College entrance examination, in the examination room.
Tang Jinyu was highly concentrated the moment she sat down, with only the exam paper in her eyes, she calmed down and answered every question seriously.
The two-day exam, he completed very smoothly.
The class teacher was worried about these top students, and asked a few students with good grades in the class to check the questions for them. After evaluating the scores, he was relieved. This time the questions were relatively difficult, but Tang Jinyu and the others answered the questions. All of them are good, especially the last two big questions, Tang Jinyu is the only one who got them all right.
The head teacher said to him: "Relax, your grades should be good. After three years of hard work, you can relax and rest well during this time."
Tang Jinyu nodded, but after packing up and going back, she didn't rest.
Grandpa Tang's body was getting weaker day by day. Tang Jinyu finished the college entrance examination. It seemed that the string supporting the old man was stretched to the extreme. After silently screaming, it broke apart, but within two or three days, the condition worsened a lot. Comatose once.
Tang Jinyu panicked. He stayed in the hospital with his grandfather and waited at the door of the treatment room. The attending doctor wore a mask and didn't talk much to him. The doctor had been treating the old man for several years, and there was really nothing to do at the moment. He patted the boy's arm to comfort him, "Wake up, pay more attention in the future, there is no other way."
Tang Jinyu refused to let him go, grabbed the doctor's sleeve and begged him, "Is there always medicine that can be used? I beg you, give my grandfather some medicine, or do some other treatment... Give up like this, please!"
The doctor said: "If it had been discovered a few years earlier, there would still be a bit of confidence in the treatment. Now... your grandfather has been able to last for so long. He is already very powerful. Please stay with him more. Time may be running out."
Tang Jinyu stood there in a daze, it took a while to realize the meaning of this sentence, closed her eyes, and rolled her throat a few times to suppress her whimper.
He went to the bathroom to rinse his face with cold water for a while, practiced in front of the mirror and smiled for a long time, feeling better, and then went back to see the old man.
Grandpa Tang has been sent back to the ward. He looks very tired. He lies there with two pillows behind him and rests with his eyes closed. He has been unable to lie down recently. It is oxygen inhalation, I feel it is too expensive, and I am not willing to spend more money on myself in the end.
Tang Jinyu used to sit on the stool beside the bed and gently shook the old man's hand, but in just one month, the old man lost a lot of weight, and his eyes were sunken and somewhat out of shape. As soon as he touched his hand, the old man woke up, his eyes looking at him were still calm and loving, Tang Jinyu carefully held his hand on her cheek, and the old man touched his face and said with a smile, "It's a holiday, Don't stay here forever, I can't run, you go out to play ball with your classmates, grandpa still has five dollars in his pocket, you can buy popsicles to eat, it's too hot, don't get heatstroke."
Tang Jinyu shook her head and refused to go.
He stayed in the hospital to accompany his grandfather, and bought immune globulin to inject the old man. The price of one was 1,500 yuan. Because it is nutrients that improve immunity, Grandpa Tang seemed to have a little energy. But this kind of acupuncture is not covered by the medical insurance reimbursement, and their money is running out. Grandpa Tang refused to take a second injection. Tang Jinyu went out to work during the day, and came back to accompany him at night. The old man increases his immunity, so that his state can be better.
He actually knew that this medicine could not cure the disease, but he just wanted to make the old man feel more comfortable, even if he had a good night's sleep.
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Tang Jinyu thought of many ways. He only had the money he earned when he was a tutor, which was far from enough. He tried to contact Song Yi, who had previously awarded him a scholarship, through the school. It will take a while for the news to pass. His college entrance examination scores have not yet come down, and there are few people looking for him to take over tutoring work. He has not given up. He has interviewed wherever he can, and even went to a piano shop for an interview. Fortunately, he has spent more than ten years in the book, and his skill in playing the piano is not unfamiliar. After playing it a few times, it becomes very smooth.
The person in charge of the piano shop admired him very much, and offered a high salary price, but he had to wait for the boss to come and then interview and assess, and said he would give him news next week.
"During this period of time, please don't go to other piano shops. You can pay you 1,000 yuan in advance. Our boss Guo cherishes talents very much. Although our piano shop is a new one, it is also the largest in the city. I dare to Guarantee that no one will be better than the conditions we give."
