Chapter I Doctors

"Many times, people become more and more realistic because of the cruelty of life, and life becomes more and more cruel because of the reality of people!"

-"Ordinary Life"

Li Wenming finally finished reading the book recommended by his friend. When he closed the book, he gave a wry smile and thought, yes, the ideal is full and the reality is very skinny. This is the ordinary life of ordinary people.

Li Wenming, 35, was born in an ordinary rural family in Liaoning Province. He was very clever since he was a child, and finally he didn't live up to his parents' expectations. He was successfully admitted to the Medical College of Hanbei University in Hanbei City, Huzhong Province. After he was admitted to the university, he suddenly became a celebrity in ten miles and eight townships.

Li Wenming remembers that his letter of admission to Hanbei University was delivered to his home by the village chief himself. At that time, express delivery was not as developed as it is now. Everything mailed in the village is concentrated in the village Committee. The people in the village Committee will collect everyone's things and send them to the post office in the town for mailing. The village chief will broadcast a notice to pick them up every three times through the loudspeaker. As a result, when I was a child, Li Wenming often heard in his memory, "Zhao Laosi, ah ~, Zhao Laosi, there is a package you sent from Henan. Please have time to register with Uncle Zhao in the village Committee's communication room. " Later simplified to:

"Liu Laogen, ah ~, Liu Laogen, there is a box you sent from Guangdong, Tie Guai Li, ah ~, Tie Guai Li, and a registered letter from your Southwest Military Region ... please pick it up at the old place of the village Committee."

Li Wenming still remembers that from the year when his college entrance examination ended, his father, uncle, mother and sister began to pay special attention to the public address broadcasting in this village.

In the father's time, because the family was particularly poor and lacked food and clothing, the Li family took out many years' savings, plus the subsidy given by his uncle who was injured and retired in the Vietnam War self-defense counterattack, before they got together three large pieces of bride price and married their father. His uncle, Li Yuanchao's younger brother Li Kangyue, became one of the few old bachelors in the village. Because he was shot in the leg and limped, many old acquaintances in the village jokingly called him "Tie Guai Li", and he smiled and agreed, which would not be regarded as an insult.

At that time, Li Yuanchao was catching up with the very strict family planning policy, because the first child gave birth to a baby girl, who was also a farmer, so the policy allowed another child. Unexpectedly, the second child was a baby girl. At that time, family planning was strictly investigated and punished, and it was possible that you might lose everything. Only having boys was considered as a preference for boys, which was a deep-rooted concept for families. "It is unfilial not to have a boy, and parents can't be shut down when they die." Some old people in the village even talk about it. Under all kinds of pressure, Li Yuanchao had to endure the pain and secretly miscarry the second-born girl inferred by the village doctor's pulse, so her mother cried for several months. Up to now, no one dares to give birth to a second sister Li Wenming in advance in front of her. Later, it was not until Li Yuanchao was in his thirties that Li Wenming appeared. Li Wenming is the only son of the Li family.

Therefore, Li Wenming was loved by grandpa, grandma, dad, mom, uncle and sister since childhood. It is indeed a collection of "but his love for three thousand people is concentrated on one body".

"It's almost the end of August. Why haven't you heard the letter yet? "

"Yes, I heard that the admission notices of the neighboring village head Guijiawa College have all come down."

Just as Li Wenming's family was worried, the village chief came with a group of people beating gongs and drums. It turns out that the village chief thinks that there hasn't been a famous college student in the village for more than ten years, and Li Wenming is giving the whole village a long face. However, knowing that Li Yuanchao's family was poor, the village chief decided to call party member in the village for a meeting first. Everyone made up 12860 yuan, and the Zhao family band invited by the village also came to join us for free. According to their words, "I also want to be happy with civilization. I hope my baby can be admitted to a good university like Civilization in the future. " This may also be the simplest wish of all parents in the village at that time.

"Village head, this money, we can't want it! They are all from the same village, and no one is better off than anyone else, you ~! " Li Yuanchao said.

"Yes, village head, we have received everyone's wishes, and everyone can come to me. Our Li family has already hit the wall. " As a former soldier, Tie Guai Li is one of the few people in the village who know a few words except the village head, but he only knows a few, so he often doesn't even know the wrong idioms himself.

At that time, Li Wenming also felt particularly proud, as if suddenly his whole body exuded an invisible light and even enveloped his whole family.

Even distant relatives who haven't seen each other several times are sometimes flattered: "Ouch ~, your Li family has a big shot, so you used to be a scholar!" " "

Others disagree: "A scholar? Civilization was admitted to a first-class university. It can't be said that it is the best and a good person. "

"..."

