The waiter with a flat head finally took a few puffs of cigarette in the men's room. He turned around and saw Li Jinyu coming in. He handed over a cigarette with a smile.

He didn't answer at first and refused.

Li Jinyu stood at the door wearing the same style of work clothes as they did. The boy's inferiority complex suddenly arose spontaneously, and he suddenly felt that the saying that a man relies on his clothes and a horse relies on his saddle must be used to deceive horses.

Thinking of this, the boy put his cigarette to his ear and said, "Handsome guy, are you a policeman?"

This is probably the funniest description Li Jinyu has ever heard. No one has ever said that he looks like a policeman. Not to mention that he acts like a gangster now. Even when he was a good boy, no one said anything about him.

He has the temperament of a policeman.

The most common comment was that he was silly and sweet. He used to be quite silly and quite sweet. When he saw good-looking girls, he would occasionally call him "sister" to make them happy.

Li Jinyu shook his head and took off the cigarette from his flat head, "Brother, lend me a fire."

The little crew chief smiled and nodded for him.

Li Jinyu chewed the cigarette loosely, lowered his head and gently smoked it. The spark flickered slightly, and he lowered his eyes slightly.

The tobacco was slowly sucked into his mouth, and the thousands of ants in his lungs seemed to slowly awaken and swim in his blood. The feeling was so intense that he couldn't bear it and coughed violently.

"Never smoked before?" Xiao Pingtou asked, but from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the sharp-jointed fingertips that he habitually held cigarettes in. There was a slight unevenness with the rest of his skin color. He was obviously a long-time smoker.

Li Jinyu absentmindedly dusted off his cigarette and said softly: "My lungs are not good, so I quit smoking. I rarely smoke."

The little crew chief said oh twice. He heard that people who quit smoking and then smoked again would only smoke harder. He made a silent calculation in his heart. He just took a hundred yuan from him, and this cigarette would cost two yuan...

Xiao Pingtou was horrified, feeling that this business was going to lose money. He was afraid that Li Jinyu would ask for another one, so he immediately packed the small amount of money in his pocket and quietly found an excuse to escape.

Li Jinyu actually quit smoking with the old lady. He quit, but the old lady didn't quit. However, she had no intention of quitting at all, she was just coaxing him.

Li Jinyu has been smoking for a long time and is a fierce smoker. In fact, he started smoking in the United States when he was in junior high school. From then on, he understood that he had never been a good boy at heart. In order to please Li Lingbai, he let her know that he would not be with her.

My brother is fighting for something. He pretends to be gentle to everyone in front of others and is as kind as an angel. But in fact, during those years in the United States, he was involved in fighting, smoking, drinking, nightclubs, and clubbing... he did everything.

.Only he himself knows how wild he is.

It seems that grandma also knows.

That rude old lady who seemed carefree actually understood him best.

The old lady's health is not recovering very well. Her hip bones have not grown back in three months. She probably smoked a lot of cigarettes secretly behind his back. Yang Tianwei can't stand it, and the care is not good. No one can care about him when he is not here.

He lived with her. He was as busy as a top every day, trying to earn medical expenses for her, and the old lady didn't understand him at all.

He was in a bad mood today. He had just had another quarrel with the old lady.

The two of them were used to quarrels. But this time, the old lady was particularly determined and refused to be hospitalized. She said that hospitalization was useless because her bones had not grown like this. She had to go home, and he would not have time to take care of her when she returned home.

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Later, the doctor found him.

Only then did he know why the old lady was in a hurry to go home.

The old lady was coughing up blood recently. When she had a follow-up consultation for a hip fracture a few days ago, the doctor also took a CT scan of her lungs. The result was not very good and she immediately did a biopsy. Now that the diagnosis was confirmed, I originally wanted to do it as soon as possible. Notified him, but the old lady refused to contact him, saying that he was busy. She just informed him of the result after sending Ye Meng back to the hospital. It was basically confirmed to be lung cancer. Fortunately, it was still early stage.

In fact, he had already prepared for this ending. With her uncontrollable smoking addiction and her age, the old lady was already a high-risk group. He also knew that grandma would leave sooner or later, but he also wanted to try his best Keep her for a few more years.

The advice given by the doctor is very pertinent. Chemotherapy costs a lot of money and time, and the patient may have to endure a certain amount of pain, but the result will definitely be better than now. Because she is in the early stage and has recovered well, it is not possible to live with the tumor for more than ten years. question.

