Green Apricot

Every noon after school, I would go to the hospital to see my second sister before returning to the dormitory to cook.My mother usually just eats casually in my dormitory, and my second sister buys whatever she wants. The old lady in the same ward has osteomyelitis. She is kind-hearted and rich. Every time she Her family members came to see her with big bags and small bags, and she gave the food to her mother and second sister. It was fine in the first few days, but then my mother was really embarrassed, so she figured that she would go out after dinner. Wait for people to eat before coming in.

The second sister was bored during her hospitalization and wanted to read books to pass the time, but her mother was illiterate, and the second sister finished reading magazines on the street in less than an hour or two, and she read books faster and faster, and they were also very expensive.

I went to the street to see if there were any discounted books on the street stalls, but I couldn't find them after walking half a street, and it would take several days to wait until the market.If it's not good to ask Uncle Tianming to borrow it, he has already helped a lot, so I can't bother him anymore.

It happened that someone in the class was reading a very thick online novel.The characters are small and thicker than the Xinhua dictionary, so I asked the person if I could lend them to me, and the person told me to rent them myself, so I knew that there are still places where you can rent books in this small county.

Later, I went to have a look and found that there are mostly online novels, but there are still famous books, but very few, which have been buried in the corner of the bookcase.I don't know what the second sister is interested in, so I rented a lot, let her watch whatever she likes, and run to the hospital.Just in front of the pharmacy, I bumped into Uncle Tianming who was shopping for vegetables with his wife. I glanced at him and lowered my head, and said, "Hello, teacher, teacher and wife."

He looked at me holding a big book and said with wide eyes, "Who are you?"

"Oh, my second sister is ill, she underwent an operation, and she is fine now. I will rent books for him to pass the time."I found myself unexpectedly nervous.It's like stealing someone.

"Oh, then go about your business."I walked across from him, turned around and saw the small pannier he was carrying, shook my head, and wished him a happy life in my heart.

I thought to myself, how old his son must be, he must be very similar to him.I think I should have had this kind of life, and I won't have it in the future.All the happiness in this world belongs to others, and it would be great if I could see it.

I took those books to the hospital.The second sister's complexion began to become normal, and the wound gradually improved as time healed.After the second sister got better, my eldest sister went to Hunan, saying that she was used to staying there and did not want to change places.In fact, I heard from my second sister that the eldest sister had a relationship with someone in Hunan, and the second sister planned to go to Duyun, where one of my cousins ​​found a job in a factory.

But my parents were in a dilemma. If I went to the eldest sister's place, my mother could only understand the people there if they spoke Mandarin, and my mother could not speak Mandarin at all.It's okay to say that my parents graduated from junior high school.

Later, I decided to go to Duyun to have a look, and then I went to look for it.When I went to Duyun, my mother said that the factory recruited female workers, but my father was limping because of walking, so he could only do carpentry.In Duyun, there is no sky for him to play.Afterwards, I calculated that even if my father didn’t work every day, cooking for my mother and second sister at home every day was more than ten times better than doing farm work at home.I have been doing farm work at home all my life, but in the end, I have not paid a penny to pay off my debts.

Just when my father was worrying, my elder sister called from Hunan, saying that there was a job as a carpenter there, so my mother followed, leaving only my second sister in Duyun.

And after my parents left, the old house at home had to be unoccupied, so my grandma went to live in my house alone.At this time, a worker in a neighboring village who used to work as a carpenter with my father bought a new mobile phone. Someone sent a text message saying that his number had won a lottery, and he won 10 yuan.He really believed it, but instead of sending the money to his card right away, they asked him to send 1 yuan first.

Whoever has 1 yuan in this rural area is really a [-]-yuan household.So he borrowed money everywhere, and many people told him that he was a scam, but he was fascinated by money for a while, and the debt of favor and usury, after calling it, nothing came to nothing, and the whole family went to Zhejiang to work.

When I returned home on the weekend, the house was empty, the pig pen was empty, the cow pen was empty, and the room was empty.I sat on the stone ladder and looked at the trees and stones in front of my house. Suddenly, I felt that a lot of things were missing, and I also lost a lot of things.

Later, my father sent me 500 yuan with the wages he paid, so that I could buy a mobile phone and contact me later.Every day on the street, the tweeter yells that you will get a mobile phone for the two yuan phone bill, so I bought one because I thought it was a good deal.

