When Zhou Cheng woke up, he was groggy, so tired that he had no strength to speak, but his eyes were still open to indicate that he was listening.
His attending doctor suggested staying in the ICU for two more days. The risk of brain surgery is very high. In addition to being able to speak, he cannot move his limbs. He is at risk of breathing difficulties, fever and high fever at any time after the operation.
After leaving the ward, Dr. Liu told Zhou Cheng's family: "His symptoms have occurred in about a year. Although part of the tumor was removed, it was found that the cancer cells in his head were already spreading after filming. At present, conservative radiation therapy is considered. After hearing this ,
Liu Mei burst into tears, "Doctor, can you tell me how long he can live?"
Dr. Liu said, "It depends on Zhou Cheng's physique and desire to survive. Everyone's situation is different. People can live for ten or ten years, and some people die within a few months... Recently, there is a radiotherapy in China, boron neutron capture therapy. BNCT for short, it is very suitable for brain tumor patients. Because of its equipment The cost is high, and our hospital has not introduced it. It has pilot hospitals in S City and G City, you can consider it."
Dr. Liu has communicated with Zhou Xiu many times recently, and found that this child is very sensible and very smart although he is young. She can understand a lot of terminology in the professional field. She is already in her third year of high school, but such a thing happened at home. The doctor is very sorry.
Hearing her mother said that her grades were very good, and she just won the gold medal in the National Biology Competition some time ago, he felt even more sorry for such a good seedling.
Dr. Liu asked Zhou Xiu to go back to school, and Zhou Xiu shook his head.
Now even if Zhou Xiu is allowed to go back to school, she can't go to class with peace of mind. It is better to stay in the hospital and watch Zhou Cheng feel more at ease.
Regarding BNCT technology, Zhou Xiu has seen it many times in journal papers. It was pioneered by a Nobel Prize winner in physics in the UK in the last century. It was developed by a joint experiment between MIT and the laboratory and finally developed in Japan A type of cancer radiation therapy. In the past few days, Zhou Xiu has read the information on brain cancer and compared dozens of treatment methods one by one.
The higher the expectations, the heavier the mood. For the first time in her life, Zhou Xiu felt her own insignificance and powerlessness.
After lunch, Zhou Xiu went to check the money left in the account, feeling very heavy. The house that Liu Mei had hung up had not yet been sold, thanks to the medical expenses that Xie Cheng had deposited in advance, otherwise the balance in the bank card would not last a few days.
Zhou Xiu has written five of the ten math papers, and the most recent one scored 72. During the three days that Zhou Cheng was in a coma, she spent all her time studying mathematics except eating, drinking, sleeping, and visiting Zhou Cheng.
The people who came and went in the family lounge were a little sad when they saw this scene. They were used to seeing the scenes of adults breaking down. When they saw the back of this girl leaning on the bed to study, they were always very emotional. Before she could enjoy being pampered by her parents like her peers, she had already begun to bear the pressure of the family.
Her young shoulders are always stretched straight, no matter how difficult it is, she always studies there early in the morning or late at night. It made many adults feel their hearts warm when they saw it, and were inspired.
Zhou Xiu rubbed her eyes after writing the math test paper. In the past few days, the system seems to have lost contact, silently and without sound. With its company in the past, Zhou Xiu did not feel depressed no matter how difficult it was.
Zhou Xiu put down the phone, and the screen clearly displayed a credit of 10,000 yuan, which was the reward for the 72-point test paper. Fortunately it is still there.
The next day Zhou Cheng woke up in a daze, clamoring to change the ward.
It turned out that after he woke up, he heard the family members of the patient in the ward arguing.
Only then did Zhou Cheng know that the ward he lived in cost more than 10,000 to 20,000 per day, and that he had a terminal illness.
Zhou Xiu was shocked, but she didn't expect that something that was well concealed would be exposed so easily. Liu Mei talked to Zhou Cheng in the ward, "You can't die, you haven't had any blessings. Be obedient... We can cure the disease after we sell the house."
Zhou Cheng shook his head and sighed: "If you don't sell the house, it's not easy to get the house. I bought it, it's left to you and Xiuxiu, I want to go home..."
That house was the hard work of their family, and even the decoration was done by Zhou Cheng little by little. There are traces of his own digging.
Zhou Cheng shook his head, Liu Mei nodded. Zhou Xiu clutched the test paper in her hand, "I won't sell the house if my father doesn't want to sell it, but we need to treat the disease."