Giving up treatment would save money and convenience, and the elderly would not have to endure pain, but it would only be two years at most. Most doctors would not be willing to give patients such a firm number, but because it was Li Jinyu, he still gave him a time based on his own experience. Let him make his own decision.

He knew that the old lady must be afraid of money. Those relatives in the family who were better off had already cut off contact with his father when he felt he was losing his status when he got married. The people in this town were nice and looked down on men getting married.

He has only about 10,000 yuan in his card, which is not even enough for one round of chemotherapy.

Li Jinyu was chewing on his cigarette. He hadn't inhaled it for a long time. Half of the ash had accumulated and was falling down. He was leaning against the sink, holding his cell phone between his two fingers and punching it back and forth. He didn't think about calling him. who.

I looked through the phone book from cover to cover, but there was no one I could borrow money from.

He lowered his head, lowered his eyes, and slowly stopped with his fingers on the name Li Lingbai.

His whole body was shaking, as if he couldn't hold the phone, his thumb was trembling in the air, his whole body was like a heavy piece of iron, and he couldn't press the name.

"Li Jinyu?" The door of the men's restroom was pushed open unexpectedly.

The caller was frightened, and he reacted for a while before hanging up in a hurry.

When he looked up, he saw Ye Meng pushing open the door of the men's room and sneaking his head in. That face was so beautiful, and his eyes seemed to be able to speak. He blinked and looked at him with curiosity and gleaming eyes. : "Are you hiding inside and smoking?"

He stared at her unusually, held the cigarette in his mouth, watched her take a deep breath, exhaled and smiled casually: "It's not like you haven't seen me smoke."

Ye Meng was stunned for a moment, looked back, squeezed in quietly, closed the door, put his back against the door panel, looked at him and whispered: "Cheng Kairan has finished talking to that Fat Toutuo. He asked us to find a place to wait. Come and join us."

The toilet actually had a very bad smell. It was filled with smoke and it looked so seductive. People who didn't know it thought it was some kind of paradise on earth, but in fact it was extremely smelly.

However, the address was set at Li Jinyu's home.

Because there is no place to talk near the hospital, coffee shops, teahouses, or any public places are not safe, and it is safer at home. So, I can only go to Li Jinyu’s house. The old lady is hospitalized, and he lives alone at home now. So it's quite convenient.

Li Jinyu's home is in Sanshuita Old Street. Basically, the people who live in this street are some lonely old people in this town. The low and dilapidated small buildings are gray and white. The eaves are old, the walls are scraped off, and the walls are covered with ivy. Niuhua. A pile of rotten kitchen waste in the alley. There is a strong smell of life everywhere...

Old people with pu fan, old men practicing swordsmanship, go chess stalls, chess stalls, and breakfast pancake and bun shops are all available. Ye Meng followed Li Jinyu and turned into the alley. Because everywhere she looked were old people who moved slowly, she felt that time was running out. It's slowed down, but it's very lackluster. It's originally a retirement community, so young people living here feel a little depressed.

Across the street, there is a lush and solid old sycamore tree at the door, which is his home.

The door is very old, with two doors, an iron door on the outside and a wooden door on the inside. The corners of the door are a bit moldy. When it is pushed open, it makes a creaking sound, which is more effective than a doorbell.

Li Jinyu didn't even close the door, so he went in and put the old lady's wheelchair aside. Ye Meng stood at the door without moving and quietly looked at the layout of the old house. It was actually similar to her ancestral house, with three bedrooms and one living room. , the house is small, but it has all the internal organs. There is also a small courtyard at the back, where some flowers and plants are planted, and there is also a little yellow dog waiting to be fed.

The room was dark with the curtains closed. The layout was simple and clean. There were a few pieces of his coats scattered on the sofa, one of which was the Adi sweatshirt from when they first met by the lake. It felt strange.

When I asked for my number that night, I thought it was a pity that such a handsome man could not be with me. I never thought that so many things would happen to them later.

There is something strange in my heart.

Li Jinyu didn't feel anything strange. He gathered up the clothes on the sofa and threw them into the back room.

"Is that your room?" Ye Meng asked.

Li Jinyu glanced at it and hummed, not sure if he was joking or seriously saying: "Want to visit? There's nothing interesting to see, just a bed and a few cabinets. You can just find a place to sit."

"I saw the electronic keyboard," Ye Meng looked at it and said, "You know quite a few musical instruments?"

He took a bottle of ice water from the refrigerator, handed it to her, closed the refrigerator door and said, "When I was young, I learned a little bit about everything, but I wasn't good at anything. Don't you think I'm terrible at singing? I'm not very good at playing anyway."

