The diva and I cross each other

Chapter 556: Poverty (two in one)

The plot of the first half of "Dying to Survive" is very simple, and it begins from the perspective of a down-and-out middle-aged man.

His name is Cheng Yong. He runs a store that sells special medicines from Baixiang, but his business is not very good and he is always being asked by the landlord to pay the rent. To make matters worse, his father is seriously ill and needs to raise money for surgery, and his ex-wife wants to immigrate and has been looking for him for custody of their son.

When all kinds of troubles came one after another, a neighbor suddenly introduced Cheng Yong to a seriously ill leukemia patient named Lu Shouyi.

Lu Shouyi knew that Cheng Yong had a way to buy medicine in India, so he begged Cheng Yong to help smuggle low-priced Lenin that was legally produced in India.

At this time, Cheng Yong's father's condition suddenly worsened and he had to undergo surgery immediately.

In desperation, Cheng Yong decided to go to India to buy cheap drugs. He told the director of the pharmaceutical factory that he wanted to buy the drugs at wholesale prices. The director required Cheng Yong to sell the drugs within one month before he could get the agency rights.

At first, the sale of drugs was not smooth. Cheng Yong and Lv Shouyi ran around various hospitals to promote the drugs, but to no avail. At this time, Lv Shouyi found Liu Sihui, the group leader of the patient group, to help sell the drugs to patients in various hospitals. As a result, the low-priced drugs were sold quietly among the patients.

In order to obtain the agency rights, Cheng Yong found Pastor Liu who was suffering from leukemia.

The yellow-haired Peng Hao, who couldn't afford to buy medicine and stole it, was intercepted by Cheng Yong. Seeing that Peng Hao was a righteous man, Cheng Yong decided to take him in and formed a medicine selling team.

As low-priced drugs became more and more widely circulated, Cheng Yong obtained the agency rights and was also targeted by medical representatives of genuine drugs.

Policeman Cao Bin, the younger brother of Cheng Yong's ex-wife, investigated the matter and found that the pirated low-priced drugs were not fake drugs and could really cure diseases, but the director said that the smuggled drugs that were not included in the medical manual were fake drugs.

At this time, a patient who was taking cheap drugs had a problem, and Cheng Yong quarreled with the family. After calming down, he realized that the problem might be caused by taking other medicines. They investigated and found out that Zhang Changlin, a fake drug dealer, claimed to be an academician and was selling fake German Gleevec. A group of people made a scene at the venue to expose the scam, but Zhang Changlin escaped. Cheng Yong and others were taken back to the police station to take statements.

At this point, the movie is almost halfway through, and then the scene changes to show that Lu Shouyi invites Cheng Yong to come to his home to cook, with his wife cooking, and they can just eat something at home.

Cheng Yong came to his house and saw Lu Shouyi's child who was just born not long ago.

The two squatted in front of the crib, and Lv Shouyi whispered to Cheng Yong: "When I was first diagnosed with leukemia, his mother was already five months pregnant with him. At that time, I wanted to die every day."

Cheng Yong's eyes flashed with surprise when he heard that, and he couldn't help but turn around and look at Lu Shouyi. He had known Lu Shouyi for such a long time, and this man had always wanted to live, and wanted to live at all costs. He didn't look like someone who wanted to die.

But Cheng Yong could tell that Lu Shouyi was not joking. He really didn't want to live at that time, but now he had the motivation to live again.

After all, now he has money and medicine, so he has hope of survival.

However, the next second, Cheng Yong realized that he was wrong. Lu Shouyi wanted to live not because he had medicine, but because of his child.

Lv Shouyi took a look at the child in the crib and said gently, "When he was born and I saw him for the first time, I didn't want to die. I just wanted to hear him call me daddy. But now it's different. I have medicine and money. If he had gotten married earlier, maybe I could have become a grandfather."

The skinny Lu Shouyi grinned at Cheng Yong, revealing a row of neat teeth. His smile was very timid. He would be satisfied if he could live to see his son get married and have children.

"That's for sure!" Cheng Yong said to him.

"Isn't it?" Lu Shouyi's smile became more charming.

The three of them sat at the dinner table, drinking and chatting, mainly talking about children.

The topics of conversation naturally revolve around children. They talk about whether the children are closer to their father or mother, and the rebellious period that the children may have in the future.