Zhou Xiu quickly calculated, how long would it take to read the 10 G documents given by Teacher Wang, a week? Or a month?
Is one month enough? Zhou Xiu has been poor since she was a child and has been suffering from poverty since she was sensible.
No matter how hard she tries in this life, can't she change the ending of her previous life? "Zhou Xiu" didn't save her father, and she was so powerless. Why does God treat them like this?
Zhou Cheng pulled out his oxygen mask and struggled to sit up, then smiled reluctantly and said, "I'm fine now, but I'm just a little dizzy. I'm going to the general ward, and I'm fine. I'm staying here now, and my whole body is uncomfortable. Really... ..."
Liu Mei kept crying, but she didn't nod her head in agreement. Zhou Cheng frowned and kept explaining, and it took a long time for Zhou Xiu to speak out, "stay for two more days, and change my ward in two days."
Zhou Xiu took out his mobile phone and showed him the background, and found the historical income records to reassure him. "I make a lot of money doing live broadcasts, don't worry about not having any money."
It's just a pity that the money has been donated... Zhou Xiu's family was prosperous when he donated it, and he never thought that an illness would easily destroy all this.
After ten minutes of visiting time, Zhou Xiu and Liu Mei walked out of the ward.
A nurse came to inform Zhou Xiu, "Xiu Xiu, your family has come to see you, in Dr. Liu's office."
Liu Mei burst into tears and asked in surprise, "What family?"
She suddenly thought that because these days Busy with Zhou Cheng's business, this month's 800 yuan pension has not been remitted. If the mother-in-law in the countryside or the group of relatives came to entangle at this time, it would be bad enough.
Zhou Xiu thought so, even so, she went to Dr. Liu's office.
What I didn't expect to see was an elite, capable-looking old man and old lady of the Jiang family.
The old man Jiang and the old lady had been waiting in the doctor's office for a long time at this time. Before they came, they asked Uncle Jiang to inquire about Zhou Xiu, and what they got were pictures of Zhou Xiu in the countryside. The whole person is black and thin, and he is not tall.
I heard that Zhou Xiu has always been the first place since he was a child, but can the first place in the township school be compared with the first place in the city key school? These materials and photos successfully reduced their expectations.
At this time, Zhou Xiu and Liu Mei came to the office. Zhou Xiu was wearing a clean autumn school uniform, a blue and white long-sleeved jacket, blue trousers, and a simple light-colored school uniform that was more eye-catching than the model advertised by the school uniform. She has a pair of black and clear eyes and snow-white skin, which makes people able to spot her in the crowd at a glance.
Her complexion was very pale, and her eyelids were covered with a thick blue shadow, which looked particularly distressing.
It was difficult for the old man Jiang and the old lady to associate her with the photos. Unexpectedly, the poor and inconspicuous girl in the past turned out to be the young and beautiful girl in front of her. After being stunned
for a moment, they said, "You are Zhou Xiu, aren't you? I want to tell you something, you are actually our granddaughter."
Grandpa and grandma."
Liu Mei was startled, her eyelids kept beating, she hurriedly took Zhou Xiu's hand and said in a panic, "Xiu Xiu, let's go, they've got the wrong person."
Mrs. Jiang saw Liu Mei here . With a flustered appearance, there are some not-so-good guesses in his heart, and the things that happened back then were unusual. They are children lost in City B, how could they be lost in such a poor mountain corner? She must have been kidnapped.
Liu Mei kept shaking her head, "No, you are mistaken, this is my daughter." She looked up at Zhou Xiu, "Xiu Xiu, let's go. You didn't eat anything in the afternoon, you must be hungry?
" It hasn't been made clear yet, how can the old couple of the Jiang family let Zhou Xiu leave?
In just ten minutes, Mrs. Jiang had already said Zhou Xiu's life experience like a bean.
The more she said, the more tears flowed in Liu Mei's eyes, the old lady smiled and said with a little reserved arrogance: "Zhou Xiu, come with us. We will cover your father's medical expenses for you.
" The educational resources are not very good, we can send you to the best school in City B. You are already in the third year of high school, although your grades in the countryside are not bad, but you will definitely not be able to keep up with that. You can repeat the study for one year and then take the college entrance examination next year. , or send you to study abroad next year. Zhou Xiu, do you understand?"
If the students in Class 24 heard this, they would probably think it was very absurd and incredible. Are you crazy to say such things to Xiu Shen! Is this the wealthy family who have watched too many dramas about their relatives?
