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The elevator door opened on the 23rd floor with a "ding" sound. Zhou Heqing walked out with the crowd carrying a lunch box. Just passing by the nurse's station, he was stopped by a nurse: "Hey, you are the escort of bed 85, today's list It’s already down, remember to pay the fee later, otherwise we won’t be able to dispense the medicine tomorrow.”

It wasn't until this moment that Zhou Heqing seemed to be woken up by someone. He rubbed his sore eyes and freed his hand to take the list: "Thank you, Miss Nurse."

The inpatient department always exudes a suffocating smell. It is hard to tell whether it is medicine or something else.Stepping into the 23rd floor, Zhou Heqing felt that he couldn't breathe. It wasn't that he was deliberately holding back his breath, but that something oppressive and heavy was blocking his throat, which made his throat sore and dry, and his stomach burned. The feeling came in waves, and even the long and narrow corridors were unbearable.

"Xiao Zhou is here, bring food to your mother?"

"Yes, Auntie. Have you eaten, Auntie?"

"No, Zhang Hu went downstairs to buy it for me, and it's probably coming up soon."

"Hey, good auntie, then I'll send it to my mother first."

"Go, go, he's such a filial child, he doesn't look like my son, he doesn't even look at me, hey..."

Zhou Heqing acted as if he hadn't heard the last words of his mother's sick friend, nodding and smiling all the way to his mother's hospital bed.It's not that he's so filial that he has to deliver three meals a day to his mother's bed, but that he really doesn't have the money to pay for a nurse, even for a day.

Zhou's mother had a dialysis session in the afternoon, and the process was probably more painful. Even lying on the bed at the moment, her brows were furrowed, and there was a small, weak cry of pain between her lips.

He Qing stood in front of the bed for a while, trying to take a deep breath to keep his breath steady and calm.

"Mom," he put the lunch box beside the bed, and called softly, "It's time to eat. The preserved egg porridge I bought and your favorite steamed fish."

"Heqing is here..." Zhou's mother opened her eyes and struggled to sit up, "You are tired, I told you not to deliver it every time, you can deliver it all in the morning, or I will go down to buy it myself and ask Zhang Hu Just bring me a copy..."

"Okay, Mom, at the end of the semester, I don't have much to do. Besides, it's delivered in the morning. Will it still be fresh in the evening?" He put down the lunch box and ran to the end of the hospital bed to shake the bed to a suitable angle. He ran back to open the lunch box and took a pair of chopsticks to pick out the fishbone.

"Have you eaten?" Mother Zhou took the porridge and drank a couple of mouthfuls. She was sick and just finished dialysis, so she didn't have much appetite, but she couldn't shake her son's filial piety, so she reluctantly stuffed it into her mouth, "Mom, can't you eat it?" Finished, you eat too."

He Qing dipped some sauce into the picked fish and put it into his mother's bowl, "Eat it, I came here after eating it at school."

Zhou's mother ate a few symbolic mouthfuls, but she couldn't eat any more, so she put down the bowl and chopsticks.

After He Qing tidied up, he put the bed down again, "If you don't want to eat, don't eat. When you get hungry, call me and I'll warm it up." He tucked up the quilt for his mother, sat beside him and said After a few words, seeing her mother feeling tired, she comforted her softly, "Go to sleep."

After his mother fell asleep, Zhou Heqing stood up and went to the duty room to ask the doctor about the situation of the day, went downstairs to pay the bill, and then came back to confirm the medicine and progress of tomorrow with the nurse.When everything was done, it was almost nine o'clock. He sat on the chair in a daze, not knowing what to do next, but he couldn't stay idle and kept thinking about doing something else.He saw the porridge and fish that had cooled down, and thought that his mother would be hungry when the nurse rounded the ward later, so he hurried to the tea room with the lunch box in his arms.

There were a lot of people warming up meals, the microwave oven lit up with a warm yellow light, and the rotating lunch boxes of all kinds exuded tempting aromas, and the hunger rushed towards him like a mountain and a sea.Zhou Heqing didn't realize that he was hungry until this moment. He just ate four buns in the morning, and ran to Xu Mingyuan's office to wait for him before he had time to eat at noon. It's no wonder that he always feels stomach pain until now.

Rather than saying that he has no time and appetite to eat, it is better to say that he has no money to eat.

He Qing put the lunch box on the side table, took a deep breath and walked to the outer window sill.

The air here is much fresher than indoors, without the annoying smell of medicine, leaving only the slightest coolness that comes in with the night wind, reflecting the bright band of light downstairs like a river of stars, which seems to make people forget a lot of things. Worry and worry.

He wanted to smoke again.