As soon as he finished speaking, he took back the water and asked, "Can I drink it?"

Ye Meng's face was inexplicably hot and he didn't answer. He snatched it away and proved it with his actions.

Li Jinyu curled his lips.

The two sat for a while, and Cheng Kairan arrived soon. He walked in the door with a heavy hand, raised his hand and pushed the two younger brothers to stay on guard at the door. Cheng Kairan glanced at them, and sat down directly on the sofa opposite. Li Jinyu followed. Ye Meng sat side by side. This picture was so eye-catching that Cheng Kairan felt a little uncomfortable, but he still went straight to the point and asked: "How did you find me today?"

Ye Meng said: "The town is so big, he guessed it."

Cheng Kairan glanced at Li Jinyu, thought for a while, and then said to Ye Meng, "Did you recognize the jade-inlaid gold finger ring?"

Ye Meng nodded, "Do you recognize it too?"

"In the years when you went to Beijing, your mother often helped me to atone for your sins, and occasionally took me home to cook me some food. Later, a man with a spanner came to see her several times. Just before your mother died, During the National Day week, that finger ring man you met. I have been checking the whereabouts of that man, but so far I have found nothing. Later, someone gave me the news and found the owner of the ring ring, but the ring ring was resold a few years ago. This fat guy today."

"What does this fat man do?"

"He is in the antique business. So, I tried to contact him to see if I could find some clues from him." At this point, Cheng Kairan added, "I am not doing this for you, but for your mother." "

Ye Meng smiled and said, "I didn't think much about it."

Speaking of this, Li Jinyu's phone on the table rang. He bent down and picked it up, "I'm going to answer the phone."

After saying that, he closed the partition door, turned around and entered the small courtyard.

Ye Meng kept staring at his back, but he said to Cheng Kairan, "Has the Beijinger left?"

"Let's go. I will follow what you taught me. I told him," Cheng Kairan lit a cigarette, "I said it's my mom's birthday next week. If I can't see the antique ring, I won't want it. I didn't plan to do that." I really bought it because I wanted to see what sources of antique goods he had and see if I could find the man from back then. He didn’t say anything, but he didn’t doubt me anymore.”

With Cheng Kairan's IQ, Ye Meng felt that it was not easy for him to survive until now. Li Jinyu pulled back and came back. She said to Cheng Kairan: "Come on, thank you."

Cheng Kairan snorted and ignored her.

The atmosphere was awkward for a moment. When he looked at the couple in front of him, who were both superb in acting and inexplicably compatible with each other, he was so angry that he couldn't stay there for a minute. "Forget it, I'm leaving, will you leave?"

Ye Meng glanced at Li Jinyu and asked, "Can I stay a little longer?"

Li Jinyu directly ordered the guests away, leaned lazily on the sofa, and said to Cheng Kairan: "Take your girl away."

Li Jinyu turned on the music and sat alone in the room for a while. The curtains were closed a little tighter than when Ye Meng and the others were there. In fact, he had never been used to an environment that was too bright.

Low rock music was banging in the room. He actually liked this kind of low-spirited heavy metal, which had a strong sense of rhythm and a high degree of catharsis. But he was afraid of disturbing the people, so he kept the sound low, so it sounded a bit dull and depressing. But it was real. The floor filled every corner of the room, and the emptiness in his heart seemed to have finally been filled a little.

He was sitting behind the electronic keyboard in the room, with headphones hanging around his neck, his head tilted back against the wall, one leg bent on a stool, his hands clasped, his posture even lazier.

The hospital just called him and asked him if he had thought about it.

He almost didn't have to think about it. He simply said that he must be treated. The doctor replied that if he wanted to be treated, your grandma would have to be transferred to the ward and she would have to pay in advance to transfer to the department. His grandma was clamoring to see him and refused to be transferred to the ward.

He smiled bitterly, he could only be depressed for such a short time, and later he would have to go to the hospital to coax the old lady. After coaxing the old lady, he would have to earn medical expenses. At first, he didn't have to worry about money, but how did he change his life later? Made like this?

If I had known earlier, I would have just finished college and at least obtained a diploma from University A. I heard that with a 985 diploma in the town, you don’t need to take an exam or interview, and you can directly enter the career field.

But at that time, he would tremble when he saw Li Lingbai. He couldn't live with her at all, and he couldn't even stay in Beijing.

His life seems to be like this, what changes can be made?
To be continued...