dark crossing

No matter how unhappy Shen Ting was in his heart, he still had to put on a look of surprise on his face, raising his eyebrows and asking, "Why are you here?"

Chu Huainan sized him up, his eyes sliding from his chin to his chest, "I just returned to Jianghu, and I happened to have a reception here in the morning, so I stopped by to see you."

Shen Ting froze with a flattered expression, but really couldn't make up a line, so he could only say, "That's right."

"Do you have any plans next? If not, let's have breakfast together."

Shen Ting didn't want to have breakfast with him, but the waiter in formal attire had already pushed the dining cart to the door.The young boy bowed respectfully after seeing Chu Huainan: "Good morning, chairman."

Chu Huainan nodded to him, and politely replied "Good morning", with a sense of business-like alienation in his smile.

When he turned to look at Shen Ting, his expression became warm and vivid again: "It seems that I came just in time." He asked the waiter to add a sandwich and a cup of hot milk, and frowning, he took the random after-dinner fruit from Mango changed to citrus.

Recently, under the supervision of Chu Huainan, Shen Ting developed the habit of eating breakfast on time.He didn't eat much in the morning, and he put down his fork after eating half a cheese and ham croissant plus a half cup of Horlicks.Just when he was about to leave the dining table, Chu Huainan had already put a piece of orange flesh to his mouth, "Eat some fruit, so that the nutrition will be more balanced."

Shen Ting didn't want to eat but was too lazy to argue with him, so he took the orange petals from the opponent's hand without saying a word, got up while chewing, and went to change his clothes.

He will have a meeting at Tianhui in a while, and this is what he gained after meeting Veron yesterday.

Although the core business of Tianhui has not yet been touched, and the specific content of the list that Lin Huo went to Mexico to discuss before has not yet been clarified.But Shen Ting has vaguely noticed that Lin Huo's order should be a large amount and involve a lot.

Because yesterday when Veron heard Lin Huo mention that they were negotiating business with a certain Mexican whom Song Shi had dated before, and the conversation had already reached a point, the surprise that flashed across his face was obvious. With some displeasure.It was an unpleasant feeling of not wanting to watch the opponent get stronger.

Chu Huainan was going back to the company, so he happened to be able to send Shen Ting to Tianhui on the way.

When he was in the elevator, he kept staring at Shen Ting's face.After arriving at the hotel parking lot, it was finally confirmed that this person had no intention of wearing a mask.

The fully armed capitalist glanced at the empty Shen Ting, and frowned slightly, "Where's your mask?"

Shen Ting shrugged indifferently, opened his eyes and said nonsense: "I haven't worn it, I can't buy it."

In the well-known Far South Group in the medical sector, the sweetheart of the head of the company can't buy a mask?What kind of international joke is this? !

Chu Huainan opened the car door, took out a stack of masks from the storage cabinet in front of the passenger seat, and stuffed them into Shen Ting's windbreaker.He took another piece off without any hesitation, and held his shoulders to force him to turn his face away, "I'll help you wear it."

Chu Huainan himself was also wearing a blue-green medical mask, which took up half of his face from the base of his nose to his chin.The metal strip on the bridge of the nose is pinched to a point, like a bird's beak.

A pair of peach-blossom eyes hidden behind the gold-wire mirror frame are drooping seriously, with long eyelashes like feathers.The slender fingers brushed Shen Ting's cheeks, like a bird's beak pecking lightly, feathers fluttered, and his face naturally began to itch slightly.

Chu Huainan's fingers were a little cold, and he skillfully helped him wrap the tie behind his ears.Fingertips can always touch the pinna intentionally or unintentionally.Under the light, the edge of the ear is like a piece of transparent jade, gradually revealing a light pink blood color, the more you move your fingers, the deeper the blood color.

After a long time, I finally adjusted the two stubborn rubber bands.

Chu Huainan said with a smile: "Are you bored? Why are you blushing?"

This guy really has a mouth that's always flirting and always ready to kiss.

"No." Shen Ting turned around, and got into the car like a rabbit.

……

At this time, Chu Huainan strictly supervised Shen Ting's wearing of a mask, and it was not unfounded worry.The flu was so fierce that the hospitals in Jianghu City were almost full.

And Cao Xiaoqin was one of many patients who visited the doctor due to fever.She represents the other side of the prosperous Jianghu stock market.

This poor woman living at the bottom of the society used to work as a cleaner in a dog fighting arena, with a meager but stable income.But a while ago, there was a vicious poisoning case in the dog fighting ring where she was.

