Ode to joy

Chapter 70

Fan Shengmei has been very sleepy, tired, upset and irritable since she went to work.But she had no choice but to fight hard.It is not only her smiling face, but also her skin that needs to be strengthened. She hardly slept all night. Finally, her father gave up the head of the bed. Considering that she had to go to work to earn wages, her mother let her barely sleep with Lei Lei for more than two hours. Hour.Her skin even repelled liquid foundation, so naturally she couldn't allow loose powder to adhere to her skin, and her face was extremely gray in the sun.

I don't know how many cups of tea and coffee I drank. When Fan Shengmei went into the tea room to make instant coffee again, a colleague came over quietly and said with a smile: "Xiao Fan, please do me a favor. I have been late several times this month. There is a record of clocking in, please be merciful. I am a house slave who owes a whole body of debts, and after deducting those, I will drink the northwest wind."

Fan Shengmei also smiled apologetically, "The assessment hasn't come to me yet, I've checked it for you a few times, and I'll send you a text message later. But these records are dead, and there is no way to change them unless the program is modified. "

"It's not changing... I mean, you made a mistake when you counted the number of lateness, and pretended that you didn't see my lateness. Hehe, please, please."

"It's really not something I can change just by changing it. Several people have handled this statistics, and if I change it, it will be found out by others. I'm really sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

The colleague left angrily, obviously dissatisfied with Fan Shengmei's reply, probably a small thorn was formed just like this.But Fan Shengmei was helpless, if this kind of cheating was discovered, she would lose her job.What else does she have besides work?Now only work is her lifeblood.

She took a sip of coffee and went back to work.Perhaps it is because the amount added today is too large, and the coffee tastes extremely bitter.

Before Fan Shengmei could take a second sip, an unfamiliar mobile phone called.Fan Shengmei is a little nervous now, when she sees an unfamiliar number, she suspects that the one on the other end is her debt collector brother, so she refuses to answer it.But the number relentlessly dialed in again.Fan Shengmei reluctantly went to the bathroom to answer the phone.On the other end, a strange man sternly said: "Your mother talked to you, what happened?"

Fan Shengmei was baffled, thinking that someone had dialed the wrong number, but soon her mother's voice came from the phone, "Amei, we were locked out by the building security..."

"Ah, didn't I tell you not to go out of the building, the building has access control."

"No, Lei Lei wants to come out to play, but he can't control it. If he doesn't let him play, he will cry. But when we come back, the security guard won't let us in, saying that we didn't bring any cards. No matter how we ask, we can't do anything. I haven't eaten lunch yet. Fortunately, a kind person lent us a mobile phone to call you, what to do, you should think of a way, Lei Lei is so hungry."

"Did you go downstairs without any money?"

"Bring it, five yuan."

"You return the phone to them, thank you. I'll call the security room and talk to them."

Fan Shengmei stared blankly for a while, and then exhaustedly dialed out the phone number from the security room.Hearing the familiar voice of Xiao Zheng, he quickly apologized and said with a smile: "Xiao Zheng, my mother called just now and said she was locked up outside. Yes, it's two old couples with a child."

"Oh, I didn't believe it when they said it was your family. How could I live there. Miss Fan, I really can't help it. You know the rules. If other residents see me letting someone in without permission, the boss will fire me. I'm a squid."

Fan Shengmei felt that this conversation sounded very familiar, "Xiao Zheng, be accommodating, please help, just once, I will make up the visa immediately after get off work."

"It will kill me to sign up after get off work. I will change shift after you get off work. People in the next shift must sue the leader. Why don't you leave a card for your parents."

Fan Shengmei still smiled apologetically, and her smile became softer and softer: "Xiao Zheng, friends, please help me. You can ask my dad to sign for me and let them in. Even if you help your friends, once, just once, they will be very cold." It's freezing outside, and I haven't eaten yet."

Xiao Zheng smiled and said: "Friends are exempted, you can't get high, and you, Miss Fan, have never regarded us as friends. Although your two neighbors 2201 and 2203 did not regard us as friends, they still gave us some Christmas presents anyway. Be human. I can't help you take this risk, our whole family is still waiting for my salary."

Fan Shengmei's face turned pale with anger. At the critical moment, the tenant is still a tenant, and that's the difference.Usually polite, it is all fake.But Fan Shengmei had to say in a good voice: "Then the last request, let my mother answer the phone, and I will tell them, so I won't trouble you."

