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"Discharged?" Mai Mai opened her eyes wide, "Doctor, how can my grandma be discharged from the hospital? She is still ill!"

"Don't worry, listen to me." The doctor gestured patiently, "The old man's condition is very good, it should be said, even beyond our expectations, because it is generally difficult for the old man to eat The toss of chemotherapy. We checked the old man yesterday, and the tumor has shrunk, which is very good. The old man mentioned to us that he wants to be discharged from the hospital and go home..."

"How can I get out of the hospital?" Maimai became anxious when he heard that, and grandma just wanted to save him money, "Doctor, last time you said to prepare 10 yuan, I have already prepared it, really, I won't Arrears of medical bills."

The doctor shook his hand and interrupted him: "Listen to me. I understand the old man's feelings very well. To be honest, if you are rich, hospitalization is only good for us, right? But the old man also told us about your situation. After that, it's really difficult -- listen to me, if the old man's physical condition is not good, then I can't let her out of the hospital anyway, but at this age, it is already unexpectedly good Yes, even if you are hospitalized, it may not be better. You must know that chemotherapy can kill cancer cells, but benign cells are also killed very badly, so my personal opinion, since the recovery is good, you might as well switch to traditional Chinese medicine Control. I have a friend who is doing research on Chinese medicine to treat cancer. I suggest you take the elderly to try it. Hospital beds are relatively tight. A few days ago, the elderly needed to be treated. I can get a bed. Now the situation has improved. , this bed will be given over to someone who needs it more, what do you think?"

Mai Mai was dubious: "Is my grandma really okay?"

The doctor laughed: "How could I lie to you? The effect of chemotherapy is very good. Everyone said that they have never seen such a thing, even young people in their twenties, and they have never seen it so fast. We estimate that it may be because of the old man. Originally, he was in good physical condition, he was optimistic, he was in a good mood, and he probably seldom took medicine for illness, so he was particularly sensitive to medicine and it was more effective.” He patted Mai Mai on the shoulder, “Young man, you are very filial, if I I am so happy to have a son like you. Your grandma is blessed, and God will bless her. You should go to the hospital as soon as possible. This is my friend’s business card. If you want, you can call him and say it’s me. Introduced you."

Mai Mai walked towards the ward with her head down.The doctor was telling the truth, he knew it.The company's layoff list came down yesterday, and sure enough, all the new employees who joined the company were laid off, and he was no exception.The company is not bad, and I paid three months' salary. If I save some money, I can support it for a period of time.If grandma is discharged from the hospital, she can save a lot of daily expenses, but thinking that grandma asked to be discharged to save money for him, Mai Mai feels sore.

"Brother Chun?" Grandma seemed to be in good spirits, sitting on the head of the bed, and stretched out her hand to caress Maimai's hand, "The doctor said that grandma is in good condition and can be discharged from the hospital. Although the hospital is good, but Living here is uncomfortable, grandma wants to go back and live with you, okay?"

Mai Mai nodded and sniffled: "I will go through the discharge procedures tomorrow. What do you want to eat, grandma? I will buy it for you."

Grandma laughed: "Well, you have bought a lot of things these days, and grandma can't eat at all, so don't waste money anymore." She paused, and tightened Maimai's hand, "Brother Chun, what happened? Something wrong? Tell grandma."

"It's nothing, Grandma, it's really not—"

"What can't you tell grandma? What are you afraid of? Afraid that grandma will save you money? Tell grandma, is the money not enough? Grandma said earlier that she sold the house in her hometown, and grandma lived with you in the city. Don't you want grandma?"

"Grandma, the house cannot be sold!"

"Then tell grandma, what happened? At most, you have no money. Has grandma never been poor? Tell me."

Mai Mai lowered her head: "Grandma, I lost my job today. The financial crisis has caused the company's business to shrink, and all new employees have been laid off. However, the company has still paid three months' wages, and now I still have money to use."