In addition to investigating the case, the police also banned this well-hidden gambling den by the way.Cao Xiaoqin lost her hand-to-mouth job as a result.

Not long after she lost her job, her life was miserable and gloomy, and she once again realized what it means that misfortunes never come singly.

A flu that put everyone at risk caused prices in Jianghu to rise a lot in a short period of time.Cao Xiaoqin, who was in a tight financial situation, had to do a lot of odd jobs that others were unwilling to do, and would come into contact with many people of all kinds.

When Cao Xiaoqin was in her twenties, her husband died unexpectedly.Her only daughter, Gao Fei, is a mentally ill patient and is currently living in a psychiatric hospital called "Kangren" for long-term treatment.

Although, Kangren, which has a charitable nature, charges much lower than similar hospitals.The hospital only charges basic medical expenses and a small amount of nursing expenses for long-term patients.And for some lonely and widowed mentally ill patients who have lost their loved ones, there is also tolerance regardless of the cost and no rejection.

But even so, for Cao Xiaoqin, her daughter's treatment fee is still a sum, which requires her to earn a fixed amount every month.

The single mother who has no savings and needs to pay the rent on time every month loves and pities her very beautiful daughter Gao Fei who suffers from mental illness due to an "accident".

She wants to give her daughter the "best" within her ability.

Cao Xiaoqin only ate one steamed bun a day recently, and all the money she saved was given to Kang Ren as treatment expenses and extra meal allowance for her daughter. She hoped that Gao Fei could receive relatively the best treatment and care.

Just after Cao Xiaoqin had been spinning around for several days in order to earn living expenses, bad luck came again.She started to have a cough, fatigue, and later even developed a high fever.

During the period when she was forced to be admitted to the hospital to wait for the virus test, the self-proclaimed strong Cao Xiaoqin was in despair.

If she is infected, it is likely that her daughter Gao Fei, who has been in close contact with her, has also been infected.

Fortunately, God is not too harsh on her.Although a CT scan of her lungs looked at first glance like pneumonia caused by a flu virus, she tested negative for the virus, meaning she was not infected.

However, after receiving seven days of antibiotic treatment, Cao Xiaoqin's fever and cough symptoms still did not improve, and even had difficulty breathing.

The young doctors who were temporarily transferred from other departments to support the Department of Respiratory Medicine began to pay attention again.After carefully looking at her CT scan, the intern who was not professionally qualified had a serious look on his face. He found that what this patient had was not pneumonia at all, but missed diagnosis of lung cancer!

On April Fool's Day, Cao Xiaoqin was alone in the overcrowded corridor of the hospital, anxiously waiting for the results of further examinations.

When she got the inspection report, she smiled bitterly.

It really was a false alarm.

What she had was not the flu, which could be transmitted to her daughter Goofy, but adenocarcinoma, which was not contagious.

Glandular lung cancer is a type of lung cancer with young onset, low differentiation and early spread.The report showed that the cancer cells in Cao Xiaoqin's body had spread.

From a poor mother with only one life left, she became a terminal cancer patient who was about to bid farewell to the world.

April [-]st is also the day when the famous movie star Leslie Cheung passed away.

In the corridor of the hospital, a little girl was watching a commemorative video produced by a certain media on her mobile phone.

"I haven't done anything bad in my life, why is this happening?"

"Because you've never done anything bad in your life, that's how it is."

Cao Xiaoqin stood there stupidly for more than ten minutes holding her own report on advanced bone metastasis of lung cancer.

Decades of life experience have made this woman, who has never done bad things and firmly believes that good things are rewarded with good things, deeply understand the cruelty and injustice of fate.

But she has been enduring silently, and kept telling herself that her daughter Feifei will definitely recover, and their lives will get better and better!

But so far, those unrealistic dreams have been completely shattered.

The report was another slap life had slapped her, and it woke her up brutally.With the cold and formatted pathological test results, it was announced that the blazing happiness that she always thought was rushing along the road would never come.

The breakdown of adults is a silent breakdown.

Cao Xiaoqin, who came out of the oncology department, was surprisingly quiet.

Although the doctor said that a terminal patient like her often does not live for half a year.But she didn't cry when she heard the bad news.

The brain was running exhausted and rapidly, and the first thing that came to mind was that she had only asked for half a day off from her work place, so now she had to go to work as usual.

As long as she is not going to die tomorrow, a poor person like her who has nothing has to keep working and continue to live.

After finishing work at night, Cao Xiaoqin called a friend she met while working in the dog fighting arena.

