Chapter 52: Visiting the Grave (Xiaoxiao 66+9) 11th Update



Even hospitalization is exempted?

Bi Yue pushed aside Bi Cheng, who was standing in front of her with red eyes, and asked the doctor anxiously:

"We were hospitalized, and you guys gave us a systematic checkup, a full body checkup! I don't think you have any procedures? And you dare to draw such a conclusion in such a short time?!

How can you be like this?! Put on the instrument, don’t you have any instrument?!

Bi Yue thought she could undergo dialysis, but she didn't expect that this was only in the 1980s.

Moreover, in the era when dialysis was truly possible, uremia was a disease that many families in later generations could not afford to treat.

Not to mention the Bi family, even though they already have three thousand yuan!

Going to the county to see a doctor, I hired a bullock cart, but what about going to the city? The truth is, it’s not even convenient for my grandfather to travel...

The doctor sighed unconsciously. He had a good temper. If it were a doctor with an "occupational disease", he would at least frown at Bi Yue's attitude.

"The patient's other conditions are very poor. If you are worried..." He paused, took a quick look at the Bi family's clothing, and realized that they were just ordinary farmers.

"I'm suggesting that there's no need to bother going to the city hospital. Given the patient's condition, he can't take a car. Your family should consider this."

There was no time for everyone to calm down. Bi Yue heard her aunt immediately covering her mouth and crying in front of the doctor.

She stood there at a loss, not knowing how to react.

Bi Tiegang lowered his head out of habit again, with his hand on his lame leg, and suppressed sobs came out from his chest.

Bi Yue tilted her head and caught the moment when her father's tears hit the concrete floor, and then she also shed tears.

Liu Yafang stood there in a daze. Half a year? At most half a year?

If she were to speak from the heart, wouldn't she breathe a sigh of relief when she heard the word "half a year"?

In the past two years, I have been washing the mattress for my father-in-law to use for urine and feces. No matter it is the coldest time of the year or any other time, there are always sheets or mattresses hanging out to dry at the head of the kang!

The medicine that the old man takes, the painkillers, are very expensive. She only takes painkillers when she has a cold or fever, but she has to bear the pain and buy those medicines for the old man!

She endured so much that her daughter and son had to use the subsidies from the university to buy medicine, and they were reluctant to eat enough. They became so thin, just because there was a "medicine jar" sleeping on the kang at home!

She still wants to live, and wants to struggle for a few more years. If it weren't for her eldest daughter and eldest son bringing back some money, she would have almost died. She has had enough of their service!

She had a lot to complain about, all sorts of big and small things at home, she didn't know where to start.

Can……

Liu Yafang didn't feel happy at all at this moment.

It turned out that after I went to the hospital and found out and confirmed that I would have to take care of the old man for another half a year, I was not looking forward to it, but reminding myself that there were only a few days left, really only a few days left, and I should treat him well.

It’s unacceptable that when Tiegang is not at home and goes out to work, she won’t talk to the old man for a whole day. Sometimes she is actually quite conscienceless!

Liu Yafang's eyes were filled with tears, but she held them back, listening to her husband's sobs. She didn't move forward, but just leaned against the wall in a daze. Her cheeks were sunken, and her black hair couldn't hide the white hair...

The doctor sighed helplessly at the family. The patient was still waiting there, but they just stood in his office and started crying.

Bi Yue turned her head. It was she who suggested that her father, her aunt, and even Bi Cheng should not show any expression that something bad was about to happen.

But when they really reached the door of the temporary ward, seeing her aunt suddenly couldn't help but turn around and run away, her father rubbed his face vigorously with both hands, over and over again, as if adjusting his expression.

At this moment, Bi Yue couldn't help it, and her expression looked even more fragile than Bi Cheng's.

This kind of atmosphere, that kind of diagnosis...

Bi Yue persuaded herself in her heart, but she didn't even know whether it was true or not:

"We haven't been together for a few days, why are you crying? We've just met a few times..." and so on, but she followed Bi Jinzhi's footsteps and ran away with her mouth covered.

——

Brother Wang Er waved his whip, turned his head to glance at Bi Tiegang's expression, turned back to glance at the old man on the ox cart, and asked in a low voice: "What did he say?" His expression looked okay, but his intuition told him that something was wrong!

Bi Tiegang pretended to be okay, but only he knew it. The smile on his face was a little stiff. "It's okay. Cooperate well and take medicine. Take more medicine!"

Old man Bi Fu lay there, raising his eyelids. He understood better than anyone else. He didn't look for anyone, but suddenly waved to Bi Yue.

"Grandpa? Are you feeling uncomfortable? What about? What about?" Bi Yue wanted to find a place to stay for the night. Even a good person couldn't stand traveling back and forth like this.

Bi Fu waved his hand hurriedly, a smile on his face:

"Granddaughter, we've already arrived in the county town. Go tell your second brother to pull over so he can buy two pounds of sugar for grandpa. Grandpa hasn't had enough of those sugar-cooked sand apples, so he's eaten some..." I thought for a moment:

"Once. After that, your grandma wouldn't even add sugar."

The truth was finally revealed. Bi Yue scratched her nose and lowered her head to cover it up. Tears fell on her pants, and her grandfather Bi Fu pretended not to see it.

——

Plans don’t change as quickly as things do, so sometimes it’s better not to have any plans.

Bi Yue rented a storefront in Kyoto and did not give up the lease at that time because she wanted to leave a way out for herself. In case the international train trip failed, she could come back and continue selling fried dough sticks and fried dough twists.

It can be seen that she was actually confused at that time.

Later, when she came back, she wanted to go back early and not stay in her hometown, as it would be easy to be exposed.

Now it is Bi Tiegang who is chasing them away, and Bi Yue is postponing it.

Summer vacation is very short. It took me half a month to sell goods, and I really can’t stay at home for two days.

Bi Yue was carrying a basket on her arm, and Bi Cheng was holding "gold ingots" (a kind of paper money) in his hand. The two were climbing the back mountain of Zhaojiatun.

Before school started, they had to visit their grandmother's grave and burn some paper. In their grandfather's words, "Mumble about good things so she can feel at ease. Otherwise, she'll just be worried about how poor our family is and how little we can eat."

Bi Yue knelt in front of her grandmother's grave. Bi Cheng started crying as she talked about her grandfather. She kept mumbling while burning paper money, and she was talking to her grandmother in her heart:

"Do you know that I'm not Bi Yue? But I don't feel anything strange at all.

I'm not afraid of your sharp eyes discovering it, and I'm not afraid of you sending me a message in my dreams. When I look at your grave, grandma, I don't know why, but my heart is filled with regret.

Alas! We have never met.

Maybe, it is God's will that I am not afraid of anything and can't remember anything.

God has given me the freedom to let go and do something great.

You and the real Bi Yue are both very confident in me, right? You know that I am a good granddaughter, a good Bi Yue.

I will, I will try my best to do everything except grandpa..."

The frail girl knelt before the grave and kowtowed respectfully several times. When she looked up again, she could vaguely see three large blisters at the corners of her mouth. (To be continued.)

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