At nine o'clock in the evening, Li Laifu went out with a basket on his back, and Li Chongwen and Zhao Fang walked him to the door.
Zhao Fang kept looking at Li Laifu's back and muttered: "How come this child has grown up in a blink of an eye? This child came back today and sent his younger brother to school and bought milk powder for his younger sister. Otherwise? I will do it this afternoon." I cried a few times, now think about it? I can still cry! This child is so sensible."
Li Chongwen also looked at his son's back and said, "I can't compare to him. I smoked Chinese cigarettes for the first time in my thirties and it was given to me by my own son."
Zhao Fang asked: "Are those cigarettes from Laifu expensive?"
"Eighty cents a box, do you think it's expensive?" Li Chongwen said and turned around to go home.
"Bamao... Then stop smoking and put it away! Will you have a guest at home in the future? Or smoke before you go back to the countryside during the Chinese New Year!" As he said this, he took out the box of cigarettes from Li Chongwen's pocket.
"Oh! You are so old, why do you talk so much?" After speaking, Li Chongwen sighed and walked home with his head lowered.
After walking out of Nanluogu Alley, he found a secluded place and put the fish in the space. He had no intention of going to Pigeon Market to sell things underground.
Just after leaving Dongzhimen, suddenly... "Young man."
Li Laifu was startled, and the voice of an old lady came out in the dark.
The hair all over his body and hair stood on end. He was just about to run back. Whether he was afraid of ghosts or not was a different matter. The key was to be cautious.
Just when Li Laifu was about to run away, an old lady came out of the corner and said, "Young man, are you going to the pigeon market? I have a hen here, do you want to buy it?"
Li Laifu patted his chest and picked up the cigarette that had been frightened off the ground. He quickly took a few puffs and said, "Grandma, this person is scary. He will scare people to death."
The old lady wore an old-fashioned gown with many patches on it. This kind of gown had diagonal forks to fasten it. It is estimated that this gown is old, at least around the time of the Republic of China.
Is this old lady going to be in the middle of nowhere? Shining a light on your face can really scare people to death. Fortunately, it is next to Dongzhimen. If we walk into the wilderness again, this old lady will probably scare Li Laifu to the point of peeing.
"Grandma, there is a pigeon market right in front of you. Why don't you go? What are you selling at the gate of the city?"
The old lady hurriedly replied: "I heard someone said that you have to pay a penny to enter. We don't have a penny, so I just waited here."
Ahem!
Just as Li Laifu was about to speak, he noticed that there was a cart behind the old lady.
The old lady hurriedly turned around and ran to the cart, and Li Laifu followed her.
As I approached the cart, I heard two voices shouting: "Grandpa..."
Finally, I saw clearly an old man lying on the cart who was coughing. There was a boy standing on both sides of the cart. The girl was indeed not that old. The boy was five or six years old, right? The girl is only eleven or twelve years old, right? These days, you can’t even tell your age because you are malnourished.
"Old man, old man," the old lady shouted while holding a chicken in her arms.
Seeing that the old man was almost out of breath, Li Laifu hurriedly said: "Grandma, it's better to send her to the hospital quickly!"
The old lady turned around quickly and said, "Young man, did you buy this hen? Why don't you buy the hen? We don't have money to go to the hospital..."
"I bought it! Grandma, can you tell me how much it costs?"
The old lady was so anxious that she almost burst into tears and said, "Six yuan? If you don't have that much money, five yuan will do."
Li Laifu took out six yuan and said, "I have it! You go to the hospital quickly!"
The old lady holding the hen in Li Laifu's arms took the money, put it in her arms, quickly pushed down the cart and pulled it forward, with two children pushing behind, and the cart made a creaking sound as it pressed against the road.
Looking at the few people struggling to walk, alas!
Li Laifu no longer hesitated and said: "Grandma, please help me hold the chicken, and I will help you pull the car! This way we can get to the hospital faster."
"Thank you! Thank you!" the old lady thanked her.
Li Laifu was a young man after all, so he walked very quickly. The old lady trotted away holding the hen in her arms.
After running for half an hour, Li Laifu also slowed down. It was not that he was not physically strong, but the key was that the broken wooden wheel was really heavy.
The old lady hugged the hen and said, "Are you tired, young man? Do you want to rest for a while and I'll take care of it?"
"It's okay, it's okay. Even if I walk slower, I can still walk faster than you. Why didn't your village send someone to see you off?" Li Laifu was surprised. It is normal for people in the village to help each other these days, unless they are like a fan. The Jia Zhang family written in the novel? Need food in difficult times? Want meat? The kind of person who scolds his ancestors for eight generations and robs the property if he doesn't give it to him has no one to help him, haha!
The old lady followed the wheel and said: "Our old man coughs whenever he gets sick, and everyone in the village is afraid."
The old lady then said, "Don't be afraid, young man. We saw the doctor last year and the doctor said it was caused by fatigue."
"Auntie, I'm not afraid, I'm in good health," Li Laifu said.
Li Laifu continued chatting, his hands were shaking a little now, and he said, "The doctor said he was tired, so why didn't he let grandpa rest?"
The old lady sighed and said: "I also want to let him rest, but our family has no choice! My son dug the reservoir in 1958 and the four of us depended on him to earn work points for food. The girl and I We can only weed and weed, and we can’t have enough to eat. This old man, if he hadn’t worked hard, all four of us would have starved to death last year. It’s not like he got sick again this year. The village helped pay for it last year. This year, the village I couldn’t open the pot anymore, and there was no meal left in the big pot, so I gave me back the hens I had raised before and asked me to sell the money for the old man’s medical treatment.”
While talking, they arrived at the Sixth Hospital of Beijing. Li Laifu simply helped others to carry the old man on his back. After working for more than an hour, he put the old man on the bed and the doctor gave him water.
Li Laifu didn't see the old lady until he was done with his work. He kept hugging the hen and never let go.
"Thank you, young man. Thank you, young man!" The old lady gave him the hen, her tone full of thanks.
Li Laifu stood by the bed, holding the hen and looking at the thin old man on the hospital bed, especially his dark and shiny hands. The old man was also suffering.
Seeing that the old lady wanted to express gratitude, Li Laifu got up and said, "Grandma, please rest for a while, I'll go smoke a cigarette."
I am going to watch it for a while. It is rare for the Gang of Good Guys to learn from Lei Feng and not give up halfway. I guess Lei Feng is not very old now? Damn it! Why did you go astray just thinking about it? Li Laifu made a rant and lit a cigarette at the entrance of the hospital.
Seeing the child who came with them looking at the cart, Li Laifu waved to him, and he ran over. Li Laifu put the hen in his arms and said: Hold it for me, this kid has a dark face. , the nose is full of snot, and the two eyes are big, this one is thin.
