Chapter 73 A Lucky Draw: Sixteen Drill Marks Saved His Life
It's very easy for the sky to fall.
The emergency room lights were on all the time. Many of A-Yu's relatives stood outside the door, and Auntie held the weeping Xu's mother in her arms.
Xu Zhiyu, clutching her father's coat, stood facing the closed entrance of the emergency room, her eyes fixed on the words "Emergency Room in Progress." The illuminated words seemed vaguely frightening.
So far, she has not experienced any birth, aging, illness or death; her grandparents and maternal grandparents are still alive.
She had never experienced any major illness or hardship. She could imagine her father lying in a hospital bed and cry along with her mother, but she couldn't directly feel the sadness of a disaster.
After leaving the supermarket in the morning, she walked towards the hospital while opening Alipay and transferring the savings from all her bank cards to Alipay.
Such a serious traffic accident must have cost money, but thankfully... thankfully, she had saved up some money. With this money, even if she needed to have some major surgery immediately, she could afford it.
The traffic accident on Chunying Street was horrific. A middle-aged man riding an electric bike collided with a taxi. Both were traveling at extremely high speeds. With a loud crash, the man on the electric bike was instantly thrown into the air, flying as far as 30 meters away from the accident scene!
The taxi driver was stunned. After getting out of the car and seeing the scene before him, he stood there frozen, his legs trembling.
The man riding the electric scooter fell heavily from mid-air, his helmet shattered, and amidst a pool of blood, he clenched his fists, trying to sit up—but despite using his elbows to lift his head, he ultimately couldn't sit up.
He lay slumped in a pool of blood, with two disheveled leather shoes lying not far from him.
The video uploaded by a passerby shows this, and the leather shoes in question were the ones Ah Yu had bought for her father.
After watching the video, Xu's mother cried until she almost fainted. Now she leans expressionlessly in the arms of Xu Zhiyu's aunt, her empty eyes still streaming with colorless tears.
At this moment, a nurse came over from the corridor and asked, "Xu Wenfan's family member, who is Xu Wenfan's family member? Family members, come with me to handle the relevant documents."
Ah Yu had no time to be sad. Her uncle took her hand, who was like a walking corpse, and followed the nurse to the service center to complete the necessary paperwork.
During the process, the woman took out a lot of documents and asked her to sign and pay various fees, which she did blankly and obediently.
The brain was no longer able to think; only the hands were still following commands.
The emergency room lights stayed on from morning till night, and the number of relatives waiting outside gradually decreased. Finally, a doctor emerged from those tightly closed gates of hell, removed his mask, and said to the mother and daughter who were anxiously waiting outside:
“We did our best. Logically speaking, with such a serious car accident and the main injury to his head, he should have died without a doubt.”
"Your ancestors must have accumulated a lot of good karma to have the patient still clinging to life despite suffering such immense pain. However, you should still be prepared that Xu Wenfan will be in a vegetative state for life."
The doctor's face had deep marks from the mask.
His eyes were filled with guilt and exhaustion.
[Lifelong vegetative state]
The tears that had run dry started flowing again, accompanied by a hoarse voice. Her aunt had forced her to drink three bottles of mineral water today, during which she cried herself to the point of dehydration five times.
Upon hearing these five words, Xu Zhiyu suddenly wondered how there could be such obscure and difficult-to-understand characters in the world.
She numbly followed the rhythm of the medical staff, cooperated with their actions, and listened carefully to their instructions. She didn't seem to have truly understood that she would never see her lively and energetic father again.
Dad was transferred from the emergency room to the intensive care unit. After completing the formalities, Ayu looked at her father on the hospital bed and then at her mother, who was leaning against the wall, seemingly lost in thought.
The scene of the three of them having a happy meal together last night was still in her mind, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into this.
The treatment was a long process, so she had to close the supermarket and stay in the hospital room every day to take care of her father.
Growing up doesn't take long; one thing, one night, is enough.
His parents had been together for many years, sharing a deep and loving relationship. His mother, being elderly, couldn't bear such a blow, and the entire burden of the family fell on the young girl's shoulders.
Since opening her supermarket, her savings have gradually accumulated from less than 200,000 yuan to 400,000 yuan.
The main reason for this was the surge in traffic recently, which boosted the supermarket's business for a short period, resulting in 400,000 yuan.
Xu Zhiyu's parents had recently spent all their money on a house and a car, and they didn't have much left.
During my time in the hospital, money was flowing out like water. Whether it was treatment fees or various medications, tens of thousands of yuan were spent every day.
Within a few days, the family's cash had been almost entirely spent.
Fortunately, her mother felt better in the following days. Seeing that her daughter was shouldering the burden of the family all by herself, taking care of both her father and herself, she couldn't bear it and decided to be strong and get through this difficult time with her daughter.
It is an April night.
The patients were all asleep at night, and the lights in the hospital corridor were rather dim.
Ah Yu sat in the stairwell, silently looking at her father's coat in her hand.
This is the coat he wore on the day of the car accident. The night before the accident, she forgot to ask her father for the necklace back, and only today did she remember that the necklace was still in the pocket of this coat.
