I really feel bad if I don't spend money

Chapter 174

In the middle of the night in the busy city, everything seems to be asleep and silent, only the cold mechanical light illuminates the tiny corners of this urban night like a glowing elf in the dark.

Alone, on the side of the street where the evening wind is like bringing the cold winter, I walk towards the wind with stiff steps in a certain direction. Even the passing vehicles on the road seem to be so considerately caring for a person on the edge of the world because of the sparseness. people's feelings.

Zhuge Rui just bowed his head and said nothing, his limbs were stiff, and his steps were heavy. After getting off work, he still went to another very tiring place.

At this time, Zhuge Rui passed by a bus stop at the edge of the world in the middle of the night, and the empty eyes on his tired face turned to look at the seat at the bus stop, and suddenly a thought rose in his heart to sit here forever .

The bus station is just a place to wait for the bus. As long as you sit down, one or even several buses will come over in a short time. Depending on the route, the bus can take anyone to any place.But Zhuge Rui had no intention of getting on the bus, he just sat at the bus station at the edge of the world in the middle of the night, holding the idea of ​​escaping from reality and stopping there, he didn’t want to take any car, nowhere was the destination, Like the so-called bewildered.

That being the case, what about Zhuge Rui himself, who is he?

A 30-year-old game programmer, an independent game producer, just got off work from overtime to late night company, single...maybe that's how lonely he will be for the rest of his life.

If it is just such a situation, it is far from hitting a man who has survived to the age of 30 in society and can hardly withstand the winter-like evening wind.The burden of pressing the camel comes from the family. Zhuge Rui’s parents are already old. They were recently hospitalized with serious illnesses, and the large medical expenses drained the family’s savings. Zhuge Rui’s younger sister Xiaoxiang is still in her third year of high school. There is a promising university future, and no one else can support the burden of the family for Zhuge Rui alone.

There is also the last straw that broke the camel's back. The 30-year-old programmer is facing the most dangerous hurdle in the workplace.Zhuge Rui worked hard until late at night when he got off work. Suddenly, he heard his colleagues nervously discussing the company’s recent layoffs. Because the company’s recent game players have lost a lot of players, the boss blamed all employees for not working hard and the company is about to fall into a financial deficit crisis, so layoffs is the best solution.

Thinking of layoffs, Zhuge Rui's hands and feet were cold, and he was so afraid that he would be included in the list.It's useless to be afraid, this kind of certain crisis is no longer something Zhuge Rui can avoid.

The only hope I have now is that the company in the same industry will take me in in the future. No matter how hard and tiring I am, I still want to have money to treat my parents and send my sister to school.

And the biggest hope I once had, the game producer... Maybe there is some improvement in the corner of the light, but now it seems that it is meaningless to continue to regard it as hope. It is impossible for a camel crawling in the desert to find the water source of a distant oasis. Let's stop here...

Suddenly a phone ringing woke up the man who was escaping from reality sitting at the bus station. Zhuge Rui heard the familiar ringtone of his mobile phone, and immediately slapped his face immersed in it fiercely. At this moment, there is still home My parents and sister are waiting for me to go back!

But when Zhuge Rui picked up the phone and looked at it, he was surprised that the call was not from home.

"Huh? A call from a stranger, who is calling..."

……

It was still bright in the hospital late at night. It was so late that the parents in the ward could not sleep well, so they waited until their son Xiaorui came back from work in a hurry to visit them.

"Dad! Mom!" Zhuge Rui rushed to the door of the ward and ran in. Not only did he see his parents, but also his younger sister preparing for the exam by the bedside in a hurry, which made Zhuge Rui, the older brother who came here after working overtime every night, deeply moved. guilt. "Xiangxiang! Sorry, I'm late."

Zhuge Xiang turned her head to show her dissatisfaction with waiting, but it was only a momentary dissatisfaction, and the more emotion was the smile and comfort on her delicate face. "I guessed it, brother, you have worked hard."

Looking at the warm and complete family in a difficult situation, Zhuge Rui smiled with relief on his face that has been suffering all the time.Not only that, a life-saving straw untie his heart knot, he has great news to tell his parents and sister, a phone call he received on the way made him feel that the whole family has been saved!

"Rui'er, we want to be discharged from the hospital, please help us complete the discharge procedures." The elderly and seriously ill father sat on the hospital bed with a serious expression, and finally said this selfishly as if giving up.

"Dad, what are you talking about? You can't be discharged from the hospital! Your body needs to continue to be treated." Zhuge Rui also became serious immediately. He is already 30 years old. There is such a thing as sacrificing one's own health to lighten the burden on one's children.

"Rui'er, I know you are doing our best, but don't be stubborn. If this continues, I'm afraid we will sell the house." The seriously ill mother endured the pain and still treated her children with tenderness and love. One hundred people are unwilling to lose their house. "But where do you two live? How can we bear it because our children have no home to shelter from the wind and rain for the sake of medical treatment? Forget it, let's just go home and live together. You have to believe that your parents are healthy and you'll be fine... "

When the mother comforted her to the end, her tone was weak, as if she couldn't breathe, and her complexion became unwell.The husband on the side hurriedly told his wife not to speak, but his seriousness as a father continued to put pressure on his son Zhuge Rui. The decision of the couple was so helpless and cruel.

A few sobs were unbearable anymore, Zhuge Xiang wiped her eyes, her tear-stained delicate face closed her mouth and shook her head vigorously at her brother.She has long been painstakingly disciplined by her parents on the hospital bed and cannot speak out. When her brother was still working overtime late at night, she could not accept the cruelty of her parents' decision. In fact, she still cannot agree to her parents.

"Ha!" Zhuge Rui stood in front of his parents' hospital bed and smiled with his hands on his hips. There was no sense of crisis on his smiling face, but it was a reaction that his family couldn't figure out.

"Brother!" Zhuge Xiang was about to throw a tantrum, but she still couldn't promise her parents to be discharged from the hospital, so she struggled to squeeze the ballpoint pen and was very angry that her brother seemed to agree!
If you don't explain it clearly, the sister's ballpoint pen will fly and shoot through the pig's head of the stinky old man. Seeing the danger, Zhuge Rui smiled a little and told a good news that he encountered on the way.

(End of this chapter)