"What...gold...machine?"

"It's just that everyone is in a downturn, and there is nothing to do."

"Oh, so what are you going to do?"

"I'm still doing that job at night, and I'm going out to look for a job these days."

"Hey, that's right." Grandma patted his hand, "Brother Chun, this person can't just follow the rules all the time. If you can endure difficult times, you will live a better life later. You are like your mother." , can enjoy good fortune, but also can endure hardship. When your grandfather’s factory burned down like that, she insisted on paying everyone’s wages before closing. That’s a really responsible person. Don’t learn from your worthless father. If something happens, it will be a bear."

Mai Mai was startled: "Father? Isn't he--" Isn't he dead?

Grandma coughed, and lightly rubbed the scar on Mai Mai's palm: "Grandma is in good spirits now. After leaving the hospital, she will cook and wash your clothes for you every day. Don't worry about working outside. There is nothing you can't get through."

"Hey, I know." Mai Mai agreed, and was about to ask about his father. He always felt that grandma hadn't finished what he said just now, but at this moment, there was a commotion at the door. A middle-aged couple dragged a young girl in, and the girl struggled. Then, the doctor and nurse followed, forcibly pressing the girl to the bed, and the nurse skillfully put a hanging needle on her.The girl seemed to be tired after tossing around for a while, and gradually calmed down while lying on the bed.The man still held the girl's shoulders tightly with both hands, as if he was afraid that she would run away, and the woman sat down on the bed and began to wipe her tears.

"What is this for? Why are you forced to get an injection?" Mai Mai was a little surprised.

Grandma took a look and hissed: "That girl, she came in yesterday. She said she had a disease that she didn't like to eat, and she wanted to lose some weight. She ran away when she was told to eat. The family had no choice but to send her to the hospital. .”

"... anorexia?"

"Oh yes, it's this anorexia. Why don't young people eat well now? It's because they haven't been hungry before."

Mai Mai took a closer look at the girl. She has a slim figure and a handsome face. She is 1.7 meters tall, and the high heels on her feet are still ten centimeters away.A tight black sweater, a short A-line skirt, huge hoop earrings on her ears, and a red fur glove on her left hand ingeniously: "Grandma, she must be a model or a host or something, why not?" In their line of work, they have to keep in shape, lose weight if they are fatter, and be very careful about what they eat.”

"Then I have to eat. Besides, how is she fat? What can I lose?" Grandma couldn't understand, "It looks so skinny, what a beautiful girl, so hungry, who's parents Don't you feel bad?"

Mai Mai was a little funny: "Grandma, you don't understand, that's skinny."

Grandma was surprised: "Bone...feeling? What is skinny feeling? Bones also have a feeling? If you don't eat, your bones will feel it? Then--what's the use?"

Mai Mai laughed and lay down beside the bed: "No grandma, you made all mistakes, forget it, I will explain it to you in the future."

Grandma was not at ease: "Brother Chun, are you anorexic too?"

"Grandma who doesn't know, I can eat well. Besides, her anorexia is not a normal weight loss. It is a psychological problem that needs to be treated. I am not sick, so how can I be anorexic?"

"That's good." The grandma looked at the wheat up and down uncomfortably, and didn't feel relieved until she was sure that her grandson was not skinny.

Mai Mai looked at his watch, it was already noon: "Grandma, what do you want to eat, I'll go out and buy it."

At this time, people in the ward were also preparing to have lunch. The woman who had been sitting on the bedside of her daughter wiping her tears lowered her head and asked carefully in her daughter's ear, "Tingting, can mom buy you some milk?"

Just after asking this question, the girl suddenly turned upside down and screamed, "I said I don't want to eat it, I don't want to eat it! What kind of milk, I don't want it, don't you don't want it, did you hear me! Rice rotten Xilu! I want rice rot Xilu!" No one could understand what she was shouting, the father next to her didn't press down, she pulled out the hanging needle on the back of her hand back, the needle was trembling with blood hanging at the end of the plastic tube, frightened Her mother cried out.

