C20 Questions on the overpass

CHAPTER XIX QUESTIONS ON THE BRIDGE

In the previous period of time, even though Liu Dawn hid outside for a while, he did not manage to hide the results. When he came back, he had only been with his wife for a few days.

The estrangement of his wife left a gap for others. Like a plaster, the ox adhered to Liu Dawn.

At first, the cow restrained herself for a few days, but what happened to her during the excursions on the Huron's prairie and on the sandy lake left her feeling empty, not to mention a few days, even when she didn't see her brother for a while.

One morning, Liu Dawn was driving around the city when his cell phone rang a few times. After he sent a passenger to the destination, he took out his phone to have a look. It turned out to be a few WeChat messages from La Plum Blossom.

Three cups of hot tea)

Brother Ming, where are you? the pattern of a rabbit's claw pointing at its own head

I'd like to go to Wal-Mart. Can you come and pick me up? three straight roses)

Brother Ming, can you come over? Three curved roses)

Liu Dawn looked at Niu Tuwen's WeChat and immediately replied like a cat: "Ok, we'll be there immediately."

Niu Niu waited at the entrance of the district for a long time. After Liu Dawn drove over, she opened the car door and jumped in. She shouted, "Mingge!" Then she hugged her brother's neck and muttered, "You missed me so much."

When Liu Dawn saw the pedestrians looking over, he reminded Niu Niu that there was a security guard here and he had to wear his seat belt. Otherwise, if the traffic police saw him, they would be fined.

At this moment, Niu Niu was immersed in his excitement. When he heard his brother's words, he casually pinched his brother's thigh and said, "I missed you."

Liu Dawn was wearing a pair of singlet pants and had been pinched. He let out an "Ouch!" and was enjoying the pain. He was enjoying the feeling of being remembered. If his wife didn't love him, then someone else would. In half a cigarette's time, the car arrived at the Wal-Mart supermarket. There were a lot of cars in front of the door. He drove the taxi to the basement parking lot of the supermarket. In the parking lot, a few small lights were set into the walls. The lights were dim.

Without waiting for Liu Dawn to pull out the car keys, Niu Niu called out "Mingge", turned around, narrowed his eyes, and waited for the moment when his heart beat faster and the passion ignited the intoxicating feeling in his soul.

He grabbed the face of the cow with both hands and gnawed on it like he was chewing on a watermelon.

Niu Niu closed his eyes and groaned, using both of his hands to constantly rub Mingge's back … However, the taxi didn't cooperate. It suddenly left the parking spot and skidded forward. The flustered Liu Dawn noticed that something was wrong with the car. He quickly stopped the car and pulled the handbrake. "The taxi almost hit the rear end of the small car opposite." "So close." He looked at the cow and said.

Niu Niu also felt that he had almost gotten himself into trouble, so he smiled embarrassedly.

The Wal-Mart supermarket has only been open for a few days. This supermarket is located in the south of the city of Baima, is the same city with the provincial capital of the construction of the golden area.

It took them more than two hours to move from the first floor to the fifth. The bull's focus is to see the clothes and furniture and the price tag. Liu Dawn, on the other hand, was on the other hand, afraid that he would run into someone familiar here.

In the electrical toy area, many children and young people play with their favorite projects, immersing themselves in reality and fantasy.

Liu realized that Niu Niu was particularly devoted to shopping. The dazzling array of goods filled her eyes with fresh wonder. Usually, when he was shopping with his wife, it felt like a form of torture to him. For this, he even said a few words and didn't buy it. How could he just turn it around? So much so that his wife would not go shopping with him in the future, afraid that he would complain and spoil the fun.

Women shopping, not only the joy of shopping, but also an ornamental harvest, namely the eye.

In the shop, its visual nerve is very excited, as if in the strange, lakeshore world, rippling happiness of a small boat.

The difference is that the goods that men see are only goods, and do not give any other emotional color to the goods.

Liu Dawn accompanied Niu Tavern up and down, the clothing area, the dining area, the video game area... It's been more than two hours, he wondered.

