The rag picking sister turned out to be a weapon refiner

"Huh..." Hu Xingtong took a deep breath, stretched, and leaned back in his chair. Looking at the program on the computer that he had worked so hard to write after three days and two nights, his sense of satisfaction reached its peak.

"Now it will be easier to find things. I'll first find a few Space-Time Crystals and exchange them for cash before refining the equipment."

After simply tidying up the desk, Hu Xingtong planned to go back to bed for a nap. He had been staying up too long, and felt a little lethargic after relaxing.

Just as he groped his way onto the bed, the phone hanging around his neck rang. Hu Xingtong was a little impatient and glanced at the note on it: Sister.

Well, forget it, sister.

I picked up the phone, and the person on the other end just said hello and nothing else.

"Sister?" Hu Xingtong was curious why the other party didn't speak. The long silence made her feel inexplicably uncomfortable.

The other party hummed, then slowly said: "Xingxing, Mom is sick, do you want to come to the hospital to see her?"

The tone of inquiry did not directly and forcefully demand anything from Hu Xingtong, and there seemed to be a hint of caution in the words.

Hu Xingtong was silent. She felt that her sister's words were a bit ambiguous. After thinking for a while, she finally spoke to confirm: "Mom, what disease...did she have?"

The other party fell silent again. Hu Xingtong realized the problem with her words belatedly. She pursed her lips and wanted to explain, but the other party beat her to the punch: "There is a malignant tumor in the thyroid gland, and it has been confirmed to be cancerous."

After that, there was a long silence between both sides...

"Then is it convenient for you to come and pick me up?" After a long time, Hu Xingtong broke the heavy atmosphere, looked at his legs, and spoke helplessly.

"Your brother-in-law is watching here. I'll pick you up." The other person seemed to be happy in an instant, and even his tone was filled with a hint of joy.

After hanging up the phone, Hu Xingtong looked at his legs lying flat, not knowing what he was thinking. He slowly moved from the bed to the bedside, found a few packets of coffee candy from the drawer beside him and chewed them. The taste was a bit strange, but he didn't care about the egg tarts. He found a black wallet from the drawer, took out a bank card and put it in the interlayer of the mobile phone case. After doing all this, he slowly moved to the wardrobe.

After changing clothes and washing up, Hu Xingtong looked in the mirror and found that she didn't look so haggard anymore. This way, her sister wouldn't notice that she had stayed up late.

"Knock knock knock..." There was a knock on the door, it seemed like my sister was coming.

Hu Xingtong moved and pressed the voice button at the door: "I'm home, just come in."

There was a beeping sound of a password outside the door, and a slender figure approached and appeared at the door. The person was wearing a beige windbreaker and had long hair. She exuded the charm of a mature woman.

"Xingxing, have you been staying up late recently?" The person came in and just changed into slippers, and was startled when he met Hu Xingtong's dark eyes head-on.

Hu Xingtong adjusted his glasses a little embarrassedly. His sister's eyesight had never been bad, so he couldn't hide it.

"I endured it for a while. I've been busy with a lot of cases lately, and I've been busy with drawing and programming." Please forgive Hu Xingtong for telling a little lie. He was really addicted to playing games recently, so he wanted to write a plug-in to carry the whole game. Who knew that it would take him three days and two nights to write it.

"Come on, I'd believe you if you said you'd been up for three days and three nights." Hu Luoxi rolled her eyes and asked, "Have you packed? If you're done, we'll set off."

Hu Xingtong nodded, put the bag on his body, and waited quietly for his sister's help.

After getting on the elevator, Hu Xingtong climbed into the back seat by himself. The two of them went straight to the hospital in silence.

When the door to the ward was opened, Hu's mother was chatting with her brother-in-law Wang Kai. When she saw Hu Xingtong and her sister, she greeted them warmly.

"Xingxing is here, come here quickly." The two sisters looked at each other. Hu Luoxi pushed Hu Xingtong slowly towards Hu's mother. Seeing that the two had something to say, she also consciously sat next to her husband.

"Mom, are you feeling okay?" Hu Xingtong looked at his mother's body and felt that she was in good spirits. He glanced at his mother's neck and found that it was indeed swollen.