There was a mess in the ward, and the person next to the bed came to help pull the girl.I don't know where she got so much strength, two or three women couldn't hold her, and finally it was her father who pushed her back to the hospital bed.Mai Mai was a man, so of course it was not easy to press him, so he ran out and called doctors and nurses.The girl was still screaming, kicking and kicking, the doctor frowned, turned around and asked the nurse to get a sedative, and the girl fell asleep.Mai Mai stood beside her, and saw the girl's sweater sleeves pulled up, and the red fur gloves, which were made of unknown material, stretched to her elbows, and were tightly attached to the skin, and she couldn't pull them off with such a mess.

Seeing that the girl was asleep, the doctor frowned and said to her parents: "The patient's mood is very unstable now. Anorexia is not only a physical problem, but more of a psychological problem. In my opinion, you'd better go to the psychology department. Treat."

The girl's mother began to cry again, and the man motioned her to watch her daughter, and followed the doctor out.Everyone in the ward looked at the woman with sympathetic eyes. Several women said a few words to comfort her, and then talked about their little understanding of anorexia.It's a pity that these sporadic fragments only made the girl's mother even more frightened. In the end, she covered her face and burst into tears, making the ward messy.

Mai Mai looked at the sleeping girl lying on the hospital bed.He had read about anorexia in newspapers. Some foreign model suffered from this disease. She was so skinny that she was a skinny skeleton. It was horrible and pathetic, and she died in the end.He shuddered a little at the thought that the young and beautiful girl in front of him might become like that in the future.Suddenly, his gaze fell on the long red glove the girl was wearing. For a moment, he seemed to see the glove move, slightly arched like a worm crawling under the fur, but He looked carefully again, and the gloves were still pressed tightly against her skin, without any movement.

Mai Mai rubbed her eyes, suspecting that her eyes were blurred from too little sleep in the past two days, how could the gloves move?However, he was sure that his eyesight was fine. At that moment, the glove did indeed move.But he couldn't go over and take off his gloves to have a look, even if he had doubts, he could only hide them in his heart.

It is not very troublesome to go through the discharge procedures. The most important thing is to pay off the medical expenses.Mai Mai bought a meal to eat with grandma, so she tossed about upstairs and downstairs, and at four o'clock, everything was finally done.Mai specially went to say hello to the attending doctor. The doctor was very busy and asked him to come back tomorrow and take him to ask about the Chinese medicine to cure cancer. So the grandparents and grandson took a taxi, bid farewell to the doctor and went home .

As soon as he entered the door, Shao Jing was eating at the table, seeing the old man stand up and say hello, and even took the things from Mai Mai's hand, it was beyond Xiaomai's expectation.Arranging grandma to lie down and rest, Mai Mai came out and saw that the contents of Shao Jing's bowl were batter but not like batter, mixed with some green vegetables, leaves and radish shreds, it was almost impossible to tell: "What is this?"

"Noodles." Shao Jing replied flatly.

"Noodles?" Mai Mai couldn't believe it, "Why are the noodles like this?" It's like pig food.

Shao Jing was silent for a while: "...it's overcooked."

Mai Mai burst out laughing, and took Shao Jing's bowl: "Don't eat this food, why don't you order takeaway if you don't know how to cook?" Isn't it rich?

Shao Jing didn't have much appetite for the unrecognizable things, let Mai take away his bowl, raised his hand to press his temples, and said after a long time: "I'm tired of eating outside."

Mai Mai walked into the kitchen, started the fire and served noodles, and couldn't help but say, "Tired of all the good things?" It's really rich to cook. Instead of eating abalone and sea cucumber, come to eat pig food.

