Dong Qiangqiang's Story of Leaving Germany

Chapter 949 949. No regrets

My classmate’s home is in Shaoyaoju in the northeast corner of the capital. It’s not far from Dong Qiangqiang’s home. It takes less than half an hour to drive there.

Although the other party also lived in a building, it was different from the two-unit building on the first floor where Dong Qiangqiang lived. It was a tube building that Dong Qiangqiang often saw in other places when he was a child. The corridor ran from one end of the building to the other, and the balconies were also connected. The families are from different families. If you stand downstairs and look up, you can't tell which family your classmates belong to.

He called first, but no one answered, and then dialed the mobile phone, but no one answered.

The gate of the community was closed, and the lights were on in the guard's office next to the gate, but no one could be seen. Dong Qiangqiang walked half a circle along the outside of the community, and found a side door at an inconspicuous corner that looked like it had been vandalized. , seeing no one around, he turned sideways and quickly got in.

The first time he entered the building, he smelled the pungent smell of disinfectant and quickly took out a mask from his pocket and put it on. There is a seal on the elevator, and the only way to go upstairs is the fire escape. There were no windows in the fire escape and all the lights were broken, so he had to hold on to the wall in the dark to find his way upstairs. When he stood in front of the long and narrow corridor, he found that it had long been occupied by all kinds of debris, and there was only a narrow narrow path in front of each house.

The lights in the corridor were not broken, but they were not as bright as the street lights outside the corridor windows. As he walked, he looked at the house number, and his eyes occasionally glanced at the various small advertisements on the walls on both sides. When he finally found his classmate's house, he found that the security door had the same seal as the elevator, and there was a form posted next to the seal. The contents are all written with the date in the upper box and "disinfected" handwritten in the lower box.

He only glanced at it before reacting. He took a step back and picked up an object from the pile of debris nearby and poked the doorbell. No one answered the door. He knocked lightly on the security door a few more times with the object in his hand. There was a knock on the door, and there was even an echo from the end of the corridor. If there was someone in the room, it would not be unheard.

Just when he took out his mobile phone and was about to make another call, the door behind the security door next door seemed to open, and a voice yelled: "Hey, stop knocking."

Dong Qiangqiang walked to the neighbor's security door. Behind the iron fence was a face wearing a mask and a pair of alert eyes.

"Who are you looking for?" he asked, staring at Dong Qiangqiang.

"Hello, I'm looking for Gu Xin's parents. Do they live here?"

The man looked at Dong Qiangqiang for a moment: "Who are you?"

"I am Gu Xin's German classmate. My name is Dong Qiangqiang. Gu Xin is now in Germany. She has been unable to contact her parents these days and is very anxious. I happen to be in China, so she asked me to come to her house to see what's going on. This is me ID card.”

As he spoke, Dong Qiangqiang took out his ID card and put it next to his cheek. At the same time, he took a step back and pulled down his mask for the other party to check, actively verifying his identity, but he was not sure whether the other party could see clearly in such a dark environment.

The door was bright inside but dark outside. The people inside really couldn't tell whether the person on the ID card and the man standing in front of him were the same person. However, the "110108" on Dong Qiangqiang's ID card and his description still made Dong Qiangqiang get the other person. of trust.

The man sighed: "Lao Gu and his wife were both sick and were taken away together in the middle of the night."

Dong Qiangqiang's heart sank: "Is it SARS?"

The other party shook his head: "I don't know. Who knows who was taken away in the middle of the night." "Then do you know which hospital they were taken to?" Dong Qiangqiang quickly calculated the closest tertiary hospital to Shaoyaoju.

The other party still shook his head.

Seeing that the other party was confused, Dong Qiangqiang asked again: "Then I should be able to ask at the police station, right? How to get to the police station in your area?"

The man thought for a while and said, "You'd better go to the neighborhood committee and ask first. They must know about this. They seem to have posted the seal."

Dong Qiangqiang thanked his enthusiastic neighbor and quickly found the neighborhood committee based on the location he was told.

He was originally worried that the people in the neighborhood committee had already finished get off work and would have to come back tomorrow, but he didn't expect that there would still be people on duty.

After looking at Dong Qiangqiang's ID card and hearing his explanation, the people from the neighborhood committee held his hand with relief: the two elders of the Gu family have been admitted to the nearest tertiary hospital, but the hospital did not inform the neighborhood committee of the cause of the illness. There is no way to know whether the two elders were infected with SARS. We only know that the two elders were seriously ill and were admitted to the intensive care unit that day. Since both elders were unconscious, the hospital asked people from the police station and the neighborhood committee to help contact their daughter. However, the daughter's mobile phone number was not found on the elders' mobile phones, nor was it found at home. The police station somehow failed to contact Gu Xin in Germany. Since I have been unable to contact him, the neighborhood committee helped pay for the hospitalization expenses of the second elder. Now that Dong Qiangqiang is here, it will be great, and all problems will be solved.

Dong Qiangqiang thanked the people from the neighborhood committee, left Gu Xin's German contact information and rushed to the hospital.

When he stood at the door of the hospital's outpatient hall, he realized that not only were the lights brightly lit, but there was also an endless stream of people coming to see the doctor. If he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, he would never have imagined that there would be so many people coming to see a doctor at night.

Most of the people in the hall were the elderly and children, and almost all of them wore masks. The seats were already full, and more people were sitting or lying on the floor casually, using their luggage as pillows. When Dong Qiangqiang saw the child with fear and confusion in his eyes, coughing and helplessly leaning his thin body against the haggard-looking adult next to him, the look in his eyes made him feel heartbroken. He hated to see the way the child looked like when he was suffering. , sadly turned his head to look elsewhere, but everywhere he could see were similar scenes.

Isn't what is said on TV correct? Are things actually getting worse? Dong Qiangqiang didn't dare to think any further, but doubt took root and sprouted in his mind like a seed.

Since he had been dealing with hospitals since returning to China, Dong Qiangqiang accumulated experience very quickly. He went directly to the Department of Respiratory Medicine with familiarity. After explaining the situation to the nurse on duty at the nursing station, the nurse called the head nurse on duty without saying a word.

The head nurse told Dong Qiangqiang: The two elders of the Gu family are indeed in the hospital. They are both out of the critical period and are still under observation. As for whether the two elders have SARS, it is a patient's privacy. The head nurse has no right to disclose it. As a non-family member, Dong Qiangqiang has no right to visit. I hope he can contact Gu Xin as soon as possible, because considering that the two elders may have surgery in the future, family members need to be present and sign, and it will be very troublesome if the children are not in the country.

Dong Qiangqiang left Gu Xin's German mobile phone number to the head nurse. The head nurse asked him to contact Gu Xin as soon as possible to come to the hospital to handle the procedures so as not to delay the treatment of the two elders. Dong Qiangqiang also left his domestic mobile phone number and his German mobile phone number. Just drove home.

It was late at night, and there were almost no cars on the road heading north. Fukang's speed increased unconsciously, and the night wind made his mood dance as wildly as his hair.

He didn't dare to think about it but couldn't think about it: for an only child like him, once he went abroad, only the old couple would depend on each other in the family. If the old man really has a shortcoming, and his child is far away, and he is helpless and unaware of his parents' difficulties, won't it become a lifelong regret? But why did he study abroad? Isn't it just to realize your ideals and make your family's life better at the same time? If his family needs him more, is it necessary for him to continue to stay abroad to realize his so-called ideal?

By the time the car drove downstairs, it was almost midnight, and the whole building was dark, except for the lights in his house. The moment he saw the light, on such a spring night that he was about to leave, he had figured out the answer to the question just now.