Zhou Xiu had been listening all the time without saying a word. Seeing Liu Mei's tears falling like beans, she was busy soothing her mother's emotions.
Her left ear is the cry of Liu Mei, and her right ear is the "life experience" revealed by the two old people. After Zhou Xiu overcame the initial shock, she quickly calmed down, and she quickly sorted out the key from these chaotic information. , said seriously: "I understand, thank you, but it doesn't have to be like this."
She took Liu Mei's hand and returned to the simple family lounge. Liu Mei's hands and feet were very cold, and Zhou Xiu pulled her a napkin a few times. Can't wipe her tears away.
Liu Mei said, "Xiu'er, you are the mother's Xiu'er, they lied to you."
Zhou Xiu saw Liu Mei's appearance, and already knew in her heart that what the two unfamiliar old couples said just now was mostly true. She nodded, "I know." In the
afternoon, Zhou Xiu went to deposit the balance of the card into Zhou Cheng's account.
When she came back, she happened to bump into the old couple Jiang and asked Liu Mei in the lounge. Rather than asking, it's better to say "questioning". Their questions are like knives, and each sentence is colder than the other.
"Who did you buy Zhou Xiu from
back then?" "Are the things she wore on her back then?"
Liu Mei kept shaking her head, unable to bear the humiliation, she couldn't help raising her voice and said, "No, it's not like this..." It was
too much to ask! Zhou Xiu took a deep breath and walked into the lounge, and said unbearably, "I think I've made it very clear that you are not welcome here. You can leave. My mother is very tired. Don't stimulate her any more.
" Lost for a moment, she opened her mouth slightly in surprise. She didn't expect Zhou Xiu to speak to her in such a tone.
She regained her usual arrogance and indifference, walked out of the lounge and turned around and suggested: "Son, you may think we are liars now. But you can check Xingda and think about saying these words. Come with me, you You will go to the best school, you will meet the best friends, teachers, you will have an endless supply of beautiful clothes, you can eat whatever you want, you will have everything that others can’t envy, and you will never have to stay Bad environment, endure poverty.
Your adoptive father is very ill, and the medical expenses are a lot. You can call me grandma now."
Liu Mei looked at them in disbelief after hearing this, and then looked at Zhou Xiu eagerly, tears falling down her cheeks. Even more powerful.
She finally understood something, if Zhou Xiu followed them, she would have a good life. In comparison, the humiliation she received was nothing. The phrase "Xiu Xiu, you are your mother's daughter" in her mouth silently swallowed into her throat, her face full of fear of losing.
Zhou Xiu patted Liu Mei's hand soothingly, and closed the lounge door in front of the old couple.
In the lounge, Liu Mei cautiously whispered to the family members of the patients what "Xingda" was, and took out her mobile phone and asked them to Baidu to show her.
She used Zhou Xiujiao's method to convert a whole screen of incomprehensible words into speech, and hid in the corner and listened with difficulty. The more she listened, the more lonely and humble the expression on her face. She glanced at Zhou Xiu, who was hard at work writing the test paper, both happy and sad.
In the afternoon, Zhou Xiu fought for 10 minutes of visiting time to accompany Zhou Cheng.
I don't know who told him that Zhou Xiu's grandparents came to the door today, Zhou Cheng said in a daze: "Xiu'er, let me tell you something..."
"The first time Mom and Dad saw you that day, you were only five or six months old. Someone asked us to help look after the baby. Dad hugged you for a while, and that person never came back. I waited for a month. , he didn't come back."
At that time, Zhou Cheng didn't expect that this hug would last a lifetime. At that time, there were quite a lot of families who abandoned girls in the countryside, so he took Zhou Xiu back home without thinking much. Not long after Zhao Di died, Zhou Cheng and Liu Mei thought that Zhou Xiu was a child supplied by God, and named Zhou Xiu.
Zhou Cheng's soft voice was so weak that it could almost be blown away by a gust of wind, and Zhou Xiu had to lean in to listen to it clearly.
"We treat you as our own daughter. The relationship between Zhao Di and us is too thin, so we have to raise you well. Xiu'er, I'm sorry... Dad hasn't read a book, he's too stupid to understand Dad's show My son will be wronged too. Fortunately, you are smart and assertive.
It doesn’t matter if I can’t live anymore, after all, God has given me such a smart and kind daughter.”
