Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

In a public hospital in a rural town in Qianzhou Province, Zhang Nong's grandmother was helped by a nurse to sit on a bench nearby, her chest still breathing heavily.

At this time, the mobile phone has been handed over to Dr. Liao who is at the side.

Dr. Liao put the mobile phone to his ear and signaled the nurse to comfort the old man with his eyes. He walked to the other end of the corridor and spoke clearly and calmly:

"Classmate Zhang Nong, right? I am Dr. Liao."

"The situation here is like this."

"The hospital received a comatose patient in the morning, that is, your mother. According to the factory colleagues who sent her here, she worked the night shift on the assembly line and stayed up until after nine o'clock when she suddenly fell into coma unexpectedly.

"

"When I was sent to the hospital, I was slightly conscious, but after a while I fell into coma again."

"Now that the test results have come out, your mother's condition has been diagnosed as uremia caused by severe renal failure."

"The bad news is that there is no cure for this disease so far, unless you spend a lot of money on a kidney transplant, and you have to have a suitable and well-matched kidney source."

"If you don't have the conditions for a transplant, you will have to undergo kidney dialysis for the rest of your life, using artificial means to replace the kidney's detoxification function, probably two to three times a week."

"The good news is that your mother has always been in the habit of buying medical insurance. The price of a kidney dialysis session depends on the type. It is usually about four to five hundred yuan, and it costs five to six thousand yuan a month."

"But your mother's medical insurance can reimburse 90%, so the monthly expenses for this part only cost five or six hundred."

"Uraemia is a disease. As long as you undergo kidney dialysis on time, you can live and work like normal people. It will not affect your mother's daily activities."

"Your grandma's mood is not very stable right now, and you don't seem to have any other relatives in your family? Where are you now?"

"If it's convenient, could I ask you to come to the hospital?"

After explaining the situation in detail in one breath, Dr. Liao hoped that Zhang Nong could come to the hospital.

After all, when Zhang Nong's grandma was emotionally unstable and his mother was still undergoing treatment, the hospital had to comfort the grandma while asking her to go through the relevant procedures as soon as possible.

The elderly woman is getting older, and this kind of thing happened again. The doctor explained uremia to her but she couldn't understand it well. If such symptoms appear when she gets emotional, the hospital doesn't want to see this happen.

If the patient's son could be there to handle the problem, the hospital would be a little more relaxed.

"Sorry, Doctor Liao...I'm in Shanghai now..."

Zhang Nong's harsh tone came from the other end of the phone, "I, do I need to rush back now?"

Upon hearing that Zhang Nongyuan was in Shanghai, Dr. Liao suddenly looked helpless.

At this time, a nurse came next to him and said to Dr. Liao: "Patient 319 has completed treatment and kidney dialysis. He just woke up and should be fine for the time being."

Hearing this, Dr. Liao nodded and continued to say to Zhang Nong on the other end of the phone: "Your mother has woken up. In this case, I will give the phone to your mother and you can discuss it."

"Well, okay, I'd like to ask Doctor Liao," Zhang Nong said gloomily, "And my grandma, please ask the doctor to help take care of her."

"Don't worry, your grandma is fine. She was just a little agitated when she called you just now." Dr. Liao walked towards the ward and glanced at Grandma Zhang Nong. "Now her mood has calmed down. I'll ask the nurse to send her away later."

Go to the ward."

After saying that, Dr. Liao strode to the door of Ward 319, knocked on the door and pushed the door open. He saw Zhang Nong's mother, He Huirong, trying to hold herself up, with her feet already sticking out of the bed, trying to get out of bed.

leave.

Dr. Liao hurriedly stepped forward to stop the patient: "Wait a minute, you have just finished the treatment, at least you need to rest and observe again."

"I have to go to work..." He Huirong's body was obviously very weak, but the hands holding the doctor's arms were indescribably strong. She lowered her head and suppressed her tears, "I rest for too long. If I lose my job, my son's

What about tuition fees?”

"You have to take good care of your health before you can work well." Dr. Liao dissuaded, "A leader from your factory also came with me. I have explained the situation before. Your illness will not affect your work. You can recover in a few days."

Go to work normally."

"That's hundreds of dollars in a few days!" He Huirong suddenly broke down and tugged on the doctor's arm a few times, trying to break away from him, "Without these hundreds of dollars, what will my son eat in school?"

?!"

But after finding that she couldn't break free, He Huirong changed her mind and looked up pitifully with a haggard face and prayed to the doctor: "Please, doctor, can you let me go back? Okay?"