These warm scenes, accompanied by the soothing and moving background music, are completely different from the way Lu Shouyi looked when he first met Cheng Yong. His eyes and words were full of hope.

Hope, what a luxurious word it is for a leukemia patient!
In his previous life, Luo Ming went to see "Dying to Survive" with his parents.

When seeing this scene, Luo Ming's mother's eyes were red. For parents with children, the feeling of watching this scene is completely different.

To this day, Luo Ming still doesn't understand what his mother's mentality was at that time.

This section can be said to be the end of the first half of the entire movie and the beginning of the change in the overall style of the movie.

Afterwards, Zhang Changlin actually found Cheng Yong and wanted to buy the agency rights but was rejected, so he called the police to threaten Cheng Yong.

Knowing the serious consequences of selling "fake drugs", Cheng Yong decided to sell the agency rights to Zhang Changlin after careful consideration. When everyone learned that Cheng Yong had given the life-saving drugs to a liar to sell, they said goodbye and left.

A year later, Cheng Yong transformed himself, opened his own factory, and did great business.

And for some people, fate seems to have returned to the starting point. From here on, there are almost no laughs in the rest of the movie, only tears and painful moments.

A year later, Cheng Yong met Lu Shouyi's wife again. She came to Cheng Yong's factory when she was desperate.

It was because of this that Cheng Yong learned that Zhang Changlin had run away after being reported for selling fake drugs, and now no one was selling drugs.

Old Lu cut his wrists in order not to burden his family, and was finally rescued.

The reason why Zhang Changlin was arrested was because he felt that the profit was not enough for selling for 10,000 yuan, so he raised the price to 20,000 yuan. Some people could not afford it, so they reported it, which caused a lot of trouble.

"Fuck, wife, do you remember that Zhang Changlin has been a fake drug dealer for many years?" A man's voice sounded from the seat behind Luo Ming.

"I remember! What's wrong?"

"This Zhang Changlin was not arrested for selling fake drugs before, but he was arrested for selling effective generic drugs here. Don't you think it's strange?"

"What's so strange?" the woman asked curiously.

"There are too many terrifying things to think about. Think about it, fake drugs are just to cheat patients out of their money. If the patients don't see any effect after taking them, they will still go buy real drugs, which will not harm the interests of the pharmaceutical companies. But generic drugs are different. Generic drugs are really effective."

The woman suddenly realized what was going on: "Husband, what you mean is that Zhang Changlin was arrested this time because he really touched their cake and violated their interests?"

"Yes! Fake drugs don't matter. The more fake they are, the more the pharmaceutical company's authenticity is highlighted, and the more our drugs appear to be the only life-saving drugs. But generic drugs are different. They are really useful, so patients don't need to spend a lot of money to buy them."

Luo Ming's mouth curled up slightly when he heard this. It seems that some people still understood this movie.

Then the scene changed, Cheng Yong came to the hospital and witnessed Lao Lu cleaning the wound with his own eyes. Cheng Yong felt mixed emotions. He found Pastor Liu and wanted to buy some more medicine for Lao Lu, but he didn't have the agency rights. With a heavy heart, he went to India to buy medicine in person, but he didn't know that Lao Lu had entered a critical period at this time. In order not to drag down his wife and children, he finally chose to commit suicide.

After he went to India, the drug dealer said that he could still supply him with some medicine. He called Sihui and the priest back and asked them to contact the patients who had bought his medicine before.

The patients all came to Cheng Yong's factory. They looked at him wearing masks, just like the first time Cheng Yong saw these patients.

When the patients met Cheng Yong for the first time, Cheng Yong was so shocked that he couldn't recognize them because they were wearing masks. He felt that this was very disrespectful to him and asked them to take them off.

Later, they gradually trusted Cheng Yong and stopped wearing them.

But at the memorial service for Lu Shouyi before, Cheng Yong walked through the crowd and saw faces wearing masks. Now the same is true in his own factory.

Cheng Yong told everyone that we will start selling medicine again from next week, but I can only guarantee that previous patients have medicine to take. Please don’t make it public and show understanding.

At this time, the group leader of the patient group, who was wearing a mask, asked directly: "How much did you sell it for this time?"

Cheng Yong answered without hesitation: "Five hundred.

The price of five hundred is a loss.

