Chapter 158: life experience

College entrance examination, examination room.

The moment Tang Jinyu sat down, her energy was highly concentrated, with only

the test paper in her eyes, she lowered her heart to answer every question

seriously.

He completed the exam in two days smoothly.

The head teacher was worried about these top students. He called a few good

students in the class to give them a correct question. After assessing the

score, he was relieved. This time the question is relatively more difficult,

but Tang Jinyu answered a few of them. Both are good, especially for the last

two big questions. Tang Jinyu is the only one who gets them all right.

The head teacher said to him: "Relax, the grades should be good. After three

years of hard work, you can completely relax during this time and have a good

rest."

Tang Jinyu nodded, but after packing up his things and returning home, he did

not rest.

Grandpa Tang’s body weakened day by day. Tang Jinyu ended the college entrance

examination. It seemed that the string supporting the old man was stretched to

the extreme. After a silent scream, it broke apart. However, within two or

three days, the condition worsened. After a lot of trouble, I was unconscious

once.

Tang Jinyu was panicked. He stayed in the hospital with his grandfather. He

waited at the door of the treatment room. The attending doctor came out

wearing a mask and didn't talk to him. The doctor had been treating the

elderly for several years. There was really no way at the moment. Pat the boy

on the arm for comfort, "Wake up, pay more attention later, there is no other

way."

Tang Jinyu refused to let him go. She grabbed the doctor's sleeve and begged

him, "There is always medicine available? I beg you, give my grandpa some

medicine or do some other treatment... Just give up like this, please!"

The doctor said: "If I found out a few years earlier, I still have some

certainty of treatment. Now... your grandpa can last for so long, he is

already very good, stay with him more, time may be running out."

Tang Jinyu stood in a daze. It took a while before he realized the meaning of

this sentence. He closed his eyes and rolled his throat a few times to

suppress the sob.

He went to the bathroom and flushed his face with cold water for a while,

practiced the way he laughed in the mirror for a long time, felt better, then

went back to see the old man.

Grandpa Tang has been sent back to the ward. He looks tired. He has two

pillows behind him, lying there and resting with his eyes closed. Recently, he

can't lie down and feels (chest xiong) breathless as soon as he lies down. He

also refused to take oxygen all the time, and felt that it was too expensive.

In the end, he was not willing to spend more money on himself.

Tang Jinyu used to sit on a stool next to the bed and gently shook the old

man's hand, but in just one month, the old man lost a lot of weight and his

eyes were sunken and somewhat (tuo)-shaped. As soon as he reached his hand,

the old man woke up. The eyes looking at him were still peaceful and loving.

Tang Jinyu carefully held his hand on his cheek, and the old man (touched Mo)

(touched Mo) his face, smiling Said: "It’s vacation, don’t stay here all the

time, I can’t run, you go out to play with your classmates, grandpa still has

five dollars in his pocket, you can buy popsicles to eat, the weather is too

hot, don’t get heatstroke ."

Tang Jinyu shook her head and refused to go.

He stayed in the hospital to accompany his grandfather. He bought

immunoglobulin for injections for the elderly. The price of one is 1,500 yuan.

Because nutrients improve immunity, Grandpa Tang looks a little bit more

energetic. But this kind of injection is not covered by the medical insurance

reimbursement. The money they have on hand is about to bottom out. Grandpa

Tang refused to get a second injection. Tang Jinyu went out to work during the

day and came back to accompany him at night. The old man increases immunity,

so that his condition can be better.

In fact, he knew that this medicine would not cure the disease, but he just

wanted to make the elderly (body shen) physically comfortable, even if

(sleeping Shui) had a good night's sleep.

Tang Jinyu thought of many ways. He only had the money he earned when he was a

tutor. This was far from enough. He tried to contact Song Yi, who had

previously awarded him a scholarship through the school, and wanted to ask for

help, but he passed on the news layer by layer. It will take some time in the

past. His college entrance examination scores have not yet come down, and

there are few people looking for him to take over tutoring, and he has not

given up. He has interviewed wherever he can go, and even went to the piano

shop. Fortunately, he spent more than ten years solidly in the book, and his

kung fu playing the piano is not unfamiliar. After running in a few times, he

became very smooth.

The person in charge of the music store admired him very much and offered a

fairly high salary price, but he had to wait for the boss to come and then

interview and appraise him, saying that he would be informed next week.

"Don't go to other music shops during this period. You can pay you 1,000 yuan

in advance. Our boss Guo cherishes talents. Although our music shop is newly

opened, it is also the largest in the city. I can guarantee that there is

none. People will be better than the conditions we give."

