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In mid-August, a small town in the north, an ordinary family.

In the early morning of this day, the elderly in the family got up early as usual, went to a nearby vegetable market to buy some vegetables, and then began to cook breakfast for the family.

"Mom, let me do this later, you can sleep more." The old man had just been busy in the kitchen for a while, and her daughter-in-law also got up.

"It's okay, I don't feel much." She doesn't like to sleep when she is old, and it makes her uncomfortable to be idle all day. She is used to doing these chores at home these years. It's not that her son and daughter-in-law are not filial, and it's not easy for them , her son has nothing to offer. He works as a security guard in a small factory in the city and can't earn much money a month. His daughter-in-law also goes out to work as a general worker in another small factory. The salary is not high, and he often has to work overtime at night.

This family is like this. Although they don’t earn a lot of money, they live frugally. After all these years, they have provided for the two children in the family. They are all studying in college now, and the children are quite sensible. , I went to work as soon as the summer vacation came.

When these two children have both graduated from college, the financial pressure on the family will be much less. If they are successful in the future, their parents and grandma may also be able to enjoy the blessings. The days are about to get better.

That is to say, at this juncture, the old man’s body has a problem, and it’s not bad to look at it usually, but it’s just that she has been coughing a lot for the past two years, and I thought she was physically weak. She took some supplements, but it didn't improve. At the beginning of this summer, the old man started to cough up blood, and he was sent to the hospital for an examination, saying it was lung cancer.

Speaking of which, the old man is also 75 this year, and being able to live to this age is not short-lived. In addition, the disease is not easy to cure, and the old man is getting older, and surgery and chemotherapy are also debilitating. Can he survive? It's hard to say.

The most important thing is that their family has no money now, and they don't even have a place to borrow money. If they don't have money, who will treat your illness?Her grandchildren don't even know about this matter, and it's useless to know, so don't let them worry about it.

Older, who can not suffer from various disasters and eight diseases. Two years ago, there was one on their street, who was a round younger than her, and it was found to be cancer. Within a few days, I heard that he drank flea water by himself. He died, and the neighbors still said that he didn't want to drag his children down, and there was a little admiration in his words.

If you let her say it, it's all too much to think about. If you don't want to drag your children down, then at worst, you won't treat the disease. You can walk and move by yourself, so why can't you live?It's a day-to-day life, if there's anything wrong with it, even if she doesn't do anything, she feels beautiful in her heart just basking in the sun every day.

At around six o'clock in the morning, the family of three had breakfast together, and then the couple went out one after the other. The grandchildren are all working in the city where they are studying at university. The city outside is big and it is easy to find a job. The salary is also higher, unlike their deserted small town.

Before the daughter-in-law went out, she washed the dishes and chopsticks. After she left, the old man took another rag and carefully wiped the kitchen stove and dining table, mopped the floor, and washed the dirty clothes.

At 09:30, she went back to her room and brought out an old schoolbag that her granddaughter used to go to school. The schoolbag contained a lot of things and was stuffed to the brim.

Lock the doors and windows, and carefully put the keys in the schoolbag. I will come back someday, but don’t be unable to enter the door at that time. Her son and daughter-in-law are always away during the day, and they are basically there when they spend weekends. work.

"Why did you come out?" At the entrance of the alley outside, someone was already waiting there, and it was one of her old sisters.

"I don't know when I'll be back after leaving, and I'm quite reluctant." I don't know if that day will come.

"Go, go, don't miss the train."

"It's still more than an hour. It's not far from here."

"My heart is not at ease."

"Have you talked to your family?"

"I didn't say it. If I said it, they would definitely not agree."

"I didn't say it either."

"Then what should we do?"

"Call them on the train later, and tell them that the two of us are going to go out to relax, and we will go back in a few days, and tell them not to worry."

"Isn't that a lie?"

"Stay stable first, and then we will have a good talk with them when we settle down in Buffalo Town."

"..."

The two of them also just heard a while ago that someone in their city went to a place called Buffalo Town for medical treatment. Don't be afraid if it's fake, what are you afraid of at this age?

The old ladies who were with her were also not in good health, but her situation was a little different. There was no serious illness, but she kept having minor ailments and her body was weak. She didn't seem to be able to live a long life.

When two people walk together, they can still have a companion, and her elder sisters can read and write, which is very rare among women of their age.

In this way, the two old people set foot on the train going south together.

If you want to ask them why they are so tossing about their age?I want to live, although I am already seventy or eighty years old, but I still feel that I haven’t lived enough. It’s great to live, and I don’t expect to live a long life. If I can live for another three to five years, that would be great.