Tang Jinyu accepted the money, simply signed a 2-month contract, and agreed to the other party.
He put together the remaining tuition fees and these in his pocket, and handed them all over to the hospital for the elderly.
There are still two weeks before the results will be released. During this time, Tang Jinyu found another odd job on the construction site. Although it was hard work, the pay was paid daily. Sometimes he only worked for one afternoon and could come back early. He could even go to the hospital to take care of his grandfather.
The old man was very distressed when he saw that his grandson had lost weight and tanned in the past two days. Although Tang Jinyu said that he went out to play ball with his classmates, but Grandpa Tang is so old that he can't see it, he is obviously tired.
Sometimes the old man was so distressed that he got down by himself and insisted on letting him sleep on the single bed.
Tang Jinyu refused: "Grandpa, I'm in good health, so you need to rest."
Grandpa Tang said with a stern face: "I lie all day long and feel uncomfortable all over. You go up and sleep for a while and let me get down and rest."
Neither of the two could convince the other. In the end, Grandpa Tang gave in and said, "Then I will sit and you will come up and sleep at my feet, and we can both lie down."
Tang Jinyu hesitated for a while, seeing that the old man was about to lift the quilt and get down again, and immediately lay down obediently.
He worked on the construction site until after three in the morning last night. He carried a lot of paving stones. One piece weighed twenty or thirty pounds. It was really hard to carry three pieces on his shoulders. The old man gave him a pillow, and Tang Jinyu fell asleep shortly after touching the pillow.
Grandpa Tang took off his socks and rubbed his feet for a while. Hearing the child fell asleep, he got out of the hospital bed lightly, and took a water cup to give him a cup of warm water.
The old man walked slowly, leaned against the wall and walked back to the ward little by little. As soon as he arrived at the door, he heard the voice of a nurse blaming inside.
"What bed number are you a family member of? Where can you be accompanied by someone like this? You don't even know that the patient has left, and you are still sleeping here..."
The old man heard that he was taking a few steps, and when he went in, he saw Tang Jinyu putting on his shoes there in a panic, with a worried expression on his face. Call me for water, and I'll fetch it."
The little nurse was new here, and she was still angry when she saw it: "You are taking care of it so much now, what were you doing just now?"
The old man was in a hurry in front of his grandson for the first time: "Girl, don't talk about him, my grandson is already very tired, you should let him rest, he finally slept for a few minutes just now."
The little nurse looked puzzled. After checking the bed and delivering the medicine, she went back to the nurse station and told the head nurse about the matter, but she was still wondering, "You said how strange the old man in bed 5 is, he was sick and let him go. The grandson sleeps in the hospital bed and spoils the child too much..."
The head nurse knew a lot about the grandfather and grandson, so he lowered his voice and told her a few words, without exaggerating or saying too much, just a few words made the face of the new little nurse flush, and listen again, Eye circles are red.
In the evening, Tang Jinyu went to make meals for the old man, and when he came back, he saw two oranges in the small cabinet beside the hospital bed.
He said strangely, "Grandpa, where did you get the oranges?"
Grandpa Tang said with a smile: "The little nurse brought it here, saying that he was murdering you during the day, so I will make up for the two of you with oranges."
Tang Jinyu thought for a while before he remembered, he had long forgotten about it.
Grandpa Tang was not in good health and ate less. He ate half of it and gave the rest to Tang Jinyu.
Tang Jinyu ate all of them slowly. He liked oranges the most when he was a child, but he ate very little with his grandfather. When he went there, his parents loved him and bought more. Uncle Xia, who was next door, often prepared small oranges. Walk over against the wall, knock on the door, and the other party will carry him into the room and reward him with a small orange.
In winter, Uncle Xia was afraid that his stomach would hurt after eating cold, so he would put the small oranges on the radiator to warm them up a bit and then give them to him. In fact, the oranges are not very tasty when they are warm, they are a bit sour, and sometimes they will It was a little bitter, but he never said that, every time he ate happily, the whole family saw that he was having a good time, and they were also happy.
After Tang Jinyu finished eating the last orange, she was silent for a moment, then got up to clean up the orange peel.
The old man had a bad cough day and night, so Tang Jinyu stopped doing odd jobs and stayed in the hospital to take care of him.