Tang Jinyu accepted the money, simply signed a two-month contract, and agreed

to the other party.

He pooled up the remaining supplementary tuition in his pocket with these, and

handed them all to the hospital for the elderly.

There are still two weeks before the results are available. During this time,

Tang Jinyu found another part-time job on the construction site. Although it

is hard work, the salary is settled daily. Sometimes he can come back early in

the afternoon and he can go to the hospital. Take care of grandpa.

The old man saw that his grandson had lost weight and got tanned in the past

two days, and he was very distressed. Although Tang Jinyu said he went out to

play basketball with his classmates, but Grandpa Tang was too old to tell, it

was obviously tired.

Sometimes the old man feels distressed, so he gets down by himself and insists

on letting him (sleep in Shui) the single bed.

Tang Jinyu refused: "Grandpa, when I (shen) is in good health, you only need

to rest."

Grandpa Tang said with a stern face: "I lie down all day, and I feel

uncomfortable. Go up (sleep in Shui) for a while and let me come down and

rest."

No one can convince either of them. In the end, Grandpa Tang gave in and said,

"Then I will sit, and you will come up too, (sleeping Shui) there is my feet,

we can both lie down."

Tang Jinyu hesitated, seeing the old man about to lift the quilt down again,

and immediately lay down obediently.

He was at the construction site (dry gan) last night until more than three

o'clock in the morning, and he carried a lot of paving slabs, one weighing

twenty or thirty catties, three pieces on his shoulders, it was really hard.

The old man gave him a pillow, and Tang Jinyu stayed (sleeping Shui) shortly

after touching the pillow.

Grandpa Tang gave him (take off tuo) socks, rubbed his feet for a while, and

listened to the child (sleeping Shui) sinking, and then went down to the

hospital bed lightly and took a cup of water to give him a cup of warm water.

The old man walked slowly, holding on to the wall and walking back to the ward

little by little. As soon as he got to the door, he heard a nurse blaming

inside.

"What kind of bed are you a family member? Where is your escort? The patient

doesn't know if he is gone, you are still here huhuhu (sleeping Shui)..."

The old man heard that he was walking a few steps quickly, and when he went

in, he saw Tang Jinyu putting on shoes in a panic, with an anxious expression.

When he saw him, he didn't have time to put on his shoes. He stepped over and

took the water glass while saying: "Grandpa, You want to drink water and call

me, I'll fetch water."

The little nurse is new, and she is still angry when she sees it: "You are

taking care of this now, what did you care about (gan gan)?"

The old man looked after his grandson and was a little anxious for the first

time: "Girl, don't talk about him. My grandson is already very tired. Let him

rest. It took him a few minutes to sleep (Shui) just now."

The little nurse looked puzzled. After checking the bed and delivering the

medicine, she went back to the nurse’s station and told the head nurse about

it. She was still weird, "How strange is the grandfather of bed 5? Grandson

(sleeping in the Shui) hospital bed, too doting on the child..."

The head nurse knew a lot about the grandfather and grandson. He lowered his

voice and told her a few words without exaggerating or saying much. Just a few

words made the new nurse face (color) flushed, and then Listen, the circles

under my eyes are red.

At night, Tang Jinyu served the old man to cook a meal. After returning, she

saw two oranges in the small cabinet next to the bed.

He wondered: "Grandpa, where did the oranges come from?"

Grandpa Tang smiled and said, "The little nurse brought it here, saying that

you were violent during the day, and I will compensate you with the oranges."

Tang Jinyu thought for a while before remembering that he had forgotten this

long ago.

Grandpa Tang (body shen) is in poor health and eats very little. He ate half

of it and gave the rest to Tang Jinyu.

Tang Jinyu ate slowly. When he was young, he liked oranges the most, but he

ate very few with his grandfather. When he went there, his parents loved him

and bought more. Uncle Xia next door often prepared small oranges. Walking

over the wall, knocking on the door, the other party will carry him into the

room and reward him with a small orange.

In winter, Uncle Xia was afraid that his stomach hurts when he eats cold, so

he would put the oranges on the radiator and heat them up a little bit before

giving them to him. In fact, the oranges are not very tasty when they are

warm, and a little sour, sometimes they will There was a little bitterness,

but he never said that he ate happily every time, and the whole family saw him

happily, and they were also happy.

Tang Jinyu finished eating the last orange, was silent for a moment, got up to

clean up the orange peel (gan).

