Chapter 11: Seriously Ill Mother Lu is seriously ill and hospitalized, and the uncle helps his brother borrow money...
"You're at home, why don't you turn on the lights?" Mother Lu said, her eyes fell on the eight-immortals table next to Lu Jun, where she saw a pile of medicines on it.
Mother Lu's face changed.
"Mom, what are these?" Lu Jun asked.
Mother Lu said stiffly, "It's nothing. You know it's just some medicine to help digestion and stop diarrhea."
Lu Jun's face darkened. "Mom, you're lying to me! I just checked at the clinic, and these aren't antidiarrheal or digestive medicines at all."
After seeing Dong Fuyun off, Lü Jun returned home but didn't see his mother. Remembering the several times he'd seen his mother secretly taking medication, Lü Jun dug out the medication and took it to a nearby clinic.
The doctors told him that those medicines were not for aiding digestion or stopping diarrhea, but for treating liver disease, and a very serious liver disease at that.
Lu Jun didn't know how he got home. Guilt and self-blame burned like a fire in his heart, burning him with pain and anger.
Then he became deflated again. His mother didn't say anything because she was only thinking about him, her own son.
Hearing this, Mother Lu showed a panicked look and hurriedly said, "Xiaojun, don't be angry. Mom didn't hide this from you on purpose. I just didn't want you to worry."
Lu Jun said, "Mom, you don't want me to worry, but have you ever thought about how guilty I'd feel if I found out later?"
Mother Lu said, "Why are you blaming yourself? It's not you who caused Mom's illness."
Lu Jun said: "But it is true that I don't care about you enough, otherwise how could I not even know that you are sick?" He had clearly seen his mother taking medicine many times, but he never looked into it deeply, nor did he ever think about accompanying his mother to the hospital.
Lu Jun held his mother's hand and said, "Mom, let's go to the hospital tomorrow morning for another checkup. We need to take medicine when necessary and see a doctor when necessary. We can't give up easily."
Lu's mother wanted to say there was no need to see a doctor; she'd already seen one, and going again would be a waste of money. But seeing her son's guilty look, she thought better of it and swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue. Her son was a filial son, and if she insisted on not going, it would only make him feel more guilty.
The next morning, Lü Jun took his mother to the hospital. After receiving the test results, Lü Jun applied for hospitalization at the doctor's suggestion and went home to pack his luggage.
After coming out of the hospital, Lu Jun couldn't help but hide behind a big tree near the gate and burst into tears.
His father died early, and it was his mother who raised him with only food and water. After he finally grew up, his mother got sick before she could enjoy the blessing of having children and grandchildren.
Cirrhosis, late stage, requires a liver transplant to survive.
But her mother is an orphan and he is her only relative. Unfortunately, his blood type is different from her mother's, so he is not even qualified to give her a liver transplant.
Then we can only wait for strangers to donate □□.
But organ transplants are always in short supply, and his mother's health is poor, so he might not be able to wait. And then there's the surgery fee, which costs tens of thousands of dollars per operation. How could he afford that?
Thinking of the doctor's veiled words asking him to take good care of the patient and not let her have any regrets, Lu Jun felt a pang of pain in his heart. But he couldn't just take his mother home and let her die.
Lu Jun took the bus and arrived home to find Dong Fuyun waiting at his door. Dong Fuyun saw Lu Jun and quickly stepped forward to greet him, anxiously asking, "Junzi, how is Auntie?"
He came to Lu's house early in the morning, but did not see Lu Jun and Lu's mother. He guessed that Lu Jun took Lu's mother to the hospital. He wanted to find the two of them, but he didn't know which hospital they went to, so he had to wait at his door.
Lu Jun shook his head, a bitter look on his face. "The doctor said it's cirrhosis of the liver, and it's already in the late stages. I've arranged to be hospitalized and I'm packing my bags to go over now."
He added, "Dafu, thank your niece and me for this. If she hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't even know what was going on when I lost my mother."
Dong Fuyun nodded and took out a wad of change from his pocket: "Junzi, although this money is not much, you can use it first. I will send it to you when I have money later."
Lu Jun refused to accept it: "I don't want your money."
Dong Fuyun didn't have much money either. His generation was relatively fortunate; by the time they grew up, the government no longer required educated youth to go to the countryside. But the city was overcrowded, and jobs were hard to come by. None of them had stable jobs, and they scraped together a living doing odd jobs here and there, which wasn't easy. The amount of money Dong Fuyun had taken out was probably all his savings.