Fan Shengmei's mother picked up the phone again, and Fan Shengmei said: "Mom, please wait a little more than an hour, oh, I'll take half a day off."

"Hey, don't ask for leave, deduct money. Don't, work hard, earn money, don't let your boss look bad at you, and don't call you during working hours."

The phone was hung up by Fan's mother, and Fan Shenghao couldn't recover for a while.Yoyo came back to life, only to realize that Xiao Zheng's joke of rejecting her was the same as her rejection of her colleague just now.Life is absurd.

Qu Xiaoxiao took advantage of lunch time to rush to the hospital to verify the results of microblog forced donations, but unexpectedly met Dr. Zhao at the child's bedside. "I've earned it!" Qu Xiaoxiao said heartily, her eyes suddenly forgot to count the piles of down jackets and duvets piled up at the end of the bed, she just circled around Dr. Zhao who was inspecting the injured leg brilliantly.It wasn't until the child saw her and called her auntie loudly that she was pulled back from the Ninth Level Nymphomaniac realm to the dark world.

Doctor Zhao looked up at Qu Xiaoxiao, but just smiled, then lowered his head to operate.Qu Xiaoxiao froze for a few seconds, pretending to look down at the down jacket.But she took out a dark green down skirt from a pile of down and got angry. She glanced at the hang tag below and knew who it belonged to, so she dialed the number immediately.

"Hey, what are you doing with a skirt? I made it clear that it's a boy."

Qu Xiaoxiao's friend smiled and said: "My old lady said, I'll wear it for you, don't be like girls these days who have two black legs, they seem to have forgotten to wear pants to go out. Haha, just kidding. When I took the pants, I saw the skirt. Thinking that the child’s legs are not strong enough, it’s better to put on a skirt, tie it up and down, and don’t need to wear shoes. Anyway, if they don’t like to use it, they can wear it for the child’s mother. I gave some money back, tell me, why? dinner."

"Well, at night, you decide the place, and you can post an account on Weibo. I didn't expect you to be very careful. You will be blessed with someone in the future."

The child's mother kept smiling at Qu Xiaoxiao, and when Qu Xiaoxiao finished talking on the phone, she smiled and said, "You guys are really nice friends, but you don't even want to take a sip of water before leaving. I really thank you all."

"Thank you, in the words of uncle **, this is what I should do."

Dr. Zhao laughed out loud when he heard the nondescript words, "Come on, come and go, I want to concentrate on my work."

Qu Xiaoxiao's eyebrows twitched twice, and she rushed over to kiss the little boy, but she was brave, so she also rushed over to kiss Dr. Zhao's face, and then walked away.What?He said he broke up with him?Of course, the affairs of two people cannot be decided by one person.She didn't make a statement, but it doesn't count if Dr. Zhao said it!

Dr. Zhao was stunned, turned to look at the nurse who was also surprised, and shut up.

Fan Shengmei ran to the bus station as soon as she got off work, and ran to the subway after getting off the bus, and hurried home. What she saw was her parents sitting in the lee with their lips blue and blue from the cold, wrapped in scarves and so on. On Lei Lei, Lei Lei ran around happily, as if nothing had happened.As he approached, seeing clearly the tears in her mother's eyes, Fan Shengmei was heartbroken.She led her parents into the building, and when she saw the glances of the security guards who had changed shifts, she knew that the news had already spread.What else could be going on, nothing more than deceiving her as a tenant.Fan Shengmei gritted her teeth, but there was nothing she could do. She complained to the property management, and they ignored the tenants. They wished that all the tenants would be vacated, so as not to increase the difficulty of their management.Fan Shengmei has always known that people are poor and bullied.

In the elevator, Fan Shengmei strategically asked: "What does Lei Lei have for lunch?"

"Fried buns." Lei Lei said loudly, obviously quite satisfied.

Fan Shengmei's face darkened, "Parents didn't eat it? He ate it all?"

"As we are older, we will be hungry every time we are hungry. Can't we eat big cakes?"

Fan Shengmei looked at her parents who were cold, hungry and tired, and her heart began to waver.Is she too hard-hearted, should she use a credit card to overdraft?