The old man coughed badly during the day and night. Tang Jinyu stopped doing

odd jobs and stayed in the hospital to take care of him.

Grandpa Tang was helped by him to feed a little water, and sat there and

sighed, "It's really useless to get old."

Tang Jinyu said, "Don't say that. I asked the doctor. Slow treatment can get

better. Now that a new medicine is released, it can be cured with a few

injections. You also got a shot before, but you can walk down two circles.

Will it be cured?" He didn't know if the last sentence was for the old man or

for himself, the words were very heavy.

Grandpa Tang laughed, nodded, and said nothing.

After a while, Grandpa Tang said again, "Everything is fine in the hospital,

except that there is no TV, Xiaoyu, why don't you go back to see for me at

night, and tell me tomorrow? I was watching one before I came to the hospital.

Well, I've been thinking about it all the time, and I can't let it go."

Tang Jinyu knew that the old man was worried that he would not have a good

rest here, and felt sorry for him and asked him to go home to rest.

He agreed, but instead of going back to rest, he bought a second-hand

smartphone. The guy who sold his phone was a boy in his class who bought

scones for Tang Jinyu before. The boy (Guanguan) department and Tang Jinyu

have been very good. After the college entrance examination, his family

rewarded a new mobile phone. He went to the store to buy a mobile phone.

Shell, just arrived at Tang Jinyu, immediately dragged him out, took out the

old phone, removed the card and handed it to him: "Squad leader, this is for

you. I just want to replace it with a new one. If you don’t dislike it, take

this. Use it!"

Tang Jinyu refused to take it for nothing. The boy just wanted it and

collected two hundred yuan.

Tang Jinyu stopped being polite with him, patted him on the arm, and said,

"Thank you." He remembers this person's goodness, and he will definitely find

a chance to return.

He took his cell phone back to the hospital and found the mediation program

online to show his grandpa. The old man had never used a smart phone. After

seeing it, he was very novel. After talking to Tang Jinyu, he saw his grandson

and found out the show he had watched half of the time. After a while, he

looked with relish.

Tang Jinyu was with him. The old man watched intermittently. His body was

easily fatigued. It took several days to watch a program.

The program this time is a family mediation. It is about a woman who was

almost beaten to death by her husband's family. The husband and the whole

family favored sons. Not only beat her, but also her daughter. A seven or

eight-year-old girl was beaten by (奶Nai)( Nai) A bowl thrown over broke his

forehead, bleeding out. This moment also made the woman sober, she decided to

no longer tolerate her children and insisted on divorcing.

The TV station who came to mediate originally thought it was just a conflict

between husband and wife. After seeing the miserable situation of the mother

and daughter, they couldn't mediate anymore and took them to a lawyer for

consultation. The husband's reluctance to forgive, a contemptuous attitude

towards the mother and daughter, and even a few insults, without regard to

family affection.

As Grandpa Tang listened, he sighed: "This person will be punished sooner or

later. He doesn't know how many people do not have children at home, how can

they be willing to attack a child... Listen, he beats a woman, it's a brute."

The old man has a bit of presbyopia and is a little tired looking at the phone

screen for a long time, so he closed his eyes and listened.

Tang Jinyu was holding her mobile phone and watching with him. Seeing that the

ending was not good, she immediately turned off the volume.

The old man asked: "Why is there no sound?"

Tang Jinyu said: "There is a problem with the battery of the phone, but there

are subtitles, grandpa, you can't read it clearly, I will read it to you."

The old man lay there, closing his eyes and listening to him carefully.

Tang Jinyu made up a particularly good ending, the kind that the old man likes

most.

In the story he told, the woman didn't suffer any loss. She took the child and

fled the house with the help of reporters and mediators, and then went to the

police station to report the case. After the injury, her husband was detained.

She finally got divorced and received a large sum of money. She took her

children to a new city and lived incognito.

The old man listened attentively and smiled and nodded, "Okay, it's time to

leave long ago. It's good to take the child away. The tree is moved to die,

and people move to live. She is so young, she hangs on a crooked neck tree.

Death is not worth it."

Tang Jinyu turned his hand off and let the old man rest for a while, "Grandpa,

I'm going to cook a meal, you rest for a while, okay if you still eat millet

porridge today?"

Grandpa Tang nodded and smiled: "Okay, I like to drink that. Go ahead."

I don’t know if I watched the TV show I’ve been worrying about, or the

medicine that I used to increase (qiang) resistance had the effect. Tonight,

the old man’s condition improved a bit. I sat there and drank a small bowl of

porridge again. I talked a lot.