Grandpa Tang was supported by him and fed a little water. He sat there and sighed: "It's really useless when people are old."
Tang Jinyu said: "Don't say that, I have asked the doctor, it can be cured slowly, now a new drug is available, and it will be cured with a few injections. You didn't have one injection before, and you can walk down and walk twice. Is it? It will definitely be cured." He didn't know whether to say the last sentence to the old man or to himself, and the words were heavy.
Grandpa Tang laughed, nodded, and said nothing.
After a while, Grandpa Tang said again: "Everything is fine in the hospital, except that there is no TV, Xiaoyu, why don't you go back at night to watch it for me and tell me tomorrow? I was watching one before I came to the hospital. , I have been thinking about it in my heart, and I can't let it go."
Tang Jinyu knew that the old man was worried that he would not be able to rest well here, so he felt sorry for him and asked him to go home to rest.
He agreed, but instead of going back to rest, he went to buy a second-hand smartphone. The one who sold his mobile phone was a boy in the class, the one who bought scones for Tang Jinyu before. The relationship between the boy and Tang Jinyu has always been good. After his college entrance examination, his family was rewarded with a new mobile phone. He went to the store to buy a mobile phone case and happened to touch it. When he arrived at Tang Jinyu, he immediately dragged him out, took out his old mobile phone, took off the card, and handed it to him, "Squad leader, this is for you. I just want to replace it with a new one. If you don't mind it, use it!"
Tang Jinyu refused to take it in vain, so the boy took it for granted and charged 200 yuan.
Tang Jinyu stopped being polite to him, patted him on the arm, and said, "Thank you." He remembered that this person was good, and he would definitely find opportunities to repay in the future.
He took his mobile phone back to the hospital and found the mediation program on the Internet to show his grandfather. The old man had never used a smartphone before, so it was very novel after seeing it. After talking to Tang Jinyu about it, he saw his grandson find out the program he had watched half of the time before, and he looked at it with relish after a while.
Tang Jinyu accompanied him, the old man watched intermittently, his body was easily fatigued, and it took several days to finish a show.
What the show is doing this time is a family mediation. It is about a woman who was almost beaten to death by her husband's family. The husband's family prioritizes sons over daughters. He beats not only her, but also her daughter. The seven- or eight-year-old girl was thrown over by her grandmother. One of the bowls broke his forehead and blood came out. This also made the woman wake up instantly, she decided to no longer tolerate it for the sake of the child, and insisted on divorce.
The people who came to the TV station for mediation originally thought it was just a conflict between husband and wife. After they went there, they saw the tragic situation of the mother and daughter, and they couldn't mediate anymore, so they took them to a lawyer for consultation. The husband's family was unrelenting, showing contempt for the mother and daughter, and insulting them several times, with no regard for family affection.
While listening to Grandpa Tang, he sighed: "This person will be punished sooner or later. He doesn't know how many people have no children at home, so how can he be willing to attack a child... Listen, and hitting a woman is like a beast."
The old man has some presbyopia, and is tired from looking at the screen of the mobile phone for a long time, so he closes his eyes and listens.
Tang Jinyu held the phone aside and watched it together. Seeing that the ending was not good, she immediately turned off the volume.
The old man asked, "Why are you silent?"
Tang Jinyu said: "There is a problem with the battery of the mobile phone, but there are subtitles, Grandpa, you can't read it clearly, I will read it to you."
The old man just lay there, closing his eyes and listening to him carefully.
Tang Jinyu made up a particularly good ending, the kind that the old man likes most.
In the story he told, the woman suffered no loss. She escaped from the house with the help of reporters and mediators with her child, and then went to the police station to file a case. After the injury, her husband was detained. She ended up divorced, got a lot of money, and took her children to a new city where she lived a particularly good life incognito.
The old man listened carefully, smiled and nodded, "Okay, it's long overdue to go, it's better to walk far with the child. Trees move to death, people move to live, she is still so young, hanging from a tree with a crooked neck. It's not worth dying for."
Tang Jinyu turned off the phone and let the old man rest for a while, "Grandpa, I'm going to make dinner, you can rest for a while, will you still make millet porridge today?"
Grandpa Tang nodded and smiled: "Okay, I like to drink that, you go."