"We can talk about this later." The doctor still held He Huirong's shoulder with one hand, and handed the phone to He Huirong with the other hand. "You can answer your son's call first. He should have a few minutes to call, right? He

I am also worried about your situation now."

When she heard the call from her son Zhang Nong, He Huirong's face was not only devoid of joy, but suddenly very frightened. She covered her cell phone in panic, held back her throat and asked the doctor in a shrill voice, with a horrified look on her face: "You

What is this for? What are you doing!"

"Why are you calling my son?!"

"It took a lot of effort for him to get into Min University! Don't delay his studies!"

Dr. Liao's ears felt a little uncomfortable because of her high-pitched tone, but she felt a little moved in her heart.

However, after working in the hospital for many years, he had seen too many such things and even worse situations, so he kept his face calm and pointed at the mobile phone tightly covered in He Huirong's hand: "In short, your son has understood now

Now that the situation is clear, I suggest you discuss it with him carefully."

"I'll go out first. The nurse will be waiting at the door. When you finish talking, call me over."

"Now that things have happened, your condition is completely controllable as long as you take good treatment. I hope you can take good care of your body."

After saying that, Dr. Liao walked out of the ward, closed the door, gave some instructions to the nurse, and handed over the space in the ward to He Huirong.

In the ward, He Huirong opened the phone carefully with trembling hands, revealing the mobile phone in her palm. It was clearly her mother. When faced with the call from her son, her tone was timid and remorseful: "Nong Nong?"

"Mom." Zhang Nong's tone was choked at this time, but he was still able to control it, "How do you feel now?"

"No, it's okay." He Huirong knew that her son couldn't see her condition, but she still forced a smile and her tone became particularly relaxed, "Hospitals all have to make money, don't listen to their nonsense, in fact it's not that

serious."

"I feel fine now. You don't have to worry over there and go to school well."

"In two days, when I get last month's salary, I will pay you your living expenses."

"Mom, you have to listen to the doctor." Zhang Nong restrained himself and calmed down, "I don't need living expenses for the time being. You can just use my 600 yuan for kidney dialysis."

"I have applied for a place for poor students in the school, and I have... more than 5,000 yuan. Moreover, the school has waived my tuition. I still keep the more than 2,000 yuan you gave me before."

"With this much money, I only spend two to three hundred per month, which is enough for me to study for a year."

"The school will also issue a 5,000 yuan scholarship next year. It is provided every year. It is completely sufficient."

"You take good care of your health first. If your body breaks down, what's the point of studying well?"

"If I find a good job after graduation, and you and grandma are gone, then I won't be able to live either."

"Mom, did you hear that? You take good care of your health first. You don't have to worry about my living expenses. The school treats families like ours very well and will definitely ensure that I finish college."

"As long as you take good care of your health and persist for another four years, we will be able to survive."

"Okay? Mom, just listen to me, okay?"

He Huirong was sitting on the hospital bed, listening to her son's anxious and restrained tone. Listening to what he said, He Huirong's eyes gradually blurred, and she covered her mouth to prevent herself from crying.

"Mom is sorry for you... Nonnong, it's mom who is sorry for you..." He Huirong held back her cry and kept repeating this sentence in her mouth. Her tears slipped down the skin of her fingers, and some seeped into the rough folds of her skin.

, some slipped from the chin and fell on the quilt of the hospital bed drop by drop.

After she finally stopped crying, He Huirong choked with sobs and continued to ask: "Does your school really give you 5,000 yuan? And the tuition is waived?"

"Really." There was the sound of the balcony door being opened from Zhang Nong's side, and then Zhang Nong said, "My roommates are all here, and one of my roommates is also a poor student like me. Just ask him.

.”

"Yes, Auntie." Xu Xing's steady voice came from the other end, with a soothing magic, "My family is from the northwest. My parents have been gone since I was a child. It was only my grandma who raised me.

Yue relies on grandma to pick up rags for a living."

"The school provides help to poor students like us. Minhang University is the top university in the country, and there is no shortage of money. Zhang Nong and I apply for poor students every year, and there are four...oh, five thousand

A scholarship of RMB 100,000, and the tuition fee is also...well, it is completely free of charge, for four years, and there is no need to pay."

"In short, our country will definitely not let us fail to complete our studies due to family reasons. You can rest assured here. You can take good care of your health with peace of mind, so that we, Zhang Nong, can study well, right?"

"When we graduates from Min University go out, their guaranteed monthly income is over 10,000 yuan. When the time comes, you and Grandma Zhang Nong can just wait and enjoy a happy life."