After finding a window seat and sitting down, Liu Dawn picked up the pen the waiter handed to him and wrote on the back of each of the two dishes, beef and mutton. He then handed the neutral pen to the cow and said, "Don't worry about what you want to eat for the other dishes. I don't care if you cry out that you're hungry. "

Niu Niu's eyes jumped over the menu. After slicing over a dozen dishes, he asked, "Brother Ming, is this enough?"

"Alright, the dishes ordered are pretty good." My pot is slightly spicy, but what about you? Fresh water, seafood? "

"Seafood then." Niu Niu said.

The waiter went off with the menu.

While waiting for the food to be ready, Niu Niu looked at his mobile phone. Liu Dawn stretched his back, took out a cigarette, lit it up, and then placed the cigarette box on the table. He then picked up a small drawing page and started flipping through it. On the screen, the rushing Jialing River washed the wooden boat from side to side, swaying it from side to side. The fisherman who was sitting on the shore was starving. A few wooden fires boiled half a basin of river water, floating spots of star flower, pepper, pepper, ginger seasoning on the butter, duck blood, duck meat, intestines, Sichuan powder, hair belly and other sundries as the main food for rinsing, belly wrapped to dispel cold. During the early Ming and Qing dynasties, Chongqing boatswain fiancé made the embryo of the hotpot, and now it has become a kind of famous food.

After a while, the waiter placed the various ingredients of sesame paste, pickled garlic, soy sauce, leek and other side dishes on the table. Two small hotpot pots were bubbling continuously on the stove, creating a dense atmosphere for the delicious meal that was about to begin. The finely cut, perfectly arranged beef and beef were like four stalwart white peonies blooming on a porcelain plate. They were of the same length, thick and thin like potato chips, tender mushrooms as thin as bean sprouts, slim and elegant bamboo sticks … He was in high spirits and was in high spirits as he accepted the review from the two masters.

Ox used to work in the city cotton mill. She had had a happy family, her husband's hard work and intelligence, her son's liveliness and loveliness, weaving a warm dream of the future. This dream was not as solid as he had imagined, but it was very fragile. It was shattered into pieces by his husband's illness, like a glass container that made people accidentally fall from the table onto the floor tiles.

His husband, Li Zhizhong, was a technician at the municipal hydraulic parts factory. For some reason, he suffered from uremia. Uremia was a wealthy disease that made people's expressions change. Who in an ordinary family could afford it? Husband's unit, is an enviable enterprise, good economic benefits, high wages, but in recent years is also the sun in the west. Every few years, when this factory changed its factory director, the new factory director would come up with all sorts of excuses to expand the scale of operations, trying to find ways to build subfactories outside the factory, invest millions or even tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure projects, and buy equipment. People say they're interested in a 10 percent kickback on the subterfuge. There were some middle-level cadres and technical designers in the factory who saw the leader of the gang fishing for money in a different way and felt unbalanced. They found various reasons to retire early and joined hands to set up a hydraulic parts company outside the factory. Around the hydraulic parts factory there were many small parts factories, a group of small fish around a big fish, you take a bite, he took a bite, the big fish was bitten leaving a skeleton. A good company, perished in the sighs of the people. Some people had once advised Li Zhizhong to do the same and display his strengths. But he was a stubborn cow, and he said it was a public expense. After graduating from school, he was assigned to this factory, and he had a deep affection for it. After working day and night for so many days, it was indeed a bit unbearable for his body. Now that the company had closed down, Li Zhizhong was suffering from this troublesome disease. Cotton factory these years is also stormy, someone bought land, real estate business. The factory is clamoring for the employees to change their identities and buy out the seniors... There was a downpour.

After Li Zhizhong suffered from uremia, he went to the city hospital and provincial hospital to see a doctor. Not to mention other things, just the hemodialysis cost him a lot of money. He lay in bed every day, calculating how much money he had spent on medicine and beds today. In his eyes, the list of fees that the nurses delivered every morning was like a suicide note. After spending more than a month in the hospital, he felt that he could no longer afford to waste time like this, or else he would bring this family down with him. This year, if ordinary people were to suffer from this rich and incurable disease, it would be tantamount to stepping into the gates of hell with one foot in, exhausting the family's meagre savings. The family would have to live in the future, and the son would have to go to school. After some thought, he decided to go home.

