inherent gravity

Chinese medicine, showing a weak smile: "Then how is your family now? Is it serious?"

"I don't know," Kou Xiao shook the ashes and sat down on the steps: "Let's resign ourselves to fate."

Seeing the gloom between his brows, Mu Qing froze for a while and then sat down: "Then let me chat with you."

"No, you can just go." Kou Xiao threw the cigarette butt under his feet and twisted it, took out a new one, and said impatiently, "You don't care about other people's business."

Mu Qing was not annoyed when he heard the unkind words, he slapped the smoke that floated in front of his eyes and coughed lightly: "My mother is not in good health either, I understand how you feel."

"What's wrong with your mother?" Kou Xiao glanced at him and pinched out the cigarette in his hand.

"I had a tumor before, but fortunately it was benign, and I'll be fine after the operation." Mu Qing straightened his back, the coolness spread from his buttocks to his lower back, which made him a little uncomfortable, but he still insisted on not moving: "It's okay, Your dad will be fine too."

"My dad?" Kou Xiao thought about the word playfully, "He's not my dad."

"Isn't it?" Mu Qing was a little embarrassed, and Kou Xiao interrupted him before he could say anything: "It's already said that I was picked."

Mu Qing was silent for a long time, and finally said something inexplicably: "I think you are a good person, and uncle must be very good to you."

"I'm a good person?" Kou Xiao couldn't help laughing, but the smile didn't have the slightest warmth: "How long have you known me before you think I'm a good person?"

He suddenly moved closer to Mu Qing, and whispered leisurely in his ear:

"I almost killed someone before, do you believe it?"

Mu Qing's already pale expression had turned into a sheet of paper at this time, and even his lips couldn't help trembling: "What..."

"But I almost died myself," Kou Xiao pulled his collar to reveal the long scar, and said briskly, "At that time, I would probably have lost blood and died if I arrived at the hospital two minutes late, but it's still If you don't die, you can only continue to live like a dog."

Mu Qing looked at him, and suddenly something flickered in his eyes.Kou Xiao stared at him for two seconds before realizing that he was about to cry, and his face immediately wrinkled into a ball of disgust: "What the hell is there to cry about? Hold back for me, don't be so disgusting with me."

"I just think..." Mu Qing wiped the corners of his eyes: "It's not easy for you."

"Who is it easy?" Kou Xiao laughed at himself, seeing that Mu Qing was still wearing the same pair of canvas shoes that had not changed for a hundred years, he clicked his tongue and said, "Don't talk about me, I think you are more difficult than me." , I can’t bear to change even a pair of broken shoes.”

"The road is wet today, I'm afraid it will get dirty when I wear new shoes." Mu Qing lowered his head and touched his nose.

Kou Xiao stretched his legs and stood up. Although the little boy was frightened and cried after chatting, his mood was indeed more refreshing than before, and he was not so bored and panicked: "Let's go, I'm going back."

"Wait," Mu Qing sniffed and stood up, hesitantly said, "Sorry, if I said something wrong just now..."

"Apologize? What are you apologizing for?" Kou Xiao was speechless. If nothing else, just Mu Qing's soft and weak temperament. After finding a girlfriend, he is probably the couple I saw at the entrance of the supermarket that day, and was bullied every day. The kind who can't hold up his head: "Don't think too much, just take care of yourself."

Seeing Mu Qing standing still, he could only reluctantly pat him on the back: "I was just kidding you just now, let's go."

Just as Mu Qing was about to speak with a complicated expression, a voice suddenly came from a distance: "Xiaoqing--"

A man ran up the steps in a hurry, and pinched Mu Qing's shoulders with both hands: "Are you okay? Why didn't you tell me when you came to the hospital?"

"Brother Kang," Mu Qing gently brushed his hand away, "I'm fine."

"Who is this?" Huang Kang squinted his eyes at Kou Xiao who was standing silently, "Xiaoqing, your friend?"

"No," Kou Xiao hurriedly said, "I'm passing by."

He stared at the man who smiled politely at him, and frowned slightly.

For some reason, this smile disgusted him a little.

Although I am not a good person, but based on my first feeling, the person in front of me is definitely not a good thing.

The smile on the man's face froze, and he still stretched out his hand: "Then let's get to know each other, my name is Huang Kang, and I belong to Xiao Qing..."

He paused for a while before saying, "Boss."

boss?

Kou Xiao lazily stretched out his hand and shook him: "Oh, hello, Boss Huang."

"Where is the matter, you also came to pick up Xiaoqing?" Huang Kang said with a smile, Kou Xiao could hear the temptation in the words without listening, and said lightly: "No, I just passed by."

