Chapter 4 Spring Cold in the Apricot Forest
Li Yi was thinking wildly, and after a while, he fell asleep again.
When I woke up again, the pain in my legs was much less.
The wards were cleaned up. Through the window, I saw a dark red sunset hanging between the two high mountains in the west, like a half-fried egg yolk, chaotic and unknown.
Outside is a courtyard, which used to be two gray-black three-story buildings, presumably the staff quarters of the hospital.
At this time, it was the time to get off work, people came and went in the yard, many people walked around with vegetable baskets, and after a while, the dormitory area wafted out the fragrance of various flavors of vegetables, Li Yi was choked by the smell of chili fried meat and coughed, and his stomach gurgled.
"You're awake." Guo Xiaoling sat quietly on the edge of the bed, holding a Nanfang Daily newspaper reading, and pointed to the lunch box on the table: "The meal came early, and the nurse said that you should rest more, so she didn't wake you up." ”
Li Yi sat up, thanked him, picked up the lunchbox, and asked, "Where are the chopsticks?" ”
Guo Xiaoling sighed: "I forgot to take it!" Wait, I'll get it right away. ”
Li Yi waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's the first time to help someone make a boxed lunch, right?" ”
"Hmm. I'm for your sake of saving my life, don't think about it. ”
Li Yi shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said secretly: "I never thought much about it. The amorous seed has already seen Hades. ”
"How do you eat it?"
Li Yi replaced the answer with action, grabbed the food with his hands, and gobbled it up.
"Ugh!" Guo Xiaoling covered her lips.
When she came back from her surprise and shock, a boxed lunch had already entered Li Yi's stomach, and she was holding a water cup to make a cow drink, and once again thundered this gentle and virtuous little beauty.
"Your fat friend, why haven't you come yet?"
"If you have something to do, go back first, I don't need anyone to take care of me here."
"Actually, it's nothing...... I'd better stay here. ”
Accompanied by beauty, Li Yi naturally would not refuse, looked up and saw the newspaper, reached out and grabbed it, ignored the beauty and rolled her eyes helplessly, looking down seriously.
The door of the ward opened, and a doctor wearing a white coat and gold-rimmed glasses walked in, followed by two nurses, one of whom was the one whom Li Yi knew, was Xia Fei.
Xia Fei was quick to talk and reminded: "Li Yi, Doctor Wu is here." ”
Li Yi put down the newspaper: "Hello, Dr. Wu." ”
Dr. Wu raised his arrogant head and chin slightly, which was regarded as an answer to Li Yi's question.
Li Yi is not angry, most doctors in this era have a natural sense of superiority. Guo Xiaoling on the side wrinkled her good-looking nose slightly.
Dr. Wu examined Li Yi's injuries and asked very firmly, "Are you a student at Southern University?" ”
Li Yi responded: "Yes." ”
"It was your school security office that sent you here, and for the sake of your school's face, we took you in, but for three days, no one came to pay a penny for treatment. Our hospital is not a charity. ”
Dr. Wu's words are very direct, two words: ask for money.
Li Yi asked, "How much?" ”
Dr. Wu raised his chin to another nurse, who immediately took a stack of slips and handed them to Li Yi to read, while explaining: "This is the hospitalization fee, this is the treatment fee, this is the medical fee......
Li Yi interrupted her and said, "Just tell me how much it is!" ”
The nurse said: "The total cost is 2,873 yuan and 6 cents, not including the follow-up treatment costs. ”
As soon as this number was reported, Guo Xiaoling couldn't help but be moved, and asked, "Isn't he seriously injured?" How did you spend so much money? ”
She understands very well that Li Yi, like her, is a student, and the pocket money in his pocket will not exceed thirty-three yuan. Five or six thousand yuan, in this era when 10,000 yuan households are still relatively awesome, it is definitely not a small amount of money on anyone, not to mention, they are still students who have no financial ability.
Li Yi sneered: "Isn't it just six thousand yuan!" Remembering what Xia Fei said, his things were all under the pillow, and he reached out and touched it and took out his own things from under the pillow. After taking it out, Li Yi was completely dumbfounded.
