First dawn

Along the Lianhe River to the east, beside the road between the Second Bridge and the Third Bridge, stands the County Hospital of Lianxing County.On the second floor of the county hospital, the long passageway was filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant. The green plastic stools beside the passageway were faded, but they were full of patients and their families. There was a long queue outside the orthopedic clinic. In the infusion hall of the county hospital, stern-faced nurses came in and out with drip bottles, adults chatting loudly in dialect, and the cries of young children resounded throughout the corridor.

Qiao Jue was leaning against the door of the consultation room. Five minutes ago, Xu Hong and his aunt Qiao Xiaomei had just pushed Qiao Zeyan in. After a non-discriminatory full-body examination, half of Qiao Zeyan's body was bent unnaturally, his face was pained, and he groaned endlessly. , but his temperament of swearing has not changed at all. As soon as he entered the outpatient clinic, he scolded the doctor in the outpatient clinic.

Qiao Jue, who was originally pushing the wheelchair, let go of the hand holding the wheelchair and leaned against the wall beside the corridor. The baby next door couldn't find a blood vessel after getting an needle. It’s not the usual appearance. In the hospitals of small cities, this is a scene that repeats itself every day. The people change every day, but the stories that are staged never change. Go round and round, go round and round.

In the consulting room, the doctor ignored Qiao Zeyan's soaring scolding and Qiao Xiaomei's impatient roar, took Qiao Zeyan's X-ray film, and looked at it under the light: "It's broken, it's obviously broken."

"Is it still okay?" Xu Hong's voice was filled with worry.

"This one, look, I fell once before, and now I fell again. The old man is getting old, and his hip joint is basically broken."

Qiao Xiaomei's voice: "Can the surgery be done?"

The doctor pondered: "I can only reinstall an artificial hip joint, but the old man is too old, over 80, we can't do this surgery here, let's put it this way, you can't do this surgery in the city."

Xu Hong was silent.

Qiao Xiaomei persisted: "How much is the artificial one?"

"At least 18 million."

After hearing this number, Qiao Jue took a deep breath and gradually pressed his back against the cold wall behind him.

"Second sister, I have something to do at home this afternoon, so I'm leaving first." In the ward of the inpatient department, Qiao Xiaomei helped push Qiao Zeyan into the ward, and turned to leave.

Qiao Jue frowned and stood by the door of the ward.

"You tell the boss and the others, do you want this father, come and take care of him one night at a time." Xu Hong glanced at Qiao Xiaomei.

Qiao Xiaomei smiled: "Notice is fine, I won't come to take care of this. At the beginning, the family property was divided, but it was all given to the sons. My daughter didn't get a penny, so I didn't care about this old man before. In the future It doesn't matter either."

Xu Hong snorted coldly, and stopped looking at Qiao Xiaomei, meaning she could get lost.

"Qiao Jue looks good, looks good, and has good grades. If he gets into a good university in the future, he will be the most promising member of our Qiao family." Qiao Xiaomei said to Qiao Jue who was by the door.

Qiao Jue stepped aside to get out of the way, leaving Qiao Xiaomei aside.

Xu Hong sat down beside the bed. Seeing Qiao Xiaomei go, Qiao Zeyan covered the quilt and stopped moaning. The weather in March was unexpectedly good. The sun shone through the cracks in the curtains and shone into the room. On Hong's body, Qiao Jue saw white hair on Xu Hong's head, and his heart tightened suddenly.

Xu Hong's frowning eyebrows hadn't been relaxed since noon, and the ward was a little dark. Qiao Juan opened the gray and white curtains to let the sunlight spread on the ward floor.

"This operation can't be done." Xu Hong pulled Qiao Jue aside and said, Qiao Jue saw that the fundus of Xu Hong's eyes were full of red bloodshots that couldn't be melted away, and the eye sockets were always red, and a faint uneasiness enveloped Qiao Jue's heart.

"I don't think it can be done." Qiao Jue was silent for a while, and sighed. Qiao Zeyan was too old, not to mention that no hospital would be willing to operate. For their family at that time, it was a huge sum of money.

But without surgery, this old man with a broken bone will usher in an inevitable end.

However, they knew in their hearts that it didn't mean that Qiao Jue's two uncles could understand.People who usually don't care about the elderly are more talkative than the other at this time, and quarrels are inevitable.

Life is always like this. After all, you feel that hope is ushered in, as if everything will be fine, and you can count the time in front of you with hope and longing, but it will turn into a mountain of knives and a sea of ​​fire, with blood dripping with every step you take.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Hong woke up Qiao Jue, who was dozing on the bedside, and pointed wearily to Qiao Jue's mobile phone on the bedside table. The caller displayed on the phone screen was Yi Xiao. The nurse who gave the needle, a girl in her twenties wearing a nurse's uniform, was about to retort when she looked up and saw Qiao Jue by the window, restrained her anger a little, threw the medicine bottle on the bedside table, turned and left.