For the first time, Shao Jing neither answered nor got angry, just sat there with his head on his hands.Mai Mai stretched out her head to look at him, and was a little worried again: "What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." Shao Jing put down his hands, but his face was a little gloomy.He looked at the wall, but Xiaomai felt that his eyes seemed to pass through the wall, looking at a far away place, his expression seemed to be remembering something.The room was quiet, only the sound of noodles being turned in the pot.

Wheat tore a few small pieces of dried seaweed, added some dried seaweed, and added frangipane flowers, and the fragrance came out.He put the steaming noodles on the table, and added a plate of small pickles that he pickled: "How about a taste?"

Shao Jing flipped the noodles with chopsticks, and smiled: "You are good at cooking." Since he rented the house, it was the first time Xiaomai saw him smile, but there was no joy in this smile. But it was uglier than crying.Looking at him, Mai Mai suddenly felt that he understood why he ate noodles boiled into pig food alone in the house—no matter how fancy the food outside was, it always lacked the intimacy of home-cooked food.

"You--" Scratching his head, Maimai swallowed back the words he almost said.Shao Jing, or should I say Zhang Jingcun?In short, his family must be quite complicated. It seems that his mother has remarried?The last time I asked him whether his surname was Shao or Zhang, he turned his face. This time, don't go looking for nails by yourself.

Shao Jing is eating noodles.He ate very quickly, but he didn't make a sound, obviously because of his strict family education.The hot air from the noodles seemed to soften the hard lines on his face a little.Mai Mai took another look and felt that he was really good looking.

Shao Jing raised his head suddenly and stared at him sharply: "What are you looking at?"

"Uh--" Mai Mai rubbed his nose, "I, I think you look like a rich man, why would you come to my place to share a house?"

Shao Jing lowered his head again to pick out noodles, and after a few minutes he replied, "I'm here to find someone, it's convenient to rent a house."

Mai Mai feels that there seems to be no necessary connection between the two, saying that it is to find someone, rather to hide from them: "Oh." Just pretend to believe it.

Shao Jing looked up at him: "If you have anything to say, just say it."

Mai Mai smiled awkwardly: "It's nothing, I'm just curious, it's all your personal matter..."

"Curiosity? I'm also very strange. You're not a local, are you? You live in Binhai alone? That's your grandma? Why don't your parents ignore her when she's sick? Are there any other relatives?"

"My parents are both dead."

"……Feel sorry."

"It's nothing." Mai Mai shook her hand, "My father passed away when I was five years old, and my mother passed away six years ago. Now my grandma is my only relative. Of course I take care of her illness."

"You are very filial."

"Should be."

Shao Jing was silent again, and it took him a long time before he said to himself, "I have a grandpa."

Mai Mai nodded: "I heard from your uncle that day, is it the one who is going to have a birthday?"

Shao Jing probably hadn't talked to anyone for a long time, and he stopped talking for a long time before saying, "Yes. My father passed away too early." Uncle Wu probably knew what Shao Jing wanted to say.Obviously, Shao Jing's parents didn't love each other, or at least his mother didn't love his father, and then remarried, presumably his father didn't think so.Shao Jing obviously defended his mother, so it would be a conflict with his father's relatives, but according to him, he still respected his grandfather very much, and this was a contradiction.

"Actually, it's not that I don't want to go back on the day of the ancestor worship, it's just that I encountered some delays."

"Then why don't you explain it to your fifth uncle?"

Shao Jing smiled coldly: "It's not necessary."

Wheat thought to himself what an awkward character this is.If you don't tell me, how will others understand?It's not the roundworm in your stomach.

"Actually, I think you should explain it to your grandfather. Since your fifth uncle will come to you specially, it means that your family values ​​you very much. Don't you understand after you explain it?"

"Important..." Shao Jing repeated inexplicably, and snorted, "What they value is--" He swallowed back the second half of the sentence, quickly put the remaining noodles into his mouth, and took the bowl Walking into the kitchen, he unilaterally ended the endless conversation.