I don’t know if it’s because I watched the TV program I’ve been worrying about, or because the resistance-boosting medicine I took before had an effect. Tonight, the old man is in a little better condition. He sat there and drank a small bowl of porridge, and chatted a lot with his grandson. .
Tang Jinyu sat there chatting with the old man. Grandpa Tang touched his head and said with a smile, "Our Xiaoyu has grown up and is eighteen years old."
"No."
"Why not, grandpa counts every day!" The old man held his hand, his expression relaxed a lot, "When you grow up, you will be able to make your own decisions about many things in the future, you know?"
Tang Jinyu shook her head. He had a vague feeling in his heart that he didn't want the old man to continue talking. But this time the old man didn't listen to him anymore, he spoke slowly, and he told him little by little: "Grandpa is sick, I know in my heart, in fact, it's much better than what the doctor said before, and I haven't said much since last year. It's been a month, and I thought at that time, I have to grit my teeth and hold on until your birthday, and I can rest assured when I see you turn eighteen years old... Eighteen years old will grow up, if When Grandpa is gone, you are no longer an orphan, and you can decide many things yourself."
The old man held his hand and said in a low voice, "I watched you finish your birthday and I was still alive, I just wanted to watch you finish the college entrance examination and see you take the notice with my own eyes. Grandpa knows that people are greedy. I still want to see you go to college, and I want to be with you all the time, how can this be possible
"Grandpa saved 50,000 yuan for you. The money is in the small box under the bed at home. I'm afraid that it will be gone in a hurry. Take it. Grandpa doesn't have much ability in this life, and he didn't save much, so don't blame grandpa."
Tang Jinyu wanted to speak, but Grandpa Tang raised his hand to stop it, "You are obedient, let Grandpa finish. There is one more thing to tell you, for so many years, I have been celebrating your birthday on June 1, but your birthday is not. That day."
The old man laughed and said, "That's what Grandpa took for you when he brought you back."
Grandpa Tang held his hand trembling slightly, and with some strength, told him a story.
It was more than ten years ago. The old man lost his son, daughter-in-law and grandson in a car accident, and all his relatives were gone.
The daughter-in-law's last sentence was to ask him to save the child. She didn't know that her child had died in the car accident. The old man had gray hair overnight, and everyone was ten years old. It was also on that day that the hospital rescued a child who was about two years old. The child was sitting there with dementia, neatly dressed, and a ribbon hanging around his neck. No one came to pick him up, no one wanted him—no one wanted such a sick child.
Grandpa Tang saw him, went to pay the hospital bills for him, went through the formalities and adopted him.
Day by day, the child's health is getting better and better, he can talk and laugh, he is smart, and he learns everything very quickly. .
…
Grandpa Tang raised his hand and touched his head, and said with a smile, "The little one I brought back back then became so big in the blink of an eye."
Tang Jinyu wiped the tears from her face with the back of her hand, hugged him and called Grandpa.
The old man patted him gently, coaxing him not to cry like he did when he was a child.
He gritted his teeth and insisted on living a few more days, just to arrange everything properly and find a good way for his only grandson.
He didn't want to send the child to the orphanage, he wanted to protect him when he grew up enough to support himself.
This is the limit of what he can do.
Grandpa Tang wiped his tears and said in a low voice, "You don't know, I hoped that your parents wouldn't come to you, and I didn't know where you came from, so the younger one just sat there, hurt. I don’t even know how to cry. Grandpa lost all his relatives that day, so he raised you as his only child. When he found out later that he was sick, he didn’t feel too bad. This was originally a time I stole.”
Tang Jinyu was still shaking her head, crying too much to speak.
"I'm crying like a cat, don't cry anymore, do you know why grandpa wrote you your birthday on June 1? Because grandpa wants you to be a child all your life, happy every day, and you don't understand anything. I don't know what worrying is, that's the best way." Grandpa Tang rubbed his head and sighed with a smile, "Unfortunately, Grandpa has no ability, he didn't take you for a few days, and he almost delayed your exam, but fortunately, all Come here, the little money that grandpa saved for you, you can keep it to study hard, and I will be relieved after finishing university."
"I don't want that money, I'll take it to treat you..."
