu eagerly, tears falling even more.
She finally understood something, if Zhou Xiu followed them, she would have a good life. Her humiliation was nothing in comparison. The phrase "Xiuxiu, you are mother's daughter" in her mouth was silently swallowed into her throat, her face was full of fear of losing.
Zhou Xiu patted Liu Mei's hand reassuringly, and closed the door of the lounge in front of the old couple.
In the lounge, Liu Mei carefully asked the patient's family members what "Xingda" was in a low voice, and took out her mobile phone to ask them to show her on Baidu.
She used the method taught by Zhou Xiu to convert the unintelligible words on the whole screen into speech, and hid in the corner to listen with difficulty. The more she listened, the more lonely and humble the expression on her face became. She glanced at Zhou Xiu who was working hard on the test paper, feeling both happy and sad.
In the afternoon, Zhou Xiu fought for 10 minutes of visiting time to accompany Zhou Cheng.
I don't know who told him about Zhou Xiu's grandparents coming to the door today, Zhou Cheng said in a daze, "Xiu'er, let me tell you something..."
"Dad and Mom saw you for the first time that day. You were only five or six months old. Someone asked us to help look after the baby. Dad hugged you for a while, and that person never came back. I waited for a month , he never came back."
At that time, Zhou Cheng never thought that this hug would last forever. At that time, there were quite a lot of families who abandoned girls in the countryside, so he took Zhou Xiu back home without thinking too much. At that time, not long after Zhaodi died, Zhou Cheng and Liu Mei thought that Zhou Xiu was a child provided for them by God, and named them Zhou Xiu.
Zhou Cheng's soft voice was so weak that it could almost be blown away by a gust of wind, Zhou Xiu had to lean closer to hear it clearly.
"We treat you as our own daughter. The fate between Zhaodi and us is too thin, so we have to raise you well. Xiu'er, I'm sorry... Dad has never studied, he is too stupid, and doesn't understand Dad's Xiu'er I will be wronged. Fortunately, you are smart and assertive.
It doesn't matter if I can't live anymore, after all, God gave me such a smart and kind daughter. "
After hearing this, Zhou Xiu couldn't stop crying, and kept nodding. She knew that what they asked Liu Mei was a humiliation to her. In such a poor place as Xiushui Village, there are too many girls in the Zhou family to count on two hands, how could Zhou Cheng and Liu Mei buy girls. But Liu Mei was willing to be humiliated by others for her sake.
In the past, Zhou Xiu always felt angry, blaming Zhou Cheng and Liu Mei for making her suffer too much, but in the dream "Zhou Xiu" never looked back at her parents in the mountains after she walked out of the mountains.
Zhou Cheng knelt and kowtowed in front of Granny Zhou for the last time, gave up his biological mother, and chose to go back to City C with them. At that moment, Zhou Xiucai understood that his father loved her very much. "Zhou Cheng" in the dream would rather die of illness than drag "Zhou Xiu". She should have understood, understood "Zhou Xiu"'s regret, and understood the forgiveness she had not had time to say. I understand her remorse for not being able to be filial to Zhou Cheng's hospital bed in time.
At this time, pictures seemed to appear in front of Zhou Xiu's eyes. Since then, "Zhou Xiu" has thrown away mathematics, biology, and ideals, and devoted himself to the most profitable career, becoming the most desperate person, working day and night tirelessly. Many years later, she knelt in front of Zhou Cheng's tomb, brushed aside the luxuriant grass, and burned stacks of money to Zhou Cheng and Liu Mei in heaven.
Zhou Xiu walked out of the ward, took out a test paper from her schoolbag, and slowly unfolded it. Her tears dripped onto the test paper, splashing the ink of the water-based pen into an ink flower.
The dignity of the poor is always accompanied by a deep helplessness. It is difficult for them to maintain their dignity, and they have to bend their torso to bow to life, humble and unwilling to give in. Zhou Xiu's tears rushed down like a bank bursting. She held a pen, and the tip of the pen wrote down a series of numbers and symbols smoothly.
She firmly believes that she can try hard to reach the places that she has reached with love and dreams.
In the quiet late night, Zhou Xiuhong focused her eyes and racked her brains, exhausting all her patience and care to write this test paper, as if they were devoutly representing Zhou Cheng's hope to live. How she hopes that her dream can save Zhou Cheng.
"Your account is 4***6, the online payment income on November 2 is 30,000 yuan, and the balance after the transaction is 30,012.5"
"Your account is 4***6, the online payment income on November 2 is 30,000 yuan, and the balance after the transaction is 60,012.5"
"Your account is 4***6, and the online payment income on November 2 is 30,000 yuan, and the balance after the transaction is 90,012.5"
Until Zhou Xiu wrote late at night... After the last vibration came from her mobile phone, the battery died.
"Your account is 4***6, and the online payment income on November 2 is 10,000,00 yuan, and the balance after the transaction is 1090012.5"
In the early morning, many friends sent text messages and asked Zhou Xiu in shock: "I saw you wrote the test paper all night in the live broadcast room. Is Xiushen so awesome?"
Gu Mingxi asked: "How did you do it on the last test paper, it's all right, it's amazing!"
Xu Qing noticed that Zhou Xiu had accumulated more than 90 hours of online time in the live broadcast room this week, "What's wrong with Xiuxiu these days, please pay attention to your body."
Xie Cheng also asked, "Is uncle better? If the medical expenses are not enough, we will help you find a way."
Even Lao Wang sent a message asking for the first time: "Zhou Xiu, I heard that you are still writing mathematics in the middle of the night, so diligent? The teacher forgives you for being absent from class these few days."
Lao Wang still didn't know why Zhou Xiu asked for leave. Early in the morning, the students reminded Zhou Xiu to write the test paper all night. He was so moved that he almost thought that Zhou Xiu was taking time off to review mathematics.
After Zhou Xiu finished writing the last test paper, she fell asleep until noon. When she woke up, she turned on her phone and was overwhelmed by the news. Almost every one of them reminded her to watch her live broadcast room. Zhou Xiu's live broadcast room barrage was like snowflakes at the moment, so dense that she couldn't read the words clearly.
She didn't understand what happened until she saw the last text message of the bank transfer. It turned out that... she did all the last test papers correctly.
The last three questions of the test paper Zhou Xiu did were all the most difficult finale questions of previous IMOs. They were solved perfectly at four o'clock in the morning. The brand-new style of problem-solving ideas made fans watching the live broadcast call 666 on their knees. , The anchor of this live broadcast room is a true god of learning, the kind who doesn't mix a little water.
Zhou Xiu stared at the balance of the account, showing her canine teeth unexpectedly, and quickly transferred 200,000 yuan to Xie Cheng.
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