Zhou Xiu couldn’t stop her tears after listening to it. Nod. She knew that what they asked Liu Mei was humiliating to her. In such a poor place as Xiushui Village, there are too many girls in the Zhou family to count. How could Zhou Cheng and Liu Mei buy girls? But Liu Mei was willing to be humiliated by others for her sake.
In the past, Zhou Xiu always had a sense of anger in her heart, complaining that Zhou Cheng and Liu Mei made her suffer too much, but in her dream, "Zhou Xiu" never looked back at her parents after she walked out of the mountain.
Zhou Cheng knelt down in front of Grandma Zhou for the last time, gave up his biological mother, and chose to return to City C with them. At that moment, Zhou Xiu realized that her father loved her very much. The "Zhou Cheng" in the dream would rather die of illness than drag "Zhou Xiu" down. She should have understood it long ago, understood the regret of "Zhou Xiu", and understood the forgiveness that she didn't have time to say. She understood her regret for not being able to show her filial piety in front of Zhou Cheng's hospital bed.
At this time, Zhou Xiu's eyes seemed to have a picture. From then on, "Zhou Xiu" threw away mathematics, biology, and ideals, devoted himself to the most profitable career, and became the most desperate person, working tirelessly day and night. Many years later, she knelt in front of Zhou Cheng's tomb, flicked away the grass, and burned stacks of money to Zhou Cheng and Liu Mei in heaven.
Zhou Xiu walked out of the ward, took out a test paper from her schoolbag, and slowly unfolded it. Her tears dripped onto the test paper, and the ink of the water-based pen swam into an ink flower.
The dignity of the poor always carries a deep sense of helplessness. It is difficult for them to maintain their dignity, and they have to bend their torsos and bow their heads to life, humble and unwilling to yield. Zhou Xiu's tears rushed down like a dam burst. She held a pen, and the tip of the pen fluently wrote a series of numbers and symbols.
She is convinced that those places that are reached with love and dreams, she can also try hard.
Quietly late at night, Zhou Xiuhong stared and racked her brains, writing this test paper with all her patience and care, so devout as if they represented Zhou Cheng's hope of living. How she hoped that her dream could save Zhou Cheng.
"Your account 4***6, online payment of income RMB 30,000 on November 2, balance after transaction 30,012.5"
"Your account 4***6, online payment of income RMB on November 2 30,000 yuan, the balance after the transaction is 60,012.5"
"Your account is 4***6, and the online payment income is 30,000 yuan on November 2, and the balance after the transaction is 90,012.5"
until Zhou Xiu wrote late at night... After her phone vibrated for the last time, the battery died.
"Your account is 4***6, and the online payment income was 10,000,000 yuan on November 2, and the balance after the transaction was 1,090,012.5." Early in the
morning, many friends sent text messages and asked Zhou Xiu in shock: "I saw you wrote in the live broadcast room. One night's test paper, is Xiu Shen so awesome?"
Gu Mingxi asked, "How did you do your last test paper? It's all right, it's amazing!"
Xu Qing noticed that Zhou Xiu had accumulated a lot of money in the live broadcast room this week. It has been online for more than 90 hours. "What's wrong with Xiuxiu these days? Pay attention to your body."
Xie Cheng also asked, "Is Uncle better? If the medical expenses are not enough, we will help you find a solution."
Even Lao Wang sent a message to ask: "Zhou Xiu, I heard that you are still writing mathematics in the middle of the night, so diligent? The teacher forgives you for being absent from school these days."
Lao Wang would not know that Zhou Xiu asked for leave. Because of this, Zhou Xiu was reminded by students early in the morning to write the test papers for the night, and he was so moved that he almost thought that Zhou Xiu was taking time off to review mathematics.
After Zhou Xiu wrote the last test paper, she slept until noon. When she woke up, she turned on her phone and was overwhelmed by news. Almost every one reminded her to go to her live broadcast room. The barrage of Zhou Xiu's live broadcast room was like snowflakes at the moment, and it was so dense that she couldn't read the words.
She didn't understand what happened until she saw the last text message of the bank transfer. It turned out... She did all the last papers correctly.
The last three questions in the test paper that Zhou Xiu did were all the most difficult final deformation questions of the previous IMO sessions. They were solved perfectly at four o'clock in the morning. The new style of problem-solving ideas made the fans watching the live broadcast slip on their knees and call 666. , the anchor of this live broadcast room is a real god of learning, the kind who doesn't mix it with water at all.
Zhou Xiu stared at the balance of the account, showing her teeth unexpectedly, she quickly transferred 200,000 to Xie Cheng.
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