? In short, all relatives and friends have light on their faces.

One summer vacation, Li Wenming came home from college, and his sister Li Wenjuan told him about it. He didn't correct what they said, just smiled and went on reading. However, he felt a little more pressure in his heart.

In fact, Hanbei University is one of the top universities in China, and some majors are not even worse than Tsinghua Peking University, including medical related majors. Of course, it is extremely difficult for all provinces to get into Hanbei University, and the admission rate is extremely low. It is not an exaggeration to describe it with one in hundreds of thousands.

But he has high hopes for ka-wo lee and the villagers, and naturally knows what this means. If you don't mix up in the future, how can you have the face to go back to your hometown? Will it also implicate your parents and relatives and be gossiped by others?

Time flies, the whole family and even the whole village are looking forward to Li Wenming's graduation and returning home one day. Earlier, some people in the village hoped that if Li Wenming could be a big official in the future, it would be good to build a road for the village. Later, this statement was never mentioned again. Unlike other majors, Li Wenming majored in medicine. Medicine, a matter of life and death, is a very serious major, which can be said to be the most rigorous one among many majors. Therefore, generally speaking, medical majors are different from other undergraduate majors, and it takes longer to graduate smoothly. The clinical medicine major of Li Wenming University is a seven-year program, which is three years longer than the general undergraduate major. Seven years! Some people have graduated with a master's degree. He just graduated from undergraduate course, so he can only go to the hospital for internship first.

As a post-80s Li Wenming, as an intern with a low salary, Li Wenming, as a Li Wenming who barely lives without a house or a car in Hanbei City, sometimes feels helpless and loses sleep in the middle of the night.

After graduating from college, he never even dared to go home again. Except for a few days during the Spring Festival, he refused to go back to the small village where the whole family and village were proud of him.

He used to be afraid that pupils from a village would come to him, especially afraid that they would ask for the night. In that case, he had to pay them to arrange a room in a nearby hotel, and never dared to let them see the small partition in a shabby old apartment he was renting now. Yes, a small partition, a small partition in the living room. When renting a house, the agent said it was a fine decoration, yes, but it seems to be a fine decoration in the last century, and the floor has been broken and deformed. If you encounter the rainy season in summer, you will smell moldy from time to time. When you turn on the kitchen light, you can always see the scene of "Xiao Qiang" running away. It's a good thing that you eat the hospital cafeteria by yourself, and you won't cook here like other residents. Li Wenming lived in such a small room when he just graduated. He didn't apply because the hospital dormitory was full. The new dormitory has not been built yet, and there will be subsidies for living outside the hospital, so Li Wenming chose this place.

? He kept a small part of his savings and sent the rest home. Because my father's asthma is getting worse and worse, the medicine can't be broken. He studied medicine so that he could treat patients like his father in the future. At first, he didn't have such a great ideal of saving the world. He only knows that it costs a lot of money to see a doctor. If he can see a doctor, he can at least help his relatives. This is the result that it took him a day or two to come up with when he filled in his volunteers after studying hard in the cold window 12 years. He wanted to be a doctor, so he chose clinical medicine as his major.

? Now, many years later, when he learned that many alumni who chose computer, finance and other popular majors, some started their own businesses to become big bosses, and some became executives of Internet companies with an annual salary of several hundred thousand, he once regretted it. Because he found that making money is the last word. With money, he can treat his father, he can afford a house, he can give his relatives better living conditions and repay their kindness. Although I have studied medicine for many years now, I have left my hometown and can't stay with my parents often, let alone treat his elderly.

Yes, the wave of reform and opening up is rolling in, and many changes have taken place in the countryside in recent years. The small village he is familiar with is becoming more and more strange to him.

Many parents began to let them go out to work after graduating from junior high school. Many people go to learn auto repair and haircut to do small businesses in the town, and some even travel thousands of miles south to Guangzhou, Fujian Province to collect waste products, do small businesses and enter factories. ...

Of course, most of their days are still tight. But the first batch of people who went out to work did make some money. Liu Laogen's family, the first in their village to build a small building, was built after the whole family earned more than ten years of money collecting waste in Fujian. Pockmarked Li's family in the west of the village was also the first in the village to buy a car. Li Wenming, the son of Pockmarked Li, knows him. He is a frequent visitor in the last ten grades of his class, and he likes to be naughty best. His father took him to Guangzhou before he finished junior high school.