After Zhang Nong's classmate said these words, He Huirong's mood gradually calmed down on the other end of the phone.

First, she felt at peace after listening to it, and second, she didn't want to embarrass her son by crying so hard that his classmates would laugh at him, so He Huirong quickly put her emotions together and said with a smile: "Thank you, classmate, so I feel relieved for the time being."

Zhang Nong took the phone back to the balcony and said seriously: "Mom, make sure you take good care of your health first. Grandma has to take medicine every month. Only after you take good care of your health can you continue to work and make money, right?"

"You should listen carefully to what the doctor says. Dr. Liao just told me that as long as you undergo kidney dialysis on time, your uremia will not affect your health, nor will it affect your work."

"And don't you usually buy medical insurance? Kidney dialysis can reimburse 90% of the cost, which is only five or six hundred yuan a month."

"Just pay me the living expenses you have to give me every month. Anyway, I don't lack living expenses here. I can just fill it up."

Zhang Nong tried his best to make his tone as relaxed as possible, and He Huirong's mood gradually stabilized. After she straightened her thoughts, she found that the situation was not as bad as imagined.

Just thinking that she would not be able to provide living expenses for her son in the future, she felt ashamed: "It's all my mother's fault. It would be nice if I could earn more every month."

"Mom, you have raised me for twenty years." Zhang Nong comforted softly, "I should be the one to raise you in the future."

Hearing her son's words, He Huirong was so moved that she cried, but she also laughed so happily that she cried and laughed, and even choked out the snot and bubbles in her nose. She quickly wiped it with her hands and said while wiping it: "Nong Nong

You’ve grown up, but you still have to study hard there and make money to support your family. We’ll talk about it after you graduate.”

"There are only four years left. It won't be a big problem for your mother and I to survive for another four years."

"I heard that those who graduate with a master's degree are more popular in society?"

"If you are capable, don't worry about your family. If you can pass the exam, work hard. Four years plus three years will only mean another seven years of hard work. Mom can handle it."

Holding the phone with his right hand so hard that veins appeared on his arm, Zhang Nong pursed his lips hard to prevent the mist in his eyes from turning into tears.

"I know, I listen to you on all of this." Zhang Nong took a deep breath and held back his tears, "So you have to listen to me over there. Whatever the doctor says is whatever you want. Take good care of your body.

, make sure there is no problem before you can go back to work."

"Okay." He Huirong nodded vigorously. Although she was reluctant to give up, she still said, "Then I won't disturb you much. Nongnong, you go to class. Mother, please hang up first?"

"Wait a minute." Zhang Nong interrupted, "Give Dr. Liao your phone first and I'll say a few words to him."

"Okay." He Huirong hesitated for a moment, then nodded and agreed, pressing the bell beside the bed. The nurse outside quickly called Dr. Liao over, "Doctor Liao, my son also wants to say a few words to you.

.”

"Okay." Dr. Liao took the phone, nodded first, and then walked to the window of the ward, "Yeah, no problem."

After finishing speaking, Dr. Liao hung up the phone, returned the phone to He Huirong, and asked with a smile: "Can we cooperate well now?"

He Huirong lowered her head and smiled in embarrassment, grabbing the quilt with both hands. Thinking of her gaffe just now, she quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, Dr. Liao, I was too excited just now."

"It's okay." Dr. Liao shook his head, "You have a good son, and your son also has a good mother. I believe you will get through it."

…

"Thank you just now..."

There was silence in dormitory 216.

Zhang Nong took the phone, returned to the dormitory from the balcony, and thanked Xu Xing.

Xu Xing shook his head and just asked: "What is the specific situation? If you can tell it, can you tell us about it? Maybe we can be of help."

Zhang Nong didn't expect his roommate to be of any help, but he needed to vent his emotions at the moment. With such a group of good brothers accompanying him, his emotions didn't get too out of control. He just leaned against the glass door of the balcony.

, explained the situation on his mother's side bit by bit.

Lu Pengyou and Jian Jiashu had already stopped what they were doing and listened quietly to Zhang Nong's story.

Both of their families have very good financial conditions. Lu Pengyou is a local, and his father is a senior programmer at an Internet company. He earns tens of thousands a month, and he has always had no shortage of money since he was a child.

Jian Jiashu is from Hangzhou. His family is in the cosmetics business and is also involved in the sales of other related products. His family may be the richest one in the dormitory.