"What happened?" Yi Xiao asked, Qiao Jue was in good condition in the morning, there must be a reason why he didn't come to class in the afternoon, Yi Xiao was worried that the people from the Bungalow Casino were looking for trouble for Qiao Jue again, so he slipped out through the back door of Class [-] Call Joe Sue.

Qiao Jue left the ward with his mobile phone: "My grandpa fell and fractured the second time."

Through the electromagnetic waves, Yi Xiao could also feel the ups and downs of Qiao Jue's emotions. He knew that the relationship between Qiao Jue and his grandfather was not good, and he also knew the complicated situation of intrigue among relatives in Qiao Jue's family. Talkative relatives are bound to cause a series of troubles.

Qiao Jue's father has been away on business for a long time, and it is inconvenient for Xu Hong to take care of male elderly people. If he wants to take care of the elderly in the hospital, this job will naturally fall on Qiao Jue, and Qiao Jue is already a sophomore in high school. The biggest difficulty right now.

"Little Joe, listen to me."

"Hmm." Qiao Sui sighed softly.

"Do you believe it, close your eyes and move forward, the past will pass in the end."

Qiao Jue held the phone, leaned against the wall, and slowly slid his body down.

Do I believe it.

He was very tired. It was not a long journey from the tube building to the Lianxing County Hospital. He accompanied Xu Hong to lift the fractured Qiao Zeyan into a wheelchair, and cooperated with the nurses to send the old man to the outpatient clinic. Hong became more and more anxious, her eyes were red, she couldn't help sighing, and she had a tendency to give up.

Qiao Zeyan received an infusion, and the painkillers took effect. He snored while hugging the hospital's yellow quilt. The withered and yellow marks on the quilt were bright and dazzling.Xu Hong came from outside the door with a basin bought from the living area. The basin in his hand shook and almost fell to the ground, but was caught by Qiao Sui.

Xu Hong looked at Qiao Jue, her lips were not parted, her eyes were red, but she didn't say anything.

Qiao Jue knew what Xu Hong was going to say.

How do you live this day.

In the same way, Qiao Jue couldn't remember when he heard it for the first time. This short sentence has appeared many times in his more than ten years of life.

From the time when Qiao's family fought against the brothers because of the division of the family property, from the time when Qiao Zeyan lived in their home, from the first time Xu Hong sought medical treatment because of anxiety——

Qiao Jue will never forget those days. It was when he was in junior high school. Qiao Zeyan lived in their home. The family’s finances became more and more difficult. I started to be anxious, my eyes were red all day long, I frowned, and sometimes wept helplessly, knocking my head against the kitchen cabinet unconsciously.When it was serious, he would rush out of the tube building, and walk aimlessly by the river and on the Lianxing road with tears in his eyes.

During those dark days, Qiao Heng asked for leave to take care of Xu Hong at home. For countless days and nights, the father and son were exhausted, looking for familiar shadows over and over again on the long road.

With the passing of those days, the medicine also played a role, and Xu Hong, whom Qiao Jue and Qiao Heng were familiar with, returned to their side, but he was still prone to anxiety, and was often trapped in this emotion and couldn't extricate himself.Most of the time, Qiao Jue and Qiao Heng were cautious, afraid of triggering Xu Hong's anxiety.

Xu Hong's work is like a life-saving straw. The meager salary at the moment relieves her anxiety, and the busyness of work and social interaction can make her forget the pain of inner struggle.

Qiao Zeyan is bedridden, which means that he needs someone to take care of him. Qiao Heng’s income supports the family’s expenses. It is impossible to ask for leave or quit his job to take care of Qiao Zeyan. Qiao Zeyan.

But Xu Hong needs this job to maintain her social life, so that being busy can relieve her anxiety and ease her pain.

But just imagining the scene of losing his job will make Xu Hong miserable. The anxiety bothers Xu Hong all the time, and also involves Qiao Jue's inner world.

"Old man, why are you so uneasy, tell him not to doze off, and doze off in a wheelchair every day..." In the ward, Xu Hong muttered to himself, Qiao Jue didn't want to push the door, and he didn't want to push the door either. Go in, don't want to face it, and can't face it.

If Qiao Zeyan stays in bed for too long, will someone take care of him?

If Xu Hong's anxiety attacks because of this, what should he do?

If the family has no income, how should they go on in this day.

Questions come one after another, there is no solution, every question is unwilling to give in, it goes back and forth, and there is no answer, just like his life, trapped in this small city, unable to know the outside world, unable to break free from the shackles of his body.

Is there any way to break free from this kind of life, and fight a bloody way in the deadlock.

"Where is the orthopedic inpatient department?" A familiar voice came from the elevator entrance of the county hospital. Qiao Jue looked up in disbelief and saw Yi Xiao looking around among the crowd not far away.

"You..." Obviously should ask why the other party came first, Qiao Sui opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound.

Mingming had mixed feelings in his heart, all the turmoil gathered at one point, crowded in the narrow canyon of consciousness, and was about to collapse, but because of that person's staring gaze, in an instant, the ice and snow melted, and the sun shone through the screened window sills.

"Little Qiao!" Yi Xiao saw Qiao Jue who was leaning against the door of the ward, and walked over quickly.