Entering 2202, Fan's mother began to divide the big pie busily.The first big cake was given to Fan's father, the parents; the second was given to Fan Shengmei. Fan's mother said that she had a hard day at work, so she hurried to eat.Mother Fan was not in a hurry to eat, and started to boil water first.Fan Shengmei put down her bag, washed her hands and removed her make-up, and saw her father sitting outside the door again, so she was not in a hurry to eat big cakes, but to get over her cigarette addiction.Her mother was sitting by the kettle, dozing off with her head tilted to one side.Lei Lei was talking to Grandpa in the corridor.Fan Shengmei felt miserable, and stood in front of her mother, staring at her in a daze.

The water boiled, and the spout of the kettle made a sharp cry. Mother Fan woke up suddenly, and got up staggeringly to carry the kettle.Fan Shengmei hastily stretched out her hand to get ahead.

"Mom, give me fifty. I'll go buy something to eat. You haven't eaten for a day, and you've been frozen for another day. You can't just eat big pancakes."

"No, eat pancakes! Anyway, Lei Lei eats meat at noon. The rest of the day is over, you won't be paid until next month. If you want to eat something good, eat it in the cafeteria at noon."

"Let's talk about it in the future, people have to eat. Give me the money, at least go buy a few eggs."

Fan's mother took a bite of the pancake with boiling water, and after thinking for a while, she gave Fan Shengmei 15 yuan, "Go and buy two catties of eggs, add a pack of soy sauce, and ask the little girl to borrow a pot to cook two catties of hard-boiled eggs, enough for us to eat." A few days. I saw big pancakes and steamed buns on the road, so I bought a few more. I spent 20 yuan today, so I should save money.” But after thinking about it, I took out another [-] yuan to give to Fan Shengmei, “Buying milk for Lei Lei, that one Bags of milk."

Fan Shengmei put down the pancake, but she didn't eat it, not only because she had no appetite, but her throat was dry and sore, and she wanted to cry.She put her bag on her back and went out silently.Overdraft, she decided to overdraw.Not only to buy food, but also to find a hotel for parents, otherwise, they will be tossed to death within three days.

But Fan's mother suddenly thought of something, and called out to her daughter, "Amei, I asked for you, the girl next door to you... last night, the girl who drove the car promised to lend you money, and asked her how much she wanted. Ask her Borrow some, and pay her back immediately when she gets paid next month."

Qu Xiaoxiao?Mom asked Qu Xiaoxiao to borrow money?What does Qu Xiaoxiao mean?Fan Shengmei didn't move a step, she just stood there thinking for a while, her throat didn't hurt anymore, but she hardened her heart again.Well, just go to the supermarket and spend the 25 yuan.

It happened that Qiu Yingying came back from get off work and stepped out of the elevator. She greeted Fan Shengmei and was pushed back to the elevator by Fan Shengmei, and the two of them went up together.Qiu Yingying was puzzled and asked, "Sister Fan, what's wrong? What do you want me to do?"

Fan Shengmei remained silent until she was the last one to go out, and she tactfully leaned on Qiu Yingying's shoulder, "Let Sister Fan cry for a while, don't ask."

Qiu Yingying was puzzled, she stood upright and supported Fan Shengmei, making her weep softly.Qiu Yingying did not dare to ask a question.

The elevator stopped for a while, and the door opened for a while to reach the first floor. Fan Shengmei stood up straight, wiped away her tears and walked out of the lobby with Qiu Yingying, unwilling to let the security guard see the joke.When Qiu Yingying heard that Fan Shengmei was going to the supermarket, she was worried about Fan Shengmei's condition, so she went with her.

Andy wanted to go home later, but after visiting the bookstore and buying a few books she liked, she wanted to go home and read immediately.She thinks that at this hour, 2202 should be peaceful, and she can almost go back.

After getting out of the elevator, I didn't hear any sound, but saw Father Fan sitting at the door against the wall again.She greeted her politely, but it was strange that Father Fan lowered his head and ignored her.She suddenly found that half of the pancake had fallen to the ground.Andy was startled, and quickly knocked on the door of 2202, "Is anyone there? Is Fan Shengmei here?"

No one answered inside, and Andy rushed in to check, and saw the child sleeping peacefully on the bed, while Fan's mother next to her was sleeping soundly on the head of the bed.Andy was a little relieved, suspecting that Father Fan didn't have a good rest last night, and fell asleep while eating.She patted Father Fan on the shoulder, trying to wake him up and let him go into the room to sleep, but after pushing him several times, Father Fan still didn't wake up, and Andy panicked, and quickly lifted Father Fan's chin, only to see him clenching his teeth, His face was wrong.