It didn't take long for grandma's to fall ill.This disease brought my family back to the original point.

That day, after Baishi came home, he called me and said that grandma was sick, so sick that it was difficult for her to speak.When I heard this, how could it be so serious.

Hurry up and get on the car home, just in time for the village fair.When I got home, Shiraishi told me that my grandma was sitting in front of the fire pit at my uncle's house.There I was crying while talking.I rushed to my uncle's house, and several two- and three-year-old nephews and nieces were playing in the main room.And the second brother and daughter-in-law of the Baishi family walked in and out with her three or four-month-old little girl in her arms.Everyone else is gone.

I went to my parents' room to find their usual phone book.I found the phone number of my second brother in my hometown (the second son of my second grandfather's third son's family) on it.

My second brother used to be a doctor and knew some medical skills. Later, he started a feed business. The business was very good. When it came time to go to the market, he was very busy.In our family, if we have money, we can still speak a bit of prestige. Because we are rich, many people owe him a debt of favor. Even my father respects him three points, and he will be invited for any important event in that family. solve.And I have been getting injections from him since I was a child.I also grew up watching him.

I dialed the phone number "Is it the second brother?"

"Well, what happened?"

"My grandma is sick, please help me to come over and see if I need to go to a big hospital"

"Huh? Why don't you go to a big hospital when you're in your [-]s and [-]s?" I hung up the phone immediately.

Bai Shi asked from the side, "What did he say?"

"He said that he was in his seventies and eighties, so he still went to a big hospital."The feeling of despair began to envelope me, and this despair was stronger than that of the second sister's illness.I thought to myself, is there really no other way?I walked out of the room and called my father by the courtyard dam, saying that my grandma was dying, and told them to come back quickly, and I had no strength to speak.After speaking, I hung up the phone.I walked in the direction of the county seat. I thought I was powerless. I had no money or a car.The adults all went to the market one by one.

When I walked to the side of the mountain and saw no one on the side of the road, I burst into tears.When I walked to the foot of the mountain, I saw my uncle, aunt, and second mother coming back from the market. I didn't know what to say, which made my uncle laugh so happily.I saw them stop crying for a moment.When my second mother saw that my eyes were red from crying, she said, "Qing Xing, your grandma just has a cold, why are you sad?"Her voice had already started to change as she said this.

My aunt took my hand and said: "Where are you going, you listen to me first, she has a lot of life and is fine."Only then did I realize that my mother had been following me.

They persuaded me for a while and I didn't say anything before they went back.

In the evening, my parents came home and called me. I asked how my grandma was doing, and my father said it was okay. My second brother came and was about to give him an injection.As soon as I heard that my second brother was here, I became angry. He didn't come during the day, but only came at night when it was serious. He took human life for nothing.The more I think about it, the angrier I get.So he called his second brother.

As soon as I answered the phone over there, I said directly, "Stop being hypocritical there, get the hell out of here."I deliberately said that rolling word very loudly, and then hung up the phone.

Immediately afterwards, my second brother called, but I didn't answer, but my father called and said, "Qing Xing, originally, they were going to give your grandma an injection, and now you are doing that. As soon as I said it, people stopped fighting."

"Don't hit you and let him die"

"Listen to me, you go and apologize to them, they will see." I thought to myself, I apologize, and I will scold you ten more words when the call reaches your ear.On the other end of the phone was the voice of my uncle and uncle persuading my second brother.After a while the phone hung up.Then, it was my mother who called.I said loudly: "You are not at home. They are afraid that they will not be able to tell you apart after paying the money. Now that you are back, there are people driving in the village again. Why don't you send them to the big hospital?"

The mother said, "It's not as simple as you think. You see, your father-in-law (grandma's brother) is still there, and he definitely doesn't agree with your grandma dying outside!"

It is a very bad thing where people die outside and their souls cannot return home.

"Well, since you are like this, I can only say sorry for your affairs in the future."

"Everyone is like this"

"It's so stupid, you just die in that house in the future, don't go out forever"

Later, it was useless for me to speak to them in various languages, and my second brother may have given his grandma an injection and saw a doctor because he thought he had it before.

Grandma had a cerebral thrombosis, and she had no strength in one hand and foot, so she could only spend the rest of her life in a chair.And my second brother will regularly give him injections and prescribe medicine.

Although he could only spend it in a chair, it was good enough to save his life.