Mu Chen

42. Sad death

Mu Chen didn't go with Ding Bowen, and he didn't plan to go to graduate school anymore, because he came back this time and learned that Grandpa Mu had been diagnosed with lung cancer not long ago.

Mu Wen doesn't keep things from his children about family matters, and this time too, but after seeing the medical records, Mu Chen, who hadn't shed tears for several years, suddenly became impatient.

I found out a bit late, Grandpa Mu has always had bronchitis, and he often coughs in winter.Most of the elderly here are like this. The air quality in the old industrial area is poor, and most of the people are heavy smokers, so they are still careless.

And the ones who blamed themselves the most for this were Mu Wen and Jiang Cheng. They both felt that the old man lived a regular life and was in good health. Although they would sometimes suggest that the old man have a physical examination, they would not persist after being ignored.

On the contrary, Grandpa Mu was quite open-minded. After seeing the results of various examinations and the films he took, he refused surgery and even chemotherapy.Because he didn't feel any pain yet, he hardly took any measures, just infused some medicine when he had a low fever.

But he no longer received new patients, but transferred all of them to Jiang Cheng.Jiang Cheng has been by his side all these years, and his medical skills have long been imparted to him, but under his reputation, Jiang Cheng has not been outstanding.Jiang Cheng and Mu Wen have been preparing several recipes, and Jiang Cheng has made more.

In the past few years, the development of the hospital has been getting better and better. Compared with the rising treatment costs in large hospitals due to some undisclosed indicators, Grandpa Mu's medical expenses here are much less.

Among the prescriptions written by the doctors here, new and expensive drugs are rarely used, and even if they are used, they will give special explanations to the patients.And generally, as long as the intramuscular injection is possible, the patient will not choose to hang the water, unless the patient asks for it.

This is the principle that Grandpa Mu has always adhered to. Externally hired doctors only receive a fixed salary and year-end red envelopes. There is no bonus or income-generating requirements, and they can abide by this rule very well.The hospital's income is more in the pharmacy and the traditional Chinese medicine treatment for stomach problems.

According to word of mouth for so many years, Grandpa Mu is already a well-known old Chinese medicine doctor who specializes in treating stomach problems in this area, and many of his patients come here from other provinces.

Now he introduced Jiang Cheng one by one to these patients who had only stubbornly identified him. If the patients really had doubts, he would tell the truth that he would not see him again.

His calmness and calmness greatly affected Mu Wen and Jiang Cheng, and calmed down the two flustered doctors.They also tried to persuade Grandpa Mu to do some chemotherapy and radiotherapy first, at least to shrink the lesion and relieve symptoms, but Grandpa Mu firmly refused.

Grandpa Mu believes that this kind of Western medicine treatment is to kill both good and bad cells in the body, and he is over [-] years old, and his body's ability to repair is far behind the development speed of cancer cells. He was trapped in the hospital bed.Rather than doing this, it is better to let nature take its course and wait quietly for the arrival of the last day.

It's just that Muchen can't accept this reality at all now, he can't face the fact that his grandfather has only a few months to live, he puts out many theories, trying to persuade his grandfather to take some treatment.

Grandpa Mu just smiled, "I'm old, I've done all the suffering I should have suffered in this life, it's time to go."

In the end, it was Muwen who pulled away the obviously terrified son.He talked about the details of Grandpa Mu and the old man's thoughts, convincing his son and himself over and over again.

"Chenchen, although your grandfather only went to high school, he is a man of great wisdom and courage. His attitude towards life and death deserves our respect. A person should be able to choose how to live and how to walk with dignity."

A few days later, Muchen finally accepted this fact, but he also proposed that he would stay at home with his grandfather all the time, and he didn't plan to go to graduate school.

Mu Wen didn't object either, he and Jiang Cheng were both busy and couldn't keep watch over the old man.So Mu Chen contacted the school, but because he didn't get sick himself, the school has never had such a precedent in retaining student status, and said that he must report it first before replying.Mu Chen contacted Gu Ning again, and under Gu Ning's efforts, he successfully retained his student status for two years.

Gu Ning was a master's and doctoral student in this school back then, but he had to study in the medical department for six years, during which he also went to France to study for a year. In 2001, he happened to graduate with Mu Chen.Now he has been admitted to the No. [-] Hospital of N City, which is the No. [-] Hospital of the Province, and the entry threshold is very high.

Gu Ning has a lot of contacts in the school, and it didn't take much effort to keep Mu Chen's student status. After finishing these things, he transferred with his colleagues and took a few days off to visit Grandpa Mu in Shicheng.

Looking at Gu Ning with the big and small bags, Mu Chen was very grateful.And the Mu family has already heard about his care for Mu Chen for several years. This time, the family members were very polite, and only Yu Yong looked at him carefully.

Yu Yong should be promoted to the third year of junior high school this year, and he is already a handsome boy with a height of 1.7 meters.He knew when Mu Chen was on vacation, so he found the village without seeing anyone in the family courtyard.

When I heard about Grandpa Mu's condition, I was also shocked.Over the years, he has come to Mu's house in the village quite a lot. Grandpa Mu has always been very kind and sympathetic to him. Whenever he meets, he will ask him about his situation gently, and he must give him some change, which made him feel embarrassed to come here for a while. Play.