"It's okay. I found it during a physical examination a while ago. The doctor said the chances of it being removed surgically are still very high." Hu Xingtong didn't believe what his mother said. After finding a topic to prevaricate, he chatted with his mother for a while, then looked at his sister for help: "Sister, please push me to the doctor and ask about the situation."

"Hey, no need to go. Stay here and let mom chat with you." Hu's mother stretched out her hand, trying to stop the two sisters' actions, but Hu Xingtong was stubborn and wanted to find a doctor at this moment. In desperation, Hu Luoxi could only side with her sister.

After briefly understanding her mother's condition in the doctor's office, Hu Xingtong turned around and looked up at her sister, "Sister, where's Ye Ge?"

"She's out of town. She took Yingying on a trip a few days ago. I haven't told her about Mom yet."

Hearing this, Hu Xingtong didn't say anything. She lowered her head to look at her bag and said, "Sister, come here." Hu Luoxi didn't understand what was going on. She walked out from behind Hu Xingtong and squatted down in front of her.

Seeing her coming, Hu Xingtong took out the bank card he had prepared long ago from his shoulder bag and handed it to her, instructing her, "There's about 130,000 yuan in the card. You know the password. It's our three birthdays, and I only have this much in savings. I don't use much at home normally. I can't take care of Mom's illness, so I have to trouble you and Ye Ge. I also know you may not be short of money, but Mom's illness requires expenses, and Yingying and Ye Ge also need tuition. You keep this card, and I'll deposit it when my salary comes in this month."

Looking at the bank card in her hand and listening to her sister's sincere words, Hu Luoxi felt uncomfortable. She and her mother had never thought of asking her sister to pay anything. This time when her mother was sick, she just wanted her sister to come and see her. Since her legs could no longer stand up, she became much less talkative, refused all help from herself and her mother, lived and worked alone at home, and her temperament changed drastically.

But at this moment, Hu Luoxi really felt an indescribable bitterness. He held the card in his hand and didn't know whether to push it or take it. If he gave it back, Xingtong would feel uncomfortable. If he put it away, Xingtong's savings of several years would be in his hands.

"Keep it. I don't have much expenses living alone, so I don't need much money. When everything is settled, I want you to come to my place and make me some pickled fish, okay?" Hu Xingtong smiled, tightened Hu Luoxi's hand holding the bank card, and found a reason she wanted to hear most to divert her attention.

As expected, Hu Luoxi's eyes changed obviously when he heard the second half of her sentence. The sudden opening of his eyes made Hu Xingtong feel indescribably uncomfortable.

"it is good."

"Well, take me home. I stayed up all night and I'm very sleepy now."

Perhaps Hu Xingtong looked too tired, so Hu Luoxi didn't know what to say. He took the card, stood up, pushed the wheelchair and left the hospital.

Before they got home, Hu Xingtong was already extremely sleepy and fell into a deep sleep in the car. Hu Luoxi looked at her sleeping sister and didn't intend to wake her up. After thinking about it, she decided to try to pick her up herself.

As a result, I accidentally used too much force and almost twisted my ankle.

Feeling the abnormal weight in his arms, Hu Luoxi frowned. Even with such a big commotion just now, the person in his arms didn't wake up. It was obvious that he was too sleepy.

After putting the person on the bed and covering him with the quilt, Hu Luoxi took the opportunity to check the room. It was a small two-bedroom house that Hu Xingtong had bought before the accident. It was not big, but very cozy. The furniture was all made of low and soft materials. There were horizontal bars everywhere on the walls, with different heights. The bathroom was also renovated later, and the design tended to be simple and convenient for disabled people to use.

The height of the kitchen stove is relatively low, and there are some shelves and hooks around it, which seems to be for the owner to take things conveniently.

Hu Luoxi opened the cabinet and found various fast food products on display, including instant noodles and hot pot.

"Tsk, you don't eat this every day at home, do you? No wonder you're as thin as a bamboo pole." Hu Luoxi complained and opened the refrigerator again. As expected, there were only some frozen foods and some tea and drinks in it, and no fresh vegetables at all.

"I shouldn't have listened to her nonsense and ruined my life." Hu Luoxi was a little angry. After hanging up the refrigerator, he walked straight out the door.