Niu Niu asked how to treat the illness when he got home.

He said, "Buy some medicine and make your own dialysis at home. If you can save some money, save it. We can't afford to waste time on this disease."

In desperation, Niu Niu chose to compromise under the pressure of the drug fee and his husband's stubbornness.

With the support of his wife and relatives, Li Zhizhong returned home. Surprised, he looked around and only the small color TV was left standing guard on the table. Puzzled, he asked, "Where's the refrigerator? Where's the sofa? Where is my son's electronic zither? "

Niu Niu replied stiffly, "I sold them all in order to treat your illness."

Li Zhizhong was at a loss for words. He rested his head on the pillow and stared blankly at the ceiling …

"Life goes by... Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter are the only four words remaining: Autumn! " Lying on the bed, Li Zhizhong, who hadn't made a sound for a long time, suddenly said this. Tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes and he gave an ellipsis for his words.

The burden of family life rested on the shoulders of the cattle. The money spent on hemodialysis was overwhelming, to say nothing of anything else. Every month, she was paid 160 yuan for her life support and 160 yuan for her husband's hemodialysis. This is also at home to do dialysis, if in the hospital can't afford to spend. In order to treat her husband's illness, Niu Niu ran around the home of his relatives and friends. At first, it was still good that his relatives and friends did not go home empty-handed, regardless of how much money they had or because of some responsibility they had. After a long time, people saw her and stayed away.

When people begged, the first reason was that it was hard to eat shit, and the second was that it was difficult to borrow money.

That time, Niu Niu went to his aunt's house to borrow some money. Aunty usually liked Ox-Head, but now that her niece had been involved in such matters, she tried her best to help out. However, Auntie wasn't the owner of the bank either. Aunt gritted her teeth, took out 1000 yuan from the cabinet and said to her, "Ox, Zhizhong is sick. I'm afraid he won't be able to recover well in a short time." Sigh, it doesn't feel good for anyone. Take these and go home. Niu Niu, Auntie's five thousand yuan from the previous paragraph, Auntie doesn't need you to pay it back. You know as well, your little brother and second young master have talked about someone recently, so it's not easy for your aunt either. " As she spoke, her aunt handed over the money and touched her niece's shoulder.

Niu Niu could hear the hidden meaning behind his aunt's words and said, "Auntie, once Zhizhong's illness recovers in the future, I will think of a way to repay your money."

The aunt forced a smile and said, "Ox, no need to return it." "Ai, Zhizhong, this disease …"

After bidding farewell to her aunt, she had originally planned to go to the other houses to see if she could borrow some money. However, this kind of situation had occurred at her aunt's house … This was an aunt who was very close to him. If he were to go to someone else's house, who knew what kind of situation he would encounter? The first time she went to her aunt's house, she took out three thousand yuan without a word, and accompanied her for a while with a long sigh. The second time she went to her aunt's house, her aunt hesitated for a moment before slowly taking out two thousand yuan. Today, she took out a thousand yuan, but her aunt said she didn't need to return the money she had borrowed.

After he left his aunt's house with 1000 yuan in his pocket, Niu Niu thought that a few days ago, he heard the words "you don't have to pay" from his two good sisters, as if they had discussed it beforehand.

"Scree!" Suddenly, a car screeched to an emergency stop. The driver rolled down the window, stuck his head out and cursed, "You don't want to live anymore! "Hmm — Ox — you?"

Niu Niu almost got hit by a car as he was thinking about all these troublesome matters. Only after the driver scolded her did she realize that she had unknowingly ridden her bicycle into the middle of the street while thinking about borrowing money. When she heard someone call her, she turned around and saw that it was Brother Mao.

Zhao Dahou drove the car forward and stopped at the side of the road. He got out of the car and said to the cow, "Ox, I'm sorry. Who did I think I was?"

"Hey, Brother Mao, your shout almost scared me to death."