At this point in the movie, Cheng Yong’s growth arc has been complete. At the beginning, he just wanted to make some money by selling generic drugs, but now he just wants to save people.

At this moment, many viewers were moved. "Dying to Survive" seemed a strange name at first, but now it is so touching!

Huangmao, a member of the drug selling team, was unwilling to help Cheng Yong at first, but after learning that Cheng Yong was selling drugs at a loss, he took the initiative to come back to help.

This Shamatte-like boy is the one who expresses his emotions most directly, dares to love and hate, and has the clearest distinction between love and hate in the whole movie.

He became Cheng Yong's follower again, just like before, and always followed Cheng Yong.

Now let’s turn our attention to the police. In fact, the police have never stopped their investigation into generic drugs.

Cao Bin and others searched along the way and finally found the Hemophilia Mutual Aid Association.

Cao Bin and his colleagues had originally planned to start with these "buyers" and continue investigating who was still selling the drugs. However, what the police did not expect was that none of these patients cooperated with the police, and no one gave out the person who sold the generic drugs!

Cao Bin, wearing a black leather jacket, strode into the room, glanced at the people sitting on chairs and wearing masks, and threatened: "I heard that you don't cooperate. We are investigating the case based on evidence. We have found fake drugs on each of you. Whether you cooperate or not, the case will be handled the same way.

Covering up a crime is also a crime. I just want to remind you of one thing: you are not helping him, you are harming him." Seeing that everyone was still unwilling to cooperate, Cao Bin sighed and prepared to leave.

At this moment, an old lady suddenly stood up and called Cao Bin, and the most shocking scene in the whole movie appeared.

"Leader, please help me!"

Cao Bin turned around and saw an old man with white hair, a hunched back, and wearing an old cotton-padded jacket.

Facing the old man in front of him, Cao Bin didn't know what to say for a moment.

"I..." She stuttered a little, and it was obvious that she was very nervous, but she still insisted on finishing what she wanted to say: "I just want to beg you, please stop tracking down Indian medicine, okay? I have been sick for three years, and I have been taking genuine medicine that costs 40,000 yuan a bottle for three years."

At this point, the old lady choked up, her voice trembled, and even had a tearful tone: "I have lost my house and my family, and now I finally have cheap medicine, but you insist that it is fake. Don't we know whether the medicine is fake or not?
The medicine only costs 500 yuan a bottle, and the drug dealer doesn't make any money at all. Who won't have a patient in their family? Can you guarantee that you will never get sick in your life?

You took him away, and we all have to wait for death. I don’t want to die, I want to live, okay? I don’t want to die, I want to live, okay? "

The old lady's words made Cao Bin freeze in place.

The cinema also became quiet, with sobbing sounds coming one after another.

What makes people feel even more upset is that at this moment, the medical representatives of genuine drugs are still promoting them on TV, advising everyone not to buy this unscrupulous fake medicine.

This scene made the audience so angry that their teeth itched, as if the pharmaceutical factory was the biggest villain in the whole film.

Afterwards, Cheng Yong met Zhang Changlin again. This time, Zhang Changlin came to ask Cheng Yong for money so that he could run away.

"You asked for the two hundred thousand. Here is 30. You can take the money and run away. You can keep the medicine issue to yourself." Cheng Yong handed him the money.

Zhang Changlin looked at Cheng Yong in surprise, then said, "I heard you're not making any money this time?"

Cheng Yong lit a cigarette, ignored him, turned around and smoked towards the window.

Zhang Changlin grinned, his smile carrying a hint of sarcasm: "You are quite righteous, but I have to give you some advice! I have been selling medicine for so many years, and I found that there is only one kind of disease in the world."

Hearing this, Cheng Yong turned around and looked at him.

Zhang Changlin leaned forward and said word by word: "Poor! Sick!"

As soon as these two words came out, the audience in the theater felt as if something exploded in their ears. These two words were simply deafening.

Especially in the film, with so many plots laid out before, the death of Lu Shouyi, Sihui having to sell her body for her daughter, and the old lady's plea to Cao Bin a few minutes ago.

"There is only one disease in this world, poverty!"

“This line is so shocking!”

"Indeed, this line is so well written! I feel like I have goosebumps all over my body."

“These two words reveal 99% of the tragedies in the world.”