Most of the guests who go to the dog fighting ring to gamble on dogs are highly sexual. In addition to betting on dogs, these gamblers usually actively participate in many other forms of gambling.

Cao Xiaoqin had heard from more than one customer before that there was a street in Jianghu City where she could gamble with her life.If you are lucky, you can win a large sum of money. Even if you are unlucky, the family members of the deceased can at least get a considerable amount of funeral expenses.

When listening to these at the beginning, Cao Xiaoqin didn't pay attention to the details.But she clearly remembered that a worker who was in charge of cleaning the kennels in the dog gambling field once asked the gamblers about this matter because his old mother was ill and had no money for treatment.

After listening to Cao Xiaoqin's questioning, the worker on the other end of the phone said straightforwardly: "Are you talking about the Death Gambling Street? I know! When my mother was sick, I went to ask about it!"

"Do you know the exact address of that street?" Cao Xiaoqin asked eagerly.

"It's near Jiuyi East Road. The institution that the guest told me before is called 'Kuntai Shan'ai' and it's a nursing home..."

The woman on the other end of the phone is obviously careless and careless.After chattering a lot, it suddenly occurred to me that Cao Xiaoqin probably had some reason for asking this matter hastily.

She said hesitantly: "But... that place is really not a good place." After thinking about it, she added: "Although the family members can indeed get a lot of money after sending the patient to participate in gambling, there is a terrifying conditions of!"

Talking about this cruel condition, Cao Xiaoqin's co-worker became angry. She thought that it would not be an exaggeration for a person who can be ruthless to participate in this kind of gambling game to be cut into pieces.

Immediately, even the speaking voice became a bit high-pitched: "The people there said that once the game starts, the patients who participate in the game can no longer receive any treatment! You said that you just watched the sick people die like this! There are medicines No treatment! Isn't this a crime!"

She babbled and scolded the group of insane gamblers again.It was this "condition for committing crimes" that she said at the beginning that stopped her from wanting to gamble with her mother's illness.

In the end, the worker with a conscience still sighed: "Although I am poor, I am poor enough to have a conscience! I would rather sell the house and borrow money than not treat my mother and watch her die just because of the black-hearted money." !"

Cao Xiaoqin answered a few words wearily, then hung up the phone.

sell house?borrow money?

In the past, in order to seek justice for her daughter, she also sold her only real estate and borrowed all the relatives and friends around her.But what happened?

She went bankrupt and hired the best lawyer she knew.

But behind the rapist named Song Ci who raped Gao Fei, stood a team of more than a dozen professional lawyers.

Representatives of the defendant's legal team also accepted media interviews after winning the case.He said contemptuously: "I hope any girl can take Gao as a lesson, and don't think about getting financial compensation through false accusations. Because justice may be late, but it will never be absent."

19-year-old Gao Fei was sexually assaulted when she was unconscious because she drank a drink handed over by a handsome guy who took the initiative to strike up a conversation in an expensive bar.However, due to excessive fright, she did not call the police in time, and she told her mother Cao Xiaoqin about the matter three months later.But after a long time, there is no evidence, and the public security agency said that oral identification alone does not meet the conditions for filing a case.

The disappointed and heartbroken mother decided to seek justice for her daughter through criminal private prosecution.

But she doesn't know that justice is so expensive, and the poor always lose.

After losing the lawsuit, Gao Fei, who was originally extroverted, was no longer willing to go out, and even seldom spoke.She was bored in the room alone, crying depressed all day long.

And on the morning when she was forced to move out of the home she had lived in for more than ten years with her big bags and small bags, the poor girl finally went completely crazy.

At that time, Cao Xiaoqin cried and comforted her daughter: "We are not afraid of Feifei, we must believe that good and evil will be rewarded! It's not that we will not report, the time has not yet come!"

But the result?

After six years, that Song Ci is still alive and well.She herself was dying of illness.

As for the selling of houses and borrowing money mentioned by workers, the premise is that there must be houses to sell and someone to borrow.

Cao Xiaoqin, who had nothing left, laughed desperately and self-deprecatingly.

She remembered that after losing the private prosecution case, the opposing lawyer once mocked her condescendingly: "In this world, poverty is the original sin. Your daughter deserves it herself! Who made her poor and weak? Even when she can't afford it." Come here?"

Cao Xiaoqin did not know that a Western writer once said that just as cows cannot control their breasts, if poop can be sold for money, the poor will lose their assholes.

She only knew that there is an old saying in China that goes, "A barefoot is not afraid of a shoe." What's more, this life is her own, and destroying it in her own hands is not considered a crime.