As for Xu Xing, not to mention that Sun Wanhui and Xu Jian at home have joined forces and the Taobao online store is making a lot of money every day. Just saying that he himself, a reborn person, has also reached the threshold of a million dollars a month.

By the time September is over, it will be a sure thing to reach the threshold of a monthly income of 10 million.

Although I was a bit strapped for living expenses when I started military training, it was still more than a thousand yuan, which was far from being particularly embarrassing. It was just talk when I said I had no money for food.

It was not until Zhang Nong introduced the situation at home and his mother's illness in detail that the three boys from well-off families experienced the hardships of poor families for the first time.

Even Xu Xing, a man whose family suffered drastic changes in his previous life, still had the help of his uncle's family in his previous life, and his excellent sister Xu Niannian supported him in his studies.

Compared with Zhang Nong's current situation, the hardships he endured in the past were not that hard, and they were not on the same level at all.

"Then what are you going to do now?" Lu Pengyou frowned and said, "Don't say that the tuition is not completely free, but only reduced by half. The 4,000 yuan bursary alone has not been paid out yet. You lied to your mother and said it was 100% free and 5,000 yuan."

piece."

"The living expenses are definitely enough." Zhang Nong shook his head and said, "I still have more than a thousand yuan in my hand. Food and drink are not a problem. I talked to my mother a little more about the money, just to let her not worry too much about me.

.”

"If I had said less, I'd be worried that she would still secretly save money, such as having to do kidney dialysis only once a week. I'm so far away and can't care about that."

"Now that she knows I have more than 7,000 yuan, she probably won't do anything wrong for the time being. As long as she takes good care of her body, I can survive no matter what."

"It's okay. If you have any difficulties, just tell us directly." Jian Jiashu said seriously, "After four years of college, you must persevere no matter what. Now at least your mother is not at the point where she has no money for dialysis, which is already considered unfortunate.

I'm so lucky."

"Yeah." Zhang Nong nodded and said softly, "I'm just wondering if there are any part-time jobs here at the school that won't affect my studies and can still make some money."

"The money I have here, plus the scholarship, is enough for me to feed myself at most."

"If I can earn some money part-time, I can share some of the pressure on my mother earlier."

Speaking of this, Xu Xing knocked on his desk and pondered silently.

To be honest, for him now, Zhang Nong's problem is not a big problem at all.

After all, most diseases in the world are just diseases of poverty.

As long as Xu Xing wants to, he can arrange a free position for Zhang Nong in the studio and pay him three to five thousand yuan a month. There is no burden at all.

But that's not how things are done.

Xu Xing thought for a moment, raised his head and said, "I know the director of the Student Affairs Center's support department here. She manages part-time jobs inside and outside the school. If you really have this idea, I can help you ask."

"Really?" Zhang Nong's eyes lit up when he heard the news, "Then I'll leave it to Brother Xu."

"Actually, it's nothing." Xu Xingshi smiled and said, "The Service Department is responsible for this matter. It should be the same if you ask yourself. If I just contact the director for you, I should be able to help you handle it faster."

"Then what are you waiting for?" Lu Pengyou couldn't sit still anymore and stood up immediately, "Let's go quickly."

"Class starts in about ten minutes." Xu Xing looked at the time and said, "Let's go to class first. It won't have much impact if you work part-time earlier or later. I'll contact them first."

"Well, you still have to focus on your studies." Jian Jiashu nodded and said, "Zhang Nong, even if you want to work part-time, you have to pay attention to your priorities. Don't affect your studies just to make a little more money."

Zhang Nong nodded lightly, walked to the desk and started packing textbooks.

The four of them packed up and headed to the teaching building for class.

On the way, Xu Xing first took out his mobile phone and flipped through his address book before remembering that Youjia's mobile phone number had not been added to it several times before.

So he could only find Xu Niannian's mobile phone number and make a call.

"Hello? It's only been a few days since school started, and you miss your sister?" Xu Niannian was preparing his resume at the moment and was in a very happy mood.

"Why do I miss you? I miss you, Senior Sister."

"...???" Xu Niannian stood up from his chair, his tone a bit dangerous, "You'd better explain it to me clearly."

"You're not my girlfriend." Xu Xing was a little speechless at her reaction, and then explained, "I remember that Senior Yu is the director of the Service Department? Last time I heard her say she was in charge of part-time jobs for students, and she had something to think about.

please teach me."

"Oh, that's it." Xu Niannian finally understood, and then looked behind him at Yu Youjia, who was also preparing a resume at the desk, "Jiajia, my brother has something to do with you."