Seeing that something was wrong, Andy tried to give Fan's father artificial respiration, but he couldn't pry Fan's mouth open. In a hurry, he pressed the elevator and waited at the elevator door.The elevator opened, and there was indeed a man inside. She pushed open the elevator and asked anxiously, "Is it quicker to call an ambulance, or send it there by yourself? There is a sudden illness here."

The people inside were taken aback, "Maybe it's better to send it there by yourself."

"Please do me a favor and lift the man into the car. Thank you very much."

The man saw that Andy didn't look like a bad guy, and didn't feel like a fraud, so he rushed out of the elevator, helped Andy carry Fan's father into the elevator, and sent him to the car again.When Andy asked, it turned out that the nearest hospital was the one where Dr. Zhao was located, and she happened to be familiar with the way, so she rushed out like flying.

Fan Shengmei and Qiu Yingying came back from the supermarket with their shopping bags in their hands. They only saw Fan's mother and Lei Lei sleeping soundly, but Fan's father was nowhere to be seen.Although Fan Shengmei murmured in her heart, she didn't take it seriously. She suspected that her father might have asked her mother for some money and went out to buy cigarettes. Her father did the two things of buying cigarettes and alcohol by himself.She put down the things at hand, afraid that her mother would catch a cold, so she gently pushed her to wake her up.

"Dad went to buy cigarettes? You won't let me bring them back together. Mom, you lie on the bed and sleep, I'll go downstairs and wait for Dad to come back. Otherwise, I'll have to let you in again."

"Your father..." Fan's mother rolled her eyes with difficulty, "I didn't say to buy cigarettes." She took out the wallet hidden in her pocket and counted the banknotes. There were few bills, and she was familiar with them. That's right, a lot.

Fan Shengmei rolled her eyes, went to the stairwell and yelled at the stairs, but unfortunately no one answered.She didn't know what was going on, but nothing could happen to an old man, and it wasn't Lei Lei.She walked back and wanted to move the chair back into the room, but when she lowered her head, she found half a pancake under the chair.

"Mom, something happened to Dad, come and see."

Fan's mother came out staggeringly with dazed eyes, and Qiu Yingying also came out to look. Both of them saw half a big pancake on the ground.Fan's mother was fully awake at this time, "Old man, old man. Your dad is never willing to throw away food. Something happened to your dad. Something happened to your dad. Go find it. Oh, I shouldn't be asleep, I shouldn't be sleeping with..."

Fan Shengmei was in a hurry, but when the phone rang, she saw that it belonged to Andy, and she wanted to pinch it off, so she handed it to Qiu Yingying, "You pick it up for me, I'll go downstairs and ask the security guard."

Qiu Yingying picked it up and yelled: "Sister Fan, Sister Fan, don't go, your father had a stroke and Andy sent him to the emergency treatment. Hurry up, let's go to the hospital."

"Ouch, go to the hospital." Mother Fan rushed to the elevator.Fan Shengmei also ran towards the elevator.But Mother Fan quickly thought of one thing, "Leilei, what should we do with Leilei?"

"I'll take care of it." Qiu Yingying could only stay.

Stepping into the elevator, Mother Fan took out her wallet and returned it to Fan Shengmei.Needless to say, Fan Shengmei also knew what her mother meant. Everyone knew that she would not be able to get out of the hospital without peeling off her skin. The money in her wallet was not enough.Fan Shengmei was indifferent. She thought that even if she overdrawn her only credit card, she might not be able to pay the medical expenses for her father's stroke.I'm going to borrow money again, and this time I'm going to borrow a lot of money.Ask who to borrow?

After taking out a piece of one hundred yuan, the mother and daughter took a taxi to the hospital and got back a few pieces of change.At this time, Mother Fan didn't care about money anymore, and went straight to the emergency room with her daughter.

When Fan Shengmei saw Andy, she rushed over and grabbed Andy's arm, and asked anxiously, "What's going on, does it matter if my dad wants it?"

Andy was uncomfortable, but it was inconvenient to retract his arm at this time, so he turned his body a little stiffly, and said: "The doctor told me just now that my life was saved. But the problem is very serious, and a series of examinations are still needed. I can't keep up with the specific medical terminology, and I can't compare Chinese and English. I'm sorry, you can ask the doctor when he comes out. Also, I may be late when I go home, so I need to be early..."

"Thank you, if it weren't for you, my dad would be in big trouble when I got home. Thank you, thank you."

(End of this chapter)