Tang Jinyu sat there chatting with the old man. Grandpa Tang (touching Mo)

held his head and said with a smile: "We Xiaoyu has grown up and is eighteen

years old."

"No."

"Why not, grandpa counts every day!" The old man held his hand, his expression

relaxed a lot, "I have grown up, and I will be able to decide many things by

myself in the future, you know?"

Tang Jinyu shook his head, he had a vague premonition in his heart, he didn't

want the old man to talk any more. But this time the old man didn’t listen to

him anymore. He spoke very slowly every word, and told him a little bit:

"Grandpa’s illness, I know it in my heart, but it’s actually much better than

what the doctor said before. Since last year, I’ve said few words. Month’s

time, I was thinking at that time, I would have to grit my teeth until your

birthday, and see with my own eyes that you are eighteen years old, so I don’t

worry... I will grow up at the age of eighteen. If it were grandpa If you

leave, you are not an orphan, and you can decide many things for yourself."

The old man shook his hand and whispered: "I watched you after your birthday,

and I was still alive. I wanted to watch you finish the college entrance

examination and see you take the notice with my own eyes. Grandpa knows that

people are greedy. In fact, I still want to watch you go to university and

stay with you all the time. How can this work? It's a matter of birth, old

age, sickness and death, sooner or later."

"Grandpa saved 50,000 yuan for you. The money is in the small box under the

bed at home. I'm afraid of walking in a hurry. I don't know when it will be

gone. You can't get it out at the bank. It's all cash. Remember to go. Take

it. Grandpa doesn't have much abilities in this life. Don't blame Grandpa for

not saving much."

Tang Jinyu wanted to speak, but Grandpa Tang raised his hand to stop, "You are

obedient, let Grandpa finish. There is one more thing to tell you. I have been

celebrating your birthday on June 1st for so many years. In fact, your

birthday is. Not that day."

The old man laughed and said, "He took it for you himself when Grandpa took

you back."

Grandpa Tang shook his hand slightly and used some strength to tell him a

story.

That was a decade ago. The old man lost his son, daughter-in-law, and grandson

in a car accident, and all his relatives were gone.

The last sentence of the daughter-in-law was to ask him to save the child. She

did not know that her child had been killed in the car accident. The old man

grayed his hair overnight, and he was almost a dozen years old. On that day,

the hospital rescued a child about two years old. The child was sitting there

with dementia, neatly dressed, and a ribbon hanging from his neck. No one came

to pick him up, no one wanted him—no one wanted such a sick child.

When Grandpa Tang saw him, he went to pay for his hospitalization and went

through the formalities to adopt him.

Day by day, the child (body shen) is getting better and better, he can talk

and laugh, he is clever, learns everything quickly, and he always yells

"Grandpa" with his head up next to the old man. , Very well-behaved.

...

Grandpa Tang raised his hand (touching Mo) his head, and said with a smile:

"The little one who carried him back then is so big in the blink of an eye."

Tang Jinyu wiped the tears from her face with the back of her hand, and hugged

him and called to grandpa.

The old man patted him gently, coaxing him not to cry like he did when he was

a child.

He gritted his teeth and insisted on living a few more days, just to arrange

everything in order to find a good way for his only grandson.

He didn't want to send his children to an orphanage, but wanted to protect him

when he grew up to be able to support himself.

This is the limit he can do.

Grandpa Tang wiped his tears, and laughed in a low voice: "You don't know, I

privately hoped that your parents would not come to you at that time, and I

don't know where you came from. The little one just sat there and was injured.

I don’t know how to cry anymore. Grandpa lost all his relatives that day and

raised you as the only child. When I later learned that I was sick, I didn’t

feel much pain. This was originally a period of time I stole."

Tang Jinyu was still shaking her head, crying beyond words.

"Everyone is crying like a cat, stop crying, do you know why grandpa wrote you

his birthday on June 1st? Because grandpa wants you to be a child for the rest

of your life. He is happy every day and knows nothing. , I don’t know what to

worry about, that’s good.” Grandpa Tang rubbed his head and sighed with a

smile, “Unfortunately, Grandpa didn’t take you for a few days and almost

missed your exam, but Fortunately, I’m here. Grandpa saved the little money

for you, so you can study hard, and I’m relieved after college."

"I don't want the money, I'll use it to treat you..."