His fingers touched the cigarette case in his coat pocket, and he paused, remembering that this was a hospital, and when he took it out, he encountered a note wrapped around it.He pulled out the note, which was marked with 131XXXXXXXX. He looked at it and put the note back into his pocket irritably.

Zhou Heqing thought about the kidney replacement suggested by the doctor just now, as well as the follow-up dialysis treatment, medicines, and renting expenses—in order to treat his mother, he had to sell the house in his hometown and move it to Haishi. two?It's just a drop in the bucket.

This semester is over, and school will start again in just over a month.

The tuition fees, accommodation fees, living expenses, and materials fees for the start of the semester, even if doctoral students have a monthly subsidy of more than 1000 yuan, can't fill this huge hole at all.Without delaying the work in the laboratory, he can take on three tutoring jobs for high school seniors, and he can also apply to the tutor for courses with undergraduates when the school starts, so he can earn a few hundred yuan a day.

He Qing couldn't help but turn on his phone to read the message the bank sent him after the bill was just canceled. The four-digit balance seemed to mock him as a pauper.He went online to check how much money a kidney replacement would cost, whether it was suitable for him or not, and it all depended on his luck. It will cost several hundred...

Damn, he's a pauper.

Zhou Heqing kicked the railing angrily, and squatted down again.

That is to say, he solved the problem of dialysis without eating or drinking. Even if he waited for a suitable patient, he would not be able to perform surgery on his mother, let alone the post-operative care and recovery. A day in the ICU ward would be fine. several thousand.

Zhou Heqing wanted to scream, wanted to scream loudly.

But he is just a rooster with its crown cut off, so what if he crows loudly, is it really amazing?Will it solve the problem?

cannot.cannot.cannot!

He turned out the note in his pocket again, as if he wanted to make a hole for the phone number on it.I don't know how long I looked at it, I pursed my lips and lowered my eyebrows and tore up the note again, and immediately sent a text message to Xu Mingyuan - I agreed.

Borrowing usury is always not a good way. It is easy to borrow now, but what will he have to pay back in the future?Not to mention whether those loan sharks would find him to go to school and force him to fail to study. If they came to trouble his mother, things would only get worse.He will graduate with a Ph.D. in one year. If he is lucky, the school will arrange for him to study abroad. With his education and background of a famous university, it will be very easy for him to stay in school as a teacher in the future.He can't ruin himself like this, and he can't allow so many years of hard work to be in vain, making all previous achievements go to waste.

Holding his mobile phone, he turned his head to look at the vast night downstairs, feeling helpless and funny in life.At this time in the past, he should be sitting in the research room and tinkering with models, instead of squatting in the corner of the hospital and worrying about money.Who would have thought that the dignified top student of A University would have to sell his physical appearance to solve the plight of poverty, and who would have thought that his ex-boyfriend would actually pay him to date his own brother.

What he never thought was that he was actually so valuable.

What's more, it's also a matter of selling one's body. It's better to do business with acquaintances than with strangers, he couldn't help but sneer.

Zhou Heqing was actually holding back his breath.

He couldn't believe that Xu Mingyuan would be so cruel to him.

So I thought angrily, you forced me to do this.

Soon, the phone made a "ding dong", accompanied by the bright light of the screen, making it very clear in the dark.

——I'll ask the financial department to call you 30 yuan first, and then I'll call you the rest after the deadline.

——Time, place, name, appearance.

He simply couldn't stand Xu Mingyuan's tone of voice, nor could he lose control of his emotions because of the other party's few words.

The reply over there was very slow. Zhou Heqing swiped his phone and quit from time to time to check the news, but he didn't reply after waiting for a long time.When the screen turned on again, the payment information was displayed.

The six figures were followed by all his pitiful savings. He stared at the string of numbers in a daze, and soon, new information squeezed into his field of vision.

——How does it feel to get rich overnight?

- go away

——When this summer vacation is over, I will send his information to your email.

Zhou Heqing didn't reply, and in order not to upset himself, he even turned off his phone.He stood up, rubbed his slightly numb legs from squatting for a long time, straightened up and exhaled a long breath.

In and out of the hot water room, there are people queuing up for hot meals, holding lunch boxes with tired faces.

Zhou Heqing folded his arms and looked at it for a while, wanting to fuck it, then turned back to look at the long corridor under the dim light and the doctors and nurses who were rounding the ward. Damn, I don't even want the lunch box, I turn around and go straight to the elevator.

There are quite a lot of restaurants next to the hospital. Zhou Heqing walked into a restaurant and asked what was more expensive. He waited until the boss had set up a full table, and then he took the chopsticks and started eating until he was full.

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