He forgot his situation, he was no longer the Mr. Li who went out with a card and was not afraid to go all over the world, nor was he the merry boy who spent thousands of dollars in the bar just to make him smile.
Now, he's just a poor student. The only thing he had was a crumpled wallet, and when he rummaged through it, he found only two dollars and four cents in it except for an ID card, and nothing else.
At this moment, not only Dr. Wu's face was pale, but even the nurse's eyes were full of contempt and disdain. This poor boy doesn't have much money, but he is still hard-mouthed. Thanks to Xia Fei Nanizi, she always said how good and handsome he was, she wouldn't fall in love with such a poor scholar, right?
Li Yi took out the money given by the scouts again, straightened it out one by one, stacked it, and counted it three times, sixty-five yuan.
Guo Xiaoling took out all the money from her jeans, took the money from Li Yi's hand, turned back to Dr. Wu and said, "We only have so much now, please give me a grace period of three days, and I will ask my family to borrow it." ”
Dr. Wu didn't accept the money, and said lightly: "I'm sorry, if I don't have money, I can only ask you to go out, and besides, the medical expenses that have been incurred must be paid." ”
Li Yi suddenly laughed, laughing so much that tears came out.
Guo Xiaoling glanced at him, he was about to be kicked out of the hospital, how could he still be such a heartless daxiao?
"I'm sorry, I just remembered a funny thing. We have a doctor there who has never had any medical ethics, and only recognizes money and not people. Once, a farmer was injured and had more than a dozen stitches, but because he couldn't afford to pay the high medical bills, the doctor removed the stitches. Funny, you say, isn't it funny? Well, Dr. Wu, learn from it, so let's do it, where did you cure me, and give me back to my original form! So we're both clear. ”
It was funny, but no one laughed.
Xia Fei was very painful, gritted her teeth and asked, "Doctor Wu, you won't really do that, will you?" So we study medicine just to earn this salary? If you don't save the life and help the wounded, don't you heal the hearts of your parents? That's what you taught me. ”
Dr. Wu's face seemed to be able to scrape off the ice edges, and he threw down a sentence: "Suspend the medication, when will you pay the money, and when will you recover." This is an order from the hospital, not my personal wishes. ”
With that, he turned and left.
Guo Xiaoling still had to fight, Li Yi took her hand: "No need." The world is hot and cold, nothing more than that. ”
Guo Xiaoling hurriedly said: "Then how can it be done?" Your leg hurts so badly, without medicine, it will get infected and pus! I'm going to borrow money now. ”
Li Yi asked: "In the middle of the night, where did you go to borrow so much money?" ”
Guo Xiaoling said: "I borrowed it from my roommate, asked the school leader to borrow it, asked my parents to borrow it, and I must cure you anyway." ”
Xiao Nizi's words, with a sense of tenacity, seem to have made a great determination.
A warm current welled up in Li Yi's heart, and he patted her arm gently: "Xiexie, you don't have to." Such a large amount of money is not a small amount, and there is no need to trouble so many people. Actually, Li Yi wanted to say: "Even if it makes chickens and dogs jump, it may not be useful." ”
Guo Xiaoling is a smart person, and immediately understood what Li Yi meant, squeezed her little fists fiercely, and said hatefully: "What kind of doctors are these!" Don't talk about medical ethics at all! It's not that we don't give it, it's just that we don't have money for the time being. ”
"Li Yi! Hehe, I didn't come at the right time, did I? The boy scout shouted loudly, walked in, looked at the hands held by Li Yi and Guo Xiaoling, and smiled narrowly, and the two small eyes were even more crowded together.
Guo Xiaoling broke free of the jade hand and said embarrassedly: "Your brother is here, I'll go back first, don't worry, the money is on me." As he spoke, he patted his beautiful chest. Seeing that Li Yi swallowed his saliva, this little girl, you don't lose your life if you are fascinated by death!
Guo Xiaoling walked to the door, turned around, and wanted to say something, but saw Li Yi reluctantly put his right hand on the tip of his nose and sniffed it, with a look of enjoyment on his face, he couldn't help but blush, his heart beat faster, and he walked quickly.