The old man shook his head, "Grandpa is getting older, and the loess is buried

in his neck, and the disease can't be cured. Grandpa knows in his heart,

leaving the money for you. I am very happy to watch you grow up. Now, my wish

is half fulfilled." He held Tang Jinyu's hand, his eyes fell on his face with

nostalgia, looking back and forth, with eyes full of dismay, "Grandpa just

didn't see you in college, it's a pity."

Tang Jinyu hugged him without letting go, her finger knuckles were firmly

clenched until white (color), her shoulders trembled slightly, and her teeth

were clenched, and she could hear the sound of bumping up and down, "Yes, I

can see it I want to take you to many places. I have been looking for you for

a long time. You can't just leave me like this."

"Silly boy, when everyone is old, I just got off at the station early and you

have to let go and go forward." The old man was held tightly by him, and his

eyes were wet, "I bought it for myself. A cemetery, originally undesirable,

it's not worth it. You can just throw your ashes into the sea. It's great to

be free. But then you think, if you miss me and want to talk to me, there is a

place to go."

He raised his arms laboriously, hugged his grandson with his big rough (gan)

hands, and said dumbly: "Xiaoyu, when you go to college, come and tell

grandpa, grandpa will be satisfied."

Two days before the college entrance examination notice came, Tang Jinyu sent

off his grandfather.

The old man walked in (Shui Shui) dream, did not experience much pain, and his

face was kind.

He couldn't wake up the old man, only to realize that he had left.

Tang Jinyu, a young boy and a half, had never experienced anything like this

before, and he didn't know what to do, and stood there at a loss.

The head nurse pityed him and took him to go through the formalities. The

hospital issued a death certificate. He took the certificate of death and went

to the funeral home for cremation.

There were good-hearted people to help along the way, he followed in a daze,

and brought back a small wooden box from the funeral home, which contained a

handful of grandpa's ashes.

When I returned home, I only felt that the room was very quiet. He hadn't

eaten anything for a day, only wet, but he was not thirsty or hungry. As if he

couldn't feel it, he sat on the sofa for a long time. Heyi lay there groggy

(sleeping Shui).

But at night, Tang Jinyu suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, as if

having a big dream, suddenly remembering what happened during the day, tears

rolling down, and crying loudly.

Grandpa is gone.

He has no relatives in this world.

It took a few days for Tang Jinyu to slowly recover a little energy. She lost

weight and her smile disappeared. He pursed his lips and quietly packed up the

old man's belongings, putting everything in order. Their grandfather and

grandson had been poor all the time, but this did not mean that the old man

had treated him badly. The toys he used when he was a child were made by the

old man himself, small wood-carved pistols, and leathery rattles... Tang Jinyu

put them in the same small box, and saw one of the red (color) blessing

characters. When he was giving the kit, his hand paused and picked it up.

This kit seems to be a few years old, but when Tang Jinyu touched it, she

suddenly felt a little strange, like something urging him to open the kit.

The urgency was so fast that his hands trembled, and he accidentally tore two

tassel pendants.

The "Blessing" kit was opened, and inside was a piece of yellowed paper,

folded into a small square and placed inside.

Tang Jinyu opened it and found that it was not a complete page, but an

incomplete half, as if it had been torn off in half by someone accidentally.

There were some unintelligible characters on it--or indistinct characters.

He watched for a while, suddenly his heartbeat quickened, stumbled into the

room and took out the autobiographical book, turned to the last page,

trembling his hands to match the half of the page that had been torn off, the

one that was torn in the book As expected, the half of the page was tightly

attached to it. The moment the pages on both sides were closed, they began to

glue themselves, and almost merged into a complete page in the blink of an

eye. The last page of the book was aligned.

The whole book was silent and automatic, and the pages of the book were

flipped and rolled from the last page to the front. With so much strength,

Tang Jinyu could hardly hold it. He barely saw the handwriting flashing on the

pages of the book that jumped over. The words at the back of the book were no

longer vague, and all became clear. He vaguely saw "Natsuno acquired overseas

companies at the age of 78" and "Wine "Zhuang Mergers and Acquisitions"...and

so on, before we can understand the words, the whole book closed with a

"bang".

Tang Jinyu turned it hard and couldn't open it again, but a countdown appeared

on the black (colored) cover of the book.

——23:59:59.

The seconds began to decrease a little bit, the book was firmly in his hand,

and the heavy feeling was really (touching Mo), and the feeling of vaguely

connecting with the other side came back, Tang Jinyu's throat tightened, and

he felt This feeling, if he guessed correctly, one day later is the moment

when he makes the last choice.