Long Street is a very inconspicuous old community in City A. The community has no walls, but is surrounded by simple iron railings.
There are only four buildings in the community, and the style is still the same as it was 40 years ago. The bright red paint on the floors is mottled and faded, and the faded areas are also stained with dark oil smoke.
The windows of each house are small square lattices, which have not been cleaned for many years.
Occasionally, cracks appeared in a few windows, and the cracks were covered with dirt, but no one had replaced them.
The asphalt road entering the community is also not smooth, with potholes and bumps ups and downs, and the traces of cracks spread from the uneven bars of the curved community gate all the way to the door of the unit covered with small colorful advertisements.
The illegal construction situation in the community is very serious, and the first floor has basically been converted into small shops, some selling fruits, vegetables, scones, soy milk, and xiaolongbao.
The weather suddenly warmed up, and the mosquitoes recovered. The fruit displayed in the small store was surrounded by a few listless flies. The ground was filled with a pool of sewage that came from nowhere. When you got closer, there was still an indescribable smell in the aroma of melons and fruits. of sour taste.
Most of the nearby school district houses and high-end residences have been newly built in the past few years. There are also two extraordinarily prosperous and lively shopping plazas in the surrounding area, where luxury brands can be found.
This old community is incompatible with the surrounding facilities. Its only advantage is that it is surrounded by the school district and has convenient transportation.
Early on Saturday morning, the storefront on the first floor opened its doors early, and the neighborhood was full of aroma and heat, and the already dark walls were covered with a layer of white mist.
With one arm down, Xu Tanghui used only the other hand to pick up the old paper shells and plastic bottles with liquid residue from the trash can, and put them in a sack with the word fertilizer on them.
After picking up less than half of the sack, her waist was a little bit unbearable. After all, she was old and her body was not as flexible as when she was young. She straightened up, tried her best to lean back, put her hands on her waist, and slammed it heavily. hammer.
But Xu Shi accidentally pulled the strained muscle in his left hand, Xu Tanghui wrinkled his face in pain, slightly lifted his left shoulder, and took a while to swallow the pain.
Looking at the rags in the fertilizer bag, she probably couldn't buy much money, she sighed lightly, fiddled with her slightly curly short hair, and sniffed.
Naturally, she had cried during this time, but she had known for a long time that crying could not solve any problems, and that crying would not bring any help.
Vulnerability and grievances are all for yourself, and others will not give you another look.
But she doesn't regret it.
She was obsessed with one thing all her life and never thought of giving up. Others thought she was serious, she was crazy, and it didn't matter if she was mentally abnormal. She lived her own life and had nothing to do with others.
So even if she suffers from what happened ten years ago again, she will never be defeated.
But it was once again, she was already numb from being hurt.
But Li Rong can't. Li Rong still has a bright future, lofty dreams, and determination to fight for the truth, so she must not be the one holding back her.
She was willing to use up her last remaining heat and do something worthless for Professor Li.
She doesn't want Li Rong to come to her, she doesn't want Li Rong to blame herself, all she can help is here, she can only pray for the future, if Li Rong encounters difficulties again, someone will lend a helping hand like her .
Thinking about it, Xu Tanghui's eyes became a little hot again, she took a deep breath, trying to hold back the tears.
"Sister Hui, don't do it before your hands are ready. I have a finished water bottle and carton at my house. I'll take it to your door."
Xu Tanghui heard someone talking to her, and immediately closed her eyes a few times. The back of her clean hand rubbed her red nose, turned her face, and already put on a gentle smile: "Sister, are you going to leave the stall?"
The woman stepped on a pedal of the bicycle, and the back seat sat for a long time. The little girl who lived there was pulling the spring coil under the seat and swaying back and forth.
The woman's car basket has been remodeled, and it is full of mobile phone cases, earphones, mobile phone films, key chains and other odds and ends.
The woman glanced at Xu Tanghui and knew that she had cried just now.
Thinking of the crazy scenes from last month, the woman sighed: "You really should ask the guard for compensation for that arm. How could you do such a thing, and beat people without saying anything."
Xu Tanghui waved her hand and said with a good temper: "He didn't push me on purpose. I didn't stand firm. I tripped over the wheel and fell by myself."
The woman felt sorry for Xu Tanghui, but she had no choice but to sigh one after another, her face full of sadness: "If you want me to tell you, there is no need for you. I was obsessed with what happened more than ten years ago. I sold the house in this school district, took the money, and went back to my hometown to live a good life. When I went back a few years ago, you and your brother-in-law won't get divorced. Maybe your children have all gone to school. Yeah."
Xu Tanghui lowered her eyes, moved her dirty fingers twice, smiled shyly, and avoided the woman's question: "Is your house for sale?"
If she was willing to leave, she would have left long ago.
The reason why I have been staying here is because of the hurdle in my heart.
Hearing this, the woman looked a little desolate, and shook her head heavily: "There are a few people who want to buy, but the bids are not high, so I didn't agree. Although the conditions of our community are not good, I think maybe it will be demolished in a few years. , there is still potential."
The little girl was too young to know her mother's worries, she pulled the car seat, leaned back with effort, tilted her head, and gave Xu Tanghui a bright and sweet smile.
Xu Tanghui raised her injured but clean left hand, shook it stiffly towards the little girl, and then asked the woman, "Is that child's medicine... enough?"
The woman was silent for a while, then smiled bitterly: "Not enough, Otherwise, I can't rush to sell this house."
Xu Tanghui had to comfort her: "Maybe it will be reimbursed in two years, that would be much better."
