Southern daughter-in-law of a small boss in Northeast China

When Bai Zhi came back with the medicine, she saw Zhao Beiheng sitting on a chair in the hospital, with his elbows on his knees covering his face with his hands, tears streaming down his fingers.

"Brother Heng..."

Zhao Beiheng raised his head and wiped his face with his clothes in embarrassment, "Don't laugh, brother."

Bai Zhi walked to him and sat down listlessly, took off her down jacket and put it on him.

"You wear it yourself, I'm not cold." I was too anxious to leave just now, I took off my coat and threw it in the snow and forgot to pick it up, only wearing half sleeves.

"Put it on. I'll call Er Liangzi and ask them to bring over two more clothes. I don't know when Uncle Liu will come out." Bai Zhi took out her mobile phone and told Er Liangzi about the situation here and asked him to bring the clothes. After a while, all the boys came.

"Brother Heng, how is Uncle Liu?"

Zhao Beiheng said in a hoarse voice, "I don't know. I'm still trying to save him. I called his son." If something really happened to the old man... there must be a relative to help.

Sheng Zi handed the clothes to Zhao Beiheng, "Do you want us to help?"

"You go back first, there is no place to stay here, Er Liangzi will help me deliver the goods tomorrow, and call me if you have anything to do."

"Sure, let's go now." The young men drove three more rounds back to the wholesale station.

Zhao Beiheng's hands were inconvenient, Bai Zhi helped him pull the sleeves to put on the clothes, and put the down jacket back on himself.Although the hospital has heating, the cool breeze brought by people coming and going is still a bit cold.

Smoking is not allowed in the corridor, so Zhao Beiheng pretended to get up and went to the corridor next to him to light a cigarette, and Bai Zhi followed.

"Xiaobai, why do you think people live this whole life?" Zhao Beiheng took a puff of smoke and asked a question that even a philosopher could not answer.

"Well... I don't know, it's nothing more than eating, drinking, lazards, getting old, sick and dying."

"Uncle Liu, you can see that he usually speaks aggressively, but he is actually a very nice person."

Bai Zhi nodded, "I see, every time I go, I have to get something to eat."

Zhao Beiheng chuckled, "That's treating you like a child, in his eyes we are all children."

Bai Zhi's eyes were a little blurry, she blinked and looked up at Zhao Beiheng, and found that there were tears in his eyes.

"When I first started this wholesale station, I took out a loan of 30 yuan. People in the village said I was crazy and a prodigal son. My parents were so afraid and worried that they couldn't sleep all night. Tears. But they can’t persuade me, I’m the eldest son in my family and I’ve been right since I was a child.”

Bai Zhi didn't know what he was talking about, but just listened to him quietly.

"When I first started this business, I didn't know what to do. It wasn't that I was afraid of losing money, but that I couldn't do it well. Money is a dead person, and people who live can make money if they don't. At that time, I was a candidate for Uncle Liu's land and wanted to ask him to rent it. , the old man was stinky and stubborn and refused to rent it to me. Just when I was about to give up, he suddenly changed his mind and rented it to me at a low price. At that time, I was very curious and wondered why this old thing changed his mind?"

Bai Zhi couldn't help laughing.

"Later I found out that it turned out that I was used to chatting with the old man at his rented house all the time, and I couldn't get used to the old man's abruptness. After all, he was too lonely by himself."

Bai Zhi sighed and thought of her parents, who had almost lost contact with her family because of being with Chen Hao in the past few years, and he hadn't talked to his father on the phone for four years.I still remember the last sentence his father said at the time, pointing at his nose and scolding, "You are really embarrassing to me, get out, I don't have your son, and don't come back again!" At that time, both of them were angry, and Bai Zhizhen cleaned up. I left the home where I lived for more than 20 years without things, and never set foot again.

"Xiaobai, if the old man doesn't make it through this time..." Zhao Beiheng couldn't continue, he tilted his head up and gasped for breath.

"No, Uncle Liu is such a nice person, he will be fine if he is lucky!" Bai Zhi couldn't stop the tears from streaming down her face, she tugged on Zhao Beiheng's arm and started crying again.He is too emotional, and he hates joys and sorrows the most.Thinking of the old man tremblingly bringing him delicious food every time I went to his house, I felt very uncomfortable.

At eleven o'clock, the nurse issued the second critical illness notice. The old man's condition was not optimistic. He had cerebral infarction and arteriosclerosis. Last time, half of his body was directly tied up. Even if he was rescued this time, he would not be able to get out of bed.

The two sat quietly on the bench in the corridor, with desperate sadness on their faces.

