There were few passengers on the late night train and it was very quiet. Yao Jingjing sat against the window, watching the light rapidly recede from the window, and her heart plunged into the darkness ahead with the train.
Darkness doesn't mean the unknown. It's just a journey to another brightly lit city.
Yao Jingjing just goes back to visit her mother. The day after tomorrow, she will come back to work and continue to face every passenger boarding with a standard smile. But she felt that she was saying goodbye to a certain kind of life, and the days might not change, but from now on, she would have to give up some long-term things and compromise with others.
The road from Chuncheng to Cuan Prefecture is not far. It takes less than an hour by high-speed railway and two hours by ordinary air-conditioned car. However, Yao Jingjing has been sitting in a car for half a century. When she came out of cuanzhou station and smelled the familiar fog in her hometown late at night, she should be excited about going home, but suddenly felt that her legs were filled with lead and her feet were very heavy.
The very bright square light in front of her dragged her and the suitcase in her hand out a long shadow behind her.
After the spring city incident, she dared not call online car hailing, and the subway in Cuan Prefecture was silent after several years of high-profile planning. She simply took the box and walked slowly along the familiar road. Although it was a late night with few pedestrians, it was safer than sitting in a stranger's car.
In addition, her slow pace is more like a futile struggle, like a leaf struggling in the wind. No matter how much wind blows, she will inevitably fall into dust.
At dawn, Yao Jingjing came to the hospital. Her mother was ill again and was hospitalized, otherwise she wouldn't be in a hurry to come back. She looked at the time. Although her parents are used to getting up early, it's too early to go up at this time, and it's not time for the inpatient department to visit.
Yao Jingjing thought and sat down on the bench in the hospital. She was ready to go upstairs when it was completely dawn. She didn't notice that two sneaky people followed her all the way from the railway station to here.
"Hey, I said, is it this girl?"
"Yes, the train number given by brother Bazhi can't be wrong, and the people and photos are also right."
"I hear she's still a stewardess?"
"It should be right. You see, she looks no worse than the host of our TV station."
"Hey, if I can taste it, it's worth three years!"
"Don't think about it. I heard it was ordered by brother Bazhi's boss. Be careful that brother Bazhi peeled your skin!"
"Who is the boss of brother Bazhi?"
"I don't know!"
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It was finally dawn. The nurse and the accompanying family members came out of the building and went to the canteen for breakfast. Yao Jingjing got up and entered the inpatient building.
Yao's mother, who was wearing a sick man's suit, looked good. Seeing her daughter, she was even more happy. But she scolded: "didn't you say you came back yesterday? Why did you arrive this morning? Tell her mother, did you go on a date yesterday?"
"Mom!..." Yao Jingjing called home after the ticket change, but didn't say he would be back in the middle of the night in order not to worry them.
Father Yao said, "Oh, look at you. Your daughter has just come back and hasn't eaten breakfast yet. You just ask what object is not an object!"
Mother Yao said, "breakfast is to eat, and the object is to talk about! How many days can I live like this? If I don't hurry up, don't say grandson, I'm afraid I don't even know what my son-in-law looks like in my life!"
"Mom... What are you talking about?" Yao Jingjing's nose was sour and hugged her mother. "You live a long life! Don't mention your son-in-law's grandson, you can even see your great grandson!"
Mother Yao smiled and said, "don't comfort me. I don't know about my disease? I can tell you that you must go on a blind date today!"
Yao Jingjing said, "Mom, I want to take you to the capital. Someone in my unit introduced me to a doctor in the capital. It's very powerful."
Yao's father also said, "yes, the medical level in Beijing is high. Why don't you go and have a look?"
Mother Yao said: "Chuncheng and Yangcheng have gone too. The money has been spent so much. Isn't it the same as the hospital in Cuan Prefecture? I don't believe that the doctors in Beijing are more powerful than those in Yangcheng and can produce a matched bone marrow for you? Besides, how much money has been spent for my disease? If we can do bone marrow transplantation, we can't afford it. Now the most important thing is our baby daughter's bone marrow Marriage. As long as I watch her get married, I will die in peace. "
Father Yao said, "you are too! Don't say that you can't die in front of your children. Don't give out the money. Don't we still have a house!"
Mother Yao suddenly said anxiously, "don't sell me a house! I can tell you that the house is for my daughter's marriage. She will marry in the future. If she is bullied by her mother-in-law, her mother's family doesn't even have a house. Where do you want her to go? If you dare to sell the house, even if I get well, I'll die to show you!"
"Mom! Dad!" Yao Jingjing said hurriedly when she saw that her mother was in a hurry. "You don't have to worry about money. I'll find a way."
Mother Yao said with a smile, "OK, OK, I know you are filial. Wait until you use the money. Your task now is to find the object for me."
Yao Jingjing knows that today's blind date can't escape.
When the doctor came to the ward round in the morning, he saw Yao Jingjing coming, so he asked Yao Jingjing to go to his office later. Doctors rarely take the initiative to let patients' families go to his office. Yao Jingjing is a little uneasy.
When she got to the office, the doctor said to her, "now there is good news and bad news. Which one do you want to listen to first?"
Yao Jingjing thought for a moment and said, "you'd better listen first."
The doctor said, "the good news is that your mother's bone marrow matching is successful. As long as you agree, we can be ready for surgery at any time."
"Really?" Yao Jingjing was ecstatic. This was the best news she had heard in the past year. She almost jumped up and rushed out to tell her parents the news, but she soon calmed down, "so do you mean money? How much does it cost?"
The doctor said, "in your mother's case, the total cost of surgery and later rehabilitation may be about one million. Less than one third of your mother's medical insurance can be reimbursed. You should prepare 500000 first. As soon as possible, the longer it takes, the higher the cost may be. However, the bad news I want to tell you today is not a matter of money."
"Ah?" Yao Jingjing exclaimed in surprise, "what's that?"
The doctor said, "well, when we examined your mother two weeks ago, we found some strange lesions in her brain. At first, we suspected encephalitis and asked a neurologist for a consultation. Now the basic results come out."
"What is it?" Yao Jingjing asked.
"We can't judge what it is. I can only describe the symptoms to you." the doctor said, "there is fibrosis and necrosis in your mother's gray matter layer, which is commonly referred to as the cerebral cortex. Although the necrosis area is small at present, it tends to expand gradually."
Yao Jingjing asked, "what do you mean? Does this have anything to do with leukemia?"
The doctor shook his head and said, "leukemia may cause lesions in the central nervous system and cerebrospinal fluid, which we call brain white. But the symptoms are completely different from your mother, so we are not sure whether it is a complication or whether it has an impact on bone marrow transplantation."