An An felt that the silhouettes of these two children were somewhat familiar. She walked a few steps forward. The child was crying with his head down and hugging the woman on the ground. It was heart-wrenching to watch. Because they were facing away from An An, she couldn't see their faces. She asked the patient beside her, "What happened?"
The patient next to her was still wearing a loose hospital gown. When An heard her ask, she sighed and said, "The adult in this family has a terminal illness. The two children finally managed to raise enough money and sent the woman to the hospital, but the hospital refused to accept her."
"Why not take it? Didn't you give me money?" An asked directly.
This time it wasn't the patient who answered, but the doctor in a white coat, "If we can't cure him, why waste money for nothing!", When doctors give up on patients, they feel uncomfortable too, but knowing that this disease is incurable, all one can do is wait for death. They still have to exhaust a family's financial resources, and when the patient is gone, don't the living need to eat?
An'an furrowed her brow upon hearing this, now was the time to test one's humanity. It wasn't that family members didn't want to save him, but rather they knew clearly that the patient in front of them was a bottomless pit. No matter how he was treated, he couldn't be cured. Moreover, it would also waste money and destroy an entire family.
Upon hearing the doctor's diagnosis, the little girl in a short jacket suddenly knelt down in front of the doctor, kowtowing repeatedly while crying and saying, "Doctor, please save my mother!"
The doctor is suffering too!
This scene would repeat every few days, the doctor shaking his head, gently prying open the little girl's fingers, and saying seriously, "Child! It's not that we don't want to save her, but it's impossible! Your mother has osteomalacia, she's been suffering for so many years already. Even a great god cannot change her fate, let alone us ordinary doctors."
That little girl quickly pulled over her brother who was kneeling beside their mother and urged, "Yuǎn Bǎo! Quick! Quick kowtow to the doctor! Then mom will come back."
The brother and sister were Jinzi and Yuanbao, who used to sell flowers in the cinema. Their father had passed away early, and their mother was always ill at home. The two children didn't attend school and instead sold flowers in front of the cinema. With the big bunch of chrysanthemums that Anan and the others gave them today, they finally managed to scrape together fifty yuan.
The two children went straight home from the cinema and sent their mother to the hospital.
Yu Bao seems to have some sort of psychological disorder, and when Jinzi pulls him, he becomes completely stunned, with tears streaming down his face. He doesn't make a sound, but instead kowtows to the doctor, each bow more vigorous than the last, as if the doctor can save his mother's life just by virtue of his kowtowing.
Not just the people around him are suffering, but also the doctors.
An'an felt uncomfortable, she looked at the bandage on her hand, after making up her mind, she glanced at Lu Yan again. How could Lu Yan not understand An'an's meaning? This girl softened her heart and wanted to help the two poor children, just like when she brought Jiangjiang home.
An An knew that her power was limited when she was alone, but when something like this happened, she didn't care, really! It was unbearable to her conscience, all she could say was that she did her best and had no regrets.
An An took a step forward, pulled Yuan Bao who was kowtowing violently, and comforted him, "Yuan Bao! Stop kowtowing!" Yuan Bao looked up dazedly when someone pulled him, and when he saw it was An An, he suddenly exclaimed loudly, "Good person sister! Please save my mom! I'll be your cow or horse!" Good person, this is what Yuan Bao's mother said to him, otherwise who would buy a basket of flowers and give only one big bunch?
This is obviously pitiful for these two kids.
In Yuan Bao's heart, the doctor can't save Mom! Then only good sister can save her.
An An watched Yuan Bao cry his heart out, a 7 or 8 year old child, how would he know what it means to be driven to desperation, being forced to grow up too early.
An softly said, "Get up! I'll help you save your mom!", but she knew it was hopeless, she just wanted to give these two kids a glimmer of hope, after all, they couldn't stay in the hospital corridor forever.
As soon as Anan agreed to help them, Yuanbao and Jinxin's eyes lit up. The two knelt down and were about to kowtow to Anan, but she helped them up instead. She glanced at the woman lying on the ground, gasping for air, who seemed to sense someone looking at her and struggled to move her lips, but no sound came out. After being moved from home to hospital, she had exhausted all her energy.
The people around looked at An'an like an idiot, and the child shouted "good person sister", obviously not a relative, but a kind stranger. The doctor said that this illness cannot be cured, wasting money, and this girl still foolishly acted as a scapegoat.
The doctor also sighed and comforted, "Miss, why bother with this futile effort." It's no longer a matter of money, but the fact that her osteomalacia has reached its final stages, and all she can do is wait for death.
Nothing can save it now.
An'an shook her head at the doctor, signaling him to stop talking.
She gently stroked Yuan Bao's big head and said softly, "The floor is cold, shall we move your mom to the bed? The bed is softer and she'll feel more comfortable."
As soon as he heard that his mother was going to be lifted onto the hospital bed, Yuanbao's eyes sparkled with excitement and he nodded heavily, "Good good!"
An'an nodded in agreement with Jinzi's opinion, and Jinzi wouldn't disagree. The two siblings had brought their seriously ill mother to the hospital from home, wasn't it all for that one hospital bed? Although Jinzi was still young, he understood a truth: if the hospital was willing to admit the patient, it meant there was still hope for recovery; but if the hospital refused...
The neighbor's aunt said that this means the patient is already critically ill and even the hospital doctors can't save him.
When the doctor said he wouldn't accept the money from Mom, Jinzi was already desperate! She and her little brother had saved up for a year by selling flowers, and they had finally managed to scrape together 50 yuan. But the doctor refused to take it, which was even more terrifying for this child who wasn't yet ten years old than having no money at all!
She can eat less with her brother and sell more flowers, but the hospital won't accept it! It means that their efforts for a year are all in vain, not only that! Their mother will also leave them.
Seeing the two children agree, An An raised her still intact arm and beckoned to the doctor, "Doctor, please help lift this patient in."
The doctor is unwilling, which is equivalent to smashing the hospital's early recruitment sign.
An'an was most afraid of this, she sighed, squatted down, and looked very seriously at Jinzi and Yuanbao. She asked, "If the doctor couldn't save your mother, would you hate the doctor?"
Kanako and Motomi were perplexed, "Since the hospital has taken in the patient, won't they be able to cure her?", In these two children's minds, since the hospital took in their mother, it meant that they would definitely be able to cure her.