"Is that so? I'm sorry. What are you doing? "

"I have something to take care of. Just thinking about it makes …"

"Dangerous, you see — ride your bike into the middle of the road." As he spoke, Zhao Da Mao wiped the sweat off his forehead and asked, "Hey, it's been a long time since I last saw you play in the mahjong hall?"

"I-I can't. There are patients at home."

"Who? What illness is it? "

"My husband. It's pretty troublesome to get uremia. "

"Uremia? Rich and noble disease, eh! How could ordinary people be able to afford it? "

"I can't. Most people can't afford it, but even my own family can't. It's quite expensive, 160 yuan a day. Their unit economic benefits are also not so good, our cotton mill also went bankrupt. Now, I really have no other choice. " Niu Niu said sadly.

Zhao Dahu lit up a cigarette, glanced at the oval face of the ox, and thought for a while. He looked up at the floating clouds and stammered, "Hey, Ox, I'm not sure if I should tell you about this."

"What is it?"

"I know about the bankruptcy of your unit, right? One hundred and sixty yuan a month for living expenses?"

Niu Niu nodded.

"Now, prices are going up. Nothing is worth more than money. How can this 160 yuan work? Look, as for this matter, if you say it's okay, then it's okay. If it's not okay, then it's not okay. "Anyway, I did it out of good intentions. As long as you don't blame me, I'll be fine." Zhao Dagang made a lot of preparations around the table, "Look... I have a brother... Big Boss. For this period, his wife went abroad to visit her son, who was not at home, and came and went for more than a month. This bro is the same, I have to … Let me find him... Get him a good woman to do it... Work at the hour. The price, the price is very... Very high. " After saying so, Zhao Dahu lowered his head to glance at the cow.

"What?" Working in the hour? And the price is very high? "

As soon as Ox-Head asked this question, Zhao Da Mao's expression became somewhat unnatural. He stammered, "Ai, this …" This hour of work, hehe, also … "That's right!"

"Which one?" Niu Niu could guess the answer from Zhao Dagang's tone, but she still asked.

"Hey, this man. Hey, hey, hey. After I got the money, wow, the problem came along. You said it's only been a few days since his wife left. Hehe, he can't hold it in anymore, I have to find a … That... and you don't have to do anything else. " Zhao Da Mao said this, then looked away, his eyelashes blinking a few times.

Niu Niu understood what Zhao Da Mao meant. She said nervously, "Brother Mao, aren't there some foot washing houses, hairdressing rooms, saunas, and hotels that have young ladies?"

"Hey, Niu Niu, pretend like you don't know anything. I'll give you an example. For example, some people eat abalone, snake soup, oily meat, and sometimes they get tired of eating too much. They think about eating spicy white, potato shreds, wild vegetables, and so on, and want to change their tastes. "

Hearing these words, Niu Niu froze in place.

Seeing Ox-Head lowered his head, Zhao Dagang continued, "You have to make the decision yourself. No one else can do anything to you. My mouth is also very firm. You know how many years we have been playing cards. "

Niu Niu still kept his head down. His left and right hands were moving up and down on the bike's handles in opposite directions, and he didn't make a sound.

Seeing that Niu Niu was hesitating, Zhao Dahu sighed, "Niu Niu, to be honest, I..." This was also for your own good. "If you're willing, you're willing. If you aren't, just pretend that I didn't say anything." Afraid that Niu Niu would be unhappy, he added, "If you're unwilling, then …" Just treat it as me farting. "Hah." He gave a hollow laugh.

At this moment, the heart of the ox was placed on the table, inside and out, frying up and down, clucking loudly. She weighed in her heart: Her husband's uremia, her monthly allowance of 160 yuan... The husband's medical expenses are 160 yuan a day... The child goes to school... Home empty... Some of the laid-off sisters of the cotton factory smeared makeup and went out in the evening to play with the "living support"... All of this seemed to have been in a movie, as she watched the scene unfold before her eyes. After waiting for a while, Niu Niu bit his lips and said, "Then-Brother Mao, then I'll take this hour to do my work."

"Yes? That — good! "Look, I'll pick you up in front of your house before eight o'clock tonight. What do you think?"

"Yes." Niu Niu replied in a low voice.