Dong Fuyun stuffed the money into Lu Jun's arms and said seriously, "Junzi, what's the relationship between us brothers? Why are you being so polite to me? If you spend this money recklessly, I won't give it to you no matter what. But it's different now. Auntie's health is the most important thing. Money is not a big deal."
Lu Jun hesitated for a moment, but finally accepted the money. This situation really didn't allow him to be polite.
Dong Fuyun returned home after helping Lu Jun pack his luggage. Xu Heye and Dong Taohua still had some luggage at Dong's house, and the mother and daughter were moving it.
Seeing this, Dong Fuyun hurried forward to help. Dong Taohua saw Dong Fuyun and quickly pulled him aside and asked, "How much did those furniture cost yesterday? I'll give you the money."
Dong Fuyun didn't want it at first, but thinking of Lu Jun, he finally told him the money he spent. Dong Taohua rounded it up and gave him fifty.
Dong Fuyun held the five big unity notes in his hand and hesitated for a moment before asking, "Sister, do you have any money on hand? I want to borrow some from you."
"I have five hundred yuan on hand. I spent some on rent and renovations. I'll give you fifty, leaving a little over three hundred yuan. But I still have money to buy a return train ticket and to save for He Ye's living expenses. The most I can lend you is two hundred yuan."
Dong Taohua counted out twenty big unity notes and handed them to Dong Fuyun, saying, "Little brother, if you have any difficulties, tell me. I will go back to get the money and send it back to you." In those days, withdrawing money from other places was not yet allowed. She still had some savings in her account, but she could only go back to get it and then send it back by post.
Dong Fuyun took the money and shook his head: "It's not me. It's Junzi. His mother is sick. She has late-stage liver cirrhosis and needs money for treatment."
Hearing this, Dong Taohua pulled out two more big unity notes and handed them over. "I have to take He Ye to school to handle the enrollment procedures, so I can't visit in person. Take this money and buy some canned malted milk or something for Auntie to eat."
Dong Fuyun nodded, took it and was about to leave.
Xu Heye sighed upon hearing this. Thinking of something, she hurried after him, "Uncle, little uncle, wait for me, I have something to say." Mother Lu was seriously ill, and she didn't know if the scammers had targeted her at this moment. But no matter what, she still had to warn Uncle Lu to be on guard.
Dong Fuyun stopped, looked at his niece and asked, "He Ye, what else is there?"
Xu Heye said: "Uncle, there is a group of fraud gangs that have been roaming around committing crimes recently, specializing in defrauding the elderly and those who are seriously ill.
They used the excuse of matchmaking and took advantage of the elderly and sick people's eagerness to find wives for their sons, and cheated many families out of their savings.
There's an uncle in my hometown whose family was scammed. His mother, hoping to find him a perfect wife with all the qualities, used up all their savings as a dowry, only to be scammed instead. By the time they realized what was happening, the scammers had already fled. The old lady, unable to accept the deception, drank pesticide in a fit of rage...
The last time I read Uncle Lu's fortune, didn't I see that there was a villain in his family? Grandma Lu is seriously ill, and she must be worried about Uncle Lu. I'm afraid that some bad people will take advantage of her and deceive them."
What Xu Heye said was not false. There were indeed people who were cheated in her hometown of Gan Province, but they were not people she knew, but she saw it in the newspaper.
Dong Fuyun already knew that his niece wouldn't talk nonsense, so he nodded and said, "Uncle, I understand. I'll take this matter to heart."
As he spoke, he hurried to the hospital where Lu's mother was being treated. Lu Jun was not there. Besides Lu's mother, there was also a strange middle-aged woman in the ward.
The middle-aged woman came to visit Lu's mother. She had a round face and looked kind when she smiled.
Dong Fuyun put down the can of biscuits he bought. Seeing someone coming, the middle-aged woman hurriedly said, "Sister, just focus on your treatment. I will come to see you later." After saying that, she left.
Dong Fuyun picked up a knife and peeled an apple for Lu's mother. He asked casually, "Mother Lu, who was that person just now?"
Lu's mother said, "She's a matchmaker. I asked her to propose marriage to Lu Jun."
Dong Fuyun paused when he heard this, and the long apple peel he had been peeling snapped and fell to the ground. Remembering what his niece had said, Dong Fuyun felt a chill in his heart.
Matchmaker, is this person good or bad?
But seeing Mother Lu's expectant expression, Dong Fuyun swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue. "Let's see for ourselves, young people. If they're really liars, then we'll make sure they never come back."
Dong Fuyun thought fiercely, peeled off the last bit of apple skin, handed the peeled apple to Lu's mother, "Auntie, eat the apple." Then he picked up the apple peel that fell on the ground and threw it into the trash can.
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