Chapter 1, the disease of poverty
January 10, 1993.
That is, December 18, 1992 in the lunar calendar, just after Xiaohan.
In the past few days, as the cold air moved southward, the weather in Shao City suddenly turned cold. Although it was still sunny today, the bone-chilling chill was hidden in the gentle light, making it so cold that people were caught off guard.
"Half a year has passed like this, it's time to celebrate the New Year." 17-year-old Zhang Xuan got up from the hospital bed and looked out the window, feeling a little confused.
It's been half a year, half a year since Zhang Xuan was reborn with the memories of his previous life.
Half a year is neither long nor short.
However, instead of improving his life or changing the fate of his relatives and friends, Zhang Xuan instead sent himself to the town health center.
Acute enteritis, high temperature and fever, yellow watery stools more than 10 times a day, with a lot of thick foam, and a small amount of pus and blood.
I ended up going into shock!
In this day and age, in this remote and poor mountain village, fortunately, my mother was a knowledgeable and protective mother. If she had been a cold-blooded farmer in the mountains with many children, she might have died because of shock.
It’s scary to think about it!
This is not nonsense. Last month in the third delivery team next door, a 27-year-old woman gave birth to a baby. Because she couldn't bear to go to the hospital and spend the unjust money, she ended up having an accident while delivering the baby with only a pair of scissors and a kerosene lamp. She suffered from severe bleeding during labor and it was too late. By the time the ambulance arrives, the person is dead.
There was also the ninth production team. A girl had a hernia. The parents of Lao Bangzi felt that they had many children and that the family was already poor enough. They were unwilling to borrow more money to treat their younger daughter, so the girl was sterilized the day after tomorrow.
Eh! It is said that both the poor and the rich will encounter difficulties, but only poverty and illness are the most helpless difficulties.
Thinking about it, it was a bad luck. At this time in the previous life, I had never suffered such a sin. In this life, I walked through the gate of hell in a daze, which was really sad.
But compared to the gradually improving illness, there is something that worries Zhang Xuan more - the problem of money.
Yes, money!
Do not believe? Look...
Two years ago, my eldest sister, who was a tailor apprentice in Shao City, had a car accident because she ran a traffic light and the driver ran away. He faked his death for half a month and was sent to Xiangya Hospital, where he was hospitalized for more than a month. It took more than 20,000 yuan to save him.
It was more than 20,000 in 1991! Not only did this single-parent family's modest savings go out of their way, but they also owed a lot of debt.
Last summer, the second sister, who was 3 points away from the admission line for college, struggled with her mother Ruan Xiuqin to no avail because her family had no money for her to continue her studies. She silently worked in the fields for a week, but in the end she was still unwilling to surrender to her fate. He gave in and actually instigated a male high school classmate to run away.
Ran!
In other words, the two of them eloped.
This is urgent! The two families searched hard, and finally all the clues showed that the two bastards went to the Shanghai stock market.
I don’t know if it was really a trip to the Shanghai Stock Exchange or a smoke bomb, but it made both families very angry.
You know, that boy was an only child, and his parents were local primary school teachers, but he was abducted by a beautiful female classmate.
Fly! Manzai, who had been caring for him for more than ten years, left a letter and flew away with his female classmate. The family couldn't believe it.
Do you think people are angry?
Of course I'm angry.
The old couple were still hoping that this precious baby would be able to honor their ancestors and provide for them until the end of their lives. As a result, there was no news for more than a year.
Based on his past life memories, Zhang Xuan knew that it would take several years to wait for these two things to show up automatically...
But he felt that this was a blessing in misfortune. These days, there are many girls who practice "go their own way and let others take the lead", and then they become Dongguan girls as they go.
Fortunately, the second sister went to the Shanghai stock market.
Having said that, when this kind of nonsense happened, not only the boy's family was so angry that they vomited blood, but his mother Ruan Xiuqin was also having a hard time. She lay awake every night, filled with regrets, and secretly wiped away tears.
No, after more than half a year of guilt and self-torture, Ruan Xiuqin also succeeded in breaking down her own body.
Laboratory tests revealed that a benign tumor appeared in the abdomen. According to the doctor's advice, surgery was necessary to remove it.
At that time, Ruan Xiuqin asked the doctor, "How much does the surgery cost?"
The doctor made a rough calculation and said: "The location of the tumor is a bit complicated. From pre-operative preparation to post-operative recovery, recovery will cost about 2,000 to 3,000 yuan."
Upon hearing that so much money was required, Ruan Xiuqin backed down on the spot. Later, it was only after my aunt's earnest persuasion and my eldest sister's desperate pleas that I borrowed money and went to the hospital again.
And Zhang Xuan accidentally contracted acute enteritis after the winter vacation. He was busy running between home and the hospital.
So this time more than a thousand were gone.
In fact, this is still his life. There was no specific medicine for severe acute enteritis in the small town health center. His classmate Du Shuangling's sister was a doctor at Xiangya Hospital and urgently brought back several boxes of Western medicine imported from Germany.
Although this imported medicine is a bit expensive, it is really effective. After three bottles of intravenous injection, Zhang Xuan, who was in a daze, not only regained consciousness, but the high fever that the local doctors were helpless to do anything about also subsided.
Tens of thousands, thousands, and more than a thousand... Thinking of his family's high debt, Zhang Xuan in front of the window touched his eyebrows and felt a pain in his head.
He knew that if it weren't for his aunt Zhang Ru, the backbone of his family, their family would have fallen apart long ago.
But Zhang Ru also has her own difficulties. She is over 60 years old. She and her husband could have taken good care of themselves after retiring from the train station, but they encountered a wave of layoffs that had never happened in a century.
Yunhua Fugui has not yet seen the four sons named "Yunhua Fugui". Instead, three of his sons were laid off from public institutions. Only the boss, Yang Yun, is still struggling as a small leader at Shaoshi Railway Station.
The four "Yunhua Fugui" are all middle-aged and raising a family. Zhang Xuan knew that his aunt's family could squeeze out more than 10,000 yuan for free to help Ruan Xiuqin, so he did his last best.
In fact, Zhang Xuan also has an uncle who is currently working at Shencheng Customs.
Due to the special period, Ruan Xiuqin, who was born in an intellectual family in the city, was in decline. After learning that her parents died unexpectedly in the countryside of a neighboring province, Ruan Xiuqin responded to the policy at that time and married a young man in the countryside. The only condition he proposed was to Live with your brother.
And that young man from the countryside, Zhang Xuan's late father, when he saw that the extremely beautiful Phoenix in distress was willing to marry him, not to mention raise a younger brother, even if he raised a bunch of younger brothers, he agreed naively.
It stands to reason that his uncle was raised by his mother, and she gave him the education. With such a connection, Zhang Xuan had not thought of asking him for further help.
But the human world is not a pure land, and everyone has his or her own suffering.
Zhang Xuan, who has lived in two generations, knows that every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite. What's more, for the sake of his own future, this uncle married a city man for the second time. The family status was already higher than the male. After giving Ruan Xiuqin a total of 2,000 yuan, he was helpless later.
"Zhang Xuan, your letter!"
Just when Zhang Xuan was in a daze, the ward door suddenly opened from the outside.
I saw a sweaty postman carrying a military green crossbody bag, and enthusiastically handed him a mailbag, which should contain books and newspapers.
Immediately afterwards, the young postman took out two more remittance orders and gave them to Zhang Xuan. The first remittance order showed an amount of 20 yuan; the second one showed a larger amount, a full 583 yuan.
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