Seeing that Niu Niu agreed to the "hour work", Zhao Dafu drove away. As he sat in the car, he felt that he had gained something unexpected. He finally did what Viagra wanted him to do. These days, there was no money to settle matters. Other than using money to buy his own mother, it seemed like he could buy anything else. With this thought in mind, he held the steering wheel in his left hand, while his right hand was a meat hammer. He proudly used this meat hammer to beat on the steering wheel a few times.

After her husband fell ill, his hobby of playing mahjong had to be put on hold. He was so focused on borrowing that he scared his family and friends. She thought: Why am I so unlucky? Now, Brother Mao found this job, but …

She put the 1,000 yuan in a rice bowl, then picked up a small broom and swept the dust from her clothes. When she returned, she said to her husband, "At least I can hang on for a few more days."

The husband looked at his wife and blinked a few times, his lips moving, but no words came out. After waiting for a while, he clenched his right fist and fiercely smashed it against his calf.

Upon seeing this, Niu Niu rushed over and grabbed his hand, "Zhizhong, what are you doing?"

"Alas — my body has made you and the child miserable!"

Niu Niu used his hand to wipe away the tears at the corner of his eyes and consoled, "Don't worry, your illness will slowly recover."

"Good?" Could this illness be cured just like that? There is no hope of 160 yuan a day. From tomorrow onwards, there will be no dialysis, no money, and no hope. " The husband's tone was tough, "Li Jia spends all her money on studying, it's such a waste." As he spoke, he grabbed the bag of blood and threw it on the ground.

Niu Niu looked at his husband, bent down to pick up the bag and put it on the bed. "After thinking for a while, I put the bag on top of the TV cabinet, afraid that he would throw it again." Zhizhong, you can't do this. I'll think of something. "

"Look at this, what is this family like? "Nothing, it's all my fault."

"Look at you, who wants this disease?"

"It's better to have no money than to have an illness. However, we don't have any money right now, and we're also sick. We don't have what we should have, but we do have what we shouldn't have." He changed his tone and said, "Ox, I have some insomnia for this part. I often can't sleep well at night, so I need to take some sleeping pills."

"Sleeping pills?" At the sound of her husband's request for sleeping pills, the cow became alarmed and a bad premonition began to surface in her mind. She shook her husband's shoulder, "Zhizhong, Zhizhong, listen to me, you better not have any other thoughts, ah?!"

The husband looked at Niu Niu and said with a smile, "No, I can't bear to part with you. I can't bear to part with you. How could I have any other thoughts?"

"That's good. For the sake of our Jia'er, you have to survive no matter what. Jia'er can't go without her dad! He's still young, and he needs you! " She squeezed her husband's shoulder hard.

The husband nodded. "It's good as long as you grow up, there's hope for you in my family. It's just that at this point, I really couldn't sleep. It was so painful that I had to take some sleeping pills to help me sleep. "

"Really?"

"It's true!"

"How? If you want to eat, you can only eat less. At most one piece per night." Niu Niu instructed.

"Yes."

Time truly turned into time.

That morning, one of the workers at the factory told her when she was due to arrive, and she guessed that she would be able to see the union people. She went to the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau to look for someone, hoping to give them some relief... After a few days, he finally found someone from the factory association. No matter what, the union was willing to give them something. The Bureau also agreed to give some relief, with each family paying 1,000 yuan. Although two thousand yuan was like a drop in the bucket for a patient suffering from uremia, it was still better than nothing.

Someone had advised the cattle, asked the news media, and called on the well-meaning members of society to donate to the rescue. She thought for a moment. Go ahead and look for the city newspaper. A bespectacled editor at the city newspaper had told her that it had been okay to send a message or a proposal, and that there were some people in society who could give money to patients to solve urgent needs. But much more has been published since then, and the results are not as good as they should be, and there are not many donations in society.

A sister in a very close relationship at the cotton mill hinted that she should go out and do that kind of work. After the bankruptcy of the factory, some pretty young women did that kind of work. The friend then added, "Hey, Niu Niu, the reason I'm saying all these is for your own good. Don't scold me in your heart." He looked at Niu Niu with a puzzled expression, and only after Niu Niu nodded at him blankly did the man feel a little bit more at ease. He asked himself, "What am I doing?" Do what you can not to please.