Uncle Liu's son didn't come back until the evening of the second day. He spent thousands of dollars to take a taxi from Beijing back to Baicheng.He got out of the car and almost ran into the hospital.

Uncle Liu was rescued after three o'clock last night, and he is still lying in the ICU and still not out of danger.

Liu Shushen ran while crying, found Zhao Beiheng and took him by the arm and asked, "Where is my dad? How is my dad?"

Zhao Beiheng led him to the door of the ICU. Through the glass, he could see the old man lying on the bed with a pale complexion and tubes all over his body.

Liu Shushen's legs went limp and he knelt outside the door, convulsed for a long time before crying out, "Dad!!!"

Zhao Beiheng stretched out his hand to pull him, Liu Shushen lost all strength, almost half-supporting and half-carrying him to the chair next to him.

Bai Zhi just went to pay the fee, and when she went upstairs, she saw the weeping man slumped on a chair.

"Brother Heng, this is..."

"Uncle Liu's son."

Bai Zhi looked sideways at him, knowing that his father was not in good health, but still left him alone at home.This time it was Zhao Beiheng who responded in a timely manner. If it weren't for him, no one would know that the old man died.

Liu Shushen cried enough and took Zhao Beiheng's hand to thank him, "I will call you brother Zhao when I grow older than you. Thank you so much this time! My father often mentioned you and said that you often help him with work."

Zhao Beiheng pulled out his hand, "Take care of each other, and Uncle Liu also helped me."

"But I still have to thank you well. As a son, I did not fulfill my son's obligations. I am deeply regretful that one of your neighbors has done more than me." Liu Shu lowered his head deeply and sighed. He had discussed it with the old man years ago. Moved to Beijing to live with him.But the old man is unwilling to leave home, worried about the house, the chickens and ducks he raised, and even more worried about his deceased wife... His father often said that if he stayed at home, his wife could come back to see if he was homesick. The wife couldn't find her way home.Thinking of this, I can't help but feel sad again, covering my face with my hands and crying.

"Without you...I'm afraid I won't even be able to see my father...for the last time."

Zhao Beiheng patted him on the back, "Don't say that, the doctor said that the uncle is in good condition now, and he might be discharged from the hospital in a few days."

Liu Shushen nodded, no matter what the old man said this time, he must be taken to Beijing to live together, and he was really worried about leaving him alone.

The second daughter, Liu Shuying, also came back after nine o'clock in the evening, bringing her husband and children with her.The two brothers and sisters couldn't help crying again.

After crying enough, she said thank you again, Liu Shuying pulled Bai Zhi's hand with tears all over her face and said, "I'll transfer to you how much my little brother spent."

"No...don't worry."

"How can you spend this money, give me the bill quickly."

Bai Zhi couldn't resist her and handed her the bill for the payment, a total of [-] was paid and there was still a lot of money that was useless.

Liu Shuying added Bai Zhi's WeChat account and directly transferred the money, "Thank you so much, if it wasn't for you two, my brother and I would feel guilty for the rest of our lives."

Liu Shushen glanced at the time, "It's so late, let's watch you two go back to rest."

Bai Zhi didn't sleep all day and night, she was so sleepy that she couldn't keep her eyes open, but instinctively she still didn't want to leave, she wanted to see Uncle Liu safely transferred to the general ward before leaving.

Zhao Beiheng also shook his head, "Let's watch for another night, if the old man is okay, we will leave."

Liu Shuying was grateful to these two people from the bottom of her heart.

They hadn't eaten all the way back, and the adults were all right for the children, so her husband went downstairs to buy ready-made boxed lunches and hot milk, and each shared a share.

The two brothers and sisters of the Liu family were so stuffed up in their chests that they couldn't eat anything, Zhao Beiheng didn't bother to clean up so many boxes of lunch, the food in the hospital these two days was too little, and they couldn't eat enough.

Bai Zhi was not too hungry and only drank a bottle of hot milk, and gave Zhao Beiheng his portion of the meal.

Bai Zhi, who hadn't closed his eyes for more than 20 hours at one o'clock in the morning, was so sleepy that Zhao Beiheng asked him to lie down on a chair with his lap under his head to sleep. In the middle of the night, no one sat in the chair and the chair was empty.Bai Zhi took off her shoes and lay on her side with her pillow on his legs and fell asleep. Zhao Beiheng was afraid that he would roll to the ground and kept protecting his back with his hands, so she leaned on the chair and fell asleep without knowing it.

In his sleepy sleep, he seemed to hear someone calling him.

"Zhao boy, Zhao boy!"

Zhao Beiheng opened his eyes in a daze, and saw Uncle Liu standing in front of him with a smile on his face.

"Uncle Liu, are you awake?!"