The old man shook his head, "Grandpa is getting old, the loess is buried in the neck, and the disease can't be cured. Grandpa knows the money for you. I'll be happy to see you grow up. I wish Halfway through." He held Tang Jinyu's hand and looked back and forth on his face with nostalgia, "It's a pity that Grandpa couldn't see you going to college."
Tang Jinyu hugged him and didn't let go, her knuckles clenched so hard that they turned white, her shoulders trembled slightly, her teeth clenched and she could hear the sound of colliding up and down, "Yes, I can definitely see it, I want to take you with me. We went to many places together, I've been looking for you for a long time, you can't just leave me like this."
"Silly boy, when everyone gets old, I just get off at the station early, you have to let go and go forward." The old man was hugged tightly by him, and his eyes were wet, "I bought it for myself. A cemetery, what I didn’t want, it’s not worth it, just throw a handful of ashes into the sea, how good it is to be free. But I thought, if you miss me and want to talk to me, there is a place to go.”
He raised his arms laboriously, hugged his grandson with his rough and dry hands, and said in a hoarse voice, "Xiaoyu, when you go to college, come and tell grandpa, and grandpa will be satisfied."
Two days before the college entrance examination notice came, Tang Jinyu sent his grandfather away.
The old man walked in his sleep, he did not experience much pain, and his face was kind.
He couldn't wake up the old man, only to find that he had left.
Tang Jinyu was a teenager who had never experienced such a thing. She didn't know how to deal with it, so she stood there at a loss.
The head nurse took pity on him and took him to go through the formalities. The hospital issued a death certificate. He took the death certificate and went to the funeral home for cremation.
There were well-wishers who helped along the way, he followed in a daze, and brought back a small wooden box from the funeral home, which contained a handful of grandfather's ashes.
When he returned home, he only felt that the room was very quiet. He hadn't eaten anything for a day, only soaked in water, but he was neither thirsty nor hungry, as if he couldn't feel it. He sat on the sofa for a long time. Just put on the clothes and lay there in a drowsy sleep.
But at night, Tang Jinyu suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, like a big dream, suddenly remembered what happened during the day, tears rolled down, and burst into tears.
Grandpa is gone.
He has no relatives in this world.
It took Tang Jinyu a few days to slowly recover a little bit of energy. She lost a lot of weight and her smile disappeared. He pursed his lips and silently packed up the old man's belongings, and put everything away properly. Their grandfather and grandson had always lived in poverty, but this did not mean that the old man had treated him badly. The toys when he was a child were all made for him by the old man himself, small wooden hands, guns, and rattles made of cowhide... Tang Jinyu put them all in a small box, and when she saw one of the red lucky characters , his hand paused and picked it up.
This kit seems to be a few years old, but when Tang Jinyu touched it, she suddenly felt a little strange, as if something urged him to open the kit.
The urgency was so fast that his hands trembled, and he accidentally tore off two tassel pendants.
The lucky bag was opened, and inside was a piece of yellowed paper, which was folded into a small square and placed inside.
Tang Jinyu opened it and found that it was not a complete page, but a mutilated half, as if it had been torn off by someone inadvertently, with some incomprehensible - or vague characters on it.
After watching it for a while, his heartbeat suddenly increased, and he stumbled into the room and took out the autobiographical book. He turned to the last page, and with trembling hands, he put the half of the torn page on top of it. As expected, Zhang and it were tightly glued together, and the moment the two pages were closed, they began to glue together, and in the blink of an eye, they merged into a complete page, and the last page of the book was all in place.
The whole book was silent and automatic, the pages were flipped, and rolled from the last page to the front, so strong that Tang Jinyu could hardly hold it. He barely saw the handwriting that flashed on the pages of the book he jumped over. The words at the back of the book were no longer blurred, but all became clear. He could vaguely see "Xia Ye's acquisition of an overseas company at the age of 78", "M&A of a winery"... etc. Waiting for the words, before I could understand it, the whole book closed with a bang.
Tang Jinyu turned it over hard, but couldn't open it again, but a countdown appeared on the black cover of the book.
— 23:59:59.
The seconds began to decrease little by little, the book was firmly in his hand, the heavy feeling could be touched, and the vague feeling of being able to connect with the other side came back, Tang Jinyu's throat tightened, he had a feeling in his heart, if If he guessed right, a day later would be the moment when he made his final choice.
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