under the foggy mountain

Chapter 3

Tang Qinglian helped Tao Lanying back home after seven o'clock in the evening. The kitchen was dark and dimly lit. She turned on the light and carefully helped her mother to sit down. When she heard a snoring sound coming from the main room, she went to turn on the light and saw her father Tang Debiao was lying on the bamboo bed in the main room with his upper body bare. The room was filled with the pungent smell of alcohol. He knew that his father had drunk too much again.Tang Qinglian went to the main room to look again, but she didn't see her younger brother Tang Peng.She doesn't worry about how drunk her father is, it's not normal for her father to be drunk. She worries about where her brother Tang Peng is now.

Tang Qinglian returned to the stove house and said to Tao Lanying: "Master is drunk again. I don't know where Pengpeng has gone. I searched all over but I didn't find it." As soon as he got there, Tang Peng rushed into the door, leaned against the door, and made a "slap" sound against the door, laughing and shouting: "Hehe... I'm starving to death, hehe... Where did you go to eat? Hehe ...Why don't you take me there."

Tang Peng is 20 years old, tall and fat, with a silly smile on his face.Tang Qinglian glared at him: "I just know how to eat! Can you please speak softly!"

Tang Peng was a little afraid of his sister, so he laughed again, and saw Tao Lanying sitting on the chair with her eyes tightly closed, stopped smiling, walked over, and swiped her hand twice in front of her mother. Seeing no movement, she turned her face full of doubts Looking at Qinglian carefully.

Tang Qinglian said: "Pengpeng, mother is sick, you have to be obedient and don't make trouble." Tang Peng seemed to nod sensiblely: "Pengpeng doesn't make trouble. Hehe... sister, I'm hungry."

Tang Qinglian didn't feel hungry at all.She walked over to ask her mother if she had something to eat, and Tao Lanying shook her head gently.Tang Qinglian opened the cupboard, and there were some leftovers from lunch. Guessing that the two of you had eaten enough, she went to the vegetable garden to pick some green peppers and loofahs, washed them at home, cooked them, scrambled two eggs, and heated them up. Those leftovers, and then called Tang Peng over, asking him to ask his father to come over for dinner.Tang Pengfei also ran to the main room, and immediately heard him shouting like thunder: "Master, eat!" After several times, Tang Peng ran over again and said, "Sister, I can't shout."

Tang Qinglian said: "Forget it, Pengpeng, you can eat first." Tang Peng immediately filled a big bowl of rice and started to eat it hungrily.

When Tang Qinglian came to the main room, Tang Debiao was still sleeping soundly, knowing that her father would sleep here all night.She went to the room and brought an autumn quilt, covered her father, lit a mosquito coil, turned off the light, went to the stove, boiled some water, helped her mother wash her face and feet, and helped her to the house. Sleep on the bed.After she finished these things, she went back to the stove to see that Tang Peng was sweating profusely, had eaten all the food on the table, and was drinking the leftover soup with a vegetable bowl.Tang Peng put down the vegetable bowl with a "boom" and said, "Sister, hehe... I'm full. I'll go out and play for a while." Before he finished speaking, he ran out.

Tang Qinglian closed the door, walked to the table and sat down, the room suddenly fell into a terrifying silence.She thought of Cycad again. In the past, as long as she encountered any problems, she would call and tell Cycad, and Cycad would come back immediately to help her with some ideas, but now... She felt a little cold and shivered, so Folding his arms across his chest, he tightened his body.

Years later, the bureau arranged for Cycad to go to the Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau to study with the class for half a year. After returning from the study, Tang Qinglian felt that he seemed to be a different person, with a dazed expression and heavy thoughts. Called him, either did not answer, or answered, and there was very little conversation between the two.It has been more than half a month since Cycad went to BJ to study, and there is no news.I called him on the pager and he didn't answer.Tang Qinglian felt that there was a problem between herself and Su Tie, and it was a big problem. Thinking of this, she felt that her heart was pulled, and an indescribable pain spread from her heart, tears came out of her eyes, she felt powerless, and buried her head in the On his chest, he was sobbing violently.

After a while, Tang Qinglian slowly calmed down, and Luo Yuanxiu's concerned eyes and bright smile appeared in front of her eyes at the Suji Clinic in the afternoon.She hadn't seen Luo Yuanxiu like this for a long time.In her memory, whenever she accompanied her mother to see a doctor, Luo Yuanxiu would either turn around and leave when she saw it, or stand at a distance with a stern face, never saying a word to her mother and father. "If what about Su Tie, his mother wouldn't treat me like this?" Qinglian felt that she might have misunderstood Su Tie, and she felt better when she thought about it.

Tang Qinglian sat for a while, when her father's snoring came from the main room, she stood up, wanting to see how her mother was doing.She tiptoed to the door, the room was dark and quiet, she stood there listening for a while, then walked softly back to the stove, and sat down slowly.

As soon as she sat down, the words of Dr. Su and the female doctor rang in her ears again. Her mother had uremia and must go to the hospital for treatment. This was nothing to say. She couldn't imagine her mother not being there.She knew a few years ago that uremia is a very troublesome disease, and it needs a lot of money to treat it, but where does the money come from?My father is addicted to alcohol, and my silly brother only knows how to eat. The family savings are the more than 2 yuan I earned as a waiter in a restaurant in the provincial capital and Sun's Paper Industry in the past few years, but this money is not enough. ah.

what can we do about it?Tang Qinglian suddenly thought of He Xuxia.Yes!You can go to Xuxia!There was a surge of excitement in her heart.From childhood to adulthood, she and He Xuxia have been very close, and she has long regarded He Xuxia as her own sister in her heart.She heard from He Xuxia that a group of high school students in the county often gather together, and Su Tie sometimes participates.

"Yes, that's it. Go to the county seat tomorrow, go to the People's Hospital to ask the doctor, and send my mother to the hospital the day after tomorrow." Thinking of this, Tang Qinglian calmed down, stood up, and went to the room to find Tao Lanying's medical records for the past few years. Come out and put it in the backpack, then go back to the stove house, wash the dishes, clean up the stove table, and prepare to close the door and go to bed. Remembering that Tang Peng was still playing outside, he left a slit for the door. After washing, he went to the wing room to sleep. down.

(End of this chapter)