The woman shook her head: "I read the news and asked the doctor, the research and development cost of Jiaketing is too high, and it will take at least ten years for the pharmaceutical company to pay back the cost. There are seven years left, what can we do, the children have to use it, and I dont know if we can survive the day when the price of the medicine comes down.
About ten years ago, a bacterial progeria broke out across the country, and this progeria is only resistant to Spread among weak children under the age of six, it is said that some kind of bacteria can disrupt genes, which will promote persistent hypothyroidism in patients, causing irreversible individual aging.
The woman's daughter had this disease. One day, she found that her daughter's skin seemed to be rapidly dehydrated, not as delicate as a normal child. She hurriedly took her daughter to the hospital, and she was diagnosed with bacterial progeria on the same day.
At present, there is only one drug for targeted treatment on the market, which is Mecotin, which was developed by Suhe Biosciences at a cost of more than seven years and a cost of one billion.
This drug can effectively inhibit premature aging. One tablet a week can ensure that patients and normal people are not beneficial, but this drug can only be maintained and cannot be cured, which means that patients need to take medicine for life. Once the drug is stopped, it will continue to age. Due to the high development cost and the high price of Jiaketing, not everyone can afford this medicine. In the past few years, news of sick children being abandoned emerge in endlessly. Sometimes it is not the parents who are cruel, but the welfare. In the hospital, it is still possible to take this medicine and stay around, but it is just helpless.
The little girl's eyes are round and black, her lips are rosy and she is very cute when she smiles. She took a deep breath of air, puffed out her face, then closed her lips, raised her head, suddenly pouted, and blew hard on a bug.
The little bug was blown away by her and fled, she giggled.
The woman said helplessly: "If only that Lu Yinxu wasn't a liar, I really thought it was a life-saving medicine, but..."
Xu Tanghui raised her eyes sensitively when she heard the words of Lu Yinxu: "You Tell me about the medicine that Professor Li made."
The woman sneered: "You still call him Professor Li now. I listened to his interview at the time, and I really thought that a cure for the drug had been researched. He said so confidently that he guaranteed that the vast majority of people could afford it. Do you know how cruel it is to give people hope and disappoint people?"
Xu Tanghui moved her lips and wanted to argue for Li Qingli, but from the perspective of a friend, she also understood the woman's mood.
Li Qingli is kind to her, she is willing to believe and understand, but she cannot force everyone to be like her.
The little girl finally got impatient. She pressed her face against the woman's back, rubbed hard, and shouted, "Mom can't go, can't go!"
The woman looked at the time, it was time to take up the booth , There are many people who go to the square to relax on weekends, maybe they can make more money.
The woman straddled the bicycle, pressed down a large bundle of bundled goods in the basket, and stepped on the pedal with one foot: "Sister Hui, I'm leaving first, by the way, a student said to me two days ago. You are very familiar, ask me where you live, I think he is quite decent, and he doesn't seem to have bad intentions, so I will tell him."
Xu Tanghui was confused: "What student?"
The woman thought about it, not knowing where it came from At the beginning of the description, the little girl in the back seat said with great interest: "Beautiful little brother! Long hair and big eyes." She then gestured with two fingers on the position of her neck. In her concept, that Even with long hair.
Xu Tanghui's expression changed slightly.
The woman rode the car up and turned right, not forgetting to say goodbye to Xu Tanghui with one hand: "See you at night, Sister Hui."
Xu Tanghui carried the fertilizer bag and stood under the sun for a long time. The dazzling sunlight made her eyes ache. Her temples were sweating, and in the clamor of the hawkers on the first floor, she raised her eyes and saw the familiar figure of Li Rong.
Li Rong is also the first time to come to this kind of community.
Without changing his face, he walked past the piles of broken masonry, stepped over the yellow-green stale water, turned a deaf ear to the shouts of hawkers, stepped on the cracked asphalt road, and pushed aside the untrimmed random branches. Willow sticks, walked towards Xu Tanghui.
He stood in front of Xu Tanghui, his light-colored gown fluttering in the breeze, his soft broken hair tucked behind his ears, his eyes were clear and bright, and he had a calm smile on his face.
"Aunt Hui."
Xu Tanghui's heart was sour, her throat was stuffy and painful, she said angrily and anxiously: "You child, why are you looking for me?"
Li Rong's eyes moved down, falling on Xu Tanghui's drooping eyes. His left hand was bloodshot and red, and his eyes were a little bit cold.
"They caused the injury?"
Xu Tanghui immediately put her left hand behind her back, and was about to cry in a hurry: "Don't worry about it, Auntie has nothing to do with it, this matter has passed, and they have no evidence, so they can't do anything to me! "
Why can't you?" Li Rong frowned, her eyelids were deeply folded, and her eyes were filled with deep anger, "Didn't they wrong you? Then this matter can't go away."
Xu Tanghui suddenly lost her words, and the warm tears flowed from thin air. The corners of Wen's eyes slid down her dry, flushed cheeks and landed on the road littered with broken leaves and dirt.
She values her own reputation the most, otherwise she wouldn't have set up a stall in the Big A for more than ten years.
Now she has lost her reputation again, and this time, she had already made up her mind to give up for Li Rong.
She can be wronged, be kicked out of University A, or lose her only support for ten years. She has convinced herself within this month and made all the psychological preparations.
But now Li Rong came to tell her that this matter could not pass, just because she was wronged.
Li Rong stepped forward, gently wiped away the tears from Xu Tanghui's eyes, then took her rough and muddy right hand, and said softly, "I won't let you wait for another ten years, we will take revenge now. go back."