On the train, I used my mobile phone to call my family, but I didn't dare to say that I was going to Niuwangzhuang to see a doctor, so I said I wanted to travel and relax.

These days, it is common for elderly people to travel, although they are usually accompanied by family members.But to say that the two of them are going out to seek medical treatment together, it seems weird and out of the ordinary, and I can't explain why.

This road is not easy. The two old people who have never traveled far in most of their lives are confused when they arrive at crowded places. Especially when they change trains, they ask a lot of people. Been to many enthusiastic people.

Finally, when they were standing in the station in Buffalo Town full of travel and dust, and the ox cart driver asked: "Ma'am, where are you two going?", the tears were about to flow down.

"I heard that you have a place where you don't charge for seeing a doctor." The old man wiped his eyes and asked.

"Hey, are you going to the buffalo restaurant? Come on up." The middle-aged man driving the car greeted cheerfully.

"How much is it per person?" The old man was still a little worried about him.

"One yuan per person." The middle-aged man laughed.

"It's so cheap?" The old man was a little surprised. They both knew that this year's money was not appropriate.

"It's not a few steps from here. Besides, this is a bullock cart, so we don't need to spend money on diesel and gasoline." The middle-aged man said.

The two old people looked at this man and felt that it was quite real, and they heard that what he said made sense, so they got into the ox cart.

The people who came in the same car with them just now had already finished their journey, leaving only the two of them, so the two of them were sitting in the bullock cart.

"You two also come here to see a doctor, right? How far is it? You came here by yourself." Along the way, the man driving the car was still chatting with them.

"It's far away, and the train has turned three times." The old man said.

"Our Tongcheng is also quite remote. Many people have to transfer to our place." The man driving the car looked leisurely. He walked this road every day, and the buffalo was already familiar with it. There are people and cars coming at the intersection, and they know how to stop to give way, and they don't need to bother the driver at all.

"You really don't need money to see a doctor here?" The old man was still most concerned about this after all.

"If you have difficulties at home, you don't need money. If you don't have difficulties, donate some money to others. There is a gazebo in front of the medical center, and there is a donation box there. You can see it when you go. By the way, there are steamed buns there every day. You don’t have to be polite about the steamed buns, eat them when you’re hungry, and you don’t charge for that.” The driver must have noticed that these two old people are not rich.

"Can the donated money be used?" the old man asked.

"The donation box gave half of the money for people's relief, and Lao Zhou's medical center gave half. There are quite a lot of people who donated. A few days ago, I heard that Dr. Huang in our medical center cured a businessman, and then That person stuffed 20 yuan into the donation box." The drivers came and went in the town every day, and basically they knew all the big and small things in Buffalo Town.

"20." For the two elderly people, 20 is really a lot of money.

"There are quite a lot of people who put money in the donation box. We are just worried about Lao Zhou's half, worried that his family will be emptied." People in the town are indeed more worried about this. How important it is to Buffalo Town, if one day he collapses, Buffalo Town doesn't know what will happen, but don't go back to the way it used to be.

"Old Zhou is the boss of that medical clinic?"

"Yes."

"Oh, that's such a nice guy."

"No, a lot of people come to see a doctor here now, you two probably won't like it for a while, go now, fill in the information and put the number first."

"I heard people say that if you are seriously ill, you can go to the front."

"It's not easy to deal with. The critically ill patients are much better now. Generally, if they are children, it is better to be in the front row. Everyone has no objections."

"Hey, that's what it should be."

"At a young age, life is hard."

Along the way, the middle-aged man who drove the car told them what to do after they went to the Buffalo Pavilion. They chatted with them about filling out the application, network supervision and so on, and said that if they didn’t know anything, they should ask more. People, the people in their town are very kind.

Sure enough, the buffalo restaurant is not far away. After talking, we arrived in a short while. After getting off the bus, the two old ladies gave each one a dollar and went to the buffalo restaurant. The people there were really kind, with the help of a young man , The application for free medical treatment for the two of them was successfully filled out and submitted, and each of them received a number plate.

And in the kiosk next to the medical center, there are steamed buns that people can eat for free. When the two of them were sitting in the kiosk eating steamed buns for a while, they saw several people put money into the box. There were five yuan. Ten yuan, and there are hundreds of them in one store.

The two of them understood after watching, that medical treatment still costs money, and this pie did not drop from the sky, but was given by others.Half of the donation box and half of Lao Zhou.

Later, the two of them went to the Pagoda Temple with a few other patients they met in the square. A group of people walked there together. The walk was good. Although it is not expensive to take a bullock cart, one dollar is money. The money they carried with them Not much, and I don’t know how long I will stay here, so I need to save some money...

It was not until several days later that the two old people heard that there was no more one yuan fare in Buffalo Town.