Through the book nine zeros as a blessing

Chapter 18 I Remember You
The next morning, she asked the teacher for leave and went to the post office not far from the school to make a phone call.

I bought a ten yuan telecom card, inserted it into a public phone, and then slowly pressed the number.

Soon someone answered, and she explained that she wanted to consult about the evacuation of overseas Chinese from Nanyang, and she wanted to find a middle-aged man named "Mu Shuiqing".

The other party asked her several questions in a row, and then said: "The evacuation activities have ended, and the big ship will arrive at the southern port tomorrow. We have a list to check, but the colleague who manages the computer has not yet arrived, and no one else knows how to use a computer. , call back in half an hour."

Mu Xiao had no choice but to say thanks and hang up the phone first.

The waiting time was really long, so she simply walked into the post office, found a stool in the corner, sat down and waited.

There were not many people at the post office, so they quickly took their things and left one after another, leaving only the staff laughing and chatting loudly.

——Have you dealt with everything there?
--not yet!The ten-yuan manuscript fee of "Lin Yuezhi" in the third grade of No. [-] middle school has not yet been collected, but it was sent by the novel magazine.It's been more than ten days and I still haven't come to claim it.

Mu Xiaoteng stood up and hurriedly went over to explain that Lin Yuezhi was her friend, and he didn't come to collect the manuscript fee because he was sick and not at school.

The staff asked: "Have you brought your student ID card? You can sign for him to get it."

Mu Xiao hurriedly took out his student ID card from his backpack.

Half an hour finally came, and she called that phone number again.

The other party answered, and after a few slow clicks on the keyboard, he explained: "There is indeed a man named 'Mu Shuiqing', and the eldest son is 'Mu Wen', and the youngest son is 'Mu Wu'."

"That's right!" Mu Xiao was so excited that he almost shed tears.

The other party told her that the ship will probably arrive at the port of the provincial capital tomorrow, and then the expats will find their own means of transportation to go home. If it is inconvenient, the evacuation staff will help buy train tickets.

Mu Xiao thanked her and hung up the phone.

Thinking that it takes more than half a day to get to the provincial capital by train, it will take the day after tomorrow at the earliest to get to the railway station on the county side.

On Saturday the day after tomorrow, there was no class, so she had to go back to the village early to pick up her mother, and then go to the train station to pick up her father and brothers to go home!

Feeling refreshed on happy occasions, she bounced back to school to continue her lessons.

During the lunch break, she went to class [-] of the third year of high school to ask Lin Yuezhi's classmate for his address.

"I heard that he was hospitalized in the County People's Hospital a while ago. It seems that he heard that he had no money, and then went home. I don't know if he has returned to the hospital..."

Mu Xiao thought of his pale and sallow face when they met on the mountain road, and was vaguely worried.

If the family has no money, what should he do?
In those two days, she was absent-minded in get out of class, and finally got out of class on Friday. She twisted her schoolbag and small cloth bag and ran towards the bus station.

More than an hour later, she came to the entrance of the village.

Thinking that it might be too late to go to Linjiacun after returning home, and there are no street lights on the road, it is really inconvenient, so I ran to Linjiacun first.

I asked an old lady for directions at the entrance of the village, and soon found Lin Yuezhi's door.

The house is very new, it seems that it has just been built, and the laughter of children and the snoring of big pigs can be heard from inside.

"Hello!" she shouted, "Is Lin Yuezhi there?"

A short and fat woman poked her head out and asked, "Who are you? What do you want him for?"

Mu Xiao replied, "I'm his classmate, and I brought him books."

"What book are you still reading? People are going to die!" The woman said angrily, "That tuberculosis ghost is lying in the old house! Except for his father throwing something in for him in the morning, no one dares to look at him!"

Mu Xiao's face turned pale, and he asked, "He...where is he?"

The woman looked at her suspiciously, "Are you going to find him? Are you not afraid of death?! It will be contagious!"

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The old house was dilapidated, and there was a big hole in the broken door, and there were bursts of depressive and painful coughing in the house.

Mu Xiao pushed the door - but couldn't open it.

So, she walked around to the small window and shouted, "Brother Lin! Brother!"

After a while, a weak voice sounded from the window: "...Why are you here? Go away."

Mu Xiao was anxious and at a loss: "I—why didn't you go to the hospital? What kind of disease did you have? Why did it get worse? It must be curable, right? How can you just sit here and wait for death?"

The voice in the window is low: "Cure the root cause, not the symptoms, unless surgery is performed."

"Then have an operation!" Mu Xiao hurriedly said.

The dark window was quiet for a moment before continuing slowly: "I have to go to the provincial capital...cough cough cough cough...the cost is too high..."

Hearing the heart-piercing cough, Mu Xiao put down the cloth bag in a hurry, rummaged through it, found two 100 yuan bills, and stretched out his arms to hand them to the window.

"I went to the post office to call today! The staff said that you have a manuscript fee, and I took it for you! You——your novel won a provincial award, with a manuscript fee of 200 yuan and a bonus of [-] yuan! I signed it for you. !"

It was very quiet in the window, and there was no answer for a long time.

Mu Xiao was in a hurry, and urged: "Hurry up and take it! If it's not enough, then think of other ways. You go to the county hospital first, you can't sit here and wait for death!"

After a long while, he panted and said in a low voice, "...major surgery costs thousands of dollars... the father gave up..."

With red eyes, Mu Xiao looked at the dilapidated old house and the alleys overgrown with weeds, and bit her lower lip, "I'll help you find a way, don't give up on your own."

The person in the window moved closer, and she vaguely saw his thin figure.

He murmured: "Mu Xiao, I remember you...you can go."

　Dear friends, I will enter V tomorrow, and I will update it steadily next time. I hope everyone will continue to support it. The short story is not long, and it will be finished after tens of thousands of words.

　　
　
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