A life of financial freedom

In the next few days, apart from going home to get some clothes to change and feeding Lily, Chu Fang accompanied Zhong Tingyue almost 24 hours a day, checking, treating, seeing a doctor, taking medicine...

Under his careful care, Zhong Tingyue recovered quite quickly. She originally planned to stay in the hospital for a week, but after the medical team's study, it was decided to be discharged one day earlier.

"Wuhu~~~"

"Take off!"

In the ward, Zhong Tingyue was very happy. She finally left the hospital and returned to the free world.

"Can you be more careful?" Chu Fang was helpless.

"No."

"..."

Chu Fang was too lazy to pay attention to this girlfriend who was already crazy: "I'll go downstairs to pay the fee, you can rest for a while."

Seeing Zhong Tingyue making an OK gesture, he immediately left the ward. The nurse took him to the VIP payment counter of the hospital. He handed the bank card to the cashier and swiped it lightly.

In Sichuan dialect, it means: Oh, nearly six million is gone.

A small appendicitis cost nearly six million, but he didn't feel it was a loss, and it was one of the few most meaningful large-scale purchases in his life.

Compared with Zhong Tingyue's life, a few million is nothing.

After swiping the card, Chu Fang was about to go upstairs, subconsciously glanced at the next corner, and suddenly stopped.

I saw a middle-aged man sitting on a chair in the corner, wearing a straight suit, his shoulders trembling slightly, as if carrying unspeakable pain, and tears fell quietly on the face that had been hardened by the years.

The middle-aged man was crying.

Chu Fang asked the nurse for a pack of tissues, then walked up to her, walked in front of her, and handed the tissues to her.

"Thank... Thank you." The middle-aged man spoke intermittently, trying to suppress the sadness in his heart, but tears still flowed from his eyes.

Chu Fang didn't say anything, but pulled out tissues one by one and handed them to the other party.

Maybe he was tired of crying, or maybe he vented the pain in his heart, the middle-aged man stopped crying, but he was still extremely sad.

"Thank you." The middle-aged man tried his best to calm down.

"It's okay." Chu Fang said, "Can you tell me what's going on?"

"Sorry."

"It's better to say it out loud than to keep it in your heart."

The middle-aged man took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled, saying only two words: "It's so hard."

Chu Fang didn't say anything. The middle-aged man said after a long time: "I have exhausted all my strength, why am I still so powerless? Why is life so difficult? Why can't I see any hope? My only father gave birth to me and raised me with great difficulty. I made him worry so much, but in his old age, I can't repay him, and I can't even save him..."

"What's the meaning of my life as a son? Raising a son to take care of you in your old age, he can raise me, but I can't prevent him from getting old. It's ridiculous!"

As he spoke, the middle-aged man seemed to break down again, tears flowed down again, accompanied by sobs.

Chu Fang pulled the tissue and whispered: "Raising a son to provide for old age is essentially a transaction. You define the relationship between you and your father as a transaction. If he hears it, he will be very sad. He raised you not for old age, but to see the beauty of the world. I hope you can also see the beauty of the world."

"People will die eventually. No matter how rich or powerful they are, they will die. No one can escape this fate. You just need to do your best..."

The middle-aged man raised his head: "Thank you."

The middle-aged man strode away, and Chu Fang looked at his back and whispered: "You're welcome."

Chu Fang also went upstairs, and soon he went downstairs with Zhong Tingyue. When they walked to the nursing home, they saw the old couple at a glance.

In the past few days in the hospital, the biggest gain for Chu Fang and Zhong Tingyue was to get to know the old couple. The two couples of different ages could actually chat together and have similar values.

This is very rare.

They were ready to leave the hospital and say goodbye to the two elders.

The old couple was very happy to see them, still with a bright smile, as if they had never seen any other expression on their faces since they met. They waved their hands: "Xiao Chu, Xiao Zhong, you two are here."

"Yes." Zhong Tingyue walked in front of them, "Grandma Liu, Grandpa Chen, we are ready to leave the hospital."

"Okay, okay." Mrs. Liu nodded happily, "It's not good to stay in the hospital all the time, the smell of medicine is everywhere."

Grandpa Chen also nodded: "I'm really happy to meet you these days. I can make friends with you before I step into the coffin. It's worth it for me to die."

"Hi, don't say these things, didn't you say that you want to live a long life. "Chu Fang said, "By the way, let's add each other's contact information."

The two elders looked at each other, Grandpa Chen sighed and shook his head: "Forget it, why do we have to know each other when we meet."

Zhong Tingyue wanted to speak, Chu Fang held her back and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

"By the way, wait for me for a while." The old lady slapped her head, as if she had thought of something, left the old man behind, and hurried into the hospital, leaving the three people confused. After a while, the old lady came up with a black plastic bag, handed it to Chu Fang, and said:

"That night, you said that the candy was very sweet. It was the farm candy made in our hometown. It couldn't be bought in the Magic City, so I asked someone to buy some and gave it to you."

"Grandma Chen, we..."

Chu Fang interrupted Zhong Tingyue, took the black bag, and said with a smile: "Grandma Chen, I'll take it then. "

Grandma Chen smiled: "Okay, I like Xiao Chu's personality."

Chu Fang and Zhong Tingyue chatted with the two elders for a while, and the sun set in the blink of an eye. The two elders urged them to leave reluctantly: "Hurry up and pack up and get ready to leave, it's getting late."

Looking at the direction where the two figures disappeared, the two elders looked for a long time, as if they were in a daze, and only heard the old man's deep voice: "They are discharged from the hospital, and I should be discharged too."

Grandma Chen was silent for more than ten seconds, and her bright face finally showed pain, as if she was struggling with something, but finally replied in a mosquito-like voice: "Okay."

The old lady seemed to have aged a lot, and slowly pushed the old man to the ward.

Back to the ward, seeing his son, daughter-in-law, and grandson in the room, the two cheered up.

"Mom and Dad."

"Grandpa and Grandma."

"Yangyang is so good. "The three of them greeted them. The old man pinched his grandson's cheek, his eyes were a little red, and he said slowly: "I have decided to leave the hospital."

"Dad!" The son's voice was particularly loud.

The daughter-in-law also said: "Dad, we have money and can treat your illness."

"I have decided." The old man's words were very light, but with an unquestionable tone, as if he sensed the sad atmosphere in the ward, and his mood was like a knife, but he calmed down his turbulent mood with great perseverance and said:

"Where did the money come from? Mortgage the house? Sell the car? Borrow money? It may not be enough to raise enough money for treatment, just for my old life? Your family doesn't want it? In the next few decades, I will be in debt. What about Yangyang's studies? I am just one person who has implicated two generations of you? "

"I don't want my face anymore? ! ”

The old man’s tone calmed down: “Even if I am cured, I am already this old, with a lot of diseases, how many days can I live? I want to go home and spend a few days with your mother in peace.”

“Mom!” The son’s tears flowed down, and he asked his mother for help, hoping that his mother would persuade his father.

The old lady wiped her eyes with a handkerchief: “Listen to your father.”

She has been the master of the family all her life, and today the decision is left to her husband.