"That's it," Huang Kang laughed again, the two shiny earrings made his eyes hurt: "Then I'll send him back first, let's have a light meal together next time when we have time. "

What's wrong with this man?

Kou Xiao's frowning brows did not go down, and his tone was filled with impatience: "Whatever you want, I don't know him well anyway."

"Brother Kang," Mu Qing, who never had a chance to speak, carefully pushed Huang Kang, "I'll just go back by myself."

"How can this be done! Look at how bad your face is?" Huang Kang grabbed Mu Qing's face as soon as he pulled him past him: "Let me see again...why are your lips twitching?" It's skin!"

The expression on Kou Xiao's face suddenly became extremely exciting, and he looked at Mu Qing struggling with embarrassment with playfulness:

"Brother Kang... so many people are watching."

"Let's go, I'll take you back first." Huang Kang couldn't help but grab his hand and led him down the steps, before leaving, he didn't forget to say goodbye to Kou Xiao, with a smile in his narrow eyes: "Let's go! "

Kou Xiao didn't say a word and stood there looking at the backs of the two of them. He realized something belatedly, and shivered suddenly:

"...Are these two gay?"

Chapter 6

◎Real, this cruel truth. ◎

Kou Xiao casually took a book from the bookshelf, it was "To Live" by Yu Hua.

True, this brutal truth.

He stared at those two lines for a while, then turned around and went up to the rooftop to smoke a cigarette, a spark flickered in the gradually darkening sky.

Looking from the roof of this dilapidated building, most of the sky is covered by tall buildings, as if a line was drawn in the middle, one side is poor, and the other side is rich.

Over there is life, over here is death.

The last ray of the setting sun could barely be seen in the gaps between the tall buildings, and a smear of blood appeared in the shadows.

Kou Xiao took a deep breath, took out the cigarette from his mouth, and lit the test sheet in his hand that had been crumpled to the point of being almost torn to pieces.

Chronic renal failure is approaching the middle stage.

He stared at the flames mixed with gray debris and flitted past his eyes. He jumped out of the fence freely and flew into the distance. For a moment, he had the idea of ​​jumping out too. After a while, he rubbed his fingers and extinguished the cigarette on the cement. on stage.

There is a saying that it is better to live than to die.

He suddenly remembered the sentences he learned in Chinese class when he was in elementary school:

Although money is precious, it cannot buy happiness, health, or love...  

fuck you.

Who says it can't be done?

He was stunned for a while before turning around and going down the roof. When passing by the threshold, he accidentally tripped and kicked loudly, which caused the dogs raised by the people on the next floor to bark wildly. Kou Xiao didn't seem to have heard of it , It seems that there is a layer of barriers in front of my eyes, I can't see or hear.

"This disease is very troublesome for middle-aged and elderly people, and combined with the patient's primary disease, the prognosis is also very bad."

The doctor took off his mask and looked at him, tapped his fingers on the computer screen a few times: "You have to be mentally prepared first."

"Why did you suddenly get this disease?" Kou Xiao's voice was surprisingly calm, but his fingertips were icy cold.

"Chronic renal failure actually has a lot of aura symptoms, don't you usually pay more attention to it?" The doctor glanced at him and continued: "For example, fatigue, edema of the lower limbs, increased nocturia or painful or difficult urination... .”

"What did you say?" Kou Xiao stared at him, his hands finally trembling uncontrollably.

These symptoms...Old He had shown it before, but he didn't notice it.

"How long is the incubation period?" he asked.

"I can't say for sure. Generally, old people are at risk of kidney failure as they get older. It just depends on the time of discovery." The doctor adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and his expression became serious:

"However, the most effective treatment for patients with kidney failure is hemodialysis. According to Holly's situation, at least twice a week."

"How much is it once?" Kou Xiao stared at him.

"Around two to three hundred, if you have medical insurance." The doctor said, and then explained other precautions: "Patients with kidney failure also need a low-phosphorus diet, and usually reduce the intake of dairy products, nuts, and meat.. ...and try to eat lightly as much as possible.”

Kou Xiao didn't speak, and quickly calculated the price in his heart.

Two hundred at a time, twice a week, one thousand sixteen a month, one year...

His heart sank.

"How long will this infiltration take?" He couldn't help but ask.

"It's not a question of whether it's good or not, young man." The doctor was printing out the form and looked at him in surprise: "Infiltration is for life-saving! If you don't do it..."

"It will soon deteriorate into uremia, and it will be difficult to recover by then."

The doctor handed him the list: "Go to the second floor and pay, I will prescribe some medicine for him first."