There was no other way. Did he have to go to a large sum of money or do some kind of shameful business? If so, would the husband stop when he found out? If Jia Er, who had studied hard and wanted to improve, knew about this, would she be able to bear it? Not that kind of business, that 160 yuan daily hemodialysis fees, living expenses, the wind will come?

It was Christmas Day, and in front of the shops on the street stood green trees with spires of plastic and small lights. That old man with a red hat and a wrinkled face squeezed his face against the glass of the shopping mall, giving a silly smile to the passers-by … For the sake of profit, the merchants either coincidentally or with the wind together to stir up this commercial holiday, let the customers pay more money.

Standing on the bridge and looking at the flow of traffic, the oxen's eyes were filled with tears and their hearts were dripping with blood. "Huu." She thought, Let me leap down from the height of the overpass, let the arc in the air be the end of my life, let me finish it, but the Zhizhong lying on the bed swayed in front of her eyes, who will take care of me in primary school? What a clever child. Trouble, confusion, hopelessness, and confusion were piled up in a dark mass in her mind. She couldn't stop the tears from streaming down her face. She stretched out her arms and screamed at the top of her lungs, "God, how do you want me to live? Can you tell me?! "

"Wa — —!" A child's wail came from behind the ox. She turned to see a girl over two years old crying in her mother's arms.

The young mother coaxed her frightened daughter, "Sasha, it's all right. This auntie is a playboy, practicing her lines. "

Despite her mother's exhortation, the crying girl continued to stare at the cow.

Niu Niu saw the mother of the child clearly quicken her pace as she walked past.

In any case, I have to live. I still have my Jiajia, my Jiajia, and my academic performance is so good. This is my hope. she thought, regretting her loss of manners.

Now, he had met Zhao Dahou who was just a pimp, although the "hour worker" he introduced sounded a bit shameful. Bye!

At eight o'clock in the evening, Zhao Dahou drove his car to the front of his house, as promised, and waited for the cow.

At lunch time, Niu Niu told his son to go back to his maternal grandma's house after school in the afternoon to finish his homework. Only after arranging all these did she feel a little more at ease.

After 7: 30 in the evening, Niu Niu cleaned up the housework. After hearing her cell phone ring, she picked it up to see that it was from Brother Mao and directly dialed the number. She told her husband, who was lying in bed listening to the radio, that she would try again when she got out and see if she could borrow some more money.

The husband let out an "oh" and continued listening to the evaluation of "Sui Tang's Romance".

When the cow came out and closed the door, it saw a Santana parked not far from the entrance. It opened the door and sat in the back seat.

Zhao Da Mao said, "Niu Niu, this matter has been settled. Perhaps the famine that you owe me will be solved by me in one fell swoop. Go and call him boss or Viagra — well, call him Viagra, it's hotter this way. "

"I'll listen to you, Brother Mao."

The car drove for a while and turned a few corners before arriving at the outskirts of the city. Zhao Dahou pointed with his right hand and said, "Look, Niu Niu, this is the courtyard." The air in the suburbs felt good, and the air in the city was a little stuffy now. The rich man, in other words, disagreed with ordinary people. When you lived in a bungalow he lived in a building, when you ate vegetables he ate meat, when you walked he drove. You live in a building, he lives in a courtyard, you live in a suburb of the city, he goes to the gym while you drive, he eats wild vegetables while you eat — he plays with us. "

When they arrived in front of a courtyard, Big Hairy Zhao stopped the car.

After the ox arrived, they saw that the courtyard was surrounded by more than ten small poplars. The river of white horses flowed quietly in front of them, with their backs facing the towering Green Dragon Mountain. Stars twinkle in the sky, unlike downtown being cut by skyscrapers and obscured by smoke... The environment was beautiful and the air was fresh. The master of this place sure knew how to live.

"Woof woof woof …" From the courtyard came the wild bark of a wolfhound.

As soon as the ox heard a dog barking, it trembled and asked, "Is there a dog inside?"