However, his family in Li Wenming lived there because his father was ill. Before farming, you need to pay various taxes and fees. The village calls it "retention". Sometimes after a year's hard work, after deducting all expenses such as "retention" and the cost of buying seed pesticides, we will lose money in a disaster year. Even if the years are too good, the collapse of agricultural products prices will lose money.

In this way, a university in Li Wenming has saved money in Li Wenming for seven years. Although his grades were very good, and he was even sent to graduate school, he still gave up. He needs to work early. When he sent his first month's salary home, he thought to himself that he could no longer take money from home.

Today, only his family in the village still lives in a broken tile house that leaks rain. Moreover, the old people in the village will no longer force their children to enter any university. I was sent to learn duets and go to art school earlier. I heard that art is famous and money is faster! Most of the nine-year compulsory education is not over yet, so let the children go out to work with themselves. Many of them are not forced by parents, but children are tired of learning. Often the head teacher calls his parents thousands of miles away and says:

? "Your son and people fight again. You'd better come back. "

"Your son fell in love at a young age, and the other parents want to talk to you."

"Li Fang? I don't remember. Is it my student? Oh! Think about it, is he your son? I haven't been to class for three months since I was punished for fighting with someone last time! "

So no one in the village worked so hard to get into college. Li Wenming, once the only famous college student in the village, unconsciously became the most important founder of this trend.

What made Li Wenming feel worse was that his parents urged him to get married.

Because of the serious imbalance between men and women caused by family planning, some smart people in the village found it early. There are very few girls in Shili Baxiang, and they are really a big family of women. Therefore, many people arrange marriages for their sons early, and some 17 years old is considered an adult, and 18 years old is married. Li Wenming remembers coming home during the Spring Festival one year, and his sister Wen Li donated him to his nieces. As the old saying goes, there are three kinds of unfilial. Li Yuanchao observed all the families in the village and arranged lifelong events for their children. There are many little dolls that can be called grandpa, and he is naturally very anxious. Li Wenming has been heartbroken and has never been in love since she broke up with her boyfriend five years after graduation. After graduation, faced with the cruel pressure of life, he had no time to think about being affectionate. He just wants to earn more money to see his father. It would be better if he could buy a house for his parents in Hanbei city in the future, so as to cure his father's illness, at least not to make it worse.

Li Wenming remembers that his roommate An An once showed him an online joke, telling the story of their post-80s generation, especially the difficulty of getting out of the cold post-80s generation:

"When we were in elementary school, we didn't need money to go to college;

When we were in college, primary school was free;

The work was assigned before we started,

When we can work, we barely find a hungry job when we hit a wall;

When we can't make money, the house is allocated.

When we can make money, we find that the house can't afford it;

When we are not old enough to get married, we can get married by bike

When you get married, you have no house, no car and no daughter-in-law. "

Li Wenming is undoubtedly lucky, because he met an ordinary woman who didn't hate his background and was also a nurse in his hospital. Later, they had children, and the hospital provided them with a small apartment of more than 60 square meters in the newly-built staff dormitory. As a parent, Li Wenming felt that it was not easy to be a parent, so he felt more guilty about his parents in the countryside.

? In Li Yuanchao's mind, no matter what others say, his son never failed his hopes. Later, Li Wenming became a family and he became a grandfather. When he heard his grandson's voice vaguely calling out the word "grandpa", he was already "as white as snow and his face was as deep as black soil and ravines" and smiled happily. This is one of the few smiles that Li Wenming remembers from his father. Not only the mother, sister and uncle, but also the Li family has always been proud.

"My son is a doctor!"

"My nephew is a doctor. Sun Yat-sen and Mr. Lu Xun are both doctors. "

"Your uncle is a doctor, the kind of doctor who helps the world. You should study hard in the future, just like your uncle, you know? "

Later, because his wife had to take care of the children, she had to resign from the hospital and worked as a housewife for several years. After that, the child went to kindergarten and found a job in an eye hospital. In this way, the ordinary Li Wenming family of three lived an ordinary life in Hanbei City.

Li Wenming lie down for a long time failed to sleep, take back your thoughts, got up and poured a glass of water. I quietly opened my son's door and found that he had fallen asleep after a busy day, with a pool of saliva on his mouth. When I returned to my room, I saw the moonlight shining on my wife's face. The beautiful face of an angel still haunts him. He suddenly found two crow's feet in the corner of his wife's eye. He leaned down and kissed her gently.

If there is an emergency, Li Wenming will even get a call from the hospital at two or three o'clock in the morning. I hope there will be no disease or disaster tonight, and everyone will be safe.

Li Wenming lay down gently and fell asleep slowly.