So she touched the clothes and felt the uncomfortable chain in the zippered inner pocket, and her heart finally settled down.
Xu Zhiyu took out the necklace, turned on her phone's flashlight, and briefly checked whether the necklace was intact.
She paused for a moment.
To my astonishment, I discovered a conspicuous crack in the pink diamond.
incredible……
Isn't diamond the hardest substance in the world?
How did it get cracked from being dropped?
After being strong for many days, Ah Yu suddenly burst into tears at this moment.
She remembered something—
[I didn't realize you were so young, yet so devout in your belief in gods and Buddhas...]
[I didn't believe in this before. The necklace you're wearing was blessed at Qiling Temple. I've prayed to every Buddha, Bodhisattva, and deity in every hall on Qiling Mountain.]
She held the necklace in her hands, hugged her knees, leaned against the wall, and wept silently.
The most abundant sound in a hospital is crying, and the most abundant water is tears.
Mr. Xu's WeChat Moments post is still the one showing off the new shoes his daughter bought for him.
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A girl wearing a hat with a brim appeared at the entrance of Tiantianlai Supermarket, lingering there suspiciously.
She had been waiting here for a long time, but Tian Tian never came to open the supermarket. Today was not her first day here; she came yesterday, and the day before yesterday.
With the supermarket remaining closed, the girl had no choice but to muster her courage and walk into the stationery store next door.
"Hello, is anyone home?" she asked in a low voice. "I wanted to ask why the supermarket next door has been closed lately?"
Aunt Wang came out from inside when she heard the noise.
She first looked at the girl in front of her with a puzzled expression, scrutinizing her from head to toe.
Then, after a moment's hesitation, she said, "Something happened at Ms. Xu's home. She's been busy taking care of her father in the hospital lately and hasn't had time to run the business."
"Are you her friend? What brings you to see Boss Xu? I can pass on your message to her."
The girl wearing the hat shuddered and quickly shook her head: "No, no need. I just came to see her, and there's nothing important."
The man's expression was strange, and his every move was timid and hesitant. Aunt Wang found him highly suspicious. Just as the girl in the hat finished thanking her and turned to leave the stationery store...
Aunt Wang suddenly stepped forward and ripped the girl's hat off!
The girl was terrified and turned around abruptly—
After seeing the man's face clearly, Aunt Wang immediately grabbed a broom from the corner of the wall and shouted:
"I knew you looked familiar! I knew it was you, you little bitch! You little bitch! You actually dare to come back to Huainan Lane? You even dare to come looking for Boss Xu?"
"Pah! You stinking hen! Don't you even know where you are? How dare you come in here! I'll have to go looking for you to settle the score! You actually dared to come here on your own today? Then you won't be leaving here easily!"
Aunt Wang grabbed a broom and started hitting the girl indiscriminately.
Jingjing didn't defend herself; she just kept crying and hiding.
"Waaah... Aunt Wang, I know I did something wrong, but I had no choice. I really need the money. You probably won't understand what I'm saying anyway. Just tell me which hospital Mr. Xu's father is in, and I'll go find him..."
Hearing the commotion, the neighbors all rushed out to see what was happening.
Aunt Wang blushed with anger: "You motherless wretch, you deserve to die! How dare you come to Huainan Alley? Boss Xu is such a good girl. When you worked in her shop before, we all saw how good she was to you. Has your conscience been eaten by dogs? How could you treat her like this? Huh? Don't you have nightmares at night?"
Upon hearing this, the neighbor realized that the person Wang was hitting and scolding was actually the woman Xu's boyfriend had cheated on with.
They immediately lost their temper, went back into the shop, grabbed some handy tools, and went after the girl.
The crowd surrounded the girl, but instead of actually hitting her, they pointed at her and berated her.
"A person should have morality in their heart to live in this world. Those ungrateful bastards are dogs! Tian Jingjing, Tian Jingjing, you are a woman, can't you understand Mr. Xu's suffering? Tell me about what you did, aren't you ashamed? Who would dare to listen to those screams in the video?"
Tian Jingjing didn't expect to be recognized by Aunt Wang so quickly. She had heard that Boss Xu's father had been in a car accident some time ago, so she wanted to come and visit him. She had always felt guilty towards Sister Xu, and today she came to apologize to her.
She was surrounded and berated by a group of people. She had indeed done what they accused her of, and she had no room to refute them. In fact, not only did the people of Huainan Lane hate her, but people online also hated her, and she herself hated herself.
The onlookers didn't dare to actually hit her with their weapons, so they came up with a plan: they took some eggs and dirty swill from the shop and threw them at her!
Tian Jingjing walked forward while sobbing.
Just when she thought she was going to be driven out of Huainan Alley by these people, she ran into Boss Xu, whom she was looking for.
Xu Zhiyu had just stayed by her father's bedside all night and was exhausted. She took a taxi to the alley entrance and was dragging herself home when she heard a very loud noise ahead.
She listened for a moment without paying attention, and then her eyes suddenly widened.
He quickly ran forward, pushed through the crowd, and pulled Jingjing out from the middle—
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