The audience was talking quietly. In the movie, Zhang Changlin, the fake medicine dealer, was still trying to persuade Cheng Yong: "You can't cure this disease. You can't cure it. Forget it."

After saying that, Zhang Changlin took the money and left.

But the law is strict and there is no loophole, and Zhang Changlin was eventually caught by the police.

Originally, the audience thought that with his character, he would definitely give Cheng Yong away in order to ask for a lighter sentence, and he might even try to pass on the blame, saying for example that this channel and agency rights were all set up by Cheng Yong, and he was the mastermind!
But viewers soon realized they were wrong.

During the interrogation process, the police used a reduced sentence as a condition to get Zhang Changlin to confess who was selling the drugs.

Zhang Changlin heard this and showed an interested look on his face. Then he said, "Give me a cigarette."

The police officer in charge of the interrogation lit a cigarette for him. He took a puff with great enjoyment, puffing out smoke.

"Who?" the policeman asked.

"Me." He said directly.

"Are you kidding me? You've been on the run for more than half a year. How did you sell the drugs?"

Zhang Changlin smiled and said, "It's definitely not me."

Zhang Changlin's laughter angered the police officer in charge of the interrogation. He slammed the table and said, "Zhang Changlin, I ask you again, who is it?"

Zhang Changlin was handcuffed and smoking a cigarette. He shook his head and said, "I don't know."

"You are so shameless, aren't you? Why are you so arrogant when you sell fake medicine and harm people?" the police asked viciously.

"Who have I harmed? I have saved at least five hundred leukemia patients in the past two years. This can be considered as doing good deeds, right? Don't you think so?" After saying that, Zhang Changlin looked up at the policeman with a smile on his face again.

But this time, his smile was uglier than crying, and made people feel somewhat sad.

"He didn't even give up Cheng Yong!" The woman in the back seat of Luo Ming couldn't help but exclaimed.

"I didn't expect that even if he could get a reduced sentence, Zhang Changlin would not give up Chen Yong! This doesn't fit with his previous profit-seeking personality!" The man said with a puzzled look on his face.

"Maybe he still has a conscience!"

The man was silent for a moment and then said "hmm".

That night, Huangmao was going to get some medicine with Cheng Yong, but when he was going to the toilet, he found that the police had arrived at the dock, so he left Cheng Yong behind and drove away the police alone. During the fierce chase, Huangmao had a car accident and eventually died.

It was drizzling outside the window. Cheng Yong was almost on the verge of collapse. He looked at Huangmao's photo and burst into tears.

At this time, Cao Bin finally turned down the task because of too much psychological pressure.

To make matters worse, the drug agent found the director of the Indian pharmaceutical factory and blocked the wholesale channel.

Cheng Yong had no choice but to make up the difference and buy retail drugs. After sending his son abroad, he was ready to take a gamble.

In the end, Cheng Yong was arrested by the police.

In court, Cheng Yong admitted that he sold generic drugs. Because his subjective intention was to save lives, the court showed leniency and sentenced him to five years in prison.

Before Chen Yong got on the prison van, he said only one thing to Cao Bin: "Tell my son that his father is not a bad man."

Cao Bin nodded. He used to look down on Cheng Yong, but now he felt that Cheng Yong was extremely great.

As the car was driving on the road, several policemen looked at each other, then looked back at Cheng Yong in surprise.

Finally, the policeman sitting in the passenger seat said, "Drive slower."

The policeman driving the car nodded.

Cheng Yong looked up in confusion, and then through the glass, he saw people standing on both sides of the road, all of them were leukemia patients wearing masks! They were all people who had been helped by the generic drugs sold by Cheng Yong, and they were waiting on the street early.

After seeing the car approaching, the leukemia patients took off their masks one after another.

There were men, women, old people and children inside, and Cheng Yong seemed to have seen familiar faces of all these people.

And Cheng Yong seemed to see Lu Shouyi and Huangmao in the crowd. They were standing under a tree, looking at Cheng Yong.

Lu Shouyi showed his signature smile again, but Huangmao was still the same, as if he was embarrassed to laugh, with a pointed face and monkey cheeks, and his smile was uglier than crying.

"Dying to Survive" ended here. The lights in the theater came on, but the sobbing sounds in the theater never stopped.

(End of this chapter)