Now seeing the old man's still kind face is very sad, and seeing Mu Chen wishing to stick to the old man all the time, even sleeping on the grandpa's kang at night, he also went home and brought his schoolbag and said that he would accompany his brother to accompany grandpa .

Fortunately, the area of ​​the kang in the countryside is not small, and it is more than enough for three people to sleep, but it makes everyone feel even more sad when they are relieved.

This is Yu Yong's first time seeing Gu Ning. He has been famous for a long time for Senior Brother Gu who took good care of his brother, but he still couldn't help feeling sour when he saw him.

This person seems to be very talented, and he gets along well with his brother. He has also studied abroad, and his family conditions are very good. He drove a car when he was in college. The most important thing is that he helped his brother a lot. His current mentor It was his former tutor, Professor Chen, and it was thanks to him that his brother's student status was preserved this time...

As for him, he was just a poor boy from a neighbor's family. He could only accept his elder brother's family's favor, and he had never been able to reciprocate.

In the past few years, Yu Yong began to calm down as he grew older.In addition to no longer fighting as frequently as before, his academic performance is also good, and he works in Mu Wen's factory every winter and summer vacation--Mu Chen drags him to his own factory during the holidays.Although he is an intern in the hospital, he can't accompany him like the holiday after the college entrance examination, but he is not at ease that the child really went to a small shop and factory outside to find a job.

Except for the part handed over to Lin Lan at the current price, nearly 6000 yuan has been deposited in the card under Mu Chen's name in his hand. The students who reached out to ask their parents for money, but they can do too much.

Even at home, no matter if he doesn't go home or where he goes, he just needs to report, and Lin Lan doesn't care about him, which also makes him feel that he has become stronger.

But now, seeing Gu Ning, the inferiority complex that he hadn't raised his head for a long time came out again, and he felt a sense of crisis that his brother would be snatched away.

Gu Ning did not stay and returned that afternoon.

He has just joined the job, and although he has a good resume, he is still a rookie. He is busy with work and it is inconvenient to ask for leave. The most important thing is that he can't help much even if he stays.

Yu Yong stayed at Mu's house throughout the holiday.Massage Grandpa Mu with Mu Chen, move around, let the old man bask in the sun every morning and afternoon.

In fact, apart from cooking, he does all the other housework.Mopping the floor, dusting and cleaning the yard, especially the clothes that Grandpa Mu wears are very old pure cotton - he is already extremely thin, new clothes, non-cotton products will scratch the skin, and these old clothes can't stand the washing machine Yes, hand wash only.

Every day, Yu Yong would wash it off before others, including the old man's underwear. Muchen felt distressed but also relieved.

During the period, Lin Lan also came to visit Grandpa Mu once, and told Yu Yong to help with the work, to listen to the adults and not to cause trouble for others.

Although Yu Yong can't work part-time to make money during this holiday, their family owes much to Mu's family, and now she understands and supports Yu Yong on his last journey with Grandpa Mu.

Grandpa Mu left in the early morning of November 11th. Except when he fell into a deep sleep, he was always sane when he was awake. He often smiled when facing the children who were pretending to be calm, even if their mouths were sore that they couldn't speak.

In mid-November, in addition to painkillers, he even refused nutrition injections.Because it hurts so much, every day.

Muchen is always by his grandfather's side. At first, he accompanied his grandfather for dinner and activities, and later he gave him water and food.In the end, the old man couldn't eat anything, even refused to drink water when he became incontinent, often so anxious that Mu Chen had to cry before he compromised.

Even though he fell asleep more and more, Mu Chen stubbornly sat on the edge of the Kang and massaged his grandfather's skinny hands and feet.

On the surface, Mu Wen was calm and calm, and often comforted his frightened son, but in fact, as the old man's condition worsened, his insomnia became more and more serious, and his body lost weight rapidly. In the last few days, he even slept all night. I can't sleep, I'm thin and out of shape, and I'm almost exhausted.

And Jiang Cheng was the busiest during this period. The outpatient pharmacy in the hospital was completely ignored. Fortunately, almost all of the current manpower was brought out by them, and they can maintain normal operation step by step.

He only sees patients who have made an appointment, and he has no time to grieve in the rest of his time, and he has to deal with all kinds of things in the factory.He also took Mu Wen to buy a coffin, looked at the cemetery, found a special store to make a five-collar and three-waist shroud, and made an appointment with two Mr. Yin and Yang, for fear that only one person would not be available...

But no matter how busy he is, as long as he doesn't go on business, he will come back every night.Seeing that Mu Wen is still cooking every day, and taking turns to take care of him with Mu Chen and his son, he can feel a little relieved.

In the last three days, Grandpa Mu fell into a deep sleep.Mu Wen knew that he was here for a few days, and worried about scaring the child, he insisted on accompanying him at night.

Mu Chen couldn't help it, and the torment of this period made him physically and mentally exhausted, so he didn't refuse anymore, and he didn't know that Mu Wen barely closed his eyes watching Grandpa Mu exhale his last breath.

It was only when Muchen was woken up that he realized that his grandfather had gone. Dad and Uncle Cheng had already arranged for the old man to put on his shroud, and put him on the coffin that had been prepared long ago.